Phic Phight 2026 1
My first one of the year! Had a crazy April so far but I did a short story regardless. ^_^
Danny would have thought it would have ended differently. He thought he would be immune to everything his parents did, had done, and will do in the future. He hated seeing the cold steel being wiped clean as if germs or infections would be an issue in any capacity here.
They called him down casually too, and then was cornered and made to watch the procedures, as tools and ecto devices he didn’t even hope to understand were being ready and sterilized.
He wanted to scream at the foux clinical nature of this all. They readied the straps. the cold biting prongs into his wrist. They weren’t sharp enough to cut, but they didn’t have to be. The metal was the point itself. Electricity took the path of least resistance after all.
Next was the tools that they would be using today, Danny watched with dissociative interest as he watched scalpels be pulled free from a drawer as well as a small hardware’s store worth of screw drivers a soldering iron some kind of weird scissors.
It was almost comical how his parents were emptying out the drawers and lining up their tools in neat little rows on gleaming silver trays, as thought that would make any difference to the chaos that would soon begin. Danny let his eyes drift to the cuff that they placed on his wrist and sighed, for safety of course.
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