hellofist. Twentieth Unused Utility Belt | Video, voice, possibly spam

[For anyone who was on the Barge for Christmas, this sight might be a familar one. Cass, alone in a bed in a blank room. No tears this time, just a haunted, lost kind of expression.]

Merlin is gone.

[She opens her mouth to say something else, but nothing comes. What is she supposed to say? That the person she loves most in the entire world is just gone and she didn't get to say goodbye? That she's terrified because she might not ever get to see him again? That she's sorry maybe, for all the people who love him and won't see him either. She switches the feed to just audio because it's easier that way.]

He might come back. He... did last time. Didn't remember things, but... he was back. That was... was what counted. So I guess... we just wait.

[She can do that. She can focus on him coming back, she has to.]

That's... that's all.

[Now things cut off completely. Should anyone happen to be passing by Merlin's now empty room, it might be possible to hear crying inside. Looks like she didn't manage to keep it together after all.]

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youwillgotohell

What counts is that he left.

[And she is so hideously torn over that, wants to be glad he's gone and hope it's for good - but as far as she's concerned, he left of his own free will, and she still can't. It's the last thing he was capable of that she wasn't, and she's not interested in protecting Cass from that anger.]

lastincident

[ A dim selfish part of Bruce realizes he's going to just have to move in to the infirmary at this point. ]

[ The other selfish part of Bruce liked Merlin and dammmit, he's sad he's gone. ]

Thank you for letting us know.

patheticvillain

[Before he comes over, he makes a small pin, like the one they had in breach. It has a bat on it, in the style it did then, archaic and made of metal.]

[When he gets to Cass's door, he doesn't knock. He just slides the pin under the door.]

[Let him in.]

surfaceshine

[Dean doesn't happen to be passing by Merlin's empty room. He goes there instead of responding, knowing full well what he'll find. The mask is easy to keep up when people are watching, but he's not surprised to hear what he does.

He doesn't knock, either. He lets his hand rattle the knob, says,] It's me, Cass. [through the door, and then walks through it.]

inexactitude

[Someone is definitely just shouting FUCK into her room. :c]

Hey, um-- [It's harder, this time, because she didn't know Cass when she disappeared, but she knows Merlin and this. Sucks.]

Do you - want some company? Or, I dunno. We could do something. If you want.

fridgetothefire

[She shows up a little early for their regular training, with fudge brownies. Because, damnit.]

You're allowed to be a mess about it, you know. I mean, you're right, and I'm all for hoping. But it's still awful and you don't - have to be strong about everything.

[Everything about her is soft big-sister curves of motion, like she wants to sweep Cass into her lap and stroke her hair, because she does. She remembers when Wanda was still young enough to be hurt - though never surprised - by Magneto's coldness, and all those instincts are bubbling back up.]