Detention, Depths of the Castle, Thursday

[cracking-wonder.livejournal.com]

Another beautiful day had begun in Fandom, not that anyone in detention would have noticed. The lack of sunlight, the pleasant sound of Umbridge's voice, and the slightly stale smell of breakfast were all important aspects to making every day in detention routine! Surely everyone knew that surprises were no fun.

Look, the week was half over already and no one had been taken out and killed so far. That had to count for something, right?

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Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[poison-pretty.livejournal.com]

Today, was a very special day indeed. Because they were getting a new guest to chat with today. She knew some of you, and others she did not. But that was okay. Karla was happy to spend time with all of you.

"Kiss kiss," she said, looking out onto the miserable wretches who couldn't behave.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[u-s-of-leda.livejournal.com]

"Hello!" Leda cooed to Karla. "I remember you!"

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[poison-pretty.livejournal.com]

Karla walked over to the broken elf girl, putting out a hand to stroke her filthy hair. "I remember you, too," she said, voice sounding almost...kind? "I truly hate seeing you like this, darling, I do."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[u-s-of-leda.livejournal.com]

Broken? Pshaw, just a little crowded is all.

Leda smiled, and leaned into Karla's stoking hand. Leda might be holding on to her good spirits, but she had been missing pleasant physical contact.

"Like what?" she giggled. "Sorry, if I'd known you were coming I'd have freshened up."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[no-songbird.livejournal.com]

Dinah blinked. The hell...?

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[poison-pretty.livejournal.com]

Oh. There was someone Karla knew!

"Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinah," she called, waggling her fingers. "Did you miss me? It's okay, pet. I'm here now. We should...chat."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[no-songbird.livejournal.com]

Coming closer, Dinah leaned near the barrier. "Should we? About what?"

Did they get to Karla? Please let it not be that, please let her not be Imperio'd. Please?

...but why else would she be here? Dinah's stomach was in knots.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[noroselessthorn.livejournal.com]

Cassidy was digging in the land in her mind, trying to do anything she could to save even one flower from dying and rotting when she heard a familiar voice.

It was far away ... but not?

Karla. The memory was hazy in her mind, but it did cause her head in the real world to turn in the direction of Karla's voice.

"No. Mother Night and may the Darkness have mercy, no."

Raven hadn't lied, after all.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[poison-pretty.livejournal.com]

"Why, Cassidy!" Karla pretended to look surprised. "Fancy meeting you here! What a terrible place for a Queen like yourself to end up. Surely, darling, this is no place for you."

Looking at her Sister, Karla realized that there was no point in trying to harm her. Cassidy's chalice was already spiderwebbed to the point where one wrong move might shatter it completely. A witch in the Twisted Kingdom could be useful, but not as much as a witch in control of her faculties. No. Karla would use kindness instead. Twist her knowledge of Protocol. Use Cassidy's own background against her.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[noroselessthorn.livejournal.com]

Cassidy did her best to focus and make herself give Karla her complete attention.

"The land keeps dying and I can't fix it." She said, holding up the rotting plants in her hands. Only when she turned up her hands to Karla, they were empty. She shook her head. "I do not like it here, Sister."

Oh yes, even as confused as she was, Protocol was still heavily ingrained within everything Cassidy was.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[cracking-wonder.livejournal.com]

Sam frowned softly when he spotted her coming in. "Karla?" he said uncertainly. He felt like he should have been happy to see her, but something about her being here seemed off. "What are you doing here?"

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[poison-pretty.livejournal.com]

"Oh, Sammy," Karla said, putting her hands over her mouth in an excellent display of concern. "Look at you. Honey, no, we have to get you out of here."

Imperio came with a side of sadism, did you know that?

"Peter's beside himself, knowing you're locked in here."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[cracking-wonder.livejournal.com]

"I'm not allowed to leave. I'm supposed to stay here," Sam said, shaking his head weakly before the rest of what she said sunk in. "Wait a second. What did you say?"

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[cursednotbroken.livejournal.com]

"What fresh hell is this?" Jack asked no one in particular. "Karla, did you lose your mind?"

Pretending to be compliant qas tricky business. Jack wasn't sure he trusted Karla with that, if it was what she was playing at.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[poison-pretty.livejournal.com]

No, no, silly Jack! That wasn't until tomorrow. Today was for being honest and truly Imperio'd, because she could never have done this on her own.

Right now, though, she gave him a hurt look. "No, Jack. No, I've finally come to my senses. I was hoping to convince you to do so, too."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[cursednotbroken.livejournal.com]

Jack's stomach twisted at that as he clung to Sebastien's first rule: Don't make assumptions. This might be nothing like it sounded at first.

He forced some jauntiness into his voice.

"Depends on what particular form of sanity you came down here to talk about, doesn't it?"

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[pinnedherwings.livejournal.com]

Rinoa knew that voice. "Karla?" she asked, turning towards it like there was a chance of sun. "K- ... Karla, is that you?"

Had she been taken, too? Oh, Hyne. Was anyone left still fighting out there? They were losing. Badly.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[poison-pretty.livejournal.com]

"It's me," Karla cooed, "but I'm not sure who I'm talking to."

That was a lie. She knew Rinoa well enough. But unlike Raven's machinations, Karla was subtle.

"Wait...I feel like I should know you. I--maybe--Rinoa? Could that possibly be you?"

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[pinnedherwings.livejournal.com]

Rinoa was nodding, pulling herself to her feet.

"I-it's okay," she said, reaching out to gently take Karla's arm, and lead her towards a seat. "They ... hurt you. You get c-confused when they do. But it's going to be okay."

No. It wasn't. Nothing was okay here. But she was going to hold it together for Karla's sake. She felt a mothering instinct that she had thought to be long dead.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[cold_hard_heart]

After dealing with Raven, Emma had to come check on her newest pet-project. Who did not appear to be doing as well as Emma had left her.

"Rinoa?" she asked softly, getting down on the other girl's level again. "Do you remember me?"

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[pinnedherwings.livejournal.com]

Angelo was dead. Sookie was dead. Squall had never loved her.

The world was gray, and empty. No one was coming. They were going to die down here. Maybe Sookie had been lucky. She had gone first. The rest of them had to wait.

Could she volunteer? No. Bobby should get to go next. He was half-gone as it was.

Rinoa hadn't even had the strength to scream, when Sookie died. To grab the hell-demon and rip her hair out. She had just ... fallen. Here.

Maybe she wouldn't get up. They could punish you for that. Did it matter?

She noticed a voice and lifted her head. Oh. The nice lady who had made her a garden.

"I broke it," she said. "All the flowers are gone."

Dead. Like Angelo. Like Sookie.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[caged-no-key.livejournal.com]

"Are you here to play, little witchling?" Loki asked, head cocked curiously as he watched her with the others.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[poison-pretty.livejournal.com]

Karla beamed at him. Another volunteer! How wonderful! "Indeed I am, godling. Which is probably for the best for you, no? You look so..."

Unruffled? Unhurt? Sane?

"...bored."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[godinthisbox.livejournal.com]

"No thanks," Alex said to the new guard. Interrogator. Brainwasher. Whatever they called themselves.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/26]

[poison-pretty.livejournal.com]

Karla shook her head at him and sighed. "Just a greeting, not an invitation," she chided. "You know the rules about touching, don't you?"

She watched him for a moment, head cocked to the side a bit. "You seem to be holding your own fairly well. I don't think I'm going to get anywhere using the old tricks and taunts, am I?"