Silica
I'm not about to volunteer, but something suddenly occurs to me. I rummage through my backpack as he seems to be considering opening the cover, "wait!" I call out, almost startling myself, "put these on!"
I toss Grab's distinctive blue gogg…
I snap my head up to answer, "no! No, I..." but I hear it too.
"What the hell is that?" I say quietly, getting to my feet as he rushes over to the ladder.
Silica
It actually sounds like he's concerned... maybe a little? Not sure I like this person's attention.
I pull my legs up a little closer to my chest, wrapping an arm around my knees to rest my head on that arm, slightly tipped to the side...
…
Silica
I just look up and shake my head slightly, thoughful... I almost say something about coming to kill the guy... almost. "Nothing... nothin' really... just kind of ended up here..." but my hand moves to my leg when he asks, like the wound stin…
Silica
"Yeah... yeah ok..." I say quietly, looking at the pistol. I just sit against the wall across from this guy.... guy? And wait. After a time I look up and quietly say, "you know that's... probably Grab's cousin out there. He's not gonna let t…
Silica
I settle down, the gun across my lap and Grab's old pack sitting next to me with some of my shit in it. His forty-five, a handful of dvd's and whatever food's left from last night. Hell, I pick up a bar of soap or two from the shower.
And I…
Silica
We've had time. Couple of hours, right? As I said I take a couple of those dvd's. Stick 'em in an old pack or something. Maybe Grab's pack once this asshole is done going through it. But in there there's also a photo of a girl, must be Nolli…
Silica
A little flashback.
So that moment when Grab died? That moment when the shotgun ended his life.... I felt myself pulled towards him. Whatever I shifted in his mind, however I did that, it affected me, too. Like... I know it's not the way it…
Silica
He's talking down to me. Yeah, not surprised.
After lashing out, I regret it, and as he goes on I kind of shrink away... but I do take the gun, take it and get out of arm's reach. I don't need another guy angry at me today. I wish I'd staye…
Silica
Ok, fuck this shit. Is this asshole worried about me? Come in here like that, get a sniper on our door and then act like he's gotta tell me the way things are??
I stare at the gun as he holds it out to me for a second, then I kind of snap,…
Silica
Yeah if this guy isn't stopping me I actually return to the room, looking for another way out... Not finding one I guess. But with the adrenaline fading and the shock of violence gone, my practical side returns and I'll poke through the thin…
Silica
This guy is taking his time, expecting trouble... then like the fuckin' gun blows up in his hands and that freaks the shit out of me. I retreat from the ladder a bit, there must be another way out... this can't be happening.
"What the fuck,…
Silica
I'm finally looking at him. He's done a good job covering up, good cold weather gear, too. Not someone I know.
"Yeah, ok... whatever you say... I'm not going to argue with this fucker. Don't know why anyone would be helping me, must be a gr…
Silica
He stops to take the rifle, and even go through Grab's pack for some of his shit. I stand here near the broken door, tempted to just run for it, trying to stop my hands from shaking. I gotta be faster than this guy, especially if I can...
N…
Silica
I stand there, back to the wall. He's not going to kill me, not now... ok... ok calm down.
It's hard to think, moments ago I was sitting there just... just watching the show and now. I glance past him to the blood spattered across the old s…
Silica
There's an old pail sitting there with a couple old brushes in it, and a little metal rack has some bars of soap and a metal scraper of some sort. I throw them at him, getting my feet under me, but there's nowhere to go....
Panic tears at m…
Silica
I see blood. Feel the concussion of the shotgun... "The fuck?!!" I scream.... the guy blows away Hoho like it's nothing and then cones for me. There's no way out but I throw whatever shit I can get my hands on at him, screaming, I'm going to…
Silica
I scream and cover my head as the shotgun fires, suddenly pushing myself further into the corner on the slippery tile. Did he... what happened.... is someone shot?
Silica
My instinct is to stay down in the corner and stay out, but where's that going to get me? Who is this guy? Someone with a gripe against Hoho? Or Grab? That's not hard to imagine.
Instead I scan the room, I know the one way in, but is there…
Silica
I woke, laying over on the mattress with a rough blanket over me. Woke suddenly with a start, having forgotten where I am. Oh yes... why the hell am I still here? I didn't mean to stay... but there's food and the teevee and... I'm ashamed of…
Silica
Can't help but stare at that show. "What the fuck is this?" But it is catchy, and pretty fucking funny. I actually laugh out loud watching it, and before the episode is over I move over to sit near the teevee, within arm's reach of Hoho for …
Silica
Well I do take the food, whatever I can get really. Haven't eaten anything since Wonky's place and I need it. I avoid looking at Hoho, he still bothers me but I sit and watch the teevee while I eat and just try not to engage too much with Gr…
Silica
I shiver, even as he pulls away from me I don't really inderstand what's happened, but I know I did it. I know I changed him, connected to his fucking mind and twisted it to another direction. I slowly turn to look at him, suddenly ashamed o…
Silica
He starts kissing his 'daughter' again but something in me has connected with something in him. I don't know how it works, I may not really be conscious of it, not quite.
I make him feel it, know it, I'm his Daughter Nollie, who he thought…
Sex move on Grip
Grip craves forgiveness from Nollie, his daughter. It's never coming, since she's dead. She got hooked on ice, they fought until she went out into a blizzard. He found her body days later. She looks a little like you, at least to h…
Silica
His hands wander over me, the warming water adding to my discomfort. He's calling me by her name again, just right out fucking calling me by her name.
Something inside me breaks and I press my body against his, turn my head slightly to one…