008 ♕ Video

[lefthandedgenius]

[On the day of the Boney Attack, the fact that Lydia has turned on the video feed without her makeup being perfectly in place is a testament to how terrified she is.]

There's so much death out there, it's feels like a weight against my chest. I can't escape it. I can't sleep, I can't eat, it feels like I'm choking on it.

[Lydia Martin, human geiger counter for death. And right now there's a lot of dead men walking.]

I wish Allison was here.

I'm not leaving the apartment, and I've got the door locked, but I'm really scared.

Stiles, Scott, Derek [Yeah, even Derek.] - let me know you're okay. Julie, Pavel, Lucy, Uhura, any and all of you who are my friends, stay safe.

Comments

[lupusalpha]

I'm fine. Bar the door.

[lefthandedgenius]

Okay.

[Not even getting in Derek's grill, that's how scared.]

[lupusalpha]

[He would send Isaac, but no Isaac. He has to go find Stiles, and he doesn't know where Scott is. The only other person is Peter, who has his own shit to deal with-]

Stay safe.

[lefthandedgenius]

[Pressing her lips together tightly,]

I can't find Stiles. Let me know he's okay when you find him.

Be careful.

[lupusalpha]

I will.

[candothat]

Lydia? Do you have everything that you need?

[lefthandedgenius]

I don't know where Stiles is, but there's food and water and I've blocked the door. It's just -- I can feel them, and I can feel the death they're going to cause.

Are you and Lucy okay? And the rest of the crew?

Video

[just_displaced]

You mean you can actually feel it? Physically? That's not some kind of extended metaphor for how fucked up all of this is? Because it's completely fucked up, I agree, but you make it sound like you can sense death, which is... either a very useful talent or an incredibly awful one.

[A long pause.]

Sorry. I'm really scared, too.

Re: Video

[lefthandedgenius]

[The query actually distracts her for a minute.]

Yeah. I'm a banshee. I sense death. Mostly before it's happening or as it's happening and I'm naturally drawn to it. [Aside from also being a city-wide emergency alert for the supernatural via her scream.]

It's like having a superpower but full of suck.

Re: Video

[just_displaced]

That sounds like the most terrible superpower ever. I mean, there're superpowers out there that give you improved strength or can make you fly or can turn you invisible and you get the one that just lets you know something awful and tragic is happening? You don't even get the superpower of, I don't know, stopping death?

[He's aware that he's probably being really rude right now, but that doesn't seem to stop him.]

I mean, not to denigrate your superpower. It's just that in a situation like this one, where everyone's freaked out, you're probably eight times as freaked out as your average person. At least. Right?

[candothat]

This is because of your banshee senses?

I have not found Lucy. I will tell you if I find Stiles.

[lefthandedgenius]

I'm trying to figure out how to control it so I can get it early enough before somebody dies so that it can be prevented. But it's hard because I don't really understand it, and the only person who might know isn't in the City, and is the bastard who may have made me this way in the first place.

[lefthandedgenius]

Yeah.

I can't even begin to explain how it feels.

[just_displaced]

Someone made you this way? You weren't born with super banshee powers? I don't know whether that's better or worse. Probably worse.

[candothat]

I can't imagine how it must.

[lefthandedgenius]

Maybe? I may have been this way all along. It may have been in me and something traumatic was the catalyst. Or it may be because someone forced it on me. I'm not sure.

But uh...thanks?

[just_displaced]

I'm sorry. I know I sound like a lunatic right now, and I promise I don't sound that way all the time...

[Yes, he kind of does, though.]

... but this, all of this, it's not normal, and the fact that everyone else is freaked out just makes me more freaked out because it means I'm not needlessly paranoid.

[lefthandedgenius]

Like the air is filled with ashes and I'm choking with every breath.
Like I'm buried under a thousand dead bodies.

God, that sounds like bad poetry, shoot me now.

[lefthandedgenius]

I think if you stay inside and lock your doors and windows you'll be okay. That's what I've done.

[just_displaced]

That's what you do when there's, I dunno, riots or something outside. Not when there's undead... skeleton... monster things. I mean, maybe it's the same procedure, I don't know, but that seems too easy.

[candothat]

Lydia.

After this, I would like to buy you a drink or several. You will need them.

[lefthandedgenius]

It's exactly like a riot, it's just that the rioters are the walking dead.

[lefthandedgenius]

A thousand times yes.

[just_displaced]

And that they don't actually have anything valid to riot about. I mean, where's there list of demands? Where's their complaint? It's not like an anti-war protest. They're just trying to kill us. That's a pointless riot.

[lefthandedgenius]

No. They don't just want to kill us.

They want to eat us.