AN: I’m so sorry it took this long to post! School work has gotten insane. Here’s chapter 2: If you want more, comment on it! Those drive me forward! This is more of a filler, really.

Simon woke up, and this time felt himself lying on a medcot bed. It wasn’t the nicest he’d ever seen, to say the least, but at least it was more comfortable than the cement floor that he found himself on last time. The room was less dingy than the room he had been kept in, but certainly not hospital standards. Just by looking down at his medcot, he could notice about a dozen infractions that this would make for the standard medical health code.

As he was looking around this desperate, bleak remnant of a “medbay”, another person who appeared to be the doctor entered. Upon closer inspection, Simon could recognize the man. “Wait a minute,” Simon said, looking closely at the doctor. “You’re… John Sirii? You were one of the interns at the hospital on Osiris when I worked there, when I left.”

John gave a weak smile. Though he was younger than Simon, it seemed as John had aged quickly here. “That’s right, doctor Tam.” He said, giving Simon a shot of an antibiotic. “You were the only one who treated me like a human. It’s hard, being in that hospital.”

“Is that why you’re here? ‘Cause you seemed so kind! You never goofed off on your shift, and you were never the criminal sort!”

John shook his head, and looked sad. “No, I’m sadly here for the same reason you are. I was arrested.”

Simon couldn’t believe this. Why would John, of all people, be in this place? Simon had noticed his disappearance a few weeks before, but he couldn’t question it because he was too preoccupied with River.

River.

The name sunk into his heart as guilt washed over him. What would they be doing to her right now? Was she being tortured? He had to save her!

Simon quickly sat up, and tried to get off the cot. John held him there.

“What are you doing?” the prison’s doctor shouted, trying to keep Simon on the chair. “Are you insane?”

“Pretty