2024-12-28 - Help! Theo's Fallen

[TXT to Jett] Esme: Hey Jett! This is Esme! Theo gave me your number! Glad that you finally got a phone!

[TXT to Jett] Esme: Also! We need a little help down at the beach. Or if you could unlock the door to your apartment? That would be swell. Theo's not feeling well. 🙁

[TXT to Jett] Esme: We're making our way to the apartments now!

[TXT to Esme] Jett: Esme?!

[TXT to Esme] Jett: U have my # 😏

[TXT to Esme] Jett: oh shit. what's going on?

[TXT to Esme] Jett: i got one of the last ferries ... line up out was packed

[TXT to Esme] Jett: i'll go to the apartment after it docks!

[TXT to Jett] Esme: I got your number off of Theo's phone! It's hard to type and drag Theo at the same time!

[TXT to Esme] Jett: why r u dragging him?!

[TXT to Jett] Esme: Huck went berserk and I think Theo was trying to magically? Mentally? calm him down and then Theo went berserk.

[TXT to Jett] Esme: Huck flew away, btw

[TXT to Esme] Jett: wydm berserk?!

[TXT to Jett] Esme: OMG, typing is had now

[TXT to Jett] Esme: We met a guy on the beach with a lot of dogs who could do telepathy and I think he telepathied with Huck. I think.

[TXT to Jett] Esme: Then Huck started screaming to get out of his head!

[TXT to Jett] Esme: Then Theo tried to calm him down with empathy i think

[TXT to Jett] Esme: and then theo started screaming too

[TXT to Jett] Esme: The guy with the dogs could turn into a dog btw

[TXT to Esme] Jett: wow. ok. I'll be there soon. docking now.

[TXT to Esme] Jett: R u close the the apartment? I'm almost there.

[TXT to Jett] Esme: I think I see u!

Still in her ball gown AND mask, Esme has Theo draped over her shoulder as she finally makes it to their apartment building. One hand is holding that 18 year old whiskey that Huck had gifted Theo for his birthday, the other one waves over to where she sees Jett, while still holding her phone. Or she hopes that's Jett and not someone else.

She's slightly disheveled and there's bits of sand in her hair and on her dress, but she looks fine, even if Theo looks like he's a bit out of it. "Jett! That better be you over there!"

Jett hurries over toward the Princess carrying the Prince draped over her like a wounded animal. Jett can't help but snort laugh at this situation, pausing long enough to take an iconic PICTURE that will last forever on his cellphone of the moment before he jams his device in his pocket. It was him. He had ditched the top hat and the costume back with employee services so it could be cleaned (but also that kind of delayed him more) and climbed back into his own clothes. He's wearing his baggy black jeans with holes in the knees and some button down black shirt with skulls on it as he dashes over to assist Esme with her heavy burden.

In fact he takes on the whole of Theo's dead weight if Esme will let him, "Here. I got him..." he grabs Theo by one wrist and sort of kneels down so that Theo can piggy back ride over Jett, his arms reaching for Theo's legs, "Damn you two went hard..." noticing the whiskey bottle as he jostles Theo up onto his back and heaves him up, "Alright, call for the elevator."

Somewhere probably out in the sand someone will find a mask that once belonged to Theo because he's no longer wearing it. He's also sandy, indication, that yes he was on the beach. He also smells like the bonfire. If Jett gets close he will find that his roomie is not really drunk at all. It is the after effects of the magic of trying to shield Huck which failed spectacularly. Eyes are closed. He tried really hard to not be a dead weight on Esme even if his arm is around her shoulders.

He seems to sense that Jett is here and trying to take charge. He might find this a laughing matter later. Right now is not the case because he is in so much pain. A pain he has never felt before and he can barely lift his head as a result. As he's plopped on Jett's back he mumbles, "I think Huck flew away." His face is held in a wince position as if words hurt to speak that the last of that statement was said in a whisper. "Jett...." Realizing who's back he is on and he continues whispering, "You came. I didn't think you would."

Once Esme sees Jett, she feels as if she could finally catch her breath. That is, until, she notices that he snaps a picture of them like this and that gets a bit of a huff from the still masquerading young woman, "Jett... that is not helpful right now. Don't be one of those people. You know the ones." Who only film and don't help. But she knows Jett's gonna help! It's just a warning. "You better not post that anywhere without written permission!"

Still... when he was getting ready to take the picture, she did show off a brilliant smile. No need to look so haggard, even if you feel that way.

Oh good, Jett has taken him fully off of her hands now, but she'll be there for support even though she should be heading back to the beach to gather the rest of their stuff that's still there. "I told you what happened." She squeaks out in annoyance, shooting a semi-glare in Jett's direction. "Things got mad crazy back there. You should've seen it! I should've..." No, don't say record it, because then you'll be like one of those people. "Huck's not answering his phone." This is relayed to Theo, just as she presses the elevator call button.

Theo was still drinking though, at the ball and probably on the beach, while the bonfire smell does mask most of it Jett cannot really tell the difference between magic drunk and real drunk; it's a bad state to be in regardless and Jett is there to help. Even if helping is taking a picture of the moment so it'll last forever in some time capsule somewhere.

Jett smiles winningly at Esme for the picture taking, "I'll make sure to post it up on the 'whats happening in the park' forum." He's totally pulling her leg, "I thought Theo would like to remember his twenty first birthday and everyone loves a drunk picture to do that!" See, he doesn't necessarily think it's magic poisoning even though Esme did tell him about the berserk stuff.

"Yeah you did," he responds to Esme as he shifts to bounce Theo more firmly on his back, snorting back at Theo as he sort of groggily becomes aware of the situation, "We'll worry about Huck later. If he flew away he's probably fine." He rolls his eyes and nods to Esme, "I'll get his number from you. I'll text him later." He frowns at what he should have seen, "If you two didn't ditch me I would have been there!" He grouses and notes back to Theo, affectionately, "Idiot."

It is probably a good thing that Theo had not been aware that Jett took their picture. Considering it took him a few minutes to even realize that Jett had a phone down on the beach this should be no surprise. He hears Esme coming to the defense of the both of them and he gives her a very magic drunk smile. "You are good at that. Defending. I'm staying on your good side as much as possible. Because hells bells if I got you angry.....?" He tries to make a cut throat motion but that means he will slip off of Jett's back so he doesn't. But she should get what he means by that motion.

"Fuck." In response to Huck. "I felt what he was feeling." He tells his friends. "it wasn't good. I am surprise he was coherent enough to fly. I can barely lift my head." That is what he gets for trying to dampen emotions. It was just too much.

"I don't want to remember this birthday. It sucked ass. A lot." He was having a good time till the end when everything went to shit. It's true.

Theo flicks Jett's ear when he said that he and Esme ditched him. "You were suppose to be behind us!" Then he settles on Jett's back. "Your favorite." He retorts for the idiot remark.

If Jett has a drunk picture of Theo, with her in the shot, Esme's curiosity is piqued! "Now I want to see it! I'm sure he looks good drunk." She says of Theo, as if he's not drunk right here and not too with a dose of empathy poison. Obviously, she also wants to see what she looks like too!

When Jett mentions Huck though, Esme's brows knit, "I don't know about that... he kind of... well, I'm not sure. I wasn't there when it happened, exactly." Though Theo is better at explaining because he felt what Huck was going through. "I'm just worried that in his state of mind, flying might not be the best mode of transportation. Hell, I don't even think they'd let him drive." She also can't help but frown now as Theo says how much his birthday sucked.

And then Jett tells them that they ditched him, "Ditched you! Where were you this whole time? We went looking for cake and figured that the beach might be a good place to hang out and spend the rest of Theo's birthday." She looks between them now, wondering if there was a memo sent.

Jett slaps the elevator button since no one had done that yet, listening to the banter for a minute and offering to Esme, "I'll show you once we get him to the apartment to lie down..." The device was in his pocket as it was and he's using both hands to balance and carry Theo on his back. "What kind of feeling was he feeling? Like... you said he went berserk because of ... telepathy?" It hits him square in the face when he says it out loud like that, "Oh shit. He hasn't heard a fucking voice since he was like four!! That guy... that's the first voice he's heard since..." Poor Theo can feel a spark of jealousy through Jett since poor Theo is likely open to such things, "You understand why he went nuts right? Imagine if you couldn't hear anything for most of your life and then boom... a voice pops into your head?" He shakes his own head, "I'll text him. It should be me that does it."

As for the birthday sucking a lot Jett frowns, "Man we had fun dancing, didn't we?" He looks over toward Esme too and shakes his head a little, as if to gesture not to take it personally. But then he squawks back at her protest, "I was at the ball where I was supposed to be!" Grump. And then he snorts, "How was I supposed to know you went to the beach on a totally different island. The ferries were jammed the hell up because of how many people were coming and going from that event you know." The ball was on Castle island and the beach they were at was on Crescent island. "Anyway, I'm here now," he seems to remind them, "And his birthday isn't over yet."

Theo is just pissed and in pain and probably worried for both Huck and Danny. The night had ended in a disaster as far as he knew. When he feels that spark of jealousy from Jett he says right in his roomie's ear, a murmur, thank god, "It was like bugs and muscles set on fire. I understand why Huck freaked out. Just was not expecting me to freak out to. I touched him to soothe him and it was like touching a fire that would not quit. It was not a good feeling and there was nothing I could do. Being helpless when you want to help another is not a good feeling. Fine. You be the one to talk to him. Since he's not answering Esme. I was gonna try to text him but its only....." He stops completely. He just stops talking and slumps on Jett's back.

"Let's get in the fucking apartment." A flare of anger and a smidgen of pain heard behind his words. "I didn't even dip, Esme yet. Not like how you did Gabriel." Theo's magic is still wonky that Jett's small tinge of jealousy bounces right back as Theo speaks. Someone's feelings are all over the place.

Esme just bobs her head in an obedient nod to Jett. Right, get to the apartment first. She also listens to Jett as he works out, so openly, about why Huck behaved the way he did to begin with and when she's asked if she understand why he went nuts, she can't help but look a little dumbfounded up at him. "I can't say that I do. I thought he would be... I don't know~ Excited? Like... what was that? What's that sound? How curious!" She then adds in, "Or... that's how I'd assume they would react to hearing things for the first time. Like with blind people... Is this what I look like???" She makes that exaggerated voice. "Or... what color is this?" Then again, Esme is easily excitable.

She then looks over at Theo there on Jett's back when he contributes to the conversation. The description he gives was unpleasant, especially when he mentioned bugs. Esme then starts to ask, "Why does it have to be y--" And then she remembers something and shuts up.

Though when she senses this anger from Theo, she can't help but reach over and pat him on the arm as she trails along the pair. "I'm sure you'll have many an opportunity to try!" She speaks of this Esme dipping. "And it will be glorious!"

The description of it being like bugs and muscles set on fire has Jett grimace. He knew all too well what that felt like; empathy. "You tried to help him Theo," Jett states back to Theo to help calm him back down, "Though maybe you weren't in a position to help. Sometimes.. emotions are too strong, you know? And you're still learning your shit. Maybe you were drunk ... and that fucked it up?" He only assumes that they were drinking because that was the point of being on the beach! He sighs, "You can't blame yourself and you got to rest now." He shakes his head, "You're free to text him... you suffered with him I think, I think he'd feel bad about that and would want to hear from you."

The elevator gives a little DING... glides open and Jett steps them both into the little moving box.

For Esme's input on the matter Jett considers that, "Shit... I didn't think about that. That's a feasible outcome too. Like.. I guess now we have to figure out why he didn't react excitedly...?" He looks over to Esme then up and back toward Theo's face on his shoulder, "Maybe it just caught him off guard or something." He then shifts Theo, "You doing okay?"

Jett laughs a little at the flare of anger and the grousing that he didn't get to dip Esme, picking up on some jealousy, noting, "I can teach you how to do it... but I think Esme could also do it to you. She sounds EXPERIENCED in the dipping world... am I right, Ez?"

Theo tries really hard to get his erratic magic under control instead of broadcasting. He actually doesn't want to share his feelings tonight. Nada. Zip. Nope. He bites his lower lip as if that will make him shut up and find the control he seeks. Dried blood drops still linger from the biting he did earlier tonight from the pain he was experiencing earlier.

There's a look GIVEN to Esme. Looking relieved when she doesn't carry on in the statement he stopped himself on.

A wry smile at the talk of dipping. Not hair dipping but dance dipping. "You did want to know how low I could dip, Esme. We need to find a club or something so I can show you."

Theo listens to Jett and says, "I'm going to leave him alone. He doesn't need to hear from me or my help. I've done enough damage." Closing his eyes again since the light in the elevator is pretty bright and a migraine is likely brewing. "I'll live." This said a bit sullenly.

"All that I can say is that Huck's emotions were definitely strong. Terrifyingly so. I thought he was hurt or injured or that the guy that turned into a dog bit him at some point." Esme goes onto explain as they begin to walk out of the elevator. "But it was brave of Theo to try and if it worked, it may have helped immensely and I'm sure that Huck would appreciate the thought that you tried." And to that she nods firmly to her own statement.

Does Esme sense this jealousy brewing? Is she close enough to? If she does sense something, she doesn't say anything about it. "I mean!" She starts, "I don't mind the watching the two of you try, buuut, I will say that I do have experience under my belt. Does that make me a pairs skater? No. But it does make me a dancer of sorts. And with practice, I'm sure I can train the both of you to be Master Dippers.. and believe me, that's no easy task." Though to what Theo says, there's a curious arch of her brow now, "Oh? Or will the good Prince surprise even me?"

"It was brave of Theo to try," Jett agrees with Esme, "He got his fair share of being hurt when he tried it with me too. I can't say I envy your magic Theo, but I'm glad for it." Jett bounces Theo up with his hands readjusting on Theo's legs as they walk out of the elevator and Jett piggybacks him to the apartment, stopping only once to fish his keys out of his pocket to hand over to Esme to get the door.

The conversation of dipping has him low key relieved that they were moving onto less serious topics, "Did you hear that Theo? We could be trained to be Master Dippers..." he suddenly bursts out laughing at that title, the laughter more of a relieving stress sort of laugh as he carries them in once Esme has the door.

"I should check in on that guy." Theo pipes up. "I think he said his last name was Kimball and could be found in the directory." He says not a word, not a single word about Huck. He just listens as the two talk for a few minutes.

"I have had lessons in dipping just not much practice." Is he wagging a brow at Esme? Probably.

Once they come into their apartment he tells Jett, "Couch please." He looks over at their bathroom, "Pain reliever and water please." Not trying to be bossy but he probably has vertigo going on for a few minutes more. At least his head is not full of bugs and fire. Probably stopped after his connection with Huck. If he gets set down on the couch he will stretch out and his arms will be used as a pillow and his eyes close again. "This has never happened to me."

"I sort of envy Theo's magic..." Esme isn't afraid to say as she peeeers over at Theo. "It sounds interesting. Both the empathy and the illusions." And the next thing she knows she's being handed keys which she tries not to fumble before she hurriedly unlocks and opens the door so Jett doesn't have to stand there for much longer with a Theo on his back. Though hearing what Theo says about Danny, she is quick to pipe up once she's holding the door wide open to let them through, "When you go to see him, I want to come! Because firstly, the dogs!!!" She says excitedly! "And secondly, I want him to try that telepathy on me. Like, what's it like?" She asks, her nose scrunched up gently.

Though she is surprised to learn that Theo did have dipping lessons, as if people from North Carolina don't ballroom dance. "Well, Your Royal Highness, this I must see." Though at Jett's fit of laughter, she just stares at him wondering what's so funny! "Jett is amused by many things." Once those words are spoken, she wanders around the apartment looking for pain meds, which would be much easier for someone who actually lived here. She does head into the bathroom first, however, to check the medicine cabinet. "I'll get them!"

"Better you than me," Jett responds with an awareness of his revenge dreams still swirling in his brain.

Jett scoffs at Theo, "Yes your Highness..." when he's bossed to take Theo to the couch rather than Theo's bedroom; granted their is a TV for entertainment purposes. He piggy backs Theo to the couch and once there he rolls his shoulders and gently detaches Theo onto the couch. "Well, you're going to take it easy before you do anything," Jett supplies and scowls when he realizes that Esme is digging around the bathroom, "Oh my god don't open the drawers on the left side!" Those drawers were totally Jett's and they're totally full of private masculine things okay! Don't look. He looks almost more concerned about what Esme is going to find than how Theo is suffering - TORN.

"I still need to work on my illusions. They are crap." A hand waves in Esme's general direction as if to tell her that Theo got the message and she could come with. When it happens. "Yeah, my mom made me go with my sister for lessons. Big brother protection and all of that." As if it was the most normal thing for a teenager boy to do. Go to dance lessons with his little sister.

"Are you seriously pissed at Danny?" Theo tries to look at Jett when he hears that comment.

Theo chose couch because they have company for one and he's not ready to retreat to his room, tyvm. "Maybe you better make sure she doesn't find your precious." Theo totally has an idea of what it is that Jett could have in there and he starts to snort laugh.

Esme doesn't catch Jett's anger when she's rifling through the boys' things. Then she hears Jett's voice calling from the other room, "Oh! It's in drawer on the left side? Okay!" She calls back to him, "Thanks Jett!"

"He should ask permission before jumping into someone's head!" He scowls at Theo, "So yeah. I want to beat his ass for doing it to a guy who's never heard a voice in like over fifteen years!" Cause he can't do math okay.

But then his immediate concern is what snooping Esme is going to do.. and when Theo gives him permission to keep her from it, he scurries in a very animated no no no no kind of way as he hustles to the bathroom, sliding in, "I SAID NOT THE LEFT DRAWER!!!"

Too late! Esme is totally the monkey from Aladdin in this motion picture. He stops dead in the door frame and his mouth is wide open cause she's seeing all the perverted things that belong to Jett. Condoms are just natural compared to the other THINGS he's got in there; lube, beads, plugs, porno mags of both genders, polaroid pictures of ... probably him taking some gun show pictures without anything on, and some joints!

He fusses to get her away from the left drawer with a bodily shove shove, some hissing going on behind his teeth, and a bodily pivot around before she can openly exam anything for longer than a few seconds! He slams the drawer closed after shoving some of the magazine back down inside. He grunts with frustration and instead he swings open the medicine cabinet, snatches the pills off the cabinet shelf and thrusts them toward her. He glowers at her too but his cheeks are fucking flushed hot pink.

Theo is cracking up on the couch. When a loud burst of his laugh comes out he's seen holding his head as he is reminded the whole reason he's on the couch is because of head pain. Duh.

Earlier he listened to Jett the non mather. "Twenty years. Jett. Huck will be okay. He's the one who ran away instead of getting help from all of us." Where's the empathy for Huck? Guess it isn't there right now. Try again tomorrow.

He's hearing a lot of noise from the bathroom and he's trying to crane his head and just opens his eyes wider when he can sort of see what is going on in there. "Don't hurt her Jett!" The next moment Theo can be heard saying, "Ow, ow, ow...."

This certainly is a treasure trove of things, it's difficult to focus on what to look at first! Which is a good thing for Jett, which means she hasn't picked anything up yet! Esme is reaching out a hand though, because it seems like something had caught her interest! This was certainly not the private masculine things I was thinking of.

Just then Jett just slides into the bathroom like a masculine man on a mission, "What? I thought you said..." And then she watches when Jett, while glowering at her, opens up the medicine cabinet and hands her the much needed pills. "Thanks..." She says in a polite fashion, still bewildered about what just happened there.

As she heads out back in the main room, she asks, "Why do you keep your bead bracelets in the bathroom?" But she doesn't wait for an answer because Theo is still in pain!

Going into the kitchen for a glass of water, because the bathroom suddenly became weirdly awkward, she pipes up, "Here Theo, hopefully, this helps."

The razors and shaving cream, tooth paste and toothbrush, yeah those were on the counter... what else goes in the drawers but inappropriate things that cannot be left out on the counters!? The treasure trove is mostly safe after he closes it and she takes the correct pills to the living room.

"Are you really asking me that?" Jett sputters after her and isn't really going to explain the beads to her, his cheeks still burning brighly.

Theo heard bead bracelets and he's off laughing and going ow ow ow again and he tries to breathe. "Anal, Esme. Please tell me you know this." Staring at her when she gives him the meds and water. "Thank you, Princess." He pops the pills in his mouth and swallows it down with water.

Sorry Jett. Theo answered for you. Oooo la la.

Those things were on the counter, but the pain pills weren't! So she went digging~

Esme's brow arches really high-like when Theo utters the word anal out of the blue. "What about..." She's about to the say the word, but refrains. And then Eureka! She finally puts 2+2 together, though, in truth, she hasn't really seen those types of beads before and may have only heard of them. "Oh. Right. Of course!" Though she pretends that she knows what Theo's talking about and she follows all of this up with a stern nod of her head. "Those things!"

"I'll be in my ROOM..." Jett scowls at Theo, and dramatically acts out, "Mortified. For life."

He's not really but there's something in his room he needs to get for Theo and it's going to be a minute...

"Esme, if you don't know, just ask. I'll try to help." How is it that Theo is not all red in the face about this. He has had an insane amount of curiosity that he's asked people things such as these beaded bracelets. "Okay, Jett, see you in a few." He's not going to egg his roommate on in something that makes him uncomfortable.

Esme peers at Theo, brows furrowed lightly, "When you say 'try to help'..." She's just wondering how that pertains to this situation and those beads! That's when something else comes to mind, "But why does Jett...." And before she even finishes her question, she figures out the answer and her eyes widen when she utters a silent, "OH!"

Just like when she was in the bathroom after Jett slid in there, Esme is sitting all polite here now too, because obviously something was amiss, but she thinks she knows what now, especially once Jett marches out and into his room. She even hums a little to herself while Jett is in between bathroom and his room.

When Jett comes out, some minutes later, he's carrying something! It looks kind of heavy too. It's about a foot and a half or so. Whatever it is is covered in a box. He shuffles it out and puts it down on the coffee table in front of where Theo is on the couch. "You remember when I said I was working on your gift? Well, here it is," and he notes with a smirk toward Esme. But the moment of the forbidden treasure is beyond them now and he looks back at the box. It isn't wrapped. It's simply a cardboard box with a bow on top.

When Theo is ready he'll lift up the box to reveal what's underneath. It's a sculpture! Ofc it's a sculpture. The sculpture is a rust-colored twisted metal representation of two young adult male figures embracing in friendship. One figure looks Asian with shoulder-length hair and the other looks Caucasian with wavy permed short hair. The figures are standing on a base that holds them up.

"I didn't know what you wanted..." Jett says with a nervousness, "What do you think?"

Theo just smiles at Esme and shrugs at her. Wearing an amused expression on his face.

When Jett comes out with that box he tries to sit up and is wide eyed. “Yeah.” He answers Jett. When the box is freed and there’s a sculpture revealed Theo is very quiet. “I….” He stammers. Trying to touch it and he has an awe look on his face. Quietly answering. “I love it Jett. It’s perfect. Thank you.” He will rise off the couch a little unsteady in hope that Jett will let him embrace him in real life. “It’s beautiful.”

Esme has this suspicious look on Theo now, but then Jett steps out of his room again with a box! Oh right, it's Theo's birthday. ha ha... She got a little excited there.

"Oooh! You made something for Theo. Awwwwwwwww." She looks from Jett, to the box and then over at Theo, giving them all some space because now there's a big box in the room near the couch too.

Then the sculpture is unveiled, and she can't help but examine it closely with an 'oooooooooooooooh', before turning up to the hugging pair as they mimic the figures in the sculpture. "That is so cool! And it is beautiful!" Turning back to the work of art, she has to ask, "How long did it take you to make this?"

Jett expresses with a tapping of his finger across the metal, "It's got that grounding element in it. Like, it will work better than the bracelet because it's bigger. Unfortunately it's heavier and harder to move around... though it can be used for meditation before you go on stage or something!" He puts the box down and aside for now and watches as Theo tries to get off the couch. He tries to keep Theo from moving too much by meeting him and giving him a big friendly Jett hug, squeezed and tightening. Then he drifts back, with a supportive clap to Theo's shoulder and a little shove to make sure he lies back down.

Esme's response to the gift is met with a laugh, "Well... yeah.. I don't really have a lot of spending cash you know? So I kind of have to make things..." He goes to sit back on the lounge chair arm, crossing his arms loosely, "A while. I used the forge. Knox had given me a bunch of metal. But I finished the sculpting of the faces on Christmas. That was the hardest part." He side glances to Theo, then back to Esme, then back to Theo, "So ... how's your birthday now? Better right?"