[ With as antisocial as he can be, Jefferson has a tendency to isolate himself for stretches of time, both in real memory and in false ones. So it isn't unheard of for him to make himself scarce for days (sometimes weeks) at a time, and under normal circumstances-- or as normal as circumstances can be here-- Jefferson dropping off the radar for a little over a week would've gone by without comment. Except now he has people in his life-- friends, employees, a boyfriend (look, they're not fooling anyone with their 'we're just friends' hemming and hawing anymore)-- and they tend to notice these things pretty quickly.
Nobody sees Jefferson again until the morning of the 17th. Turns out he'd been in the hospital, likely for mental health reasons. Makes sense; he always seems to shift between anxious tension and fits of melancholy. What's noticeable, however, is how uncharacteristically unburdened he seems after his stay in the hospital. Cheerful, even, with a certain lightness to his demeanor. Whatever the doctors did was long overdue, according to gossips, who don't have a whole lot of time to speculate or spread rumors before the town's under attack by a horde of murderous potatoes.
After the dust settles and revelations are made and it's time to continue living, Jefferson's... still taking things remarkably well, all things considered. His natural gloominess does return in the wake of Rhiannon's death, but it's different than what used to weigh him down before. Fresh grief over a lost friend, rather than the all-encompassing sense of mourning. He should be upset about the news that he's apparently been frozen (along with everybody else in Wayward Pines) for a thousand years, but he isn't.
It's not as if he had anything to go back to in Storybrooke. Just a curse. No family and no friends. He has those things here. His life here, flawed as it is, is so much greater than anything he would have had back home. Even if the curse had been broken, what would he have? Who would he have?
(There's something missing in him, in his head, ever since his stay at the hospital. But it's not as if he knows what it is, or even that it's gone, save for the occasional sense of loss that he can't pinpoint. But then it's gone again, taking its heaviness with it.)
Customers at the tea shop may notice he's a bit freer now, a bit more relaxed. Something more like the man he once was before... before he lost Priscilla. He smiles more easily, and he likes to talk more than he used to. He's still scarred and wounded in so many ways (Wonderland remains a source of so much of it), but for what feels like the first time in a lifetime, he feels hopeful about his future.
In fact, he may be one of the few people who isn't outraged by Dr. Rousseau's public announcement.
During the new storytelling nights at Go Ask Alice, he'll sometimes volunteer to talk about his own adventures in the Enchanted Forest and in various worlds he visited (though he won't say how he visited them). He'll even, from time to time, tell stories about Wonderland, though it's clear that he hates the place. (Odd, considering the tea shop's general theme.) All that being said: he'll still judge you harshly if you order hot chocolate or coffee.
It's a tea shop, after all. ]
( OOC: Shortly before the survival event, Jefferson got himself a failed integration, and his memories of Grace were taken as his deterrent. HENCE: HAPPY JEFFERSON. Enjoy it while it lasts? )
Jefferson | June 26 - Early July | OTA
Nobody sees Jefferson again until the morning of the 17th. Turns out he'd been in the hospital, likely for mental health reasons. Makes sense; he always seems to shift between anxious tension and fits of melancholy. What's noticeable, however, is how uncharacteristically unburdened he seems after his stay in the hospital. Cheerful, even, with a certain lightness to his demeanor. Whatever the doctors did was long overdue, according to gossips, who don't have a whole lot of time to speculate or spread rumors before the town's under attack by a horde of murderous potatoes.
After the dust settles and revelations are made and it's time to continue living, Jefferson's... still taking things remarkably well, all things considered. His natural gloominess does return in the wake of Rhiannon's death, but it's different than what used to weigh him down before. Fresh grief over a lost friend, rather than the all-encompassing sense of mourning. He should be upset about the news that he's apparently been frozen (along with everybody else in Wayward Pines) for a thousand years, but he isn't.
It's not as if he had anything to go back to in Storybrooke. Just a curse. No family and no friends. He has those things here. His life here, flawed as it is, is so much greater than anything he would have had back home. Even if the curse had been broken, what would he have? Who would he have?
(There's something missing in him, in his head, ever since his stay at the hospital. But it's not as if he knows what it is, or even that it's gone, save for the occasional sense of loss that he can't pinpoint. But then it's gone again, taking its heaviness with it.)
Customers at the tea shop may notice he's a bit freer now, a bit more relaxed. Something more like the man he once was before... before he lost Priscilla. He smiles more easily, and he likes to talk more than he used to. He's still scarred and wounded in so many ways (Wonderland remains a source of so much of it), but for what feels like the first time in a lifetime, he feels hopeful about his future.
In fact, he may be one of the few people who isn't outraged by Dr. Rousseau's public announcement.
During the new storytelling nights at Go Ask Alice, he'll sometimes volunteer to talk about his own adventures in the Enchanted Forest and in various worlds he visited (though he won't say how he visited them). He'll even, from time to time, tell stories about Wonderland, though it's clear that he hates the place. (Odd, considering the tea shop's general theme.) All that being said: he'll still judge you harshly if you order hot chocolate or coffee.
It's a tea shop, after all. ]
( OOC: Shortly before the survival event, Jefferson got himself a failed integration, and his memories of Grace were taken as his deterrent. HENCE: HAPPY JEFFERSON. Enjoy it while it lasts? )