Where Butterflies Never Die

Chapter 5: Humanize, Inhuman ends

Chapter Warnings:
Past Child Abuse, description of violence

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They're chasing the days to be free again

Painting the sky blue and twilight black again

- I the Sun

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Tommy didn't recall what he had dreamed. It wasn't like his normal ones that drifted from memory to memory before becoming that of a nightmare, ones so bad that he would find himself awake in a cold sweat where his heart was beating hard.  

Tommy was slow to wake up. His body felt heavy as he moved over to his side mumbling about how he still had a few more minutes left before his alarm for school would go off. After a few minutes and no alarm, he rolled over and opened his eyes. 

He wasn't inside his room.

He had no idea where he was. This thought made him truly wake up, his head and heart-pounding as he glanced around the room, he sat up to get a better look and noticed a chain was around his left leg. He wasn't tight around his leg and there seemed to be quite a bit of chain there. Bole raised his throat as the memories of the day before rushed back. Right be had been caught by Wildheart when he was running from The Editor. 

He closed his eyes before laying back down. What did they want from him? Nothing good his mind answered. After a few minutes of just laying in silence, he opened his eyes and sat up to finally get a good look around the room he was trapped in. It wasn't anything too exciting, just a single bed, a desk, a dresser, and two doors. He had to guess that one of the doors led to the way out but the other door he had no idea, maybe a closet, or a bathroom. 

The walls were a tan color and the desk and dresser were a dark brown color. The bedding was a deep red with a flannel print. The bed, now that Tommy was paying more attention, was quite comfortable. It wasn't very hard on the eyes and he could easily see this room being a guest bedroom which was so strange. 

He swings his legs over the bed, the chain hitting the wooden floors with a thud. He winces at the sound and freezes waiting to hear any other sound. It's all silent and Tommy lets out a sigh. He stands, his legs are shaky and he can hear his stomach growl. He hopes they have a little bit of mercy and feed him. 

He walks over to the desk and starts to go through it. It didn't take him long to go through everything and found that there was nothing inside. Next, he moved over to the dresser and began to go through it. Inside was a change of clothes. It strangely looked like it was about his size if not a little bit too big. He closed it and then went to the two doors. The first one he tried was locked, most likely the way out. The second one wasn't when he opened it he found it was a bathroom. 

He flicked on the light and looked around. It wasn't very exciting, just a toilet, sink, and a walk-in shower. On the sink, there was a toothbrush still in its packaging. He walked in and began looking under the sink. All there was, was a few towels. He looked in the shower and saw a couple of bottles of hair soap and body washes. He sighed, finding nothing useful in the room, and walked back out of the room. Making sure to shut off the lights and close the door. He sat back down on the bed and let out a sign. 

It was then that he heard the door begin to unlock. He froze and watched in horror as the door opened revealing Wildheart. The man was tall, something Tommy already knew. He wore a skull mask that looked to be that of some kind of a bore. Though he wasn't too sure, he didn't know that many animal skulls. He wore a flowy black shirt, it kind of reminded him of the Editor's white dress shirt. He knew that Wildheart also wore a red holographic jacket over top of the whole get-up.