Who: Catalina, Sanjay, Elizabeth, some Julian and Marcus Where: Lina's trailer When: Evening Why: She's not having the best day ever and Evee is there to ease the spirits around her. Rating: TBA
Today was a massive off day for Catalina. The spirits had been breaking down the barrier hard, it was how Cassie's sister got through, but she was harmless. She just wanted to talk to her sister. She had completed that transaction AND FOR FREE! She'd like that noted! She wasn't always a bitch! She put good out into the universe and expected good to come back to her.
After Sanjay took Marcus for a little bit, Lina put on her headphones, music instantly blasted in her ear. She then pulled herself into a fetal position, wrapping her arms around her knees as they were up against her chest and she buried her head into them and closed her eyes, wanting to ward off the other world and those trying to get in contact with her.
Eventually she did doze off and like many times before, in using her headphones, she didn't dream. She just laid in peace. Which was a stark contrast of how she spent the night. She did feel better because Sanjay was with her and bless him, he did the best he could to help her, finding her another set of headphones. But she kept getting jumped by a lady in a panic state. Meaning every other hour or so, she'd jump up in bed with her pulse racing dangerously fast, having panic attacks. So needless to say, she slept like shit.
But now she slept, knowing she'd have to go out and buy a second pair of these for her son. She didn't know how long she was out before she was being poked by a small hand, which moved its way over to her face and pried her eye open, awakening Lina from her sleep to stare into the face of her little boy.
"Sanjay said he'd be back, he was going to meet someone." Lina pulled off her headphones and looked back to see Julian standing there. She said nothing, only stared at him. "...You okay?" He asked. She said nothing at first, only brought her hand up to rub her eyes. She closed them while she rubbed and when she opened and readjusted them? She seen her room was crowded with tons of angry specters. Not because they were evil, but because they had messages to give to their loved ones and she was attracting all of them but she was ignoring them at the same time. She was sure if someone could have asked to talk to her manager, they would.
"I'm fine." She said after a long moment, pushing herself into a sitting position on the bed.
"If he gets too much-"
"I'm fine." She said, cutting him off. Julian nodded and walked out of the bedroom and then out of the trailer. She stood from the bed and fixed the clothes she wore and did her best to tame her hair into a hair tie.
"Come on, mommy!" Marc said, grabbing her hand and leading her into the kitchen. "I'm hungry." She sat him up in the chair and opened the fridge. "I want cereal." She pulled out the milk. "NO MILK!" He told her. So she put it back in. "Can I have a cup of milk?" Lina stood there, holding door open, closing her eyes in frustration. But she eventually got over it and pulled the milk out, pouring a small cup and sitting it beside him.
She then grabbed a bowl and opened the Lucky Charms. "Lucky left us. He disappeared! Where to?" Lina just stared at her son as if he lost his damn mind. She put the Lucky Charms cereal on the table and went to open the box.
"NO! NO LUCKY!" Marc yelled. Lina turned putting the box up and reached for the cinnamon toast crunch, that was a no go. She then reached for Cocoa Puffs and yes, that was what he wanted. She poured him a bowl and sat it in front of him.
She put the box up and moved to the fridge, opening it. She really could have used a beer right now. But she had none, instead she had Cherry Dr. Pepper. She grabbed one and opened it, taking a drink. "Eat your cereal, mi hijo." She said after a moment. "I'll be back." She left the kitchen and went into the bathroom, setting her drink on the sink to use the bathroom and once done? She washed her hands and looked at the mirror. She did look sick, she looked a bit pale. She opened up the mirror to reveal a medicine cabinet behind it and she reached in, grabbing two bottles. What were the bottles? Her Vicodin and Codeine.
She opened one bottle, tossing some pills in her hand and went to take them, but stopped... She COULD be pregnant. Or according to Sanjay, she was pregnant. She believed in him when he said it. He could sense whatever change in her. At first she didn't believe him. She thought he had been nuts. She woke up one morning to breakfast in bed and "Oh by the way, you're pregnant." She laughed at him. But sure enough, a few weeks later, her test had been positive and now she had Marcus.
She slid the pills back in the bottle and closed it, setting them back on the shelf and closing the mirror, only to look at herself again. She knew partly what was wrong. She had went, every day for years, drinking nothing but beer and popping pills and doing other things and now? Now she was pregnant and couldn't do anything like that. Already she was starting to feel sick from not having what she was used to. But she was stronger than addiction. She could handle being sick.
She hated just feeling out of her head... She grabbed her drink and went back to the kitchen. She had to keep herself busy. She had to do something. So she sat her drink on the table and moved to the sink, she had some dishes inside of it, may as well do them. She turned the water on, filling the sink up with water and suds.
She began to do the dishes, placing the washed dish in the empty part of the sink next to the filled one. She was listening to the background song of Marc as he sung one of his favorite songs from his youtube videos. Then that's when it started... she began to disassociate. Her eyes were wide, unblinking, yet she continued to do what she was doing as if she was in autopilot.
"Mommy I done!" Marc announced but Lina didn't acknowledge him. She said nothing, didn't look at him. Just continued doing dishes. "Mommy!" Marc said again. "Why you no listen mommy?" Nothing. "MAMA!" Nothing. "MAMA LISTEN TO ME!" He screamed at the top of his lungs. Nada.
He didn't know what was going on and honestly, neither did Lina. She wasn't present and her body? Was jumped by a spirit. She reached in the water and her hand went around a wooden handle. She pulled it up from the soapy water to reveal a sharp knife. She stared at it before the spirit made her hold her arm out and began carving against her arm with the knife.
Marc climbed off the chair and moved behind his mother. "Mama." He said, grabbing her shirt and began tugging on the back of it. "Mama..." Nothing. "Mama!" He grabbed her waist and forced her to turn from the sink and that was when he seen her with a knife and the blood. "NO!" He yelled. "NO MAMA! THAT BAD!" He looked at her arm. "Oooh... You got a boo boo!" He was growing upset. "Put down!" Nothing. "MAMA PUT DOWN!"
He jumped up, grabbing the arm with the knife and pulled it down. He reached up, placing his hand over her wounds. "Oooh." He said in panic. He then grabbed the knife from her. "Bad!" He told her. "You don't do that!" He turned and ran off.
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Evee got out of the car Sanjay picked her up in and closed the door behind her. She carried with her a bag full of different potions and crystals and magical amulets. She didn't know exactly what she was coming up against. Now Sanjay warned her, giving her the best description he could. She still needed to evaluate Catalina on her own to see what she needed.
She waited for Sanjay to get ahead of him and once he was, she followed him up to the trailer. She entered after Sanjay and was instantly met with a crying little boy. He had blood on him, the bloody knife on the floor and he was trying to unwrap toilet paper, but seeing his daddy? He dropped everything and ran to his arms.
"Mommy-" He started, hiccuping slightly. "Mommy hurt herself! I said NO! But she got a boo boo!"