Chapter Ten

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Darkness.

That was the first thing the Asset registered.

Darkness. 

The next was the sounds. 

Beep...

Beep...

Beep...

Heart monitor. 

Beep...  

Was he back at the compound? 

Beep...

"Let me--" 

Beep...

Voices.

Beep...

No. 

Beep...

He wasn't back at the compound.

Beep... 

It smelled clean. 

Beep...

A hospital. 

Beep... 

He was in hospital.

Beep...

"Please--" 

Beep...

Arguing. 

Hiss--

Pain.

Beep...

"Sir--" 

Beep...

Calm. Collected. Impersonal. 

Beep...

"I need to--" 

Beep...

Hiss--

Pain. 

Desperate. 

Beep...

The Asset struggled to hear more. 

Beep...

"Plea-e, I nee- o see hi--!" 

Beep...

Shaky. Tight. Painful. 

Beep...

Hiss--

Pain.

Darkness overtook him. 

~*~ 

Beep... 

Silence. 

Beep...

The shuffle of clothes.

Beep...

The creak of a chair. 

Beep...

Pressure beside him. 

Beep...

More shuffling. More pressurized areas. 

Beep...

Someone held his hand. 

Beep...

The real one.

Beep...

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