01. trip explosions: fred, george, hermione
** read at your own discretion
Chapters - 1/1
Rating - T
E-mail - tragedius@gmail.com
Summary - a product test goes awry.
Notes - personal experience, allusion to drugs, character death, weird.
cheshire cats: matching grins and white teeth and bright eyes, prowling and preying and offering her a piece of candy.
illusoire - new invention, still in pre-production, needs to be tested.
hey hermione, care to help a couple of weasleys out?
hesitant fingers pluck the treat from their wriggling fingers. glance: skeptical. mind: set and determined. action: fingers to mouth, tongue to throat, throat and swallow. sweet on the way down, warm and tingly like static burns. stings.
blink once, blink twice.
it was very good, thank --
-- end statement because the effects are quick and engulfing her like a lightning strike, swallowing her in its electricity and magnificence. things are moving in-out-in like three-dimensional mirrors in fun houses and shapes are distorted and angles are magnified times ten and what have you done?
sweat breaks and she staggers to hold onto something.
grins falter, then confusion, then concern and hands are grasping at her arms, voices (nearby) far are speaking to her. attention! attention! hermione, hey, what's wrong? we weren't exactly sure of its properties and just needed -- oh hell, we should have just tried it on ron.
no. no. no.
heart: beat. beat. beatbeatbeat. skip.
LET GO! and she's scrambling away from them because the hallucinations were pretty before and now they're darker and evil and her nightmares are alive and spinning.
nightmares: unable to reach loved ones, darkness, failure. all of it, everything.
heart: beat. skip. beatbeat. skip. beat.
harry potter would be proud of her.
breathe. breathe. breathe.
too many faces. too many actions. too many people all at once and she wonders where they all came from.
oh god. oh god. oh god.
eyes closed. lip-on-lip contact. exhale. hands on her chest, pumping. repeat process.
BREATHE!
heart: beatbeatbeat. skip. stop.
stars burst behind her eyes and someone is kissing her. repeat process.
breathe. breathe. breath--
-- end pulse.