[Closed - Caden, Coop, Les & Robert]

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Whatever is responsible for this, April doesn't notice when it happens.

She and Caden have been back in town for a few days now and she knows he'll need to go back again in the next little while, but she plans on staying here. Not because she hadn't enjoyed her time in California, but given how much she's banked on Coop's generosity when it comes to her job -- the first legitimate job she's ever had and currently her only source of income -- she really thinks it's a good idea she stay and actually work a little.

She's unpacked, she's settled back in her apartment, and she spends a few days just settling back into town. It's a strange thing to feel, settled in any way, but she does. And she isn't entirely sure what she thinks of it, whether she likes it or hates it, but she's allowing herself to exist in this state, to give it a chance instead of rebuffing it as soon as she feels something out of the ordinary.

Whenever she uses her powers in Siren Cove, she does it almost without thinking. There are times she uses them to get what she wants, times when she's irritated and makes someone do something for her, but none of it is truly harmful in any way. Though it seems someone disagrees.

She's in a coffee shop, she's in a hurry, and she needs to get to the front of the line quickly, so she taps the guy in front of her on the shoulder, gives him a smile and asks him in a gentle, melodic voice if he'd mind letting her go ahead of him. In response he only rolls his eyes and turns away from her.

For the rest of the day she tries it on everyone she meets. She asks people easy favours, she suggests things for them to do, and while some people help her just out of the kindness of their heart, most just ignore her suggestions, and that's never happened to her before. She has never met anyone immune to her powers.

By the end of the day she's so furious she's trembling and she stands near the boardwalk, unsure of what to do or where to go. She needs to see Caden, she needs to tell him something is wrong, but she needs to see her father, too. Maybe he'll be able to track down whoever is responsible for this.

Staring out at the ocean, her jaw clenched tight enough to hurt, April finds the only thing she wants to do is scream.

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[lesparker]

Les is on his way home from work when he spots April near the Boardwalk. Technically, his walk home from the Watersong doesn't bring him this way, but he likes to take his time on night's like this one and he also plans to see if Corry is still putting in extra hours at the construction of The Waterhouse. Her opening night is fast approaching, and she's been burning the midnight oil for what seems like days now. He hasn't seen her nearly enough, and he hopes maybe they can grab a quick dinner tonight.

However, he finds April first, standing up the pier as he heads in her direction. While he wouldn't have passed her by anyway without atleast a hello her demeanor gives him pause. She looks upset, and that's one thing he can hardly ever say about April. She hides herself well, so the fact that he notices she's upsest probably means something...

He leans into the space against the railing beside her. "So. You look like you're about to hurt someone," Les says with a half smile. "Have a bad day?"

[scaledtokill]

Robert liked to think that he had a special connection with his children. It was entirely possible that most of it was based on their pure hatred of him but all the same there was a connection. What brought him to April today though was just dumb luck. He just happened to see her at the boardwalk and the rage in her is almost palpable.

It immediately upset him that someone had done something to his daughter to make her feel like that. He knew that the person who had hurt her the most was himself but the nice thing about having few morals is you could pick and choose which ones you wanted to listen to.

When he got closer he noticed that something was wrong. Something seemed very... off about her.

"April?" he called out. "April, what's the matter."

[writtenby_caden]

Caden is glad to be back in Siren Cove for awhile, far as it is from home. He does like this sleepy little Maine town, and it has proved to inspire him, just as he hoped. There's more to it than meets the eye, a town full of secrets and mysteries, and he does like it. The creative spirit in him can't help but to like it.

He's at the boardwalk just to soak it all in and pick up a few nice bottles of wine from a shop he's grown to like when he happens to see April out of the corner of his eye. They hadn't had any particular plans to meet up today, which was fine considering just how much time they had spent together out in California, but he's not going to say no to seeing her.

The closer he gets to her, the more he realizes that something has to be wrong. April rarely lets emotions be so plain on her face, and now it's clear that she's upset. "Hey," he says as he approaches, brow furrowed in concern. "What's wrong?"

[coopdetat]

It isn't often that Coop actually comes to the boardwalk, mostly because there never really seems to be any point in coming somewhere so crowded with tourists in the summertime when he has his own stretch of beach right in his backyard. He'd only ended up here today because one of his patients' owners had told him about her five-year-old's dreams of becoming a singer and that she'd be setting up shop out here for the afternoon.

So Coop had shown up because whatever, kids are cute sometimes and besides that, Kath has been a longtime client so a little support for her tyke isn't the biggest sacrifice he's ever made. Unfortunately, it only takes him about ten minutes to decide that he doesn't think Kath's daughter's going to be on Ellen anytime soon so it's with a fake victory cheer sent her way that he bails and goes for some ice cream.

When he catches sight of April, he brightens because he'd already known she and Caden were back in town, but she hasn't come back to work yet so really, it's kind of just nice to see that she's still alive with his own two eyes. He orders a second soft serve cone and heads toward her, arching a brow when he notes the way she seems to be staring at the ocean like it's wronged her in some way.

"This is what you're avoiding work for?" he asks when he reaches her, giving her a small smirk and a wink. "You know, maybe if you look at it more like you're going to fuck it up, you'll scare that water into making better waves for me to surf. Also, here, I got you ice cream."