Infected: Corruption Chapter 1 (Finished Draft)

all right. just finished chapter 1 of Infected: Corruption. still attempting to edit it, but i tend to miss a few things :( please help me check for grammar errors, spelling mistakes, etc. :)

Chapter 1

Jason came to, slowly. He barely opened his eyes, noticing their weight from last night. Trying to kill yourself really is tiring.

The lights were blinding. His arm instinctively moved to shelter his eyes with its shade. Jason caught a glimpse of the room. It was bright white, nothing but pure white. He saw a tray with tools on it, something a dentist or other doctor would have.

Jason didn’t know where he was, but it didn’t matter. His body was exhausted, but it didn’t matter. He had even failed at killing himself, or did he? He couldn’t remember, it was all just a giant haze in his memory.

Maybe he was dead, and this is what heaven was like. But then again, he wouldn’t have gone to heaven. No, not him.

“You’re awake! This early? I must report this!” he heard someone say, quickly followed by a door being opened and slammed without concern.

Jason’s eyes got used to the room, but it didn’t matter. Nothing mattered, not as long as it kept him alive. He walked over to the tray with the tools. They were definitely not tools found in a doctor’s office. Their edges were all sharpened and they glistened in the bright lights. They looked like something from a horror film in a doctor’s office, like a doctor from Hell or something like that.

Jason saw something that he recognized amongst these tools. A knife. Something simple. Something he knew very well. Something he could use.

He picked it up, and stabbed his eye...

...at least he would have, if he could pick it up. He thought he had missed the first try, maybe his aiming was off because his body was exhausted. He tried again. And again. And again. He couldn’t pick it up. He stared at his hand, only to see the tools clearly through its transparency. He was a ghost. Maybe he did kill himself.

“If only it were true,” he whispered to himself.

There was no reason for him to live. He gave up on living a long time ago. Yet, somehow, every attempt was a failure. It was like the world had conspired against him, as if some unknown contract had been made to keep him alive. A contract with the sole purpose of making him suffer. Really, living was such a pain.

This room could do nothing for him. He walked through the door and into the hall.

Pounding footsteps echoed down the hallway. Jason looked to his left and rejoiced at the sight of soldiers. It almost brought tears to his eyes. He could barely contain himself.

There were eight of them, all armed with submachine guns. They took up a formation, four of them kneeled down and the other four stood above them. All in all, eight rifles for Jason to die by. He couldn’t hold himself back any longer.

“Shoot me,” he said.

“What?” one of the soldiers asked.

“SHOOT ME!” Jason screamed.

Somewhere down the hallway, in a pure white room, a scientist stood by the door, watching with a sinister joy in his eyes.

“A ghost with a death wish?” he smirked to himself.

“Fire!” commanded another soldier.

Jason raised his head and laid his eyes upon the ceiling. Nothing but pure white, just like the room. He had already said goodbye to this life long ago. There was nothing left but taking the next step, to die.

But the soldiers’ guns eventually ran out of ammo. The gunfire stopped, to Jason’s despair. On a last twinge of hope, he looked for bullet holes. He looked for any kind of wound, even if it was just a scratch. He found nothing. The soldiers reloaded, unknowingly preparing to waste more bullets.

“Why,” Jason lamented, “Can’t I die?”

He had been damned, cursed to live a life he didn’t want. He had accepted death, but life would not let him go. He was doomed to breathe a suffering, to never find the final peace he wanted.

“Fire!” the soldier commanded.

that's it for chapter 1. in other news...

i changed this blog back to its original colors. i liked the picture, too bad i couldn't figure out how to keep it in one spot so the blog was readable (is that even a word? lol) also, i started a separate blog for Infected, but i'm having trouble with colors [again :( ] if anyone can help me out, that'd be great. oh yeah, let me know what you think of this chapter! thanks