Woah. So Neil canonically got waterboarded. That's fucked up. Do yall think he gets nightmares about that particular incident? Cause the incident really stuck with Jean and Neil experienced it. What if one night he gets a reminder of the torture?
What if he dreams about riko laying a cloth over his face, tying his hands to the headboard, ordering him not to move or he'll pay for it in an even worse way. He commands Jean to hold down his legs for him, threatening to hurt HIM if he does.
And then he feels water.
He's drowning. Water's flooding his nose, his mouth, his eyes as he struggles to keep them shut. He's drowning. He can't breathe. Water's up his nostrils now. Jean finding it hard to hold him down due to Neil's constant struggling and getting death glares from Riko himself.
He's drowning. He can't breathe. Neil is going to die.
Nathaniel is going to die.
"NEIL."
That's all it takes for him to realize it was all just a dream. But was it?
"Neil, are you awake?", Andrew's voice is barely a whisper, against the wind jostling from the windows.
"Yeah.", it takes him a while to realize what he was doing. He releases his hand from his throat and sets them on his knees.
"Choking yourself to death seems the most impractical way to die, in my opinion."
Silence.
"Wanna talk?"