Event #7 "Noise" [Tag: #TeamMom | TTW with Class 1-4]

[Jack Ashworth]

Jack walked down the corridor, his head buzzing with this damn never-ending sound. He looked up and read the sign that said "Cafeteria" on it. Good. He needed something to drink. Maybe that would clear his head up.

The man has entered the empty hall and looked around carefully. Empty. Though he still should be on the qui vive. Who knows when it will show it's pesky face again! Mindfully he walked along the wall to the kitchen. Jackpot. He found both some water and even a few cups! He picked the red one with a skull, filled it up with some tap water and drank it slake their thirst. Refreshed he looked down at his palm.

It looked normal... for a split second before it twitched again. A kaleidoscope of colors flashed before his eyes. Red, green, blue. "A̧RG̨H!̧" the man yelled, suppressing the pain.

Roni...

He didn't know how much time he had left. He needed to find her. She is still her. She has to be...

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[Happens after both "Why did you do that?" and "Help the Medicine Go Down"]

[Tara Macfly]

[OOC : It’s after ‘’help the medecine go down’’ with sparkling team. Will probably modify this post, depending how the first thread goes with ''mom''] 

Tara had left the room in a hurry. Once again she abandonned her friends, but she had needed fresh air. It was all crazy. This phone with so many weird and creepy messages, but which contained her conversation with Snooty, this strange call from ‘’mom’’. It was too much for poor Tara’s brain.


She entered the first classroom she found and sat down, she took snooty’s knife from her pocket who had been since she found it, her little stress reliever, because i twas the last object of the girl she loved but now… Was Snooty really behind all of this ? She still couldn’t believe it. But there were too much evidence. Tara cried silently but not anymore from hapiness like some minutes ago, but from horrible and crushable pain. Heartache. The worst. Snooty had done horrible things and was probably responsible about all the horrors that happened. How ? Why ? She didn’t understood. Like for Amanda. Sweet Amanda who was killing people. But it hurted more than with Amanda. She had know Snooty for two years. She was her best friend. She thought that she knew everything about her apart from her true name and her face. But everything in her life seemed to be a lie apparently.


"A̧RG̨H!̧" An horrible scream coming from the other side of the wall, disrupted Tara’s train of thought and made her jump.


This scream gave her a weird feeling. She tightened her grip around the knife, in case.


‘’Who’s there ? Are you alright ?’’ She asked scared. She didn’t know why something in her guts was telling her that it was something else than another person trapped in this hell.

[Esmeralda Ortiz]

Tara may have needed time alone, but that didn't mean Esme was concerned. Too many people were getting hurt. That weird demon had them all in its lair. If it wasn't playing with them, it was getting people hurt. Alex had already gone blind. There was no way Esme was letting someone get hurt from straying too far away. Much like with Peyton, she would give the girl some much needed space. Besides, maybe out in the halls, she could get lucky and find clues. Chris and Dawn were smart; they could find things without her.

A scream coming from down the hall didn't exactly help.

Esme froze in terror. She expected something like flesh to come along with the cry. She pressed a hand against the wall and carefully made her way through the darkness. Someone's voice followed the cry.

"Who's there? All you alright/"

It was Tara. Relief replaced fear as Esme took a headlong run through the darkness. Adrenaline replaced her concerns and terror. Tara had found someone, either behind the wall or in the halls. If they were hurt, she had medicine. It was one painkiller, but it was something. Through the shadows, she saw the brunette crouched by a wall. Someone was behind the section.

"What room are you in?" she asked the stranger.

[Jack Ashworth]

Veronica?! No. It wasn't her. A young female voice asked him about his state of physical and mental health out of nowhere.

Shit. What the fuck was going on with him? First he found out that he can control teleportation and now he had voices in his head! Geez.

"What room are you in?" he suddenly heard another voice calling for him.

Wait.

The man approached the nearest wall and leaned his ear closer to it. Holy shit, of course! They were BEHIND the wall, oh fucking Hell! How dumb he can be sometimes.

"My name is Jack Ashworth," he replied and looked back at his hand, it tingled again. "I'm in the cafeteria, I-" but before he could finish his being glitched, making him let out a groan of pain.

Red, green, blue. Red, green, blue. Red, green, blue.

...In a second after the scream the man appeared out of thin air, startling both girls, as his body landed on the ground right in between them.

When he gained his concentration back, he looked down at his right hand. Shit, this "thing" was getting a bit out of control. His fingertips were transparent and now were looking like a distorted, twitching image.

Fuck. This whole mumbo-jumbo wasn't good for his "physical" state.

"DON'T BE SCARED! I'm a friend," he tried to assure both the brunette and the raven-haired latino girl as fast as he could!

"I promise I am not here to hurt you!"

[Tara Macfly]

"What room are you in?"
Tara heard a voice behind her ask

Tara jumped and turned around. She hadn’t saw Esme coming behind her. She smiled weakly a little more reassured now that her friend was in the room with her.


‘’Esme ! I’m glad this is you.’’ Tara exclaimed. This situation was getting her a little on edge. First the phone, snooty, the call and this cried from a stranger. The stress and the fear will kill her soon.


"My name is Jack Ashworth," The stranger besides the call answered "I'm in the cafeteria, I-" But suddenly he let another horrible scream of pain.


‘’Sir ! What’s happening ? Have you been injured ?’’ Tara asked anxious.


But just after the scream, something happened in their room. A sudden apparition. Tara couldn’t believe her own eyes. All the things they had been through were weird, probably surnatural, she heard about surnatural things happening, but i twas the first time she really saw it. A man just appeared in front of her from nowhere. She wanted to scream, but voice was blocked in her throat.


Her hand trembling she grabed the knife in her pocket, she had kept it all this time, because i twas snooty’s but also to defend herself. She put put herself in front of Esme to protect her and pointed her knife towards the man.


‘’Don’t come near us !’’ She shouted. Was... Was he the one who put them in this hell ?

Damn it ! Who was she kidding, playing the though girl here. Her hands couldn’t stop shivering. Even if the guy didn’t have surnatural powers he could disarm her easily. And he had. If he really wanted to kill them, Tara was nothing, to stop it.



"DON'T BE SCARED! I'm a friend," The man shouted. "I promise I am not here to hurt you!"



Tara tightened her grip on the knife. Should she really trust a guy who teleported himself in front of them when they knew that their tormentor had this kind of power ?


But could he say the truth ? After all, if i twas really him, he could have probably killed them on the second, why didn’t he do it ? Well someone could say that their tormentor liked to play with them, so maybe he wanted to torture Esme and Tara before killing them. Tara gulped at the thought. Not Esme !


But the guy didn’t seem to do well. He was in a lot of pain, it remembered her of Philip at the last exchange. But Philip didn’t have parts of his body going transparents. Tara looked in shock at the man’s fingers, was it really the proof she had gone crazy ?


Tara gave a briefly look at Esme, asking her silently if they should trust the guy. For Tara he seemed honest, but she couldn’t afford to trust strangers in this new world. But in the same time… maybe this was it, their occasion to have answers finally.


Tara hesitated during a moment, which seemed to last an eternity. Against her best gut she lowered her knife and walked towards him.


‘’You seem in pain Jack. Can we help you some way ?’’ She asked still a little wary, and her hand still on the knife in any case.


‘’But please in exchange answer us. Who are you ? How are able to do this ? Do you know what’s going on here and who is behind all of this ?’’ She asked. This was probably a lot of question but she didn’t care. She had the occasion to have some answers and she will have them. She needed to understand. And maybe… Could this guy knew how to leave this hell ? After all he could teleport, could he teleport outside ? It was a beautiful thought but she didn’t dare to hope too much, she has still to know if this guy was as friendly as he said.

[Esmeralda Ortiz]

"My name is Jack Ashworth. I'm in the cafeteria, I-" There was a cry of pain, causing Esme to step back.

‘’Sir ! What’s happening ? Have you been injured ?’’

ANd then Esme was sure she was hallucinating on pills. Or maybe she wasn't. The air flickered for a few seconds before, finally, the person they were talking to just appeared. Esme didn't recognize him at all. He had a punk look to his attire, complete with the tinted ends and piercings. Part of her wanted to console him, but she didn't trust him. Something about a guy who just teleported whenever he could...it wasn't sitting right with her.

‘’Don’t come near us!’’ Tara shrieked, standing between Esme and Jack. The knife glinted coldly in her hand.

"DON'T BE SCARED! I'm a friend. I promise I am not here to hurt you!" Jack objected.

Tara and Esme shared a look. It was clear the Latina and the brunette were having the same thought process. Could they really trust him? Esme didn't trust him at all. Mint was the last adult she talked to and, well, he was gone. They also had the knife as a means of defense if he tried anything funny. It wasn't the same as the demon dagger Peyton had in her arsenal, but it was still some means of defense. Fists meant nothing when your opponent could waver out of thin air. She shrugged, silently answering Tara's question. For now, they'd hear him out. If he had any clues on what was going on, he could point them in the right direction. Then when that thing brought them into another game, they would be ready.

"We know about Miss Kishi's divorce, and the red phone, and the possible demonic entity. We've lost several friends thanks to it." Esme backed Tara up. If Jack got information of what they already knew, he could give them pieces to the full puzzle. Hopefully. "We also know something happened on June 11th, the question is what."

[Jack Ashworth]

He didn't expect such an approach, when the girl with long brown hair said: "You seem in pain Jack. Can we help you some way?"

If only.

Jack looked back at his hand. He felt the tingling again... And the sensation wasn't one of the nicest. Fuck. Did this "thing" break or what? What the fuck was going on?

"Don't think so," he replied and his gaze moved back on the knife, a real threat to his life. Even though it looked rusty, it was coated with dark, dried blood. This knife has seen in some really nasty shit...

"Please in exchange answer us. Who are you? How are able to do this? Do you know what’s going on here and who is behind all of this?" the long-haired girl asked him a series of questions again.

The man furrowed his eyebrows and winced a little, the buzzing sound in his head put a lot of pressure on his brain. Sometimes it felt that it was about to explode.

"We know about Miss Kishi's divorce, and the red phone, and the possible demonic entity. We've lost several friends thanks to it," the girl with the raven hair said. Aha. So they knew something about him... and Nikki.

Oh, so the kids knew about Veronica's attempts... Why? Why, Roni?! Why did you have to hide it from me for so fucking long!

"We also know something happened on June 11th, the question is what."

June 11th?

Jack's eyebrows furrowed in sorrow. He should have been there with her. He shouldn't have listened to her. He shouldn't have ever leave her. "Two days later,.. on June 13th, I- I found Veronica bleeding out in her bathroom," he didn't know how, but he called the paramedics and they've managed to save her.

"But I don't know anything about June 11th," he continued, his gaze still settled on the knife, "I don't even know HOW I ended up here..." he moved his deep blue eyes from the knife to the girl holding it.

"But I know that I need to find my wife," as his speech got more and more emotional, both girl could feel the buzzing sound rising and echoing from the walls.

"I followed Veronica all the way back to the school, I knew she shouldn't have come! I don't know how but I KNEW and now I know I should find her!! I-"

He yelled in pain, falling on the floor, holding to his arm. In a matter of seconds the man's blue eyes changed colors. Blue, Red, Green. Before the girls to react and leave the room...

Everything went dark.

All three of them disappeared, like there was nothing there in the first place.