walks_two_paths | Room 217, Monday Afternoon/Evening

There was a box full of DVDs sitting outside room 217. It had a note on it that read Free DVDs.

True to what she had said the night before, Savannah had gone through all of her movies and removed anything that had vampires in them.

After Ghanima's class and hugging with Karla Savannah had found that she could do this without going into hysterics. Of course, that didn't mean she wasn't weepy as she thought about everything she had seen or gone through in the other universe. It probably helped that she didn't look at the covers of most of them. If she recognized by the title that they contained vampires, into the box it went.

Once that was done and the box was deposited in the hall, Savannah curled up on her bed with Destiny and her sketchpad -- the teddy bear from Johnny had been relegated to the closet after the move back from the cabins. She had planned on drawing as a way to distract herself from the images in her mind, but what she ended up doing was holding onto Destiny as she fought not to let the tears escape.

[[OOC: Is open to visitors or phone calls, and yes, the box of vampire movies is free to anyone who wants them.]]

Current Mood: uncomfortable

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And that? Would be an insanely worried Sean calling his sister while he paced around in the store.

Savannah reached for her cell phone. "H-hello?" Ignore the sound of sniffling.

"Talk to me, Savvy."

That would be Savannah bursting into tears.

Which meant that that would be Sean flailing.

"It's okay, Savannah," he said soothingly. "It's okay now, baby girl."

"Awful. W-was horrible."

"I know it was," Sean said, because really, how could it have been anything else? "But you're home now, you're yourself again, and everything's going to be okay."

"She was dead, Sean."

"Who was?"

"Mama."

"Oh, shit." Sean hesitated. "... how?"

"Vampire."

"Killed by one or... she was one?"

"Both. She tried to kill me. She killed Johnny."

"Oh, God." Sean stopped pacing at that. "I'm so sorry, Savannah."

Why was he apologizing? Fuck all if he knew.

"When we went into those comas, our minds were hijacked there."

"What was the other Fandom like?" he asked, making his way to his office and taking a seat. "If you want to talk about it."

"Hell, Sean. It was hell. But you had an awesome girlfriend there."

Good thing he was sitting down.

"I had what?"

"A kickass girlfriend who loved you and you loved her."

"I'm gay! Does that mean nothing to this godforsaken place?"

"You thought she was someone pretty special and decided not to fight your feelings for her."

She looked sad suddenly. "Maybe I shouldn't have said anything."

Sean could hear the sadness over the line. "No, no, it's okay," he hastened to assure her. "It's just... really, really weird that I keep sleeping with girls here."

Another entry for the Only In Fandom list.

"She loved you and you loved her. Annja was the best thing that ever happened to you."

"Sounds like she was quite a woman."

He paused.

"Wait a minute. Annja? As in Annja Creed?"

Yes, he was slow on the uptake sometimes. Why do you ask?

She smiled and nodded. "Yes, Annja Creed."

You could damn well bet Eve was going to go see her daughter. The bargain-hunting part of her brain got distracted by the free DVDs for a split second before Eve knocked at the door.

Savannah looked up. "I's open."

Eve let herself in. "Hey, baby girl," she said as she closed the door quietly.

She looked up from the bed and tears slid down her cheeks. "Mama--"

Eve shut the door and beelined for the bed, sitting down and wrapping her arms around Savannah. "It's okay, baby girl," she whispered, rubbing Savannah's back lightly with one hand. "Mama's here now."

Savannah turned into her mom's chest and started bawling.

Savannah had never cried like this, not heart-rending sobs that sounded unfortunately like things might never get pieced back together again.

All Eve could do was hold Savannah and let her cry, so that was exactly what she did -- well, that and cast a calming spell.

Savannah cried for a very long time.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Eve asked when there was finally a lull in the tears.

If Savannah didn't want to, that was perfectly fine.

Savannah shook her head, but there were some things she needed to say.

"Mama, I can tell you some of it, but I'm not ready to talk about all of it, and you have to promise that you won't tell Gwynn."

"I do want to know all of it, though," Eve said. "Not until you can tell it all, but I want to know it someday. For now, I'll listen to what you can tell. And of course I won't tell Gwynn."

Oh, she had no idea how hard a promise that was gonna be to keep.

"Gwynn was turned into a vampire shortly after she arrived. The next year on my birthday, she turned you into a vampire. The two of you second a lot of time messing with my mind... trying to make me lose the last bit of sanity I had."

"Oh, God..." Eve pulled back just enough to look at Savannah. "I would never do that to you, sweetheart. Never."

That fell into the category of "things you both know but one of you needs to say anyway, for both your sakes".

Savannah nodded. "I know mom. I kept reciting in my mind that she wasn't my mother. She was the monster who stole my mom's face. I don't want you to tell Gwynn because you know how horrified she would be over the fact she did that to me -- and the fact that her vampire self thought hunting humans was a good sport and humans were there for their food."

"Gwynn wouldn't even hunt a person if they'd hurt her loved ones. She'd just act with swift and blinding violence." Eve sighed. "I'm almost afraid to ask this, but... what was I like? Pretty much the same, I guess."

Savannah looked down, tears sliding down her face. "Cruel, evil, mean. You thought trying to shatter my sanity was a game. Wyatt had to save me from you one night when you were casting magic at me. See, the survivors had some magic, but the evil witches had a power dampening spell up. Their magic worked right, ours didn't."

"Oh, sweetheart." Eve reached out and brushed the tears away. "I'm sorry, baby girl. I'm so, so sorry." She pulled Savannah in for another hug. "I love you. You know that, right? You are and always will be the best thing that's ever happened to me. I still say you're the only thing I ever did right."

Savannah clung to her. "I know. I love you, too. That vampire... she wasn't like you, not at all."

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