May. 20th, 2017 at 6:25 PM
Jun. 10th, 2025 at 12:40 AM
[ Little Mermaid slips quietly down the stairs into the glass doors of the workshop. Golden colored eyes scan the workshop, realizing that the lights are off. That alone is unusual for the ungodly early hours of the morning when it comes to the Malibu mansion, but also because there is no music.
Or sounds.
She can account for every car being in it's place from where she stands.
Her hand raises to unlock the door and she slips inside. Since the room is already quiet, she decides to not make any jarring noises if possible. Both hands quietly ease the door shut and she practically tiptoes through the usually loud and bustling workshop. Her hair is braided in an attempt to keep it from dragging on the floor, but yet it still manages to touch it with the ends regardless. ]Uhmm... ooo.
[ The nervous hushed sounds come from her as she continues her tiptoeing search through the workshop. She's nervous to call out to the man she's looking for in case it startles him.
Everyone is aware that things haven't been the same since they returned from New York City those months ago. Little Mermaid had been overjoyed to return to the Malibu mansion, but made sure to keep the emotions to herself. Especially at seeing how rattled Tony Stark had been. Of course, he had been his usual abrasive, sarcastic, funny self, but they could all tell something was different. Rhodey tried to help when he could, but was brushed off. Pepper does what she can when she stops by after being at Stark Industries all day, but generally the conversations always break down into work and what not to do or what to do with the direction of the company.
She's wanted to help too. She's always wanted to help.
But, does someone like Tony Stark need her help? Does a hero like Iron Man who can fight along side people from other realities, spies, massive shapeshifting men, and even the original super soldier need her help? She's was designed to be a support not an attacker to her squad. The squad that was deemed such a failure it caused the Goddess of Victory project to come to a close. The squad that had been forced apart in their mission that was supposed to redeem them and rewrite their ending. She couldn't even take the hand of her dearest friend when her friend needed it the most. How could someone like Tony ever really need her help in anything?
That was why the comments from the interviewer had rattled her so much. She doesn't want to be a failure or just another woman that Pepper takes out of the house one day. She wants to be helpful, to have a place she belongs, to be more the failure she had been labeled. She wants to be special like Pepper is to him. Not the exact same, as one can never truly replace another, but she wants to be apart of his life.
Maybe one day she can truly earn the title of "Goddess of Victory" to someone.
Tony doesn't need a Goddess of Victory. He's his own maker of victories.
Little Mermaid stops at one of the work tables.
Then, she leans over it slightly.
Tony is sitting on the floor, pressed against the work table, breathing heavily and shaking.
She bites her lip to keep from saying his name in relief that she found him. Instead, she carefully and quietly, tiptoes around the side of the work table. Then, she moves down to be on her knees. She hasn't moved to be exactly next to him. There is still plenty of space to give him room. Her eyes drop to his shaking hands before looking back up at his face in what she can make out in the darkness. The light from his arc reactor is dimmed through his shirts, but she can at least make the outline out in the darkness.
Slowly, one hand reaches out to rest beside him. She hesitates with her fingers curling slightly. He hasn't reached out to her--should she even reach out to him first? ]... Tony?
[ Little Mermaid speaks in a whisper as to try and not startle him.
The notion isn't hard. There had been a time when that was all she could speak in. ]
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I hope to never fall, where enough is not the same it was before.
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'Cause without your love my life
Ain't nothing but this carnival of rust
CODE BY TESSISAMESS
Nov. 25th, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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OCEANVIEW :: INTO THE DARK
i must guide my love through the night
Follow the deer to follow the owl
I'm fighting to save my love somehow
I cannot feel her by my side
Even in this place inside my mind
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Jul. 15th, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Teleplay by ALAN WAKE hosted by WARLIN DOOR
In Night Springs, caught in an endless time loop
In Night Springs, a solar system in your soup
'Cause in Night Springs, we're just looking for the thrill
All your nightmares come true
Lost in mist for days and days, now you see the sunny seas
Night Springs
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Jun. 24th, 2024 at 1:32 AM
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OCEANVIEW PATHS
but we can leave our gilded cages.
Two worlds colliding
There ain't no bargaining
No giving in without a fight
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Jan. 10th, 2024 at 7:34 PM
DEAD OF NIGHT
Carve the secrets from your bruised still heart.
Shape my story, tear every page apart
Inside this room, you left your mark
I burn away the shadows, I strike a spark
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Jan. 3rd, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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OCEANVIEW III
and now i'm wide awake.
Oh, I died like a million times.
Through the waves, I break
The nightmares finally over
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Nov. 29th, 2023 at 9:38 PM
a different path,
the same road.
When I thought that I fought this war alone
You were there by my side on the frontline
When I thought that I fought without a cause
You gave me a reason to try
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Nov. 8th, 2023 at 2:57 PM
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OCEANVIEW II
into the dark, dark, dark.
I’m fighting to save my love somеhow
I cannot feel her by my side
Even in this placе inside my mind
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Sep. 19th, 2023 at 12:40 AM
OCEANVIEW I
blinded by reflections.
Is there anybody out there?
Someone who can hear me and drink from the light
To see things from the same side
Is there anybody out there?
CODE BY TESSISAMESS
Jul. 10th, 2023 at 9:38 PM
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