Lilac-sunx - Of Greens And Eden

A brief Haunting.

So Mum and I are in the kitchen, talking about bsg, watching the rain come down, when the doorbell starts to ring.

The rain is pretty heavy and we’re not expecting anyone, so we exchange confused looks. Mum goes to answer it. I follow, wanting to go upstairs and change.

The doorbell is shrill and unrelenting, like someone is pressing down on the button as hard as possible- not polite.

“Ugh.” I say, behind Mum as she opens the door, half to make a point to our unwelcome guest. “Get them to stop.”

Mum opens the door. The doorway is empty of everything but rain.

The doorbell is still ringing.

“No one’s there!” Mum exclaims.

The shrill ringing is piercing my ears. I grab the bell by the bannisters and it vibrates so violently under my under my hand that my whole arm shakes. I pull back and go to the door, then out onto the porch, to the outside door where the doorbell itself is. I look around. It’s still daylight. It makes the emptiness around me more stark. And the button isn’t stuck, or broken. It looks untouched.

“Press it. Press it again,” Mum says.

It takes three goes before the ringing stops. We exchange glances. 

“I’m not going back in there. Fuck that.”

I’d seen horror films. No thank you. 

“Come inside.”

“Get me my shoes.”

“Don’t be silly.” Mum doesn’t watch horror films. How do I tell her that she is officially the white parent who thinks nothing is wrong? “Come on.”

I go inside, glare up at the bannisters and bell and shout “Get the fuck out of my house!”

Mum laughs and wanders back inside.

I head upstairs. I’ve lived in this house for ten years. I know every creak of the floorboards, or squeak of the pipes, so don’t tell me it was that.

Because when I got up past the bannisters, something at my shoulder laughed.

I can’t express how much I love this AU/Turian Shep stuff

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I always thought “decontamination” is not enough

This man is pure gold. 

I take it General Grievous has been destroyed