forum Red Queen, Blue Kingdom (closed)

Started March 30, 2018 by @blue_topaz

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Cade shook his head and picked up Scarlet, carrying her bridal style as he ran from the guards. "Willow's house….oh no where was it?" He mumbled to himself.

Blood.

There was so much blood. Everywhere, on her clothes, pouring from her stomach, dripping from her mouth. Coating her every thought, sickly sweet on her tongue.
Scarlet remembered blood.
Her childhood was filled with it, her hair was dyed with it, her bedchambers stained with it.
Scarlet hated blood, hated red. Hated herself.

There was nothing she could do. The blood would just keep raining down, choking her.
Drowning her.

Blood.

There was so much blood.

Cade nearly tripped as he was running. He gulped, breathing heavily. Legs….hurting…loosing air….headache…. He ignored his mind and kept running, the blood from Scarlet's wound seeping onto his clothes.

Scarlet was trapped. Trapped in a dark bloodstained hole in her mind, trapped in the useless, paralyzed slab of meat that was her body. Caught in a web of nightmares and memories, the line between the two blurred.

All she could hear was her mother's cruel laugh,

All she could feel were the faltering beats of Cade's heart.

Cade spotted Willow's house up ahead. (He's lost most of the guards by now.) He ran inside and shut the door with his foot before placing Scarlet onto a couch. As soon as he did, he plopped down on the floor and closed his eyes. It only took a few seconds before he passed out.

Scarlet couldn't breath, couldn't see, couldn't think. All she could do was feel pain.

Feel pain, and remember.

Harper ran to Cade and Scarlet. "Oh my slush Scarlet!!" She raced to her friend and began going through the medical training she had in her head, quickly figuring out what to do.

Scarlet was trapped.

Blood gurgled up in her throat, but she was lying on her back, so it stayed bubbling in her throat, suffocating her. She was drowning in her own lifeblood.

As soon as Cade's eyes closed, he was suddenly transported into a hallway that he recognized. The hospital? Why am I here? Cade heard the sound of a baby crying through the door. He smiled, walking into the hospital room. His mother was holding a small little baby boy, who was holding his father’s finger tightly. His parents smiled at him as he made his way over to his mom. “…Can I?” His mom nodded, her face covered in sweat but her eyes filled with happiness as she handed Cade her second child. He let out a small laugh as he held the crying baby in his arms, rocking it back and forth gently. Am I…re-living a memory? Can you do that?

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand now we wait……………………………..

Harper sank to her knees, arms covered in blood, and Scarlet sleeping peacefully. So much blood.

(… real peaceful, choking on your own blood)

Scarlet choked, trying to eject the blood from her throat, but she couldn't. Seizures didn't quite work that way. Her arms spasmed as she suffocated, hitting Harper in the face.

Harper shot up, pulling Scarlet onto her side. Then she ran to the sink to wash the blood off her arms and grab a towel.

(and by the way seizures are horrible things)

(Yeah they are. My mom taught in a class with a girl who had seizures when she was trying to get her teacher's degree. My mom said that it was really scary.)

(and by the way seizures are horrible things)

(Yeah they are. My mom taught in a class with a girl who had seizures when she was trying to get her teacher's degree. My mom said that it was really scary.)

(And she quickly learned how to handle them. But none the less, it was scary.)

Scarlet finally regained control of her limbs and went on her weak hands and knees, throwing up more blood than should've been humanly possible. She gasped. "Cade.", she croaked, crawling over to him and ignoring the piercing pain in her stomach wound.

"He's okay Scarlet." Harper said softly, trying to clean up the bloody mess on the floor.