(A/N: Sorry for taking so long to update!)
Drawing Blood
Chapter 3: Going Mental
I stare wide eyed into the dim moon lit room, my eyes scan the floor and lying there are the three dead bodies of my friends. Their skin had been torn and shredded by blades; their dark crimson blood glistens in the moon light, the scarlet liquid appeared quite black in the dim glow. It soaked the blue carpeted floor and plasters the off white walls. I look up at the wall ahead of me, and written in blood, right above the headboard of the bed is 'Freddy's coming for you'. I hear Bobby gasp softly behind me, I turn to him and hug him tightly and rest my tired head against his chest and inhale deeply. My heart rate speeds up when I inhale his sent, instead of fresh cologne, I smell musk and blood. I slowly lift my head and find myself staring into the face of the man of my dreams. He snickers quietly with an evil smirk plastered on his face. His beady green eyes glisten with bloodlust. I stare back into his eyes with fear and admiration. Completely shocked I become a statue as Freddy laughs menacingly. He raises his bladed glove to my face, touching my cheek lightly with one of his blades causing it to bleed. He then raises his glove into the air ready to kill. He brings his claw down quickly but before he could strike me the scene around me becomes blurred and all I can come to see is white.
I groan loudly tilting my head from left to right; I blink furiously, trying to get my vision straight. I try to lift my hands to rub my eyes but I find my wrists tied to the bed and the same with my ankles. I struggle against my restraints in a miserable attempt to break free. I give in and lay still on what seems to be a white sheeted bed. I try to scream but my throat burns with dry pain. I hear voices talking in the background; I close my eyes and focus on the voices.
"I'm warning you, you're going to be dealing with the daughter of Satan if she wakes up with that IV in her arm"
"I'm sorry Miss but I'm afraid I cannot take it out until she wakes up"
"You'll be sorry; she hates needles with a passion"
I recognize one of the voices and snap my eyes open, "Jessica?"
I hear heels clicking against a tiled floor and I see the face of my brunette sister leaning over me. I look up into her pale green eyes. Her face showed worry yet happiness, "Yes Mary it's me"
I groan and pull at the restrains once again, "Can you get these things off me"
"Of course Miss" I hear a polite voice speak and turn my head seeing a nurse walk up to me, freeing my wrists and ankles.
"Thank you, now if you would be so kind and GET THIS FUCKING IV OUT OF MY ARM!" I screech semi loudly, despite the aggravating burning in my throat. The nurse jumps and quickly pulls the IV from my arm.
"I warned you" Jessica with a mocking voice.
"I hate needles" I sigh heavily. "Now can someone explain to me, A. why I'm here and B. why was I tied down!"
Jessica sighs, "You're at North Riverland Hospital; you've been in a comma for 3 days. The reason you were tied down is because you were sleep walking"
"Okay so when can I leave?"
"Mom requested that you're kept here for a week of observation, for some reason she thinks this all has something to do with your birth father."
"Oh, great" I say my voice dripping with sarcasm. "Not being rude or anything…but why are you here?"
"I came to bring you a few things."
"Oh, thanks"
Jessica looks down at her phone and sighs, "Well I have to go, but I'll be here to pick you up on Wednesday."
"Okay bye sis" I say and she walks out the door. I groan and sit up shaking my head and stretching my arms and back.
"Come on dear let's get you to your room" the nurse says. I hop out of bed and grab the large red duffle bag, following her out the door.
I follow her down many white walled hallways; my bare feet feel cold with every step I take on the chilly blue tiled floors. We pass many doors, and many other patients roaming around the facility in wheel chairs or dragging around an I.V. which they are attached to. I feel unnerving sick eyes on me and I become easily paranoid, but I quickly forget about their presence when we finally reach a hallway with eight doors. The blonde nurse leads me into a room numbered 1313 and pushes the door open. I walk into the room and without another word she slams the door shut causing me to slightly jump. I examine the medium sized room, my feet dig into the soft red carpet as my eyes roam the plane off white walls. The room has two small beds, one was empty and the other one held a crimson haired teenage girl staring at me with curiosity. I could hear her music being blasted from her white headphones which are jammed inside her ears. She examines me with dark green eyes and tilts her head. She pulls out her head phones and opens her mouth to speak, "Who are you?"
"I'm Mary…" I reply and slowly make my way to the empty bed.
"Oh, well I'm Rose" She smiles kindly at me "So what are you in for?"
"Well, my mother requested that I'd be here for a week's surveillance, you know to see if I'm 'sane' enough to be released" I say putting air quoted around the word sane. "And you?"
Rose doesn't answer but just simply raises her wrists into the air revealing dark scars up and down both arms; I just nod my head and place my bag onto the small white sheeted bed.
I pull out a change of clothes and my small makeup pouch. "Well I'm gonna go take a shower" I announce.
Thankfully the room had its own bathroom; Riverland is one of the most luxurious hospitals in the state, with kind staff and beautiful rooms. I remember taking a trip to Riverland a year ago when I had broken my arm while I was taking riding lessons at Hill's Stables. I was riding my favorite horse, Shadow. I had ridden him many rimes before and had fallen for the beautiful black stallion, he had grown to love me also. One day I while I was riding him bare back around the large acres of land, his black main blew in my face as he galloped at high speeds, I felt like I was flying, it was the most enjoyable feeling I had experienced. But the day was dark and stormy, and when he heard a loud clap of thunder erupt from the sky, he became spooked and rose on his hind legs; I went flying off of his back and onto the rough dirt ground. Shadow was a tall horse so I fell pretty roughly onto the ground; I broke my arm in an attempt to catch myself and sprained my ankle. After George, the owner of the stables and horses, found me he brought me to Riverland immediately, where they took good care of me. A month later my family moved to another town far away from the stables because our home became 'too small' for our family. We were around 2 hours from the stable; I visited George once but haven't seen him since. We moved closer to Riverland and instead of living and hour and a half away from the hospital we were only a half hour away.
I walk over to the wooden bathroom and push it open. I Step onto the white tiled floor, turning on the bright light, I close the door behind me, locking it. I go over to the tub and twist the handles; warm heated water begins to pour into the white tub slowly filling it. I rip off the aggravating white hospital gown and look at myself in the mirror as I wait for the tub to fill. My hair is just how I expected, a big noted mess of red, black and green. My eyes have deep dark circles under them and my skin looks paler than usual. My red contacts had been taken out and my pale blue eyes look tired. The window slowly begins to fog up and I turn around to look at the tub which is almost halfway filled. I sigh heavily and pull out a face cloth and towel from the small closet along with two small bottles of conditioner and shampoo. "hah just like a hotel" I say to myself and walk back over to the tub and step into the steaming water and sigh loudly, enjoying the feeling of the hot water surrounding my body as I lay down in the tub. I dunk my head under the water a few times and then rest my head back against the shower wall. I slowly drift off in the comfort of the warm water.
I feel warm water surround me and I can't breathe. I feel myself sink slowly to a muddy bottom of a pond. I blink my eyes open and find myself in warm red glowing water. I quickly swim to the top and gasp for air. I breathe heavily and swim to the edge of the natural spring. I cough up some water and step out of the spring I lay down on my back, catching my breath and that's when I realize that I am completely naked. I close my eyes and imagine myself with clothes on, I open them but I'm still naked. I might not be the best at lucid dreaming but putting clothes on me was just too easy for me to not accomplish. I hear a deep growl behind me and turn around to see Devil, the small black tiger cat, hissing and growling at me. Her piercing red eyes glare at me.
"Devil" I sing softly, but instead of her crawling out from the bushes she charges at me, tackling me to the ground. She glares at me and hisses, showing off her sharp bloodstained white teeth. I try to make her disappear but just like the clothes I can't. I roughly push her off of me and turn around trying to get up. When I look back she had disappeared. "What the hell is going on here?" I scream into the empty forest surrounding me. Suddenly the dream shifts and the scene spins around me and I feel as if I am turning in circles. I become nauseas and close my eyes, breathing in deeply to keep myself from getting sick. Suddenly I feel the spinning stop and the air around me becomes harsh and cold.
I open my eyes and see a blinding scenery of snow surrounding me. I find myself on top of a snow covered hill, underneath a lonely dead tree with snow covered branches that reach to the sky. I look back behind the tree and all I see is clear, never ending snow sheeting land. Ahead of me is a large frozen lake that stretches for miles. I feel something warm drip down my face and I raise my hand and touch underneath my eyes. I look at my hand and see bright red liquid. Was I crying blood? Craving the metallic taste I lick my frozen blood covered fingers cleaning the blood off of my skin. I lick my lips and stare out into the large ice sheeted lake. I was in an adventurous mood so I decide to slide down the snowy hill on my ass. When I hit the bottom of the hill I reach the frozen lake. I stand up and look into the ice, seeing my reflection. I have a light see-through long sleeved hooded own that ends at my ankles, the hood was over my head shadowing my blood stained red eyes. The gown was blood splattered and torn in some places and underneath it I had nothing on. I stare into the ice and jump when I see my reflection turn into Freddy Krueger.
I see him smirking at me with evil eyes, "Hah! Hello Mary" I hear his raspy voice say with a menacing guttural laugh.
I look at him with curiosity but no fear, "Hello Freddy" Immediately after I replied the ice cracks and he breaks through it and jumps out, landing directly in front of me. Standing only a few inches taller he looks down at me. I slowly back away, not in fear, but in confusion. The dream fells as real as hell, more than usual, that's when I realize that something is really wrong. This Freddy couldn't have been one of my little lucid dreams. I begin thinking of how this could be possible and what was happening but I'm broken from my thoughts when I find myself backed up against the cold trunk of the dead tree. I look up into Freddy's face and he grabs my throat pinning me to the tree, but not choking me. "Where did you come from…?" I whisper out loud, more asking myself than him.
"That's what I want to know… but that doesn't matter...I need you...to do something for me"
"Yah ok...uh…no...Sorry Krueger, I might like yah and all but I'm both lazy…and I'm not that stupid" I reply with a sigh already expecting his request to be to bring him some bratty teenagers to kill…that is if he were really…real.
"You're going to do it one way or another, I can very persuasive" He growls, raising his glove slashes at my stomach leaving four clear marks ripped into the material and lightly on my stomach, making me bleed. I hiss at the stinging pain of the slashes and put a hand over my stomach. He raises his hand to swipe at me again but pauses before he does, he just stands there with his claw in the air pondering on what to do next. He growls at me again and I feel thorned vines wrap around my wrists and curl all the way up my arms. Eventually I become encased in vines, they wrap around me from head to toe and I can't move. I mumble in an attempt to speak but the vines even cover my mouth. I struggle and struggle but can't break through my cocoon of vines. My eyes become covered and I begin to lose my breath, becoming light headed I relax all my muscles as I slowly slip away from my world.
I raise my head quickly from the shallow water of the tub gasping for breath. I look down and see the tub filled with bloody water. I stand up and see my stomach still lightly bleeding. I quickly drain the tub and look into the closet pulling out a first aid kit. I clean the blood from my stomach with a face cloth then tightly wrap Ace bandages around my body. The bleeding had thankfully become very light and I wouldn't have to do much for it.
When I had finished tending to my wound I quickly dry myself and get dressed in dark red short shorts, my black and white striped stockings, and a blood splattered white t-shirt that says "I'll bite your face off". I look up into the foggy mirror to see a message written on it "Kill for me"
"Really…" I mumble to myself "Come on Freddy I'm not as weak as Jesse was"
"No you're not, you're stronger! And I need your strength" I hear the voice of Freddy talking to me.
"What the hell" I say turning around looking for him but fins myself alone in the bathroom. 'Am I still dreaming?' I think to myself.
"Sorry to disappoint you kid but this isn't a dream, I'm a part of you now"
I sigh heavily and groan with sarcasm "Great" I wipe away the fog with my hand and finish getting ready. I brush out my noted hair, put in my red contacts and put on my heavy black raccoon eyed makeup.
"What's with the contacts" Freddy asks
"Eh, I love creeping people out"
"Hmm maybe this won't be so difficult after all"
"You can forget it Krueger, I'm not killing anyone…"
"Say what you want but we both know you're going to end up killing for me"
I growl deeply and decide to ignore him; I walk out of the bathroom and over to the empty bed.
"What took you so long?" Rose asks looking up from her book.
"I fell asleep"
"haha don't drown"
"I'll try not too" I laugh and sit back on the unfilled bed and pull out my iPod, sketch book and colored pencils from my bag. I lay back and flip open the book finding my completely sketched drawing of Freddy Krueger. I plug in my iPod and play my Freddy Krueger playlist; I listen to Sweet Dreams by Marilyn Manson as I take out the colored pencils and begin to color in the drawing.
After an hour of coloring I finished his sweatshirt, pants and shoes. I start coloring in the glove but get interrupted when the door opens and a man walks in. Both Rose and I take our headphones out of our ears and look up at the man. His hair is short and dark brown, his eyes are jade green and he looks no more than 25. "Hello girls" he says with a smile showing off his white teeth.
"Hey John" Rose says
"Hello Rose and you must be Mary, I'm " He says
"Hey" I reply
"Rose we have Group in 3 minutes so why don't you two come follow me."
Rose gets out of bed and I follow her, we walk out of the room and down the hallway to the last door on the right. opens the door and lets us in. Inside the room are 4 other kids sitting on plastic chairs in a circle. There are three empty chairs and I take a seat next to Rose and another boy with emo cut black hair and pale blue eyes.
"Everybody this is Mary" Dr. Cooper aka John announced and everyone looks at me. Some simile some glare but no one speaks. I look up at each of them with sinister red eyes.
"Wow…sssiiiicccckkk" a boy says with a smile. I laugh quietly to myself.
"Okay…now that the awkward moment is over… why don't you all introduce yourselves to Mary" John says.
A pale blonde girl stand up "I'm Amy" she says energetically.
"I'm Tommy" says that boy that called my contacts 'sick' his hair is black and he has jade eyes
"Joe" A tall blonde boy says
"Bailey" the guy sitting next to me says and looks at me with his light blue eyes.
John smiles and stands as soon as the 4 kids had finished introducing themselves. "Good and you already know me and Rose. Anyways Mary is going to be staying here for a week…"
John continues to talk but I block him out when I hear Freddy talking again "Wow...this is a really sad looking group of children"
'Shut up Freddy'
"No"
I sigh heavily in annoyance and listen to John ramble on about some mental crap for the next thirty minutes. 'I feel like I'm in school' I growl
"Fuck this is boring" I hear Freddy say
"Group dismissed!" John says and I jump out of my seat and leave the room with the rest of the kids.
"You seemed like you were dying of boredom" Bailey says to me as we walk down the hallway
"I was!" I say
"Don't worry we only have group once a week... though usually it's not like how it was today" He says and walks away.
I hear a whistle and I turn around and see Tommy "Hello hottie"
"Umm…Good bye weirdo!" I say smiling then I turn around swiftly walk back to my room. I close the door shut behind me and decide to take a little cat nap. I go over to my bed and lay down, instantly falling asleep.
I feel cold chains holding my hands in the air, I open my eyes and see that my hands had been chained together; the chains were attached to the ceiling so my arms are raised into the air. I'm sitting on what seems like a wooden table, I'm only wearing a tight black ripped crop top and a black leather skirt. I wince when I hear the sharp noise of metal on metal. I see Freddy walking out of the darkness of an alley of boilers. He walks up to me and holds my up my chin with his ungloved hand, he growls at me, stroking my arm with his blades causing me to lightly bleed, his face is only inches from mine and he hisses sharply into my ear
"You WILL kill for me."
