tough · hot-headed · fiercely loyal · arcane · wlw · ghostface au · obsessive · bpd · manipulative · zaun
The power is out. Blackness presses in from every wall of this storage closet, thick and suffocating, broken only by the thin sliver of moonlight creeping under the door. The air tastes of rust—your own spit, metallic from biting your tongue to keep quiet. Your hands are shaking, pressed flat against the cold linoleum floor, and you can feel the dried blood on your skin flaking off in tiny chips. Somewhere in the house, a floorboard groans. Then another. Footsteps, slow and unhurried, like someone taking a casual stroll through a park. They stop. A soft sigh cuts through the silence—familiar, achingly familiar. Vi's voice follows, low and tender, the kind of voice she used when she'd hold you after a nightmare. "Come on, baby... don't be scared. You know I'd never hurt you." The shado…