ϡ - Appointments Post

[folklorist]

This post here is for personal conversations which should happen but one or both of us doesn't want to put up a new post/log and thus we will just thread it out here. This can be used to thread with Helios anytime and anywhere. This can either be in person (with action), or via the journal's call feature (voice and/or written).

When replying to this post please mark in the subject line when and how it is taking place EX:
[Action, March 11th]
[Voice, September 8th]
[Written, June 10th]

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[folklorist]

[ Helios' hand fidgets slightly under that pat. He'll just draw his hand away then looking at her nodding. ] I-I know, but, but still. I could have done more I feel. [ Always could have done more. There's never a limit to him product of him being so hard on himself at times. ]

Only...only bits and pieces now. I know that...that I helped get through something terrible. [ He purses his lips looking down at the table. Erika. The name feels like a faint echo now but the feelings are still resonating strongly. So many things were different in that world. Nero didn't abuse him, hate him for whatever reason, they were actually brothers like they were meant to be. And then there was Elise. ] I'm sorry, for what happened to her.

[shadedsunlight]

Always a common feeling, but believe me when I say what you did meant everything.

[Ginia rests her arms on the table and looks out the window, taking a moment to gather up her thoughts. It was a nice day, sunny, no rain, nice. A pleasant break from yesterday's overcast weather and the rain over the weekend.]

Her name was Erika. Erika Rosenfel. She was... my best friend and my partner. We meet as teens. Sixteen and already a hunter... [How wrong was her world when teenagers could be killers and criminals because it was the family trade?] She helped me so much after my family was killed. I ended up working with her until she was killed. I... [her hands fold together and she covers her mouth, gathering up her thoughts again.] fell apart. Threw myself into work, even began thinking... [She takes a steadying breath and shakes her head.]

...Today's her birthday. She always told people it was April Fools, but it's really today. She'd be 29. [There's another laugh, weak and tired.] ...Sorry, didn't mean to get on this topic at all.

[folklorist]

Gods Ginia. I-I'm so sorry. [ Even if there's flashes of the memories. The funeral the crying Ginia's shaking figure pressed against him as he tries to soothe the hurt and the pain of losing someone so close, so dear. But even in that alternate reality he's lost Elise and he's not sure how it's fair, it isn't fair. Losing her family and then that happened? It didn't seem fair. No. Life wasn't fair, was it? Nothing ever was what it seemed. Helios shakes his head. ]

There's nothing t-to be sorry for. So, please, d-don't apologize. E-Especially to me... [ he who dumped the fact that Elise had died on her in a similar fashion. Never topics to bring up but oh how they unexpectedly emerged. He can only guess what she was about to say and gods he wishes he couldn't. Taking your life because the pain was all but unbearable and you didn't think you could ever move on or recover. He knows what that kind of pain leads to, what kind of thoughts. He looks at her with all the compassion and understanding he can muster. ] You...you should plant something for her. In, in the memory garden.

[ There's a feeble smile from him. ] It helps at times.

[shadedsunlight]

[Ginia folds her hands together and rests her chin on them. It was a comforting old habit for her, one she always did when she didn't feel like talking or needed time to think on something. Occupied hands were silent hands. Now, even though she could talk, they still had the same purpose. Her life hadn't been easy. Nothing about life was, but sometimes it felt like whatever force controlled the world really liked seeing her kicked in the teeth.

She smiles faintly at Helios, appreciating his words and understanding. They'd both been through a lot. Maybe too much, but so went life. Even Ginia knew others had it worse than her. Wasn't that why she fought? Why she even killed? To stop anyone else from going through the things she did?]

I was thinking about that. Alice planted tulips for her, I've planted buttercups for her. But... maybe going back later would be nice.