WHEN THE RAIN STOPS- Scrutinized [TANNER x LUNA] 2 IN 1

You Should Get Some Rest...

|LUNA|

Finally. I was in bed.

After disinfecting a wound you would think I would be fine but no. I was in agony. Not too much to where I'm screaming and groaning in pain but enough to the point where it feels like a really bad cold. That's when I heard the door knob twist and footsteps come in. Then laughter. I shot up and stumbled over to the door. When I peaked out the door crack I found Doc, Leslie, Liam and...

He closed the door behind him and I limped my way over to them. All the way down the stairs and to the kitchen. They all acted like nothing had happened. Like they were gone at all, like.. I hadn't just suffered in isolation with no one. I felt crazy. Was it real? Or was it all just a bad dream? Either way my worries came to a close when Tanner came over to me and knelt down. He reached his hand to my cheek and I couldn't help but freeze. "Why Luna. You look flushed! What's the matter?" His hands were cold but I couldn't speak. I couldn't move. I couldn't distinguish-. "Hphm." Out of the blue Tanner wadded up a chunk of my hair and dragged me to the basement door under the stairs. "Tanner! That hurts!" "Shut up you big baby." He flung open the door and threw me down the stairs. I tried to catch his arm to lift myself up but I missed and fumbled all the way down the cold and metal stairs. He threw me a box of matches and left with a slam of the door. The next thing I heard was the lock on the door slam shut. I gulped and took it all in before getting to my feet. Luckily the shock was enough to put my wound in a numb state. Tanner never really did it this rough so I was still a little shooken up while I looked for a light source. Soon enough my hand roamed to a candle. I felt paper on it so I quickly lit it and read the note near the flame. 'Be careful hun. Wouldn't want you to catch on fire and set a flame the house. That would be awful to clean. Let alone a horrible smell. ~Your favorite Person... Tanner 🤍'

I rolled my eyes and carried the candle to look around the basement. Come to think of it I hadn't really looked down here. Or been at all; so it's safe to say I was blind. I waved the candle light around for a few second before I felt a sting. I groaned and lifted my hand to find that the hot and fresh wax was dripping all over my finger. It burnt and the smell was horrific. "I guess this is why Tanner gave me that warning." I told myself while I pushed on. It was an empty room but I guess I was looking for a key of some sorts. "I gotta hurry up and do this quickly for that I don't catch fire. With the wax I'm that more flammable." I kept looking for something, just something that was out of place or that would give me hope that I could get out of this cold and nasty room. My search led me to a rust and bloody door in the corner of the room. With another goddamn sticky note. ' Now.. don't judge me. But what could I say? They were pretty... just like you..~ Tanner 🤍' I crumpled up the Note and threw it to the floor. "Whatever that creep was suggesting is going to be disgusting." I took in some air and prepared myself. Hyping myself up to go in. "Ok! Ok.. you got this." I went to the door handle and opened the creaky, dirty and awful smelling door that led to another awful smelling room. It was dark and more rancid than anything I've ever smelt before. I covered my nose with my elbow and took a step in. It made a wet sound while I walked and there was a dripping water sound. One drop.. two drop... three than four and more. It made me more on edge but I didn't want to look up. God knows what I might find if I looked up. That's when something dropped from the ceiling. The chains clanked when the object dropped. Almost like meat hooks in a pig farm. "JEEZUS!" I yelled when I stepped back. Luckily my grip only slipped a little on the candles base. Not enough to catch me on fire but enough to burn my hand bad. I groaned and took a second to recover. Afterwards I took the candle and lifted it to find... a woman's body.

Her eyeballs were missing and chunks of her hair were completely gone. She was beat with a bruise around her neck and bite marks on her chest. Not light bite marks might I add. But harsh and animalistic bite marks. At that same moment I got the overwhelming urge to throw up. It was an horrible sight and I had to get rid of my reaction. So I ended up throwing up on the floor. I idiotically threw my head back to catch my breath and saw more body's hanging from their feet. All woman, and all disgustingly murdered. I threw up again in the same spot, before getting up and leaving the hellish meat locker. I didn't notice before but it I had been stepping in old and wrinkled up organs. That's why it smelt familiar and not at the same time. I had smelt dead bodies before, at work, but never in that amount or age. Once I reached the other end of the room. I yanked the post it note off and read it quickly. I just wanted to get out of the room.

'I told you! Keep it up and you'll be next.' I crumpled it again and darted to the next and final room. I knew it was the final one, because it had a sellar door. So I looked around and made contact with the wall before feeling a light switch. I was relieved and went to flick it on when I felt something was off. Very off. I put my hand back down and continued to look around. The search would've left me empty handed if I hadn't found the final note. This time, the note wasn't for me. But rather a mental note for Tanner himself.. ' date ideas? No, that's boring... what if she gets tired of reading?! Then she'll leave me! I gotta find other things.' Tanner wasn't the type to show his pain but I felt like he had anxiety over me. Nothing too obvious, but he did want me to stay with him all the time and that was enough to set off some bells. I went to leave the crate with the note inside when something from a table fell. It pressed play on something and a recording played. "Luna has been showing progress. There's less blood loss as time goes by but... it's been a week and I can't keep her alive for much longer. There's still no sign of her regaining consciousness but, hopes are that she'll be up but the ti-." It glitched and kept glitching so I could t really decipher what it was trying to say. I got spooked by the creepy sound of it replying over and over so I just turned it off and got back to my task. I kept looking high and low but couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. Just wood, chemicals, candles, a lab coat, viles of liquid, and other random stuff. Something did cheer me up though. A picture of me on Tanners desk. I smiled and with my new clam feeling in hand, I went over to the light switch to flick it on.

It took a second before I smelt burning. It wasn't the candle so... I blew out the candle and let the new lights guide me around the room. The wax from the candle was still burnt on pretty tight, it didn't give me a chance to unstick it from my hand as it would take some skin off for sure. I put the candle with the others and took another look around. I was fiddling with stuff on Tanners desk when I looked up to the wall where the light switch was held. On there it plainly said. 'I left you... :)' for a second I thought he left me a clue but the burning smell became more and more obvious by the second. Soon filling up the room with fire and smoke. I turned to the wall again to find another message. 'Love... Tanner.' The flames consumed my body and it burnt like all hell was out to get me. 'That cocky son of a bitch.' I coughed and coughed to the smoke and tried extinguishing myself but it was no use..

I sat up with a gasp. "It was a dream?..." I looked at my hands and spread my fingers apart to stretch. "What was a dream Luna?" Doc asked from a chair in the corner. "Doc?!" I shot up and almost ran to her, only to be stopped with a trip on the hard wood floor. "Be carful Luna, you're still recovering." She helped me up and explained everything. Well everything but the reason they left. Apparently while I was asleep they kept me under a medically induced coma to keep me safe. I was out for half a week and was doing all right. They came back the night I had the surgery, given at a later time, but still they all came back. Tanner even gave me a kiss when he found me, according to Doc. Drove Leslie crazy. "I didn't know a woman could have such strength when she was mad but god! Was it amazing to watch her chop wood while angered. Great study material." Doc bit her lip who's she continued. "Liam has been waiting for you to wake up but has also been keeping your garden safe with Tanner at nights. Gotta say I love the fact that the roses are blue and not the traditional red. Makes you just that much more interesting Ms. Youngman. I wonder why you chose such color." I giggled "I just like the color doc, besides I didn't get much choice."

She smiled and 'Hm'd!' While she dug her purse to find a Not pad. "So.. would you like to tell me about your dream? I'm very curious." She jotted my name down and kept speaking. "You twitched a lot while you slept and made disgusted faces too. So I wonder..." she began to be creepy again when she grabbed the side of my face near my eye and spoke. "What's going on in that beautiful and screwed up brain of yours?!"