http://vissernone.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-09-04 11:24 pm

An Unexploded Shell Inside a Cell [Open]

She thought her life would be different by now, but she's a prisoner again. Voluntary, she guesses, which makes it a little bit different than the first time. At least she can blink on her own this time. Not that she's using her body to do much good.

Ironically, she almost always looked better when she was a more total prisoner. Without her makeup and hair clips and changes of clothes to arrange herself into some approximation of health, without even a mirror to confirm her suspicions, she looks a wreck. Dark circles line her reddened eyes; her hair is unbrushed and falls in tangled clumps over her face; chapped, bloodied lips and fingernails bitten down to the flesh speak to her uneasy transition back into captivity.

Eva's given up all attempts to look 'okay'. She ripped a man's face open with her bare fingers. She's been a long road away from 'okay' for a while now, but she spent too long mistaking her anger and stubbornness for strength and resilience to recognize it. She's wised up now.

She really wants a drink right now. Instead she has some books - selected poems by Pablo Neruda and an anthology of poetry by women poets in the Andes - and a pillow and blanket. She's curled up on the cot with the former book in her hand, but drifting in and out of sleep. Her breath comes lazy and heavy as she alternately reads, dreams, and watches the door to the brig with heavy-lidded eyes, looking for nothing.

[identity profile] notadamnangel.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not country. Ever." He likes westerns and cowboy, but country music? Hell no, give him classic rock any day.

"I'd say sure since never heard AC/DC on a harmonica," Now she got him curious.

[identity profile] notadamnangel.livejournal.com 2011-09-11 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Dean made a face at that, "Nah, it really wasn't. Never mind."

[identity profile] notadamnangel.livejournal.com 2011-09-15 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Dean held up his hands, "Oh hell no. Think you did enough shredding of the classics tonight."

[identity profile] notadamnangel.livejournal.com 2011-09-17 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not where I come from, and hey, you got what everybody's got." Dean looked to see how long her stay was.

[identity profile] notadamnangel.livejournal.com 2011-09-22 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Trust me, it's better than some places. Least it ain't like Folsom or an episode of Oz."