Breach

Prologue

Don't You Know I'm Starving

Dying was never the plan. I was supposed to live a long and prosperous life as a fiscally stable individual with a house, a car, maybe a family, and definitely a dog.

But then… Well… The details don't really matter, do they. Because here I am, lying in a hospital bed hooked into beeping machines and medical drips and dying.

I'm dying.

I can hear my family talking. Hushed whispers. Broken please and sobs. Time passes like a dream. Days feel like seconds, contracting into pinpricks of loneliness and fear, before expanding seconds stretching for an infinity and fury and grief fill my bones.

They are going to pull the plug. They haven't talked about it, but I know it's coming all the same. They are saying goodbye.

Don't know you I'm still here? I rage against the confinements of my failing mind. I spit and hiss and curse. How can you do this to me? Don't you know I can hear you?

Please don't. I'm not ready to go yet. I haven't had enough. Lived enough. Seen enough. It's not fair.

I didn't feel the respirator switch off, but the burning liquid fire that ran from my chest to my toes, to my fingers, to a body I hadn't felt in weeks, told me I was dying. I can feel myself slipping.

Slipping through my skin like sand and silk.

I don't want to die.

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I'm starving.

How can a dead person starve? I don't know. I can't think. I'm so hungry.

The sensation claws up my throat –what throat, I have none- like bile. My universe contracts around me, knives in my soul, in my guts.

If I were alive I could eat.

I want to be alive.

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Small one, I am sorry. I don't want to go. But don't you know I'm starving?

I'll devour you whole.

Author's Note

So this is a very heavy start to a hopefully not as heavy story.

Bleach was actually my first ever manga, so I can't believe I've gone so long without writing anything related to Bleach. I mean, yes, I fell out of the fandom because of the sheer toxicity present, and I am not really a fan of most of the story, but I still feel like I should write something.

So here I am with a brand new SI OC story! Yay!

Please do me a favor and don't comment on the length of this upload. Yes, it's short. It's a prologue. The real first chapter will be up in a day or two.

I would really appreciate any comments, so as always, please review!

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