Facets of a Spider
Prompt: 046 Dark
HUNTER X HUNTER
"Please, just let me go..." Unable to finish his plea, his voice cracked from dehydration and terror.
Years ago, Owl never would have thought he could be in this position: beaten, tortures, and broken. Not him, never a member of the infamous Injuuin. But here he was, locked in a pitch black room, simpering in his own filth.
Dark.
Ironic isn't it? Your codename, Owl.
He had been in that room for who know how long, and knew that he wasn't going to be let out anytime soon. Even so, he begged his captors to let him go, to let him out of that room, to kill him. He had lost all his strength, and couldn't even muster enough to take his own life.
Black and lonely, so very lonely. Lonely, black, lonely.
You won't escape, nor will I give you any hope of escaping.
Owl wondered. Wondered about the days that had passed since his capture, wondered is he had been replaced, and wondered if any of the other Injuuin had been kept alive.
Not a soul in sight. Not a person seen.
I'm going to keep you here. Not forever, never for forever. But know that you may be here for awhile.
Time passed neither quickly nor slowly here. Instead, it sat, saturating around Owl. His body lay on the floor, suspended in alternating states of nothingness and pain. The darkness had long settled onto his body, making a permanent home there.
Heavy, heavy, low, low. Fast, fast, slow, slow.
This doesn't have to hurt. Stop making this so hard on yourself.
There was only one viable action to Owl and that was to think. Sometimes he thought that death was creeping on him like the shadows at the side of his mine. At other times he thought he was moving, walking, pacing, doing something that his mind had declared impossible in his state of being. he couldn't determine what was actually happening anymore.
He was sane.
Except he wasn't.
Owl always reached an emotional high whenever he saw light. The light came sporadically, randomly, but he was sure he saw a silver of something. Not darkness, nor shadows, but a bright glow that had to be light.
It disappeared.
That something always disappeared.
Everything had left him at that point. No emotion, no desire, only a blank, bith in his memory and mind.
Dark, dark, dark, dark...
If it's so dark, why don't you open your eyes?
So he did.
Owl thought he saw a room other than the one he was sure he was enclosed in. There were monitors, rippling curtains, and clean sheets all contained in a sterile white room. But there was the door. And past that door was that dark room, waiting for him. then the white room was getting unclear, fuzzy. Black fog devoured the sterling white walls and slowly deteriorated the images he imagined. Shadow after shadow consumed him and he found himself back in the black room.
Trapped, trapped, trapped, trapped...
It seems like you'll be here forever.
HUNTER X HUNTER
Author's Note - I had been wondering what had happened to Owl after his capture. After all, Kuroro's nen ability requires him to keep the person he stole a skill from alive. Sorry if this one shot didn't turn out so amazing. This is completely unbeta-ed and I'm not sure if I captured Kuroro's voice very well. Well it's the first update in a very long time.
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