la cucaracha! la cucaracha! [closed]

[subourbon]

WHO: Clone Club + "friends"
WHERE: Mexico!
WHEN: Feb 17 onwards
WHAT: Clone Club's first family vacation across the border! They're probably all going to fight over the bathroom, tbh
WARNINGS: N/A

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Hello clones!

[helladoomed]

Evening of day 4

[Chloe made it about half an hour, sitting in her new Mexican dorm room, messing with the laptop she had just bought, before the quiet and worrying about Max and just feeling like a complete shit for leaving finally got to her and she went off in search of other people.]

[Which was what brought her to the outside of the room the clones sisters were staying in, hesitating for a moment before she knocked on the door.]

[She looked like shit and she felt like shit and after her insistent declarations two whole days ago that she was going to stay for the seminar no matter what, she was basically expecting this to go terribly. Oops.]

[subourbon]

[Alison approaches the door with some trepidation and gun in hand, just in case it's unwelcome company. She's surprised when she sees Chloe through the peephole, standing in the hallway alone, and she immediately goes to open the door.]

Chloe? Is everything alright? What are you doing here?

[helladoomed]

[Oh, Alison. Alison holding a gun. Well, that was a safety precaution Chloe could approve of, even if she'd left her gun in America.]

[She opened her mouth to answer, but then stopped, realizing she had no idea what to say, and finally she just shrugged helplessly and sighed.]

...It's a long story.

[subourbon]

Well, I'm glad your safe. Come in, let's get you something to eat.

[Food, she finds, seems to be the one thing that everyone responds to. She gives Chloe a little arm squeeze as she ushers her in, and places the gun back on the table.]

[helladoomed]

Oh...thanks. [She steps into the apartment.]

I had some cookies on the plane.

[And hadn't thought to eat since. She had smoked though, of course. That was like eating, right?]

[subourbon]

[She makes tsk-ing noises, soup clearly not being an approved meal item.]

Well, we have some leftover soup that you can have. Is your fri-- is Max here as well? She's welcome to get some food as well.

[helladoomed]

[She caught that slip up, Alison. She's just too tired to care.]

No.

[Chloe just kind of slumped into whatever chair was near the kitchen.]

She made me leave. Soup sounds fine.

[subourbon]

She made you leave? Did something happen?

[helladoomed]

[There's a pause before Chloe answers because admitting it means admitting Alison had been right. Chloe didn't want to admit that!]

Just...some shit.

[coppelganger]

[ Sarah watches, less suspiciously than Alison, but that's not saying much, as her clone goes and opens the door. When she sees who's on the other side, she gets up from the couch and goes to the door herself. ]

Chloe, what are you doing here?

[ Judging by the look on Chloe's face, she's not sure she wants to hear the answer. ]

[helladoomed]

It's a long...

[Chloe started to answer the same way she had Alison, but Sarah was...different? Was it strange for Sarah to be different after only a few weeks? But she was, and the empty explanation just kind of stalls out as the memories of yesterday came flooding back and she just kind of sighed.]

...They set off some kind of taser in my brain when I didn't show up. [Her voice was quiet, none of that usual fire there. Not even a curse. And she looked around the apartment instead of at Sarah. What a lovely carpet.] And I just...I couldn't go back.

[coppelganger]

Hey.

[ Without thinking about it, Sarah pulls Chloe into a hug. She's a surprisingly good hugger for someone who's always walking around in leather pants. She knows this might only embarrass Chloe more, but she doesn't care. Chloe is just a kid, really. She needs someone to know they're here for her. ]

You're alright.

[helladoomed]

[Chloe wasn't quite expecting that hug, but she should've been, and after a second or so of tenseness she just sighed into it, wrapping her arms around Sarah and resting her face on the other girl's shoulder. Okay. She needed this more than she realized.]

...I'm really not.

[She managed to say, muffled by Sarah's shoulder.]

[coppelganger]

[ Sarah rubs Chloe's back a few times, not sure what else to do. She's glad that Chloe seems to be okay with the hug, at least. ]

Did Max come with you?

[helladoomed]

[Eventually Chloe leans back without actually breaking the hug, and shakes her head. She almost looked like she was going to cry...]

No.

[coppelganger]

[ Okay, that's not a good sign. Sarah moves from hugging Chloe to slipping an arm around her shoulders and leading her into the kitchen. ]

Did something happen?

[helladoomed]

[Chloe was easily enough to lead around for the moment.]

She wouldn't leave. And I just...I couldn't go back.

She's sending me stuff she's recording from the seminar so I can put it online...

[Yes she thinks it's a dumb idea. Yes she is going to do it anyway.]

[doubleblind]

[Cosima watches Chloe's arrival from her spot on the couch, letting her sisters take control for now. She doesn't want to overwhelm the teen, especially when she already looks upset.

Once Chloe's settled in the kitchen, Cosima approaches. She pulls up a stool right next to Chole, sitting close enough that their shoulders touch.]

Hey. It's good to see you're okay.

[helladoomed]

[Chloe was already in her own little world and she looked up in surprise at that bump to her shoulder.]

Oh. Hey. ...Thanks.

[Okay wasn't what she'd call it, but...close enough.]

[doubleblind]

[Cosima knows she's not really okay, but isn't about to point it out. Instead she'll bump her shoulder against Chloe's again.]

You feel like talking about what happened? You can totally say no.

[helladoomed]

[Does she feel like talking. No? Maybe? She has no idea.]

...I wouldn't even know where to start.

[doubleblind]

You can start wherever you want. There's no wrong place, man.

[Cosima can understand being overwhelmed. She can only imagine what happened to Chloe if she was willing to leave Max alone in America.]

[helladoomed]

[She takes a minute or two to think it through, leaning against Cosima without realizing it.]

So you know how when I didn't show up to 'class' that first day they porter-grabbed me there?

...When I didn't show yesterday too, they did it again. 'cept they set off some kind of taser in my head too.

[doubleblind]

Shit.

[Cosima's eyes go wide, though she shouldn't be surprised. Something similar had happened to Sarah when she hadn't followed the Russian's rules. Still, she can't help but think that it shouldn't have happened to Chloe. It wasn't right. None of this was right.

She pulls Chloe into a tight hug. Chloe looks like she could use one, and honestly, so could Cosima.]

I'm so sorry.

[helladoomed]

[Another hug Chloe wasn't expecting, but weirdly needed. After a second she returned it, sighing into Cosima's shoulder.]

I'm being such a little bitch about all this shit aren't I.