thirty four ; suffocations

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THIRTY FOUR;

SUFFOCATIONS

The blonde's hands tightened around the fistful of sheet that she held, desperation to seek out anything that could tie her back to reality. Already, a sweat was breaking as she continued to toss and turn around in her bed. The window that the blonde had purposely left open continued to send a breeze into the room, but the temperature was a relief on the young teenager's body as her skin scorched in a fever. It was silent beyond the walls of her home, the only sound being the small whimpering coming from her mouth as she continued to plead out silent cries in her sleep. Nobody was there to comfort her, not where she was physically or mentally. The girl was completely alone as the blood running in her veins bubbled and a pressure lay so heavy on her chest that she felt like she was drowning.

Just a few moments after she began whimpering, it stopped and the loft was brought to a sickeningly shattered stillness. Nothing moved. Not the wind, that had been previously whipping so rapidly outside, and not the girl, that had been a previous wreck the longer she suffocated in her nightmare. Then, a piercing scream flooded through the home as the blonde girl began to rapidly toss around in her sheets, tangling herself deeper. Only when she moved too close to the edge of the bed, and only when her body had collided with the floor, did the blonde feel the weight lifting off her chest. The abrupt pain that the girl felt in her right shoulder had been enough to set her away, pulling her from the haunting torture that she had been in yet again.

A gasp fell from her lips the moment that she woke up with widened eyes, which had been followed by a small, fragile cry to escape her lips. It was another night, another night where the teenage girl found that attempting to sleep only brought more catastrophic images inside of her brain that staying awake did. It was another night where the blonde wanted nothing more than to be completely empty as she stared ahead, the image in front of her doing nothing to settle her accelerating heartbeat. Hands went into her tangled hair, rubbing the sides of her face as if it would block out the words that the silhouette was speaking to her while her eyes shut tightly to rid herself of the sight that plagued her every night for the past two weeks.

"Go away!" she cried out, pushing herself back with her feet until she hit the wall hard, gasping for oxygen that she was depriving herself of with how much panic she was in. The blazing fear that she had raging inside of her was something that she had grown used to, but never something that settled into a familiarity. "Get away from me!"

The most worrying part was not what she was screaming, nor was it the way she was acting, it was the fact that the blonde girl had been completely alone in that house. What she had been seeing was a figment of her own imagination, something that was being exposed by the darkest part of her heart. The only sounds came from the open windows directly by her head and the only sight was her own body coiled away from nothing. She didn't know that, of course, not when she could barely close her eyes without questioning what was sane and what was insane. Not without questioning whether she was sane or she was insane.

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Most people chase their shadow, desperately trying to grab onto the thing that would always remain behind us, but not Scott McCall. There was nothing that lay beyond his back that he wanted to know about, and nothing that he wanted to become. He was not chasing his shadow, but his shadow was chasing him. The shadow, so repulsive in all ways, reminded Scott of a year ago when the very same figure had been chasing him. It hadn't just been an illusion created by the sun, though, but a real thing and a real creature trailing after him and trying to capture him in its claws. What chased after him was not an alpha, but an abomination of one.

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