❄ third reminder

[echidna]

[ phone ]

[ Jade places this call only a few minutes after drinking the morning's milk delivery. She sounds exactly like she feels: shitty. ]

Um, hi, Mayfield. I know things have been pretty bad recently, but I hope everyone's doing okay. I'm sorry I haven't been checking in on anyone!

[ Any cheeriness she had fostering fades as she continues. ]

With the way death is in this place, I guess I shouldn't be scared of it, but I still sort of am. Especially when I've already done it once. Hehe, um, at least this time I don't think it's going to hurt so badly.

So I guess I'll be able to talk to everyone tomorrow! I wonder if my police chief application had been better, maybe this wouldn't have happened. ...oh well.

Stay safe everyone! Bye.

Comments

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[Hears this shit and comes running.]

Harley!

[echidna]

[ Jade jumps a little, getting up from where she's been sitting and offering some sort of awkward smile. ]

Oh, hi Karkat. Are you feeling better today?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Look, I've been thinking.

[He doesn't bother to answer her question, just goes straight into his own thoughts.]

The first night when I drank it and I got so sick. What if that was the same stuff you drank on the second day? You died and I never have, and what if it's just that I digest this stuff differently not being human?

You don't need to die. It just makes sense for me to drink it.

phone;

[cueballer.livejournal.com]

It wasn't your application being rejected that caused this. The town was just being the town. The wasted effort put into it is rather unfortunate.

[echidna]

Do you think so?

Oh, I don't think my effort was wasted, I kind of had fun filling out the application! It just sucks that it all ended up like this.

[cueballer.livejournal.com]

Certainly. You wouldn't have been picked anyway, due to your age and your gender, if it was a serious sort of deal. No need to be down about it. Dying is rather quick from what I heard.

phone

[worstvikingever]

Jade, don't blame yourself. Don't even think about it. Seriously. It's not your fault.

Also... the death thing... you never get used to it. Don't... don't feel bad if you can't.

[echidna]

I'm not blaming myself... I just, um, am taking responsibility!

[ There's a long pause. ] Have you died?

[worstvikingever]

Sounds an awful lot like you're blaming yourself. You shouldn't have to take responsibility either. Seems to me like they wouldn't have picked you even if you had the most incredible application they'd ever seen. It's just the way the town works.

[Another long pause. Then he answers quietly.]

Yeah. A few times.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

[heading into the kitchen when he spots Jade and the empty milk bottle]

...shit, hivesis, don't tell me you motherfuckin' choked the brew again.

[echidna]

[ She glances at him over her shoulder, absently pushing the bottle away from her. ]

Good morning. [ She stalls, wanting to change the subject but figuring it's pointless. ] Yeah. It was my turn, after all.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

Fuck, chica, you already kicked the nasty shit once, I would have motherfuckin' drank it for you.

[He takes a seat next to her, looking at her worriedly.] You okay? Ain't feeling weird or nothing?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Welcome to Mayfield.

[A long, long time ago? He would've said that with a kind of sadistic, amused glee. Right now, it sounds tired. As if saying this is commonplace. Even a little bit sad you have to go through it.

He pauses for a bit, before finally saying.]

Five times.

No. You don't get used to it.

<3

[echidna]

[ Aside from a quiet, dejected oh, Jade's end of the line is quiet for a short while. ]

Hi Pokey.

FFFFFFFF <3

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Hi Jade. That's your name, right?

....I warned you. It may not have been because of the Chief applications. And it wasn't.

But this is one of the bad ones. And it's still pretty far from the worst. This is like...maybe a medium-level one, with how bad it was.

[femtags.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't blame yourself for this!

It's just how this place is, it's just cruel and horrible.

[echidna]

Yeah, I'm starting to figure that out.

[ She lets out a long, slow sigh, but her tone lightens when she continues. ]

Who is this? I don't think we've spoken before.

[femtags.livejournal.com]

That's good, I didn't want to see you depressed because of it!

And I'm Minako Arisato, it's nice to meet you!

[bullsit.livejournal.com]

Uh! Jade, wait!

[echidna]

[ did he really just tell her to wait... ]

Oh, hey. What's up?

[bullsit.livejournal.com]

[JADE WILL YOU STOP DYING FOR A MINUTE AND TALK TO ME, GEEZ]

Are you okay, except that is a very bad question, uh, is this something, shit-- [he trails off lamely]

phone

[misterwwizard.livejournal.com]

[Eridan of course, will direct all the attention to himself because he's a douche like that]

Well, I'm doin' pretty fintastic thanks for askin'.

Don't worry though if death is anythin' like rejection it hurts less the second time around...and the third... and the fourth....

[echidna]

[ why him. why her. why anything. why. ]

That's great, Eridan. [ why is she even bothering being polite. ] Um, sure, I'll keep that in mind.

[toomanly.livejournal.com]

You applied to be the police chief? Haven't been here that long but something tells me, even if you'd gotten to be the chief, they'd have made you do something just as bad.

[echidna]

Oh, hehe, yeah I did! I thought maybe I could make things nicer here if I got chosen. [ She's trying to sound cheerful, but it's very obvious that she's forcing it. ] I definitely wouldn't have made any laws about drinking the milk.