http://livingmyths.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] livingmyths.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] tampered2009-04-30 11:32 pm

Log: Ongoing

When; Friday Night
Rating; PGish
Characters; Rain [livejournal.com profile] livingmyths, Mat [livejournal.com profile] bloodygoodluck, Thomas [livejournal.com profile] harrysbackup, Tony [livejournal.com profile] morethanasuit, Romana [livejournal.com profile] lady_wandering, Chuck [livejournal.com profile] basstardchuck
Summary; The group gathers to help get Rain's mind back to normal.
Log;

It had been a long week. Rain hadn't spent this long just in one place in, well, as long as she could remember. As the days had gone on she'd become more and more confused, more and more convinced that the Bad Men were close and coming for her, more and more disoriented about everything. Thomas and Mat had done their best to keep her calm and settled - Thomas eating as much of the crazy as he could manage, which served the dual purpose of calming her and making her tired enough to sleep a good deal of the time.

Romana had been with Tony working to get herself back together enough to be of help to Rain and now felt that she'd be able to tackle the delicate job.

So here, with all of them in Rain and Mat's little house, it was time for the walls in Rain's mind to be rebuilt.

[identity profile] lady-wandering.livejournal.com 2009-05-01 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Romana listened to Rain from a distance before moving to the bed. Rain's movements were a bit skittish, never letting someone out of sight for very long. Outwardly calm, internally a storm.

After a minute she moved to the bed and kneeled down, so that her eyes were level with Rain's.

"Hello, dear. How are you feeling tonight?"

[identity profile] lady-wandering.livejournal.com 2009-05-01 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Shhhhhh..." Romana hushed Rain, absently reaching out to pull the young woman's hair out of her eyes, using the light touch to establish a very light link. Just enough to take Rain's mental temperature.

"I talked to Thomas, you'll be fine."

[identity profile] lady-wandering.livejournal.com 2009-05-01 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
"He cares about you a great deal. We all do."

Romana kept running her fingers lightly through Rain's hair slowly, not going deep into her mind yet but still trying to get a better idea of where to begin.

"Rain? Do you want the bad men to go back into the dark? To go away?"

[ooc: probably going wait and see where the boys go before going too much farther...]

[identity profile] morethanasuit.livejournal.com 2009-05-01 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Tony waited outside, very displeased with having to actually wait in a different room, even more displeased that all these other people were here. But, they were Rain's friends so he would try to tolerate them. Really, he didn't mind Mat so much anymore but he was still unsure about Thomas and Chuck. That wasn't entirely true, he knew about Thomas and didn't trust him at all.

[identity profile] basstardchuck.livejournal.com 2009-05-01 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Chuck rubbed his temples. He was still tired from the last night, showing up at the tournament wasn't exactly the best idea of a rest, and he still had the entire night of partying while watching after Dawn and Serena. This was definitely not the best moment to start practicing his bedside manners. Not to mention he had no idea who those people were.
But Rain worried him and he wanted to make sure she's going to be alright. He could sleep during the weekend.

[identity profile] bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com 2009-05-01 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Mat was nervous about all of this. It didn't show on his face right now but he couldn't stop rolling his dice. He wasn't looking at them but they kept landing on the same roll. Like they were fixed. Only, he knew they weren't. It was just his bloody luck kickinging.

He wasn't sure he wanted Chuck here...

[identity profile] basstardchuck.livejournal.com 2009-05-01 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
The sound of the dice was slowly driving him crazy. It wasn't as annoying as the ticking, but Chuck didn't have the best week and all the little things were simply pushing him to the edge.

He could really use a drink.

[identity profile] bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com 2009-05-01 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Toss, gather, toss, gather. He did this sometimes when he had to wait for something. Especially when it concerned someone Mat actually cared about. And he'd only chosen this over tossing a coin because he didn't feel like seeing it land on its side several times over.

[identity profile] basstardchuck.livejournal.com 2009-05-01 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
He managed to control himself few more minutes before he snapped.

"Oh for God's sake, can you stop doing that?!"

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "The dice... It's extrememly annoying."

[identity profile] bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com 2009-05-01 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Mat intentionally looked at Chuck before rolling the dice one more time. When they settled, he sat back.

The look he gave him said it all. It was something like 'There. Happy?'

[identity profile] basstardchuck.livejournal.com 2009-05-01 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Chuck glared at him. Though there wasn't much fire in his look. He narrowed his eyes. If asked, he would say that yes, he was ecstatic.

"Thank. You," he said slowly instead.

[identity profile] lady-wandering.livejournal.com 2009-05-01 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Then let's see what we can do about - "

Romana heard Chuck's outburst and turned toward the other room where Rain's friends and would be protectors were gathered. None of them appeared happy and several of them were bordering on open hostility.

It concerned her.
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[personal profile] prodigalvampire 2009-05-02 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Thomas sat in a corner, outwardly calm, but his eyes were watching the others around him. Chuck he'd spoken with over the phone, but didn't really know that well. Mat seemed harmless enough. At least he seemed reasonable.

His eyes kept falling to Tony. He didn't trust him to not blast him away while his back was turned. Something about the guy's demeanor said he wouldn't listen to reason, should the truth come out at last.

[identity profile] lady-wandering.livejournal.com 2009-05-02 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Romana forced the link a little deeper, hopefully pulling Rain's focus to her and began to probe at the dark edges of Rain's mind. "Don't worry about them, right now, we need to focus on -"

Now Romana was truly distracted by the men in the other room, and she pulled out of Rain's mind before her annoyance was transferred to the girl. They'd done quite enough emotion-sharing of late, Romana didn't want to add to it.

"Stay here, Rain, I'll be right back."

[identity profile] lady-wandering.livejournal.com 2009-05-02 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Romana delicately ran a hand over Rain's head, poring all the reassurance she could into the gesture before going out to where the men were.

She delivered her demands quickly and softly, so that Rain wouldn't be able to hear the words, even if she was able to pick up on the tone, and returned as quickly as she was able.

[identity profile] lady-wandering.livejournal.com 2009-05-02 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Romana took Rain's hand from her shirt and held it, while her other hand strayed back to Rain's head, again stroking her head an re-establishing the link.

"Yes, we are, but I need you to show me where they're hiding so I can protect you from them. Can you do that?"

[identity profile] lady-wandering.livejournal.com 2009-05-02 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Romana was nauseated at the memories she was seeing, several lifetime's worth of abuse heaped on one little girl. But she held fast to Rain's hand, offering regular squeezes of comfort as they moved on to the darkest part of Rain's mindscape.

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