everyonelives | Then we get terrified, like children waking in the dark, we don't know where we are.

Entry tags:

Then we get terrified, like children waking in the dark, we don't know where we are.

( Bonnie, bag in hand at her side, holds the door open this time. She sighs, looking wistfully off at Danny, sullen, in the backseat. )

I wish I could make it all better, like I could undo it all, or, go back and prevent it altogether. Too many of us have no parents. No living family.

( She sighs.

From Danny's seat if or when he looks back, Bonnie and Isaac continue their discussion. Scott texts Isaac, so he pulls his phone out, eyes down quickly.

A couple approaches from the south, arm in arm. The guy in glasses leans in whispering something that makes the girl laugh. As they separate to move around Bonnie, everything happens quickly. The brunette girl brandishes a stun gun landing a blow to Isaac's side. Out of the leather jacket, the man reveals what looks to be something dark colored, with a flat bottom. He drops it. From the car, he can see a spell attempted, Bonnie's lips moving but nothing happening. She tries struggling, but the woman whacks her on the back of the back sending her down. The man quickly pulls out a pair of iron handcuffs the woman waves away, not now, and as fast as it happens, a bright yellow taxi pulls up.

Three others, including one dressed as a taxi-driver throw Bonnie and Isaac into the trunk. When everyone is inside the car, the driver puts down a black device on the top of the cab quickly, puts on a pair of leather gloves, climbs inside the cab and speeds off.

Bonnie's bag, and the contents within including her phone lie on the sidewalk next to Isaac's dropped phone.

The driver in Danny's car starts the ignition, this is probably protocol. )

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

( Bonnie coughs out, coming to. It's not a large room by any means, but it fits them both and gives them pacing room should they stand. Bonnie is attempting to push herself up right now, hand holding the back of her head. She looks at her fingers, a dark red on the tips. So, she's bleeding. )

Incendia. ( Nothing. Incendia. ( Nothing. She thinks back. ) Isaac, I think - I don't have my powers. Or, I'm being blocked. ( She turns, sliding closer to him. ) Are you okay?

Not really, but at least we're not in a trunk anymore.

[He moves closer to her, crouching down gently to check the back of her head. He's not surprised that her magic is being blocked, but as he gently places his hand on her shoulder, he can feel the pain there and he draws it out slowly, hoping to clear her head a bit. The thin black lines travel up his arm and he lets out a small breath of relief as he looks her over.]

You're okay. It's mostly scabbing over; you're not still bleeding.

( Her head clears, the pain subsiding, and she can't help but think he did that. )

We - did you see who did this? It all happened so fast. ( She grips his shoulder. ) Danny. ( She calls out. It echoes. ) Danny! I - sent him to the car, did you see him get into the car?

[Isaac shakes his head.]

He's not here.

[Not that he can say one hundred percent for sure, but his scent isn't anywhere in the room, and he's pretty sure that Danny was in the car.]

I'm not sure who did this exactly, but I have a pretty good wild guess.

[But with her being better, he's going to start taking a look around, taking note of the rushing water he can hear somewhere nearby, and as he scans the room, this time with his eyes on, he catches an oddly discolored tile.]

Huh.

[And he's going to get up and take a look.]

No, he -- he made it inside the car.

( Never mind the life or death split-second stakes, but that's what a nat 20 does. )

What?

( She wobbles first, getting to her feet and joining him. )

This tile is different than the others.

[Which is a weird thing to fixate on, he'll admit, but he's watched enough spy movies to know that that might mean something.]

Also I hear running water. Maybe a pipe or a beach?

( Bonnie doesn't know, unfortunately. )

I don't know, I came here for the solstice and for Danny. Do you know Prague?

Not intimately. We only got here a few days ago.

[He keeps taking in their circumstances, trying to see what he can glean.]

This tile and stone looks pretty old. Do you know anything about the local historical sites?

Not any more than I gleaned from a hotel brochure. And I didn't look closely enough. But, if it's old, there is the older side. We could be in one of the fortresses or castles. This is Prague, there isn't just one.

( She's going to look closer next time. )

If we are somewhere like that, then do you think this was deliberate? Or do you think we're being held here temporarily? That - whatever was dropped, it took my magic, or dampened it.

I don't know. They didn't hand me an itinerary. But I don't think we should sit still and wait for them to come back.

[And with that, he will make his way closer to the discolored tile and see if there's any kind of trigger or latch he can activate. Worth a shot. And if nothing happens, he's going to start looking for a door.]

( There's no trigger, this isn't a spy novel. But, the tile itself is loose. )

[Eh, worth a shot.

But given that he wants to be thorough, he's going to try and pry it up the rest of the way and see if there's anything behind it.]

( it's pretty dark, but there is in fact a tunnel. it's just about Isaac-sized, if Isaac army crawls forward. )

[.......... Yeah, no.

But he can't just send Bonnie in there on her own.

But also no.

But he's the one who's still fully functioning at the moment.

Isaac.exe has stopped working as he tries to work through this conflict.]

Isaac?

( She crouches down next to him, holding herself up against the wall. What is it? )

[He shakes his head when she says his name, trying to snap himself out of it.]

Sorry. I'm just ... not good with tight spaces.

[To put it mildly.]

How tight? I could... We're going to figure this out. Do you... know how far it goes?

( She places a hand on his upper back, to soothe him, but to also remind him that she's here. They're in this together and not just because they got taken together. )

I can probably fit if I army crawl through. But no, I don't know how far it goes or where it goes.

[Just that it's away from here.]

Can't promise I won't freak out halfway through.

I'll be right there, I promise.

( If anything happens, she'll talk him down. She'll wait for him to crawl far enough that she can, too. )

[Isaac takes a deep breath, steeling his nerves, before lowering himself down and starting to push himself through the corridor. It already is the worst, but he does his best to try and manage his breathing, keep his heart rate under control.

Remember that Bonnie is behind him, and if he freaks out too much he could bring the whole wall down on her too. He feels the scrape of the rock against his back as he pushes his way through, and there's a part of him that wants to shove it off, and get out.

Eventually the panic becomes too much and he does have to stop, holding himself in place until he can regain control again. His claws scrape against the rock as he tries to pull himself together, pinching his eyes closed as his vision goes red.]

( Bonnie sucks in her breath, waiting for room to follow behind. It's narrow for the both of them but at least they can make it together. Isaac stops, so Bonnie stops. He's gotten two Isaac's from the opening with Bonnie right behind but before she can call out hands grab at her ankles and drag her back. )

Isaac!

( She tries to grab onto anything and somehow manages some kind of leverage but when she tries to slip the grip around her ankles, she can't. )

[Something snaps when he hears Bonnie scream.

Yellow eyes glance over his shoulder as he sees Bonnie disappear from behind him and back into the room. Adjusting his position once she's clear he uses his claws to give him leverage to push backwards, sliding back into the room.

Only instead of his normal, enigmatic self, is a spitting mad rage wolf who you should not have chosen to fuck with right then.

There's a snarl as he pushes to his feet, and one hand slams into the guard holding Bonnie, intending to throw him backward, away from the witch on the ground.]

( Yeah, that hand sends him back alright, knocking into the wall and down. but, this hunter seems more trained than others as he lands on his feet, palm flat on the ground. he tries to dodge (17) the next move Isaac attempts before sending an elbow down. (5) )

[He does manage to dodge Isaac's second swipe with his claws (15) but Isaac avoids the elbow easily (10). Then he reaches forward to attempt to grab the man by the chest and slam him back into the wall again (17) so he can growl that rage right in his face.]

( And if Isaac has ever been witness to it, he'll catch the faint smell of urine dripping below as he not only holds the hunter right there but scares the shit out of him. Bonnie keeps her distance, but she also gets to her feet. )

Isaac! ( She indicates with her head. ) The door's open.

( (20) the hunter fights through his fear to knock Isaac's arm away, but the claws do what claws do and he makes his escape through the open door slipping through Isaac's fingers if he tries.

bright side? the door's open now? the smell of blood also saturates the room as the remnants of the wounds from the hunters chest glob together below Isaac. )

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject