redhotsummers: ([mutant] protecting)
Alex Summers ([personal profile] redhotsummers) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2012-11-03 10:16 pm

Nervous Breakdown [Open]

CHARACTERS: Alex Summers [CR AU] and Open
LOCATION: Wandering the Halls
WARNINGS: PG-13. Will update if things change
SUMMARY: Alex is paranoid and worried about seeing ghosts. He is jumpy, and isn't in that great of control over his powers. Derek Hale will for sure be meeting up with him, but feel free to post your own encounter if you like!



Alex should never should have put on the mask the second time. He should have resisted, he should have listened to the small voice in the back of his head, telling him to get away from it. To lock it away, and never look at it again. But Alex, as usual, had been weak, and put it on, anyways...and had seen his sister and Darwin, burning, charred, looking at him with accusing eyes.

It was only for a few moments, but it was enough to bring nightmares back to make him think that even without the mask on, he might see them, again. He felt out of control, jumpy, shooting off plasma in the darkness. It was a danger--to himself and others, but he was trying his best to regain that control, to not let other people notice.

So he was going to go on patrol again, wander again, and act like nothing was wrong. It was what he did best; even with the monsters perhaps lurking around the corners, he'd pretend he could beat them. It was the only way he could function, now.
the_infiltrator: (☢ worried)

[personal profile] the_infiltrator 2013-02-06 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
She looks at his hands for a long moment, and then lifts her own--the right one, the one with the tremor in its fingers--and looks at it instead.

"Sometimes really powerful things are really dangerous. I've hurt people, too. Without wanting to." Another pause. "And birds."
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[personal profile] the_infiltrator 2013-02-10 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
She smiles back at him, a little bit warmer than his smirk. But not much. It's not exactly a topic she enjoys having to live with. "How do you stop yourself, Alex?"
the_infiltrator: (☢ this is important)

[personal profile] the_infiltrator 2013-02-16 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
She reaches out, wanting to examine it herself.

"How does it work? Do you have blueprints?"
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[personal profile] the_infiltrator 2013-02-19 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Could I analyze it? I could make you a back up. Just in case."

Among other things.