My Heaven

[mother_of_god]

Characters: Anyone with a reason to be in/around Dr. Holiday's clinic
Date: After the Well Lady chatting
Summary: Alessa has nightmares and messes up reality around her. It's like peeing the bed but a jillion times worse. :(
Warnings: Lots and lots of horror imagery.

She is God.

Her pristine body clad in pure light, she hovers above the Gardens, beautiful and serene and flowing with the power of Creation. It is close to Paradise, but there need to be some changes. Paradise must be cleansed.

Some are blessed: they are Chosen to become gods and angels themselves. Flesh and bone stretch and pop, twisting into the glorious forms of the most holy of beings. Carapaces, claws, tumors, fangs. And the power sweeps over their sinful minds, erasing all thought but love and obedience to their mistress and Her Faithful. The rest are culled, their screams harmonizing into magnificent hymns to God's power. The angels display them proudly, beautiful trophies of victory over the Wicked. Blood pours forth, empowering the land and the deity.
Darkness and mist roll out from her, and fires rise from the earth, casting Paradise in red beauty.

"Throw open the Gates!" she orders with lyrical exuberance, "Let the Path to Paradise unfold before all my Faithful."


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Alessa shifts in bed, whimpering, her hands twisted in the blankets. Faintly, a siren wails. Beads of dark red crawl across the walls and seep through her sheets; white becomes bright blood red. The sheet edges flutter like curtains as a wave of insects pours from beneath her bed and swarm the room. Paint peels and curls. The floor rots, falling through metal grates into an inferno far below.

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[doc_holi]

What the hell was that sound?

It was faint, but Holiday knew what a siren sounded like when she heard one. The last time she heard that-... The Nanite Event flashed through her mind and she immediately rose to her feet, terrified. What was that sound? What did it mean?

They needed to run. Get somewhere safe. Anywhere. Somewhere. Away from here.

Unknowing of what was really going on, Holiday broke out in a run for the girl's room. "Alessa! Get up! Ale-!"

Holiday throws open the door and is petrified by what she sees in the room. She needs to get to Alessa, but it takes her a minute for her mind to come back at all.

[mother_of_god]

Her eyes blink awake, then widen. She stiffens, cringing and curling up tighter.

The nightmare was never over, and God is here again.

She shudders as a large roach crawls over her leg.

[doc_holi]

Dammit, move!

"Alessa!" Holiday finally breaks into a sprint, swatting the bugs and roaches away until she finally reaches her. "We need to get out of here!"

[mother_of_god]

She's frozen in terror for the moment, staring wise-eyed at the doctor. For a moment, all she recognizes is "doctor = monster." Then, memory breaks through.

"She's inside me again! Please run away!"

[doc_holi]

Inside her? Oh, God, no. That was psychological. That's not-

"I'm not leaving you! Please!"

Get up. Do something.

[mother_of_god]

Someone who'd stay with her, even here? Alessa's never encountered this.

But Cheryl has.

She reaches up, shaking all over. If I can be close to Rebecca...

[doc_holi]

Holiday immediately holds on to the girl's hand, trying to block out the sound of that damn siren.

"You can't just let it take you over, okay? You can't let it do what it wants to!" Assuming that this really was coming from Alessa... and wasn't something like the nanites.

[fionna_time]

Fionna had come to visit Alessa, happy that she had finally found a place to call her own, and totally willing to give up some of her favorite games to make her happy!

But then things started to feel really weird. And she started to run, feeling panicked for a reason she didn't understand.

The doc's place suddenly felt way WAY bad.

"ALESSA!" She called out. "WHERE ARE YOU?!"

[mother_of_god]

She doesn't answer; even when the noise wakes her up, she can't get her voice to work. All she can do is curl up on the bed and shudder, eyes wide, as the nightmare spreads.

[fionna_time]

Fionna, knowing she is likely to see some pretty messed up stuff, is undeterred when she sees what's going on. Privately it is freaking her out, but she is more concerned about what is happening to her friend.

"Alessa!" She calls, the yelps: she nearly fell through the floorboards.

[mother_of_god]

Her foot displaces a colony of centipedes, which scuttle onto any surface available, including her leg.

There's still no answer, but the darkness and decay seem to intensify deeper in the clinic, centered around one room.

[fionna_time]

"Grossgrossgrossgrossgross!" Fionna said, kicking her feet in the air, still looking for Alessa.

"Crud," she muttered, moving further into the clinic.

[mother_of_god]

She finally finds Alessa's room in the back of the clinic. Everything has sloughed off the walls, leaving long expanses of rusted, bloody, charred metal welded to the grating on the floor. The heat is stifling here, as if the darkness were solid.

Alessa's curled in the middle of her bed, the sheets now entirely red and fluttering like wings on the drafts of the heat. She hides her face, sobbing and shuddering.

[mistressurd]

Urd was feeling a little off when she woke up that morning. Bad dreams is what she chalked it up to. She decided to take a little fly to try and feel better.

She instead felt something very demonic coming from a house she recognized. She flew down, and opened the door. Urd grimaced as she felt the demonic energy wash across her body. She glanced around, and saw the rooms twisted, falling apart. She started to walk forward into it.

[mother_of_god]

The clinic's antiseptic smell is gone, replaced by a miasma of ash, blood, and decay, intensified by the dry heat radiating up from the inferno beneath. Flies, roaches, and maggots, unnaturally large, infest the area, paying the interloper no mind.

As she moves deeper, the area grows darker and the rot thicker. It seems centered on a single room at the far edge...

[mistressurd]

Urd wrinkled her nose at the smell as she went deeper. She held her chest as she felt her other side pulsing, reacting to the dark images and twisted world.

She makes her way further into to building, her walk slowing as she does, towards the room this is all centered around. When she gets there, she slowly opens the door.

[mother_of_god]

There's nothing left of the way the room was before: it's all rusted, bloody metal walls, and grated floors. Only the bed is intact, its blood red sheets fluttering like wings on the heat drafts. Alessa lies in the middle, clutching the sheets to herself, face screwed up and whimpering under the power of her nightmares.

[mistressurd]

Urd Slowly made her way towards the bed, but when she reached it she fell to her knees, clutching her chest. Her forehead marks glowed, and flashed for a moment.

Urd Placed her hand on Alessa and shook her slightly, as to try and wake her.

[mother_of_god]

The girl gasps, eyes snapping open. It takes a few moments for her to get her bearings, and she stares, uncomprehending, at Urd.

sorry this is late!

[tosaveyou]

Kariya had started staying in the clinic, too, so she didn't have to be alone at the Pagoda.

She was having trouble sleeping, as usual, and she was walking through the building quietly to get a glass of water when she heard--a siren? That was strange. Something was wrong, she could tell. She set the glass of water down, frowning, and went looking for the source of the sound.

"Hello? Alessa? Doctor?"

all good!

[mother_of_god]

The source seems to be searching, too: decay crawling down the hall toward her, splitting paint, staining walls, cracking boards. Blackened blood seeps through cracks, and insects swarm the area.

[tosaveyou]

Kariya jumps back, with a shudder at the sight. What is it? Why is it happening. She feels--and just barely hears--the worms move inside her, a low buzz.

"Hello? Who's there? Alessa?" She raises her voice. If something's happening, she can't leave Alessa alone. "Can anyone hear me?"

[mother_of_god]

A figure appears down the hall: short, slender, in a blue dress, her arms wrapped around her nervously. She walks carefully, picking her way around the bugs.

It's Alessa, if Alessa had grown up without burns and hospitalization.

She notices Kariya, and approaches slowly, with a worried frown.

[tosaveyou]

"Hello." Kariya moves toward the figure, not recognizing her at first. She wraps an arm around her waist, which doesn't really help her condition but comforts her. "Are you all right? What's happening?" She wonders where the doctor is. It's not like her to miss something like this. But she stops wondering once she gets a clearer look at the young woman before her.

"Alessa?" Alessa's so changed. The vision reminds Kariya a little of herself before she went home again. Before the worms. "Is that really you?"

[mother_of_god]

"You need to leave!" she urges. "She's coming back!"