time to take a stroll

[formercheerio]

Who: Quinn + EVERYBODY
Where: The beach
When: June 25
Rating: --
Summary: Quinn announced a beach party on the network. Or just a get together. Bring your own whatever you want to do. Mingle mingle mingle

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[halfwinchester]

<sub>[Running for your life on sand sucks, fingers crossed the life or death situations wait until they're off the beach...

He nods, turning around to make room beside him.]</sub>

So, are you having fun yet?

[formercheerio]

It's not been bad. It's nice seeing everyone out here, and meeting some new people.

( It was to get out herself, and it was something that Quinn definitely needed to do more of )

It's good to just relax without worrying about anything.

( Not that you couldn't in between events normally, but a party gave it a different atmosphere, and you were never alone )

[halfwinchester]

<sub>[Adam glances at her as they start off down the beach. It's not like they know a lot about one another, and though Adam has shared parts of himself (mostly the bad parts) with people he's been in life-threatening situations with and some he hasn't, he hasn't made a habit of asking people personal questions.

He wouldn't say it's because he doesn't want to know... but more like getting to know people involves being good company, or at least being a person people can feel like they can share with. Adam thinks his psyche is a little too torn-up to qualify him.]</sub>

Have something to worry about in particular?

<sub>[Still, he asks, testing the waters. Maybe the problem is a little closer to home than he'd thought. The more he sees Quinn, the more he has to wonder... Is her figure natural, or does the way her clothes sometimes pull across her stomach something else?

It's hard to tell.]</sub>

[formercheerio]

Other than what will happen here?

( It's a yes, but it's not a yes that she talks about except to people that already know. Even then Quinn doesn't even want to talk about it. She can't do a lot - she can't keep herself safe, always having to rely on someone else. And it will never change - she will never change, not while she's here. It'll never end )

I wouldn't want to see anyone else from home come here.

( Some people were because she didn't like them - they were annoying even if they were trying to help her now. Others she felt a little guilty about - like Finn. Everything was just messy. But her answer wasn't exactly the whole truth )

[halfwinchester]

Yeah, other than that.

<sub>[He resumes looking ahead. In his tone, there's a certain amount of humor and understanding. The times when Wonderland had meltdowns could be bad, but if you were really good at compartmentalizing (or really desensitized, either one), they fell into the background like background music. But most people weren't that good.

Adam is desensitized to a lot, but Wonderland is made worse because of people from home already making themselves comfortable here. It's a no-win situation.]</sub>

No one can really stop that from happening. We just got to deal with it. Like we always do. You made it this far, that's not nothing.

_{[If Quinn has a weight on her mind or not, it's her business, and she can make up her own mind what she wants to do about it.]}

[formercheerio]

It feels like I shouldn't have.

( Maybe not so much that she shouldn't have made it that far but that she wouldn't have been able to if she were alone. She'd have gotten caught by the Weeping Angels, or fallen through a crack when the world ended. She'd cried at her first event for just being there and then being turned into a suit of armor. She didn't make it that far well or easily )

Everyone says that - to just deal with it. That the time in between events is enough. But they just keep building up, and bad things keep happening. How do you just deal with it when people die? Even if they come back it still happened.

[halfwinchester]

<sub>[It feels like I shouldn't have. Hadn't he thought something like this a hundred times before along with "why me?" and "why can't things just go back to normal?"

Adam doesn't reply right away.

It's fair, her doubt. He knows what it's like when someone tells you to keep fighting through something that feels impossible to beat; being told to just deal with Hell still makes him angry each and every time. But what's the other option? Go insane?]</sub>

Yeah, I know. Once you live through that, it's not something you forget. _{[He sighs.]} I'm not the guy to ask about how to tough it out in a healthy way. I just get up every day. And do it the next day. And the next. And then you get an afternoon like this where it's not so bad.

_{[He cranes his head back to peer up into the sky.]}

If someone you know died, they're probably just as screwed up about it. Just be there, I guess, if you're friends. Talk about it. Helps you both.

_{[Now that he would know, but the little he and Jo have talked about their deaths, it's made him feel better in a strange way.]}