what now//nick clark

2.

A/n
I'm skipping a bunch of stuff in this but keeping some part of the episode and changing somethings around

Nick's p.o.v

I woke up with a note taped to the wall

Went out ask Gloria she knows where I am
~ Priscilla

I got up and went to look for Gloria

"Gloria.....hello"I heard a yell

I looked around I walk down the stairs I peek around the corner seeing a guy with a chunk bitten out of his cheek I freak out

I walk into the main hall and grab a metal stick off the floor

I whisper ".....Gloria..." I start breathing heavy

I peek around some barrels and find Gloria

"Gloria hey we got to go" I try to grab her she slowly turns her head around her eyes are pale grey there no pupil nothing she has blood all over her mouth I fall back and I look at what she was doing the guy on the floor is missing a part of his cheek she stands up and has a knife through her side

I start scooting back as she slowly walks closer I get up and run I jump out of a broken window and start running that's all I remember then bam

I wake up in the hospital

And I could hear my mom and the doctor talking outside of the room

"He has a bruised rib, contusions. Physically, your son is lucky, but I'm more worried about--"my mom cut off the doctor

" Toxicology?"

" There's that, yes, but--"

" Heroin's his drug of choice. What did he take?"my mom needs to call down

"He's over 18, ma'am. I can't tell you any more than I could tell the police."

" They're here? You should have led with that"

" Nick presented as delusional, Mrs. Clark. Witnesses said he ran into traffic with intent. He was high. He was ranting. We had to restrain him. I requested a psych consult. She's not listening."the doctor says frustrated
" She heard you" I hear Travis's voice

I got snapped out of my thoughts when the police started asking me questions
*Conversations with police*
"Nick buddy. You with me? Nick. "
"I went for a walk."
" You were running, Nick."
" I went for a run."
" Barefoot, down "Needle Alley"?"
"Man, Kenyans run barefoot."
" Uh-huh. You said someone got hurt. You remember that? You were raving about flesh and blood and viscera."
" Um, it's runner's high. Yeah. Oh, I don't know what "viscera"is."

" Tell us where you scored. Lots of kids buying in that hood. We clean it up, you come out a hero."

I laughed "Nick, you could have died." "Yeah, coulda, woulda, shoulda." These guys are getting really annoying

"Okay, we'll take it from the top. Nick, why were you running?"
*Done*
" Is my son under arrest?"

" No, ma'am."thank God I thought in my head

" Then get out. Thank you. Leave."

this is why I love my mom

"We could charge him."

" Well, charge him when he's healed. For now, go away."
"She do all the talking?" I roll my eyes "Get the-- get out." Police really know how to push my mom's buttons
" I'm not as eloquent."

"What happened?" My mom asked
" L.A. is not a pedestrian-friendly city." "Nick." She said seriously

"I just tried to beat the light."
" Why the restraints?"

" I don't know. Ask the lab coat."
" Did you try to hurt yourself?"

"No, Mom. Come on, it was an accident...It was just an accident."
" All right, I'm gonna call for a bed." "No, no, no. Mom, no. Hey, I'm not going back."

" It's how we help you."
" No, we can't help me." Sadly
"Listen to your mother, Nick." Can you shut up travis

" You definitely can't help me."ooo harsh
"Hey." My mom trys to stop me from saying something
'You can't do shit" ouch

"Nick" not working mom
" Really. You can't-- He's just-- None of you can-- can you just leave me alone? Can you just let me go?"

"There's an idea."
" Alicia, not helpful."

" I'm not trying to help, Travis."
" What did you say?"
" It's none of his business anyway."
"You know what? Go to the car. Go."

"It's okay."Travis said to my mom
"Please just leave me alone." Everyone in here needs to shut the fuck up
"Everyone take a breath, huh? Take a moment." There's an idea I think to myself
"Tell me what happened. It's just you and me."
I hear Alicia ask Travis a question "glad you moved in?" Travis hesitant to answer " Yeah."

*Time skip*

I wake up freaking out breathing heavy the bright white lights of the hospital rooms hurting my eyes

"Your Having a nightmare" He asked

"No shit"
look to the side seeing Travis my
"stepdad"

"You think that's what you saw was a nightmare,hallucinations?"

"Uhm I really want to write it off like that I do but that's never happened to me before nothing like that" I exhale

"Hey maybe I'm losing my shit"

"That psych eval will decide that.How crazy is Nick? On a scale of 1 to ten huh"

"Hey can you untie me?"

"No sorry" Travis says

"Hey. You think I'm dangerous?" I asked

"Docs are worried"

"Are you"

"You ran into traffic,man,you hurt yourself"

"No I was running from not to
I was running from what I saw"I said protecting myself

"What did you see?" Travis asked

" Uh, just a girl. Gloria. You know, she's my friend and she was-- Jesus Christ. "I say looking up at the ceiling

" Okay, you buy on the corner and you can shoot at the church. It's junkie communion. And--"

"The church?"

"Yeah, Glo was-- yeah, so she was with me when I scored. Yeah, and she was with me when I nodded. She was there. She was beside me."

I started whispering
" But then-- then when I went down... everyone was dead. 'Cause there was blood. Yeah, and it's all over her mouth. You know? Then she came at me."

"What did she do? "

"Sh--"

"she was eating them."

" She was eating them. "

"Nick... you saw what the drugs saw."

" I don't know if what I saw came from the powder. That's the thing. I don't-- and if it didn't come from the powder, then it came out of me. My mind. And if that came out of me"

" then I'm insane, Travis. Yeah, I'm insane." I chuckle "I really don't want to be insane."

"I...have to get going Nick I'm gonna call Priscilla to come stay with you,okay?" I nodded

"Bye Travis" I waved as he left welp I'm tired if this place

A/n

Hi...okay bye