Delirium rarely dreamed but when she did the dreams were vivid and colourful. Cannibal balloon men tearing each other apart and feasting on long balloon intestines filled with cotton candy. A woman standing at the edge of a cliff before falling into a sea of red horses. A child dressed in a purple playsuit with a television aerial sticking out of
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On his way to the kitchen he found the woman that should have been inside making it next to a tree, clearly distressed and chained to a book.
Chained to a book?
“What happened to you?” he asked bluntly.
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"it SHouLdN't bE HerE, it shOULDn't. hE CAN't giVE it AWAY, HE caN't takE it off... it shoULDn't be HERe." Delirium said trying to slip her slender wrists out. It'd give eventually with some lubricant but she didn't have that now. Now she was panicked and not thinking. "gET it oFF me. iT's not minE. iT CAN't be mine."
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Harry knew mad fits, he knew them better than he would have liked to. Dayton in hospital, Barkin' Bob in prison, Joe Meek in his apartment. He knew all about mad fits.
He kept his hands open and visible he approached her. "All right, all right," he said calmly. "Calm down. We'll get it off you."
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It was difficult not to hear the screaming and so she went and she saw and she frowned both at the book and the chain. A hand found Del's cheek, brushed her hair, tried to soothe.
"Del," she murmured. "We'll get it off."
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Her fingers curved against Del's abdomen.
"I'll get this off," she whispered, her fingers on the chain. "They'll be okay, they'll be fine. You have strong babies, Del." There had to be something she could do. "I'll make everything okay, I swear."
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If she calmed down they would be able to ease it off maybe with a little difficulty but that was like trying to convince a screaming child that it wanted to stop throwing a tantrum. A lot harder than it sounded.
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Clearly, those cooking classes had paid off.
He headed to Del's immediately after, figuring she just hadn't been up to the task of fumbling about in the kitchen while carrying the added weight of the two people growing inside her. He couldn't blame her.
"Del?" He found her mid screaming fit. Why the fuck was there a giant book chained to her? "Who can't be here?" He didn't see anyone, but the sooner she answered, the sooner he'd get his hand off the gun in his holster.
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Books didn't need to be shot. Burned, maybe, but not shot. "Hey, you're okay. We'll get it off you, alright?" Once he figured out how.
Moving closer, he examined the chain and the cuff around Del's wrist. "You've gotta relax, Del. You'll just hurt yourself it you keep struggling. Do you have anything slick hoarded in here? Lotion, sunscreen, something?" He'd worry about who 'He' was and where the damn thing came from when she wasn't attached to it anymore.
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"Tell me?" she asked, softly, wondering if she had the skill to remove the chain with its burden.
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"iT's nOT suppose to be heRe, it'S not. hE can'T give it AWAy, hE caN'T take it oFF. IT'S not suPPOsed to be... gET it oFF me, i doN'T want it." Delirium said trying to get her and the babies as far away from it as she could.
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"I'll get it off, sweetheart, but you need to stay calm, or the babies will feel it," she said. "This belongs to one of your brothers, doesn't it?"
It might make sense, then, why it upset the lady so. Family was special, and hers...she might have been familiar with Death, or Desire, but a book meant nothing to Surreal.
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"StAY cALm, StAY cALM." Delirium said touching her rounded stomach. It would be bad for the babies. She had to remain relaxed for them or they might come and that would be bad. Everything in the books said that being early was bad. "Destiny. iT's thE boOK of Destiny. iT COntAins thE univERSE. eVEryTHinG THat hAS HaPPeNED, is HAPPeninG AND wiLL HappEN."
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Well, normally it was, anyway. Of course, normally Del wasn't chained to a book and clearly having the grandaddy of all panic attacks in the hallway. Abby's usual pre-coffee stroll turned into a dash and she wrapped her arms around Del, or as much of Del as she could reach.
"Hey, hey, Del, shh," she said soothingly, working on calming her down before she tried to figure out why there was a book there.
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"Hey, Del, I think we can get this off. And then you won't have to have it. Can you calm down just for a sec?" she asked, holding Del's hand.
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