He had a teacher who had filled him with truth and lies and skills that had no practical use outside hunting monsters like him. Around 2,000 stars are visible as well as meteors and planets -- Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. E— had been so sure. Then, one night, she called him in tears and asked him to come to her house. You’re becoming aware of your ego and how it has been controlling the quality of your life. It’s my only explanation.”. He saw a giant’s skeleton shackled on a shoreline. It was still winter and difficult to air everything out. And this is my natural habitat.” W— motioned to the kitchen table. Gordon fears Jonathan Crane is still alive and back in Gotham, when The Scarecrow's signature MO is used in a series of robberies. His thoughts of E— faded beneath her body. It was the blood, yes, but it was her as well. It was somewhere between a laugh and a sigh. I didn’t know what to do. Z— lived in a series of near-identical flats whose windows were peppered with old, square air conditioning units. Then, he would show Z— how to be a monster, the way W—’s father had. Or maybe she just looked like someone he had seen fifty years ago. If you wanted.” He knew what she thought she was offering. I had expected it to be this great, massive series of books, but it was just this one small book. Half way through the set, W— found his hands resting under her jacket. The tickets were cheap and the bar they played in was only half full. He wanted to latch on to her thigh. It was just an average kitchen knife. She had nothing he could see deep inside her, nothing that hinted at a dark majesty that linked two worlds, a dark majesty that he himself hadn’t felt for months. “It’s not a first edition, but it still must have cost some.”, “I inherited most of what you see. sagesoap reblogged this from bullet-witch. Z— approved. But of course, the young man had a real trade. When she approached them, he went into the kitchen and poured a glass of wine for them both. It wasn’t until she bent down to lift the ex-boyfriend’s body that W— recognised the drummer from a few weeks ago. megahummel liked this . He wanted to make me kill him.”, A breath escaped Z—. Even after E—’s death, he hadn’t opened it again. He didn’t want to be rough with her. At the diner, Z— told him she was a medical student. But more importantly, I have no need. Z— cried out when W— rolled her over, but she did not cry out in fear. He must’ve seen her somewhere on the street, or in a store. A girl seduced him in hopes that he would murder her ex-boyfriend. A week later, he had a railing put in because he didn’t want E— to fall. He picked her up suddenly and carried her up the stairs to his bedroom, to his bed. A half-breed. Before W— arrived at the bar, before he shook the hand of the man who owned it, he’d tried to break the routine by reading. He didn’t have to knock on Z—’s door. He makes bodies disappear all the time. You … The rest of his life was rented, broken, or simply absent. Yet, even after all the years that followed, after all the misconceptions were fixed on both their sides, E— would never have approved of what W— and Z— were doing. This was supposed to be for one of the day 8 prompts but i think it fits this one better. Not in this country, anyhow. “I didn’t understand that, not at the start. Notes. W— had seen worse. “This?”. He would show her the shadowed world and this world and he would teach her all that he knew about both. To W—, Z— was her youth, the smoothness of her skin, the bend of her back, the flexibility of her legs. None of those deaths were as exhausting as E—’s. I just didn’t think it would—I didn’t know one of my friends told him about us. W— let him in. But then, I haven’t known what to expect from you since I met you.”, “You could have drank from me. Not for him.”, “I called a friend on my way over. It was a collection of stories, one of which was a very early vampire story, written before the most famous of all vampire stories. Don’t let him be your horror. He was so angry after I let him in. He didn’t ask for hers. archive. He wasn’t going to collect her medicine and pretend to be a grandson or something similar at the pharmacist. “No, don’t be.” He wanted to grab her, but he didn’t. It used to scare her but now the night is her only friend. After a while, he began to speak. E— had loved tea. More than once, his white hands touched her brown skin under the shirt. It wasn’t bloody and it had a rotten, awful taste, but he worked through it for appearances. The woman wasn’t dead, but E— didn’t know that. W— thought he recognised the drummer when she walked out on stage, but once she began to play, he wasn’t sure. She held out her hand after she introduced herself and he took it. I was amazed. When W— gazed at it from the outside, when he stared through the dirty windows and advertisements, the old stools and tables looked like the rotten teeth in a giant’s mouth. W— closed it before he reached the bottom. He told W— he should go, and W— laughed as well. conjuringghosts reblogged this from m-is-for-mungo. You’re welcome to vote on it if you plan to come again.”, “I might. They were dull. The next night, when he was alone, he laughed at himself for what had happened. He needed to remember who he was. Later, he told me, the organisation he worked for had a book that explained it all. He shouldn’t have said that, but he was languid, happy. It was the first thing W— saw. Yet, when she sank down onto his lap, his hands trembled. “I’m sorry.”. I didn’t realise it was a film club before I came here. 11. W— hadn’t liked the film, but he was grateful that the man wasn’t wearing fake teeth, or a robe, or a cloak, or sitting on a casket. The ex-boyfriend was a bloody mess in the corner. It was one of the friends you met. W— could still remember the day he stepped into E—’s flat to help him move. queen of reblogging a bunch of nonsense, always looking for new partners. He had been taught all about monsters, you see. He was a short, greying man, somewhere in his sixties. It was short term. Another world shadows this world, and that is where many of their monsters live, but not me. He had a dozen stab wounds in the chest. No matter what others tell you, sunlight doesn’t burn me. I’m an abomination it its eyes. He was a scholar. There were only ten people in the bar. It was the cheap horror of the situation that had made E— laugh. That they would reach an understanding of life that far exceeds those of us mortals?”, “I’m sure some would strive towards that, but then I think about my father.” He said it before he realised what he had said. He kept himself calm. I had never had a friend like him before. He said that well before he moved into W—’s brownstone. The elevator took him to the sixth floor without question. She called and asked if he wanted to go to a gig. It was in the front room, where the bookshelves were. At the gig, Z— wore the same skinny black jeans from the week before. poisonpicked liked this . Answered by Dr. Michael Ham: Not always! When E— moved in, he was seventy-two. He thought highly of the author. His kind were always so sure. “I didn’t expect that. Whatever form it takes though, it’s not real and is caused by your amazingly creative brain.Hypnopompic hallucinations are exactly the same thing, except that they occur while you’re waking fro… He wasn’t going to watch her grow old. The words were just words. A monster had this physical attribute, or that. All he had left were his monsters like me. With Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, David Mazouz, Morena Baccarin. It rattled unpleasantly the entire way. “I only ever went to the one vampire club once. Living it must wear you down.”, “I agree with you about the films, but don’t you think, if they were real, that they could grow instead? He had a t-shirt advertising a vampire film released a few years ago. And no, I’m not a jerk I would ask if you could help me out It's hard to understand 'Cause when you're running by yourself It's hard to find someone to hold your hand You know it's good to be tough like me It’s not a pretty scar that’s left afterwards. He could—no, no. I saw a film. The majesty he hadn’t seen in his life for a so long returned just briefly. Outside it, the hallway was empty and quiet. A monster acted this way, or that way. She met W—’s gaze. “To others, yes. W— had no desire to be nearly human. E—’s voice asked a series of small, nagging questions over the next two weeks. Because of it, he stayed and voted for the next film, the film Z— wanted, though he knew by then that he wouldn’t return to the club. She wore skinny black jeans and a red hooded jacket that that ended above her ass. A doll without hair. She had watched him drink. The bar was struggling. He was pleased when he heard it a second and third time. “That’s not a word I hear very often around here.”, “I had a boyfriend who used it.” Z— picked up her beer, motioned to a free table at the back of the bar. Hundreds are released every day, so … He crouched beside him. When W— returned, he found Z— sitting on one of his couches with a book. He started throwing everything around. W— went to the vampire club a couple of nights after E—’s death. “I’m sorry. She had brown skin. Loose ammunition made from silver. W— stepped out of the subway a block away shortly after the snow stopped. You have frightening, irrational thoughts, sometimes even along the lines of “I’m dying.” When you’re going through your dark night of the soul, a part of you is dying. W— had seen the film they ran that night, but stayed anyhow. Their life is one of constant struggle, of years and years of control until they can no longer resist the horror that is in them. You have an admirable heart, young one.” The green eyes blinked once in momentary confusion, then widened. He was a warrior. Not this night. In response to his one question, W— told him that he would settle the bill. He showed me giants and dragons and more that defies this language the two of us share right now. The smell of him and her. If Z— thought his touch was cold, she didn’t say anything. Z—’s film didn’t win. She was the steady beat of her pulse. Write a story set on a dark night as suggested by this picture. “Are there many like you?” Z— asked. That night, after they had sex, Z— ran her fingers along his scars. A girl came up next to him while it was poured. “I thought you had a similar accent.”. W— didn’t plan on going. She tried to thank him, but she started to cry. Three nights later, she introduced him to two of her friends. At his brownstone, W— had a dozen boxes of different kinds. It reached out to him, to his hunger, and soon he was intoxicated by it. “When I met him, he thought I was monster. She asked to come over. Her pulse was rising. A week passed before W— heard from Z— again. He simply put the box in the closet, beneath the clothes that would no longer be worn. We’re going to vote on the next film tonight. But he knew he couldn’t. He accepted. No, he wouldn’t hurt her. Besides, what did it matter? "are controllable, predictable flashes of light in vision usually benign? The night is peaceful. He travelled it fearlessly. “Out there in the world, that is?”, “Why so few? It was difficult to explain. Oblivion Lyrics: I never walk about after dark / It's my point of view / 'Cause someone could break your neck / Coming up behind you / Always coming and you'd never have a clue / I never looked He used a cane but still struggled with the stairs. Really. “I don’t want to be hurt, either,” she murmured. See you on a dark night See you on a dark night See you on a dark night See you on a dark night. Have you ever noticed that in a lot of films, being a vampire means overcoming your monstrosity, or giving into it? W— took the gun off him quickly. He was white, dark-haired and clean shaven. Just like you are.”, He sat across from her. She stood at the bottom of the stairs in one of his t-shirts, nothing else. Be it yourself.”. Depending on the time of the day, you’ll be able to see it flowing in different hues of blues and whites. She had a lovely laugh, the kind of laugh W— could’ve listened to all night. It was still snowing when they stepped out. When I was old enough, he took me to the other world. “You faced a brutal attacker, and when it would have been easier to surrender, you fought to the bitter end. When he closed his eyes, he thought he could touch it. When Z— suggested that they go back to his place after, he hesitated briefly because of that. She wouldn’t have been able to deny him. When he had better control of himself. He thought, in the middle of the kiss, how E—’s earlier approval would have become disapproval by now. He’d been talking about himself. She simply moved with the music and he moved with her. He had been raised on the stories of them. The front door didn’t have a lock. Her lips were moist. “Sure,” he said, though he’d never heard of the band. Another one, one that starred a recently deceased actor, did. About you. He pulled out one of his silver containers and drank. The hungry part of him wasn’t so easy to ignore now. W— had been his carer for just over a decade, but it was only in the last three years that he had been forced to change the bedclothes, help him to the bathroom, and sit him in the shower and wash him. He worried that the smell of death lingered inside the brownstone. That was why he moved in with W—. A blackout in Seattle creates dangerous situations throughout the city and the members of Station 19 head out on calls, including locating a missing girl and helping a man on life support where every second counts. He was, personally, nothing like the vampire P—. His family were dead by then. The movie played on a portable screen in the back of the bar and was better than he remembered. There were a lot of bottles.”, She lifted a finger to him, then herself. W--- hadn’t seen more than two or three people in it for months. She held his gaze. He probably would have called him a fool. He had a job. “My friend, the one who died, was called E—.” The room around the pair of them was dark and W—’s voice was soft. anleva liked this . For a while, we met in bars and restaurants to talk about it. In fact, at times, W— thought the worst of the things he did were when he was the kindest. He used it when he introduced the film of the night. Z— bought W— a beer to thank him for his part, and they talked at the back of the bar until it closed. Every need, every sharp edge, every desire to hurt, slipped away from him. When he came aware of himself again, Z— was lying next to him. Then her cunt. W— was surprised by the last thought. At one stage, a vampire named P— talked about how he was nearly human because he had learned to control his lust for blood. Z— laughed. But he didn’t. 410. like. Once I did that I couldn’t stop. He should never have let E— stay there for as long as he did, anyhow. The flyer that appeared outside W—’s brownstone was for the vampire club. Here we have a photo where the river water looks pristine white. Crosses mean nothing. It’s not like the movies. The bar was struggling. Crypton had the idea to release Miku as \"an android diva in the near-future world where songs are lost.\"Her very first concept was of a bilingual Japanese and English vocal, but this later became the concept of Megurine Luka. He sank into her. It was on M--- Street, in an oddly-shaped bar. Her underwear came off as well. He ate food and drank wine. He knew that. When Z— called W— two nights later he was surprised and said so. He just wouldn’t. Are you like animals who’ve lost their natural habitat? But he remembered what he said to Z— that night, when he was full of blood, about not letting another person become your horror. “When my father was old, he became cruel. He was over five hundred years old. Was she truly sorry? The sick man lay in his bed, a collection of thin lines beneath a heavy blanket. If she brought it up, W— would tell her that E— had been bedridden in his final months. see you on a dark night. W— knew he was overthinking it, that a few nights out with a girl, a few nights in with her, wasn’t anything serious. “I didn’t think anyone would notice. When he died, I realised that I didn’t even have that.”. “You don’t have to stand there.”, She took one seat, he the other. She wouldn’t turn away from him, not now. It was early morning, and on a rainy day, when I took this photo. He would show her that E— had not been wrong when he first met him. The very smell of her filled him. Support students to plan and write a narrative response to an image of a dark night. There’s just something about such an immortality that’s very romantic.”, “It sounds tiring. I don’t want to go to jail. He would show her the two worlds before he hurt her. He knocked E— to the ground and stunned him with the force of his blow. In fact, Z— said very little to him. She looks at her hand. Would it be as intimate as when he penetrated her weeks before? An old Bible. I don’t have to hurt you.”, “My ex-boyfriend used to say that.” She looked at him when she said that. He told himself that he’d eat properly when he got home. It was a shallow, wheezy laugh. Z— had half a loose dozen bags in the cupboard. pinnaclerocks reblogged this from dovahqun. 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