{"id":4306,"date":"2017-03-24T15:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T22:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/excerpt-overwatch-segment-drawing-whatever\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:36:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:36:33","slug":"excerpt-overwatch-segment-drawing-whatever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/excerpt-overwatch-segment-drawing-whatever\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt: “Overwatch”-segment; Drawing; Whatever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title: Overwatch
\nAuthor: Harper Kingsley
\nUniverse: Kanon-verse (alternate universe version of Heroes & Villains<\/em>)<\/p>\n

EXCERPT –<\/p>\n

Here I am<\/em>, he thought. One day older. One day closer.<\/em><\/p>\n

He squeezed his eyes closed. Drew a deep breath in through his nose. Then he pressed the button that raised the top portion of the hospital bed to an upright position. He clenched his teeth against the pain, feeling the lines around his nose and eyes pull tight.<\/p>\n

If he lived, he would carry reminders of this experience forever.<\/p>\n

Finally the pain shifted, released. He could breathe. The tears weren’t threatening to squeeze their way past his eyelids.<\/p>\n

He took a few moments to regain his composure. Then he shifted the fingers of his left hand onto the call button. Concentrated. And pressed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thirty seconds later a nurse appeared. “Good morning, Blue Ice. Are you ready for your pain medications now?”<\/p>\n

Warrick thought about saying No. Thought about pretending to be strong for one more minute and continuing to suffer through this agony<\/em> that had become his life. Then he thought about cool relief from the nerve pain caused by his continuous brain seizures.<\/p>\n

“Sir?” the nurse asked. “Is that a Yes or a No on the pain medication at this time? I need a verbal reply, as per your instructions.”<\/p>\n

Sometimes Warrick cursed his past-self. That self-assured fool that had never truly believed he could be brought so low. Who never would have imagined a time when all he’d want was for someone else to make the hard choices, because he hurt<\/em> too much to even care.<\/p>\n

“Y-y-yes<\/em>sss,” he hissed out through his teeth.<\/p>\n

Then there was sweet relief at the hands of his beautiful caretaker. He didn’t know her name, but he loved her with all the fervor of someone finally released from the grasp of wretched misery.<\/p>\n

He drifted for some timeless state of being.<\/p>\n

A few precious moments completely free from pain.<\/p>\n

Time was pressing in on itself. Soon these moments wouldn’t exist. He would count his blessings in seconds, not minutes. Then milliseconds. Then no relief at all. Pain would become his world.<\/p>\n

And then he would die.<\/p>\n

I hate this<\/em>, he thought for the millionth time. Why won’t someone come save <\/em>me for once?<\/em><\/p>\n

The door slammed open hard enough to take a gouge out of the wall. Caspian didn’t pause in his entrance, coming right to the side of the bed, his grin a fierce baring of teeth. His eyes were like blue fire.<\/p>\n

Warrick’s breath caught. He was all aquiver. He felt a desperate hope blooming in his chest.<\/p>\n

“I found it. I found it!” Caspian reached his hand toward Warrick’s face, then ever-so-gently, careful of his friend’s propensity for pain, brushed his finger along the arch of Warrick’s cheek. “As long as you hold on, you miserable fuck, you’re going to be out of this hospital bed in a month, walking<\/em> around. But you’ve gotta hold on, you hear me War? Can you hold on?”<\/p>\n

Warrick drew in a shuddering breath. He formed the words slowly, carefully, wanting himself to be clearly heard. “Y-es. Ho-lding onn iss hw-wha-at I do b-es-t.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

\/END EXCERPT<\/p>\n

crossposted at Kimichee.com<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

I’ve been drawing a bit, which has really helped my imagination come up with storylines and characters.<\/p>\n

I got a copy of “Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces with Jane Davenport<\/a>” and I’ve been trying to make the people I draw look more attractive and less lopsided. I really like this book. I’ve been carrying it around with me, and I’ve been drawing with colored pencil so I can’t erase anything, and my people’s lips are beginning to look like lips.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

About the Warrick thing up there ^ ^ ––<\/em> Things are a bit different in the Kanon-verse, and not just where “Pulse of the City” is concerned. It’s why things are so different in “Tuesday Night.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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