Recovery (Prison Break)
Title: Recovery Fandom: Prison Break Characters/Pairing: Mahone, Pamela Rating: FRM for mild language Word Count: 223 Prompt: #22 - Beginnings
It starts with the sound of water dripping in the kitchen sink, the slow tapping of each drop on the cold steel like bodies hitting the ground. Then there's the rushing feeling through my veins, a mix of icy water and adrenaline jarring and scarring me all at once. If that was it, I could write this all off as a nightmare.
If only a guy could be so lucky.
The voices start as whispers, end in screaming. Cries for mercy, screams of rage--even the "calm" (please sir can I have some NO!) surrender of Abruzzi flies through my head like some kind of batshit bumblebee. Finally, the doors open on my private hell, and I'm right back where I started. Forsaken (rightly so), hated (I deserved it), abandoned to the price of withdrawal but trying to keep control just so I know I'll get out alive.
There's a hand on my shoulder, a voice cutting through the choir of the skeletons in each closet. "Alex?"
My eyes wide open, now, I actually see her for the first time since it ended. It's been two weeks...two weeks too long. I know it's over, but I need to hear it again, in this sacred place, touching her, to know it's really real.