[ooc: Millitimed to last night. Warnings for violence.]
( Nightmare: Revenge )

Kim's eyes are bloodshot from lack of sleep and the tears she hasn't been able to stop for the last few hours.
President injured, no word from anyone, entire country in danger, and she keeps looking at the clock.

January 2009
'Dammit, I'm going to be late,' Kim thinks as she runs up the stairs to her therapist's office. It isn't her fault, Angie needed her favorite stuffed animal before being dropped off at the neighbor's. She reaches the third floor and takes a breath before opening the door to the waiting area.
She takes a seat and grabs a Time ( Read more... )

Kim parks in the lot and doesn't allow herself a moment of hesitation. If she lets herself, she knows she could sit out here most of the day and into the night.
Still, she doesn't know what to expect. There are things from after September 20th, events that she couldn't remember, that suddenly make so much more sense: Chase's distance, the way he ( Read more... )

She takes a breath, and another, rain falling on her as she looks around. She's back on the trail. The sun's bright, but it's raining. It was raining when she left.
She stifles a sob and covers her mouth - back home, away from everyone. Back to a world without Nita, without Chris, without Ryan and Elaine, and...
'But it's safe'
She leans her ( Read more... )

[OOC: Warnings for violence, drug use and general scariness]
Kim wakes up in darkness. She feels the ground moving underneath her and realizes that she's blindfolded.
'Oh God'.
She stifles a scream, 'don't panic,' she thinks. But that's a hard command for her mind to follow, especially when this brings up so many bad memories.
Her heart's ( Read more... )

America had become an endless sea of quarantine zones and checkpoints. So many dead that funerals were impossible, the only blessing was that the virus was dormant after death.
Every tenth person was immune - the news she caught yesterday talked about how people were slowly trying to get back to normal. Kim can still remember hearing the stories ( Read more... )

Kim wakes up the next morning. She doesn't remember falling asleep. After the news reports she sat for a long time before exhaustion overtook her.
By the light of day she can see things that she hadn't noticed last night. Outside it's snowing and she still doesn't recognize her surroundings.
She walks over to the window and sees that she's at ( Read more... )

[OOC: Kim sees the door and decides to go home for a few hours]
Kim expects to find herself back in the woods. Instead, she's in a dark room. The ground is soft and she fumbles for a light. She thinks she must be in her house. But when she finds the light switch she sees an unfamiliar room and a silhouetted skyline that she doesn't recognize.
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