Cut You A Piece

4

Stone woke up with a startle from another nightmare. He was use to them at this point. He did as he usually did when this happened. He took a swig from the nearest bottle of alcohol before getting up.

It had been...2? 3 months? Since Robotnik disappeared and Stones grip onto reality was slipping bit by bit. Every day that he wasn't with the doctor, he was slowly losing himself.

Maybe it's time...

Stone got up out off his bed and headed to his bathroom feeling his legs slightly buckle at his weight. He made it and looked in the mirror seeing the scribble that was himself. He scrambled in his cabinet for a bottle.

He finally had it in his reach and pulled it out. It was a bottle of pain killers. Stone stared at it for a long while.

Do it... Nothing is worth it without him...

Stone's hands shook as he poured out a handful into his hand. He took a moment hoping that someone would stop him. After some silence, he began to hold it up to his mouth.

Knock knock knock

Stones turned around frantic by the knocking on the door. All the pills once in his hand dropped onto the bathroom floor spreading everywhere. Stone looked at the mess upset.

Damn it.

He then hastily put on some decent clothes before going and answering the door.

When he opened it he shouted," what do yo-!"

He stopped when he saw a taller gentleman. He could feel his body shaking. He didn't want to look up. His body betrayed him as his eyes wandered up the man's body to his face.

" Agent Stone." The man said.

Despite how much his look changed, Stone knew immediately who it was.

" D-doctor..." Stone said hiding his emotions within him.

" It may have took me longer than expected but I am back!" The doctor said cockily.

He sounded just as he had all those months ago. His cocky, cheery, sly self. Stone just stood there at a lost for words. For so long he thought he would never see this man again.

" Agent Stone?" The doctor said snapping Stone out of his thoughts.

" Sorry, sir." He said keeping himself together." Please, come in."

He moved to the side allowing room for Robotnik to enter. As the doctor entered, Stone truly began to take in his look. The doctor had shaved his hair off, his moustache grown out insanely long, his buff upper body. Stone hoped that this wasn't him dreaming. That this wasn't going to end up a nightmare.

" It's a mess in here Agent!" He heard the doctor say aloud to him.

" S-sorry, sir." Was all Stone could muster up." I-I'll clean it up."

The doctor looked at Stone, his googles hiding the man's expression from Stone. Stone felt his whole body freeze as if the man could've seen through his body and to his soul.

The doctor turned around and took off his backpack and said," I hope you don't mind, but can I use your bathroom?"

Stone nodded and said," Of course, sir. Anything for you."

The doctor nodded and headed to the bathroom leaving Stone to his own devices.

Stone grabbed some alcohol and sat down on the couch taking a swig of the alcohol as he did so. He took his head into his hands rubbing his eyes with his palms.

Please let this be real... please don't have me lose him again...

That's when he remembered the pills in the bathroom scattered across the floor. He frantically got up making himself lightheaded in the process. He ran to the bathroom and tried to open it only for it to be locked.

Stone paced back and forth in front of the bathroom upset that he could have been so foolish to leave the items everywhere. That was when he heard the bathroom door unlock and open with a fresh doctor standing there in nothing but a towel.

" Is something wrong Agent?" He asked with a confused look on his face.

Stone straightened himself up and said," no,sir."

The doctor gave him a questionable look and went off saying," I'm going to go and see if I can borrow any of your clothes. Is that okay with you Stone?"

Stone replied with a quick," yes, sir" before rushing into the bathroom.

He closed the door and then quickly looked around the floor, hoping to clean it all up before the doctor could see it. As he did so, he found no pills anywhere.

He began to panic until he heard a voice from behind saying," looking for something?"

He looked up and saw the doctor standing there wearing one of Stones black t-shirts and sweats, holding the bottle the pills had belonged to him.

Stone felt a lump in his throat before standing up and saying," y-yes sir... I was looking for those."

The doctor looked at the pills and then to Stone and said," Now, why would you be needing these pills now, agent?"

Stone felt his body tense. In his mind he was having an internal arguement. Tell him the truth, or to lie to him. He decided on improvising.

" I was going to use them earlier, but I've had a change of mind, sir." Stone said reaching for the bottle.

The doctor pulled it out of the man's reach as he continued the questioning." I saw how many pills were spilled on the floor agent. Now tell me, what were you going to do with that many pills?"

Stone didn't want to tell the truth. He didn't want to admit that he was going to kill himself to the man he loved in front of him... wait..but...did he even feel the same way?..

Stone felt his breathing speed up. He felt light headed as he looked at the doctor in front of him before losing consciousness.

The last thing that he had heard was the doctor saying," Stone?!"

The doctor dropped the bottle of pain killers as he caught the Agents small frame in his arms. The doctor held the small man as he processed what had happened earlier. The doctor had asked a question. A question that he had to know an answer to only for the agent in front of him to have a panic attack and faint.

He carried the agent to his room and laid him on his bed. As he did so, he saw what a mess the agent was during his absence. There were clothes and bottles of alcohol everywhere riddled around the room. Then his eyes landed on something familiar. A pair of shades. Ones that were meant to come in for the doctor when he had disappeared.

The doctor picked it up and looked at Stone giving himself a small sigh as he placed it back down and left the room. He headed back to the bathroom and picked up the bottle of pills.

Even though the doctor had asked the question, he knew exactly what the agent was going to do before he had gotten there. The doctor clenched the pills tight in his hands as he placed it back up in the bathroom cabinet. After he did so, there was a moment of silence before the doctor mumbled a few words.

"I'm sorry..."