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Post by Dawn Summers on Sept 7, 2010 19:08:14 GMT -5
Dawn slumps into the cabin, her body aching and weary. She drops onto her bed, and is asleep in seconds.
[glow=red,2,300]Dawn… Dawn… [/glow]
She turns fitfully, almost falling off the cot, but flips suddenly the other way.
[glow=red,2,300]Dawn… You didn't save me…[/glow]
Her mother's voice works its way into her dream.
[glow=red,2,300]Dawn… You couldn't save me…[/glow] I'm sorry. Mom, I'm sorry! You told me to run. [glow=red,2,300]Dawn… [/glow] The Thing (From Someplace, New York) appears, yellow eyes glinting red in the dim light, brown fur caked with mud and blood. Yellow teeth leer out of the slash of a mouth. It lunges, teeth clenching around Dawn's dream-head. The dream Dawn thrashes in the monster's grip, the sharp teeth digging into her soft flesh.
Real Dawn flips on the bed, eyes squeezed tightly shut, teeth grinding.
The Thing bites down, cracking her skull cleanly in half. Dawn… Dawn… You couldn't do it… You can't save yourself…
She awakes with a scream, a bone-chilling, teeth-rattling screech of desperation, of fear, of pain, of anguish. Of betrayal.
The scream continues, working its way through the smallest cracks and resounding throughout the camp.
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Post by Summer Anderson on Sept 8, 2010 15:19:01 GMT -5
(...awkward... You're a good roleplayer.) I kick open the door. "Dawn! Are you okay? Dawn?"
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Post by Dawn Summers on Sept 8, 2010 16:37:41 GMT -5
(Thanks. It took FOREVER to write.)
She lies shaking on her bed, her hands clenched tightly around her blankets. Her scream had ceased to exist, blinked out of the scheme of things like the blip it was. A small bit of blood runs from a scratch on the back of her left hand. The marks match perfectly with the nails on her right hand.
"Not gonna die, not gonna die, it's all a dream, not real, I'm at home, at home, home, home, home." She mumbles incoherently this way for a long time.
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Post by Summer Anderson on Sept 9, 2010 8:47:03 GMT -5
"Dawn! Dawn? I'll, I'll get Chiron!"
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Post by ~Emmy~ on Sept 9, 2010 10:31:44 GMT -5
Crystal burst in. "What with all the noise?" Crystal's hair was tangled up and there was a tear in her pajamas when she got it caught in a tree branch.
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Post by Summer Anderson on Sept 9, 2010 10:55:32 GMT -5
"Crystal? I think you need to get Chiron."
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Post by Dawn Summers on Sept 9, 2010 16:30:44 GMT -5
Her pale arms wrap around her knees, not entirely covered by the large t-shirt she wears as pajamas. She shakes her head furiously back and forth, as if trying to knock cobwebs out of her head.
"Mom, no, I'm sorry, so sorry, sorry, sorry. Don't leave me, please, please, don't leave me."
She seems not to notice the people in the room, not to see or hear anything.
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Post by Summer Anderson on Sept 9, 2010 16:36:50 GMT -5
"Dawn! Snap out of it." I turned to Crystal, my eyes anxious. "Crystal? Water her."
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Post by Dawn Summers on Sept 9, 2010 17:20:18 GMT -5
She stays where she is, eyes glassy and unfocused. She begins to rock side to side.
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Post by Summer Anderson on Sept 10, 2010 15:41:23 GMT -5
I put a hand on her shoulder. "Dawn!"
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Post by Dawn Summers on Sept 10, 2010 16:00:49 GMT -5
She looks at Summers hand, but nothing registers with her. She can fell the pressure, but doesn't realize.
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Post by ~Emmy~ on Sept 10, 2010 16:56:02 GMT -5
Crystal grumbles. She concentrated on the nearest water.
(Do you like a a bathroom attached to the cabin?)
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Post by Dawn Summers on Sept 10, 2010 17:09:35 GMT -5
(Yeah. I think.)
She scuttles backwards, still mumbling, until she drops off the cot. Not seeming to notice, she continues back until her back hits the wall.
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Post by ~Emmy~ on Sept 10, 2010 17:12:35 GMT -5
Suddenly water spurts form seemingly nowhere and she splashed all over Dawn. "Snap outta it!" Crystal yelled the moment the water hit Dawn's head.
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Post by Dawn Summers on Sept 10, 2010 17:23:35 GMT -5
As the cold liquid pours over her, she flies back to reality.
"Crystal? Summer?" The drenched girl gets shakily to her feet. "Why are you here?"
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Post by ~Emmy~ on Sept 10, 2010 17:27:26 GMT -5
"You were screaming. We heard the noise. Then I spashed you with water and you came back to the world." She looked curiously at Dawn.
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Post by Dawn Summers on Sept 10, 2010 17:41:22 GMT -5
"Oh." she says, remembering. "Yeah. Sorry about that."
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Post by ~Emmy~ on Sept 12, 2010 14:23:58 GMT -5
Crystal stared at Dawn for a few moments. "What...?" She trailed off, looking uncertain.
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Post by Dawn Summers on Sept 12, 2010 15:36:54 GMT -5
"It's just…" She bites her lip. "Memories are hard to deal with sometimes."
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Post by Summer Anderson on Sept 13, 2010 15:29:15 GMT -5
"You aren't kidding..." I muttered. "Are you okay now? Do you still need us to get Chiron?"
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