Lana screamed.
They had come for her during breakfast. She had just sat down after being handed a tray of what passed as food. Walking into the cafeteria had been a surreal experience for her. Like everything else at Briarclif she expected it to look different somehow, dark, evil. Yet it looked more or less like any other cafeteria she had been in. She wondered if that was one of the weirdly static things in the world, every cafeteria was the same no matter the location. Schools, prisons, asylums, hospitals. They all had the same basic workup.
She had not gotten much sleep the night before and had spent most of it either pacing around her cell or writing on a piece of paper she had managed to pocket. Eventually however she had gotten into what passed as a bed and tried to sleep. It would do not good if she didn't. She needed to be at her best if she wanted to fight Sister Jude and Briarcliff.
Almost to the moment she sat down, or more to the point been directed to a seat and ordered to sit, she had been told that Sister Jude wanted to see her. Lana had almost asked why out of sheer frustration, but instead had gotten up and followed the orderly out of the cafeteria.
That's when she saw Sister Jude. Sister Jude had been the one to walk her to Dr. Arden's office. Lana should have known something was wrong when Sister Jude didn't try to make conversation or chide her for anything. The nun had been deathly quiet as they walked.
It had taken them only a few moments to grab her and get her into the bed. She fought them, of course, but it hadn't been the first time they had fought a naughty patient and she didn't stand a chance. She tried to explain that Sister Jude had kidnapped her; that Wendy was coming for her.
She tried to get them to help her; because Lana was a smart woman and she knew what was happening.
She knew what they were doing to her.
They wanted her to forget what she saw.
They wanted her to forget what they were doing to her.
Sister Jude had found the paper she had hidden in her pillowcase immediately. She had held a cell search, Lana realized pretty quickly it was mostly for her benefit. It had been a mistake to to tell Sister Jude that she would write an expose on Briarcliff when she had found the notes. It been a worse mistake to tell her that she didn't need them. She had a good memory after all.
Sister Jude was going to change that.
Lana looked up in horror as Dr. Arden shoved a tongue guard in her mouth affectively silencing her and then rubbed something gooey against her temples. That's when she saw Sister Jude walk towards her. She heard Dr. Arden and Sister Jude talking but what they were saying didn't register; she was too afraid.
This was not happening.
This was just a nightmare she would wake up from. Maybe it was her who had smoked too much pot and she would wake up next to Wendy and they would laugh about It.
This was not happening. Sister Jude was not doing this to her. Sister Jude was not standing above her holding something against her temples about to shock her with electricity. Not even Sister Jude was that cruel.
Then she felt electricity burn through her body and Lana did the only thing she could before everything went dark. Lana screamed.
Lana screamed.
Lana didn't know how she had gotten to the common room. The buzzing in her head was getting lower. She started to hear obnoxiously cheery music playing. Then she saw Kit Walker come into the room. That's when she realized she had a pencil and paper in her hand. She had to remember. She had to remember what Sister Jude had done to her. What this place was doing to her. She had to remember the tunnel.
Lana wasn't exactly sure why she invited Grace on her escape plan. She told herself it was because Grace was kind to her in a place so cruel. Maybe it was something else, she wasn't sure but when Grace had let her out of the bath Lana had wanted to help her but Grace had insisted on taking Kit with them.
Lana was not going to let that happen.
That was her only excuse for doing what she did next, something she would regret later. Sister Jude would make her regret it later. Sister Jude had a way of making even doing the right thing seem wrong. Lana wasn't sure why she took such pleasure in making her suffer but she did. Lana regretted doing the right thing.
They had been back in their cells for the night when the power had gone out. Lana had taken Grace to the first exit that they needed to go when Kit had shown up. Lana knew that she had to make a choice. Kit Walker was dangerous and he would do horrible things if let out into the world.
Lana knew she couldn't let Kit get out of Briarcliff, so she did the only thing she could do.
She screamed.
