taxonomites | X: [ voice | location: castle summers' dungeons ] pardon my past

There's an incessant throbbing in Piper's head that just won't go away.

She groans, and opens her eyes. When she does, things start swirling uncontrollably, and the urge to hurl is great. Piper closes her eyes, bites her lip, and rolls to the side until it passes.

Something feels wrong here. It takes her another second to process the fact that she's lying on a cold stone floor, that she's naked, and that her fingers are stinging. Badly. Opening her eyes again, she sees that her hands are bloodied, and that several wooden splinters are still embedded in them.

"How--"

And that's when everything comes crashing down on her - all the memories of the past day, what she's done, what she's become. "No. Oh... oh god." Piper spots her tablet and kicks it away from her, before scrambling to the very corner of the dungeon. She slides down, hugging her knees to her and resting her forehead on them. She doesn't even resist the urge to tremble and sob.

[ ooc: backdated to the day after the glitch. ]

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[ :| Pipeeeer. ]

It's not your fault. Things happen. No lasting damage, so all okay.

You can't... what if it happens again? I don't want to risk it.

But locking yourself away? [ Okay, yeah, this is starting to get into touchy subject territory for Will, but she'll plow onward. ]

Running away isn't going to solve anything. People care about you a-and those people are willing to work through everything. Now that we know it's a possibility again, we can be better prepared for it to happen again.

[ pause. ] I dated a werewolf once. I know what it's like to be around someone who can't control a part of themselves.

I'm not running away, Willow. [ pause. ] Or maybe I am. But I don't know how else I could protect unsuspecting people from... from this. From me. Would you really allow me to roam free knowing that any moment I could turn into a Wendigo again?

And every full moon Oz turned into a werewolf. But he was... we were close, so it was worth the risk. A-and we had ways to make sure he wouldn't hurt anyone. We could come up with some sort of system, y'know, a signal in case something like this happens again. That way someone can come subdue you until you change back.

We had to to do that for Oz a few times.

[ it makes a hell lot of sense, piper has to admit. ]

That sounds very tedious.

It's worth it. [ pause. ] Especially when the alternative is losing them forever.

[ someday, piper will tell you about the time when she dated a warlock who tried to kill her - and that other time when she fell in love with a ghost. dating supernatural creatures? not that uncommon for piper.

it takes her several moments before she speaks again. ] Okay. I'll... go along with whatever you have in store. But not now. Please.

I just... want to be alone right now.

[ She can respect that. ]

Okay. [ She cares, Piper. She really does. ] If you need anything else, just let me know.

I will. [ once she can trust herself again. ] Thank you.

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