Dark Days

[seattle_patient]

An explosion. All I remember is the explosion. I walk outside to have a cigarette and the next thing I know, I'm on fucking fire. My clothes, my skin, everything burning. They spent hours last night picking my jeans out of my legs. My hair still smells like it's singed. What's left of it. It all hurts. I had pain medicine, but I think it's wearing

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[lexiegrey_md]

I've been standing in the doorway for I don't know how long. I've been watching him. Just watching him, trying to decide what to do. He wakes up suddenly and starts yelling and thrashing around, and for a minute, I'm terrified. I take a stop back, but stop. He can't even walk. He can't do anything. He can't do anything to me.

I step closer to his bed, entering his field of vision. "Be quiet."

[seattle_patient]

"Fuck you!" I spit, "Shut the fucking blinds!"

[lexiegrey_md]

I walk over and close the door. He can't move. He can't touch me.

"These blinds?" I ask as I walk to the window and open then wider. "The sun will do you good."

[seattle_patient]

I scream, the sun searing my skin even more, "It hurts!! Shut the fucking blinds, bitch!"

[lexiegrey_md]

I walk over to him and reach to shut off his morphine drip without getting too close to him. "You don't need anymore pain medication."

[seattle_patient]

I snap open my eyes, "I need more!!" I yell, "Please...please, I need more." I look at her face and she looks familiar. Who the fuck is she?

[lexiegrey_md]

"No you don't. You're fine. They're just minor injuries. What's your name?"

[seattle_patient]

She speaks and I narrow my eyes against the blinding sun. I know who she is. She's that bitch that turned me away. I made her pay for it too. My voice lowers, "Give me my medicine you bitch or I'll do it again."

[lexiegrey_md]

He threatens me, and I realize he knows exactly who I am. No apology, no remorse, just threats.

"Let me examine you first." I grab his leg with both of my hands and squeeze as hard as I can. "Does this hurt?"

[seattle_patient]

I scream and I can't even raise my arms to fight her. "Help!" I yell out, "Help help help this crazy bitch is hurting me!"

[lexiegrey_md]

I narrow my eyes at him. He ruined everything. He ruined my life.

"You made me this way." I take my thumbs and dig them into his charred flesh. I want him to hurt.

[seattle_patient]

I cry out again and try to fight against her, but I can't get my arms up. "You liked it you pathetic bitch!"

[lexiegrey_md]

"If screaming and crying is a sign of pleasure, then you must love this."

I lift my fist and slam it down against his leg.

[seattle_patient]

I scream out again and try to drag my leg away from her and I don't know which one hurts more. "You stupid cunt!"

[lexiegrey_md]

"I think I know something you'll really like. You're going to jail, and I hope the other prisoners pick up where I left off."

I reach down and grab his catheter, and I yank it clean out. And it feels good.

[drcristinayang]

I hear the cries from the hallway and what I walk into is unbelievable. I walk in just to watch Lexie pull a patient's catheter out with the balloon still inflated. I'm at her side without thinking about it and I pull her away, "Lexie, what the hell are you doing??"