![]() And now it's finally gone, and she can breathe easily again. It's been constant and awful and all she's wanted to do is crawl under a blanket and hide from everything. ![]() Partly because it's just such a relief to be free of the pain. When the migraine finally breaks, Maya Hart almost cries. So nobody needs to know that he might be going crazy. Once he gets into Bronx Science he'll be fine. Sometimes depersonalization disorders are serious, chronic problems that follow people for life, but sometimes they're just temporary responses to stress. He knows just enough psychology to know that his symptoms more-or-less match up to some kind of depersonalization disorder, and he knows enough about himself to know that he's not going to tell anyone that. The episodes never last longer than a minute or so, but they worry him anyway. One day, he's walking home after school from the subway stop and suddenly can't remember the rest of the route, can't even remember how he got to New York City. When he's sitting in the cafeteria working through a math proof, he looks up and for a moment can't remember where he is or how he got there or who the people around him are. He gets up in the morning to brush his teeth and doesn't recognize the face in the mirror. And he's had this horrible migraine for days now, which isn't making prepping any easier.Īnd (and this is the part he won't tell his dad, because he doesn't want another round of psychiatric appointments right now) sometimes everything seems inexplicably wrong. The SHSATs are coming up and he's not sure he's ready and if he blows it he's definitely not getting into Bronx Science. The man nobody else saw, even when Farkle pointed him out. He sees her, and smiles a relieved smile, and then he's gone.įarkle Minkus's dad is worried that his son had a psychotic episode, so Farkle bites his tongue and stops talking about the strange (but not-strange) man on the subway, the man in the black leather jacket despite the heat, who smiled like he'd been looking for Farkle specificially. She doesn't know who he is, but something in her head says she should recognize him. Riley doesn't say anything, because she's about sixty percent sure that she's dreaming, but she stares at him, trying to figure out what's going on. She thinks she has a pretty good life, all things considered.Īnd then one day, as she's half-dozing through a particularly boring math class, a man appears next to the teacher's desk, and no one else sees him. She gets good grades, but she's not at the top of the class she's well-liked, but not the most popular she's in drama club and book club and astronomy club and every year she tries out for cheerleading and every year she doesn't make the list. She has lots of friends, but not a best friend she likes a few boys, but she's never been in love. Riley is in the eighth grade at John Adams Junior High. She has another uncle and two aunts, but Uncle Eric lives in New York State and Aunt Morgan lives in California and nobody ever seems very sure where Aunt Nebula is at any given moment. Her grandparents live just a couple streets away with her uncle Josh, who's only three years older than Riley is. She lives in Philadelphia with her mom (a lawyer named Topanaga), her dad (a history teacher named Cory), and her little brother (a lovable pain in the neck named Auggie). ![]() Riley Matthews is fourteen years, three months, and twelve days old. Title is shamelessly stolen from an otherwise unrelated Declan Bennett song.Īdditional, slightly more spoilery notes at the end. Otherwise, I've done my best to keep character backgrounds and personalities as close to canon as possible, given the AU. The Matthews family still lives in Philadelphia, the Friars are still in Austin, and while Maya and Farkle both live in New York City they've never met. Lucas has been aged down a year and all of the main four now have the same birthday. For purposes of fluff, Whispers and his organization or any like it are not included. It borrows the concept of sensate clusters and associated worldbuilding, but no other plot elements. (Or: Riley, Maya, Farkle, and Lucas are a sensate cluster, and one day they wake up.)Īuthor's Notes: This is a fusion with the Netflix series Sense8. Summary: The thing Riley learns really quickly is that people can adjust to anything. Title: And I Will Revel In This Symbiotic RelationshipĬharacters: Riley Matthews, Maya Hart, Farkle Minkus, Lucas Friar, Zay Babineaux, Isadora Smackle, (minor assorted pairings) ![]()
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