Let me out! (open)

[Xavier Von Altena]

Xavier was getting used to the screaming, used to the confines of his padded cell and the straight jacket. He was used to the food and he was very much getting used to the fact that he was actually crazy. The drugs numbed things for him. He was getting used to that too. He was used to 'not having wings' when they were clearly attached to his back. They were now quite tattered from being strapped to his back and very much crooked from being strapped down. He did not resemble the great and powerful fallen angel he had been. He was now a shadow of his former self.

He'd pretty much forgotten Atilla and all she'd meant to him and his cousin, Craven, his fathers, Gabriel and Dilan, his younger sister, Rose...

He was nothing so to wake up in the little shed that was his new cage, shackled and tied down was to him, just another illusion. He simply lay where he was unmoving in the hot stifling heat that surround him and made his pores moist with sweat. He ignored the gnawing huger and the parchment of thirst in his throat. He only moved when he heard the rattle of his cell door being opened. Xavier scrambled back, wild eyes matching his wild black hair. Into the shadows the young mutant moved, eyes wide and staring at the person that had just entered. A whimper escaped his dry cracked lips and he started mumbling.
"I'll be good. I'll be good. No more treatment. I promise I'll be good. Whatever you want me to do... I'll do it. I promise..."

[Princess Viateita]

Having just gotten word that a new prisoner was in, Viateita took it upon herself to see him and so brought some food and water with her as she stepped inside, her eyes adjusting slightly as the boy moved into the shadows as she bent down and pushed the water and food away from her and towards him.

"What happened to you, you poor creature?" She asked gently as she bent down to his level. The Princess of the Amazons was quite confused as she saw the wings on his back as she examined him, watched him before she went out and shut the door behind her before stepping as far back from the food and water so that he could approach it before she kneeled down again to his level. Her bow and quiver of arrows on her back and her sword at her side, yet she felt no need to have them out and in her hands.

[Xavier Von Altena]

The girl that came in was not in uniform. She wasn't one of the resident orderlies, that was for certain. Or maybe she was and Xavier was actually going insane. He'd been questioning his sanity for some time now. He didn't know whether she was supposed to look like that just cause she was toying with him or maybe she was one of those awful ghostly creatures that haunted this place. She was wearing the bare minimum so she must have been a ghost. His eyes went wide upon the realization.

Generally the institution didn't encourage sexuality or anything else for that matter. This girl was dressed like this for a reason. Maybe this was another one of the doctor's tests. When asked her question, he shook his head quickly.
"Nothing! Nothing! Really! I'm fine. I'm fine. I slept well. I'm getting better. I don't even see my wings any more. I'm really getting better. I promise."
Yeah right? This whole thing had gone twisted in his mind. The WHOLE THING!

He didn't see the padded walls anymore or the orderlies as they were supposed to be. He didn't feel the neutral air around him set as a comfortable temperature. No, the sweating must have been a bad reaction to some medication. Oh God. They'd find out and put him on new shit. She put down the food bowl and water and Xavier trailed his eyes from the items to his trembling thin fingers. Dirt! Oh God! Dirt! He'd never been dirty. They took him to the showers, stripped him down and sprayed him then used brushes to scrub him clean.

He never sweated because the air around him was never too cold or too hot.
"Oh God...."
Xavier gave a little whimper as tears formed in his eyes. That's it... he was crazy. Maybe some water. If he had food and water maybe he'd see things as they were supposed to be. Maybe he'd see his familiar surroundings again. Carefully Xavier moved forward once again and gathered the simple looking bowl in his hand tipping it to his mouth to drink the clear and refreshing water from his trembling grip.

He guzzled it down. It would turn into a plastic bottle when the last drop was drained. Yes... he was sure of it but as he lowered the bowl it never became a bottle... He stared at it but no amount of staring made it a bottle.
"Be a bottle! Damn you! I don't wanna be crazy!"
He screamed at the bowl. Food... maybe if he ate food. He dropped the bowl and snatched the second shoving slices of fruit, cooked meat and raw vegetables into his mouth.

No soup, no bread, no finely prepared stew... it was fresh, healthy and sweet. They didn't allow too much sweet. The Institution didn't want sugar levels to change....

[Princess Viateita]

Viateita sighed as she watched the creature fumble and look around everywhere, it looked like he came from that place where many had lost their minds despite the fact that, she assumed, was supposed to be a place to get help.

Viateita cocked her head to the side as the boy started saying that he was fine, he slept well, he didn't see his wings anymore? "Why can you deny something that seems to clearly be a part of you?" She stated with a frown on her face and between her eyes as she continued watching him. It was clear that he was ill, whatever happened to him had made him try to convince himself, or others, that he wasn't ill. But dear Gods, he was ill.

"Shhhh..... Shhhh... It's alright, you're not dreaming, this place is real... As am I.... I am Princess Viateita of the Amazons...... What's your name?" She asked as she studied him closely whilst staying knelt down.

[Xavier Von Altena]

Okay, so he was being asked why he was denying what was clearly apart of him. He'd hated his wings for such a long time and while in the padded cell he'd been told they weren't really there because only crazy people had angelic wings and special powers and he was neither of those. He'd been convinced he was normal and when he fought, when he tried to pull out his feathers from his wings, he'd been strapped down and put under electro shock therapy procedures. He'd stopped pulling out the feathers of his wings from there on in.

He'd begged for them to be strapped down so he didn't see them and eventually he'd convinced himself that they didn't exist. It was safer to do that. He didn't get therapy if he didn't see his wings. He swallowed at the question and started mumbling under his breath, tapping his fingers to his forehead to attempt to find the right answer to the question. Right answer would allow him to be left in peace. Wrong answer and he'd get hauled off to get zapped. Slowly he stopped the tapping when she said that this wasn't a dream and that it was real.

He lowered his bowl slowly, as if she were wild animal about to attack then slowly let his eyes fall on her.
"You are a dream. I am High risk patient number four five two one. It says so on my file and on my wrist ba...."
He lowered his eyes to the wrist band that was not there anymore and frowned, then flicked his eyes to the orderly before quickly tapping where it used to be, hoping she didn't notice his hesitation.

"On my wrist band. See? Look!"
He was confident as he held out his wrist to show the 'not-there-anymore' wrist band.
"I'm getting better and I can be moved to normal patients soon right? Right? You said if I stopped seeing wings and started being good I can be moved right? "
Xavier asked nodding his head in hopes to get her to nod her head too.

[Princess Viateita]

Vaiteita shook her head as she held out her hand to him, waiting for him to reach out and touch it through the bars. "Touch my hand... Does that feel like a dream?" She stated as she looked at him and looked at his wings before sighing, this wasn't working at all.

"I don't know what those numbers mean...... There's nothing there..." She stated with a sigh. This was obviously going to take some time before she had an idea. "The Doctors removed your wrist-band because they were putting new numbers on there to..... To show you were not as High risk...." She stated in explanation as she gave a small smile, "We're still debating on whether you can interact with the other patients but... Soon, I think.... We just... Need to wait for your new wrist band... Ok?" She asked with a hopeful smile, unsure if he would buy any of it.

[Xavier Von Altena]

Xavier flinched when her hand came through the bars but she didn't come in and she didn't touch him. He pulled his own hand back in response staring at hers almost as if she would hit him with it but she didn't. He took a deep breath and let it out when she said there was nothing on his wrist and he slowly tilted his head down, his shaggy hair falling into his eyes as he stared hard at his wrist then, even tried to touch the wrist band he could not see hoping that maybe he could feel it instead.

Finally she said that the wrist band had been taken away and Xavier tilted his head, finally some comprehension coming to his lost confused eyes before they began to twinkle with hope. Xavier slowly sat down, his crooked wings jutting out at weird angles. He paid the ropes around his wrist no head as well as the ropes around his ankles. His face seemed to light up and he seemed almost calm now. His smile, so rarely seen now adays, flashed to life like it was an unused thing that he was just starting to learn to use again.

"Really?! I can interact with the other patients! I promise. I won't hurt them at all. You have my word. Can I see the sun? or the garden? I heard you had a garden? Will I be able to go there? I'm sorry."
Xavier, realizing he was talking too much, lifted his hand to his lips and made to lock them then throw away the key before picking up the bowl of fruit and meat once more to finish the food he's been given, smiling at the girl on the other side of the bars.

[Princess Viateita]

Viateira sighed sadly as he drew his hand away from hers but she kept it there just in case he decided to reach forward at all.

Her face broke into a smile as his eyes lit up and he started to talk but then he started to shut down again. "It's alright to ask questions.... It means you're getting better......." She tried to coax him into some sort of ordered mind again, this was going to be hard to explain to the Queen though.

She sighed, "As soon as we get your new wrist-band, then we'll see what the Doctor says about when you can go out. But for now, eat your food." Viateira smiled, glad to have made at least some rogress with this boy. What ever had happened to himm was obviously terrible for him that he may have list his mind, despite the fact that he's trying to say that he was in concern with his wings.

She felt so sorry for him, but right now being in this cage was probably a good idea.

[Xavier Von Altena]

Xavier nodded when she said that he was getting better if he asked questions then told him to eat his food. A new hope blossomed in Xavier's eyes and in the way he moved now. He was smiling now. The fear was all but gone from his eyes and even his posture was correcting a bit from it's slouched position. He was trying his very utmost to seem like he was normal and better and able to go out into the sun. All he wanted was the sun now and the cool breeze against his skin.

Oh how he missed it so terribly.
"So... what's your real name?"
Xavier asked the first question to strike his mind when he finished swallowing the piece of meat he'd been chewing, frightened to even ask about anything else like the weird visions he saw and the fact that he saw her behind a cage door instead of in the cell with him.
"You're an orderly right? You can't be a princess."
He confirmed worriedly.
"And you're just trying to check if I'm not crazy right? That was a trick and I passed. I passed with flying colors didn't I?"
He asked now full of bubbling questions.
"What about the medication? Am I still gonna have to take that?"
He remembered the first few times he was to take Medication. They had to pin him to the floor and inject it into his shoulder. Now, he simply opened his mouth, took the pills and swallowed with the tiny cup of water they provided with it. He'd become like a trained puppy.

[Princess Viateita]

Viateita smiled as she watched his whole body language change, her idea may just work if she was subtle and able to help him out then he may just possibly be able to get back his spirit.

"My name is Viateita. My parents were a little odd in naming me and some of my sisters...." Viateita offered before shaking her head from side to side, "Assistant Orderly, the last patient I saw thought she was an Amazon Queen so we've had to... 'Play along' a little slowly to bring her out of it...." She replied to his questions.

Then came a question about... Medication? "The Doctor seems to think that you don't need medication for a while but, we're having you in here so that we can keep an eye on you, just in case.... It's just to be sure that your body can cope." Viateita answered, trying to keep the confusion and uncertainty out of her voice as she turned her head as if to listen to something befor eturning back with a frown.

"There seems to be a problem with the numbering system, so we're going to have to go with names of the bands..... What's your name?" Viateita asked again, hoping he'll buy this part of the illusion he had slightly created for himself.

[Xavier Von Altena]

Xavier nodded when she mentioned that her name was Viateita but the nod abruptly ended when she mentioned that she had just seen a patient who thought she was an Amazonian queen and that's why the dress and the everything else around him. Now it all made sense.
"Oh my God. Wow. I really thought I was going nuts. You could have warned me. I woke up here and like... I flipped out. I was sweating and things were dirty and stuff. Phew..."
Xavier gave a sigh of relief before he slowly started pushing himself to his feet.

He was mindful that the tiny rope keeping him from running anywhere, didn't make him trip up. He just wanted to stand a bit, look around himself at the decorations and examine the details.
"Man... this must have cost a lot to set up. I can play along too if you need me to. "
Xavier's face lit up even more when he was told there would be NO medication. He covered his mouth with his hands to keep from shouting with joy then slowly lowered his hands from his mouth when she turned her head slightly as if someone were speaking to her.

Xavier leaned in a little, holding back from begging her to stay with him. Aside from Dr. Drew, she was the only kind person he'd met in MONTHS. He nodded quickly when she said they would have to use his name.
"It's.... It's..."
Xavier frowned and closed his eyes. What was his name? HRP4521. Xavier huffed. No. His real name.

Xavier lowered his head.
"They're telling me you're having trouble eating. Can you at least look at me? Xavier?"

"I know it hurts. Just hold on, Mr. Von Altena. Please. Look at me. Concentrate on me."

"You know I'm your friend right, Xavier?"
Drew.... Xavier slowly started to smile and pictured Drew's face in his head, watched Drew run to him, wrap his arms around him and stroke his hair.

"It was a bad dream, Xavier. Nothing but a bad dream."

"I got a book and some free time. More Shakespeare?"

"It's Frankie. You gotta learn to appreciate good music while your in here. Keeps you sane."

"I'm here, Xavie... I won't let them hurt you anymore. I'm fighting for you..."

"My name's Xavier Von Altena. Where's Dr. Drew? "
He asked her, now a bit more suspicious, his mind slowly clearing...

[Princess Viateita]

Viateita shrugged a little, "Yeah, sorry about that..... I haven't been here long so I wasn't sure of the rota... And actually no, we used a lot of the nature around us so that it felt like it was real... Bless her...." She stated as she smiled, seeing him stand a little so stood up with him before she shook her head, "Don't worry, we only really have it set up just in case she gets out of her room..... We eventually hope that the therapy will work and that she'll get better and we can eventually bring her back out into the real world... Like you!" She stated with a warm smile.

Viateita watched as the boy tried to remember what his anme was before she saw his smile and was a little confused by it before he said his name and asked about a... Dr. Drew?

"He's a little busy with another patient, who really needs his help..... Poor man.... Swears he's a Wolf?!" She stated, thinking of the first thing that popped into her head as Viateita shrugged as she repeated his name, "Xavier Von Altena?! A good name.... A strong name...." She stated with a smile.

[Xavier Von Altena]

Xavier nodded sympathetically when she explained about the other patient needing this to sort out her mind. His face lit up instantly when she mentioned that he was better now.
"Like me..."
He murmured in an almost dreamy way like he was actually proud of himself. Finally she mentioned Dr. Drew being busy with another patient. Xavier winced when she mentioned the other patient and almost lowered his head in disappointment.

She mentioned that his name was strong and a spark of the old Xavier was now slowly sliding into his face. He gave her his trademark smirk.
"Yeah, so I've been told. My names actually getting changed to Stark. I was adopted...I am... adopted."
His old life seemed a million miles away. Or was it his life at all? Being in the institution made him think that maybe he was imagining all of it.

He seriously was doubting whether anything was real at all. Xavier lowered himself into a crouch again, collecting the bowls and moving unsteadily to the gate to place them there as was his routine in the institution anyway so that they could be collected and washed again.
"Thank you. The food was different... amazingly different. "
He said softly before backing away as they always told him to do when one of the white coats entered.

He was a trained puppy....

[Princess Viateita]

Viateita nodded at his repeat of her last sentence but then saw the disappointment in his eyes and Viateita sighed. When this boy, Xavier, eventually realises she had lying to him, things were not going to be very pretty but still.....

Viateita smiled as Xavier talked about his name being changed, perhaps he was remembering his old life more and more? Viateita hoped so, for it may help to save him here if Xethi ever came to speak with him.

Sighing as she saw him cower away, Viateita let herself into the cage before kneeling down again. "Do you want some more, Xavier? I can get some, if you want..." She asked, keeping the door open as she tried to coax him away from this state and back into the way he was just now.

[Xavier Von Altena]

Xavier slowly straightened up when she mentioned she could get him some more. What had he done to deserve such a good time? How had he gotten to it? What was going on!?! Xavier didn't know if they were playing one long horrible trick on him or what but it was hellishly confusing and he didn't feel at all comfortable with anything that was going on.
"I'd like... some more please and I'd really... like to stretch my legs? They're cramping again."
Xavier whispered softly, uncertainly watching her intently.

Maybe now that she seemed to have softened... maybe she would let him do things. He didn't know why she was being so nice but he had to be smart and try and take advantage of this. Already the old Xavier was sparkling through and soon he'd be the little fiend he'd once been, thanks to the helpful, naive young Princess who was definitely figuratively letting him out of his cage.