( CLOSED ) BITE MY TONGUE.

[manipulative]

Who: Katherine + Stefan + Wanda + Amos
What: June stuff.
When: June.
Where: All around the twist.

Content Warnings: Parental abuse; mind control/reality warping; dark magic; PTSD.

Comments

[rocinantes]

She won't. She's old.

( it's been years since he'd left baltimore. there's no way lydia was still doing that sort of thing. )

She might not even be alive anymore.

[explosion]

You don't know?

[ hm. well, that at least gives her an idea. if she was dead, then, well… her little plan to be heroic could easily die a nice swift death. fortunately, lydia may get to experience that for herself. ]

You don't keep up with the Baltimore newspapers?

[rocinantes]

No.

( amos shakes his head firmly. )

I left that behind for a reason.

[explosion]

Hm.

[ if wanda had the choice as to whether or not she kept up with sokovian news, she knows she'd keep up with it even if it made her uncomfortable. it's better to be informed than not informed.

then again, wanda does like to self-flagellate. ]

If you could find out where she is right now, would you?

[rocinantes]

Nope.

( amos says it quickly. he's been curious about lydia over the years but he doesn't want to go back to that life. )

I don't need to know what she's doing. We're never going to have some beautiful reunion.

[explosion]

[ she can't help but cock her brow. ]

Not even for closure?

[ if strucker was alive, would she ever go back to that hydra facility? she doesn't think so. after understanding what they were about, how they had unkindly used her and pietro and helped kill so many of her friends and family... she wouldn't want a reunion, either.

she would want revenge. ]

[rocinantes]

I don't need closure. I don't need to go back there.

( he doesn't want to go back there is the bigger thing. )

I don't want that place to get its claws into me again.

[explosion]

It wouldn't.

[ wanda speaks with such certainty. despite being a telepath, she can't see the future. if she could, so many things would be different.

but she knows who she is and what she's capable of. and she knows that baltimore wouldn't get its claws into amos again. it wouldn't even be able to look in his direction. ]

Not if I was there.

[rocinantes]

There's no guarantee that you'd be there, Wanda.

( so, he shakes his head again. )

I don't want to go back there. Okay?