A Rude Awakening, a ficlet of Addergoole

[aldersprig]

I found the first half of this in my e-mail. To be honest, I have no idea where I'd been intending to go with this, but this is where it ended up.

"You're interesting."

Whistler was not sure what he'd expected, but that was probably not it. The short girl was perched on the footboard of the bed, wearing an indigo silk bathrobe and, as far as he could tell, nothing else. And she was staring at him.

In terms of 'ways to wake up,' it was definitely his weirdest yet, even here in Addergoole. And yesterday he'd woken up to screams and a power outage.

"I'm..." Whistler moved to sit up and realized that he was pinned down. No... strapped. He looked to either side of him slowly - dresser, open door to the bathroom, large posters of landscapes. It was anything but institutional. He looked down at his chest. Straps. He moved a wrist. More straps. "I'm strapped down," he finished. Just because it was a familiar feeling didn't mean he liked it.

"Well..." She rubbed her neck, where, Whistler noticed, there were bruises in the shape of fingers. "I figured I ought to make sure you were calm before we started talking."

Whistler swallowed. Oh, no. "Oh, god," he whispered. "Did I..."

Comments

[thnidu]

"...do *that*?"

[aldersprig]

"...again?"

[thnidu]

Oooohhhhhhh!

[inventrix]

...would've maybe been helpful to include that part in the story, then? >.>

[aldersprig]

tbtbth.

Eta:

Probably

[clare_dragonfly]

yeeep.

[chanter1944]

Oooooh whoa, oh dear. This makes me wonder if hmm, maybe Whistler (love the name! Is that a radio or a movie reference, or both?) just got himself almost Kept, because an actual Keeping bond could've meant an order to be still/stop fighting, understandably took it badly indeed, and got either his Change or his Innate triggered? If that included some type of berserker rage... That'd initially be unsettling and how, for someone who reads like a very decent, intelligent young man. With history, by the hospital/science references, oh lordy. Poor kid.

Sowwy. Didn't mean to hijack with ideas. Do with or discard as you will.

[aldersprig]

*grins cheerfully*

I don't remember where I got the name from; I found this snippet in my inbox.

[chanter1944]

I... have just come back to this, again, because this Whistler young man still interests me. I am seriously considering commissioning you, if commissions are open yet/again, to continue this. The otherwise intelligent, thoughtful student with a change that oops! includes berserker rage - maybe that *is* his change? - and his indigo-robed friend/person in his nascent crew/she who was almost his keeper... Would you be game?

Plus, I'm dying to know just where he got his name. If one of his parents was a radio fan, or even a Sneakers fan... But neither of those would easily link to a berserker change. Seership, yes, for the first, and shadow travel or stealth for the second.

I will not even get into rambling about ideas for other commissions - Argent, Nyla, Aodh fighting those heat-vulnerable monsters alongside Vlad and Conrad, Jeremiah and Lolly+Tilda and Arlyn stirring up trouble for... neutrality?, Nolan and Malka and who in the world they are... Amantia and Zita writing letters and sending them via air workings, and Amantia is *so* halfway to Boom, yes? Ah-hem! 'Scuze me. I said I wouldn't ramble, and promptly failed.

But yes! Whistler and a commission?

[aldersprig]

Yes, Whistler and a commission!

(Maybe a Blade fan? :-)

(I had to re-read; I’d forgotten all about this)

[chanter1944]

Now that reference I don't know. Yet. :)

Re, the commission: I must go a PayPal-ing here shortly, I think! I wonder which cohort Whistler is, and which his friend here is? Indigo silk - wow, can't be long after things started going to ... sheepturds out in the world, yes?

Not related except by being about the same setting: Did I ever e-mail you a great big splurt of musings/curiosities/rambling about basement and Zeroth students? I thought I had, but I may not have and if I did, it was a while ago.