(Never) Let Me Go | District Six [Closed]

Tell me everything that happened
Tell me everything you saw
They had lights inside their eyes
They had lights inside their eyes



(never) let me go.

"We have left the Dark Days behind us for good. Those days of endless fear, of shotgun lullabies and blood running out of our veins like water. With the Treaty of Treason, we hope to face a future of harmony, of balance, of justice to serve the crimes of the past."

The hypocrisy is met with increasing resentment as more and more Games lead to adolescent deaths, but the government has more tricks up its sleeve in terrorizing its own citizens. In the same time of the declaration of the treaty, confidential folders were passed on to selected hands and years later, graphical records will show the slow yet steady advancement of the Capitol’s new medicines. The cause will result an outrage, but they know the greatest trick of them all: to successfully hide something is to place it right under their noses.

The Home used to be one of the most efficient hospitals in Six – used to be. Now all that’s left are peeling paint and cracks in the walls, hospital staff that have been working for all their life in the same place every single day, and the same set of patients it has become a makeshift orphanage – and somehow it’s become exactly like that, except no one ever seems to be going out.

You have been put here for a reason. You are too fragile for the outside, but in here you will be safe.

A hospital. An orphanage. A prison. Welcome Home.

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Disclaimer: This plot, based off the film and the book by Kazuo Ishiguro, involves human experimentation, but none that borders along the muttation types. Physical experimentations are only as to test new medicine and the whole operation is confidential, in disguise of a deteriorating hospital in District Six.

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ADAN H. | 17 | LOREN | FC - JUSTIN STERLING
He’s the rock of them all, perhaps the most sane, and keeps everyone in check, especially Cora. The most physically able of them all and he intends to keep it that way. He’s been planning his life in the outside world ever since he was small, together with Gavin who shared his dream of living a real life, free of needles stuck in his arm and scheduled proportioned meals. It would’ve been easy if only he wasn’t held down by so many responsibilities (that he actually ties himself to) and his medical ‘meetings.’ He's been constantly confined to tests, and all the silent, grave nurses and his suspicions point to the fact that he may be sick after all, thinking maybe that pneumonia that he had when he was eight made a lasting mark. It doesn’t help that he feels like he’s slowly weakening, and the fact that he has never told anybody.

GAVIN D. | 17 | CHELSEY | FC - BAPTISTE RADUFE
Claustrophobic but you wouldn’t have guessed that (and so with how he came to be in the hospital – no one ever knows), with his easy banter and good humor. He’s helpful in terms of shepherding the rest of the younger ones when he’s not exactly that claustrophobic – as long as you keep your hugs three seconds long. First childhood (and perhaps only) friend of Cora, became something more as they hit the years of raging hormones but so far they’ve kept that at bay and instead settled on being each other’s trusted friend, a shoulder always ready whenever they need it. He thinks of himself as a pillar for everybody, (some sort of refuge but he thinks of it as a step-by-step plan on slowly getting over his phobia) and it’s especially handy when he tends to know everyone. He knows Eve’s sweet smile for the bitter way her eyes crinkle, he knows Cora doesn’t really mean the wreckage she tends to make, he very much knows the reason why Eris is holding on is because of Adan – but he doesn’t know whether he’d have the courage to turn away when she finally falls.

ERIS W. | 17 | TATTLETALE | FC - SIGRID AGREN
Eris is systematic and always leans on the rational side of things, completely in contradiction to her own name, but she doesn’t mind. She’s the one who tries – emphasis on try – to take care of everyone, the self-proclaimed mother. She stretches herself to actually feel more caring when the reason she took the responsibility was to put things in place, to try and make a home out of sterile walls and plain white sheets. Was from a well-off family with a business until they went bankrupt and broke. She and her siblings were split up between orphanages and relatives’ homes and she ended up in the not-so-caring arms of her aunt, who immediately dumped her in the nearest hospital after Eris had tuberculosis (and came back, but don’t tell anybody that.) In fact, don’t tell anyone how she looks at Adan with that unguarded smile, hoping that someday he’ll look at her the same way too.

CORA S. | 17 | PYTHON | FC - DIANA MOLDOVAN
Much like Gavin, no one really knows Cora either (she’d rather keep it that way), but maybe except for the crash that sometimes echoes through the hall, the sound of glass breaking inside her room. It’s quite ironic how much mirrors she has in her room when it only takes a second for her to throw it across the room. She hates what she sees: first a girl, a very pretty one, until her skin melts and her limbs deform but most of all the shadows that creep up until her eyes become black. It’s been named as body dysmorphia, but she’s labeled as insane ever since her shaking body was dumped into this institution, the Peacekeeper with the hard smirk only too harsh to push her (and slap her and hit her when she said “no, I’ve had enough.” with those sleepless nights of strange men’s beds and her cowering form, shaking and holding in a cry to rattle the entire world) inside the doors of what is now her home.

EVE L. | 16 | TRISTEN | FC - FLORENCE ARNOLD
Poor, sweet, little Eve, the almost-ghost. She could walk, but eight years ago leukemia has said a firm no and ever since then it resounded to the rest of her veins, poisoning all of her ability to do anything, limiting them for a only a few minutes until she must rest. But Eve fears the day she will finally rest forever, and she’s devoted her life into trying to cure herself, trying to lengthen the days she has left, trying so hard to survive that Daddy’s Little Angel is left (literally left, she remembers the day Daddy stopped visiting her altogether all too well that her hard grip becomes deadly) with a cold, cold heart hiding beneath false sweetness. In all words, Eve is a breathing reminder that brilliant minds left with nothing are nothing but a disaster.

FINN A. | 16 | CASS | FC - FIONN CREBER
Finn is a child at heart, and so he is treated like one. He’s always off to his ‘adventures’ (the nurses call it ‘schizophrenia’ but he does his very best to ignore the fact that he’s sick), always gone by midday to melt off to another world of his own. That’s what his mother always told him, to never stay in just one place. “Try and search for new things, Finn.” It’s like a vow he keeps, a vow he constantly keeps feeding and doing it will stay alive – quite unlike his mother who became an actual sacrificing hero instead of the ones in flying capes by protecting little Finn from the blows of men who replace the shape embedded on his mother’s bed, but never once tried to be the father Finn never had. Finn’s been to many, many worlds that you might think he’d grow tired of seeing new things, but there’s the gnawing feeling that Mama may be out there, in another world, and maybe – just maybe – a man named father may be there too.

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Regarding Last Names: They do have last names, except the Home just abbreviates them into their initials and calls them that way.

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I can say it but you won't believe me
You say you do, but you don't deceive me
It's hard to know they're out there
It's hard to know that you still care