Growing Uneasy

[Erin Rakal]

How long had it been?
She shuddered as she remembered the last time she'd killed anyone or anything.
That night of the full moon.
The blood. The screams, the pleads for mercy.

As that night grew farther away with every day, the temptation to kill was growing stronger.
The craving...
...for blood.

This was the reason she'd wanted to stay away from people. Yet she found herself actually befriending the girl who healed her.
She could only hope Rachel would be able to heal the wounds that she would cause when the temptation grew too strong. Already it was difficult, and with each passing person she saw them as a temptation, an opportunity to feel the intoxicating rush of adrenaline as she brought one after another down to the ground. An opportunity to feel strong again.

She sat on the hospital bed, knowing the one day that she'd be able to see would be the night she killed. And she had to, or she'd permanently be turned into the demonic monster, constantly craving for fights. Erin hung her head, her face buried in her hands, a sweat breaking all over her as another pulse of temptation passed over her. It took almost all she had to resist it, and smelling the faint trace of old blood in the hospital only added to the strength of the tempt. She gritted her teeth, closing her eyes tightly beneath the blindfold.

Soon Erin would become the bloodlusting monster for one night.
And she would welcome it with open arms...

[Will Wright]

"Erin...are you ok?" Will had been watching her in silence while pretending to sleep. The girl on the bed across from her, was looking very aggitated and uneasy. She had buried her head in her arms and the sound of grinding teeth came from her direction. She looked extremely tense. Will qould've got up to talk to her properly and give a helping hand if she was able to.

[Erin Rakal]

Erin jumped back, falling off the bed, giving a small yelp of surprise. She swiftly got back up, looking slightly disoriented. She was thankful that Will couldn't see her eyes, as they were hidden underneath her dirty blindfold.

"Oh-uh.....I....didn't know you were....so awake," she said. Her mind was rushing.
Had she seen her lying on the bed?

"Oh, I'm fine! I'm perfectly normal. What made you think something was wrong?" she said, fidgeting frequently, giving a fake smile.

Even as she looked at Will, she could feel a tug at the back of her mind.
She was going crazy...

[Will Wright]

Will stared at the girl fidgeting in the bed across from her.
"Well apart from the fact that you're very jumpy and that you're fidgeting and a bit sweaty, nothing. I would say your perfectly normal." she stopped,"If youy don't mind me asking, but why do you wear that blinfold?"

[Erin Rakal]

Erin gave a nervous laugh.
"Oh, this old thing? It's to protect my eyes," Erin explained.

"You see, I got caught in the chemical spill of a truck. It messed up my eyes and now I can only see heat. But any speck of heat I see is magnified to become really bright. So I have to wear a blindfold, but it doesn't work very well. I would get something better, but I don't know what I would get," she said, merely shrugging her shoulders.

She was barely starting to calm down when another pulse came through. She doubled over, giving a grunt as she held back the urge to give in and let the more animalistic side of her control her mind. Again she ground her teeth together; this one was drastically harder to resist. Flashes of blood and killing in her mind, it was almost too much. She fell over, burying her face into the soft bed's pillow, her fingers digging into the sides of her head.

She was ever-so-slowly turning into a monster. She wouldn't actually change form - her mind would simply turn crazy.

She stayed in that position even after the wave left...

[Will Wright]

Will still didn't understand what was the matter with her.
"Are you a werewolf?" she guessed because she knew how werewolves reacted and it was full moon but every werewolf was different.

[Erin Rakal]

Erin snapped her head to look directly at Will, her eyes seeming to burn through the blindfold.
"No! I said I'm perfectly fine!" she snapped, before turning her back on Will.

She gave an extremly worried expression.
What was she going to do?
She couldn't stop anything, but she couldn't kill anyone from the school!

Erin was at a loss...

((Short post! Blegh!))

[Will Wright]

"Ok, you're not telling me something. I can teel from your voice and expression. What's going on? Come on, I won't tell anyone else...I promise!" she did the brownies promise thingy. She was very good at keeping secrets and she only wanted to help.

[Erin Rakal]

"Shut up!"
Erin's voice was unnaturally angry; usually she didn't show a single trace of it.
She gasped from her own tone, then sighed.
"You wouldn't be able to help. You'd have to tell."

"It's too dangerous," she said. It was like some sort of infectious disease. Some people had even been known to get the same problem if a drop of Erin's blood fell on them.
" Let's just say someone will mysteriously dissapear soon. And they'll never come back," she finished, trailing off...

"I'm a freak. A monster. And I have to kill," she said. "If I spill my blood on anyone they'll turn into the same thing as me," she added.
She didn't care if Will told someone - it would just be the same as anyone else who'd ever told an adult...

[Will Wright]

Will sat there silently and amazed.
"Cool," she thought out loud. "That must be a pain though...must make you a good fighter though and also can give you the upper hand in the war," she let out a short laugh.
She didn't care what Erin had, it wouldn't scare her, Will doesn't scare easily.
"So I take it you reak havoc were ever you go?!" she said trying to get Erin to cheer up a bit.
"If you want I have aspirin to help the pain," she suggested, "Though I doubt it will help in your case. You know I knew someone who had a similar condition except, he threw everything he ate back up like humans, don't worry I won't tell anyone and I agree, I wouldn't be able to help you but you won't scare me...I don't scare that easily and I don't care what's wrong with you, I want to be your friend!" she stated.

[Erin Rakal]

Erin gave a weak smile.
"It's like some sort of disease that I have. I can only spread it to other people. Once you're infected, you can't get rid of it."

It comforted her to know that Will wanted to be her friend and wasn't afraid, but it only made her guiltier when she thought of actually killing Will.

"The strange this is that when I don't kill anyone for a short while, I get sick. Colds, the flu. Everything. But I also seem to get stronger. Faster, bigger muscles, the works. The only good thing is that when I do kill someone, I keep the strength I gathered before then," she added.

She hated and loved this little 'curse' of hers. It made her strong, but after paying a price. An oh-so terrible price...

[Will Wright]

"Yeah well life's a pregnant dog," Will laughed. "So what are you in here for tonight then?" Will shifted into a more comfortable position and took a sip of water before turning her attention back to Erin.

[Erin Rakal]

"Oh. I was just hunting around for anything that might help me and my 'issue'," she said, rubbing the back of her head sheepishly.

"So....Do you know anything that could help me out?" she asked Will. Before she could say anything, Erin added quickly, "I can' t tell anyone else about this. I might get kicked out if I can actually pass this thing on to other people. So no help from other people!"

Another pulse hit her, and she cried out in pain as a sharp tingle was sent in her mind. But it passed after a few minutes, leaving Erin breathless on the bed.
She was so tired...and the bed was so soft. She didn't know where else to sleep, so she reluctantly let her eyes close and she drifted into sleep...
Unknowing of what terrible deed she would commit when the moon was free of clouds...