i want to live where soul meets body; (open log)

[overdraws]

CHARACTERS: Allison Argent and you!
LOCATION: Open starters at SEC HQ, the gardens, the kitchens, misc
WARNINGS: N/A (will update if necessary)
SUMMARY: an open log for most of march.
NOTES: Let me know if you want a specific starter for you, or leave one of your own! Feel free to interrupt the prompts at any time, too, they're not set in stone.


SEC HQ
[ She's a hard worker, this one. When she's on shift, if she's not out actively patrolling, she's here, doing her best to keep her own 'paper'work filed, and maybe working on some of the backlog, too. Edgeworth's desk is still piled up and it grows every day. It's the least she can do, right? Sometimes she's just here on break, leafing through a book she's found in the library (although most of it goes right over her head, considering it all references things she has no idea about) or she's watching an episode of All My Universes on her comm. Isadora is crazy, isn't she!? ]


Oxygen Gardens/9th floor Kitchens
[ Running helps her keep her mind clear. It was one of the things she did back home when she was having a rough time with things, and here it provides her with a strange sense of comfort. A forest is a forest, even if the terrain is completely different. She does her best to stick to the main paths while she jogs, trying not to get in the way of anyone working or otherwise out. When she's done, she heads to the kitchens for a bottle of water, sitting on the counter and drinking it with her eyes closed. She needs to go to the showers next, but the breather is nice. So she's savoring it. ]

Comments

[overdraws]

[ She does not look like something punched her in the gut. For once she's actually really good at hiding it because that's something else she doesn't want to talk about. She grins. ] Good. He deserves to be happy just as much as you do.

[immuno]

It's not what I would call happy, but he seems to be. [ The face she makes says that is a damn weird relationship but whatever. It apparently works for them. ]

[overdraws]

Just because his definition of a successful relationship isn't the same as yours doesn't mean it's not successful. [ Allison's turn to point her fork at Lydia. ] You and Jackson fought all the time, and you were happy with him.

[immuno]

[ Lydia dodges Allison's gaze at that. Jackson is a subject she hasn't touched on in a long time. But she does finally feel secure in admitting, ] Jackson and I loved each other. [ She wants to start there, in case there was ever doubt. ] But we weren't happy.

[overdraws]

[ That admission clearly surprises Allison. ] I'm sorry to hear that.

[ And it's genuine. ] You guys always—usually looked happy.

[ Granted, towards the end, not so much. And Allison will be the first to jump aboard the Jackson is a Tool train for how he treated Lydia while he was the kamina. But she was there and she saw Lydia bring Jackson back. So she'd just assumed. ]

[immuno]

As long as I was pretending to be a nitwit, and he wasn't losing a game, we were.

[ And maybe, if she'd never met Allison, never befriended Scott, Lydia could have been happy in some political marriage that went the same way of her relationship with Jackson. But she had met them, seen them together, realized that it wasn't supposed to be like that. ]

[overdraws]

[ Allison tries hard not to make a judgemental face at that but it's really really hard. ] At least you no longer need to suck for anyone's benefit but your own?

[ stop hanging out with stiles allison ]

[immuno]

[ Out comes the laugh. At this point, Lydia has to laugh about it. Jackson's gone, he's never coming back, and she has to find a way to be at ease with that relationship being a part of her moving forward. ]

I'll be adjusting my relationship goals accordingly.

[overdraws]

[ Allison grins wide. ] Glad to hear it.