Fear Factory / reddie circus au

Thirteen - Gazebos

Eddie was alone, in a room containing nothing. The walls were blank, the floor was blank. He just stood there. His mind empty, just like the room.

"Eddie," A voice whispered from behind him, the tone slithery and snake like.

Eddie jumped and span around abruptly, his eyes wide. Desperately darting around to find the owner of the voice.

"Eddie."

Eddie turned around again in fear, the voice coming from behind again.

He could feel the panic begin like a cluster of spark plugs in his abdomen. Tension contorted across his face and limbs, his mind telling him desperately to calm down. His breathing became more rapid, more shallow. In these moments before his personal hurricane.

"Eddie!"

"What?" He screamed desperately, "What the fuck do you want?"

Two hands clamped down onto his shoulders. Gripping so hard Eddie squealed in pain and surprise.

He tried to move but his body was paralysed, like his lower body was stuck in quicksand.

"Let go!" He whimpered, wheezing heavily, "please,"

The hands only gripped tighter, long nails began digging deeply into Eddie's skin, drawing small trickles of blood from the porcelain surface.

"Sto-," Eddie was interrupted by a figure walking towards him from the corner of the room. A shaded corner that concealed what hid within its shadows.

It had a beastly silhouette, like a bear, all hunched over but quivering with insanity.

Eddie's eyes widened, horrified, as the creature came closer, the shadows unveiling a huge woman, with a snarled grin and sunken eyes. Grease dripping from her forehead and on her nightdress.

"Eddie," she snarled, her feet shaking the ground as she approached nearer, "Its time to take your medicine."

A hand wrapped aggressively around Eddie's nose and another on his chin. Forcefully, pulling open his jaw.

Eddie screamed in panic, his body shaking uncontrollably with horror as his mouth was yanked open.

The horrifying woman in front of him tauntingly reached into her pocket and withdrew a small, orange container, which rattled as she moved it. She began to unscrew the white plastic lid and move closer to Eddie, who screamed petrified.

She raised her greasy paw above Eddie's mouth, and tipped the contents of the container, hundreds of tiny capsule pills falling into his throat.

Eddie tried to scream as his mouth filled with the tablets. Them sliding down into his airways and into his lungs. Their intoxicating properties washing over him.

He tried to scream. He tried so hard.

And finally he did.

"Eddie?" Richie exclaimed, a concerned expression on his face.

Eddie turned to the lanky boy. His breathing steadying as he absorbed the beautiful face of the boy beside him. He reached out and pulled Richie into a hug, still shaking from his horrible dream.

"Eddie it's okay, your safe, I'm here," Richie whispered into Eddie's ear, reaching one hand up to stroke Eddie's hair, "I'm not going to let anything hurt you,"

Eddie let out a muffled weep, as his body tried to make him cry, but no tears fell.

Richie hugged him tighter, "I love you Eds and I'm never going to let anyone hurt you,"