who, me?

*I stand up, on high alert as I call out*

Hello?

"You know," He drawls, "that was a funny trick you pulled!"

*he looks just like them... but inverted. a suit dark as tar and limbs stained eternally with blood... I feel revulsion twisting my gut as that sickening, torn, grin comes into sight, trying to think of anything to escape this nightmare*

*I stand up, on high alert as I call out*

Hello?

"You know," He drawls, "that was a funny trick you pulled!"

❛ you lie like a floor tapestry. you’re more crooked than an acrobat’s spine. ❜

❛ i could really make something out of you, if i decided i could trust you. ❜

❛ someday, [name], someday, you’re going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moon will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. and i just hope i’m still around to see it. ❜

❛ now, now, don’t be hard on yourself. physically, you’re quite my match. it’s my scholarly gifts you lack. and my easy fearlessness. and my gift for men/women/people. ❜ 

❛ there’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated. ❜

❛ you’re gifted with a preternatural talent for the vexation of others. ❜ 

❛ when the quality gets together to dine, it’s impolite to knock anybody off with anything but poison. ❜ 

❛ when you don’t know everything that you could know, it’s a fine time to shut your fucking noisemaker and be polite. ❜

❛ we toast absent friends who helped to bring us to where we are now. we do miss them. and we love them still. ❜ 

❛ what a stupid, reckless, idiotic, ridiculous damn thing to do! i haven’t the words to express my admiration. ❜ 

❛ you’re one-third bad intentions, one-third pure avarice, and one-eigth sawdust. what’s left, i’ll credit, must be brains. ❜ 

❛ hoist a glass or two in memory of us if we don’t come back, love. ❜ 

❛ dammit, [name], i’d jump in the bay and try to blackjack a shark if you wanted, really, but you’d have to tell me how big it was and how hungry it was first. savvy?  ❜ 

❛ we’re so far in the clear it’s comical. ❜ 

❛ we’ll do what we always do — wait for an opening, take it, and fucking well win. ❜ 

❛ we miss [name] already, and we wish him/her/them well. ❜ 

❛ we have a new problem, fresh from the oven and hot as hell. ❜

❛ i’m harmless as a kitten. more so! kittens have claws and piss on things indiscriminately. ❜ 

❛ your calculations are off. this merits a triple fuckdamn, at least. ❜

❛ i’m not as reckless as i used to be. you know, when i was little. ❜

❛ next time i conceive a plan like this, consider planting a hatchet in my skull. ❜ 

❛ you’ve got that motherly concern in your eyes. i must look like i’m hammered as shit. ❜

❛ actually, you look like you were executed last week. ❜ 

❛ keep hitting. you just keep hitting. i can take it all day. you just keep…hitting me…until…[name] gets back! ❜ 

❛ i’m fit and i’m angry, and i’m obviously crazy. anything could happen. ❜

❛ it must be nice to be righteous ; from where i stand it looks like fucking lunacy. ❜

❛ the years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one’s mutterings to a state of respectability. give advice at forty and you’re a nag. give it at seventy and you’re a sage. ❜ 

❛ you can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid. ❜

❛ if reassurances could dull pain, no one would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes. ❜

❛ i ache in places i didn’t previously realize i owned. ❜ 

❛ i’m going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who’s ever been murdered, ever since the world began. ❜ 

❛ if you could slay him/her/them now, with little more strength in you than a half-drowned kitten, why, i’d put you in a basket and carry you to him/her/them myself. ❜ 

❛ i’d like your aid. and if i don’t get it, well, to hell with you. i’ll come out with what i need anyway. ❜  

❛ it’s strange, how readily authority can be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery. ❜  

❛ the difference between honest and dishonest commerce is that when an honest man or woman of business ruins someone, they don’t have the courtesy to cut their throat to finish the affair. ❜

❛ i don’t have to fight or run. i changed the rules of the game. ❜

❛ it would be quicker and easier for you to simply dig your own grave and take your ease in it until your inevitable transition to a more quiet state of affairs! ❜ 

❛ i am the king/queen idiot of all the world’s fucking idiots. ❜ 

❛ justice is red. ❜ 

❛ promise me that if you ever find [name], you’ll— ❜ 

❛ every man and woman and child here tonight is only alive because i have a soft fucking heart. ❜ 

❛ [name]. my brother/sister/sibling and my friend. ❜ 

❛ quit sobbing, you damn baby. you must have at least a half beer glass of blood left somewhere in there. ❜ 

❛ if what you’re doing was larking about, corpses could get jobs as acrobats. ❜ 

❛ gods, i’m the one with his/her/their arm slashed open and his/her/their shoulder punched in, and you’re over there moping. enough! ❜

❛ you’re a greater friend than i ever could have imagined before i met you. ❜

❛ i owe you my life too many times over to count. ❜

    episode 1 - 3

it’s okay. go back to bed.

you okay? you scared? that’s okay. i get scared too sometimes.

why are you awake?

your big brother must have scared her away. big brothers are good like that.

the big dreams can spill out sometimes.

how long do we have to live here?

do you remember that storm?

i’ve never seen a ghost.

i don’t need to say goodbye.

i need you to call me.

there’s nothing easy about this house.

this door’s been locked for years and years and years and years, so if there’s a pony in there, it’s dead.

i know you don’t need me to tell you this, but literally everything is an emergency with [name].

look, i can’t deal with this right now.

that’s why everybody dumps their shit on me, isn’t it?

where’d you come from?

i’m just kind of a germophobe. 

i know you normally prefer the company of cold stiffs.

i mean, she’s sweet enough but - pile of issues.

who’s saying it’s quick? i’m a giver.

you’re like a guy. you’re worse than a guy, you’re like a frat guy.

when i said you could live here, i wasn’t expecting the pussy parade.

i’m drawing boundaries, which is something you might want to look into.

she’s got one foot in crazy and the other on a banana peel.

we gotta get out of here right now.

you keep your eyes closed no matter what you hear. you don’t open them. you promise?

you don’t just get to call me and tell me what to do.

a ghost can be a lot of things: a memory, a daydream, a secret. grief, anger, guilt.

i’ve seen a lot of ghosts. just not the way you think.

this is the worst of the bullshit- worse than the tabloids.

i need to start a real life for my own family.

no one will come any nearer than that.

something tells me they weren’t too scared of the dark.

science isn’t an exact science, you know.

how do you spell ‘no girls allowed’?

i used to have imaginary friends, too. they go away when you get bigger.

thanks. i needed a good scare.

you just stood there and watched him loot me?

i’m going to fix her.

every house needs a heart, and this is ours.

a house is like a person’s body.

when you’re little, you learn how to see things that aren’t there.

i told you, i’m too old for tea parties.

i don’t blame you for screaming.

there’s no such thing as ghosts and you know it.

you can pay me back when you’re a famous writer.

imagine the worst thing possible, assume it’s true, and go from there.

why are you banging on the wall?

i told you she was in trouble.

you know how when you take one of your pictures, you capture something forever, just the way it is? stories do that, too.

when we die, we turn into stories.

we’re all stories in the end.

this is too much for anyone.

codeine’s finally kicking in.

she’s gonna have a pretty messed up view of death coming out of this no matter what.

i’m sad, too. so sad, i can’t even tell you.

i handcuffed him to a radiator downstairs. he’s not going anywhere.

i just wanted to say break a leg - and if you make a run for it, i’ll keep the car running, okay?

you have another nightmare?

you can sleep with me for tonight.

you’re really freaked out, huh? ease up a little.

you’re squeezing too tight.

the stairs - the third step from the top, it makes a sound.

he’s always smiling, but he isn’t happy.

when i was little, i was afraid of a lot of things.

kids like us have been through more than other kids.

the foster care system isn’t the easiest place to grow up.

do you feel cold right there?

this whole house is cold.

you’re out of mustard and you’re almost out of turkey.

you always figure out how to help.

ugh, what is that smell?

i was trying to take ownership of something that doesn’t belong just to me.

i’m trying to do the right thing.

maybe it’s a middle child thing, but i just would rather focus on living my actual life right now.

want to let go of his arm?

you don’t have to be so mean about it.

there’s a ladder down here on the wall. you can come get me.

there’s something down here!

it’s okay, baby, we’re right here.

something grabbed me! monster! it was a monster!

we didn’t know you were into…?

sorry to bring this up again, but why the hell would she go to that house?!

don’t elaborate. don’t offer information that’s not requested.

i don’t want to have to tell them that i’m fucking pissed at [name] who should have known better.

nobody ever believes me.

i believe you.

i was just out and about and thinking about your case.

you just have to trust me on this. i haven’t been wrong before, have i?

i’m sure the guy will confess if you just get them here.

i really, really don’t like that you went down there by yourself.

we’ll talk a lot more about it as you get older.

if you’re feeling overwhelmed and you think nobody will understand, you can talk to me. about anything.

i’m pretty good at secrets.

you got a couple things wrong in there, by the way.

that was really wild stuff considering that you were asleep for, what, like ninety-nine percent of it?

i’m gonna get my fucking phD.

i thought i heard somebody down here.

make up something that’s gonna piss her off less than the truth.

we barely said two words to each other.

can we take a second and talk?

what do people usually talk about?

she just needed help and no one was listening.

so should we talk about your day or would you rather come to bed?

you get in, lock the doors, don’t unlock until you see me come outside.

don’t touch me!