InsaneJournal

Who: NPCs (Tessa, Jack, & Linda)
Where: Maine
When: March 1, 2008
What: A Kidnapping, and then a well placed escape
Status: Complete


The day had started out normal for Tessa. She'd gotten up, gone to work, started pulling things out of dinner after she'd gotten home from work. That's about where it had gone down hill. She remembered pulling out a few things from the fridge before everything went black.

She heard voices softly arguing before she realized it wasn't a dream, and that the pain in her arms was because they were shackled above her head. She listened as she got her barrings around the headache that threatened to split her head open. She opened her eyes slowly, trying to think back to how she'd gotten here, because here wasn't her home. She could feel that even before she opened her eyes.

She tugged on the shackles, trying to see if there was any way they might give. She even tried to send a little magic into them top try and open them, but all that gained was more pressure to her headache. The sound of metal scraping against itself and the wall drew the attention of her captures. They watched her struggle a moment before the woman spoke. "That won't help, dear."

The man next to the woman gave a chuckle. "They've held werewolves, and if those beasts can't break them you certainly won't be able to. Though Linda was able to do lovely work with the threading traces of silver and iron into them to help keep all your kind at bay." The last was said with a faint sneer. It was easy to tell that he didn't like her or werewolves.

Tessa understood some of it now. "Why?" The question was soft because her head was pounding and while the iron wasn't actually touching skin, being this close it was wearing her down slowly.

Linda gave the barest trickles of a laugh, and it made Tessa's hair stand up on the back of her neck. "Because it's Jack's job to hunt you all down." Let it never be said that things in movies can't happen. Tessa got talked at about the two's plot, knowing that she'd never survive to tell anyone anyway.

After all was said and explained, the two left her to stew with that information for a day or so. From what she'd heard, Linda had brought Tessa here earlier than expected, and so she got to stay shackled to a wall. At one point while Jack was out, Linda came to check on Tessa and found the girl not breathing. And so Linda undid the shackles in order to see if there was any saving of their catch. The moment Linda had Tessa on the ground, she let out a small burst of magic and sent Linda into a wall with enough force to knock the woman out. On shaking legs Tessa made it out of the house the two were using for their work and moved as quickly as she could as far from the house as she could. Once she was far enough away and secluded enough, she used what magic she could reach through the pain and fatigue and opened a doorway into the Fae realm and passed through, and then just as the one behind her closed she opened another to where she thought was home. She was just a hair off however.