Good Morning, Sunshine

making it to work

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Find love in things that aren't human or demanding.
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I didn't know how long it had been when Fury finally came down on me, I didn't exactly count the days. Our meeting didn't go quite as I had imagined it to be either.

The beginning of it was kind of the same as every other meet up with Fury had been. No knock. door was opened. Fury stepped in.

"I see, you are awake and I've heard that you've managed walking again. Care to go for a stroll?" , he greeted me. I had been walking up and down in my room, Jaromir at my heels, mentally discussing things. Now we both stood frozen, staring at the intruder. I mean, I am not sure if you could count Fury as an intruder since he owned the facility and therefore this room. Intrusion on your own property did seem somewhat impossible.

"Good morning to you too" , I grumbled, feeling, once again, that I should be at least treated like a human being.

"Whatever, come on, we're going for a walk" , he said, already halfway out of the room, obviously certain that I was going to follow.

"You might as well bring the tiger" , I heard Fury yell over his shoulder.

Jaromir and I looked at each other. Was Fury going to lead us to our execution? Who knew. Only one way to find out.

So we followed him. This must have been the first time ever for Jaromir to follow me hesitantly.

There were a couple of guards waiting in front of the door to Jaromir and my room but they didn't follow as we trailed behind Fury.

Suspicious enough.

We walked through endless corridors, took a lift that carried us upwards and all the time Fury stayed silent, not looking at us.

The time has come. He is going to kill us, prophesied Jaromir.

I raised an eyebrow. I didn't think that Fury was going to kill us. If he wanted to he could have done so down in our little prison cell where no one would have noticed. No, something else was going on here. Something big. I could feel it.

Maybe he is just going to set us free, I suggested to Jaromir.

The tiger made a noise that kind of sounded like a chuckle mixed with a quiet roar.

Never. Have you forgotten that we are dangerous?, Jaromir reminded me.

Are we though?

We could be. We used to be, actually.

I didn't.

Yeah, sorry, I forgot. So we only could be and me and your body used to be. Better?

Not really but whatever.

And then we came to a halt in front of a glass door that looked out on a lot of flat land and green grass with the sun beeming down on it, warm and powerful and far too bright for my eyes. The lawn behind the door appeared to be endless.

I wasn't used to flat land.

Where I used to live, in the other world, there had been mountains and hills. You could never just look ahead and see nothing but open land and the horizon. And here I had been locked up in a prison cell most of the time, unable to see anything of natural origin. Apart from stone, of course.