The Train to the Afterlife

[ilovesockandroll]

Maybe you know how, maybe you don't. Perhaps the memory is fuzzy, or perhaps it's crystal clear down to the look in your comrades' eyes. Maybe it was your time; you've done all you wanted to. Or maybe you weren't at all ready to go, maybe you went out kicking and screaming - but none of it matters. You know you're dead, and the train is taking you to an afterlife. Perhaps an afterlife of your choice; you might've earned that heaven. Or perhaps you've earned something else entirely.

It'll be a bit of a journey, though, so you might as well take your time and talk to the other people in your coach. Death knows no place: most of them are strangers, even from faraway worlds. But death knows no time either, so who knows, some of them may be people you know, even if last you knew, they were alive - or long gone.

Oh look, here comes the snack cart.

All the usual:
•Post with your character's name and canon in the subject line.
•Said character is now dead for whatever reason - canon, AU, what have you. They are on a train with other dead people from many other times, places and worlds.
•Characters don't know for a fact where they're headed - just a general awareness that they're going to some kind of afterlife. Whatever they think it is is up to the player.
•This meme is built especially for cross-canon interaction, and potentially for threadjacking and group threading - if you're interested, may be a good idea to state as much in your subject line.
•Tag around and play nice!
•TRIGGER WARNING: Meme obviously deals with death and may deal with other unpleasant themes as a result. Please be cautious.

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[woocas]

Seeing something more than plain distress upon his friend’s face helped ease a little anxiousness that had settled in the Medium’s gut. A little, but there were so many unknowns now, far too many what ifs. But that determination was bolstering, some kind of plan was better than none at all.

“Maybe it is. I’ve seen all sorts milling around here.” Lucas wasn’t exactly the religious type either but the possibility was still there, it couldn’t be discounted in his book just yet.

“Hell, I vote we just get off on the next stop. Might as well jump in with both feet, right?” Lucas figured the worst that could happen was they had to wait for the next train. If it even made regular stops or- No. A brief frown turned at the corners of his mouth. Thinking like that would only get them nowhere fast.

“That’s definitely got my vote, either way. We’ll figure it out.”

Somehow.

[judging_eyes]

Understandable. And it is always a challenge to keep an open mind.

...I can see you have tried your hardest, however.

[The train lurches slightly.]

Speaking of which...you may be right, Lucas.

[twice_as_shiny]

She started shaking her head almost as soon as he started speaking, because she'd known what was coming, "You're mighty fulla yourself. Thinking your own personal belief cancels out everyone else's. And nobody ever said the Witch was normal. Just not higher."

She sighed heavily, leaning back in her seat again, not dejected, exactly, but something close and more at the admission than the situation at hand, "Have to say you're right about that last one, though. Don't think anybody could be much deader than we are."

[smiling_blindly]

All he can do is shoot her a smirk, crossing his stretched legs at his ankles. "You say fulla myself, I say confident in my beliefs."

The smirk only lasts a few seconds before they're back on the situation at hand. He runs his hands through his hair, brown hair standing up. "Well, since we're stuck here for who knows how long, names Ed. If it also helps, I wasn't really aiming for you."

[twice_as_shiny]

Her brow furrowed, trying to piece together the firefight in her mind, hard to do since her last moments still seemed scattered to the winds.

Finally what she said was: "So that hefty faith of yours comes with really crappy aim. Good to know, I guess." A shrug, "For all the good it does me now." She snorted, almost amused, "I mean, shit, maybe I should've just stayed still, probably wouldn't have gotten hit that way."

[hermajestysguarddog]

[With both of them caught there was little hope of escape now, but Ciel wasn't through yet. He'd suffered worse than being dragged about by a train conductor, lost more than the coat than the man had him by.

Slipping out of the coat took a few well-timed twists but moments later, Ciel was free.

And Piper...still had her uses. What lay beyond the train he couldn't guess, but it might be handy to have someone to take what might be coming. The moment he lands the Conductor lets Piper go in order to chase Ciel down.]

[divaoftime]

Ow! Fuck!

[Piper's eyes are watering from that grip on her hair, but it doesn't keep her from seeing Ceil's slick move out of his coat. It's the break she needs too, because the conductor lets go of her finally in order to pursue the brat kid again.

Wrong move train man. She's dashing for the door just as soon as she's on her feet.]

Come on kid. Fucking run!

[She's not going to slow down to wait for you. Not until she comes to the door out of the train itself. She slides it open with a grunt, only to find the landscape beyond to be a frozen wasteland swirling with snow that blinds them to even the ground below.]

Shit!

[They can't jump into that, can they?]

[hermajestysguarddog]

[Ciel's right on Piper's heels, so much so that he can't stop as she opens the door. Bumping into her, he then peers around Piper to see why she's hesitating.]

If we don't leave now we never will!

[Sorry, Piper, but not really.

With that, he plants both hands into the small of her back and shoves as hard as he can. He's quick to follow right out the door, tumbling into a frozen landscape full of unknowns.]

[divaoftime]

AH!

[Piper shrieks, a shrill sound echoing into the snowy wind, as she falls face first into the snowy bank. They're lucky it's not so very far down, not enough to break any bones, if that was even a thing they could do anymore.

When she pops back up out of the snow, she turns her wrath on him, shrieking just as loud.]

You PUSHED me?! You little BITCH! What the fuck?!

[hermajestysguarddog]

[Ciel lands in a heap, luckily not atop Piper herself. As she sits up yelling at him, he just sits up himself, looking put out she's even angry about this.]

Your hesitation could have cost us the chance for freedom. I wasn't going to allow it.

[Now that they're out here in the snow, however...]

You can make yourself useful now and carry me.

[divaoftime]

[Piper beats her fists against the snow in outrage!]

CARRY YOU?! WHAT?! I'M NOT GOING TO-!

[A deep smooth voice interrupts her tirade, with a simple response that, though spoken low, almost intimately, still carries over the sound of the whipping snow.]

As you wish, My Lord.

[Out of the swirling white walks a man dressed in a black three piece suit complete with flowing coat tales. His hair is as black as his clothes, his hands are covered by gloves, but most unique of all, his eyes are glowing red through the darkness. He smiles, and bows to his young master.]

I apologize for taking so long to catch up. How troublesome this must have been for you, young master.

[Piper simply stares at the whole thing, her mouth agape. What the actual fuck is going on?]

[hermajestysguarddog]

Very troublesome.

[As much as being in this place bothers him, Ciel doesn't let that show. Instead, there's annoyance, and that air of smug superiority, as always.]

It took you long enough to get here. Let's not waste anymore time.

[With Sebastian here, well...sorry but not sorry, Piper. he waits for the demon to follow his command, casting a glance over to her. She looks suitably panicked, maybe she won't follow them. he can only hope.]

[divaoftime]

As you wish.

[Sebastian will pick him up just as easily as a china doll, cradling him daintily in his arms. Then, sensing Ciel is done using this pawn still floundering in the snow, he'll turn to carry his master away, as quick as the wind itself. With the bitter angry screams of Piper, growing softer in the distance.]

FUCK YOUUUUUUuuuuu!