mayfield_rpg | Third Horror: It was bound to happen sooner or later

[Carrie like others, heard about breaking the town and while she wasn't affected it seemed like something you should help out in. She could use it as a way to practise with her powers too. She hadn't really done much with that anyway.

And the best place to destroy?]

[Action: The High School: Carrie stands still in the middle of the school parking lot. Maybe this isn't such a good idea...after all there might be people still in it. Sometimes drones came....

As though on call she hears drones on the other side of the parking lot. A group of jocks are kicking a drone nerd who is on the ground.

She narrows her eyes and walks over. This time. This time she can help....]

Leave him alone.

"Get lost freak."

I said....leave him alone! Now!

[They turn on her. The nerd not even stopping as he get's up and runs away. Leaving her there with the three large teens.]

"That an order?"

[One of them pushes her to the ground and the other drones just laugh. And Carrie's blood boils, as memories of being horribly treated her entire life come back. She slowly get's up and glares.]

"Oh look, she's mad now. What are you going to do-"

[He doesn't get to finish as suddenly he's slammed backwards by an unseen force into the fence behind him. Carrie's head snaps to the side as she looks at the other two...or where they were. They ran away the moment their leader was thrown backwards. Carrie turns back to where he is in the fence. She crumples the metal fence around him as though it were tinfoil but turns back to the school. Now...now she was in the right mood.]

[A. Witness Carrie's attack on the bullies? See what she's going to do next?

B. Carrie is now in the mood to destroy...the high school is burning. Electical wiring is being broken and Carrie watching the building burn from the side walk.

C. Around town. There is a girl walking down the street. Street lights break as she goes by them. Cars smash. Windows shatter. She looks high strung and is walking stiffly as the path of destruction follows her down the street.]

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[Carrie trembles and for a moment it seems like she might break or send something flying towards Fate.

But slowly recognition starts to seep into her eyes. She's not back home, this is not her final night of destruction.

She slowly unstiffens her body and her breathing returns to normal, heart rate slowing as she lets go of her power's grasp on the world around her.

What was she doing? Help....she just]

....I just...wanted to help.

That's good... we don't know whether this is really going to work or not, but we need all the help we can get. [She moves closer when she sees Carrie relax, until she's only a few steps away.] But you looked scared. Did something happen?

[She tenses up slightly, but it's the normal tensing of a scared girl. Not the out of her mind breaking things tense. She nods shakily.]

Tried to help someone. Drones. Picking on someone. He ran off. They tried to hurt me. Pushed me.

Stopped them. Can't hurt me now. Not again. Never again. No one can hurt me now. I can hurt them.

[If this had happened early on in Fate's stay at Mayfield, the phrase "I can hurt them" would have worried her. But as time went on, it got... harder, trying to sympathize with the drones. She would never be able to kill one herself, oh no, but they're almost like programs. They can only do so much.

So there was no angry flash in her eye, or disappointment, or anything. All she does is slowly - Carrie has more than enough time to move away of she wishes - reaches up to put her hands on the girl's shoulders, to provide some sort of comfort.]

They definitely won't be able to hurt you. I told you before, didn't I? There are plenty of people who will look out for you. I'll look out for you.

[Carrie just goes stiff.]

No. No you won't.

People say that. But they don't.

And if they don't, they trick you. And hurt you.

[As it's obvious enough, in Carrie's mind there is her and people who want to hurt her. That is all.]

[Fate sighs. It breaks her heart, seeing someone like this.]

I know how bad it feels, when someone you care about or trust hurts you, and I never, ever want to put someone through that. [There's determination in her voice, and not a single hint of betrayal or mischief in her eyes.] I swear to you, I will never hurt you. I know I can't make you trust me, but I have no reason to lie.

[Carrie looks at her. And seems to be thinking it over. This is a girl who has been betrayed by the world. But ...she sounds .....they sounded nice too....even...then....why...]

....why? Why won't you? Everyone else does.

No one has the right to hurt others. I want to help as many people as I can, however I can.... so that's why. I can tell you're a good person, Carrie, and you deserve to have someone looking out for you.

[There's a long pause and she shakes her head. Voice getting quieter]

....No. I'm not a good person.

... Why would you say that?

I killed people. Lots of people....

And Mamma always said I was evil.

[That comment about killing people is bad, but it's the second that pierces straight through Fate, and so she focuses on that.]

Why would your mother say something like that?

Mamma....is a religious woman.

[Just looking down and twisting her hands as it comes spilling out.]

She says...women are evil. And sinful. And because I can...make things move...I made the stones come when I was little. She says I'm a demon. And she'd lock me in my closet when I did anything wrong. Like think sinful thoughts or listen to music, or wear normal clothes.

Ever since I was little. She hates me. I'm evil.

[Fate is honestly speechless for a moment. She was abused as a child, and she's helped many other children who were in similar situations... but hearing stories like that never gets any easier, and the horror on her face is clear.]

I.... I'm so sorry. [This poor girl..] I know it's hard, because she's your mother... but you can't continue believing that, okay? You're not evil. And these powers... they're a gift. You can do so many good things with them.

[There's the problem of Carrie saying she's killed people, but.... that will be the topic of another day. There has to be a reason.]

I hurt people with them.....

I just....I just wanted to spray them with water....but then...the electrical wires....and he was dead. I felt him die when the bucket they dropped killed him...

[Carrie is starting to tear up, no, no she doesn't want to think of that. Not that night.]

It was all a joke for them. They pretended to like me. They lied and got me up there and then...and then....

Blood....so much blood. And they all laughed....they all laughed....and they'd been so nice and they all laughed....

[That look in her eyes? Plus the scene she just saw as Carrie walked numbly down the street destroying things in a rain of fire? That might just explain her killing people. Carrie is broken.]

[Between the look in her eyes and everything the girl has said, Fate can't take it anymore. She pulls Carrie into a hug - again, gently, so she can pull away if she wants to.

She can't think of anything to say to that - and who could, really? - so she's going to let the hug convey her feelings.]

[Carrie stiffens at first. But doesn't pull away. She's...not used to this. What is this. A ...hug? She just remains there. Tears falling down her face, she doesn't even realize she's crying as Fate hugs her.]

Third Horror: It was bound to happen sooner or later

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