Rooftop of Our Lady of Fandom, Thursday Morning

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

It had been a long time since Dante had seen the sun come up. So in the youngest hours of the morning, he curled out of his pew-bed and slipped outside, leaping up to the rooftop of the church.

He quickly found himself disappointed. The fog had risen so far that no light passed through, like it had done for years. He could see the planes meshing now, superimposed, the tenuous link between one and the other fortifying.

There were no more blinks. No more glimpses into another world. The church he'd gone to sleep in had been dusty but intact, at least for the short spell before he closed his eyes. Now, the space beside him had the old hole in it again, and half the pews were strewn around the hall inside like there had been a fight (multiple fights) there.

He sighed. Well. So much for that respite.

"G'morning, Cassandra," he said to the stalking, twitching form below, the one that dragged a sword behind her. "Just like clockwork again."

He dangled his feet over the edge of the roof and turned his eyes towards the grim edges of the shanty town in the park. "Let's hope Kathy made it back home okay."

[[ bde day 2! the island's now cut off from the island, the fog is high, and the buildings of Fandom will have twisted into their AU selves. also, monsters. also, open. ]]

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[unbalancedforce.livejournal.com]

"Weather stabilize itself?" Anakin asked, eyes scanning the sky for any airborne problems as he extended his senses through the Force as well. Couldn't be too vigilant these days, after all. Paranoia had kept him alive.

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, we're back to our usual blanket of shitshow," Dante said idly. He sat back and peered up. "Yay?"

[theplacetostand]

"What is it with roofs and brooding?" Ahsoka asked, leaping lightly up onto the roof. "You'd think people'd like to mope somewhere more stable."

[theplacetostand]

"There you are." Ahsoka had woken with a bad feeling, which wasn't new, as well as a weird buzzing in her teeth and montrals when she reached out into the Force, which was. So she'd come looking for Anakin. "Are your teeth itching?"

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"I'm not moping, I'm having a moment," Dante called. "You're gonna ruin it with your sarcasm."

[theplacetostand]

"I might buy that from someone who didn't feel the need to wear a mask so we know how terrible he feels." The sarcasm kept her feeling like herself. Sorry, not sorry.

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"You have a trouble with my mask, you just stay outta my church," Dante volunteered. He swung his legs out. "No one's forcing you to stick around."

[theplacetostand]

But if she did that who would distract him from himself? "I'd say the part where we're all trapped on this island is."

[unbalancedforce.livejournal.com]

Anakin rolled his shoulders out, pretending like it was going to relieve tension. Ha. He'd been stressed for years.

"At least we're used to it?"

[unbalancedforce.livejournal.com]

"A little," Anakin said, pausing to do a quick self-assessment. "That's new."

And new was generally bad. Call him a pessimist.

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

See, Dante disagreed with the idea he had to be distracted from anything. Wouldn't be any distractions left in a few years anyway.

"Yeah, but there's like three cleared streets heading around here," he said. "By the way, you seen Hollow Cassandra? She passed by here like thirty minutes ago."

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"Same old, same old," Dante said. "It was just nice to see the sun again."

He sucked in a breath of air. "You see any of the townies from other... whatever the hell, Fandom?"

[theplacetostand]

"Or it's old and we both just forgot about it." At some point Ahsoka had gone all the way through despair and right back to sarcasm as a way of life. "Feels like licking a power pack."

[unbalancedforce.livejournal.com]

"When did you lick a power pack?"

Not really the point, Anakin.

[theplacetostand]

With that attitude, they might as well just lie down and wait to become hollows.

"Maybe I just missed your charming company then," Ahsoka said. "With the sword? Not lately."

[unbalancedforce.livejournal.com]

"A few," Anakin said. "Didn't get close enough to chat, but chatting's not really my thing. You?"

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"Talked to a couple," Dante said, shrugging. "Just wondering if they made the jump too, or we did 'em a favor and moved on."

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"Somebody should probably take her out one of these days," Dante sighed.

[theplacetostand]

"One of the clones dared me to." She frowned as she tried to remember his name. "...Hardcase."

[unbalancedforce.livejournal.com]

"When was the last time it went right for us?" Anakin asked. "Bet they're around here somewhere."

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"Poor bastards." Dante sighed. "Maybe we should've made an effort to warn them about... y'know."

That thing no one could remember.

[unbalancedforce.livejournal.com]

"And if the clones told you to jump off--never mind, of course you'd jump off the building," Anakin said, shaking his head. "Any ideas what the teeth thing could mean?"

[theplacetostand]

"Probably, but it's hard to fight a familiar face when they're not actively hurting someone."

And sometimes when they were.

[theplacetostand]

"Excuse you, I'd jump off first and tell them to follow." Because that had happened. More than once.

"I don't know, but it got stronger when I was nearer the school."

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"She did try to hit me with that sword once."

She just couldn't do much to him.