First Tube

Agent Tease awakes in a glass tube. Have you ever woke up doing something? Woken up fucking or puking? Tease wakes already pounding on the glass. That's jarring. "Jarring". In a "glass tube". How about that?
Tease's eyes open, hands pounding on the glass, liquid filling up around his feet. It's not water, it looks like water, but it's not. It has a smell, water doesn't, this does, this, is not water. It is pouring in. In the time it's taken you to read this, it's reached his knees.
Agent Tease has stopped pounding, pounding time is over, pounding time is a last ditch effort, it's what the body reverts to when it's out of ideas, sleeping, is a time in which while a great many ideas flutter and dart, good, tangible ones are often scarce. Now it's thinking time, that's what consciousness is, thinking time. Tease is thinking.
Thinking about this glass tube. Thinking about escaping. Thinking about her. Not now, he shakes his head, trying to physically dispel distracting thoughts from his brain, in doing so slams his head into the glass and it goes all black then white in front of his eyes for a second and now the not water has reached his waist and his legs are starting to feel funny.
The tube is too narrow for him to lift his arms above his head, but he can get a hand into his pocket, can maybe grab his phone, maybe activate the heat laser, maybe cut a hole in the glass, get out, finish the mission.
The pockets empty. The other, the same.
The not water, chest level, time running out. Out of ideas, impossible, Tease was grown and schooled for situations just like this. But here he is, here we are, watching the not water fill up and Tease is desperate and begins to slam his head into the glass, thump, *crack*, thump, *crack*, a crack for the glass, a crack for his head and the blood begins to swirl in the not water, making not blood and the crack is big enough for some to get into his head and the crack is big enough for some to get out the tube but it's not enough and he chokes violently, sucking bloody not water into his lungs and his body spasms, the spasm cracks the glass, the fluids spill out to the floor along with an unconscious Agent Tease.
His body is found by two guards who lift the limp Agent by the hands and feet and carry him over to a glass tube.