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Eugene Fitzherbert (Flynn Rider) ([personal profile] brokensmolder) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute 2012-05-31 06:23 am (UTC)

Eugene stared at the ceiling.

Just like yesterday morning, he found himself lying in bed with no knowledge of how he'd gotten there, but this time he didn't have (almost?) dying as an excuse. One minute they had been fleeing into the woods, away from the buses and the birds and the minor carnage they'd caused towards the relative safety of the trees; the next, he was 'safe' in the bed that he figured would be his until he broke out of here, his clothes changed and his leg bandaged. The same woman as yesterday came in chattering cheerfully as she went about checking that his bandages were secure, but all he could see was a face that was barely recognizable as a face horribly twisted into a death grin and a metal-taloned hand reaching towards him...

What had happened to the nurses on the bus?

Had they survived Kratos' glowing red fireball (and it was a mark of how bizarre/terrifying the last twenty-four hours had been that Eugene was completely comfortable with the whole glowing fireball thing) or whatever else the night had thrown at them? Were they here? Would he see them again, human as they had been, or was their nightmareish (actually, not "ish;" it was a nightmare) transformation permanent?

"You're looking a little pale there, Mr. Bartowski. Does your leg hurt?"

After that, Eugene at least made a token effort to keep up the facade that everything was hunky dory in Flynn's world. He was both sarcastic and charming, deftly flirting his way out of being stuck with a cane for the rest of the day. Sure, his limp was one for the record books, but he still had his vanity.

The cheerfully sunny woman led him into a cheerfully sunny room, and some of the dark clouds that had been hovering over Eugene vanished. Rapunzel was there, sitting on a couch and looking whole and well and safe. He flopped down beside her, drawing her close (just to make sure she wasn't hurt. Of course.).

"Some night."

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