Afterglow • Gideon Emery

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Joker knocked on the Emery's front door and it sent Dempsey off spiraling at the front door. He seen Gideon open the door and he was allowed inside. "Hey, mate." Gideon said closing the door behind him. "Have you heard from Mitchell?"

"I came to ask the same thing" Joker shrugs "Both Hannah and Jack are gone."

"Icebreaker too?"

"Icebreaker too."

"Huh..." Gideon sucked in his cheek trying to think of where they could have gone, they were here not only a few days. They couldn't have just got up and left.

Joker walked into the living room where he could see Chloe is laying on the couch naked writing in her new favorite thing, her journal. There's nothing sexual by this position, it's her only comfortable position now that this baby's actually growing inside her and it's starting to hurt her like hell. Joker however.....

"Woah-" Joker says once he seen this sight of this woman not paying attention to him, just her precious writing. He could hear angels singing in his head looking at her "well—I didn't know it was my birthday-"

"Fuck off, mate" Gideon walked passed him "it's the only way she's comfortable these days."

"Plus no one would get naked on your behalf." Chloe rolled her eyes, she wanted to roll on her side and just block his image away, but there's two problems—she'd be bleeding and having much harsher pain—and Joker would just perve on her more.

"Damn, someone's on her time of month."

"I'm pregnant you moron!"

"Damn...the baby is on it's time of month already."

"Oh my god Joker not today please!" Chloe whined and just shakes her head, it was bad enough that Hannah wasn't around to drop kick this fool and keep him away from her. She was worried for her mother figure, she didn't know where she went or even why she left.
It's only been a couple days and she was already worried sick.

"Nahh I'm just messing with you" Joker slouched down on Gideons chair, he didn't appreciate that still." Joker could see Gideon look at him so annoyed "don't look at me like that you British boy, you have house chores to do"

"Well—since you came here uninvited...you can help out!" He spoke then grabbed Joker arm and forced him off his chair so this wasn't a option or a joke. "Go do the dishes mate"

"No!" Joker whined "Have Chloe do it, she's a woman!"

"Chloe can't physically move dumbass!" Joker looked over at Chloe who didn't look at him, instead she had her middle finger facing him while she wrote perfectly fine with her opposite hand in the mean time.

"You're only acting like this because Hannah isn't here to PUT YOU IN YOUR PLACE GIDEON EMERY!"

"That's my name don't wear it out, and it's Captain Emery"

"....no it's boss"

"Joker, you're pissing me off buddy I am asking you to leave before I literally kick you out."

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Joker shut his mouth right when he seen Chloe give him such a threatening look, much like the same angered look Hannah would give the group when they pissed her off. He didn't say nothing about though, he went ahead and did chores around the house with Gideon and they left Chloe alone.

Both Gideon and Joker hung out in the laundry room waiting for the dryer to dry the clothes and Gideon placed the dirty clothes in the washer. "Did Mitchell ever tell you he was going anywhere?" Joker, who leaned on the wall, asked him with his arms crossed.