The Asylum// A Janoskian fic

A Little Push

Daniel's P.O.V

    My stomach was in knots but adrenaline was pumping through me as we entered the hallway. I felt beads of sweat running down my neck. "Everything is going to be ok.. Everything is going to be ok", I repeated in my head as we started down the hall. With each step, coming closer to being free from this hell. Beau and Luke walked side by side, joking around with each other, bumping shoulders and all. Like we weren't about to bust out. They are so good at keeping it cool, it's kind of remarkable.

  Jai stared at his feet, somewhere else entirely. I really wonder who this experience has effected the most. Jai sexually harassed and physically abused for being "weak", James's legs (which I swear I can still hear pop when he stands), Luke's mental sanity, Beau's confidence, courage, and now his mouth, or me... I literally LITERALLY died.

    I bite my lip as I ponder over each possibility. The experience altered us and would haunt us for as long as we lived. I remember reading a quote on either Twitter or hearing it in some movie once while we were traveling; "Madness is like gravity... All it takes is a little push." I shivered at the thought. One of us... go insane? No.. it couldn't-, I was disturbed by a light pat on my shoulder. I turned around but I already knew by the touch that it was James. "Hey there, Jellybean, you doing ok?", he smiled at me, his white teeth glimmered, but I could see the tension in his jaw line. He was forcing it. "Yea.. just jumpy I guess. I was deep in thought..", I trailed off. "I always am curious as to what goes on in that head of yours", James gleamed and moved ahead to mess with Jai.

   I know I shouldn't be a worried as I am but all it takes is a little push to throw someone into the spiraling tunnel that is insanity. I'm a lot smarter than I seem and I know my boys like that back of my hand. My main concern seems to fall on Jai and Luke. Jai is quiet and isn't always the best when it comes to channeling his emotions, this could lead to violent outbursts, like when he knocked the lights out of that guard on the stairwell. Luke is already a ticking time bomb as it is, with his short temper in all but he has a decent grip on it.. depending. If something gets under his skin, who knows how-".

    This time it wasn't a touch that interrupted me... but a sound. My eyes darted in front of me and all over the hall. Beau peered into a slot where the noise seemed to be coming from. "The **** is that?!", Jai asked, shaking his head in disbelief,"It sounds like a rabid dog." I approached the cell where all the boys had gathered. One patient had broken free of his bonds and was snarling. "LET... ME.. OUTTTT", he howled between ragged breaths.

     He had blonde, scraggily hair and looked sickly, malnourished even. He threw himself against the door, repeatedly slamming into it... running on all fours. I've never seen someone contort themselves so easily before. It looked like his body was not suppose to turn in the ways it could. He stopped and stared into my eyes and that look would haunt my dreams forever. He didn't look human anymore, his soul no longer there. And I knew then that I saw the look of madness. He had been pushed too far.