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saveourearth2019-05-25 04:12 pm
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Past Time For A Talk [Log]
Date: May 25th
Characters: Russell Scordato, Benjiro Thorne, and their mutual aunts
This whole conversation is a long time coming, Russell has to quietly admit to himself. It's closing on a year since that aurora came and went, when something about the world changed... But the only times he's breathed an honest word about the strangeness he's been going through? All have been to other people who are caught up in the same thing.
Today, that's changing. As much as he'd like to keep putting it off, he can't justify doing so any longer. With Benjiro's disappearance last week, after the upset of telling his parents and getting disowned for it, Agatha and Rosemary deserve answers for what's going on. And... Russell can't, in good conscience, let Benjiro have that conversation alone. He shouldn't have to face that fear without the reminder that at least one relative isn't going anywhere, and... well, not least because what a teenager alone says might be less convincing than what a teenager and an adult say, compared to whatever his ex-parents decide to tell the aunts.
"It's a practice run," Russell mutters to himself, as the train pulls into the Moss Manor station. A test for how it feels to admit and reveal these things to family, in preparation for telling his own parents and siblings. Between that, and being here to support Benjiro, he should be able to ignore his fears that the aunts will react similarly - and break ties with them both.
Characters: Russell Scordato, Benjiro Thorne, and their mutual aunts
This whole conversation is a long time coming, Russell has to quietly admit to himself. It's closing on a year since that aurora came and went, when something about the world changed... But the only times he's breathed an honest word about the strangeness he's been going through? All have been to other people who are caught up in the same thing.
Today, that's changing. As much as he'd like to keep putting it off, he can't justify doing so any longer. With Benjiro's disappearance last week, after the upset of telling his parents and getting disowned for it, Agatha and Rosemary deserve answers for what's going on. And... Russell can't, in good conscience, let Benjiro have that conversation alone. He shouldn't have to face that fear without the reminder that at least one relative isn't going anywhere, and... well, not least because what a teenager alone says might be less convincing than what a teenager and an adult say, compared to whatever his ex-parents decide to tell the aunts.
"It's a practice run," Russell mutters to himself, as the train pulls into the Moss Manor station. A test for how it feels to admit and reveal these things to family, in preparation for telling his own parents and siblings. Between that, and being here to support Benjiro, he should be able to ignore his fears that the aunts will react similarly - and break ties with them both.