REVERSE PICTURE PROMPT MEME.

[lucency]

① leave a blank comment.
② pick a character. put them in the subject line.
③ receive pictures.
④ do the thread.
⑤ rinse and repeat.

Comments

[industria]

[ Near death experiences and the recovery that follows - it would be hard on anyone, but for a seventeen year old girl who has lost several people she cares about - it's a heavy burden. There are things to figure out and address once she returns, but after being deemed healthy, she had decided to leave town for a week.

Besides, she finally has a chance to meet someone she's come to admire and have a nice sit and chat. Good coffee helps. Once she's taken a sip, a smile spreads across her face before she realizes it. ]

That is good. The coffee at home is a little lighter than this.

[caffeinisms]

See?

[ he grins, not one to say i told you so, and especially not to a teenage girl who, to say the least, has been through something. she doesn't remind him of audrey on anything more than a base level, but the sentiment is still there: get food. talk with no judgment. two things that, ultimately, he is very, very good at.

he takes a sip of his own coffee with an inordinate sort of reverence, closing his eyes as he savors it, and beaming after a moment - the whole thing's very comical, really. ]

It's interesting. I've found that it's the little things that make the hard stuff easier to take. Magic in simplicity. [ it's an invitation of sorts, delivered as an observation. ]

[industria]

Magic in simplicity. [ There's therapy waiting for her and she knows that this isn't his job at all, but she is grateful of his time and will find a way to make herself be of some use during her time here. Not in Audrey's fashion, of course. That kind of undercover work isn't her style.

Allison watches him with a bemused quirk of her lips behind the cup, thinking maybe she should savor it the same way. And she tries, but it just isn't the same. He seems to be one of a kind. ]

Do you know a thing or two about possessions?

[caffeinisms]

[ it takes him a long moment to respond, because this wasn't exactly the turn he was expecting the conversation to make, and so suddenly. that doesn't mean he's not open to the idea. cooper has his demons - some more literal than others - but that doesn't mean they're completely off the table for discussion. keeping things bottled up only makes it burrow deeper, which is part of why he's visiting with allison today. granted, it's absolutely for her sake, and not his, but still. ]

A few more things than two, [ he says, almost casually. he takes another sip of coffee. ] Keep going.

[industria]

[ Allison wrinkles her mouth in an apologetic smile and grimace. Bad form, she thinks, but at least she's finally opening up about it after keeping everything vacuum sealed for far too long. Normally, she bursts into tears - a sign of weakness - but at this moment, she simply takes a sip of her Double R Diner coffee. ]

The Nogitsune, in Japanese mythology, is a chaotic trickster spirit who relies on riddles.

[caffeinisms]

The Nogitsune. [ he repeats the word, pondering it for a long moment before he shakes his head. ] There's something I can't say I'm familiar with.

[ not that japanese mythology is really his area of expertise, but he likes to think he knows the basics. matching her sip with one of his own, he keeps listening. ] But keep going.

[industria]

I wasn't either, until recently. [ She gestures to her torso, where the outline of a heavy bandage can be seen through her sweater. ]

It was dormant until World War II and the woman who revived the Nogitsune buried it in our town. I ... [ God, how does she even begin to talk about the surrogate sacrifices? That will have to come later. She breathes in the coffee for a moment. ] Darkness woke the him up again and he took our friend Stiles as a host.

[caffeinisms]

[ it doesn't take him long to put two and two together - or, at least, to make an educated guess about what's going on. or, rather, what happened. there's a flicker to the bandage before he frowns. ]

And he hurt you, didn't he?