#Secret Passages

[monica-teresa-bordignon]

[vanalex]

[ai-satin-chic]

Surely ONE of these books opened the secret passageway?

[his-dark-materials-trilogy]

Nat’s favorite things, from What If We Were… by Axelle Lenoir

[riddles-n-games]

Has anyone ever thought that maybe there are booby traps or hidden trapdoors in the secret tunnels of the Hawthorne House and that any unsuspecting Hawthorne brother may have gotten caught in them at some point? I believe that this would especially apply to our one and only Jameson Winchester Hawthorne who frequents them the most. Imagine Jamie's drunk, stumbles into one of the passageways because he's had a rough day (inferencing from Skye's conversation with Avery in the first book with how he used to get lost in those halls for long periods of time likely means they're his comfort spots) and he's in one that leads to the kitchen but then makes a wrong turn. There's a bit of buzzing in his head from the alcohol but a gut feeling is telling him he's going the wrong way, yet, he continues on anyway until he steps on a loose lock, triggering a trapdoor to open underneath him. He, of course, falls down into a room that he's never been in and straight up passes out only to end up staying there until the next evening around the time of the mandatory dinner that everyone has to show up to. Concluding that he's missing, his brothers set out on the hunt to find him.

Nash and Grayson are actively going through all his usual haunts, trying to locate him while Xander is trailing them with a camera in his hands, documenting the whole thing and throwing in over-the-top commentary as the unofficial narrator of the little documentary. When they finally get to the corridor that leads from Jamie's room to the kitchen, Nash spots the split in the hall and since they already checked the kitchen, he decides they should skip the typical route and check out that other way. Grayson tries to fight him on this but relents to Nash's brotherly instincts as the oldest of them and they go, Xander merrily following behind them.

To their surprise, they see a hole in the floor and rush to it only to find their very much asleep brother in the sunken space. Xan takes out his phone and starts to snap photos and neither of his older brothers stop him. Thankful that they found him, Nash jumps down and so does Grayson who searches for a light as Xander continues to film from above. Gray manages to find a switch and after getting over the initial brightness, also sees a way up again with a roll-down ladder so he unfolds it and climbs back up beside Xander to help Nash bring Jameson up. Meanwhile, Nash is trying to get a handle on his long and lanky brother who is just all sprawled out limbs so after a few minutes of wrestling him into a proper position, he pushes Jamie against the ladder for Grayson to start hauling him up. As he pulls him up by gripping under his shoulders, Nash is pushing Jameson’s legs up to get him out of there so he can come back up himself. 

After all this nonsense, they manage to get into formation and carry him back down the passage to his bedroom and Xander is “helping” them by having a hand on one of Jameson's knees but more so focusing on recording the segment which leaves Gray a little frustrated as he has a handle on the feet. It takes a bit of maneuvering around to get to Jameson's room with Jameson himself but they are able to do it and set him on his bed. Nash checks out Jameson's head to make sure there aren't any signs of a concussion while Grayson searches around for an Advil and a spare water bottle. When all is fine and dandy, Xander has his fun by tucking Jameson in and pulling out an old teddy bear before he leaves. He proceeds to stay up the entire night to put together and edit his video.

The next morning, when Jamie finally regains consciousness post-hangover, he wakes to a text from Xan featuring an iMovie file. He opens it up to find it’s a mini documentary of his brothers making rounds around the House, going slightly insane as they tried to find him with Xander’s unnecessary narration in his sober opinion.  Problem is, he realizes that the video isn’t in the one-on-one iMessage chat between him and Xander; his brother sent it to group chat with all four of them in it. He doesn't read the rest but when he does encounter any of his brothers the remainder of that day, they all give him a small smirk or amused shake of the head.

[wemlygust]

Locations of Secret Passage

Behind Waterfall

Behind grandfather clock

Behind office bookshelf that is full of leatherbound tomes (probably with unmarked or inscrutable spines that disguise the content entirely). This type of passage is opened by pulling a particular book or 3 out because it is secretly a lever. This probably involves gingerly hooking the top of the spine and tilting it out to a 45 degree angle.

Behind big painting

Through some random leafy foliage (outdoors only). You push the branches aside and this will reveal a dramatic vista.

in big walk-in wardrobe, behind clothes.

trapdoor in outdoor location concealed only by a thin layer of dirt and *maybe* also a rock

trapdoor under a rug

behind stone brick wall. Opened by tugging a candle wall sconce down to a 45 degree angle.

elevator goes to secret extra floor(s)

in ancient sandy tomb, behind wall, probably opened by solving a puzzle. Probably haunted by orientalist music and visual design choices that disregard all real context re. any particular culture and geography and art and musical traditions.

in your closet

behind or through mirror

in some random cave after solving a puzzle involving mysterious symbols or drawings and probably a map Honorary Mention: through shadows or puddles or portals or temporary not-usually-there door in wall or strange twisted liminal spaces/reality warping paths (only works with magic, often only for a particular ppractitioner and those they choose to bring with them, and therefore perhaps does not count as a secret passage. A true secret passage must be for all, if you can find it.)

[halljavalge]

Source: kehuang12

ℍ𝐚𝓵ｌ נ𝐀 𝔳คĻǤẸ - Tallinn Old Town in winter evening, Estonia.

[writing-2-heal]

Nathing is as it seem it is to my brown sparkling eyes,

My eyes can see as wild as I want ,but my eyes are blind to see the truth being as transperant as it can to make it easy for me.

But i failed to translate things to my mind.

Why would I have to go through this,

just inorder feel the same old things in some new way ?

which makes my soul burn alive,and to makeing me sacrifice my self to lose all the feelings,just to hold on to something?

I can't hold on to anything anymore or pretend like , this is normal to not show up my problem, i don't even know what my problem is , it's the biggest problem creating a clueless Chaos,

where I'm in the middle of clod clouds, clouds getting warmed up by my coldness,like we share the same language, the cloud communicates with me .

Being my only partner in this lonely journey,

Cold in the could says as i continue, I'm sorry your infinite of times multiply of me .

Like a human mutant of cold .

[skjam]

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[monica-teresa-bordignon]

[atlantapedestrian]

[coatntails]

@emptymanuscript we need this in our life someday somehow

[ericpoptone]

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[demonlordcosnime]

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[goabroad36]

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