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Camille O'Connell ([personal profile] therapize) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2015-06-14 02:42 pm

What's my secret? Frankly, dear, forgive my candor.

Who: Cami O'Connell and You! (Also Dean)
Where: Anywhere! Although not where there are people as the event progresses.
When: 12th-15th (aka the Ghoul Event)
Rating: PG-13, maybe higher depending on what happens.
Summary: Cami's a ghoul, which hasn't been a problem to date. Now it suddenly is.
The Story:

[Every day of her life, Cami has lived under curse and blessing alike. She is a ghoul, as all O'Connells have been despite their position in New Orleans. Yet the kindness her family is noted for mixed with their position within the city has allowed them to live in peace there, even as protectors of the humans from other supernatural creatures. The coroner's office was always happy to help, since the city kept their pockets well-lined and their secrets safe. Then the witches used their magic, not once but twice, risking exposing the truth behind the O'Connell name to all that lived there. It had been a power grab of the most insidious kind, costing far too many lives, and it made Cami want to reject her family legacy.

But it's something she can't escape from, any more than she can stop the hunger. Even being brought to Wonderland, an entirely different realm hasn't changed who she is. Yet with all the hardships, at least Wonderland still provides what she needs to live and survive, the human flesh that sustains her granted through magic, without forcing her to do harm.

Or it did provide it, until one otherwise ordinary morning when the kitchen cupboards came up bare rather than offering up anything she could eat for breakfast.

With a wary look around, she opens and closes the doors again, several times as panic starts to set in. She can't keep trying, not with more people filtering in and out of the kitchen. Cami manages a grin and holds herself together long enough to get a cup of coffee before rushing away from the tantalizing smells, not of bacon or toast, but living humans, bustling about as they get ready for their day.

Whether its a glitch in the magic or a sign of an event, Cami doesn't know for sure. All she can do for now is go about her day; a sudden change in her routine is a dangerous sign, one that could expose her to those in the mansion unaware of her secret. It's something she can't risk, especially now that she's taken up the role of mansion therapist. Hannibal had been ousted thanks to his habit of murdering people to devour them, and so far as Cami knows she's not even a ghoul. Far worse for her and the people who trust her should they know the truth.

It isn't so easy, however, to focus on therapy when her patients smell so delicious. The coffee she drinks throughout the day does nothing to tamp down the hunger, or cover the scent of each person coming through their door. She tries to hold out as long as she can, but eventually Cami has no choice but to leave a message that she's ill, but would resume sessions as soon as possible.

There are other stops she makes--by the diner for one, to see if maybe the kitchen is the only place refusing to offer food, the bar to attempt the same. She stops at the latter, so hungry she forces down a cheeseburger just to have something in her stomach, even if it's the most wretched thing she's ever tasted.

Even if just a short while later, she rushes to the bathroom to be sick.

At the end she just gives up, resigning herself to staying in her room until whatever this is has passed. That isn't such a simple thing, however, when the scents and odors of the people around her still filter through her door. The joy of living with heightened senses and a hunger clawing at her from within, driving her mad with the want and need to eat. She tries to read, monitors the network to see if anything else has been said (if she's been discovered), even resorts to pacing just to keep herself moving and distracted.

Sometimes she ends up in the hall without realizing it--sometimes further. And the first time she actually runs into a person--

Cami's terrified of the thought.]
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[personal profile] ganking 2015-06-14 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ when it becomes more and more clear that something is going on in wonderland once again, and that all their resident ghouls -- be they out about it or not -- are having major issues controlling their hunger, dean realizes it's time to get to work. back home, it means putting a bullet into each and every ghoul gone rogue, but in wonderland things never resolve themselves that easily, demanding a more personal touch of finding said ghouls and trying to get them into a place where they can't hurt people.

easier said than done, naturally.

mostly, he's worried about cas, but so far locating his friend's been impossible, and has left dean to roam the halls for any sign of him-- or anyone else in need of assistance. instead of castiel though, it's another familiar face he finds; cami.

and just like last time, on the roof, it doesn't seem like she's doing so well (though out of entirely different reasons now, he thinks), which has dean slowing to a halt just some ways down the hallway from her, and calling out somewhat more carefully. ]


Hey, Cami.

[ or maybe he's just being paranoid -- the shadows feel like they might attack half the time -- so dean ventures closer by a few more steps, tilting his head a little. ]

You doin' good?
singloversing: Into the Unknown (theme song) - Over the Garden Wall OST (But where have we come?)

12th!

[personal profile] singloversing 2015-06-17 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wirt doesn't catch Cami in the kitchen, since he spent a lot of time bouncing back and forth between there and the library in the hopes that it would make the kitchen work again, but when it becomes apparent that this isn't working, Wirt has no idea what to do.

So, he heads upstairs to the sixth floor, to seek the advice of one of the only people remaining in Wonderland who know what he is. Cami has always been kind, and she understands in a way most don't - she's a ghoul herself, and she's been keeping it secret while she runs her therapy practice. Wirt's always thought that was admirable of her.

It's later in the afternoon when he knocks on her office door, and he hopes she's still around, and that she's not already in a session with someone else.

(Not that this is a session. Pfft. That would be ridiculous. He's just...visiting. Because he's concerned about things.)
]

Cami? ...Are you here?