GALERIANS: Elektra

Well First Chapter and inspired by Gyescune (forgive any wrong spelling there love). Again much thanks to Angelo who once again wrote most of the fic around my foundations for it. A bit psychological here... is Rion making stuff up as he goes along? Or is he telling the truth. What's real? What's not? Review! Also this fic will eventually be Slash so be forewarned.

--Temporarily Insane-/-/

"We've been through this before" Dr Birdman said coldly. "It was all a nightmare Rion. There's no such thing as psychic powers and Lilia is the name of a new psychotherapeutic drug it was all a dream"

Rion was hunched up in the corner of the padded cell in his sterile white scrubs. "Dorothy never turned against us, she just bettered our lives"

Dr Birdman was a young doctor; he was dressed in a black suit and white lab coat, his black hair tied back. "Remember you attacked those people in the seats with a syringe claiming you had psychic powers... you've really only just woken from a coma but we're sure we can help you get back on track"

"You were there," Rion said. "I killed you at my house..."

"Rion, your parents are both alive and you are safe here in the Elektra Wing of the Michelangelo Mental Institute. They're the ones who want you to get better, we were sure you were addicted to Lilia but maybe you just had a dependence on the soothing effects."

"She's real. Lilia Pascale she's real" Rion whispered

Dr Birdman shook his head. "I think that's enough for today Rion... you should go and have some dinner with the other patients of C block..."

"What about Ash?"

Birdman stopped in the doorway and slowly turned around. "Ash was schizophrenic he died of radiation poisoning trying to "eat" depleted uranium at a factory he broke into..."

"He was real!" whispered Rion.

"It's okay Rion, we'll fix your mind" Dr Birdman said.

Rion hadn't left his cell since he'd awoken from his coma in the ward. "You have to leave eventually," the cold woman's voice said. Rion jumped and shrank into a corner, staring at the door. "They've locked me up here too...apparently my belief that this world is fake annoys them" she said in an indifferent voice. "Dorothy herself had me locked up here... doesn't matter nothing is real, nothing here...it would be nice if there was something real though...a world to call our own, a world where we existed."

"Who are you?" he called.

"No one, someone, anyone" was the reply. "Why? Does it matter to you?"

"What's your name?"

"What's in a name?" she replied. "Don't fret you don't have a name either Rion. I've been engulfed in despair so deep it hurts... my suicide attempts also wound me up in here..." there was a pause. "Why do you stay in your cell? If the world is false the cell is no different. Why torture yourself wishing a single room was real when you can live in an asylum of falsities"

"What – is - your - name?" he repeated.

There was silence then: "...Nitro" followed by disappearing footsteps. Rion stared at the door then rose and walked towards it reaching out for the handle...

He opened the door. Was it Nitro? Was SHE just an illusion? He wasn't sure but she was part of Ash...he had to find Ash...

"Decided to show?"

Rion shuddered as the voice came from behind him. Nitro was standing there...she was dressed in the pale scrubs like he was her black hair was exceptionally messy and her pale face was as cold as always... it was her, she even had her fingers near her lips like she always had.

"Come along" she said. "I'll show you all the illusions"

Rion slowly followed her down the hall. She led him to the Recreation Room. All the people inside were in scrubs. All of them were familiar.

"That's Spider," she said pointing to a dark corner where the green haired boy was hunched up, large spider webs around him. "He refuses to let the doctors clean the webs out, he went catatonic last time they did...you should see his cell. He has a spider, a pet actually... he was an abused child, he tried to off himself and wound up here – love that legal system real or not"

She moved on a few steps and pointed at a couch. "Rita, she's in here for...cutting herself, anorexia, self-destructive behaviour and general unpleasantness towards the orderlies."

The red haired woman flipped off one of the men watching the patients. She was Rita. Same busty shape and red hair. "Over there" Nitro continued, pointing towards the boy playing a board game with another.

"That's Rainheart he's... he was hit hard a few times... now he's worse. Before he tried to strangle a doctor who wanted to give him a booster shot... now he's...lost" Rainheart sat dreamily playing the game with the other boy.

She took Rion's hand and led him towards the board game. "Cain!" she called. Rion froze as the boy rose and turned.

His hair was still messy but attractively so.

His eyes were still Green unlike Rion Steiner's.

His head of blonde-brown hair was mussed and he looked less like Rion... on a superficial level at least, they didn't look as identical as they had before... but... when you looked, really looked, he was perfectly Rion.

"Wow" Cain said. "He's as handsome as I am"

"Yes uncanny" Nitro agreed. Rion just stared. "You two aren't related are you?"

"My mother was an abusive wh- she was a total angel," he mumbled clutching his head. "I loved her, she loved me... we were one big family" he sang faintly.

"Cain has parental issues," explained Nitro. "His mother was some religious fanatic - who forced him to love her I guess – anyway, he's got some mother issues that got him locked up"

"HEY WORMS!" hissed a nasal voice. "DINNER!"

"Parano, chief orderly" explained Nitro as the sinister looking boy shoved the trolley of food into the middle of the room and stalked away. "Stay away from him, he loves to beat patients into pulps."

Cain handed Rion and Nitro a tray. "Eat the dinner Rainheart" Rita said. "Then you can play the game"

"Don't want to" he mumbled.

"Rainheart" Rita said sternly. "You have to eat, it makes you strong and there's no medicine time because you keep strong"

Whimpering at the mention of medication Rainheart accepted the tray of slop and poked it. Rita sat down after giving Spider a tray.

"So he's left his cell," she murmured looking Rion up and down.

"Rita" murmured Rion. "I - remember" he mumbled. "But it was real... I know it was real"

"Uh...what?"

Rion looked at them. "The Galerians...we were Galerians and you all tired to kill me and I killed you to protect Lilia and then I stopped Dorothy...what is going on? It was real...I know it"

Rion! Rion I'm here

"This guys fruit loops" Rita said. "Totally fogged! If he killed us how are we alive?"

"I like him" Nitro said. "He doesn't believe this is real"

"Okay" Cain said slowly. "I'll just go...somewhere else"

"Listen to me!" Rion exclaimed Grabbing Cain's arm. "I killed the people here...their bodies at least I'm positive that their minds, our minds, have been trapped here! Please! Birdman tried to kill me at my house, Rita confronted me at a restaurant, and Rainheart and I fought in a hotel room! Cain you and I battled in the Mushroom tower Family Program room... Nitro we fought in a world you created, I fought Spider there too and Parano... you three were all part of Ash..."

Nitro flinched then Rion was wrenched backwards.

"I've got him doctor" Parano exclaimed as Birdman dived in with a syringe and after the prick of pain... Rion was out again.

Rion...please...time is running out

Lilia?

Rion... you have to come back I've recreated a body for you, you need to hurry the program's been

Rion lost all focus.

"Interesting theories" Birdman said as Rion opened his eyes, his limbs were too heavy to lift. "Rion this is the world, the REAL world... what you have is delusional transferral, you're making up a world with people you know."

Rion struggled.

"You need to calm down and remember that you're not in a world with psychic powers or genetic projects by Dorothy who helps the city function," Birdman continued.

"Lilia" whimpered Rion, his voice croaking

"Rion... its all a dream... a hallucination. You're Rion Steiner, a 20-year-old student in pharmaceuticals... well up until you went insane... look. The world is real, once you accept that this was all fake... you can leave" Parano was standing at the window he pulled open the curtains revealing a beautiful blue sky with fluffy white clouds the gardens of the Asylum were lush green with some other inmates planting colourful flowers.

"Its all real Rion... just... accept that it was all a dream" Birdman whispered, close...dangerously close, to Rion's ear.

"It's not real," whispered Rion. "I will find Lilia"

Birdman looked at a mirror above a sink for a moment then at Parano. They both left the room and Rion continued to fight the paralysis.

Was he delusional? Or was this all some sort of plot...was he in memory of some sort? He didn't know... but he wasn't about to give up without a fight. He had to find Lilia. Pat. Ash... Ash...

He felt his limbs spasm and feeling return in places. He swung himself out of the bed and clumsily stumbled towards the door he gritted his teeth, forcing the feeling back through his body. "Lilia. Ash" he managed.

The hall was empty... he leaned on the wall, his vision blurring as he stumbled towards the stairs. He didn't worry about falling he gripped the banister in his arms and made his way down as best he could.

"HEY! STEINER" he recognized Parano's voice from above... he didn't waste time... he stumbled towards the Rec. room. "GET BACK HERE STEINER!"

Rion stumbled in the door. The other inmates stared at him. "It's not real," he mumbled. "Spider's pet is Leo... Rainheart feared the monster in—i-inside himself... Cain was bitter, resentful...mother hated his eyes, her failure... Rita dreams-dreamed of snow... peace...death... Nitro wants to see the look of despair... she asks if we're sure anything is real... we all hate mother...she twisted us..."

He collapsed... everything was dark and cold... he wondered what he'd wake up to if at all...

TBC

So...is Rion mad? Was it all a dream? Or is he trapped in the Elektra Ward for the rest of his REAL life... is Lilia just a voice in his head?

Will he find Ash? There will be slash and that was a rhyme too. Next Chappie I may just have slashiness