Calibrations- I want out

[wearingthestars]

Who: Billy Kaplan & Open
What: Calibrations
When: June 10th to July 10th
Where: Calibrations
Warnings: Depression, Torture, Bullying, Dark Themes in general due to his punishment



Those who have been inside Billy's mind before will find this set up...different. Whether influenced by the punishment he seems to be facing, or just the dread and anxiety he feels being tricked back into this place he was tortured before-(editors note: see however the hell long ago when Billy was lured down here alone, and tortured with memories until his magic created a whole other reality for a moment. fun times.)- it has clearly gotten to him.

The room is either some sort of prison or torture chamber, maybe both? Built from metal, there's rusty stains, and...is that blood? Billy is strapped up the wall, devices skewered through his ears and he's muttering spells under his breath, eyes squeezed shut tight.

There's a tray of bloody surgery tools left on a near by table, scattered files strewn about (is that a S.H.I.E.L.D. logo? That might be familiar to some...) There's an access panel by the door with a black screen, but currently any codes typed in won't open it up.

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[butterfly_kiss]

...

"Don't make good points when I'm horrified by the condition you're in!" she says at last. Okay, back to searching for something to get her up so she can undo his restraints.

[wearingthestars]

"Can't help it," he muttered, putting on a small smile for her.

There's no ladders or chairs in the room. She might be able to drag one of the tables closer if she's determined.

[butterfly_kiss]

Of course she's determined. Tae kicks off her shoes and... tries very hard not to look at the surgical tools on the table. Those are horrifying in the context of this room. Once the shoes are booted she reaches for the table. Don't underestimate the will of small, angry, determined punk women. She will win!

[wearingthestars]

Touching the table causes the room to shift and flicker, starting up the memory Billy seems to be trapped in. There are other teens strapped to the empty space on the wall alongside Billy, one strapped to an operating table and another slumped broken on the floor.

Billy's chanting desperately while the Warden cuts open Teddy, over and over. He stops to assess his tools and he chats idly with Billy as he does so.

"I remember when I was young...I was obsessed with finding the perfect hiding place. A place where no one could see me. Where I could play my private little games. However I wanted to. There are no rules when you are completely hidden...And look at me now. Warden of a facility that doesn't exist...given charge of extra-terrestrial criminals with no legal standing in the United States. Yes, there are laws to protect criminals. But not aliens...We're all invisible here in the cube. Free to play our own little games. It really shouldn't be this hard."

Billy continues to chant.

"IwanthimtostopIwanthimtostopIwanthimtostop"

The Warden continues like he can't hear him.

"But we do usually install power dampeners with our surgeo-machines under heavy anesthetic. Call me old fashioned but I prefer to do it by hand..."

"IwanthimtostopIwanthimtostopIwanthimtostop"

"...Which makes it very difficult when someone's organs keep moving out of the way..."

"IwanthimtostopIwanthimtostopIwanthimtostop"

"I don't know what you're complaining about. Your procedure went quite smoothly, I thought." He approaches Billy and gestures taunting to his ears. "Your "spells" do not work if you can't hear yourself casting them...with that device implanted you can hear everything but your own voice. But do keep trying...I find it soothing."

Billy narrows his eyes and continues.
"IwanthimtostopIwanthimtostopIwanthimtostop"

[butterfly_kiss]

Horrible. It's all too horrible. When the memory fades Tae's hands jerk back from the table and she looks about sick.

"That man should be thrown into a deep pit and locked up. Was... was that boy okay?"

[wearingthestars]

Billy blinks trying to shake the memory of that image, and it takes him a minute to answer, swallowing thickly but eventually numbly nodding his head. "...He's okay," he murmurs, unclear if it's meant to reassure Tae or himself.

[butterfly_kiss]

Tae herself was going to hate doctors by the end of this Calibrations period.

“Good. And if I ever see that man I’ll put him down for you. You shouldn’t get your hands dirty, Puppy.”

Then she resumes her dragging of the table.

[wearingthestars]

That prompts a vaguely guilty look, well aware that only moments after what she saw he was trying to conjure the man's death.

"Never wanted to before him."

[butterfly_kiss]

"You can't be blamed for wanting to in that moment. What that man did was vile."

ANd disgusting. And she had questions about how the boy had survived but she also knew better than to ever think that what was done there was right.

"Did you know him?" she asks as she gets to the wall with the table. Time to climb.

[wearingthestars]

"The Warden?" Billy asks, shaking his head, "Not before that day, no. We were just his latest toys. He um...he had free reign over anyone not...entirely human. More or less."

[butterfly_kiss]

"No, the boy," she says as she climbs up. Then she tries prying at the cuffs.

[wearingthestars]

"Mmm," Billy smiles then and nods, "My boyfriend....Fiancée, now."

[butterfly_kiss]

"Well, he's very charming looking. And be happy that you're not there with him now."

She glares at the cuffs because it isn't helping. She's got to figure this out.

"See any tools?"

[wearingthestars]

"He is," Billy agrees. "He's like...the most wholesome amazing person in the universe. And uh...Emperor in my future apparently."

He nods towards the table of bloody tools with a scrunched up nose. "Only those."

[butterfly_kiss]

The most wholesome person?

"He's got to be impressively wholesome if he's more so than you are, pup. Though you really did bag up the social ladder didn't you?"

Then she turns her attention to the damn tools. With a sigh she gets down to go fetch them.