Lainey and Isa

Whumpees:

Lainey

(Picrew: djarn)

She had a good life - family, boyfriend, job at a cute bookshop. But she also has magic, and not everyone is okay with that. So now she's trapped in a man's basement, trying her best to keep hope alive for both herself and the girl who was a stranger before all this started, and looking for a chance for them both to escape.

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Isabela

(Picrew: djarn)

Five years ago, she was snatched away from her family and friends and locked away by a man who hates people with magic. Ever since then, she's gone through countless horrors all on her own. But she's not alone anymore. Now she has someone else stuck here with her, and she's not sure if the hope that Lainey's optimism brings makes their situation better or worse.

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Whumper:

Sir

Lainey and Isa might not know his name, but his thoughts about them are clear - he's determined to both punish them for their magic, and figure out a way to cleanse them of it.

I've been working on the next chapter of this story for a while now, but for now you get a bonus chapter - the rescue from Isa's perspective!

For most of the days this month I tried to use the lyric or at least the song as the prompt, but this is one of a few where that just didn't work out and I used a different prompt, instead.

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No. 13: Infection | Panic

Contains: lady whump, sensory overload, needle mention, fever, captivity, thoughts of death, magical whump, touch aversion, implied sedatives

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Isa can’t remember ever feeling this sick before. It isn’t the first instance in the time she’s been here that a wound has gotten infected, but she’s weaker now, likely. There’s no way she hasn’t steadily been getting weaker all this time. And now…it’s probably finally the end. Yes, she’s thought it many times before. She thought she was going to die just a few days after she first got kidnapped. She never dreamed she’d still be here five years later. 

But everything has been so much worse since Lainey ran. Sir is so angry. She isn’t sure anymore that he wants her alive. He seems like he wants to keep beating them both until they’re dead and he doesn’t have to deal with them anymore. So even if he does come back down here and sees how sick she is, she isn’t confident he’ll do anything about it. 

Just an fyi to my followers…I realize that it’s July 1st and I have not finished June of Doom aka Lainey and Isa. Rest assured, I still plan to finish it! I have part of the next piece written which should have been posted on the 26th, but partway through the month I had to start dedicating most of my free time to quickly finishing 3 cosplays for myself and my kids. Plus this past week I’ve been volunteering as a leader/teacher at my church’s creative arts camp, so very little sewing has happened, either.

The convention is next weekend (and yes, I will post cosplay photos at some point, too), so after that I hope to turn my attention back to writing. I do really want to finish Lainey and Isa, and I’ve got more Brumaria floating around in my head, too.

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Day 21 - “On three.” | Dehydration | Memory Loss | Choke 

Day 25 - “Don’t move!” | Natural Disaster | Drowning | Stranded

Day 26 - “I made a mistake.” | Ambulance | Hopelessness | Numb

Contains: lady whump, infection, police, referenced noncon drugging, guns, restraints, panic attack (ish), referenced gunshot wound, referenced touch aversion, referenced broken bones

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Isa’s getting worse. Lainey has spent…hours, maybe - she’s sick of trying to figure out the passage of time - lying as close to her as she can get, checking her temperature with her hand every so often, watching her labored breathing and her eyelids fluttering restlessly as she dozes. Her ribs are killing her from this position, but she can’t bring herself to move. Isa’s skin has grown hotter since she first checked it. She’s more out of it, too, which she could just attribute to her being half-asleep but it’s like she can’t seem to fully wake up. 

She needs water. She needs medicine, but even water would be helpful at this point, before her fever dehydrates her. But the man, for the first time since he dragged Lainey back here, has now, of course, decided to stay upstairs and leave them alone. She’s itching to get up, to get as close to the stairs as she can and start yelling. Part of her thinks she should, regardless of what she told Isa.

But she doesn’t want to break her promise. And…rest is important, too, right?

She doesn’t know what to do. She’s so scared for her, can’t stop watching her chest rise and fall as if one of these times it’s just going to quit. 

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Day 17 - “Don’t lie to me.” | Accident | Doubt | Gaslighting

Day 24 - “I think I’m going to be sick.” | Bleeding Out | Illness | Cold Sweat

Contains: lady whump, infection, sui ideation, referenced whipping, restraints, captivity, brief touch aversion, hopelessness

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They’ve been blessed with no stress positions today. They’re both still restrained, of course, but it’s the first time since Lainey came back that they haven’t been hanging from the ceiling or twisted into some unnatural pose. Isa is chained by the neck to the wall, but the chain is long enough that she’s able to lie down on her side. The cool concrete feels heavenly against her cheek.

It’s the only part of her body that feels alright at the moment. She tries to focus on that and get some rest, but there’s so much else wrong that it’s difficult for her mind not to be pulled away. Worst of all right now is her back. The whip marks from…whenever that was…are burning as if they’re fresh, flaring with pain every time she takes a breath or moves at all.

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Day 15 - “Please.” | Blindfold | Pressure Points | Scream

Day 18 - “How long have you been like this?” | Fall | Sleep Deprivation | Blankets

Contains: lady whump with male whumper, blindfold, stress positions, choking, captivity

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Isa hates the blindfold. She hates not being able to see what’s coming, even if her magic does tell her where everyone is and when they’re moving. She still doesn’t know what kind of weapon he might be holding, or where exactly on her body it might land.

This time is almost worse, though, because he’s not anywhere near her. She’s chained up - as she has been constantly since the escape attempt - on one side of the room, on her knees with her elbows tied together behind her back and wrenched as high as they’ll go. Lainey is against the opposite wall. Right before he’d blindfolded her, she’d watched him clasp one of the metal bands around Lainey’s throat, but instead of hooking it to the wall he’d hooked it to one of the chains on the ceiling, forcing her up onto her toes to keep from being choked.

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Day 13 - “Say something.” | Rescue | Broken Promise | Weak

Day 14 - “What were you thinking?” | Slurred Speech | Impalement | Fight

Day 16 - “At least it can’t get any worse.” | Stairs | Concussion | Hammer

Contains: lady whump with male whumper, gun, broken bones, concussion, cage, restraints, whipping, blood, referenced gunshot wounds, death mention

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She never wanted to see this cabin again, not unless she was coming with the cavalry to whisk Isa away from here. Instead, she’s in the passenger seat of the man’s beat-up truck, handcuffed to the door with a gun digging into her broken ribs. The grey car is still half in the ditch, where she left it. She feels some small amount of satisfaction at having forced him to ruin his own property. 

Throwing the gear shift into park, he gets out and walks around to her side, yanking the door open with no care for her wrists being attached to it. She’s jerked out of her seat, feet barely catching her. The metal cuts into her wrists, though not yet enough to make them bleed. Lainey glares at the man. She knows she’s actually getting off easy so far, though. Because she gave herself up, he hasn’t yet had a chance to really hurt her, like she’s sure he would have if he’d hunted her down and caught her. 

“Is she still alive?” she’d demanded, standing in the road in front of his truck. If he’d killed Isa, then she’d try running again, even though his gun was in his hand and she was weak from two days of walking through the woods. But he’d insisted that she was still alive, and she’d had to believe him. She just hopes that it wasn’t a lie. 

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Day 20 - “That’s going to be one heck of a scar.” | Cage | Pliers | Scrape

Day 30 - “Are you scared yet?” | Buried Alive | Failed Escape | Denial

Contains: lady whump with male whumper, captivity, blood, moderate gore, gunshot wound, mentioned dislocation, mentioned broken ribs, cage, death mention, restraints, stress position

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Lainey runs. She tears through the trees, brush ripping the skin from her legs, weaving back and forth with tears streaming down her cheeks so that she can hardly see where she’s going. She runs, and she falls, and she gets back up and runs some more. She runs until she can’t run anymore, until her body is giving out, and she collapses in a dry creek bed and wraps her arms around her head to finally let out gut-wrenching sobs.

She failed Isa. She forced her into doing something she was absolutely terrified of, and the exact thing that she was afraid of had happened. She’d told Lainey, over and over again, how it would go, and Lainey had refused to believe her.

He shot her. She’d gotten Isa shot. And then she ran away and left her there to deal with who knows what other horrors he’s going to inflict on her. The very thing she’d told her she wouldn’t do.

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Day 11 - “We’re out of time.” | Firearm | Backseat | Self-defense

Day 12 - “It’s no use.” | Explosion | Fainting | Trembling

Also qualifies for @whumpawoman ’s Whump Girl Summer Day 7 - Sisterhood

Contains: lady whump with male whumper, captivity, gun violence, mild blood, death mention

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“He left a chain out.”

Isa raises her head from where she’s curled on her side, blinking wearily at Lainey. “What?”

“Look!” She picks the chain up off the counter with a loud scrape and rattle, dangling it in the air for Isa to see. “He forgot to put it away before he locked the cabinet!”

Frowning, Isa lies back down, clearly not grasping the enormity of the situation. “Okay.”

“No, Isa look, it’s…” She crosses the room quickly, ignoring all the aches and pains that always accompany every movement, and crouches down next to the other girl. “This is finally something different. He’s never made a mistake like this before. There could be something we could do with this!” She examines the chain carefully, mind churning.

Series contains: female whumpees, male whumper, magical whumpees, kidnapping, captivity, fantastic prejudice, noncon drugging

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Story

Kidnapped

Defiance

“I Can Handle It.”

Fracture

Drugged

Nightmare

Close Call

Starvation

Escape

Failed

“What Were You Thinking?”

Blindfold

Illness

Rescue

Too Much

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Day 10 - “Can you hear me?” | Starvation | Shackle | Hiding

Also qualifies for @whumpawoman ’s Whump Girl Summer Day 6 -“I’m not going anywhere.”

Contains: lady whump, starvation, long term captivity, death mention, restraints

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“How long has it been?” Lainey’s voice is tired, her words a little slurred. Isa rolls her head over to look at her, her own movements slow.

“I don’t know. You’re the one who keeps up with that.” Though come to think of it, she hasn’t heard her say anything about it in a while.

Lainey huffs. “Not anymore. I lost track a long time ago. And right now…” She swallows, the metal band around her neck bobbing. “I dunno. Seems like it’s been years since he left. I know it has to have been more than a day, because…I don’t think I’d be this hungry otherwise? But then again I’m always hungry, so it’s hard to tell.”

Isa hums in acknowledgment. She barely notices being hungry anymore, except when it’s exceptionally worse like right now. Maybe she’s just so used to being hungry that she doesn’t know the difference. Or maybe her body has somehow adjusted for the lack of food and it’s actually not as bad as it used to be. She’s heard about stomachs shrinking before. She wouldn’t be surprised if that had happened to her.

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Day 8 - “Breathe, darn you!” | Shock | Amputation | Infection 

Also qualifies for @whumpawoman ‘s Whump Girl Summer Day 4 - Stress Position | Begging

Contains: lady whump, captivity, stress position, mentioned dislocation, referenced broken bones, respiratory distress, touch aversion, thoughts of death, fantasy prejudice, passing out, referenced burns

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It’s Isa’s turn for punishment today. Sometimes he’ll hurt them both at the same time, but he tends to alternate back and forth between them, either giving them ‘treatments’ for the magic that supposedly ‘plagues’ them, or punishing them for having the magic to start with. This time he hung Isa by her wrists from the ceiling, toes just barely brushing the floor, burned her torso and arms with a lighter, and left her there, as he often does.

It hasn’t been too awfully long. She’s been left in stress positions for much longer before. Her main concern is that her shoulders will dislocate - not for the first time - so she’s trying to stay as still as possible, focusing on her breathing and not the pain in the entirety of her arms and the fresh sting of the burns. 

Only that’s becoming increasingly difficult with each passing moment. The pressure on her ribs keeps becoming more and more noticeable. Her breaths have been shallow ever since he hoisted her here, but now it feels like she can barely get any air past her throat.

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Day 7 - “What’s the bad news?” | Disoriented | Bite | Chainsaw

Also qualifies for @whumpawoman ‘s Whump Girl Summer Day 3 - Nightmares

Contains: lady whump, drowning, needles, nightmares, death mention, fantasy prejudice, captivity, restraints

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She’s drowning. She was taking the trash out back, getting ready to close up the shop, when a sudden rush of water came out of nowhere, filling up the alley, sweeping her off her feet and along with it. She can’t breathe, her head is below water and she can’t find the surface. Every time she thinks she can feel the bottom with her feet, she’s just tumbled around by the force of the water. She needs air, she needs air, if she can’t get a breath soon she’s going to die…

Suddenly, with a great crashing of waves, the water is gone. She’s in the basement. The man is standing over her, a syringe in one hand, a whip in the other, growling, “You used your magic again didn’t you? Didn’t you? Filthy excuse for a human!”

“N-no, no, I…it wasn’t me, I swear, I…I don’t know where it came from…” Her voice is timid, weak, and she can’t seem to make it any stronger no matter how ashamed about it she feels. 

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Day 6 - “You’re doing great.” | Injection | Nightmare | Duct Tape

Also qualifies for @whumpawoman ’s Whump Girl Summer Day 2 - Migraine

Contains: lady whump with male whumper, needle, fear of needles, injected with unknown substance, restraints, migraine, nausea mention, captivity

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“What are you doing?” Lainey scrambles backwards across the room, eyes wide and trained on the syringe in the man’s hand. “What is that, don’t bring that anywhere near me! I draw the line at needles, okay? Alright actually I draw the line…a long time ago, at the hitting and the bone breaking and the kidnapping, but…but needles are an entirely different story.” Her back hits the wall, and she begins creeping along it sideways, not ever looking away from the terrifying point. “What is even in that? How do I know that it’s new, and not contaminated? How do I know you know what you’re doing? And why do you even need to give me a shot, anyway? I’m not sick! I don’t need medicine!”

Growling, the man tosses the syringe back into the box he’d gotten from one of the cabinets. It doesn’t make her relax any, and for good reason. All he does then is lunge toward her, trying to get his hands on her. She dodges with a yelp. Her reflexes aren’t what they should be, though, she’s slow from the atrocious pain in her ribs and lack of enough food, and it doesn’t take long for him to corner her, slamming her into the wall.

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Day 4 - “Does that hurt?” | Delirium | Hypothermia | Stabilization

Day 5 - “It’s not as bad as it looks.” | Handcuffs | Swelling | Flinch

Also qualifies for @whumpawoman ’s Whump Girl Summer, Alt. Prompt - “Look at Me”

Contains: lady whump, graphic broken bone, restraints, fainting, brief emeto mention, captivity

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Isa is still hunched over on her knees, breathing through the pain shooting up her arm, when a hand lands lightly on her other shoulder. Instinctively she jerks backwards, which only doubles the pain. She throws her head back and cries out hoarsely.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, hey, look at me, it’s just me. Just me.” Glancing over, she can see Lainey holding up her hands, cuffs jingling. “Are you…are you okay? That’s a stupid question, obviously you’re not okay, but…crap.” Her hands drop to her lap. “He just…broke your arm, like it was nothing. I don’t…I can’t…” She shakes her head. “I hate him!”

She can’t deal with the chatter right now. “It’s fine. I just…need some time.”

“It’s not fine, would you quit acting like all of this is fine? I know it’s what you're used to, but it is far from fine and you deserve far better than this, okay?”

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Day 3 - “I can handle it.” | Kidnapping | Fracture | Struggle 

Contains: lady whump with male whumper, long term captivity, brief touch aversion, broken bone, restraints, fantasy prejudice, mild conditioning, manhandling

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Lainey never stops talking. She’s been here somewhere around two days - by her own, announced estimation, Isa stopped trying to calculate the passage of time long ago - and Isa is pretty sure she knows everything about her parents, siblings, boyfriend, school, job, and friends there is to know. 

Maybe it’s a coping mechanism. Maybe she just likes the sound of her own voice. She’s not going to tell her to stop, not when it seems to be bringing her some level of comfort, but it’s…overwhelming. Isa has been alone in this basement for five years with only her captor for occasional company, and even he barely speaks. Now she has a constant companion who only stops talking to eat or sleep. There’s a part of her that’s grateful to be able to have an actual human around, but it’s often buried by the feeling of being suffocated by the noise. 

She’ll get used to it, sooner or later. She’s gotten used to many other things in these past years.