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[Log] Follow Through
Who: Winter and YOU
When: The month of July
Where: Locations in the prompts
Summary: Winter and co are moving! Plus the party thing
Warnings: Sadness probably
I. Christmas in July
This seems like a nice... last hurrah kind of thing. Winter isn't going to be working for ADI after July, so... might as well. Also, these things have a history of being bad, so it seems prudent to show up just in case anyone needs protection.
Instead, it's just. Cute. Winter decorates cookies carefully, mostly with his right hand as his left is still a little glitchy after the electricity snakes. He tries all the food, including the "frozen" hot chocolate, which gets a hand-waffly so-so rating from him, the hot cocoa aficionado. He looks for his gift-partner, someone else with the match to what he thinks might be a bookend, shaped like a bear's butt sticking out of a hole in a riverbank.
It's a nice time, really. A little sad, when he thinks about how these won't be his co-workers anymore in a couple weeks, but nice.
II. Last Days
Winter has officially put in his notice at ADI. He still does his patrols, but a little more slowly then usual. He spends his breaks tracking down people he likes or who he thinks aren't happy here to offer: "We've got a house. We're fixing it up. If you'd like to come stay there."
Or to say, "It's been good working with you." Even if sometimes maybe it wasn't that great. ADI is not an easy place to work, after all.
Or to promise, "We're gonna work on how to get you out," for those people who can't leave yet. Who have needs only ADI can meet.
On his very last day, he finds all his actual friends still at ADI and offers them a farewell brownie. "I'll still be around," he assures everyone, "just not on campus."
III. Construction Work
No longer does Winter spend his evenings after work haunting the gym or the shooting range. Instead, he's off campus, working on repairing a real fixer-upper of a house in a seedy part of down, which has been empty for years, and needs... a lot of work. He might be inside digging in a wall trying to put wiring back together mostly by guesswork and occasional diagrams on his phone. He might be on the roof replacing shingles or digging dead plants out of the foundation, in which case he might wave at a friend approaching or passing by.
IV. Personal Work
He hasn't moved out of ADI's apartment yet-- that's happening on his last day at ADI, July 31st-- so he goes back home to the apartment complex just before curfew for a long bath and to patch himself up from whatever cuts and scrapes he got during the day.
And he's still tinkering with his metal arm, trying to get it back up to full operation after Steele's snakes zapped it to hell and back. So he can be found, sometimes in the lobby taking advantage of the good light on a Saturday morning, and sometimes just at their kitchen table, with plates open and wires exposed and tools scattered around.
When: The month of July
Where: Locations in the prompts
Summary: Winter and co are moving! Plus the party thing
Warnings: Sadness probably
I. Christmas in July
This seems like a nice... last hurrah kind of thing. Winter isn't going to be working for ADI after July, so... might as well. Also, these things have a history of being bad, so it seems prudent to show up just in case anyone needs protection.
Instead, it's just. Cute. Winter decorates cookies carefully, mostly with his right hand as his left is still a little glitchy after the electricity snakes. He tries all the food, including the "frozen" hot chocolate, which gets a hand-waffly so-so rating from him, the hot cocoa aficionado. He looks for his gift-partner, someone else with the match to what he thinks might be a bookend, shaped like a bear's butt sticking out of a hole in a riverbank.
It's a nice time, really. A little sad, when he thinks about how these won't be his co-workers anymore in a couple weeks, but nice.
II. Last Days
Winter has officially put in his notice at ADI. He still does his patrols, but a little more slowly then usual. He spends his breaks tracking down people he likes or who he thinks aren't happy here to offer: "We've got a house. We're fixing it up. If you'd like to come stay there."
Or to say, "It's been good working with you." Even if sometimes maybe it wasn't that great. ADI is not an easy place to work, after all.
Or to promise, "We're gonna work on how to get you out," for those people who can't leave yet. Who have needs only ADI can meet.
On his very last day, he finds all his actual friends still at ADI and offers them a farewell brownie. "I'll still be around," he assures everyone, "just not on campus."
III. Construction Work
No longer does Winter spend his evenings after work haunting the gym or the shooting range. Instead, he's off campus, working on repairing a real fixer-upper of a house in a seedy part of down, which has been empty for years, and needs... a lot of work. He might be inside digging in a wall trying to put wiring back together mostly by guesswork and occasional diagrams on his phone. He might be on the roof replacing shingles or digging dead plants out of the foundation, in which case he might wave at a friend approaching or passing by.
IV. Personal Work
He hasn't moved out of ADI's apartment yet-- that's happening on his last day at ADI, July 31st-- so he goes back home to the apartment complex just before curfew for a long bath and to patch himself up from whatever cuts and scrapes he got during the day.
And he's still tinkering with his metal arm, trying to get it back up to full operation after Steele's snakes zapped it to hell and back. So he can be found, sometimes in the lobby taking advantage of the good light on a Saturday morning, and sometimes just at their kitchen table, with plates open and wires exposed and tools scattered around.
last days.
So they must remain, even if their heart longs to fly free along elsewhere.
When they find Winter, Rue does not hesitate dragging the man in for a tight hug.
"Please, you will keep in contact, won't you?"
Re: last days.
He squeezes a little, saying in a quieter but somehow harder voice, "We'll figure out a way to get you out. A way you can be safe."
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His voice softens, but the conviction in it is undeniable. This is a promise. Rue will not be left behind and forgotten again.
"You can not know how comforting such words are to me. But please, you must focus on your own safety for the time being. I shall be fine here, for however long I must remain."
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"Not that there is anything wrong with hugging non-owlbears - believe me - but I do tend to agree. And I can not thank you enough, for seeing the real me and accepting me so easily. My own court could not do that, not even after a millennia spent in service to them, but here I have been surrounded by acceptance. No matter what happens, I will never forget your kindness, Winter."
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Which is not saying a lot, given the people in his life before Gloucester.
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"But I do now. I have been blessed to be surrounded by such warm, patient, kind people in this realm. I am grateful every single day to be away from my former court and instead here with you and everyone else."
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He quirks half a smile. "Even with the monsters and the fear entities and stupid avatars."
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"Indeed, even with monsters and entities and avatars. I wholeheartedly agree. Now, I have made you a small parting gift."
jebus so sorry I misplaced this...
<3
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But she's here to help! She has two five-gallon buckets that are filled with cleaning supplies. Plus, she is carrying brooms and mops. Needless to say her arms are full. So when she sees Winter pulling dead plants from the foundation, she calls out. "Winter!" How had she made it from the bus to here is anyone's guess.
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The house... definitely needs the help. It's not completely disgusting inside, some work had been done to clean it before it was sold, but they definitely need to fix the roof and the windows before the next time it rains.
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"Oh, thank you Winter. It was a chore getting from Lowes to here." She lets him take one of the buckets and sighs with relief. The buckets are heavy but she has every cleaning product imaginable inside. "I have. I thought I'd start with the cleaning but now that I'm looking at it, maybe I'll help with the gardening too."
HGTV had not prepared her for this.
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She follows Winter up the left side of the steps because she doesn't want to go crashing through the steps. "What else isn't structurally sound?"
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He's finding all sorts of construction skills he didn't know he had. Even the rare flash of memory to go with them. "I think I did this sort of thing. Before," he admits, holding the front door open for her.
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Steve, meanwhile, has paint on his shirt and forearms (and possibly a little in his hair). He found some stuff that claimed it was antimicrobial and, as rooms are getting more finished, has been putting it up so that any moisture they do end up with is much less likely to result in anything bad for their health.
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Which is frustrating, but he's trying not to dwell on it. Instead, he takes a bite of his burger, considering the work Winter's done on the roof so far. He's no expert, obviously, but, "It looks good." Winter's very thorough and careful - two things you absolutely want someone to be, when repairing a roof. "It's kind of nice to have honest, boring physical labor for once."
No taking down existential threats or their avatars. Not that he's forgotten those exist - he's still spending some of his time at ADI, while he can.
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Not that he doesn't get sore or stiff sometimes, these days, but Winter has the arm, so it's got to be much worse.
"Geez, I didn't think - that's good. You've got enough?" Obviously working on the house has been work. Maybe Steve should spend less time snooping (although he thinks he's really getting somewhere) and more helping Winter when he can.
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Though Yelena might know how to get them without an actual doctor. She is very resourceful. "I'd rather be busy," he says firmly. "And useful. Even if it hurts a bit."
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jebus so sorry I misplaced this...
not at allll <3
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