Posted by alicia on 12/8/2007, 10:26 pm, in reply to "Re: 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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: Ok first go at posting a story on the
: message
: board - I make no apologies for spelling
: mistakes or grammer as I'm aware I suck at
: both. Also be warned this story will get
: darker before the end and the opinions
: expressed are not neccessarily the opinions
: of the author but are raised as part of the
: story. M can remove it or edit it if she
: doesn't find it suitable.
:
: Those of you who have been following this
: have waited a long time - Enjoy.
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