nightmare dressed like a daydream // laney x javi. day3

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nightmare dressed like a daydream // laney x javi. day3 Nov 17, 2023 21:29:40 GMT -5

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Post by d1b. xylia fray ♕ kaяi on Nov 17, 2023 21:29:40 GMT -5

It couldn't be real.

Right?

Two of her allies gone in the blink of an eye. Jumped. Minutes later.

Gone.

They had lost people in their group back in Four of course, but Laney had never seen it. And it was horrifying. One lost his head, the other had her body slowly torn apart, piece by piece. She knew what it was like to lose someone, but not to watch them die.

And Laney knew it would haunt her until Death knocked at her own doorstep.

Instead of facing it, when Maia collapsed to the ground, she grabbed Javi's arm in a panic and began leading him out of the room.

"Come on, we have to go!"

The moment she felt him following, she began to run towards the elevators, smashing a random button and forcing the door to close. A weird sound got caught in her throat, but she forced herself not to cry. She was sure the camera's were rolling, even in here. The sliding doors open back up to the basement and finally she allows herself to breathe.

She grabs his hand again, pulling him forward.

Afraid that if she dare to let go, she would never get him back.

"Look, coffee! I don't know about you, but I have no intention of sleeping tonight after that,"

It was the fear of being surprised once more.

But more importantly, the fear of having to live over again in her dreams.

LANEY
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( scavenges coffee bar )
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nightmare dressed like a daydream // laney x javi. day3 Nov 17, 2023 23:49:17 GMT -5

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Post by nolan goode 10m / kaitlin. on Nov 17, 2023 23:49:17 GMT -5

It’s scary how easy it is to walk away.

They descended like a murder of crows in the end, scavenging like carrion birds in my friends pockets. They took Bentleys head and Maia’s spirit and somehow that wasn’t payment enough. They had to go ripping through their pockets, stopping them of their packs and any supplies they’d collected.

He heard when Maias matching glance hit the floor, metal clattering against the earth. A lilting wave on the air as I turned my back on her.

I don’t look back.

Laney leads me through the levels, blind leading the blind. Reality hits me like a tank engine, barreling through me. Cotton lines my mouth, sapping moisture and leaving me dry. Laney tries to talk to me but when I go to answer all I find is sand paper, words catching in my chest.

JAVIER
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javier scavenges

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32oz coffee

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Last Edit: Nov 18, 2023 22:25:22 GMT -5 by nolan goode 10m / kaitlin.

what are men to rocks and mountains?

a haunted house.

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nightmare dressed like a daydream // laney x javi. day3 Nov 18, 2023 22:21:38 GMT -5

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Post by nolan goode 10m / kaitlin. on Nov 18, 2023 22:21:38 GMT -5

The coffee is bitter and cold.

It feels like it's being injected into my blood the more I drink of it, small sips at first that went right to my head. I take a longer gulp though walking away from Laney where she does her own search. She keeps looking at me like she expects me to say something, to be Mr. Perfectly Fine, but all I keep seeing when I close my eyes is the light leaving Maia's. I don't think I am the guy that Laney thinks I am, the guy any of my friends thought I was.

I know they picked me because I was smiling through the world in the beginning. I walked onto the stage in the Capitol and told the world that I was someone to believe in, a force to be reckoned with, capable of great things. The greatest things, even.

That had never meant killing. It meant surviving.

I didn't think what it would mean to outsurvive someone I promised to protect.

So I turn my back on Laney, don't let her see the hollow look in my eyes when I walk away from her as easily as we walked away from our friends bodies.

JAVIER
MACEDO.

javier scavenges cafeteria kitchen

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Last Edit: Nov 18, 2023 22:21:57 GMT -5 by nolan goode 10m / kaitlin.

what are men to rocks and mountains?

a haunted house.

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nightmare dressed like a daydream // laney x javi. day3 Nov 18, 2023 22:31:49 GMT -5

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Post by nolan goode 10m / kaitlin. on Nov 18, 2023 22:31:49 GMT -5

Hadn't really realized I was walking into the Kitchen until I was already there.

The place is a disaster, to say the very least. Others must have realized the treasure trove laying behind those doors because the floor was littered with miscellaneous trinkets already, swear on my honor. That mess was not mine.

I rifle through it mindlessly, caffeine buzzing through me and setting my brain on fire. There's a few chef's knives, but the glaive at my hip is already heavy enough that I find myself turning away from them quickly. The implied violence of them, the intimacy of having to look someone right in their eyes in order to use one of those things... The tightness in my chest only grows, nausea settling in as I move to rummage in the food pantry.

It's even more of a disaster, emptied chip bags ripped and littered on the floor in there.

The things still sitting on the shelves are enough to ruin anyones day. At least I can ignore the hunger settling into the pit of my stomach, anger and grief and guilt filling my stomach instead. I think I'd rather gnaw my own tongue off than eat whatever a black truffle is, or crack into that jar of pickled melon. I spy a can of beans and stash it away in my backpack, making mental note to offer it to Laney later.

She hasn't eaten either.

JAVIER
MACEDO.

javier scavenges food pantry

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8 | Dented can of kidney beans

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Last Edit: Nov 18, 2023 22:34:20 GMT -5 by nolan goode 10m / kaitlin.

what are men to rocks and mountains?

a haunted house.

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nightmare dressed like a daydream // laney x javi. day3 Nov 19, 2023 0:22:02 GMT -5

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Post by nolan goode 10m / kaitlin. on Nov 19, 2023 0:22:02 GMT -5

I find I cannot sit down.

Bentley's blood keeps pooling at my feet where I step, leaving bloody footprints in a trail behind me. I keep blinking them away but they keep coming back, hunger a gnawwing presence in the pit of my stomach. My body is a slow call to action, my arms sluggish at my sides as I prowl through the hall. Laney is a strange hallucination, guzzling vanilla syrup right out of the bottle. No, wait, maybe that one's real.

I knock an elbow against the vending machine and pluck up the thing that clatters to the ground before stalking back over towards the blonde. I wonder why she's content to stay by my side.

Loyalty is probably just going to get her killed.

"Here," is all I manage, swinging my pack around to hold in front of me. I unzip the pocket quickly, grabbing the can of beans I'd found. She gives me a look that says she thinks there must be a punchline in there somewhere, but I don't have the energy to muster anything up. At least she has the grace to quickly transform a scoff into gratitude.

He just blinks at her utterance of thanks, and goes to look elsewhere.

JAVIER
MACEDO.

javier scavenges vending machine

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Last Edit: Nov 19, 2023 0:22:23 GMT -5 by nolan goode 10m / kaitlin.

what are men to rocks and mountains?

a haunted house.