versusnurture: (➵ 'cause i was miserable)
Abigail Hobbs ([personal profile] versusnurture) wrote2015-03-23 12:09 pm

twenty-eight ♢ spam & video ( cw: tooth squick )

spam } infirmary

[Before the pain hits, in that brief insensible moment after waking, she feels a stab of pride. She did it. She got him. She didn't win, but she fought back against the implacable, impossible, eternal enemy. She silenced him - if only for a moment, she silenced him.]

[It's after that that the pain hits, her head aching impossibly. She wants to die, laughs silently when she recognizes the irony. It feels as though she's cracking in half from her skull down.]

[But even the pain can't distract her from panic for long. While she was dead, it must have gotten worse. It creeps back up her throat before she knows it's there to push back down, her heart beating a hard tattoo in her chest as she sees-- hears-- smells red blood on her hands and the fur of the beast.]

[There is a man in the corner of the room. He breathes in and out. She can hear him speaking, one word only: "See." She can see his chest moving. She can smell blood on his teeth like he's breathing in her face.]

[She sits on her cot, staring at nothing, shivering helplessly, her throat as dry as the deadest desert.]


video

[It's later that the knives sprout. Thirty-two little monster teeth, each with a metal serrated edge, each curved just slightly, making their way into her mouth after pushing her old teeth bloody onto the pure white sheet.]

[They don't distract her as much as they should, though they cut her tongue up something wicked. She has questions - but she can't speak.]

[So in video she turns on a smile, her knife-teeth fitting together like perfect dentures, and holds up a small whiteboard.]

[It says, WHO ELSE CAN SEE HIM?]
strangehistorian: (the confused)

[personal profile] strangehistorian 2015-03-27 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
...Perhaps you should look into it. Didn't Tiffany have someone fix her teeth, as well?
adelphoktonos: (you kept me in that storm)

[personal profile] adelphoktonos 2015-03-29 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Helena has white wings, bloody and bedraggled. They're huge, wrapping around to the front of her body, smearing blood in her hair where the feathers and her curls tangle together.]

Who do you see?
thelastbullet: (snaps fingers)

the latest but: spam, whenever you like

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-03-31 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Kylar had asked him to check up on her, but to be honest, it even takes him a while to spot which bed she's in. They don't know each other, and although it's not strange for him to have death in common with someone, it's strange that it's her death they have in common.

He lopes up to her, trying not to look as awkward as he feels this is. His arm is in a sling; and depending on whether the flood has started or not, there are little curved ridges of bone coming through the fabric of his trousers.]


You Abigail?
tucky: (sometimes a sunhat is just a sunhat)

[personal profile] tucky 2015-04-01 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Tiffany casts a nervous glance at the corner at that.]

No, I... I don't think that's true.
tucky: (the bridge to the future is out)

[personal profile] tucky 2015-04-01 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
... Yeah, I know. Of course I know.
thelastbullet: (pull the other one)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-04-01 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[It reminds him of Pearl, towards the end: small and hurt, sunk away in the middle of a big white bed. Big eyes, brown hair, and the idea that a comforting future is too far away. Something twists in him at the memory, buried as it had been underneath time and distance and too much opium.

He stands at the end of her bed, his free hand rubbing at his mouth just once.]


I'm- a friend of Kylar's. He asked me to check on you.
thelastbullet: (a little smoking never hurt anyone)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-04-01 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Stuck himself in Zero. [He's itching for something to do with his free hand; but cigarettes and booze are out, so he just rakes a hand through his hair.] So this wouldn't happen again.
tucky: (the bridge to the future is out)

[personal profile] tucky 2015-04-01 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
'Cause I'm not the one lying in the bed.
thelastbullet: (mm yes oedipus what of it)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-04-01 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[He clenches his hand, looks at her for a second when she's sat back. Something in him thinks about squeezing lemons into a glass; dropping in some laudanum. He tries to banish the thought, but doesn't quite succeed.]

What happened?
adelphoktonos: (but i asked for two)

[personal profile] adelphoktonos 2015-04-02 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[It takes Helena a beat or two longer to read the words than it might someone else, but when she reads it, she smiles. There's a hint of something in the smile and her wings shift and twitch.]

I could be a real angel, now.

[A pause, then:]

How long has he been there? I see no one.
strangehistorian: (the warden)

[personal profile] strangehistorian 2015-04-03 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Quite possibly!
warisart: (Resignation)

[personal profile] warisart 2015-04-04 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ben lets go of the hand she lifts away, still watching and ready to pluck it back to him if she looks to do anything harmful to herself with it. He's concerned enough to reach for her but not confident enough to hold on if she pulls away even slightly.

Now she points and he glances over at the empty corner, at the equipment stored there, and back to her. He would happily carry whatever she put on him at this point, he knows intimately what failure feels like, but he doesn't know what she means.
]

Do I see what?
tucky: (I had a feeling today)

[personal profile] tucky 2015-04-05 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Ain't it?

You're sick or something and I'm not.
thelastbullet: (gurl that frock)

[personal profile] thelastbullet 2015-04-05 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[He gives her a Look] Why did you die, Abigail?

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