"We saw her, strangling her pet rabbit we got on her birthday only last week" the woman struggled to say as tears streamed down her heart shaped face,"I just don't know what to do anymore"

"And you say she hasn't spoken a word in her entire life?" Dr. Jimenez asks without being concerned about the killing animals part.

"Not in the 5 years of her life" a man sat beside the crying woman puts his hand around her in comfort.

"She never cried either, not even when she was a baby" the mother weeped,"I knew immediately she wasn't a normal little girl, she wanted her room to be red, the same colour of blood is how she put it, and her nursery drawings were horrifying"

"Your child will be in good care here Mrs Newberry" Dr. Jimenez put on a false smile, he didn't care if the patients were insane or not, if nobody cared about them they were great test subjects.

"Me and mummy are going on a vacation and we might take a long time" the man formally known by his daughter as father, crouched in front of the dark haired girl who clutched a small brown teddy to her chest, the teddy was slightly dirtied and missing an arm but had also been sown up where the arm was supposed to be.

"Goodbye sweetie, be good" the mother stroked her daughters face and kissed her forehead before getting up and holding her partners hand as they walked through the lobby and out the door. The little girl stared on as her parents walked away, she was slightly intelligent for her age, and although they may have been behind closed doors she heard everything her so called parents told Dr. Jimenez, although they were right about her being mute, the rest was a lie.

Did they make it up so that they could leave her? Had she done something wrong? She didn't know, and she would never know, for now she was a small mute sane child stuck in a mental hospital.

4 years later

( I'm not sure when ruvik started working with Dr. Jimenez lets just assume when he was 21?)

"The patients here are all abandoned by their families, well most of them, feel free to pick your subjects from now on" Dr. Jimenez says as he walks through rooms of the hospital with a man seemingly wrapped in bandages trailing behind him.

"We have the younger patients in this section of the building and they can range from 4 to 13, for obvious reasons you can't have any test subjects from here"

"Yes, yes I understand" the young mans voice echo'd in the room.

There were only around 6 children in said room.

"Birdy birdy birdy birdy" a small boy with platinum blonde hair waddled up to the young mute girl who scribbled on a piece of paper. The girl looked up to the boy who crouched over slightly and held his hands constantly, and tilted her head to the side.

"Play, play play, blocks" the boy pointed to a pile of colourful blocks in the corner.

The little girl smiled and nodded before grabbing his hand and walking over to the blocks, unaware of pale eyes watching her every move.

"Birdy?" He questions towards Dr. Jimenez.

"That's just a silly nickname Leslie Withers, the boy gave her, her name is actually Sparrow Newberry"

"Sparrow?"

"Yes, can't imagine what her parents must have been thinking, giving her a name like that"

"I find it quite charming actually" Ruvik commented as he continued to watch the girl help the boy build a mini castle.

"Anyway, shall we carry on, I'll show you this patient I find quite interesting named Jacob"

"Yes let's carry on" Ruvik replied, before heading out the door he looked back at the girl who was now looking right at him, her bright Aqua green eyes making him tense.

Sparrow walked through the halls frantically searching for her lost bear, she had already checked in the play area and the lobby but didn't really know the rest of the building apart from that, plus she snuck out of her room after bed time was announced once she realised her bear had been missing, so she had to be sneaky.

She clutched herself in a protective stance as she cautiously stepped barefoot into unknown territory, she was trying to make her way to the staff canteen as she usually plays in there when they let her but she was always directed at the time, the dark hallways didn't look familiar to her at all at night.

Suddenly a loud screech was heard from one of the adult patient rooms and he started rambling"He's just around the corner always watching always digging through your head and making you scream about the news the news is where they talk they talk" the terrified little girl made a run for it, not caring that the darkness in the hallways seemed to enclose around her.

Suddenly a stream of light from an agape door stopped her in her tracks. She cautiously stepped towards the light and peeked through the door. She only managed to see a antique looking desk with a few pieces of paper and some pens on it. But the familiar faded brown cotton caught her attention as her gaze fixed upon a stuffed paw.

Without thinking she opened the door and ran for the desk, grabbing the teddy as soon as it was in arms reach, she clutched the beat tightly as if to say, I'll never lose you again. When she turned around she would have gasped if she could but instead stood staring at the figure watching at her from across the room with her mouth slightly agape.

"Is that yours?" Ruvik asked as he stared at the little girl, he found out later that day that she was 9 years old and decided that she were quite small for her age.

Sparrow nodded and continued to stare at Ruvik, not sure whether to leave or not.

"I found it in another child's room, and I'm sure I saw you earlier today with it, so I thought you wouldn't want the other child to have it" Ruvik explained, Dr. Jimenez had shown him a staff stay room so he could spend the night at the mental hospital instead of going back and forth from his estate, he was also in the process of getting ready for bed so he had took off the bandages ready to redress them, but stood in front of the little girl with his burns and scars bare for her to see.

It surprised him a little that she hadn't already left. Ruvik wanted to see if she would run away if he approached her, so he did just that until he was kneeling in front of her.

To his surprise her gaze softened and she walked forward and hugged him, probably as a thank you for finding her teddy which must have been precious to her.

Once she let go her eyes traveled along the scars left behind from the burns.

She wanted to ask what it was like to be burnt alive, she wanted to ask if there was a cure for his appearance and if he would take it, not that it bothered her at all.

Instead she shrugged her shoulders and pointed to the door.

"Can you find your way back?" Ruvik asked.

She shook her head, making him smile slightly before getting up.

"What room?"

She made some hand shapes, unfortunately they don't teach patients sign language in there.

"207? That's on the second floor, c'mon" he said as he walked to the door and waited till she was out of it before closing it behind her.

The pair walked back to her room, Sparrow was no longer scared of the mad patients who stuck their arms through the bars in the door, or the darkness that seemed to engulf her. Ruvik seemed to be a kind person who she began to like, honestly she was expecting him to be horrible, someone who detests children but he turned out to be nice.

(Not sure what Ruvik was like before Jimenez betrayed him, I can imagine him being kind to the patients in turn for using them as test subjects, but obviously he gets more vicious after Jimenez betrays him so don't worry he will be in character soon)