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Happy Holidays ✨ @captainjamesjoneshook

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Happy Holidays ✨ @dr-drckken

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Vixey's eyes softened with empathy. She understood. Though, she wasn't going to say that--maybe, not exactly. After all, it was something they learned in their training: to listen, but to try not to say that the understood. It wasn't always helpful to hear that. Besides, technically, she didn't. Her father was still alive. She didn't have any amputations. There were a lot of things about James' situation that were very different.

And grief dressed everyone differently.

"I don't know if that's true, exactly," she did say after a moment, pushing back, just a little.

"We--" his care team "--could speak to getting you into grief counseling." And she didn't just mean for his father, but for his leg too. That was a type of grief.

"We work with Jiminy's and there is group and individual appointments available. I know when I did it, it was very helpful for giving me a way to...talk about things."

@captainjamesjoneshook

See Right Through You & [Pirate Fox]

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Vixey nodded a little when Tiana mentioned the investors. She knew, of course, because she had to do the same thing. Opening a business, in general, was expensive. Opening a restaurant, she knew, was astronomically more so.

But even still--she never would've guessed what Tiana said next. Her stomach dropped and her heart clenched with worry and sympathy. Immediately, she reached across the table to squeeze Tiana's hand.

She was so surprised about what she had said. The restaurant, in Vixey's eyes was so successful!! Gosh, she was so, so grateful to Ken, even more now, for buying her out. Otherwise, she would probably be a very similar position.

"Oh gosh, Tia, I'm so sorry. That's so stressful. Is there anything I can do to help?" She didn't have a lot of money, but--between herself and Al...they could probably afford to give her a little loan. She had faith this must be just--some blip! The holidays were coming up and they were bound to be slammed!

@truitt-story

Everything Is Fine | Viana

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Tiana was usually busy, but she didn't pick up the phone in the middle of their dates. Vixey was surprised, though she covered it quickly, waving Tiana off to tell her it was alright. Which it was, but that didn't mean that she wasn't also--a little put off.

Maybe worried?

Yeah, worried was what she settled on by the time Tiana got off the phone again.

"Who was that?" she asked, which may seem like a nosy question, but they were best friends. There was no such thing as nosy between best friends.

@truitt-story

Everything Is Fine | Viana

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"Oh yes, and Shanaya will be in town with her husband!" Vixey couldn't remember if he'd met her or not. Probably. She didn't come back very often, but usually did around the holidays.

"She's pregnant!"

Honestly, as soon as she said it, Vixey wasn't sure if she was supposed to. Shanaya had told her only a few weeks ago and said that she was the first to know. The rest of their family didn't even know yet. Shit.

God, she was so off-kilter these days.

"Keep that between us, just by the way. We're surprising my parents with it for Christmas."

Not that Nick really had anyone who--

Well, actually, if he told Isaac and Isaac told any of his brothers, Dian could find out, who worked with Farhan, Vixey's older brother--

Stupid Swynlake.

@wilde-fun

Breath of the Wind & [Nickey]

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They ordered their drinks, grabbed them, and went to find a table. The whole time, Tiana's comment rattling in Vixey's head. It could be nothing. Tiana was always busy. Which was a good thing! It meant the restaurant was doing well.

"How's the Energy Boost treating you?" she teased, once they got to their seats. "Those things are like a kick in the ass. They're great when I'm getting off a rough shift."

@truitt-story

Everything Is Fine | Viana

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Vixey melted into Al's side. It was so easy, and yet, still so surprising to her. With her other partners, there was always an awkward stage of figuring out the physicality of everything. When to hold hands, when to snuggle on the couch...

But with Al it was like breathing. She didn't have to think about it. Maybe it was because she had simply resisted it for so long.

And now, she didn't have to. Because they were married and talking about houses...

"A fixer upper sounds nice in theory, but I agree. I don't think I would pass up the perfect house if it needs a little work. But, I think we could find something. I do...like Besydus, just because it is nice to escape the...everything of Swynlake sometimes. The commute is kind of killer, though.

I would like some land. Not a lot but, I dunno, a few acres. I am used to not having neighbors." As if to punctuate her point, whoever lived above Al stomped across the apartment.

"We could look in the farmlands, maybe?" Those houses did tend to be older and there weren't very many, so finding ones for sale might be difficult. "If we can't find anything with land right now, then...maybe in the future." After all, their first house didn't have to be their last house.

@alzcomicbarn

... now what? || Vixal

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Vixey's eyebrows jumped up at that.

And, despite James' intention of making her want to give up, she only grew more concerned. Sure, he could mean that he hurt in general. That it wasn't necessarily...physical pain caused by an illness or injury. But, instead, grief.

Vixey understood that grief well. Especially the kind that struck you out of no where. That came from someone dying suddenly, ripped away from you by unpredictable circumstances. It was never easy to lose someone, but an accident was its own type of wound. Vixey remembered it, because it never really went away for her.

Sometimes, out of no where, she got hit with the missing for Charlie. Or the confusion over his death, like it was that first day, her standing in the middle of the A&E, blood on her shoes, trying to make sense of everything when nothing made sense anymore.

The grief was everywhere. Like shards of glass stuck in her bones.

"Not really." Her expression softened. "Can you explain it to me? Is it burning? Throbbing?"

Can you give a language to it?

@captainjamesjoneshook

See Right Through You & [Pirate Fox]

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It was a nice hug. Ken had always given great hugs. Even when they were kids--that was always something she remembered about him. He never held back, always squeezed tight, and put his warmth into it. That was just who Ken was. Someone simple--but wonderful in that simplicity. There was never ever any question where you stood with him. And he always had a rational way of looking at things that sometimes impressed her with how plainly he could break things down when her own mind got all twisty.

"Oh my gosh, of course," Vixey said warmly as she pulled back, trying not to cry again. "We've made it--what, like, fifteen years?"

It was crazy to say it like that. And, well, they'd not really spoken much for about ten of those, but still!

"I think that's a pretty good record."

@kenneth-carson

Something Borrowed || Kix

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"Ugh, it's been crazy! Since Halloween really. And then it just--continues until after the New Year. But, there is a little bit of a lull right now. It'll start ramping up again once all the holiday parties start. Not to mention people falling off their roofs trying to put lights up. I mean--I get not hiring the Moreys but gosh, hire someone from the Next Town Over, at least!"

Vixey laughed as she held the door open for the cafe to let Tiana go in first. "I think I'm gonna try one of those green smoothies and probably hate myself. What about you?"

@truitt-story

Everything Is Fine | Viana

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It's such a mervyn peake dead rat poem morning

One of the poems ever.

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"You drive a hard bargain, Mr. Jones, but alright," she told him with a little smile. There were usually some biscuits in the break room, generally left over from someone being nice, or someone's birthday, or something similar. She wasn't worried about keeping her promise.

Getting out her pen light from her pocket, she flashed it in both James' eyes to gauge his pupil reaction time. Then, she felt along his scalp to make sure there weren't any contusions or lacerations hiding in his hair.

"Alright, no concussion!" she announced and stepped back, looking over the rest of him again.

He looked a little grey. And his skin had been slightly clammy. It could just be from the exertion, but she wanted to make sure.

"Are you in pain anywhere else?" she asked, thinking he might've fallen and hurt himself in a way he wasn't admitting to. Which wasn't going to help his PT.

@captainjamesjoneshook

See Right Through You & [Pirate Fox]

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"Yeah, of course!" Vixey said, giving Tiana a little raise of her eyebrow at the question.

Things were finally settling back into a normal sort of groove. It had been a little stilted and awkward at first...after everything. (She tried not to think about it as "after her wedding" because that made it feel really shitty.) She tried not to hold it against anyone.

She was just glad it was back to normal. Spin class and smoothies with Tiana was something she could always count on.

"I don't have to be at the hospital for another hour, so I'm all yours!"

[outfit]

Everything Is Fine | Viana

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emma and dexter + kisses

ONE DAY (2024)

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