Nico struggled in Raph's arms, trying to pull herself free so that she could get back to making sure Eric would never lay hands on her again. She'd take his hands first, claw them right off his wrists...
She snarled again like a whole host of haunted houses, her voice plunging from its earlier shriek toward the sooty growl of her spell-casting. If he wouldn't let her go, she'd just have to make him--
--No. No. This was Raph, she wasn't going to hurt Raph. He was trying to help her, he'd promised to keep her safe, he was trying to keep her safe...
Nico stilled abruptly, then latched onto Raph's arms, hard enough to hurt but not hard enough to break his skin. She needed to anchor herself in place in case it came back, that feeling that she had to make Eric hurt, make him pay for scaring her with blood and screaming, oh God, her hands were covered in his blood...
She started to shake in Raph's arms, adrenaline and horror and the strain of trying to force herself not to tremble nearly enough to shake her bones apart.
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She snarled again like a whole host of haunted houses, her voice plunging from its earlier shriek toward the sooty growl of her spell-casting. If he wouldn't let her go, she'd just have to make him--
--No. No. This was Raph, she wasn't going to hurt Raph. He was trying to help her, he'd promised to keep her safe, he was trying to keep her safe...
Nico stilled abruptly, then latched onto Raph's arms, hard enough to hurt but not hard enough to break his skin. She needed to anchor herself in place in case it came back, that feeling that she had to make Eric hurt, make him pay for scaring her with blood and screaming, oh God, her hands were covered in his blood...
She started to shake in Raph's arms, adrenaline and horror and the strain of trying to force herself not to tremble nearly enough to shake her bones apart.