Open Post the Sequel

[desertions]

how to play.

1. Drop a comment with one or more of your muses. It can be empty if you want me to make a scenario, or you can toss one at me. If you want to just give me a prompt (a word, song, lyric, picture, phrase, anything), I can riff off that too.
2. In the subject line, you can specify any of my muses you might want to play with, or you can ask me to pick someone.
3. just rp with me. if something jives really well, maybe we can continue it in another one of these later, sort of like a super casual verse. if it doesn't, it doesn't.

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[daphnes]

"She was one of my best friends." But sometimes it doesn't feel like she knew Ali at all.

She doesn't think anyone really knew Ali.

At his words, she nods a little. "It feels like it's going to though. There's no stop. Every time we think we've found the end of things -- there's always more."

She remembers when they caught Mona, how it seemed like everything would be finally over.

So much for that.

[wrongkid]

The four of them were always so close but not. "And she knew all the secrets we didn't," he comments lightly, shaking his head. He knows Ali didn't like him very much, but did her best friends really mean so little to her too? Was it always all a game to her to gain power, to survive, to get money?

Jason doesn't really know.

"I know," he says softly. There's something heavy in the words. "There's no laying it to rest. For all the times I've tried to move forward and even left. I can't."

Not with all these questions, and he has no idea how much danger Spencer's in all the time.

[daphnes]

"She did. Ali always seemed to know how to find out any information she could -- probably because it gave her more power." Ali had never been beyond blackmail after all -- not by a long shot. Spencer wonders sometimes though what started her on that route, was it always just a power thing or did something else start it?

They may never know.

"I don't think any of can."

How can she when whoever did it, whoever killed Ali -- they're constantly going after her and her friends too.

[wrongkid]

"Yeah, she did," Jason says, and he got high so often to try to avoid it, their family, their parents. There were reasons Ali wanted to have so much power, reasons she felt so powerless in their own home like he did.

The secrets, the mystery of it all is going to drive them to the breaking point. There's just no stopping it, not even for Spencer. It'd be nice to be able to help one sister at least.

"No, I don't think so either." It's a low admittance, one he doesn't want to make but does. "I know I'm not the best at this, Spencer, and we haven't even known we were siblings for most of our lives, but it means something to me. And I want to help where I can, okay? I already lost one sister. I don't really want to lose.... you too."

[daphnes]

In a way, Spencer's lost a sister too -- not in the same sort of way, not even close, but still. Melissa barely talks to her anymore and when she does -- well it's never kind. She's long decided Spencer's the enemy -- because two of her boyfriends kissed her (Spencer is to blame even though they were both older men who came onto her. Funny, how that works). Her parents were always Team Melissa.

It hasn't left her with a lot of family to rely on.

Which is why his offer arches a little. She doesn't want to lose Jason either -- but if she told him the reality of what was going on, the extent of how bad things really were. It makes him a target.

Which is why the smile she gives him is more sad than anything else.

"I don't want to lose you either -- I've never had a brother before."

[wrongkid]

Of course, what they don't know now is that Jason is already a target whether he knows anything or not, but he wouldn't blame Spencer for not mentioning it. There's a lot going on, and he can tell the way they need to seek answers goes deep even if he doesn't know the why or that it's linked to so much present danger for her and for the other girls who were Ali's best friends.

Jason smiles a bit at what she says, and there's an ache, a sadness in it too if only because he catches it on her face.

"Well, now you do," he informs her as they make it back around on their walk, and they're in front of her house this time. "And that's not going to change. Not if I have anything to say about it."

[daphnes]

In Rosewood you're either a target or a suspect. That seems to be the options. There's no in-between, no innocent bystanders. Nothing. In a world covered in shades of grey sometimes it feels starkly black and white.

"Good." And this time the smile is almost genuine -- or as close to a real smile as she gets anymore, anyway. "Because I wasn't planning on giving you up."

She refuses to let A take everything from her.