Who: Casse / Cassandre
Where: XM: Med / Endless
With: Xavier / Dream
When: Time gap - eh, about an hour
It's always the irony that when things start to fall apart they can always keep themselves strung together even as million pieces fall apart until the one thing left holding them together falls, and then it's like watching a two tousand story building just crashing downward. The girders bend and snap. The windows smash and glittering to lay like pieces of frozen color on the ground. The bricks fall and smash into a million pieces.
And the creation that was lies broken.
The only problems that lay are in the things that the bilding used and depended, but don't always depend on the sturdiness of the building. Like electrical chord, twisted, frayed, laying open still holding chard and buffets of electricity. Things to be contained, problems that prove to be challenging to get around, no matter how many or how hard you try....the flap and spray the electricty everywhere, unbound and unleashed.
Much the way the electric feild around Casse began to play on all the machines around her. Most of her own things left on, espect for her conciousness, all the machines within twenty feet of her still reacted wrong. Some, like video cameras and body sensors would malfunction and blink for the time she was near them, other, like the med bay and the strung lights above her flickered as though a jolt of power too large was running through them suddenly.
But the body of the girl on the bed lay limp, her face relaxed as it hadn't been in months, and her real self so very far away. As far away as her mind, even as he tried to reach her, in all the ways he could, for she remained evasive and illusive as a shadow, even laying there barely a foot from him.
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Where: Her Mind/Endless
When: Umm....well...a long time to her, a shorter time to the world
Wandering in the fog, she called out into it, but her voice seemed to only leave her mouth and immeaditely fade. She tired to yell louder to no avail. Her hands went to her wrists, only to find her wristlets gone. Then her realization of everything being gone. Her boots, her silver posts, Selaque, the butterfly clip...even her locket.
She reached hard and nothing happened.
Then a sinking feeling started to claim her as she started running through the fog. She ran and ran and ran. It felt like she couldn't stop, like there was nothing to stop her, like hell was on her heels, and even when she tried she couldn't stop. All she coudl do was run and run and run, until the fog suddenly started clearing.
Then she wanted with all her will to stop, but she couldn't. Not till the fog was gone.
Only once it was gone, she was wishing for it, and all of it's lost.
Because what lay before her was worse than anything that she'd just run from. A beautiful house, german in origin, on a rolling lot of green grass with gardens. It had a farm house in the far back, pools, and ball courts of all accord. A base ball dimond, and diving boards. It pristine, it was perfect.....and only for that two seconds.
Because in the next one, the air turned to the taste of ash and the first section was blown to smithereens. Screams, explosions, all the riot of noise, flames, destruction and people.
"Pretty as a rose, sharp as a blade, and as misunderstood as the dreams of children," the voice from behind her called.
She didn't turn to look at him, she couldn't even force her eyes away. Her voice came out as the faintest whispers. "Stop this."
"You're too weak, little demon, little angel," the voice said, full of power, and yet so small and simple. "You couldn't even find the rose gardens before you claimed yourself as your prey once more."
"You swore," Casse croak, and cringed, as fire lit the sky again, and the front steps vanished in a flare of bright light and the debris flying. She turned to him, tears starting to fall down her cheeks, even though she bade them not to fall. He was clad in all that was night, the cloak of the sky and the red burning eyes that weren't exactly eyes. "Stop this."
"Ask me," he said, with an odd gentleness to his voice, though his face didn't change.
Her lips tightened as she looked from that passive face to the scene before her, her entire stomach going with her. They were outside now. They were laying bodies. And people were running back inside. They were still more. More people were still inside.
Just.....
"Perhaps another time then."
....like her.
"No," she called but when she turned he was gone, and the tears calimed her cheek like a ravage torrent for the breadth of s second before everything changed again. "Not again."
The fire on her skin, so warm, so close. It felt like it was burning her alive. Tears were bubbling at the edges o her eyes. She had teddy though. She'd saved him from the fire. Saved teddy, because Daddy had forgotten him when he'd grabbed her and Junior. It was so hot in here, and it hurt her skin and the flames were scaring her.
She was trying to be brave. Daddy had said being brave was a place of mind once. She could be brave. Just like Daddy.
The fire seared her skin and she screamed. Screamed with all the life in her...and suddenly the rooms doros blew open. She wasn't sure what happened, after all the heroes were all over the house, getting children out and safe. One of them must have heard. Yes, that was it. But the fire was catching again and she ran for the door. Kept running down the hallway, knowing the fire was everywhere, the bombs were everywhere, not understanding why their house was being blown apart.
And then. There she was in radiant glory, coming down the hallway almost faster than vision coudl see. Casse raised her arms and all fear vanished. It was mommy. Mommy had come for her. She would be safe and teddy woudl be safe. Even if a little singed now. Safe inside mommys arms, she and teddy went flying out one of the broken walls toward everyone at the edge of the grass knoll ear the woods.
Dread filled her. She knew what came next somehow stepping outside her child mind frame one step. For one second alone.
The beeps came. One. Two. Three.
She looked up at Mommy's face confused, feeling mommy's grip tighten suddenly. She'd never seen mommy's fae the way it was now. And then it came faster than she expecxted. The roaring sound so loud it seemed to shatter her ears with pain and a heat so intense she felt like she was being consumed by the fire once more. And the hard ground impact suddenly, jarring, painful, sudden and unexpectedly real.
She stayed there who knows how long. Maybe a minute. Maybe a few before realizing she was mostly pinned by mommy, though she wans't sure why. It didn't make sense, unless mommy thought it was still dangerous. She waited a little longer and then wiggled out, even though she couldn't yank teddy out from under mommys side.
So she moved up to mommys side. Ohh, mommy was sleeping. At least it looked like mommy was sleeping. So she moved mommy a little bit. A little movment here, skaing, a little poking with small short fingers, a little touch on her cheek. No movement. Confusion setteled in as fast as fear, your newest loyal friend....until suddenly, her eyes lashes fluttered.
Her mother eye's fluttered open slowly, and her heart lightened considerably -everything would be fine now, and the world would turn and life would go back to nomal- and in her happiness, a childs pure undoubtful bliss, she overlooked the distant light, the dying light, in her mothers eyes, as her mother lips curled in a smile and se reached up to take Casse's face in her hands a few seconds.
"My angel....My little baby angel...." the voice was a bare whisper at the most only but her heart slowed the beat in her chest at her mothers touch and voice, but suddenly three or four seconds later a shudder ran through her mothers body and her hand fell and she just stopped moving again, just like the others. Just like the picni
"NO!!!!!!!!" Casse screamed clutching her hands around her chest and shoulders as her eyes opened again, tears touching her cheeks.
~~~~~~
Where: Med-lab
When: Give or take an hour
For about half an hour her vitals had been raising and dropping at the drop of a hat, a known thing if someone used physical means to track her heart beat and watched the the way she started breathing. Then it got worse, when it seemed her skin started to glow blue slowly, but her heart beat ceased along wth her breathing. But just when she'd gone back to dead calm lasting almost five to ten minutes, she lurched forward from the bed. She acreamed loud and long before she could stop it or even attempt to contain it, flooding anyone within a hundred feet of her by the use of her voice with complete and utter terror.
But without reason nor push, it went into them and fled them just as fast.
Casse shuddered pulling her knees to her chest. She was rocking on her bottom, , her arms wrapped close to her, eyes closed tight as she could get, no sound coming from her once she went silent. All she was trying to do was make the image of her mothers eyes leave her again. She could feel those eyes, the way they dances. Her mothers emotions always like a book to her.
Sitting there for a very long time inside her head, she missed anything he said or did once she had moved. She was too busy constructing the walls in her mind that kept that nightmare penned away behind steel girders and a facade of cemented realism in the now, the more important time. Even when she came back to awareness once more she didn't move.
Between shock, amazement and annoyance she sat there, her forehead still braced into her knees and her hair a veritable exlosion of black silken strands covering all of her and the bed she was sitting stock still on. She didn't move or raise her head to look at him, she wasn't sure she was stable enough to look him in the eyes. Even as she thought about it, so many memories flashed brilliant and bright as if they were pictures just taken.
Very quietly she spoke, a soft, small, voice, struggling to remain firm, from within the fountain of black hair; "If you're even a shadow of the person I once dreamt you were, you won't ask. Anything."
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Where: XM: Med / Endless
With: Xavier / Dream
When: Time gap - eh, about an hour
It's always the irony that when things start to fall apart they can always keep themselves strung together even as million pieces fall apart until the one thing left holding them together falls, and then it's like watching a two tousand story building just crashing downward. The girders bend and snap. The windows smash and glittering to lay like pieces of frozen color on the ground. The bricks fall and smash into a million pieces.
And the creation that was lies broken.
The only problems that lay are in the things that the bilding used and depended, but don't always depend on the sturdiness of the building. Like electrical chord, twisted, frayed, laying open still holding chard and buffets of electricity. Things to be contained, problems that prove to be challenging to get around, no matter how many or how hard you try....the flap and spray the electricty everywhere, unbound and unleashed.
Much the way the electric feild around Casse began to play on all the machines around her. Most of her own things left on, espect for her conciousness, all the machines within twenty feet of her still reacted wrong. Some, like video cameras and body sensors would malfunction and blink for the time she was near them, other, like the med bay and the strung lights above her flickered as though a jolt of power too large was running through them suddenly.
But the body of the girl on the bed lay limp, her face relaxed as it hadn't been in months, and her real self so very far away. As far away as her mind, even as he tried to reach her, in all the ways he could, for she remained evasive and illusive as a shadow, even laying there barely a foot from him.
~~~~~~
Where: Her Mind/Endless
When: Umm....well...a long time to her, a shorter time to the world
Wandering in the fog, she called out into it, but her voice seemed to only leave her mouth and immeaditely fade. She tired to yell louder to no avail. Her hands went to her wrists, only to find her wristlets gone. Then her realization of everything being gone. Her boots, her silver posts, Selaque, the butterfly clip...even her locket.
She reached hard and nothing happened.
Then a sinking feeling started to claim her as she started running through the fog. She ran and ran and ran. It felt like she couldn't stop, like there was nothing to stop her, like hell was on her heels, and even when she tried she couldn't stop. All she coudl do was run and run and run, until the fog suddenly started clearing.
Then she wanted with all her will to stop, but she couldn't. Not till the fog was gone.
Only once it was gone, she was wishing for it, and all of it's lost.
Because what lay before her was worse than anything that she'd just run from. A beautiful house, german in origin, on a rolling lot of green grass with gardens. It had a farm house in the far back, pools, and ball courts of all accord. A base ball dimond, and diving boards. It pristine, it was perfect.....and only for that two seconds.
Because in the next one, the air turned to the taste of ash and the first section was blown to smithereens. Screams, explosions, all the riot of noise, flames, destruction and people.
"Pretty as a rose, sharp as a blade, and as misunderstood as the dreams of children," the voice from behind her called.
She didn't turn to look at him, she couldn't even force her eyes away. Her voice came out as the faintest whispers. "Stop this."
"You're too weak, little demon, little angel," the voice said, full of power, and yet so small and simple. "You couldn't even find the rose gardens before you claimed yourself as your prey once more."
"You swore," Casse croak, and cringed, as fire lit the sky again, and the front steps vanished in a flare of bright light and the debris flying. She turned to him, tears starting to fall down her cheeks, even though she bade them not to fall. He was clad in all that was night, the cloak of the sky and the red burning eyes that weren't exactly eyes. "Stop this."
"Ask me," he said, with an odd gentleness to his voice, though his face didn't change.
Her lips tightened as she looked from that passive face to the scene before her, her entire stomach going with her. They were outside now. They were laying bodies. And people were running back inside. They were still more. More people were still inside.
Just.....
"Perhaps another time then."
....like her.
"No," she called but when she turned he was gone, and the tears calimed her cheek like a ravage torrent for the breadth of s second before everything changed again. "Not again."
The fire on her skin, so warm, so close. It felt like it was burning her alive. Tears were bubbling at the edges o her eyes. She had teddy though. She'd saved him from the fire. Saved teddy, because Daddy had forgotten him when he'd grabbed her and Junior. It was so hot in here, and it hurt her skin and the flames were scaring her.
She was trying to be brave. Daddy had said being brave was a place of mind once. She could be brave. Just like Daddy.
The fire seared her skin and she screamed. Screamed with all the life in her...and suddenly the rooms doros blew open. She wasn't sure what happened, after all the heroes were all over the house, getting children out and safe. One of them must have heard. Yes, that was it. But the fire was catching again and she ran for the door. Kept running down the hallway, knowing the fire was everywhere, the bombs were everywhere, not understanding why their house was being blown apart.
And then. There she was in radiant glory, coming down the hallway almost faster than vision coudl see. Casse raised her arms and all fear vanished. It was mommy. Mommy had come for her. She would be safe and teddy woudl be safe. Even if a little singed now. Safe inside mommys arms, she and teddy went flying out one of the broken walls toward everyone at the edge of the grass knoll ear the woods.
Dread filled her. She knew what came next somehow stepping outside her child mind frame one step. For one second alone.
The beeps came. One. Two. Three.
She looked up at Mommy's face confused, feeling mommy's grip tighten suddenly. She'd never seen mommy's fae the way it was now. And then it came faster than she expecxted. The roaring sound so loud it seemed to shatter her ears with pain and a heat so intense she felt like she was being consumed by the fire once more. And the hard ground impact suddenly, jarring, painful, sudden and unexpectedly real.
She stayed there who knows how long. Maybe a minute. Maybe a few before realizing she was mostly pinned by mommy, though she wans't sure why. It didn't make sense, unless mommy thought it was still dangerous. She waited a little longer and then wiggled out, even though she couldn't yank teddy out from under mommys side.
So she moved up to mommys side. Ohh, mommy was sleeping. At least it looked like mommy was sleeping. So she moved mommy a little bit. A little movment here, skaing, a little poking with small short fingers, a little touch on her cheek. No movement. Confusion setteled in as fast as fear, your newest loyal friend....until suddenly, her eyes lashes fluttered.
Her mother eye's fluttered open slowly, and her heart lightened considerably -everything would be fine now, and the world would turn and life would go back to nomal- and in her happiness, a childs pure undoubtful bliss, she overlooked the distant light, the dying light, in her mothers eyes, as her mother lips curled in a smile and se reached up to take Casse's face in her hands a few seconds.
"My angel....My little baby angel...." the voice was a bare whisper at the most only but her heart slowed the beat in her chest at her mothers touch and voice, but suddenly three or four seconds later a shudder ran through her mothers body and her hand fell and she just stopped moving again, just like the others. Just like the picni
"NO!!!!!!!!" Casse screamed clutching her hands around her chest and shoulders as her eyes opened again, tears touching her cheeks.
~~~~~~
Where: Med-lab
When: Give or take an hour
For about half an hour her vitals had been raising and dropping at the drop of a hat, a known thing if someone used physical means to track her heart beat and watched the the way she started breathing. Then it got worse, when it seemed her skin started to glow blue slowly, but her heart beat ceased along wth her breathing. But just when she'd gone back to dead calm lasting almost five to ten minutes, she lurched forward from the bed. She acreamed loud and long before she could stop it or even attempt to contain it, flooding anyone within a hundred feet of her by the use of her voice with complete and utter terror.
But without reason nor push, it went into them and fled them just as fast.
Casse shuddered pulling her knees to her chest. She was rocking on her bottom, , her arms wrapped close to her, eyes closed tight as she could get, no sound coming from her once she went silent. All she was trying to do was make the image of her mothers eyes leave her again. She could feel those eyes, the way they dances. Her mothers emotions always like a book to her.
Sitting there for a very long time inside her head, she missed anything he said or did once she had moved. She was too busy constructing the walls in her mind that kept that nightmare penned away behind steel girders and a facade of cemented realism in the now, the more important time. Even when she came back to awareness once more she didn't move.
Between shock, amazement and annoyance she sat there, her forehead still braced into her knees and her hair a veritable exlosion of black silken strands covering all of her and the bed she was sitting stock still on. She didn't move or raise her head to look at him, she wasn't sure she was stable enough to look him in the eyes. Even as she thought about it, so many memories flashed brilliant and bright as if they were pictures just taken.
Very quietly she spoke, a soft, small, voice, struggling to remain firm, from within the fountain of black hair; "If you're even a shadow of the person I once dreamt you were, you won't ask. Anything."
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