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Allison Hargreeves | #00.03 ([personal profile] numberthree) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2020-05-04 02:58 pm

i found myself in crowded rooms, feeling so alone

WHO: Teen!Rumor + You
WHERE: Nonah (or wherever, we can handwave how)
WHEN: May 4th
WHAT: Allison is hit with Wild Fey Magic, and reverts back to being 13
WARNINGS: One super temper and a mass case of flippant, ruthless uses of powers



Number Three had no clue where she was when she woke up.

The bedroom was bare and unfamiliar, and someone had put her in some weird set of pajamas. While their father might be the end all be all a totalitarian dictator, he had prepared them, if not for every situation, then with skills that could be used wherever they might find themselves. If panic touched the edges of her thoughts, she brushed it away with all the dismissal of ants. She skivvied out of the strange bed, stole a tunic shirt, and belted it at the waist, making sure her every step was silent.

She'd been kidnapped and tortured before. That wasn't anything new. But she wasn't about to stick around and wait to see what the latest flavor whatever villain who got the drop on her had in mind. Weirdly. She couldn't remember how she'd been kidnapped at all, where her uniform was. But that could wait. They could have drugged her. She could focus on that once she was home.

Number Three crept out of the bedroom into ... a house? A house full of boxes? And one where the front door only had a knob lock and deadbolt? This was too weird. But she wasn't looking a gift-horse in the mouth. She slipped out from the house, closing the door carefully, slowly, and waiting for about fifteen more feet of silent steps from the door before she started sprinting down the street, still holding her breath.

It only gets weirder and weirder. She doesn't recognize any of the street signs, and she asks someone on a sidewalk where she is, and how far from home it is. But she doesn't know the name of this place. Or anywhere else they mentioned. Weirder still when she finally found someone with a phone (or whatever this was, that was the size of her hand???), and The Academy phone number didn't work.

It's a mistake the first time she mentions The Umbrella Academy because a crowd forms out of nowhere, screaming questions (about whether she's some love child from the future? And asking any number of things that seem crazily worse. She's pretty sure someone just asked if they went in for underwear or no underwear with costumes wherever she came from).

Eventually, with or without some help, Number Three does manage to wrench herself free of the teeming crowds, that are like the crowds from home and nothing like that at all. After getting a few blocks away, she dropped on a bench. She was racking her head. This wasn't her job. This was what Luther did. Or Five, if he was allowed to.

One barefoot, forlorn, if headstrong and temperamental,
child-hero for sale to any buyers who would like to find her.
afallon: ([child] 1)

[personal profile] afallon 2020-05-10 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
And that's the question, isn't it? Where is his mother? (His father, well, if something kills that scum it's all for the better.) Did she come here, wherever here is, before him? Has she come here at all? If she has, she can't have gotten that far. It's hard enough for her to make it up the hills she likes to sit on top of sometimes.

(He can't leave her. She needs him.)

He shakes his head. "Not right now." As far as he knows. "...Have you seen a woman dressed like me?"

That's giving up too much information, he knows. But the cost of leaving her alone, if she is here, is too high.
afallon: ([child] 2)

[personal profile] afallon 2020-05-21 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, well. It wouldn't be easy. Nothing ever is.

He sits, for a few moments, watching everything around them. The bizarre vehicles, the foreign trees and flowers, the people in all states of dress.

"Have you seen anyone interesting?" He can't be the only strange person who's arrived here, can he?