Eridan sat in class, biting his lip a little bit and tapping his foot, full of anxiety. Once he heard the very familiar sound of the bell to go to the next class, he got up and bolted like a rocket that was just ignited. Today was different than the norm. Last night, he had terrible nightmares of strange taunting voices chasing him in his head, which followed him into the waking world. The screaming voices filled his mind, slowly wittleing down all hope he had before, which was slim. Eridan was constantly teased for his appearance, his accent, his behavior, anything anybody can even think of, the bullies would twist it around. What is worse, his best friend who he wanted to be in a relationship with denied him and went to be with a boy who he DESPISED, and she acted like their friendship never existed and like he was no more than a pathetic loser.

Eridan approached a very familiar location, Feferi's locker. As predicted, Feferi stood next to it, chatting away to Sollux. As soon as Eridan had drawn near, Sollux walked in between the two, almost like a protective way. "Look who the cat dragged in. What do you want, athhole?" Sollux lisped. Eridan's hands balled to fist but said nothing. Then, the voices began to scream in his head decided to scream in his head even louder than before. 'KILL HIM.' they screeched. 'GIVE HIM A TASTE OF HIS OWN MEDICINE.'

Eridan's knees buckled, feeling weak and almost falling to the tiled ground, shaking. Feferi's eyes locked to Eridan. "Sollux...are you using your-" Feferi began before Sollux inturrupted. "Thh, don't talk about that. I'm not doing it! He'th probably faking to get attenti-" before he could continue, Eridan grabbed ahold of Sollux's head, slamming him hard into the closest locker. Students gathered around like vultures to the sound of bloodshed, and the hallways became stampedes of running to the location.

Sollux, trying to stay standing, failed miserably and slunk down to the ground, blood leaking from his head. Feferi, mortified, stood there paralyzed with fear. "E-Eridan...no...why?!" Eridan glared at her. "Are you afraid of me?" Feferi began to back up a bit. "No! Of course not! W-W-W-Why would you say that, Eri?" Eridan screamed out, no longer in control of his own actions, "You are a DIRTY FUCKING LIAR!" and grabbed her, kicking her down. He grabbed her neck with extreme force, lifting her into the air. Feferi struggled, running out of oxygen and her lungs suffering. She tried to form words as her face and all of her skin gained a red tint.

He began to bang her head into the locker, gaining force every time he did so. The school's faculty came running, trying to force him off of her, and not seeing them coming, Eridan let go and Feferi fell to the ground, limp. She was unconcious and the nurse came running with assistants and carried the two injured away. All of the staff there tried to hold Eridan down, Eridan screaming and halucinating. All of a sudden, the walls and floor were nothing but a black hole and the people around him were nothing more than black globs of monsters grabbing at his shirt and arms. "Let go of me! LET ME GO, MONSTERS!" In reality, Eridan lay on the ground twitching in terror and lost consciousness.

When he woke up, he was in a bland looking white room with padding on it. He realized he couldn't move his arms. He screamed out and a nurse came in. "Shh, shh, shh. It's okay. You're okay." Eridan glanced up to meet eyes with her. He had then realized the familiar feeling of big clunky glasses on his face were gone, as well as the scarf on his neck revealing self harm scars and his cape. "Where...am I?" The nurse was short with round glasses and long black hair. "You're in Victory Recovery Hospital. You're Eridan Ampora, right?" Eridan tried to nod but was restrained by his newly attained jacket.

"I'm Jade Harley, and I'm your nurse. Your other staff caring for you while you are staying here are Miss Rose Lalonde, your therapist, and Dr. John Egbert, your psychiatrist. Any questions?" Eridan, sarcasticly rolled his eyes and said. "Oh, I don't know...how about...WHY IN THE FUCK AM I HERE?!" raising his voice in the last part. Jade pursed her lips and noted, "Jeesh, please keep your voice down and keep swearing at a minimum. You're here because you've put two people in the hospital. The therapist predicts homicidal thoughts and likely depression, seeing since you have three big gashes on your neck, one down your leg and one huge one on your wrist." Eridan began to shudder, the voices returning to him. "I-I...ugh..." he began to shake. Jade, stricken with panic, called down the hall for Rose. When she would peer back he'd be off to sleep.

When Eridan's eyes fluttered open once more, a girl with short blonde hair sat next to him in a different room. "What happened now?" he muttered, still not completely sure of his whereabouts and god damn it he was still in a straightjacket. "I'm not like some brutal murderer, I don't have to wear this thing!" he stated. Rose smiled over at him. "That's what I tried to tell the doctor. My name is Rose Lalonde, your therapist. I assume you've heard of me?" Eridan nodded, still restrained to do so. "I'm Eridan." Eridan muttered quietly. Rose, in her office chair, pushed herself to roll towards a folder, searching through and reading things before returning to face him. "So Eridan, tell me something. How did you obtain those scratches?" Eridan remained quiet. Rose looked into his amethyst eyes, her almost hypnotizing violet eyes calming him. "Please, trust me. All of this is between us, I only have to tell the doctor. That's all." Eridan tried not to crack, but he couldn't help but let himself be pried open by those beautiful violet orbs.

Eridan then burst about all of his troubles. He went on about his relationship with Feferi and how it felt like he was being used and the bullies, as well as Sollux. He also went on how the people that he actually talked to thought he was just an arrogant sulking asshole and that nobody liked him and how he was all alone. He said how he hated the human race more than anything and has always wanted to destroy the world. Then, he got to the voices. As soon as she explained them, Rose's before mostly optomistic demeanor began to wane. "I am so sorry you had to go through that, Eridan." Eridan didn't even notice that he was crying. "All of those people can't reach you here though. They won't get to you here. You're not some arrogant sulking freak here. You're more than that, and you always have been." Eridan, still sobbing, muffled, "Thank you, Miss Lalonde." Rose reached over and pushed the hair out of his face. "Please, call me Rose." Eridan replied, "Okay Rose. You don't think I'm just some insane murderer, am I?" Rose frowned before stating, "Eridan, you're not a murderer. Sollux Captor and Feferi Peixes are not dead. They are being taken care of in our sister hospital, Vista. Don't worry, they'll be taken good care of."

Eridan tried to even out his breathing, but his voice came out ragged and shakey. Rose gently put the palm of her hand on Eridan's cheek. "All I ever wanted was a friend. Someone who wouldn't think of me as a creep, freak, weird, stupid...I just wanted to belong." Rose smiled sadly at him. "I know, you poor thing. But soon, you'll be able to meet the other occupants. I'm sure there are some you'll befriend. First we have to convince Dr. Egbert that your voices won't control your actions like when all that happened at your school." Sniffling, Eridan tried to cease the waterfall of tears cascadeing from his eyes. Rose grabbed a tissue and whiped tears out of his eyes for him, since Eridan was unable to. Eridan told her, "Thank you, Rose. You have no idea how much I appreciate your kindness." Rose then glanced to a small clock on her desk. "Oh, I do believe our time is up, Eridan. Do you want me to escort you to your room, or shall Jade?" Eridan murmered a simple "You, please." and Rose's smile grew and she stood from her office chair and put her arm around Eridan, making sure he doesn't trip, guiding him back to room 311, where he stayed.

Once Eridan was at his door, he stayed still for a moment before entering and Rose waved before going to shut the door but Eridan rose his voice and said a sharp "Wait!" and Rose paused. "Yes?" Eridan's legs began to quiver. "Please, don't leave me alone in here!" Rose sighed and assured him, "Jade will check on you every fifteen minutes. You won't be alone. I'll see you later on, Eridan." Rose waved and closed the door shut, locking it tight. "ROSE!" Eridan yelled, but she was unable to hear him. Eridan began to hear voices shouting at him to stab and hit anything, but he wasn't able to, even if he wanted to.

The next morning, Eridan wasn't the same. Jade walked in, grinning. "Good morning, sleepyhead! I'm here to take your vitals." Jade carted in a machine on a pole, holding a blood pressure cuff. "I'm going to undo your jacket a bit..." Eridan remained silent, and Jade opened it up a little, helping his likely asleep arm out of it, having it held out so she could slide the cuff on, and began to take his blood pressure. "G-Good morning." he stuttered. "Once you're done with...whatever it is your doing, I need to continue working on my doomsday machine. Did the rest of the parts come yet?" Jade, who was in the middle of taking off the cuff, froze up, shocked at his sudden delusions. "Oh...um...none yet, Eridan." Eridan nodded. "Oh, I see. I understand, these things can be really slow when arriving here. They are imported after all. So...Jade, would you like to go on a date?" Jade's eyes went wide. "Er...no. I'm just going to go and tell Rose about your statistics..." Jade calmly left, taking the machinery and closing the door. Once she closed the door however, she ran to Rose, explaining what had happened.

Eridan slipped out of bed, looking around the room. "What a change from my labratory." he murmered to himself, then going to the window. Eridan heard a knock at the door and spun around, Rose opening it then closing it behind her. "Hello, Eridan. I heard about you wondering about your...doomsday device parts not being here." Eridan nodded. "They should have been here by now. I want to finish my device so I can start my genocide." Rose hummed to herself. "Mmhmm. I see. And I heard you asked Jade out on a date. Even though you're eighteen and a senior in high school still." Eridan tipped his head to the side. "Did I?" Rose looked a bit concerned. "That is what Jade said, yes." Eridan shrugged against his restraints. "Odd. Anyhow, Rose, what brings you here?"

Rose chuckled nervously before answering, "Eridan, what do you remember from yesterday?" Eridan pondered it for a while before answering, "I met you and Jade. Stared at the walls. That's it." Rose then asked, "Were you making your device the other day?" Eridan scoffed, "I would, if I had my parts!" Rose let out another sigh. "Sit down, Eridan." Eridan went over and sit down on one of the beds. Rose continued, "You didn't mention anything about these parts the other day...can you tell me why that is?" Eridan responded, "Well, I was moved to this place, so I was a bit disoriented." Rose nodded. "Well, today you get to meet Dr. Egbert! Hopefully your parts will get here soon..."

Eridan then had a confused look on his face. "What 'parts'?" Rose sighed. "Looks like you have a multiple personality issue." Eridan's confusion only grew, not remembering saying anything about 'parts' even though he had said it only a minute ago. Eridan pondered to himself, Am I going mad? Was I already mad before this?! Eridan, losing his grip on reality, mumbled, "No, no, no, no, no... I'm not losing it. Not now. I can't. I'm too young to go crazy." Rose tried to make eye contact with him, having to force his chin up for him to look at her. "You are not going crazy. We're going to help you get yourself together." Eridan nodded, and Rose released her grip. Eridan then asked, "How much do you know about me?" Rose smiled at him and said, "We have all of your records, like age, date of birth, etc." Eridan then asked, "How old are you? I mean you look really young." Rose chuckled. "Well I'm flattered. I'm twenty two. But this is a bit off topic, huh?" Eridan found himself in a mixture of chuckling along and crying from all of the stress on him.

Rose then collected the different files she had and turned to the door. "The Doctor will see you in just a moment." Rose walked out, and Eridan remembered that his hand was freed from when he was having his blood pressure taken. Jade didn't remember to refasten it. Rose jumped and goosebumps formed on her skin when Eridan took her hand. As soon as he felt the familiar texture of skin, the voices returned, telling him to harm her, but Eridan couldn't. "E-Eridan? What are you doing?" Eridan's face began to get red. "Y-You're...basically my only friend Rose. And you're really beautiful and-" while Eridan was rambling on, a bunch of security staff in white coats ran in and forced Eridan to let go of Rose. "No! I didn't...NO! I DIDN'T HURT HER! I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!" Eridan screamed out as they refastened the straight jacket and strapped him into bed. The security staff then began to apologize to Rose, and Rose of course brushed it off. Before exiting with them, Rose gave Eridan a glance, knowing Eridan didn't want to hurt her.

Eridan passed out, and dreamt only of death. Death all around him. Rose's death, Jade's death, Feferi's death mostly and Sollux's. He could see lots of blood on his hands in the dreams, making him think it was all because of him. At the end of the dream, he stood on top of the hospital and jumped, the fall being slow motion. As soon as he hit the street below, he jerked awake and let out a yelp. Dr. Egbert entered the room and gave Eridan a cheery smile. "Hello, Eridan. I'm Dr. Egbert, but you can call me John if you'd like." Eridan only gave unintelligable mumbles in response. "Well, Eridan. I heard you've been having some audio hallucinations lately." Eridan responded with a small "What?" in response. John chuckled and noted, "You've been hearing things that others don't hear. And that's perfectly fine. And I-" the two heard a pager go off in his labcoat pocket. He checked it and his once cheery demeanor became a frown. "What?" Eridan asked, impatient. John looked over at him and merely said, "Feferi Peixes is dead."

I know I'm really bad with adding chapters to things, but I AM GOING TO TRY MY BEST.

Eridan: wwhy the fuck am i a psycho in this?

Because reasons.

Eridan: ...wwhatevver i dont givve a fuck.

I HOPE YOU ENJOYED!