Subsist Affliction Woe
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This is a watered down SAW meets CSI fic.
Ch1: Acupuncture
Nick awakes. His vision is blurry and slowly starts to focus. He thinks at first he simply had too much to drink the night before. His body is extremely achy, his chest and back ache and burn. His eye is swollen shut and burns and stings terribly. Once his vision focuses he still cannot see. The room is very dark.
Nick tries to move but his hands are strapped down. He feels something heavy at his neck. The light flashes on blinding him. Nick looks down and sees a man on the ground with some type of metal mask on his face.
"Some individuals must go through a difficult ordeal to appreciate their principles. While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive. Sometimes to survive you have to fight and to survive means you win. It's time to test your principles." a man says from an old television set.
"What is going on?" Nick says as the restraints are released. He notices a spiky trap on his neck ready to snap and crush his head. Like the man at Nick's feet. "Where are my friends? Where is Frankie? You better not have hurt her!"
"Mr. Stokes, you have been selected for a test. You're a man of high principle... It's time to e tested. That trap on your head is set to snap in three minutes unless you take it off. There is a key but you can't see it." the TV turns off and the room is dimly lit by a single light bulb.
Nick begins to search all over for the key. That's when he notices a lone X-ray on the counter. He picks it up and sees an outline of a key in his face by his cheekbone.
Nick looks horrified in the mirror his left eye has a series of stitches underneath it. He moves his cheek and gets a shooting pain in his face. He pulls at the trap trying desperately to yank it off with no luck. He falls to knees screaming in anger and fear. That's when he sees a bloody scalpel in the dead man's hand.
Nick touches the dead man's hand, he's very cold to the touch it gives Nick the shivers. He pries the man's hand open taking the scalpel. He returns to the mirror.
His handshakes as he brings the scalpel closer to his injured eye. He cuts the first stitch. Sending pain across his face, his other eye starts to tear up making it difficult to see. He cuts another then another, until he's cut all but two. Blood drips down his face into the rusty trap.
He sticks his dirty fingers inside the cut searching for the key while screaming in agony. He finally finds it, he pulls it out ripping the finally to stitches out. He feels a sickly sense of relieve as he turns the key.
Finally the trap loosened and Nick throws it off his head as it snaps. Nick stares at the trap realizing how close he just came to ending up like the man in front of him.
Nick looks around the room the walls were written on. Some messages looked to have been written by other people begging for help. He saw the same quote though over and over again.
"I gotta get out of here," Nick says getting to his feet he looks in the mirror and sees something carved across his chest. But with his poor vision he couldn't make it out until he stepped closer. It said 'FRANKIE'.
Detective Frankie Reed had been seeing Nick for a solid six months after working the hydrofracturing case together.
Nick tried to think back of how he ended up here. But he couldn't remember anything. He couldn't remember the last time he had seen Frankie or Catherine or any of his friends or the last time he had been to the lab.
Catherine awakes dizzy extremely dizzy and sleepy. She could barely keep her eyes open. She sits up when she doesn't recognize where she is. She sees a television and before she can turn it on it turns on by itself.
"Some individuals must go through a difficult ordeal to appreciate their principles. While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive. Sometimes to survive you have to fight and to survive means you win. It's time to test your principles."
"What's going on? Where am I?"
"That pool is filled with needles of Novocain, heroin, lemon juice, and bleach. There is a key inside the pool that you will need to escape the room and find our friends,"
"What have you done with them?" she says as the TV turns off.
"Oh my god," she says standing looking at a small in ground pool full of needles and syringes. She sees the key dangling from a string. She turns the TV back on and sees a man lying on the floor. The quality of the picture isn't good but Catherine can tell that the man has something on his face and is covered in a metal mask lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood.
What she doesn't realize is that is not any of her friends but rather the same man who had failed a test that Nick had passed.
She moves towards the pool leaning over the edge reaching for the key. She lays on the dirty floor reaching for the key, she leans more and more over the edge. She feels herself losing her balance, she tries to grab the edge to save herself but falls into the needles.
She feels pain beyond her wildest dreams. The needles stick her in her back, neck, shoulder, arms, and legs. She feels burning, stingy, and a painful numbness as the injections fluid her body.
She reaches and grabs the key. She rolls over onto her stomach pulling the needles from her arm. Catherine starts to crawl towards the ladder, losing all sensation to her limbs she starts to feel numb all over. She begins to feel dizzy, lightheaded, and very shaky.
She grabs a hold of the ladder but her arms are too weak to pull herself up. She starts to lose her grip and falls.
She feels as if she's in an ocean swimming riding the waves. Her eyes drift close without much of a fight as she falls to sleeps.
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