#briar.

[heartwars]

❛  i don’t think i can fake being in love with you anymore … because i’ve fallen in love with you for real. ❜

[eggohomestylecunt]

Gonna quit weed by taking up smoking a tobacco pipe. I want to be pipe smoking tranny lesbian I think that sounds hot of me!

[folkloremsgossip]

is it true we can't leave town? why do you think that is?

        tested  and  confirmed  ,   i  left  town  and  ended  up  right  where  i  didn’t  want  to  be :   the  other  side  of  mainstreet  .   my  bets  go  to  one  of  the  town’s  NEWCOMERS :   all  this  happened  when  they  came  ,   right ?    looking  at  you :    (  @hollisticallyoptimistic  -  @melliflvents  -  @nightmantic  -  @goldenae  -  @incandescentglcw  )  

[infireandash]

Location: Mountain path With: @deadcfnight​ When: Nighttime

Nights like these never used to happen before her powers awakened. In fact a lot of things in her life had changed post discovery and she could easily classify her life into before and after. Being awakened from the dead of sleep by another nightmare, covered in sweat and chest heaving, for example, that was a product of the discovery. And it happened again tonight. From her slumber she startled awake, her skin burned and there was an audible humming in her ears. She shook her head, brought her hands up to her face and took deep calming breaths. Control it. Blindly, she reached over to her bedside table and grabbed her phone, disheartened to find that it was much too late to seek comfort with another person. 

Still, the energy within demanded that she consume it and Mateo was nothing if not a slave to the energy. She got up, Ignis letting a disgruntled meow at losing the body heat, and threw on a pair of jogging shorts and a tank-top. With her runners on she headed out the backdoor of her townhouse and followed the all familiar path up into the forest and up the mountain. She had to have been running for at least an hour before she stopped, the elevation and cool night air aiding in cooling her down. Only then, a little more level headed and a little less impulsive, did she stop to think that maybe running in the dead of night when people were going missing wasn’t such a great idea. 

She didn’t have a lot of time to think about that though because in the moonlight, her eyes caught the figure of another person coming down the path towards her. Her energy bristled and the hair on the back of her neck stood up: Vampyre. Mateo swallowed and crossed her arms over her chest, suddenly feeling much cooler than she had moments ago. And then, because she was nervous and maybe because she had already made poor decisions to get here, she blurted out, “It’s a nice night for a walk.” She swallowed and added, “or you know, a light jog if that’s your thing. I can imagine the downhill has to feel a lot nice than uh you know, the uphill. How was the view?”

[heartwars]

❛  i have been trying so hard not to say anything, to just ignore it, but i cannot do that any longer.  ❜

[infireandash]

where: Seattle Hospital who: @deadcfnight​

The first sign things were very much not under control came on the very first day of the year. Although a cooler day, and every window wide open, Mateo woke up covered in sweat, bedsheets soaked. Her head was pounding and every glass of water she drank, and there were many, seemed to evaporate the moment they were consumed. With the dehydration and the headache came the muscle aches, making her body shake like she had a terrible fever. It had taken an army of willpower to get up and stumble her way into the kitchen. Despite the exhaustion, and the heat, there was an uncontrolled rage burning inside of her, one whose origin Mateo was uncertain of. 

The cataclysm of the heat came when Mateo was heading out the door for a run, desperate to burn off this surplus of energy that had festered overnight. She had grabbed the copper door handle, much like she usually did when she left her apartment, and had found herself crippled to the ground by a burning sensation shooting up from her palm and all the way down her arm, unable to control the scream it brought out of her. Only once she had been able to breathe through the pain did Mateo look at the origin of the pain, which seemed to pulsate with every thud of her heart. The inside of her palm had what appeared initially to be very similar to an electricity burn, except it had created a spider web effect that had spread from the center of palm, around her whole hand and shot up through the entirety of her right arm. Her veins were varicose, and her entire arm felt like it had been dipped through a vat of lava. 

Despite the sudden expel of energy brought up by the combustion in her hand, Mateo just felt the flames inside of her swell. Fuck, everything burned, and Mateo felt like she was on the precipice of self-ignition. It was instinct that made her stand up and head out the door, foot closing the door as to avoid direct contact with her hands again. Although a bit of a last resort, though she was unsure what they would be able to do for her given that she felt her condition was less than human, she put one foot in front of the other until the sweet relief of the glowing H came into view. 

Once in an emergency department bed, checked in with an unidentified burn, fever, and severe dehydration, Mateo was offered pain killers. She weighed her options: Although she’d have less control, an opioid would slow down her heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature, something that was desperately needed right now. So here she was, burning through IV drips with a kick of fentanyl, lying in bed sweating and wondering if maybe this would be where she died, a thought that didn’t seem so bad right now.

[heartwars]

❛  what can i say? i’m a sucker for happy endings.  ❜