✖ anxiety attack: 005 ✖

[notlikethemovie]

[A. 339 Brady Lane]

[The sound of shattering glass is loud in the kitchen, the milk bottle having slipped out of Mika's hands. Sweat forms on her brow, her pupils dilating, and the trembling starts just as she begins to scream

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[B. Phone]

[kurobakaitoukid]

[Kaito has no idea what's going on with this girl, but it probably has something to do with the milk. He adopts a soothing tone.]

Hey, hey. I'm here, I'm listening.

[B. Phone]

[notlikethemovie]

[She swallows around a lump in her throat, whining softly. Everything was getting worse, and she wanted to crawl in a hole and stay there.]

I think...I think I'm starting to get possessed. It's..it's different from normal, but I think it might be happening. I don't know where to find the red tape, but I don't want to be trapped here with them if it happens!

[B. Phone]

[kurobakaitoukid]

Listen, I know you're scared right now, but I have a very serious question to ask you, and I really need you to answer it, okay?

Did you drink the milk?

[B. Phone]

[notlikethemovie]

I did, I did! I couldn't let Annie get sick again, I couldn't let her die again, she's dead, she's dead and it's all my fault, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry...

... C /is the worst

[walkwaves]

[ By now he knows the milk isn't right, and he's making some rounds around the town, scoping out the damage.

... He spots Mika, and he almost wants to run over, but the look on her face gives him pause. That doesn't look good. ] Mika?

C /you have no idea I am so sorry for her behaviour

[notlikethemovie]

Ian? Ian!

[Oh thank God someone sensible he might listen.]

Run! They're coming, they can hear us, we've got to go right now!

sob Mika

[walkwaves]

Who's coming? What are you talking about?

it's all downhill from here bb ;;

[notlikethemovie]

The monsters. They can hear you, that's how they find you.

[She's shaking visibly, clutching her pipe in both hands, the sweat dripping down her nose.]

They know where I am, they're coming for me. The possession's already started, I can feel it. I have to fight it just to keep it out.

A

[techno_mancer]

[Quinn dashes into the kitchen, hearing the shattering and screaming.]

Mika! What--?!

Re: A

[notlikethemovie]

[She's backed against the far wall now, flattened against it and leaving ditch marks in the plaster from her claws. She looks like she's suffering from a very, very bad trip.]

St-stay away from me!

[Oh god it's one of the shambling things that she'd avoided whenever she'd tried to run for supplies, swollen flesh stretched too tightly over a gaunt frame, a faceless horror that made awful noises as it stared at her without eyes. The walls breathing around her and oozing blood now that her claws have dug into the fleshy mass at her back, hot and pulsing with a hidden heartbeat. It's so hot and humid she can barely breathe, her ears flat against her scalp and her irises little more than a hazel ring around the black void of her pupils.

Maybe if she doesn't move the thing won't see her.]

[techno_mancer]

[Well he's seen that happen to people before. Seeing the glass and milk all over the floor, he jumps to the right conclusion. Ruri was hallucinating too, after all. But Ruri doesn't have teeth and claws.

He'll stay where he is, but speak gently.]

H-Hey, darlin', relax. I ain't gonna hurt ya. Take it easy.

[notlikethemovie]

[Her lips peel back and she makes an inhuman shrieking sound, more like a yowl than an actual scream--very much like an animal with its paw caught in a trap.

Maybe if she bristles up and snarls enough it'll go away?

Mika actually looks bigger when she's crouching, her hackles up as she growls, still tucked tightly against the wall as she keeps her right side pressed to it to protect it. She'll take a water stain ghost over one of the hellbeasts any day. At least the water stain ghosts will only try to strangle her.]

[D; Park]

[bitemescumbag]

[Someone sitting under the tree he's grown accustomed to, nay has all but marked as his own? Well, that won't stop Yuri from plopping down on the other side of it.]

Damn, girl. You look like crap.

[This from the man with a near-completely destroyed voice, courtesy of attempting to shotgun razor-milk.]

[D; Park]

[notlikethemovie]

Feel like it too.

[She shivers, hugging herself tighter.]

At least they're gone now.

[What is she talking about? Mika makes a quiet sound of distress as she hugs her knees tighter.]

[bitemescumbag]

[He rolls his neck, wincing a bit, but staying nonchalant otherwise.]

They? Oh... lemme guess: you got the crazy-juice, today?

[A model of tact, this one.]

[notlikethemovie]

I...ah...

[Whimpering softly, his words seem to sting her as she somehow manages to curl tighter into herself without even moving.]