Dr. Daniel Pierce has issues with reality (schizodoc) wrote in wariscoming, @ 2013-07-20 09:12:00 |
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Daniel & OTA
Coming out of a hallucination and landing in Lawrence. Oh, boy, good luck.
Friday evening, July 19, 2013; A diner, then streets.
PGish/In progress
One step at a time. That's what would get him through this. One step, and then another.
Daniel was on the brink of unhinging the entire conspiracy, bursting into the room, ready to reveal the twisted scheme plotted up by the company's big shots and the local politicians when something happened. Something...shifted. Someone was talking him. Kate or Lewicki. Maybe both. He couldn't tell. What was Lewicki doing here? And wasn't Kate supposed to be waiting for his signal before she came in? This was wrong. What was going on?
And then reality began to come into focus. The meeting he'd run into faded away, replaced by the view of his completely trashed living room. They were talking, but he wasn't in the right mind to listen, to make out their words. He caught pieces, phrases, worried tones. Lewicki. He had been gone. Gone for the weekend. Daniel would be fine, it was only a weekend, what could possibly happen? But something had happened. Something huge and he had to tell them, so his rushed explanation began, but then reality actually began to set in. It wasn't real. The whole thing. It'd all been in his head. He'd been here, in his house, by himself, all the time. No, no that couldn't be right. Could it?
Daniel didn't have time to contemplate the bigger questions at the time because something else was happening. Another shift. Was it another hallucination? Or had waking up in his house been one as well? He didn't know anymore. He just knew that right now, he was sitting in a diner with no recollection of how he'd gotten there. And that disturbed him. Enough that he stumbled over himself and other patrons to get out and rush outside. Fresh air. That was always a good thing. Now, he needed to figure out where he was. How he'd gotten here. Why didn't remember. There were so many questions. But one step at a time. That's what would get him through this. One step, and then another.