Madness

"Hey, are you okay?"

Sean blinked a couple of times in confusion before remembering where he was at and what was going on.

Sean was back at the hospital a year after Mark had died only because Wade and Bob begged him to come back. Matthias still glared at Sean when he thought that he wasn't looking, but he could always tell.

Sean hasn't left the hospital for days on end, constantly working by himself in the same room to get better at being a surgeon with only his humming to fill the empty silence that always hung in the air. Usually Bob or Wade would bring him his food, and he would sleep in the corner of the room on a small, uncomfortable bed that Sean never remembered why it was there.

At least when he could sleep.

"Sean?" Bob repeated, worry tinging his voice.

"Yeah?" Sean yawned, stretching his arms over his head and fiddling with the sleeves of his lab coat.

"You doing okay man?" Bob asked again.

"I'm good, just a bit tired is all." Sean shrugged wearily.

"I need to give you these." Bob handed him a couple of small pills that sat on the palm of his hand, as well as a small cup of water.

"Why?" Sean frowned on confusion.

"It's just vitamins." Bob explained.

"Okay." Sean shrugged, accepting the pills and swallowing them with a swig of water to wash them down.

"Wanna come in and talk?" Sean invited.

"I can't, I have a patient I have to deal with." Bob sighed apologetically.

"Oh...okay." Sean mumbled, feeling deflated as he watched Bob walk down the hall, closing the door behind him.

Sean walked forward to open the door to leave, only to find it locked.

"Bob? The door's locked!" Sean called out.

No answer.

"Bob?" Sean whimpered, a little bit louder with fear tinging his voice.

"Let me out!" Sean yelled as he started yanking on the door handle.

"Sean, what's going on?" Wade demanded as he came up to the door Sean was trapped behind.

"Let me out please!" Sean begged, yanking harder on the door to no avail.

"Hang on." Wade instructed, unlocking the door.

Before Wade could come in, Sean bursted out and ran down the hall.

"Sean wait!" Wade cried out, trying to grab him.

Why are they trying to stop me from leaving? I haven't left for days!, Sean wondered fearfully.

Sean retaliated by punching him in the face, causing him to fall back on the floor in shock with blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.

"Sorry!" Sean apologized over his shoulder, running on without another glance back.

I need to escape, Sean thought as he barely dodged Bob's attempts to grab him.

"I'm almost out of this nightmare." Sean panted to himself, running towards the seemingly impossible to reach light at the end of the hall.

That was when Matthias stepped between him and his escape, aiming a gun at him and firing without hesitation.

Sean saw the world go dark before he hit the floor, instantly falling unconscious with a stab of pain.

"Is he asleep?" Bob questioned, glancing down at Sean's white jumpsuit clad form laying on the white tile ground.

"Yeah." Matthias answered with a nod as he stuck the tranquilizer gun back in its holster at his side.

"What'd I miss?" Wade asked as he jogged up to the others, wiping the blood off of his face with the sleeve of his lab coat.

"Sean's been stabilized." Bob stated wearily.

"Isn't that his first time?" Matthias interjected.

"Yeah." Wade nodded.

"Not the first time anyone's tried to escape this hellhole called an insane asylum." Bob pointed out.

True." Wade agreed.

"So he still thinks he's working at the hospital?" Matthias chimed in.

"Yeah, ever since Mark died on the table and the three of us left to work here, he just...lost it." Bob explained.

"I'll take him to his room." Wade offered, gently scooping up Sean's body and bringing him back to his white padded room, laying him down on his bed before walking away and closing the door behind him, locking it with a soft click.

"Madness...what a shame." Wade sighed sadly, shaking his head in remorse as he walked away with one last glance back at Sean's room.