CLOSED // wake me up, before you echo

[collegedropout]

Who: Sam Winchester and Katie McCoy
Broadcast: N/A
Action: Closed.
When: Sometime around 3/12/17.


Sam has finally ran into a wall with his echo problems. A big spiked wall, full of shark teeth.



How was he supposed to know that taking in the soul of a changeling kid was going to thoroughly wreck him? Well, he's a Winchester, so it would've somehow backfired sooner or later anyway. But it's been what feels like a lifetime since Adstringendum (of course it wasn't, but it was all over with, wasn't it? Marked off the To Do List of escaping and it being a memory now). And he had never thought this place would only make the strange side-effects even worse. He'd told Katie he'd deal with it, make due, not jump to any sort of potentially dangerous solutions yet, for whatever fragment of soul she'd left inside him.

But in the bar, the strange hallucinations surrounding Nami finally attacked. Sharkman — Arlong — chomped right down on his shoulder.

He knows from experience, he gave the thing too much power.

And even though he can't... see anything wrong with the shoulder at the moment, he knows something wrong did happen.

So. He's going to call the source of this and try to fix what he'd been weakly adamant not to touch yet.

Voice feed — ring, ring, friend.

"Katie? I need, um. I need help."

Comments

[hollystrike]

Her eyebrows go up. They usually don't, no. This could mean one of two things, so. One last question.

"Were you the only one to see this?"

[collegedropout]

... He nods.

"Yeah. Just me. Which is... better than the alternative at least, right?"

[hollystrike]

"Not necessarily." In absence of being honest, be cryptic. "Did anyone else notice the glass go over?"

[collegedropout]

Sam is just gonna wince, because, uh —

"Uh... yeah. The person the echo belonged to."

[hollystrike]

At least that clarifies a glass actually went over. Echoes are kinda tricky in that-- it'd be less ominous, if still alarming, if Sam just thought it did.

But interaction with the real world is the tipping point, and Katie sighs. "Can she see the shark man?" She assumes not at this point, but best to make sure. She needs to know how urgent to make this.

[collegedropout]

Of that, he's at least confident.

He shakes his head, quite sure of himself.

"No. She knows something weird happened, but..."

[hollystrike]

Then it's a matter of time, still, but it's not immediate. Katie relaxes. A little, at least. If the nice shark man can't interact physically with his creator, she's safe-- but given he's a hair shy of becoming nervosa, that just means he'll target those he can interact with.

Guess who that might be, Sam.

Well look, it's not just you. He'll probably try to pick on Katie, too. Which would be a very unwise choice. So she'll just have to make sure Arlong runs into her first.

"Can you avoid your friend for a while?"

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He frowns deeply at the thought.

"Not if I want to avoid her hunting me down and backhanding me."

She wouldn't take avoidance well, he's pretty sure. But maybe she'd understand if he explained the problem at hand? Or maybe she'd be mad at him that he hasn't fixed it yet. Or mad not at him, but at the whole stupid situation. Either way, Nami's ire should be avoided. So this must be done delicately.

Bet your ass she would

[hollystrike]

"Do your friends always backhand you if you leave for one night?" Dryly. "Maybe that's something I should keep in mind. There are places you can go for such abuse, you know."

She's kidding. Mostly. But Katie shakes her head. "Between a backhand and another shark bite, I feel you should probably make a wise choice."