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Claire Bennet ([personal profile] regenerated) wrote2011-02-19 05:02 pm

how to stop an exploding man.

The papers read November 7th, 2006. The much anticipated New York congressional elections were underway as people all around the city were filing in lines, some staring with a bit of curiosity or trepidation at the new booths provided by one Daniel Linderman, a big name throughout the whole of New York, but one who came with his share of shadiness as well. Not every household trusted him, the most wary sticking in their apartments, offices, and classrooms, absentee ballots clutched in their hands, but the turnout was decent on the whole, the only event which seemed to set that day apart from most others in that gray city, skyscrapers stretching all the way up into the clouds above.

But, unknown to the general populace, there were a group of individuals scattered around the whole of the city, some whose faces were plastered on posters at every turn, others making it onto national television, and still more trying their best to avoid any detection altogether. And those individuals were special, the pinnacle of human evolution, some believed. Destined to do something great.

A hospice nurse.

A taxi driver.

A watchmaker.

A girl next door.

An office worker.

A policeman.

A socialite.

A soon-to-be Congressman for the 14th District.

A manager at a paper factory.

A cheerleader.

Heroes and villains.

This was their story.

[identity profile] curiously-cora.livejournal.com 2011-02-25 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"The tick tock man?" Coraline asked because when she thought about Claire's nightmare and the long stretching corridors it was the tick-tock man that truly scared her. The terrible anticipation, the dread and the fear and that ticking. The constant ticking. "He's- he's here?"

Coraline bit her lip before stamping her closed fist into her hand. Coraline was brave and Claire was a superhero, they could take on one little tick-tock man. One terribly scary tick tock man. "We'll be okay Claire. I'll make sure we're safe even if it means we have to run away. I'll protect you."

[identity profile] curiously-cora.livejournal.com 2011-02-26 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Coraline looked around. She wondered if the type of magic from her world worked here. She didn't know much about Claire's world except she was a superhero and had really cool powers. Apart from that she wasn't sure what anyone else could do or what the tick tock man would do if he found them. Probably not anything good.

"I don't know what I can do but what I know I won't do is leave you here. I've defeated a scarier villain than a tick-tock man." Coraline said. She didn't say that she was scared to be alone in a place that wasn't her home. She had no money, no passport, no friends here except Claire. And even if she had those things, Coraline wasn't the type of girl to leave her friends behind. "I'll be okay Claire, we'll be okay but I don't think we should stay here if you say it's not safe. We should go somewhere safe."

[identity profile] curiously-cora.livejournal.com 2011-02-27 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"What's he after? What if we get to it first? And we hide it or destroy it or make it so he can't use it," Coraline said. Coraline wasn't the type of girl to run and hide. She would do it if it meant keeping Claire or her friends safe or if it gave them an advantage but Coraline usually tackled problems head on. It didn't matter if she had super powers or not, she wasn't leaving her friends alone to face monsters whilst she hid.

Coraline looked at Claire and folded her arms across her chest. Coraline wasn't going anywhere and Claire had to get used to that.

"We'll find your dad together, with everyone and then he can tell us what to do. And then if we need to hide, we'll hide together." Coraline said before taking Claire's hand and squeezing it.

[identity profile] curiously-cora.livejournal.com 2011-03-07 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Coraline stared at Claire this was worse than the fog, this was worse than everything in that nightmare and the thought that the Other Mother could use her and would use her. The tick-tock man wanted Claire and everyone like her.

"I don't want to leave you," Coraline said. She wouldn't admit to being scared, she was brave but she didn't want to be alone. She was somewhere new and that was exciting but terrifying too. She wanted her dad, she wanted Adam. "And I'm not a hero, heroes save people Claire. All I've ever done is take people to the next place after they're dead and I don't want to do that again. And I don't want to be alone."