If you could only see the beast you've made of me

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WHO: Kate & YOU.
WHERE: Hotel Castillo
WHEN: Monday
WARNINGS: Decaying flesh.
SUMMARY: Kate thought she was okay at first. Then her flesh started rotting off.
FORMAT: Quick to start, tagger's choice.

[She thought she was lucky. She hadn't gone to the masked ball, and as such, she figured she might not catch whatever virus had been released onto the partygoers. She felt okay most of Sunday, just a little dizzy before she fell asleep checking out flights out of the country on her phone.

When she woke up Monday morning, however, the situation had shifted dramatically. She felt like she could barely lift her head up, lifting her arms was a trial in and of itself. It was like her muscles had all atrophied over night, and when she was finally able to drag herself off the bed and to a mirror-- one leg dragging inelegantly behind the rest of her in an oddly terrifying shuffle, she was horrified by what she saw. Her face was gaunt, greenish grey, eyes sunken in and dead looking. She looked more corpse than living and breathing woman, and when she opened her mouth to scream, all that came out was a gurgling, gasping sound.

With every ounce of her strength, she threw open the door and stumbled into the hall of the hotel, grunting at the top of her lungs. The sound is rough and strangled]

I think I'm about to die!

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Well we can't just sit here and do nothing!

[How can either of them be calm in a time like this? Maybe freaking out isn't the smartest move, but inaction will get them nowhere.]

[nitidus]

[Rose is not calm.

Rose is far from calm. Rose is tuning Kate out, focusing on Kanaya's snarl and if this is what she gets for trying to be helpful --

In a moment of blind anger, Rose lifts her perfume bottle and launches it towards Kanaya. Snarl at this, she says. ]

[glowsferatu]

[ it hits her in the chest, and while she manages to not lose her balance, it shatters on impact, its context spilling all over. she doubles over, trying to cough at the strength of the fragrance, but the sound that comes out is some ugly distortion of anything one might consider normal for it, too dry, too hollow, too dead.

the look on her face, once she's finally come to a point where she can actually respond, betrays how calm she really isn't either. it's like a floodgate of rage and frustration has finally burst.

she winds her arm back and doesn't even think about it or probably realize what she's doing as she hurls the arm in her hand at rose. it's only visceral fury left keeping her on her feet now. ]

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Holy--!

[Kate recoils from the flying object and arm, bracing herself against the bed. This has all taken a turn for the worst and she's not well enough to wrestle control away from both of them. All she can hope is that her big girl voice will indicate that she means business.]

Stop it! I'm not kidding around, you two!

[nitidus]

[Rose gets a chest full of dead arm!

She takes it. She LAUNCHES IT RIGHT BACK. She cannot believe she just had an arm thrown at her. GROSS AS HELL, GIRLFRIEND. WHAT A TERRIBLE GIRLFRIEND.

EX GIRLFRIEND. WHAT THE HECK. ]

[glowsferatu]

[ kanaya takes the hit like a champ. wait. chump. she takes it like a chump, losing her already weak footing entirely and stumbling backwards into the wall. her limbs are stiff, it's a struggle to get back up, and she groans as she does, fighting very hard not to let out a whine and not being wholly successful.

this isn't how things were supposed to be, she never wanted this. out of frustration she throws the arm back, but misses rose entirely, leaving it careening toward kate. ]

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[Kate has not time to react. She would, maybe if she wasn't so gravely ill. But right now, she can't even manage to duck properly. Nope. Right now, a severed arm is flying right at her face and slapping her right in the nose.

And in cue, Kate lets out a scream that is really more like a wounded animal than a person, and in her panic, she flops over and the fingers somehow tangles in her hair.]

Aaaaaaaaahhhhh!! Get it off! Get it off me!

[nitidus]

[Rose picks it up. She has seen more gruesome things, after all, than a severed arm. She shakes it at Kanaya, screeching incoherently and with a tone that is borderline admonishing. Poor Kate, to get a face full of arm, she says. What on Earth is wrong with you?

She ends her tirade with launching the arm back at her. She aims for the ground this time and fumes.

There is little that is going to diffuse this situation, she realises. But Rose is just so angry. ]

[glowsferatu]

[ kanaya hasn't the first idea what rose just said, she only knows that it's something she should probably be mad about. and she is! ]

Well fine! That's just fucking brilliant!

[ finally dragging herself to her feet, she storms her way to the door as effectively as she can manage, which is really more of a trudge, dragging one leg behind her. it makes the fury of her exit fall a little flat, and might be almost comical if every facet of this situation wasn't awful. ]

I know you don't really want me around anyway, then perhaps I should remove the offending element! [ she throws open the door and shambles to the other side. ] PERMANENTLY!

[ and she slams the door and is gone. ]

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[Kate is still in shock, speechless at the horrific display she's just witnessed. Seriously though, what does one say to this?

Instead, she decides not to deal with this now. Maybe when she's less sick, more able to sit up, more able to speak. Maybe then she will yell some sense into the girls. But for now she'll just crawl back under the covers and groan dramatically.]

Make it stop. Make it all stop.