|
Post by Sharkbait on Feb 4, 2007 20:17:55 GMT -5
As she's flipping through the book, she slowly fell to the floor. She pauses on one page before looking up, smiling, at Chaosti and handing him the book.
|
|
|
Post by starcrossed on Feb 4, 2007 20:20:37 GMT -5
Chaosti smiles back then looks down at the page, skimming through the spell before nodding. "This looks like the right one," he says. "What do we need to do?" Janelle asks, pulling up a chair and sitting down. Chaosti explains, "It's pretty straightforward, just an incantation and strong will."
|
|
|
Post by Sharkbait on Feb 4, 2007 20:23:29 GMT -5
Derek reads the spell from around Chaosti's arm before going to stand by Janelle. "Looks it." Autumn stands up. "We thought so when we read it the first time too."
|
|
|
Post by starcrossed on Feb 4, 2007 20:27:09 GMT -5
Chaosti nods and says, "We should check the book out and go someplace where there aren't so many people and a librarian with the ears of a bat." He goes over to the librarian's desk thingy where books are checked out and does so quickly, then signals for the others to join him as he heads for the door. "Where should we go?" Janelle asks.
|
|
|
Post by Sharkbait on Feb 4, 2007 20:29:28 GMT -5
"Gardens are too common, someone's bound to be there already," Derek says. "What about the forest?" Autumn suggests.
|
|
|
Post by starcrossed on Feb 4, 2007 20:30:37 GMT -5
"Sounds good to me," Chaosti says. Janelle nods in agreement and they head in that direction.
[skip to forest?]
|
|
|
Post by Sharkbait on Feb 4, 2007 20:31:11 GMT -5
((Yep! You start it this time.))
|
|
|
Post by starcrossed on Feb 4, 2007 20:33:44 GMT -5
[blargh, fine..]
They come to a clearing pretty deep in the forest and stop. "This looks like as good a place as any," Chaosti says, still holding the book with the page marked. Janelle nods, sitting down cross-legged in the center of the clearing.
|
|
|
Post by Sharkbait on Feb 4, 2007 20:34:59 GMT -5
Derek leans against one of the trees as Autumn brings up the rear of the group. "So, is Janelle the only one really involved in the incantation?" he asks.
|
|
|
Post by starcrossed on Feb 4, 2007 20:38:15 GMT -5
"Pretty much she sits still while one of us points a wand at her and says the spell," Chaosti explains.
[aaaaaand time to mangle some Latin! *pulls up her favorite english-latin online dictionary*]
|
|
|
Post by Sharkbait on Feb 4, 2007 20:40:05 GMT -5
"I call not doing it," Autumn says. "I suck at pronouncing anything beyond English," Derek says. (( ;D ))
|
|
|
Post by starcrossed on Feb 4, 2007 20:47:29 GMT -5
Chaosti sighs and says, "Guess I'll do it then." Opening up the book, he reads through the spell, muttering it under his breath as he runs through the pronunciation a couple times, then he nods in satisfaction. Looking up at Janelle he asks, "Ready?" Janelle looks a little nervous, apprehensive about what she might learn, but sets her jaw determinedly and nods.
|
|
|
Post by Sharkbait on Feb 4, 2007 20:51:05 GMT -5
Derek looks from Janelle to Chaosti repeatedly, not sure about what's going to happen. Autumn tries to block out their thoughts to avoid a headache.
|
|
|
Post by starcrossed on Feb 4, 2007 20:56:40 GMT -5
Taking a deep breath and being careful to enunciate and get the pronunciation right, Chaosti takes his wand from the back pocket of his jeans and points it at Janelle then says, "Ostendo occultus recordatio. Producto acerbus." A spark jumps from the end of his wand to Janelle's forehead, where it appears to sink into her skin and vanishes. Her cerulean eyes cloud over and her gaze grows distant, looking at something that isn't there. There's a moment of stillness, and then terror twists her expression and she screams bloody murder.
|
|
|
Post by Sharkbait on Feb 4, 2007 21:00:51 GMT -5
Derek rushes over to Janelle. He cups both hands around her face, saying her name and trying to comfort her. He pulls her into a hug before turning to Chaosti. "What did you do?" Autumn puts her hand against a tree for support, having the thoughts carry over. A few tears fell down her cheeks, though she tried not to break down.
|
|
|
Post by starcrossed on Feb 4, 2007 21:09:09 GMT -5
Chaosti looks stunned by the whole thing and starts to rush over to Janelle as well, but stops and thinks better of it when Janelle continues screaming like Claire in the Raised By Another episode where she totally steals the screaming-bloody-murder trophy from both Kate AND Shannon and anyone else up to the most recent episodes and looks at Derek with stark horror in her features and her eyes clouded still, seeing something that wasn't him there. Twisting out of his grip she shrieks, "Get away from me!" and stumbles backwards, crab-crawling away from them until her back hits a tree and she can't go any further. Chaosti notices Autumn's own distress then and he goes to her side instead. "Do you know what's going on? What she's seeing?" He asks her as he puts a comforting arm around her shoulders.
|
|
|
Post by Sharkbait on Feb 4, 2007 21:11:08 GMT -5
Derek looks to Autumn as well, too stunned by the scene. Autumn shakes her head and turns into Chaosti, crying.
|
|
|
Post by starcrossed on Feb 4, 2007 21:17:49 GMT -5
Chaosti just holds Autumn and waits it out in silence, watching Janelle with worry written over his face. Writhing as though trying to get away from something, but not being able to work out that she could go around the tree instead of through it as she seemed to be attempting, Janelle's screams are suddenly rendered silent, blocked off somehow in her memory - a spell perhaps, or something mundane? She can only cry as she tries to scream but cannot, and the scene is somehow even more macabre in the heavy silence.
|
|
|
Post by Sharkbait on Feb 4, 2007 21:30:17 GMT -5
Derek, sick of Janelle screaming, gets up and starts to approach her. Autumn, having stopped crying, senses him move. "No, don't," she says to Derek. "Don't. It's better she be alone for a little while." "What happened to her? What would make her like this?" Derek says, worried. "She was raped," Autumn says, choking back tears. "By someone in her pride. By the sounds of it, it was the guy that killed her dad. That was when she was 13." Autumn shakes her head. "She's not going to trust you for a while now. Or you," she says, looking up at Chaosti. She pushes gently away from her boyfriend and slowly approaches Janelle, wiping the tears from her face. "Hey, it's me. Don't worry about it. Everything's going to be fine."
|
|
|
Post by starcrossed on Feb 4, 2007 21:35:45 GMT -5
Chaosti looks at once both horrified and murderous, but stays back out of the way and watches in helpless silence as Autumn approaches her. The memory and the spell finally releasing her, Janelle dissolves into sobs, covering her face with her hands, ignoring the fact that they're dirt-stained from the forest floor. She doesn't move towards Autumn, but neither does she try to move away or repel her.
|
|