uneasy_rider (uneasy_rider) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-02-24 08:55:00

Entry tags:

inactive - roxanne, nicholas salem, plot-"from hell with love"

Down and Out in the Big Easy.
Her first thought when she turns face up is that she got rolled somehow. Someth'n ain't stick'n, like where she was last night. Last thing she can recall, the Devil and some big fiery Ghost-thing were talk'n some lawyer stuff over her an' Johnny for what they'd done to save Daddy and that's when the world exploded. She'd like to write that off as a hangover dream, but that big fiery demon thing has a name and its talk'n to her say'n it don't know where they are either. the only thing it knows is the bike's here and this ain't home. Home is gone and now the apir of 'em are stuck in the French Quarter.

"Damn, Roxanne," she murmurs to herself as she flips up the kickstand. "Must'a been some weird highway."

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uneasy_rider
2010-02-26 04:08 am UTC (link)

The coffee at Nick's place isn't much, but the waitress keeps the cups full, which most places don't. The booths are private, too.

She explains it the best she can. Crash...Johnny...Books her grandmother had had that Roxanne wasn't supposed to know about, much less read...The whole demon bonding to her, only to be simultaneously promised to Johnny by the Devil, everyone being ready to spit and -

"Noth'n," she replies, full of misery. "Ah know ah collected scars, more strength and that hammer somewhere. Big Z and I have had time to work things out." She fiddles with one of the tabs on her now patch-less jacket. "Ah know ah used it. Ah know where ah was wasn't home, and that wasn't the worst of it." She drinks down to the dregs and rolls the oily grounds in her mouth slightly. "It's just all gone now. Ah woke up in an alley here an' that's all ah got."

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vicious_cycle
2010-02-26 04:17 am UTC (link)

He knows a lot of the story, and fills in enough to demonstrate that he knows enough that what he says next doesn't sound totally insane.
"See, what's the weird thing. In this world, as far as Johnny knew when he was Ghost Rider, which he was, followed by his half brother, Danny Ketch, you're dead, and even then, about forty five. Zarathos remembers it all. So I'm just trying to figure out why you're here, and why you're my age."

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uneasy_rider
2010-02-26 04:29 am UTC (link)

"Johnny's got ah brother! That's astound'n. Mom or Dad?"

She shrugs at the death bit. She never expected to live until a ripe old age and be someone's nana. "Maybe ah from some point before that where things went all crazy and different. You know, parallel dimensions and Star Trek shit. Yer say'n I was never the Rider here anyhow, so someth'n not the same."

She frowns. "So what's your Zee, tell'n ya?"

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vicious_cycle
2010-02-26 04:34 am UTC (link)

"No, you were never the rider here. Your story almost meshes, but here, you drove Mephisto off before he took Johnny's soul, but he got the demon. But they had the same father, but didn't know it for quite a while, Johnny thought of Crash more as his dad anyway. As for what Zarathos is telling me... he doesn't know why you're here, but he's itching to get some of the escapees back into hell. Me, I'm thinking you got to be here for some reason, trying to put a finger on it."

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	uneasy_rider 2010-02-26 04:44 am UTC (link)
	"Lord still works in mysterious ways, Nick." "Big Z wants to go out to, but he wants to know who's he out with. Can't say ah blame 'em." He nods once. "What's with the hands?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

vicious_cycle
2010-02-26 04:57 am UTC (link)

He extends his hand to let her have a closer look. "Its how I became the rider. My birth parents only had me to sacrifice an innocent to Mephisto... devil worshippers. They had a special ritual so I'd be born on Halloween and everything. They got as far as carving these into my hands before some heroes or other broke in and stopped them. I grew up in foster care... the scars just kind of grew with me. A few months ago, Mephisto came calling. I didn't need to make a deal, my soul was already sold."

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	uneasy_rider 2010-02-26 05:06 am UTC (link)
	She takes both of those hands unto hers and traces the signs in his palms with her thumbs. She scared to ask, but it's not because of anything Nicholas has done. "Ah, gotta know for m'self," she asks nervously. "Still believe any?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vicious_cycle 2010-02-26 05:10 am UTC (link)
	"The truth? There's absolutely nothing in this world like being eye to eye with the devil to make me absolutely sure that somewhere out there, there's a god. I'll never meet him, I know where my soul is at, but being able to see sin... also comes with being able to see its lack. Makes me optimistic that there's somewhere the people I don't get pulled towards go." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-02-26 05:14 am UTC (link)
	She lets go of his hands. She can feel the lack of soul, but - "Never say die." She grimaces. "If you got Johnny rattl'n around in there, you know that." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vicious_cycle 2010-02-26 05:19 am UTC (link)
	He doesn't know how to tell her this. "Johnny Blaze is in hell, Roxanne. He has been for almost two decades." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-02-26 05:22 am UTC (link)
	It takes her only a moment to do the mental math. "Gate's open, right?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vicious_cycle 2010-02-26 05:29 am UTC (link)
	He's not quite sure what it is, but same way she was instantly on his page earlier, he flips right to where she's at. "Who knows for how long? We'll have to ride fast." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-02-26 05:31 am UTC (link)
	She's already moving, zipping herself up and throwing her hammer over her shoulder. "Saddle up, Nick. We're headed to kick the devil's ass or die try'n." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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