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#re.ㅤㅤthe son of a bitch mailed it‚ㅤ( answered asks )
wihlliams · 2 years
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@hiveruled​ wrote:   “If you spend a long enough time alone you can forget you’re even a person.”
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there’s nothing like salt on an open wound; hell, if anderson brings out some lemon juice, they’ll have a nicely marinated insult to injury on their hands. tommy has just finished up a two week stint in the hole — an informal way to refer to hell on earth. twenty-three hours of nothing but you and your thoughts, and whatever madness may follow. 
he knows he’s missed two precious visits from his wife; that hurts worse than the isolation, the exasperating boredom and restlessness. hell, tommy’s been in the hole before — it’s his first time at jackson, but he’s a career criminal. it will never be a bearable experience, but you learn what to expect after your first time. 
skipping out on beth, however? that is unforgivable, and his lovely wife is on his mind ... has been since the moment he was pushed into that concrete box. no, there’s no forgetting that you’re a person when there is someone waiting on you, someone relying on you out there.
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“not me, anderson.”   this is beyond the conversation at hand. tommy eyes the other coolly and slicks his hair back; he probably looks fucking terrible, but he has no one to impress until next week. he’ll do better, beth.   
“i know who i am ... and i’m not joinin’ your gang or movement or whatever the hell you wanna call it.”
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wihlliams · 1 year
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@fatestricken​ wrote,   ❝ I told you to stay out of this. ❞ / natasha !
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“guess i’m not a good listener.”   it lacks tommy’s usual playfulness. he brushes past natasha, though tommy doesn’t intend for the gesture to be as cold as it is. he turns back toward her with a softened gaze for a man so rough around the edges.   “you sure everything is alright around here? the yelling woke me up.”   he’s not looking for an apology (though it’d be nice), but if she needs any further reason that he’s here —   “it ain’t the first time it happened this week.”
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wihlliams · 1 year
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@fatestricken​ wrote,   “C’mon, the cops are stupid, they’ll never catch us.” / jamie !
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“look —“   he extends his arm to block jamie’s way, a mildly aggressive move on tommy’s part. with flared nostrils and eyes that bare little patience, tommy is drawing his line in the sand.   “you better believe the pigs are stupid, but i gotta play nice if i wanna stay out on parole.”   oh, puh-lease, tommy is no boy scout. he became entangled in this disaster in the middle of breaking his parole. he has a different primary concerns.   
“... and second. nobody’s explained to me what the fuck is going on here. and before i hop this fence —“   tommy rattles the chain link for emphasis,   “i need to know what the fuck's in here.”
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wihlliams · 2 years
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tag dump.
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wihlliams · 1 year
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@itsbllshit​ wrote,   “I just gave him his final warning.”
if his eyes bug out any further, tommy is going to be searching for them on the goddamn ground. the man’s not sure when his jaw began to hang, but he does know that he can’t bring himself to close it — hell, can’t bring himself to move it beyond a pathetic quiver ... dark gaze shoots up to nancy, tommy’s brow writ into a question he can’t bring himself to ask aloud. fuck, tommy can’t decide on the question — how ... what ... why?
good monster, hey — hey fuck off ya ugly bastard, get the fuck away from m— that’s tommy’s final thought before the bang, the splat, the smell of ... not quite metal, but something definitely fucking foul. whatever that ugly creature is was, it’s fucking dead, and nancy goddamn wheeler blew its brains out.
“jesus fuck, wheeler.”   it’s less articulate than he intends, something of a mumbled and breathy blur. in his mind, tommy scrambles to his feet, but he actually moves quite slow, cannot get his limbs to move past the jello feeling in his joints. tommy fears that he’s going to falter and fall on his ass, but he recovers. when he catches a glimpse at the crimson speckles splattered on his shirt, however, tommy thinks he’s gonna fucking pass out. his face feels hot and sticky and he’s terrified that sweat is not the only bodily fluid coating his face.
“what the fuck was that? what the — what the fuck was that thing?”   with his arms parted from his body, tommy glances down at his torso.   “jesus christ, what the fuck is all over me?”
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wihlliams · 1 year
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@girlseventeen​ wrote,   “That’s not your wallet is it?”
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well, it is now. tommy doesn’t voice his immediate thought, he’s not a total idiot. all of the true owner’s identification, sitting in his opposite pocket, begs to differ. fuck it, that doesn’t mean a thing, unless mr. steven peters can track tommy down and mark him as the guy that picked his pocket. from the look of the guy, tommy assumes he’ll be just fine. peters will cancel all of his cards in the next day or so, get himself a new license they’ll mail right to the bastard. 
no, tommy isn’t beating himself up over the crime at all.
"who says i can’t have a nice wallet like this?”   the engraving etched into the bottom corner, perhaps ...which tommy only now glimpses from the corner of his eye. fuck.
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wihlliams · 1 year
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@crimecleand​ wrote,   “I’m not that much of a scumbag, I don’t steal from old ladies.” 
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“c’mon, you’re making it sound like i took shit right out’ve her hand!”   it’s not one of tommy’s fun stories. everybody can get behind stealing a car they’ll never be able to afford, or a tv set from a j.c. penney. ... not so much breaking into a house and finding out it belongs to a little old lady. he was nineteen, a dipshit kid. tommy considers many of his adult crimes stupid too, but that one ... it takes the cake, he’s definitely not proud.
with a scowl, nowhere near biting, etched on his face, tommy leans in.   “a real scumbag kills a guy’s wife over some texts.”   when he leans back, arms crossed over his chest, his expression has lightened.
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wihlliams · 1 year
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@firstsorrow​ wrote,   “That’s not your wallet is it?” she's squinting
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damn. not to go for a low blow, but tommy can’t help but to wonder if christine would’ve noticed if she weren’t wearing her glasses. a breathless, forced chuckle is pushed past a smirk that tommy tries his damnedest to muscle down.   “how do you know i’m not being a good samaritan?”   that is a big word for him; tommy’s heard it used by the cops before.   “i could’ve found this and been on my way to turn it in.”   he most certainly is not. busted.
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wihlliams · 1 year
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@maskacre​ wrote,   Some things are best left unsaid.
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tommy can take a hint; it’s a skill you learn when you’ve been as locked up as often as him. once you cross that threshold, the picket line of privacy, you’re asking to get your ass whooped. so the obvious next step is asking somebody else, but tommy is still on step one. 
he nods, hands retreating into his pockets.   “— how long you lived here, then? i’m pretty fresh ... just rented myself a trailer at the park in town. do you make it into town often? know any place i can get a decent burger? i could kill for one.”
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wihlliams · 1 year
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@videonastycore​ wrote,   Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.
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“you gotta be lucky to have hope.”   tommy is not a lucky man. sure, he’s made his own bed, and that’s why he’ll lay in it, but he can’t take all the blame. thirteen year old tommy williams sure was a dipshit, but he was just looking for easy money. an easy motive to understand when you take a walk through his childhood home — empty cupboards, no daddy, and a mama that clutched a  bottle harder than her baby.
“face it, i’m as cooked as a goddamn bird on turkey day. my parole officer’s gonna be pissed as hell when he sees i ain’t got a job yet.”   tommy’d like to tell that fucker, get out from behind that desk and find a real job, ya bastard. he doubts that will win him any good fortune, however.
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wihlliams · 1 year
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@northpolebear​ wrote,   this little bear is here to remind you that you’re fantastic! in lieu of a two thumbs up from a little bear with no opposable thumbs but only paws, please accept a snowball. <3
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thank you so much for the snowball, friend! this is such a sweet message, i really appreciate it.
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wihlliams · 1 year
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@legacysouls​ wrote,   🌲  ─  visit a tree farm to pick the perfect christmas tree (from Kit!)
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“it’s only december second, where the hell did all the good trees go?”   frankly, tommy thought they were jumping the gun by getting a tree this early. by the time christmas rolls around, all the needles will be on kit’s floor instead of the tree. he’s crashing at kit’s place though, so he’s not gonna argue with the man ... evidently, kit does know best. 
fuck, what the hell does tommy know anyway? he’s been locked up the past two christmases.
“well, shit. maybe we should check the back before we split, huh?”   while it’s not a significant disappointment to tommy, he was somewhat looking forward to a real christmas after his release. especially spent with a friend, somebody kind enough to take tommy in when he has no where else to go.
“kit — ey! kit!”   maybe not all hope is lost, as tommy calls his pal over. the tree is no six footer, but it’s not as skimpy as its brothers and sisters. he’s hoping the back looks just as good, and they’ve found their tree.   “think i found one, eh?”
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wihlliams · 1 year
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@infernalrampage​ wrote,   🌟  ─  drive around the city to see the christmas lights
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“... you can tell this is a rich neighborhood,”   tommy grumbles, a cigarette hanging between his lips. he flicks the ash out the driver’s side window — they can afford a little litter on their streets, the city won’t let them suffer for long.   “ey, look at that house,”   he gestures with a curled index finger,   
“s’lit up like vegas. santa ain’t gonna miss their kids, that’s for sure.”   there is a bare-branches, knee-high christmas tree sitting at home for tommy’s infant daughter. she won’t remember this christmas, her first ... tommy worries that it will always be this way, that bare-bones, not even scraping by poverty. he doesn’t want the cycle to repeat and it’s hard not to be bitter when he’s face to face with all this opulence.
“you wanna get a cup of coffee?”   it’s money he doesn’t have, but tommy wants to get out of here, fast.   “i’m freezing my balls off, bev.”
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wihlliams · 2 years
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@vihilum​ wrote:   i’m trying to be a bird. i haven’t quite figured it out yet. (For Tina!)
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now, if this is some kinda metaphor, it flies straight over tommy’s head — that’s beautiful in a way, isn’t it? go easy on him, he’s no scholar. and if she’s being serious, well.   “what are you talkin’ about? you mean a bird? like, a bird?”   
he could laugh, but tommy’s merely confused. his brow furrows together. she may as well be speaking in pig latin, he needs a second to process this.
“like, squawkin’ and eatin’ worms outta the ground, bird?”
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