Alice

A Velcro strap was firmly pressing into my forehead and I couldn't move, only feel the cold hard slab beneath me and the bonds on my wrists and ankles.

I glanced around with my open eye but I could see only blackness and a small ray of bobbing light in the distance.

I could hear plenty of noise, the metallic rattling and the sound of rolling wheels...and a man arguing with himself angrily...

"Damn that Cyrus, damn him!" I was his best asset. He had no right to fire me!"

I had no idea who the voice belonged to, but he didn't sound very kindly and when he came to a stop above me moments later I realized he didn't look very kindly either.

He smiled down at me. "Glad to see you are awake sweetheart..." He said, the slightest hint of disgust in his voice. "You were in quite the accident...your brain is intact but your skull is broken and the left side of your body has been crushed..."

I easily recalled the accident I was in, the falling construction equipment from the top of a skyscraper, but how was I alive? And how was I not feeling any pain?

"I've given you some painkillers so that you won't feel the pain, and I am going to fix you up, when you wake up you will be fully functional again...you'll be just fine...just fine..."

I couldn't help but listen to him, I couldn't move or tell him he was full of shit, but he tilted my head to the left and I saw the horror of numerous glowing blue pipes sticking out of my heart and the bloody mess where my arm used to be.

I opened my mouth but a sound didn't come. I gagged and tried to turn away but couldn't...he did it for me...

"You just have to trust me Alice, I will help you...and soon you will be able to help me...but for now let's just make you better."

He lifted something long and sharp from his tray, which I now knew contained a plethora of tools...it was a saw, and he moved to my left side.

"You don't have to be frightened...you won't feel a thing..."

He placed the cold blade against my shoulder and started to saw, and it was bullshit when he said I wouldn't feel a thing. The pain was so unbelievably excruciating and I couldn't do a thing about it. When I heard the grinding of the saw on my bones I finally fell into blissful darkness.

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Author's Note: Okay this is my first collaboration story ever with Captain-Vincent...I hope you guys like it!