Insane

Midnight

TW:   Lock-Picking, Yelling, Talk of Pain, Mention of Blackmail, Use of the word 'insane' to describe people with mental health conditions, punching mention, running, grabbing, knocking someone out using chemicals,

When I wake up I feel a lot better.

I sit up and rub my eyes. Remus is the first to notice that I'm awake. "Good sleep then?" He says.
"I-I gue- I guess."
"I still can't belive that we are gonna help shut this place down!" Patton says excitedly.
"Don't get your hopes up. This isn't the only place like this around here." I wince slightly at Janus' comment.

"Are you feeling better now, Virge?" Logan says, looking towards me.
I just nod in response as I swing my legs around off the edge of my bed, realising now that I'm wearing shorts from earlier and I want to slide back under the blanket. Instead, I grab it slowly and put it over my legs so that it looks like I'm trying to keep them warm, which I am.

"Mary has already spoken to you, yes?" Roman inquires.
"Mhm." I nod.
"We decided upon our roles. Patton shall attempt to befriend one of the staff members in order to gain information. Janus is going to make an attempt at blackmailng a member which Mary has provided information from. Remus and Roman shall work together to sneak into different areas of the hospital, since they tell me they used to do it all the time growing up in a large home. And I shall be organising what is going on when Mary is preoccupied. I guess you know what your role is?"
"I, uh, y-yeah."
"Kiddo, are you sure you want to..?" Patton asks.
"Yeah, I-I'll be fi-fine." My role is to try and get in trouble with the staff, and to write down everything about the punishments they give me.
"We can swap if you want, V! I have a high pain tollerance!" Remus adds, smiling proudly.

"No th-thanks, R-Re.. W-what am I do-doing fir-firs-t?"
"Well, we were thinking that you should attempt to escape the hospital." I nod to show Logan I've heard. "Mary has provided us a bobby-pin to pick the lock of our door. We don't think you will have an issue staying up until midnight, considering you just slept for six hours." I didn't realise it was that long.

"Wh-Wha-t time-e is it?"
"I'm not sure. But, dinner should be soon, and when we get that we'll know that it is six thirty." Almost on queue, the door opens and Remy pokes his head in, then steps in fully.
The three of us in the room who aren't already sitting on the edge of their beds move into that position as three nurses come in, holding a tray in each hand. One of them walks along and stops at the end of my bed. She looks around the room and hesitates before reaching her hand forwards to give me the tray. Her ignorance annoys me and I speak.

"I'm n-not goi-going to att-attack you, y-you kno-w?" She seems caught off-guard by my words and drops the tray onto my matress from about an inch above it, so nothing falls off. She turns quickly on her heel and runs out.

"Don't make a mess, guys." Remy says before closing the door. I hear him lock it and toss the keys into his waiscoat pocket. Very quickly after the door closes, I hear Remus speak.

"On the subject of attacking people, did you see Dr Eller's nose?! I had to use all of my sanity- Maybe that was a bad choice of words- but, I had to try so hard not to burst out laughing in his office. You throw a good punch, Virgil!" I just smirk as he laughs.

"Thanks." I turn my attention to the tray on my matress and examine it's contens. Some stale-looking bread and a small bottle of milk. Could be worse.

"Have any of you ever stopped to think about how messed-up this place is..? We're meant to be here for treatment but all they do is isolate and torture us." I look over to Janus as he speaks, interested. "And! We all have the exact same diagnosis. 'Clinical Insanity.' And I think that we all know quite well that that applys to none of-" He looks over at Remus who frowns at him and crosses his arms before leaning against his headboard. "..none of us."