"Am I allowed to ask you something? Nothing serious, nothing like your opinion of the place and whatnot. I was wondering what your name was." Melanie sat down on the cold stone, thinking.
Jax looked afraid but stuttered out a awnser. "Jax… Please don't hurt me." He pleaded, his arms clutched around his middle.
(NVM)
"Hurt you? I wouldn't hurt anyone, let alone a patient here. We have to stick together, right? Insane or not?" Melanie rises, and extends her hand. "I swear, I don't hurt people without a good reason." Melanie smiled, and looked at Jax with content in her eyes.
The fog person watches this happen, nodding along.
(Which I'm assuming only I can see? Yay! I'm clearly insane! Lol)
(Nope, your just about halfway insane)
(That's kinda what I meant, but okay!)
(Waiting for @SleepySnake …)
(gtg, I'll be back on Monday most likely, maybe sometime over the weekend)
"Hurt you? I wouldn't hurt anyone, let alone a patient here. We have to stick together, right? Insane or not?" Melanie rises and extends her hand. "I swear, I don't hurt people without a good reason." Melanie smiled and looked at Jax with content in her eyes.
"That's what they said, you're going to hurt me. They said that someone would come in and say they wouldn't hurt me but they would be wrong. You're going to hurt me!" Jax jolted up, his body moving almost as if it wasn't controlled. He ran through the open door, just running, not looking.
"Wait! Please!" Melanie walked carefully to the door with a frown on her face, feeling sympathy for Jax. Then she did something she'd never do: she ran after him, pleading him to stop and let her explain herself. The closest she could get was five feet from him, and that was when she was sprinting. After running for a minute, Melanie falls, scraping her scrawny legs before cursing them. She continued after him, walking, ignoring the blood on her knees, and she had a slight limp.
Jax ran and ran, his adrenaline still there after a few minutes of running. Don't want to die, don't want to die, I'm going to die, they're going to find me and inject me and kill me! I'm going to die, die, die, die, die! His frantic mind repeated, that being one of the only things keeping him runnning.
I can't run anymore. I'm too tired. But he's gonna kill himself if he runs into a doctor! Melanie reaches a slow jog and eventually finds herself lost, Jax far away from her. Melanie was, for the first time in a while, genuinely scared. Melanie stopped, fell to her knees, and sobbed for her life, for her freedom, for Jax to come back.
Met chewed on his lip and led the way up to the vent, taking the same way out to his room. He plopped down lightly, helping Fox and looking around. A soft sobbing noise gently pressed on his sharp ears and he looked around.
“Hello?”
Melanie froze. Voices? "H-hello? I-is anybody there? Sh-show yourself!" Melanie stands and looks around with fearful eyes.
Met stepped closer to her, curling his hands up worriedly. “I-um… please don’t be afraid. I’m right here.”
Melanie turns to Met, "Are you a doctor? An enemy? A friend? All my friends aren't real, so I guess I have none, not yet…I'm sorry, I'm rambling, and I know that it makes me sound insane, so…" Melanie smiles nervously, cautious of Met.
“That’s okay. I don’t care, I like hearing people talk.” He smiled shyly past his hair, though his legs shook under him. This girl seemed to be as afraid as he was. “I-I’m patient thirty-two and I… I’m rather insane-ish myself I guess. That’s what the doctors said.”
"I…I ask questions, I ask questions a lot, and well…" Melanie looks at Met with a shy smile. "Oh yeah! My name's Melanie, but you can call me Mel if you'd like…"
Met nodded a little, mumbling his name back. “It’s nice to meet you.”
"Yeah, you too!" Melanie smiled and nodded, and then remembered Jax, making her face fall. "Oh. Oh, no! Look, I…I have to go. This boy, he…he ran away, and I want to make sure he's okay." Melanie sprints in the direction she thinks Jax went.
Fox just crawls out the vent as she runs off, he tilts his head in confusion.
By now, Jax had stopped running. He had seen a large cabinet with enough space for someone to sit on top of it… So, he did. He clambered onto it and curled up ontop of it.
"Where'd he go, where did he go?" Melanie murmured to herself, stumbling in the cold stone walls. She heard a noise and ran towards it, finding Jax on top of a cabinet.
"W-what are you doing? You're going to hurt yourself if you aren't careful! Look, it seems obvious you're scared of me, so can you promise me something? Please, don't fall… I've seen people fall before, and they never got back up again." Melanie sounded frantic at first, but her tone changed to somber.
"No. You're going to hurt me." Jax whispered, his voice hoarse. In his eyes, this was the safest place he could be. Even if he did fall, he would only break his arm at the most, at best he would dislocate it.
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