a piece of me for a piece of you { felicity & lionel } day 5

a piece of me for a piece of you { felicity & lionel } day 5 Mar 23, 2024 19:27:53 GMT -5

Quote

Post by nolan goode 10m / kaitlin. on Mar 23, 2024 19:27:53 GMT -5

FELICITY
CARROW.

It gets very hard to take off the mask.

Felicity feels it settle into her features, even watching Marceline and Hal disappear amongst the trees. She hadn't finished her countdown aloud, had only taken a steadying breath after while before lifting her armored palm for a high five. "Could've gone worse," she says, and it feels good to play act as someone else.

She's always been a bastard, but she's never been encouraged to be worse. Few ever encouraged her at all.

By the time night begins to fall, the pair of them have exhausted the scope of the woods and the iron in her bones has gone molten again under the heat of praise. Compulsion kept her true to her word, trailing almost mindlessly along their new friends footprints. They left heavy compressions in the melting earth, no storm raging to cover their tracks with fresh snow. She thinks about Izzy every time she bends down to inspect the little mushrooms popping up from the base of the tree trunks.

The sun had remained through to the evening; Felicity had watched it sink past the horizon, feet dangling off the side of the tower while she watched Lionel and Mouse scavenge around at its base.

"You're missing the best part," she'd said over her shoulder, but the wind carries her voice towards the sunset and she doubts he hears her over the creaking metal ladder. If he does, he ignores her and lets Mouse usher him through the door and inside. With a lingering look towards the horizon, she sighs before pulling herself up with the railing, tucking her feet back onto the solid metal grate flooring.

Busying herself with the fragments hunk of metal in the corner rather than confronting the thing she's hiding from is the easiest choice in the world; she drops to her knees next to the corrugated ridges in the corner, tracing a gentle finger along their rough edges. The gashes are nasty, and she can see the spark where a wire got frayed and whoever did this caused some sort of combustion.

She's just running her finger through the grime when Lionel startles her out of focus. She pretends her heartbeat doesn't spike just the slightest, when she turns and realizes that he has sprawled himself across the bed in the opposite corner. Fire erupts in the depths of her heart, raging against self-imposed walls. The mask shifts, an almost slip, before: "you're going to pass out no matter who does it." She levels him a look she knows he won't see. The flashlight casts strange shadows, and she realizes with a grimace that she should probably block some of its peripheral light.

Felicity can't help but fumble a bit with a bit of the tent's wiring to create a funnel for the light to focus on the generator, rather than casting the whole place in warm, light. The tower is beacon enough. They don't need to be alerting everyone left that they were sleeping up here.

A crack in the fortress, I think I hate him; she uses her pliers to tighten a few looks wires. How fucked up is that?

"I dunno, pretty sure pitting your two sons against each other is what was pretty fucked up, but what do I know." She abandons the toolkit on the floor, finally, and manages a shrug and an eye roll despite the surge of understanding in her chest. She tucks in next to him on the thin mattress, nudging him over despite the injuries. Resting back on her heels, she leans towards him a little more than she needs and takes the needle from his hand. "I don't think there's ever been much I wanted to say that I didn't, if I'm being honest. Never been any good at biting my tongue. Plus, if I don't say it out loud, I'm fairly liable to forget."

A part of her expects her hands to tremble, but she busies her mind with translating how to do the right stitch into binary code. It's the only form of meditation that has ever successfully helped clear her mind.

"Stop wiggling."

felicity tries to fix tower generator
DKgYM5u7FD1-10

1-10