Overdue Check-Up (Poppy Playtime)

(Chapter 4) Part 3: The Confirmational Tale Ep. 2

*Riley's Journal: Entry #3*

???

This wasn't what I thought, what ANYONE thought. They took me somewhere. Not out, but under. Deep beneath EVERYTHING. They gave me a shot, and I went to sleep. Maybe that was days ago. Maybe it was weeks. I remember images. My skin opened up like flower petals, a man who looked like a doctor digging around inside me, taking things out. I remember feeling his touch through my ribs and into the back of my spine. I remember hearing a snap. Everywhere was red.

When I woke up, everything hurt, so I screamed. Hours and hours of screaming. I stopped once I knew no one was listening.

I'm not me anymore. My body is not my body. My hands are not my hands. I try to brush the air I still feel at my shoulders, and touch nothing. I can't separate my fingers, even though I can almost feel them move. It's like nothing of what I feel actually is. Maybe that's been true for a while now.

I'm in a room that isn't so different from the one I had in the orphanage. Verything's nailed down. I've been here a long time.

I'm trying to write the lists that helped before, but I've dropped the pen three times. I don't know what else to do.

Why did I survive if this was all I'd get? What did it all mean if this is where it put me? This can't be all there is.

What's important to me:

· Waking up from this nightmare.

· Getting out.

· Getting back to being me.

Why:

Because I'd started to like life again before, and none of this should be real.

"WHAT THE FUCK?!"

"Language Dan!" Dogday shouted back.

"That's what you're worried about, not the fact that a 12 year old girl basically woke up in the middle of her surgery and saw people take out her organs and bones! All the while she had expected to have been adopted not EXPERIMENTED!!!" Dan cried out in outrage.

Catnap and Dogday glance at each other, before the feline looks at Dan, "We've heard enough horror stories from the other... victims to know what it's like. Not to mention, it was the same for us."

A shaky sigh left Nearic's lips, making everyone look at him as he tightens his grip on his hatchet, "So..." he pauses, "Riley was a kid here, and the result of being 'chosen' had turned her into a... toy... which she was awake for. And my best guess, at her description of her hands, is that she was turned into a Kissy Missy toy," he shivers, "Oh my..." he sighs.

Catnap steps up and lowers his head, "Are you... alright?"

Nearic takes a deep breath as he puts his hatchet away, "I will be..."

Dan folds up the note and hands it to Dogday, "Put this away, I'll read the next one."

Dogday nods and takes the folded paper while Dan holds up the next one and reads it out.

*Riley's Journal: Entry #4*

The room started moving. I'm not sure what that means, or where I might be going. I'm scared, but I'm trying to-

Something happened, everything is upside down. There's a hole in the room, but everything outside is so loud. There's screaming everywhere. I', better off in here, for now. I'll cover the hole with something.