Like devil like daughter.
It’d been all too easy, really, to get Noelle here in the first place; maybe she’d had her fair share in a kidnapping scheme or two, maybe it was just part of being who she was, inheriting what she had.
It was an afterthought, more than anything, to take Noelle with her.
She was going and she was angry and she didn’t want to be alone, god, she hated that, (and she blamed it on this body, too, on this new frame and all its weird needs, she blamed needing companionship on the psych she’d inherited alongside five bony fingers and a hidden-from-sight spine), she hated being alone then and she didn’t want to go and she was right there, five feet away, and of course she wanted to talk, of course she’d be willing to let Joy open up to her, it’d be an honor, really,
and all she had to do was place her five bony fingers around her throat, (a makeshift noose, a temporary one, too), until Noelle passed out and
then she could drag her along, zip tie her hands with some chord she’d been keeping under her bed, buckle her in the back and
And she was conscious now, but not screaming like she had been. Not begging, either, although she’d tried. Joy’s hands tightened on the wheel, leather and white.
She was crying and Noelle was crying but neither of them were talking and neither of them knew what to say but Joy, she knew, she knew she’d do what it took to keep her in that back seat.
She wasn’t going to say that.