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It wasn’t easy finding information on Camp Crystal Lake. He did his usual visit to the local library and was disappointed at the lack of coverage. Some of the articles were ruined, unable to be read with smudges of black on the copies they had saved and when he asked the librarian about it, he was told to stop digging into something that was dead. Alex wasn’t happy with that response. Instead of doing what she suggested he grabbed his things and decided to ask around. The locals could be a better source of information than old newspapers sometimes.
First stop was a bit of a dive but had pretty decent food and people who talked loud enough for him to eavesdrop. The locals were gossiping about someone named Tommy Jarvis. Alex frowns down at his basket of fried chicken strips and reaches for the small notebook he kept in his front pocket. When he’d met with the Dier’s they’d said that there was someone who was insistent on the camp being in danger still, and sure enough the name he wrote down was Tommy. He’d have to try and find him, which may be easier said than done, but he was here to help and helping didn’t mean taking the easy route.
Alex pays for his food and leaves. The next place to check out on his list was the police station. There was a decent chance they’d be helpful or at the least willing to humor him to get him out of the area faster. He never identified who he was when he showed up to work a case, not that he expected the local PD to know of him, but it was better to say he was a freelance journalist than the person writing stories that exposed police inefficiency at different points around the nation.
He’s just glad this place was only an hour or so away from where he lived, making it one of the closest stories he’d covered since freshman year of college...Which was only a few years ago. Weird to think about.
He rounds the street corner and spots the police building up ahead. Alex mentally prepares himself for talking with law enforcement, but stops at the stairs leading up into the building when a guy slams the doors open on his way out, looking irritated. A detective, if the casual business Friday look is anything to go off of, steps out behind the guy in the denim jacket and shouts, “I mean it Tommy! Let it go!” That sounds a lot like a threat, and Alex might consider it one if the detective didn’t have bags for his bags and exhaustion weighing his shoulders down.
Wait – Tommy?
Alex does a full one-eighty and jogs to catch up to him.
“Tommy Jarvis?” He outpaces him with some very quick steps and turns around, walking backwards so he’s they’re face to face. “Uh, this is going to be a little out of left field but you’re exactly who I was looking for.” To help get information on the murders from one Jason Voorhees, to make sure the cops did something. “I’m Alex, by the way.” He doesn’t offer a hand, not wanting to pressure him into returning the greeting if he didn’t want to.
“I’m trying to get some information about Crystal Lake.” Specifically about the supposed murderer behind everything who the Dier’s were very concerned about.
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canon dialogue starter call ! / @pocketknlves
❝ she called me a MONSTER … because i didn’t try to run, because i fought back, because i beat them at their own GAME … but maybe - i mean … i had the CHANCE … maybe i should’ve just run. maybe she was right, and i’m no better than THEM. ❞
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@pocketknlves asked;;' i can’t believe i was stupid enough to go back there. '
Hot afternoon rays, soaking up heat from the risen sun, laying out by the lakeside. Distant chatter of teens hum about the summer’s day, Visconti seated off close by, body slung off in a ratty beach chair.
The camp hung no interest to the gambler. No flashing neon, topless partners nor shimmering booze. As if there was much of a choice, community service had been deemed the appropriate amount of justice for Ace. After been found evading taxes ( which he considered laughable, his lists of wrongdoings were a bit longer than a mere few missed payments to the government ) his sentence came with a price tag of being a piss poor camp supervisor.
Wishing the plastic bottle in his lap held more than just water, Visconti barely hears Tommy wonder up to his resting spot. Sunglasses are pulled down to give the boy a look of acknowledgment, gaze soon turning back to the water, slumping further into the old wood.
❝ ¿De qué estás hablando? Did you mean too stupid enough to go back to the cooler an’ get me a cold beer? That doesn’t sound stupid ta me. ❞
A slippery grin, head tilted back, amusement dancing on his features.
❝ Is this about that axe killer?... Rabid hockey player?...❞
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❛❛ got caught up again in a moment - more than i wanted to . ❜❜
@pocketknlves | 𝘿𝙄𝘿𝙉 '𝙏 𝘼𝙎𝙆 , 𝙂𝙀𝙏𝙎 𝙊𝙉𝙀 𝘼𝙉𝙔𝙒𝘼𝙔𝙎
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@pocketknlves: “ you wouldn’t believe what i’ve been through. ”
the tone is joking, you know that, but that eternally serious little voice in your head says try me. you’ve seen it all, or at least most of it. cruelty + sympathy, pitiful begging + fanatic arrogance. a small hint of a smile pulls at the side of your mouth, almost challenging. “you, um -- y’might be surprised. try me.”
i’ve been putting out fires with gasoline. / accepting.
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@pocketknlves said : ‘ i know it sounds crazy. i sound crazy! you think i don’t know that? ’
mania isn’t something to which ash would consider himself a stranger. in fact, it hits far too close to home. his return to elk grove after that fateful trip to the woods, and the outlandish stories he spun insistently to anyone who’d listen -- not that many did, dubbing him a freak, a killer, even coining the moniker ‘ ashy slashy ’ to accuse him of murdering all of his friends.
but isn’t that exactly what happened? they all turned into those things, and he had to step up, had to protect himself. had to listen to their taunts as they wore the warped faces of his friends ( his linda ) and he hacked them into little pieces over and over and over -----
hold up. this isn’t about him right now. he can empathize with tommy’s frustration, his crazed rantings that would sound like something out of a bad science - fiction novel to any outsiders. the pleading look in the boy’s wide eyes does not go unnoticed. it is not unfamiliar. it lingers in some small part of his heart, beaten down and hidden away out of sight after years upon years of intolerance and disbelief. he, too, had been a scared young man, once.
but he had also been alone, isolated and ostracized from everything and everyone he knew because of his claims. and he doesn’t intend to make tommy endure that same experience.
‘ 𝐡𝐞𝐲. 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧, ’ he says, and his voice is far more forceful, more serious than usual. ‘ just ‘cause it sounds crazy doesn’t mean it ain’t true. i believe you, kid, so just-- give it a rest, yeah? slow down and tell me how i can help. ’
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oops my hand slipped!
for @pocketknlves because we deserve this.
❝ tommy, right? ❞ such a simple name for such a complicated youth. seems like people who are destined for much grander things should go by much grander names — like heracles, or perseus. but not everyone’s worthy of being considered a greek hero these days, && those that are usually shy away from the spotlight. finding it foreign && blinding like a thousand - watt bulb, rather than natural && warming like the sun’s golden rays. ❝ do you mind if i take a few minutes of your time? ❞ what’s he going to do? say no? as if anyone here has anything better to do than whatever dwight could possibly ask of them. after all — he is in charge around these parts. ❝ just a stroll through the woods, get to know each other a little bit better, yeah? ❞
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🎶 RAINBOW KITTEN SURPRISE’S HOW TO: FRIEND, LOVE, FREEFALL. ( 2018 ) STARTERS PT I. | | | | ᴀᴄᴄᴇᴘᴛɪɴɢ ❛ i’ll make a deal with you. ❜ and the deal is questionable and we may die in the woods
“I’ll make a deal with you.” Tommy says out of the blue, which means Alex has an excuse to look way from the newspapers he’d been reading through to see what it is Tommy’s up to. He closes his notepad and leans back in the creaky chair, balancing on the back legs in what’s probably a precarious fashion, but he figures he’s lived a good life if falling backwards ends up being his downfall.
Alex snorts at his own joke which would be awkward to try and explain, so he ignores the confused look on Tommy’s face as he sets all four legs back on the ground.
“Okay, I’m all ears.” And down for just about anything. Since having driven north to investigate the case given to him by local grieving parents, he’d been having a bit of a hard time getting anywhere or rather, getting any tangible information. But there were people’s lives on the line, so it was important for them to do this right and to do it right the first time. Alex stands up and walks over to where Tommy had been staring out the cabin window. They’re not close enough to be in direct danger – or so Alex assumes, but the outermost trees that encircle the property of Crystal Lake are within walking distance.
“Although if this is going to be a potential death outing deal, I’d like to get one last burger in me.” He’s only half joking since he knows there’s a very real possibility of dying here and he’s not about to go out on an empty stomach. Alex breathes out a sigh, appearing more somber after he does. “And to give my mom a call.” Not that he’d let her know what was happening, but he didn’t like the idea of going out to face what sounded like a fucking living nightmare without getting one last ‘ani ohev otah.’ Alex folds his arms and glances over at Tommy, “Or is this a regular-Jason-unrelated deal?” He seriously doubts it is, but asks anyway.
@pocketknlves
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@pocketknlves said: “Don’t worry, I’m not crazy… at least, I don’t think so.” from: silent hill sentence starters / always accepting !
IT’S SAID LIGHTLY, BUT HITS HER LIKE A PUNCH TO THE GUT. her expression goes from something that could be described as peaceful to narrowed eyes and a thin frown. his tone is disregarded entirely, because ... she’s been called that word too many times, knows that he has too, to be able to take his statement as solely a joke. she stands closer to him, shortens the height difference by standing on her toes so that they’re closer to being eye to eye. she just ... needs him to know that she’s being serious. ❝ DO NOT EVER say anything like that again ... even as a joke ... because you aren’t. ❞
❝ i don’t know who put that in your head ... ❞ ... and they’d better be praying to whatever god or cosmic force they believe in that she never finds out. it wouldn’t end well for anyone. though, it would be rather ironic to have tommy be the one picking her up from the police station afterwards. she lets out a breath, and it comes out shaky. ❝ you are the most not crazy person i’ve ever met, TOMMY JARVIS. ❞
❝ and if anyone ever tries to tell you that you’re anything other than a genuinely GOOD GUY with an absolute, pure HEART OF GOLD ... ❞ she pokes his chest once for each of the last three words, right over his heart. her nose scrunches in disgust at the figurative people who simply can’t see past the scars and the trauma and the defensiveness that’s only there to keep him alive. her eyes are misty when she looks back up at him, mouth set into a firm line, because ... that’s a burden that she’d gladly bear for him ... but she can’t. she can’t take that weight off of him any more than she can hold those people down by their hair and make them see, make them see tommy for who he is.
❝ ... then they’re just jealous that they could never be as SELFLESS and CARING as you are. ❞ ... and then she asks, because she needs to know that he’s actually listening to what she’s saying, not letting it flow in one ear and out the other, that he isn’t just humoring her ... because she’s done that too many times ... and the last thing she wants is for him to be like her. the question is so quiet that she wonders if he’d even be able to hear it if they weren’t standing so close, and comes out much more desperate and pleading than she intends ... ❝ ... okay ? ❞
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𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙃𝘼𝙑𝙀𝙉’𝙏 𝙒𝙊𝙆𝙀𝙉 𝙐𝙋 , and every second this nightmare drags on is one more second ticking down towards the moment this man , monster , hybrid , whatever finds you and turns you into another corpse strewn across the campsite . you’ve tripped over aj , watched tiff get dragged away by her hair , heard chad’s scream of terror - abruptly stop .
you’d sent out a distress signal , from a radio tower in one of the cabins you weren’t supposed to be going into - so you had no idea what frequency it was tuned to , where the message would go , if it would even be heard by anyone instead of just becoming interference in someone’s television static . but he’d come - some sort of protector , maybe a soldier , experienced and war - weary , scary in a way that made you feel safe . danger in a way that you could hide behind . he came with a gun and a furied fear that made you dread what was to come next .
you’d been trying to group up the others , the two of you ; but you hadn’t found any of them . you swallow harshly , trying to stomach the thought , the feeling that you might be the sole survivor . you stay with tommy , he says his name is - veronica , you give in exchange , and wonder if he’ll be the last person you’ll ever introduce yourself to .
the both of you walk silently , as quietly as you can , but you see the mask up ahead and try to bite back a gasp - clutching to his arm , unsure if you’re frozen in fear or grounding yourself on him so you don’t bolt off like a wounded animal . he’s close enough ; jason , you’ve been told is his name , that you can see the blood on his clothes - some older than other patches , wet and gleaming contrasting to brown and dried . you try not to think about which of your new friends each streak belongs to .
he reels back his arm , and before you know what’s happening , tommy’s pushing you behind him and throwing himself in front - you can only comprehend your fingers tightening in his denim jacket , keeping yourself upright , but feeling him go slightly limp in front of you . you peer around his arm , and you see what he’s saved you from - a throwing knife , embedded in his abdomen , a wound quickly bleeding and an injury you know you wouldn’t have been able to survive . you don’t know if tommy can , either - he curls over , hand over the wound , and you panic .
❛❛ c’mon , ❜❜ you whisper , terrified , looking over him to where jason steadily progresses towards the two of you . ❛❛ you gotta get up , please . ❜❜ your tone gets louder , frantic , wet with tears of fear and desperation - there’s no way out of here without him . he took the shot for you , and he saved your life , but there’s not a chance in hell you’ll survive if he dies for you . ❛❛ i can’t make it alone , please , we’re almost there - ❜❜
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“ my mind is so loud and i’m afraid it’ll never be quiet again. ” (hello ! o/ )
It was rare, if ever, that Nancy felt like she could trust someone with the way her thoughts worked. There had been the guilt over Barb’s death that followed after her like her own shadow, and even a year later, the brunette still found it impossible to close her eyes for too long.
Not to mention, everything else she had been through. The Upside Down. The Demogorgon.
“I get it. You sometimes wish you could turn your thoughts off for even an hour just to sleep properly for once,” she replied, her voice gentle but firm, blue eyes looking over to Tommy’s grey. In a lot of ways, the two of them were just two opposites sides of the same coin, and maybe that was why Nancy felt almost at ease around him. It was one thing for her to express her fears and genuine nightmares with her brother, or her ex, but it got to a point where Nancy felt... just humored. “It’s such...,” she lets the sentence hang in the air, before a small laugh on a breath of air followed, “Bullshit.”
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@pocketknlves said : ✤ - lacing your fingers into theirs and holding their hand
there’s a certain comfort to be found in tommy’s presence, simply knowing that he’s nearby. they’d escaped from hell together, narrowly survived a bloodbath that otherwise surely would’ve claimed chad’s life. for that, he’s grateful, and yet there’s a small part of him that thinks tommy’s wasting his time, his efforts, on a nervous wreck of a boy that would sooner cling to him, unashamed, than speak to another soul. ‘ i don’t deserve you ’ constantly lingers just behind his lips, daring to burst forth at the most inopportune times, when his head is dark and stormy and his heart wants to give out completely.
truly, what is worse -- dying, or living like this?
his chest is tight, lungs constricted in the throes of a sensation all too familiar – a panic disorder, they’d said, when he was but a child having difficulty with even the most minimal of interactions. he’d been pulled out of school halfway through the year, taught instead within the safety of his own home. college had been his first real exposure to a “normal” social life, as well as the drugs he often pumped into his system for a momentary respite from overwhelming stress, a way to speak more easily to strangers.
it’s only when tommy speaks that he’s pulled back to earth, back to the ground that he now realizes isn’t caving beneath him and swallowing him whole. large blue eyes stare into tommy’s, grasping desperately for something concrete, something familiar, something comforting —– and with a shuddering breath, he finds it as pale fingers entangle themselves within his boyfriend’s. it’s a foreign feeling, having someone that truly cares for and looks out for him, but he’s learning. they both are.
‘ i’m-- f-fuck. sorry. ’ it’s a struggle to speak, to enunciate exactly how he feels in this moment. their shared traumas manifest in different ways ; where chad shuts down and closes in on himself, tommy steps up in. one of these days, chad wants to be able to do the same for him.
he wants more than anything to reach into his pocket with shaky fingers and pop several pills into his mouth with the hopes that they’ll ease the shudder threatening to jerk at his shoulders, but instead, he gives a light squeeze at tommy’s hand, gaze pointedly averted. almost shyly, he shuffles closer, takes some solace in the familiar scent of tommy’s denim jacket, the faint smell of his soap.
‘ can... can we go s-somewhere else? just... for a while. ’
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NONVERBAL PROMPTS. / @pocketknlves sent: 🔪 do u want to get little a ds’d as a treat.
Michael forces him to limp, like a bored child severing the leg of a spider to see how far it can skitter away.
And Tommy still runs, dragging his feet through the dry dirt, hauling his shoulders around condensed mazes where walls of metal grate and moan, a catacomb of cars and steel and the stuff so much more formidable than muscle and bone - yet still compactable. Sometimes Michael is close enough to smell the coagulating blood on his jacket, then the killer slows - letting Tommy limp further away. Others did the same before they were swallowed by the sky, despite Tommy’s efforts to ensure they would escape -- efforts that earned him his own name in Michael’s mind.
But the chase is a game that eventually becomes tedious once a circuit of the area has been complete. None of them the wiser to where the hatch had opened, no telltale choral hum or black smoke swarming past Michael’s periphery. The next time he is within striking distance of Tommy’s back, he commits to finally destroying the space between them. The arc of his blade drives down into his back, steel singing against a spine.
He doesn’t watch Tommy crawl, soon bending down to haul the limp body over his shoulder, following an unspoken order that beckons him towards a hook.
But pain — sharp and jagged — strikes deep into his shoulder. Groaning in frustration, the vulnerable sound suppressed by his mask, his arm goes limp and he drops the body; unable to fight the mechanical process that binds him to function under imposed law. The loss is an acute suffering, felt in the flesh of his back where a wound does not bleed but has still left him incapacitated, enough so that Tommy can regain some distance.
Sick with indignance, Michael wrenches the shard from his back, only to stand still once it is dropped aside. Refusing to continue the chase, he watches Tommy stumble away.
Unsated, the open sky yawns above him, a bile shade of green.
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pocketknlves asked: ★ holds out my hands
@pocketknlves | Send my character a ★ and I’ll bold everything they feel toward your character.
accepting
I like you // I love you // You’re one of my best friends // You’re like family // You are family // I dislike you // I hate you // I’d kill you if I got the chance // I want you to like me // I’m scared of you // I would adopt you // I’d date you // I’d sleep with you // I’d marry you // I’m worried about you // You confuse me // You’re annoying // I pity you // I respect you // I trust you // I feel protective of you // I’d invite you with me to parties // I’d lend you my money // I’d borrow your money // You’re good-looking // I’m suspicious of you // I’m hiding something from you // You’re fun // You’re boring // I’m upset with you // You’re nice // You’re mean // I’m envious of you // You’re smart // You’re stupid // I look up to you // I think you’re a better person than me // I think I’m a better person than you // I want to apologize to you // I wish I’d never met you // I never want to forget you // I want to get to know you better
Alex could easily slip into ‘you’re like a family’ territory with Tommy. The guy seems pretty alone and like he’s at the end of his rope in handling his past that keeps comin’ back to haunt him. Helping out other people is Alex’s thing, and a weakness of his so Tommy is probably stuck with him. Alex will adopt the guy into his family. ACTUALLY, Tommy would be a perfect partner for the things Alex investigates in the slasher verse and they’d probably be a good foil for one another as a team.
Anyway Tommy’s invited to Hanukkah at the Kalinsky’s.
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@pocketknlves said: 1. a kiss on the top of the head
/ the shyest possible one we could do HWGDSD
from: spots to kiss / always accepting !
SHE ALMOST DOESN’T FEEL IT. ness almost writes it off as a MISTAKE, some misplaced, inadvertent touch … but it lingers, purposefully. it does its job well, or at least what her best guess at tommy’s intention is. it makes her smile, even as she ducks her head and trusts that her hair will cover most of her face. it’s second nature to divert, to change the subject from anything that makes her uncomfortable. it isn’t that she’s not appreciative, she’s more comfortable with him kissing her than she expected … but there’s still the apprehension that comes with a lost familiarity with affection. it makes her feel more at ease with indirect words, ones with a subtle thank you hidden between syllables than in attempting physical reciprocation.
❝ you know … i’m … really, really glad i met you … and that you let me stick around. ❞ she knows CRYSTAL LAKE is hardly the safest place in the world to be. she knows because she trusts tommy, believes everything he’s ever been willing to tell her about the blood that’s stained the blue lake water. ness is quiet with the realization of how irrelevant that knowledge is to her.
she still feels safe here, safer than she can ever remember feeling at HOME. there was always a lingering feeling of something amiss, something dark living under the dirt beneath her feet … but there’s none of that here, not around tommy. there’s only the quiet sort of safety that settles her nerves and her runaway heart … and even jason voorhees can’t change that. ❝ i don’t think i’ve ever said that … and i should have. ❞
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