[MINGLE] Worried/Sick 1: Symptoms Manifest & Reaction

[sixthiteration]

WHERE: Anywhere; multiple locations
WHEN: Apx. 13-18 November
OPEN TO: ALL - MINGLE
WARNINGS: Serious illness and reactions to such

IMPORTANT NOTES: This is the first of two mingles. Please see the timing and general event details here.

Illness Presents and Putting Heads Together will have their own top-levels in this post, but you may make separate top-levels for whatever you like! Anything is welcome, as long as it tangentially relates to the Worried/Sick plot.

Please keep in mind the established plot details, but creative license is welcome and encouraged as long as it doesn't step on toes.

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[unraisehell]

"No one else who'd want them," she says, trying and failing not to make that sound as full of self-loathing as it genuinely is.

"I'm not a great person, Hawke. I've hurt a lot of people. Done stupid shit. Kinda figured that was what was going to get me done in. People I'm close with- bad shit just happens. Even if I don't fuck it over myself, something else does." She can see the look on Doc's face when he held Alice for the first and only time. Seeing his heart break as she sent the only good thing she'd ever made far, far away from her.

"I'm like those fucked up frogs here. Touching me is poison."

[championofsnark]

Hawke listens without interrupting Wynonna. It seems like something she wants to get off her chest, and if she may be dying, she deserves the chance to say all of it. She's shed her cheerful exterior now, letting her somber side take over. It's not one she lets out often, too close to dwelling on things when she does.

"I understand that. I've often felt like the same." She runs a hand against her neck. "There's not a person in my life I haven't failed. Every time I tried to do some good, something horrible came of it. I spent months before coming here just living on my own, staying away from the people who loved me." Hawke sent the occasional letter so they knew she was alive, but otherwise put that distance between them on purpose. Outside of Varric, who she could lean on because he had the Inquisition to shield him. "And the truth is, they are the better for it. They're all rebuilding their lives, away from my name and the taint on it." She's happy for them, truly. Sometimes.

Telling Wynonna wasn't to take from her own pain, but to explain how similar they were before continuing. "But we're only human, Wynonna. You've tried to do better, and I know it never feels like it's enough comparatively, but it's better than giving up. There's no satisfaction in giving up, only despair." Hawke reaches out to take her hand, trying to offer some comfort and compassion. And to prove that touching her wasn't exactly poison. Well, unless she got sick. But that was her decision. "There's still time to make a better life for yourself."