Intro

[loistheintrepid]

[Action A | 5719 Cunningham Lane]

No. No, no, no, no, no. Not again. Please God, not again.

She's had this dream before. Waking up in the hell hole of a place that was Mayfield again, trapped in the Pleasantville way of life, unable to snap herself out of the nightmare.

Please, God, let her be dreaming.

Except that the man she woke up next to isn't Hal, and the house she rushes out of isn't the one she lived in before, and the street she's standing in the middle of isn't Kramden Road.

Not again. No, no, no, not again.

[Action B | Kramden Road]

She's still barefoot in her ridiculous nightgown, not having bothered to change before she tore her way towards her old street. Maybe her old friends are still there. Maybe Hal...

But if she's switched around, maybe everybody else is, too. Which is why she's just going around pounding her fists on every door on the street like a crazy person in hopes that a familiar face answers.

[Action C | Around Town]

By the end of the day, she's a mess. Still barefoot, still nightgown-clad. Wandering her way around the Mayfield streets hoping for someone to make sense of why she's back.

It wasn't fair. She'd escaped this place. Spent a full year pretending it was just a bad dream. And now here she was again, wondering if that year of freedom had even been real.

She finds a bench, curls her knees to her chest, and buries her face in her arms.

Fucking Mayfield.

Comments

[surf_n_makai]

Hawaii. I work on a task force back home that takes on pretty big profile cases.

[Kono offers a small, wry smile.]

This Mid-West wherever we are takes some getting used to. Landlocked and all. How about you, where are you from?

[loistheintrepid]

Sounds fun. Never been, but from what I see on TV, it's beautiful. So you're a cop?

[She chews on her lip, shrugging.]

I'm from all over, technically, but I like to call Kansas home.

[surf_n_makai]

Yeah, I'm a cop. From a family of cops. Family business, you know?

Kansas, huh? So this probably looks a little more familiar to you than me. Just from a different decade.

[loistheintrepid]

Interesting. What division?

[She nods.] Fairly familiar. As familiar as any horrible nightmare you can't wake up from can be.

[surf_n_makai]

Technically Honolulu PD, but our task force works directly under the Governor of Hawaii. It's a pretty good set-up, I was lucky to get into it because of my cousin Chin.

[loistheintrepid]

Must be nice. Working in Hawaii. You guys get much crime out there? Relative to everybody else, I mean.

[surf_n_makai]

You'd be surprised by some of the stuff that goes down in Hawaii. We have organized crime, murders, burglaries, just like the mainland.

Not that I would say Hawaii is very dangerous, but there are parts of the island you'd want to stay away from.

[loistheintrepid]

Guess even paradise has its psychos. So are you a detective, or what?

[surf_n_makai]

Yeah, that's basically. I mean, I'm not ranked detective yet, but we kind of all work as a team doing detective work.

Back in Kansas, what do you do?