Posted by TT on 12/5/2007, 1:21 pm, in reply to "Part 2 Symulent Wars"
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There was only darkness, the muggy heavy kind, the kind only achieved by a power cut when you are on your own and you’ve just finished your entire collection of scary movies. Her fingers found and felt the fabric on her face for the umpteenth time that morning, it’s texture rough and it’s warm folds strangely comforting, she rubbed at the two concave dents in it’s surface.
“Don’t scratch dear.” The vaguely Scottish accent again and her hand was gently, but firmly pulled from the cloth.
“Sorry.”
“And don’t apologise, the doctor nearly cuffed my hands behind my back when I had mine done. What colour are you changing yours to?”
“I’m not, they’ll be blue…again.” There were tuts this time.
“Blues boring if you don’t mind me being so bold, now purple, with gold flecks now that’s in this season, or maybe it’s gold with purple flecks…”
Tessa let the babble wash over her for a while, the nurse had already been in with two injections and Peter had come too before she sent him somewhere to sleep with the promise that Professor Moriarty was finally gone from both their lives.
Gone
She rolled the words over her tongue and round her head one more time.
Gone
Moriarty was gone. The sense of elation was damped down by all the painkillers in her system but it was still there fluttering like the butterfly of hope at the back of her mind. However so was the grief. She reached over and for the hundredth time found the smooth curve of the jar next to her bed, the Professor wasn’t the only thing that was gone.
Gone
Her eyes.
Gone.
They had taken them out earlier waking her up just long enough to ask for permission to remove damaged right one as well as the decimated left. She’d given it almost immediately after all what good was an one-eyed sky boarder. Ex sky boarder. She tuned back into the conversation in time to hear.
“…or green, they won’t have started them off just yet you still have time to change your…”
“I like blue.” It was more snappish than she had intended. There was a pause.
“Okay, blue’s…nice. I’ll just go and change the bandages on Mrs Patterson shall I and then we’ll get the doctor over to fit the VAU before we sedate you for a nice little sleep.” The nurse bustled away. The Visual Aid Unit, great she couldn’t wait, a black strip of moulded plastic they bolted to your face to interpret the world around and keep the nerves and brain active while the eye’s where being grown. Why didn’t they just strap a ‘kick me’ sign to her back and be done with it.
She fingered the metallic jar one more time before sweeping it off and onto the floor with a loud clang.
“Hey there, you’ll want to keep these.” There was the sound of footsteps next to the bed, one had a strange metallic quality as it hit the cold tiles of the floor. She heard the gentle scrapping of the jar being lifted up and slid back onto the table beside her.
“Let me guess another nurse.” Tessa didn’t know where the words were coming from she didn’t feel angry, but then again she didn’t feel her legs too well either with all the drugs.
“Na I don’t have the patience to nurse angry little nut jobs like you back to health, I’d swing at them after about a minute.” Tessa snarled.
“Listen you, I’ve just had my eyes taken out and I’m not feeling in the best of moods right now.” The voice went silent for a minute.
“Still got feeling in your hands.”
“Why…hey.” Fingers grabbed her hands and forced her arm upwards until they came in contact with something hard and cold and then proceeded to drag them down and then across metal then back and across flesh. It was over so quickly that Tessa didn’t have time to react and as the hand let go she flex her fingers and stared shocked in the direction of the speaker.
“What the hell was that you just put my hand on?” She demanded rubbing her fingers to try and get rid of the strange order of sensations.
“That.” Said the speaker with an air of authority “Was my face.”
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