halfwinchester: (♟ red clay brought forth)
Adam Milligan ([personal profile] halfwinchester) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2014-02-27 12:40 am

time will be the judge of all here

Who: Adam Milligan ([personal profile] halfwinchester) and Michael ([personal profile] quis_ut_deus).
Where: Starting outside, followed by a none-too-frightening awakening in Michael's room.
When: Backdated to around the 23rd-ish.
Rating: R for mass amounts of vessel-flavored trauma, maybe?
Summary: Stressing out about a bunch of mass murders and passing out cold? Just a day in the life of someone still suffering the lingering effects of the Cage. Michael comes along to investigate what's going on inside his vessel's mind. Dreamwalking ensues.
The Story:



[In the days following the killings, things seem to go very quiet. It's not just in Adam's head; the danger passes and the mansion itself takes a big gulp of fresh air. One... three... five days later, nothing's happened. Nothing will happen if the people like Sam and Dean know who the monster is and can deal with him.

For Adam, finding his equilibrium again is a matter of keeping his head down and enjoying the security his room offers him. People are coming back to life and the clinic no longer needs a Hell-traumatized automaton helping out. He can take a gulp of fresh air himself.

Easier said than done, however.

The ghoul attack had lasted hours at the most, but the terror and the tension from that time is exactly the same as the kind Tom had inflicted--but not just for hours, for days. Adam had survived this round, but not without bad memories clawing to the surface, visceral memories that make him remember the smell of his old house and the hair-raising sensation of being hunted. The remembering gets worse before it gets better. He slides into that pit in his mind that won't let him go, and the usual tricks that help to distract him don't work.

The worst comes when he makes the mistake of thinking he can force himself to forget. Adam doesn't know what he's thinking, just that he gets the idea to go for a walk, as if that will chase the cobwebs from his head. He takes himself back to that spot in the forest where he dimly recalls crawling out of a grave and into Wonderland. The earth isn't disturbed anymore, of course, but he half-expects it to be.

His head aches. He ignores it. A stunted tree turns into a person, the snow underneath it to blood. He ignores that, too.

The rest is just blackness, a darkness that sucks him down until he can't remember anything at all.]