Title: GRAVITY
Chapter: 5 (Nine Red Squares)
Author: phantastus
Fandom: Silent Hill
Rating: PG-13 to R
Genre: Horror/Drama/Angst
Main characters: James Sunderland, Mary Shepherd-Sunderland, Laura
Summary: Before James can leave the home he and Mary shared behind for good, there are wrongs to right and memories to unearth. So, so many memories.
Notes: Chapter 5 of my ongoing, obscenely long SH2 fanfic. Set directly after the Leave Ending, but contains heavy implications of In Water. The fic is mirrored over here along with several subsequent chapters, but I will be posting the most up-to-date edits here for the time being.
This story was initially written (and is still in progress) for NaNoWriMo 2009.
Disclaimer/Warnings: In keeping with the source material, this fanfic depicts events and situations that may be considered violent or cruel. If anything in the Silent Hill series triggers you, this story may not be for you. This chapter deals with potentially-upsetting concepts including but not limited to:

-general horror concepts
-intense depictions of PTSD/panic attacks
-mentions of murder via suffocation/smothering
-depictions of child neglect/growing-up experiences with a mentally unstable parent
-medical emergencies related to terminal illness
-mentions of alcoholism, alcohol consumption
-implied domestic emotional abuse
-STRIPPER ACTION sexual situations (non-graphic)
-extreme TL;DR
-the phrase 'Down Syndrome' is mentioned like once
-an umbilical cord in a box

Please read at your own risk.

Recommended Listening:
-All is Well (It's Only Blood)
-Weight of the World
-Fog in the House of Lightbulbs
-Wake
-Recessional
-All is Well (Goodbye, Goodbye)

( It's hard to keep the rainclouds out when the windows never close. The house feels like a graveyard now, like the floorboards hide the bones... )

MORE ICONS.
I don't have a problem.
I CAN STOP ANY TIME I WANT.

This batch is mostly from 2, 4, and 5, with a couple other things thrown in.

Total Icon Count: 35
_{Angela Orosco: 1
James Sunderland: 3
Mary Shepherd-Sunderland: 3
Maria: 1
Heather Mason: 4
Henry Townshend: 5
Eileen Galvin: 2
Frank Sunderland: 1
Alex Shepherd: 6
Miscellaneous (monsters and scenery): 11}
Teasers:


( Oh mama, I can hear you cryin', you're so scared and all alone. )

As usual, please credit either phantastus or dazlious if you take any of these. Commenting isn't necessary but is appreciated-- I'd love to see where these are being used!

The drawn images used are either SH4 concept art, illustrations from the SH1 novelization, or (!!!) my art. I don't usually include any of my own Silent Hill fanart in these icon sets, but the itty bitty one of Heather walking in a field turned out nicely enough that I felt like including it.