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Kurt Weller ([personal profile] startingpoint) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2016-06-17 09:21 pm

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Who: Kurt Weller + YOU
Where: Around the mansion
When: June 17 and beyond
Rating: PG (I think)
Summary: Broken, haunted emo FBI agent dealing with his emotional baggage. Come say hi! Get drunk or train at the gym with him. Or insist he just relax a little and have some pie. XD
The Story:

b a r;



He's been in Wonderland for a few weeks now, but sleep still eludes him. So many people think of dreams as a chance to escape the realities of life, to be free. But his dreams are tainted with darkness, entrapping him in memories he's sure he'll spend the rest of his life reliving, over and over again. The ghosts come when he closes his eyes; all the people he couldn't save, all the families destroyed with two single words: I'm sorry. I'm sorry I couldn't save them. He's used the words so many times, he wonders if they hold any meaning for the people left behind to pick up the pieces from a lost life. He used to wonder, if he apologized enough times, would she come back - in that quiet place between dreams where Taylor's still alive? Would she know he meant it, that he would never let her go again?

He's discovered quickly enough that in Wonderland, there is all manner of magic. It's nothing that makes sense to him, it's nothing he can even believe most of the time, but it has its uses. He could ask for a pill to help him sleep, maybe. See if there's a doctor around here to help. Anything. But he won't. He'll live with the ghosts because in his dreams, he gets to see her again. Taylor.

Frustrated, he gives up trying to sleep and leaves the mansion around midnight, making his way outside. Kurt casts his eyes up to the sky, thinking how different and similar it looks at the same time. They made s'mores together under skies like this. They sang songs, they took shelter together in his tent when the sky unleashed a torrent of rain, muting the stars and the light from the moon until all that remained were shadows. She was scared of those moments, that absolute darkness, and the earth trembling with thunder. There was never anything to fear then, Kurt thought. The monsters that existed in this world were easily vanquished, or so his youthful mind thought. All he had to do was hold her and promise to protect her, and the monsters wouldn't dare come near them. He had no idea, of course, that the biggest monster to fear was his own father, that the best friend he cradled in his arms and swore to protect would one day be nothing more than a pile of bones buried beneath the earth by his own father.

He rubs a hand over his face, looking back down at his hands, clenching them together to stop them from shaking. There's no point in trying to sleep now, so he goes back inside, makes his way to the bar, and decides he'll spend the rest of the night tucked into a glass of liquor.

training gym;


The absence of a daily routine is unnerving to Kurt. It makes him restless and uneasy; not that he'll ever be comfortable in a place like this, but he's desperate for at least something that feels more normal, grounding like if he were at home. He's been told about the training gym, so he tries to get there often, finding comfort in the familiarity of it. He finds himself often at the punching bag, landing strike after strike, finding it almost meditative as he tries to unravel all the chaos in his mind.

around the mansion;


Kurt's not the type to openly socialize with anyone, though he tries to be friendly when approached. He's communicated with people through his phone-like device, and that's easier somehow than getting to know people in person. There's a barrier, it keeps him safe from getting close to people he's not fully sure he can trust. But he's met some people here who seem...decent, and with everything he's heard, the more allies he can find, the better. So he tries to get out of his room fairly often, and when he's not at the bar or the gym, he walks around, just getting a feel for the place and the people here. Nothing much seems to happen here between events, but he wants to keep an eye on things regardless.
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[personal profile] ingenii 2016-06-18 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Kurt's not the only one who isn't sleeping, though Miranda's is less due to an inability to sleep. She doesn't need as much of it, and she's used to keeping odd hours, even if the bar isn't usually her port of call. Miranda's not there for the same reasons that he is - not because she needs to be, but it's a change. Some times it's nice passing some time with a drink.

Miranda recognises him when she enters, remembering his face from his search for information. She wonders if he's found any since - anything that Shepard hadn't told her, or that might be useful. He'd sounded determined at the very least.

"It's almost a cliché." It's also just a conversation opener, not a real topic, as she sits with him, getting her own drink.
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[personal profile] henrydaniel 2016-06-18 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Henry's really been buried in books and research, keeping himself busy and putting together what he hopes will be a master key of sorts, of all the things that have ever come here. Just in case Wonderland ever decides to repeat, or bring in new things similar to old things. It's a lot of work, but it keeps him from being bored when he's not doing regular teenage kid stuff.

As he rounds a corner, putting him in Kurt's general direction, he trips on an untied shoelace, paper coffee cup (full of hot chocolate) beginning to tumble to the ground. His reflexes with magic are getting better though, and he uses it now to make the cup float, mid-air so he can easily grab it again before kneeling to tie his shoe. "Sorry," he says in a quick apology to the person who know has to walk around him, trying to be quick. "Guess this is why my moms are always yelling at me to tie my shoes."
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[personal profile] blackbirdsing 2016-06-18 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Sarah really hasn't gone after the 'drink your problems away' route of dealing with this place yet, finding it fascinating, really. But, like all things, the shiny wears off eventually. She's been dealing with Jane and with Kurt, trying to get both of them to realize they can come back from everything that's happened. So much so that she's really ignored all the things about home, and with the mirror bizarreness a memory now, she hasn't had anything to keep her mind occupied - until she sees Kurt once she walks into the bar.

Sliding onto the seat beside him, she nudges him with her elbow. "We really have to stop being so much alike," she says as she asks for a beer. "What's wrong?"
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[personal profile] blackbirdsing 2016-06-18 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not as much as you, I don't think," she says as she glances over at him. "Just tonight. Just...right now." Taking a long drink of her beer, she gets about half the bottle down before stopping, letting out a breath. Then, she gets a shot, takes it, and chases it with more beer. Not the kind of thing she'd typically do around her brother, but she figures she has some catching up to do.

"I miss Sawyer. A lot."
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[personal profile] henrydaniel 2016-06-18 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, yeah, it's fine. I just wasn't paying attention."

He looks at Kurt then, really looks, and tilts his head to the side a little. "You're new, aren't you? I think I saw you on the network. Kind of...threatening people." He looks mostly amused by that. "Have you figured out there's no one to really threaten, yet?"
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[personal profile] endingpoint 2016-06-18 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Now that Jane's feeling better, now that she doesn't look like she was in a car wreck, she's doing what Kurt suggested; going out, doing things. She's not exactly holding long conversations, but she's out of her room, and today she happens to be at the gym. She doesn't even see Kurt come in because she's focused on pull ups she's doing.

It's clear she's been going at it for a long time, arms beginning to shake with effort before she finally drops, breathing hard and closing her eyes for a second before shaking out her arms and going for it again, jumping up to grab the bar and pulling herself up, still going after a set of ten.
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[personal profile] blackbirdsing 2016-06-19 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Am I, though?" she asks, forehead creasing together. "I mean, I let a murderer babysit my son, so. I'm feeling like my parental radar for sensing danger is way fucking off." She finishes off that beer and gets another and looks over at her brother.

"I know you would, Kurt. I know you'd do anything for me. Because you always have. Ever since I can remember. I don't even have memories of mom, just you. You taking care of me."
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[personal profile] henrydaniel 2016-06-19 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm Henry. Henry Mills. And you're...Kurt, right?" He has a good memory when it comes to people making all kinds of threats over the network for the first time.

"People here are pretty nice, so hopefully no one got too rude back at you. We were all pretty new once," he says with a little shrug.
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[personal profile] 1908 2016-06-19 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Adaline rarely sleeps. It's become more of an issue ever since being here, mostly because unless she drapes something over her mirror, she knows she's being watched.

Even then, it still gives her the creeps.

At any rate, she leaves her room on these sleepless nights, sometimes heading to the library, sometimes to the bar to indulge in what she fondly calls a 'home remedy' for insomnia - aka a bottle of wine or several shots of bourbon, neat. Tonight's one of those nights, and honestly - the bar usually has a patron or two in it. She's not the only one with sleeping issues, it seems. There's a man there tonight, and she comes to sit - not right next to, because that could be weird, instead leaving one stool open - and ends up with an entire bottle of fine bourbon.

"Evening," she says pleasantly, pouring herself a glass. "Can't sleep?"
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[personal profile] endingpoint 2016-06-19 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
When Jane drops again after twenty, she leans over, hands on her knees, wiping at sweat with the back of her hand. When she straights up and sees Kurt though, she looks at him, making eye contact and wetting her lips, looking down again. Taking a deep breath, she makes her way over to him, not really sure what's appropriate and what isn't.

"...Hey."

She has no idea what else to say, and she isn't even sure if she should have approached him.
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[personal profile] tremoring 2016-06-19 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Daisy is just coming into the gym, actually. Dressed in black capri yoga pants and a green tank top, she has a small towel over her right shoulder and a water bottle in her left hand. She sees a man at a punching bag who looks like he means business for sure.

"You trying to knock that thing down or what?" She asks with a half smile as she puts her water bottle and towel down to go claim a free punching bag nearby.
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[personal profile] endingpoint 2016-06-19 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"I um...I'm...it's really good to see you." Jane clears her throat and then squares her shoulders. "Anyway, I'll let you get back to it." She's not sure what to do here, if he wants to talk to her at all, so she turns to go, closing her eyes once her back is to him, feeling almost like she's in physical pain over how awkward this is.
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[personal profile] blackbirdsing 2016-06-19 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Sarah doesn't even say anything for a little while, running her thumb over her bottom lip. "You knew. You always saw it and I didn't just ignore everything you were saying. I refused it. I refused to believe it with everything in me." She lets out a breath and shakes her head. "God, I...ignored it, ignored you, and let him watch my son. Alone. All the time."
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[personal profile] henrydaniel 2016-06-19 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Most of the people here are really good and look out for each other," Henry explains. "And yeah, my moms and my dad are here. I'm one of the lucky kids." And he knows it, would never, ever pretend otherwise, even when he's upset. He's not alone, and that's a big deal.

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