The door slammed and I sobbed quietly in the corner, trying to get my whits about me once again. I had to stay strong, I had to keep fighting and not give up. Not only for myself, but with Faith's condition she wasn't in anyway able to handle herself. Slayer or not
( ... )
Her eyes danced at me as she pulled me down on the floor. Pressing it against my neck, I turned my face away from her to look at the door again before she pulled me back so I was looking at her. Glancing down I watched the little ball of light that followed her everywhere. I wanted to squish it. What happened when you squished a little ball of light? Did it blow up and disappear into the sky? Did it choke and die? Did it wander away with the other fairies
( ... )
I looked down at the shirt that Faith handed me for a moment before looking up and watching her move around the cell, she looked like a caged animal and I guess when you get down to it that's what we are
( ... )
"He. He." I said quietly, turning my head every which when she comes closer. She shouldn't do that because rattle snakes bite back. Everybody knows that. Why did she never listen? She was bad girl too and we never listen. Can't even hear anything because there's this roaring behind your ears. She can hear it too I wonder if she does, she must because she wouldn't be here if she doesn't
( ... )
Every moment that past, every movement from Faith proved to me more and more that Faith was too far gone to talk to rationally. Whoever got to her before hand - vampire or human - had done something to her, confused her and made her how she is now
( ... )
"Can't." I frown down at the butterfly, unsure with wings all ripped and torn. Doesn't know how to help, doesn't know how to escape. Caged birdie. I sigh and sit down too because I think that's what I'm supposed to do now. She's sad. I'm sad. Caged and trapped.
"They'll come back." I tell her but she already knows. She knows because she's magical, she has the light. She is the light. She misses them. She wants more. "You'll die here. We'll all die here." I promise her before crawling across the cold floor over to her. She flinches because of the burn. I make her burn now, she's only fire.
"Shhh." I soothe, I touch, I burn. My hand against her shoulder. It leaves a print. "You'll never forget me now." I promise her because everyone else forgets. They all forget and I keep going. I always remember.
"They'll come back soon but now it's just us. Us and the light." I say the words and then the light comes back, dancing in her palm. The corner of my mouth twitches up into a smile as I try to touch it.
Her words are constant babble, nothing's really coherent but at the same time a lot of what she says makes some sort of sense. Maybe I'm the one losing my mind now
( ... )
Blink and you miss. Then it moves and stares you in the face. I look into the light but the light doesn't see me. I belong in the dark. She knows. Playing games. Like jumprope and hop scotch but I don't play those games anymore. I don't think I ever did play them. No. I play other kinds of games now. I am the pawn, the lamb, the sinking battleship. They are the slide into home. Go to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect two hundred dollars. Go directly to jail.
"Okay," I agree because there's nothing else except the light bobbing in front of my face. I want to touch it but I know it only burns, instead I'll play her game. This is the game I am destined to win. She has to lose. She has to die. She dies and he hides and I float somewhere in between. No angel to save us now.
Good, she wants to play. That just leaves all this up to me. I don't even know if I'm strong enough. Between broken fingers and Lindsey weakening me by drinking a few times, I'm not on my game
( ... )
I watch the lights, because she's pretty and she's nice and she tells me to. I want to behave. I want to be a good girl. I'm just really bad at. But we're playing a game and now I'm going to behave. For her.
"I can hear you." I said surely, as I felt her coming nearer to me. She didn't belong her and part of me just wanted to toss her ass out. I mean, this was mine. This was where I hide and if someone knew about it, how would that stop Drusilla from breaking and entering? This was my one safe place and I shouldn't even let Tara in here. Guess that was what I got for playing games
( ... )
It took a bit of wondering but I finally found Faith, she was locked away deep inside herself and it seemed that she created the safest place to her. "There you are." I murmured, feeling relieved as I walked towards her.
I stayed standing, unsure of if I should sit or not, I didn't want to intrude anymore then I already was. But it was a needed intrusion, I couldn't talk to her otherwise. The riddles made my head hurt. "I came to talk to you, you don't make much sense out there..." I lowered my voice and tucked my hair behind my ear.
"I didn't...I didn't mean to break trust Faith, I just...I didn't know wh-what else to do. Can't try to find a way out with your head all confused like that." I sat down on the floor, my body still feeling weak and that made my spirit just as weak. "Do you umm...do you know what's going on out there?" Do you understand it? Have you figured a way out? Please...
Licking my lips I looked up at her. "I-I can leave if you don't w-want me here..."
"Yeah, I know." I looked down, dark hair falling in my face as I studied my hands. It wasn't my fault that I wasn't makin' much sense out there it was the only way that I knew how to survive without lettin' Dru kill me completely. Cause I knew if I gave her all of me she'd wring it out and then I'd be nothin'. I was keepin' the best parts of me hidden so she wouldn't find them
( ... )
I'm not sure what it was about this place but I felt a bit more relaxed now. Maybe it was because I didn't have to talk in riddles or anything to keep Faith's attention
( ... )
"Naw." I shook my head when she said that they needed us for Angel. "This shit's only temporary, Tara. Once they get what they want we're as good as dead. Really? I'm surprised I'm not dead yet. They're just waitin' ya know? Waitin' to send him the corpse of the Slayer he saved. Like that's gonna be enough to stop him or something. And you? Once you do your little spell, you're totally worthless to them. We ain't got time, Tara. And I'm not goin' back out there to chill with a crazy fucking freak and get beat on til I can't take it no more. I'll stay here until it's over. It's not so bad in here
( ... )
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"Can't." I frown down at the butterfly, unsure with wings all ripped and torn. Doesn't know how to help, doesn't know how to escape. Caged birdie. I sigh and sit down too because I think that's what I'm supposed to do now. She's sad. I'm sad. Caged and trapped.
"They'll come back." I tell her but she already knows. She knows because she's magical, she has the light. She is the light. She misses them. She wants more. "You'll die here. We'll all die here." I promise her before crawling across the cold floor over to her. She flinches because of the burn. I make her burn now, she's only fire.
"Shhh." I soothe, I touch, I burn. My hand against her shoulder. It leaves a print. "You'll never forget me now." I promise her because everyone else forgets. They all forget and I keep going. I always remember.
"They'll come back soon but now it's just us. Us and the light." I say the words and then the light comes back, dancing in her palm. The corner of my mouth twitches up into a smile as I try to touch it.
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"Okay," I agree because there's nothing else except the light bobbing in front of my face. I want to touch it but I know it only burns, instead I'll play her game. This is the game I am destined to win. She has to lose. She has to die. She dies and he hides and I float somewhere in between. No angel to save us now.
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"I can hear you." I said surely, as I felt her coming nearer to me. She didn't belong her and part of me just wanted to toss her ass out. I mean, this was mine. This was where I hide and if someone knew about it, how would that stop Drusilla from breaking and entering? This was my one safe place and I shouldn't even let Tara in here. Guess that was what I got for playing games ( ... )
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I stayed standing, unsure of if I should sit or not, I didn't want to intrude anymore then I already was. But it was a needed intrusion, I couldn't talk to her otherwise. The riddles made my head hurt. "I came to talk to you, you don't make much sense out there..." I lowered my voice and tucked my hair behind my ear.
"I didn't...I didn't mean to break trust Faith, I just...I didn't know wh-what else to do. Can't try to find a way out with your head all confused like that." I sat down on the floor, my body still feeling weak and that made my spirit just as weak. "Do you umm...do you know what's going on out there?" Do you understand it? Have you figured a way out? Please...
Licking my lips I looked up at her. "I-I can leave if you don't w-want me here..."
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