Andrew's notebook

[ainmhianverse] i sang in my chains like the sea

2020-12-17T02:51:29Z

He's been here a couple of days now; his room adjoining to Max's has been arranged (and, he found on the first day, his tome has been moved there). He's starting to believe, with both relief and trepidation, that this is all real.

And Max has suggested, in that gentle persistent way that to Andrew's mind is as good as a direct order, that he might want to get out and start meeting more people.

So here's Andrew, stepping out of the castle and into the sunlit afternoon, blinking under the color-shifting sky.

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[ainmhianverse] same as it ever was

2020-08-12T02:37:22Z

( and you may ask yourself: well? how did I get here? )

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[reverse darkest timeline] if i'm not beyond repair

2018-06-05T19:14:34Z

Composing the note takes him the better part of an hour, and a great deal of cross-outs and scribbling.

Brix,

I was wondering if y
It's been a
How hav
You said if ~~There's been some stuff and I wanted to~~

If you have some time to talk could you let me know? ~~I'm doing~~ I think I'm still doing better but something happened and ~~I'm not~~ I wanted to tell you about it.

Thanks,
Andrew

He writes out two clean copies of the note, leaves one at the Security desk and one with Bar.

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[reverse darkest timeline au] all you want is refuge

2018-05-14T02:00:58Z

He goes back to his own cell, after the exorcism. And lies down, after a while.

Nita's okay. She'll be okay. There's no reason for him to feel this shaky.

Except there is. Oh, there is.

He's trying not to think about it.

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[reverse darkest timeline au] it sticks in the throat

2018-05-06T01:17:23Z

He hasn't been able to make himself leave the cell since talking to the demon yesterday.

What he does finally do, with some effort, is ask Baby to take a message to Ava, asking if she'll come talk to him for a few minutes.

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[reverse darkest timeline au: you stay here]

2018-04-09T02:20:05Z

The thing about a road trip is: you need roads.

No one's been maintaining this particular stretch of highway for years, which means there are places where they have to maneuver slowly around pitted and cracked surfaces, around fallen trees, around the abandoned wreckage of less fortunate cars. One such heap looks a little too deliberate, according to Kali, and they go back to detour wide around that one for fear of ambush.

There's an enclave somewhere around here, she says, calls itself Nowhere Special. Human, which doesn't mean friendly; there's every chance the ambush was theirs. Or of some enemy camp looking to take over their territory.

It's late afternoon, somewhere between misty and drizzly, when they pull up to the long-abandoned gas station.

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[reverse darkest timeline AU: and this is the way out of here]

2016-11-21T01:06:35Z

He's tried to think about taking off the cuffs, as Brix told him to. It's hard to think about: painful, and frightening, and disturbing in a way that's somehow worse than either. It feels wrong.

But he said he would try, and he's been trying. It isn't his fault if it's too hard to keep doing for long.

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[reverse darkest timeline AU: rendezvous in cold blood]

2016-10-31T02:46:10Z

[The morning after this.]

There is a note with Bar, for anybody who might inquire after Andrew Wells, saying that he is currently staying in the cells for his own safety.

No one has told Bar anything about people who maybe shouldn't get that note, even if they ask.

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[milliways] conversations with/for/about people who may or may not be dead

2016-10-26T19:11:29Z

[After this.]

The last group job at Angel Investigations -- a fairly routine intervention to take out a pair of vampires who'd been killing homeless people in Morningside Park -- wrapped up a few days ago. Spike's doing a post-mission patrol to be sure they haven't disrupted anything local beyond what they intended; Gunn's taken care of the internal paperwork; and Jonathan's been putting together the written summary to hand over to the local Watchers.

Hopefully he's finished by now, because he's about to be interrupted.

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[reverse darkest timeline AU: cellthread #3]

2016-10-18T23:49:47Z

It's been about two days.

Nobody's come for him.

Andrew's lying down, staring at the far wall.

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[reverse darkest timeline] in the cells alone

2016-09-22T17:38:34Z

He doesn't take the tisane.

What he does, after Brix ( leaves... )

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[ooc] reverse darkest timeline thread collection

2016-09-13T20:13:05Z

( Index behind the cut-tag! )

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[reverse darkest timeline AU: cellthread #2]

2016-09-01T20:47:56Z

[Previously: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

What's worried Baby the most, over the past few days --

Well. What's upset her the most is Andrew's consistent refusal to speak to her mind-to-mind, or out loud beyond the few necessary words she might exchange with any other inmate, such as requests for food, fresh clothes, an extra blanket.

But what's worried her is that he hasn't asked for anything to pass the time. No tablet with games or videos on it, no pencil and paper, no baseball to bounce off the opposite wall.

No books.

In the cell, Andrew finishes his breakfast (cornflakes, with sliced banana), sets aside the bowl, and settles down leaning against the wall.

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[reverse darkest timeline AU: cellthread]

2016-08-19T19:08:11Z

[After this: 1, 2, 3]

It's late, at least by his body-clock. There's nothing else he can do, so he may as well take a nap.

The cot feels unreasonably exposed; he spends a few minutes wrangling the thin mattress onto the floor, at which point the framework obligingly vanishes to give him a convenient place against the wall to lay it down. He takes off his shoes and socks and his button-down shirt, and lies down in his jeans and undershirt, and stares at the wall.

A week. Maybe in a week he can convince them that he isn't a danger to anyone and they'll let him go.

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[undarkest timeline] oopfsb: watchers always make lists

2015-01-05T03:38:22Z

He needs to write that list. He promised Matt.

( Watchers always make lists. )

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[oopfsb / undarkest timeline] cold light of day

2014-12-30T20:17:14Z

In the morning Matt gets examined again, and given one more round with the device that stimulates bone regrowth for his cracked rib, and released from the infirmary with strict instructions to go back if he finds either the rib or his head giving him any pain.

Andrew's been talking to Security while this is going on, and returns to hover around the infirmary entrance while Matt's being discharged.

(He feels like he should be feeling less afraid, after a night's sleep and a definite course of action. Somehow he's not.)

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[oopfsb / undarkest timeline] fretting

2014-12-26T03:16:35Z

[Between this and this.]

Matt's asleep in the infirmary; Andrew's got a couple of promises to keep.

First things first. He takes a seat at the bar, orders a breakfast to replace the one he abandoned, and starts composing a warning poster for the bulletin board between bites.

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[oopfsb / undarkest timeline]

2014-11-13T19:22:33Z

It's a brisk clear day in early fall at Milliways. Perfect for a picnic by the lake, especially by the Caribbean inlet where the lake has been made to think it's an ocean and the warmer tropical air blends with the cool crispness of autumn in Scotland.

Andrew's been intermittently eyeing the picnic basket Matt's carrying as they make their way toward the shore.

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[oopfsb / darkest timeline] Millman, Session #2 / Matt, later

2014-08-22T18:08:03Z

The note's on medium-weight ivory paper (formal-looking but not expensive; the sort of thing a broke college student might print a resume on), in painstakingly neat handwriting, and has very clearly been crumpled and smoothed out again at least ( once. )

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[oopfsb / darkest timeline] Millman, Session #1

2014-08-22T14:25:32Z

"So can you bring me up to speed?" is the first thing Dr. Millman asks him, once they're settled in one of the infirmary's consultation rooms. "Nita didn't give me too much of the context."

Previously on Milliways, he thinks (with what he really wishes were more genuine humor), and takes a deep breath. And plunges in.

The first time he met Matt, trying to read auguries in the fragments of a broken teacup. How quickly he'd warmed to him, talking shop about different magic systems; how he'd offered to show Matt the Council Library sometime.

"And that's not something I should have even considered with a guy I just met, you know?" he adds in an aside. "I mean there's sensitive stuff in there, information that could be seriously dangerous in the wrong hands ... I don't think he took anything but the point is I didn't know, I -- god," he groans, "that was so irresponsible."

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[oopfsb / darkest timeline] Curtis

2014-07-22T03:36:38Z

It's not that he hasn't been eating. It's that he hasn't been able to muster the energy to do much more than unwrap a granola bar or a stick of beef jerky or open a packet of chips, once or twice a day. And even at that rate, he's run out.

He made himself take a shower yesterday, which means his clothes have only been slept in once, so he can probably make it through the bar without attracting too much attention. There's a baseball cap to hide his bedhead, and obscure his face a little. If he's lucky, maybe he won't run into anyone he knows.

Down the stairs, one step at a time, and towards Bar.

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[oopfsb / darkest timeline] Tom

2014-07-15T03:36:32Z

The corridor outside the Security Office isn't the busiest place, usually; not a common spot to run into someone else.

Andrew might be upping the odds a little, though, by dithering indecisively outside it for several minutes.

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[oopfsb / darkest timeline matt jamison] commentary track

2014-07-11T16:01:16Z

He struggles with himself for close to an hour before deciding to write Matt a note instead of going to see him again.

I talked to Nita and she says I'm not going to die of this. I thought you should know.

When he heads to the Security ( office... )

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[pfsb / darkest timeline matt jamison] field trip ahoy

2014-06-02T03:34:47Z

[From this continuity. Content warning for magically impaired consent and mild-to-moderate smut.]

Getting the okay from Giles wasn't hard at all; after all, he's brought other friends from other worlds to the Council library before. He managed to avoid mentioning that this was a guy he'd only just met, so that worked out all right.

Andrew steps into Milliways, looking about hopefully.

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[pfsb] silence in the library

2014-02-11T04:05:57Z

Andrew doesn't check out the Milliways library that often, but there are a few books that a patron left downstairs, and he's volunteered to return them.

The library door's pretty thick; it's designed to be. For better soundproofing.

There's no reason he should hear anything happening inside before he opens the door.

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