Coming Home ~

[Lilith]

!!!... Haaaaaah!

Air, fills her lungs, quickly - almost too rapidly to be accounted for. Her hair tangled and drawn over her face, she gasps out repeatedly. Drawing in all the air she can. The inaudible sound of voices in the distance call out to her.

... lith? Ca-- ear -- e?

Her eyes slam shut, squeezing tightly. Her chest heavy, so heavy. Her limbs, almost coated in lead. A final gasp before she snaps her body upright. Pain, every fiber. Every limb, existence itself.

... HHaaaaaaaaaaaa.....

Lilith! Can you hear me?

Her eyes snap open. She slowly, drags her arm up, wincing the whole way of such a long trek, she sweeps her hair back. Her vision blurry, intangible, hard to focus. Her name.. called? Squinting... pain..

.....

The memory, comes, back.

MELWASUL!! MELWASUL!!!!

The screams, the cries of agony, her fists tightening, her arms almost on the verge of bleeding from the muscle tensing she'd put them under in the last thirty seconds. Her body thrashes in the bed, no avail. There was more emotion than strength. Her mind jumping from time and space, flashes of her last memories. Skin, flesh glimpsed. Sweating and pleasure -- incomparable pain and suffering would soon follow. She grinds her teeth, blood forming in her mouth. Her jaw tight with hurt, tight with sorrow. Tears flowing, from memories or physical pain, she wasn't sure of. The voice perks back in, disrupting her personal agony.

Calm down-

ENOUGH OF THIS! Silence, Lilith!

A second voice booms overhead. She looks ahead, the sight of Katja at her bedside, and Cammy... glaring down from the foo of it.

.... Where am I.

Reality was too far off to sink into, she needed grounding, facts. Facts she could change, effect. Something, she needed SOMETHING she had control over.

... You're in the-

You're 'home'. We dragged you out before your dear friend could finish the job. You sure do pick the nice psychotic ones to sleep with sister dear.

.....

Katja overshadowed again. Lilith was enjoying that. It seemed she and Cammy had saved Lilith's life, that's super. Still didn't gloss over the fact that these two bitches were evil incarnate. She struggles to lift her body, impossible. It felt like she was covered in dense gravity, a chamber, some sort of pulling. Her body felt so..

'Weak'.

... I was looking for a better word.

You can look all you want, it won't come to you. You've been in a coma for months now. Your body has atrophied, your muscles are weakened. And your system hasn't had any intake of the Vir-

!!! What, your sister is trying to say... Is you need to take things slow.

... Did you just cut me off?

--Do you REALLY think it's-

A loud bang is heard through out the room. Lilith had mustered up all of the strength she could allow, and slammed her left hand down against the bedside table. Her head hung low, she breathes in and out slowly, panting, angry. A small chuckle leaves her...

Figures.

... Virus..

......

She didn't even have to look up, to know Katja was looking down. Lilith grinds her teeth some more, more fluid fills her cheeks. Slowly trailing down from her lips. She stares at the tiny droplets as they hit the bedsheets covering her. A small spark of a grin forms on her face as she examines them closely...

Black. Black droplets of Blood.
...
Indeed.

... It was never a drug, you gave me.....

.....

Congratulations! I'm nothing short of impressed, you managed to form cognitive thought process's so quickly after your 'rebirth'. I knew there was a reason I could call you 'sister'.

... Cammy.. ?

Mmmm?

..... Run.

.. Oh nononono--Lil-

Oh? Oh this should be cute. Wait, wait.

Lilith's head, remains hung low. She brushed off the concern within Katja's voice. But she knew, the mini-Russian could foresee the outcome. She always was perceptive. The sound of her 'sister' and her somehow egotistical sounding footsteps, rounds the right side of her bed. Lilith takes in a long, harsh, deep breath.

You threaten me, in this state? In your condition? You realize that Virus is the only reason you're still alive? Your fuck-buddy Melwasul left you in a BURNING BUILDING, LIL! You think you were gonna pull a Superman and hop out the window, or go all Hulk on the door frame?! You should be THANKFUL!! You helped make it, but -I-...

-I- fucking PERFECTED IT! This is the closest we will EVER COME to reproducing The Go-

--!!!

The soft, but not silent, sound of Katja's gasp sounded quite cute to Lilith, if she was in a state to admit it. But currently? Currently she was busy. What with, her right hand, currently around Cammy's throat. In a matter of seconds, Lilith had lunged, off the bed. And onto Cammy. Like a parasite, a leech. She now straddled her 'sister', the cold floor beneath them beckoning. Hair, draped down over Lilith's face. Her nails scraping against the seemingly delicate neck of Cammy.. Amesley.

--!!.. Kat--... Jaaahhhh..

Li- Lilith! Stop, stop it you'll-

Her left hand snaps up, her finger outstretched in the direction of Katja's shakey little voice. Lilith stares down at the human, the HUMAN, LIFE, in her hands....
.....

.. I see now. This is what it feels like... you always wanted this feeling didn't you, Cammy?... That's why you worked so hard, for Alexander. Why you perpetrated so much evil... how you let him taint you, your body and mind...

... ---!!..

... You wanted to feel like God. Not an imitation... I understand it now, my dear... sweet... 'Sister'.

Li- Lilith! Don't do this! This isn't something you can-

SI-LENCE!

The booming sound cracks in the room. Blood trickles down from Lilith's bottom lip, hitting Cammy's neck. Almost dressing it. She stares down, her hand firmly clamped. No longer tightening, simply keeping the pressure as a constant. She smiles, oh so slowly, but surely.

... This, is what a -true- God-Complex feels like. Money... Fame.. My name in lights, in a ring, in the pages of a magazine spread....

That's nothing.
...
Nothing, compared to controlling another's life.

...

Nothing compared to being a -'God'-.

--!!!! Li--.... Ith!..

Lilith STOP!!!!

A soft whisper leaves her lips, she leans down, her tongue lapping at the blood fallen against her sisters neck. A hush, an escape.

.... Want me to prove it?

!!!!!


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~ To Be Continued ~

[Lilith]

Looking back on it now... I never should have entered that room.

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+3 Hours Later+


Yes, if you would... ?

Lilith outstretches her hand, prodding Katja for what she wanted. Several hours had passed since her awakening. And for what it's worth, she SADLY let Cammy live. That was hard, the urge to crush her sister's throat was high. But, that's for another time. The Mini-Russian had time to recover, but she was still visibly shaken. Lilith enjoyed that. Truth be told, she hadn't felt this innately cruel in a while, it was....

Nice.

... Uhm.. I-I guess it won't hur-

Before the little one can choke out a response, Lilith reaches forward and snatches the files from her former assistant's hands. She opens the folder slowly and begins reading under her breath. It seemed she'd been 'out' for a while. And she was MOST CURIOUS as to what happened to her dear -Lover Girl- in said time frame. After all, she was suuuuch a gracious host to Lilith. She was hoping to find some information that would allow her to re-pay said hospitality.
Sadly the information currently being viewed upon was less than ideal for a situation such as the one envisioned within Lilith's now vapidly darkening mind.

......

So... if that's all.. uhm, I'm going to go check on Ms. Ames-

Her NAME... is Cammy.

.. Look I... I know you're not in the best way right now Lil-

She turns around sharply. Her hair almost fluttering past her face. Her eyes glaring forward, sharpened, like a knife. Her jaw tensing, her cheeks sucking in air in a small harsh whisper. The sound of the heels adorning her feet click, slowly. The long coat drapes down against the cold tile, sweeping across it like a never ending hand against the sands of time. Her lips part softly for a moment as she notices the girl's gaze quickly falling from her face down to the floor. Lilith's fingers squeeze around the folder, her chest heaving forth. The Silver embossed Snow-White vest, stretching it's material against the pressure... The weight, of Lilith's breathing. Long slender Leather hugs her legs, her hips, all of her form. Matching it's cue in highlighted Silver... and Pure, White.

.... I-.. Didn't mean-

You're scared of me. So visible... so tangible... I'd say I could smell it, but that's not right now is it?... No.... no;

I can taste it.

.....

The air around you, in this room. It's... tainted, with Fear... Desperation....
It amuses me.

You turned on me, sold me down the river.... Lied to me from the beginning, played me like a child.... Yet now, you're standing in front of me...

Mere inches from Katja, Lilith stops her 'assault' by merely walking in the direction of the poor girl. She smiles coyly before forcibly lifting Katja's chin with her fingers.

... ! Li-

And.. it's not me, who you see... is it?

.... What could you p-possib-ly... mean..

Lilith smiles widely before softly pecking Katja's trembling lips with a gentle kiss. She lets the girl's face go before browsing back over the folder. Things had been going.... -Good- for Lessien in Lilith's absence. But then again, this was something Lilith had always known. It was a generalized fact in the storied... 'Relationship' of Lilith and Lessien. The two could not co-exist in the same time and space for too long. It was like having two Super Novas occupying the same stretch of Space. Something was going to give;

One of them was going to explode.

Thanks for the information, Katja. You give my best to Cammy yes? Of course you will. I'll 'be seeing you' later.

......

Lilith doesn't bother her gaze with Katja's image anymore. She exits the room, beginning the walk down the corridor. People passing by her. She restrained the urge to bury them all where they stood. Nothing but lackeys for Alexander. She was starting to wonder why she ever put up with Bloodworks and it's facilities. From the looks of things in recent events....

She could run this all FAR better on her own.

She was, naught but ten feet from the exit of the first floor. Ten feet. Ten feet.

That will always haunt me... From now until... Well....

She saw it out of the corner of her eye. Another elevator. A freight elevator, smaller in scale than the freights seen through out the Bloodworks Tower in general. She stops for a moment, softly shutting the folder in her grasp. She'd... Never seen, that one before. Lilith looks around for a moment before slipping by passers-on. She stands before it, it wasn't even the right color. The elevators through out this B.W. Tower, through out all of them as far as she knew, was always coded'

Silver for General Use.
Bronzed for Staff Accommodations.
White for Council Level Authority.

... But it's Black.

The words softly slip from her lips. Curiosity, it kills felines. Lilith was alright with felines being killed in her absence. Better an animal than herself. So really, why fear curiosity? Lilith attempts to press the... Only, button on the controls. A small panel opens up deftly, a glowing Deep Blue prompt for a fingerprint. Shit. Lilith sighs, her head hung low, she lets herself think of what could have been as she gently leans against the doors-

Access Granted.

!!! What-

-- Welcome back, Director Creighton.

....- The fu...

The doors open swiftly. Lilith's mind stops. She'd never been given the title of a Director on any given project when she worked in Bloodworks. But alas... Curiosity, thou art a Heartless bitch. Lilith slips in quickly, the doors shut tightly behind her. And the ride begins. Many thoughts blur her mind during it... But nothing.... Nothing... Could have...

..... From now, until the Sun burns out....

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+Basement Level N.3+

......

She'd never seen this room, she'd never knew something like this could exist. It was dark, but vast. It almost seemed like it stretched on forever. There was... some sort of light in what she'd guess was 'The Middle' of the room. But some part of her mind was trying to push that out of her vision. She almost didn't -want- to approach it. So she wasted time, looked around at various devices. Lab equipment, various spreed-sheets that made... Little to no sense. Lilith was an intelligent Woman, she helped create a Virus that's entire purpose was to infect and force a stage of Evolution upon Mankind. That being said;

... What is all of this..

......... Haaaah...

!!!

Lilith jumps back, the folder on Lessien, the files she'd picked up in the room, both fall from her hands. A sound, a very soft, almost inaudible sound. But it was a sound, and sure as hell wasn't Lilith. But... she -knew-, where it came from. She slowly... turns around, looking back in the direction of the light. Her footsteps, so soft in her approach, no echo. She was hesitant, but prepared to fight. Just in case.

No... No.. I wasn't prepared.... Not for... That.

!!!!!Huuh!

Lilith let's in a large gasp as she sucks in air from around her. In the 'center' of the room. A Woman. A Woman suspended, twenty feet above the ground. Naked. Chains... Chains everywhere. A chain around the Woman's neck, a chain around each of her wrists. One clasping around both of the Woman's ankles. And what could best be described as a 'Ring' of them around the Woman's midsection. All, pulled tight, taught, in different directions. They, the chains... Were suspending this Woman. Lilith's hands were firmly against her mouth. The Fear. The Fear. From when she was a child, it was instilled unto her. Every day, it was present in her mind. Darkened as it was now, The Fear penetrated it. The Woman's eyes, sewn shut. Marks of sewing were prevalent across her lips as well, though they drew breath in free parting now. She was alive. She was breathing. But more importantly.... She..

She was--

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~To Be Continued~[/center]

.... Looking back on it now. I don't just wish, I never found that room...

I wish I never woke up.