Serenity

Chapter 66: The Mind Flayer

Jo's POV

Haze.

  I've been in this position before, though in the past it was drug induced.

I can feel the blood leaving me.

I can hear it dripping on the floor.

  I think the pain has numbed itself, or maybe I've numbed myself to the pain. But I feel like I'm dying in a way.

The pain was unbearable when Morgan was digging in my arm.

  I feel Hero fix my head so my neck isn't strained as were now in the car. I didn't even realize it. Hero's saying something, but in my ringing ears it sounds muffled.

  I weakly lift my arm up and look at the bandage. The blood has soaked through it already and you can see the the spot where the cut is.

Maybe this wasn't my smartest idea.

  I felt something hard in my arm, and after fighting with Morgan to tell him it wasn't my fucking bone, he said we should get it out. And I actually agreed.

It feels like everything snaps back into reality when my ears stopped ringing.

  "Fucking drive Felix! I don't give a fuck if you get a ticket I'll pay for it!" Hero yells and I look up at him wide eyed.

  "Fuck off Hero there's cops around and it looks like we fucking kidnapped her," Felix spits back and I giggle a bit.

  "Technically you did kidnap me," I say and keep giggling in the out of mind state I'm in.

  Hero chuckles a bit, and so does Morgan, but I don't think Felix found it funny.

  With my good hand I take one of Hero's fingers and start playing with it, kinda to keep myself busy. It's weird how the body takes trauma, because now I'm pretty chill. To be fair I've a lot of trauma, but my body processed it different ways.

  "How do you keep getting yourself into these messes?" Hero asks me softly and I look up at him.

  "This one I brought onto myself," I note, but it's definitely not helpful.

  "You don't deserve this," Hero says and I smile up a bit at him.

  "No one deserves pain, but we all have to endure it," I say softly and I squeeze his finger a bit as my ears start ringing again.

Hero's POV

All you do is hurt her.

  Fuck I hate my head. Fuck I hate myself. The only person who keeps me somewhat sane is currently bleeding onto the car floor.

  "No one deserves pain, but we all have to endure it," she says softly and squeezes my finger and squeezes her eyes shut. I guess her ears started ringing again.

  "How you doing back there?" Felix asks and I don't answer, I just look down at the Angel I've turned into the devil. "Hero, how are you doing," Felix says more sternly and Morgan turns back to look at me.

  "He's spaced out..." Morgan says and I feel like I'm having an out of body experience.

  I hear Felix shuffle a bit and turn back to me before quickly looking back at the road. "He's not spaced out, he's fucking spiraling," he says and honestly he's not wrong. I feel like I'm either gonna cry, explode, or do both in the matter if three seconds.

You're gonna be the reason she's dead.

  Fuck this. Fuck having this out of body experience. Fuck my fucking life. Jo looks like someone is slapping her in the face over and over again and I feel like I'm getting punched over and over.