Detention, Depths of the Castle, Wednesday

[bigdamnprisoner.livejournal.com]

The good news for everyone in detention was that there wasn't any sign of singing going on on the island today, so everyone could be spared from any further embarrassing admissions that they'd rather not have made.

The bad news was for everyone in detention was, well, they were all still in detention. But surely, it was getting easier to deal with over time?

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Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[tangledpaths.livejournal.com]

Savannah hated herself and there was no way that she could let Eve believe that Sean was dead. She just couldn't do that.

"Don't break your heart over it, Mother," Savannah hissed again. "His little bitch girlfriend rescued him."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[screwedbyfates.livejournal.com]

"Well, good for her," Eve said, managing a little bit of her long-gone fire. "At least she knows how to treat her loved ones."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[tangledpaths.livejournal.com]

"That loved one threw knives at me," she said, shaking her head. "She's the only reason Sean is still breathing. She kept him from dying by his own stupidity."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[screwedbyfates.livejournal.com]

"Your brother's not an idiot, he just quite probably thinks he's got nothing left to lose. So why not try? You'd do the same thing if your roles were reversed."

She reached out to shakily touch Savannah's face. "I taught you to protect family, baby girl, not to fight it."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[tangledpaths.livejournal.com]

She jerked her face away from Eve, careful not to show what a struggle that it was for her to do it.

"He's not my family. Umbridge gave me a family and something to fight for -- something where I can always use my power as I see fit. No bindings or limitations."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[screwedbyfates.livejournal.com]

"And sends you to torture the woman who spent almost twenty-four hours to bring you screaming into the world."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[tangledpaths.livejournal.com]

"Torturing?" Savannah was insulted. "All I'm doing is talking to you... and every time you say that, you always add an extra hour onto the time you were in labor for."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[screwedbyfates.livejournal.com]

"You know and I know that the talking won't last," Eve said. "That you'll move on to other things. And as the woman who shoved you out her hoo-ha, it's my prerogative to say it took however long I feel like saying."

Of all the times for Eve's spirit to return.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[tangledpaths.livejournal.com]

Savannah shook her head and cast a knock-back spell on Eve as she pulled away. "Now, you know that it's rude to talk like that to people. It's one of the things that got you tossed in here in the first place."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[screwedbyfates.livejournal.com]

"I wasn't going to suck up to some crazy bitch and deny everything I was," Eve said, falling against the wall. "I'd never denied myself before, and I wasn't about to start."

But maybe she should've, a little voice in her head said.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[tangledpaths.livejournal.com]

"So being imprisoned is better than that?"

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[screwedbyfates.livejournal.com]

"At least I've stayed true to myself," Eve said. "I'm not lying to myself every damn day."

At least, not about that.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[tangledpaths.livejournal.com]

"I know exactly who I am and what I can do." Savannah looked at her and then smiled slowly. "I've been very true to myself."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[screwedbyfates.livejournal.com]

"You haven't been very true at all if you think Umbridge is anything other than a crazy, power-mad bitch who doesn't deserve to be called a witch," Eve said. She knew she'd pay for saying these things, but... it felt good to say them.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[tangledpaths.livejournal.com]

The reaction was immediate with a force bolt into Eve's side.

A quarter of the usual strength that was usually used on that spell.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[screwedbyfates.livejournal.com]

Eve whimpered, tears springing to her eyes instantly despite the mild strength of the spell.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[tangledpaths.livejournal.com]

"You shouldn't talk about our leader like that," Savannah warned her quietly.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[screwedbyfates.livejournal.com]

"She's not my leader," Eve said. "She's not and never will be. And if she's your leader, then... then you're no longer my daughter."

And that would be the last of Eve's sanity well and truly breaking.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[tangledpaths.livejournal.com]

Savannah felt something fracturing within her at Eve's words.

"Don't say something that you will regret one day," Savannah said too softly.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[screwedbyfates.livejournal.com]

"Tell me," Eve challenged. "When will I regret it? When I die in here alone?"

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[tangledpaths.livejournal.com]

"When you don't."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[screwedbyfates.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to die in here, baby girl," Eve said, her eyes distant now. "I'm one of the strong ones and even I can't hold on forever."

She didn't want to hold it together anymore.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[tangledpaths.livejournal.com]

Savannah let her hands go cold as she called up an ice spell so that she could grab Eve's hands.

"You will not," she said softly in Latin under the spell that she was carefully weaving. "You will not die in here."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25]

[screwedbyfates.livejournal.com]

Eve's brow furrowed in confusion at that. What did Savannah mean by that? Surely her daughter -- and she was still her daughter, always would be -- wasn't going to do anything to help her. Her daughter had proven her loyalties, after all.