( CLOSED ) I DON'T WANT A LOT FOR CHRISTMAS.

[manipulative]

Who: Katherine + Stefan | Wanda + Amos.
What: December things.
When: December.
Where: Around.

Content warnings: Monsters, PTSD, mind control and drowning.

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[explosion]

[ wanda shakes her head, which might have been a mistake given how she feels colder from the act. she wants to tell him to listen—to really listen—but it's hard to do so when body parts are growing numb and the water is really fucking cold.

so, instead, she opts to forgo that little lesson for now and pushes with all of her might against the ice. it moves as though it's made out of rubber, but the hard, thick ice no longer feels dense beneath her palms. ]

Push. It's moving.

[ it feels as though she's trying to break out of a thick bubble of magic. if she continues to push, it'll give. it always gives. ]

[rocinantes]

I am pushing.

( just in case she has doubts about that, he's pushing as hard as he can. he wants that goddamn ice to start cracking. but he can feel some give so he hopes that they're almost there.

his lungs feel like they're starting to give up on him and he knows that's not good. )

[explosion]

[ all she can think of is: ]

Push, push, push, pushpushpushpush.

[ but it's not an order to him; it's to herself, encouraging her to not give up. it's the chant she'd uttered under her breath when the rubble's dust had been thick and the bed had groaned and nothing had moved. everything concludes with a happily ever after at the end of an episode—and wanda felt they were coming toward one very, very soon.

the ice splits to create a fissure. ]

[rocinantes]

( amos keeps his thoughts to himself but he listens, pushing as hard as he can. when he hears the ice crack, he feels relief flood through him and he keeps going.

the crack seems to grow bigger and bigger and he gives it one last shove with every single bit of strength to get out from underneath this ice. )