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𝕕𝕒𝕣π•ͺ𝕝 π••π•šπ•©π• π•Ÿ ([personal profile] dadyl) wrote2023-05-27 07:10 pm
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[personal profile] unconscionable 2023-09-03 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Doesn't count if you lie to me.
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[personal profile] unconscionable 2023-09-03 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
I never claimed to be fine.
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[personal profile] unconscionable 2023-09-03 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
Her Grace agreed she would let House leave the castle if I took his punishment. So I'm still there. Mostly playing statue. Sometime finding out if there really is anything that can kill me.
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[personal profile] unconscionable 2023-09-03 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Though I've been severing the nerves in my spine so I don't feel any of it, that tends to last until I pass out.

[ Or die. Either way he comes back to agony. It's all messy-swimmy in his head, he couldn't really speak to what has been done to him today or a week ago or what was just whispered through that porcelain fucking mask. Mostly he stays sane through this telepathic connection, just closing his eyes and pretending he's somewhere else, chatting, away from it all. ]
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[personal profile] unconscionable 2023-09-03 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
We skipped dinner. Went exploring.

Look, we probably could have both spent a little time in the art gallery and gone home with everyone else, but House doesn't handle paralysis well. I mean, not that anyone does. But he's got some hang-ups around being helpless like that.


[ John would rather be tortured to death repeatedly than have to stand by watching House live through being a free use statue, so he made the Duchess an offer she was more than happy to accept. ]

Then when I demonstrated I'm hard to poison she took an extra special interest. At this point it's past punishment and more like she's experimenting.

[ He doesn't know why it all spills out. Not like he told literally anybody else any of this, has hedged around why he's here, why he hasn't fought back. It's something about the intimacy of midnight confidences, combined with the sense of Daryl as somewhat stalwart, able to handle this information without getting all emotional on him. ]
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[personal profile] unconscionable 2023-09-05 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
I was a late arrival.

[ A fact he is very slightly glad for - on the one hand, it did mean the staff who had been too busy working during the dinner had come to find he was one of their few remaining outlets. On the other hand, it meant not very many people he knows saw him like that, and he's not in a hurry to talk about it. Better to emphasize the torture and experimentation and the fucking spiders than... any of that.

Better to laugh it off and pretend he liked it.
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I'm pretty sure she can hear everything, no matter what we do.

[ She's so powerful, in ways that he doesn't understand. It's like spending his life learning wine and being given a jug of vodka, he can tell there's stronger power there but all the complexities escape him. ]

But I don't have a lot of choice. So she can listen to twenty questions, and town gossip, and the Iron Bull thrashing me at chess.
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[personal profile] unconscionable 2023-09-07 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
No. I met him my first day in town.

[ Compared to his long life he's known House a fraction of an instant. But the trauma bonding in this place is off the charts. ]

Spent every day together since. He reminds me of life before everything went bad.

[ In the days before the world ended. When doctors worked in hospitals, when magic only happened on tv. ]

I don't want this place to break him.

[ He can't save everyone this time, but he can pick one person, one awful fragile human who plays guitar and makes John laugh, and shield him from as much of it as he can. ]
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[personal profile] unconscionable 2023-09-08 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
I will. Thanks, Daryl.

[ He'll keep chatting a little for the next hour or so, mostly idle questions about infrastructure, if walkers ever rotted away to nothing, what kind of food Daryl ate during the apocalypse - maybe asking for camping tips, getting him talking about hunting and knives rather than anything personal. Interested in Daryl's passions as much as someone else's world, so different to his other despite all the ways it was the same. ]