Yeah. I wrote this as part of a ten-song fic meme (to get my head back in) and this is the only decent one of the lot. No beta, no proofread, no nothin'. Written in six minutes and twenty-two seconds. Flat.
Set to Black Milk by Massive Attack.
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I'm supposed to be having a fantasy right about now.
You know, the times I told my head backwards and to the left, staring into the sweet nothing of space, with weird-ass things going on in my head, only for me to snap back to reality five minutes (or seconds) later to find I said something really stupid and no one has any idea what the hell I was thinking?
Yeah, those.
Except that won't be happening much right now.
I'm lying in the middle of a padded room. No stimuli. No interpersonal contact. Just me and my head.
Normally, I'd find that enough comfort. Usually, there's enough half- and mal-formed thoughts in my head to entertain me for days.
I've been here three months.
I noticed they began getting a little drab after about a week. I have no idea what got me in here, but I was under strict order not to talk to anyone. Or do anything. Just sit and punch walls and babble in languages even I didn't understand.
It wasn't the colour that drained away, surprisingly. I always daydreamed in Technicolor, don't you worry. The people in them, rather, moved slower, in a more robotic fashion. Dr. Cox kept ranting, but I couldn't hear him yell. I saw him yell in slow-mo, but no sound came out.
Other times, I'd hear things, but only see the bright red walls of what I'd begun to think of as my own personal Alcatraz. I had a cat flap and all. They fed me tinned things. With little bones in them.
See? That was the beginnings of a great fantasy about bones. And muscles. And how great that ep of the Magic School Bus was where they explained it all. Ah, children's programming. Gotta love it.
But no. I've heard nothing about the outside world. I have no idea what's going on. Or going off. Todd would like that one. Insanity five!
Wait.
"Newbie, why in the name of God are you high-fiving the heart monitor?"