Cornelius "Corey" Drake (sandcastlegod) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-06-25 18:58:00

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antaeus, inactive - harmony watkins, nicholas salem

I have a secret to tell, from my electrical well....
The sculpture was coming along beautifully, but was resulting in Corey's keeping odd hours. It was around three a.m. when he stumbled to the kitchen to fix himself some chili-cocoa. He soon noticed he wasn't alone.

"Harmony? What's wrong?"

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	a_blessing 2011-06-25 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	Harmony sat quietly a moment, tracing her thumb along the table. "Like Dante's Inferno going horribly, horribly awry." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-06-25 09:50 pm UTC (link)
	Corey sat down, the color drained from his face. If this is happening to her, she deserves to know why. But... "...Harmony, do you think Argo'd forgive me if I did something he told me not to?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_blessing 2011-06-25 10:10 pm UTC (link)
	"I generally think that if you had a good reason for it Argo would forgive you most anything, Corey. What's going on?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-06-25 10:11 pm UTC (link)
	"Remember that crazy chick from a while back?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_blessing 2011-06-25 10:17 pm UTC (link)
	"Sheena? The one who thought she owned Argo? Yeah, how could I forget her? She wanted me dead." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-06-25 10:19 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah...well... she did. And then something happened, and Argo and his brother Andy did some stuff, some of it pretty stupid, and then you forgot about what had happened, and they said not to tell you because it would hurt you." Corey took a breath. "But if you're having nightmares anyway..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_blessing 2011-06-25 10:29 pm UTC (link)
	Harmony blinked a few times. what he was saying wasn't making sense. "Corey...I say this with as much respect as possible but...have you been working with glue or something? What you're saying sounds odd." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-06-25 10:33 pm UTC (link)
	"No. I haven't been doing anything with fumes. Sheena threw you in front of a bus. Argo was terrified of losing you, Harmony. I'd never seen him so upset in my life." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_blessing 2011-06-25 10:35 pm UTC (link)
	"...she threw me in front of a bus?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-06-25 10:39 pm UTC (link)
	"She threw you in front of a bus. Like I said, you forgot. You were...kindasorta... pretty much .... dead. Argo, um.. didn't deal with that well. He told me to call Andy and then he... did something stupid. Do you know what a Styx-oath is?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_blessing 2011-06-25 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	"No, but you're going to tell me. I was dead? When? How long? Did they bring me back in a hospital?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

sandcastlegod
2011-06-25 10:46 pm UTC (link)

"When she threw you in front of the bus. Just...y'know,... an afternoon or so. And no, not at the hospital. Thing is. When a god -- my gods, beats me what any other gods do -- makes a promise on the Styx, it's not just a social or legal catastrophe if they break it... they /can't/ break it. They just can't. Argo and his brother made promises on the Styx to some very nasty individuals that they really, really can't trust to get you back."

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	a_blessing 2011-06-25 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	"Corey, how is it that Argo and Andy ended up making these promises? If I wasn't taken to the hospital, where did I go? What happened to me?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-06-25 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	"Well...um... it takes pulling a few strings to get in and out of... um... Hell." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_blessing 2011-06-25 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	"I went to Hell?!?!?!" Harmony was, in a word, horrified. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-06-25 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	"Mephisto's realm, anyway. It's pretty...Hell-ish. Got some kind of psychological hooks in you that don't make any sense to me, but it was why Argo wouldn't take anybody but me and Andy after you; he was worried Mephisto'd just get psychological hooks in them, too." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_blessing 2011-06-25 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	"Why didn't they make sense to you?" Harmony wasn't certain exactly what he was talking about, but what she was certain of now was that the nightmares of being trapped in hell as defined by Dante--or purgatory at least--weren't dreams; they were memories. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-06-25 11:59 pm UTC (link)
	"I don't know how these things are supposed to work; I'm a Nova Roman traditionalist. You don't go to Tartaros because you feel bad about something; you go 'cause you're a traitor and the gods are pissed off at you for being a traitor. But Mephisto managed to get his hands on you just because you felt bad about your relationship or something? I don't know." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_blessing 2011-06-26 12:00 am UTC (link)
	Harmony rubbed her face. "In Christianity worshiping someone other than God Himself is a damnable offense. My priest considered my relationship with Argo to be my worshiping him and therefore a sin in the eyes of God." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-06-26 12:04 am UTC (link)
	"Oh. Okay. So, well...that happened. And we went in and got you out. And so...you were all healthy and all, but you forgot about dying, and Andy said not to upset you and Argo agreed." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_blessing 2011-06-26 12:05 am UTC (link)
	"They decided not to tell me about what had happened to me so as not to upset me? Has someone never explained to those two that secrets have a way of coming out?" She sighed. "So I'm not dreaming. I'm remembering." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-06-26 12:06 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah," Corey says morosely. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_blessing 2011-06-26 12:07 am UTC (link)
	"You guys actually went to Hell for me?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandcastlegod 2011-06-26 12:09 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah. Very Orphic. Argo was... not giving up." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_blessing 2011-06-26 11:07 pm UTC (link)
	"This is a lot to take in. How long was I down there? What did you three have to endure to get to me? Tell me what you saw." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)