Take Me Back || Mikhail/Jedi
The noise from the machines around had lessened through the days as now it was just the device that read his vital signs. They were back to stable parameters, much different from when he had first come here. He sat alone on the hospital bed as he stared up at the television set. The news was one, playing the updates of the week but he didn’t care much for it right now.
Who knew a person’s life could change perspective in a matter of a week?
Just five days ago, he was just about to finish college and spend a good long summer with his family. Now, he sat alone as he stared down at his bandaged hands. He tried to hunch a bit more to look more down at his arms but he flinched in pain. His back was still hurting and he knew if he tried any harder, the stitches would break.
“…what’s the use?” he muttered as he tried to lie back on the seated position the bed was at while staring at the empty chair.
It was a spot where people he knew would be seated, waiting for his full recovery but those who mattered the most… the ones who should be here now were gone… killed before his very eyes and he alone survived.
Why? …why was he able to live and not them?
How did this even happen? It had to be some kind of dream, wasn’t it? It just had to be. She couldn’t be back in the past? Picking up the newspaper after that strange flash of light, it couldn’t be 2009. It just couldn’t be? The problem was why the hell was she in a hospital of all places? It didn’t make much sense. What made even less sense was that no-one seemed to be able to see her. No matter how many people she screamed at, there was no-one who responded. So what the hell was going on here? Was she dead? Was that why she was here? Had something happened that she’s forgotten?
Walking through the corridors of the hospital, she finds that she’s missing all of her usual equipment, her baton, the stun gun, her laptop, her phone. Everything is gone. She’s just wearing a t-shirt and her jeans and boots, everything else? Gone. So does that mean she’s really dead? Touching the walls, she can feel them, but yet, no-one can see her, or even hear her.
She finds herself walking towards a door, almost as if some instinct is telling her to go there. Without thinking, she steps through it. Looking around. A standard hospital room and in the bed…
“Mikhail?” the name comes out as a gasp. She walks over to the bed without thinking. “Oh my god, Mikky, what happened?” though, through the haze of panic, she can see it. This isn’t the Mikhail she knows. This isn’t the one she loves. This one is younger. He looks younger than her Mikhail.
“What the fuck…” She whispers, staring at him. This cannot be happening… but then she starts taking in his injuries. “Oh my god…” this cannot be real. It just cannot be… was this… was this just after his family was killed? No, it couldn’t be. It had to be impossible.