He had almost done it this time, but he was<i>saved</i>...<br/><br/>No longer able to stand being surrounded by painful memories, he agreed to return to Grace Fields Rehabilitation Center. It was at least someplace to exist for the time being. An event occurred about two years ago that lead him to wholly give himself over to doing anything, everything to numb the pain of his existence. Circumstances found him in this... cesspool of those able to guide him to make better life choices. Bullshit. On day two he'd gotten a hit from an attendant, but by the end of the week the dude was gone.<br/><br/>After a week he had failed another attempt to end things, this time lead to his hair being cut off in order to save him. He had been on watch at the recommendation of a man that called himself his friend, who also happened to be his doctor. The man he had been living with for the past 5 years, Dirk. "Are you even trying Tao? Do you really think<i>this </i>is what she wants for you?" His words were marred by a thick Swedish accent.<br/><br/>"Just leave me alone Dirk." Tao groaned softly. His thin neck was dark with bruises that looked to have come from a rope. He had managed to do a real number on himself, effectively hanging himself with his ten feet of hair. As a result of his failed effort his hair was now short and choppy and he had a small cut on the back of his neck that has since healed.<br/><br/>Dirk sighed heavily, "Fine." He knew it wouldn't do any good to push things at the moment. It had been a week since Tao's last attempt, during which time he was being watched closely and wasn't allowed out of his room much, since he had needed time to recover.<br/><br/>Tao was now allowed to do as he pleased, though he was still being monitored closely. He received many curious glances as he made his way to the common room. There was a window with a low wide sill that he would sit at for most of the day. The view out the tempered, barred window wasn't anything particularly special, but was better than any other window offered in the place.<br/><br/>Without his immense length of hair to busy himself with Tao quickly found himself bored. His vibrant purple eyes scanned the room. Other patients lingered about doing various things, a small group was staring vacantly at a tv off in a corner that was playing some daytime drama. A soft sigh passed his black tattooed lips as he shifted pulling his legs up close to himself so he could wrap his oversize cardigan around them. He was always getting chills, and countered this with layers of black oversize shirts and sweaters.<br/><br/>The petite 21 year old was alarmingly thin and pale with the blackest of hair. If not for the slight chin fuzz his gender could be left in question, all the more when his hair had been long. From clothes to personality he seemed drab, with the exception of his vibrant purple eyes and black tattooed lips, that, when parted framed his dull acrylic fangs well. Though the personality, or lack thereof, could have just been due the cocktail of drugs he was being forced to take.<br/><br/><div class="bbCodeSpoiler">
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