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the night world, season five, episode twelve ft. @soulmateprinciple, @founderscouncil, @fellvespers & @archrite

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incorrect anti squad #6 ft. @archrite & @founderscouncil

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incorrect anti squad #5 ft. @archrite & @fellvespers

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incorrect anti squad #2 ft. @archrite

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“I’m not going to give up on you. I believe in you.”

today will be different // @archrite

flori doesn't know how long she's been laying on the couch. with her head in their lap. loren is on the phone with cleo and kaleb. mia has taken it upon herself to go get some snacks from the kitchen, where jed and his sisters are having hushed conversations about whether or not to ask hope and josie, as well as lizzie and mg, to meet up with them.

flori only moves to sit up when faith's hands move in order to sign something that makes her undead heart warm. i'm not going to give up on you. i believe in you.

faith believes in her. faith believes in her ability to get through this.

that's all she's gotta do. get through this. for her best friends. for the love of her life. for her family. all she's gotta do is take all the bad feelings - feelings that she's never liked to dwell on anyway - and turn them into something good. something useful.

and yet...

i can still feel them, rattling around in my head. digging around. logically, i know that makes zero sense. tami, doug and joe - they can't hurt me anymore. but i can still feel... i want my mind to be my own again.

the way she signs those words to faith is slow. much slower than usual. it takes flori much longer to get the message across and that is what breaks her.

it happens slowly, slowly, and then all at once.

because it's proof. proof that she can't hide behind sunny smiles and software anymore. proof that things have changed. that she has changed - has been changed. and not for the better, either.

there is no use in pretending that she's fine when she's clearly not.

what if i'm going to be like this for the rest of eternity? tears stream down her face as she sobs and curls in on herself, attempting to stifle herself because this is the opposite of taking bad emotions and turning them into something useful. just a useless, bogged down machine, unable to run like it used to?

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@archrite gets a random starter

i'm not friends with drusilla anymore, flori signs to faith, i thought i could be but i can't. she gets mean when she's angry, flori writes down the words in the notebook and it feels strangely final, like no matter what happens next, she cannot go back: drusilla burned a bridge that cannot be repaired and flori much prefers having faith as a roommate anyway. she continues to scribble: drusilla takes it out on everyone around her. i don't want to think about us outliving mia or loren but she brought it up and now it's all i can think about. i love you and i'm sorry to burden you with this, too.

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❝ I’ve learned so much from you. Part of it is admittedly criminal behavior. ❞

wednesday’s child is full of woe // @archrite

floribeth giggles. her lips stretch into a warm smile that isn't leaving her face anytime soon. she's grateful to have faith as a roommate now. floribeth had drusilla with her, before. but drusilla's got a girlfriend. and it's probably pretty serious, given that they're now rooming together. (don't ask her how; drusilla pulled some strings, that is all she knows, because she and drusilla aren't really on speaking terms anymore since the latter met her girlfriend.)

drusilla left without saying a word. and at first, it was freeing. but then it became loneliness. and then, when faith became her new roommate, she took that loneliness away. floribeth hasn't felt it, since.

(it's because of faith, and because of mia and loren, too. her people. the tried and true anti squad. how beloved they are. how proud floribeth is to be theirs. to be a part of this family whose bonds run deeper than blood and bones.)

faith is a good teacher and floribeth has always had a penchant for picking up things that pique her interest rather quickly. whether it's self taught or whether someone else teaches her.

slowly, she signs back: someone has to inundate you in all things criminal behavior, especially if it is for the betterment of us getting sweets. blood infused or otherwise.

"besides, it was just a simple hack to figure out if our favorites are in stock again. but i'm glad to know that my imparted knowledge is useful, at least."