( may event ) sudden recall

[officialnotice]

EVENT: SUDDEN RECALL

On the day of the fifteenth, as the sun finally begins to break through the clouds that have been hanging over the town for weeks, the incessant ringing of your house phone similarly pierces the stillness, and refuses to cease until you answer it. You're free to leave your house and simply ignore it, of course, but judging by the distant sounds of ringing coming from all of the other houses on your street as well, it's probably an important call. It would really be a shame if you missed it.

... or it could just be an update from the mayor on the town's current state of post-flood recovery. But maybe that is important to you. Civic pride is important, after all, you'd never catch Linda missing an address from the mayor. Even one as strange as this one.

The voice on the other line isn't as polished or eloquent as you'd expect from someone in such a high position of authority, sounding rather dazed and distracted instead, with meandering sentences, abrupt stops, and sudden topic shifts. The information's all there, certainly, if you can parse through the mess, but something about the delivery itself is troubling, something that lingers in the back of your mind like a shadow throughout the day.

Maybe it happens the moment you hang up the phone, or perhaps a few hours later as you're gossiping with a neighbor about whether or not the mayor has a drinking problem, but at some point during the day you're suddenly struck, sent nearly reeling by a vision, a... memory? The chill of metal against your bare back, a bustle of men and women around you, like a churning tide of movement. Their voices a steady drone of clipped conversation around you, but the words themselves are indecipherable. It doesn't seem to slot neatly into your misty memories of Wayward Pines, but then, it doesn't feel anything like that troubling other that's been steadily building and growing in your mind since that fateful day you woke up in the hospital not so long ago.

And yet it feels real all the same.

Over the next few days, it quickly becomes clear that you aren't the only one feeling... off. All over town the people of Wayward Pines are acting strange, distracted, wary. Even Linda fails to make any of her weirdly competitive passive aggressive comments when you see her at the bakery. So that's one good thing to come of all this, at least.

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[fe_male]

[ tony does a marvelous job of only jumping a little bit when he feels hands sliding around him, peeling his own away from his face enough to look down and see very familiar, very petite fingers and arms starting to encircle his torso. she slides a palm over his heart and he lets one of his hands drop to cover it and hold it there, because something ought to be there, something needs to - it's stupid, he feels dumb for even having the thought, because it's his heart, of course it needs to be protected, but he just has this feeling that's almost panic about it, and his heart feels like it's going to beat right out of his chest and he might need some help holding it in place.

he turns his head enough to breathe her in, and it has the side effect of leaning back into her just a little bit - grounding, in the sense and feel of her. he'll probably never really be able to tell her what a tether she is, and in all honesty he's not sure he would want to. she's aware enough, and if she really knew the full scope of the role she filled then it might be too much. 'you're all i have' covers it well enough, even if he doesn't know why he's thinking that.

anyway, she tells him he's tired, and he's hitting the steep part of the curve now, coming down so hard from the adrenaline and anxiety that he almost laughs. almost. instead, he looks down at where her hands are resting on him, moving his other hand to hold her arm. stay. ]

You really shouldn't be in here without shoes on.

[ceoinstilettos]

[ that, there, is one of the reasons she hadn't embraced him immediately... as much as she would have liked to. he was on edge, that much was clear, and exacerbating things wasn't her intention. and though his hand on her hand has her smiling, it's not nearly enough to placate her concerns. she applies a bit more pressure, a reminder, of sorts, that she's there and hoping to calm him, the erratic beating of his heart making her own skip. ]

[ as the tension starts to dissolve and she feels him move in her arms pepper tips her head down and kisses his crown. he doesn't need to share. she knows, at least to some extent, that he relies on her as much as she relies on him. to some, and maybe even him, it might seem a bit one sided... but he plays a very important role in her life too. their relationship, personal and professional, has always been different, but she wouldn't have it any other way. ]

No, maybe not, [ she leans down a bit further, her lips grazing his ear as she continues, ] but it was a risk I was willing to take. [ planting a kiss on his cheek a moment later she circles him, her hand, not once, moving from his heart. ] What happened?