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Martin K(nife) Blackwood ([personal profile] curriculum_fictae) wrote2020-08-23 08:44 am

[PSL-Adjacent] time travel side story

[ Is this part of the other PSL? MAYBE ... tbd.

But - this is the Martin who went back in time to the second season, before everything really started going to hell. It hasn't been the most pleasant ride - seeing himself, accidentally triggering Not-Sasha's attack, the confrontation with Elias - but it's been better. He'd begged Michaelen not to take him back for multiple reasons. Yes, he thinks help more here, but ... he also doesn't want to go home to die. Not when there's a Jon here who's willing to love him, when Tim is blossoming into a new best friend, and even Martin is slowly moving towards self-acceptance in a literal sense.

For the first time in months, Martin - no, Algric - sees the shape of what a peaceful life could be. This could be a world where he lives in Jon's flat for the rest of his life, where he doesn't only have to be a helpful ghost. The Lonely is still too strong in him, but he feels it weakening in spots, where Tim and Jon and Martin have all helped him remember what it's like to have human connection.

That's why he's here at Hilltop Road. He dares to hope now; he dares to consider the possibility that he might get to keep all of this. And if he wants to keep this, he has to make sure there's no way back to the hell he left. Michaelen's appearance had scared him more deeply than he wants to let on.

As he mounts the steps to the rickety old house, Algric takes in a shivering breath. It's fine. It's fine, this is fine, he's just - just going to look. And if there's a creepy basement with a crack in the world, he's not going to go through it! He's just going to. See if it's there or not. If he thinks his timeline is on the other side or not. ]
eyediot: (from a fall from grace)

[personal profile] eyediot 2020-09-03 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh boy. His thoughts stop dead in their tracks at that tone.]

I-i was-- I was destroying Nikola, and keeping my promise to Tim!
eyediot: (s5; let the torturing ensue)

[personal profile] eyediot 2020-09-03 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Again, keeping my promise to Tim.

[He's quickly losing this.]
eyediot: (and when I'm dreamin')

[personal profile] eyediot 2020-09-03 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[He sputters a bit, setting his mug down.]

We weren't going to die--

[Wait does Algric know he can't really die? Tim, sure, that was his concern, but - Jon can't.]
eyediot: (snakes and lovers turn the lights off)

[personal profile] eyediot 2020-09-03 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
But I wouldn't have because I literally can't--

[Breath. Breathing and. He doesn't want to yell or fight with him about this. It was the right thing to do for Tim.]

You remember, Nikola took Tim's brother? He would never have forgiven me if I hadn't taken him.
eyediot: (cause I don't understand you)

[personal profile] eyediot 2020-09-03 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Blink.

A beat.]


It's... Um. Well... Kind of. The whole.. Having done the ritual as an avatar thing? A-as far as I Know, I... can't really?
eyediot: (take all those emotions. and bury them.)

[personal profile] eyediot 2020-09-03 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
...Right. Right!

Yes, that's. Something I should've mentioned sooner. Sorry.
eyediot: (*deep inhale*)

[personal profile] eyediot 2020-09-03 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I am sorry. [Genuinely. Truly.] I thought I had told you.
eyediot: say anything - "walk through hell" (if I could swim)

[personal profile] eyediot 2020-09-04 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't have let it get to that.

[How could he possibly have avoided it beyond sheer stubbornness? Another sip of his tea.]

Something did happen with Tim, though. Right at the end.
eyediot: (just to be the man who walked 1000 miles)

[personal profile] eyediot 2020-09-04 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
[His gaze is focused on the wall other side of them, like he can see Tim through it talking to Martin.]

I think the Desolation.
eyediot: (hand me my shovel)

[personal profile] eyediot 2020-09-04 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Unless I imagined the scorched hand prints on the back of my shirt...

I-i don't know if he. Chose, but. It got to him right in the end.
eyediot: (if I get drunk well I know I'm gonna be)

[personal profile] eyediot 2020-09-04 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
I... think all of us.

[He still isn't sure what entirely is happening to Algric. But for now? He's counting him. Jon does... reach over to put one hand over Algric's.]

As far as I can tell, we're still ourselves at least.
eyediot: (comes in for the work I do)

[personal profile] eyediot 2020-09-04 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Don't think any of us were getting out without that.

[He squeezes that hand back.]

...I'll be honest, I'm not sure what the next step should be here. Obviously stop Elias but...

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