into the darkness (eyeless jack x male reader)

Exxus

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(Y/N)

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The first thing I noticed when I woke up was that my head felt as if it had been trampled by a dozen horses. The second thing was that I was now blind. Or at least, in a very dark room. I sat up from the hard floor, my bones groaning in disagreement. Just as I raised a hand to my head did I finally feel the heavy clasp around my wrist. The cold chain whipped my cheek as I placed my palm against my forehead.

"What the..." I trailed the chain with my eyes. The darkness made it hard to see far ahead. The heavy links stopped a couple of feet away from me, welded in a thick plate screwed to the wall. Foolishly, I yanked against the chain, hoping to free my hand, but it wouldn't budge. I pulled harder, pushing my feet against the wall, in vain.

"Don't bother, you'll only hurt yourself." A high-pitched voice came from the obscurity behind me. "Trust me, I tried everything."

I pivoted and scrutinized the room. Even if my sight was getting more and more used to the shadows, I couldn't see much more than a silhouette slumped against the opposite wall. The figure was small and from the sound of their voice, they couldn't be older than ten.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"My name is Nora," the girl answered before repeating the question back to me.

"I'm (Y/N)."

"What are you doing here?"

"I... I don't know." What was I doing here? "What about you?"

"They found me sneaking around the building and thought I planned to attack them so they chained me in here."

"Who is they?"

She shifted quietly against her wall.

"I don't know. Some kind of military organization, I think. There were barbed wire and a few guards outside."

We stayed silent for a minute or two before Nora talked again.

"Do you know him?" The shadow of her arm pointed toward another wall to my right. I turned my head in the direction she was indicating and, with a bit of effort, made out another form in the darkness.

"Jack?" I ventured. "Jack, is that you?"

The figure didn't move.

"They brought him here at the same time they brought you, so I thought you might know each other."

If he had been brought in at the same time as me, it was Jack for sure. I kept calling him, attempting to wake him up.

"So, you two are friends?" Nora asked.

"Yeah," I answered, still looking at Jack, "we are."

I was hoping he would wake up soon enough when a thought crossed my mind.

"How long have you been here?" I asked the girl.

She didn't respond immediately. She was probably trying to figure out how much time had passed.

"Two weeks, I think. Maybe three."

I gulped. Three weeks seemed an awfully long time to spend in this stupid dark room. Whatever those people wanted from me, they'd better not leave me here that long.

"Have you been alone all this time?"

"Sometimes someone comes and tries to make me tell them everything I know about this place. The thing is I don't know anything. I was just walking through the woods and saw a building so I got curious. Of course, they don't believe that. They think I'm a spy. Do I look like a spy?" Nora asked sarcastically. I shook my head, even if she wouldn't see it. She sighed. "Other than that, there's a guy who visits once or twice a day to give me food. I hope you're not a picky eater because the only things he's given me are water, bread, and apples. Sometimes cheese, if he's feeling generous."