Daniel sits at the kitchen table, looking at his DMs with a certain someone. He sighs, turning his phone off and putting it on the table with the screen down. He gets up and opens the fridge, scouring it with his clouded, blind eyes. He takes out a pack of uncooked ground beef and downs it.
He shivers slightly, doubling over in pain.
"Hrghh.."
He coughs slightly, his eyes leaking a black, inky substance. He drags himself back to the table and sits, leaning his shoulder on the wall.
He picks up his phone and just. stares at it. He doesn't turn it on, he just stares.
Daniel lays his head on the table. There's a flash of green distortion as Spider appears. She heads over to the fridge before pausing and looking over at Daniel.
"So, call it a stupid question but you ok?" she asks.
"I'm fine." There's an empty pack of ground beef on the ground. It has a bite taken out of it. Like, the packaging itself. Has a bite taken out of it.
"You sure? Cause it ain't exactly normal to eat packaging"
"It happens sometimes." He gestures to his eyes. Which are clouded over
"Is that supposed to be telling me something?" Spider chuckles as she starts scratching lightly at her arm.
"I'm blind, Spider."
"Yeah no shit"
"Then what's the issue?"
"It doesn't matter," she sighs, "So why are you still here?"
"Nowhere else to go," he sits up, leaning his head on his wrist.
"I see"
"Yeah. So, how are you?"
"Why do people always ask that?" she mutters to herself before speaking up, "Fine, yourself?" Her tone makes it clear she's anything but.
"I ask because I like knowing how my kid's friends are doing," he says, blinking. The further down the eye on his face is, the more delayed the blink is. He has maybe three or four extra eyes on his face, and one visible on his neck, "I'm doing.. a little better. Just talking to people."
"Well that's good, if you don't mind me asking, what are you?"
"Angel, demon.. somethin'. You can call me Daniel though."
She chuckles, "Christ"
Daniel looks down at his phone. "What?" he asks, looking back up at Spider.
"Doesn't matter, you said you were talking to people?"
"Just... some people on Instagram concerned about my latest post. I posted the footage of me getting attacked by Slendershit."
"You're the chariot?" She tilts her head slightly, her phone now in her hand.
"I got the tarot card a couple weeks ago in my room, just kind of appeared. I guess?" He shakes his head, "It's confusing."
"You as well huh?" Spider chuckles, "So that's really confusing then," she seems to be talking to herself more than Daniel now.
"Scarlett would talk about her tarot cards a lot. Would draw symbols on each one. She's probably alive and not in containment, same with Ava. Oleander... not sure about him. I fuckin' hope he's out of there." Daniel growls slightly, holding his stomach. Hole seems to still be there, though he's wearing a new hoodie.
"You sure you don't need healing?"
"It won't work. Sorry." He lets out a humorless 'laugh', if it could even be called that. More of a laugh-cough.
"Don't really get why you're apologizing but alright, though you really don't sound good"
"No I just mean. You can't heal me. Like, period. It literally will not work."
"So you keep saying," Spider says bitterly.
"Tone, young lady. And I keep saying it because you keep offering to heal me."
She doesn't say anything, instead choosing to growl at Daniel.
He chuckles to himself, "Knew that'd get ya."
"Tosser"
"Yeah, yeah." He smiles, shifting in his seat slightly.
"I don't exactly see what's so amusing about this," She shakes her head.
"Anyways," he gets up shakily, a bag appearing from the shadows around him, "Gotta take a walk with my daughter-in-law. Seeya, kiddo."
He walks out to the living room and through to the front porch.
Harmonia walks out, her nails newly painted red. She's wearing pajamas and her voids are showing. Her tail wags a tad. "Hi,,"
"Hey kid, how are ya?"
Her tail wags more when called kid, "I'm alright. You?"
"Doing fine myself. Ready to go?"
"Mhm!" She hops off the porch, watching to see if he needs help walking.
He walks down steadily, a bit shaky at times. He's carrying a small bag on his back, kinda like a hiking backpack but more... Hm. Fancy? It's black, and has purple accents. It's got a symbol on the back that appears to be an eye with a horizontal slit for the pupil and a line going through the center vertically, with arrows at the ends of the line. It seems to be perfectly fitted for Daniel's body and posture.
"What kind of bag is that?" She asks, staying close to him so she can help if he starts to fall or needs extra support
"Someone made it specifically for me. I do this thing where I like to travel and sell things to people, like, anomalous things. Usually they're good, sometimes they're not. It's kinda fun." he chuckles, walking along.
"Thats funky as hell actually," Harmonia smiles. "So you're like involved with Sisyphean hell right"
"A little bit," he smiles back.
"I think I should be allowed to fist fight Stolas."
"Agreed, dude's a dick," he laughs, holding his head
"God I'm so pissed about him coming into my house and treating me like im fuckign stupid! Maybe I wouldnt have taken that rose if people actually told me information instead of saying 'dont worry about it'," She mocks Kalius, growling a little. "Still... got this out of it so I dont regret it. Least not fully." She taps the scarab.
"People are stupid," Daniel puts his hands in his pockets, tilting his head slightly, "I mean, with the.. you-know-what... he won't be able to come into your house anymore. So, that's good."
She pauses. "You know about that?" She asks, tensing up a little bit
"Yeah. Don't worry, I'm not gonna tell anyone."
"Thanks..." She sighs in relief. "How do you know? Like is it an omnipotent thing?"
"Nope. Lucille took my tiktok account, which I'm still logged into. Where she talks about things in DMs with people."
"I see..." Harmonia nods and her tail goes back to wagging idly. "Fuck that bitch, hate that bitch. I just... I want Claire to be safe. As safe as possible. I can take being her puppet or whatever if it means Claires safe from her."
"Lucy can't hurt her, don't worry. She'll be fine and so will you."
Harmonia nods. "I know.... I just..." She sighs. "I dont have a lot of power but... this is something I can control. Even if its just keeping Lucille away from Claire... I think its good enough." She says, lookign away from Daniel. He looks at the ground, continuing to walk. Harmonia looks back. "Um... so... hows your..." She pauses. "Stomach."
He puts his hand on his stomach. "Same as yesterday. Needs a bit more time."
"Gotcha... if it helps I uh. Know how it feels." She raises her shirt a bit to show him the void from Abaddon impaling her. "I dont know how much you know"
"I know a bit. Claire tells me a lot," he chuckles.
"Yeah, thats fair." She smiles a little. "Sometimes I dont know whats going on in her head... I wish I could read her mind sometimes."
"You and me both. When Mr Tall Dark and Edgy directed me to her I was a little bit confused. Even after. She's always just been.. confusing to me."
Harmonia nods. "Yeah... I love her though." She pauses. "Do you know that i got crucified?"
"Yep. You okay after that?"
"I cant get it out of my head." She sighs. "I try my best but then at least once a week I have a dream im back there. I freak out, thinking that this is the dream, that I never left. Its..." she sighs. "Its bad."
"I know how that feels. All too well." He sighs, kicking at some loose pebbles. "There's some things you just.. can't forget. It's hard to move past certain things. But you should know that you've got a really great family back there who's gonna support you no matter what. They're gonna rescue you from any shitty situation you're in." Daniel puts a hand on Harm's shoulder, turning her to look at him. He crouches down to look her in the eye. "I promise."
Harmonia smiles at him, tearing up a bit and nods. "Can I hug you?"
He gets back up, holding his arms out. "Bring it in, kiddo." Harmonia hugs him, tight at first but loosening up as she remembers his wounds. Her tail is wagging a lot!!! He hugs back, tight. Daniel ruffles her hair and releases after a bit. "Ready to keep walking?"
She nods, wiping her tears and continuing on!! "Thank you..."
"Anytime."
"I wish I was stronger sometimes." She says as they walk
"You're a lot stronger than a lot of people in your situation."
"I guess but... the others have better powers and shit and I just feel... lackluster, I guess?'
"They're also a lot stronger than most people in your situation." He looks up to the sky. "Other worlds, other Veils.. there's other people experiencing similar things. Do they do anything about it? Nope. They just sit there and wait for the next time something conveniently happens when they whip out their camera so they can cry about it for sympathy points. You? And your friends? You do something about it. You guys fight back. You don't want pity. You want vengeance on those who hurt you and your family."
Harmonia smiles and looks at the sky as well. "I see... thank you... I know we could just leave. I don't think Abaddon would follow us or particularly care but... this is my home and I've fought too long to give up. Even if I'm tired... I just... can't, yknow?"
"Then don't leave. Keep fighting. It will get you the results you want."
"Really?" She asks, looking at him curiously. "So far it seems like a losing battle. Not one I plan to abandon, but still."
"They'll tire eventually. I'd know," he laughs.
Harmonia smiles. "I'm glad to hear that. If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? Like i know you're 27 but i feel like you've been around longer than that."
"Time works super weirdly in that hell. Everything exists at once, it's.. weird. I could've been there for millenia and gotten spat back out to the point I entered."
"I see... thats strange." She itches her arm subconsciously. "Do you have a partner? Sorry if thats too personal, i suppose im just curious"
"I used to. Probably dead now. She... wasn't exactly too happy when I came home after dying, haha."
"I see... that makes sense. Dying buddies-" She says somewhat jokingly, a bit awkward
He laughs a bit, "Yeah. Can't say I was surprised."
"Fair enough. I got really worried with everything when Claires rose almost made her... yknow..." Harmonia says, thinking about the scars on Claires arms
"Yeah.."
"Im just glad its okay now. Mostly anyways." She looks over at him. "What's having that many eyes like?"
"Well, can't see out of any of them, so... not exactly different, haha. Usually wear a mask anyways."
"Ah, that sucks. Sorry about that. How do you use your phone?" She pauses, "Sorry thats stupid, ive literally seen blind people on the internet i know they can use phones-"
"Well I can kinda see? But like, not from my eyes... it's weird. I don't know how to explain it."
"Thats fair." She smiles. "Thank you for helping Claire propose. Dont think i ever thanked you for that. I cant remember. It was amazing."
"Pleasure's all mine," he laughs, "Was fun seeing you two having a good time."
Harmonia smiles. "It was fun having a good time! You seem like a really good dad."
"I'd like to think so."