Nina Maynard (awaitingstorms) wrote in nevermore_logs, @ 2010-12-28 19:52:00 |
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Entry tags: | amidio maynard, nina maynard |
WHO: Nina & Amidio Maynard
WHEN: December 28th 2010
WHERE: Austin, Texas
WHAT: This is where it all goes wrong.
WARNINGS: References to consensual incest, sexual references, murder, gore, cannibalism.
Nina had near perfected Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, her fingers moving with grace and speed across the ivory keys of Jeffery's beloved grand piano as she played through the most demanding section of of the Baba Yaga movement. Its sheer evocative nature made it her favorite movement of the piece and she could imagine in her mind that fowl-legged witch's hut chasing people down. (Baba Yaga had been the scariest story she'd ever heard at five-years-old, and for at least a month she refused to sleep without a light on in fear that the old Slavic witch would come steal her away. For even longer after that Amidio could make her run screaming by jumping out from behind things with a cackle and a cry of 'Baba Yaga's gonna get ya!')
Mussorgsky was Nina's favorite composer. When she'd started coming to their neighbor Jeffery for lessons at the age of twelve he'd tried to get her interested in Chopin, in Beethoven, In Mozart, but it wasn't until she heard Night on Bald Mountain that she fell in love with a piece of classical music. (Nina liked him as a person as well, from the things she'd read. All the people who knew him only had bad things to say, but Nina liked that as well. She liked that he was coarse and uncouth and unlikable and lacking any proper taught skill. She loved the image of this grumpy old Russian drunk who no one could stand, and Amidio had to suffer through then fifteen-year-old Nina reading out quotes people had said about him with amusement.) Maybe Mussorgsky's music wasn't as technically amazing as some others but he could put visions into her head like no one else. When she played the things he'd composed Nina felt like she was part of the music.
"Good, good," Jeffery was saying, walking slowly around the piano as she played. Nina smiled, as much to the music filling the air as to her tutor. Jeffery had been their neighbour since the twins were ten and it hadn't taken long at all for him to become close to their parents. When he'd first moved in Nina used to think he was a spy because he always wore sunglasses, but the image was quickly destroyed by his bad jokes, his talking to the plants when he gardened, his over-fondness for pants that were just a little too short and socks that didn't match, and the fact that he was older than her father. (At ten the idea that someone could be older than her father but something as awesome as a spy was a complete impossibility.)
"Allegro con brio, Nina!" he cried, tapping the top of the piano. "Baba Yaga will never catch anyone like that."
Con brio. Nina felt like she was living her entire live con brio in the last few months - with her secret rendezvous with her brother, with her violent attack on Grace. Vigor and spirit was everything she was and Nina was sure she should be able to put that into her music properly. If she'd changed so much why was she still playing the same? Why couldn't her fingers on the keys bring people to tears the way they could bring Amidio to orgasm?
Finally Nina's fingers hit the last notes and she stopped, looking up at Jeffery who was smiling at her. "Very good," he nodded. "You're going to blow them away."
Nina beamed. It was two weeks now until she was to perform this in front of an audience, something she had always avoided. The piano had been her own thing and felt separate from the rest of her life, much of it just because she liked having this secret skill that her friends didn't know about. (Amidio knew but there was nothing about Nina he didn't know, so that hardly counted.)
"Hungry?" he asked her and Nina nodded, letting him take her hand to help her up.
"Starving." Nina always felt like she was these days. Her mother watched with badly veiled concern as her daughter ate her way through the pantry, making cautious comments about how she was going to have to start watching her weight. Nina could help it if she was hungry. Her father put it down to a growth spurt but Nina didn't feel like she was getting any taller. Besides, at nineteen shouldn't she be done with that?
The last week had been worse than ever and it seemed that even when Nina made herself sick over-eating she still felt like she wanted more. She was beginning to worry that there was actually something seriously wrong with her. Twice she had eaten until she couldn't eat any more and then made herself throw up so she could do so anyway. That wasn't normal and Nina knew it. She didn't want to tell anyone though, not even Amidio. (She'd even taken a pregnancy test to make sure it wasn't a weird symptom of a terrifying concept.)
She followed Jeffery into the kitchen and leaned across the counter to watch him pull things out of the cupboard. Her stomach rumbled, but if anyone could make her feel better it would be Jeffery. He was a much better cook than either of her parents, something she'd taken advantage of many times before. She often ended up having dinner at his place after practice and over the last few years she'd come to enjoy the way he would talk to her like she was an adult as well. They'd sit at the table and eat whatever amazing dish he'd made, drinking glasses of wine, and when she returned home she'd be sometimes happily tipsy and with piano music playing in her head.
Tonight it was lasagna and red wine and Jeffery made them toast to Nina's 'imminent and blinding superstardom', to which she'd laughed and happily clinked glasses with him. Over three glasses of wine she discussed her concerns - keeping them to the ones involving music, as life was far too much and far too complicated - and he assured her and gave her answers where he could. After dinner they ended up looking through his record collection again, Jeffery once more trying to get some music into her head that wasn't classical (which he loved) or her modern 'sounds of the devil hacking up a lung' (of which he was far less fond). But Nina found The Beatles to be vomit-inducingly dull, Tracy Chapman sounded like a man, and Jefferson Airplane was completely gay.
"You're a heathen," Jeffery just told her with a shake of his head at her comment that the Rolling Stones made her ears bleed.
"No," Nina told him smugly, leaning against the shelf near him. "You're just old." She leaned in towards him with a smirk on that last word.
"Alas, all true," Jeffery lamented. "But you still have terrible taste." He held up the cover of a Burt Bacharach album and Nina's face said everything. Jeffery was pretty cool for an old guy but the man had some bad musical taste.
"Bad, bad, bad," Nina said, draining her glass. Jeffery's fingers once again moved to the shelf to find an album and Nina watched him, eyes taking in that graying hair and the way she could see one of the veins in the side of his neck. She surprised herself quite a lot when she leaned in close and took a deep breath above that vein, smelling warm skin and something she couldn't name, something good.
Jeffery drew back and looked at her with concern. It must have looked to him like Nina had swooned and he reached out to take her arm. "Have you had too much wine?"
Nina shook her head and tried to think clearly. But Jeffery had smelled really good. He was old enough to be her father, easily, but the smell of him had turned her on like nothing else. Not even Amidio had made her feel like that. Every other sane thought had been pushed out of her mind and she took Jeffery's face in her hands and kissed him fiercely.
Jeffery was pulling her off him almost immediately, "Whoa, whoa! Nina!" He looked horrified and very, very shocked. "What are you doing?"
Nina licked her lips but the taste didn't mean anything. She needed him more than that. She hungered for him like she'd been hungering for everything recently. "I need you," she just told him.
Jeffery had hold of her wrists to keep her from kissing him again. "Nina, you're drunk. You don't need me. Jesus Christ, I'm old and you're... No more wine for you."
"Please," Nina whispered, licking her lips again. As Jeffery watched her his grip on her wrists was loosening and Nina was surprised at the way she could almost see his strong resolve buckling as she begged him to kiss her, to touch her. She whispered the things she wanted him to do to her and for some reason he was listening.
And then he kissed her.
The passion was raw and angry and Nina wanted this more than anything, more than anyone. She felt like she might die if she didn't have him right that second. He had her pressed up against the shelves and Nina moved her kisses to his throat and then bit down into his flesh. It wasn't a love bite and it wasn't some little bruising mark to further excite him. Nina bit Jeffery and felt her teeth break through the skin on his throat, felt the shock of hot blood spurt into her mouth.
That was it.
Everything that she'd been craving and suffering for and there it was, that hot blood in her mouth making her moan. Jeffery was trying to pull her off him now and he was shouting but all Nina could think about was the blood, the blood that was amazing and filling her mouth and filling her soul. Her grip on him was near-supernaturally strong, fueled by a starvation Nina hadn't even known she'd been suffering.
More. More. More.
Nina's teeth tore at his neck, ripping out chunks of hot flesh and making her whimper and shiver because nothing had ever been this amazing and nothing else mattered at all except that she had more and more of this, that she filled herself with blood and meat and Jeffery had stopped shouting now but his body convulsed even as she crouched on top of him, her face and hands covered in more blood than she'd ever seen before.
There was more inside that she needed and Nina had to have it. She didn't know what the impulse was that made her reach for the wine glass and smash it. She just needed something sharp. Ripping open Jeffery's wet shirt she dug the stem of the broken glass into his chest, her heart beating with excitement and delight and her hands shaking badly.
Skin cut away and parted to reveal the layers beneath and the muscle beneath and the bone beneath, the ribcage, the ribcage keeping her out but she had to get it open because inside there was-
There was...
There...
It was like waking up from her Baba Yaga dreams except this time she didn't scream for her parents to come and save her. This time there was no scary old cannibal lady hiding in her closet. This time there was just Nina.
The moan that came out of her throat was low and long and animal, a desperate thing she couldn't silence as she kicked her feet against the carpet in an attempt to get as far away from the bleeding body of Jeffery as she could. She hit the shelf behind her and didn't move any further.
She couldn't take her eyes off the grisly scene in front of her. She wanted to pretend it was a movie but the smell of blood was overwhelming.
Overwhelming and erotic and inviting. She could still taste it. She was still covered in it.
Crying, Nina did the only thing she could think to do. She pulled the phone from her pocket and with fingers made slippery by blood she called her brother.
Amidio tried not to be jealous of Jeffrey. It was hard, knowing the older man was everything Amidio wasn't, and how much time Nina spend with him. He didn't share Nina's love for piano or classical music. He got it perfectly, and could mimic what he heard fairly accurately but he was no good at reading notes.
So he spend his time with his friends, creating havoc until his sister called to pick her up. Lately it had been hard not to end fights more brutally. More then once he'd needed to be pulled of his opponent before he did something truly bad to them.
The casual violence wasn't enough.
When his phone zoomed he smiled to the number and answered, "ready to go home?"
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Her voice was shaking with sobs and it was hard to speak. She didn't know what to say but she couldn't just sit there crying into the phone. She turned her face into the shelves behind her so she didn't have to look at Jeffery anymore. "Dio," she choked out. "Need you."
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 08:37 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He frowned at the sound of cries and was already walking to the car. He was worried that she may have gotten hurt somehow, and even if he'd known Jeffrey since forever, he'd still kill the man for doing this to Nina.
Somehow the killing sounded really appealing.
"I'm on my way alright? You hurt?"
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 08:39 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
"Dio," she whispered against the phone, eyes squeezed as tightly shut as possible. "I-I've done something terrible. Oh god, Dio, I don't-" she covered her mouth with her hand to stifle the helpless sounds she was making. There was still so much blood, on her hands, in her mouth. Everything was blood.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 08:51 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He frowned as he drove, wondering what the hell was so bad that she was in tears about it. Had she cursed, messed up something? It couldn't be that though. She sounded to torn up about it. "Shh, I'm almost there."
When he came to the house, he parked with a screech and ran into the house. "Nina?"
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2011-02-20 08:53 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
When she heard the car she'd pulled herself up from the floor and ran from the room, her cries turning into something more like relief when she saw him. She knew he wasn't likely to be relieved since she was covered in blood, soaked in it, but she threw herself into his arms anyway. She needed him to make everything okay. "I didn't mean to do it!"
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 09:00 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He caught her with a frown, wondering why she was soaked in blood. He wrapped his arms around her, pulling her back to make sure she was okay, "Jesus Christ Nina, what happened?" Frowning he looked around, smelling the blood and finding himself getting hungry at the scent of it.
That probably wasn't right.
"What did you do, Jesus Nina. Are you hurt?"
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 09:02 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina didn't let him go. Couldn't. Her voice was low and flat, because if she didn't work very hard to keep it that way then she would scream again.
"He's in the den."
She didn't make any move to go towards it though, but she let Amidio go. He needed to see it.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 09:07 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Gently he ran his hands over her hair, trying to figure it all out and ignore the way his stomach was reacting. He nodded then, "alright. I'll deal with this okay?" He still assumed the guy had hurt Nina, or something.
He walked to the den with intent to hurt, but it didn't seem like it was needed. "Holy fuck." Even in his most violent moments he'd never gotten this bad. He'd wanted to but had been pulled back, keeping some of his anger contained. This was different.
And what freaked him out the most was how appealing it all was.
"Oh Jesus fuck." He stepped back, not sure what to do. "Jesus Christ."
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 09:11 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina watched him from the hallway, pressed up against the wall. "I bit him," she said numbly. "I bit his neck and- and he screamed but- Didn't know how to stop. The blood- Oh Jesus," she moaned, wrapping her arms around herself. "The blood was- and I bit him and I could taste him and it-"
She swallowed the lump in her throat. "What do I do?"
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 09:21 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He ran his hands through his hair, then licked his lips. This was so fucked up. Beyond just enjoying having sex with his sister, because finding her attractive covered in blood was just a little more fucked up.
He shook his head, "shit. Nina I don't know." He looked to her then moved to her, "hey. Still with you though alright?" He gave a small smile, reaching out his hand to wipe some of the blood off. "I'll think of something, okay? Look at me," he waited until he caught her eye, his focus on getting her to calm down, "still lvoe you alright? Nothing will change that."
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Nina nodded, wanting desperately to believe that. "Dio... I ate him," her voice was choked with horror. "I bit him and there's- I ate him and- Oh god, I was so hungry. I was so hungry and-" she looked at her hands. "There's blood and I want to lick it off myself!"
She wrenched herself away from Amidio and moved quickly back to the room, staring at Jeffery and growing frantic again. "I tried to- I wanted to dig his heart out of his chest! I wanted to-" She dug her hands into her hair, pulling on it sharply. "What's wrong with me!?"
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 09:32 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Well that made two of them. Cursing he followed her, pulling her hands from her hair, "stop that. Don't hurt yourself alright." He kept his hands on hers watching the body before closing his eyes. "Shh. Calm down. Please?"
"I don't know. Nothing> God Nina, I don't know because it smells good and I want to lick it off you and see what it tastes like and fuck I don't know because everything is so wrong and I don't know why I'm hungry." He was freaking himself out now. This was not good. "Fuck Nina I don't know."
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2011-02-20 09:39 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina looked at him in wide-eyed shock at what he'd said. It wasn't just her. It was both of them. They were both psychopaths. Nina sat down heavily on the bloody carpet, staring at Jeffery. It was a long time before she spoke again and when she did her voice was barely audible.
"I kissed him. I'm always so hungry and he smelled like..." She couldn't bring herself to say that Jeffery had smelled like food, but it was true. What she had thought was sexual attraction was the scent of prey.
No, not prey. She wasn't a predator, wasn't a killer.
"He kissed me and then I ripped his throat open. I couldn't even hear him screaming. Nothing made the hunger go away, Dio. Nothing made it-" She looked up at him slowly from where she sat. "I'm not hungry anymore."
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[info]foxy_devil
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He sunk down beside her, not at all sure what to say or even do. He wasn't even upset that she'd kissed him. Clearly jealousy wasn't exactly needed anymore. Really the only thing that registered was the scent of blood, how appealing it looked on her and the occasional sound of his stomach.
He knew she'd called him here for help but he was stunned.
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 09:46 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
"What are we?" Nina asked, looking down at her hands in disbelief. They were monsters.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 09:54 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He shook his head, running his fingers through his hair. "Dunno." he glanced to his hand were some of the blood was and set his finger ins his mouth, groaning to the taste of it.
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 09:58 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina squeezed her eyes tightly shut.
And then she whispered, "he's getting cold." The statement horrified her but there was a part of her that wanted that blood still. She covered her mouth with her hand but that only made the smell of the blood stronger. She licked her palm.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 10:16 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Something had shut off, and then something had turned on. He wasn't really responding, he felt like he was watching himself respond. He licked the blood off then looked to her, then the body. "'Snot good cold."
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 10:21 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina was suffering from the same separation, the teenage girl who loved music and hated trouble, she was moving somewhere very far away. (Later she'd remember something about trauma and dissociation that she'd read in some psychology book, but that time wasn't now.)
They were talking, she and Amidio. They were making a decision right here that would change everything even more. The smartest thing would be to take his hand and run.
But instead she watched the body. "I don't know how to break the ribs."
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 10:28 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Later he would say something ha taken him over. Something primal and animalistic that screamed with need. He licked his lips, watching the body with keen interest. "It's hard." He'd broken them before, but not like this.
"It's force and knowing how to hit them." He scooted closer to the dead body, and smiling at her, "show you." He picked up the glass she'd been using, waiting for her to get closer before showing her how to break ribs.
It was surreal, yet he'd been showing her different things to. How to give him pleasure and make it really hard for him to keep silent, how to do other things. He'd always shown her the hows. This was no different.
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2011-02-20 10:30 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Just another lesson. Just another thing that Amidio knew that Nina would learn.
She crawled across the floor to him, unable to match her brother's smile. Not now.
She didn't look at Jeffery's face.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 10:36 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
When the ribs were snapped and the chest exposed he sat back and looked at her. He knew what he wanted, the sharp disappointment the heart wasn't still beating was another fucked up thing he wouldn't imagine, but something inside of him was making him wait for her move.
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2011-02-20 10:41 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina had been silent, watching, and her eyes now were locked on that heart. It was still and even more unmoving than she was.
She didn't look at Amidio as she reached her hand out, fingers half curled, scared of that heart. Nina felt like she was watching this all from somewhere behind her and that girl was horrified to see this Nina suddenly shove her hand through the gory mess of the chest and rip out the heart, holding it tightly in her hands as blood trickled and pooled down her arm.
From the heart she looked to Amidio and then back to that messy dead organ. And then, crying, she buried her mouth in it with a moan of horror and pleasure, feeling the thick muscle fill her mouth.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 10:50 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
It was probably not good how he felt about seeing that so all he did was settle his bloodied hand on her shoulder, then wiped her tears from her cheeks. Gently he took her wrist, sitting down before her so he could take a bite from the heart.
IT tasted horrible and delicious at the same time, but he wanted to show her that despite how fucked up this was, he was right beside her. Just like he'd always be.
That knowledge that Dio was in as deep as she was felt like the only thing keeping Nina from going insane. They were doing this together. Maybe she already was insane.
The heart though filled that aching need that had been inside her for so long. It made the screaming inside of her stop for just a moment because this was all she'd wanted.
Her breath came in pants, her body exhausted from crying yet sated from what she'd finally let it have, and her cheek pressed against Amidio's as she pushed what was left of the ragged heart away from her mouth.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 11:04 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
If she was insane, so was he. But he would not make her do this alone. They;d been doing things together since they were small. He wasn't about to abandon her now.
He watched her eat and when she pushed the leftovers aside he took them and devoured them. He felt like he should want to throw up, but he didn't want to do that at all. It filled him in a way nothing else had, it sated a craving that no other thing had been able to fill.
He licked his fingers and watched her, gently wiping her tears away, "shhhh. S'alright."
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 11:09 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina shook her head because she knew it was never going to be okay again. Nothing ever could. "We're monsters," she whispered helplessly, looking down at Jeffery. He'd been her friend, he'd been a teacher and a mentor and the first adult who'd treated her like she wasn't a kid. This was how she'd repaid his kindness.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 11:18 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He swallowed and glanced to the body of the man. He'd never liked him, but then Amidio didn't like a lot of people, but he hadn't deserved this. "Yeah. Yeah." Shaking he withdrew his touch and ran his fingers through his hair, "fuck. They find...this. They find it and they'll take us apart. They'll make us go somewhere, away from each other."
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 11:20 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
That was able to catch Nina's full attention and she shook her head violently. "No," she told him and then grabbed for his arm. "Dio, no, I'll die." She couldn't live without him. No one could separate them!
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 11:24 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He looked at her as she grabbed for his arm, unable to think of a life without her. It'd be hell. He couldn't do it. "They won't...they'll make us." Shaking he tried to think of something reasonable. "Maybe...maybe we can go away? PArents aren't home. We'll just go away. By the time they find.."he motioned to the mess on the floor, "we'll be somewhere. I don't know. Everything is wrong."
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 11:35 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Run away. They were grown ups and they were going to run away.
But she'd killed a man, they'd defiled his body. They're go to jail for the rest of their lives for this. What other choice was there but to run? But Nina had a life here. She had friends and she had clubs and responsibilities and things that she had promised to do. But that was all over, and she knew it.
Nina broke down again then, doubling over and sobbing. Where would they even go?
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 11:56 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
When she broke down he set his arms around her, holding her and trying to soothe her. He had no idea where they would go either, or what they'd even do, but it was all he could think off. He didn't want to be separated from her, even if the right thing to do was to confess or even take all the blame on his shoulders.
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 11:58 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
When she finally managed to stop crying she looked up at him. "We have to go now," she told him. They would have to get far away before this was discovered because as soon as it was people would come looking for them.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 12:05 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He nodded, "yeah. I know. We'll go North. Good place to start." He rose, offering his hand to her, looking at how bloody she was. People would notice. "Go get washed up. I'll get some things from our rooms and the car and we'll go."
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 12:08 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina nodded quickly, glad that he was taking care of them both like he always did. Nina couldn't think of anything right now but the blood. She'd wash herself in Jeffery's bathroom and no one would ever know.
"Pinky," she blurted, thinking of them suddenly. "Please, don't leave Pinky and the Brain." She loved their foxes. She didn't want to leave them behind.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 12:33 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He gave her half a grin, "they'd find me and eat my face off if I tried. Go get clean. I'll get them." Gently he ushered her to the bathroom so he could lean down and take Jeffrey's wallet. Somehow stealing didn't seem so bad now they'd killed him.
He tucked the credit cards and money in his own wallet before going back to their house to pack up some things.
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 12:38 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
In the bathroom Nina scrubbed at her skin to get rid of the blood, only not crying because she'd worn herself out already. Underneath all the blood she found she had cuts of her own. They must have been from Jeffery fighting back.
She put her hand over her mouth, worried she was going to throw up. But the parts of the man they'd eaten stayed down and Nina made her way outside, wearing her jeans still but with her t-shirt balled up in her hand, too disgusting and bloody to put back on. (The bra wasn't much better, no longer white either, but it was the best she could do.)
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 12:49 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He didn't take their parents credit cards. They'd track that. Nobody would track Jeffrey's for a while. He'd put the foxes in their cages, then put them in the van before throwing some clothes in it and some of the things he knew they'd need.
When he noticed Nina he glanced around and offered her a shirt, "gonna catch eyes like that. We're all packed. Come on get in."
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 12:52 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
She pulled the shirt on, smelling like Dio instead of blood. (But both those scents were things she wanted.) She climbed into the passenger seat of the car, looking in the back to check he had remembered the foxes. "They hate the car," Nina said, because it was easier to focus on that than anything else. Pinky and Brain always hated the car ride of vet visits more than the vet himself.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 01:03 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He moved into the front seat and brushed her hair behind her ear, wishing he could have done this instead of her. He'd have made sure she'd never found out, and if others did to take the blame just to protect her. Now he couldn't, "I know. When we're a little further away we'll let them out so they can play alright?" Smiling he started the car and glanced to what used to be their home before pulling out
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 01:09 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina watched out the window for a long time, watching everything disappear, watching her whole life recede. Nothing would be the same again now.
It wasn't until they hit the wide open road that she started crying again, knowing that something deep inside her was broken and unrepairable now.
"I'm sorry," she sniffed. She didn't want to keep crying but she didn't know what else she could do. "I'm trying, I'm sorry."
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 01:30 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He didn't know what to do. He could only keep driving, not knowing what to do. "I'm sorry too." he set his hand on hers and tried to smile, "but we're still together right?"
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 01:35 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina nodded and looked at him, wiping away her tears. "Always," she said fiercely. "Always." She tucked her hair behind her ear and made a small sound of desire she shook quickly away and hoped it could sound more like disgust. "I smell like blood."
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 01:48 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He'd caught it though and shifted on the seat, focusing on driving rather then anything else. "Me and you." Smiling he nodded then, lowering his hand. "We can stop a bit out of town, get you a shower and a change."
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 01:53 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina nodded.
It was only the sheer exhaustion that meant she fell asleep in the passenger seat, curled up against the window. She dreamed that Pinky was eating her, burying his sharp little teeth into her thighs and ripping out veins. There was blood everywhere. She could taste it in her own mouth but she was screaming while her fox ate her.
When Nina woke it was with an upset sound and the ends of her hair in her mouth, the taste of blood on her tongue. She pulled it out with a frown and blinked over at Amidio. "I fell asleep," she told him, although she couldn't imagine he'd missed that. "How long have we been driving?"
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 02:21 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He'd been worried while she slept, not liking the way she'd fussed. He'd just kept driving, eventually deciding to go as far north as he could. New York seemed like a place they could get lost in. No one would care about them there.
When she woke he smiled at her, "hey there." He shrugged, "few hours now. There's some places up ahead we can stop for the night if you want. We got some cash we can use and then you can shower." He didn't ask if she was hungry. Couldn't even think of that.
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 02:27 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina yawned, checking on the foxes. She was feeling better. How could it be possible she was feeling better? She reminded herself that a few hours ago she'd brutally murdered and eaten someone. It seemed though that her mind's way of dealing with it was to pretend that nothing was wrong at all.
"Shower, yes," Nina agreed with a nod. She rested her cheek against the car seat, curling sideways to watch him drive. "I love you," she told him. It was important to say it, especially now.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 02:38 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Pretending everything was fine worked well for him. As long as she was happy, he was happy. At her comment he smiled at her, "love you too." He checked for something that didn't look like he'd need to worry about people robbing their car or them and pulled into the driveway. "I'll get us a room," he glanced at the foxes, "they probably won't like them so keep them quiet and sneak them in once I get a key alright?" Gently he kissed her, then slipped out of the car to get them a room.
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 02:42 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina pulled Brain out from the cage and stroked his fur, whispering things to soothe him and hopefully herself as well.
The room was nothing special but it was just a place to hide. Nina let Pinky and Brain going exploring and went to turn on the shower. But the idea of being alone right now was horrible and she grabbed Amidio's hand. "Stay with me?" she asked.
He let her take his hand and smiled, making sure everything was set for the night. "Of course. Always." Smiling he walked with her to the bathroom, gently going to take the shirt off. There was a difference between it being for sex or comfort. Right now he just wanted to help her and ease her discomfort. Taking care of her was easy.
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 03:19 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina slipped out of her own clothes slowly, looking at her arms for the wounds from what must have been his fingernails. She shouldn't have been stronger than Jeffery. She-
No, it did no good to focus on things now. She stepped under the water, sighing, and tilted her head back. The water that pooled underneath her feet was bloody and Nina pressed herself against the wall.
"People are going to come looking for us," Nina said, closing her eyes.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 03:25 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Smiling he leaned against the side of the shower, just watching her. He knew when she needed him to just be there. This was one of those times. He sighed to her obvious remark. "I know. I give it a day before our folks start worrying. I'm getting all the money I can out of the bank, then destroying the cards. We'll trade in the van when we have a moment." He glanced out the window, "besides each time I've told people I'm leaving I told them I was going South. We're going North. Hope it throws them off."
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 03:30 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina looked at him, something about his words catching her. "You told people you'd leave?" Nina asked him and then, more cautiously, "leave me?"
Insane how she could be washing the blood from a murder off her body and yet still be terrified of the idea that her brother might have wanted to leave her.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 03:35 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He looked at her and shook his head, "no Nina, never you." He smiled at her, "I'd be a bucket of nothing without you. Just them you know. We'd sit and talk and I'd tell them I'd go down South and have fun down there." He shrugged, "I was always going to take you with, but now when people will ask where we coulda gone they might say South. Gives us a day or two."
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 03:38 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Her smile was obviously one of relief and she leaned in to kiss him. "We're going to be okay, aren't we, Amidio?" Nina thought it would be okay if he lied to her. She wanted to wake up tomorrow back in her own bed.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 03:39 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Smiling he kissed her, "of course we are Nina. I'll make sure of it." And he meant that. Even if it meant he had to lie, steal, cheat, and kill for it he'd make sure that Nina would be okay.
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 03:47 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
When she drew back from the kiss her smile was wavering and unsure. She put her head back under the water, holding her breath as she tilted her face up into the stream.
Even when the water was washing clear though Nina couldn't make herself move from under it. "I can still smell it," she told him, her voice threatening to crack. "Can you- do I smell like blood?"
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 03:57 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
He reached out a hand to her, to set it on her shoulder, "no. I can't," and he couldn't. Not on her at least. "Probably me, so dry off and I'll get clean too alright?" Smiling he kissed her again, before reaching for a towel for her.
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[info]awaitingstorms
2011-02-20 04:04 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Nina just nodded and then wrapped herself in the towel, putting down the toilet lid so she could sit there and watch him. "We're gonna be okay," Nina said firmly. They had to be.
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[info]foxy_devil
2011-02-20 04:10 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
"Of course we are." He stripped down and smiled at her, stepping under the hot water. He would tell her that until they both believed it, and until they were okay.