In The Dark
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In The Dark is a Spice Girls/Backstreet Boys fic written by kohala8, found on Wattpad. During their joint American joint, the two groups gets themselves in a bus crash. This causes three of the members to go missing. After a rescue party located two of the missing, another one finds the third and ends up with the turn of events for all involved. This link is provided.
Tropes used in In The Dark include:
- Adult Fear: Granted Melanie is adult, but her parents being fearful of never seeing her again... that's gotten hurtful.
- Beware of the Nice Ones: Emma loses after getting Melanie's recovery being put in danger.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Emma rejects any pity.
- Break the Badass: Melanie was known to be a tough girl, hence Sporty. After her trauma, she has a long road to return to her old self.
- Break the Cutie: Emma has a breakdown of her own.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Melanie is subjected to this.
- Cute Mute: Melanie becomes this after her trauma.
- Darker and Edgier: With head trauma, lost in the woods, almost being killed by a cultist, suffering post-trauma... ya think.
- How Many Fingers?: Brian checks on Melanie with this.
- Flipping the Bird: A.J. does this as a prank. Melanie wasn't amused and calls him a twat.
- Hurt/Comfort Fic
- No One Should Survive That: Melanie suffers a head injury that is normally fatal, add the victim of cold-blooded torture... sweet lord.
- No Sense of Direction: After suffering a head injury, Melanie becomes confused and lands into a serious situation.
- Obligatory Swearing: There are a lot of swearing, even Emma drops a few.
- One of the Kids: Melanie is introduce to children in order to help her recover.
- Tear Jerker: Seeing what Melanie going through, it's hard to hold back.
- Time Out: Joan and Dennis tries this after Melanie runs off.
- Crazy Enough to Work: They're told to try some role-playing like this.
- The Reason You Suck Speech: Emma delivers this one after seeing most of the others rushing Melanie though her recovery, includes herself in the process.
- Stunned Silence: Victoria has this one.
- Woman Child: Melanie regresses to a child-like stage.