#tiredqueertm

This guy looks to be in worse shape than he’s almost CONSTANTLY in. The glint of the knife doesn’t go unnoticed but it isn’t something Malcolm finds himself CONCERNED with. The guy put the knife away anyway.

The guy’s head is bleeding which means he’s LIKELY got a concussion. Any other injuries, Malcolm can’t really tell at this time. But he moves forward to kneel down beside the guy - maybe he should call an ambulance?

christmas dinner with the whitly family. well, dani’s supposed she’s been in WEIRDER SITUATIONS. excited isn’t the right word to describe how she’s feeling -- is she apprehensive? worried? scared, even? fulfilling a social obligation to a family she doesn’t even belong to? it doesn’t help that attending this ridiculous thing was HER IDEA. she was the one who pushed malcolm into dinner with his family like this. . . although, it was mostly just as a way to get jessica to leave him alone. that’s at the very least, how they got here -- malcolm in one of his nicer suits ( although every suit he wears easily costs more than dani’s rent ), and dani forsaking her typical work clothes for a sleek and tasteful red dress and a pair of heels. she’s still wearing her typical leather jacket because, well, old habits and all that. she’s not sure it’s enough to impress the ILLUSTRIOUS JESSICA WHITLY. . . but at the same time she’s not really sure she cares. ❝ just a couple of hours. ❞     she reminds malcolm, with a hand on his back as they approach the door of the whitly family home.     ❝ just a couple of hours. you’ll fulfill some yearly family obligation and we’ll be out of here by ten. ❞ her hand slides down his back to take his hand in hers, giving it a reassuring squeeze and a gentle smile.      ❝ we got this. ❞ after all, it’s just dinner. what could possibly go wrong?

Five inmates bitten, ten isolation cell doors and twelve cells destroyed. This wasn’t a run of the mills kinda guy they were keeping here. Warden Mills realized that relatively quickly after Joshua Washington arrived at Washington State Penitentiary. The young man was far stronger than anyone he’s ever had in his prison and he barely looked strong enough to keep his own body upright in the condition he was in. Red flags had gone off immediately. Not just by the way he acted, cause he was off his rockers on a good day, but everything screamed danger. 

His most dangerous inmates were terrified of Josh. And that was saying something. There were also the biting incidents, five inmates bitten but thankfully they had been just puncture wounds. No major arteries had been hit, no one had had to go into an actual hospital. No stitched had been required.

Still, he strongly suspected that Josh wasn’t a human, not fully and for that he’d called in a favor from an old acquaintance. He called in Shadow.

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Josh was sitting alone in the hallway, he’d broken out of the isolation cell again. Hallucinations and visions plagued him and this hunger- this never-ending hunger that kept screaming at him. He wanted it all to end, he wanted everything to be over. He wanted to stop hearing his dead sisters, wanted to stop seeing them. Maybe he should be taking his meds, the one Warden Mills tried to give him. But he couldn’t get close to anyone without feeling like he wanted to eat them.

Mary just ugly laughed. Oh, honey. xD