кαтε fυℓℓεя ✞ not a little girl anymore (notonthemenu) wrote in valarlogs, |
"It's nice to meet you too, Ben." Kate said, and then feeling like meeting in person was different than talking over a network, she offered her hand for him to shake. That was usually what people did and all. Honestly, any distraction she could get right now was really a good thing. And Ben seemed very nice. She was new here, and she hadn't made a lot of friends yet but she was hoping that would change now. She could definitely see Ben and her becoming friends. "I'm sure you've heard some of the things people dream about can be...jarring." And for Kate's dream that was an understatement. "I don't know if I mentioned to you that my mom died not that long before I moved here." She felt maybe she had but she wasn't sure so she thought she would just tell him again. "In my dreams...my mom died too. Recently." She paused for a minute, as her name was called and she went to the counter to grab her coffee before rejoining him at the table. "Sorry about that, anyway...in the dream. Dad decides we're all going on a trip to Mexico." That in itself of course was not weird, but the series of events that happened after they'd left Bethel were. "He bought an RV and insisted on us driving there. I don't know that he ever intended for us to go back home at all." Kate said. "We had some trouble with the RV and stopped at a motel called the Dew Drop Inn, and then these two bank robbers who were on the run from the law for a robbery they'd pulled off in Abilene kidnapped us," Kate said. And that was only the beginning of the nightmare that unfolded. "They needed to be able to cross into Mexico, you know. So what better way to do that than looking like they're on a family trip with a preacher, no less." It had been a smart plan on the part of the Geckos. And things probably would have gone better for all of them had they not ever gone to the Twister. "So anyway we get to Mexico and we go to this bar called the Titty Twister. Dad doesn't want me or Scott to go inside but Seth and Richie insisted. None of us have any idea what's going to happen there. We never could have guessed. But I tried to get us out of there before anything happened. Everything seems...normal enough given the circumstances until the sun goes down." Kate paused again, taking a sip of her coffee. "There's a stage and dancers who are wearing next to nothing. I'm sure you can picture it." Kate said. "Well one of these dancers called Santanico Pandemonium comes out and somehow she knows Richie. And that's when things get really weird. Next thing you know we find out vampires are real and we're fighting for our lives in this bar. Only it's not a bar, it's a temple for these creatures...called culebras. Basically snake vampires. And we're meant to be their meal. And I was led there to be sacrificed as an innocent to sate these...9 lords. Scott ends up getting dragged down into the lower levels. And we go after him. And by this point, a Texas Ranger has already shot Richie and Santanico disappears with him. So we go down into the temple and fight more creatures, not just culebras. It doesn't seem like any of us are gonna make it out alive. I'm tied to an altar and almost stabbed to death, but Seth and my dad rescue me. We find Scott again, but it's bad. He's a culebra now too. He wants me and my dad to join him. He bites my dad. We kind of reject Scott and he runs off. And then...my dad knows he's too old, he can't live as a culebra now and learn not to hurt people. So he makes me kill him. I drive a stake through his heart. We make it out of the temple, only now it's just me and Seth. I've lost my entire family in there...and I have nowhere else to go. So I ask if he wants company and we take one of the cars. Then I woke up." She was sure that would be a lot for Ben to process. She was still trying to process it all herself. "And Richie here, he hasn't even dreamed to the part where he meets me. I'm not gonna be the one to tell him all that, you know?" |