Life Swap Meme

[hugh_hefner]

 
You wake up, and you're living a different life. Whatever you had before, whatever you'd accomplished before, is gone. In their place is something familiar, but not the same. Maybe your friends are your enemies, your enemies your friends. Maybe it's the whole world, maybe it's just your household. The only thing you know for sure is that something's changed, and you're the only one who's noticed. But who changed? Them... or you?


1. Domestic bliss. You may not be used to being married to this person or anyone, but now you are. Who are they? Someone you know? Someone you don't know at all? Whatever it is, you seem to have made a life together here.

2. Black is white, white is black. Whatever side you used to work for, you don't anymore. Your friends may have just become your enemies (or maybe they're there with you, working for a cause that you remember as wrong wrong wrong). You might want to step lightly here, though. No one likes an apparent defector. 

3. Career changes. Well, your resume's really fucked now. The job you've been doing for the last x years? Never happened. Your awesome space marines team now work at a Wendy's. Or a bookstore. Or maybe you and your retail buddies are now saving the galaxy. Who knows? Whatever, hope you pick up new skills quick!

4. Pet platoon. Oh christ, now you're not even the same species. Your life has been reinterpreted into animal-life. Whatever, human life sucks anyway. Go chase a squirrel!

5. Back in time. Most of the details are same, it's just the setting that's changed. Did you live in 2000? Hope you like the 1800s! Good luck with that whole 'no indoor plumbing thing'.

6. The time of my life. You've seen this movie. One minute you're living pretty as a twelve-year-old, next minute it's eighteen years later and you have to hold down a job. Or maybe you've just been slingshoted to when you were younger. At least you'll totally breeze through algebra this time, right?

7. Wildcard. Make up your own, suggest your own. Do whatever you want. The universe is yours! (Sorta.)

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[hugh_hefner]

His arms held her snug, needing the contact just as much (maybe more) than she did. Xavier would have rebuffed the display of affection once upon a time but Wynonna weasled her way though his layers of armor that guarded him. Not that he was admitting any of that to her any time soon. Yet the moment did pass and she stood back to listen to him. Dolls transitioned with her without making any kind of deal about what had just taken place betwen them.

He gave a nod when she gave her feedback on where she’d been last. Wynonna probably couldn’t tell that he had no clue what she was talking about. The common demoninator was waking up somewhere different than where they last remembered. The question was more why than how for him. “Last I remember, I was on the back of a truck being hauled off by Black Badge. So I went into town when I woke up next to you. It’s not like any Purgatory you’ve ever seen.”

Xavier let her mull over what he’d said than continue. He expected she’d want to run into town the minute she heard both Gus and Shorty were there. “No trace of Black Badge on anything that belongs to me here. If this is a demon’s doing then you need to find Peacemaker sooner than later.”

[stupidforgiveness]

At one time, for a brief period, she wouldn't have considered being as affectionate as she was with him. She was still careful with it at times but somehow he had wormed his way past her walls as well. It was unnerving at times to consider how much she wanted and needed him around but the truth was that she did. Hell, she had taken on all of Black Badge to try getting him back and she would do it again without hesitation.

Playing it casual as well, she continued to watch him closely as he eased back as well. Then he was telling her that he had been on the truck leaving Purgatory and that was the last thing he remembered. Which meant that she was a few weeks ahead of him somehow, frowning softly. "But that's...."

She paused, shaking her head as she tried to comprehend what was going on but waking up where they were was what they would have to focus on more than a difference in time. "I can do that but what kind of demon could do this sort of thing?"

[hugh_hefner]

Wynonna had his undivided attention when she began to object. His brow knit together and arched as she shook her head and didn’t finish her thought. She seemed unsettled. It bothered him more than Xavier liked to admint. “What is it, Earp?” he called attention back to her objection rather than answer her question. “One thing at a time. Let’s start from the beginning.”

His guard was up but he also had a peace that was foreign to him, one he hadn’t felt for a very long time. It didn’t seem right to hide anything from Wynona but she couldn’t know what he was. Or maybe what he’d been. Xavier couldn’t feel the battle within. He was unnerved with the unknown—both in purgatory and his own existence. More than that, what she was talking about. “I don’t remember what you remember last. Do you have any idea what I’m talking about?”

He leaned back against the counter in the kitchen, a hand at each side perched on the surface edge while waiting for ehr response.

[stupidforgiveness]

There were times when his undivided attention made her squirm under the weight of his gaze, often leaving her to feel like he was seeing more than she wanted him to see. It also made her worry what he would think once he knew all the things she hated for people to know.

"I do." She told him, her throat tight with a wave of emotion as she thought back to that day and everything that had happened. Finding out the truth about Willa, seeing what her sister had intended to do and having to stop it? Losing Dolls that day had been the sour cherry on a really fucked up sundae. Swallowing thickly, she nodded slowly as she fought back the urge to cry for no damn reason. Or well, tons of reasons.

"Black Badge took you and it took us awhile to find you but we did. A friend of yours led us to you." A pause. "Eliza."

[hugh_hefner]

“Shapiro?” Xavier didn’t question as if he didn’t know who Wynonna meant, but that the two met and found him. He trusted Eliza to do the right thing and wasn’t surprised at Earp’s answer. A part of him wanted to know just all that was shared between his old teammate and new but now wasn’t the time. And if he knew Wynonna as well as he thought he did, she’d voluntarily share the information the more uninterested he acted about it.

“And now we’re in the Mayberry edition of Purgatory.” His conclusion was pensive for half a minute before Xavier began to give Wynonna a longing look. He made a confession that was still very much on the forefront of his mind, especially standing there with her looking slightly broken again. No Bobo, Doc or even Waverly to pose a distraction. This was supposedly now the Dolls-Earp residence.

He stepped in and cupped her cheek with his right hand. “We should probably try to figure out what’s going on."