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Billy Hargrove ([personal profile] playingtough) wrote in [community profile] revivalproject2023-06-09 05:27 pm

Calibrations ◊ The Chain by Fleetwood Mac

WHO: Billy Hargrove & open
WHERE: Billy’s Calibration Room
WHAT: Calibrations event
WHEN: June 10 - July 10
WARNINGS: Memories are marked with CW/TW to help out



Mingle Post: Runaway by Bon Jovi



It’s a living room. A simple living room filled with 80s aesthetic of a Californian home. Except…

It’s broken. There’s large fissure that breaks the room into two halves and Billy sits on a worn couch that straddles it. There are framed pictures on the wall, but in each of them, the woman’s face has been torn or cut out. There’s holes in the wall the size of a grown man’s fist. There are lines like thin black veins jagged over some of the walls before they fade off.

On a coffee table in front of Billy, are a simple set of Chevy car keys with a metal California keychain attached to the ring. There's a glass enclosure over them, preventing someone from just grabbing them. To keep Billy from grabbing them.

No running from this, not for him.

On each of the four walls, there’s one open door. Thick fog rolling in different hues of red, with ashy flakes of grey, keep anyone from seeing what’s beyond the door’s frame. Things can be heard though. At one door, a plate smashing [cw: domestic abuse]; another has the sound of the ocean’s surf; door number three has no sounds but there’s heat, like a freshly opened sauna; and the last one has a telephone’s dial tone [cw: abandonment/child abuse].

He looks up at the... visitor and his blue eyes harden. “You shouldn’t be here.” But it's clear the guest can't leave the way they magically appeared.
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[personal profile] plate_builder 2023-07-07 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're right," he says, voice soft and apologetic. "I should not assume I have any basis for understanding. I am sorry."
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[personal profile] plate_builder 2023-07-07 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, there are people like that in life. A lot of them. Reeve sighs, ignoring the young man and he shakes his head. All that anger was going to break this boy. And there was nothing someone like Reeve could do about that. So he walks to the keys and takes them in hand.

He's just too tired for all of this.