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[oncenatalie]

Envy Adams is a hot damn messUnfortunately, that's actually putting it nicely. Ever since Scott Pilgrim waltzed back into her life and headbutted her boyfriend Todd into a pile of coins, she has been absolutely inconsolable. Lynette has long since stopped trying to cheer her up, and has moved onto the next tour stop, leaving Envy to her own devices

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[thebigbadex]

Someone needs to stop ignoring Gideon's phone calls and texts. He's used to it from Ramona, but Envy? That's just not going to fly. Two days was pushing it. A week is going overboard. Never mind the fact that the rest of TCAD's Canadian tour is out the window by this point. And the fact that Pilgrim just keeps getting closer.

Gideon's on his phone again, grabbing for the nearest jacket to pull on. He's already spent most of the day dealing with issues related to the tour cancellations. And he's in an absolute rush to get out the door, leaving behind the site of the newest Chaos Theater in order to set a few more things straight. All this has left him so frazzled - you guessed it - he's going out casual.

"Envy, this is getting to be ridiculous," he hisses, having just been sent to her voicemail box for the millionth time. His seemingly endless amount of patience has been tried. "Pick up your damn phone. I swear to God, when I call again, it better not go to voicemail. If it does? I am over thereActually, he's already out the door.

[oncenatalie]

But Envy is far from thinking her problems are bullshit. They have consumed her entirely, and nothing else matters except what she's feeling.

Her phone actually died six days ago, but she's far from caring. She used to respond to Gideon's calls in a few hours tops, but now, she's unaware of just how many messages are waiting for her. Her phone's on the nightstand...next to a picture of Envy and Todd after they first got signed. He'd taken her out to an Indian place where they had Vegan Police-approved food, and he told her she was beautiful for the first time. Every time she looks at it, she starts sobbing all over again--and doesn't remember about the phone.

She's wailing pretty badly again by the time Gideon rolls around because there was a commercial for an Italian place offering a chicken parmesan special two minutes ago. (As far as Envy's concerned, Clash at Demonhead will never tour in Italy or sell records there; it was those bastards and their food who killed her Todd

[thebigbadex]

"Do you have any idea what you're doing?" is what Gideon snaps as soon as the door opens. He hits the end button on his phone (he was in the middle of ringing her cell yet again on his way up) and gestures toward Envy's face with it. "How many times I've tried calling you? Texting you? Just checking to see if you're alive? What the hell is going on, Envy?"

[oncenatalie]

The questions he's asking aren't exactly encouraging. Envy scurries away from him, her hair falling in disarray around her face. She looks shamefully at the floor for a bit, like a child who's just broken something very valuable.

"I-it's Todd," she admits, in a voice hoarse from crying and a diet of nothing but ice cream and the occasional glass of water. Her words are broken up by bouts of heavy breathing as she tries to hold the tears back. "I can't do this without him, Gideon. H-he was my everything, and--and now he's gone."

She sinks to the floor again, and this time, the tears really come loose. Her face scrunches up, her entire body shivers, and she wraps her arms tightly around her stomach, as if she's about to be sick. Gideon's star is falling far out of the atmosphere, and she doesn't even have the strength or the will to carry herself back up.