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Joseph ♔ Kavinsky ([personal profile] burnyoudown) wrote in [community profile] ph_memes 2023-11-18 07:14 pm (UTC)

cw: mentions of attempted murder

"Huh." Usually, people caved, especially if they were lying. He'd had all sorts of people try to get away with a lie to his face before, but he felt--tentatively--inclined to believe that there was a big secret.

"No fucking kidding. We moved to Virginia after that. To the mountains. Mountains are nice, don't get me wrong, but it's not the same as seeing the beach from your bedroom window." And things had been- well, they'd been better with his mother, but Jersey was where his father had tried to kill him. He'd never go back to that house. Let his mother fly up alone if she wanted to.

And Ash was more than welcome to ask Kavinsky how old he was--when they were outside of the tavern. Kavinsky would tell him the truth. The other part of the truth was, K was too young to contain all of the trauma and anger and poor coping methods and poor decisions that he did. Too young to have already been written off as a lost cause. He needed someone to throw him a life line.

He snorted. "No. But they gave me a map." And they were on an island, so he figured if you walked far enough in any direction, you'd eventually get to a beach. Or...the coast. He didn't know if it would necessarily have sand. Anyway, good thing he had a map with the actual beach marked.

He started to get up, reaching for the previously mentioned map that he'd folded up to fit in his pocket, then paused. He would've paid for the drinks if he'd had money on him, but legitimately all he had was the map--and these relatively awful clothes. Shrugging, he pulled the map out and gestured for Ash to follow him as he headed for the door.

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