[Closed] When the Loneliness Strikes

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WHO: Tommy Shepherd, Gar Logan, Wanda Maximoff
WHERE: Tommy's Dome, Wanda's Dome
WHAT: Alone Event - Comforting
WHEN: July 13th and on
WARNINGS: Traumatic history, references to torture and mental abuse, one thread may lead to sex, it will be marked when it gets there.


Waking Up Alone | Closed to Gar

There was a specific sort of feeling that comes with waking up, one that Tommy hasn't felt in a long time. The last time this had happened had been when he was locked up, when he wasn't sure what day it was, what month, what year. When the only thing that was certain was that he would be awoken and there would be pain.

It was a sense that came with every morning, waking up in an empty space, walls he could touch with both hands at once by just reaching out, it had nearly driven him mad. And now his personal dome gave off the same feeling. Isolation, darkness. There was no one there.

The pain is so deep, the fear so overpowering. Tommy blurs around his dome at full speed, searching, seeking trying to find something that he knew couldn't be found. The certainty was absolute, and he found himself screaming into the void around him. They were all gone. They were gone and they had left him, all alone in the darkness. Where was Gar? Hadn't Gar come by earlier? Why had he left? He had promised, hadn't he? Promised he would be here with Tommy, and now he was gone too.

Just before the nightmare faded from his dome, Tommy found himself collapsing onto his couch and trying so hard not to sob.

United In Pain | Closed to Wanda

When it all passes and he has a moment, Tommy does the only thing that makes sense. He races to Wanda's dome, hands immediately coming up to start pounding on her door. After how he'd felt, he needed to not be alone. He needed to be near his mother, the only true family he had here. Maybe she wasn't HIS Wanda, but she would get it, right? The fear of being alone, of being isolated. Worse, he knew it would have to be so much more for her, because she had lost people in ways he didn't know that others would really get.



[OOC: If someone wants Tommy in particular around related to this, hit me up with a message here or on plurk churbooseanon and I can make something.]

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[garrrr]

The nightmare that had come over Tommy's dome had them both passing like ships in the night, alone and so close but never managing to realize that they weren't alone. There was a panic in Gar, memories of that first cage, the first time he'd tasted blood and being alone. He'd been alone and he'd been alone in the pain of everything that'd happened and the things that he'd done but at least for a while he had had people. Now no one's there. He doesn't run around trying to find anyone. He closes in on himself, on the floor somewhere in the kitchen area and back pressed against the cabinet and knees drawn tightly to his chest. All the dark thoughts that come with being alone rising to the surface and he feels like they're slowly drowning him, closing his airways.

But it does pass but the heaviness doesn't really lift, cloying to his mind stubbornly.

Gar has the presence of mind to push himself up, to realize that he's in Tommy's dome, that he'd been there with Tommy which meant they'd both just experienced that. He forces himself to calmness, to the careful state of being okay because you need other people to be okay and it only takes a moment to find Tommy.

"Tommy," he breathes and there's a relief in seeing him and he drops beside him immediately, pulling him close. "I'm here."

[minus1twin]

Wanda was in her dome when she felt the sudden rush of loneliness wash over her. She'd tried to call Tommy, Antonio, Natasha... anyone, but most of her friends had left. Her team was gone. It was a crushing feeling but she didn't want it to keep her down. She told herself that it would pass. It would be gone but even as the shadow of fear lifted, she felt its weight on her heart.

There were tears in her eyes but she refused to let them fall. She wasn't going to be weak when the sphere was playing its cruel tricks.

She felt Tommy's presence before she heard the knock at the door and didn't waste any time to walk towards it and call out. "Come in!" As soon as she saw Tommy, she pulled her son into a tight hug, burying her face against his shoulder. "Thank god you're okay." He was with her...

It didn't matter what the truth was or what anyone else thought. Tommy was her son and she needed him as she needed any other family member.