WINTER BEATON
Psychic
Posts: 72
Age:
22
Occupation:
Curator's Assistant
Status:
Single
Played by:
Jodi
I’m part heaven and equal parts hell
Last seen Sept 20, 2024 17:10:30 GMT
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Post by WINTER BEATON on Feb 9, 2022 12:21:57 GMT
 Okay so this was a fancy ass town. She let out a low whistle as they drew closer. The sign upon driving in was graffiti free and the grass was freshly cut. No glass littering the sidewalk and everyone actually used the trash can on every corner. It was a whole different world compared to her neighborhood in Seattle. The sun was shining, people were out enjoying their Saturday morning. It was a picture for a postcard. Even the houses they passed on the way in had neatly trimmed hedges and freshly painted wooden fences. Meanwhile her childhood home had a couch in the front garden, a metal gate that swung off the hinges and wooden porch where the second and third step was on the verge of caving it. It was always best to jump from the bottom to the top. But as cliche as it sounded, it was home to her. Winter took one last drive past before leaving Seattle last time, to see what kind of family had been moving into her childhood home, but it was now boarded up. No doubt there was someone living inside, but she couldn’t see who. There was a trace of sadness as she turned out on the road for the very last time. The same sadness she felt when she found her dad dead. The man who’d given her absolutely nothing, she still mourned his death. If anything, he saved her for a cruel system CPS was about to throw her into. There was no one left behind for her to miss. Her family were the employees at the fair now. All of them came from a similar sort of background, looking to run away from their old life. Some for troubling reasons, others because they were in search of something new. Winter was balanced between the two. She was still doing that now, but this time with Lex in the passenger seat. The cynical physic she had somehow made friends with, even though the pair were polar opposites. Weirdly enough, she liked him. He wasn’t the most engaging company on the road, always tapping away at his laptop, muttering something about codes and internet speeds but she didn’t care (unless he turned her music down because he was trying to think). Winter didn’t wholly understand why the pair were heading to Mystic Falls. Something about a man who knew something about someone. Her visions told her these two would be friends and above all, she always trusted what she foresaw. So when Lex asked her to join him, she jumped at the chance, quickly bundling what little items she had into her vehicle. Tyres screeched to a halt as Winter found a car park in the town square to settle down for the night. She left Lex in the passenger seat playing with his gadgets as she climbed into her bed in the back. Her home. She woke early the next morning, quietly climbing out the back and into the driver’s seat, careful not to wake Lex. Winter slipped the key into the ignition, turning once to start the van up but nothing happened. There was a low groan in her throat as she tried again. Dead. “Lex!” She reached over waking him up with a shake, “Have you been fuckin’ around with the radio?” She was always sure to check the lights and radio were switched off before going to sleep. LEX CAMERON |
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LEX CAMERON
Psychic
Posts: 62
Played by:
Julia
Last seen Oct 6, 2024 16:40:59 GMT
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Post by LEX CAMERON on Feb 17, 2022 23:38:21 GMT
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Anyway. He clearly didn’t miss her and didn’t miss his dad, either. Winter wasn’t the best company in the world, but she didn’t make him wanna jump off a building every three seconds, so she was alright in his book. Lex usually worked alone, but he was breaking all of his own rules now, wasn’t he? First William Carnegie, now Winter. That’s some major fucking character development for ya, right?
If Lex missed anything, it was his bed. He liked staying up all hours of the night to then drag himself upstairs to a nice mattress with clean sheets, but now he was sleeping in a fucking car all the time. And not even spread across the back, either! No, just reclined in the passenger seat! Man, his dad always called him entitled━if only he could see Lex now.
He just hoped they could get a hotel room soon, though, ‘cause he was not staying in a motel. Winter might’ve been used to living like a plebian, but Lex wasn’t, and he certainly wasn’t gonna start now.
Regular sleep hours stayed the same. He’d sleep while Winter drove, wake up around noon, stop somewhere to stretch his legs and then stay glued to his laptop until sleeping a few hours after she went to bed. Last night, though, he’d spent hours with the radio on low, testing his limits by searching through it and looking for police scanners. So nineteen-eighties of them to use that kinda shit still, like come on. Anyway, bless Winter’s shitty van’s shitty radio, though, otherwise this would be kinda tough.
And, once he was done searching for anything mildly interesting or mentioned his buddy, Lex slept. He’d had his laptop charging while he hunted through the radio, too━as per usual━and didn’t think he’d be in any kind of shit when Winter got up. He shoulda known better.
‘Lex! Have you been fuckin’ around with the radio?’
There was another kind of anger when it came to being woken up. Lex felt it then, rage boiling through him as she started whining and being all irritating, shoving him until he woke up. His eyes flung open and narrowed at her, teeth squeezed tightly together. Lex’s eyelids stung with the need to close again, heavy like being awake was a challenge, and it was. He’d only been out for, like, three hours when she started bugging him━and for what?! Her stupid radio?!
“No!” He lied quickly and easily, shoving back at one of Winter’s arms before wrapping his own back around himself. “What, did the radio stop working? Don’t blame me ‘cause your car’s a piece of shit. Just buy a new deck and get over it.” Ah, but he was forgetting━because he hadn’t fucking slept━that she was poor as shit, and that wasn’t so easy for Winter. Maybe he could kickstart the radio again, it probably wasn’t actually broken, but Lex would do that on his own time. Like, when he wanted to. For now, he shifted and turned away from Winter, closing his eyes again.
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WINTER BEATON
Psychic
Posts: 72
Age:
22
Occupation:
Curator's Assistant
Status:
Single
Played by:
Jodi
I’m part heaven and equal parts hell
Last seen Sept 20, 2024 17:10:30 GMT
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Post by WINTER BEATON on Feb 21, 2022 21:06:13 GMT
Winter wasn’t poor, but compared to Lex she was an absolute pauper. The two didn’t exactly share childhood stories but from what she could pick up from him was that his family did have money. She pictured him growing up in some big house, with a swimming pool out back and a washing machine that didn’t leak. His family probably had the heating when it wasn’t even cold. Mild weather outside and their thermostat was cranked up. Meanwhile, she would be wrapped in three blankets with the two pairs of thick socks on. The cold still seeped through though. She’d never known anything different though so money never fazed her. Obviously, it was nice to have money, but she was a pro at living paycheck to paycheck. Now she had to make her final paycheck stretch out as far as possible and it wouldn’t be going very far if her van was fucked. If it was she’d do what she always did. Watch YouTube videos to try and figure out how to fix it and if that failed she’d take it to the garage whilst wearing a low cut top, with an aim to drive away without paying a single dollar. Sometimes it work, other times she had to play dumb and pretend she forgot to pay. She wasn’t even the manipulating type, but she knew how to fault what she had for her own benefit. She was convinced it was just the battery though and even more convinced it was Lex. Winer narrowed her eyes back at him. “You hear this?” She turned the key in the ignition again as her van made a pathetic attempt to start. It spluttered a few times before falling silent, “That’s a dead battery and when I went to bed you were playing with the radio” She had no idea what he was trying to do as she drifted off to sleep. She was a person who could sleep through a storm, so a few crackles from the radio didn’t stir her. “It’s fine I have some cables in the back. We just need to find someone to help us” She pulled her eyes away from Lex, scanning the car park for someone with a car. LEX CAMERON |
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LEX CAMERON
Psychic
Posts: 62
Played by:
Julia
Last seen Oct 6, 2024 16:40:59 GMT
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Post by LEX CAMERON on Feb 23, 2022 4:59:55 GMT
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Maybe he was just being dramatic, but Lex really started to wonder if it was even a good idea to come to Mystic Falls—or to come with Winter. If she was gonna keep waking him up for stupid shit, then Lex might just leave her somewhere. Seriously, he was upset.
‘You hear this?’
Lex groaned so loud he almost completely drowned out the rick-tick-ticking of the vehicle and it’s dead battery. Still, he didn’t care, just shifted one arm up and pressed it to his ears.
Okay, so he was kinda caught red-handed, but fuck it, right? He had no problem with continuing the lie, and he’d already started it, so just… why not?
“It’s fine?” He hissed, throwing his arm back down to jerk around on the seat, facing Winter with an angry expression. “It’s fine?!” He repeated, louder now, ready to melt this entire piece of shit car if he was pressed even an inch further. “Why the fuck did you wake me up if it‘s fuckin’ fine?!” God, he was gonna strangle Winter. He would’ve if he had the energy. But, instead, Lex huffed out a breath and settled into the seat, raising both arms to wrap around his head, shielding him from the sunlight and (hopefully) Winter’s annoying voice.
“Not ‘we,’ you.” He grumbled, “Yeah, go be a hoe or whatever you do and find somebody to help you. Just lemme sleep.” Okay, so maybe that wasn’t exactly fair. He didn’t really know Winter or what she was like, but she didn’t seem like the type. Lex was just… kinda uncomfortable ‘cause she was hot and had really big—like, really big—never mind. Anyway, so like a boy in grade school, he poked fun at the thing he liked the most, unaware of how to deal with it.
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WINTER BEATON
Psychic
Posts: 72
Age:
22
Occupation:
Curator's Assistant
Status:
Single
Played by:
Jodi
I’m part heaven and equal parts hell
Last seen Sept 20, 2024 17:10:30 GMT
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Post by WINTER BEATON on Mar 13, 2022 16:38:02 GMT
Ugh, why did she agree to come on a road trip with this grumpy angry boy. She was convinced Lex woke up in a bad mood every single day and she’d yet to see him smile. Well, she saw a twitch in his lips every now and then when he was glued to his laptop. Probably because he’d managed to do something cool. Sometimes she asked him what he was doing, but he told she wouldn’t understand. Sometimes Winter would lean over to look at his screen, making a joke about him watching ‘naughty things’. Lex never enjoyed that joke the way Winter did. She couldn’t say no to an adventure either, even if it meant cruising across the country with a stranger she’d met a few times at the fair. Winter never really had the stranger danger chat with her dad because he simply didn’t care if she climbed into a truck with a random old man who offered her sweets. There had been some evenings she’d come back from the park after dark and her dad would be passed out on the floor with no idea whether his daughter was at home or in danger. Most parents would ground their child for coming home so late, but there were hardly any rules in their house. The number one rule was don’t let the cops in, secondly CPS. By the time she was eight she knew exactly what to say to CPS if they came knocking. Lies would spill out of her, telling them she’s well looked after. She didn’t want to end up in the system. Chewed up and spat out at the age of eighteen. Winter sighed, “Because you're the one who drained the battery pretending to be Elon Musk” Lex had probably never heard a dead battery in a car before. She bet his family had those fancy electric cars that you plug into your house, somehow or maybe some huge Range Rover that swallowed gas, but that didn’t bother them because they were so rich. Winter’s gaze snapped back to Lex. “Are you calling me a hoe?” Winter was anything but. She kept her hands to herself, terrified of what she might see. “I drove you all the way here. The least you could do is help me find someone to jump start the van” She had yet to hear a thank you slip out of his mouth, but she wasn’t holding her breath for one. LEX CAMERON |
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LEX CAMERON
Psychic
Posts: 62
Played by:
Julia
Last seen Oct 6, 2024 16:40:59 GMT
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Post by LEX CAMERON on Mar 14, 2022 17:38:45 GMT
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“That’s legit what I just said. Maybe listen to somethin’ other than your dead battery for once.” Still ridden with tiredness, Lex groaned again as she went on. Okay, so she had a point, but why couldn’t it wait until he got out of bed? All he wanted was to sleep, literally the only thing that was important to him right now and, though Lex didn’t take responsibility for most actions, he knew this was his fault.
In the most teenager-y way possibly, Lex started with a deep, rumbling groan of annoyance that ended in a loud kind of yell, throwing his arm off his head dramatically. “Fuck sake!” Shouting at the climax of the sound, he grabbed the door handle and pushed, tumbling out of the van. Immediately, he was blinded by the sun, arms up to shield his eyes while he trudged to the front of the van. “Get the cables! And get this shit open!”
Uselessly, he tucked his fingers under the hood and tugged on it twice, both times hearing the clank of metal that kept it locked. Lex didn’t know much, but he came to the basic conclusion that there was either a lever for it inside the car or a little latch you had to push under the hood. Once he heard a little click, Lex tried again, flinging the piece of shit hood up from the piece of shit car and grabbing the piece of shit stick to keep it up. He tried to get it in the hole once, twice, three times before it slotted in, successfully keeping the hunk of rust propped up. Without thinking, just pouring his frustration into it, Lex pressed his hands to the dusty battery (he only knew where it was ‘cause he could feel the hum of electricity seeping from it) and started feeding it volts until the output felt higher. “Start it now!” He shouted, head poking out sideways from under the hood, still too flustered to entirely realize what he was doing.
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WINTER BEATON
Psychic
Posts: 72
Age:
22
Occupation:
Curator's Assistant
Status:
Single
Played by:
Jodi
I’m part heaven and equal parts hell
Last seen Sept 20, 2024 17:10:30 GMT
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Post by WINTER BEATON on Mar 21, 2022 13:37:28 GMT
Winter winged a brow at Lex as he explained how Elon Musk was like Steve Jobs. To her, they were pretty much the same person. One had those fancy looking cars where the handles would disappear and the other started Apple. “Like you then” She retorted, a grin on her face as she looked at him. Well, Lex could do things. She’d watched him do amazingly interesting things with technology, but maybe that was down to his abilities. The kid didn’t seem like a complete idiot in fairness, just a little bit entitled. She watched as Lex threw his hands up in the air as if she had just asked him to do her the biggest favour in the world. It was a little baby one and here he was crying about it. Still, he climbed out of the van, stamping his way to the front. She clicked the hood open before leaning over into the back to grab the cables. There still wasn’t another around they could ask, but she’d already pointed that out to Lex. She wasn’t about to do it a second time. Winter edged forward in her seat, raising herself so she could see what the hell he was doing over the hood of the van. Whatever. She was happy to let him play mechanic for five minutes as her eyes scanned the car park for someone. Back in Seattle, she would have found someone in five seconds. A city that was bustling 24 hours a day, but here everything seemed so quiet and still. It was a surprise Lex’s huffing and puffing hadn’t woken everyone up. Did he even know what a car battery looked like? Should she tell him he shouldn’t really be touching it? Nah, she wasn’t his mom, telling him not to put his fingers in a plug socket. There was probably a hospital nearby if needed. She heard him yell at her to turn the van on. She opened the driver’s door a fraction, “It’s not gonna—” Winter fell silent, letting the door closed again, “Nope. Not saying anything” She muttered to herself as she turned the engine over. It made that failing sputtering sound to begin with, falling silent again. She rolled her eyes, returning the key to neutral before starting again.
“What the fuck?” This time it started up perfectly. She left the van running as she climbed out of the driver’s side, “What did you do?” She let the door close behind her as she made her way to Lex, peering down at the inside of her van where the engine was rattling away. LEX CAMERON - wrap up with yours? |
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LEX CAMERON
Psychic
Posts: 62
Played by:
Julia
Last seen Oct 6, 2024 16:40:59 GMT
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Post by LEX CAMERON on Mar 25, 2022 17:55:53 GMT
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‘What did you do?’
“The coolest fuckin’ shit ever, obviously.” He answered proudly, dropping his arms to wipe those keys to the universe all over his pants. “Apparently I can conduct electricity by myself now, which is sick as fuck. You ever need a boost? I’m your man.” Pressing a clean-ish palm to his chest, Lex did a little half-bow━which was more cocky than anything.
Very abruptly, his eyelids dropped halfway closed, shoulders hunched, looking unbelievably tired in a matter of moments. “Not now, though, ‘cause I’m gonna go crash. And don’t fuckin’ wake me up again.” Grumbling, he padded back to the passenger’s seat and climbed in, eager to go back to sleep.
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