Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:24:42 -0400
From: sunkamen@netscape.net
Subject: Reality Slap Chapter 6 part 2

Reality Slap
By tsunami

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here, unless you just accidentally tripped and landed on the left mouse
button. ^^ Disclaimer 2: Sailormoon and her friends/enemies/family are not
my property. They belong to Naoko Takeuchi, Toei Animations, and Kodansha
Comics.

** I'd like to take this time to thank my friends Raddy, G-chan, and the
countless others who helped drag me kicking and screaming (lol, just
joking) back to the Nifty Archives! And especially you Bri-chan! -Blows ya
a kiss- Love ya babe! **

As always people, PLEEEEEEASE send me responses to the story! I love to
hear from the readers! See down at the bottom!

-This is a true story. Names and places have been changed. -
Chapter 6 part two of 3: Nakushita Shinzos (Lost Hearts)

I calmly pulled a pack of my razor blades out from the medicine cabinet. I
opened it and took one out. It was so shiny. So sharp. So...gratifying. I
held it up to the light and looked at the glinting metal for a moment
before bringing it back down to my face. I stared at it for the longest
time, in the silence of my bathroom.
     " Weru...koko iku nada.." ("Well...here goes nothing.") I muttered
under my breath as I arced the blade downward through the air towards my
awaiting wrist.

White...white everywhere. The light is so bright I can barely stand it... I
open my eyes and take a good look at my surroundings. A man and a woman in
white and green are standing above me, shouting orders I can't really
understand. I'm on a bed, but...it is moving really fast. Must be a
gurney. Gurney?!  The hospital! I'm in the HOSPITAL?! I try to move, but I
find my wrists actually cuffed to the gurney! They must have me on suicide
watch, I thought to myself.
    "What the holy hell is going on?!" The female doctor looks down in
response to my outburst.
     "He's awake." The other doctor looks down at me, as they come through
the doors of the ER entrance.
     "17 year old male, found in bathroom, he's slit his wrists, and lost a
lot of blood before he found him! Get OR 1 up stat!"
     'He?' I thought to myself...couldn't be my dad, he was out of town on
a business venture, and no other guy would actually come to my house
except... "Tyler, that son of a bitch." I mutter under my breath.

     They bring me into an operating room, and get several blood bags to
try to replace what I've lost... Then they hook me up to several machines,
heart monitor, and such. The doctor in attending flicks a syringe and says
to me, "Son, this won't hurt a bit."
      I snicker. "Please, I don't think you can possibly do any worse. And
I don't like needles, maybe you have something in a pill for--"
      Before I can finish my protest, he sticks me in the arm with then
needle and pushes down the plunger, doping me up with 50 or 60ccs of
codeine or such and such. I start feeling woozy and my head lolls back onto
the operating table. The light emanating from the ceiling fixtures grows in
intensity and I'm enveloped in the blinding light as I lapse into
unconsciousness.

-Many hours later...-

     I wake up in a blue room, on a hospital bed. Looking around, I see
flowers on the bedside table, and a few cards. Disoriented still, I try to
figure out what the hell happened, but reminded when once more I try to
roll over and find my bandaged wrists firmly strapped to the bed.
      "Ugh...damn."  I manage to groan out before lying back down. I look
up suddenly as someone appears at the doorway, knocking.
     "Knock knock!" It's Rei-chan! "How are you feeling, Hya-chan?" She
asks, as she comes and kneels beside the bed.

 (Hya-chan's my nickname, given to me by SOOO many of my friends! -winks-
Y'all know who you are!)

     "I'm okay, but my wrists hurt like a bitch."
     "They should!" She says, punching me in the arm. "How could you do
something so stupid?!"
     "Ite! But Rei-chan..." I sigh.
     "'But' nothing! Dammit Hya, nothing could possibly be so bad that you
felt like this was an option!"
     I looked away. "You don't understand."
     "Try me." I stayed silent. "...Okay, I'll let you be for now. However,
don't think we aren't through talking. You've got my number." She stands
up, tousling my hair, and pulls something out of her pocket, and lying it
on my bedside table. "Here," She lays a blue metallic pen, with a yellow
star on top and the symbol of Mercury etched into the center of it in gold,
on the table. "I know that your henshin pen's sorta your good luck charm,
so I brought it. Get better, okay?" I nod, and she turns and leaves the
room.

     I close my eyes and try to get some sleep, but that's interrupted by
someone's voice. "Max?" I open my eyes; surprise, surprise, it's Tyler!
     "RRG! You got an angel boy! You better thank god I'm wired to this
thing or I'd kick your ass right now!" I shout, straining against my bonds.
     "...I'm sorry."
     " WHAT?! You're SORRY?! You used me for a bet, just about guaranteed
my being outed to the whole school, ripped my emotions and inner being
apart to the point that drove me to do this, and all you can say is 'I'm
sorry'?! How DARE you?!"
     "I didn't know that things would go this far!"
     "That's complete bullshit!"
     "It's not! Max, you have to believe me!" I scoff at this.
     "OH yeah, BELIEVING you will solve the problem!! Does it look like I
have 'stupid' tattooed on my forehead!?"
      He tosses a cassette tape on my bed, and I look down at it... "Tyler,
this is..."
     "Yes, it is."
     "But that's not possible! I saw you give them the tape--"
     "I couldn't go through with it...I couldn't...do that to you." I stare
at him with disbelief.
     "Wait a minute, if the real tape is here, then what did you give
Adrian and Chris...?"
     "I hope they like Sera Myu on tape."
     "You didn't!"
     "Yup." We both burst into fits of laughter. I felt great at this
moment. Tyler actually has a heart after all, and my secret is still just
that, a secret. And suddenly, things didn't seem so bad.

			   We have come to terms

I'm BAAAAAAAAACK! No, waitwaitwait, don't run away! I've had my shots, I
SWEAR! What did ya think? Was it good, or has this 'Reality Nap' dulled my
edges a bit? Let me know at sunkamen@netscape.net or message me on AIM @
screenname Hyabuso Yuriyko!  Later!

tsunami