InsaneJournal

Characters: Hannah and Ernie
Setting: Ernie's flat; October 30, 01:00
Content: Worksafe
Summary: It felt like more than a bad dream...

He had been getting ready to go to work when he heard a loud thump on the door of his flat. Turning around, Ern saw nothing, but then he heard the thump again. He hurried to the door, as it was still quite early in the morning to be banging on the door that loudly. He brought his wand with him, as he didn't know who was out there. It was when he opened the door that the answer to his question was made quite clear. An arm with putrid, rotting flesh reached out to grab him by the scruff of his neck, but he backed away quickly enough, wand at hand. Another arm had grabbed at his ankle as he quickly moved backwards, towards the sitting room. Fire, that's what these things respond to. He faced them, wand at the ready, his heart pounding in his ears and his breaths quick. He was about to yell out Incendio when one of them looked up at him. (He wouldn't think it possible, but it was possible here.) "Hann," Ern whispered, his eyes growing wide in disbelief. Another one had done the same and found that Justin had found a similar fate. He didn't know how they could've met this fate--it didn't make sense, but what he knew at that time was that they were gone but not rested. He looked over both of them and noticed that the same was true of his family. Their dead eyes looked at him as if accusing him of unspeakable deeds. He was he was only called back to attention when one of the corpses had already wrapped its hands around his neck and Ern tried to stop its cold, dead fingers from wrestling the life from him--

Ern startled in his bed, sweat dripping from his brow, mixed with tears. He noticed Hann next to him and first felt a wave of relief. But still feeling unsettled, he whispered gently at first, in case she may happen to be awake too. "Hann?"