5 Times Tara Needed Help, 1 Time Sam needed Help
Pairing: Sam and Tara, minor Quinn x Tara
Content Warning: Dealing with trauma, Bed wetting, Nightmares, Panic Attack
Summary: Tara needs help 5 times. Sam helps her. Tara helps Sam one time she needs it.
WC: 3135
i.
It was nighttime in the Carpenter apartment. Quinn was in her room sleeping, Mindy was at Chad’s for the night, watching Stab which Tara refused to do now. Tara and Sam were also in their own rooms. Tara was attempting sleep while Sam stayed up reading, her therapist recommended her to do that.
One minute it was all silent, the next there was a sudden sound. A scream, coming from Tara’s room. Sam immediately put her book down, having a mental note of the page she was on. She quickly rushed over to Tara’s room, ignoring Quinn as she went inside, and her eyes softened. Tara was curled up, sobbing and covered herself up fully.
“T,” Sam spoke gently, soon sitting down next to her and rubbed her back. Tara quickly hooked onto her sister, her bottom half suspiciously staying under covers. “I’m here, you’re safe. Everything is ok,” she comforted, trying to get the girl in a comfortable position. Tara whimpered as the blanket was taken off, a wet patch visible. “Oh honey, want to shower while I sort this out?” she asked.
“No!” Tara shouted embarrassed. “It’s just… water,” she mumbled out.
“Ok… you know it’s ok? It’s normal after trauma, it’s how your body responds to it,” Sam explained, Tara listening intently. Tara soon got up, not caring if her sister was in the room. She just stripped off her pyjama trousers, not wanting the wet feeling. Sam did turn around immediately as she grabbed Tara’s towel and handed it over with a batch of clean pyjamas. Tara felt happy her sister did that, but embarrassed. What 19 year old wet the bed?
Soon after her shower, she walked out and was greeted by Quinn who was giving her some water and smiled gently. “Here. It usually helps me after a nightmare,” she spoke. “Sam also left some of your favourite foods in your room,” Quinn added on.
Tara smiled at that, thanking Quinn. She proceeded to pop her head in Sam’s room. “Thank you Sammy… is it ok if I sleep in here tonight when I’m done eating?” she asked nervously, expecting a no.
“Of course you can. My room is always open,” Sam comforted with a smile. Tara grinned and nodded as she went to her own room, drinking and eating.
That’s when they started to cuddle every night, and that lessened the bed wetting. It would continue when alone, and even sometimes when Tara was with Sam, but Sam always helped her out. She would be there for her sister.
ii.
It was daytime in college, and Tara had left her creative writing class. She needed to go on a walk, as they were talking about trauma. She still refused to believe she had trauma after all. She was sighing as she was just wandering around the block, glad her teacher had allowed her to just… take a break. The embarrassing nights did take a toll on her, and she had had 3 accidnets that week. It was only Friday.
She was soon thinking of going to the bathroom to text Sam quickly to ask if she was ok knowing she would be leaving her therapy session about now. She proceeded to clutch her phone as she texted Sam. ‘You ok?’ it read. It was seen immediately and the speech bubble popped up. She was soon going into the bathroom, not realising 2 stalls were occupied.
‘I’m doing better, therapy with Mary is helping more!’ Sam texted back. Tara hit back a grin as she was about to enter a stall.
‘That’s good’ she typed out, before she was suddenly grabbed. The other door was kicked open and there someone was standing in a Ghostface costume, with the same knife that Amber had.
Her breath immediately stopped as she was thrashing, trying to scream. Her mouth was covered though and the other arm of her attacker was around her waist so she couldn’t move whatsoever. She let out a small sob as she was trying to get Siri to call 911. Due to the muffling it didn’t worke. Her heart sank. She was struggling to breathe now, before a third person stood up from the final stall and showed he was recording.
“Good going,” he grinned out. “Hope you enjoyed our prank Tara,” the voice spoke before all 3 took off their masks. Tara recognised them from Chad’s course, still struggling to breathe. That’s when they all realised how serious it was. They all looked at each other as Tara was going to a corner, putting her head inbetween her legs, sobs slipping out.
“Shit, we should go,” the holder spoke before running out. All 3 boys did. That’s when Tara looked at her phone screen, seeing Sam had texted her. She saw she accidentally sent a voice recording, and was panicking more, clutching her neck, reading the messages Sam sent.
She thought she was being attacked again, that Ghostface was back.
The other messages consisted of:
‘Are you ok?’
‘Tara?’
‘If you don’t text back in 20 seconds I will be coming’
Tara decided to respond then. ‘Pnix atxk. Cnt breth’ was the response as she was struggling. She was sobbing at the same time which didn’t help.
After 5 minutes, Sam arrived and was searching for her sister. It only took 2 minutes before she was there, next to Tara and held her gently. “It’s me Princess. Breathe with me,” she spoke gently. Tara looked st her before she started to breathe with her sister and was soon able to breathe.
“Thank you Sammy,” Tara mumbled out, cuddled up to her sister.
“It’s no problem. Want to go home?” she asked gently. Tara nodded as she was going non-verbal. Sam nodded as she picked up Tara, cradling her as she was taking her to her class. She sat her down quickly then grabbed Tara’s bag. The teacher nodded as he understood immediately and was setting a task before he went to Sam.
“Is she ok? Do you want me to send her the notes tonight?” he asked quietly. Sam nodded with a gentle smile.
“Thank you,” she responded quietly, then left with Tara, wondering what happened.
iii.
Screaming. Cheers. Talking. That’s all that she could hear. The fairground was busy and Tara had forgotten her headphones. She was with Sam, Chad, Mindy, Quinn, Ethan and Anika at least. She was looking around as she was with Quinn as of current. She was holding her hand, ignoring the scratching feeling. She knew the sounds, the brightness and the touch wasn’t helping. But she wanted to be normal, so she would suffer. Of course Quinn noticed, but knew not to ask just yet until Tara was looking at her desperately.
Quinn looked around before seeing a darkened spot and took Tara over there, knowing she was getting a little overstimulated. “Where are your headphones hon?” she asked quietly.
“Home… I forgot them,” she whimpered out and was looking down as she was covering her ears slightly. Quinn nodded.
“Let’s stay here for a bit then, hm?” She responded. Tara nodded and tucked herself into a corner, starting to go non-verbal and rock herself to try and calm herself. Evidently it wasn’t working, and Quinn knew Tara needed to go home. She was getting more and more stressed as she was also starting to cry.
“I’m going to get Sam, ok?” Quinn spoke gently. Tara nodded. “Stay here. And borrow these,” Quinn added on and handed over some of her wired earphones then quickly left the side and looked for Sam. It took about 2 minutes before she saw Sam looking around worriedly, holding her phone. “Sam!” Quinn called out. Sam quickly looked over then rushed over to her.
“What’s up? Is Tara ok? Where is she?” she asked as she was pacing about.
“She’s having a sensory overload. She isn’t ok obviously and she’s in a small side nook, I can take you there,” Quinn spoke as she was leading Sam to her sister. Sam followed quickly before she went to Tara’s side and sat next to her, not touching her.
“I’ll leave you and Sam alone now. If you need me, call or text me babe,” Quinn spoke. Tara nodded before Quinn left, putting her phone on sound.
“Come on, let’s get you home,” Sam spoke quietly. Again, Tara agreed and stood up, keeping her hands over her ears. “Is it ok if I just touch your wrist to lead you with me to the car?” Sam asked, wanting her consent. Tara handed an arm over to Sam, who led her out. She proceeded to steer Tara out of people’s ways before she was walking over to the car. Tara immediately got in, as she was curled up in her seat. Sam buckled her in, making sure it wasn’t too tight before she got in the driver’s side and put her own seatbelt on. She soon drove away.
10 minutes later they were at the apartment and Tara was being led up the stairs. Danny, who was picking up take out. He smiled at Sam, who smiled back quickly before she was taking Tara upstairs. Tara was making a mental note of it as she was closing her eyes as the lights were too bright, and the smell of the food was making her feel sick. Sam noticed and quickened her pace. She unlocked the door quickly to which Tara rushed over to Sam’s bedroom and hid under the covers. Sam let her be alone as she sat on the couch, putting the TV on quietly. After 1 hour, Tara slowly walked out and went over to the couch, earmuffs still over her ears. She then curled up into Sam’s side, and Sam noticed how Tara was only wearing some boxers and one of her tank tops. She just stayed there.
She would always protect her sister, no matter what.
iv.
Wednesday, after classes. Tara was exhausted and it was dark. Christmas was coming after all. She unfortunately was having to walk in the dark this time, Sam being in therapy at this time. Mindy and Anika were on a date while Ethan, Chad and Quinn were shopping. She was yawning as she walked, putting on her Sony headphones. She was soon starting to nod her head to the music, smiling gently as she was not aware of her surroundings. Her medication for her PTSD was working after all. She was soon aware of her surroundings however when she was suddenly grabbed after she passed an alley. She let out a scream before her mouth was covered and she was punched hard against the head. A small whimper came out.
She tried to see who was attacking her, but they were wearing a mask, one she was familiar with. It was a Ghostface mask. She got tears in her eyes immediately as she thrashed about, trying to get away. She bit the hand, hearing a grunt of pain. “Quinn! Sam!” She called out before she was pinned down against the ground, her head pushed into a puddle as the guy on top was immediately starting to punch her head and was soon undoing his zipper, thankful it was getting darker and darker early on. Just as he was about to undo his button, he was hit around the head with a metal pipe, getting knocked out immediately. “Tara, you ok?” Sam asked. Tara had rolled over, taking in the air as she was shaking her head, tears streaming out of her eyes. Sam proceeded to keep the other guy down, having called the cops. “Thank you for texting me when you could,” she spoke. Tara nodded.
“You was all I could think about texting. You was the closest,” she admitted as she was rocking herself.
Once he was arrested, Sam was driving Tara to the house. Tara stuck around Sam however, not getting away as she was thinking of what had happened. “Should I tell Quinn?” she asked Sam nervously. Sam glanced over as she was looking at parking spaces.
“Only if you want to,” Sam comforted as she was rubbing her shoulder before she parked up. “You want take out tonight?” Sam asked as she was wanting to treat her sister as she had just been assaulted after all.
“Dominos?” she asked as she was undoing her seatbelt, wanting to take her clothes off and shower and change.
“Whatever you want,” she spoke with a smile. Tara nodded.
“Vegetarian pizza from Domino’s please,” she spoke as she was getting out the car and towards the door. Sam was quickly following as she was chuckling and nodded.
“Anything for you,” she spoke as she was rubbing Tara’s back gently, both sisters going upstairs.
Once Tara was showered and changed, albeit still feeling dirty, Mindy, Chad and Quinn were back. Tara went to Quinn’s side and kissed her cheek as Sam smiled gently at Tara.
Tara proceeded to tell Quinn what happened, Tara had to stop Quinn from grabbing a knife to kill the guy. Sam meanwhile was secretly advocating for it.
v.
Mindy, Chad and Anika were having a sleepover at Chad’s apartment, while Quinn was staying at a friend's house for a project. This left Sam at the house, except she was working till late, then had a date with Danny. This left Tara alone, and she was thankful. She had been wanting to relapse for a while now but could never. Someone was always in the house.
Now though, she was alone, and she was thankful for that. She did a double check around the apartment however before she pulled the curtains down and was sighing. She then got to the kitchen and grabbed a knife before she went to the bathroom. She then proceeded to lock the door, stripped down and went into the shower and started the water.
She was soon letting out a breath, looking at the knife. A sick smile grew on her face before she was toying with the sharp edge with her finger, ignoring the blood running down her thumb. She smirked as she was soon starting to get her left wrist out. She watched as she dragged it across her wrist, letting out a shiver of delight as she felt better than before. She made several more cuts, feeling the pain, watching the blood drip to the water where it went into the drain. She was soon done as she was stopping the water.
She jumped when she heard the door. “Tara? I’m home!” she called out.
“Don’t you have a date with Danny?” She called back, biting her lip as she grabbed the medkit.
“Yep, but he had to cancel at the last minute with work,” she spoke as she was closer to the bathroom now.
“I see!” Tara called out as she quickly sorted herself out and got out of the bathroom.
She forgot the knife.
She didn’t realise until it was too late, when Sam was already in the bathroom. She then put her head down on the pillow as she was prepared for Sam to come in. That’s when there was a knock on the door. “Can I ask why there is a knife in the bathroom?” She asked. Sam wasn’t dumb, she knew why.
“Protection,” she offered weakly.
“Really?” Sam asked, then went next to her. “You can tell me the truth, you know? I… if it is what I am thinking then I know what it is like,” she spoke. Tara looked up, widening her eyes.
“You used to self harm too?” she asked quietly. Sam nodded.
“Yeah… it was a while ago,” she spoke gently and slowly
lifted her shorts up, revealing the scars. Tara hugged Sam.
“Let me help you,” Sam comforted. Tara nodded. She would need it after all…
vi.
Sam was walking down the street, hands shoved in her pocket. She had just finished therapy and was ready to go on a double date with Tara and Quinn being the other couple. She would be with Danny respectfully. She was sighing as she was thinking, unaware of her surroundings. She was soon starting to hurry her pace once she checked the time. She was aware of all the stares she got, she was the daughter of a killer and she also had killed someone. She hated Gale for weaponising her, but she also understood why she had made the story. She did have a right to be upset though.
What she was unaware of was a guy behind her, at least until her elbow was grabbed. She quickly punched who touched her and was not surprised to see the sneer. “Psycho,” the boy spoke. His friends were behind, it was clear he was showing off
“When you touch someone without consent, you should expect them to fight back,” she retorted before she was going away again. That’s when her ass was spanked.
“No wonder Richie wanted you,” he spoke cockily. Sam growled.
“If you don’t get away, I am not afraid to hurt you,” she warned. The boy just tilted his head and got closer.
Sam immediately pushed him away then was trying to walk away again, this time turning her phone on and recording. “Awww, is psycho girl scared of the law?” he taunted and gripped her shoulder.
She was about to fight back when a small ball of fury ran past Sam and punched the boy in the face. It was Tara. “Leave her alone,” Tara warned. Danny was behind Sam then and gently wrapped his arms around her waist. Quinn was soon next to her girlfriend.
“We don’t need you here,” Quinn added on. The boy, not outnumbered, scampered away like a mutt with his tail between his legs. His friends teased him.
“Want to just go home and eat there?” Danny asked gently. Sam shook her head.
“No. I can’t be scared of anyone,” she spoke before she was walking to the planned cafe. The other 2 girls soon followed as they were going to protect Sam.
That night, when Quinn fell asleep on the couch on Tara and Danny went home, Tara went to Sam’s room and knocked on the door. “Come in,” she heard Sam call in. Tara then opened the door and walked in.
“Are you ok?” Tara asked Sam, who was withdrawn from the harassment. That’s when Tara saw the tears in Sam’s eyes.
“I’ll be fine if we have each other,” she then spoke, trying to not cry still. Tara nodded.
“We will protect each other,” she reassured.
That’s how they ended up cuddling all night. Sure, both of them were fucked in some way or another, but they all had each other. The 2 sisters definitely needed it.
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Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog - Full Tilt Tails (Screenshots & Review)
The episode begins with Robotnik being frustrated after Sonic ruins his relaxing day of looting a village. He decides to take out his frustrations on Coconuts who wasn't even with him and the others, and then goes to a canyon to try crushing an elderly goat couple with a rock-slide.
Meanwhile, we see that Tails is doing a foot race time trails to stay in shape, with Sonic helping him keep time and encouraging him, as Tails feels self conscious about how he's nowhere near as fast as Sonic . Sonic hears the cries for help from the goat couple,and rushes off to save them, with Tails trying to keep up but getting left in the dust...
This episode has so many sweet moments of Sonic being supportive of Tails!
After Sonic has rescued the couple and Grounder has accidentally blown up Robotnik's tank, Tails finally catches up. Tails gets upset about the fact that he couldn't arrive in time to help save the couple, and feels left out. Thankfully, Sonic is able to cheer him and Tails eventually gets back to his jogging exercises.
Meanwhile, Robotnik himself is feeling dejected as Sonic has ruined his sadistic fun twice in one day already. Scratch and Grounder are worried Robotnik is going to quit fighting with Sonic, but then Robotnik unveils his new invention - The Speedemint Gum. Robotnik explains that anyone in contact with this gum after it's been chewed up will have super speed powers.
He takes Scratch and Grounder out to a field to test it out, and it works great for Grounder! Unfortunately, when grounder tries to slow back down with his parachute, he crashes and the gum goes flying (though I honestly thought it looked more like Grounders "brain pan" had gone flying in the scene!)
Tails is jogging nearby, and unknowingly steps right onto the special gum, suddenly getting super speed powers! Tails is amazed and thinks it's simply the result of all of his jogging practice, so he goes to tell Sonic. Sonic is happy for him but also confused as to how this happened seemingly out of nowhere. Tails is too giddy to sit still, and hurries off to see if he can outrace a train.
Tails makes more of those funny “My Little Pony scrunchy faces” while Sonic is helping him get his foot lose from the track.
He manages to do so, but gets his foot stuck on the train tracks! Thankfully, Sonic is able to save him. The two go to have lunch of what looks to be Mobius' most unsafe picnic table (you think Sonic would choose somewhere safer after Tails almost getting killed!). He tries explaining to tails the importance of being careful and responsible with his powers, but Tails isn't listening very much and goes off to find people to save.
Who would want to eat at this scary picnic table?!
Tails looks even tinier than usual!
Flying around, Tails complains to himself that he can't find anyone in peril and his powers are going to waste. I was worried he might pull a Twilight Sparkle and start trying to create problems , but what he does do isn't very good either - he ends up mistaking a skydiver for someone who accidentally fell out of an airplane, and ends making the poor fellow lose at the skydiving competition he was about to win. The skydiver in question has a posh British accent and sounded really familiar to me, but I couldn't find who his English voice actor was on the Sonic fandom wiki.
Scratch and Grounder are wandering about trying to find the lost gum, while Sonic tries to find Tails and stop him from accidnetally ruining anyone else's day. Eventually, Tails ends up running by the two badniks,revealing to them that he's the one with the gum. They trail him to a biker bar, where Grounder tries to trick a biker into beating up Tails so he can get the gum back. As Tails flees form the big guy, he loses the shoe that had the gum on it, losing his powers - but thankfully the biker ends up realizing that it was actually Grounder causing trouble, not Tails. As Grounder gets beaten up, Sonic saves Tails, but they leave his shoe behind.
Grounder looks so happy with his little wig on!
The last scene with Sonic and Tails talking is one that is surprisingly a bit more mature of a topic, where Sonic explains to tails that sometimes even if you get the instant gratification of something you wanted real badly, you might not be ready to deal with said thing yet - like how in this case, Tails lacked the discipline, maturity and care to be responsible with such a superpower.
Lastly, some really gross turtle ends up finding Tails’ shoe and eating the gum off of the bottom of it. Yuck! But, at-least it gives him speed powers. Those will probably come in ahead if he needs to later blow chunks after eating something that was stuck to the bottom of some kids dirty sneaker...
Now, that was a pretty good episode! But unfortunately, we get one of the dumbest "Sonic Says" segments right after.
Tails finds Grounders cigarettes and starts shaming him over it. Grounder offers Tails a cigarette and Tails starts coughing - obviously, because he's new to cigarettes and he's also 4! Grounder then accidentally swallows his cigarette, which of course makes him choke a bit, and Sonic shows up to also shame Grounder for smoking (as if it was the smoke that made him choke and not the accidental swallowing) and scolding Tails for giving it a chance.
I really don't care for this sort of smug holier-than-thou attitude that was pushed in the 90s about cigarettes. Most people are already going to know the health risk of smoking when they do it, just like with drinking or eating fast food, or having a dangerous hobby like mountain climbing or fighting mustach-ioed despots. Drugs can be addictive, but that doesn't make them inherently “bad”. You just have to be smart and careful about things when trying them out.
This segment could have been better handled if Sonic focused more on teaching Tails about the health risks and advising him to wait until his body is more fully developed and able to handle such things as booze or cigarettes, and to simply know the risks involved and be careful not to become addicted.
Despite the crappy Sonic says segment, this episode is a pretty darn good. I like the message about being responsible with your powers, and of course there's some great cute moments and humor as well. Overall, a great episode!
Til next time, stay cool! It’s still really hot outside. I’m gonna go spitefully eat some candy even though it’s bad for me. :P
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James Patrick March’s B-day Bash (aka Devil’s Night)
- James was very excited because everyone would be there for his special night
- He didn’t shut up for the past month about how excited he was to see all his pals
- Was very angy when Tate showed up late cuz he went on a date with Violet
- Made all the Evan’s sit silently in the living room while they waited for Tate to arrive so it was super awkward and when Tate apologized James was like “Its fine. It’s fine.” and acted like he didn’t care...he did care
- James made it a plus 1 party so he could make some new friends but all the Evan’s just brought eachother
- Kit brought Jimmy, Rory brought Kyle, Tate and Kai both failed to bring a buddy and were denied a piece of cake because of that and then Gallant brought Austin
- James was very aggressive to Austin because he didn’t know who he was (even though he wanted new fwends to begin with)
- All the Evan’s would laugh at Austin’s jokes but not James’ and this made him feel left out
- Drowned Gallant in the toilet when Gallant went to the bathroom as punishment for bringing Austin and ruining his bday bash
- After meeting his reflection in the mirror, James realized he hated Austin most of all for trying to take his Gomez Addams aesthetic
- Tate and Austin get along really well and Tate gets a little too eager about making a new friend that when James returns he accidentally calls him Austin and in return is thrown out the window
- Everyone is scared now
- Kai puts candy corn on his nipples
- James asks why the fuck there’s candy corn at his party and Kai says Austin brought them cuz it’s the night before halloween
- Kai is then burned alive cuz James has no patience
- Jimmy is trying to eat the salad Ms. Evers made but gets a little teary eyed when he drops his fork
- He tries to ask Kit to pick it up for him but Kit is too busy laughing at something Austin says
- Jimmy cries
- Kit accidnetally laughs a little too loud and has a knife thrown at him
- Kit is elinminated
- James decides to soothe the tension with dessert
- When James goes to make a wish Rory last minute ugly laughs at something Austin said about James mustache’s and his breathe blows out the candle before james can make his wish
- He was gonna wish for austin to disapear
-Rory is then beheaded
- Kyle is pissed cuz his plus 1 is now dead
- James tells him to shut the fuck up and eat the cake
- Kyle back talks and says James is just jealous cuz Austin is funnier
-James is mortified and rips Kyle’s heart out and eats it
- Jimmy is deeply disturbed
- Tries to settle then tension by offering to split his cake with Ausitn
- James is enraged and eats jimmy’s cake
- Jimmy leaves the party cuz his feelings are hurt
- Austin tries to make amends with James, not knowing what he did wrong, and gives James his birthday present
- James scoffs and opens it bitterly mumbling something along the lines of it going to be stupid
- Opens it to find lingerie labeled ‘to that special someone’
- James gets teary eyes. honored that austin would see him that way
- Asks if he really means it
- Austin realizes he accidentally gave james harry’s birthday present but goes along with it anyways
- him and james are now inseperable
FIVE HOURS LATER
- james bday bash is coming to a close and walks austin to the door talking about how he’ll have to come back everyday so they can hang out
-Austin agrees and exits the hotels preimieters
-unfortunatley a horse drawn carriage comes outof nowehre and runs over him
-James screams
-Austin is deceased
-a very disheveled edward mott peaks out at james and shouts “i traveled all across america to wish you a happy birthday james”
-He then drives away hitting austin again and smudging him into the road
- the end
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