Squid awoke again to the sound of yelling and orders be shouted around. The noise was too much for him to go back into the world of darkness. Too loud…
"Hey honey, it's alright. You're fine," A nurse came up to him and brushed some stray locks of hair out of his face. Squid glared.
Don't call me that! He thought, and was just about to say it aloud, when he choked.
"No, no. Don't try and talk. There's a tube in your throat to help you breathe," The nurse calmed him.
This was all too confusing. Wasn't he, just a half and hour ago, digging another hole? Someone was talking to him…Zigzag…oh yeah…
Zigzag?
He waited…But, this time, there was no answer.
Squid squeezed his eyes shut. This couldn't be happening. Someone was prodding at his chest; another two pairs of hands was positioning and repositioning his leg.
"…BP is 90/60. He's going to go out any minute now, doc." A man at his side said, looking up towards a tall professional looking man.
"I know…looks like there's internal bleeding of the kidney and the pancreas. We're going to have to get him up to surgery. Carol, page them and tell that we have a boy that needs surgery ASAP."
"Yes, doctor." The woman replied, and walked over to a tan phone in the corner of the room. Squid opened his eyes again to see that a doctor and a nurse looming over him.
"Hello, there," The nurse said, younger than the one talking him before. Man…it was nice to see a pretty lady other than that Warden. But the Warden wasn't pretty. So, definitely, this was a change.
"I hear that your name is," The doctor glanced down at his clipboard quickly, then returned eye contact with Squid, "…Squid?"
Squid made a move to answer verbally, but then remembered 'the tube thing'. Instead, he nodded.
"Alright…" The doctor grinned slightly, "Squid. We're going to give you an anesthetic to put you to sleep. You're going to be fine. But, you're going to get a little sleepy. Don't fight it, alright?"
Again, Squid nodded.
"Good…Judy, go ahead and give him the sedative."
Not even 5 seconds went by before he was hit with a force of sleepiness. Why did everything never go his way?
He wanted to stay awake…but couldn't.
He wanted to go home…but that was too far.
He wanted a real mom…but couldn't have one.
He wanted his dad to come save him…but he was lost in the real world.
He wanted his friends at camp to come and bring him to his 'home'…but he knew that that would never happen.
Squid wanted to scream. He wanted to cry. He wanted to throw something...anything. Anything to get him away from this place…
His thoughts trailed off as the drug took its course, and he sunk into dark unconsciousness.
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Zigzag? He heard someone call.
Desperately, he tried to open his eyes, but failed miserably. He never knew that he could take a task, a so easy task that he took for granted, and make it so hard to achieve.
"…he wake up?" A voice asked. A very familiar voice. He couldn't still be at camp, could he…?
Suddenly, a large bump made him jerk to the left. A small groan escaped through his parched lips.
"Zig?" X-ray! Giving him new confidence, Zigzag sluggishly opened his eyes into small slits.
"X?" He answered. He listlessly looked around the small compartment he was traveling in, realizing it was an ambulance, "W-Where's…other guys?"
X-ray sighed the nodded his head towards the paramedic sitting next to him, "This fool would only let one of us go. And since I'm the D-tent leader, and the one who had been here the longest, I sneaked in here. I deserve a break. Hopefully, Mr. Sir won't notice."
The paramedic sarcastically rolled his eyes, and then said, "I'm going to take your pulse and BP, alright?"
Zigzag nodded, lacking interest in what those medical terms meant, and closed his eyes.
"Hey," The paramedic spoke up, "Don't fall—"
Zigzag interrupted, "Don' fall 'sleep…I know."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Squid woke up to a dark place. Everything was black. Nothing could be seen—nothing could be felt. Realizing that, he looked down, seeing his own body…yet perfectly healed.
There were no wounds, no breaks in his bones, no blood. Nothing but his…jeans and t-shirt?
Squid's brow furrowed in confusion. He couldn't remember the last time he felt the material of real clothes.
Looking up and down, Squid was baffled by the fact that he was standing on nothing but…black. He was too at unease to move. What if he fell? Fell into the never ending blackness?
Zigzag?
For the second time, there was no answer.
Please answer.
Silence. Pure silence.
Squid sighed. He was scared. No—he was never supposed to say that. Never. He was much braver than that. Squid didn't know what to do. Just stand in silence-on black nothing-for the rest of his life?
'Squid?'
Zig! Squid felt completely calmer—being able to talk to somebody, and all.
'Squid?...where are you?'
…I donno. You gotta help me. I don't know where I am.
'I…can't.'
Squid groaned, I can't move, Zig…black…too black.
'Squid?...I donno where…'
Squid gulped. He was about to take a chance and step forward when—
Zig! He screamed not only in his thoughts but out loud. He was falling.
'Squid?? Wha's wrong?!'
Help! Please…
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Zigzag opened his eyes, once again. And for the record, once more, found himself in the ambulance. X-ray was still at his side.
"Zig! Don't scare me like that, man!" He smiled.
"…Wha?"
"You completely went blank on me,"
"Ooh," He answered, but at the same time confused. All he did was close his eyes! He didn't go anywhere!
X-ray sighed and shook his head. He was about to say something when Zigzag interrupted.
"…I gotta go…gotta save Squid…"
X-ray's eyes bulged. What? "You alright, Zig?" He looked over in concern at the paramedic who equally confused, but then the man said,
"Sometimes patients are confused…they don't know what they're saying,"
"…He's lost…falling…" Zigzag's head lolled to the right, away from X-ray and the paramedic, eyes beginning to droop.
"Zig! Stay awake, man!" X-ray yelled.
"C'mon, stay awake. Don't fall asleep, fight it!" The paramedic urged. Something was squeezing his arm.
"BP's falling! Step on the gas, Frank!" He shouted to the ambulance driver.
Zigzag shut his eyes. He needed to go back and find Squid. He needed to save his friend.
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Hey Peps! Sorry that it took really long to update (I've been real lazy with updates, and I donno why)! I had no clue where to go with this chapter (as where I really have no clue where to go with the next…well, actually, I already have it started, and a little bit of an idea…but any thoughts, ideas, anything will be appreciated…a lot!). And to add to that, I had so much homework, and friends (and my boyfriend ^_^ ^_~) to deal with…so that just made everything worse.
But, anyway! I really hope you liked this chapter.
OoOoOoOoO! And guess what?!...
I'M GETTING OUT OF SCHOOL THIS THURSDAY! Yay! So that means a lot more updates!
Well, I'll be looking forward to your guys reviews! So..yeah…REVIEW! ^_^
~B.