Who: Bunny, Luke, and open to anyone who wants to join in on the trauma
Where: the wrong place THE DANGER ZONE
When: the wrong time 11:37 and on
Bunny’s head felt funny. Everything was dark, and she had opened her eyes, but if her eyes were seeing things they weren’t registering yet. She wasn’t sure where she was. It was a dark place, sure, but maybe not such a bad place. She didn’t feel much of anything. She just felt… funny. Groggy. Like she was having a hard time coming out of a nap. She’d felt kind of like this at the hospital, after—
Those memories triggered something in Bunny, and suddenly she was afraid. She was lying on her back in the middle of the road. Blood was everywhere. She could taste it in her mouth. She would be naked. If she turned her head just the slightest, she would see Lily Flores’ abandoned car. Not far from that would be the man she had just killed.
Her throat felt very hot. Her heart began to pound, and she tried to turn her head. But she couldn’t. She tried to sit up, or even stand, but she couldn’t. Something was pinning her down.
Slowly, Bunny realized she wasn’t on that road in Saginaw. She was in Ann Arbor. She’d been walking with friends, in the peace march. And then… this.
She could smell death. She wondered,
Did I do that? but couldn’t remember killing anyone today. There had just been a big
BOOM and then… lights out. Bunny tried to move again. She couldn’t. She was starting to feel very warm. Not the sort of warm one felt after walking around in the hot sun for two hours. This was a liquid warmth, a warmth from the inside when something with your body was so very, very
wrong. She tried to move her head again, but couldn’t. She lifted her hands, and saw that her right arm was covered in blood. That would be the warmth. Her blood?
She was pinned. That was the problem. She just had to find what was pinning her down, move it, and
get up. She could see shards of what had once been a large pole in the air. She settled one hand around that and tried to figure out how this could be keeping her down. She brought her hand down the length of it, and froze. Her hand had found the end, but… her brain couldn’t comprehend what her hand knew. It was against her right shoulder. No, no, that was
wrong. It was going
through her right shoulder. It was close to her throat.
Suddenly, Bunny was thinking of a Family Guy episode she’d seen once. Stewey had a shard of glass sticking out of his forehead and he ran around the room screaming,
’Do I take it out or leave it in? Take it out or leave it in?!’ Why was she thinking that? She was also remembering the chick in Signs who died when the cars were moved. “I am not thinking this shit,” she managed to force out. “I’m not. Oh, God. What the fuck. What the
shit. What do I do? HELP!”