ALIENS!!! Modern au!Simon gets abducted by aliens. Thats it. Even in another universe he can't escape being terrorized by aliens, lol

First day back at uni has got me feeling so low guys... :[

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Simon has been dealt a pretty shit set of cards in life.

First, Eden fucked him up beyond measure. Their religious dogma is the whole reason Simon can't even *look* at a church without getting flashbacks to the sermons held by the Father.

Then, there was prison. Which was.. argueably better than Eden. At least in prison, he didn't have to kill anybody for the 'greater good'. He mostly sat in his cell, read the books scattered around, and waited for the day he'd be free.

After prison, though? It.. it was better. He worked at this flower shop, whose owner was kind enough to let him stay for a few nights until he got back on his feet and could afford a place of his own. A shitty, little apartment. But it was *his* shitty, little apartment.

His life after that had kind of.. fallen into place. He worked every day and would come back to his apartment to wash all the soil and dirt off and then head to the local library.

It was his routine. It was a nice routine. Especially after years of not having the free will to choose what *he* wanted to do. Before? He could barely breathe loud enough without asking for permission. Nowadays? If he wanted to stop by a bakery on his way home, he could. Just like that.

Like right now. He had a long day of hauling around heavy pots and soil bags, and when he saw the macaroons in the window.. well, Simon had a bit of a sweet tooth. He simply *couldn't* resist.

As he made his way home, the streetlights already burning bright as the winter set in and turned the sky dark earlier, and earlier each night, he saw it. Now.. what he saw was.. something he couldn't possibly explain.

Simon didn't believe in magic. Eden soured any thoughts of magic or miracles or divine intervention in his mind. But.. this? This, he couldn't help but look at in something akin to wonder.

It was small on the horizon, rounded like a disc, and with lights that looked almost.. mesmerizing. And then, it was headed his way. The way it *moved*... it was hypnotizing. When it stopped above Simon, and a spotlight descended from the bottom, pulling him up, off the ground? That's when the panic set in.

The next thing he knew, he was strapped to a table, hands and legs spread, and every single media about aliens flickered in his head like candlelight. Was he going to die? Or be used as some.. human test subject? *Was he about to be probed??*