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i used to dream in the dark of palisades park

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POSTED ON May 28, 2021 12:56:15 GMT
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Gavin invites her, as promised, to a new home in Sootopolis.

It is not the one he'd intended to purchase, the one he'd texted pictures of. It's a different part of the city, still beachfront, sun-bleached brick and large, inviting windows to the seaside view.

The ocean looms, inviting, and Gavin pictures what it might look like with Rocket's submarine breaching the waves. One day, they'd take the city.

One day, they'd bring the entire region to its knees.

He turns away from the view.

"You want a drink?"
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saoirse quinn
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POSTED ON May 28, 2021 13:27:37 GMT
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They’d come so far from home—two ice cubes in the tropics. Paradise, waiting to sink into the ocean any day now, surely. She looked out at the waves. They looked the same as from her own towering windows in Mossdeep.

His offer of a drink was regarded with a careful look.

“Maybe. Is that a trap?”



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POSTED ON May 28, 2021 13:30:30 GMT
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Gavin actually laughs, sharp and surprised.

"Why would it be a trap?"

Maybe is close enough to yes that he chooses to move toward the kitchen, crouching down to inspect his liquor cabinet.

"What do you normally drink?"

Gavin sets a bottle of Galarian scotch on the island.
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saoirse quinn
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POSTED ON May 28, 2021 13:44:31 GMT
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“I don’t know. I guess there aren't any Silphs around for me to fuck.” She shrugged. “Just don’t want you getting all judgy.” Sometimes, she said things she immediately wished she hadn’t. Hopefully, he’d just let it pass.

“Tequila.”

She looked down at the scotch. “Yeah, that’ll do.”



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POSTED ON May 28, 2021 13:51:07 GMT
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He might've made a joke out of it if not for her follow-up. His brow furrows.

"There's a difference between having a drink and going overboard. I'm not trying to stage an intervention."

He doesn't have tequila, squints at the other options before she decides that the scotch he'd chosen for himself was good enough for her, as well. He straightens up, nudges the cabinet shut with his foot.

Two glasses are poured, and he slides one over.

There's no easy way to bring it up.

"Found out dear old dad's been fucking around." There's venom as he mentions their father. "We've got a little bastard brother."

He sips the scotch.
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saoirse quinn
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POSTED ON May 28, 2021 14:35:56 GMT
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“That’s good.” If he had been, she’d just disappear into shadow, anyways.

A hand reached out for the glass and pulled it closer with a couple of fingers.

What was offered next was unwanted. Oh.” She blinked at him through a momentarily horrified grimace. “Hm.”

Skipping the glass he’d poured, she picked up the bottle and promptly knocked it back for a couple of large, dirt-flavored glugs. Her eyes went to the ceiling, and to the heavens above it as she did so. 'Arceus, take me. This is cruel fucking game.'



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POSTED ON May 28, 2021 14:38:58 GMT
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"Saoirse."

Gavin sounds affronted as he watches her chug directly from the bottle.

"Arceus, that's not even the worst of it, am I going to have to lock the bloody cabinet?"

For all his attempt to jest, genuine concern bleeds through.
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POSTED ON May 28, 2021 15:03:16 GMT
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The bottle was set down with a hard thud and her eyes shot something wild between daggers and nerf gun. One could not possibly be sure which direction the situation was about to go in. “Probably, Cillian.”

She laughed, taking the glass as she was supposed to and turning away to walk a few paces, ascending into another plane of the universe in her mind.

“What the fuck… Eventually, as she took another sip and glared at the ocean, “You are being serious? Cause if you’re not…”

“Wait, what’s the worst of it?” She turned back to him, her chin wrinkling a little.



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POSTED ON May 28, 2021 15:19:48 GMT
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Even as her brother, Gavin can't read her. There's a mild tension, glass half to his lips, until she laughs and the tension bleeds from his shoulders.

He doesn't lock the cabinet, but he does lean against the counter in front of it.

"I'm being serious. I wouldn't joke about this."

There's a gravity to his tone that wills her to understand, to believe.

He grimaces when she turns back.

"He's Rocket, and Walsh knows."
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POSTED ON May 28, 2021 15:33:52 GMT
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She knew he wouldn’t joke about it.

At the ‘worst of it’, her eyes went wider. “What? How is that—how? her forehead scrunched as though the idea was too much to fathom. “Is there something I don’t know about our family? Like, that they’re all Rocket? Do you just keep me in the dark?”



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POSTED ON May 28, 2021 15:40:30 GMT
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"Wh — no, I was surprised as you are!" His lips press into a grim line. "Wouldn't fuckin' put it past dad, but that's beside the point."

He takes another swig of the liquor, mostly as an excuse to think.

"I found out when I was looking at my bloodwork. You know, all the tests they've been running." It's a remarkably casual way to refer to the human experimentation they'd been ordered to undergo. "System flagged a relation to someone else."

From a drawer in the kitchen, Gavin retrieves a file, apparently having been prepared for this conversation in this very room. Sunlight happily lights a photograph of their brother, amber eyes and all.

". He didn't know either, till I told him."
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POSTED ON May 28, 2021 15:50:12 GMT
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Lulu shrugged and nodded lightly, not disagreeing with his comment.

The tests. Right. Of course. Why hadn’t hers been flagged? Was she not important enough to notify?

“What the hell, Cil? Couldn't text me first, or anything?” She stared at the photograph. “How long have you known?” She was asking the important questions, of course.



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POSTED ON May 28, 2021 16:02:55 GMT
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"This isn't the kind of shit you just text someone. I wanted to make sure you were OK."

Perhaps he'd predicted a strong reaction, even if it wasn't necessarily slamming back his scotch. He eyes her carefully, Quinn amber searching.

"Couple days; waited till you weren't busy and I'd made sure he wasn't going to freak the fuck out and get us killed or something. I think I got through to him. He's a hell of a lot softer than us."

He grimaces, clearly unhappy about it.

"More similarity between brothers than the two of us, genetically, so more flags came up." She doesn't ask, but he explains. "Still not something I think they'd notice if they weren't looking, but I'm going to look into having our files classified so some random grunt doesn't stumble across shit they don't need to know."
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POSTED ON May 28, 2021 23:40:57 GMT
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Duh. She’d been joking. Sort of. Hadn’t she? Flustered, she wrinkled an eyebrow at him spitefully, regardless.

“That’s… fair, I suppose...” Admittance was begrudging, as usual.

Softer. She mirrored his grimace.

At the rest of it, her eyes went wide at the realization. “Uh, yeah, I think that’s a bloody good idea.” She sipped her drink, hand shaking the smallest bit.

“Do you smoke again, yet? Fuck.”



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POSTED ON May 29, 2021 9:39:18 GMT
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"Why do you always assume I'm going to go back to smoking?"

He's a touch defensive with a strike against his pride, but he sighs.

"Yeah, I do. Started again after I broke up with Em."

He briefly wanders into the living room, coming back with a carton of cigarettes and an ashtray whose clear glass suggested it was a recent purchase. He lights up a cigarette and sets his lighter on the counter.

"Help yourself."
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