I'm So Glad I Found You : Quintis Fic

Fake Smile & A Million Tears

"Toby! I saw him!" Sage shouted after waking up from her ‘nightmare’. She threw her head in all directions, frantically looking for her temporary guardian. She finally settles down after he comes to kneel by the couch. She was still breathing a bit heavy, and her body was drenched in sweat. Toby grabbed onto her hand and she breathed out a long sigh and dropped her head backwards back onto the couch. She snapped her eyes closed and clenched her teeth. She did not like what she just saw.

Her hair was damp and a few loose hairs were matted to her glistening forehead. She took a couple minutes to calm her racing heart and to steady her breathing. The team all waited patiently as she regained her composure.

"Who'd you see?" Toby asked after Sage opened her eyes again. He sat across from her on the coffee table. Leaning forward with knitted eyebrows and a stern expression.

"I saw Oscar... and there was someone else, but I didn't see their face...I just-- It was horrible," she released her hold on Toby’s hand and curled in on herself. A small sob stuck in the back of her throat that she refused to release, which resulted in strangled breaths as she rocked back and forth with her eyes snapped closed once again.

"I can't believe someone would do that,” she murmured.

Cabe’s face fell as he stepped closer to the couch and rested a hand on her forehead to clear away the hairs stuck to her red flushed cheeks.

"What'd you see kiddo?"

Sage took a deep breath and closed her eyes before explaining what had happened.

"I-I saw little kids. They were everywhere, maybe 6 or 7. Some were lying perfectly still on old worn cots with needles and cords connected to them at every angle. Some had to be restrained to the bed, because their body was thrashing around while they slept, or at least, I guess it was sleep. Some were gagged some were not, but all of them were pale and dirty, but no one seemed to care. No nurses came to help them. It wasn't even a hospital, it was dark and wet. As if they were trapped in a large stone prison. There were no windows and I could feel the cold ground on my feet and a chill went up my spine as I watched them. It was as if I were really there in that moment,” Sage uncurled herself and laid on her side, pillowing her head with her arm.

“Then I turned around and I saw a door, it was a big metal door surrounded by stone bricks. I was in a small confined room. The door opened and I walked through, and I- I saw even more children. They were all sitting around on the ground with books in their hands and holey socks on their feet. They seemed to be perfectly healthy, but it smelled terrible in the room, they didn’t even seem to care about the dried sweat and blood on their faces or arms. They just sat there with blank expressions reading their books. Some were reading on the cots in the corner, others had an entire workspace situated on the floor. Their clothes were far from clean or new. There were holes and large stains, and they all wore the exact same outfit, with a little tag on their chest, but I wasn’t able to read it,” Sage paused and looked up at everyone silently listening to her memory.

“Then...I saw Oscar approach me from a dark corner of the room, he had a long needle in his hand and he kept getting closer to me, but I couldn’t move. I was trying to, but my body seemed to collapse and none of my muscles worked. He got close enough to me to grab my arm and drag me back to the large metal door. He stuck the needle in my neck and whispered something to me. The last thing I remember was my body being lifted onto one of those beds, and everything went black, I completely lost control of my mind and body.”

During her description Toby had settled himself on the couch by her feet. He patted her shin for comfort and she sat up in response to lean against him. Cabe, on the other hand, looked pissed.