Friends

WHO: Henry, a special guest, then Clio
WHEN: Friday morning
WHERE: Starbucks, then Clio's office
WHAT: The willies
WARNINGS: Just yukky feelings
( ... )

[Will Stutely]

Telos is home.

Will. I don't know what happened with the boy.

WHO Lush Valley (aka Iestyn), Jezza Belle (aka Michaela), Henry, et al
WHEN Friday 16th, night
WHERE the drag club amateur night
WHAT Lush’s first performance!
WARNINGS tbd

( we’re all born naked )

WHO: Freyr, Friar Tuck, Freya if she's there
WHEN: Saturday afternoon
WHERE: Freyr's
WHAT: Visits
WARNINGS: TBA
( ... )

WHO Genesis & Qebhet
WHEN Sunday mid-morning
WHERE Western Funeral Home
WHAT [insert general character establishing] and then chatting with her coworker
WARNINGS Talk of drug addiction, embalming

( So afraid that time will take it all from me )

[Qebhet's chest constricts, as she reads Melpomene's words.

Ares has found Telos. And, unwritten, all but implied: Ares has found Kaden.

Ares, god of violence, whose face she doesn't know but whose ruthlessness she's seen written in Ronan's scars and in the gory reports of Connor's murder—

There's been no update from Hecate, not since her usual dawn missive. She might not have had time, if she's been busy tending to an injured boy, or... or a body.

The next dawn is still hours away, and the dread is a cold, leaden weight between Qebhet's lungs.]

[Hecate]

Ares has the baby back. Melpomene said. She didn't say how.

Did you get there in time? What happened?


Where is Kaden?

Ares, mighty, unstoppable Ares, has found Telos. He's bringing my son back to me.

I'm leaving at first light to meet them, half way home.

WHO: Hecate
WHEN: All week, finishing on Friday, after dark
WHERE: All the way from New York to Manitoba
WHAT: Finding the body
WARNINGS: Grizzliness

( The bones of the dead, the blood of the dead and the living, and the strength of a promise attached to a hat )

[When the phone goes dead, Marcie stands in the middle of the bathroom, holding the phone in her hand, staring at the screen in horror. Surely not- not when- but he'd got out! He said he'd got out!! What could she even do from this terrible distance???

After a long moment, frozen in shock, Marcie blinks and takes a breath, and another. She looks down at the phone, and tries to call Kaden back, tries again, but nothing, no answer, just endless ringing, and she drops her phone on the floor and clasps her hands together, and then remembers the ring, the one Hecate had given her when she was ill. It was supposed to be used for herself but surely she would not be begrudged this...]


HECATE

PLEASE

If ever you were going to get to Kaden

Ares has him, he's going to kill him

Please do something

now Now NOW, hurry!!! There's no time!!!

You busy this weekend? I'm going out to visit that mansion I've been helping Hecate turn into a women's refuge and I wondered if you might want to come on an adventure to the greatest place in all the boroughs: The Island of Staten!

Hecate told me she's put a spell on the place to keep gods away, but if you feel weird when we get there (being a demi-god and all) I have a charm that I can give you.

WHO: Kaden, Marcie, Ares
WHEN: Friday evening
WHERE: Just north of the Canadian border
WHAT: Kaden calls home... and is interrupted
WARNINGS: Ares. Angry Ares.

( They do not see what lies ahead when sun has faded and moon is dead )

WHO‌ ‌Ares‌
WHEN‌ ‌Thursday‌
WHERE‌ on the road‌
WHAT‌ Ares gets the tip-off he needs‌ ‌
WARNINGS‌ Ares ‌

( Riding to the danger zone )

WHO Marian & Qebhet (with some Art, and maybe some Stutely and Robin if they're around)
WHEN Friday afternoon
WHERE The Sly Fox
WHAT Welcome to my home, please submit to a polygraph and fingerprinting.
WARNINGS tba,

( ... )

WHO: Kaden
WHEN: Thursday and Friday
WHERE: SO CLOSE to Canada. SO CLOSE!
WHAT: The final leg of the journey to freedom
WARNINGS: None

( The unbroken world is coming, (it must be coming!) )

WHO: Melpomene, open to the Muses or can stand alone since she's pretty non-responsive
WHEN: Thursday night
WHERE: All tied up on Urania's couch
WHAT/WARNINGS: Melpomene would like to die

( Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises, we're pretty sure they're all wrong )

Calliope, I can't do this any more. I know you want things to end differently, but they cannot. I cannot.

Clio, the poison runs so deep between us, I don't know how to draw it out. I'm sorry. Maybe next time around we'll do better. I'll do better.

Erato, every selfish thing I ever took for myself, I'm sorry. I wish you all the happiness in the world.

Thalia, if you need an apartment while you're in the city, you are free to have mine. Calliope has spare keys.

Terpsichore, I count myself lucky that I have been given no recent chances to cause you harm.

Urania... everything you have ever said about me has been right, and I think some part of me always knew it.

[Filtered to Robin, Art & Will Stutely]

I wanted to warn you both that I invited a friend around on Friday. I realise that I'm sort of breaking the own rules I set for this place, that we don't bring outsiders into what should be our safe house but I trust her, and she was one of the ones helping to look for me during- Well, she was helping anyway.

Her name is Qebhet, and she's an Egyptian goddess. This is her.

It's just- I'm trying to warm up to people again and be normal again, but outside of this place it's just too dangerous.

[Since Much gave her the magical little gift from Qebhet it has remained in her pocket almost constantly, a small reminder that she would be okay, and that her friends thought her 'clever, brave and true'. (Even if she didn't always feel like those things.)

She had now been free of the Sheriff for as long as she'd been with him- that should have changed things, should have made them easier, but she could still feel his hand on the back of her neck.]

I keep meaning to write to you. Your note and the gift you included with it both meant a lot to me, especially now while I'm struggling with how to settle back into the world. It's taking a little longer to adjust than I might have liked. But I did want you to know that I was touched that you thought of me.

If only everything in life was so easy as taking down a hellhound...

Friends:-

I hope you are all found well by this message. I wish to inquire after you all- are you safe? Are you happy?

If I have caused any offense to anyone over the last few months, I can only apologise most sincerely. I have not been myself.

But the days are getting longer and warmer, and I feel renewed. Things will be well again.

[Friends Only]

Found a photo you all need to see!

( Amelia at about a year old I think. And me adoring her. )

I am so excited to be a dad yet again! I'm going to take the first semester off next year and focus on my family and my art and I'll go back to teaching in the Spring.

I hope you're all having a wonderful day!

WHO: Henry Claus, Iestyn Ceredig, temporary Tinsel
WHEN: Tuesday afternoon
WHERE: The Claus Penthouse
WHAT: Showing Iestyn around the family penthouse
WARNINGS: Maybe spa bath sex, maybe not. Also every photo I post of the apartment, imagine it just COVERED in Christmas decor.
( ... )

WHO Freyr and Freyja
WHEN Monday afternoon
WHERE Freyr's bedroom
WHAT The real Freyr is finally allowed to live again!
WARNINGS reference to murder

( in my dreams I'm dying all the time )

WHO: Kaden
WHEN: Thursday night through to Sunday night
WHERE: Across several states
WHAT: Slow progress
WARNINGS: None

( Inch by inch, mile by mile )

[Iestyn]

So...when I said the LA house was 'nice' I was kind of underselling it. And now I feel like I should show this to you so you don't get there and freak out... Because it's...a lot.

( I'll just show some of it to you... )

Also there are two house-keeper elves named Poppy and Boots and they will try to do literally everything for us. I told them not to bother serving me last time and woke up to a full breakfast buffet. They're great, they just- Let's just say when I was reading the Harry Potter books, I really understood where Hermione was coming with the whole 'free the elves' SPEW thing, as white savioury as it is...

If this is too much we can find somewhere else...

This is Genesis (or Gen, she goes by/answers to both equally), an ex-drug addict felon who now works for Qebhet and Anubis' funeral home. She doesn't know about the gods, but (OBVS) will find out someday, probably dramatically knowing all these people. She comes across as very confident and outgoing and well put together, and she really loves people. She had been making offers for Qebhet to come out to various social events, all of which have been politely turned down so far.

anyway, I don't know how she's going to meet everyone, but I need to find her some friends!

WHO: Much, Marcie then Apollo
WHEN: Monday morning
WHERE: First the parsonage, then a cafe
WHAT: Interrogations over croissants
WARNINGS: TBA

( Tell me what you know )

[Lucifer]

My Lord

my cover got blown

I am turning my sights towards Hermes

I will await the right moment.

(Backdated to Saturday night)

It wasn't a possession. It was some sort of creature that had stolen his face and, when confronted, it took my face and we fought. It knew all my moves the moment it had my face. I choked it to death but when I returned to the body, it was gone. I have no thoughts now on where it might be, only that it may or may not currently be appearing as my double.

If I show up on your doorstep without first contacting you through this account, then it is not me and should be destroyed.

Freyr's body was in the basement of his house, murdered most violently. I am now at his bedside awaiting his return to the realm of the living.

WHO: Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet
WHEN: Sunday night
WHERE: A restaurant
WHAT: Some fluff pls
WARNINGS: TBA but I doubt it
( ... )

[Will Scarlet]

Things here are quite intense. I imagine they are at yours too.

Let me know if you need some time out? We could have dinner or something. I don't want to leave here for the entire night, but a few hours would be okay.

WHO: Hecate, Melpomene
WHEN: Friday, around midday
WHERE: Urania's, Melpomene's
WHAT: Gathering a few more ingredients
WARNINGS: None

( Lost boys )

WHO Billie-Joy Collins, Addy Ceredig
WHEN Sunday morning
WHERE Chateau Ceredig
WHAT from one preggers lady to another
WARNINGS not much

( hello! )

WHO: Kaden
WHEN: Tuesday afternoon through to Thursday night
WHERE: On the road
WHAT: Just keep swimming
WARNINGS: None

( We follow our own steps, while our shadows keep watching us )

[Nicholas]

I had a thought, and it involves you and me and spaghetti. Do you want to come up tonight and have a late dinner with me?

[Clio]

love, the kidnapper who took the baby. it's a kid. i don't understand it all but it's a kid, he's fifteen years old and he thinks he's saving a child from ares. he's trying to be a hero.

you know what ares and apollo are gonna do to him. he's done the wrong thing but he don't deserve to die for it. we have to try and get to him first.

WHO Freyja & the Dopp- Freyr
WHEN Saturday afternoon
WHERE Freyr's apartment
WHAT breaking and entering, but mostly entering.
WARNINGS tba

( ... )

[Merry Men - backdated to Tuesday night, after Marcie and Kaden's phone call]

Marcie's going to be staying with us at the Parsonage for a while. Her boyfriend has died, we don't entirely know what happened, but he and his brother kidnapped Melpomene's baby and his brother is on the run with him. From what I've heard, it doesn't sound like he means any harm, it sounds like he's trying to be a hero, but... we, we know how that can go.

I honestly don't know if there's anything we can do?

I've taken a few days off work so I can be here with Marcie. Just give us a heads up if you're all gonna descend on the parsonage at once.

Marcie, I am asking for your blessing to take some of Tragos' blood from him. I believe I can use it to help me find Kaden.

I am also asking for some of yours, for its link to Ares. If I can't trace Kaden, then I hope to at least keep tabs on his hunters.