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Tim thought for a few minutes about her question, trying to clear his head. He let go of his arm, leaning forwards, resting his elbows on his knees and his head on his hands. He sat like this for a moment before he answered. "Um...yeah, lets, uh...yeah." his voice was soft, quiet. He leaned back, falling into the couch a bit. He looked up at the ceiling fan, trying to bring his focus back into the world they were in right now. "We should go now..."

Eldrich Asylum [FauxBot & AllOurPrettySongs]

Daniel exhaled once through his nose, another laugh. He shook his head a bit as he felt his slight smile grow ever so slightly wider. He waved at her, a small, quick gesture he made by flicking his hand once. He decided that he liked the new person. She was clever. He put his hand back in his pocket, looking around for the orderlies, who seemed to completely forget about the new girl. The Orderlies liked to do that. They didn't care enough about the patients to really...well, care for them. Often times they left the ones who really needed help to fend for themselves. It wasn't a very well maintained facility. But then again, who cared about the mentally ill? Daniel thought for a moment about going and helping the girl out, but he quickly dispelled that idea. That would just get him beaten too, and nobody wanted that. So instead, he just slid down the wall, sitting again. He pulled his knees to his chest again, still staring at the girl on the floor. There was another sane person in the room that wasn't hostile towards him. For some reason, that made Daniel feel a little bit better about the shitty situation.

Eldrich Asylum [FauxBot & AllOurPrettySongs]

Daniel had to admit, the new patient was incredibly amusing, to say the least. He watched the battle go on for the few seconds it lasted while the other patients pretty much ignored what was going on. And he even felt a little bad that she was eventually bested. She fought like a champion for just five seconds, and even the hit that pretty much brought her down didn't seem to phase her at all. She was impervious. They restrained her arms and legs, letting her lie on the floor as they shouted and cursed and did what orderlies did to people they decided they were far above. Daniel let his chin rest on his knee again as he observed the situation, bemused. The girl on the floor almost seemed to be enjoying this as much as she was, because he noticed her smiling as the assholes from above verbally assaulted her. It was unbelievable. Daniel stood up suddenly, grunting in an annoyed "I need to stand up after thirty years" kind of way. He leaned back against the wall, sliding his hands into his pants pockets as he surveyed the room for reactions. There were none. Every single person focused on what they had been doing before. He looked back to the new patient, who still looked like she was having the time of her life fucking with the guards. He then noticed that he was smiling ever so slightly.

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Tim just sat there, tears running down his face, which was a wide eyed disaster. He still wasn't sobbing. Tears just came out, while his expression was one of complete disbelief. His mouth hung open, in an expression of pure shock. He had a hand covering the crook of his arm, gripping at the sleeve of his sweater hard. His breathing was slower now, but still heavy. He felt like he was dying. He only just realized that they were back in his own apartment again. He lifted his head up off of Sophia's shoulder, finally closing his mouth. He still held a death grip on his sleeve, though. He gritted his teeth hard as he tried to take in the reality of the situation. I'm back home. he told himself. I'm going to be alright. That didn't fucking work, because he still felt fucking awful. He wiped his eyes with his sleeve once before bringing his arm back down, gripping at the sleeve again. He exhaled sharply, his breath shaking. Sophia tried to ask him what happened, ask him what he saw, but he just shook his head no. He couldnt. He could not tell her.

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Tim walked across the room, letting go of Sophias hand as she moved in the opposite direction. He didn't know why but for some reason, he felt almost drawn to the bathroom. Like there was something there that would answer all the questions in his head, something that would make everything in this fucked up portal world make sense. He stepped closer. The light was off, and the entire room was shrouded in darkness. He narrowed his eyes and stepped into the doorway. He searched for the light switch for a moment, found it, and flicked it on. He was able to choke out a strange yell before the door clicked shut behind him. There, in front of him, in the bathtub, was him. It was his body, sitting in a pool of red water. Blood oozed out if the crook of his arms, dripping into the water, staining it red. Tim's hands were over his mouth, his eyes were wide. He though he heard someone knocking on the door behind him, but all he heard was a loud, thunderous ringing. Things blurred for a moment, everything getting a little brighter to him. And then, he heard a voice. Despicable. "Fuck!" Tim said, his voice barely squeaking out from between his hands. His mother was standing in front of him now, looking directly into his eyes. She shook her head, anger and disappointment in her gaze. Tims hands slowly dropped, his mouth agape as though he were about to scream, but he couldnt. Fucking disappointing. She stepped closer. Her voice was not her own. It was off, it was fucking scary. Tim backed against the door. He felt it rumbling against his back. Someone was definitely knocking on the door, but he couldnt make himself find the handle. He was frozen. He felt something warm streaming down his face. Tears. How dare you. "D-dont..." he choked out, felling for the doorknob, trying and failing to find it. "Please." How fucking dare you! Tim finally forced himself to turn around. He unlocked the door and slammed into it as he turned the handle, the door flinging open. The lights in the bathroom flicked off behind him as he ran out, and Sophia was thrown backwards by the force, though she was able to catch her balance. She turned around, watching as Tim went for the front door. He tripped over his own feet, falling down in the living room. He turned over onto his back, gazing into the dark bathroom, tears still falling silently down his face, unaccompanied by sobs. He backed against the wall, covering his mouth with his hands again, his breath quick and heavy. He needed to leave. He wanted to leave. He needed to move. But he didnt.

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Tim stiffened his posture, taking in the surreal qualities of what exactly was going on in this place. There was nothing but empty rooms and strangely colored walls. But it was his place. It was his apartment they were standing in. Everything was almost similar, but t they werent. The differences weren't glaring, but they were just present enough for him to notice. There were no holes in the walls where nails had once been for pictures. There were no pill bottles on the counters. Everything felt wrong. He had his hands in fists, his face locked in an expression of "oh, fuck, what do I do now?" He stepped forwards, biting his lip as he went, absolutely unsure of what to do. His arms were still locked at his sides as he ventured towards the living room where--surprise, surprise-- there was nothing but an exact, furniture-less parallel of his own apartment. He shook his head, freaking out internally. "This is a little fucked up, isnt it?" He asked Sophia as he stepped in more, looking at his--the--bathroom door for a moment. HE stood in the center of the living room, his eyes wide, his breath steady, but heavy.

Eldrich Asylum [FauxBot & AllOurPrettySongs]

The new patient was here, and she was not happy. Daniel observed her as she was forced into the room, her arms held behind her back in such a forceful manner that it looked as if her shoulders might dislocate. But the girl was straight faced, completely unflinching. She squirmed against their grip, especially when one loosened, but she didn't seem to feel the pain she should have been experiencing. Daniel was very pleased by this. It had been a while since he had seen someone fight the powers that brought them here. By this point, most people were either lobotomized or too far gone to fight back. But this girl came in, completely unflinching, totally ready to fight--and dressed for the part-- and prepared for an escape. He had only seen one other person like that in here, but they broke, eventually. Would she do the same? His gaze shifted for a moment, going from the girl back to the dazed out man on the couch, then back to her. He then noticed that the girl was studying him, just as much as he was studying her. He exhaled a little harder through his nose, just one time. A quick, silent laugh. He lifted his chin up, nodding at the woman, acknowledging her presence as nobody else seemed to do. He was sane, and he sort of thought she could tell. She looked sane too, even with all the restraints and fighting. He wondered what she was going to do.

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"Yeah... that....um, yeah, that could be what happens." Tim said, getting more nervous by the second. He was really scared of the hole, yet he had to know what was on the other side. He had to. There was no other option. Tim climbed up first, getting on his hands and knees in the tunnel, crawling in just far enough for Sophia to get in right behind him. He looked behind himself, at her now. "Do you think we're gonna be okay?" He asked, breathing a bit quicker now.

Eldrich Asylum [FauxBot & AllOurPrettySongs]

It had been exactly one month and two weeks since Daniel Fetzer was committed to Eldrich Asylum. Schizophrenia is what they claimed he had. He knew that was a lie, but by this point, he honestly just didn't really care. He knew he was fucked from the moment his parents called the Asylum. He knew he wasn't going to be leaving this place, and it's something he was able to accept fairly quickly, by this point in his life. He needed to, he didn't have any other choice. People who could see monsters were not considered sane people. He sat in the corner of a large, blindingly white recreational room, his knees puled up to his chest, his arms wrapped around his legs, his chin resting on his knees. His pale blue eyes, which peeked out from just underneath the tangled birds nest of hair on his head, watched the others that were in the room with him. Calmly. Carefully. There were three other patients in the room with him. One of them was sitting on a couch in the center, looking absent-mindedly out of one of the barred up windows. He looked like hell. The other two patients were sitting at a table together, playing with a chess board. Along with the four of them were three orderlies, who stood on the other side of the room, one behind a gated window, surrounded by the medications of the patients, the other two on the outside. They were talking about something exciting, and Daniel was just barely able to make out some of the words they were saying. "...the new patinet?" "...had a letter opener...to kill him." "...angerous girl" Daniel sighed out, shaking his head a bit as he listened in. Another person being brought in and thrown into this fucking maze of a building with a bunch of other fucked up people. And she was violent too! Great! In the past month alone, he had seen three other new patients enter the building. Jesus fucking christ... he thought. Can this place really get any fucking worse? Yes. And he had no idea just how bad it was gonna get.

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Tim shook his head. "Absolutely fucking not." he said, still smiling, his eyes going a bit wider. "But I dont think I'm actually going to be, so we should just, y'know, go for it." He was going through the whole situation with a "fuck it, theres a goddamned portal in my fucking kitchen" sort of outlook on it. He walked to the kitchen table, grabbing his house keys and stuffing them in the pocket of his jacket. He joined Sophia at the hole, shaking his head again. "Oh, fuck. This is an incredibly bad idea, isnt it?"