Kickdrum Beating in My Chest Again (Alternate Version)

Chapter 18

*******Trigger Warning for Drug Use, and Graphic Depictions of Violence.*******

Patrick wakes up on the floor of his cell the next morning. He's not sure how he got there, though. The last thing he remembers is finding out that Brad was a vampire and him biting his neck and feeding on him. It was terrifying and the pain he experienced was excruciating! He also vaguely remembers someone with a slightly familiar voice picking him up and carrying him somewhere. Everything else that happened yesterday was crystal clear though. It was such a whirlwind. William had compelled Andy, the warden, to believe that Patrick was a prisoner and was serving five years for helping Pete and William escape. He tried his best to convince him otherwise, but he failed. He was strip searched and given a lightweight, short-sleeved, orange prison uniform along with underwear, socks and shoes. Then he was assigned a cell, which also happened to be Pete's old cell, and met his cell mate, Joe. He told Joe that he was innocent and that someone was trying to frame him. He hadn't slept at all that night.

Then next morning, he woke up with a humongous headache and was experiencing other symptoms from his concussion. They'd been taken to the shower room for their shower time and was forced to be naked in front of men. He was expecting there to be a problem, but the other prisoners seemed to just watch him and size him up. After shower time, Joe tried to council him on how things worked and answered questions he had. Next, was breakfast. They were escorted to the mess hall, but unfortunately, Patrick accidentally stepped on another prisoner's foot, ended up receiving a decent beating for it and the guy had dumped his food tray on him and rubbed it all over his body and his hair. Brad took them back to their cell, let Joe in but told Patrick that he was going up front to finish the booking process, which had taken a few hours. He'd been given more uniforms and then Brad dragged him back to his cell. Before they got there though, he made Patrick change in front of many of the general population prisoners just to embarrass him. When they reach his cell, Patrick asks if he could shower again, wanting to take Joe with him and Brad angrily agrees. After that, they returned to their cell and Patrick took a nap before lunch. Lunch went ok but he felt all the prisoners starting at him. Patrick was brought back up front after that for his new prisoner orientation where he learned the rules. It felt terminal and was way more than his foggy, slow-moving could handle. He'd brought the inmate handbook he'd received back to his cell so he could review it when he felt better. Brad had dragged him back to his cell and left him there. Joe wasn't around so he went back to sleep. Joe wakes him later because it's time for Yard Time, which he wasn't looking forward to. They are led to the door, given an orange jacket, and pushed outside. Patrick gets lost in his thoughts and when he returns to himself, Joe was nowhere to be found. It wasn't long before he was pushed from behind, tripped, and fell on the ground. An inmate named Theodore had asked him how he'd ended up inside with them, but Patrick is too scared to answer. Theodore grabs his hair and pulls him up to a sitting position. He stutters trying to answer when Theodore gets an inch from his face when they are interrupted by a guard who told Patrick that he was needed in sick bay.          

Spencer had called him away for a medical exam and told him that he would try to get him into protective custody and call his lawyer. Patrick was taken back to the yard, where he ran into Shane Morris, a former patient who was unhappy with his care. Shane and his friends harassed him and twisted his ankle pretty badly. Patrick was taken to sickbay to get his ankle looked at by Spencer, when another inmate named Gabe came in and told Spencer that another inmate named Davis was seizing and needed help. Spencer grabbed his stuff and left Patrick there with Gabe. Gabe then locked the door to sickbay, so no one else could come in. At first, Patrick seriously thought that Gabe was there to kill him, but instead he grabbed the syringe full of morphine for Patrick's ankle, stuck it into the bottle, and pulled more out. Patrick isn't sure exactly how much he measured out, but he knew it was a lot more than it should've been. Gabe grabbed his ankle and squeezed hard, causing more pain. What came next was shocking. He offered Patrick protection from all of the terrible people in general population, which he doesn't usually offer, and that Patrick would be wise to accept. When Patrick didn't answer because he was so focused on not being there for too long, Gabe took Patrick's arm and tried to inject him with the needle, but Patrick fought back. Gabe was a lot quicker than him and jumped on top of him catching Patrick's knee before it made contact with him, and whispering in his ear that he liked it when Patrick screams. While Patrick was distracted, Gabe injected him with the needle into his side. Something was wrong though, because he started feeling the drug's affects almost immediately. Morphine takes at least five minutes, so he wonders if Gabe somehow switched the bottle with something else. In which case, he has no idea what he was given, but he passed out very quickly afterward.