insertdadjoke: (♊ what is the chance)
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WHO Charon ([personal profile] insertdadjoke), Abel Fletcher ([personal profile] sociopapathic).
WHAT Reversal of fates. One brother dies, and the other lives.
WHEN Alternate 2014.
WHERE Arizona...?

His target was crafty. He was staying to the public, making sure to maintain contact with people at all times, never out of sight and never out of mind. Although Charon was thorough and he was brutal, there was a line he did his best never to cross: bringing the living into the affairs of the dead. The target had already bought several hours while Charon waited him out, shadowing him in and out of businesses, on city transportation and now in this restaurant where he seemed to have stilled but still not gotten rid of his nebulous crowd. There was, however, an opening that Charon knew had been coming. His target excused himself and darted down the hallway for the restroom.

He never got that far. Charon caught him by the arm and swung him into the wall, magic just barely absorbing the impact to swallow the noise. His target was startled, already begging for his life, tone perpetually frightened from his run from death, and Charon reached his knife around to cut out the disgusting breach of balance on his throat. Before he could even start bleeding out, Charon twisted the body back around and forced it into the bathroom door. Single occupancy, which meant it would be a while for anyone to notice he was there.

It meant Charon would see less panic. He hated seeing panic in peoples' eyes. Most things he could shut away or ignore, but that always bothered him. Most of his kills weren't face to face to avoid it.
insertdadjoke: (♊ had no use)
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WHO Jacob Kane ([personal profile] insertdadjoke), Abel Fletcher ([personal profile] sociopapathic).
WHAT Nearly a month after Abel rescues his amnesiac brother from the Clockless, Jacob finally visits Abel's home. Dæmons are a thing here.
WHEN Month after this if there were dæmons.
WHERE Fletcher residence.

It was a pretty big night. All day, Jacob had been fighting his flight instinct and trying to be excited about visiting Abel at his own house. It seemed like a big event, some kind of final and solid admittance that perhaps Jacob hadn't gone completely crazy and the two of them really were related, that everything had been real. Part of him still couldn't believe it. Jacob had a brother, one who had been around for thousands of years. One who had only dared reveal himself when Jacob had been under threat of possibly-endless experimentation. That still stung pretty hard despite the fact he had no one to blame about it but himself.

"You're thinking too loud," Lilith commented. She was rested atop his head, one long foot having slid off to the side and now stood on Jacob's ear as a support. "I'm curious what a dead man uses a house for."

"Raising a daughter, I guess," Jacob murmured. "And he still sleeps, so..."

Lilith laughed. "Why not do it comfortably?"

With a shrug, Jacob said nothing more. He reached out and started to knock on the door. Was there some kind of etiquette to showing up at your long-lost brother's house? A secret knock? Whatever, if there was, Abel should have said something when he'd invited them. They would make do with whatever faux pas they committed when it happened.
insertdadjoke: (♊ or be abused?)
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WHO Jacob Kane ([personal profile] insertdadjoke), Abel Fletcher ([personal profile] sociopapathic).
WHAT Twists of fate and turns of chance. Remus remembers everything, yet remains under the thumb of the Reapers. Romulus remembers nothing, and lets his fear control his seemingly-unending life.
WHEN 2012.
WHERE Death Eraser laboratory somewhere in Alabama.

There was no time, only confusion. There was no thought, only pain. Whatever these people had given him, it had sent his mind straight out the window while leaving his nerve endings in tact, making it impossible to try and block it out. What option was left to him other than try to ride through their terrible experiments while hiding in the corner of his mind? It didn't help that they kept murmuring over him, words too soft to hear but loud enough that he couldn't ignore it. It was driving him insane, and he wasn't sure he minded that. Wouldn't that make things easier? Being insane, maybe it would make living so long bearable.

Jacob gritted his teeth for a moment, then let out a soft sigh and sunk into the uncomfortable operating chair beneath him. There was no escape, no hope, no one coming to find him or otherwise free him from the torment. Whoever these people were, they were going to keep him for as long as they wanted and possibly even longer. His only eventuality might be that he would be there for so long that they would forget why they had him and either lock him away in darkness or finally let him go free.

It was an unlikely dream, but it was, at the same time, the best Jacob could fancy up right now.
insertdadjoke: (♊ of finding you out there)
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WHO Lupin Anderson ([personal profile] insertdadjoke), Sirius Anderson ([personal profile] sociopapathic).
WHAT In an effort to let Abel get his own bearings after breaking off from the Reapers' control, Cain makes new identities for himself, Abel and Holly and enrolls into college with them. Hijinks.
WHEN Start of a semester. Mid-2020s.
WHERE Somewhere-Somethin' U.

It seemed they had arrived first. They didn't have any last minute business to take care of, or any parents to wish them off or insist on roadtripping it instead of flying like anyone with common sense would. They all had each other, and they all had a vague plan: survive through and graduate college. Some kind of bonding experience that would acclimate Abel to the inner workings of living people around his supposed-age. As many things were, it was Cain's idea — something to help straighten Abel's head out after the mindfuck that was breaking through the shell that the Reapers had stuffed Cain's brother inside for the better part of three millennia.

While it might not have had all that much common sense to it, there was a logical thread. Cain was just glad his brother and niece had gone for it eagerly enough, something to make sure they all stayed together even when Holly was rapidly growing up and soon to outpace her father and uncle. At least she had a better idea of how to act on her own in public; Cain wasn't too worried about how she would get by, although he made a mental note to pull her aside and nip any problems in the bud later on.

"I'm taking this room!" Cain said from the upper hall. It was small but had the air of being well-used over the years and there were no other beds that meant he would be sharing with unwanted frat brothers. He peered into the one next door and grinned over to his brother. "This one looks good for you. What do you think?"
insertdadjoke: (♊ that feels so empty)
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WHO Jacob Kane ([personal profile] insertdadjoke), Abel Fletcher ([personal profile] sociopapathic).
WHAT Do not fuck with these brothers. Not even if you want to experiment and find out why one is immortal. Just don't do it.
WHEN Late 2014, several months after Cain and Abel have been working together to down the Death Erasers.
WHERE nfc.

"What do you mean, you don't know how to text?" asked Cain. He glanced over the lid of his laptop to give his brother a dubious look. There was a whole lot Abel had simply never picked up in his time as an Enforcer and Cain was painfully aware of how much personal experience Abel was lacking in his unlife. There was nothing to be done for it except curse the Reapers and move forward from there. Still... "Everyone knows how to text, Abel."

It was a bit egregious when Abel had a thirteen year old daughter (granted that she was adopted) who was quite the typical teenager in some respects and still Abel couldn't do much more than make calls with his phone. That just seemed like willful ignorance on Abel's part. Cain was going to have to fix that. There were worse things he was going to have to help his brother get through; this one would be a piece of cake.

Didn't mean he couldn't rib the hell out of Abel for it, though.

"Do you even know how to get to the text menu? Can you even turn your phone on? My God, does Holly have to charge it for you?" he asked, tone going more and more obnoxious as the questions came. Sometimes he even got a reaction for it. Those were always awesome.