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Kathryn Newton

#effie. / visage #// do queue believe in ghost stories?

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jazzdreams​:

“Yours for the afternoon,” Jazz laughed, head shaking. “You’d have to return me by the end of it.” Eyes unfocused as he looked at the sky without actually seeing anything, just relishing in the atmosphere of it all. Thoughts of the girls gone for so long bringing a somber feeling to the moment for him, sighing. “Too much of a coincidence not to check it thoroughly. The one person tying both disappearances? No, something must be up.” 

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"I can make that work.” she said with a warm grin, turning her head in his direction. It was funny, Effie hadn’t expected to find peaceful moments like this while working on a show like Unsolved but she couldn’t deny that it was nice. Maybe if she was able to find times like this, cases wouldn’t be so bad, she wouldn’t get so in her head about her own demons following her around. “I know...makes me wonder why no one seems to be suspicious of him - besides us, of course.” Effie had a tendency to believe in coincidences, the wily way the universe could work, but this was too strange for her to think that’s what it was. “I wonder if the producers of an interview lined up already.” she had to imagine they did.

#ft. / jazz trinidad #cvt. / effie

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jazzdreams​:

“We are nothing if not professional,” he joked. Pressing both hands together in a pleading motion with a smile on his face, excited for it all. “I only ask because somewhere deep inside of you there’s got to be a kid excited with supernatural creatures.” Scratching at his chin when the theories started, lips pressing together like a duck. Trying to imagine a sea serpent just coming out of a river ready to drag down the poor children. “Valid. Valid. Question. If it was a sea serpent what would of scared the bus into stopping so suddenly?”

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For all of their sakes it was would be a lot better if they remained professional - not that some wouldn’t slip up but it would be best for the sake of the team if everyone at least tried. Rich when it was coming from Hannah. “Are all kids supposed to get excited by supernatural creatures?” She must have missed the memo on that one. Sure, she’d been one of those kids to read everything under the sun and love getting lost in magical words within the pages but she’d always been more realistic than most. She knew those worlds existed in words but not in actuality. Hannah couldn’t help but give him another look, he was already getting a lot out of her by asking for a theory at all. Now she had to think of the logistics? “I don’t know...it was in cahoots with a Mothman? It was the distraction while the serpent slithered over and took them away.”

#ft. / jazz trinidad #cvt. / hannah

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jazzdreams​:

Taking out his phone to see if he could order the tinfoil instead of going to buy it, almost too lazy to get off of the floor. Body almost feeling like he’d spend the rest of his days just curled up against the bed of clovers. “Ok. Give me a day and I’ll be yours,” he nodded, frowning at his phone. Head lifted too quickly, slamming his nose against his phone with a small groan. “Wait. Wait. Another disappearance? Talk about way too big of a coincidence for Jerry Juke. Fishy fishy.”

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“One single day and you’ll be mine? That’s the fastest I’ve ever worked.” Effie teased, laughing softly as she let her hands brush over the grass underneath her. This was nice before all the real craziness of them getting too close to the truth. “Yeah, another disappearance. It was two -” a shiver ran down her spine at the age, it had to be her age. “ - two eleven year old girls. They were doing a volunteer thing with Jerry, something about the church, too. It can’t be a coincidence, right? It’s so bizarre.”

#ft. / jazz trinidad #cvt. / effie

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bradycharles​:

Brady let out a chuckle as he approached Hannah and she addressed him with a skeptical question. “I wouldn’t say it’s definitely aliens, but I don’t know if I’d completely rule it out either just yet. We’re just getting started here, after all.” Reaching for a bag of potato chips from the table, he turned more towards her and cocked his head to the side. “What makes you think it’s completely not?”

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Hannah should have expected there would be some people who were willing to believe in some unhinged theory that aliens or monsters were involved but she had been hoping, fingers crossed, that more of them would be on her rational plane of existence. “It’s completely not because aliens aren’t real? They don’t exist so it can’t be them...obviously.”

#ft. / brady charles #cvt. / hannah

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dickcool​:

the   question   reminded   him   of   previous   mysteries   he   tried   to   solve   before      ⁠—   most   notably   ,   of   who   A   was   in   the   hit   show   pretty   little   liars   .         ❛                           this   is   just   like   rosewood   .   people   have   pieces   of   the   answer   but   it’s   up   to   us   to   piece   it   all   together   ,                           ❜      he   answered   in   a   slightly   cryptic   and   determined   voice   ,   looking   into   the   window   like   effie         —   wishing   that   they   had   brought   one   of   the   camera   people   because   they   must   look   so   good   and   all   cinematic   right   now   .   and   just   as   quickly   ,   breaking   character   with   a   grin   on   his   lips   as   soon   as   that   cinematic   moment   passed   .         ❛                           but   probably   not   .   i   think   they’re   just   as   clueless   as   we   are   .   and   they’d   rather   stay   that   way  .   anything   to   keep   that   idyllic   town   image   .                        ❜

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“Not Rosewood.” Effie moaned, smirking as she shook her head. “Pretty Little Liars had a grip on my early teens in a way I’m embarrassed to admit.” It didn’t help that someone had taken to texting her and her friends through some app that hid their identity. They eventually stopped and were revealed as her friends older brother but it had been a whole thing. “I still think Aria should have been the big reveal, what they did...it made no sense.” Even to Effie who was more than willing to believe in the ridiculous. Leaning against the glass, she faced him in intrigue as she crossed her arms. “Really? I guess that could happen but I don’t think I’d be able to keep my mouth shut for this long, there has to be someone dying to spill what they know. Someone who’s a blabber mouth.”

#ft. / dick mccool #cvt. / effie

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𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫: Considering how busy they all were trying to figure this case out, there was ample amount of downtime for some of them. Effie included. She wasn’t hired for her detective abilities but rather her ability to get eyes on the TV whenever this aired. Walking through one of the main streets in Westport with Dick ( who she’d cajoled into joining her ), the blonde stopped next to a shop and pressed her hands against the window. “Hey, you think all these people know what happened to them and are keeping it a secret?” It seemed like something that would happen in a town in Connecticut. @dickcool​​

#effie. / starter #effie. / closed starter #cvt. / effie #ft. / dick mccool

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𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫: @cashwolff​​

To say Hannah was having a challenging couple of days would have been an understatement. They’d gotten extremely fortunate with that anonymous tip connecting Mercy and Victoria to these missing teens and the common denominator of Jerry Juke but things remained encased in a fog. There were so many pieces to this puzzle but they had no idea what picture they were trying to make with them. Shutting her laptop out of a mix of defeat and frustration, Hannah decided she needed a break from staring at all the information they had, taking a walk until she spotted someone. “Cash, hey.” she called out, picking up her pace until she was next to him. “How’re you feeling today?”

#hannah. / starter #hannah. / closed starter #cvt. / hannah #ft. / cash wolff

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𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫: Plopping herself down on one of the picnic tables in the middle of their camp, Effie stabbed at her ice cream with a spoon, lost in thought. They were certainly in a predicament and there were only so many ways to say they hadn’t solved anything without saying those words on her livestreams. Legally, the blonde couldn’t talk about the case all that much but she had to give her people something. As she absentmindedly daydreamed about solutions, blue eyes landed on a face, someone she kind of knew now but not really. “Hey, you’re Ludwig, aren’t you? One of the camera guys?” @ludfreebrowsing​​

#effie. / starter #effie. / closed starter #cvt. / effie #ft. / ludwig dahlstrom

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jazzdreams​:

Lifting himself back onto his feet with a little cheer and a jiggle, excited for the break from humanity that this offered. “That’s my girl,” he paused, “friend? coworker? That’s my coworker!” Almost unsure about it all but still pumped to be thinking of a monster being the cause of it all. “If you had to go for a cryptic creature which one would it be? Honestly! If you give me a good solid theory I’ll offer myself up in exchange to do actual research on the humans involved.” Knowing that a town such as this would open itself to the possibility of a lot of theories linked together.

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“Coworker is probably best.” It was the most HR approved out of those options though Hannah had never been above coworkers being friends ( or more in certain situations for better or worse ). “Seriously? You’re asking I suspend my disbelief and now I have to come up with which one it is?” Hannah teased, faux exasperation in her tone. In for a penny, in for a pound. “I don’t know maybe Bigfoot could have overpowered them and dragged them all out into the forest. I hate to admit it but I did read something about sea serpents being a big thing in Connecticut but they weren’t all that close to the Connecticut River, were they?” She knew it wasn’t the most confident sounding theory but how was she supposed to have any confidence in a theory she didn’t believe in to begin with?

#ft. / jazz trinidad #cvt. / hannah

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jazzdreams​:

“I’ll get the tinfoil if you get the drinks.” And maybe he was just joking about the tinfoil hats, but he could see the idea having some merit. Imagining himself walking around with one of those hats almost made him smile, but the idea of aliens still made his hair stand up. “Okay. Wait. There’s an article about Jerry? Tell me more.”

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"Sounds like a deal.” Effie said with a grin, their afternoon shaping up very nicely. Even if they both knew aliens weren’t involved ( this time ), why not have a little fun with it? “You haven’t seen it? Someone gave Finn an article from like ten years ago about two girls that went missing when they were volunteering with Jerry Juke’s group. Kind of sus, isn’t it? He’s around for two different disappearances and no one’s really looked into it before.”

#ft. / jazz trinidad #cvt. / effie

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unsolvedextras​:

The torn end of the sugar tilts and pours out in a white little pile on the table in front of him, his gaze intensely focused on it as it comes to an end. “Trip and Peter, those boys,” there’s something dry and dark about the comment, a total disregard and half laugh seeming to be swallowed at the prospect of their names being brought into it. The mood shifts and he looks up at Hannah only briefly, “That boys Mother brought you here because she can’t accept the truth, that her son is gone forever but the rest of us just want to move on with our lives,” the chair screeches as he stands up abruptly and a few other customers visibly turn around recognising him and paying attention to the encounter. His voice is loud, “Even if by some chance my daughter wasn’t dead that first year then she certainly is now. She had a death sentence long before she disappeared. Don’t you think there’s a reason that I stopped looking? You people have no idea,” there is hate in his tone, a hint of genuine hurt, a passion that seems real. “My daughter is dead and you’re not to look for her. If you find her,” he hesitates, “I’ll never forgive you,” brisk as he turns and storms out, his car waiting outside with a middle aged red haired woman in the front seat. 

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Hazel eyes fall to watch the sugar pile up on the table in front of him and her first instinct is to wipe it away, keep things clean, but she has a feeling doing something like that might set him off. Volatile and unpredictable didn’t even begin to cover the bases, not with the way he’d charged in here with the goal of intimidating her into wanting to leave. It didn’t work but she admired the effort. It would have been impossible not to notice the subtle shifts in his demeanor, the way he reacted to Trip and Peter’s names, the way he dug his heels in about moving on because they were dead. He seemed so sure of it. His wording was particular, chosen specifically and Hannah couldn’t ignore that.”Wait -” She doesn’t even have the chance to say more before he’s up on his feet and out of the store. It was all so fast but Hannah had a million more questions, she hardly noticed that people were staring as she stood there watching him get into a car with a woman she assumed was his wife ( and Kady’s mother ). What did he mean, Kady had a death sentence? Was it something related to the headaches, was it something more? How did he know she was dead? And if he knew she would be dead after that first year, why spend millions on a search effort? Nothing was making sense....except it did explain why he stopped looking - Hannah couldn’t deny that. No parent would give up that quickly unless they had concrete evidence that there was no point to continue. Sitting back down, she sighed loudly, picking up her pen as she shook her head. “Fuck...” Hannah mumbled under her breath, that hadn’t gone exactly how she would have liked but she now had a lot to think about. He might not forgive her if they found Kady, but she wasn’t planning on asking for forgiveness. Not when they had a job to do.

#ft. / jamison winn #cvt. / hannah

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unsolvedextras​:

There’s a strange moment where he looks at her, his gaze intense and piercing and then he lets out a sigh that’s not quite deflated. “Come on,” it’s a blank statement and there is nothing more to it. The coffee remains untouched but there’s a certain methodological way in which he slowly tears the top of the sugar sachet and lines up the small containers of milk. “We both know that my daughter is dead. Have you considered that perhaps a missing daughter is better than a dead one? I know that you young people are obsessed with television and media, there’s meant to be some deep sense of inner peace from finding out your child is dead. Well, I don’t want it. I’m perfectly happy with the mystery of it all and my Elena believing that there’s some hope in high heaven that one day her sister is going to return home as good as new,” he finished with little emotion but his eyes give something away, a flicker of genuine sadness. “She is dead.” 

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Had she considered that? Yes but, in her opinion, living in denial was no way to live. How could he be content without knowing? Placing her pan down on top of her notebook, Hannah’s immediate defensive wall lowered a little bit. She didn’t have children, she didn’t know what he was going through but she could understand his perspective of the whole thing. “Mr. Winn, we don’t know if she’s dead or not but, if I’m being honest with you, there’s a big part of me that agrees.” Unless Kady was determined to never make contact with anyone ever again, it was hard for her to believe she was out there somewhere. “But this isn’t just about your daughter. If we were here for Kady, and Kady alone, I would respect your wishes and leave. Let it lay and never bring it up ever again. But that’s not the reality. We’re here because Trip and Peter are also missing and their families want answers.” They were hired to do a job and that’s what they were going to do. “And now that we’ve found out about the other two girls, there are even more reasons for someone to look into this.”

#ft. / jamison winn #cvt. / hannah

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unsolvedextras​:

a ‘chance meeting’ with kady’s father. @havntcd​

It was unclear what the intentions of Kady’s family really were when it came to her disappearance but her father had never been fond of the press. Much like the Van Leers, a conference with this man was never on the table. He does however make his way toward Hannah and sits down with intention, the coffee in his hand untouched. “I know who you are and I know what you’re doing. You come to this place that you know nothing about and you want to poke your nose into everyone’s business, digging around and believing that you know something or another. Don’t you believe in letting people have their peace?”

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The sudden appearance of a middle-aged man ( that was being kind ) surprised Hannah, eyes narrowing as she tore her attention from her notebook and coffee to focus on him. “I believe in finding people who go missing. Something tells me you don’t....Mr. Winn, I presume?” She could see some familial resemblance in his features and Elena’s, it didn’t take much to leap to the conclusion that he was Kady’s father and he clearly wasn’t pleased. “We’re here to help, Mr. Winn, I’d think you’d want to find out what happened to your daughter.”

#what a great fc choice #ft. / jamison winn #cvt. / hannah

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ludfreebrowsing​:

while   they   didn’t   see   the   world   the   same   way   ,   her   opinion   was   still   valued      —   because   the   world   was   illogical   and   mysterious   ,   but   her   belief   in   mundane   (   or   what   skeptics   would   label   as   rational   )   explanations   was   needed   so   that   none   of   them   would   get   too   lost   in   flights   of   fancy   .   bigfoot   ,   mothman   ,   and   aliens   didn’t   really   connect   all   the   new   clues   they   had   received   so   far   .      ❛             so   ,   what’s   the   verdict   ,   boss   ?             ❜         he   began   as   he   took   a   quick   sip   of   his   third   cup   of   coffee   for   the   day   .         ❛             is   jerry   juke   our   culprit   or   was   it   just   coincidence   that   he   happened   to   be   there   in   two   separate   disappearance   cases   ?            ❜

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"Hmm?” Hannah hummed, lifting her eyes from one of many emails on her phone. It had been a hot second since she’d seen Lud ( probably a good thing, all things considered ). Jerry Juke, the one man that was constantly on her mind recently. There was something going on there and she did not like it. “I don’t believe in coincidences, the universe is hardly ever that lazy.” She might not have been the first one to say that, and she couldn’t remember for the life of her now where it came from, but Hannah couldn’t help but resonate with it. Coincidences were boring and she hardly subscribed to them explaining things away. “He has something to do with it, I’m almost one hundred percent sure but I can’t figure out what it is. First he loses two girls on a volunteer trip and then three teenagers on a bus?” She sighed, shaking her head as a million and one thoughts were flying through her head. “What do you think? And if you say alien in a human skin suit, I swear to god.”

#ft. / ludwig dahlstrom #cvt. / hannah

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nevergettoheaven​:

a loud laugh falls from her lips, and she shakes her head slightly at hannah’s response. “yeah, probably not.” in her eyes, there was nothing that was worth that car accident, that was worth what it had taken from her. no weird gift could make up for that. “it depends. sometimes, when a spirit comes through, i’ll just hear their voice. other times, i’ll get visuals or feelings, like a physical sensation that might relate to how they died.” those were the worst, and although she’d heard that more practiced mediums felt the effect less, she was still so inexperienced. “sometimes it’ll be a mental image. kinda like i’m remembering something, but it didn’t actually happen to me.”

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Considering Hannah had a hard time believing psychics or supernatural things even existed, she was definitely in the camp of no power being worth something like that. "If that’s what it took, I should have visions all the time these days.” Hannah didn’t talk about it much, choosing instead to bury certain parts of her past in the same coffin she’d had to bury her friends in. Nothing was worth that. It seemed like they were on the same page. “A physical sensation...that can’t be comfortable.” She didn’t even want to imagine how bad that could be. “So, it’s across the board, then. Visions, hearing things, feeling things - that’s a lot to deal with.” 

#cvt. / hannah #ft. / annie summers-rosenberg

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mxvirani​:

There were some theories going around that were just weird as fuck but even the two of them could agree that it made some kind of sense that Jerry Juke and his wife must have been working together. Mx wondered why this Molly hadn’t been mentioned by anyone until now. “Do you think it’s really fucking weird how nobody in the interviews talks about other people? They just talk about themselves, give reasons for things… they never seem to act suspicious of anyone else,” it may have been tainted by his own outlook on the world. He’d be throwing anyone he thought was guilty under the bus in seconds, wasn’t that human nature?

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They were treading in dangerous territory now, a subconscious warning bell going off in Effie’s head that she couldn’t hear yet or had become accustomed to ignoring. Serial killers and missing kids? Kids specifically going missing when they were eleven years old? It all hit too close to home for the blonde to realize it, like when you’re too close to a picture to make out clearly what it is. Effie snapped out of it, on the brink of a spiral, when he asked his question. “It is strange...maybe they’re trying to clear their names?” It was a bit selfish actually, they weren’t doing much more than trying to defend themselves. Though, if she were in the same situation, Effie couldn’t say that she wouldn’t attempt to do the same.  

#ft. / mx virani #cvt. / effie