This chapter will share both your and Revenant point of view.
First part: (y/n) Pov
I've installed the simulacrum on the bed in the visitor's room. Dad is gathering all of the tools we have here and make sure they are clean and ready to use.
Just before I start, I'm sending a message to Myriam and tell her what we need her to bring in complement. She will be there in less than an hour.
I also check on internet our patient name in order to have a better communication with him.
Since he is a legend in the apex games, finding the name was easy enough.
"Revenant. Well... That's a nickname. I'd rather have his real name but I'll do with that."
I grab a mask and a pair of gloves as I return to the bedroom.
"I'll start working on your throat injure as much as i can before my sister comes to help. I'm very sorry to say, but i don't have any simulacrum anesthesics here, she'll bring them with her but for now, we have to do without them. I'll do my best to avoid you too much pain, i promise."
I put on my gloves, take a pair of medical clamps, lean over him with my father aiming the light on his neck and check one last time over his face.
"OK, let's start. "
Almost an hour later, the doorbell rang.
I have already opened his throat wide and cleaned the whole wound from oil, dust and damaged parts. I also fixed the most important wires and I was starting to check the engine itself.
"Good evening (y/n). Sorry you had to start without me. Where is he?"
I lead her to him and she gasps as soon as she sees the poor man health state.
"You told me he was heavily damaged but I wasn't expecting that badly. Give me the anesthetic."
She doesn't need to say it twice, I'm already digging my arms in her bag searching for it.
If I was a neophyte into simulacra health-care, I would have searched for a seringe and a little flask of liquid.
But they don't have veins to inject the product in. The oil cables don't really interact with the brain parts and it wouldn't react to the product like a human nerves system anyway.
Anesthesics for sim looks like a metal box with sticky patches connected to it. You put them around the patient head, calibrate the dosage and the box will send electrical waves to the brain and shut it off.
It's painless since you don't need a big voltage to make it work and it's immediate.
My sister places the patches on his skull and takes few minutes to adjust the machinery.
Then...
~~ZAP~~
Second part: Revenant PoV
She was cleaning my voicebox when the last skinbag arrived. A new pair of hands to touch me and a new voice to get on my nerves.
"You told me he was heavily damaged but I wasn't expecting that badly. Give me the anesthetic."
Anesthetic. Interesting. How does it work?
I try to focus and catch anything that could help me understanding what's next.
I could only hear the girl getting in a corner of the room and coming back with something metallic.
I feel the doctor placing some patches around my head and manipulating a tool that sounds like a remote.
Then a clic...
Then a zap...
Then nothing...
A blackout.
Unconscious of what's surround me or what is happening. Just like I was asleep.
But my mind is still awaken. And this silent void is leading my thoughts to the worst part of my brain.
Not again... I don't want to live all of this again!
I can't tell how much time had passed, but what I can tell is how many painful memories I had to watch again and again.
This is the reason why I avoid sleeping. It never feels like i have rested and it just brings back nightmares I'd rather forget.
I would have preferred feeling the whole operation than this.
Sometimes I can hear their voices, breaking the thick veil of the abyss. Even if they are just an annoyance for me, hearing them is soothing and relaxing. They make the nightmares dissappear for a moment.
Then, I hear the zap again and the voices fade out. I'm back in the silent void.
I count how many times I could reach to their voices as much as I count how much bad memories haunted me during my coma.
I'm getting more eager to hear them again. Anything but the silence. Anything but the nightmares.
My ears got out from the abyss again, and only (y/n) is present.
For some reason, she sounds like she knows I am here, listening.
"We didn't abandoned you, Revenant. You can trust us and rest. We'll wake you up as soon as we're done healing your voice and left eye."
I feel her hand gently brushing my cheek and then grabs something next to me.
~ZAP~
And I got back to the void, keeping that echo of her saying my name.
After this event, each time I'm getting out from my coma, I focus on her.
She called me "sir" or "mister" before, she genuinely didn't know me.
And now she calls me by my name and act even more kind and empathic than before.
Somethings off.
For some reason, I still believe that she doesn't represent any danger or threat. But I want to know what's going on.
I have so many question to ask once they'll repair my voice box.
Why healing me? How are they so effective into fixing simulacra and have so many tools for it? What will they do next? Do they know me or not? And why did she call me by my name?
I dive deeper in the abyss but my nightmares are replaced by echoes of HER voice.
My mind is not resting at all but at least, I'm not in pain or afraid of the void.
It is not silent anymore.
