Due to my future plans for this story and for the, ahem, content in the last chapter, I have bumped the rating from T to M.
Someone told me that when the give you electroshock therapy they put this horn thing in your mouth so you can't scream and I didn't know that. I think that after spending so much time with all those crazies the doctors are crazy too. Dr. Chamberlain is the Lyle Bolton of the medical staff and he is craaazy.
On with the show!
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Becca woke up in the nurse's office with a splitting headache. She opened her eyes and winced as the bright fluorescent lights hit her eyes. "Ow, okay that's bright."
"You're finally awake I see," said a foreign voice.
Becca cracked her eyes open again and saw a young nurse standing over her. Her wide blue eyes were full of concern. Becca noticed how pale she was and how her face was covered in freckled and light auburn hair was tucked behind her ears.
"Yeah, I'm awake; who the hell are you?" she asked. The nurse's eyes widened even more. "Oh, I'm sorry, you must think I'm so rude; I'm Mabel, but most people just call me Nurse Johnson. I'm so glad you're awake I was getting worried."
"Okayyyy then; you don't even know me why were you worried?"
Mabel sighed and fiddled with the hem of her nurse uniform. "Unlike some physicians here, I actually care what happens to everyone here; this includes you."
"Why?"
"It's just how I am. I can't stand it when someone's injured," she shuddered.
"Wow, okay then. Hey can I go back to my cell? I think I wanna take a nap."
"Sure, I'll call someone to take you back and tell Uncle Jeremiah to let you rest."
Becca sat up and stretched her arms over her head. "Okay then, thanks for everything Mabel." She stood up and that's when it hit her. "Wait did you say uncle Jeremiah?"
Mabel nodded. "Yes, why do you ask?"
"Jeremiah Arkham?"
Mabel bit her lower lip and nodded.
Becca blinked and held up a hand. "Wait a second, rewind. Jeremiah Arkham, the sadistic, calculating, antagonizing administrator of this asylum is your uncle?!"
"Of course, silly; how do you think I got a job here as a nurse?"
"I thought you said your last name was Johnson!"
"It is."
"How?"
"My mother is Uncle Jeremiah's sister and she married Benjamin Johnson."
Becca blushed, completely embarrassed. "O-oh. Sorry," she muttered.
Mabel smiled at her. "It's okay. Oh good, the guard is here. I want you to get lots of rest, okay Rebecca?"
"Yeah, sure, whatever you say." Becca left with the guard and went back to her cell. The other inmates were at lunch right now so Jonathan, Jervis and Harley's cell were empty and Becca was able to get a twenty minute nape before they came back. The rest of the day passed and before she knew it it was time to go down for dinner.
Becca walked with Jervis on one side of her and Jonathan on the other and she sat with them when she got to the cafeteria. Harley and Ivy had decided to save her the trouble of choosing who she sat with by sitting with Jonathan, Jervis and Edward also. Harley was the first to speak.
"Becca, are ya gonna be okay?"
Becca smiled at Harley. "I'm fine, Harley, thanks for asking though."
"Wow, she's being nice; they must've fried something," said Ivy.
"Oh shut up Ivy I'm fine," Becca snapped. They talked with each other until Becca finally looked at Edward and said "What's wrong?"
Edward blinked and looked up. "Huh?"
"Eddie, you haven't said a whole word all through dinner and usually we can't get you to shut up; what's up?"
"Nothing, just—I have a lot on my mind, that's all."
"Oh, okay."
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Becca decided she was bored of Arkham for the time being so she, Jonathan and Jervis broke out and went back to their hideout. Becca ran upstairs, grabbed her ipod, ran back down to her and Jonathan's room and threw herself on the bed. She sat up and got comfy while listening to her music with the volume all the way up.
Becca never even heard Jonathan come in. He stood in the doorway and watched her silently. She was sitting on their bed wearing blue jeans, socks and a shirt that read "Chocolate is a vegetable . . . it's a bean." She had one leg under her and the other arched so her knee was in the air. She rested one hand on her raised knee and the other on a pillow and had headphones in with her ipod lying beside her.
Jonathan was tempted to startle her but he just couldn't stop looking at her. She finally noticed him and took her headphones out. "Hey."
"Hey."
"You gonna stand there like an idiot are you gonna c'mere?" she laughed. Jonathan grinned and jumped onto their bed beside her. "God, you're so overdramatic," said Becca. "I like it."
Jonathan's grin widened as Becca leaned against him and wrapped her arms around him. He wrapped his long arms around her shoulders and rested his chin on her head. They stayed like that for what seemed like forever and fell asleep still in each others arms.
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A/N: Cue the collective "awwwwww" from the audience. Lemme know whatcha think k?