Room 223, Sunday Morning
Jan. 16th, 2011 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Tara couldn't remember when or how, but she must have fallen asleep at some point after she got back to the dorms. She woke up in a sticky ball on top of her covers, still dressed in the clothes she'd yanked on Thursday night.
She felt filthy, as if she were covered in Raven's blood and -- more. She felt as if her mind was no longer her own, and never would be again.
The first order of business was a long, hot shower that didn't seem to do much beyond removing some obvious grime from her skin. She dressed quickly, and put her hair back.
More grateful than usual for her lack of a roommate, Tara then laid a double line of salt at her doorstep and, after a quick chant to Astraea for her own purity, started methodically going through her spellbooks. She'd never taken special precautions against possession in the past, but there had to be a way to ensure no one would ever use her that way again.
The way she'd been used was bad enough already.
[OOC: Closed door, open post. Player will be on and off today.]
She felt filthy, as if she were covered in Raven's blood and -- more. She felt as if her mind was no longer her own, and never would be again.
The first order of business was a long, hot shower that didn't seem to do much beyond removing some obvious grime from her skin. She dressed quickly, and put her hair back.
More grateful than usual for her lack of a roommate, Tara then laid a double line of salt at her doorstep and, after a quick chant to Astraea for her own purity, started methodically going through her spellbooks. She'd never taken special precautions against possession in the past, but there had to be a way to ensure no one would ever use her that way again.
The way she'd been used was bad enough already.
[OOC: Closed door, open post. Player will be on and off today.]
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Date: 2011-01-17 06:13 pm (UTC)A certain librarian would argue with that strenuously, but Henry, mercifully, did not hang out in student's bedrooms.
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Date: 2011-01-17 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-17 07:23 pm (UTC)She stopped there, paralyzed by the what ifs.
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Date: 2011-01-17 07:39 pm (UTC)Great. She'd thought she was done crying.
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Date: 2011-01-17 07:49 pm (UTC)She drew a jagged breath. "She couldn't hurt me. I could have done something to save her, if, if I'd just broke through that tiny little bit, and I couldn't."
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Date: 2011-01-17 08:15 pm (UTC)For the first time since they'd gotten back, she really looked at Tara, trying to get it into her head that this wasn't the being who'd possessed her any more, just her girl again. There were too many more images she couldn't shake: Sookie's unhinged fae rage, Karla and her whips of Sapphire energy, Jono letting loose with a wall of flame, the look on Emma's face, Raven's broken body... She needed something to displace a little of that horror, and this was her best bet.
"We all let her down," she murmured, finally. "But she tried to get us to kill you, too. I couldn't do that."
The rationalization wasn't nearly as comforting as she'd hoped.
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Date: 2011-01-18 01:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-18 01:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-18 01:20 am (UTC)And then Tara was ready to cry again.
[OOC: Scene/seen confusion is special.]
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Date: 2011-01-18 01:23 am (UTC)Damned if she was going to sit here and let Tara cry without at least offering a shoulder to cry on, right?
[[i like special. :D]]
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Date: 2011-01-18 01:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-18 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-18 01:54 am (UTC)She didn't feel good. She felt guilty and weak and sad. But knowing Kennedy wasn't angry with her made everything else a little easier.
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Date: 2011-01-18 01:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-18 02:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-18 02:15 am (UTC)She shook her head. "I missed you, though."
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Date: 2011-01-18 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-18 02:39 am (UTC)And if she had to figure out a way to physically kick the ass of anything that tried to possess Tara again, she'd probably try to do it.