"If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them." - Johnny Depp

It started with just the occasional odd thought in the middle of the night or when something would remind her. ( Read more... )

Portent
n. 1. A sign or warning that something significant is likely to happen; “an occurrence of crucial portent.”

The night before, after the show, Reecy ended up stumbling off the stage double-over in pain. It should have been a warning sign, but it had passed as quickly as it hit. Although she had to miss the Stage Door meet-and-greets, she thought she had just eaten something that didn't agree with her. It wasn't there long enough to have panicked. Getting home, she could only pool enough energy to shower and go to bed. She wasn't feeling the best, and felt like she was coming down with something. The weather had been up and down. That would make sense.

( Nothing could have prepared her for what happened... )

Reecy Chester
{ Original Character }

WORD:

Lugubrious
adj. 1. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner


QUOTE:

"There are no secrets that time does not reveal."
- Jean Racine

Lugubrious
adj. 1. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner

The one thing any parent worthy of the title in this world never wanted was their children to be hurting. From the moment they're born, you try to do everything in your power to prevent that. One of the hardest lessons you need to learn as a parent, in the very early days, is that you can't always prevent it. Walker had raised his daughter as a single father, and sacrificed many things to ensure she never wanted or needed for anything. He was determined to still give her the love of both parents, even if his partner passed away from testicular cancer when Reecy was only an infant. From there on, he vowed his life was for her.

This led to him becoming a mature-aged student at Med School. It had always been a dream of his, but it never quite got there when he was younger. It was one way he could provide for his daughter, and he did the hard yards. The very hard yards. Some days, he didn't even know how he made it through. Like every parent, he had those days where it felt like he was failing everything. Like he would never be able to make it through, and everything he did was wrong. That was just all part and parcel.

( Today, it had been one of his hardest days of being a father... )

Walker Chester
( Original Character )

"There are no secrets that time does not reveal."
- Jean Racine

If there was one thing Clint disliked in this world, it was situations that forced him to overthink how he was feeling. Usually he was just an act first, deal with the consequences later kind of dude. That got him into trouble plenty of times in his life, but Clint got off on trouble. That was no secret. It was why he had chucked in being a cop. He liked the thrill of flirting with danger, but didn't like being bound by the rules. Instead, he used what he learned to open his own Private Investigations business. It became lucrative because there was little (or anything) he wouldn't do in the name of solving a case. Did he take the law into his own hands? Fuck yes, he did. He wouldn't stop either.

Still, his professional life was the easy bit. It was his bread and butter and what he did like water off a duck's back. Personal, however, was another story. Generally, his personal life involved fucking a lot, doing shit he probably shouldn't but not giving a fuck about it, and protecting the people he loved. Much more recently, he had to face his demons head-on when his husband was stabbed on the catwalk of a fashion show with an attempt to murder him. Right in front of Clint, who had been sitting in the audience.

( It was an act of revenge, for an extremely complicated case Clint got in too deep in. He didn't regret it either... )

clint chevalier
original character