sonata for the troubled youth

audrey beckett. justice. twenty three.

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richardxmoran:

Rick noticed Audrey looking like she was starting to panic. She was saying something he couldn’t quite hear under her breath. “Hey.” He said gently, maybe to gently for her to hear in her panic. “Hey. You want me help you get out of here?” He was concerned that perhaps she might have a panic attack. A lot of people where panicking but she seemed affected more than most. “Maybe I could walk you to your room?” 

Audrey heard a noise that felt distant in her current state, and didn’t pay any attention to the voice until an idea entered her mind-- “Milo,” she murmured, wrapping her arms around her frame as if trying to replace her brother’s embrace with one of her own. Not a very effective hug at that, since Audrey was shaking from head to toe. She tilted her head to look at  the man she immediately recognized as the person who had been putting on a show and made her laugh several times. “I-...My brother, Milo. I need to find him. I need my big brother.” Audrey’s words were initially weak and little more than a whisper, but they gained strength and certainty as she spoke, until she let her arms drop and slowly started getting up-- her spinning head making this a difficult task. But Audrey was sure that as long as she found Milo, it’d be fine. Everything would be okay. 

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thealphatwin:

“Hey, hey,” Malcolm said gently, crouching down next to the girl. Everyone was freaking out, but she seemed to be taking it much harder than most. Not that Malcolm could blame her. “Are you okay?” It was a stupid question, but he didn’t know what else to say. “Hey, can you hear me?”

The bubble she’d created around herself was popped sooner rather than later, with Audrey having only a few moments to pull herself together-- a difficult task, and her throat was still dry, her heart still pounding when she took the other’s prescence into account. Audrey rubbed her palms into her eyes in the hopes of drying any stray tears and nodded before giving the man a stuttered response. “Y-Yeah.”

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thxresabailey

Theresa’s hands dropped from Audrey’s arms, one of her hands coming up to cover her mouth. “What? That’s…horrifying.” She turned away, running her hands through her hair. “And you saw it? God, no wonder you were freaked out.” Theresa suddenly didn’t want to be on this ship anymore. In fact, she really wanted to get off as soon as possible. “I’m sorry you saw that.”

The loss of contact was surprisingly nice, considering that Audrey barely knew Theresa. For a few moments, the only thing in her mind was how much she needed Milo to be the one comforting her like he’d done all through their childhoods. Ever since she hit her father with the very violin she knew was in her room in that very moment, Audrey had been horrible at dealing with death-- and the circumstance’s of Carson’s death hadn’t helped. “Everyone who was in the room saw it, so you’ll see plenty of others like this. Fuck, what a horrible way to start the cruise.”

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Theresa’s brow furrowed together, chewing her lip nervously as she eyed the other woman. She wasn’t good at comforting other people, and she wondered why it had to be Audrey of all people, who she was sure didn’t really like her anyway. “You’re obviously not. What happened in there?” Theresa rose with the other woman, making sure she was steady on her feet. “C’mon, you want something to drink? Water? Vodka?”

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Audrey forced herself to take deep breaths to keep from hyperventilating as she got ready to tell Theresa about the horror she -- and about half of the cruise -- had just been unlucky enough to witness, her brow furrowed at Theresa’s comment about her not being fine. “I’m fine. That blonde woman, the head of security...she got up on the stage with this knife and...” at a loss fr words, Audrey lifted the tip of her finger to her throat and drew a line across it. “Dead. In front of everyone.”

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thxresabailey:

Theresa, having not taken part in the murder mystery, had no clue what was happening when she first started hearing the screaming. The entire ship was in chaos, and she was trying to find Baxter or Remy or anyone she knew. She spotted Audrey on her knees, looking terrified. “Hey, hey, hey! Come back down to Earth!” Theresa got on her knees, sliding her hands gently up and down the other girl’s arms. “Come on Audrey, snap out of it!”

The hands on her arms snapped Audrey out of her daze, and she blinked rapidly to clear the fog in her mind. “I’m fine,” she tried to say, but her voice was weak and broken as she tried to push the memories back like she’d been doing for years. Trying to keep up the thought that it hadn’t happened, that it had only been a nightmare-- that she wasn’t a murderer. “I’m fine,” Audrey repeated, this time slowly getting on her feet.

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Audrey’s hands were shaking, her breaths coming in shaky gasps. Blood. Eyes turned glassy. D e a t h. Memories of her father’s death entered her mind in flashes, making her heart pound and the hair on her arms rise. Audrey’s first reaction at what had just happened, rather than screaming or crying out, was to sink down to her knees and wrap her arms around her shaking form. “It’s not dad,” she whispered to herself, squeezing her eyes shut in an attempt to block the memories. “Not dad.”

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miloxbeckett:

His laughter was only broken by a slight “Ow” when she smacked his chest, a smile still on his face as they tried to pull themselves together. “Right–yeah. Whisper. ‘Cause you never know who’s listening.” Milo nodded along, as if he whole-heartedly agreed. He leaned over against the counter he’d been behind, his ass nearly in the air. “I heard that one of those killers, liked that Star-movie-thing. The one with the sexy lasers, and ripped spacemen…… Yummy.”

Audrey rolled her eyes at Milo’s "Ow”, and planted a gentle kiss on Milo’s cheek. “There you go, Miss Rocks. Is that feeling better now?” She shifted to place her knees over the stool she’d been sitting on to make herself taller and make it easier to listen to Milo. Audrey started trying to hold back her laughter the moment her brother uttered the words sexy lasers and ripped spacemen, but completely lost it at the “yummy”, laughing so hard she bent over the counter herself. “Milo! I haven’t heard you say yummy in at least eight years, you nerd. And please explain how lasers can be sexy-- ...actually, maybe don’t.”

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griffonolson:

“Well now that I can do.” He thought for a moment about what exactly he should reveal. “Gotta say, I really enjoy that Star Trek show. It’s totally my thing.”

“Oh, Star Trek, that’s cool,” Audrey nodded along, thinking back to the hints she’d been given. The only one she could recall at the time was something about a divorce. “I haven’t seen it in ages. Wait-- your thing? You mean, like some kind of...fetish? Alien fetish?”

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domdomdominichayes:

At her invitation, Dom sat down next to her and whipped out his notebook and pen. “If you don’t mind, I’m going to get right to the point. We all know what we’re here for, don’t we? So, Officer, I’ve been around talking to people, do you know anything interesting about this so called Killer on the loose?” Dom nodded, trying not to grin.

Audrey nodded along to his words and crossed one leg over the other. “Good, I’m tired of reporters beating around the bush with silly questions-- ‘Officer Welsh this, Officer Welsh that, Officer Welsh, is it true you don’t believe in horses?’. Unfortunately, buddy, there’s no information I can release. It’s confidential.”

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remyruiz:

Remy shrugged, chuckling a bit at the man’s grumpiness. “Someone’s not getting laid tonight,” he remarked before turning back to Audrey with a renewed smile. “Man, I can’t believe you did that. You’re, like, really badass. And hot. And now we get to do this cop roleplay for a bit longer, yeah?” A laugh escaped his lips before he pulled her closer, wrapping his arms around her waist. 

She leaned into Remy when his arm wrapped around her and looked up at his smile-- which was honestly pretty fucking adorable, now that she thought about it, just like when he’d referred to her as ‘his girl’. Audrey smiled up at Remy and tilted her head up to press a quick kiss to his cheek before speaking. “Aw, thanks. You’re cute. A bit of a mess, but still very cute,” she added with a laugh. “Do you have some kind of cop fetish I should know about? Am I going to find handcuffs under your bed?”

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richardxmoran:

“Com’on. You’re great!” Rick said encouragingly. “Besides, I don’t thing we’re wagering our non-existent acting careers on this performance.” Rick changed the topic as his inherent curiosity got to him. “Violin, that’s impressive though. You play? Professionally?”

Audrey smiled at the other’s compliment, a smile that only grew larger at the mention of the violin-- the quickest way to make her happier. “Yeah. I’m one of the ship’s performers, actually-- you should come over someday! I think there’s signs outside the stage saying who’s going to perform that night, so if you see the word ‘violinist’, that’s me.”

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remyruiz:

Remy was more than alarmed by the deep-throated shouts of the man, and stumbled backward from Audrey. It took him a second to realize that Jackson had his flag in his hand, and Remy did nothing but shake his head in disappointment. “Damn… Guess I’ll just have to…head off with my girl now. That sucks.” He took Audrey’s hand before remembering something–something important. His eyes widened slowly and he pointed at Jackson. “Dude! I have a bulletproof vest! You can’t kill me! Let me just find my card…,” he rumaged through his envelope, nearly dropping it a few times. After fumbling around for a minute or two, he cursed under his breath. Did he really not have it? “Shit–I think I left my card back–I don’t know. Somewhere. Where did I put it? It was here somewhere…” Remy mentally kicked himself for a moment before grabbing onto Audrey’s hand again, tugging on it as if asking her to go so he could forget the mistake and move on.

Audrey’s eyes were as wide as those of the people surrounding the three of them as she watched this scene go down in front of her. One minute she was practically dry humping Remy, the next some guy was yelling and ripping the flag right off his belt. Audrey was ready to leave the game and head off to Remy’s room to continue what they’d started-- until he seemed to make some deep realization, and then proceeded to make her laugh when he couldn’t find the card he’d just been talking about. With a laugh and a shake of her head, Audrey took a couple of steps towards the exit-- before she thought of her own card, tucked safely in her bra, and her smile broadened as she spun on her heel and started making her way back to the ‘killer’, dragging Remy behind her. “Actually,” she announced proudly, pulling the card out of her bra and showing it to both of them. “Doctor card. I can bring one person back. I've got you, babe,” she told Remy with a wink and yanked the flag out of the  ‘killer’’s hands.

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braveryheaton:

Avery frowned for a moment, confusion and worry diminishing some of the initial happiness she’d felt at seeing Audrey again. Milo and Audrey had always seemed so close, he’d only ever had good things to say about her. “Yep, still doing the ghost thing. Turns out you get paid a lot more for sleeping in graveyards if you have a camera pointed at you.” She leaned in a little closer, curious. “What did you mean when you said you hadn’t seen Milo in a while?”

“I mean...,” Audrey trailed off, thinking over her words before she spoke again. “It’s not that we grew apart or something, we’re still really close. I guess it’s just hard to keep in touch when one of you is working in a cruise and the other’s in LA. We talked over the phone a lot, just not face to face-- well, not since the accident.” Her smile faltered for a second as she thought back to seeing her brother in the hospital, but she quickly made her expression bright as ever. It wasn’t hard to cheer up when she knew he was doing well. “I haven’t really seen any episodes of that show. Is it fun? Do you go to haunted houses and stuff like that?”

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richardxmoran:

“Wow. How heroic.” Rick clutched hid hands together next to his cheek like a love-struck cartoon character. But this ridiculous over acting was the most fun he had sober since he was a kid. “You would give any leading man a run for his money.”

“You know what they say about detectves being heroes, and um...that stuff,” Audrey smled sheepishly, breaking character for a second.  “That’s a bit of an overstatement-- my artistic skills start and end with the violin. But you’re good at this.”

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braveryheaton:

Avery stared in confusion for a moment before finally recognizing the other woman and completely breaking character as well. “Oh my god, Audrey.” Of course it was her, how could Avery have forgotten. But she’d grown a lot since Avery had last seen her. “I should have realized if Milo was here you wouldn’t be far behind. How are you? God, it’s been so long.”

“I’m good! I actually hadn’t seen Milo in a while, but I was offered to play here and, well-- when I saw that he was on the crew, I took it right away. I’m the violinist. What about you? Still into the whole ghost thing? Wait-- you’re not part of that show, are you?” Audrey was beaming, memories of Avery quickly coming to mind-- most, if not all, good ones.

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braveryheaton:

“Actually, darling, I was just about to ask you the same thing. Chris Constable, cruise security, at your service. Well, unless you’ve been doing anything suspicious and murder like. But something tells me you’d even make a pair of handcuffs look good.” The southern accent and the drinks from the bar were making it hard not to giggle after every sentence, but Avery was nothing if not a professional. There was something about the other woman that looked weirdly familiar though. 

One of the several benefits of learning how to play the violin had been that Audrey could proudly say that her memory was pretty great. Something which had its ups and downs, taking her childhood into account. Despite the accent and the acting, it only took some moments of puzzled staring at this somewhat familiar woman before Audrey gasped and recognized her as one of Milo’s old friends-- and completely broke character. “You’re Avery, right? Avery Heaton? I’m Audrey-- Milo’s little sister.”