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Magnus Chase ([personal profile] summerdude) wrote2024-06-12 11:18 am

New Plan, Step One: Provide For My Community [open]

Magnus needs something to change, so when a Mansion calendar helpfully informs him that it's International Falafel Day back on Earth, he goes to the library for some cookbooks, and then to the kitchen.

He lays out ten different falafel recipes. He gathers the ingredients they list, as best as he can understand them. He has canned chickpeas and fresh chickpeas and dried chickpeas and chickpea flour and box mixes of falafel that say 'just add water!'

Cripes.

"I can do this," he says, peering at the assorted recipes intently for a good ten minutes, and then takes the dried chickpeas over to the sink to rinse and soak.
onthewillowsthere: (contemplation)

[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-06-21 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"He said it was a celebration."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-06-21 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's what he said." He pauses, trying to remember anything useful. "In the cafe. There were flags."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-06-21 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"There were lots of colors. Apollo was there."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-06-21 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"I told him I knew he was your dad," peacefully. He's almost done with his half of the chickpeas. "It was too many colors for you. Some of the flags had rainbows."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-06-22 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Galahad gives him a Look. He can't think of a clarifying question that wouldn't be easier than just waiting for Magnus to explain, and, more than that, he wants to listen while Magnus just talks, the way they used to. What made Magnus so easy to be friends with in the beginning, when Galahad was like a clenched fist instead of a person, fingers biting into a palm, was that Magnus didn't expect him to say anything -- and Magnus never said anything he didn't mean. He is like Percival. He came upon Galahad and chose him, in spite of who he was, and he's never made Galahad guess what the truth is. Now that that feels less than certain, suddenly, Galahad wants more than anything to hear Magnus go on a long and half-incomprehensible explanation of what pride and rainbow flags have to do with each other.
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-06-22 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
It feels as if Magnus is slipping through his fingers.

"Susan has a cat," Galahad says.
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-06-22 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
"She's a scientist. Claudius likes her."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-06-22 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Galahad is quiet for a long moment. He finishes with his chickpeas and puts the bowl down. He likes finishing things.

"Magnus," he says, flatly. "Your vibe is still weird. Stop being weird."

His face is completely blank, and his heart is racing.
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-06-22 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Galahad wants to shout at him. He wants to tell Magnus, I trust you. Please stop hiding things from me. Please stop pretending you don't have anything to say. Please just talk. I always listen to you. Please let me listen. Please stop making me afraid I don't understand you -- I do understand you. I know everything is wrong since Shen Yuan died. It was wrong with Claudius, too, and there wasn't anything I could do except make him eat and sleep and wait for something to change. You aren't letting me do anything for you, and that makes it worse. You're my best friend. Please let me do something to make it easier.

He remembers when Claudius came to him in his old room, when he was trying to die. He remembers how Claudius kept talking, guessing what he was feeling, blaming himself, and how Galahad tried to absolve him because that was all he knew how to do. He remembers Magnus talking to him outside by the lake.

Suddenly it felt like someone was tightening a belt around my chest so I couldn't breathe. Being outside helped. Finding a place that feels... wild, and green, and fresh. Putting my head in the lap of someone safe and having them stroke my hair.

Carefully, Galahad reaches down for Magnus' hand and curls their fingers together. "Let's go outside."

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