uneasy_rider (uneasy_rider) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-03-07 16:26:00

Entry tags:

inactive - roxanne, nicholas salem, plot-"from hell with love"

Hell is a personal thing
There's some inborn sense telling her where to go, and she rides like she's never ridden before. Fully possessed, truly angry, and driven for revenge. Nick is back there keeping up with her, but as she cracks her 21st demon head and crashes through another set of gates leading down to Mephesto's deepest dungeons.

Most of what she picked up in church and reading the Bible was right. There was a lake of fire and souls suffering up demon rules, but this level is something else all together. This is where the Devil puts thought into tormenting the people that really pissed him off. These structures are meant not to torment so much as break and humiliate. One woman screams as she is gang raped over and over again. A proud man is surrounded by faces laughing at him, belittling everything he ever stood for. Another is kept with demon-pigs and forced to eat from a trough. Over and over, people - good people - are made to suffer. Both demon and rider snarl and press forward until they reach a strange quiet place in the middle of this insane place. A house - one of those big, fancy rich places looms in the distance like something from a late night movie. that's when she finally pulls over.

"Ah don't know how ah know," she says to Nick. "But Johnny's in there."

Gates crash closed behind them.

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	nextgen_adult 2010-03-08 08:25 am UTC (link)
	He put a hand on hers and offered her a tired smile. "It's 'pprceiated. So was the save. I've...been in there awhile." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 08:32 am UTC (link)
	"Ah know." She doesn't know how she knows. She just does. She also knows she ain't gonna get no 'I love you's' and all that mush. His eyes say everything. "She's dead, here, ain't she?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_adult 2010-03-08 08:33 am UTC (link)
	Johnny looked away and then he nodded. "Yeah, she is. Ain't gonna ask how you're here." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

uneasy_rider
2010-03-08 08:44 am UTC (link)

"Good, 'cause I ain't gonna ask the same." Her Johnny didn't just die. He never existed. The world crashed around them.

But for old time sake she slips her hand around to the back of his neck while they both sit on the bike, just like they used to. She rubs her lips against his, feeling the soft scrape of stubble once, twice - like a signature - and then slowly melds herself against him.

Hello...
I've always loved you...
I'll never stop...
You're a good man. Live a good life

Goodbye.

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	nextgen_adult 2010-03-08 08:47 am UTC (link)
	He wrapped his arms around her and let himself get lost in her. His senses were flooded by the way she felt against him, the way she smelled and the way she tasted. If this was some trick and he was still in Hell, then he never wanted to leave. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vicious_cycle 2010-03-08 08:50 am UTC (link)
	Nicholas pulls up near the pair, shifting back, though his hands take longer, the hellfire burning about the pentagram marks on his hands still. He doesn't interrupt, just bringing the bike to a halt and waiting. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 08:59 am UTC (link)
	With great reluctance she slowly ends their stolen moment. Life, such as it is, goes on. She slides off her most prized possession, pressing the keys into Johnny's hands. Riders need rides. If he says anything she'll cry, so she steps back slowly one aching footfall at a time towards Nick's bike, never taking her eyes off what could have been. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vicious_cycle 2010-03-08 09:00 am UTC (link)
	He extends a hand to her. "You sure?" he asks simply. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_adult 2010-03-08 09:02 am UTC (link)
	For a very brief moment he let himself think that this was a second chance and then...she's leaving. "Rox," he called out. Maybe she would come back. Maybe there could be a second chance. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 09:07 am UTC (link)
	"She'll always love you, Johnny," she calls out as she takes Nick's hand and his bitch seat. 'Cause ah do. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vicious_cycle 2010-03-08 09:11 am UTC (link)
	Nicholas nods to Johnny. "I know the deal as well as you, Mr. Blaze, you escape hell on the Rider's bike, your soul is yours. And I know Roxy, the one from this world, ain't in hell... so she's out there somewhere. You got your freedom, you got your second chance, and you got a chance to try and find her... but you gotta let this one go. Don't hold this over her." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_adult 2010-03-08 09:13 am UTC (link)
	He's quiet, sad and looking like someone who had lost everything, while he considered Nick's words. Eventually he nodded. "Go." There was no need for any other words. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

vicious_cycle
2010-03-08 09:18 am UTC (link)

Nick nods. He had to know what Johnny would do before he told him the rest of what Zarathos knows.

"Mr. Blaze, she was possessed by an agent of Blackheart's. That form was killed, but her soul wasn't in it. Zarathos doesn't know where she is, but Kale may have moved her to a different body... she might be out there... somewhere. But its gonna be up to you to find her if she is."

Its a tiny shred of hope. Ghost Riders don't usually get to have any. It might come to nothing... but he has to believe maybe, just maybe there is a chance of a happy ending for just one of them.

He guns the engine, starting away from Johnny Blaze, hoping that he'll find what he's looking for.

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	uneasy_rider 2010-03-08 09:24 am UTC (link)
	Roxanne grips Nick tightly, both numb and a thousand other things she can't process right now. One thing she is though is a survivor, and survivors look forward. "Hey, Nick," she asks after a few miles. "Know anyone who needs someone to fix ah few bikes and isn't picky about ID? Ah gotta get me ah new hammer..." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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