lostcarnival | dumb sad boys

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lauren,
susan

dumb sad boys

Who: Lauren and Susan
What: ~~dumb brothers being sad - continued from here~~ OKAY NOW IT'S ACTUALLY A CATCH-ALL LAUREN+SUSAN POST FOR PRE-ALOLA JUNK
When: ~~Day 68 at night~~ a variety, starting with night of day 68
Where: their trailer

Although he eventually came out of the bathroom that first night, Susan still didn't talk to Lauren. Instead he avoided his brother as best he could, falling asleep curled up with Fluff (and Stanley, if she let him) on the bed.

The next day he went out, even though Lauren had told him not to; he didn't know a lot about vampires, and even though he felt bad doing it (especially when he was still worried about Lauren), he was pretty sure they couldn't go out in the sun, so it was an easy way to not have to talk to him. He didn't want another argument, not any more - not that he knew what else to do, not when he was feeling pretty bad now, but that didn't matter. He just didn't want Lauren to yell at him and tell him he's wrong.

By that night, though, he still wasn't feeling any better - and even though he still didn't want to really talk to his brother, he still missed him and wanted to be with him.

Once it was late, and he was sure Lauren would be asleep, Susan quietly left the sofa where he'd been originally planning on sleeping, instead slipping into the room with his brother. From there he quietly made his way to the bed, climbing under the covers while being as careful as he could to not wake him.

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When he hears the shouting he becomes concerned. He glances outside, but doesn't see anything unusual. Then Susan comes in and slams the trailer door and he nearly jumps.

"Susan?" he calls from the other side of the trailer, before following after his brother. "What happened?"

"Nothing happened!!" As is obvious by him kicking the bed and Fluff not even following after they get in, instead preferring to hide under the table.

"Leave me alone!"

He glances at Fluff as she runs off to head, but doesn't stop chasing after Susan. Finally he stops when he gets to the bedroom, but his kick to the base of their bed and the way he shouts show very clearly that something is wrong. The beast inside of him is already snarling in annoyance at having to deal with Susan's contrary remarks, but he's gotten much better at ignoring it's influence as of late.

"Susan, please tell me what happened."

"I don't have to tell you anything!" And now here's the fun lashing out part that everyone loves. Susan throws himself onto the bed angrily, not even looking at his brother. Lauren isn't getting any answers if he can help it, right now he's too mad.

He holds back his own frustration. He promised Susan he would try not to get angry and he meant it. Even if Susan can't hold up his end of the deal, Lauren still wanted to follow through. He takes a breath, forcing himself to stay calm.

"You don't have to, but I'd like it if you would."

Susan had been trying so hard to not be angry, and it was easy until now with how upset he felt instead over everything... He just didn't expect the Ringmaster to come and rekindle his anger again.

"Well, I don't want to, so go away!" It's probably hard to hear with how he's yelling it into a pillow but still.

There really isn't anyway he can make Susan tell him why he's so upset. He wants to stay, he wants to help his brother if there's something wrong, but he couldn't really do anything if Susan didn't want him to forest.

"Fine." So he turns to leave the room, closing the door behind him.

He didn't really want Lauren to leave, because now there's no one to yell at, and he doesn't want to just be mad in their room. It's only a couple minutes later that he gets up to storm back out of the room, immediately trying to head for the front door.

Surprise! Lauren was leaning against the door the whole time, so when Susan opens it he falls back and nearly knocks Susan over.

Susan was definitely surprised by that, but after a second he tries to shove at Lauren.

"Let me through."

And then he stumbles the other way as he's pushed.

"Hey!" he says, finally starting to get upset as he turns around to face his brother. "You just got back and now you want to leave?"

Susan just shoves him again, glaring.

"Yeah, and you're in my way!" He knows he's probably being stupid, but he doesn't care. He just wants to be mad and go climb a tree or something and yell at the world.

He stumbles back again, and if the vampire part of him was mad before now it's absolutely raging. Lauren sneers, his fangs clearly visible as he steps forward and pushes Susan hard.

Susan of course is pathetically weak in comparison to Lauren, so when Lauren pushes him he goes down easily, only managing to catch himself from hitting his head by catching himself with his arms behind him as he falls. He looks surprised a moment before glaring again and standing up, trying to push Lauren again. Who cares if it's working, he's mad.

Lauren is surprised too. He hadn't meant to do that, he'd just reacted with new instincts he didn't understand. He's still as Susan get's up from surprised, and when Susan pushes him again he feels suddenly overwhelmed.

"Stop!" he shouts, this time grabbing his brother's arms instead of shoving him away. "Just, stop!"

Susan immediately tries to struggle away, and after a moment he's speaking the familiar incantation for Mage Hand without even thinking about it - but no spectral hand appears from nowhere to push at Lauren, and Susan scrunches his eyes shut tight, not even looking, somehow hoping it's worked even though he can't feel it.

Lauren flinches, expecting to be knocked down by the spell, but then nothing happens. He looks around, feeling confused and his grip on Susan loosens.

Susan doesn't move, even as Lauren's grip loosens; he can tell it hasn't worked, but he doesn't want to believe it, he can't even really grasp the concept of it. His magic's always there, he knows it, she was only lying to trick him. That has to be it. Maybe the hand just didn't do what he wanted, that's all.

"Susan?" he's beyond confused. Why didn't it work? Susan has been casting mage hand since he was old enough to talk.

He shakes his head, still not daring to open his eyes or move in any other way. He can't even tell how he feels, he doesn't know what's going on, and he just shakes his head again as the reality really starts to sink in.

"Susan..." he says now in sadness rather than confusion. As the hand keeps failing to appear a strange sort of anxiety starts to weigh him down

"What happened?"

Susan shakes his head again, and it takes a long moment for him to even start to answer.

"The... The Ringmaster -" He doesn't even try to continue after that, just shaking his head again and pulling away from Lauren to wrap his arms around himself. He just doesn't understand.

It doesn't matter that he's pulled away, because Lauren immediately steps forward to wrap his arms around his brother in a hug.

Susan of course doesn't stop him, and he even leans into the hug, his shoulders shaking as he starts to cry.

Lauren just keeps holding him, rubbing his back as he starts to cry.

"I'm sorry Susie."

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