Vic who goes to a party, ends up taking a pill and calls cassie because she's panicking, poor thing :( is soooo scared of triggering cassie but she doesn't know who else to call because nobody else she knows has experience with drugs, and cassie doing all she can to help her
I hope you don't mind I'm going to tweak this a little bit! The spirit of your prompt will remain the same but my *personal* headcanon can't conceptualize Victoria taking a random pill. Smoking weed, though...well...
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The science-based, logical part of Victoria's brain says "the marijuana was cut with something" and
"Trinity's friends were lying about buying the stuff legally in Jersey. It's street weed. It's not pure."
But Trinity had left - Victoria had promised her three times it was okay that she left. Victoria said she was fine, she liked Trinity's friends, she wanted to feel like she had a life for once, y'know, stay out late, get to know strangers....
But then the smoking started. And she'd tried it once before! So she said yes.
Where was she, again? Victoria , standing alone against the bathroom door (she'd run away from her new acquaintences when the panic hit) desperately tries to clear her head.. Right.
Trinity had left.
And the scienc-y part of her brain is rapidly slipping away, as the high stays for way longer than it was supposed to from just two hits. She starts to breathe funny, and her vision starts to swim.
Shit...she needs to not be here.
Hates the first idea that pops into her mind. But she knows it's the only right answer.
Please, Gods up there, forgive her.
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The phone rings only twice,
"Vic?" comes Cassie's sleepy voice.
Victoria, immediately relieved but also guilty and terrified, starts *sobbing*
"Please don't be mad - " a hiccup through sobs " - I need, I need...I need - " she gets stuck in a loop. Can't get anything else out. Is her heart beating too fast?
"Victoria. What happened? Where are you?" Cassie is sitting up straight in bed, her heart pounding too. Then standing up, already putting clothes on with her phone pressed to her ear by her shoulder.
Victoria blurts out the bar name before she forgets it, "I was stupid. Smoked some weed with Trinity's friends. She left earlier. I don't - I think - " whines as the bathroom tiles look wrong wrong WRONG, closes her eyes - "it was bad stuff. I don't know what's happening to me. Please. I need you. M'sorry."
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Cassie comes bursting in, a storm of anxiety and fear, furious with herself for not having asked Vic *where*, exactly *where* was she, before she lost her to the younger girl's phone dying.
She scoped out the bar, quickly peaked outside in the alley, but whoever Victoria had been hanging out with was gone now.
They left her. They left her girl (she wasn't her girl), they fucking LEFT her.
She finds Victoria in the bathroom, sweaty and shaking, slumped against the wall under the sinks.
She immediately feels vertigo threaten to overtake her. Because it's like peering through the looking glass, isn't it?
This is what people saw of her. She was standing in front of herself, in a way and -
No. No she wasn't. Cassie, stop it.
Cassie collapses onto the floor and pulls Vic against her. Feels her pulse (fast, but strong). Her temperature (clammy, but normal). Good...these things are good.
Vic groans, leans against her even though she hasn't seen that it's *her* yet, and Cassie gets so sick to her stomach at the fact she could have been anyone that she closes her eyes for a second, too.
Then she snaps out of it.
"Victoria, honey, open your eyes. Can you hear me?"
"Yeah, m'fine," Victoria says quietly, "can't open them. Room starts looking scary and- " but that's all she gets. Did Victoria nod off??
"Please, just for a minute" Cassie urges, loudly. Victoria, thank god, listens.
Cassie leans in, can smell at least some alcohol on Victoria's breathe - not a good combination!!! - and sees that her pupils are constricted.
She thinks, possible opiod lacing.
She thinks, no, not Victoria.
Not when this was only *some accident*.
Not when she survived years of doing this kind of shit on purpose.
Certainly not Victoria, when it could have been her instead.
She lifts Victoria into her arms. Cuts into the back alley. Darts around the building.
When she has sight of her car, Cassie *runs*.