wolfishsurvivalist: (Voices can't hurt you don't listen)
Mika Whitepaws ([personal profile] wolfishsurvivalist) wrote2011-08-17 06:04 pm

✖ anxiety attack: 005 ✖

[A. 339 Brady Lane]

[The sound of shattering glass is loud in the kitchen, the milk bottle having slipped out of Mika's hands. Sweat forms on her brow, her pupils dilating, and the trembling starts just as she begins to scream.

The walls have gone moldy and stained, the glass fogged with filth and grime, and the milk and glass on the floor is now blood and flesh. Disembodied sounds echoing through a haunted apartment that seems to watch her. Shadows flutter at the corner of her vision, grasping hands reaching for her to drag her down and tear her apart. Something was moving, its heavy footfalls made the floorboards creak in the floor above her and its loud, wet breathing makes it sound as if it was coming for her.

The whole building--no, the town itself--knew where she was.

It was coming for her. This time it was going to kill her for good. Her screams were muffled by the heavy air, but she doesn't care, she needs to escape it somehow even if she has to fight her way out.
]

LEAVE ME ALONE!

[B. Phone]

[She's sobbing uncontrollably as she grips the phone so hard the receiver is creaking, she's desperate to talk to someone even if all she can hear is static. She should have known better but she's going to leave a message anyway.]

Oh God, somebody please pick up! This apartment is full of hauntings and I can't find anybody. It's just them! They're everywhere! They can hear me breathe and they know where I am, I tried to find the others but I don't have any red tape and there's blood all over the place and I don't know where to go.

Somebody, please!

[Welcome to the crazy, Mayfield. Someone got the Special Milk.]

[C. Streets: Afternoon]

[Mika has escaped the confines of the house, a roll of duct tape in one hand and a lead pipe in the other. She's shaking like a leaf, but her grip on the pipe is white-knuckled and possibly deadly if provoked.]

[D. Park: Evening]

[Curled up beneath a tree with her knees hugged to her chest, Mika is rocking gently as she cries into her knees. Her arms are scraped up and her knees are bleeding, and there's leaves and grass in her hair and clothes. It's been a very long day and the effect of the milk is starting to wear off, but not enough for her to feel safe. Someone come rescue her?]

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-18 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Ian I'm dying, I'm dying.

[She's crying so hard she's almost howling in pain as she clings to him, the pipe and the tape clattering to the ground. Aside from all the pain she thinks she's in, she's not going to actually die.

Mika's just unfortunate enough that she thinks she is.
]
wavewalker: (sad Raptori in lack of snow)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-18 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It's going to be okay, Mika. You're going to wake up tomorrow, and you're going to be fine.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-18 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Noooooooo, I don't want to go back to the apartments!

[Why is the world turning inside out and bleeding on her this is the worst day of her life.]
wavewalker: (where Tragedy goes)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-18 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not in the apartments. You're in Mayfield.

[ not that that's much better, but he's trying to ground her in reality a little ]

[identity profile] techno-mancer.livejournal.com 2011-08-18 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well he's seen that happen to people before. Seeing the glass and milk all over the floor, he jumps to the right conclusion. Ruri was hallucinating too, after all. But Ruri doesn't have teeth and claws.

He'll stay where he is, but speak gently.]


H-Hey, darlin', relax. I ain't gonna hurt ya. Take it easy.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-18 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
N-no I'm not, this is totally different.

[How badly is she hallucinating if she doesn't see the town around her?]

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-18 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her lips peel back and she makes an inhuman shrieking sound, more like a yowl than an actual scream--very much like an animal with its paw caught in a trap.

Maybe if she bristles up and snarls enough it'll go away?

Mika actually looks bigger when she's crouching, her hackles up as she growls, still tucked tightly against the wall as she keeps her right side pressed to it to protect it. She'll take a water stain ghost over one of the hellbeasts any day. At least the water stain ghosts will only try to strangle her.
]

[identity profile] techno-mancer.livejournal.com 2011-08-18 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[It works, because it's Quinn and he's just not equipped to deal with this kind of stuff.

He doesn't know what she's seeing, but she knows it's not him. He slowly backs up.]


A-Alright, I ain't comin' any closer. Relax.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-18 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[As if sensing whatever danger is gone, Mika curls into a ball, rocking on her heels as she begins sobbing brokenly.

She's shaking again, her tail curled tight against her as she makes distressed sounds which are thankfully muffled by her knees.
]
wavewalker: (where Tragedy goes)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-19 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yes you are, Mika. The milk is doing this to you, I swear it is.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-19 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
But then why is it so real? I don't understand.
wavewalker: (so why IS the rum gone?)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-19 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
... I wish I knew. All I can tell you is that it's not real.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-19 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
But it smells real, and it feels real.
wavewalker: (sad Raptori in lack of snow)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-19 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
It's not. The only real thing here is the twisted cruelty of the town, to make you believe such things.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-19 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
But it hurts.

[Real or not the pain feels real enough and it's very upsetting.]
wavewalker: (sad Raptori in lack of snow)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-19 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
I know, I know. I wish there was something I could do.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-19 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
[She whines sharply, settling for hugging him tightly because she can't make sense of anything else.]
wavewalker: (where Tragedy goes)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-19 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ He holds her just as tightly, if only to keep her somehow grounded. ]

It'll be okay.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-19 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
I just want it all to stop.

[She'll apologize later for crying all over him.]
wavewalker: (sad Raptori in lack of snow)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-19 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
I know. I'm so sorry.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-19 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
Auuuu, I want to go home...
wavewalker: (where Tragedy goes)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-19 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
We all do.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-19 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
[She goes quiet after a while, in a miserable sort of way while she thinks before talking again.]

Ian...what if it isn't any better when I go home? What if it's worse?

What if they lock me up in an asylum? I'm crazy as far as they're concerned. They'll institutionalize me for sure.
wavewalker: (so why IS the rum gone?)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-19 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
I wish I had an answer for you, but the truth is- I don't. I don't know what will happen. As much as I wish we were all guaranteed a happy ending, the fact of the matter is some of us just... aren't.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-19 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
I don't...I don't want to be locked up anywhere anymore. I don't want to go.

[She's reaching some strange conclusions, some of which are deeply unsettling.]

It's always the same, it doesn't matter. Even if I go home, even if they don't lock me away, it won't matter. Something else will happen, something worse. There's always something worse. I've seen them. They keep getting worse just when everything looks like it'll be fine again. It won't matter...

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