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Naomi was startled by Jinx's shriek. She spun around and looked at the other girl. "What's wrong?! Why are you-" Naomi was cut short as she looked at herself in the mirror, hollow eyes watching her as she stepped toward the Jinxy. She kept watching the mirror as she pulled the girl to her. "Jinx... I don't like this..." She shuddered and sniffled as the Mirror World Naomi watched them along with the Mirror Jinx. "Let's go... Jinx." Naomi tugged the girl toward the bathroom door.

She was rooted to the spot and Nao was tugging at her and the girl-thing in the mirror smiled in an obscene, almost kind way. Jinx just kept shaking her head, the throbbing, itching pain getting worse and worse. Nao was behind her and the enemy, ’monster!’ in front and she couldn’t move because something held her in place. “N-na-nao... ’m scared.” She choked out hoarsely as the Mirror started rippling out from where her mirror self was pressing against it. The not-Jinx smiled again, almost gently now, and did something impossible. She pushed through the mirror and, fast as anything and more, grabbed her other by the shirt and pulled her, and Nao who was holding onto her, through the mirror.

Naomi had stopped tugging on Jinx and watched in horror as the alternate Jinx grabbed her little sister. Just as her instinct to fight kicked in, they were pulled through. It was as if she'd been plunged into ice water, but she wasn't wet. Shuddering, she looked about, what had happened? The mirror now showed the room they'd just come from, and there were no reflections. Turning about, she found that she and Jinx were alone. "But..." Naomi turned and went to the window-that-once-was-a-mirror and pressed on it, it was solid. "Jinxy... I'm scared too..." She turned an looked at her little sister. "Let's... go see if we can find a way back?"

Jinx lay shuddering on the floor. All her senses screaming as her mind tried to keep up. Going through the mirror had hurt! “W-way b-b-back. Ok-k-ay. Sure.” She gasped out, stuttering, as she gathered herself up and stood, instantly latching onto Nao’s arm for a quick comfort, before stepping away again and looking around the room. It looked exactly like the mirror room had before they got pulled in. Now she knew, too, why her red state of mind was so close under the blue ice. Everything in the room was a grimy, dirty reddish brown. Rust and blood, blood and gore. “Nao….We should be careful. I don’t like this place…it makes my head hurt.”

"Mine too, Jinxy. Gives me the creeps." She pulled the flashlight out of the backpack. This place was dark and dank, despite the faded light coming through the grimed over windows. She turned on the flashlight and looked at Jinx. "Want to carry the backpack?" She knew this might make the girl a little more happy, as it was red. "It might make you feel better." She grinned and held it out to her. She then turned and looked around the room. There was nothing here that could possibly be useful. "Well, shall we?" She looked at Jinx, then headed for the door. She wasn't going to stay in this creepy bathroom any longer.

Jinx trotted after her, red backpack bouncing on her back as she dogged Nao’s steps out the door. The hallway wasn’t any better than the bathroom. Here and there sections of wall sluicing outward and spilling into the hallway. A gurney or two blocking their path here and there. And blood. So much blood. Jinx would have hummed, completely pleased and comfortable, if it wasn’t for that awful, gnawing wrongness oozing from every inch of the place. Following her butterfly silently had apparently helped the woman concentrate though. They’d made it to the lobby, and boy what a celebrated thing that was. Jinx’s gray/sliver mind eyed the window and sneered at the general room. Picking up a piece of paper from the table, Jinx peered at it before remembering. Enx was still teaching her to read the weird language. She sighed and threw a glare at the paper before she turned to Nao with purple sparks in her mind. “I found something. It’s got pictures, but…” She colored faintly, “I can’t read it….”

"It's alright, Jinx. Let me see." Naomi took the piece of paper and looked it over. "It's a map! Jinxy, you're a goddess." Naomi hugged the girl. "I love you so much." She said excitedly. "Alright! Let's see..." The green eyed girl looked around for anything else, snatching a couple of bottles of water. She wasn't even going to ask why they were there on the shelf, she was just going to take them. "Ready?" The girl looked at her redheaded companion. "We've got a bit of traveling to do." She consulted the map, taking a marker from a partially rusted-through drawer and drawing a line where they would travel. "Let's get going." She held her hand out to Jinx and headed for the door. As they stepped out, Naomi noticed that the world was dark, yet there seemed to be an odd, ambient glow. It was industrial like, chain-link and metal plates. Blood and rust covered every possible surface. The hair on the back of Naomi's neck stood on end. "Stay close to me, Jinx." Naomi whispered. This was dangerous. This was like the worst of the asylums she'd seen. She walked forward until she saw something walking slowly towards them. "Is that a... dog?"

“DOGGY!” Jinx squealed happily and took off like a rocket towards the creature, fully intending to love it, pet it, and name it Fluffy. Glomping the strange thing, Jinx spent a good couple minutes happily nuzzling and petting the thing, until her bright, almost neon-pink, mind relaxed enough for the rest of the colors to mix in. At that point she realized that one half of the dog’s head was on the left side, licking her face. The other side though, she stiffened suddenly. The other side, ‘half?!’ of the dog’s head was bending to the right, lapping at her hand. Swallowing, Jinx rose slowly with a calm that would have made Enx so proud of her and, giving the… dog one last pat, she calmly turned her back on it and slowly walked away. Apparently the lack of light kept the thing calm, or it was as surprised to be glomped like that, as she was that a dog was even in this weird place. Either way, Jinx was a bare five steps away before the growling started. She made it another three before the thing barked and gave chase, sending Jinx running at top speed away from the thing. She was going so fast, heart pounding like mad, that she’d already passed Nao before even realizing it. “RUNAWAY!” She screamed, hoping the other woman would take the hint when she saw the dog.

Naomi was slowly making her way toward Jinx and the dog when Jinx came running back. With one look from Jinx to the "dog" she shrieked and ran after Jinx. "Get back in the hospital!" Naomi yelled after her as she ran. Dear gods, what was that thing?! She'd never, ever seen something like that ALIVE. "Go go go!" She yelled as she pushed Jinx in the door of the hospital. She slammed the door shut in behind them, and just in time, too. As soon as she leaned back against it she felt the slam of it running into the door. She pulled the bolt closed on the door and backed away. "There's no way I'm going back out that way. Let's find a floor plan of this place." Naomi said as she kept her eyes on the door. The dog continued to scratch and rattle it viciously. She shuddered. Definitely not going back out that way.

She leaned back against the door shuddering. Oh gods, that was just…"Sick. Ew. Cute, but sick." Jinx shuddered again. She was just about to emphasize on how disturbing that all was when she heard a faint staticky sound from the backpack. Frowning, she reached back to the small red beauty and retrieved the radio, it’s loud staticky screech sounding like waves. Confused she turned it off with a flick… and snarled as the sound continued. Then a low, familiar, mournful sound broken in staccato beats came from in front of her somewhere. It was like someone was suffocating while having their skin burned away. Very familiar. Swallowing, Jinx looked up and almost gave in to the urge to cry. “Fuck. Those poor women.”

Naomi turned around, her flashlight revealing nurses... or, what seemed to have been nurses. "Wh-what... what happened to them?" Naomi's eyes widened as she backed away. As she looked at them, she realized that in their hands they had weapons. "Jinx... we need to... ah... run away." She gestured frantically to one nurse with a knife in her hand. "We need to get away fast." The nurses walked toward them at a slow, but determined pace. "Or I have a feeling they're going to take their pain out on us."

"Who would do something like that? I-I thought things were different away from that place!” She gasped out. Just seeing the women left her in breathless agony. This one had the whole skin of her face warped and blackened, the other was slashed to badly it was hard to even think of her as human. On and on, her eyes took in each pain, each private hell. Until all her colors quavered and shuddered. The Nurses were so close now. Close enough for her to feel the residual heat from the burned ones. Then a slashed up nurse let out a loud, rattling moan. Leaning back suddenly and stabbing Jinx in the shoulder, almost falling over in doing so. Then, all the colors faded and Jinx stopped being Jinx. It was black now. Everything was black. The thing in It’s arms shuddered and moaned, trying to strike it again. It just shoved her away and slid to the side, picking up a chair and casually bringing it down on one of the Nurses until the thing stopped moving. It reached down and broke her neck, just to make sure. Then, It turned it’s cold, pale green eyes back on the others and saw everything. “Turn out the light.”

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