sms 🖤 cyrek
jackie: hey are you
jackie: perhaps not busy at the moment
jackie: i wanna ask you something
jackie: it's nothing bad, i promise!!
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sms 🖤 cyrek
jackie: hey are you
jackie: perhaps not busy at the moment
jackie: i wanna ask you something
jackie: it's nothing bad, i promise!!
[ @devilsprxphct. location: rv lot, late at night, cryptid hours. ]
IT’S NOT WEIRD — look at him. look him in the eye. no, not that one, his metaphorical third eye he claims to have — it is NOT weird to be roaming around in the middle of the night. see, the thing is, he can’t fucking sleep. tossed and turned for a solid three or four hours before he got pissed off and finally decided to get outta bed. hoodie pulled over his head and boots slipped on his feet, he decided, you know what ? fuck it. might as well get up and move around. and, after staring mindlessly at the coffee pot for what felt like an eternity, dante finally made it out his door. both hands wrapped around his coffee mug, eyes half - open and barely adjusting to the dark.
and listen, listen, THAT’S probably why the sight of a figure in the distance scares the absolute fuck out of him. ‘cause, see, he kinda thought he was just seeing shit ( which isn’t anything new, honestly, and he’s starting to wonder if it’s a problem and if he should be concerned or something ) and he’s desperately trying to get his eyes to adjust without actually having to fucking move any closer.
there’s a spark of recognition ( that’s a human person, son ! ), but the funny thing is, is that it almost doesn’t fully register in his half - asleep, half - functioning brain. it isn’t until he’s about, mm, fifteen or so feet away from this figure that shit clicks in his brain and dante snorts. “ fuckin’ — jesus christ, ” he murmurs, voice low as he struggles to light up a smoke with shaking hands. fucking shameful, really ! he finally gets it lit though, so points to him for that one, before he’s holding the pack out to the other. “ smoke ? ”
simon; you have to switch lives with someone for one day, who would it be?
"I think anyone's life I can think of is either just as bad as mine or worse...or they're often the center of attention and that's not something I care for. I think I'd prefer to be a small snail in the middle of the ocean. Or a jellyfish. No thoughts, no plans for the future, just drifting through the ocean."
lina; if you could steal the declaration of independence, would you?
"Uh, you mean the biggest power move of the century? Hell yeah I would. And I'd do it better than Nick Cage could ever dream of."
[ @devilsprxphct. location: the coffin club. ]
he isn’t much of a drinker — well, you know, not anymore. not as much, anyway. when he starts drinking, he usually starts doing something stupid ( and there’s plenty of people who’d argue that he doesn’t need booze to make him do something stupid. ) since moving to point pleasant, he hadn’t really ... gone out. had fun. not outside of weekend shows ( which he doesn’t even count, since it’s work ) and definitely not without zora or sunny. when he first stepped into the club, he blamed his sudden sense of unease on the fact that he’s alone. it’s simple enough, isn’t it ? he hasn’t been out, by himself, in quite some time. he’s bound to be nervous. does he even want to be here ? he wouldn’t consider himself a homebody, not really, though there is comfort in the newfound familiarity of the space he now calls home. he could’ve bothered zora, he could’ve wiggled his way into whatever plans sunny had for the evening ; but he found himself here instead. at the club. really, not quite sure he even wants to be here. hell, maybe he just needs to find a reason to stay.
have you ever spent years wishing for one thing and, when that one thing is finally in front of you, you’re not sure what to do with it ? it feels out of place, or you wonder if you ever really wanted it at all, or ... it makes you freeze, and there’s this lump in your throat that nearly fucking chokes you out, and you kind of stop breathing ? no ? WELL, SEE — that’s how jackson feels right now. is it possible to have an out of body experience while also being completely hyper - aware of yourself at the same time ? the tightness in his chest makes him think, am i that fucking person having a panic attack ? in the middle of the club ? is that what i’ve come to ? and — and — and it sort of hits him all at once, like a goddamn truck. it’s not panic settling into his chest. it’s not panic that he should be worried about, because that lump in his throat isn’t from sudden sensory overload, but from the sight of a familiar face. one he often catches himself thinking about, remembering ; wondering where he’s been, how he’s been. it’s the sight of cyrek, and only cyrek ( because he couldn’t give a shit less about anyone else, hell, jackie barely even notices them ) that makes jackie realize far too many things at once.
it makes him realize, as he approaches the bar on — surprisingly — steady feet, that a part of him hopes maybe cyrek won’t recognize him. or notice him. or say anything at all, even if he does, and that could maybe both act like this never happened. which makes him realize that he wouldn’t be satisfied with that, that he has questions he wants to demand answers to, but maybe he shouldn’t. plus he’s working, and jackie shouldn’t be bothering him at all because, honestly, what if the other doesn’t even want to see him ? what if he’s better off leaving things alone ? HE’S NOT. there’s no way he is because when he’s close enough, and he looks up again, he realizes — he realizes he still loves cyrek. maybe that’s not something he forgot. maybe it’s something he pushed down, locked away, to save himself the trouble. it’s uncomfortable ( tense, is more like it ) the way he shifts his weight from one foot to the other. he could still leave, he could still — “ cyrek, ” no he can’t. no, he cannot, because his mouth opens before his brain can convince him to turn around a bail. he wants to scream, he wants to tell himself that this is stupid, and he should leave, but instead he finally looks up. like, actually looks, not a little side - eye, half - glance that doesn’t count for shit and it feels like some cheesy, rom - com ‘ i loved you, and i will always love you, blah blah blah ’ moment so instead of saying something that’ll make him dig whatever hole he’s started even deeper, jackie takes a breath and ... blinks a few times. as if he can’t fucking find the words he’s looking for, so he finally settles on a simple, “ hi. i mean, sorry, i — yeah. hi. ” yep. that should do it. great !
[ @devilsprxphct. location : urgent care. of course. ]
all things considered, every detail taken into account, things could’ve been a HELL of a lot worse. truth be told, they’d gotten off lucky — for once in their life, yeah, there was an ounce of luck on their side. maybe not much, but just enough to keep them alive, and that’s better than nothing. beggars can’t be choosers and shit like that, right ? yeah, something like that. there’s a good part of the night that feels like a goddamn blur and donnie’s starting to wonder if that should concern them more than it already does. ( not that they don’t care, obviously, but hey — if they keep calm, maybe everyone else will, too. )
the fighting was supposed to be temporary ; the illegal shit, not the shit where they’d being properly trained. that’s something worth pursing, the first thing in a long time that makes donnie feel like they’ve got purpose. maybe that’s overly - dramatic, maybe it isn’t that deep, and maybe that’s why they’ve kept that truth to themselves ever since they started. they play it off as something to pass the time, the shadier part of it something to make quick cash because they’ve got bills, and that shitty little grocery store management gig is barely enough to get by. and honestly ? that job is mind - numbing enough to make donnie feel like they’re wasting away. this thing they’re pursing, the fighting, it isn’t something they wanna let go of. they don’t wanna let it slip through their fingers, not when it feels like they’re finally making some progress.
and yeah, alright, they kinda went and fucked themselves tonight. they went into it without much knowledge of who they were facing, just the payout at the end of it — if they were still standing, that is. news flash : they were, but barely. can’t get rid of them that easily ... is what they would’ve said, had they the hindsight to be snarky and only mildly annoying. the fact of the matter is, they weren’t making it home. not alone, anyways. then home stopped being an option once damage was assessed and they thought : huh, ain’t that some shit ? which resulted in a phone call to the only person donnie figured would pick up and, maybe, not ask a million and one questions before arriving.
“ are you freakin’ out ? ” their voice is low in the eerily quiet waiting room of the overnight clinic, the taste of blood still fresh in their mouth — a nasty cut to the inside of their cheek, maybe a cracked tooth, they aren’t sure. doesn’t matter, they couldn’t afford to go anywhere else ; and, really, they’d rather shoot themselves in the foot than go to the hospital anyway. donnie is sunk low, arms across their chest and their head resting against the back of the chair. eyes closed, they figured it’s best to say something before cyrek thinks they went and passed out on him. “ better not be freakin’ out or something. especially not, like, internally where i can’t tell if you’re freakin’ out or if you’re just lying to me about it. it’s not that bad. could be worse. i could already be dead — unless i am, and i just don’t know it yet. you think i’d haunt the clinic forever or, like, would my ghost be smart enough to make it back home ? i’m genuinely asking. ”
sms 🤠 clown
donnie: quick question, friend to friend
donnie: if i asked you to fist fight me in a walmart parking lot
donnie: would you do it?
donnie: it's on my bucket list that's why i'm asking. it doesn't have to be, like, within the next week or anything
donnie: but at some point ......... ya know .....