Prompt Post - Part Ten
I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.
If there is anything I haven't responded to, as of now, I'm ( Read more... )
“It's just, everything's so different now,” Roy finally whispers, and grinds out, “There's nothing I can fucking do about it either.” He lets go of his hair, his hands dropping down to the table. He sits up just the slightest bit, but his eyes stay downcast, glaring at nothing, his breathing picking up every now and then, “Maybe I should be in here too...”
Red Arrow's mouth presses into a thin line, and there's this.. almost protective feeling that kind of baffles him, but there it is, and at the same time he can sympathize. It combines, in a way, those two feelings, into something that roils inside of him, and maybe it's a bad idea to be making any kind of judgment calls or decisions when he's on medication like this, but he's already standing up and there's a half-assed plan forming in his head that at this point could only be stopped by someone of sound mind - of which there's none around, save for the hospital staff, and he already knows they won't try and stop him because of the simple fact that he admitted himself, and since he's not a danger to himself or others, he can leave whenever he wants to.
“I don't understand,” Roy later says out in the parking lot after about an hour of forms being filled out and Red Arrow talking to doctors. There's a myriad of emotions playing out on the kids face along with a great amount of confusion. “What are we doing? Why did you sign yourself out?”
Red Arrow shoves his hands into his coat pockets, one hand wrapping around car keys, and he admits with some hesitation, “I went in there to try and straighten out my head, and, I dunno, maybe it helped out a little, but now...” his eyes fall on the car parked up ahead.“I'm thinking a new kind of therapy's in order.”
“So... that's it then. You'll just drive off into the sunset or whatever,” Roy says, and the lost look on his face makes Red Arrow pause for a moment before he realizes what the younger redhead is thinking.
He's surprised by the feeling of his mouth pulling up into a small smile but he goes along with it anyway as he turns away from the car, fumbling with his keys for a moment before he asks, “You know how to drive?”
“I'm fifteen,” Roy says, taken aback.
“Yeah, so?”
There's a confused pause.
“Yeah, I can drive,” Roy says slowly, brow furrowed. “Shouldn't you know that?”
“At this point, anything I remember before those three years and beyond has to be considered purely speculation,” Red Arrow says with a careless wave, and then he tosses Roy the car keys, because it occurs to him that maybe driving with this medication still in his system might not be the best idea.
“Wait,” blue eyes blink in surprise, “You want me to come with you?”
“Wouldn't have bothered signing myself out if it weren't for you,” he says, “Not that you have to go with me. You barely even know me, after all.”
Roy stares down at the keys, and there it is again, that lost look, and so much more playing out on his face. Red Arrow wouldn't say the kid wears his heart on his sleeve, but he does seem a lot more open than himself - just one way they're different, one of many he's sure.
“Where would we even go?” Roy asks, fingers clenching around the keys.
Red Arrow shrugs, “Anywhere but here. Figured we can decide along the way, and... we can come back at any time.”
“I should probably tell Ollie..”
One way they are the same, 'tell' Ollie instead of 'ask', and at the same time different, because Red Arrow wouldn't even bother doing that much.
“He'll figure it out when he stops getting billed for my hospital care.”
Blue eyes narrow up at him, identical to his own and yet so different at the same time.
Red Arrow sighs, relents, “Fine, we'll call him.”
After they've left Star City.
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THE MENTAL HOSPITAL AND SO ALIKE AND SO DIFFERENT AND WE'LL TELL OLLIE AFTERWARDS AND HNNNNNG
THIS WAS AWESOME AND YOU ARE AWESOME AND THE WEDDING SHALL BE SPECTACULAR.
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This is really better than anything I imagined this prompt coming to. I mean, Roy - Red Arrow - admitting himself to a mental hospital completely threw me for a second. And no one had even told Roy that his... clone... is in a mental hospital. What about the others? Do they visit? Oh, you've left so much to speculation, and it's amazing.
Please post more if you feel up to it, no matter when. Stalking this thread FOREVER!
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