Drabble: The Red Queen (AtS S5, Dana, R)
Feb. 8th, 2012 12:15 amTitle: The Red Queen
Author: seraphcelene
A/N: written for the open on sunday Plastic challenge. Spoiled for AtS: Damage. Head and heart. Keep cutting until you see dust.
"Be careful of this one," Jim said.
They strolled past Dana's room and peered through the window set into the door. Most days Dana stared at the padded walls, her Thorazine gaze doll-dark and blank.
"Violent?" Peterson, the new orderly, sneered. He'd tamed his share of uncontrollable patients.
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When she wakes, for real this time, crystalline reality is warped and smudged by time and event. With no drugs to dull her edges, Dana will break Peterson's neck. His vertebrae will snap with the easy, sharp, satisfying crack of a plastic spoon.
*
"Strong," Jim said. "You never know what's to come."
Author: seraphcelene
A/N: written for the open on sunday Plastic challenge. Spoiled for AtS: Damage. Head and heart. Keep cutting until you see dust.
"Be careful of this one," Jim said.
They strolled past Dana's room and peered through the window set into the door. Most days Dana stared at the padded walls, her Thorazine gaze doll-dark and blank.
"Violent?" Peterson, the new orderly, sneered. He'd tamed his share of uncontrollable patients.
*
When she wakes, for real this time, crystalline reality is warped and smudged by time and event. With no drugs to dull her edges, Dana will break Peterson's neck. His vertebrae will snap with the easy, sharp, satisfying crack of a plastic spoon.
*
"Strong," Jim said. "You never know what's to come."