Outside the rain, the heart skips a beat

[twirlier]

WHO: Misty Day
WHERE: Forest Edge, Mansion around just about everywhere
WHEN: April 12th through 20th
OPEN TO: Anyone and everyone
WARNINGS: Mild spoilers for AHS Apocalypse. PG for talk of death and animal deaths briefly, will update as needed

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Well it's one more link in the chain

For Misty leaving Wonderland meant returning, quite literally, to Hell. To a never ending loop of being forced to murder a frog that she is endlessly bringing back with a power she hadn't known she had, nor could she control at that time. Over and over again, years spent in Hell. Trapped. Wishing for death and release, and finding neither.

Except, that when she did find them, they came with an elegant man with no emotion behind beautiful eyes and a smile full of mystery and promise. He caused fear to grow within her, icy and bitter and cold. A fear she couldn't control, just as her power once had been. Yet she knew how to swallow it, to bury that fear and find a way to move on because, if nothing else, she was home.

Not that home lasted all that long. Long enough to see the White Witch return, to know that the world is ending, and to know that Cordelia is Supreme. The coven is in good hands, if only they can keep the world from ending in flame and destruction.

Which is Misty's first thought when she finds herself barefoot, her unburnt shawl of the White Witch around her shoulders once more, and standing in the middle of the forest. A forest she has charted, the marks she left to mark where you start to pass out just before her.

"Wonderland."

You say that it's been forever - For Gren

All her things are there, just as she left them. It hasn't been long enough for the season to change again, and her garden is just as she left it.

Memories flood back and she gathers her skirt up, grinning as she raises like a wild child for the house, racing up the stairs, seeking out one person, first and foremost. Her run takes her by the lake, and if he's not there she'll be tearing through the mansion, excited and giddy to try and find Gren, to be certain he's still there and that she's not returned to find him gone.

But you know I'm changing

She's returned. She's excited and happy and she spends every moment she has running about the mansion, seeking out others. Those she's met, those she's been friends with, those that are new. She may well be alive again back home, but this place, Wonderland, the people here, they are her family. Just as much as Cordelia is her family, but this place. It's become home, and she's more thankful than she thought she ever might be to be out of Hell but back here rather than in New Orleans.

Outside the rain - For Cisco

Days after Misty returns, she finds a message on her mirror. She's never spoken to her mirror, but now there is a message asking for a favor, of all things. So Misty sets out to find a man named Cisco, hpping to find him and deliver the message.

Comments

[beautifullies]

"When I left and returned, I immediately felt quite a bit of shame at not remembering anything here. But you must remember it isn't your fault, darling. Alright?"

Claire lightly brushes away some of Misty's tears. "You're here now, that's all that matters."

[twirlier]

"How do you just forget someone you love?" Because that hurts most of all. She's never met anyone back home like Gren, and she doesn't want to just go home and forget him. That thought along breaks her heart.

Smiling tightly though as Claire helps, trying to remember though as she nods. "Thank you. I just... I know it's crazy but there's nothing home that makes me as happy as my friends here. Not even my coven. Especially not now."

[beautifullies]

Claire frowns a little at Misty.

"What do you mean?" she asks, concerned for her friend. "What do you mean by 'especially not now?'"

[twirlier]

"Our world's ending. Like the whole apocalypse thing. We're fighting against it, but we're not sure what we can do to stop it, and there's this warlock my coven's trusting and..." She shakes her head. She knows it's going to be bad.

"I'd just be going back to maybe die again."

[beautifullies]

"Oh, Misty," Claire breathes out, reaching to hug her tightly. On hand even cradles the back of her head protectively.

"I'm so sorry."

[twirlier]

She clings to Claire, holding her tightly, holding to her for a moment, trying to hold back her tears once more. Not that it's easy, feeling them weighing down her lashes as the tears spill from her eyes.

"It's awful. One day they'll send me back, and I'll lose you and Gren and all of my family here and... and just for it all to be over. Completely and utterly over. Done. I will lose it all, and then it will be gone. For good."

[beautifullies]

It's easy to sink into it, truly. Claire understands it; after drowning and somehow returning back home, she'd dwelled on everything she'd lost and everything she could still lose.

Now, she knows if it can't be stopped, she'll die at some point in January in the next ten years in a fire. She isn't sure how to deal with that so she simply hasn't. It's too much. And she'd feel exactly like Misty.

"I understand how terrifying it is. But you're here now, and the only thing we can do is live today, right now."