Week Six

[stagemanagers]

[Last week, in It's Curtains, the weather changed, and with it your fortune in Dads. Discord took Salieri out - or perhaps Salieri took Discord out - and left the survivors with that much less impulse control. Nonetheless, a visit from a new friend might have provided a little bit of much-needed hope?

On Sunday morning, you'll find that the other side of the second floor has opened up - as well as the actual intended path to reach the roof garden. You can finally stop climbing up that rope every time you want to have a picnic or secret lover's rendezvous!

Outside, the weather seems to have calmed down. It's sunny again, with rather a lot of clouds. Though it's warm, the atmosphere seems very...still.]


Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

(( Be sure to submit your memory regain and your AC for this week! As always, Hester's office hours and the merch booth remain available. ))

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[fourbutts]

[ After the motive, Janis is quick to make her way to the art room, her new home, where she... spends a large portion of the rest of the day uh. Curled up under a blanket, seated on an art room stool, staring at a blank canvas. But if you listen in, that's not where her mind is.

Yo, girl, keep it together
You're not looking so well- ]

Shut up! Shut the fuck up!

[ Uh. Okay. ]

I'm the narrator! Cut that shit out! All of it! You get... you can say what I do, if that's how you work, but no color commentary.

[ ... ]

Ugh, there you go... so this is the part where you come to laugh at me, right? Say "ha ha, look at poor little Janis, she thought she could be special, or have two whole relationships where one of them doesn't explode!"

[ She turns. ]

Just do it, Regina! Just applaud me, I did the ruining for you this time! Aren't you proud?

[mayavericks]

[Honestly, Maya wasn't trying to find Janis. She was really just looking to curl up some place where no one would think to look for her. She doesn't want anyone getting suspicious. She can't have anyone being worried for her. Not when she's meant to be the one to keep everyone together.]

Janis? [She looks back over her shoulder, then to her girlfriend.] What's going on?

[fourbutts]

[ Janis looks to Regina the wall behind her Regina, who is also the wall behind her, then back to Maya. ]

You want to tell her or should I?

[mayavericks]

[Maya's quiet for a moment. She waits, hoping this might make a damn lick of sense.

Finally -- ]

No one is there, Starlight.

[fourbutts]

What?

[ She looks behind her, and no one is there. Well. That's embarrassing. ]

Don't get cute- Right, uh. I knew that. I mean I didn't know that, but. [ a breath. ] I fucked up, Maya.

[mayavericks]

[This conversation is quickly becoming dizzying. Or... maybe it's just Maya that's dizzy. It's hard to say.

She pulls up a stool beside Janis and holds out a hand.]

Do you want to tell me what happened?

[fourbutts]

I...

[ She tries to pull her legs up onto the stool, but it's too small and she nearly falls off instead. ]

On Sunday, I... got into a fight with Per. A bad one.

[mayavericks]

[Maya is quick to try and stabilize her, even at the cost of her own balance. She ends up half-slumped over Janis in the process.]

How... bad?

[fourbutts]

I don't know. We both yelled. I just wanted to help, but then we were yelling, and... and...

[ oh this isn't a fun thing to think about. if she were ]

Don't you fucking start! No more commentary!

[ okay, damn. Janis goes back to crying, not really having stopped when she decided to yell at... well, as far as Maya can tell, the air. ]

I'm just scared she hates me now, mostly.

[mayavericks]

[Maya is... certainly startled by that. She leans away on instinct, barely managing to keep hold of Janis's blanket before toppling over.]

She was... very upset yesterday. She remembered losing her teacher, did she not? [Maya starts to bite her lip but. Stops short.] She wanted to end things with me as well, I think. I... refused to let her.

She does not want to be alone, Janis. No matter how much she insists that it's better, this is not what she wants. You just... have to remind her of that much.

[fourbutts]

I... wasn't that nice.

[ Janis swallows, and I don't go into internal dialogue because she's hallucinating me being way more present than I actually am! ]

She... I tried to tell her it wasn't her fault, and of course she didn't listen, but... the way she said it was her fault, then... it's the same logic as me saying B dying was my fault. And she said I don't understand what she's going through, and I snapped at her, and... she left, and we haven't been in the same room since.

[mayavericks]

You two cope very differently, I think. Or maybe it's that you have the best coping skills of the three of us. [Man that therapy chick is really good at what she does.]

She internalizes the blame, much in the way that I do. It is... easier to assign it to ourselves, than to simply say it was another act of fate, another terrible decision forced upon us by this Wizard.

[fourbutts]

No, I'm apparently still pretty fucked up about what happened that night B and I went to look around the stage. Not sure I've done a lot of actual coping at all anymore.

[ "Janis it has been two weeks and you watched a man die" what's your point ]

I just... it's not fair, of course it's not fair, but I'm still mad at her. And I'm mad at myself for being mad at her, and she is definitely still super mad at me.

[mayavericks]

I was not aware that recovery was meant to be so easy. [She shakes her head.] Surely if our roles were reversed, you would say it would be unreasonable for me to expect to past my grief.

[She breathes out faintly.]

You have every right to be angry. And she has every right to be angry with you, too, I think. Moreover, I... think it would be unfair for me to urge you both to reconcile before you are ready. But I hope you will be able to manage it soon. I don't want to see us so divided right now.

[fourbutts]

Look at you, being all reasonable.

[ She sighs. ]

I'm okay to try to make up, but... I think she's, like, really angry at me right now. So.

[mayavericks]

I'm learning from one of the best, you see.

[Maya holds out her hands for Janis to squeeze.]

I can try talking to her first, if you would prefer? At least... get a feel for how she's feeling?

[fourbutts]

I... maybe? I'm going to feel really shitty if she feels really shitty about it.

[mayavericks]

You both already feel -- shitty. There is... no avoiding that.

[fourbutts]

I know, but...

[ She chews on her lip. ]

What if I fucked it up? Like... really fucked it up. I think I accidentally insulted her dead dad.

[mayavericks]

I do not believe that is the case, Janis. We have all been through so much together, and --

[She draws in a breath.]

Before Connor died, I told her she would be responsible for the demise of her friends. And... after all of that, and everything that followed... She still chose to be with me.

You haven't made near the mistakes I have.

[fourbutts]

[ That takes Janis by surprise for a moment, and she looks over at Maya. ]

Well... damn. Look at us, being all imperfect.

[mayavericks]

Who would ever believe it.

[She'll give Janis's hands a little squeeze.]

She will come around. I have to believe as much.