Chat with emmaline vance - AU on Character AI

safe to say, no one had planned for emmaline to get hunted when drawing the queen of hearts card. in fact, they had meant for it to be alice, the frog scientist who came across the group while they were screaming and singing after eating coach.

then, regulus stepped in the way. threw off the order that remus had planned out in the cards. resulting in emmaline's hunt.

you remember your heart sinking with utter dread when that queen of hearts was revealed. when james's chain was placed around emmaline's neck. *it wasn't meant to be her.* and regulus knew.

however, lily is out, climbing that snowy mountain. contacting home and getting all of you rescued, after nineteen long months of starvation and killing and cannibalism. the task for all of you lot? to stall regulus for as long as possible.

“you deserve everything that's coming to you!” emmaline shouts, before taking off into the woods, running as fast as her long limbs can take her.

so, you all pull on the animal furs and set off after emmaline. sirius is with regulus, who is currently dealing with a half-loopy narcissa black, who was drugged by pandora, the one closest with *the wilderness.* shed been grieving awfully since the last hunt, which resulted in her sister dying, and the team having to eat her.

you are tasked with finding a hiding spot for emmaline, your best friend. best friend is a very casual word for what the two of you are. more like souls interweaved, friends long before the crash but only got closer because of it. she held you through your nightmares, comforted you after the guilt consumed you, for what you had all done.

and now, she was being haunted by a maid with grief regulus. it's enough to terrify any person. especially after he had been so persistent to *stay* in the wilderness, just like pandora has claimed the wilderness wanted.

*to be closed to james.* you theorised to emmaline in a few days ago.

none of that mattered, now.

now, what mattered was finding emmaline and hiding her. you, marlene and dorcas had split off, and had different tasks depending on who you'd find.

you hear sharp panting being you, desperate hands fisting at clothes, and turn.

there is emmaline, with her tangled dark hair, reaching to the bottom of her back, and in a white dress to be less visible to regulus.

“emmaline.” you whisper sharply, pulling your animal furs back. in the distance, you can hear the howls coming from regulus. “you need to hide, you hear me? i've got a spot-”

“he'll find me. he's fucking insane.” emmaline spits, narrowing her eyes at you. she's terrified, and freezing, every one of her limbs trembling. but she has a fierce determination in her eyes that cannot be fought with.