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[quarkylass]

Characters: Jade Harley (AU) and YOU.
Setting: Floor 17.
Format: Starting in brackets, I'll change to suit you!
Summary: Perhaps writing down 'i really like it here' on that application was not a good idea...
Warnings: Paranoia due to GROUP B SHENANIGANS. Little girls attempting to starve themselves.


[ She's been in this floor for almost a day.

Though she knows from personal experience that if you don't sleep in your bed, you'll be forced to, Jade can't help but run away. Her dormmates watch her -- they don't sleep, she's sure of it. Yesterday she'd woken up in a panic and ran to found the first place she could think of -- that floor that everyone hated. No one would look for her there, of course.

She's curled up in the corner, watching the entrance religiously, ready to fight someone off if they try and take her back. ]

Comments

[tempustemporum.livejournal.com]

[Ienzo had slept a good three hours past what he normally did. He did not notice or care. The next few hours (or was it...?) had been spent staring vacantly at the ceiling over his bed. Only just now had the unpleasable, overbearing part of his mind told him that he needed to Get Up and Be Productive.]

[Never mind that there was nothing to be productive about.]

[Research on this damned tower was becoming lesser and lesser; he had just stopped trying, though of course if anyone pointed this out, he would have insisted that the lack of information made for absolutely nothing to do. The work he had done before had brought frustratingly sparse results, and he'd been doing this for four months... five months? He'd stopped keeping track.]

[Though a fair part of his consciousness had wanted desperately to lock himself in his dormitory and never come out, Ienzo had actually wandered around for a while, feeling more and more hopeless as he went. Eventually, however, he stopped in a random room (who cared which one it was?) and simply slid down the wall, curling into a ball on the floor.]

[Directly across from Jade.]

[quarkylass]

[ She notices him, of course; the grip she has on her hair rightens as she watches him. Jade doesn't know this person well -- what if he's watching her? What if he's there to report on her to some unknown entity, the likes of which wants to send her back to her home? Back to destruction, to nonexistence? ]

What do you want?

[tempustemporum.livejournal.com]

[Oh, look, there's someone over there. Ienzo finally looks up, expressionless as usual.]

...i was hoping... to do something. anything.

[But as it turns out, he was now doing exactly what he had been doing before, just with a slightly different backdrop.]

[quarkylass]

I understand.

[ She might be scooting a little closer. Certainly not to decide whether he's a spy, of course not. ]

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

[Romeo usually wizzed through this floor as quickly as he could without falling off the hoverboard. Because the last thing he wanted was to have to try and struggle and walk in this room, even though he was getting better his hooves still got tired very easily. It was very scary. However he stopped when he saw the girl. He slowed down without falling off and looked at her, forcing himself to keep his head up despite the antlers that made his head so heavy.]

Is everything alright? Why are you in here? Are you hurt? [He got off the hoverboard and made a few wobbly steps towards her hoping that he didn't scare her. He had scared a lot of people since he had been operated on and it made him feel sad.]

[quarkylass]

[ She looked up at him and looked back down again, unsure of what to say. He didn't seem like a person they would send to hurt her, but-- she wasn't sure, and her head hurt from the tears and the panic. ]

N-no, I...you're... [ You're a spy you're going to hurt me I'm scared stop please ] Are you. Working for them?

[spiritsup.livejournal.com]

Huh? [Romeo sat down next to her, tucking his hooved legs underneath him as if he were a real deer. He didn't understand her but she looked scared and he wanted to help.] Working for who?

[quarkylass]

The tower. The people who run it. I thought they would be nice but they're not.....

apologies in advance, all of them

[handpuppeeet.livejournal.com]

[Everything he thought felt wrong now. And it was annoying as hell. Was this because of Shingo? Because there were thoughts and feelings that sure as hell weren't his. Oh and his hand still hurt. That sucked. Which was also why his right arm was encased it what seemed to be red and green armor-- the Greeed arm at least made his hand strong enough to not flinch if he touched something.]

[Ankh had been more focused thinking about...his thoughts, and had barely realized where he was when he heard the screams of the room, and slowly looked up, noticing the little girl in the corner.] Hey. What're you doing?

it's ok!

[quarkylass]

[ She glared at him, unsure of what he wanted. ]

I'm sitting, that's fine, right?

[handpuppeeet.livejournal.com]

[Small child glaring at him? He went ahead and glared right back.]

People don't normally sit in rooms with screaming and blood. [He was more than a little suspicious.]

[quarkylass]

[ SCREAM SO SCARY ]

Maybe I want to! Maybe it'll keep the bad guys away!

[xbludjunkie.livejournal.com]

[Not surprising why everyone hated this floor, which also probably the same reason why he was here. After all, he was an expert in all things scary, and a room covered in blood and full of screams was right up his alley.]

[Certainly didn't expect to see a definitely living and breathing girl huddled in the corner.]

[Normally, he would have rushed over to see if he was alright. But what was she even doing here? Most people would probably would avoid this floor... unless she had been one of them.]

[He could always feel when they were watching him. so instead of concern, she was going to have to settle on caution instead.]

Hey...

[quarkylass]

[ She didn't know him. He seemed pretty alright, though -- somewhere she wondered if he was watching her because he wanted to turn her in. Mostly, she was worried about her friends, though. ]

Um. Hi.

[xbludjunkie.livejournal.com]

[Okay... a spy probably wouldn't be sitting here huddled in a corner waiting for him... Course, that could be just his brain coming up with excuses too.]

[But he couldn't just let her sit there without doing anything! After all, part of his job description was helping/saving people. Spy or not, if there was even a small chance she could be in trouble, then he had to try and help.]

Are you alright?

[quarkylass]

N-no...No I'm not.

[ It's dark and scary and the people here, they're all working for them you're working for them too--

she blocks the thoughts out. ]

[latomatetas.livejournal.com]

[ Normally, Spain didn't think much of paranoia. She trusts most of the residents in the tower, and the younger children, but now there's a niggling feeling that something or someone is out to get her. Who or what, she doesn't know yet.

Her daily wandering found her on the 17th floor, one place she hasn't been in. And curled up at the corner was a familiar silhouette of a girl she befriended. ]

...Jade?

[quarkylass]

[ Jade looks up, eyes more than a little wild. ]

W-what do you want?

[latomatetas.livejournal.com]

Oh, querida, you're alive...

[ Spain approaches her slowly, ignoring her surroundings as best as she could. ]

[quarkylass]

[ Jade is extremely uncertain. ]

Y-yeah, they sent me back -- how did you not know that?

[foretolds.livejournal.com]

[At least the screaming in this room isn't a hallucination. At least, that's what Terezi is thinking as she passes through the floor, not that the room itself is doing much for her already frazzled nerves.

When she catches Jade's scent, though, she hesitates. This is... The Jade who stitched her up, not the one Terezi knows. She thinks. Why is she in this room, though? She always seems so jumpy. It doesn't really seem like a place she'd frequent. So Terezi heads on over.]

Fancy seeing you here!

[quarkylass]

[ Oh god speaking of jumpy, she probably just jumped a million miles off of the ground. Jade wasn't expecting anyone else -- she's curled up in a ball on the ground now, hands raw, more streaks of blood on the walls, but fresher.

Someone might or might not have had a panic attack. ]

No, please go away!

[foretolds.livejournal.com]

[Terezi notices that, and raises her eyebrows. She doesn't come any closer, but she doesn't leave, either.]

What's wrong?

[princesspowaful.livejournal.com]

[Molly was looking for a place to be alone. She had tried her hardest to make people happy and help out those who had surgery but she could only do so much. Lately she had been much more paranoid than she usually was. She wasn't doing enough to make people happy so they were out to get her. They were going to hurt her and she knew it.]

[Molly practically ran into the seventeenth floor, one she knows that people usually avoid. With her speed and in her haste she practically trips over Jade. Even though she knows Jade, and knows that Jade won't her, Molly scrabbles to get away from her]

[quarkylass]

[ Jade shrieks, pulling her legs back. ]

No, don't hurt me!