it had been months since her admittance to brielle, which could otherwise be known as her RESCUE. long healed are the broken ribs and sprained muscles, having not heard her stomach pleading for food in some time known, the struggle her lungs once suffered having slowly faded into nothing more than a numb memory; audrey, on all physical elements, was recovering. spending years in the dark, a basement filled with nothing more than the smell of her own despair, audrey had come to learn that perhaps life was never meant to rule out in her favor. the world was never going to owe her anything, and how she was treated once she was abducted off the streets of the place she once called home proved that fact more than the brunette would like to even admit.
standing before her, a pretty young woman with education carved into her features; intelligent eyes, well-kept apricot locks, cheekbones prominent and reflective of a healthy diet and good genes. there was something CRUEL in the way she observed audrey, her patient, and it almost made the murderer’s skin crawl in the most defensive of matters. balling her fists, arms pressed to her sides, the beaudair damsel took notice of how she wrote in a neat near-perfect script on a note sheet, marking down her vitals and obvious signs of discomfort or poor health. according to her words, audrey had none, but within the conduits of her achingly tortured mind rested illness that couldn’t be spotted by the naked eye. the psychiatrist labeled her a poor, suffering girl with homicidal tendencies engrained within her being due to a man that taught her to be a threat. a brainwashed young woman who can’t seem to realize what that monster ( SIMON ) had truly done to her; stock holme syndrome, she had called it. among other things, audrey was just another poor bastard who had gotten the sharp end of the sword pierced between her ribs and twisted over and over again. the doctor’s words shook her from her state of boredom, causing her to blink dully, pulling arm sleeves over palms and shrugging her shoulders limply, uneager to reply;
❝ i feel as one must, doctor,❞ she signed in reply, lowering her eyes to her sheet sleeves, felix’s shirt, so she could pick unthoughtfully at the frayed hem and spiraling, lose threads- the fabric surely having met the lit end of a matchstick time and again. ❝ im full of more medication than i have been with food for the past two years of my life, how could i NOT feel well?? ❞