Botched Execution (Iron Lung fic)
Simon wakes up in an ocean of blood, in a body he knows he shouldn't have, because his body was supposed to have been vaporized cell by cell in an explosive decompression. This isn't all bad, maybe he'd even hazard a guess that it's a good thing, but the fact that he can touch the surface of the water and feels the bottom of the ocean right at his back at the same time may present a problem. He's become something bigger than us.
4.3k words contains: Blood (no shit?), cosmic horror, cosmic giant, Simon lives AU (if you call this living) (I do <3)
When he sucks in a breath, it is blood. Not air, like he tried so desperately to believe. But whatâs the difference? It relieves him just the same, it doesnât even feel like itâs that heavy or thick or even that different from the air back home. In and out, simple as, when he should be drowning and choking on scalding hot ichor or his bones should be cracking under the weight of the ocean. He is floating, weightless in the blood on his stomach. When he reaches forward, he sees his bare arm tinted red in this gory sea and his hand digs into dirt or rock or blood, it doesnât matter because whatever he does makes the water-blood that should be opaque (but isnât, somehow) a little cloudy. Somehow he knows what heâs touching is the bottom of the sea, maybe because thatâs where he has been this whole time. Simon twists his body that he shouldnât have and yet does, and itâs strange that itâs so second-nature to him all of a sudden because the closest experience heâs had to swimming in his life was when the gravity drives on Eden would fail and everyone would hit their head on a ceiling, grabbing onto whatever they could as they floated and knocked into each other. Belly up he goes, resting on his back. Above him are the stars, the ghostlight, twinkling and fading with each breath because itâs all gone. All of it. Weâre right here. Shut the fuck up.
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