The water closed over his head, and the voices came from a distance, muffled by liquid and fear and the slow seep of knowledge that he had a head injury that was interfering with what he could comprehend. And he was dying. “Tony. Wake up.” The words cut through the others, but they made no sense, there was no reason for them to be there. No cause, no call, and he was struggling, still struggling, but there were hands on his head, on his shoulders, all over, hard pinpricks of pain in the form of fingers. The water was blood, was cold and clinging and it was in his mouth, his nose, red in his eyes. “Tony. Wake up, wake up, now.” His mouth was open, and he struggled, so hard, against the water, against the blood that wanted back in, wanted to slip past the few defenses he still had, because he hadn’t breathed in, he knew he hadn’t, but the liquid was in his throat, in his lungs, and was it coming in from the water, or out from the blood, or was there any difference left? Was it better to drown in his own blood? Was there more dignity to that, a suicide by proxy as opposed to the horrors of the warm, dirty water they forced on him? “Tony. We need you.” The Act of Creation Will Be Your Salvation -  Chapter 6 by scifigrl47Fanart made by me (Gabbi) Also on my deviantart; [x]
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The water closed over his head, and the voices came from a distance, muffled by liquid and fear and the slow seep of knowledge that he had a head injury that was interfering with what he could comprehend. And he was dying.

“Tony. Wake up.”

The words cut through the others, but they made no sense, there was no reason for them to be there. No cause, no call, and he was struggling, still struggling, but there were hands on his head, on his shoulders, all over, hard pinpricks of pain in the form of fingers. The water was blood, was cold and clinging and it was in his mouth, his nose, red in his eyes.

“Tony. Wake up, wake up, now.”

His mouth was open, and he struggled, so hard, against the water, against the blood that wanted back in, wanted to slip past the few defenses he still had, because he hadn’t breathed in, he knew he hadn’t, but the liquid was in his throat, in his lungs, and was it coming in from the water, or out from the blood, or was there any difference left?

Was it better to drown in his own blood? Was there more dignity to that, a suicide by proxy as opposed to the horrors of the warm, dirty water they forced on him?

“Tony. We need you.”


The Act of Creation Will Be Your Salvation -  Chapter 6 by scifigrl47
Fanart made by me (Gabbi)
Also on my deviantart; [x]

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