#also yeah I love the idea of both Jonah being a sorta. not quite sleep paralysis demon to Cesar

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

Cesar couldn’t sleep.

Even though the blankets were warm and Jonny was snuggled against his chest, he couldn’t sleep.

His mind kept roaming to what he’d learned earlier in the day. Or, if it was past midnight, the day before.

He was lying in the bed of a dead man. He was in the room of two dead men.

It felt… wrong. Wrong to even be in this room, let alone sleeping in one of the beds. Which one owned the mattress Cesar was on? Jonah? Adam?

Adam… that was the name of the one he’d seen.

Blond hair, pale skin, blue eyes, BPS hoodie, jeans… broken neck, blacked out face with nothing but his teeth and pupils showing.. He’d smiled at Cesar before he vanished.

Was the man haunting him? Angry that his space had been invaded? Or was he haunting the group as a whole, staying with it even in death? Cesar didn’t know, but each idea scared him. 

His.. his mom always told him to respect the dead, to do anything to make a possibly lingering spirit comfortable, and he’d been invading the space of two spirits for months.

He remembered the faces from the photo he was shown, happy and smiling in each other's presence. The two had looked like brothers. They had looked like Cesar and Mark did before everything.

Cesar wondered what Jonah’s spirit looked like, if it was as… unsettling, as Adam’s.

No no don’t think about that… it’s rude… 

Sighing, Cesar opened his eyes, ready to get out of the bed and move to the couch, thinking he’d get better sleep there.

He froze at the figure at the end of the bed.

Arms spread wide, held up on strings.

Head hung low, laboured and strained breathing audible.

Legs limp, suspended above the ground.

Cheeks sliced open in a cruel mockery of tears.

Intelligent eyes staring blankly, even as continuous blood dripped down.

A shock of silver dyed hair, tangled with knots.

“...hola… torres…”

[jonah be like a sleep paralysis demon fr fr-]

OOOOOOOO /POS

Jonah accidentally scares the shit out of Cesar more at 11