So I went from moms home , across the bridge, across another bridge, walked down to the other side, beside my old church.
I went thru a student neighbourhood - that’s when I went in someone’s backyard, got naked, peed on the ground, danced to music for them: and my phone died
I packed up and walked forever away, so cold, so dirty, so alone, and no phone no money no ID.
I made it to the circle k where I swindled the poor man there, and then McDonald’s…. It was like no one saw me
Then I went to the parking lot I mentioned - familiar place beside the train tracks, these two men came up to me and chilled with me, they said they were going to Burlington, they were lost, trying to get home. I remember their faces, all of them. The one man had a bloody hand, he had been stabbed.
Then they got in a car and left - I told them look for their dream girls, don’t lose them… the security came, a face of death. He looked unhappy and dead inside. I thought he wanted to kill me. I refused to leave .
Then the cops came, I remember their three faces as well. Tall figures, one black hair man, one blonde blue eye man with tattoos, and one woman with blue eyes, they smelled sickly sweet…. They smelled like this gross fragrance.
Then the paramedics came, I thought they were raptors in the flesh. Cold eyes, cold eyes, but they wrapped me up, tied me down, put tubes all on me. I ripped them off.
Then I was rolled into the emergency psychiatric section, dirty, dark, terrifying. I feel like I wailed the whole night in that room. No toilet paper, shitting, pissing, no food, and saddest to me: No cigarettes…
I wanted to smoke so fucking badly - I guess that is psychosis? But I was strangely present- it just felt as though I was on mushrooms, I was moving thru space and time, as an abstract art fare. It was spiritual warfare I was committing.
Oh I forgot: dancing like a wolf on the steps on the cathedral, until the hoses came on, they sprayed me with cold water…. I was howling like a wolf. I told them, if anything, this is what it’s like when you trap an angel in a cave with a demon. They’re inexplicably connected in some ways, and the soaring fear felt inhuman…. I needed to wake up the trees…. It felt like the whole world went mad with me.
Also turns out during this Rogers network in Canada went completely dark. Network connection shut off, then Boris resigned from the British parliament, and so on. And so on.
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Intoxicating Fear (Xiii)
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Continued from // Masterpost
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Kit’s palms were sweating as he walked into the hospital, stopping at the reception desk and smiling at the receptionist, Heather. She smiled with her painted red lips when she saw Kit. It shouldn’t have made him nauseous, Heather always had red lipstick on and it suited her. She was very pretty with her blonde hair and big blue eyes and red lips, but it just reminded him now of Ambrose.
“Hey Kit, you goin’ up to your old man?”
“Yeah, if that’s okay.”
“Of course, doll. Go right ahead.”
Kit thanked her and walked on to the stairs. He needed the stairs to give him the time to gather his thoughts. What was he going to say? How was he going talk to him after knowing exactly what Ambrose was like? When he knew exactly what Omen was capable of… and Kit was getting off light.
His mind was still somewhat in tact. How was he supposed to look at him, the man that took Kit into his house and raised him, and know that he had been spared?
The guilt bloomed like tar in his gut; pitch black, oozing and heavy. Fuck, his hands were shaking. What if his powers flared up when he was in there? He couldn’t control his red lightning that Ambrose kept bringing out in him… and it only happened when he was… well, angry, but —
Fuck.
Kit paused on the final step to Mentor’s floor. How much of himself would he see in Mentor now? How much suffering? Would he recognise the commands that Ambrose plagued his mind with?
It didn’t matter.
That was the thought that forced him up the final step and down the hallway to the psych ward. It didn’t matter what he thought or what he would see or face, because it was Mentor. If the roles were reversed, Kit knows that Mentor would be in here to see him— every single day, not every week.
The power-proofed psych ward was on the basement floor so if patients wanted to jump out of windows they could do it with minimal damage to themselves or others.
Kit hated walking up to the doors and pressing the button to be buzzed in. Hated how he knew that even if somehow Mentor got better miraculously, he wouldn’t be able to get out himself and come home.
Kit hadn’t been to Mentor’s house since the docks either, he should probably pay it a visit, put on the heat. The thoughts of the empty house getting damp and lonely… well, Kit just knew that mentor wouldn’t want that.
The door buzzed and Kit pushed it open. He walked down the hall, took a right at the nurses station and then stopped at the last door on the left. It was opened, so was his window. Mentor sat in his armchair staring at the birds as they sang a happy tune.
Kit paused at the door, just watching Mentor as he hummed softly back to the birds. He looked peaceful, wearing his favourite maroon sweater that Kit had gotten him one Christmas and his blue and red chequered pyjama bottoms.
Kit swallowed and stepped into the room, but where before Mentor would have noticed him lingering in the doorway, he didn’t even turn his head as Kit walked into the room and sat on the edge of his bed.
“Mentor,” said Kit softly. The corner of Mentor’s lips quipped up into a small smile at Kit’s voice, and Kit wanted to cry. He caught him on one of his rare good days. “How are you doing?”
“The birds are singing, Kit,” Mentor replied, his gaze dreamy. “The sun is shining. You’re here. I’m somewhat lucid.”
He turned his head to Kit, his warm blue eyes smiling. “I think I’m doing pretty great.”
Kit couldn’t help himself. It wasn’t a conscious thought, but he had crossed the short distance between the bed and Mentor’s chair to throw his arms around his— his family. He wanted so badly to tell him everything that had happened. Why he hasn’t visited in the last three months. Explain everything, tell him he knew what Mentor was going through because he was going through it too.
He settled for Mentor’s arms wrapping around him in their strong warm embrace, not at all cold like Ambrose.
“Hey kiddo, it’s okay.”
“I just…” the words choked on the way out, so Kit just squeezed Mentor tighter. “I miss you so much.”
“It’s alright. You’re here now, it’s all that matters isn’t it? Right now. We don’t have long before some nurse will give out to me for having visitors eh?” Kit laughed despite himself and pulled away from Mentor, nodding. Mentor didn’t let Kit’s arm go, he gave it a small, reassuring squeeze. “So we need to catch up on everything important, right?”
Kit nodded, his heart overwhelmed with joy. “Yeah.”
“Go on, sit down,” said Mentor, gesturing to the bed and Kit obeyed.
Mentor leaned forward and clasped his hands together, dropping them between his knees and fixing his features into a more sombre expression. Kit had the sudden feeling that Mentor somehow knew about Ambrose and his whole tragic ordeal, but then something glimmered in his eyes — an old familiar mischief that Superhero said Kit inherited from Mentor.
“Who’s top of the premier league? What have I missed? What about the rugby, and your car guys— what’re they called?”
“Formula one?” Kit asked with a startled laugh. He forgot he could be happy, but Kit wasn’t thinking about anything other than how good he felt.
“Yeah! Formula one, Ferrari and all them. I need all the updates because they only have the shit channels in here, and none of them are sports.”
Kit laughed again before he descended into a recap of all the sports developments he could think of recently. Well, almost recently if he discounted the last three month gap in his knowledge.
From sports they went onto movies, from movies they talked about the house and Kit’s apartment and then Mentor asked: “and how about work? Are you still in the Hero business?”
Kit could feel his smile fade at the question. That was the question of the hour was the it? Was he still a Hero? Could he even be considered one anymore?
He ignored the quiet voice in his head that asked: did he even want to be one anymore?
Instead Kit skirted around the issue. He told Mentor that Superhero had taken over as the new Superhero, that Kit worked closely with him. “Oh yeah. I always liked Superhero. He’s a nice guy, good moral compass.”
Kit told him that they were still hunting down Omen and Mentor’s eyes narrowed into points as sharp as daggers. “No.”
Kit blinked. “What?”
“No,” Mentor repeated. He got out of his chair and he walked towards Kit, grabbing both of Kit’s hands and squeezing them before kneeling in front of Kit. Kit stared down, his eyes as wide as saucers. “Kit promise me! Promise me you won’t go near that man.”
“Mento—”
“Kit!” Mentor cut in, his voice urgent, his eyes pleading with all his soul. “Promise me! You’ll stay miles away from him. He is only pain. I spent twenty years in the Hero business and I had never met a monster before him, Kit. You promise me!”
“I—”
“Promise me!”
“I promise,” Kit whispered. He didn’t mean for it to come out so quietly, but the urgency that Mentor was speaking with— Kit couldn’t say no to him. Not when he was like this. Tension released from Mentor’s shoulders as he let out a sigh, squeezing Kit’s hands again before letting them go and getting to his feet.
He put a hand in Kit’s hair and Kit froze, remembering cold fingers yanking his head up — but no! This was Mentor, not Ambrose. Mentor ruffled his hair affectionately in the same way he used to when he first met Kit and then withdrew his hand.
“You’re a good kid, Kit.”
Kit scoffed as he got to his feet. “Kid? Reckon I could still take you old man.”
Mentor’s eyes lit up with that glimmering mischief that Kit missed so much. “Oh yeah? Think you’re a tough guy now?”
“Tough enough to knock you on your arse.”
Mentor hummed like a monk, bringing his hands together in a pray before moving into a kung-fu pose, palm stretched out in front of him raised towards the ceiling. “You have much yet to learn, young Padawan.”
When Mentor flexed his fingers for Kit to give him his best shot, Kit smiled softly and walked towards him, finally wrapping his arms around Mentor instead. Mentor stiffened initially then relaxed and enveloped Kit in his warmth. “Hey Kid. It’s okay.”
It wasn’t fair, none of this was fair. Mentor wasn’t old enough to be retired, he was only… what? Late thirties? Early forties? He shouldn’t be here in this fucking psych ward, he should be at home with Kit. He should still be the number one hero. He should… he should have his own mind back. If it wasn’t for Ambrose, Mentor could still have his life!
“Hey… hey! Hey!” Mentor started shouting and Kit let go of him, stepping away. Mentor’s face contorted into fear and anger and disgust as he backed up to the wall, gasping. “Hey! What?! What did you do to me?”
Kit’s eyebrows knitted down into pained expression. “Mentor I—”
That was all Kit got out before Mentor was on him. Mentor grabbed Kit by his t-shirt and slammed him back against the wall, knocking the air from his lungs with a harsh hiss. “Mentor!”
Mentor’s fists curled in tight to Kit’s shirt, knuckles digging into Kit’s collarbone painfully. “What did you do to me! Huh! Make it stop! Make them stop!”
Mentor yanked Kit forward and shoved him back harder against the wall. Kit stared with wide eyes, frozen in shock. Mentor… he had never seen Mentor this bad before, where he didn’t even recognise him.
The screaming had alerted some nurses that came running into the room, yelling Mentor’s name.
“You ruined me!” Mentor wailed as nurses put their arms on him and tried to get him off Kit. “You ruined me! You destroyed me!”
“I—” Kit began but cut himself off, no words ready to flow from his lips in his defence.
“Mentor we need you to calm down and let go of Kit,” one of the nurses said.
Mentor shook his head, angry tears bubbling up on the side of his eyes. “You have some nerve showing up here, Omen. I would recognise you anywhere.”
“What?” Kit asked, breathless. His voice coming out so broken, choked. The nurses grabbed Mentor’s wrists and pried him off of Kit.
“Kit, you have to go. I’m sorry.”
“I—”
“Kit, I know it’s very distressing but please.”
He didn’t even look for the nurse who asked him to go. He just left in a stupor.
“Monster! Monster! You’re letting him go! I’LL FIND YOU ONE DAY, OMEN!” Mentor screamed, his voice echoing down the hall all the way to Kit’s ears. Kit flinched at the horrid sound of it, too broken and crazed and angry. “MONSTER! MONSTER! YOU’RE LETTING HIM GO!”
Kit flinched as a hand hit his shoulder. “Oh sorry, Kit.”
Kit turned to face a nurse who had a sad, pitying smile on her face. He was a little numb to it, he didn’t even smile back. “I just want to say he does that with us all,” he said kindly. “He calls us all Omen, and I know it must be shocking to hear it.”
Kit cleared the lump in his throat. “How… uh, how is he?”
“His lucid moments are getting longer, stronger, he remembers more.”
“And these moments?”
The pity in the nurse’s eyes said it all. “Longer, stronger, he’s… well, you saw him.”
Kit nodded because he didn’t trust his voice to speak. He gestured to the door, and cleared his throat and the Nurse nodded. “Yeah, I’ll let you go. Just… just don’t ruminate on it, Kit. That’s not him, that’s not the Mentor you know.”
Yeah, Kit thought, and even his thoughts sounded heartbroken to his ears. I know.
That was the real cruelty of what Ambrose did to Mentor. He took away everything that was Mentor, that made him the number one Hero, a father figure, an older brother. Omen sucked all his goodness out and replaced it with his own sick poison to try and diminish Mentor to nothing but a raving lunatic that had to be locked in a psych ward for his own safety.
When he walked out into the fresh air, Kit threw up in the nearest bin because: that could have been him. Ambrose could any day decide that he’s bored of Kit and then melt his mind like he did to Mentor, he could do it with a simple thought. Destroy him…
No, the nurse was right. Mentor isn’t gone. He isn’t destroyed, Ambrose missed that part even though it’s probably what he wanted. The lucid Mentor Kit hugged and laughed with and grew up with, that was Mentor. Ambrose didn’t destroy Mentor, and he wouldn’t destroy Kit either.
Kit ditched the idea of going back to his shitty apartment where Ambrose was no doubt waiting for him, or possibly waiting for him which was worse.
Kit’s mind went back to the rules and he smirked.
You can’t move apartment.
Ambrose never said anything about moving back home. Technically, Kit wasn’t even moving. He had some clothes back home, he could just relax there for a while. Take a load off. He wasn’t moving anywhere.
He stopped into the shop to grab some groceries before taking the metro back to his real home. Kit and Mentor’s home. It was a nice house, not too big or too small.
Kit remembers when he saw it for the first time, he thought it was huge and too much. The lawn was perfectly mowed, Mentor telling Kit that they would need to plant some flowers or something to cheer it up a little. The hedges around the wall surrounding it made it feel so warm and cosy.
Now the grass was overgrown, the flowers dead, the hedges needed a good chop. Kit frowned as he stared at the house, the stone walls with their big windows that they would throw open in the summer. It was so strange that Mentor wasn’t here with him.
If he was he would rock up beside Kit and pat his back, tell him: “it just needs a bit of work and a bit of love.”
With the drab Autumn weather, the house had an eerie glow to it, like it knew Mentor wasn’t coming home too. That suited him fine, maybe Kit and the house could find some comfort in each other.
He opened the heavy wooden door, the sound of the familiar lock clacking open took, what felt like, a tonne weight off of Kit’s shoulders. It smelled the same way it always did, he couldn’t quite put a name to it, but it smelled like home.
The first thing he needed to do was put on the heat cause fuck it was cold in here. He deposited the groceries on the kitchen island and his keys before waking to the utility room and pressing the heat on.
Please have some heat, please have some heat.
With a click and a whirr the heat came on and Kit silently thanked Mentor and his need to over-prepare for everything, because what if it gets cold in summer. LBetter to have it than want it.
Kit put the groceries away, almost robotically. He wasn’t hungry so he didn’t eat. He clicked the kettle on and grabbed his favourite mug, plopping in four teaspoons of coffee. Then switched the kettle off and left his mug on the countertop.
He turned, crossed his arms over his chest and leaned his lower back against the counter, worrying his bottom lip.
He didn’t really want to do anything.
He didn’t remember what it was like to want something.
Well… he did, he just didn’t— he had wanted to not be in pain. He wanted to not be around Ambrose, but after that? He kind of forgot what it was like to have a life of his own. What it was like to live before Ambrose had taken him and tortured him.
He—
He rolled his eyes and let out an audible, frustrated groan. He should go to bed, or, catch up on all the sports he missed. At least then when he saw Mentor again he would be able to tell him about the most recent updates instead of months old information.
Kit walked to the living room and settled down into his favourite seat on the sofa, fighting everything in him not to glance over to Mentor’s empty seat. It’s not like ignoring the seat made him feel any better, he still had that aching, gnawing in his chest that made everything feel a little wrong. A little off.
His phone buzzed in his pocket while he was flipping mindlessly through the sports channels, none of the programs catching his interest or attention at all. Did he really used to watch TV for fun? He could always look up the results or whatever, but it wasn’t really the same. He pulled out his phone, and stared down at the lock screen.
A text from Ambrose lit up the screen. Two simple words, that filled Kit with an unreasonable amount of anger. It hadn’t even been a day yet without the bastard there to torment him. He couldn’t even go a day without gloating.
Ambrose: Miss me yet? :)
Kit turned his phone off. It was dramatic, but it made him feel a little better. As if Kit was the one in control and not the other way around. Kit sighed and threw the phone onto the couch, leaving it there as he turned on off the TV and stood.
Today was just… too much of everything and anything and maybe, just maybe, if he slept tomorrow when he woke up he’d feel a little less like a zombie. A little more human. The idea pushed him towards his bedroom, ascending the stairs with heavy feet.
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WARNING: Psychiatric Ward
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This visit was long, long overdue. Tempest Shadow was finally going to introduce her mother to her family, to reunite with her herself after all these years. She should have been thrilled to see her mother. Why was she so scared?
As she led her wife and daughter into the ward, she began to realize why Snowcone was so terrified of going in. The atmosphere was cold and bright, a stale sanitary scent hanging in the air. The toothpaste-green walls and stark lack of decor made for an unsettlingly open environment, yet somehow also claustrophobic. It made her stomach turn.
She couldn’t imagine being here even a day. And this was where her mother had been for decades?
Tempest gave the receptionist her mother’s forms and arranged the visit all with a dry mouth, her mind elsewhere the whole time. Her time in the waiting room was only a few minutes but it felt like hours.
What was this going to be like? Would her mother even be the same? Would it be worth it for Snowcone? For Tempest herself?
An assistant finally poked her head out of a door, calling out a name.
“Queen Consort Tempest Shadow?”
“Here.”
Tempest croaked out, motioning for Snowcone to follow her. She looked over to her wife for reassurance.
“I’ll wait out here. Give you some time.”
Twilight brushed her wings over both of them comfortingly, whispering words of encouragement as she sent them off after the assistant.
They were led down a few halls, each one as cold and soulless as the last. Snowy pressed herself up against her mother in fear, but Tempest was scared too.
Then they entered a cafeteria. It was big and cold, populated by ward staff and patients but none of their faces registered to Tempest as she scanned the room.
Then she saw her.
Snowcone was so terrified of this place that even though her mothers had promised she wasn't going to stay here, she had a paranoid fear at the back of her mind.
That this place would envelop her into it. That she would end up cold and dull and a shell of herself too.
She really did want to meet her Nana, she swore up and down that she did.
But when Snowcone laid her eyes on her, her stomach dropped.
Raspberry Sorbet was sitting alone, drawing invisible circles on the table with her hooves.
It was clear she was just as nervous as they were but there was a ghostly pallor about her, a layer of separation that made her seem almost non-equine.
She looked up and saw them, all three mares making eye contact. She was the first to croak.
"FizzyBerry? My baby filly? Is that you little one?"
Tempest’s stomach dropped too upon seeing her, she actually knew her mother and she could tell that she was barely herself. She was older, grayer, more distant. But hearing her old nickname uttered again was all she needed to know her mother was still there.
A lump instantly formed in her throat as she responded.
“Y-yes Mom, it’s me.”
She gestured towards Snowcone.
“And this is my daughter, Snowcone Syrup. Your...granddaughter. I thought...you two should meet.”
She tried to be formal in her introductions without letting her own feelings get in the way.
Snowcone smiled a bit as she heard what could only be her mother’s childhood nickname. It was a genuine, non-forced smile.
She wasn't dumb, she was scared but she had eyes.
A frightened mare with a broken filly in her heart and an old horse who was clearly not herself didn't need a stubborn filly on top of all of it.
Raspberry noticed this and looked around, almost like she would get in trouble for...whatever she was planning.
She pulled Snowcone in like she had seen her every day since the day she was born and kissed the top of her head. Her movements were as slow as a sloth.
"An earth pony like her Nana Raz, so beautiful. Like a blueberry pie!”
Snowcone looked to Tempest with a look of embarrassment on her face but she leaned into the hug.
"Mother has really missed you Nana..."
“I really have.”
Tempest affirmed, honestly and truthfully, a million memories of a motherless childhood coming back to her. The lump in her throat grew even bigger.
“There hasn’t been a day where I didn’t think of you. Where I didn’t wonder what had become of you. All these years I thought you were gone...completely gone.”
Tears welled up in her eyes, which she tried desperately to hide by tilting her face upwards. But her shaking voice gave her away.
“I only found out...you were here...after Father died. That was a few years ago. I was too cowardly to visit, to see what he did to you. It’s one of the many, many things I will forever regret, and I...”
She couldn’t take it anymore, a flood of sobs escaped her as she crumbled into her mother’s lap.
“I’m so sorry!”
She gripped onto her desperately as she cried, like if she let go she’d lose her again.
Snowcone stepped back, backing up far enough to give them space but close enough for her to still hear.
Raz watched her walk back like she was the most beautiful thing in Equestria. She had done something good. Two things. And they were right here.
Her expression changed from a smile to one of contemplation as her Fizzy began to approach.
She had never spoken to Raz like this. What did she mean by “completely gone,” what had happened? Why was Fizzy so...shaken?
HIM.
Everything clicked into place when she mentioned her father. He told her she was dead. That sick old stallion wasn't right in the head. He had done this to all of them.
"Fizzlepop Berrytwist, you shut your mouth!"
She snapped, but realized how that came across as soon as it left her lips. So she continued.
"You are not a coward. No Berrytwist has ever been a coward. You were a little filly, you couldn't have known. This will never be your fault. I would die a thousand deaths before I ever let somepony make you feel that way again."
Raz held onto Tempest even harder, soon joined by Snowcone who had fallen into shambles. The three of them cried together, as they did gentle sparks emitted from Tempest’s horn. Sparkles seemed to come from Raz and Snowcone too though it was anypony’s guess how.
Nopony, no stallion, was ever going to come between them again.
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