Woah, what do you say to that? Two uploads in what? Two days? For me, that's pretty incredible! I feel as if I accomplished something. But yeah, I started writing this and couldn't stop. It was addicting. :) I loved the rush!
Thanks to everyone that mentioned a story or author to read, I'll tell you that I have read most of those, there were a few unfamiliar ones, so I'll get to those soon, but there were a lot I've read before. Anyways, I just wanted to say thanks! :)
Emily Prentiss screamed until her voice was lost and only air came out. She was one who hardly ever screamed. She liked to keep her emotions in check, it was how her mother raised her, but when hundreds of black spiders crawled and tickled their way up her body, she began to lash out.
She couldn't see her clothes, she couldn't see her skin, she was painted black by insects. She brushed the spiders off but they just continued to crawl their way right back.
Some gnawed into her skin, leaving giant, red welts covering her arms and legs. She could feel the burning and itching underneath the blanket of Black Widows.
Some spiders crawled over each other so they could climb higher, towards her face. Her white, pale neck quickly changed to black. She closed her mouth before they could crawl there too. Her screams turned muffled.
Her legs carried her around the clearance they were in before her foot caught in a loose root and she fell to the ground. When she looked up she saw Morgan running over to her with a confused and panicked expression.
"What? What's wrong? Are you okay? Are you hurt?" He started to grab her by the arms to help pull her up when he noticed she flinched away from his touch. If he wasn't confused before, he certainly was now. She was shaking and her eyes were wide. "What happened? Why are you so scared?"
"What?" She whispered before looking down. Her clothes were back and she could see her skin. Not a single spider was crawling anywhere around her. The red bites were gone as well as the itching and burning. "Where did they go?" Her breathing was forced and staccato.
"Where did what go?" Morgan asked.
"The spiders. There were hundreds, if not thousands, crawling all over me. They bit me and I tried to fling them off, but they came right back. Then I tripped and their gone. How?"
Morgan looked around before daring to look at her again. He wasn't liking this side of Prentiss. She was usually collected, but right now everything she was saying made him seriously concerned for her well-being. He looked back at her to see she was patting herself down and frantically looking around. "Prentiss. Prentiss, look at me." He waited for her to look up. "There are no spiders around. There weren't any spiders before. There never were. Are you feeling okay? Did you hit your head?"
"NO! I didn't hit my head, dammit. I saw them. I swear. I'm not hallucinating or anything. They were here." She started yelling as her frustrations got the better of her.
"I think we should try getting back to the campsite, with or without logs, we need to get you checked out." The concern was evident in his voice and she could easily read his emotions in his eyes. While she was touched, she was pissed that he didn't believe her.
He reached out his hand to help her up, but she refused. She got up herself, while still trembling, carried herself through a part of the woods on wobbly legs.
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Rossi looked up from his newspaper confused. He listened silently before replying. "Hear what?"
"You didn't hear that? I heard someone screaming. It sounded kind of like Emily for a moment."
Hotch looked at JJ. "No one heard anything. No one screamed. I think you should rest until they get back. You've been letting everything get to you."
"What? I don't need to rest." She looked at each of her colleagues, friends, incredulously. "I heard laughing as well. They sounded like children. Two or three of them, I don't know, but I heard 'something'. I know I did."
Her boss looked around nervously, almost as if he was seeking guidance. "Please, just go lay down or something. We'll wake you when they get back."
"I-fine." She got up off her log and slowly walked towards her tent. Hoping to hear something else, anything that would help her prove she was right. When she got in her tent, she zipped it up and laid down. She closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths to relax the butterflies flying around in her stomach.
"Help her! She needs you!" A young boy whispered in her ear. JJ's eyes shot open. She thought Jack was in the tent with her, but she didn't see him anywhere around. "Jack? Are you out there?" When she didn't hear a reply, she tried laying back down.
"What are you doing? Help her!" This time it was a girl. She sounded no older than 10.
Then JJ heard the laughing she heard from before. Goosebumps started to crawl their way up her arms and neck. She looked around for anyone, anything. There was nothing. Total silence in total darkness.
"Who's there? Where are you?" Her only response was more laughing. A cold wind wrapped it's way around her and caused her to start shivering. A few seconds later she heard the zipper to her tent start to unzip it's way down. She screamed.
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"Do we have any idea where we are going?" Prentiss asked.
"No, we could be going in the complete opposite direction." Morgan answered.
They were both tired. They were dragging their feet and their eyelids drooped low. Prentiss would still check herself for spiders every few seconds, or look around to see if any were coming, but so far she'd found none. Her adrenaline went down, but it was enough to keep her walking at a faster pace.
"WHOA! What the hell was that?" Morgan ducked and yelled.
Prentiss turned around and looked up to where he was looking. She saw nothing. "What? There's nothing there."
"I don't know. I thought it was a bat. Maybe it was a shadow. It was probably nothing. Don't fret over it." He started walking ahead of him but continued to keep looking up. He didn't want Prentiss to think he was going crazy as well. Not that he thought she was going crazy, but he thought she was letting her inexperience and fears cloud her better judgment.
The darkness had clouded over and settled a while ago. The tree branches blocked the light illuminated by the moon. They could barely see their own hands, let alone each other.
So, when Morgan felt a cold wind whip past his right ear he turned his attention there, thinking he brushed up against leaves or something, but when he heard a shriek next to his left ear, he flinched. His eyebrows where furrowed together and his eyes looked around frantically. When he saw Prentiss was giving him a confused looked, he took a deep breath and re-routed his attention to where he was going.
Prentiss followed but kept a close eye on him.
Then Morgan saw a large, black bat flying straight towards him while shrieking. He ducked and screamed.
Prentiss, on the other hand, saw nothing.
Where were they and what was happening?
BAM! Tell me what you think? Anything you want to see? :)
