Song: The Break
Show: Next to Normal
Context: A woman is finally reaching the breaking point of her insanity.
What's the song?: Nukem's dialogue.
Good song?: Yes. It would be beneficial for you to look it up. It's also a GOOD song.
A/N: This was one was fun to write. It's short but I hope you like it. I thought going insane would fit Nukem well.
"They told me that the wiring was somehow misfiring and screwing up the signals in my brain,"
Nukem twitched and shivered. Dr. Blight sat across from him and pink lead suit. She raised an eyebrow and waited for him to continue. She didn't want to try to cure his insanity with the same method as his doctors. That would only waste money and, oh so valuable, time.
"They told me that the chemistry could loosen up the circuitry and determine what was making me insane."
They really tried that? Jesus Christ the man's a giant radioactive monster. All bodily chemistry is essentially null and void.
"What happens when the burn is healed but the skin has not regrown,"
Nukem didn't technically have skin. He had morphed radioactive plates of genetically mutated cells... But it serves well enough as skin.
"What happens when the cast, at last, comes off and then you find the break was always in another bone?"
"I don't know Nukem."
The doctors got one thing right; Nukem was absolutely off his rocker. The guy can't even break bones. The radioactivity strengthened them to nearly impossible to imagine values.
"They tried a million meds and,"
Why on earth would they put medicine into this man? His DNA is infused with nuclear radiation, medications affect would be zero to none.
"They strapped me to their beds and, they shrugged and told me that's the way it goes."
What the fuck did they use tie him down? Let chains... And... Blight didn't even try to fathom it.
"What happens... If it was never in my blood or in my brain but in my soul?"
Dr. Blight pen paused in its quick strokes. Could the psychological damage from a cure... Could it be worse than the disease?