After the Orpheum
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far away from hurt is where healing occurs by ChickWithThePurpleGuitar
Fandoms: Julie and The Phantoms (TV 2020)
24 Sep 2021
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Julie and the Phantoms play the Orpheum on a Saturday.
On Sunday, Julie hovers in the doorway of Ray’s home office, hands hidden in the sleeves of her hoodie, and says, “Papi, I have to tell you something.”
Ray immediately looks up from the spreadsheet he’s been fighting with. He’s been fielding calls all morning from record labels and news agencies, trying to get ahold of the band— mostly, he’s been sending them to Flynn, but he figured it couldn’t hurt to organize the relevant information at least a little bit. His children are more important, though, so he pulls off his reading glasses and frowns at his daughter, and says, “What is it?”
Julie hesitates just long enough for Ray to cycle through a nice long list of worst case scenarios. She doesn’t look particularly upset, though, or hurt in any way. If anything, she just looks… nervous. And yet, Ray can see Carlos bouncing on the balls of his feet in the hallway behind her, grinning like he’s standing in line to turn in his winning lottery ticket. It sets off a different kind of red flag in Ray’s head, because there are very few scenarios in which Carlos is happy about something that makes Julie nervous, and none of them are any good.
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- Part 1 of After the Orpheum
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hold my hand but please don't touch me by ChickWithThePurpleGuitar
Fandoms: Julie and The Phantoms (TV 2020)
06 Mar 2022
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It’s a slow and painful process, bringing Trevor Wilson back into their lives again.
Ray starts with dinner, just him and Trevor and the kids. Even the ghosts are banished to the studio for the night, and Ray lets Trevor’s personal chef come over and cook for them because that’s the best way he knows to ensure Trevor eats, and it goes all right, considering the circumstances… but it’s awkward. Julie smiles politely and shovels gourmet food in her mouth. Carlos turns his shrimp into a modern art piece. Carrie picks at her food and taps her fork against the table and checks her phone when she thinks Ray and Trevor aren’t watching. It’s nothing like how it used to be, when they were all a family. In the kids’ defense, Ray’s not sure any of them really remembers when they were all a family.
And the empty place they set for Rose sits between Ray and Trevor like a blazing beacon. Trevor keeps looking at it.
It’s uncomfortable, to say the least, but when Ray calls Trevor a week and a half later to invite him over again, Trevor agrees.
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- Part 2 of After the Orpheum
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i was fine until it was time to feel by ChickWithThePurpleGuitar
Fandoms: Julie and The Phantoms (TV 2020)
26 Sep 2021
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Alex wakes up before the sun has risen, stares at the vaulted ceiling of the Molinas’ garage from the air mattress Ray set up in the loft for him, and feels his body.
It’s become something of a routine for him since he and his bandmates came back to life. Being a ghost made him feel like he was floating, sometimes, like a particularly strong gust of wind could make him blow away. Now that Julie’s brought them all back to life somehow—even Willie—now that Alex needs food and sleep and oxygen, and his heart beats strong in his chest, and his arms bruise when he knocks them against a doorframe by mistake, he likes to take stock every morning of his own physical form, likes to remind himself that this is real. That he’s real, and solid, and something, not just music and air.
It’s only because he’s made himself so aware of his body in the last few months that he notices something today is off.
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- Part 3 of After the Orpheum
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say what you want (but it's hard when you're young) by ChickWithThePurpleGuitar
Fandoms: Julie and The Phantoms (TV 2020)
26 Sep 2021
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He’d told himself it was just anxiety, because Ray’s been planning this trip to Florida for weeks now, ever since Reggie told him he’s never been to an amusement park and, even though Anaheim’s less than an hour away, Julie insisted that Disney World— the one in Orlando— was the place to go. And Alex, purely just because of his nature, has been helping Ray with the planning, doing research and reading park maps and making itineraries and packing lists and to-do lists upon to-do lists, and yeah, it’s been stressful, and yeah, Ray’s told him he can just sit back and enjoy the vacation like the rest of the kids, but it actually makes Alex more anxious not to be in control of things, so he insisted on doing a bunch of the prep work anyway, even if it left him sick to his stomach with nerves the night before their trip.
He’s not so sure it’s nerves anymore, after he threw up twice, spent the better part of an hour dry-heaving, and then tossed and turned the rest of the night alternating between hot flashes and cold spells.
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- Part 4 of After the Orpheum