Action | Video / Laptop | Forward Dated to Wednesday Afternoon

[youngestone]

ACTION: CLOSED TO FAMILY/ANYONE AT THE THORSSON'S

[Killian has been missing for about three days.

Only not really. He was at Isabela’s on Monday for a shower and food and he’s been at his mom’s grave pretty much every other night and pointedly avoiding parts of the city that his family and friends frequented. Part of him knows running off was really, really stupid but the other part of him…

Well, when you spend eighteen years being raised in a family whose answer to trouble was “pack up and move”, you pick up some bad habits. He was too scared to actually leave, but he had to not be around people he knew. Everything he’d touched since about October quickly turned to shit, and it was only getting worse. His mom dying, Aaron going off Network, getting Fil involved here, giving Thorir bad news, giving Hjalti worse news, that...incident with Ariel and the shower, his grandparents...what was he thinking, trying to make a life here?

Still, he really should have taken his phone when he bolted Sunday morning. It’s hard to check the bus schedule without 4G, after all, and it had all his pictures of Mom on it. So on Wednesday, when he’s pretty sure no one’s home, Killian sneaks back to Thorir’s house to get his phone.

Only to be promptly set upon by the twins and Thalfi and then promptly pinned to the floor and sat on with an "Afi told us to sit on you if you came back so we’re gonna sit on you since you came back". This is where he is when someone comes home--underneath the twins, the Leonberger, and his very affronted cat.]

NETWORK

[After a shower, a lecture, and a good few tears, Killian gets on his laptop]

Uh. I’ve been found. I’m back. No need to look for me anymore.

[No apology for leaving since really, he’s not sure who cares beyond his family]

Comments

[Voice]

[espigeonage]

I'm glad you came back. Don't do that, Killian, weren't you around when the cops were making people disappear?

[Voice]

[youngestone]

[He can't see it, but there is guilt and a lot of pain in his face. A little in his voice, too]

I just had to get away, okay?

[espigeonage]

They got one of my friends. I still don't know what happened to her, even with the FBI and the trials and everything. For all I know it wasn't the cops, they just helped cover it up.

[He pauses, removes the edge from his voice. Julien wonders how many other people on the network even remember Candy.]

Just don't do it again, or if you do, use notes.

[youngestone]

Fine.

[Yeah, he sounds annoyed and hurt.]

[espigeonage]

[Julien sighs in his heavy way.]

I get why you did it.