Kickdrum Beating in My Chest Again (Alternate Version)

Chapter 83

!!!!!!!!!!Author's Note!!!!!!!!!!

Hello everyone! Happy Friday (for real this time)! I hope everyone's week went well! Mine was super fun! My son's birthday is today and we celebrated it by going to his favorite place in the whole world, Great Wolf Lodge for the past few days. For those that don't know what that is, it's a family resort with an indoor waterpark along with other fun family activities to do when you aren't in the waterpark. We had so much fun and my son loved it! Before you think he's horribly spoiled, that is usually his only gift that he gets for his birthday from my husband and I. We got home today and I didn't go to band practice because I'm exhausted, but in a good way. I'm glad I get the weekend and Monday to recover.

I'm not sure if I've shared this, but I have fibromyalsia. It's a chronic pain condition where our nerves are on steroids, so the pain that normal people experience, we experience amplified by 100%. Mine is relatively well controlled with medication, but one of the big things I struggle with is exhaustion. It sucks, but I'm not going to let it ruin my life. I just have limitations now. When we do things like this that require a lot of activity or, in this case climbing stairs and trudging around a waterpark for three days, my pain and exhaustion usually gets worse, so I have to pick and choose the things that I can do. For instance, the big waterslides are at the top of probably five or six flights of stairs, so I can only climb those stairs a few times per day. My son understands this and was just happy to go on them. Anyways, these types of trips are really fun but I am usually exhausted when they are finished and it takes me a few days to recover, but enough about me. Time for the story!

This week, Patrick wakes up from his hallucination, finding out that it lasted two hours and returns to his cell where there is a very concerned Joe. Patrick tells him that he will explain everything later and Joe understands that means when Brad is gone. Andy visits the location of where groups one and two were and is horrified by what he sees, which causes him to have terrible nightmares. The next day he remembers where group three is and sends all available guards and the medical examiner (Dr. Hughes) to that location. Dr. Hughes tells Andy that they don't have enough cold storage for all the bodies with thirty more dead incoming and asks Andy to arrange for a mobile morgue unit to be delivered to the prison. Andy calls the hospital for resources and secures one. Patrick tells Joe everything that happened with Brad and shares the details of his hallucination with him as well. Joe is disturbed by what Patrick tells him.As always, enjoy, tell your friends and if you like it please vote on my story or leave me a comment. If you'd like to discuss this with me, you can find me on tumblr @dancecoaster. Happy reading!

Chapter 83

*******Trigger Warning for Gore, Graphic Violence, Descriptions of Medical Conditions, and Rape*******

Patrick wakes up with a start, straight up to the sitting position having inhaled a huge breath. It takes him a minute to get his bearings and fully wake up from the hallucination. He looks down to see if she is still there in his arms, but she's not. This makes him sad, and he feels a few tears roll down his cheeks. That was a terrifying and incredibly painful hallucination but having her at the end of it knowing that she was on his side and would do everything in her power to protect him gave him hope. Now Patrick was back to real life in a place where very little hope existed because it was few and far between. Most everyone here had given up on hope, including Patrick to a small extent. The recent events that have transpired haven't helped and have knocked him down a step, but Patrick refuses to give up hope yet. His thoughts are interrupted by Brad waving his hands in front of his eyes, trying to get his attention. He blinks a few times before coming out of his head.