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Post by Red Riding Hood/ Ruby on Feb 3, 2013 23:17:13 GMT -5
After a long day of pretending to be okay Ruby pulled out her cellphone. She decided that she at least had to give him a chance, she really did like him a lot..... and if he was telling the truth... even if he didn't want to see her anymore, she should say she was sorry.
'You're right, you should get a chance to explain, I'll meet you at your apartment tonight and I promise I'll listen. Monster to Monster'
Send. Now she just had to wait....
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Post by Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein on Feb 3, 2013 23:24:30 GMT -5
Whale's phone vibrated in his back pocket as Gretta was with-drawing another vial of blood. He retrieved it, getting a glare from the nurse as he moved about to do so.
He read the message... a small smile forming on his face. Maybe he hadn't blown it after all.
"Okay. I get off at 9pm." he texted, pushing the 'send' button as he bit his lower lip.
"OW!" He yelped. Gretta just simply looked up at him matter-of-factly
"I TOLD you not to move, Blondie..."
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Post by Red Riding Hood/ Ruby on Feb 3, 2013 23:31:29 GMT -5
Any minute now.... she kept telling herself. She stood outside with a couple of coffee cups in her hands, his black and hers.... not black. Every so often she'd set hers down and check her phone, this was the time she was suppose to be here right? She made a face, yes... in fact she was a little late..... There was a devastating punch in her gut, had she ruined everything again Oh god.... no, no, she was overreacting. He was just late. And she was just going to wait. or call... no maybe in another five minutes
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Post by Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein on Feb 4, 2013 10:28:31 GMT -5
Whale pulled into the parking lot of his apartment complex. He sighed looking over at ALL the supplements Gretta had forced him to take home. They wouldn't know the results of his tests until tomorrow... but his pulse had been low... abnormally low. Which almost seemed IMPOSSIBLE considering all the stress he had been under for the past few weeks.
He still had his hands on the steering wheel and leaned his forehead against it, closing his eyes. His last thoughts were of how he SHOULDN'T be doing this... that Ruby Lucas would be arriving any moment, and how bad it would look if he was found asleep in his car.
But the gentle waves of slumber lulled him into a peaceful thoughtlessness...
Whale straightened out suddenly, the blue luster of his eyes dulled and empty. He looked down at his keys still in the ignition and turned on the car. By habit formed by the past two weeks, the Doctor pulled out of the parking spot and drove out of the lot, making his way back to the hospital without a thought as to why....
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Post by Red Riding Hood/ Ruby on Feb 4, 2013 11:49:21 GMT -5
What is he...? Ruby watched as Victor pulled out of the parking lot just as quickly as he came in. Had he seen her? He wouldn't try and avoid her now... No.
There had to be a proper explanation to this, maybe he forgot something at the hospital? She hadn't really gotten a good glimpse of him. Ruby sighed, coffee in hand she followed Victor- yeah, this didn't feel stalker-ish in the slightest
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Post by Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein on Feb 4, 2013 23:10:09 GMT -5
So many hallways. Weaving in and out... people nodding at him... but he doesn't respond. Everyone has somewhere to be, so it is not that noticeable.
Whale types in the pass-code he could dial in his SLEEP and a door opens to the lower level of the hospital. He goes down more hallways. Dimly lit, and checkered floors.
He finally makes it to a door... THE DOOR... and pushes against it...
Time to get to work, Victor...
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Post by Red Riding Hood/ Ruby on Feb 4, 2013 23:24:51 GMT -5
"excuse me, sorry, Official business" Ruby pushed through the night-shift staff, trying to keep track of where Whale had gone. She wasn't lying was she? David had put her in charge of Whale sort of.... awhile ago....
Finally she came to an older set of stairs. Weird... they looked like hardly anyone used these anymore. She cautiously went further and further down... this would be the psych ward wouldn't it, Ruby always felt creeped out by the idea, why the hell would they put the ward in the BASEMENT. She was starting to doubt that he had just 'forgot something'
'Operating room' the sign read. Oh god..... Ruby shivered, "Victor...?" But her voice came out more as a whisper as she pushed the door open. In her head all she could think was this is the beginning of the murder scene of every horror film ever
The door opened and creaked as it did so, when she saw the contents of the room Ruby gasped and stepped back. Every terrifying surgical nightmare imaginable. The corpses of the victims from a few weeks ago were opened on tables, mirrors reflected every grotesque image, and in the center- Victor Frankenstein.
His eyes... they weren't his own. They were dull, and without consciousness as he toiled away in the moonlit O.R.
"Victor?" Ruby finally choked,"Wha... what is this...?"
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Post by Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein on Feb 5, 2013 10:28:00 GMT -5
Whale was swishing a vial and it's bluish contents under a powerful lamp when he turned his head. He stood, staring at the intruder blankly.
They want to stop you, Victor. And you have come so far in your work...
The entranced doctor merely blinked in response.
Stop them.... with whatever means necessary....
The doctor could feel his head being turned to look down at the tray next to one of the tables. A very large scalpel seemed to glint back at him. He picked it up and turned back towards the intruder.
If he could just maneuver them towards the door... if they would just leave him alone...
No Victor... KILL them...
Oh course... that seemed logical. They were trying to stop him after all. The Victor lunged at the intruder.
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Post by Red Riding Hood/ Ruby on Feb 5, 2013 11:09:27 GMT -5
"Vict-" Whale moved at an unnatural speed, before she knew what was happening Ruby was pressed up against the wall with Victor's hand at her throat, a scalpel in the other.
Normally Red was stronger and faster because of her wolf counterpart, but whatever possessed Whale was far more powerful. She grabbed Victors wrist hoping to pry it away,"Victor! Please it's me!"
She started choked for air and her eyes watered. When he brought the cold medal blade to her neck she gasped and continued to plead,"Victor! Stop please! It's me, Ruby Lucas remember?"
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Post by Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein on Feb 5, 2013 18:35:34 GMT -5
Ruby... Lucas...
The entranced doctor blinked at the plea. Slight recognition fluttered against the far edges of his mind like a caged bird.
KILL her Victor... she means NOTHING...
"Her"... the intruder was a HER... and the fog was starting to clear. He could see dark hair... full red lips... and... and TERRIFIED hazel eyes peering back on him. Whale stepped back, shaking his head as he came back to consciousness, as if from a disturbing dream.
But the dream didn't end, he looked at the scalpel in his hand,... and the slight wetness of blood along it's razor edge. Time seemed to stop as he looked over to see Ruby Lucas cowering against the far wall, trying to breathe... and the injury he had inflected upon her neck.
The doctor dropped the scalpel, horror on his face. He was speechless... His Ruby was hurt... and HE had done it... Whale quickly scrambled to the nearest first aid mounted on the wall. He rushed back to her, Doctor in him ready of assist her, even though it was only a slight scratch. He didn't care.. he had HURT RUBY.
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Post by Red Riding Hood/ Ruby on Feb 5, 2013 19:12:48 GMT -5
Ruby collapsed against the wall, she held her fingers against the cut on her neck- not deep or life-threatening but it was definitely bleeding, and there were deep dark bruises from where Victor had held her throat.
She flinched when Whale touched her, her eyes flashed to his, they seemed to be lucid but she backed away a little
"V-victor...?" Her voice quivered in fear. There were few situations where she couldn't get away or fight back and she didn't want it to happen again anytime soon.
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Post by Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein on Feb 5, 2013 20:56:44 GMT -5
"Oh my god... Ruby...." he couldn't believe this was happening. What WAS happening? He didn't even UNDERSTAND how he had gotten to this place...
...And Ruby... she looked so terrified of him. She flinched as he touched her. He drew his hand back as if he had struck hot iron. He dumped the contents that he had collected to help her down on the ground as he stood up and backed away. He couldn't bear to see her look at him like that.
"Ruby I'm so..."His voice failed him, he backed up into an old operating table,which had an open corpse on it. He looked at it as if it were the first time he had ever seen it. He looked around the entire room and saw more, and vials and tubes and devices and...
Somewhere deep down he KNEW that he had done all of this even though he could not remember it. He took one last look at Ruby before he took off, running up the stairs, down the halls, out an emergency exit, and out into the cover of forest behind the hospital.
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Post by Red Riding Hood/ Ruby on Feb 5, 2013 21:12:43 GMT -5
Ruby blinked, the look on his face.... she knew what that was. What that felt like.
It was her expression when she saw what was left of Peterthe night she knew what she really was.
oh god..... She quickly followed him outside dodging through staff and visitors and patients. Ruby had to find him, tell him he was going to be okay, that she wasn't hurt that bad, she needed to apologize...
She made it outside, still flustered and trying to grasp what had just happened and focus on where he had gone, "Victor! Come back please! Victor!"
She wandered around blindly at first, nothing quite seemed to make sense, she glanced down at the snow. His footprints... she quickly tracked him into the thicker part of the forest,"Victor I'm sorry!"
She stopped when she saw him collapsed in the snow beneath the trees, She rushed over to him and touched his shoulders, "It's okay.... please.... I'm sorry..."
She didn't know what to say. This was all so.... so bizarre
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Post by Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein on Feb 5, 2013 21:24:04 GMT -5
Victor's gloved hands were tangled in his blonde hair as he laid on his side. He had taken a similar posture of despaeration after he had led his beloved brother to a cell for containment, after realizing that what he had brought back was an abomination...and he... the abomination's creator... a MONSTER. He choked, not caring if he cried... but he heard Ruby calling for him. After all he had done to her...
He backed away from her. He never wanted to hurt her again. "I never meant to... Ruby... I would never..." But that WASN'T true, now was it? For if he hadn't woke up, Ruby Lucas would have DIED at his hands. He wrapped his arms around himself and looked away, hot tears starting to fall.
"...I don't know what's happening to me..." he finally managed.
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Post by Red Riding Hood/ Ruby on Feb 5, 2013 21:31:11 GMT -5
Ruby came closer kneeling down in front of him, she wrapped her arms around him and gently laid her head on his shoulder.
"I know.... believe me I know Victor...." She kissed his cheek gently and brushed away his tears," We're going to fix this, I promise...."
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