Topic: Unleashed [18+]

Jessica Lucino

Date: 2014-06-29 23:42 EST
The pharmacist stalked him like a prowling starved animal, leaving growls to rumble against her throat as her nostrils flared at the stench of his blood, still pumping madly in his veins. She'd had a taste of it along her fingers, soon smeared along her cheek as he fled for his life.

Running in the shadows of night she closed in on him from behind. The sunglasses at night never hindered Jessica. No, they only helped the dealer seek him out as her lashes fluttered madly behind the tinted lenses. How could one see if she wasn't even looking out of them? Just another secret she wasn't going to murmur.

Firing a shot at her wasn't the smartest thing to do, for Jessica just rolled her torso like a dancer up against a pole, easing out of the way before continuing for her next victim. Another shot fired, but it sailed over Jessica's head. The joys of being short in a six foot and over town. Her snarling grew louder; she wasn't pleased at the missed attempts. He hadn't heard? She was unstoppable and completely human.

Oh wait, that's right. He had heard. And he started this game with the signal. He was going to be sorely disappointed when he realized that Jessica didn't play by the rules. And never had.

It was why he loved her.

It was amazing how such a small piece of terror could turn a man a head and a half taller into a nervous wreck. And it wasn't because her skirt was so short. Boots slammed against the pavement as her hips spiraled in a timed counter clockwise gyration, letting the hem flare just a bit and skimming up her thigh. Silver caught the shadowed brightness of the red light district, and her cries of hate and violence were going to echo in his ears.

Jessica counted the shots that were fired off, and found the man up against the wall aiming the barrel in her direction with his eyes wide. Click. Click. "****," he cried.

The rabid violence faded for just a moment as she pouted, lower lip spilling out as she took her steps even slower towards him. "No baby. Not tonight. You're going to have a headache." Pushing back her sunglasses into her hair, almost a sexual allure to the motion until you caught sight of her eyes. Glassed over and milky coated like clouded cataracts.

Her appearance was enough to leave him lost in a confused state, something medusa was known for, but Jessica wasn't going to leave him as a pile of stone. Fingers hooked a razor blade in-between her fingers before her palm was up in the air to let the slap move across his face. Slow first. She always liked to toy with her prey when they were scared.

But with his height, it also brought an extended reach, and that lead to the fist slamming into her upper jaw, tearing her cheek with that ring on his finger. When her head snapped back to face him just as easily and turned her eyes back up to him, he'd realize fairly quickly that he shouldn't be staring at her, but what her idle hands were doing.

Jerking her fist into his gut, stabbing the blade into his flesh and then leaving it there a second, Jessica wanted to hear him wince before dragging it down past his navel. Instead she would hear him groan, blindly grabbing for her free arm and wrapping his hand around her shoulder.

He didn't know that when he dislocated it, the scene would just turn worse.

Roaring as the bone snapped out of place and dangled incorrectly at her side, before her jaw snapped shut and she then lurched into the man to tear his throat out when her mouth opened again. Jessica bit into him like she was a vampire, but wasn't out to suck on his life source. She wanted to decorate the walls with his insides and paint his body with his blood.

"******* *****--Argh!" Wailing in the shadows never saved anyone in this town, but it never surprised Jessica when they did it either. Tongue slipped out against her lips, collecting the salt from his sweat and iron from his blood before she spit it all back in his screaming face.

Everything had been in slow motion till then; and suddenly the controller was set on fast forward as the distorted connections in the pharmacist's mind clicked faster than usual. The blades in her skirt came out one by one, stabbed and dragged into the man's flesh, even long after he had choked on the poison from the first one in his stomach. Even with the animalist rage, she was ever mindful to remember the hairpins, leaving him with a target practice on his chest and at the side of his neck.

But even with him dead on the ground, the brainwashed girl didn't stop there. It wasn't enough to have his fear laced eyes staring up at her, or the several ripped open gashes littering his body. It wasn?t enough to see his no longer beating heart, the curve of his stomach, the split tendons of his leg, the blood long pooled out onto the ground. Since dead men don't bleed, she soon ran out of paint to play with, not enough to repaint the walls like she wanted, but just enough to leave a message on the man's chest.

**** YOU DANTE.

Grunting as she looked back over her work and blinked her eyes back into a focus that was ordinary and not so cloudy before her head lolled to the side. No matter what, he'd still won. She was still twisted and tormented inside.

But this poor shmuck, whoever he was, had lost the game.

Jessica Lucino

Date: 2015-01-11 18:21 EST
Nine years back


Her stomach felt as knotted as the sheet wrapped half around her was. There was no telling how she managed to find sleep, surely nothing short of a small miracle. But Jessica was caught somewhere between where dreams end and nightmares begin - her over washed subconscious.

Jades fluttered, giving off a strobe light effect, scenes of an old movie reel spinning before her eyes. Only bits were pulled into focus before they were replaced with another frame, each scene seeming to grow longer than the one before. Here she couldn't remember what was real, what was just her imagination and what was a memory long since repressed hopefully to never be pulled out of lockdown.

Rock and snow scattered about, what had to be the aftermath of an explosion before there was the loud crack shots of firearms blasting into her ears. Men crawling in white snow suits soon afterwards, shouts mixed into the noise that she learned to turn to silence, picking out voices she hadn't heard in nine or eight years. "Good luck Lucino. Show them why we put a ***** on the front lines--" When she felt herself crawling and climbing in the snow everything changed.

"What the--"

She wasn't climbing in ice or hearing the shouts of dying men, but climbing up a brick wall. Bits of slime smeared along her hands, or what she thought was slime. Her nose soon told her it was blood and when she looked down to her palms the sudden sting clued her in that it was her own blood. Pausing long enough to look down the rest of her, ripped jeans and what had to have once been a fashionable top but now caked with mud and her feet bare. Wait, she recognized that shirt. She was wearing it the day that --

WHACK. Clubbed in the back of the head, her face hit against the brick as her grip dropped her towards the ground. But she didn't hit the ground. She could feel her left arm caught by a set of calloused hands before his laughter rang in her ears. "*****. We're not finished with you just yet."

When she could open her eyes again, there wasn't any more blood, any mud and no man. But she was wearing...what a dress? A short ruffled dress in bright pink as an Italian woman's voice cooed into her ears. "Oh don't you look so pretty my dear? Papa will be home any second to tell us the good news. Just you wait!"

"Mamma I want to wear this every day. Can't I please?" Turning around, she was looking up at the woman, and then choked as she saw her.

How am I talking to you? You're dead.

But Jessica didn't seem to have any control on her mouth, or what she was doing, which was spinning around and twirling like a six year old.

"Someday my little flame, we will be able to afford all the dresses you want. And you can dress pretty and--" Jessica interrupted her.

"I want to be just like you Mamma and marry Papa and cook and have children and color all day and...and...show Roman down on the corner that I can do anything better than him even if I am a girl." Her grin was cheeky and full and when she turned around there was her father.

"I have great news my little hearts! We're moving!"

Another turn to look around and both of her parents were gone. But she was laying down, soon pushing herself up from the bed; she felt the bursting of a hangover rolling through her skull before she felt a hand on her back. She wasn't alone. Oh god.

Afraid to look, she closed her eyes, wincing as she slid her elbows up against the mattress, propping up her face as she rubbed her eyes. As if that would make the hand go away.

"Good morning sweetheart." Kissing her shoulder, the hand was sliding up the curve of her spine and down her arm before continuing on. "God Jess, last night was fucking amazing---? Whatever else he said she didn't notice because she finally managed a peek out between her fingers. When she spotted that neon yellow hair (and finally placed that voice) she felt the bile rise up in her throat.

oh****it'sLuke. When the hell did this happen again? Jessica Isabella Lucino you are never drinking again. Because weird **** like this happens. Get.Out.Of.That.Bed.

"Yeah, yeah excuse me." Pushing his traveling hand away before she was sliding from the black satin sheets that just reeked of sex and right about then realizing she didn't have a lick of clothing on. Her pounding head screamed as he whistled at her. An attempt for a step had her crashing to the ground.

And then landing into a swimming pool. The chlorine in the water had her eyes burning before she was kicking for the top. A gasp of air before she was taking a look around. Night time and there had to be a million candles surrounding the pool. The whole thing had her brow knotting into some twisted confused look before she heard Cash behind her.

"Hey pretty baby." He wasn't in the water, but running a hand through his black hair and offering that goofy look he sometimes had. Right before he said something that either freaked the crap out of her or almost caused a smile.

"Why aren't you in here with me?" The confusion had melted into a full on smile, shining right up to him as he matched the look.

"I want to be. I will be. I just was enjoying the show." And he started towards her as she reached the edge, arms perching on the lip. Blinking a moment and wiping the water from her face to see him a bit better.

Coming over. With a cane. Mahogany wood. Gold handle, gold tipped. An added dull hallow sound. She could hear it making its way over.

Tap tap tap tappity tap tap.

Jades started fluttering wildly as her shoulders hitched upwards, muscles tightening and fingers twitching underneath the water. "Cash...I...No, just stop." Her chin jerked towards the right, popping her neck, she was fighting herself to push away from the edge of the pool now.

Tap tap tap tap tap.

"Who is this Cash?" Her left arm was grabbed, pulled right out of the water, leaving her knees to hit against the lip of the pool as he let her go. Turning a look back up to him, that sneer dancing over his face while he ran a hand through brown hair. Hazels sparkled down to her. It was HIM. And he laughed as she hung her head like some defeated dog, laying her fingers over her knees.

"What's wrong pretty baby?" Cash's voice, she knew it. It danced along the lines of a tone being pathetic and still strong. Like she didn't need to know that he could be such.

Flinching at the hand reaching out to move along her jaw, even snarling and snapping teeth in his fingers direction before still fluttering jades caught sight of black hair and blue eyes. Gaze tried to narrow and focus between blinks that seemed uncontrollable, pulling out the scars on his face finally she was satisfied that it was him. "Cash I'm sorry. You should go. I can't see you right now. Not right now."

Tappity tap tap.

"Jess don't make me go. That's not what you want--"

Tap tappity tip tap.

"Cash, I said go! NOW."

"But Jess--"

Tap tappity tappity tap tip tap.

SNAP.

She could see the violence pouring from her fingertips, hear the snarls from some rabid starved wild dog echoing from her own mouth and the rage oozing in her tightened muscles as the twitching stop and she leaped forward to the figure in front of her. She didn't have wings, but it felt like she could fly, like somehow there wasn't anything quite out of her reach as a hungry vulture ready to peck and pry and rip to shreds.

Blood smeared across her face and bits of torn flesh caught in her hair, intestines littered on the ground as her form lingered on top of his. Tearing in and ripping apart anything she caught a hold of, nerves and tendons split with a twist of her digging fingers as his insides laid out exposed for anyone to see. Broken bones left the body twisted in ways that a contortionist could only dream about and discolored flesh from bruises from tiny fists of fury were scattered on skin that still managed to hang on.

It wasn't possible for him to be alive as she noticed her work was finished, grunts and snarls sounding off before sniffing out that stench of death on him. Rolling back on her haunches, jades still lost in a constant flutter, but if they were caught, they were glassed over and not her own. Only to stop when she heard his voice,

"I promise."

The series of dreams and twisted nightmares caused Jessica to lurch up from the couch, wide eyed and hitched breathing. A palm was placed to her chest to stop her racing her heart before she collapsed back against the couch. That was why she didn't sleep.