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Sebastian Matthews

The quiet of the night caressed Sebastian's face like a gently hand, the velvet darkness leveling the playing field. He loved the night, when everyone could see about as much as he could. When life was fair. Ha, life being fair. What a thought. Sebastian smiled slightly, leaning out his second story window to inhale the delicious night air. He swung himself up onto the window ledge, his feet dangling down into nothingness, and reached out, fear making his heart race. This was the most terrifying part, knowing that he could fall if he was just a few centimeters off from his target, a tree branch that stretched out close to the window. He relaxed when his fingers caught the sturdy branch, and he pushed off from the side of the house, letting his weight bend the branch. The branch arched with the effort of keeping Sebastian aloft, but before it could snap, Sebastian had let go, allowing his body to plummet to the ground where he caught himself silently in the grass.

He made less sound than any of the creatures that lived in the woods behind the house, sneaking around the house and out to the sidewalk. After his bare feet made it to the solid certainty of the cement, Sebastian relaxed and strolled along, enjoying the night. These nighttime wanderings where his time, when he could be free as a lark, wandering where he liked in the smooth privacy of the night. He wondered where he should wander to tonight. Maybe the woods over near the park? Yes, that sounded good, to lie in the grass for a couple hours and enjoy nature. He walked the three blocks there was between his house and the park, a path he had memorized. As he walked he started to feel slightly uneasy. Like someone was watching him.

No, that couldn't be, no one ever goes out at night except for me. Sebastian reassured himself. Curfew is ten, and most people obey it. Except for me. The cops only drive around for an hour, and it has been much longer than an hour since ten. The Matthews family lived in a nice neighborhood, lucky for Sebastian. He made it to the park and wandered around for a little while, his bare feet enjoying the cool softness of the grass. He eventually started to move towards the forest, placing each foot deliberately and carefully. And then he let his body collapse on the ground, enjoying the sudden release of air from his lungs as he collapsed in the grass.

Sebastian spread his arms out as if he was making a snow angel, closing his eyes and enjoying his freedom. And then he fell asleep. He ad a blurry conflicted dream, muddled voices were all he could really remember. He loved to sleep outside, where the cool kiss of nature was most evident. Where everything is in harmony and it doesn't matter who can see and who can't, as long as everything is at peace. Sweet peace.

Sebastian awoke with something heave on his chest. He immediately panicked and tried to squirm away, to no avail. The weight pressed down. It felt like a boot, but Sebastian could not be sure. He could hear the sounds of someone breathing over the sound of his own frantic breath and heartbeat, and, guessing that his oppressor, whatever was pressing down on his lungs, was human. He flailed out, gasping for breath, and caught hold of a pant leg.

"L-let me go! Get off me!" Sebastian tried to scream, but it came out in a breathless whisper, a painful gasp. He fell limp, unable to draw another breath into his lungs because of the great weight on them, his eyes rolling in fear. The weight of the boot lifted slightly, whoever was on the other end probably realizing that his target would be dead if they couldn't manage to take another breath. As soon as Sebastian realized that he was free, or at least, free-er than before he wiggled free and started to run, scrambling and sometimes over balancing and using his hands to keep himself from falling face first into the ground. He could hear the heavy sound of someone pursuing him, and ran faster.

Then bam. He'd been hit. Or more like, he'd hit something. Face first, something that knocked him for consciousness before his body hit the ground. A tree. He was taken down by a tree.

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Sebastian awoke with a splitting headache. He groaned loudly and pulled the sheets up closer to his face. No, he didn't want to wake up. He wanted to go back to sleep, where there was less pain. And he didn't want to deal with his family when he felt this bad. Speaking of that, What had happened last night? He could remember falling asleep in the grass, but nothing after that. Not walking home and climbing the tree, not even waking up from his sweet nap. Huh, that was strange. What had happened? He rolled over, and promptly fell from the bed. The side of his head made a loud sound against a cool strange floor, and Sebastian discovered he wasn't in his own bed. As he landed he gave a loud yell, the sound ripping the previous stillness of the air. Then the memories came rushing back.

Seb moaned as he sat up, holding his head. He had a butterfly bandage pulling the flesh closed over a small cut on his temple, on the left side, and he could feel something on his left eye as well, a soft pad that covered the entire thing. Stiff bandages kept the gauze pad in place. He couldn't move that eyelid. He could now feeling the throbbing pains from his forehead and eye separating themselves from the general pain in his brain, making themselves known to the sore boy. When he'd slammed into the tree he'd managed to scratch his eye bad enough that it'd started to bleed, not to mention the large gash he'd gotten on his forehead, the various bruises on his body, and the pain in his ribcage and brain.

Sebastian lay back down and closed his eyes, intent on going back to sleep. It didn't much work though, for Seb wasn't wearing very much. Definitely not what he'd been wearing last night. Now he was just wearing a pair of shorts that came down to about his knees, and his back was becoming very cold because of the cold floor.