W.I.N.G.S.

Medicine

I stayed still. Completely still. His shallow breaths fanned against the skin of my neck. I used every muscle in my body to stay completely still, but it seemed almost impossible with my erratic breath and heart beat. Everything was so silent. This room was silent. Like scary silent.

Time seemed to crawl, but I seemed to grow calm. I turned slowly, careful not to disturbed him. I started to drink him in. His hair was a grey/silver that seemed to cascade down his forehead when standing, but now was sprawled against the, fail for an excuse, pillow. His black velvet blindfold was tied tight around his eyes and ended right above the tip of his nose.

What was he hiding? What is it behind his blindfold? He seemed to sigh in his sleep and a peaceful look settled in the muscles of his face. He seemed human, and that seemed to calm me down in the slightest way.

Then a thought popped into my mind. It was one of those thoughts that you just needed to see through. One of those thoughts you had to explore, if not you would be left with a nasty need to scratch that idea for the rest of your life. So, for this very reason, I reached my hand up and let my fingers lightly brush against the velvet soft fabric resting against his face. I started to move it up in an attempt to slide it off.

"Don't... I look worse with it off." The creature's hands came up to wrap around my wrist and my heart came to a halt.

"What's wrong with you?" I asked.

"Ha... they send a nurse that doesn't know a thing about us. Just great, just peachy. Why don't you just leave. I won't backtrack don't worry. I don't have the energy to backtrack." He said while turning over.

"I'm new. I'm not supposed to be on the basement level, but they decided to-to... They said it was a perfect fit."

"Who said? Who the fuck would send such an immature, unqualified, girl to look after anything in this building!" He snapped while turning back around to me.

"Says the blind guy. And for your information it was this official woman I forget her name but she seemed pretty high up." I said, and right after I realized just how stupid I sounded.

"Blue dress. Did she have a blue dress?" He asked this time with a sort of darkness behind his words.

"Yes, I think she did but wh-" I started but was cut off by him, springing off the bed.

"Why the fuck do you still rule my life! Leave us the fuck alone leave us to die already. Haven't you fucked us over already!" He ran to the door and started banging against it screaming at the top of his lungs.

My ears hurt from the force behind his voice. My hand covered them trying to block out the sounds of his growls, but to no avail. It was doing nothing. So my last option was to calm him down.

"Stop please. Please stop it hurts." I screamed hoping he could hear me through his repeated words of hatred.

"Fuck you! Why-why still watch over us? Haven't you done enough! I can't be normal because of you" he growled scratching at the door banging on the walls and windows.

I stood and did what I felt was right, which was apparently standing and rushed over to him taking off the velvet fabric exposing the soft skin underneath it. He instantly stopped, but his eyes were open, and had snapped at me. What I saw was pure beauty yet darkness in every corner. Then a soft beep came from within me and from a soft beep it turned into a loud sound for pure torture. I fell to the ground in pain. Utter, ear splitting pain.

Then it stopped and everything fell silent again. So scary quiet. I opened my eyes and searched the room for one person. Once my eyes landed on him I found him looking down in pure horror, and I was now looking up in utter amazement.

They were as clear as water, yet dark as night. They were diamonds. Legit diamonds for eyes. They were chocolate diamonds.

The velvet fabric slipped through my fingers and fell in a lump of nothing at the floor. He glared at me and then it seemed as if realization hit him, that he could see me. His hands flew to his eyes and covered them instantly.

"Where is the blindfold?!" He growled.

I stood there stunned at what I had just seen. His eyes were chocolate diamonds in what world can a person's eyes be diamonds? Am I seeing things?

"I said where the fuck is the blindfold!" He growled while getting on his hands and knees to look for it.

I followed after and reached out for his face. His eyes were shut tight, and he was shaking. My hands cupped his cold face and forced him to face me.

"Look at me." I forced.

"Let go and pass me my blindfold!" He tried to shake me off but I crawled closer and held him tighter.

"Look at me... please" I said again.

He stopped searching, and finally stopped struggling. He still was shaking, but was facing me.

"Open your eyes please." I asked in a soft voice.

"I-I-I can't" his voice suddenly dropped to a whisper.

"Why?"

"Because I'll only hurt you." He replied.

"Open them." I said again.

"Didn't you just see what I did to you not two moments ago?"

"Open them god damn it."

Then slowly I saw his eyelids start to open and the chocolate diamonds shined in the dark. I sat and took them in. I watched him and his eyes and how he watched me watch him. He looked so scared, that it seemed sort of ridiculous to fear Him.

"Why do you hide them?" I asked amazed by them.

"I'm a machine. A weapon created to hurt people. I was made to lure people in and then kill." He said, "I have killed people."

"I don't believe you." I slipped out feeling like I could trust him with my every living soul.

"I'm a mutt. I was used as a dog to search out people, good people with families, and then kill them." He said a year rolling slowly down his face.

"I don't... Why? Who did this?"

"I was human. I had a mother and a father... I was normal."

"You mean they put in diamond eyes? How is that even possible? In what world is any of this possible? Can you even... can you even see?"

"Don't look into my eyes to long. It's one of my flaws."He shake his head while turning away from me, and I felt myself able to breath correctly for the first time since i've seen him.

"All of us on this floor are monsters made by her and the lady with the blue dress. Stay away from this building. Find work elsewhere. Nothing is worth crossing either of their paths."