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Zinc ☠ Carla's a Goner ([personal profile] jemerite) wrote in [community profile] queenoflogs2011-07-17 01:06 pm

i want you here (open)

Characters: [livejournal.com profile] jemerite and You (open)
Date: July 17th
Summary: He can't do this to her.
Warnings: Zinc's world is vaguely offensive in its necrophilia? Her narrative can be kind of gory. She thinks about killing things, a lot.

She wakes up cold.

She's often cold, unless sitting in open sunlight, or curled up next to the heating unit that does a poor job of keeping Barbet's large studio warm in the wintertime. She hated the cold, really, it was a constant reminder of the stillness in her chest, but what she hated the most was waking up cold, like she'd been dead the whole night through. Barbet shouldn't have left her, she hates when he does and she usually wakes up as soon as he stirs because it's cold and it's lonely--(perhaps the loneliness is the worst. She... she hates that feeling, she wants to rip it out of her mind and ruin it forever.)

There is a moue of discontent on her lips already as she sits up, but it does not take her long to see things are very changed. And she knows exactly what's happened.

He's abandoned her. He'd drugged her and left her out here in the woods to die. The certainty of it rocks her, and causes a deep twisting sensation in her stomach. Hate. Hurt. Misery.

"Barbet?" She looks around herself, but all she sees is the cat approaching with the scroll in its mouth. Zinc hisses at it furiously, settled forward on her hands and knees like an angry little animal. The cat seems nonplussed, but it sits down, tail swishing. Zinc ignores it as she gets to her feet unsteadily, looking around again, sees only trees and she can't smell him anywhere. How is she meant to track him down and kill him if he's erased his scent?

"You can't!" She shouts, hands curling into fists, her well-kept nails biting into her palms with the fury of it. He would scold her for that. "You did this!"

She sees the path out of the clearing and begins to follow it, but what she sees only deepens her despair and that cat is following her. "I will eat you, if you do not get away from me," she snarls gutturally at the fluffy thing. Its eyes narrow at her, smug and nonreactive. She hisses, but carries on walking.

All she finds is forest and field. And, eventually, she drops down into the grass and simply begins to scream. Wordless, furious, keening. He can't do this to her. She can't even weep in this decaying body, and it's his fault that she has the desire to at all.


[ooc; I always write log openers in prose, but feel free to switch to action.]

[identity profile] notvitiligo.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
"You involved with batteries?" Someday, Jessica will not make bad, nerdy jokes. Today is not that day.

She frowns at Zinc's legs. "I get the impression you don't do a lot of walking. Do you have, um, braces or something usually?"

[identity profile] notvitiligo.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Holy shit, like all the time?!" She glances over with what appears to be mild surprise.

Wait... concern about possible disease, difficulty walking, strange skin...

"You have some kind of, um... condition?" She's not terribly concerned about the possibility of contagion- she assumes Zinc would've mentioned that- but kidnapping someone sick seems like a terrible idea to her.

[identity profile] notvitiligo.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
"A..."

THAT'S what it is! The fetal pig...

She blinks and glances over Zinc again. Zombies are not something she would've expected, but then neither were robots, angels, or... whatever Sephiroth was. (She avoids following that last bit farther.)

"That explains things, I guess. Never met a, um, reanimated before."

[identity profile] notvitiligo.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Jessica's reaction is muted, mild interest. "I mean, I'm pretty sure they don't exist where I come from."

[identity profile] notvitiligo.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Whoa, careful!" Jessica is apparently decent at catching stumbling people.

"Not where I come from. Uh, I forgot to mention that, I guess: People here come from, uh... different worlds. And times and stuff."

[identity profile] notvitiligo.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
"And you just got unlucky?"

[identity profile] existwithoutme.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Kuja hears the screaming and is unmoved. How could mere screams move someone like her? Moved or not, she is interested. Pain is associated with sympathy, empathy, and she does crave these things, the ability to experience them more, to experience anything more than the dull, despairing ache she feels most of the time (but not to feel anger--no, not that).

She is curious and selfish then, not concerned, as she seeks the source of the screams and finds the woman kneeling in the grass, among the flowers. It's a pretty sight: greenery, misery, and petals, and she watches it coldly before she makes herself known.

"That won't do you any good," she says.

[identity profile] existwithoutme.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Faced with this bestial behavior, Kuja smiles the arrogant, careless smile of a near-invulnerable construct.

"Ah, a little serpent. How charming."

She follows up her smile with a smoothly practiced, sweeping bow. "I am Kuja. We are all of us trapped in the same bower, and not all the wailing in the world will set us free."

[identity profile] notvitiligo.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Blink. She glances over, assessing Zinc's expression.

"That sucks."

This isn't the first murder victim she's met, but it's definitely the most intelligible one.

[identity profile] notvitiligo.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, that was the idea before I got kidnapped into Disney Princess Hell here. On the plus side, apparently everything's on pause back home or something. At least, that's what I hear from people who got to go back. (And then got taken back here again.)"

[identity profile] notvitiligo.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Jessica is so beyond worried about looking ridiculous when helping people. It's a routine thing.

"You go back, and everything's like you never left and no time passed. Don't ask me, it's all some kind of 'magic.'" For 'magic,' read 'bullshit.'

[identity profile] notvitiligo.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Here there is, unfortunately." So annoying, this magic business. "You get used to it. Kind of."

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