Silent Hill Resurrected: Sub Story

Miriam Kensington is a Traitor?

Chapter 1

Miriam was having a hard time watching the road. Half asleep from staring at the road for hours and half dieing inside with worry for her best friend and his wife, Miriam didn't know how she was going to make it all the way to Silent Hill. Well, Okay those things were only a small portion of the problems Miriam was concerned about. The biggest problem was the fact that Silent Hill was a ghost town. No one has even lived there for several years now.

I mean god the fucking town wasn't even on the map anymore! Some sort of huge disaster a couple years back wiped the town off the map. Of course that was what the town is famous for unexplained disasters. Sure you could say it was a resort town and that's what it was famous for. But in reality most of the people who visited that town were idiotic amateur ghost hunters and the occasional crappy junk magazine reporter reporting on the so called "monster and spirits" that hunt the town. All these disasters happen all the time like the town is cursed or filled with psychopaths. Like that "mysteriously" started fire in the business portion of Silent hill, Or the disappearing luxury boat in the 1800's.

All though it's well believed by anyone local, including Miriam herself growing up in the damned town, that the local cult was the most likely source of the problems in that town. "Thank god" Thought Miriam "I moved out of there before Junior High." Everyone in that town knew at least a little bit about the cult. It was an old cult having it's roots in native American traditions that were around long before the town was inhabited and it had it's claws in the backs of the local authorities. Probably why it was so easy for them to get away with everything they did in the town. Miriam had even seen the cult members gather for some kind of meeting with these huge creepy masks, like the faces of monsters, and it looked like they were going to sacrifice someone maybe. A young girl all horribly burned.

After that Miriam was too terrified to even go to school. After about a month of psychiatrists and therapist her parents were finally convinced that the best form of action was to move out of the town to another one a couple of hours away. Thank god they did to. Miriam didn't know how she could have gone on living in that town with the fear she felt because of those cult loving nut balls.

Now she had to go back, back to that horrible town! Even though logic told her the town was empty and the cult was gone Miriam couldn't shake the feeling that that cult was still there wait. Waiting for her to come back. As illogical as it was, after all, the cult like the town had dissipated into the neighboring towns and ceased to be. But still, something inside Miriam, deep inside, told her that they were still there. She didn't know why or how but they were there, waiting and it made her nervous. As insane as it sounded Miriam felt like it was the cult that called to James in hopes of finding her. Finding and killing her for what she had done to them.

Miriam glances to the right and notice the old rest stop that was almost famous among the locals for being the half waypoint between Silent Hill and the "outside". Parked in the parking lot was a white van that seemed to belong to one of the local bakeries that had been out of business for years and a blue car. "A blue car. Looks just like James' car." No sooner had the words come out of her mouth did Miriam realize it was James' car.

Miriam snapped her car around to the right and pulled into the tires popping loudly against the various gravely that had accumulated in the old parking lot. Miriam parked her junky old black car next to the old van and looked around the parking lot in hopes of possible catching James before he went into town. In the very corner of the parking lot standing next to an old gray brick wall was James. She watched him as he whipped around to stare at her car. He had this look on his face of some sort of hazy confusion, like maybe he had been drinking again. He had been drinking a lot since Mary had been admitted to the hospital. Miriam personally had to cover for him at the store a lot lately. He would come in bombed out of his tree and Miriam being his best friend would walk him home again and then take over his shift. Thank god the guy walked to work or else who knows if he would 'a' killed someone while driving to work one day.

Miriam took the keys out of the ignition and then slides over to the passenger's side and then stopped to sigh for a second. Why does she do this crap for James anyway? He wasn't her husband she thought as put her hand on the silver door handle. To tell truth she knew why she did it she just couldn't admit it to herself. The door handle glittered a bit in the daylight as she yanked it open and then gave the door a good push since, Junker that the car was, the passenger side would always stick if you didn't push it hard enough from the inside.

"James" Miriam shouted as she got out of the car. Miriam placed both her feet on the ground as she stepped out and slid around a little on the gravely. Her cheap, off-brand white sneakers offered her no traction on the gravely and broken paved rest stop parking lot.

"James. My god! What the hell are you doing here?" Miriam couldn't figure that out for the life of her. He drove all the way out to a town Miriam was pretty sure he knew was closed, dieing wife in tow? That was the most insane thing Miriam had ever heard of someone doing. Considering the crazy shit you hear reported in the news these days and the fact that Miriam had grown up in Silent Hill this was a pretty insane thing to do.

James was wearing his favorite green coat. Some kind of green army jacket he had bought at Salvation Army for like 3 buck or something. Miriam always did think he look cute in that jacket even if his wife never liked it much. She also noticed he was wearing that hideous gray striped polo shirt with a pair of jeans. It was one of his favorite looks even if Mary and her both thought that shirt looked stupid.

"James, why did you come all the way out here for god's sake? Silent Hill has been closed for years! Are you okay? Look I know your upset about your wife coming home to… die but why did you disappear like that? We were all worried. And what about Mary? Where is she?" As ill as Mary was Miriam knew that James shouldn't have dragged her out her. And to leave her alone of all things! For all Miriam knew at this vary moment she could be dead in some hotel somewhere and she couldn't imagine that's what how Mary wanted to die.

"Miriam who are you talking to?" The look on James' face, the shear confusion it held was startling to Miriam. Is it possible to drink so much you forget who you are?

"What are you talking about? Have you been drinking again?"

Miriam was a bit surprised as James' face twisted in anger at what she had said.

"I never drink and you know that Miriam! How dare you."

Now if there was one thing she knew it was that that was a bunch of bull. "What are you talking about James you..."

"I'm not James. It's Mary. Don't you know the difference? I know I'm wearing his coat but my god Miriam!"

This through Miriam for a loop, she couldn't tell if James was kidding around or if he was serious about this. His voice and face seemed serious enough but she couldn't imagine how James could actually believe he was Mary. That would take a level of insanity she didn't think James was capable of, but then again you never know what someone is capable of when pushed to the edge.

"Jesus, James, how much have you been drinking. Where are you staying James? I'll drive you, you can sleep it off okay."

"I am not James." He was adamant; the look of frustration on his face and in his voice was insane to say the least. Miriam was pretty sure it was just because he had one to many. After all he was her friend, she knew him for years and not once did he seem the least bit crazy. In her mind this was just one more nutso thing James has done lately that could be chalked up to drinking. After all, it could be possible to drink until you're convinced you're someone else. Right? Frankly this whole drinking thing was wearing a bit thin on Miriam. "Look, Just tell me what hotel you're staying at and you can go sleep it off okay."

"Hotel? What hotel!? Honestly Miriam. I don't even know where I am."

Miriam backed up a bit. She could feel her bell bottom jeans sweeping forward as she moved backwards. "Do you even have a hotel James? Did you drive all the way to Silent Hill without booking a room in a hotel? Where is Mary anyway? You can sleep it off in my hotel room. We'll look for Mary later. I'm sure she'll be okay for a bit. Come on James I'll help you over to the car." At this point James driving up here with no place to stay seemed extremely possible. The question was where did he leave his wife if he had no hotel. She could tell just by looking into his car that she wasn't in the back seat.

"Silent Hill! How did I get here? I thought that was Toluca Lake!"

"Jeez James. Look I'll drive you. Sleep it off. We'll look for Mary when you're ready…Pick up your car tomorrow okay?" James had this look of hesitancy on his face that made Miriam very nervous. What was James thinking, what was he going to do? Miriam had no idea with James behaving the way he was and it scared her a bit.

"I forgot something in Silent Hill Miriam. I have to go get it."

As nervous as Miriam currently was around James, fat chance she was going to just let him leave in the state he was in. "James, you can get it later I'm sure it's…"

"No, I… I need it. I'm just going to go get it. You can wait for me here if you want. I shouldn't be to long."

"Do you want me to come help you find whatever it is." What was it that he left in town that was so important? It was a little odd but she was scared to just let him go off on his own to Silent Hill Like that. After all there must be something seriously wrong with the town to have gotten it shut down like that years ago. So how could she just let her best friend go into a decrypted dangerous town alone as drunk as he was? She had to at least try to get him to let her come with him.

What was it he was looking for anyway? Mary? Did he actually take her into that town and leave her somewhere? That would be a bizarre thing to do.

"No, ummm, that's okay Miriam I can find it on my own. No need to follow I'll be fine. Really."

Miriam watched as James walked toward the little footpath near her car. It was a dusty little thing and one side was a cliff. She was worried James would hurt himself but on the other hand she didn't want to push James. Miriam just watched James as he started down the path. He turned around and looked at her for a minute. Miriam stared back at him. There was something weird about the way his was behaving. Not like the way he normally does when he's drunk. It was like his personality had changed. A complete 360, it was almost like he had… "No, that's not possible" Miriam thought as she watched James turned around and walk down the path. Miriam walked over to the driver's side of her car and opened the door. She hesitated a second holding onto the car door and looked over at the path James just walked down.

Miriam decided then not to allow James to go down there alone into that hideous town. She was going to give him a head start and then follow him from behind. As she stood there letting James go ahead of her she could feel the fear starting to rush through out her body. It was an itchy antsy feeling which had always bothered her. One she was intimately familiar with since the time when she had seen those cult members.

Once she had decided she had given James enough time she walked over to the footpath herself. She knew where this led too, past the old cemetery into the Silent Hill Farm. She had been up to this rest stop before, only once, with her friends when she was ten years old. She knew she shouldn't have gone that far but she did. When her friend's and her parents found out they were furious they had gone so far alone. She was confined to her room for the rest of the week. Now she had to make the same trip back. Back into a town she hated and feared, back into Silent Hill.