Evil & Love

Burns

She laid out on a bed. Her siblings must have laid her there. Her mask felt sticky against her face. Her body felt like it was on fire. Her everything felt like it had been trampled by a pack of oupslicreure. She tried to open her eyes but her body reminded her it might be bright. She didn't care.

Opened her eyes. She wasn't home.

"Where am I?" she asked aloud.

"You, Keilylia Jones, have been admitted into the Pycwarasial. We will begin your treatment shortly," a floaty head robot spoke autonomously.

You are so crazy, you need treatment.

You are so broken, you need doctors to fix you.

You are so messed up.

The thoughts had begun rattling off but then she noticed a bandage wrapped around her waist.

"Wait, what am I doing here?"

"You got into a major fight with the villains of this city. During the battle, one of the villains snuck up behind you and stabbed you with a dagger that was laying at your feet. Your siblings wisely brought you here."

Keilylia looked around at her surroundings. It looked like a normal med-room. Bleach white walls, grey counters, the stench of sterilisers. She was slightly overwhelmed by all of it, then, suddenly, her bed was moving. The floaty robot head had attached itself to the foot of her bed and was driving her out the door of the room.

She tried to speak. It was as if a hand had clasped down around her mouth. She tried to move, anything at all. But it was as if she were paralysed.

"Don't worry. After your treatment, all will be better."

Keilylia's eyes widened. Then she was in a dark room, but before she could recognise the darkness there was light again. There were machines everywhere.

"Don't worry, we are going to give you some sleep medications so that when we stitch you back up, you won't feel a thing."

The robot unhooked from her bed and got a needle and pressed it into her flesh. Then she was asleep.

"Keilylia?" a man asked.

"Hmm?" she replied, turning her head to face him.

"Do you think we will always have each other?" he asked. He was being very raw. It was a strange but cute look on him.

"Oh, I hope so. You are the eye of my storm. The one place where all is calm and I can finally breathe."

"Do you think we will survive if we can't be together?" Again another very raw question.

"I think if your first love ends, you will never regain the part of yourself that you gave to the person. Your first love can never be gained back, which is why I never intended to fall in love with you. A villain can not be trusted," she teased.

Suddenly she was awake again. Her side felt much better and her anxiety was dimmer. She was dimmer.

"You are now being discharged."

Keilylia walked out of Pycwarasial, with a rare smile on her face. One might even say that it was a fake smile.