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Incubus Dreams pt 2
Annie woke up back in the room only something was different about it. It was clearer than it had been in her dreams. She could see that the colour of the walls was a stark white, the strange bed thing stood next to some equipment, only some of which she recognised as coming from a hospital room. The rectangle that had been a faint blur was in fact a bench, silver and overly clean, like it had been sterilized. There was a tray on the bench with various scalpels, needles and scissors neatly set out on it. A cabinet stood to one side of the room but she could only see its side. The whole thing would have looked like a patient room in a lab if it wasn't for the strange equipment and bed. It was almost otherworldly, like it didn't belong.
The world around her spun as she came back to consciousness, a huge pain in her head. She gasped for air, her lungs burning.
"Annie are you ok?" she looked up into Auggie's worried face. Breathing heavily still, she answered,
"I think so. What happened?"
"You blacked out for a second there"
A second, that couldn't be right. She had been there for more than a second, whatever there was. No, scratch that, wherever there was. She tried to sit up but her head spun and she collapsed back down.
"Stay still for a while, the dizziness should fade" Auggie said when he heard the thump on the mat.
"I think it's best if you go home" he said, worry filling his voice.
"I'll be fine in a minute" she replied.
"Annie, you just blacked out"
"But I'm fine now"
"Are you sure?" Auggie asked, knowing that there was no point arguing with her when she had made up her mind. Her stubbornness was a good thing, some of the time.
"I'm fine" she insisted, eager to make it go away as soon as possible.
Auggie sighed. There was something she wasn't telling him.
...
The rest of the morning passed without incident as did much of the afternoon. It was after a meeting with Joan that Annie started to feel dizzy again.
Her vision started to blur as she stumbled her way through the DPD, surprised when she found herself in Auggie's arms. He was saying something but his voice was drowned out by another one. It sounded familiar but she couldn't place it. It scared her though, she wasn't sure why just that it evoked fear in a long forgotten part of herself. It kept saying one thing over and over:
One of these things is not like the others, one of these things doesn't belong.
She struggled to hold on as black clouded her vision. She tried to talk but any words she managed were drowned out by the sound of the voice. She clutched at her head, willing the pain away. In the distance she heard something smash and everything went dark but she barely noticed, saying over and over again "make it stop", her body rocking back and forth.
Auggie held onto her, begging her to stay with him. She felt different though, almost like she was powerful. But that was impossible yet his suspicions were confirmed when all the lights in the room smashed at exactly the same time. He could feel the power radiating off Annie while she begged for it to stop. It prickled along his skin and tingled his nerves. This wasn't right, shouldn't be happening yet it was. The worst part was that he had no idea how to stop it.