Created by Juan Daniel

Author's Note: I've pictured this story in my mind for quite a while, but ... I still think this is the horror version of it, I've thought of creating the second book based on the upcoming antagonist. As in this season of the book, the antagonist is amazing, there will be and equal amount of antagonist, as the serie expands to a greater level of seasons of course. Well ... have fun decoding what is real and what is illusion.

Summary : (Rudy Smithson was born as a schizophrenic, and for unknown reasons, terrorists captured him alone with the nephew of the president, the story takes place when Rudy tries to escape but is soon hit by a truck that remarkably erases all his memories, including the fact that he's schizophrenic, as he finds himself with not identity, he soon starts to realize that something odd is going on inside him, struggling with what is danger, and what is illusion.)

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Chapter 1

The room was dark, with a warm sensation of silence, part of it filled a huge space, the windows were close. Between the two windows was an old calendar and in front of it was an enormous desk with a comfy chair, beside the desk was a pile of paper work and much more on top of it. In the dead space was a smell of sweet flowers, but for Rudy it felt like the smell of a criminal, the door was wide open, but for him it was already closed. He could not resist anymore the pressure even though he knew that the Doctor was holding his hand. Finally he broke the first rule "Not to talk".

"PLEASE I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY LONGER"

There was not emotion on his face unlike the Doctor's reaction, the panic was opposite but their relationship the same.

"Just turn on the lights please ... You have no idea, just, just ... turn them on, if you don't turn them on ... I'll not be the same person ever again." said Rudy constantly on every session.

The Doctor looked at Rudy with intense eyes and replied "what do you see Rudy?"...

"if so ... Tell me, I'm here to help you." he added.

A pause.

Rudy didn't react. "I can't, I'm ... I'm ... so sorry, and even if I do ... You wouldn't believe me." the Doctor got worried and tried to convince him.

"Rudy, if you don't tell me what you see, I won't turn them on"

"Please just turn them on, "NOW" ... THAT'S IT WE'RE DONE, I'M OUT" said Rudy out loud.
The Doctor moved to the right side close to Rudy who was in panic.

"Well ... I'll do it, but you have to promise me something, Rudy? Are you listening to me?" the Doctor got impatiently. Rudy started to cry in a very silent way as he looked down without blinking. The Doctor walked towards the door and toching the switch whispered to Rudy.

"How long do you think we have been with the lights off?"

Rudy replied. "15 minutes or so"

The Doctor looked at him hopelessly. "One and a half hour, but good guess, Hey! I really though that you were going to make it ... Don't worried, there's still hope" Rudy looked down at his feet and replied as his eyes went wide trying to avoid eye contact.

"Can I? ... Can Me?"

The Doctor interrupted him. "Rudy sit, and listen to what I'm about to say" Rudy carefully sat on the Doctor's chair clasping his sweaty hands.

The Doctor started to speak gentle but it seem to be extremely rare for this Doctor that for the first time didn`t complain to the patient for no coming back to reality.

"Rudy you have to promise me something, I'm more than a Doctor you know that, and I shouldn't say this, but unfortunately if I don't say it ... it might affect my future."

"You of all people in the world, I never expected you ... My most difficult patient, to ... get involved with killers.! The files that I have reported that the police gave you two bodyguards, six-weeks ago, but they were kill the same week, now you don't have protection, I don't want to know what you know about them, but the killers might be watching every movement you do, I`ve no idea of what`s going on, and to be honest, I don`t want to know." the Doctor sat in front of Rudy as the chair squeezed.

Both of them looked at each other, but the Doctor felt that his glasses were enlarging the vision that his patient was experiencing, perhaps he Doctor was blind because ... he too felt reality in the pain of the unwinking eyes of Rudy, who loyally bother to make the effort of controlling himself and obey in attentiveness.

The Doctor saw a bright future in his eyes. "I know you, I know that you are a good person, and because I know you, I have the right to give you an advice. Rudy, you're a schizophrenic since you came to this office five years ago, schizophrenic Rudy schizophrenic! You do realized that, don`t you?! at least I hope that for the last five years working together at least that stays in your head. Do you remember that day? But of course you remember that day, back then you were just a kid, but you were broken up about what happened with your parents, I felt sorry for you and you became unpredictable since then, I've never met anyone like you before." the Doctor maintained Rudy's hand while looking straight at him, Rudy's eyes shined in tears.

"Promise me that you won't get in any trouble ... Please Rudy, promise me that, "Rudy?" ... RUUUDDDYYY, but what were you thinking!" he took out his glasses in panic.

"... The police restricted me to talk to you and destroyed all my files and everything, they even asked me to forget about you and leave the town ... Rudy ... LISTEN, LISTEN, I would not be taking care of you all your life, and because I know exactly your mental wildness, are you listening? listen up Rudy. promise me Rudy, it's all I ask ... Rudy?"

A silent moment filled the room as the Doctor realized that Rudy was in a very deep stable mind, he barely winked and was totally frozen, the Doctor assumed that he still believe to be in the dark even when the switch was on.

Rudy looked at the Doctor with tears. "I ... I ..."

The Doctor got furious "RUDY?" ...

"OK,ok I promise, I promise, I won't get in any trouble." his determination trembled.

Five Years Later...

Rudy ran handcuffed with chains and without stopping he ran the stairs of the basement, he found the wood door locked from the outside, hitting it over and over, he realized that he was wasting energy, Rudy looked through the hollow of what he thought that was a mask and looked at his hands that were shaking in blood, then he took a few steps back, and rolling the chains in his hands, he took a momentum and ran towards the door, it was useless, but he repeated it around twelve times.

It was more than strength, it was the power of will.

"The door is now open" Rudy though, while he was lying on the floor outside after trespassing it like a rock through a window.

Rudy heard someone coming from the house as he tried to regain strength after spending a few moments absorbing breath, getting up fast Rudy ran with a simple though "I'm out of here." ... until he realized he trod broken bottles.

then in pain he said. "Why am I not wearing my shoes?" ...

"It's too late now" Rudy though, the enormous sound of a shotgun that made Rudy shake in fear came from the house as he stood still waiting for his death. Rudy decided to get back and close the door as his bloody feet made footprints of how tough he is.

He was right there and then, but a bullet went through the door as he was holding it. a big pile of dirt was in full blood, but through it all, Rudy saw a handgun, it was located just a few feet away, he wondered who got killed in that very spot, running desperately he grabbed the gun and waited for his enemy target holding the gun with trembling innocent hands. The door started stagger, and finally it opened instantly and without thinking Rudy shot.

Knowing the mistake he had made, he decided to approach to the man who now was in the floor in a pile of blood. Rudy dropped the gun and bent, he took a good look at the man who was handcuffed with chains and had scars in his body.

Rudy looked him with wide open eyes and whispered. " I ... I'm so ... so ... so ashamed, pained, grieved ... sorry, I'm so, so ... sad. I'm regretful, you, you didn't deserve it, I ... I-" the man interrupted him.

" Don't be, when you shot me, the bullet passed through me and the man behind me, and ... and he is still alive, you should go now when you still can, he might wake up any minute, Rudy, you ... you." the silent moment filled the tiredness as the last tear of the man came out of his face in frustration.

Rudy waited for the answer. "What, what is it? heehh, hey! Don't do this to me man, don't." he heard a noise from the house once again, this time, the sound was more clear, it appeared to be the squeeze noise of old wood as the fear approached step by step like when a teacher scratches too deep the blackboard with chalk.

Rudy looked at the sky and the light of the sun told him that what he had in his face was not a mask. He touched his face and realized that he was bandaged, he took the bandages off and put them on top of the man, he opened his eyes wide as he took a good look at the place and realized that he was in the middle of the forest.

He has lived under the dark for so long that he believed he was inside the nightmare of his schizophrenic world. Being in the middle of the forest right next to a cottage with a basement that holds the victims of scary assassin's, it appeared to be a saturday night scary movie ... However, Rudy's insight for defining himself the victim, or ... the caused of dead people, seemed to had taken over him. would it make a difference if it was just an illusion? How to be for sure when pain and danger are so tricky, He could be right next to an assassin and blame his mental disorder for not realizing it earlier, not to mention ... the howl of help when visions do appeared. Whose to blame? How can he prove himself to be a hero? His mind was steadily in confusion.

Without a choice, Rudy ran as fast as he could between the branches and stopped when he saw bear traps all over the forest, without looking back he brainstorm for a plan, standing in shock reflecting on what had just happened, he tried to escape and as a result a man died, his dry face was full of guilt, the inspiration of a plan traced his reasoning, he not just though but acted upon his instincts, the instincts that forced him to escape ... he used rocks from all over the place and started to throw them towards the bear traps as it seemed to be a way to make his way through, there was not rocks left, now it was time for panic, the only plan left in his mind was to use the chains to hang from the trees and jump to the other side skipping the traps, and so he did it, but it took him more than what he had planned.

As he traveled along the way avoiding traps, he finally saw the road way, with hope and relief he walked towards it until he got close to it, as he got there in the speed that cut his breath swallowing the sour taste, he stopped to put his thumb hopping to stop any car that could cross the road ... but it didn't happen ... the time only enlarged his presentiment of a horrific end.

He thought that no one would rescue him, he kept walking until he heard a noise that brought relief and hope, perhaps it was too much to expect, but it was the happy ending that summoned his happy tears. That noise was getting closer and closer as he smiled with a bright shiny and excited innocent face.

"It's the noise of a car." he though, but as he put his thump ... he saw a giant truck, and in front of the truck was a signboard that said

"NO ONE ESCAPES." as the truck got close to him in the middle of the road, like a zombie Rudy took a deep breath without blinking or swallowing fear,and looked hopelessly as the truck hit him and crashed.

To be continued ...