In this twilight, how dare you speak of grace

[freezerburned]

Who: Isaac and Jackson || Isaac and Derek || Isaac and Sophie
What: Isaac's three modes are: fighting, realtalks, and crying. So. Isaac stirs up a lot of shit everywhere because he's Isaac. Brawling with Jackson, talking about heavy stuff in the future with Derek, and most likely just breaking down on Sophie. Good times.
When: 293 || 294 || evening of 294
Where: On the streets || Derek's place in Thor || Sophie's place
Rating: PG-15 or so? Fighting and talk of death

Three threads in one post so it doesn't get spammy. :)

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[Isaac steps in when Derek bids him to, shoving his hands awkwardly in his pockets and staring at the floor. He has a feeling that this isn't going to be like how it was with Scott, all cookies and gentle words and hugs, and he's prepared to deal with it. Sort of, anyway.

Still, he can't meet Derek's eyes. Isaac distracts himself by looking toward the window and trying to focus on his breathing, despite feeling like the world is falling apart, despite feeling like he's making a mistake right now. But he has to trust him. What other option does he have?]

-sorry, I made it over as soon as I could. He disappeared this morning.

[Last night, more like, but Isaac spent most of the morning sleeping in and trying to come to terms with his feelings about everything before going to see Derek.]

[predators]

[ he shouldn't feel relieved to hear that, but he does because it means whatever this destructive mess the other isaac has been making will finally calm down again. or so he at least hopes. he would have liked to ask the other isaac more, directly, but derek knows he has to be able to count on his isaac to tell him the necessary information, too.

there's a simple nod after he closes the door and looks at isaac. ]

He wasn't too much trouble, right?

[ especially with that temper. but then, all of what he'd already seen had spelled out nothing good about the future. ]

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Define 'trouble'.

[Isaac finds himself scoffing a little at that, even so. It's not like he's difficult to deal with or anything, but man, that other Isaac was a handful and a half.

Still, his hands clench and unclench- a nervous habit, he knows, but he can't help it, not when the worst is coming and he has to figure out for himself what he can and can't tell Derek.]

...I'm gonna tell you right now, you don't want to know half of what he told me. [Because he knows Derek wants to know, and Derek will probably demand answers, but Isaac just... wants to make this clear first. He can't look at him.] I wish I hadn't asked him, honestly. And maybe- maybe not knowing is better. It's not like we'll remember it when we go home.

[predators]

[ the nervous habit is one derek's seen many times in the past, and if anything, it leaves him feeling all the more restless. he needs to know, wants to know and everything isaac says only makes it more so. the caution doesn't go unnoticed though, leaves derek sighing quietly as he crosses his arms. ]

I understand. [ whatever his beta has to say, derek has to be able to take it. it's his job to as the alpha. he needs to be there for isaac to lighten that weight on his shoulders even if just a fraction. ]

But I still need to know.

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[Isaac nods when Derek pushes, just like he knew he would. Still, it's not the easiest thing in the world to talk about, even if Derek says he needs to know, and Isaac stalls for a moment longer, casting his gaze out the window.

And then, quietly, almost numbly, as if he has pulled all of his emotional attachment from these words-]

...Erica is dead.

[predators]

[ whatever he's expecting, it's not exactly that. the plan had been, for the summer back home, to find erica and boyd, to bring them back, to check up on them and then to let them decide whatever they want to do with their lives even if the alpha pack was looming over their heads.

something, distantly, cracks inside of him at that fact. otherwise, he looks much the same -- it's big, it's a lot -- if only a little more rigid. the words are gritted out, all steel and unaccepting. ]

He could be lying.

[ why he would-- don't ask derek, but he has more than enough reason to doubt the isaac from the future, if the hostility had been anything to go by. ]

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Derek, it's me. I'd know if he lied.

[Isaac wanted to think that too. Isaac wanted to think that it's something the gods conjured up to mess with them, that there was something untrustworthy about him... but common sense tells him it's the truth. Derek knows it too, if the sudden tension is anything to go on.]

You should've- you should've seen the way he looked at her. Like she was some kind of... angel or something.

[predators]

[ he doesn't want to hear about how the other isaac had looked at her. he doesn't want to think about her limp and not breathing-- dead. she's his responsibility even if she and boyd had run off. she was his to protect and it sounds like once again, there had been too little, too late from his end. ]

Did he say who did it.

[ give him a name, isaac. someone more to hate. ]

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[Isaac shakes his head a little sadly, fingers curling tight at his side as he finally- finally looks back toward Derek. The anger, he can handle. He understands the emotion brimming under Derek's skin, it's familiar enough.]

I don't know. Just that we found her.

[Dead, he wants to say we found her dead, but he doesn't. Isaac bites his lip, before taking a step closer to him.]

She can't know, here. Erica can't know.

[predators]

[ just found her doesn't satisfy him, not at all. he wants to go back home now, to see this for himself and to prevent it even if he knows he won't remember any of this by the time they all do go back. at the same time, he thinks about erica here, about how she's alive and human-- and how she's going to end up painting his hands red because he can't keep her alive.

he knows demanding isaac tell him of this was the right thing to do, though he wishes it hadn't been. ]

She won't. Does anyone else know?

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Scott does.

[He had to tell him something, after all. But that's all that Isaac wants to convey about that conversation, because curling up and crying all over Derek's sort-of-rival is not the best segue into an easier conversation.

Isaac's fists tighten a little and he takes a deep breath.]

...I hate this. We know, but we can't fix it. We can't change it. It's just going to happen again, and we can't stop it because we won't even know what's going on anymore.

[predators]

[ scott. as much as derek wishes this could be between himself and isaac -- between pack -- he knows scott knowing isn't that bad of a thing. even scott won't be stupid enough to say it to erica, and if he is... well, then derek will remind him of his place.

but never mind that right now, what isaac says is essentially true. derek doesn't want to accept it though, not just like that, not without fighting. there has to be another way, right? ]

I won't let her die. [ and before any arguing can be had; ] The gods. They have the power to change it.

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[There's a pause as he processes Derek's words, before nodding quietly and considering that. Honestly, the gods have seemed to incompetent that Isaac doesn't know if they do have the power to change it, but he knows that if it's an option to explore, they will.

And just like that, there's a smattering of hope. They're still here, aren't they? If they're here, he can save her.]

I'll go to Hel, then. She's our- I don't know, patron. You go to Thor. If neither of those work, we'll go to Odin.

[Isaac's fist tightens, because he's already sure what Odin will say, already knows that he most likely won't care. So his next words are quieter, as if he's afraid of being overheard.]

If Odin brushes us off, we can go to Thiazi.