It had been a week, a whole week locked inside the cell, her hands bound in shackles that rose almost to her elbows with multiple connection points between the two. The machines around her dinged and chimed from time to time. She hadn’t slept except for the times when the doctors deemed it necessary and drugged her. She was terrified that if she closed her eyes, she would open them to carnage. 

When Kersey woke in the hospital just after the fight, strapped to a bed and surrounded by multiple heroes, she had panicked and they sedated her. When she woke again, she was in some kind of cell in the back of a truck, being taken somewhere. Eris had really done it now. She knew it was probably only a matter of time before they had captured her and locked her away. Now that she was, she wished only to be let free. Every day was a struggle to stay in control. The doctors could tell she wasn’t mentally well but the personality difference between her and the villain who had attacked the compound were so dramatic, they weren’t sure they even had the right person at first. After a few days of verifying and digging into her identity, they discovered her name and history. When they found out her adoptive parents had gone missing when she was younger, they put two and two together. She was to be held in the special jail until they could dig up enough evidence on her to lock her away for the rest of her life. It wouldn’t be hard. Eris didn’t exactly hide her destruction. 

She was sitting in her cell, staring down at the floor in a delusional state. It had been three days since the doctors had last forced her to sleep with sedation and she was finding it hard to not hallucinate. She could see Eris, physically see her leaning against the wall in the corner of the cell. [color=#c0001d]"You’re weak.”[/color] The Eris hallucination said to her while glaring. [color=#c0001d]"A foolish child unwilling to let me get us out of here.”[/color] 

[color=#6cadaa]"Shut up.”[/color] Kersey whispered, shaking her head lightly. [color=#6cadaa]”You’re not real. I’m hallucinating.[/color]


[color=#c0001d]"You know I’m real.”[/color] Eris said as she pushed off the wall and walked towards the shackled girl. [color=#c0001d]”You’re afraid. A coward. A little chicken shit. I could get us out of here, easily. I could free us with just a snap of my fingers but you fight me. Every hour of every day we struggle with each other for control until the doctors come and sedate us. Again! Do you enjoy the pain? The headaches? Let. Me. Out.”[/color] Eris growled into her ear. 

[color=#6cadaa]"You’re not real! None of this is real. I’m delusional. Hallucinating from lack of sleep. Soon the doctor will come in and he’ll sedate me again and I’ll sleep for twelve hours.”[/color] She slowly rocked in place, shaking her head as she tried to ignore Eris next to her. She would have brought her hands to her ears but she couldn’t reach both of them with the shackles on. 


[color=#c0001d]"I’ll kill them. Every single one of them. I’ll sink them so far into the ground, they’ll hear the screams of hell itself. And I’ll kill you too. Make sure you can never take back control from me. Ever. Again. It’s only a matter of time, Kersey. You can’t hold out like this for much longer.”[/color] She hissed. Eris began to circle Kersey, picking at her, prodding her with sharp fingers. 

Kersey flinched from Eris’s prodding and poking. She knew that it was only a hallucination but man did it hurt. It felt like needles pricking her skin over and over again. [color=#6cadaa]"Leave me alone.”[/color] She said quietly. 

[color=#c0001d]“Let me out.”[/color] Eris replied, now physically smacking Kersey on the back of the head and across her face. Kersey flinched from the strikes, visible red marks forming on her cheeks where Eris’s hand has slapped her. 

[color=#6cadaa]"Leave me alone!”[/color] She said louder. She heard a door open at the front of the room and could hear people talking as they walked in. 

“Kersey,” one of the doctors said as he walked up to the cell and peered in at her. “Kersey, who are you talking to? There's no one there.” 

Kersey didn't answer him. She just shook her head, closing her eyes as Eris growled at the doctors. [color=#c0001d]“They're all going to die when I finally get control, Kersey. Look at their faces. Remember them. They'll die like the rest and it'll only be you who remembers them. So remember their faces.”[/color]

Kersey continued to flinch as Eris resumed her violent barrage on her. The doctors watched her quietly as red marks continued to form along her skin. They spoke to each other quietly as one took down notes, like she was some science experiment. Why weren’t they coming in and sedating her? Why were they just letting this happen to her? 

One of the machines next to her cell began to beep in alarm and the doctors looked at it before looking at her. “Kersey, you need to try and calm down. Your heart rate is beginning to spike. You know what happens when that happens.” 

[color=#c0001d]"Look how they don’t help you. They just watch as you suffer. Look at them, Kersey. They are just as evil as our parents.”[/color] 


The machines next to her cell began to alarm with a high pitched ring. The doctors began to move now. One went to the side of the room where a station was located. They opened a fridge and grabbed out a jar of medication. “Kersey, your heart rate is rising too much. We’re going to sedate you now. When you wake up, we’ll get you something to eat. Okay? Don’t worry, Kersey. We’ll get this under control.”

[color=#c0001d]"They only decided to help [i]after[/i] you showed signs of being a danger to them. Look how they scramble to get you back under their conrol.”[/color] Kersey watched the doctors with sleepless eyes. She couldn’t help the rage that boiled in her chest. Eris was right. They were willing to sit there and evaluate her instead of help. Doctors and heroes were all the same. They didn’t care about them. They only wanted weapons that they could use. Her eyes slowly fluttered closed. 

As the doctor typed in the code to open the cell door, her heart rate started to settle down. “Seems she’s starting to calm down. Still sedate her, just in case.” The head doctor said to the one in the cell. The woman took a few steps towards Kersey but froze when the shackled woman began to laugh. 

[color=#c0001d]"The world was whole because it shattered. When it shattered, then we knew what it was.”[/color] When she opened her eyes, they were a blazing crimson. The doctor in her cell gasped in surprise before she turned to run towards the cell door. The other doctors promptly shut her in the cell with Eris, securing the door with a loud click. The woman stared at them in horror as the metal shackles on Eris’s arms began to melt away.[color=#c0001d] “You believed you could contain us. Contain [i]me[/i]. How naive and foolish you all were.”[/color] She stood up, her magic flaring behind her like thrashing tails as she looked at the doctor locked in the cell with her. The alarm of the building sounded as she took a menacing step forward. [color=#c0001d]"Tell me doctor, do you bleed?”[/color]