JASON TODD, new thorn in his side

[malewife]

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[malewife]

[ He closes his eyes for a moment. ]

... I imagine it keeps going from here.

[ While gruesome, Joonghyuk prepares for it to be worse. ]

[unrecked]

Our prize was we could pick a honeymoons destination. They didn’t like our hotel pick. So they dropped the floor out from under us.

We landed in a pit and ran into a girl Yuri knew who was injured pretty bad. But when she sighs apparently, it draws monsters. You can guess what she did, I guess.

[She sighed.]

It was some huge lizard dinosaur thing. I grabbed her and we ran down the only path into a dead end.

[malewife]

… This is really ridiculous.

[ Joonghyuk, for some reason, is very perturbed that it is a huge lizard dinosaur thing? ]

[unrecked]

[It’s fine probably?]

Yeah. There were two doors waiting on each side. I gave the girl to Yuri and told him to go in the one to the hotel because the monster had bitten his leg. I went into the one we could see Harrow and Hua Cheng in, but Yuri followed me.

The monster had been charging some kind of beam. It got us in the back as we went through.

Harrow and Hua Cheng were being attacked by some kind of wraith in a mansion. It ran when we got there. They didn’t know who we were or remember the hotel.

[malewife]

[ Uh… ]

So both of your plot lines are not relevant… To each other.

[ A dinosaur lizard monster that shoots a beam and then the high goths are fighting a wraith? ]

[unrecked]

I don't think so, yeah. Harrow and Hua Cheng thought they were siblings, so.

[Those two, then him and Yuri.]

The girl with me and Yuri. Something started happening to her. I guess she was turning into a monster, but she sighed again. We had to fight her and some more wraiths. I'm pretty sure I missed almost every shot I took with the guns they had.

[malewife]

[ He seems so tired, first: ]

You didn’t think to gag her.

[ Is it funny that Jason was a bad shot? Is it not funny? Joonghyuk is trying to decide. ]

I didn’t know you could shoot a wraith to begin with, but if it’s part of Hua Cheng and Harrowhark Harrowhark Nonagesimus’ story, then the guns there must be able to. You defeated her somehow?

[unrecked]

Look, I gave her to Yuri, and he knew. That's his fault.

[BLAME OTHERS! Listen.]

The bullets were silver, I think. [Shouldn't they be iron? Idk how the supernatural works. Silver is fine.] We got rid of them, yeah. Harrow had a note with a list of plot ideas for whatever we were a part of. Everything for a few seasons after Season 27 for a ten year contract. At the bottom it said, "End the show to go back."

Then a woman drove a car into the house and hit all of us.

[malewife]

It is his fault.

[ No, Jason? He agrees. He’s still unsure as fuck about silver bullets working on wraiths, but he isn’t the supernatural writer. ]

… This sounds like a metaphor.

[unrecked]

What, the woman hitting us with a car, or the bottom of the note?

[He's kidding.]

I rolled off the hood, so I don't think she saw me getting back up. She started berating the other three about how she pays our paycheck. We were ruining her show. The skeletons in the audience were getting up to leave.

I tried to sneak into the car so I could run her over.

[Joonghyuk, your son.]

[malewife]

All of this you went through.

[ and predictably cause I think Jason knows Joonghyuk is sociopathic enough: ]

Were you successful?

[unrecked]

[He pauses to peer at Joonghyuk. Then he smirks just a bit.]

Hell yeah.

[malewife]

[ There’s a silence, but it’s approving. Jason probably gets it. ]

… That isn’t the end, is it.

[unrecked]

[Don't be approving. PLEASE.]

Mostly. She started getting back up because of course she did, but we had enough time to get away through a hole that was opening.

[malewife]

[ She ran them over? He thinks it’s fair to kill her. ]

… You’re feeling yourself? No urge to go on a honeymoon or wear red swim trunks.

[ Lowkey fussy. ]

[unrecked]

[Yeah, in the moment, same.]

...For right now, yeah. It comes and goes.

[malewife]

[ Niah whines cause the Atmosphere seems sad. ]

You would make an annoying lifeguard. [ Just saying. ] … You will be all right.

[unrecked]

[Niah, Niah. He goes back to petting Niah for the hush. Atmosphere is sad, but it's fine.]

Wow, thanks. I was a great lifeguard actually. [Just saying. He saved his girlfriend.] I know.

Why, worried?

[malewife]

You can be great and annoying.

[ He never said Jason did bad work. Pensive… ]

As I said earlier, you would be more annoying as a lifeguard or a newlywed. I wouldn’t tolerate it.

[ the answer is yes… He prefers Jason as he is. ]

[unrecked]

[Was he… He got eaten by a shark…

He gives Joonghyuk this weird look at being so casually… parented.]

I can be a lifeguard or a newlywed if I want.

[He is just being petulant now.]

[malewife]

[ lifeguards are supposed to save people right… he did that at least…? ]

You’re saying that to get on my nerves.

[ And while the statement itself doesn’t, the act of defiance is a little annoying. In a pleasant way, to be specific. ]

What matters is that it’s your choice and if those are the things you want to be.

[unrecked]

Now you’re using reverse psychology on me.

[Can’t he just be strong and stupid? Rather than strong and mouthy.]

Because now I’m going to say I don’t want to be either of those things just because you said I could.

[malewife]

[ In his mind, he’s basically looking into the camera as Jason accuses him of doing overcomplicated things without reward. ]

You can be anything except dead. This is not reverse psychology, fool.

[unrecked]

[Listen. He waves a hand from side to side dismissively.]

I can’t exactly help the first one. Don’t worry. I’m not planning on being a lifeguard or a newlywed.

[malewife]

[ Jason, his trauma. Joonghyuk goes quiet, for once visibly crestfallen. He can say more, but! He will say nothing because he’s who he is.

It is affection week, so he fixes Jason’s hair again. Just brushing some strands aside. ]