Chapter Text
December 22, 2018
The cell was a dark one. No windows, no light, no warmth. The raven haired boy sat in the corner of the cell, shaking like a leaf with his arms curled around himself. His glasses were lost, lying somewhere forgotten.
His eyes were freed from their glassy look but in exchange they were filled with dread. The calm boy who followed the man without a question was nowhere to be seen. Instead he cried, cowered in fear while hoping desperately to be found.
Heavy sounds started to resound in the god forsaken place. The man from before came inside, opened the cell and put a plate full of food on the floor before he closed it again.
“Let me go. Please.. Please let me go…”
The voice of the boy broke with every word, tears staining his cheeks but the man just stared at him for a long time. No further words were spoken, no movements made. In a moment what seemed to be out of braveness, the boy locked his eyes with his predator and shuddered. His eyes went wide and it seemed that he realized for the first time who the person was who stood directly in front of him. Without the hat, without the coat and without glassy eyes, the boy could see him clearly, even in this dark room, even with his blurry eyesight.
“Why?”
Unable to think, the word escaped him in a whisper. The impassive expression of the man was replaced by a smirk in an instant. A frightening smirk so ghoulish that it send chills up the other’s spine.
Minutes went by without a response and soon the man turned around again, going back to where he came from. As he went away, it almost seemed as if he was being swallowed by the darkness, welcoming the man back to where he belonged.
The boy’s position didn’t change even after he was left alone again. His eyes were wide, staring at nothing with his mouth slightly agape.
Maybe it was fear that paralyzed him, maybe the shock of knowing who brought him here but there was only one matter to be sure about. The man let the boy knowingly see him, identify him. He didn’t have any intention to let him go or to let him escape. And with the heavy realization the boy was completely trapped, unable to hide himself or reach somebody with his frantic screams for help. In this place it felt as if the two of them where the only one left alive in the whole world and this thought let the boy slowly go mad.