@moldedrose // drugged & tied to a chair after being tortured and missing // inbox open.
He came to in fits and starts. His eyes fluttered, unfocused. He couldn't lift his head. He couldn't feel his left arm. His mind was disjointed, signals coming in all wrong. His mouth tasted sharp, like iron. He heard someone's voice. Young. Feminine. The tacky, stickiness of his tattered clothes glued to his skin. A pounding in his skull. Nausea roiling his stomach. It was hard to breathe.
There was no hope of getting his training together like this. He couldn't put the pieces in the right order. His memory was a scattered jigsaw puzzle. He remembered pulling away from a needle. He remembered a table of metal instruments. He had grinned with bloody teeth and spat in the face of one of his captors. He couldn't remember what they wanted.
Something pushed at his shoulder. The pain was sharp and sudden and Leon uttered a strangled noise. He pulled away, or tried to, the rope holding him still strong. Leon tried to open his eyes again, left his head.
The lights were dim and still they stung his retinas. Something smelled like puke or death and Leon shuddered. His skin felt too tight. Colors blended into one another. His head pounded. He caught sight of her hair first, before his eyes fluttered closed again.
Maybe it was a few minutes that felt like hours, but his body ached now like one big bruise. Leon knew if he moved it would get worse. Maybe he wouldn't come back from this. He wasn't as young as he used to be. They had wanted to know something. He had kept his mouth shut, even when they started on his nails. Even when they said his teeth were next. He didn't think they got that far, but they got far enough.
His throat was a desert. His breath wheezed. He coughed, tasted red. He forced his eyes open and found her, found her for real this time.
"G-guess y'foun'me." In time? Uncertain.