Ghostbusters| Dr Egon Spengler| -003 Alone
Title: Alone
Fandom: Ghostbusters
Characters: Dr Egon Spengler
Prompt: 03. Control
Word Count: 359 words
Rating: G
Summary: He wanted to cry out in fear, but the darkness smothered him.
Disclaimer: I am not Dan Aykryod or Harold Ramis. So unfortunately, Ghostbusters is not my creation and I have no claim over it. But wait, you knew that already.
Notes: This Egon will be partly based on the script notes which name him an egghead, and yet that isn’t exclusively true because he has nuances based on the portrayal of Dr Egon Spengler by Harold Ramis in the movie. As a result, this will be adjusted.
Will had pushed him into the cellar, and the door locked on him. He was alone in a haunted cellar, locked away until the teacher came and found him where he was.
Egon was sure he heard soft moans, and a cold feeling trickled down his shoulder blades. He didn’t like this- not at all. He backed away- until something solid touched him, and he nearly screamed in terror, his heart pounding.
He paused, before gingerly reaching out his hand to feel for it. It felt like a wall to his fingers. He tried to fumble for his spectacles along the ground, and his hand brushed the frame once but he couldn’t find them. At least he thought it was the frame. It wasn’t as if he could see in this utter darkness, where every sense stretched to the maximum in the deep fear he experienced.
He was afraid, so afraid.
He wanted to cry out in fear, but the darkness smothered him.
It seemed as if it had hands and legs, and perhaps a malevolent presence that watched him, eyeless, faceless.
But how does it breathe? A distant part of his mind questioned, rationally, and in the light of curiosity, the edge of his fear and panic was dulled. Don’t fear. There is nothing here. Or maybe it feeds on fear- whatever it is.
Egon forced himself to calm down, trying to control his emotions, and the panicked beat of his heart by reviewing the schematics of the circuit in his mind once more. The circuit breaker was easy, it worked by the principles of electromagnetic induction, which relied on Faraday’s Law and Lenz’s law, with the corresponding equations…
When he emerged from the cellar, into the light of day, he turned and looked back at the darkness, fear firmly in hand, and realised there was nothing left but scientific curiosity. Perhaps, then, the tales of the supernatural had some truth in them.
And he was determined to apply the scientific method to discover whatever it was.
With the years, he remembered, and forgot the child’s fear, until a day in a library, with two of his associates…