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?]
wavewalker: (sad Raptori in lack of snow)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-19 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That... hits close to home. Closer than he thought it would, and he can't help but tighten his grip on her in response.

For a moment, he's tempted to ask her to come with him, back to his world. To be part of his crew or whatever, but he remembers where they're sailing, and that's somewhere no one wants to go. ]


Gods, Mika. You... you remind me of me when you talk like that.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-19 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[All she can think of is a desolate town, full of ghosts and creatures lurking in every shadow. Where nothing is safe, the food rots in your mouth, and there's no sense sleeping in the beds when the ghosts scream at all hours of the night and shake you right out of the bed.

Where blood drips from faucets and some of the walls, where water stains on the wallpaper hide ghosts who reach out and strangle anyone close enough to grab.

Where things of nightmares walk and prowl and the only sense of safety lies in lone rolls of red tape. But even those can be hard to come by.

Mika makes a soft cry, a cub long separated from its family, crying at the things that want to tear at her just at the edge of her hearing.
]

I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I'll do better next time...

[D; Park]

[identity profile] bitemescumbag.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Someone sitting under the tree he's grown accustomed to, nay has all but marked as his own? Well, that won't stop Yuri from plopping down on the other side of it.]

Damn, girl. You look like crap.

[This from the man with a near-completely destroyed voice, courtesy of attempting to shotgun razor-milk.]

[D; Park]

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Feel like it too.

[She shivers, hugging herself tighter.]

At least they're gone now.

[What is she talking about? Mika makes a quiet sound of distress as she hugs her knees tighter.]

[identity profile] bitemescumbag.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[He rolls his neck, wincing a bit, but staying nonchalant otherwise.]

They? Oh... lemme guess: you got the crazy-juice, today?

[A model of tact, this one.]

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
I...ah...

[Whimpering softly, his words seem to sting her as she somehow manages to curl tighter into herself without even moving.]

[identity profile] bitemescumbag.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[...Oh. Whoops.]

Bad word choice, huh. Sorry 'bout that. Less of a mind to watch my tongue than usual, today...

[And, he sounds sincere.]

Y'doin' alright now, at least?

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
I...I guess so. Maybe. I think so.

[She presses her face against her knees, but her tail thumps softly against the grass.]

'm not bleeding anymore.

[identity profile] bitemescumbag.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
[He's got sense of mind to keep his voice from sounding liquid-y. Good for him.]

Definitely a plus. 'Specially here; not much ya can do for a cut in the park, y'know? No Thera here.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
It's not cuts I'm worried about.

[Her ears fold back and she makes an unhappy sound deep in her throat.]

My eyes were melting earlier.

[identity profile] bitemescumbag.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? Sounds like it musta sucked.

[And then a sudden realization.]

...You looked alright a few seconds ago, though. You a regenerator or somethin'?

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Always happens when the possessions are over.

[Mika begins to rock herself where she sits.]

It always happens.
wavewalker: (where Tragedy goes)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-20 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ They're the same height, but it's surprisingly easy for him for bury his face in her hair, shaking his head slightly. ] You haven't done anything wrong.

[identity profile] bitemescumbag.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
P-possessions!?

You, uhm, you don't mean like ghosts, do you?

[oh god oh man oh god oh man...]

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
[She whimpers softly, her ears flat against her scalp as she trembles, burying her face in his shoulder.]

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
M-mm...

[She nods, continuing to rock.]

I thought I'd never have to deal with it again. I thought I'd gotten past it all. I thought it would never happen again.
wavewalker: (sad Raptori in lack of snow)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-20 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ He begins stroking her hair, trying to be soothing. It's all he can think to do right now. ]

[identity profile] bitemescumbag.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Urrgh. Damn ghosts. Didn't think there'd be any here. 'course it was a matter of time...

[He's actually muttering to himself more than anything else, snapping out of it to ask an important question.]

Say, you didn't try takin' a swing at 'em, did you?

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[It is surprisingly effective, quieting her whimpers and slowing how hard she's crying to a small sniffle. If he continues it might make her tail start wagging.]
wavewalker: (Default)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-20 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ If her tail does start wagging, he'll allow himself a small smile. He's glad something worked, anyway. He doesn't like seeing her like that. ]

You're going to be okay, Mika.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
They told me there wouldn't be any here.

[The quiet 'auuuuu' sound she makes is almost inaudible.]

Mm-mm. [She shakes her head, managing not to whimper again.] I didn't have the tape. I need the red tape,

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Hauuuu...

[She relaxes against him, her trembling almost completely gone as her tail begins to wag properly.]
wavewalker: (and that's how Anwell does his hair!)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-20 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ He chuckles a little ]

We really have to stop meeting like this.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Y-yeah, 'm sorry.

[She sniffs, rubbing at her eyes.]

I don't...I don't know what's wrong with me.
wavewalker: (where Tragedy goes)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-20 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Mayfield is what's wrong.

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