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 2011-08-20 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Tell me about it.
wavewalker: (so why IS the rum gone?)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-20 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ He pulls away a little, brushing some hair away from her face ]

It seems to be wearing off a little?

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Her eyes squeeze shut for a moment as she tips her head up into his hand. It seems instinctive.]

I don't know, I'm not sure.
wavewalker: (Default)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-20 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
At the very least, I'm glad you've calmed down. [ he gives a rueful smile ] I don't like seeing you like that.

[identity profile] bitemescumbag.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Settle down there. Ya don't need red tape to take care of punks like that.

[He cracks his knuckles, any bravado exhibited mostly genuine.]

Even that spooky kinda jerk ain't immune to a good beating. Ain't like they don't have a habit of booking it away fast-like anyway.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'm just glad I'm not bleeding anymore...

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
No, the only thing that hurt them was the tape.

[Gingerly, she rests her chin on her knee, making a quiet whining sound.]

Nothing else could touch them.
wavewalker: (where Tragedy goes)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-20 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
If anything like that happens again, please call me.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
I will. I promise.
wavewalker: (and that's how Anwell does his hair!)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-20 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps we should get out of the middle of the street, hm?

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
A-auuu...um. Yeah, yeah I guess you're right.
wavewalker: (where Tragedy goes)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-20 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Where to? I doubt you'd want to go home, all things considered.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know, nowhere feels safe right now.
wavewalker: (so why IS the rum gone?)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-20 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
The park?

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
The...park?

[She hadn't even thought of that.]
wavewalker: (where Tragedy goes)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-20 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
Does that sound good?

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods shakily.]

Y-yeah.
wavewalker: (swashbuckler)

[personal profile] wavewalker 2011-08-20 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
Let's go, then.

[ He keeps an arm around her shoulder to guide her there. He does keep his sword arm free, though. You know, just in case. ]

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Okay...

[She pulls away only to stoop and collect her pipe and tape, hugging them close like a kind of security blanket. Even terrified as she is, her steps are almost silent.]

[identity profile] bitemescumbag.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Trust me, lady. Ain't no kinda spook who's attitude you can't fix with your fists. Just gotta have enough spirit, or something like that anyway.

[...Oh. He made a joke without realizing it. He'll chuckle at that, even if it does trigger a small coughing fit.]

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[On a better day Mika might have laughed and rolled her eyes at the horrible joke, she would've made some snarky or witty reply, grinning all the while.

But today is not a good day, and Mika just begins to cry.

And she hates herself for it.
]

You say it like it's supposed to be easy.

[identity profile] bitemescumbag.livejournal.com 2011-08-21 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yuri shrugs and makes a slight 'pfft' sound.] Nothin' in life's easy, girlie. The hell I'm gonna let that stop me from doin' what I want, though.

...For repeatin', I wanna sock a damn ghost in the face 'till it leaves me alone.

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-21 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
But it's not possible...

[She ducks her head, rocking like she's trying to console herself.]

It doesn't work that way...

[identity profile] bitemescumbag.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
It works how ya make it work... Not gonna give you some crappy line like, "believing in something will make it happen" -- just gonna say, I managed to pull some crazy stuff folks told me was "impossible" just by bein' my usual stubborn self...

[Like surviving as long as he has today with the severe internal lacerations he's got. Pretty astounding, really.]

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Work hard and you can make anything happen" is great and all, but what do you do if it doesn't work? What happens if you're wrong and trying hard only makes it worse or gets somebody killed? What if it's all wrong? What if it can't be fixed?

[From where she's sitting it's a sensible argument, one not easily defended against the shounen hero logic. Yet it's the only thread of logic that keeps her from feeling like she's failed everything as the blood drips down the tree bark and congeals in the grass around her.]

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