RE: Four Painful Years
08-22-2018, 12:44 AM
MAXWELL: “Julie? What’s up?”
TRENT: “Yeah, you look like... ”
JULIE: “I’ve seen a ghost? Worse. More like a zombie, or Jason Voorhees… Or the T-1000.”
JULIE: “And all of his little demon friends...”
MAXWELL: “Breathe, Jules, breathe. You’re not making sense.”
JULIE: “I’m fine… I’m fine. There’s just this indestructible maniac out to get me so, uh, if you hear someone trying to suplex the door with a bayonet, don’t answer it.”
TRENT: “... Say what now?”
JULIE: “Look, you're just gonna have to deal with my shit right now because I don’t know what happened and I never got my meds ‘cause my pharmacist might’ve been trying to poison me but my creepy neighbor killed him with a machete and then he came after me and I tried to shoot him with this gun I found - ”
You brandish the gun. Everyone flinches.
“ - but he wouldn’t go down and I ran out of bullets and then I had no choice so I punched him and my ring like EXPLODED and he went WOOSH and the wall fell down and then I went outside and there was this huge floating island and a fin lady and a three headed dog and a bunch of weird bird things and now the name of the company’s different and there’s a weird door outside and I have no idea what’s going on anymore…!”
You double over and cry, like anyone would. Your fingers curl up against your temples as the pain worsens, becoming almost unbearable. Mustafa and Trent look at each other with worried expressions. Luca’s eyebrows have raised a whole inch.
MAXWELL: “How’s your head, Julie...?”
JULIE: “It hurts…”
MAXWELL: “Okay, I’m going to go get the back up pills you gave me, the rest of you keep an eye on…”
JULIE: “Max?”
MAXWELL: “... Yes?”
JULIE: “Please tell me you guys aren’t weird monster things that are trying to kill me, too…”
There’s a moment of silence. Suddenly, a hand is on your shoulder and you look up. It belongs to Luca, of all people. She kneels down and gingerly answers your question.
LUCA: “Rest assured, Mitchells… If I thought you were worth killing, you would have been dead months ago. And I would have done it immediately, without hesitation, because everything about you pisses me off.”
Silence.
JULIE: “God, Luca, why are you such a b-WAGH!”
Luca takes you down with both arms and rolls forward. Only a moment later the warehouse door flies off its hinges with a resounding BANG, and scrapes the ground where you were standing. It carries on and almost clips Maxwell before smashing into the office area.
It’s him.
NEIGHBOR: "... A Ring o’ Defiance, eh?"
NEIGHBOR: "They didn’t tell me you’d gone and crossed over already… Oh well."
A serrated blade taller than a normal person appears in his hand. The light level in the warehouse increases slightly.
NEIGHBOR: "Last chance, little girl… Come take a walk with me now, and I’ll only kill you… Keep strugglin’, and I'll make you scream for death."
TRENT: “Yeah, you look like... ”
JULIE: “I’ve seen a ghost? Worse. More like a zombie, or Jason Voorhees… Or the T-1000.”
JULIE: “And all of his little demon friends...”
MAXWELL: “Breathe, Jules, breathe. You’re not making sense.”
JULIE: “I’m fine… I’m fine. There’s just this indestructible maniac out to get me so, uh, if you hear someone trying to suplex the door with a bayonet, don’t answer it.”
TRENT: “... Say what now?”
JULIE: “Look, you're just gonna have to deal with my shit right now because I don’t know what happened and I never got my meds ‘cause my pharmacist might’ve been trying to poison me but my creepy neighbor killed him with a machete and then he came after me and I tried to shoot him with this gun I found - ”
You brandish the gun. Everyone flinches.
“ - but he wouldn’t go down and I ran out of bullets and then I had no choice so I punched him and my ring like EXPLODED and he went WOOSH and the wall fell down and then I went outside and there was this huge floating island and a fin lady and a three headed dog and a bunch of weird bird things and now the name of the company’s different and there’s a weird door outside and I have no idea what’s going on anymore…!”
You double over and cry, like anyone would. Your fingers curl up against your temples as the pain worsens, becoming almost unbearable. Mustafa and Trent look at each other with worried expressions. Luca’s eyebrows have raised a whole inch.
MAXWELL: “How’s your head, Julie...?”
JULIE: “It hurts…”
MAXWELL: “Okay, I’m going to go get the back up pills you gave me, the rest of you keep an eye on…”
JULIE: “Max?”
MAXWELL: “... Yes?”
JULIE: “Please tell me you guys aren’t weird monster things that are trying to kill me, too…”
There’s a moment of silence. Suddenly, a hand is on your shoulder and you look up. It belongs to Luca, of all people. She kneels down and gingerly answers your question.
LUCA: “Rest assured, Mitchells… If I thought you were worth killing, you would have been dead months ago. And I would have done it immediately, without hesitation, because everything about you pisses me off.”
Silence.
JULIE: “God, Luca, why are you such a b-WAGH!”
Luca takes you down with both arms and rolls forward. Only a moment later the warehouse door flies off its hinges with a resounding BANG, and scrapes the ground where you were standing. It carries on and almost clips Maxwell before smashing into the office area.
It’s him.
NEIGHBOR: "... A Ring o’ Defiance, eh?"
NEIGHBOR: "They didn’t tell me you’d gone and crossed over already… Oh well."
A serrated blade taller than a normal person appears in his hand. The light level in the warehouse increases slightly.
NEIGHBOR: "Last chance, little girl… Come take a walk with me now, and I’ll only kill you… Keep strugglin’, and I'll make you scream for death."
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