Laughing.. Always Laughing..
I awoke to the sound of laughing, cackling. It flooded through me, filling the spaces surrounding me. Then followed an ear-piercing shriek.
The laughing continued..
All of a sudden the room was ablaze, fire burst out of the ground. I had gone from being in a pitch black room to being inside a well-lit oven.
The smoke-filled my lungs, choking me. The flames licked at my naked legs, leaving little red splotches where they touched.
How did I get here? Where is here?
I woke up (from what I can guess) about five maybe ten minutes ago, in a room full of darkness, listening to the distorted laughter and now the room is alight and I can't breathe.
Was I being killed? Maybe I'm in hell?
So many thoughts were running through my head I couldn't focus on just one!
There was a way out! A little pathway running straight through the fire. I ran along the smoky path, feeling a little queasy, the flames were closing the gap behind me, chasing me.
I came to a halt when I saw the big brown door. There was a bright light sneaking out of the bottom, creeping towards me, pulling me closer to the door.
Reluctantly I turned the handle and stepped inside.
The moment I closed the door a tall man in a white lab coat span round and I felt the bullets hit me before I knew what was happening.
The bullet pierced my skin just above my left breast, then again on the other side, and two hit me in the stomach.
I died.. I could tell. I was starting to slowly float upwards, hovering above my bloodstained body.
I didn't cry, or scream, or even breathe, I didn't need to. I was dead.
"Oh shit!" shouted the tall man in the lab coat, Ronald, we'll name him Ronald until I find out his real name. I don't like Ronald.
"What the hell did you do that for?!" Yelled a man with a funny hat on, lets call him Alan.
"She was going to attack!"
"You have no idea of knowing that! You shot her for christ sake!" I like Alan more than Ronald.
"We'll have to inject her, quickly while shes still warm!" There's Ronald.
"It might not work!"
"We have to try! Madman Jake will kill us if he finds out what happened"
I am so confused! They must have been trying to kill me already? By the fire? So why does it matter that he shot me? This is all too much, I just need to.. Sleep..
I drifted off into a heavy sleep and when I awoke I heard Ronald shouting "she moved! She moved! It's going to work!" I sat up and stared straight at him. He's bald, tall but rather fat and he has the ugliest face I have ever seen!
I have never been in this much pain my entire life! I just wanted it to end, for the pain to be gone.. I wanted to be back with my mum, sat on the sofa`drinking hot chocolate, laughing at the hideous outfits the famous idiots were wearing on tv and bitching about the next door neighbours new boyfriend. Or boyfriends should I say!
None of that mattered now, why are they doing this to me? What did I ever do to them? Or who even are these people?!
Ronald stepped forward and looked me directly in the eye, "now you look here little miss" he says in the most patronizing way. "Nothing happened, you got me? If my boss comes walking in here, you're gonna tell him that nothing happened, and if you even try to bite me, I'll ram a stake through your chest faster than you can say count Dracula"
"What the heck is going on here? Where am I? Who are you? And why am I here? I want to speak to your 'boss' NOW" I yelled.
As I looked around I realised I was in a hospital, I wonder what I'm doing here? Did I get hurt to start with? And they brought me to a hospital? Then try to kill me, and then get angry when Ronald does kill me? This whole thing makes no sense! I'm just so confused!
It's a children's hospital.. Theres paintings all over the walls, children's pictures, stuffed toys and dolls houses, but everything has burn marks, the walls scorched. Oh no.. It can't be..
The orphan hospital, that was burnt down years ago, the children were tortured here, some of them were burned in the fire, others 'mysteriously' died afterward..
I heard crying earlier, and laughing, and the fire.. Was that real?
I looked down at my legs, no marks. How could that be? Maybe my aunt Adele was right.. Maybe shes not just the crazy cookie the family think she is. She told me I could see things, she said she noticed when I was younger, everyone else just thought I had imaginary friends, but never aunt Adele.
So.. Is this some kind of message? Were the little kids telling me something? The crying I heard, I heard them begging too, asking why they can't see their mummy and daddies again. The laughing, that must have been from the murderers, are these the people that killed all those children? That burnt this hospital down? I need to get out, I can't stay here, all I can hear is the crying..
"Look believe it or not, we're trying to help you" said Alan, he doesn't seem to be such a prick like Ronald. "You don't know who you are do you? You're the special one, there's people out there, bad people, they want to hurt you, kill you."
"He just killed me! Or did you forget that part?! How am I still here?!" I'm just so scared, I want to go home..
Alan seemed sympathetic "I know you're scared honey, and it's okay, I know there's probably a lot of questions you have on your mind that you want answers for, but if you just calm down, I promise I will answer them all to the best that I can. Ignore Craig here, he's screwed in the head, always been a bit doo Lally! Please take a seat, let me get you a drink, tea? Coffee?"
"Water will do fine thank you" So, his names Craig. I took a seat on the dingy looking sofa on the all facing Craig, I don't trust him one bit.
Alan returned with my water and sat on the coffee table in front of me, "I am Joe, I can't tell you how very sorry I am! I'm happy to answer any questions you have"
Ahh so his names Joe, hmm good to know, I'll remember Joe, he's nice.
"Where am I? Is this.. Is it the old orphans hospital?"
"Yes. I'm afraid it is, I'm sorry you have to be here, but it was the place that no one goes to, and I apologise for the poor maintenance but we had to get you out of that house, they were coming for you and I my boss wants you alive" Joe really did seem apologetic when he spoke.
"Who was coming for me?"
"The haska's, they're an immortal group, kind of like the mafia, bad people, very bad people, we want to help you, so maybe making you an immortal too was whats best for you, do you still have the gift?"
"umm, okay, we'll get back to them.. My gift? What is my gift?"
"You have the power to see the dead, and the past, I noticed you scream fire when you entered the room, right before.. the incident, did you see the flames? Feel the burn? It will all seem so real to you."
"Ah so, can I see the future too?"
Joe looked thoughtful "you may be able to evolve you're talent into future reading."
"I'm slightly confused.. You're protecting me?"
"Yeah, Jake doesn't want you hurt, you're the one he's been waiting for, all these years"
"This all oddly makes sense to me, I don't know why, but it seems right.. It fits in with the stories my aunt Adele would tell me when I was a little girl, she warned me that something big would happen to me on my nineteenth birthday, my family said she was crazy but I think you can tell when a persons crazy from the look in their eye" I glanced over at Craig.