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drownedparker

“It’s good to see you too, Mom,” he said softly – the word itself shaking out of his already very shaken form. “But I g-guess I could’ve done a better job at showing it.” It was difficult for him tolook at her. So many years had passed since he had last seen her, both in spirit and body. It was a simpler time then. (Not necessarily better, but simpler.) Then, like a storm, death and destruction befell their family and it has yet to cease its assault.

“You’re seeing your undead mother after being resurrected yourself.” the witch offered her son with a weak smile, understanding his reaction. “It’d be more concerning if you were jumping for joy.”

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davidxclaire

“Sounds like a great time. But smart, and you should probably put that to renewed use.” The witch cocked his head. “Think you got family here?” He had no idea when she died, but usually stay-at-home mom’s had children.

“It’s not as boring as it sounds. It wasn’t all wiping noses and helping with homework.” It was funny to think back to her life before she was a mother, and how she’d loathed the idea of being trapped at home with tiny humans. Then she’d had the twins, and the moment she saw them the ideas she hated morphed into something else, and she found herself relishing her moments with her children. It was those things she was thinking about with a smile on her lips when he asked about her family, and the smile fell and those happy memories melted away. “I -” She tried to come up with a way to say her children had all died, but she couldn’t find a way to say it without feeling nauseous at the idea of having to say it out loud. That, and the fact that she knew she herself should have been six feet under made the situation all the more perplexing for the witch. “ - don’t know.” 

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drownedparker

He hated hearing that tone of voice from her. He’d clung on the few memories he had; the untarnished, the unabashed. Sweet words of light and love. Not the sound of pain that befell his ears today. Though, it meant he had an anchor – a jarring yet effective hold on reality itself. His head may have been reeling but at least he could shoot a glance back at his retreating mother. “No!” he cried out; pleading. A tremor shook through him and the conviction to his tone faltered again. “I can’t lose you again.. not you too.”

"Okay, I won't go." she offered gently, trying not to upset her son further. even if the damage had always been done. She certainly wasn't going to pass up the chance to spend time with son though, if he wasn't pushing her away she'd take it for all that it was worth. "I'll do whatever you want." she added after a moment, managing to put a weak smile on her face as she looked at him. "You have no idea how good it is to see you."

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davidxclaire

“David,” he offered in response to her thanks, extending a hand for her to shake. “I’d still be careful if I were you. If you had any enemies in your past life, chances are, they ended up here just like you did.”

"Rose." she offered with a smile, taking his extended hand with her own and shaking it gently. "I wasn't one to make enemies, I was a stay-at-home mom, but I'll keep it in mind, just to be safe."

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drownedparker

His hands flew up, fists clenched and held close to his chest in a defensive stance. It was purely instinctive, and he regretted the way it must have looked to her. Eyes twisted shut in frustration, blond locks bouncing as his head shook in protest. He stood his ground, however, tensing hard enough to stop any further tremors. “Coming back was hard enough. I don’t – how am I supposed to deal with this right now?” He knew he couldn’t be surprised. His own resurrection was just as traumatizing, and lonely, but with the fresh death of his brother lingering overhead and the truth that he had spent so long in the shadows to achieve nothing, this was a reality check to shatter any sane mind.

Rose had so many questions for her son, ranging from questions about the world they lived in to what she’d missed, how long had he been back. None of it mattered though, as she’d seemingly ruined everything by failing to think ahead. This, every, it was all too much, and by being there, she had tipped him over the edge. “Joey, I’m so sorry.” she sputtered out, stepping away from them as guilt threatened to reduce her to tears. She couldn’t cry, not now, not when she’d just brought her son to tears. “I’ll go.”

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davidxclaire

“We have a pretty large community made up of people from Mystic Falls. Maybe you can find one of them floating around.”

“Really?” Given everything that had changed, she hoped that at least something familiar would be in the city. “Thank you for letting me know...”

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davidxclaire

“Well, more, since you wouldn’t be the first dead person I’ve had the pleasure of meeting. And yeah, I know Mystic Falls. My dad grew up there – then terrorized it.”

“Touché.” the witch admitted, her smile fading at his next comment. “Oh. I used to have acquaintances there... ” 

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davidxclaire

“Not your original body?  Now how does that work?”

“You know about as much as I do.”

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davidxclaire

“Mystic Falls?” the boy couldn’t help but pick out, but couldn’t tell if that meant she was from there, or if she was just well educated. “But you were dead, weren’t you?  It doesn’t happen often, or with any reason, but it does happen. People seem to just… rise.”

“Yes. Have you heard of it?” she asked, raising an eyebrow. “I was, yes. But this isn’t my original body, so I wasn’t reanimated, so, not a zombie per se.”

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drownedparker

He’d chosen to avoid eye contact above all, but when she had broken the silence – the sound of his name in that voice threatened to break his resolve, and he’s weakly raising his head once more to lay eyes on the image of his mother. To add insult to injury, she apologized to him, and it seemed so like her that Joey wanted to just fade into the wind. “This is not happening right now,” the young witch pleaded in a tone not much louder than a whisper. Pain and confusion clouded his sapphire-blue eyes. “You’re not real. You can’t… you can’t be real.”

It stung more than she could explain when he couldn’t look at her. She understood, but it didn’t make any of it any easier for her, just as she knew her presence wasn’t making things easier for her son in the moment. “I know this must be a lot to process,” she admitted, hesitantly taking a step toward her son and watching for any reaction so she knew whether to proceed forward or retreat back. As much as she wanted to wrap her arms around her son and never let go, his comfort came first. “But I am here. I’m not sure how I got here - but I am here, Joey.”

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davidxclaire

“Even before my dad helped found it, yeah,” he agreed casually enough. “And you sound pretty competent for an amnesiac. Or zombie – the real running theory.”

“It made a name for itself, the same could even be said for Mystic Falls.” she offered casually, pausing at his accusations. “I wouldn’t say I’m a zombie...”

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davidxclaire

“You’re in the cesspool of the United States, ma’am – The city where monsters and ghouls alike come far and wide to settle down and pretend their human. Welcome to New Orleans.”

“New Orleans.” How the hell had she ended up in New Orleans? “I always heard this place had a peculiar history when it came to the supernatural.”

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drownedparker

He’d taken two seconds too long to react, in any way. Surely the hesitation would have been noticed by her – even if he managed to pass it off as something innocent. “Yeah, um,” he offered in a stammer, dropping his head down deliberately as he pulled out his cellphone to glance at the time. “It’s uh, eight twenty-three.” The hand holding the device, shaking.

She hadn’t even really looked when she’d asked for the time, her mind still reeling from all of the new information. It’d been over fifty years since she died, fifty years spent waiting for something that never came, and now she was back in a world that she scarcely recognized and it scared the hell out of her. She wanted nothing more in that moment then to fade out of existence once more, she was more familiar and comforted by limbo than she ever was any of this, The instant he spoke though, all of it was forgotten in favor of turning her full attention to her son, looking him over as if to make sure it was really him and not her mind playing tricks on her.  It only took a moment, and she knew it was him. She would have recognized him anywhere, in any time, or any place. “Joey.” She noticed the way his hand shook holding the peculiar looking device, and how unnerved he seemed, and she knew that was all her fault. “I’m sorry, sweetie, I didn’t mean to startle you.”

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“You wouldn’t happen to have the time, would you?”

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davidxclaire

“That’s one way to put it,” the witch said with a laugh. “I take it you’re not common around here – and that’s a recipe for disaster. Doesn’t matter who you think you are.”

“Yeah, I’m not from around here, no.” She knew she was out of place, but given his reactions, she had a feeling it was worse than she’d thought. “I know who I am, I’m just trying to figure out the rest right now.”