ALIX QUINN
Werecoyote
Dread Doctors' Experiment
Posts: 378
Age:
29
Occupation:
Photographer/hunter
Status:
It's Complicated
Partner:
Christian Callaway
Played by:
ANGE
Last seen Nov 6, 2024 18:54:42 GMT
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Post by ALIX QUINN on Oct 30, 2023 19:57:29 GMT
”Thank you for your time. I’m so sorry for your loss.” Alix swallowed hard as she walked down the path of the little house, with its white picket fence, cat snoozing on the porch and its now sole occupant still crying as she closed the door. It was the third home she’d been to in the last two days and at each the answer had been the same. I’m sorry to tell you, they’ve passed away. Such a gentle way of explaining they had been murdered. Not a single one of the cases had been solved and unlike the professor, so far none of them had miraculously been bought back.
The door was shut as she reached her truck and glanced back, but the drapes were twitching. It wasn’t like she’d been entire inconspicuous in her arrival. She couldn’t walk into the house and announce that their loved ones had been placed on a hit list and were likely innocent, but someone had wanted them dead all the same. They had been hits she’d decided to pass on, in one case ignoring repeated messages from Ralphy to avoid killing someone she wasn’t absolutely sure had done what they had been accused of. The further she’d gotten down the list of those she’d spared, the more worried she’d become that someone had cleaned up their messes. Maybe Ralphy himself, maybe some other asshole who only saw dollar signs and not people with lives and partners and kids.
If she had been a journalist maybe she’d have splashed another article on the front page of the Daily or the Courier, but she wasn’t and the majority of those who went missing in this town barely managed to score an inch or two in a column buried towards the back of the newspaper these days. Any reports on those who’d been killed must have been just as brief, just as buried because she hadn’t seen a single one of them as she’d started to dive through what had been published after the professor after his death. She needed to find some explanation for who was behind it to take the crushing weight of the guilt off of Christian’s shoulders. He’d lost enough, he didn’t deserve this on top.
In a few hours he’d be back from the school. She’d be back at the warehouse, pasting on a smile, pretending like she wasn’t focussing almost everything on trying to strip the guilt away. Her own scales were so far out of balance that there was no tipping them back, Christian’s weren’t, not yet. There was a chance for him to find some peace and move on, putting the hunting and the heartache behind him.
Alix felt an ache in her chest at the thought. She peeled a hand off the wheel to grind the heel of her hand against her sternum. There was no tension to massage away, just that overwhelming feeling off loss for a future that wasn’t more than just another dark smudge on the horizon for the moment. It was better that he found somewhere where he could leave in peace than stay in a place that would continue to torment him, just as it would the other widows who were clinging on here for their answers.
Just as the lights changed, she saw him through the front window of the Diner. Another name on her list, one that she’d been leaving til last because knowing that Brady had lost someone else he was close to was going to be another blow – one that she’d aided in a way. A car behind her honked, but she was waving off the complaint, pulling into a space outside the restaurant. Alix slipped out of her car and was through the door in just a moment. The moment Declan caught sight of her she was raising her hands. ”I come in peace … again,” she informed him, before she sat down uninvited. ”I was looking for you though. If you’ve got the time to talk?” She glanced around, perhaps it wasn’t the best setting, but she could make do. It wasn’t the first time she’d had to hide what she was really talking about.
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DECLAN LEROUX
Chimera
vampire-weretiger
Posts: 158
Age:
19/22
Occupation:
Trainee Social Worker
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Caroline Forbes
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 18, 2024 21:26:01 GMT
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Post by DECLAN LEROUX on Jul 30, 2024 18:35:19 GMT
Graduation had come and gone and for Dec that meant grad school and working as a trainee with social services. It was a lot but Dec had known that when he had decided that he wanted to become a social worker in the first place. He knew that there were a lot of kids out there who needed help and he knew that he could be the one to give it. He had been fortunate to have been raised by a loving family but not all kids were that lucky and having the right person to turn to could make all the difference. He had thought about getting involved with the Salvatore School in some way but he wasn’t sure that teaching was for him and there were a lot of people there trying to help out already. Dec had always admired Julian for becoming a doctor, the thought had crossed Dec’s mind for a brief moment when he was younger but he had quickly realised that his path was going to be different to his brother’s. Dec was a chimera now thanks to the Dread Doctors and that meant that he had a long life ahead of him if everything worked out in his favour so he could try his hand at different careers to find the right fit for him if he wanted to but the truth was that he wanted to try and get it right the first time if he could. His course wasn’t easy neither was the training he was doing but he was enjoying it and he was certain that it would all pay off in the end. Right now things seemed to be falling into place, he and Caroline were still looking for a place to move into together but he knew that they would find the right place for them sooner or later. Dec knew that he was lucky, he had an incredible girlfriend, an amazing family and a course and work he really enjoyed. In a way it almost felt like it was too good to be true, especially with the way things had been in Mystic Falls over the last few years, but if something was going to happen to derail it all then he knew that he might as well enjoy it while he could. He did feel guilty at times, Dec was happy while Riley was still heartbroken over the loss of Danny and he knew that the pack was as well. Dec had no idea how to help them but he was still doing his best to be there for them as much as he could. He knew that if there was anyone who could find a way to bring Danny back then it would be them but until then there was a void in the group and it was one that couldn’t be filled until Danny made it back to them. That day Caroline was spending some time with Bonnie so Dec had arranged to meet Scott at the diner. They had both been so busy lately that they hadn’t been able to catch up for a while and Dec knew that it was long overdue. He had just arrived and claimed a table when his phone chimed with a text to say that Scott would be there but he’d been held up at the shelter and was running a little late. Texting him back to say it was fine and that he would wait, Dec looked up to see a familiar face looking at him and even as Alix said that she came in peace before sitting down, he couldn’t deny that he was a little wary. Alix had been sent to kill him when his name had ended up on the hitlist and even though she had decided that she couldn’t go through with it, that didn’t mean that it wasn’t about to come back to bite them now. Dec hadn’t known much about Alix back then but he knew a bit more now, Brady and Julian had filled him in and Dec knew that they trusted her at least to an extent but he still felt a pang of dread run through him as she said she was looking for him. “Sure, what’s up?” he asked, knowing that there had to be something going on for her to seek him out. ALIX QUINN
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ALIX QUINN
Werecoyote
Dread Doctors' Experiment
Posts: 378
Age:
29
Occupation:
Photographer/hunter
Status:
It's Complicated
Partner:
Christian Callaway
Played by:
ANGE
Last seen Nov 6, 2024 18:54:42 GMT
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Post by ALIX QUINN on Jul 31, 2024 18:57:51 GMT
Mystic Falls had become home over the last couple of years, but Alix knew that if the truth came out about what she’d done here it might not be for very much longer. People didn’t want to live side by side by someone who’d committed murders in their community and she had murdered people. There was no other way to explain killing an innocent. She could try and make up for it all, but at the end of the day there were was blood on her hands. At some point she was going to have to pay for that. She just hoped to God that Christian wouldn’t get caught up in it. He’d had a life here, roots put down deeper than she ever had anywhere. This was the town he was supposed to become a dad in, a place to grow old with the woman he loved and a half dozen grandkids to dote on. It was the town that had taken all of that away from in the end. As much as he might’ve wanted to disappear from it at times, she couldn’t imagine him doing that, not while grief held him so tight in its grip. However this played out she didn’t want him being chased out of town with her when the pitchforks and flaming torches emerged.
For now she could still pull the wool over people’s eyes, slipping into their homes with sympathy filling her gut and her voice. There had been some people on the list who had deserved what had happened to them in the end, but more and more, it was turning out, hadn’t. The reprieve she’d given them hadn’t bought them a lifetime, just a few weeks. Her failure stuck in her throat, joining the ache in her chest as she pulled out of the lane of traffic and parked outside the Diner. Declan had been one of the first that she’d allowed to live, believing the kid when he’d told her that he hadn’t done anything to deserve to die. That had been before she’d realised that he was so close to Brady. After she’d found that out that need to watch out for him had grown. He was practically family and considering what her own had been like, it felt like she had to put in extra effort to protect those she’d found here.
Alix dropped her hands as she sat opposite Declan, although she made sure to leave them both in full vision on top of the table. By now she hoped that Brady had put a good word in for her with Julian and Declan, but she didn’t blame the kid for still looking wary. She was a paid killer who’d almost killed him. She dragged her teeth over her lower lip, pausing for a moment before she reached for a menu, covering up her own dread over what might happen. ”There’s been some, uh, developments with the list.” Her gaze flicked up from the menu, an apology written all over her face. ”I’m not working it anymore, but it seems as though others still are. Some of the people that I refused to … deal with have turned up dead. I was worried you might have ended up among them. Has anything happened since the last time we talked?” If anything big had, she imagined that Brady would’ve been on the phone to her in an instant, demanding to know what the hell was going on, but who knew if something small had happened. A test run, someone lurking where they shouldn’t have been. Those silent, threatening precursors to a full hunt.
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hope to see you in the discord! 
