I'll Fix You (EDITING)

chapter 15

Ari's POV

The silence in here is deafening, I know I didn't expect us to be chatty, I wouldn't even know what to say, but I didn't expect the sound of typing to be this annoying plus we've been here for hours and it's getting really uncomfortable now.

"Shut down." His low voice snapping me out of my thoughts, thank God, I was starting to think I was going to loose my mind.

"I'm not-

"Just do what I say, shut down, shut up, and don't ask questions." He says and I don't need to be told again as I follow the instructions and wait.

Not even five seconds after waiting I here the sound of footsteps walking by and whistling, I guess they must be locking up, I didn't even realize how long we spent in here.

The light of the room being turned off startle's me, I guess they turned out the power too.

"Shit." I hear and turn to find Eric sitted on the ground with his back against the wall and hands covering his ears.

"Eric what's wrong-

"Stay back!."

"Let me help-

"Arrrrgghhh." He screamed, he was really scaring me now and I could feel my eyes burn and somewhere behind my mind I could feel the panic attack trying to come out, but I violently pushed it back, I can't always be useless especially not now.

Looking back at him I finally take him in, so many emotions on his face, anger, sadness and fear, lots of fear, he looks terrified and that really doesn't settle well with me.

I try again to approach him, but a lot more gently and slowly trying my best not to startle him.

"Hey," I say my voice a very low whisper, he probably wouldn't have heard me if I wasn't moving closer to him. Still too scared to touch him though.

"Get away from me." He said, and I would have if I didn't notice how glazed over his eyes were, like he wasn't really here at the moment, meaning, for the first time, the anger wasn't directed at me.

This gave me just the right amount of courage I needed to move even closer and place my hands on both sides of his face. He immediately goes stiff, his blue eyes staring at me makes me want to run and hide somewhere but I fight against that urge, be useful, be useful, be useful.

"It's just me, Ariana, I'm not going to hurt you, ok." I say and see him try to relax a little, then I decide to do what Carla always does to me that calms me down.

Gently with one of my hands still on his face I raise the other to his hair and gently brush through it, at first he becomes a lot more stiff, but then he closes his eyes and completely relaxes, he even leans to my touch a little more. He really seems to be enjoying this, not that I'm complaining, his hair is like a baby's hair.

"How are you doing this?" He asks not arrogant or angry, just calm, exhausted and curious.

I slowly take my hands off his hair and face not wanting him to realize how weird the situation is and change his mood.

"Carla, S-she always does it t-to me and i-its calming so I thought it would help...." I say looking everywhere but at his staring eyes.

"W-we should p-probably find a way out." I stutter when he doesn't say anything but keeps staring.

That seems to snap him out of his daze as he looks away and gets up which I follow.

"Yeah, get your stuffs and follow me." He says heading to the door, I don't wait to find out if he will wait for me as I hurry after him.