We All Fall Dead by Unwritten92 (Child's Play Challenge)
Title: We All Fall Dead
Author: Unwritten92
Prompt: Child's PLay Challenge - Ring around the rosies
Genre: Horror/Suspense
AU/CU: Alternate Universe
Rating:T
Warnings: Character Death
Word Count: 229
A/N: Part of the Child's Play Challenge short series.
Summary: It started when she was young, in her dreams. #7.
It is said a child is not able to understand an objects permanence until his mind is fully developed. This usually occurs at the age of eighth or nine.
Kagome is nine when she finally understands that he is not going away.
For her is a scary thought, and even more so now that she has no one there to protect her. She decides that she has to stop it, and comes up with the only solution she can.
Everything in her house is against her, was against her mother and her grandfather. She knows it's because of him. SHe believes he is tied to the house through a connection no one can see or feel. She decides to burn the house.
Everything is in ashes, and the voices she used to hear all around her all the time are now silent. No more impulses to run or to go and hide.
But she has nowhere to go.
As she turns and descends the shrine stairs the wind picks up. The sakura blossoms swirl by her and float to the ground.
There at the end of the stairs he is standing waiting for her.
Kagome knows there is no escaping, he wasn't haunting her house, or her mother or her grandfather. He has always been haunting her. It is her he wants, her he wants to posses.
Kagome falls.
Author: Unwritten92
Prompt: Child's PLay Challenge - Ring around the rosies
Genre: Horror/Suspense
AU/CU: Alternate Universe
Rating:T
Warnings: Character Death
Word Count: 229
A/N: Part of the Child's Play Challenge short series.
Summary: It started when she was young, in her dreams. #7.
It is said a child is not able to understand an objects permanence until his mind is fully developed. This usually occurs at the age of eighth or nine.
Kagome is nine when she finally understands that he is not going away.
For her is a scary thought, and even more so now that she has no one there to protect her. She decides that she has to stop it, and comes up with the only solution she can.
Everything in her house is against her, was against her mother and her grandfather. She knows it's because of him. SHe believes he is tied to the house through a connection no one can see or feel. She decides to burn the house.
Everything is in ashes, and the voices she used to hear all around her all the time are now silent. No more impulses to run or to go and hide.
But she has nowhere to go.
As she turns and descends the shrine stairs the wind picks up. The sakura blossoms swirl by her and float to the ground.
There at the end of the stairs he is standing waiting for her.
Kagome knows there is no escaping, he wasn't haunting her house, or her mother or her grandfather. He has always been haunting her. It is her he wants, her he wants to posses.
Kagome falls.