[closed] we'll beat a path through the mirrored maze

[cullscuttlefish]

Characters: Feferi Peixes and Colette Brunel
Setting: Room 1-05
Format: Action to start, but I can switch?
Summary: Over time, Feferi has realized that she really doesn't like talking about That Jerk Jason over the network where he can possibly see it and make things worse for her and her friends. So she's explaining who he is and why he's so bad in person. (It's also so she has a pillow to hug while she does it. She really doesn't like talking about him.)



[It took Feferi a few minutes to arrive back at the room. She'd made sure to grab some extra tissues and a few bottles of water. Hearing The Jason Story wasn't ever an easy thing for anyone. The heiress almost hated to tell it at all to someone as sweet as Colette, but her roommate needed to hear it. Better from someone who could tell it gently than someone who would just dump out all of the gory details on the poor girl.

Comments

[cullscuttlefish]

Sometimes, I think it's to see how much we can handle. Sometimes, I think it's for some purpose they don't want us to know.

...and once, I caught the look in Jason's eye, as he was about to draw a scalpel across my skin, and I honestly believe he was doing it for his own amusement.

[clumsyjesus]

Draw a scalpel....y-you mean...?! [So he's tortured Feferi as well? Colette falls silent. She did not think that Feferi would make up something like that. Colette puts a hand to her chest. These people have made Feferi....they have also hurt that boy she met in front of those gravestones and those people in the costumes. Were they going to do it again and how could she stop them?]

[cullscuttlefish]

[Feferi nods, taking a shaky breath.]

Yeah. More than once, over that month. He made sure it didn't hurt, and it never left a scar, at least not on my body. But it left a lot of scars on the inside. I still have nightmares sometimes, and there are some things you can't get out of your head, no matter how much you try.

And we all try. The best thing we can all do is make sure we're there for each other afterwards. We might not be able to protect each other from what they do, as much as we want to.

...and we do want to. A lot of people have tried to stop them, and a lot of people have gotten themselves hurt in the process. Hurt, or killed. Death isn't permanent here, but the penalty for it is pretty awful, too. You wake up feeling like you're locked into your own body - you can hear and see things, but you can't speak and you can't move until they decide to let you. I don't want anyone else to have to go through that.

A good heart and a listening ear go further to heal the damage than anything else.