2020-07-22 - Kailey's Baby

Kailey doesn't scream and that says something. But she does pull away at the woman's touch. Her green eyes are wide and red. Snot and tears run down her face and she is flushed, looking a mess. "Wait...what...where," It takes a second and she blinks before saying loudly, "OooOOooooh FUCK ME!" And then gasps and leans forward around her belly, face pinching with another contraction. It makes her more pliable and the nurse gets her off the floor. "No no no," She tries to say through her pain. Panic making her lose all focus on relaxing as her body worked. "What ceremony? I'm supposed to be home."

For a second as Kailey is pulled along she wonders if this is a nightmare. Did she black out puking and is having some sort of weird labor dream? But no, it is too real, too there. And she has been to too many now to try and convince herself otherwise. The weight of her realization makes her groan as she looks around herself. Trying now to gain her bearings.

Milo is walking down one hall and the next he turns and is...in a completely different place? Whoa. Okay so he was new, but he didn't think he was THIS lost? Looking around a moment he sees the different lighting. Not just from a malfunctioning office light no this was different. Then, it clicks with him and the connection is made. Huh. Oh hey there is the flickering florescent light so at least something was the same here! When the nurse approaches him he lofts a brow, but doesn't say anything for the moment, following her. Curiosity. His dad was right...it IS a good thing he wasn't born a cat...or in a scary movie!

This is bad. Kailey realizes it and she begins to shake. More and more the hospital setting creeps in and she makes a soft sound in her throat. But she doesn't lose it. Not yet. "It's a girl," She finds herself saying in reply. The nurse's words filtering in and making sense slowly. Horrifyingly so and who wouldn't whimper. It doesn't make her soft and her hands cover the swell protectively.

First things first. Getting out. Which with the nurse fussing over her was going to be hard. And if mermaids and magical candy lands could exist, then so could demons and that made her blood run cold. Suddenly, "Can I get a warm blanket please?" She asks and lets the shiver into her voice. Maybe she can make a break for it when the nurse leaves?

Milo listens to the nurse while keeping his attention on the area around him as well. The more he knew about this dream, the more he could try and prevent...whatever was about to happen. Because nothing about this setting or scenario seemed promising. Then, the nurse's words bring him back to where he was being led. A brow furrows. The young man would then look to the nurse "Do you have the notes about the mother's condition and progress so far? What can we expect? Is there a team ready to assist with delivery?"

Kailey takes a deep breath and waits a second as the nurse leaves. Then she grabs the railings and pulls herself off the end of the bed. Feet hit the floor and she moves for the door as fast as she can. There is the whole problem with her body deciding to contract every minute right now. She gets to the door and peers out. Then realizes she has no idea which way the nurse went. So she darts for the hallway away from the sound of people...

Milo does laugh at the nurse's joke, both a humoring laugh and also a genuine laugh. She was nice and...it was funny, but still. None of this was reality. Or at least it wasn't his reality. He had to figure out how to stop this dream. So who all was involved in this dream with him? Was he alone? Why had he been pulled here and by who? There were so many questions. He had to figure out the answers if he was going to try and best navigate this dream. "You have been doing a good job taking care of everything. Thank you. Just so that I can make sure I am uninterrupted when it is most important...what security do we have set up?" He continues walking with the woman, acting like he was just fine and dandy with the idea of delivering the evil baby yoda. He's pretty sure that's almost what was happening here. "Who do we have where in here to ensure that the Dark Lord is fully protected?"

"Oh shit," It's a fair assessment of the situation. She sees the big man coming and dodges. I guess the silly games of chase she has played with a similar big lug for the past few months has paid off. An arm goes to grab her and she ducks back just in time. "Nope!" She says almost cheerfully. "I am going -HOME-," Of that she is firm about. "And no one, not even your Dark Lord, is gonna sto-" For a second she pauses and she teeth bare in a grimace of discomfort. She hunches forward even as she begins to step back. "Leave me alone," And her hand flares up in front of her as she attempts to send out a wave of Physical force to sweep the CNA off his feet into a faceplant on the linoleum.

"I am sure with all the focus being given to the preparations, there are a few people who's contributions have gone unnoticed." Hearing that the entire hospital seems to be prepared for this event...does not make him feel any better. Now there is a dagger involved!? You know that meme of the blinking blonde guy? Yeah. That would be Milo right now if he wasn't able to maintain his composure. Luckily, he was. At the nurse's next question Milo shakes his head. "Even if he is the Dark Lord, he will be and infant which will still have disadvantages. That is all I meant." Milo would turn his gaze in the direction of the stairs as he hears some kind of commotion. Whoever it is didn't sound happy. Right. Now he is closer to figuring out more of this dream. He looks to the nurse to see how she reacts to the sound.

"I do not consent!" Kailey shouts out as she backs towards what she hopes is an exit. Where are the stairs in this place? As more nurses appear she grimaces more and one hand goes to her stomach. She grunts in strain and sways. This is hard. Focus is hard. "Stay back. I just want to go home," She keeps the one hand up, palm out, as a warning.

The thing with Kailey is that she occasionally gets these wild ideas that might help her out. She also has an issue with just compulsively doing them. And in a time like this? Well, she's grasping at straws. It's easy to gasp convincingly and her eyes go back behind the hospital staff. "DARK LORD!" She shouts as convincingly as she can even as she tries to weave her interpretation of Lucifer into a convincing illusion. All this through pain and panic. What a story this will make for the baby book.

Oh of course. How silly of him not to remember a decision he had no part of making! Right. He needed to get out of here...but right now it sounded like somebody else needed to get out of here more. When the nurse confirms his worry of who that commotion is coming from, he feels a knot in the pit of his stomach. What could he do though? He didn't have a way...wait. She had mentioned a sacred dagger. Did they have it or did he? A quick patting motion over himself helps him realize that the dagger is in his coat pocket. At least the dream had done something in his favor!

"Go make sure the room is ready. It sounds like there are others with her so I will go help them restrain her." If the nurse listens great, but if she doesn't Milo is still running ahead of her and towards the stairs and hopefully to soon meet up with Rosemary. That is what she is called until he knows her actual name. Heading to the stairs, the non doctor hopes he is in time to help. No. Not you, evil dream nurses.

A multi-hued portal opens, suddenly and without warning.
And through it, out ducks Everett. There's a brief smile on his face, which is immediately gone the moment he spies where he is. And then who is near him.

Milo.

Everett's upper lip pulls back with a snarl while the gigantic man makes a grab for Milo's chest to grab a handful of his top. "Where the *FUCKS my baby!?" the weightlifter growls, challenging the smaller man. His face beginning to turn red through anger. "I will murder everyone of you and wear your blood as colone until you give her to me."

They turn away from her. Taking their eyes off of her is what she wants. What she needed them to do. It means she can turn and run. The illusion doesn't say anything, but does narrow its eyes and look about at those kneeling. A little nod of approval at that. Finally a dark rumbling voice, "You may kiss my shoes, I suppose," And one foot shifts forwards towards the nurses meaningfully. Of course they're gonna find a whole lot of empty space when they do. But by that time...

Kailey hesitates a second. A familiar voice raging nearby makes her gasp. There is a glimmer of hope in her eyes. "Ev?" She murmers as she stops to look around and try to pinpoint him. "EEEVERETT!" She screams out his name. Why find him when he can find her? Just follow the bellow.

Well. He WOULD have gone to the stairs except there is suddenly somebody else here. Everett has to element of surprise for so many reasons and as Milo finds himself grabbed by the shirt by the other man. His baby?...Satan? No he knew this guy. Where did he know him from? Come on think think...Sweet Retreats! Ok at least that meant that Milo was no longer the only non dream person in this dream and by what the man asked that led young non doctor to assume that the woman he had heard scream was not a part of this dream either. Right now though he had to talk down a very angry, and rightfully so, weightlifter.

"I'm Milo. You're probably looking for the woman I heard yelling from the stairs. Please let go of my shirt and I can help you." PLEASE believe that Milo is telling you the truth and don't just assume he's an evil dream doctor. Look at him! He's not Doogie Howser! He's too young to be a doctor!

The curled lip turns into a low growl before Everett shakes Milo by the shirt; help rattle some of those answers about where Kailey might be out of him, watching the multi-hued lights from the portal reflect off the other man's glasses.

There's only one person that shrills like that.

Milo is temporarily forgotten as Everett's head snaps in the direction the sound appears to have come from, his long dark hair whipping around as the giant brute zeros in on the sound. "KAILEY!" he shouts and waits for half a second. Long enough then to let Milo's shirt go and takes a step in that direction only to stop and turn around. He points an accusatory finger at Milo and sweeps the finger past himself, "Show me. And hurry!" Only then does he try again, "KIKI! I GOT A WAY OUT!", unbeknownst to him, temporary.

Maya isn't really sure what she just walked into. Sure she decided to walk into a mysterious portal that Everett apparently had summoned somehow? Well it looks like here she is, and now there's Kailey and a bunch of nurses worshipping... the devil? Perhaps if she survives this encounter she will need to reveiw how she wound up in this mess, but suffice to say, her eyes are wide and she looks around with a wild eyed stare. "Oh God, what am I doing?" she wonders aloud. "Is... is she here?" she shouts. Where's Everett?

There is a scream of pain. Kailey falls back as the doctor manages to cut her left hand. There is also an odd thing that happens in a time like this that Kailey has no control over. But is probably thankful for. The surging adrenaline has, for the moment, slowed down her contractions immensely. At least those old animal genes are still good for something. Falling back she craddles the hand against her chest. Instinct has her flinging up a protective shielf between herself and...the angry masses. "EVERETT! HELP!" She screams again. Only it's both a scream of voice and a scream in mind. Those who have felt the touch of her mind before may feel it. Perhaps even across the veil. Panic gives power. Maybe hers will help Everett 'Hulk Out'?

The shaking doesn't do anything to help Milo figure out how to get them out of this mess, but luckily Everett is soon distracted. Unluckily, it is because the woman who sounded just scared before now sounded scared and in pain. If Everett were to doubt anything about Milo's involvement in all this, the genuine worry and urgency he had in hearing Kailey's scream would hopefully help. "I...it sounds like it's coming from this way!" That's all he knew and so he starts in the direction of where the screams are coming from.

Once he gets down the stairs and opens the door, he sees Kaiylee behind her shield and the nurses and doctors who are trying to hurt her. A quick glance around at possible projectiles has him choosing as his weapon of choice...a janitor's wheeling trashcan! The doctor who had first ran towards Kaiylee is now being attacked by the flying janitor's trashcan. Once Milo sees it works to knock him down, PLOT TWIST the non doctor is a traitor! Okay, so he was never in on this to begin with, but now he is pulling out his own ceremonial dagger and standing between the angry group of doctors/nurses and Kaiylee with her shield. "Ceremony is cancelled, cultists!"

Hearing the call for help, he hurries his pace towards his girl.
Feeling the touch of her in his head, Everett winces and when he recovers, squares his jaw while his expression clouds over with ferocity and hate. He doesn't even pause when they get to the door, and Milo opens it.

Seeing the scene head of him, Everett releases a snarl. His reddening face continues to darken while his eyes grow large. "Fuckers," he rumbles through his teeth. His green eyes dart around, looking at the crowd in the room, not liking the odds. And then he recalls something and his eyes shift to his side. Followed swiftly with his hands. He's done it once before, only this time, he grabs the man beside him by the shoulder and the small of the back, pulls his arms back, and throws.

Flinging Milo towards the crowd; Milo who looks just like one of these doctors. So he can't be a real person and that makes him expendable. It probably also makes time slow, arms flail and a beautiful song to play through the head while Milo flies from the door towards the pile of healthcare providers.

Up until this moment, Maya had managed to go 21 years without ever being attacked by anybody. It's the end of a streak that has her screaming out in a mixture of fear and pain, throwing her arms back and trying to dive out of the way, she manages to swerve out of the way of one of the nurses, while the second stabs her in the arm with the needle. Maya screams and tries to run back, and may well just have bolted from the room if she didn't also see Kailey and her attackers. "Kailey!" Maya screams. She can't just leave her in this place, but there are two nurses that seem determined to kill her. "Get out of my way!" Maya screams, moving then to punch them out of the way to try to get at Kailey, even while there are apparently men flying towards that crowd of nurses.

She is definitely going to need to review the choices she's made that led her to this moment.

From around the corner, Diana pads cautiously closer toward the ritual space. She's dressed in a hospital gown and paper slippers, and she looks both confused and concerned. She's not even bothering to be embarrassed about the whole 'gown that lets her ass hang out' thing. Instead, she blinks as she sees the nurse stab Maya, and then focuses on that area, and on the nurse in particular. Her fists tighten at her sides, and it's probably a good thing she's not the focus of any attention, because she's paying NO mind to anything around her. Whatever she's doing, it takes a great deal of concentration for her.

Kailey scrambles backwards as the doctor goes to slash at her again. Sparks and electricity is already beginning to flicker between her fingers when he is brained. The power fades and she turns in a hurry to pull herself standing. Thankfully grip bars on walls are pretty standard these days in hospital halls. And that is when she sees it. Bright and shiny red in front of her face. A fire alarm. She reaches out and pulls it quickly, sounding the alarm and maybe, just maybe, highlighting another escape route for the growing number of people.

As her name is called Kailey turns. First she sees the massive form that is Everett and she lets out a sound that is something between gasp and cry of relief. Raspy and weird. But he didn't call her name. A female voice did. And her eyes go to Maya and go wide. Without thinking she points at the woman accosting the waitress and electricity sparks to life and shoots out. Lets hope it's more than a static poke.

Poor Milo isn't really able to focus on anything else. One minute he has taken down a doctor and is preparing to stand against the rest of them...and the next minute he is being picked up by a rage blinded Everett "What are y-" but he doesn't have time to finish that question as he is just sailing through the air. Luckily, he is able to regain his awareness enough to take the blade he had been holding out in defense and put it out in front of him. Unfortunately for both Milo and the nurse, this results in him effectively stabbing her in the chest before they both are on the ground now. Standing up he looks down to the dead woman at his feet, dagger still in her chest and then looking to the blood on his 'doctor' coat and his hands.

"What the actual fuck, man!?" he turns around and stares at Everett. It's the non doctor's turn to have a moment of blind anger. "I am HELPING you!" Milo closes his eyes. This is just a dream. It's fine. He's fine. Focus. Taking a breath he removes his doctor's coat since it has blood on it now and is also getting him thrown into people. The next thing he knows he feels the slash of a scalpel, letting out a yell of pain in surprise and turning to attempt and defend against the nurses and doctors attacking him which results in a various cuts and slashes for him too. He then sees others entering the fight, who seem to be on their side. Or at least on the guy who threw him's side. Wait...what if this whole nightmares was him vs murder doctors AND vs this other group? No. Focus...that is how these dream situations get you.

Kailey says in her best game show host voice, "Congratulations Milo! You've just killed someone. -How- do you feel? "

With the horde of angry Satanists coming after him, and the one cussing him out on the floor, Everett takes a step into the room after flinging the man that showed him where Kailey was. Reasonable payment. He's enough time to find her attention and shout her name, his hostility waning now seeing the blood on her, "Kiki!"

Just then, he catches the wrist of a knife wielding Cultist, his other hand clutching the man back the throat and his momentary concern turns swiftly to loathing. "I'm going to skin you alive," he growls, his right lip curling, twitching, taking slow steps towards Kailey. With his hand holding the wrist, he gives it a sudden jerk to stab a doctor in the shoulder who thought he could catch Everett unawares, leaving the scalpel sticking out. "And wear your face as a mask," Everett adds while his choking hand tightens.

He waits only so long as the man takes to go limp before he's dropped, unobscuring his view of Kailey. Tossing the rag doll at the other men challenging him, Everett makes short work of the distance between him and the pregnant woman. Since she's unmolested at the moment, he assaults her, wrapping his tree trunk large arms around her and squeezing briefly, but as though he's trying to constrict the life out of her. When he pulls back, he points at his temple and the first romantic words he says to her after being reunited are: "Stay out of my fuckin' head."

Then. Then she gets an affectionate nuzzle.

Well through it all, Maya does her best to try to take down the nurses that are in her way, she manages to get a good hit on one of them with a hurling of her fist, but in truth she's not really much of a fighter. "GO!" Maya cries out again. She almost doesn't notice one of the nurses calming down suddenly, but another one going down in a fury of electric sparks causes her to jump back in surprise, Maya screams holding up her fists again before her attention is directed to the scream of nurse Rachel. The scream that comes from Maya's throat is bloodcurdling, she clasps her hands to her mouth and bolts across the room, all the other chaos forgotten as she looks to the still corpse of Rachel. "No!" she cries, already getting to her knees and moving to pick her up. "No no no no no no no, Rachel, no!"

The battle forgotten, Maya just sobs over the fallen woman, sobs wracking her before her eyes find Milo, the one that had plunged the dagger into her heart. Still crying she locks her eyes onto Milo. "How could you do this?! How? She was just mixed up in... in all this and you..." With an anguished sob she reaches out to him, pushing all of that anguish she feels into him.

To Diana's eyes, Milo doesn't seem like he's doing too hot right now, what with the fact that he's getting beaten up and all, so she focuses on one of the attacking nurses that are attempting to have his blood. Without a word or calling attention to herself she squints at the woman, attempting to send some bad luck in her general direction.

Kailey's eyes kind of bug out and her lips are parted as she watches the utter violence that Everett unleashes. She stays leaning against the wall and just watching it come towards her. Is that fear or awe in her otherwise pained face? Hard to say. But her arms wrap around him, clinging tightly, when his encircle her. "Ev," She sobs into his chest as the alarms begin to blare. "We need to find the exit!" She says desperately.

But even with that need she peers past him at the carnage. That is horror on her face. Yep. Then it snaps into indignation, "IT'S A GIRL!" She yells back at the doctor. Why did she do that? The look on her face says the moment her lips stop moving. A sob draws her attention downwards to where Maya cradles a dead body. Confusion is freely flowing, but that just makes her more prone to fling lightening without heed. This time right at the asshole who stabbed her int he first place.

Milo and Maya are in their own little world of unawareness to everything else going on right now. Maya because she's holding the dead love of her life in her arms. Milo...because he is processing the apparent reality that the person he thought he had just killed as part of this dream was in fact...an actual person...who was also in this dream? He had come into the dream in a doctor's uniform. Who is to say she hadn't come in a nurse's uniform. Everett had thrown him into the woman, but it was still Milo's hands on the blade from 'his' coat and it was his gut that dropped to his feet as he felt the force of his own emotion even before Maya added her own.

"No...she. We were...No. This is a dream. She was in the dream. The nurse out-" At that moment between Maya's grief stricken focused gaze on him and the added impact of her pushing her grief on him now, Milo takes a physical step back as if to try and escape the assault on his emotional and mental state right now. "I...I'm sorry...shit." A step forward. Maybe he could...no. The woman was dead and the last thing that Maya would want is him getting any closer, so again he steps back and puts a hand to his head without even realizing it is still covered in blood. "I'm sorry. I didn't...I swear I didn't know."

Over the blaring alarms, Everett hears nothing. Nothing except for Kailey sobbing into his broad chest. "I've already got an exit. I asked the Veil to open up for me and to find you; we just have to get back to it." He jerks his right hand over his shoulder; thumbing a vague direction he had come in while his left hand reaches down past Kailey's wrist to intertwine his fingers with hers. Ew, hand holding, gross.

He's not paying attention, not paying any attention at all and he ought to know better. But he's been out of his brain since her water fell, broke, popped? Whatever it's called, he ain't thinking right. So it's no surprise he gets stabbed from behind, the way a Satanic, Demon Worshipping Cult would do.

Hissing a breath between his teeth, Everett faces Kailey, his expression going surprised before it darkens and he turns around slowly. Turns around to look the Demon Doctor in the eyes while the Psycho CAN charges, and Everett takes the weapon from its upraised position and guides it into the Medical Professional's ear.

"I'm your Dark Lord now," he hisses through clenched teeth, keeping his eyes on the one that stabbed him.

"Oh God no..." Maya's tears return after she had lashed out at Milo, cradling the dead body of the love that she had kept secret from the world for far too long. "This can't be... this can't be happening... not after so long... no no no no..." Maya cries, ignoring the pleas of Milo, shaking her head even. The rest of the world, everything else around her, what does it all matter? She doesn't hear it, she doesn't want to hear it. The reason she had even been here in the first place is gone. "You shouldn't... she wouldn't do this... they were making her... she wouldn't do this..." Maya sobs again

"I... found you now. Now I can take you home..." There's a quiet determination, she lifts herself to her feet if she can, picking Rachel's body up with her to try to find a way out.

Diana's attention is drawn to poor Maya, and she frowns deeply, trying to understand what's even going on. Whiiiich... is right around when the CNA grabs her around the waist, starting to lift her up. She flails, aiming a punch at the CNA's stomach, but even she doesn't look like she expects it to do any good.

Kailey's mouth was open and everything. About to say something to Maya. A warning from the way her eyes were wide, hand turning from having electrified the doctor in a warding gesture. Instead the words turn into a drawn out and shrill whine that turns to gagging and spitting and flailing about. Nope. She's done. She's lost it a little bit now. All the oxytocin in the world is going to calm her shit now. "EWEWEWEWEW! gyak Oh god! It's in my mouth!" She spits on the floor and flips her shirt up to wipe at the gore on her face and in her mouth. Backing away she almost slips on the slick floor.

Hands go out and catch at Everett's shirt. There's a ripping sound, but he just casually catches her and pulls her close. "We need to get out of here!" Kailey yells loudly and begins to look around. There has to be an emergency exit sign or map somewhere nearby. And by all that is unholy in this place, she is going to find it and get the fuck out. "I'm DONE! We're done! Fucking fuckityFUCK." Yep, Kailey's done.

Milo is taken back as Rachel's eyes open and she starts talking again. However, the shock almost instantly turns to relief as he realizes...yes she is part of the dream. She is Maya's dream. While he was aware of this now, it didn't mean that it would be any easier for Maya to process and it also didn't change the fact that they needed to get out of here. Kailey and Everett's yells for needing to leave get his attention and he quickly rushes to Maya's side, hoping she doesn't attack him given she had just previously thought that he killed her non dead not even here anyways girlfriend. "It's part of the dream. We need to go. Are you hurt or can you walk?" He still has the wave of panic wearing off from everything that had happened, but right now they had to get out of here and he had to make sure she was okay too. Diana gets a look as her attacker runs off now to "Are you okay?" If everybody was okay they could leave. Because yeah this place was a definite NOPE!

When Rachel's eyes open, the blood practically drains from Maya's face, it's wrong, and she just knows that it must be wrong. That voice, the laughter. It's all so wrong, so... not her. Confused tears and blinks as she tries to figure out what is going on over here. That cold laugh and her cold speech, turns the tears into a wide eyed fear. "What the fuck..." Maya whispers, stepping back from the laughing corpse, wiping the blood from her face, looking like she might scream out all over again. She barely hears Kailey and finally... she pushes on, running past that laughing grinning form in the shape of her love. She follows Kailey out of the place.

God she's going to have so many questions later. Once she's recovered from the mental scars...

With a nod, Diana confirms to Milo, "I'm okay. Thank you." She has a concerned look on her face as she watches Maya, her eyes widening as the dead nurse comes back to 'life.' "Holy heck," she mutters slowly, and then runs after Maya, trying to be generally soothing with anything she says as they run on out.

For a moment longer, red-faced Everett watches the two remaining Satanic Sect members. And when one breaks and the other soon after, he turns his torso, to grimance at Kailey.

A thick clot, once gray, slides beneath a coating of blood, on his cheek before it falls and lands on the ground with a wet splat.
This is not the first time he wore someone else's gore. And it takes him a moment to snap free from the memory of a woman long ago. One he cared for. Heavy with child. Looking at him the way Kailey does now right before her face.
Her beautiful face.
Exploded.

Everett's nostrils flare, his breathing becomes rapid, with his lips open, trails of sticky blood pull before they break under the whine that bellows from his throat. A whimper. His brows knot and weakly he points across his chest to the door he and Milo arrived from. "That way," he says, quietly, under the sound of the triggered alarm.