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When they come for her she runs.

The woman says she's the sheriff of Storybrooke, which is a name of a town she dreamed once. The boy she doesn't know, but the way he looks at her like she's a promise makes her feel ill, and she can't stand the feel of their hands around hers, leading her somewhere new she never chose.

Alarms scream like children in her ears and chase her deeper into the woods, bare feet used to bare concrete bruising and slicing against stones that are real and roots that are real though this feels like the old friends she's made of nightmares.

She stops when she knows that she's lost.

The girl who had a name once, whose name wore away like a path into the floor of a cell (eight steps door to wall, seven steps side-to-side, a rhythm she walked to keep her mind in motion when stagnation curled inside her like a dragon) drops to her knees in the woods and starts to laugh, because even lost is free.
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Shopping til you drop is great - supporting the great capitalist consumer tradition. Smith and Hume would be so proud. Except whoops! Looks like everybody closed up shop while you were in the fitting room and now you're stuck here for the night. Way to be, champ.


WHAT TO DO:
1) Comment with a character, name and fandom in the subject.
2) Comment to other characters after rolling for an option.
3) Don't mess with the mannequins. Those blank faces are creepy enough.


OPTIONS:
1) Food court! Because trying to work the deep fat fryers at McD's sounds like a fabulous idea.
2) Department store! Did people really expect you to not mess around with the mannequins? Really?
3) Rent-a-cop hut! You must have been a bad little boy or girl - and annoying too, seeing as the mall security went and forgot about you. But you've got keys for those cheap handcuffs, right? ......Right?
4) Lingerie store! Just gotta find out what Victoria's Secret is.
5) Fountain! Splashy splashy or just make a wish. Awwwww.
6) Toy store! Break out the nerf guns, this shit's about to get real.
7) Zombies! ...If you didn't see this coming, get more genre-savvy. Why else would you be in a mall at night without the undead at the doors ready to eat your brains. Come on now.
8) Electronics store! Watch some tube, pop in a DVD, play some video games to pass the time til morning shifts open up.
9) Sporting goods! Since there's no better time for hockey stick jousting.
10) Coffee shop! Starbucks is a cruel mistress when you want that java fix. Have fun figuring out the cappuccino machine.
11) Random! Mix and match what you want, make up your own store, whatever!