MARC FRASER
Werewolf
Posts: 86
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Last seen Sept 4, 2024 17:41:33 GMT
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Post by MARC FRASER on Nov 27, 2022 19:24:07 GMT
He was picking his kid up from school. There was still some novelty to that.
Marc settled against the front end of the truck, arms crossed over his chest as he watched a few kids wandering out of the building. Most of them had probably headed from classes up to their dorm rooms, or whatever it was they stayed in when they were boarding at the Salvatore School instead of doing what Ria did and came home at the end of the day. He scanned the front of the building, picturing the set up inside. Classrooms, a cafeteria, those little spaces they’d all have that were their own. Not so different to a military base, he guessed, although here they were learning how to handle themselves, not putting those world class skills they’d gained into some sort of use.
It would’ve set an itch off in his parents. Even after he’d left for something more they’d never allowed themselves to believe that there was anything worthwhile and safe in the outside world. Maybe some part of him had believed it would be better to take Toni and Ria and get the hell out of this town, where some evil son of a bitch had held his daughter captive, but closing the world out like that wasn’t what Ria needed, what they needed as a family.
Time together, time to heal the damage that had happened even before Toni had discovered she was pregnant. Cracks not just papered over, but entirely sealed. A stable base to build the rest of their lives on – the ones where they were going to get to be a family, even if he and Toni weren’t together the way they had been before the attack.
He let out a low breath, dragging his gaze back to the front of the school. He’d be a liar if he tried saying that he was all the way there yet, but this, getting to spend time with his kid? It was helping. Spending time with Toni was too.
Dipping his phone out of his pocket, he took a look. He’d shot a suggestion over that maybe she join them for ice cream after dinner, but whether or not work was going to allow her to was another thing. Now he was the one who could slip out of a job an hour earlier if he felt like it – finally his own boss, instead of being issued orders that he couldn’t break – and she was the one tied to something far bigger than the two of them. If she couldn’t make it they’d get her a pint of something, drop it off at the apartment when he took Ria back later. It would’ve been easier with them all staying under the one roof, but he got why Toni wasn’t ready for it, honestly. He just didn’t have to like it, having that deadline always stretching out somewhere in front of them.
Nothing from Toni, but it was alright, the doors were swinging open and his daughter was already heading through it. Marc pushed the phone back into his pocket, straightening up to offer her a grin, and open his arms up. Like hugging your old man in front of your school wasn’t some sort of world ending embarrassment – it was still a novelty to him, as much as having a daughter was in the first place. ”Hey,” he murmured, as Ria got close, folding her in that hug and smacking a kiss against the side of your head. ”I managed to get out of hour a work, figured I could do the pick-up.” His grin slanted as he opened up the passenger side for her – the chariot awaited, all cleared of the lumber he’d hauled that morning. ”How does dinner and a mountain of ice cream for dessert sound?” Something so normal and yet still so rare for him that it felt a little like glass, precious, something to be held carefully to avoid shattering the whole thing.
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ILLYRIA FRASER
Werecreature
Were-panther
Posts: 54
Age:
19
Occupation:
Salvatore College Sophomore
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Adam Hawthorne
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 18, 2024 21:31:55 GMT
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Post by ILLYRIA FRASER on Mar 31, 2023 21:19:08 GMT
 Even now there were times when it still seemed a little surreal that things were going this well, Ria had her dad in her life for the first time ever and she had a boyfriend she adored. She knew that things weren’t always great, she was a werecreature and that meant that she had to turn into an animal with every full moon but it was a part of who she was now. She’d had her dad and her pack to help her through it and even with things being a little tense at the Salvatore College the way they had been after Jed became a hybrid Ria was still glad to have them all. She’d had friends back in Quantico and the people her mom worked with had become her family but now she really felt like she had found a place where she belonged and as far as she was concerned she didn’t want to give that up for anything in the world. In a way it had been a relief to start over somewhere new after being abducted from her home and it had to be said Mystic Falls really did feel like home to her. That day Ria had had classes but she’d had some time to catch up with her friends in between those. Honestly it was a relief to be surrounded by others like her, she knew that she could have gone to the human high school and college but Ria wasn’t human any longer and that was something that she’d needed to accept. Being surrounded by others who were supernatural helped, they all had to find their place in the world but one thing she had figured out was that it was easier when they had each other’s backs. Ria would be lying if she said that there were some people at the school that she wasn’t a little wary of but she was doing her best to get used to it all and she knew that she really couldn’t do anything more than that. Eventually she was free for the day and Ria headed outside so she could start making her way home. Most days one of her parents was there to pick her up but sometimes she walked and she had honestly thought that that day would be one of those. It wasn’t long before her gaze came to rest on her dad, though, and Ria felt a smile touch her lips at the sight of him waiting for her. She had grown up without knowing him but now she had him in her life and she knew that she didn’t want to go back to the way things used to be again. “Hey dad,” she said, making her way over to him and wrapping her arms around him tightly. “And here I was thinking I was going to have to walk, thanks,” she grinned. She really wouldn’t have minded making her own way home and she knew that she might have been able to find Adam and walked with him if he hadn’t left already but she really was glad to see her dad. “Sounds like you read my mind,” she grinned. “Your place or the Grill?”MARC FRASER
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MARC FRASER
Werewolf
Posts: 86
Played by:
Ange
Last seen Sept 4, 2024 17:41:33 GMT
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Post by MARC FRASER on Apr 10, 2023 16:16:20 GMT
There hadn’t seemed to be that many other parents hovering in the lot at the school. If it had been the high school there might’ve been a handful or two, kids there went home at the end of the day. They traipsed onto those big yellow school buses, or rushed for their own cars, freedom found in getting their license and being able to drive themselves. In more ways than that the Salvatore school was different. He would’ve lied if he hadn’t felt some trepidation walking through the place with Toni. A normal high school hadn’t even been part of his experience, let alone a place like this where every kid was something different from what most considered the norm. Marc had found himself staring at them in the hallways until he caught himself and had been dragged back to what they were being told. Not every species revealed what it was on the surface, like so much else, most of it was hidden. Kids weren’t sucking down blood bags in the hallways like juice boxes or half transforming with each flash of emotion. God, it would’ve had his parents spluttering, but he wasn’t them. What they had been he’d run away from.
Had it been like this for Toni when Ria had first started kindergarten? That little burst of happiness as she’d seen her kid emerge, like it’d been months since she’d seen her instead of just hours? The day in his case stretched like a rubber band, trembling on a brink until it relaxed in his chest now. Given the anxiety that’d gripped her on the night they’d gone out to Campbell’s, he suspected it was, and it was worse now that she’d had a taste of months without her daughter there, not knowing where she was, just knowing that she wasn’t safe.
Marc caught his daughter in that tight hug, knowing that maybe that it wasn’t only the two of them that were afraid to let their daughter out of their sight. This couldn’t have been easy for Ria either. So much had changed from the moment those men had taken her that night. ”Not tonight,” he promised. ”You know, if you ever want a ride home, you can just call. Wherever I am, whatever I’m doing, I can break off from it for you.” That was what you did as a parent. The job, everything else, it all came second to your child. It’d been a sobering thought when the client whose house he’d been at when the sheriff’s office had tracked him down had called about rescheduling. There was someone else dependent on him now, and he was determined that he wouldn’t screw that up.
Grinning, he stepped back, opening up the car door for her to get in. He wasn’t about to push Toni about the three of them ending up under the same roof – neither one of them was ready for that yet, even if it would make things easier for Ria perhaps, which meant that he didn’t get to spend every dinner with his family. This was still special enough that he could just drop it in as a treat. ”I guess I’m psychic,” he said with a wink. He rounded the truck, buckling up as he got into the driver’s seat. ”I was thinking we could hit up the Grill. Maybe fit in a game or two of pool while we waited for your mom to finish work. I sent her a message, asked if she wanted to meet us for ice cream after. If you’re up for that too?” As a kid that’d been a rare treat. It was like the village had been stuck a hundred years back in time, you couldn’t just walk down to the store on the corner and grab ice cream every time you felt like it. When he was out that convenience had taken some real getting used to.
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ILLYRIA FRASER
Werecreature
Were-panther
Posts: 54
Age:
19
Occupation:
Salvatore College Sophomore
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Adam Hawthorne
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 18, 2024 21:31:55 GMT
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Post by ILLYRIA FRASER on May 31, 2023 18:33:13 GMT
Ria knew that she was lucky, after everything that she had been through it would have been easy for her never to find a sense of normality again but she had done. She had her mom and dad around her now, she had an amazing boyfriend and she had a great group of friends in her pack. There was a time when Ria had never thought that she would get to have any of those things but now she had them all and she really was grateful. There was a part of her that had thought about getting out of Mystic Falls after she’d escaped, after all it was the town the guy had taken her to and she didn’t want any memories of her time with him, but in the end logic had set in and she had realised that the guy had to be long gone by now so it was probably the safest place for her. It was also her dad’s home and even though he had said that he would go wherever she went, she hadn’t liked the idea of making him uproot his life for the daughter he hadn’t even known existed. Instead her mom had uprooted her life and Ria still felt guilty about that but the truth was that she had known that she couldn’t return to Quantico either. She hadn’t set foot in their old apartment since the night she was taken and she knew that she wanted to keep it that way. Just the thought of going back there had made her feel anxious and she knew that this was the right move, she just hoped that her mom felt the same. Hugging her dad back tightly now, Ria felt the reassurance that she was safe wash over her. She was able to put it out of her mind when she was in class or with Adam or her friends but feeling her dad’s arms around her was enough to remind her of relieved she had felt the first time he had hugged her and that was a feeling she was certain wasn’t going to go away anytime soon. It was the same with her mom, Ria always felt better when she was in the woman’s presence and she was pretty sure that they both felt the same when she was around. She wasn’t a kid any longer but she was always going to be their kid and deep down she knew that they were always going to want to protect her. “I know I can but I don’t like tearing you away from work, I already did that once already,” she shrugged. “Besides, I’m a big girl. I can walk,” she added. She only lived in town so it wasn’t like she had to go too far and she knew that it was better for her to do that than drag one of her parents away from something that they needed to be doing. “Thanks,” she said, flashing her dad a smile as he opened the car door for her. Climbing in, she closed the door behind her and fastened her seatbelt. She didn’t always get to spend time with her parents together but she got to spend time with them separately and that was enough. She loved them both dearly and she hoped that they might be able to work things out one day but she knew better than to try and push them into it. If something happened then it needed to be because they both wanted it to and until then she knew that she would just have to settle for what she had right now. “You wish,” she teased, rolling her eyes playfully as her dad said he was psychic. As he spoke again, her eyes lit up. “Oh, I’m definitely up for that. Since when have you known me to turn down ice cream?” she grinned. “You’re sure you don’t have anything you need to be doing?”MARC FRASER
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MARC FRASER
Werewolf
Posts: 86
Played by:
Ange
Last seen Sept 4, 2024 17:41:33 GMT
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Post by MARC FRASER on Jul 3, 2023 19:22:56 GMT
It had taken months after he’d left the army to find his routine again, a rut he could settle into where he could gradually put his mental health to rights. There were set backs, situations that knocked him off his feet, but by the time he’d made his way to Mystic Falls and what was supposed to be the cure for that had gone wrong in his head, Marc was sure he could see steady ground again. He wouldn’t have said it aloud, but what he’d thought he’d seen hadn’t actually been there until he’d sat in the sheriff’s station and listened to his daughter’s story of who she was. Maybe it was too soon to be saying it – there was always going to be rocky ground ahead – but this was the stability he’d been trying to find. A daughter who looked happy to see him there at the school gates, a wife (ex-wife) who was willing to work with him to make a life together for Ria, a steady job. It was all he needed and nothing was more important than Ria and Toni, not even the job.
If Ria had called him he’d have put down whatever he was doing to come to get her. He hadn’t been there to do it for her when she’d been younger, had missed years of it – had tied himself up in knots wondering if him being around would’ve prevented what had happened to her. Now that they were together he wasn’t missing a minute more of it. ”Work can always wait,” he told honestly, holding up her shoulders as he drew back in emphasis. ”Nothing I’m working on is more important than you or your mom, so never hesitate to contact me, okay a nighean?” The language they’d spoken at home in Woodstock had come back more and more to him as he’d settled into this new life. A nighean, lass, his daughter. It felt right to echo the soft endearments his mom had used for them all. It had been the only sign of softness he’d ever seen in his da. The corner of Marc’s mouth lifted as Ria assured him she could walk. ”You can,” he agreed, ”but riding’s easier, isn’t it?” And it meant time with him – which he’d never turn down. Especially when it came with the chance of ice cream and some family time.
Toni was going to be the one he had to talk around to this. They were in a better place than they had been at the start of this, but they were where they had been yet, maybe they’d never get all the way back there. Marc started up the truck when Ria was in and buckled up, pulled out onto the road that led back into town. His brows hitched, echoing the smile that he shot at her as he glanced her way. ”Oh, it’s not a wish, I swear I’ve got some extra powers.” He winked at her, tapping a knuckle against his forehead, like he was knocking on a door. As a parent he guessed you were supposed to be, although he’d missed out on all the practice with that. She looked happy at the idea of ice cream, maybe the idea of making it the three of them too. ”Never,” Marc admitted with a chuckle. ”You take after your old man with that – burger relish and ice cream. The absolute pinnacles of gastronomy.” He’d check his phone when they got to the Grill, see if Toni had been able to slip out of work too. ”Nothing tonight. I’m wrapping up a home office in town, there’s just a few finishing touches to put in tomorrow, so I figured that left me free to see my kid.” The client hadn’t complained when he’d left, telling the guy he’d see him tomorrow, that was as good as permission got for him.
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ILLYRIA FRASER
Werecreature
Were-panther
Posts: 54
Age:
19
Occupation:
Salvatore College Sophomore
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Adam Hawthorne
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 18, 2024 21:31:55 GMT
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Post by ILLYRIA FRASER on Dec 30, 2023 0:14:41 GMT
It would have been so easy for Ria to shut herself away in the motel room she’d shared with her mom after she escaped and refuse to face the world again but she had known that she couldn’t do that. She hadn’t wanted to let what had happened break her and even though there was always a bubble of anxiety inside her at the thought of being away from her parents these days, it was something that she was learning to deal with. It helped when she was around Adam, she felt safe with him and she never felt like she had to worry about anything while she was with him and it was the same with the pack. When she was alone, however, it was often a different matter and she tried to make sure that she didn’t find herself alone in town too often or for too long if she could help it. She knew that it was crazy, it had been a long time since she had managed to make her getaway at last but the guy who took her was still out there somewhere and in the back of her mind she always worried that he might return for her one day. She knew that she wasn’t the same girl she was when he took her, she had decided to channel everything she was feeling into training with the pack and that coupled with the self defence lessons she had taken before all of this happened made her confident in her abilities now but she could still remember the fear she had felt every single day while she was with him like it was yesterday and she knew that she never wanted to feel that way again. She knew that she was safe at the Salvatore School but the moment she felt her dad’s arms around her she felt like nothing bad was ever going to happen to her again and that was the feeling she always got when she was with him. As he said he could take a break from whatever he was doing in order to pick her up if she ever wanted a ride home, Ria felt a smile touch her lips. “I know but I don’t want to be a burden and sometimes I like the walk,” she shrugged. When she did walk home she was often able to make sure that she had one of her friends with her so it really wasn’t so bad. Truth be told it always felt good hearing her dad say something like that, though. She had lived without him for such a long time but now he was here and she knew that she wanted to enjoy every moment she had with him. “Thanks Dad,” Ria grinned as he opened the car door for her. Climbing in, she closed the door behind her and fastened her seatbelt. She really wasn’t sure what was going on between her parents these days and she was trying to give them the space they needed to figure it out between them. She loved them both dearly and she knew that she wanted them both to be happy. Like most kids she hoped they might find that happiness together and she had thought about giving them a push in that direction but she knew them both well enough to know that it could well backfire if she tried so she knew better than to do that. Instead all she could do was be patient and hope that they would figure it out sooner or later. “Mhmm, if you say so,” Ria teased as he said he was psychic. Her smile returned as she heard her dad’s suggestion of what they could do. “Of course I’m up for that. The Grill feels like our place,” she nodded. It was where they had gone to eat after her dad had picked her up from the police station that first day after she escaped and it had become like a tradition for them ever since then so it only felt right to go back there again now. “You’re not going to cheat at pool this time though, are you?” she teased as she looked over at him. MARC FRASER
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MARC FRASER
Werewolf
Posts: 86
Played by:
Ange
Last seen Sept 4, 2024 17:41:33 GMT
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Post by MARC FRASER on Jan 10, 2024 20:51:22 GMT
Most dads probably got tired of the school run at some point – driving back and forth across town like a glorified taxi service after they’d spent hours at work. After years of school activities and parent-teacher meetings and the teenaged torment (for the parents at least) of parties and sneaking out and the sort of mistakes they’d likely made at the same age, they got jaded by it. They probably took their kid for endless extra driving lessons just to make sure there was a better chance of them learning to do it for themselves. That thought terrified him a little. It wasn’t that he didn’t want Ria to find that independence, more that he treasured every minute with Ria – especially after all the ones that he’d missed out on when she’d been growing up. Marc felt a little tug in his chest at the thought. She’d been through enough, had been forced to grow up too quickly by what had happened to her, if he could stop that from happening then he’d do anything to make it happen. He wanted his daughter to feel safe, to know that her dad would be there whenever she needed him.
He saw her smile as he told her that and smiled back at her. There was as much of her mom in her as there was him and he would’ve said that determined streak was all Toni. ”You could never be a burden, I swear.” Marc swiped a finger over his chest like he had to promise it. ”How about we make a deal, when you don’t want to walk, or whenever you need one of us to be there, you call. Neither one of us would ever get mad about it.” Toni’s job might’ve been harder to step away from than his own, but Marc knew she’d have said the same thing. The job wasn’t ever gonna be worth close to their daughter.
The word dad still had a warmth flooding his chest. Marc imagined that parents got used to that too, feeling it for the first time as that screaming bundle of life was placed into their arms by the doctor that had delivered them. He’d missed all of that, but now he was trying to make up for lost time in so many ways. With Ria in the car, he took off towards the square. Amusement tugged at his mouth, leaving him chuckling. ”It’s getting to be that way,” he agreed. ”I think I ate just about every meal there when I got to town.” And he’d immediately shared that with Ria when he’d picked her up from the station, one stable part of his life that he could share with her. They’d built everything on top of that, the whole house of cards feeling so strong this time – although he wasn’t going to put all of his faith in that. As Ria teased, het let his mouth fall open, faking shock. ”Cheat? As if I would ever,” he puffed. Not with Toni, perhaps, but tapping a ball into a pocket when Ria wasn’t looking, or distracting her when it was time to take her shot – that was fair game. He grinned at her, shaking his head. ”You don’t think I can win fair and square huh?” With his kid he’d always take it a little easier, but there was still that competitive streak in him.
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ILLYRIA FRASER
Werecreature
Were-panther
Posts: 54
Age:
19
Occupation:
Salvatore College Sophomore
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Adam Hawthorne
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 18, 2024 21:31:55 GMT
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Post by ILLYRIA FRASER on Feb 7, 2024 22:56:03 GMT
Ria had always felt like she was lucky growing up with a mom like hers, she was someone that Ria had always looked up to and she had always been someone that she could talk to but deep down Ria had always had questions about her dad. She hadn’t wanted to upset her mom so she hadn’t asked all of those questions but she had planned on tracking down her dad as soon as she was old enough to go out on her own. Ria had always felt like there was a whole other side of herself that she didn’t know and even though her mom had tried and she had been honest with her about the way she could either turn out to be a kitsune like her mom or a werecreature like her dad, it had helped having her dad there more than she could ever put into words. He might not have known she existed until she turned up in Mystic Falls and he arrived at the police station after she escaped the man who had kept her captive for so long but he really was great at being a dad and she knew that she wouldn’t want to go back to the way things used to be. He was a part of her life now and Ria knew that she wanted to make sure that it stayed that way. Being at the Salvatore School surrounded by others like her helped as well and Ria couldn’t deny that she liked being a part of the pack. It meant that she had people that she could count on to have her back no matter what and it was the same with Adam. She wasn’t sure how her parents felt about her having a boyfriend but they had helped each other through a dark time when they met and he made her happy so she knew that that was all that mattered. It was a surprise to see her dad show up like this to pick her up but it was definitely a good one as far as she was concerned. “You both have work though and I’m a teenager, I can look after myself,” Ria assured him gently. It hadn’t felt like it for a while after she’d escaped, she had taken comfort from having one of her parents around all the time but she had come a long way since then and she was more independent now than she had been. She still liked spending time with the two of them as much as she could though. “Alright, deal,” she nodded, knowing that she would do her best to stick to it. They were both busy with work but she knew that they both loved her so if that was what they wanted then she knew that she would try. “Maybe I should try that, they’ve got plenty of different options,” Ria grinned as her dad said that he ate just about every meal at the Grill when he got to town. She loved the food there and she knew that she would never turn down the chance to go there more often. It still seemed a little surreal even now that her dad was here but it was something that she knew better than to take for granted. She had lived so much of her life without him but now he was one of the people she felt closest to in the world and she knew that she wouldn’t have it any other way. “You cheat every time and you know it,” she laughed, unable to help herself. It was infuriating sometimes but it just made her that much more determined to beat him. “I know you can’t. Are you going to try and prove me wrong?” she challenged, knowing that would be fun to see. MARC FRASER
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MARC FRASER
Werewolf
Posts: 86
Played by:
Ange
Last seen Sept 4, 2024 17:41:33 GMT
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Post by MARC FRASER on Mar 14, 2024 21:09:32 GMT
How Toni had made it through Ria’s kidnapping Marc still didn’t know. He wouldn’t have done. It wasn’t him being dramatic, or saying what he thought most parents would’ve done, it was the truth. Even if he’d managed to hold on to his marriage, there was enough damage still lingering in his brain that losing his daughter would’ve shattered what was left. In the first few weeks after they’d been reunited he’d dreamt of it happening again. He’d come home from work to an empty house, to furniture shattered and a scrawled note left pinned to his daughter’s pillow. Mocking laughter would start rolling out of the walls as he ran through the house screaming her name like she’d appear from somewhere at the sound of it. It’d become his worst nightmare. Marc knew that it still had to be Toni’s too. She’d lived through that, she’d been the one standing in that empty bedroom, desperately praying for her daughter to come home. It’d changed them both and Ria was gonna have to live with the consequences of those changes for a long time to come.
Normal parents would’ve let their kid wander home on their own in a town like this. They’d climb on their bikes or head to the square with friends after school, firing off a vague message to say they’d be home some time before dinner. Their parents wouldn’t worry that something would happen to their kid, but him and Toni couldn’t even get through a night out together without constantly checking in. Marc knew that Ria would get tired of it eventually. She assured him gently now, but he was already shaking his head, chuckling lightly. ”We know you can, honey, we do trust you. Both of us just feel better knowing that we’re watching out for you too.” It kept the panic at bay. Maybe Toni would be pissed he’d wrung the promise out of Ria over it, but for now Marc breathed a sigh of relief. ”Deal,” he echoed.
”And miss out on home cooked meals? No way.” Shaking his head, Marc puffed out his amusement. When he’d been on the road and for months after he’d gotten here, he’d been putting all of his effort into getting settled, into finishing getting his head straight. There hadn’t been much time to think about cooking for himself, even if he’d wanted to go through all of that just to serve up a single plate. The first time he’d gone all out with cooking – if you could call pancakes for breakfast that – had been when Ria had stayed with him that first night. ”If I had the choice between your mom’s cooking and the Grill, I’d take home cooked any day of the week.” Having it with his family was what made it that much better.
He could try for innocent, but Ria had spent enough time around him now to know when her dad was bullshitting. Marc stayed silent for a minute, then grinned and glanced at her. ”Half the time, and just because you know it’s coming.” And it had made her smile, which felt like a miracle in those early days. Trying to look serious for a moment, Marc gave a solemn nod. ”Absolutely. I think I can do it. You want me to tie one arm behind my back while we play, make it fair?” By now he probably wouldn’t have ended needed to do that. Ria took after her mom, she was fierce and pretty damn good at every game they seemed to play. He was gonna have his work cut out for him.
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ILLYRIA FRASER
Werecreature
Were-panther
Posts: 54
Age:
19
Occupation:
Salvatore College Sophomore
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Adam Hawthorne
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 18, 2024 21:31:55 GMT
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Post by ILLYRIA FRASER on Apr 29, 2024 18:21:57 GMT
Ria knew that things had been more than a little strange ever since she escaped her captor and met her dad for the first time. Both her parents were protective of her and she couldn’t blame them for that at all, even now there were still times when she found herself looking over her shoulder when she was away from the school and home like the guy who took her might show up again at any moment. She hadn’t told her parents about that because she hadn’t wanted to worry them but she had told Adam and she often tried to make sure that either he or one of her friends was around when she went into town if one of her parents couldn’t be there with her. Ria knew it was just the trauma speaking, she was a werepanther and that meant that she was more than capable of looking after herself but she had spent such a long time locked away that getting out of the mindset that she might be found and taken from her loved ones again wasn’t an easy thing to do at all. She knew it probably would have helped to start over somewhere different but the truth was that she hoped that the guy was long gone by now. He had been the one to bring her to Mystic Falls in the first place and it was there that she had escaped. She knew that the news of her escape had been circulated so there was always going to be a part of her that hoped that he wouldn’t show his face around here again in case she was able to identify him. That and the fact that her dad lived in the town had been enough to make her want to stay in town and meeting Adam had solidified that in her mind. She loved him and she had somewhere that she genuinely fit in at the Salvatore School so she knew that things were much better than they could have been. She wasn’t sure what she would have done if she’d had to go to a normal school and hide what she was from everyone around her, at least there she could be herself and if she chose to confide in any of them about what had really happened to her then she could do it. She knew that her parents still worried about her especially if the amount they checked in was anything to go by but if she was honest it was nice to know that they cared enough to do that. She didn’t want them worrying quite so much but she hoped that in time that concern would start to ease just like it would for her. “I know you do and I appreciate it,” Ria assured him gently. She knew that they could easily be like those parents who didn’t care what their kids did but they weren’t, they were the complete opposite and Ria knew that made her pretty lucky. Nodding as her dad agreed that they had a deal, Ria’s expression turned thoughtful for a moment. “I should warn you that I probably won’t call too often though. I meant it when I said I like the walk,” she said, hoping he would understand. It gave her the chance to clear her head when she needed it and it meant that she got to spend some time with Adam or one of her friends, not to mention it meant that she wouldn’t end up putting one of her parents out if they were busy no matter how much they protested that she came first. “That’s true, I did miss home cooked meals when I was, you know...” Ria said, her voice trailing off as she shook the thought from her mind. Back then it had all been takeout when they were on the road and leftovers quite often when they weren’t and Ria had found herself missing proper food. She knew that it had been to keep her weak and make sure that she couldn’t fight back but it hadn’t worked and in the end she had managed to get away anyway. “You’ve got a point there, mom’s cooking is amazing,” Ria admitted, glad for a distraction from the turn that her thoughts had taken. She had always enjoyed it while she was growing up and having both parents around now made it that much better. “Oh, so because I know you always cheat that’s permission for you to go ahead and do it?” she laughed, not quite sure that she understood her dad’s logic there. Honestly it would be more of a surprise to her at this point if they ended up playing a game of pool and he didn’t cheat but she had a feeling that wasn’t going to happen. As he offered to tie an arm behind his back to make it fair, Ria shook her head. “Nah, that would make it too easy. You know me, I like a challenge,” she shrugged. MARC FRASER
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MARC FRASER
Werewolf
Posts: 86
Played by:
Ange
Last seen Sept 4, 2024 17:41:33 GMT
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Post by MARC FRASER on May 12, 2024 19:15:01 GMT
There had been times over the years when Marc had found himself longing for the community he’d grown up in, for the family who’d barely reached out to him after he’d left. His brothers had contacted him from time to time, probably hiding the fact that they were from their parents. Tiny bits of news about new additions to the family, or losses. Sometimes photos had been added. It was so odd to see his family growing older in those huge leaps. One day he’d get the news that his parents had passed. Marc had thought that the grief would be somehow dulled then, but when Ria had come into his life, he’d realised it would be so much more. They had cut him from their lives, the love for them had remained though. Tucked away in his heart, ready to strike again when that news came. Some part of him had wanted to reach out, to finally try and break down the walls that had cut him off from all he’d known after he’d left home when Ria had shown up. They still might not consider him part of the pack, but his daughter deserved to know both sets of her grandparents.
Marc supposed he could’ve blamed some of his worrying ways on a family that had never been willing to trust the world around them. His parents had seen the humans around them as enemies, people who might perhaps drive them from their land again. He’d found more trust in them than that, although finding out what had happened to his daughter had rocked that trust enough to let some of the cracks in his mind grow again. With Ria and Toni’s help, he’d been trying to finish the healing process. His daughter shouldn’t have had to suffer the effects of that, no matter how understanding Ria was about the whole thing. ”But a little less worrying would be good sometimes,” Marc said softly. His lips slowly curved up into a grin. He knew he had to start giving Ria that room to do things on her own, he needed her to have the freedom he never had done at her age. ”I’ll try not to worry too much when you don’t. Me and your mom might slip up with that at times, but we’ll try.” The change would likely come slowly, both of them far too aware of what might still be waiting out there in the world for their daughter.
Hearing his daughter’s voice trail off, Marc reached out to cover her hand with his own for a moment, squeezing lightly. He’d always struggled with the idea of opening up to people about what had happened when he’d lost his team, and the dozens of other horrific situations he’d been in while he’d been in uniform, but he didn’t want Ria to struggle through it all the same way. ”We’ll make up for that now,” he promised her. Her time might still have been split between two homes, but he and Toni were doing all they could to make it a happy life for their daughter again. ”It is,” Marc said with a smile. ”We’ll see if we can talk her into cooking for both of us this weekend.” That would have to be cleared with Toni first, a lot of sweet talking probably needed. His shoulders rose and fell as Ria laughed, his own chuckle rolling out as they dropped. ”Definitely. I’m being honest about it.” As long as it continued to get a laugh out of his daughter he’d keep doing it too. ”Mm hmm. How about we make it a straight game then? I won’t cheat and we’ll see how badly I end up beating you this time?” In the end he’d probably cave and beg for her to let him get off light.
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ILLYRIA FRASER
Werecreature
Were-panther
Posts: 54
Age:
19
Occupation:
Salvatore College Sophomore
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Adam Hawthorne
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 18, 2024 21:31:55 GMT
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Post by ILLYRIA FRASER on Aug 25, 2024 0:23:35 GMT
Ria had always been happy while she was growing up with her mom but she’d always wanted to get to know her dad. She had envied her friends who had both parents in their lives and she had always wondered what her own dad was like. Her mom had told her about him and she’d seen a photo of the two of them together but nothing compared to actually being able to get to know him. It had seemed like a dream when he’d showed up at the police station after she managed to escape her captor, she had thought she was going to have to wait hours for her mom to get there but her dad had spared her from that. Instead they’d been able to spend some time together and they’d been able to start getting to know each other. It had hurt knowing that he hadn’t even known she existed but Ria knew that it made sense. Things hadn’t ended well between her parents and she knew that her dad had been in a bad place back then. The two of them finding each other definitely hadn’t happened the way she’d thought it would but thankfully her dad had taken it all in his stride and from that moment on she had known that she didn’t want to lose him again. She loved her mom but she loved her dad as well and luckily it had been decided that they would all be staying in Mystic Falls. Her dad had said that he would follow them if her mom decided to leave but Ria hadn’t been able to face going back home and now she had found her place with Adam and among the pack at the Salvatore School so she was so happy with the way things had ended up. “Just a little less,” Ria nodded. She really couldn’t blame her parents for being overprotective given everything that had happened and in the beginning it had made her feel a lot better but she wanted things to get back to normal and that meant not having them worry every time she left the house. The man who took her was still out there somewhere and Ria would be lying if she said she wasn’t still scared that he might return for her one day but she was doing her best to push that out of her mind. She knew that she couldn’t live her life in fear, she had done that the whole time she had been with the man and she refused to go through that again. She knew she should probably tell her parents that she still had nightmares about that time occasionally but she didn’t want to give them anymore reason to worry about her so she was doing her best to keep it to herself for now. “You don’t need to worry about me dad, I can look after myself,” Ria assured him. She had already turned her dad’s life upside down when he turned up at the police station so she knew the last thing she wanted was for him to spend all his time worrying about her now. Talking about her time being held captive wasn’t something Ria liked to do and she never found it easy so her voice soon trailed off. Looking down as her dad squeezed her hand, Ria felt a small smile touch her lips as he said they would make up for it now. “I’m looking forward to it,” she admitted. She really had missed home cooking and while she enjoyed going to the Grill, she knew that she definitely wouldn’t say no to some more home cooked meals. “Sounds good, hopefully she’ll be up for it,” she nodded. Her mom was often busy with work but weekends were different and she really hoped that they’d have the chance to spend some time together as a family. That was something that she didn’t often get considering her parents weren’t together and she knew to make the most of it when it did happen. “This time it should definitely be a fair game,” she grinned. “If you think you’re going to win, though, you’d better think again. I’m not going to take it easy on you just because you’re playing fair for once,” she teased. MARC FRASER
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MARC FRASER
Werewolf
Posts: 86
Played by:
Ange
Last seen Sept 4, 2024 17:41:33 GMT
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Post by MARC FRASER on Sept 3, 2024 20:01:42 GMT
’But they’ve never done anything to us.’ His arguments with his parents over being able to go beyond the boundaries of their town for more than just buying groceries from the next town over had always fallen on deaf ears. The Frasers had left the Scottish highlands when the English had started their clearances. He’d remembered every word of the stories they’d told him as bedtime stories when he’d been just a bairn. They’d been doubly damned by what they were – Highlanders and werewolves. If the English found out about what happened to them on the full moon they would have slaughtered the entire pack. Leaving their crofts would supposedly keep them safe. For a couple of hundred years, it had done just that. Marc supposed there were never any fixed boundaries around their town – no fences, no walls – but there might as well have been for all the freedom they were allowed beyond their land. In the end he’d been desperate to see what was beyond and that desperation had cost him his family. He’d made his choice, he could go and live amongst them, serving a government his family were never going to be loyal to.
Marc let out a long breath, realising just how close to his parents’ attitude it felt like he was getting. He’d never stop Ria from going out in town without them, but he had been keeping her a little too close out of the fear of losing her again. It wasn’t fair on her to hold her back that way, not even if the asshole who’d taken his daughter was still out there somewhere. Inch by inch, he’d loosen his grip, relief settling into the cracks in his confidence that her kidnapping had put them. Marc peeled a hand off of the wheel, stretching his fingers out like he was making a show of loosening his grip. ”I’ll do my best,”{/b] he promised, knowing there was no way he could talk for Toni with it. One corner of Marc’s mouth twitched higher, his eyes glinting with humour as he looked over at Ria. ”Worrying’s a parent’s prerogative. I know you can, honey, but I’m always gonna worry a little bit. Maybe me or your mom can show you some self-defence techniques sometime, make sure that you really can handle it if something happens.” Just the thought of it was enough to tighten his throat. He couldn’t lose her, couldn’t lose either one of them.
His paranoia had once felt like a third person in their marriage. Looking back, it was no wonder that Toni had left. He’d been tearing their relationship apart, leaving her terrified that he wouldn’t come back from the next mission, or worse, would come back even more shattered. The man she’d fallen in love with had been cowering inside of that battered shell. Since Ria had turned up here and Toni had followed her, he’d been working his ass off to prove that he was a changed man. If Toni agreed to this weekend he’d have the chance to prove it. A family night out, Ria getting to see her parents together and happy. ”Me too,” he said honestly, giving a little nod. ”I hope we get to do it more often.” Now that Toni was softening towards him. Trusting him. ”I can be pretty persuasive,” Marc promised. At worst he walk talk Toni into another competition, which seemed to be the way that they pushed their relationship forward these days. Turning into the square, Marc hummed out his agreement. ”Alright, we’ll shake on it.” He pulled the truck into the curb and shut the engine off before he held out his pinky to his daughter. ”I don’t think my ego would let me admit I might end up losing. You give it your best shot kiddo. You wanna get food first, or eat while we play?” He slipped out of the car, studying the place through the windows. Not too crowded for the moment but give it an hour and the high school kids would start flooding in, looking for some after school entertainment.
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hope to see you in the discord! 
