Chapter Two

Three Years Later

Over the three years a lot had happened. For nearly a year Sam and Juliet were advised to live together so they could both come over the shock. Once the therapy paid off, Juliet left to live with her parents. Sam hasn't tried to look for another woman since his wife had died. The pain still grew in him. But he had to let go sooner rather than later.

After Juliet left he started looking for work. Sam was once mayor of Silent Hill but politics no longer interested him so took up a writing career. He had some success with his books. His first was a book about the horrific night in Silent Hill. He changed some of the details and names. But he also left out an important piece of information. After that was a success he started writing horror/thriller novels and has become marginally successful.

Five days after his latest book was published he received a phone call from Juliet, she wanted to catch up with him. He had agreed to meet with her. But she had something else in mind.

'Sam I want to live with you.' She sounded anxious and desperate.

'Why is there something wrong?' Sam hoped that Silent Hill still wasn't haunting her. He wanted to start a relationship with her so long as she didn't suffer from any nightmarish dreams. It sounded kind of harsh but he had also suffered from the nightmares and doesn't want to relive them again. Not with anyone.

'It's been two years, and as strange as this may seen, I really miss you. My life has only been to wake up, go to work, go home, sleep then get up and start the process over again.' The anxiety in her voice was becoming more distinctive. But if she has healed over then there really is no harm.

'Alright I'll pick you up at the airport. When will you be arriving?'

'About a week, I had to make sure you wanted me to come.' The anxiety was now gone, all that was left was relief. Sam didn't want to question her. Now that she was coming to live with him he might be able to start something. But Sam felt as though she wasn't being honest with him.

'Okay. Call me when you land, I'll have everything ready for you.' Sam felt confused and even more so when he distinctly heard her sob. 'Are you alright?'

'Sure I'm alright. See you soon.' He heard the phone hanging up.

Sam sat on the chair next to the phone. He started thinking what the problem was, but no matter how hard he tried to exclude Silent Hill from his thoughts, it didn't work. At first he regretted inviting her so suddenly but his loneliness was becoming too unbearable and having someone he knows coming to stay with him he already felt some of the loneliness disappear. When the mail arrived he didn't move. Memories of that hellish night began, he felt as though he was transported back in time. Every smell, sight and sound was there. It made him queasy, the reality of it felt sickening. Just when his mind was about to play the event when he killed Chuck Turner, his doorbell rang and snapped him out of his nightmare.

He got up slowly. The noise of the bell sounded like it was ringing louder. As he got closer to his door it got even louder, almost until it nearly deafened him. Sam managed to open the door before anything happened. But there was no one at the other side of the door. He looked around for any signs of kids but found nothing. He then looked down to see a package. Almost instantly he began to shiver, on the package had the return address to his home in Silent Hill.

Juliet hung up her phone after booking the flight. She regretted lying to Sam, but she was scared and alone. Her parents had died not long after she got back. She had to go back into therapy but worst of all the nightmares were back. But they were not the same as before. Instead of reliving the nightmare it looked like that she had created one.

In her dream she meets Sam after encountering a horrible creature. And before she knows it she is hung up on a cross and Sam runs in carrying some sort of weapon. And he rescues her. But the strange thing is that she feels as though she is not in her own body, as if someone is making her see someone else's future. But the question is, why?

As Juliet walked into the kitchen in her apartment she heard someone knocking at her door. No one had visited her in a while. She had been branded insane by her friends. The knocking got louder. The noise was getting annoying, so she walked to the door. The knocking kept getting louder and louder, but stopped when she opened the door. Strangely there was no one around, just a package that frightened Juliet. On the package was the return address to her home in Silent Hill.

Juliet hesitated at first to pick up the package, but she knew she had to take it. She knelt down and grabbed the package. Once her fingers touched the sides she had a vision that Sam was doing the exact same thing. Once she lifted the package the vision went away. Juliet didn't pay too much attention to it. She had been getting all sorts of strange visions but has since started to ignore the

She walked into the main room of her apartment and sat on the chair that sat next to the window. She sat down and began rotating the package to see if anything else was written on it. Finding nothing she held the package the right way up. She grabbed the knife from the table next to her were she ate her breakfast that morning then cut open the tape. She placed the knife back on the table then opened the package.

At first she was shocked by what she has seen but then that turned into confusion. It couldn't be practical jokers because she made sure that no one knew where she lived, but people can be resourceful sometimes. The only person she knew that would know to send her this kind of package would be Sam, but why would he send this? Inside the package was a carving knife drenched in blood. And the blood seemed very fresh. Attached to the handle was a note which read: Soon your time will come.

Juliet sealed the package again and left it in her kitchen. She can't send it back to Silent Hill. She knows she will only get it back again. She can't take it to Sam he will think that she is nuts.

'There is only one thing to do.' Instead of showing it to someone she is going to get rid of it. The garbage lorry wasn't to arrive for another three days and she didn't want to hold onto it. So she grabbed the package walked back into the main room and grabbed her car keys.

Juliet arrived back without the package but with a smile. She walked into the main room and threw her keys onto the table. She switched on her T.V then walked into the kitchen. Just as she poured herself something to drink she heard something frightening on the news.

'It is confirmed that the excavators who ventured into Silent Hill have not been seen for four days now. The police have said that an investigation will go under way but have not stated when. The man behind the excavation has said that he does not believe that they are in danger. He says that they are trained professionals and that they know their job. Now the ...'

Juliet turned the T.V off. Two bad things might happen to her and Sam. Either they find the body of her sister's rapist or they will vanish completely and they will be forced to help in any further investigations. Juliet does not want to return on someone else's terms.

She reached for her phone. She wanted to tell Sam what she had heard. She dialled in the numbers as fast as she could remember them. She heard the phone ringing. It rang for a while then an answering machine replied. 'You have reached Sam Nolton; I am not here at the moment so please leave a message.'

'Sam, since you are out you must have missed the news. Try to catch it later, when you do please give me a call. Also I should arrive in two days. Goodbye.' Juliet hung her phone up. She walked away from her phone and went upstairs to pack for her flight.

After spending most of the day packing a suitcase Juliet was tired. She left the suitcase in the main room then went to bed. She put on her night dress then went into bed. Usually this would be the best part of a day, until recently. She pulled the covers over her shoulder and fell asleep.

Juliet's eyes opened to see an average sized man wearing a dark overcoat. She walked towards him. But as she got closer the further he moved away. She tried to shout but her voice seemed to be cut off. Since she couldn't communicate she began exploring the place she is in.

After walking for fifteen minutes she came across the Silent Hill hospital. As she approached it she heard an old air raid siren. She looked around to find the source of the sound but didn't find anything. Once she reached the door of the hospital she got a huge headache. Her head felt like the siren was sitting inside her head while activated. Covering her ears didn't do any good. Then the scariest thing happened. The noise died down, in her head, and when she got up she looked at the hospital which started to slowly transform. The cement looked like it was melting off and the windows fell inwards. Instead of thick steel wires under the cement there was a kind of wire mesh that looked rusted and drenched in blood.

In front of her the door changed, blood oozed from the top of the door and the keyhole. The windows on the door were covered with the dripping blood. The handles changed from a silver colour to a brown colour. The door changed from a light metal door to a wooden door.

Juliet turned around to see the whole of Silent Hill turn into this wire mesh. The roads and houses all changed all except the church. She turned around again and this time she went inside the hospital. She knew she will regret it as soon as her hand touched the blood stained door handle.

Once she had finally gone inside she closed the door softly behind her. Once she did the whole hospital fell into darkness. She walked down the long corridor before her. The only sound she could her was her own breathing, which wasn't exactly quiet. As she walked on the lights suddenly jumped back to life. Juliet jumped at the sound and sudden brightness. But she continued on.

Juliet knew most of the hospital from memory. She had only been in it twice in her whole life. But she does have a good memory. As she walked on she heard a male voice saying with some sort of satisfaction, 'Do you like it?' He said it several times. But Juliet also heard a female voice crying and saying, 'Stop it!' Then Juliet knew what it was. She moved faster towards a door, when she opened it all her painful memories returned. She saw Chuck Turner raping her sister. But it was different this time. Juliet noticed that she wasn't anywhere in the room. That is until she saw the person on the bed, who was now lying motionless. She looked up at Chuck Turner but it wasn't him it was Sam Nolton. She screamed and ran out the door. The sirens started wailing again. Juliet covered her ears but only fell to the ground. Then she woke up to the sound of someone knocking on her door.

Juliet put on a night robe and made her way to the front door. When she arrived at the door the knocking stopped. So she opened it to find the one thing she didn't want to see. The package was dry and undamaged. It looked the same way as it did when she first seen it. Juliet picked it up and through it in her bin.

Sam woke up from a sickening nightmare. He looked around his bedroom frantically to try to remember where he was. Then it came back to him. He turned on the lamp next to his bed then laid back and breathed deeply. He looked at the package beside his bed and looked into it. It was still there. It was a necklace he gave his wife before they were married. It was silver with a silver heart shape with an arrow piercing it.

He turned off the light and tried once again to return to sleep. But he couldn't help but think about the nightmare he just had. It started as a normal dream. He was in his bed and next to him was Juliet and she was naked. But he wasn't in his home in New York he was in his home in Silent Hill. When he woke Juliet up she screamed at him and told him he was a monster. Tears were pouring down her face and she puck up a lamp and tried to hit him with it. When she was about to deliver a blow to his head she vanished, his house vanished and he then found himself inside a room surrounded by wire mesh.

Once he caught his breath he got out from the bed and walked out the door. The walls and floor were covered in some sort of rusty wire mesh. The doors looked different. Sam decided to leave this place but he would have wished that he didn't move. At the end of the corridor he heard footsteps and metal scraping along the ground. He followed the sound to investigate. When he did he saw a truly terrifying sight. It was man sized and was wearing a butcher's outfit that was stained with what Sam could only guess. It was carrying a giant sword with one arm and a body with the other. But the worst part of this demon was the thing sitting where its head should be. It looked like a pyramid shaped helmet of some sort. But it looked to heavy to be a helmet. The helmet looked like a pyramid from the back but it was extended from the front, almost like it was a nose. Then Sam looked at the body and discovered that it was his late wife. The strange creature looked at Sam dropped the body and pointed at him. Sam started getting flashes about killing Chuck Turner. The creature lowered down and puck up the body. It then turned and walked away. Sam started breathing rapidly again and when he turned around he saw the pyramid head standing in front of him. Sam yelled in horror, which was also when he woke up.

Sam spent the better part of the night thinking about the nightmare he had. He thought about Juliet and what she said to him. But the thing that stood out in his head was the pyramid head creature carrying his wife's dead body.

Sam shivered; nightmares didn't usually have such a strong effect on him. Usually he would forget the nightmare as soon as he woke up. But this one was different, it seemed so real like it actually did or could happen.

The light from the window lit up his bedroom, it was morning. Sam looked at his clock which read 7:30 a.m. Sam got up from his bed and walked downstairs to the kitchen. He fixed himself a quick bite to eat. He was planning on going somewhere today. At first it seemed like a stupid idea but the more he thought about it the more welcoming it seemed.

After he ate the breakfast he made he went to his phone and dialled the number of a psychiatrist. The phone rang three times before someone answered.

'Hello Paul Moore Psychiatrist. How may I help you?'

'Yes, I need an appointment for today if possible.' Sam didn't know why but if anyone could help him a psychiatrist could.

'It just so happened that a patient recently declined another appointment, so if 3 p.m. sounds good…'

'I'll take it.' Sam didn't know what came over him to say that and so quickly.

The woman on the other side sounded a bit grumpier 'Thank you sir, please arrive on time.' Then she hung up.

Sam hung up his receiver then walked into his living room. He sat on an armchair and looked out of the window. Tomorrow Juliet will be joining him and he didn't want her to fell threatened in any way. Especially when it came to Silent Hill. Sam got up from his chair grabbed his car keys and walked out.

Juliet sat on the edge of her bed and looked out her window. She watched an aeroplane fly across the sky and remembered her flight tomorrow. She was already packed and ready to go but she couldn't help but feel guilty. She wasn't going just to stay with him or because she was alone. She was going so she could be closer to Silent Hill.

At first it sounded crazy to her but she knew the only way she will ever be at peace is if she confronted her fear. And hopefully she will convince Sam to do the same. At least, if she does, she won't have to go through it alone.

Juliet walked down stairs to the main room and switched on her T.V to see the news. It was mostly the usual news until it mentioned the Silent Hill excavators.

'The bodies of the ten excavators who went into Silent Hill have been found. The cause of death has not been issued yet but from what it looks like they died from a giant wound on the head which looks suspiciously like a knife wound. For more information on tonight's news go to…'

Juliet couldn't believe what she just heard. Ten trained men went into Silent Hill and none came back alive. Why would someone kill them and why would they let the bodies be found? None of it made sense to Juliet. But she had to go into Silent Hill even if she were to die there.