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worthallthis ([personal profile] worthallthis) wrote in [community profile] apocalypsehowcomm2023-07-20 02:49 pm

[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.
ruevealing: (But i don't need a fucking man ♪)

last days.

[personal profile] ruevealing 2023-07-21 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Working for ADI has only gotten harder and harder these last few months. So in the end, Rue is not surprised to see so many of their friends taking their leave. They had been so close to it leaving themself, before the stark realization that, as a non-human living in a world so reluctant to accept them, they would only find struggle trying to survive on their own.

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?"
ruevealing: (you don't get to change)

[personal profile] ruevealing 2023-07-27 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Even after so little time spent in this place, Rue can barely believe how deep so many of their relationships have become. To have those who would have been strangers a year ago now saying they will fight for them, it is more touching than anything.

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."
ruevealing: (i am pretty  ♪)

[personal profile] ruevealing 2023-08-02 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
It is just enough to make Rue laugh, just a light, musical trill of a sound, but even without a mouth, their expression is beaming.

"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."
ruevealing: (the morning i saw your face again)

[personal profile] ruevealing 2023-08-06 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Truth be told, you are not the first to say such a thing to me. And for a very long time, I could not believe the words." Even when so much of their pasts remains a mystery to one another, Rue has a feeling that there is a part of Winter that would understand the difficulty of taking kindness at it's value.

"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."
ruevealing: (cause i'm my own biggest fan)

[personal profile] ruevealing 2023-08-10 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
There is no stopping the amused trill of a laugh that falls from their beak at that.

"Indeed, even with monsters and entities and avatars. I wholeheartedly agree. Now, I have made you a small parting gift."

<3

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III

[personal profile] bossyboiler 2023-07-21 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
When she had heard the house was a fixer upper, she had imagined one thing. A normal house with a little work that needed to be done like a thorough cleaning and some paint. What she is seeing, however, isn't what she imagined. The house needs more than just paint.

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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[personal profile] bossyboiler 2023-07-23 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Look. There are clean houses and then there are houses that have been cleaned by Kate. She knows which one she'd rather live in. She also knows which one she'd rather her friends live in. Is someone really going to tell her the house is fine and she's just overthinking it? Maybe. Will she listen? Definitely not.

"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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[personal profile] bossyboiler 2023-07-24 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
She nearly jumps at the mention of an animal nest being under the house. "It's not a snake's nest is it?" She doesn't like snakes at all. "The gardening can wait. I've come to clean."
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[personal profile] bossyboiler 2023-07-25 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not inside the house though... right?" Please tell her that there isn't a creature inside. She may hate snakes more but she doesn't like critters either. (Honestly, she's a bit immature and childish in that regards.) "Do we need to call an exterminator?" She has saved up money. She can pay for it!

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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III

[personal profile] punched_hitler 2023-07-24 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
Steve appears while Winter is working on the roof; he pops up at the top of the ladder with two paper sacks that smell like fast food in one hand and two sweating cans of Coke in the other. "How about dinner with a view, and then I give you a hand with some of that, while we've still got the light?"
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[personal profile] punched_hitler 2023-07-24 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, okay - Steve will save the second soft drink for later if Winter doesn't want it. He waits until there's a clear, safe section to clamber up onto and twists to sit down, setting the bags between them. "I got burgers and fries." Hopefully those are okay; each bag contains an identical (normal human-sized) portion. "How's it going up here?"

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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[personal profile] punched_hitler 2023-07-28 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Steve starts digging into his own bag, humming in thought. "Dunno either," he admits. He's better at making do than replacing, though there's only so far the former goes. "I think the stores sell whole windows now, in the frames? If we can get something close enough in size, I bet we can make it work. I can help." He figures the door and the windows are likely to be a two-person job, sans super-soldier strength.

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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[personal profile] punched_hitler 2023-08-03 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Steve frowns, honestly kind of embarrassed that he'd... completely neglected to really think too hard about that kind of thing.

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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