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roartonrisen ([personal profile] roartonrisen) wrote2015-10-07 08:46 pm
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How is it that after finally getting what he’s been after for so long, all Kieren wants to do is go back home?

Then again, a lot of that panic is due to the fact that one minute, Kieren had been in the washroom trying to give himself his injection using the mirror and the next, he’s in the middle of a crowded train station, as if suddenly his old wishes are coming true and he’s managed to escape Roarton and find his way into a whole new whirlwind. The trouble, of course, being that he’s got no cover up, no contacts, and is currently wielding his injector.

“Excuse me,” he says, as politely as he can despite his rising panic, jamming his way out of the station with his head down and trying not to make any eye contact. He feels like he can’t breathe and given that he doesn’t breathe, that’s a bit much. It feels like too much. Between losing Amy and his forced encounter with Blue Oblivion, suddenly having a mad episode and thinking you’re in a crowded city must mean something. The trouble is, he isn’t sure what.

It’s not really a side effect that they put in the pamphlets, is it?

Kieren doesn’t find any respite on the street either. There’s just more and more people, like they’re coming from every direction. His panic drives him into an alleyway just for a breather, clasping onto his injection. He reaches back for the hole in his neck, grimacing as he tries to align it. He hadn’t managed to finish giving himself the daily dose before he’d been interrupted.

And now he’s in an alleyway in some strange city, looking like he’s shooting up.

Strangely, it brings Simon to mind and Kieren almost laughs at the absurdity of the situation, only he has to be careful because if he moves, this is going to hurt more than it usually does (and it usually hurts a lot). It’s in the middle of this completely absurd and ridiculous piece of mad theatre that he hears footfalls at the head of the alley, because of course he’d be caught out like this.

Mindful of what he looks like right now and knowing he needs to finish this injection, Kieren keeps his head just slightly tilted so the shadows hide his skin and his eyes.

“It’s not what you think,” he protests immediately. “Really. I swear, it’s medicinal.”

Because that would be the perfect cap on a mad day – being carted off to the hospital or the loony bin for giving himself required drugs in some strange new alley. So here he is, in the hands of a stranger, and Kieren just has to hope that after all the really terrible experiences he’s had lately, this is going to make up for it all.
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[personal profile] a_littlefaith 2015-10-08 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
It's been a hard few weeks, first losing Michonne, then thinking Kili's brother might be gone, then finding out Rick, Carl and Judith were all gone, too. But that's been undone, at least a little, though she doesn't know what's going on really or how to work things out. It had taken a few days, but on a whim Beth had called Carl's cell again and it hadn't given her that automated disconnect message. It had rung and rung and then it had gone to his voicemail, but what that means is that he's still here.

If he's still here, maybe Judith is still here, too.

That doesn't take away the losses she's feeling and she doesn't know where Carl is or how to find him, but at least it's something. It's been sort of a rollercoaster, though, and when she stumbles across some guy doing God only knows what in an alley, she's tired. It's been a long day and all she wants is to head home so she and Daryl can try and figure out what to do next in looking for Carl and Judith, but suddenly he's there and he's talking to her.

"Medicine for what?" she asks. On another day maybe she'd be more polite about it, tell him not to worry about a thing, but things have been real trying lately and she's not feeling her best. "I mean, it's fine, you can do what you like, I don't own the alley or nothin'. Just... maybe don't let the police see you."