A/N: Welp, guess who isn't dead guys.
Disclaimer:I do not own anything other than the original characters and storyline. The rest belongs to the BBC.
To say that Ellie was out of it was a complete understatement. She was tripping out of her mind, rendering her incapable of making any logical decisions and fucking up her internal compass. She was currently sat on her doorstep, waiting for Jake to turn up and walk her to school, holding her head between her legs to stop the spinning sensation.
"Ell?" The dark haired girl looked up slowly to see Jake looking down at her, concern etched across his features, "You all right?" It took Ellie a few seconds to realise that he had said anything, and when she did she just nodded and mumbled a semi-coherent answer. Jake squatted down in front of her before gently grabbing her shoulders,
"You don't look to good." Ell just shrugged, motioning for him to help her up. He did so and waited til she was steady enough to stand before they started walking. Somewhere along the 25 minute walk between her house and the school, Ellie had slipped her hand into Jake's and found herself leaning on him for support, so she didn't end up face flat on the pavement. She felt lucky to have a majority of her lessons with Jake as her morning continued in pretty much the same manner, her not having any clue to her immediate surroundings and him having to guide her along like a lost child.
Lunch time was a sort of issue, Jake didn't want his other friends to feel like he had completely blown them off for Ellie so he spent his lunch times sitting with them, leaving Ellie to entertain herself for 50 minutes. She had made some sort of attempt to meander around to the back of the sport hall for a fag but found herself sitting in one of the sinks in the girls toilet, looking through her pockets for some sort of pain relief for her headache. When she pulled out the tiny pill bottle filled with extra strong prescription painkillers for one Isaac Finkle, she didn't think twice about pouring a higher than recommended amount into her palm and chucking them back. Ellie had to hold herself steady as she hopped down from the sink and almost crumpled to the floor.
She doesn't remember getting to afternoon registration, stumbling in just after the bell went and plonked herself down in her spot next to Jake. Ellie furrowed her brows at him as she watched his mouth move but the words were muffled and fuzzy.
"What?" She asked, trying to stop her vision from going blurry by blinking rapidly. Jake leaned over and gripped her chin gently, moving her head so that he could look directly at her. He bit his lip with concern as he saw her dilated pupils and the dazed, barely there expression glazed over them.
"You're fucking burnt aren't you?" He whispered to her, his concern growing as she blinked sleepily, as if she couldn't quite see him. Ell was silent for a moment before she answered him,
"I just need to make it through the, the um," She swallowed, closing her eyes, "The next hour." She opened her eyes again as the bell shrilled, wincing as the noise drilled into her head. Jake stood, going around to her side of the desk and grabbed her elbow to pull her up. She allowed him to lead, her mind that fuzzy and her vision that blurred that she didn't really care where she was headed.
Ellie was either a teleporter or she was just that fucked that she kept blacking out every so often because one minute she found herself being pulled out of form by Jake and the next she was gazing at the whiteboard while the biology professor droned on about enzymes. She continued to gaze for a little while until she felt something warm dribble down her lip. She frowned as she raised her hand to her face, pressing her lip where she felt the warm liquid dribbling down her face.
"Ell?" She heard a muffled voice that she recognised but couldn't quite place as she pulled her hand away and looked at her blood covered fingertips. "Miss Henrichson, do you need to see the nurse?" A second voice joined in, the statement dripped with concern. Ellie just rubbed the red fluid between her fingertips, before looking up at Jake, whose face was swimming in front of her own. She flashed him a grin before her whole world went black.
A/N: Probably not the best thing I've written but I needed to update sometime right?
