GAPS pre-play

Ever since I've been told where Simon is I've been going mental waiting for this moment. Everyone together, we've been told. It's our best chance against all the people on plasmids, all the guards and super powered people on the side of KIRIN. Alec, Isabelle and I wanted to formulate our own plan, but we didn't want to endanger everyone else in the facility. And theses people must be powerful if they've been able to cage Simon and Magnus, and snakes knows who else.

Alec and Isabelle have their own runes to help them. I cast There's nothing to see here! on myself, simply because if someone comes after me with fire I'm done for. When the first strike is made, I cast It's show time! to find where Simon's being kept. It'll be faster than me trying to scent him out among all the chaos.

The spell leads me to a large room. It's permeated with the scent of smoke and magic. It smells like a recently dowsed bonfire, so thick I feel ill from it. But worse is Simon, strapped to a table, hooked to tubes and wires. There's a man attending to him, perhaps trying to move him in the midst of the sounds of fighting coming from behind us, and I don't think. I cast, "Hit the floor!" My voice is a roar, and he's knocked backwards into a wall. When I'm sure he's prone, unconscious most like, I rush to Simon.

"I'm here," I tell him, touching his forehead, fighting the bile in the back of my throat and freeing him from the machines they've got him hooked up to.

(no subject)

It's been days with no sign from Simon. I've looked all over for where he could possibly be locked away. I've tried finding spells and even asking random strangers if they've seen someone fitting his description. I've heard stories, now, about others going missing, and all of them seem to have one thing in common; they all have some form of magic. I've never met anyone more powerful than Simon, and the idea that someone could have taken him, could have locked him up, without any sign of him going off is honestly scary. Not for me, but for him.

Magnus, Kavinsky, Luke, Derek's boyfriend. Others whose names I don't recognize.

I feel like I'm going mad, and every minute spent idle in our apartment only makes it worse. I can't sleep, I've been living off blood alone because it's the only thing I've had an appetite for. I realize I don't want to be alone, so I text Alec, asking if he's at Magnus'. He says yes, so I pack up Puff and what blood I have left from Kavinsky, and go over to High Gate Terrace.

for Bitty

I hate that I've only just gotten this job, and I already need to ask for time off; possibly to quit. But I can't worry about dishes when Simon's missing. Kidnapped is the current theory, though none of us know yet by who.

It turns out that Derek's boyfriend, Barry, has also gone missing. He's sympathetic, already re-working the schedule for those who are unaffected, and gives me the time off. I thank him and head out, already trying to figure out where to look next.