fandom_clinic | In the Clinic

Tara? Where are you? Tara heard inside her head. It wasn't quite like Willow's telepathy, but it didn't feel like her own thoughts, either. "Maia, honey? I can hear you. I'm right here, holding your hand. Where are you, sweetie?"

((okay to play with the chronology? Tara's emotions during the day are heavily influenced by how Maia's doing, but Maia's not necessarily experiencing time the same way Tara is.))

Maia looks around. "I'm here Tara. I-where the others are. They are not holding me down anymore but-" Maia cuts off as Shawn lets out a terrible scream. "SHAWN!!" Maia screams. "Its dark, I don't know Tara. I don't know I am here. Can you see me? Can you see where I am?" Maia sounds like she is walking around the room, her voice fading in and out. "I can't see you Tara" Maia is running "Tara Tara I can't see you!!"

After losing contact the previous night, at a most disheartening moment, Tara returns to Maia's bedside to try again. Putting her forehead against the younger girl's, Tara spoke. "Can you hear me, Maia? I'm right here, can you hear me?"

((Um, sorry, on what Maia can see: I'm thinking Tara's not as good as Willow was at it. More a feeling that she's there. Tara can probably see a little more than Maia can, because effectively they're in Maia's head.))

Maia is laying on the floor shaking, her hands over her ears to block out Shawn's screaming. "T-Tara." Maia sat up. "Where are you? I lost you last night. I can't see you. I tried- I tried to find you."

((Maia does not realize Tara is not beside her because she can hear her. Maia thinks Tara is in the dark room with her. Thats why she keeps looking))

Phoebe moves to Tara's side after the monitors start going haywire. She waits, trying to decide how she cane help Tara.

Seeing Phoebe, Tara waves her over and gestures to the other side of the bed. "Help me? I almost got through to her last night. Talk to her with me?"

She turns her forehead back to Maia's. "Sweetie, I'm here. You're in the clinic, in a coma. Phoebe's here too, can you feel her?"

Phoebe nods and kneels next to the bed, laying her head close to Maia's. She would do just about anything for Maia, and now for Tara. She clears her mind and tries to either hear Maia or lend Tara strength to get through.

Maia looks around, "I-I hear you, I cant see you Tara. I-I'm in a room, its dark." Maia's voice is pleading. "They have us here. All of us." Maia stops for a moment. "Phoebe? PHOEBE!!" Maia's voice sounds relieved "Phoebe? I-I can't see you. Why can't I see you? I see everyone else. Tara I can't see you either." Maia is sounding frustrated and desperate. "Shawn is here I can see him. Do you see him?" Shawns screams are loud, agonizing. "Everyone is here. they are on the beds. Tara? Is this the clinic?"

Tara looks over at Phoebe. "Can you hear her? Maia, honey, we're with your body, but you're not. You're somewhere else. I need you to tell me what you can feel okay? Shawn's there - who else? Can you see anything?"

Phoebe nods. "I can hear her faintly."

Phoebe's eyes fill with tears at the fear and desperation in Maia's voice.

"I-I hear you. I don't hear Phoebe very well, is she still here?" Maia looks around "I am here Tara. Shawn is here." Maia looks around, she is walking freely amoung the beds around her, nothing is holding her down any longer. "Richard, Lily.. There are some other people here, but I-I don't know their names. There's lots of people here Tara." Maia looks around again and then down at her own hands "I can see my hands but-" Maia stares at them, she touches her face, her hair. "Tara" Maia's voice sounds fearful. "Its not me, not me now."

Tara's hand reaches over Maia's body to grip Phoebe's, finally feeling a little less alone in her desperate quest to help Maia. "Maia, is this a memory? Is this from when you were taken?" She squeezes Phoebe's hand. "Let her hear your voice, Phoebe."

Phoebe squeezes Tara's hand. "Maia, sweetie, I'm here. I'm not going anywhere."

"Phoebe!" Maia looks around wildly. "Phoebe, Phoebe I'm so scared. I'm in the dark and they are hurting people Phoebe... Phoebe help me! The people, the people in the robes that I saw. Its them, the ones who pushed me away when I tried to see them. Phoebe help me!" Maia's voice is near hysteria. Maia sounds like she is running again.

Phoebe's face pales as she hears the terror in Maia's voice. She's trying to figure out how to free her friend from the nightmare.

"Maia, don't run away! Please don't run away. It's what they want."

"Maia, listen to me. I need you to tell me how old the body you're in is. Can you do that, sweetie?"

Tara keeps her voice level and calm, but her hand clenches around Phoebe's.

Maia is crying now, gasping for breath and laying on the floor behind a table again. She looks around, she felt like she was running in a loop ending up back at the empty table she had been on.

Maia glances down at her feet, at her clothes and has a sharp intake of breath "N-not possible." She is talking to herself now, trembling. "This is where they took me. I-I'm eight." Maia sounds scared. "I'm eight and this is where they took me." Her voice sounding on the border of fear and anger.

Tara nods, things starting to make sense. "You're not really there, Maia. You're inside your mind. In your memory. They can't hurt you again. Nothing can happen that didn't happen before - which means you can't save Shawn. Or the others. But you can find out what happened. Do you want to try to do that, or do you want to come home?"

Phoebe tightens her hand around Tara's, lending the woman strength as they tried to help Maia.

Maia looks around "I-I can't save them, are you sure?" She sounds defeated. "I want to come home Tara. I don't want to be in the dark anymore." Maia looks around again, watching Shawn screaming, she walks up to him. "I can't help you. I couldn't help you then either." She touches Shawns face. "Its all over Shawn, there isn't anymore pain for us. Tara said this is a memory." Maia walks away fighting listening to Shawns screams. "Tara? Phoebe? I want to come home. I don't want to remember this anymore."

"You can't save them, Maia. They're not really there. It's just your memory." Tara takes a deep breath. If she's locked in her mind rather than out of body there won't be an astral cord for her to travel. How do I get her home? "Can you follow our voices, Maia?"

Maia looks around. "I-how?" Maia looks around the room. "I can hear you." Maia focuses on Tara's voice. "Can't you come here? Your voice is here, you could come here too and get me?" Maia's voice sounded younger, childlike.

Tara sighs helplessly. "I... I don't know how, sweetie." She looks at Phoebe, whispering "any ideas?"

((ooc: we need to drag this out for a few more days, right?))

Maia looks around in the dark again. "Tara, somethings here."

((OOC: yep, she does indeed as much as I want her out of the dark and stuff. I cant think what to do with her once I get her out because I am not home to get her better etc.. I was thinking amnesia but decided against it. So she is going to stay in the dark))

"What's there, honey?" Tara keeps her voice as calm and soothing as possible. "Tell me what you sense."

((OOC: At the very least it's going to take Tara a few days in the library to research how to help Maia out. No overnight solutions!))

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