|Faded| -Jacksepticeye fan fiction.

CH.6

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"So..Ember...tell me why I'm here. What happened?" Jack leans toward her, still staring at her with cold eyes. Her cheery face fell and her left eye twitches slightly. "Okay, I'll tell you everything because the wardens sure as hell won't talk" He waits with baited breath. "You have been in lockdown for 6 months, not around anyone, and stuck in a cell. A lot of the time, you wouldn't move for hours and hours, to the point doctors had to tube feed you. You were stuck inside your head, and all anyone could do was wait" she uncrosses her legs and recrosses them. " whenever you could move, you started mumbling and talking out loud as if you were another person. At one point you went hysterical and strangled a warden and stabbed about five wardens multiple times with a syringe you had found. One warden..Dr. Mackenzie I believe..was stabbed so much she was moved out of the lockdown area to the evaluation room" his eyes widen slightly, realizing he had met her.

     "Most of the wardens were unconscious when security finally got to you, and you were writing on the wall with the blood on the wardens. I forgot what the words said sorry. Briefly, an image of jumbled, jagged,writing in blood on the wall flash in Jack's mind, but he can't remember the words. " And that happened a week before today, there were many similar events of course, but I think you get the point. You see that hospital bracelet you wear, the other ones are not colorful decoration. Yellow means danger to yourself, red means danger to others .And you have both" She looks at him with eyes of pity. 'I don't want pity...I don't deserve it since I'm legitimately dangerous..I wonder why I can't remember much..I wonder how it feels to do all of that....wait why am I thinking that..'

    Clearing his throat again, he shifts in his chair, aware of all eyes on him. "Turns out, you don't have a history of being violent to that extent, but everything else you do. About your girlfriend..." Jack sits up. "She is alive. At your apartment, you were completely normal, laughing and joking around, she was watching tv and had called you to watch with her, once there you both were smiling and you hugged her. It's like a switch went off and you started to squeeze her too hard. One thing led to another and you were choking her on her to the point she could barely breath. Once you let her go, you had left her gasping and trying to get her phone. You came back with a kitchen knife covered in gasoline" she paused to let the words set in. 'I'm not phased by any of this..not even a little....what the hell....she is..was my girlfriend, I love her'. Looking at Ember, he tightens his hold on his other hand slightly.

     How do you know so much detail? I thought lockdown meant no one else is in ther-" Ember cuts him off. "I was also in lockup for a few months, and wardens talk a lot. Easy access to records as well, simple". She shrugs. "Anyway, you didn't stab her, instead, you just made tons of light cuts on her , enough so she felt the gasoline in her skin. You started hitting her more, mostly on her head and side. Of course she started screaming, trying to get you to recognize her, but you wouldn't snap out of it. Sirens were outside the house, and you threw the knife away from the both of you, then you kissed her forehead. The police got in, and they found you with a large knife wound around your neck, and your girlfriend barely conscious, and tears down her face, hovering over you calling your name" Ember goes quiet. "I..I don't have anything to say..." Jack looks at his hands then up at the group. Their faces and paled, it was written on there faces. They feared him, except Ember just looked sad. "No need for words. I just wish someone had helped you before any of this happened.

     It's not your fault Jack". "How do you..." he began to ask. "Before coming here, I used to constantly watch your videos." She smiles warmly. "I loved being in your community so much, it helped through many hard times, and just being in the comments, talking to so many nice people, reading conversations..it felt like I was part of a family...I never would've guessed you would end up here. You really are a genuinely nice person like I knew you were.." she sighs and her smile fades. "..even the most kind hearted people have their own dark sides...when dangerous fiction becomes true....it is like a stab in everyone's worlds". He leans over to her and puts a gentle hand on her shoulder, and she looks up into his eyes. "I don't know how beyond sorry I am for damaging that. I want to help, but at the same time I can't. From the bottom of my heart I care about our community, and am very happy it helped you and so many other people" he gives her a sad smile.

     Ember smiles back for a moment. "I have wanted to meet you for so long..this isn't how I imagined it, but I'll take it" she laughs, which makes Jack laugh. Taking his hand away, he crosses his legs and rest his head on his arm. She seems to be back to her chipper self, and that warms Jack's heart. Time passes by, Barbara was watching the tv overhead, Mordecai looked really zoned out, and Ember and Jack were half asleep.
A loud beep comes from the intercom, startling Ember away, and Jack remains still with his head on his arm, but has opened his eyes. "Barbara, it is time to go, get your things. You have fifteen minutes." It beeps off, and Barbara looks super excited and immediately got up and half ran towards a hallway labelled 'rooms'.

     Once she left, Mordecai spoke up. "She's leaving? Good, I couldn't stand her constant yapping about how she's so popular in college and how her parents give her whatever she wants" he rolls his eyes and goes back to look into nothing. Ember covers her mouth to hold back a laugh. Barbara comes into the room holding a giant paper bag full of different objects and clothes. She looks around the room, then walks over to the group.

     "I'm glad to leave this hell hole, not going to miss it. By the way, you annnd you-" she points at Ember and Jack. "Are completely insane, you belong here to rot". Jack looks over to Ember, and sure enough, she is gripping the arm of the chair, and her eyes had darkened. Putting his hand on hers before she ripped the girls throat out, she relaxed and smiled up at Barbara. "And I hope you get knocked up and have you and your baby run over by cars on a freeway. The world won't miss you, Barbara" She scoffs at Ember, and storms over to the door and it opens with two wardens waiting for her. "The door is open...I could make a break for it. I shouldn't".

     As fast as the door was opened, it was closed again, and Barbara was gone. Breathing a sigh of relief Jack goes back to sleep, forgetting he still had his hand on Ember's. She notices to and almost moves it, but then lays her head down next to their hands, carful to not disturb him. Jack doesn't mind, it's completely platonic. They were both messed up, and all they have is each other and Mordecai. They both drift off to sleep. It has only been a day of being fully aware and already so much has happened
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