l'appel du vide (henry creel fanfiction)

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She hated this.

She hated all of this.

Most importantly, she hated being alone.

Being alone, in the dark, with someone else's thoughts is a terrible way to lose your sanity.

Amelia felt stuck.

Well, she was incredibly stuck. In solitary. For what felt weeks which only turned out to be two days.

Two days she sat incredibly stuck with another persons thoughts, slowly saying goodbye to her sanity.

Get out of my thoughts.

Now Melia, I've told you countless times I can't. You just have to get used to this.

I deeply regret kissing you.

You don't mean that.

I don't mean that.

Peter smiled as he tended to his orderly duties. He had to pretend that he was wiped clean of his communication with Amelia, but hiding his reactions to their telepathic communications was getting harder and harder by the hour. Amelia was clearly sick and tired of being locked up in solitary and it was obviously driving her insane.

While he hated hearing her suffer, he knew it was helping his cause. She was furious with Dr Brenner. Amelia wanted nothing to do with the doctor. She stopped responding to him and Brenner didn't take it lightly.

Amelia sat crisscrossed in the corner of the room, humming fur elise. God how she missed her violin. It was a great way for her to calm herself, but since her little rebellion she has been denied all rights to her instrument.

Henry. I need to get out of here.

Don't we all...

What does that mean?

The door of her holding cell opened abruptly, causing Amelia to jump and yelp in surprise.

Two orderlies walked up to her and grabbed each of her arms, hoisting her up. The two men were much taller than her so her feet didn't even touch the ground. She screamed and squirmed in their grasp, desperately trying to free herself from their death grips.

"LET ME GO!" She screamed and screamed till her throat hurt, how she hated physical touch.

One of the men grunted when she managed to hit him in the face.

They brought her into a room with an operation chair. At least that's what she thought it was.

She was slammed down on the chair and quickly tied down with metal cuffs on her wrists, legs, and ankles. Amelia glared at the orderlies in front of her. If she wasn't handicapped by SOTERIA the men would be severely injured by now.

How lucky they were.

The door behind her opened and Amelia could see the reflection of the person who walked in. It was her father.

Amelia, are you alright?

Henry... help.

Amelia?

"Good evening Amelia." Dr Brenner greeted behind her. A manic smile on his face.

"Evening, is that what time it is? Sorry I couldn't tell, I was locked in a room and all." She sneered back.

"Oh my child, you never learn do you?" Dr Brenner switched a machine to life, Amelia could hear the electricity from the machine start to charge up.

She pulled against the restraints again, begging. "No please I will do better. I promise I will do better."

Dr Brenner shook his head. "Amelia, that is the thing, you never learn. You need to be reset."

Amelia's eyes widened. "Reset? What do you mean reset? Please what do you mean by that?" She continued to beg, tears now falling down her face.

"Amelia, my darling Amelia." Dr Brenner stroked her cheek as she tried to keep her distance from the man. "Your outbursts have been bad since you were old enough to talk."

Amelia froze. "W-what? You haven't even known me for that long. How would you know that?"

Brenner laughed. "You are so young, and so naive. This isn't the first time you've been... reset."

"What?"

"The strangest thing is that, this time, your brain told you there were men before us. Scientists testing on you."

Amelia listened in horror.

"Amelia, that was me. It has always been me."

At that moment, Amelia's whole understanding of her world came crashing down. She had no idea if she should even trust her mind. Was this even real?

"You are too powerful to kill but letting you form a mind of your own is dangerous."

Too powerful to kill, but you are dangerous.

Amelia repeated in her head.

Suddenly, the two orderlies force Amelia to a laying position and restrained her chest. Fully taking away her ability to sit up and move.

Amelia was now begging for her life and for her memories. Not only out loud but in her mind.

Two electrodes were placed on opposite sides of her forehead.

Amelia's face was wet with tears. All she could do was cry and scream, begging for Henry to do something to save her. But she knew, deep in her subconscious she was truly screwed.

"Charged." Was the last word Amelia heard before the pain of hundreds of volts coursed through her body. She pulled and tugged at her restraints to try to leave but to no avail, she was stuck. Slowly losing her ability to feel, to think, to remember.

Her screams were deafening, until the screaming stopped along with the electrical current. 

Her body slumped. Her breathing was shallow and short. It was clear she was hanging onto life. Barely.

"Bring her back to her room. Let us restart with her."

"Yes sir."

Dangling from the orderly's arms, Amelia let out silent moans from the pain she had previously endured. Before drifting off into a painless void.

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Yuh yuh. You thought I died. Only a little. But I don't have acrylic nails anymore so I can type like a mad man on my laptop. Sorry for being dead asf tho.

Je t'aime!!!
~Author