I'm sure this is my favourite drabble of this challenge *_* I hope you like it half as much as I love it.

Sumary: It is the most important thing for Kevin, he would give his life for the Smiling God. But... why does Kevin believe in the Smiling God?

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Day 3: Believe in a Smiling God

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Pain. There is so much pain. Every inch of him trembles in pain. Every time Kevin open his dark void eyes, everything aches.

When it will end? Never. They are going to torture him forever until he breaks into pieces. And Kevin is sure he already did. The pain is so powerful, so intense, so rude, so deep. So vast.

Had he been a radiohost once? It seems too far away. The day StrexCorp arrived to his dear Desert Bluffs seems too far away too. They had been fools. He had been a fool. But they had no way to know what was to come...

He is aware there is no way he is going to live now. He had provided resistance. A futile resistance, useless at the end. When he tried, it was already too late.

How long has he be there? Prisoner. His sweater is covered in his own blood. He doesn't even think this is over yet. Why is he still fighting? For his town? For his grandma? For... what?

Being awake aches. Sleeping aches also. Kevin isn't able to distinguish between them. He could be dead and he can't discern the difference.

They come back again. Because StrexCorp is too powerful and they always come back. Always win. He cannot do anything against them, he should kn3w it. He should know it now. They say this to him. They tell him to give up. He is the Desert Bluffs' voice -oh, true, he is. He only forgot it for a very long second-. Kevin remembers when Lauren Mallard visited the radio station long -very long, a whole life- ago. The first time she came to smile at het new neighbours. The second time asking a spot on the radio-show for the sponsors. The third time she came she announced that StrexCorp had jus bought the radio station. Then she started to visit him to tell him what he should say. Later she came to try to tear down the barricade around his booth... She said that resistance was silly and unproductive. Kevin didn't think so. But at the end it was. StrexCorp owned Desert Bluff. StrexCorp owned the station. StrexCorp owned him too.

He should give up. He could be very useful and productive for StrexCorp. They truly want to help him and wanted him to help them in return.

Kevin closes his eyes. But his eyes are still open.

Kevin is tied in a dark room. But he is in the desert.

This isn't the Desert Bluffs' desert. He doesn't know where he is but he isn't at home. He is in other place and there is only sand around here. Sand and sunlight. His body isn't aching and there is no pain. Kevin breaths, filling his chest with bright fresh air. There is nothing more there. Only the desert and him.

Kevin started to walk.

Kevin walked. And walked. And walked. And the desert was hot, still hot, only hot. And he was thirsty and it's becoming more and more difficult to walk on the sand. And the desert doesn't end.

Someone from StrexCorp returned. Because StrexCorp always return. But Kevin is in the desert. Far away. Lost.

The sand started to cover him. He cannot walk anymore, nevermore and now the sand is covering him. It will cover him until he is forgotten.

He knows the pain is there, but it is very far away. In another place. Nothing matters now, nor the pain, nor StrexCorp...Nothing. Only the sand covering him.

And then something move away the sand. Kevin didn't notice it until his face was out of the sand. Until he can open his eyes. What is happening? He doesn't want anything to happen.

There is a light. A shining, dazzling light... So pure than it is blinding... Kevin blinks. The light burns his retinas.

"What...?" His voice is broken, dry and hoarse. "... Who are you...?" He tries again.

It burns but it doesn't ache, he realizes... He still sees it, he cannot avoid it, even if he closes his eyes. And he doesn't want to lose this light, he realizes... It is beautiful. It is pure. It is the only thing that can save him.

When Kevin opened his eyes again in the dark room he was smiling. He was still smiling when the StrexCorp guys returned. Actually he was waiting for them. The Smiling God, who saved him from the pain, from everything, who can fix everything, said it to him. Nothing aches now and Kevin can smile.