6 Scars

"what is that?"

Josh looked at him. Blood ran down his leg.

"what the-"

Josh sat down and looked at where the bleeding was from. Josh had a shocked look on his face.

Jason started getting nervous. "what? what is it?"

Josh looked up at Jason. "see for yourself."

Jason looked down and he had cuts on his leg but the strange thing was it had a shape.

He couldn't make them out. He wiped the blood off of it. Then he realized that it was a number.

Jason stared at the number "81? That's the name of the gate."

Josh shook his head. "no it's more then that. It has to be.."

Jason stared at the cuts. They looked deep enough to scar. "how did this happen? Did I do this to myself?"

"I think so but I'm not sure. I did fall asleep for awhile."

Jason realized. "This plane has 81 people on it."

Josh smiled. "That's it! That's what that means"

Jason shook his head. "But why would I write this? I already knew the amount of passengers."

Josh shrugged. "maybe it's just important to remember."

Jason stood up again. "maybe but I have another problem to take care of right now."

Jason walked to Elle and Christy. "Hey Christy could I talk to Elle for a moment."

Christy nodded and left the seat. Jason sat next to Elle.

Once he sat down he reached for Elle's hand but she pulled her hand away. "Elle.. I'm sorry I didn't mea-"

Elle nodded "I know. It wasn't you."

Jason didn't understand. "Then what's wrong?"

Elle pointed to her neck two red hand prints had been imprinted on her skin.

Jason reached for her neck slowly. Elle grabbed his wrists stopping him from touching her. Then she slowly let go of his hand. Jason touched the bruises.

Elle looked down at the floor. "You looked so angry but under that anger I saw fear. Like you where afraid of hurting me but you tried to."

Jason moved his hand away from her neck to her cheek. "I promise I'll never hurt you again."

All the sudden he heard the same voice he did before. "kill her"

Jason quickly pulled his hand away. "I have to go."

Jason stared to stand but Elle grabbed his hand. "no wait."

Jason hesitantly sat back down. "what?"

Elle leaned in and Kissed him. Jason could feel his face turning red ,and he felt like his insides where melting.

Jason smiled. "what was that for?"

Elle laughed. "I don't know. I just thought you needed it."

Jason heard the voice again. "kill her or she'll kill you."

Jason clenched his fists. Elle looked down and noticed it. "um jason?"

Jason stood up again. "I have to go."

Jason walked back to Josh. "something is happening"

Josh looked at him. "what?"

Jason looked and saw the cuffs still in his hands. "You need to cuff me again."

Josh looked at the cuffs in his hand. "why?"

Jason walked back to the seat. "I can hear the voices."

Josh put the cuffs back on him bounding him to the chair. "But how? You made it passed the 24 hours."

Jason shook his head. "I don't know ,but whatever you do don't let Elle be alone with me ok?"

Josh smiled. "You really care about her a lot."

Jason ignored that. "you promise?"

Josh nodded. "I promise."

Jason cursed in frustration. "Why won't the voices go away."

Josh was curious. "what are they saying?"

"It keeps telling me to kill you and Elle before you two kill me."

Josh nodded. "How are you not going insane yet?"

Jason glared at him. "dude it's gonna take a while I'm not stupid. It's not like I'm going to believe it right away."

"That's not what I meant. I mean your stronger then most. Everyone I've seen hear the voices go out of control immediately."

Jason though for a moment. "Get Elle in here."

Josh nodded and headed out the door. He walked back in moments later with Elle by his side.

She saw him in the cuffs. "what happened this time?"

Jason stared at her. "I told you... I won't hurt you again"

Elle seemed uneasy. "wait I don't understand. The 24 hours are over you should be fine."

Josh sat on the ground. "That's what I thought as well but there's something wrong."

Elle felt the color drain from her face. "no he can't stay like this. You have to do something."

A voice spoke behind them. "Try letting him go."

Josh looked at the person behind them. It was Christy. "Are you insane we can't let him hurt other people."

Christy tried to reason with Josh. "Yeah but if he has nothing to hold him back he might just fight harder to keep the voices out and save everyone from himself."

Josh wanted to argue ,but she had a good point. "Fine we will try but if anything goes wrong he goes back to the hand cuffs."

Josh went to uncuff him but Jason covered the cuffs. "no don't do this. You promised to keep her safe."

Josh moved Jason's hand away. "And I intend to keep that promise."

Josh pulled the hand cuffs off of him.

Jason protested. "I can't fight it. I don't know how."

Josh leaned against the wall. "Your just going to have to trust us."

Jason tried to calm down. "ok I trust you."

Jason heard the voice again but it seemed stronger then before. "don't trust them!! They don't want to help you!"

Jason flinched as the voice got louder. "THEY WILL KILL YOU!! KILL THEM FIRS-"

Jason covered his ears. "SHUT UP!!!"

Somehow the voices stopped. Then Jason realized everyone had there eyes on him ,but he didn't care. The voice was gone at least for the moment.

Elle stared at Jason. "Did you just yell shu-"

Jason smiled "Yes I did. The voices are gone for now."

Josh looked at Jason. "So it just listens to you?"

Jason sat there feeling uneasy. "No that was to easy. It wouldn't just listen."

Jason heard a small ringing in his ear. "I hear a small ringing sound but nothing else."

The sound of the ringing began to grow louder. "crap it's getting louder. ah."

It continued to get louder. It got so loud it hurt Jason's ears. Jason grabbed at his ears. The sound continued to grow louder.

"Guys it won't stop!"

As it got louder it became unbearable to Jason. He couldn't hear anything else then the ringing.

Jason started to shake uncontrollably. He fell out of his seat and started foaming at the mouth.

Christy ran to Jason's side. "he's having a seizure! somebody hold him down!"

Elle and Josh ran to his side. Elle held his head in place so he wouldn't bang his head on the ground. Josh grabbed both of Jason's arms struggling to keep Jason from shaking. Jason's eyes started to roll to the back of his head.

Christy ran to the First aid kit and pulled out something that looked like an epipen but it looked a little different.

Then she rushed back to Jason. She pressed the shot against his leg. As she injected the shot Jason slowly began to stop shaking. Jason was now out cold on the floor.

Elle looked at Josh. "why did we take the hand cuffs off? we shouldn't have done that."

Josh started to pull Jason off the floor. "We have to let him keep fighting it."

Elle shook her head. "No way we can't. He would have been fine if he just didn't fight it. I can't do thi-"

"Elle...its the only way. We can't just let it take over his body."

Elle helped lay Jason in his seat. She would have continued to argue with Josh but she knew he was right.

Elle sat next to Jason. She held his hand and thought about how this whole trip had been a disaster. She just wanted to get away from her problems and relax but all she got was more problems.

Elle's thoughts where cut short when Christy said "Hey L could we talk?"

Elle stood up and smiled. "L? I like that."

Christy waved for her to come over.

Elle stepped in front of Christy. "so what's up?"

Christy looked behind Elle to make sure no one was listening. "I don't know what's wrong with Jason ,but he's in trouble. I think that if these strange episodes Jason's having continue... then I think his life could be on the line."

Elle bit her nail. "I was afraid of that. Is there anything we could do to stop it?"

"I'm not sure but I could try to find something to help."

Elle started to walk back to Jason. "Thank you so much."

Elle sat back down. She waited 30 minutes for Jason to wake up but he still was sound asleep. Elle could feel herself slipping off to sleep as well. Elle leaned her head on Jason's shoulder and drifted to sleep.

An hour later. Jason slowly woke up. The first thing he noticed was Elle on his shoulder. He smiled. He thought about the times they would study late at night and she would fall asleep on his shoulder. He wish he was back at home enjoying those late nights.

"your awake?"

Jason looked across the room to see Josh siting down leaning against the wall. "yeah... what happened again?"

Josh shrugged. "you may have or may not have had a seizure."

"I can't say I'm surprised. So much crap has been going on. I don't know what else could possibly go wrong."

Josh smiled. "Don't be to sure about that. there's always something that could go wrong."

Jason stared at Josh. "You know you should be a therapist you'd be real great at making people feel good."

Josh laughed. "ha sorry... again."

Jason put his hands up. "Nah it's all good."

Josh raised an eyebrow. "your not hearing anything. You know like in your head."

Jason shook his head. "No ,and I'm hoping it doesn't happen again."

"Well let's find out if it will."

Jason had a confused look on his face. "how?"

Josh smirked. "I don't know. Maybe let your guard down."

Jason shook his head. "No. No. What if it starts again?"

"I'll stop you. Don't worry about it to much."

After a couple minutes later nothing happened.

Jason shrugged. "I guess I'm good."

Josh stood up. "well let's see."

Josh pulled a pocket knife out of his back pocket.

Josh tossed the knife to Jason. "Here."

Jason flicked the knife open. "What's this for?"

Josh stepped forwards. "stab me."

Jason stared at Josh. "I'm sorry. what!?"

Josh took another step. "Do it. You know you want to. The voices are telling you only what you truly want."

Jason closed the knife. "Josh... I'm not going to stab you. That's insane."

Josh smiled and plucked the knife out of Jason's hand. "Good. I think it's gone."

Jason looked down in confusion. "Wait. That was a test?"

Josh shoved the knife back in his pocket "You didn't actually expect me to want you to kill me. Did you?"

Jason shrugged. "I guess not."

Jason wondered how Josh had a Knife on a plane as well but at this point nothing surprised him. "Dude what if I actually stabbed you?"

Josh shook his head and pulled a taser out of his side pocket. "I would have tased you before you got close."

"So I'm good?"

Josh shrugged his shoulders. "well you didn't try to stab me. So I'd say your good."

Jason smiled and looked at Elle still asleep. He didn't want to wake her up ,but they had to get back to their seats.

Jason shook his shoulder trying to wake her up. "Hey Elle?"

Elle flinched. "what! what!"

Jason laughed. "we have to get back to our seats."

Elle looked around. "oh ok. But are the voices gone?"

Jason helped her stand up. "yeah we don't have to worry about that."

They walked back to their seats.