Captive
I wake up floating on a flat piece of ice on top of water. I look around. All around me is more water with more pieces of ice and its all contained within rounded metal walls (think olympic size swimming pool meets astrodome meets antarctica). There are camera's all over the walls. I know that I am being watched. There is a young girl - maybe 9 - with me. I have been here before, I realize. Last time I thought I had been abducted by aliens. Now I am more skeptical. I don't feel like I am any bodily danger but I do feel trapped.
The ice beneath me melts and I have to search for more ice pieces to float on. Every once in a while I end up sitting on a glacier but I can't remember how I got there. I am missing time. I stare at the video cameras.
After what seems like a few days I find the source of the electricity in the place. I am not sure how - was staring at a flat screen tv and it just came on. Suddenly some of the metal opens up like a garage door off to my left. The girl and I rush over to it. Inside I see a set of stairs which I go up. At the top is another door which leads to a closet-sized room. Inside that room is a one-paned dirty window that looks out onto a city street. I am still in America, I realize. I consider punching through the glass but I look down the stairs first. Sure enough, a blond man is coming up the stairs with a syringe in his hands. They're going to put me out and I'll never remember any of this.
The next part is weird - its like I experience two alternative endings but I'm not sure which one came first. In ending one, I talk to the guy and find out that they're working for/through Applebees and have been doing medical tests on me since I was a kid. I ask him if it will cause cancer or leukemia or something and he says no, so the girl and I go with him. In ending two, I slam the closet door shut, punch through the glass, and open the door from the outside. I let the girl go first then I jump down myself and start running. I try to call for help but I can't talk but people are staring at me so I start to feel safe.
The ice beneath me melts and I have to search for more ice pieces to float on. Every once in a while I end up sitting on a glacier but I can't remember how I got there. I am missing time. I stare at the video cameras.
After what seems like a few days I find the source of the electricity in the place. I am not sure how - was staring at a flat screen tv and it just came on. Suddenly some of the metal opens up like a garage door off to my left. The girl and I rush over to it. Inside I see a set of stairs which I go up. At the top is another door which leads to a closet-sized room. Inside that room is a one-paned dirty window that looks out onto a city street. I am still in America, I realize. I consider punching through the glass but I look down the stairs first. Sure enough, a blond man is coming up the stairs with a syringe in his hands. They're going to put me out and I'll never remember any of this.
The next part is weird - its like I experience two alternative endings but I'm not sure which one came first. In ending one, I talk to the guy and find out that they're working for/through Applebees and have been doing medical tests on me since I was a kid. I ask him if it will cause cancer or leukemia or something and he says no, so the girl and I go with him. In ending two, I slam the closet door shut, punch through the glass, and open the door from the outside. I let the girl go first then I jump down myself and start running. I try to call for help but I can't talk but people are staring at me so I start to feel safe.
posted by Dreamer at 8:25 AM
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