IC Inbox

[flippedscript]

This is the inbox for Hawk. Call, text, or leave a message.

Comments

text - un: gwennnnn - early afternoon 04/06/2021

[hibana_incursa]

Hey, so...I have a voicemail from Jerry saying you're my new housemate. Welcome to Driftcrest where apparently people spend a couple weeks as statues and then suddenly it's summer?

I'm Gwen.

Re: text - un: gwennnnn - early afternoon 04/06/2021

[flippedscript]

Oh yeah

Nice to meet you

I’m Hawk

Re: text - un: gwennnnn - early afternoon 04/06/2021

[hibana_incursa]

Nice to meet you, too.

Hey, listen. Hospitals suck and I’ve got another day or so in here while they make sure I’m not gonna die or w/e. Mind coming by for a bit so I can meet you face to face? I’m in room 229.

Re: text - un: gwennnnn - early afternoon 04/06/2021

[flippedscript]

Yeah I can do that

I’ll be there in like 15 minutes?

Action: after Gwen gets his keys back.

[hibana_incursa]

Gwen already decided she was going to tell Hawk about being Ghost Spider. She didn’t want a relationship where he didn’t know that part of her. And while she was aware it might shake things up a bit, maybe even probably mess things up a bit, Gwen was pretty determined to tell him. Some day.

Some day soon.

What she wasn’t expecting, however, was the series of events that lead her to outing herself. She wasn’t expecting Hawk to go off on Derek like he did. She wasn’t expecting to go skulking around the sewers trying to find the keys and she certainly wasn’t expecting to be attacked by some big, spider crab monster in the sewers, leaning her bruised, bitten and with parts of her suit bitten through.

And after that had happened, she just wanted to get in and get a shower. But, to continue the trend of Gwen running into moments she wasn’t expecting, the one thing she was expecting least of all was Hawk being in her room as she crawled in through the window and stuck to the wall to close it quietly.

Oh, god. He probably woke up and found she wasn’t in bed next to her and probably came looking for her. Well, shit. She did this to herself, didn’t she?

With her Ghost Spider mask off and her hood down, Gwen watched Hawk for a moment, his keys held tightly in her fist before letting them show.

“I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t. I knew I could do something to get your keys back, so I did and...you probably have a million questions.”

This wasn’t the some day she wanted.

Re: Action: after Gwen gets his keys back.

[flippedscript]

Hawk just... stared at Gwen. And it was for sure Gwen, he'd recognize that silhouette in any sort of tights she wore. Of course he wouldn't have expected her to be wearing a FREAKING SUPER HERO costume. Also, she was crawling on the ceiling which was crazy but also totally bad ass.

So for a bit he just stared up at her, trying to process everything while she was holding his keys. His keys that were in the sewer. She'd gone into the sewers to get his keys. How do you even respond to that?

"I love you but you smell really bad right now."

Re: Action: after Gwen gets his keys back.

[hibana_incursa]

That was so far from the reaction Gwen was bracing herself for. It shocked her into stunned silence and she watched Hawk for a moment, expecting what she heard him say to actually be entirely misheard. But after giving herself a moment to process it, she realized she did in fact hear him correctly.

He said he loves her. Also, that she smelled bad, but that really wasn’t what had her surprised. He wasn’t shocked that she was on the ceiling. He was taking it in stride flawlessly and that...that...

“I love you, too.” Yeah. That’s what she has to say to that.

Standing upside down on the ceiling as if it were the floor, Gwen looked at the keys again and held them out to him.

“I mean, myself and another hero fought a giant spider-crab that spat acid which really felt bad, just to get your keys back. That’s gotta like...tell you just how much, right?” A relieved laugh and then a hiss of pain as she presses her hand against a spot the aforementioned acid ate through.

She’s fine. Will be fine.

Everything hurts, but she will be okay.

action: 05/13/31 - Evening, some time after gwen gets home from work

[hibana_incursa]

[ Gwen and Hawk had the occasional day where they couldn't see each other much due to schedules. But that was fine. Gwen had been working on this card all day. And yeah, she's aware how cheesy it is. She doesn't care. She just likes seeing her boyfriend laugh. So after taping this to his bedroom door, Gwen heads to her own room to play video games and wait out him finding it. ]

text: 05/28 - early afternoon

[hibana_incursa]

Hi. I love you. I don't know if I said that this morning, but I do.

Can you help me with something? You know more about this than I do. The guy at Mystic ink says he can tattoo people with healing like mine, and it won't mess up the tattoo. He also claims he can do tattoos that act like tracking devices in case someone is hard to find? Which...given how this place seems to be? Might not be the worst idea.

Can you help me figure out a tattoo? The youngest a person can be to get a tattoo at Mystic is sixteen.

Re: text: 05/28 - early afternoon

[flippedscript]

I love you too.

How come when Rico tattooed me it was sketchy but this place doing 16 year olds is okay?

But you should get something about dancing

Re: text: 05/28 - early afternoon

[hibana_incursa]

Because back home you were underage? But here, apparently it's legal.

Dancing or drumming? I'm debating either.

text: 06/03 - mid-afternoon

[hibana_incursa]

Hey, so...saturday is my tattoo appointment.

Friday night I'm hanging out with Sam Larusso. But when I'm done I am absolutely crawling into bed with you.

Unless that's a gross and godawful idea in which case I won't

Re: text: 06/03 - mid-afternoon

[flippedscript]

Girlfriend in my bed?

Grooooooossssssssssssss

Kidding, that's fine

Re: text: 06/03 - mid-afternoon

[hibana_incursa]

Right? I live for grossing you out with my mere existence.

Love you, Hawk.

Are you coming with me to get my tattoo? AND! Should I find a way to incorporate the glow in the dark ink I found out about? Maybe like...in fine details or something.
Love you, gorgeous.

06/07 - evening: audio

[hibana_incursa]

Hey, my brother, Sam, just...I want to say had a baby? It was the baby in the pod They got her out alive and kicking. He needs baby stuff.

There's a couple stores in the mall that might be useful. Wanna go on a scavenging date?

action: early AM: 06/24

[hibana_incursa]

[ It's the sound of the alarm on Gwens phone waking her up, a small groan/whine coming from the girl as she reaches over to slap her alarm off. She doesn't actually have work today, and forgot to turn the alarm off. She and Hawk had gotten fairly well caught up in...well no one was home with them and they'd been dating for a while.

These things were just bound to happen.

Still, Nacho heard the alarm and he bounds over, nosing at Gwen's face who sputters and tries to keep her face out of the dogs reach. ]

Okay. Okay! I'm up! Stop!

[ As irritated as the words might be? Gwen's amused. She adores her boyfriends dog and if Nacho wants out, Nacho gets let out.

But there's a problem. Or...there will be. Gwen leans over to kiss Hawks cheek before turning and setting her feet on the ground, twisting her back some to pop it just a bit and frowning because she feels off-center and she can't figure out why.

Wearing her boyfriends t-shirt and her own sleeping shorts, Gwen gets out of bed, takes two steps towards the bedroom door and in an erratic flash of colors that are too bright and accompanied by the electric whine of something shorting out, Gwen hits the ground with a pained yell.

She's glitching. God, help her. She's Glitching. It lasts for a few seconds, and the entire time, Nacho is trying to wake Hawk up with panicked barks and pawing at the bed.

When the Glitching stops, Gwen stays on the floor, half curled into a shivering ball as her body slowly resets itself.

Oh. Oh, this was bad. This was so bad, and there was a cut on her head where her forehead met the corner of a desk. The bad thing about that is it's not healing. She won't notice until it's pointed out, but it's not healing and Gwen is in pain and terrified. ]

Re: action: early AM: 06/24

[flippedscript]

[Hawk was dead to the world. He and Gwen had stayed up late... spending quality couple time with each other so he was in the sort of deep sleep that only teenagers seemed to be capable of. Even Gwen's phone going off and Nacho the-best-dog-in-the-whole-wide-world barking didn't really wake him. He was used to both and had kind of trained himself to sleep through stuff like that.

Until Nacho's efforts became a lot more serious that is.]

Wha? Nacho... what? I'm up you assh-

GWEN!

[All traces of exhaustion left his body when he saw his girlfriend curled up in a ball shivering on the ground. Leaping off the bed he jumped over to where she was and just curled himself protectively around her.]

What is it? What happened? Gwen what happened?

Re: action: early AM: 06/24

[hibana_incursa]

[ She as still feeling fairly weakened from the Glitch. More than she remembers, which she finds really odd. Troubling, if she was going to be honest. When Hawk curls himself around her, she presses herself against him with a soft, mildly panicked groan. ]

I Glitched.

[ She'd already explained about that. About how bad something like that was. So he can probably understand why that's worrying her. There is a decent cut above her left eye that's bleeding. It should have stopped by now, what with her healing abilities. But it hasn't. ]


I got out of bed because Nacho needed to go out and suddenly I was Glitching.

[ She's with her boyfriend. She'll be fine. She doesn't sound fine, though. She sounds worried. Mildly terrified, even. ]

action: july 2nd. Late evening

[hibana_incursa]

There was a lot Gwen was dealing with and it was actually kind of exhausting. Unpredictable glitching and the minor injuries sustained therein, for starters, but that wasn't the worst of it at all.

The worst of it was the memories she'd gotten, of moments she had no right seeing, she's sure of it. And some of them, she didn't even know what to do with. Like the one of Hawk and Demetri and that awful moment when...

Oh, she knew about that. She knew because Hawk told her about that fight and how he'd hurt his friend so badly. But having that memory shoved into her head when she and her boyfriend had both glitched at the same time earlier this evening while cleaning up after dinner.

That wasn't fair at all, universe. Not to Hawk. It felt sort of shitty, and she'd kind of been quiet after. Processing.

She wasn't judging her boyfriend at all for it, and it didn't change how she felt about him. Not negatively, at least. She'd felt how bad he felt after, all that pressure from the other Cobras around him, and that need to fit in, however it happened.

But him not knowing she'd seen it, that felt dishonest. So after he gets out of the shower and crawls into bed, Gwen curls up against him and speaks.

"Do me a favor, and don't hate me. But...I got one of your memories today." She's not to happy about that, Hawk.

AUGH it never posted my reply to this.

[flippedscript]

Gwen being so quiet was killing Hawk. Not just because he missed talking to his closest friend but because he needed to tell her something and he could tell that she was kind of… withdrawn. He knew that if he told her he needed to talk she’d listen, that’s the type of person she was, but he wanted to give her some space when she was like this.

Or at least honor her being quiet, giving space was hard because they were both very tactile people and if they were around each other it would be weird to NOT be touching the other person.

So when she crawled into bed with him be breathed a sigh of relief when she started talking. “Don’t hate me” wasn’t a great way to start a conversation but Hawk was pretty sure Gwen would never do anything that would make him hate her.

“Gwen… babe, I would never hate you. Especially not for that since you couldn’t control it,” he said. Not that he was thrilled about what she’d seen but she already knew he’d done that. “I’m sorry you had to see that though. I was… super shitty. Suuuuuuper shitty. I’m lucky he forgave me.”

07/21/21 - afternoon text:

[hibana_incursa]

BABE

BABE I JUST HIRED HARRY GODDAMN POTTER

Re: 07/21/21 - afternoon text:

[flippedscript]

Like the wizard?!

Re: 07/21/21 - afternoon text:

[hibana_incursa]

Exactly! He's interested in being a shift supervisor and I'm just standing here teaching him how our store works like...internally losing my mind.

08/04/21 - afernoon - text

[hibana_incursa]

Starkbucks is trashed from the storms but we're going to work on reopening later.

Wanna help me rebuild a couple houses?

Re: 08/04/21 - afernoon - text

[flippedscript]

Do I get to wear suspenders and a hard hat?