Sanity (4/3, Stalkers are welcome if you want :3)

"Huh? Oh, yeah, I'm fine."
"That's understandable. Sorry about that."
Fox nods, accepting the apology

Melanie was clearly uncomfortable, having both Fox and Reign in the room. Her eyes were constantly moving between the two of them, but she wasn't showing any clear signs of fear, besides the fact that she was hugging herself and pushing her back to the wall.

"You both com…" He stops mid sentence, and seems to change his behavior. He seems to look through them both, almost like he's hunting for prey, but doesn't find any. He goes back through the vent after looking, covering it back up.
"What the hell just happened…?"

"He has a thing… He has multiple personalities, I think, and they show a different times… He warned me before, when I was still awake and you were asleep… I don't know who he was just then, but I want to find out. I think he was trying to tell me to come follow him anyways… so I will. He's been here longer than us." Melanie attempts to open the vent (Idk if she can or not, so… it's up to you to say if she can or not).

It opens up, you can see clearly where he went, having his tracks be left in the dust. Fox waits patiently for Melanie to get in the vent so he can follow.

Melanie scrambles into the vent, not bothering to look behind her at Fox; she was pretty sure he'd follow, because if he didn't, he'd be left alone in an inescapable area.

Fox jumps up and follows her. "You lead the way for now."

Melanie grumbled and followed the tracks that Reign left, trying not to let her Schizophrenia kick in from panic (she's claustrophobic).

Eventually Melanie stumbles upon Reign, who just sitting there. He looks back, then continues along.

"What is he…? Okay?" Melanie whispers, crawling along. "Reign, are you alright?"

No response, he just gestures for you to follow.

Melanie follows cautiously, wondering their whereabouts.

Eventually Reign gets to a vent cover, he carefully removes it and heads down.
"You can come down if you want." Reign sits down.

"Okay…" Melanie's voice was quiet and lacking joy. She drops down and winces as her bad shoulder took the impact, but she managed to shy away from Reign, keeping their distance at a few feet.

Fox hesitates, but drops down.
"Welcome to my den. You can relax for a while, that would be preferred for you to do. Exit is over there if you want to keep going." Reign points to a uncovered vent.

"M-more vents?" Melanie's hands twitched nervously. "I c-can't leave without going into the vents?" Her voice was cracking, and she backed herself into a corner. "No escape…I was lucky to endure the vents before, but now…" Melanie looked like a terrified, helpless puppy.

Fox gives Reign a glare, and sits next to Melanie, trying to calm her down.
"I might be able to get a old hallway cleared enough for you to be able to pass through. It's going to take me a while though…" Reign starts prying boards off of one of the walls, revealing a dusty cobweb filled hallway, he goes in and starts moving stuff out of the way.

"G-get away!" Melanie pushes Fox, but not forcefully, trying not to be weak, but it was clearly showing.

Fox moves back, giving her space.
"I'll let you calm down, I'll be right here if you need me." He starts to hum to himself.

"It's…fine. I don't like it here…" Melanie cradles her head and rocks back and forth in an attempt to calm her nerves. "They're calling to me…telling me that this is a place of torture, of crime. They want me to join them…" (Auditory Hallucinations).

"They might be right, we don't know yet… He seems nice enough… Don't join them though."

"But…they hurt…their voices…they're so loud. Make them stop…Make them stop!" Melanie closed her eyes and started sobbing, curling herself into a tighter ball than she was before.

Fox starts to get up to hug her and comfort her, but remembers what happened earlier and sits back down.

(I love how Reign can't hear this xD)
Melanie, in an act of fear, grabs Fox's arm, and her eyes are wide, fearful. She lets go as quickly as she grabbed him. "I-I'm sorry. I'm sorry! I just-I just need help!"

(He's busy XD)
"It's fine, it's fine. I'll help you anyway I can." Fox opens his arms, and hugs her. "Just calm down a bit."

Melanie's sobs die down after a while, sometimes breathing in too quickly. Melanie, after her episode was over, hugged Fox back. "Thank you." She said, her words only but a whisper.

"Your welcome." Fox smiles.
Reign peeks in. "I'm almost done with the hallway, should be a few more minutes." He goes back to clearing the hallway.

"How do you do it?" Melanie says, retracting from the embrace. "How do you deal with all of this fucked-up-ieness?"

"I've just kind of… grown used to it. It doesn't really affect me as much anymore. If I do get on the end of dealing with it, I just hum to myself and shut out everything… Helping people helps me deal with all of this as well, it makes me feel… good."

"I'm sorry if I proved myself to be a hassle. We're all human, right? Well, on the inside, at least." Melanie stretched her legs by extending them out in front of her, and her hands lay dormant, folded together as if they were praying.