Author: sixtail
Rating: R
Warnings/Spoilers: off screen medical experimentation
Pairing: none (Gen)
Words: 6497
Summary: What happens when John goes missing and no one notices? Sentinel AU.
Author Notes: Set in the same series as my other three. Crossover with The Sentinel. Thanks to esteefee for the beta.
Series linkStory linkA draft of cold air, needle-like, against the back of his hand. It raised the tiny hairs on his fingers and made him withdraw back under the fleece blanket and cotton sheets. Texture there too, scratchy, fresh cut grass with its raw edges. Relentless. Now he could feel it everywhere his skin touched the sheets, couldn't un-know it. What felt like fuzz to others felt like a thousand sandpaper fingers, catching and pulling at his over-dry skin.
Vibration, bouncing off the walls and coming back at him. Coming from him, from his raw throat. It bounced off the ceiling, the corners, the walls - all at different rates, endlessly reverberating against his skin, barely muffled by the blankets. Turning made it worse, one ear against the foamy pillow with it's wheezing sounds of collapsing cells; the other bare to the world and the air. He couldn't stop vibrating. It was making it worse but it was control. He made these sounds! They were his and not forced on him by others.
The earthquake of footfalls. The avalanche of the door - the squeak of hinges and the rush of air.
Please, let this be over soon.
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