Asylum Within

[Sarah]

she can see he's getting pissed...'okay..' she stops... jeez.... There is an awkward silence.

[PirateOTC]

He glances at her in the corner of his eye, then suddenly pokes her rib and grins
"You started!"

They sit poking eachothers like children, but soon enough some nurses will probably realize that Aurora isn't in her room...

[Sarah]

She starts laughing and poking him back. Their laughs get louder, and then he pokes her quite hard in the stomach causing her to shriek. 'ooooowwww that hurt!!' she says pushing his hand away and pretending to sulk. He looks alarmed, and shes about to reassure him that she was only kidding, when she sees nurse Mary's head peering through the window at them, a slight frown on her face, half amazement as Anthony is clearly enjoying himself, and she wonders how this girl managed to get him to play fight, and half as shes angry that Aurora has left her room at 3:30am.

'sh!t!' Aurora whispers, stuffing the hershey bar wrapper under his mattress...'ok i guess this is bye for now?' she says with a smile, and squeezes his hand slightly, before being escorted out of his room for interogation. It was worth it

[PirateOTC]

"Oh, yeah b-b-b..bye" he says but Aurora is already out of his room. He looks at the door for a long time, then scoots up in the bed. He hears a noise as he scoots and put his hand underneath the cover and pulls up the snackbar Aurora placed there. He grins slightly and inspects it throoughly again before he starts munching it and lays down on his back, prepared to sleep like that

[Sarah]

'what were you doing there?!'

'I told you! just talking and stuff'

'that didn't look like just talking to me...and what stuff?' nurse Mary says with a worried tone.

Aurora raises an eyebrow...'stuff as in poking!!' she says rolling her eyes

'Aurora that was very irresponsible of you...you know what could have happened...and he is very fragile!!! if you hurt him he'd relapse...hes been making progress now and all of it would go and he'd go back to stage one! months of progress wasted just for you to have a little fun...is that fair?'

'WELL WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO? I DONT EXACTLY HAVE ANYBODY ELSE TO TALK TO!'

'Aurora dear calm down, i know its difficult'

'no! you have NO idea what its like!!! to wake up in solitary confinement...'

'dont call it that dear, this isnt a prison'

'Yeah well it might as well be!!! i wake up all alone in a room by myself, dreading to think of what I've done! I have no memory of what supposedly happened!' She feels her anger is about to make her explode.

'Look if you want to "have fun" with somebody, please not with Anthony...he is fragile...like a child...he doesn't understand everything'

'HE'S NOT STUPID!!! besides you're the ones who make him feel even more fragile than he is!!! hes fine! he just needs to be exposed to his fears and he'll get over them'

'thats not how it goes, dont you think we've tried that?! its not so simple'

'yeah well having a friend wont kill him' she says grudgingly

yes but you might! ...'look dear please dont argue back, it will get you nowhere...you can speak to Anthony when you are both in the lounge area...you know it is forbidden to go wandering around at 3am!'

She has no reply to this so just hangs her head down and stares at her lap. Later on she is escorted back to her room with a warning, and her clip is removed from her. damn it, it'll take me ages to get another one of those!

[PirateOTC]

Anthony heard them arguing on the way to Auroras room and he frowned and covered his ears.
Don't yell! I dont like it when you yell!
After awhile he slowly removed his hands from his ears and it was silent now and he laid down on his side and fell asleep in the bright room.

~Next Morning~

As usual he was awake early and nurse Mary came into his room.
"Would you like to join the big breakfast in the dininghall or do you want to eat it here, Anthony?"

He nodded
"I'll eat in the diningroom"

She smiled.
"Come on then"
she watched him walk over to her fully dressed.
"You need to take a bath today"

"mmm..."

[Sarah]

Nurse John steps into Auroras room at 7:00am. He clears his throat to make his presence known and Aurora looks up. It is apparent that shes been crying.

'Hey, sweety whats up?'

She sniffs and sits up in her bed...'John...do you think I'll ever get married?'

John pauses for a moment...thinking of how to reply...'well that all depends on whether you meet somebody worth marrying' he says with a smile.

'Yeah say I do...what if I end up hurting them, or pushing them away...what if I have kids and I kill them...I'm an animal! I should be locked up!' she says with fresh tears building up in her eyes and falling down onto her lap.

'dont be silly...'....he doesn't know what else to say

'Im not its the truth! even nurse Mary said so'

'She said that?!' he asks alarmed

'well not in so many words, but she implied it, and its true...I hate myself, and I hate Emily, and I hate this sister I supposedly had for ruining my life!'

He takes hold of her hand, and wipes away some of her tears...'you've made tonnes of progress...you used to have 5 times as many episodes as you do now...with medication and treatment you can get through this dont you worry'

'What if I never do?'

'what if what if what if?! What if I died right here right now...dont ask so many what ifs, and just focus on what needs to be done...and how it should be done...you've already picked up on the fact that you have the most blankouts at periods of intense stress or anger...which means your other personality comes about then...so now you know its best when you are calm'

'but i cant be happy all the time'

'you dont need to be happy to be calm and content...happiness is just a bonus' he says with a chuckle.


'I love you' she says with a smile

He can see that this was not meant in any dodgy way at all so smiles and squeezes her hand...'who doesnt?'

She grins and pushes him off the bed 'get over yourself!'

He laughs...'come on breakfast time!'

'do i have to? Im not hungry'

'you know you do...come on, to the dining hall...get dressed'

'well get out then' she says with a smirk

'ok ok im going, but im waiting outside come on'

Once hes out she takes off her nighty and pulls on a pair of jeans and a yellow tshirt with a rainbow on it...one of her favourites. She puts her allstars on, brushes her hair and leaves.

'that was quick...' he says with a grin

They both go to the dining hall.

[PirateOTC]

Nurse Mary makes sure that Anthony sits down by a table. She watches him slowly move between the chairs, his eyes fixed on his chair without a number on and doesn't really notice the other patients around him until he's by his chair and he takes his emtpy plate to go and get some pancakes.
The plates are in paper and the cutlery in plastic as the glasses.

"Hi Anthony!" a guy walks up to him and holds out his hand

"No, Marcus, let Anthony get his food first you can greet him later" a nurse smiles at Anthony and leads Marcus away who wants to greet everything and everybody

Anthony frowns a little, he wouldn't mind greeting Markus. He's done it before...but everybody keeps treating him like a child, made of glass ready to break..
he sighs and takes some panncakes

[Sarah]

Once in the dining hall Aurora looks around to see if she can spot Anthony...she sees him near the pancakes. Nurse John is talking to some other nurse so Aurora slips away unnoticed. She grabs a plate and a fork and knife then tiptoes behind Anthony pretending she wants a pancake. She whispers so that only he can hear...'oh so that hershey bar didnt fill you up?' she grins waiting for him to recognise her.

[PirateOTC]

He flinches slightly and looks behind him. It takes awhile for him to change expression in his face, but when he does, he smiles shyly and looks down slightly
"maybe..."
he takes some panncakes