misguided ghosts / mav, naomi & clara.
Mar 22, 2021 21:31:15 GMT -5
Post by sidney on Mar 22, 2021 21:31:15 GMT -5
[presto][/presto]
'cause i'm just one of those ghosts
traveling endlessly, don't need no roads
in fact, they follow me and we just go in circles
It had been one thing to learn what happened to Cleo. How she had been drugged with a paralytic. How she had been bound and gagged and dragged to the abandon building she was found in. How a rope had been placed around her neck and likely forced to stand on a bucket until she couldn't any longer. The Keepers first instinct had been suicide, but when they'd found the bruises she'd hidden beneath make-up and when Clara had vehemently said her sister would never, they had ruled it a homicide.
It had been something entirely different to learn Naomi had been there, too. Had been made to watch Cleo struggle against her constraints. How she had been forced to watch Clara's sister gasp for air as the bucket was kicked out from under her feet. It broke her heart and enraged Clara all at once. Deep down she knew there was nothing Naomi could have done. From what she'd overheard at the morgue from the loud-mouth Keepers, Naomi had been tied up too. Made to feel helpless as she watched the life leave Cleo's eyes.
It still made her sick to her stomach, though. It made her eyes sting with tears at the thought of Cleo being helpless, watching someone just simply observe as she undoubtedly fought to live until the last possible second. It sounds like absolute torture.
But maybe that had been the point. Whoever killed her sister wanted her to suffer first. Whoever made Naomi watch had wanted her to bear witness, to live to tell the story.
And they got exactly what they wanted.——
Clara wasn't sure why Maverick's house was where Naomi felt the safest. She was sure there was a story there, a level of getting to know the singer that she hadn't quite unlocked yet, but that wasn't going to stop her from making sure she was all right. It was the least she could do. But what was more important was that she wanted to see her. Needed to, really.
If she was being honest, Clara missed her. Missed the way a look from Naomi made her stomach do somersaults and her cheeks turn red. Missed the way being close to her made her feel so nervous but so safe all at once. A very large part of her just wanted to be near the person she was maybe ready to give her heart to. But another very large part of her wanted to investigate, wanted to know what her sister's last moments were like, wanted to know if Naomi remembered something, anything that could help figure out who did this.
So, Clara had found herself on the front porch of the Poole residence, one hand clutching at the strap of her bag while the other impatiently knocked three times on the door.