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Continuing my kidnapped Buck fic for @juneofdoom Day 3: Trapepd
Snippert below:
When Buck came to, his head was pounding.
Thump Thump… Thump Thump… Thump Thump…
God it was painful.
He tried bringing up a hand to his head, to rub it, feel for an injury or something, only to find that he couldn’t.
It was like his arms were tied behind him or something. He tried to flex his fingers, but he couldn’t feel them. For a brief second, he had a crazy idea that his arms had been cut off of him. But no, he would be in pain if that had happened. So they had been tied up for way too long and they had lost circulation. That wasn’t good, but better than them being cut off.
He opened his eyes, needing to see where he was, why he couldn’t move. Only when he did so, he couldn’t see anything. Complete blackness.
He could feel his breath rate pick up when he noticed this, slowly growing on the verge of hyperventilating. If he was in any other circumstance he might realize what was going on, but he wasn’t in the right head space at all right now. He had just woken up with pain all over his body, doubly so in his head and he couldn’t see a thing. His first thought had jumped to blindness.
Someone or something had whacked his head, causing a massive concussion and taking his sense of sight.
But then as he breathed in, his mind paused just long enough to feel a piece of fabric press against his lips as he tried to take in a deep breath.
Fabric…
There was some sort of cloth bag or hood over his head. Okay, okay, so he could see or well… he couldn’t, but he hadn’t been blinded or anything, just blindfolded.
Okay, he tried to take a deep breath, regain whatever bearing and control he could. But even so much as regaining his breath seemed impossible. They way his arms were tied up behind his back, it was putting a lot of stress on his shoulders, which in turn were putting a lot of stress on his lungs, stopping them from expanding fully.
Still though he tried the box breathing he had seen Hen try when their patients were going into shock. Breathe in for four seconds, hold for four seconds, and then breathe out for four seconds.
It took a couple rounds of that, but then he slowly found himself calming down from the near panic he had just been in. He still couldn’t breath normally or see, but he felt marginally more aware of his body.
He tried to wrack his brain for a memory of what happened, but kept coming up blank. What was the last thing he had been doing?
Had he been with Maddie? No, Chimney had finally worked up the courage to take her on an actual date, after basically dating her for months already.
















