Chapter 6
Normality
They drove her in the office room with a wheel chair. She had been tied on it just moments ago. "For your own safety", they said, but Luna didn't feel any more secure. The demons were already there. Within the walls of this very building and her own body, just waiting the right moment to lurk out and make her feel sick. Just like it had happened with Amos.
That office room was no different from the room the caged her in. Well, maybe just a little, since it wasn't all covered up with pillows and it had a desk and some other stuff which her prison didn't. Another difference was that the person who almost lived there was not under medications or tied on his chair. He was just sitting there with a boring emotion on his face as always.
"Ah, Ms. Oakfield. Ready for our today's therapy session?"
Luna preferred facing the ground and her own toes than looking into that damned man's colorless and ugly face. Their conversations were always the same, as if the days were repeating themselves. The man always asked about things like did Luna argue with her parents a lot, what she's afraid of, what happened during the night her family...
And despite the many times those questions were repeated, they never had answers. Luna only agreed to nod, shake her head or answer with short words. She didn't want to talk for long. Even the peace of her prison felt better than sitting there in that stupid wheelchair chained and helpless.
Since Luna didn't reply, the man, doctor Hollow, gave the white jacketed men a sign to leave the room. They left and closed the door silently after them. Mr. Hollow leaned on his palms and concentrated on Luna.
"How have you been lately? Any pain on your ribs?"
Luna shook her head. The doctor gave her a horrible fake smile.
"It must me the medication. Do you feel like it's working?"
"It depends."
The doctor raised his eyebrow in curiosity.
"What might you mean by that?"
"If you meant the pain, then yes, it's working."
"What about the things you say you're seeing? Like those dreams about monsters and the shadows and messages on the walls of your room?"
"No."
"But you'd like them to disappear, don't you?"
Deep silence. Luna started twirling her hair around her finger nervously. Mr. Hollow waited patiently for her answer. Just when he was going to give up waiting and opened his mouth to say something, Luna spoke.
"I don't know", she whispered with a weak, dry voice. The doctor was surprised to see her smiling. Of course he couldn't see the dark meaning of that smile. Mr. Hollow leaned closer to hear her words better.
"Would you like to tell me why?"
"The monsters frighten me. But whenever I kill one, I feel... pleased. That place even heals my wound. It doesn't ache when I'm there. And you know what the last message said?"
Mr. Hollow was now more curious than ever. Was that girl finally going to tell him what made her do that horrible thing to her parents?
"Enlighten me."
Luna just moved in the chair trying to make herself feel more comfortable.
"...could I get a glass of water? My throat is killing me."
The curiosity in the doctor's eyes died for a moment. He sighed deeply and rose his chair to fetch some water for his patient. He had to use his coffee mug to give her water with, since there was no other glasses. After washing it and pouring some water in it, Mr. Hollow handed the mug over to Luna.
"Ok, to get back to that message you were about-"
The mug shattered on the floor spilling water all over. For a moment Mr. Hollow felt an urge to strangle that annoying bastard to that very place, but he soon came to his sense and sighed.
"My deepest apologies. I didn't mean to be so clumsy", the girl said and bowed a bit. Mr. Hollow rose from his seat to clean up the mess.
"It's alright. It was only a mug I had for birthday, nothing special."
After cleaning up, the doctor sat to his chair again. The curiosity was back to fill his chocolate brown eyes.
"So... tell me about the message."
Luna's face turned deadly serious.
"That message. I saw it in a dream I was having. It was about Silent Hill of course. I was wandering at the streets and I met my dog, Amos. He was happy there. He was back to his old self and he wasn't mad or growling at me like the day he..."
A short moment of silence. Mr. Hollow knew what Luna meant. So, she still didn't admit killing her family, but blamed the dog?
"Anyway. As I traveled trough the streets, I saw the town changing around me. It changed to this hospital. Or at least that's what I think it turned out to be. The walls were all covered with blood and the lights were either broken or flickering like mad. I lost Amos and saw the monsters again. They were trying to kill me, so I ran to my room. There... I saw it written in blood."
"What was it?"
Not looking in Luna's eyes as she spoke was a bad mistake. Now those green-blue eyes were filled with anger. The doctor didn't see that. He was too concentrated on the story.
"It read... :
'Only a mad man knows not
how to open a straitjacket's knot.
Only a mad man suffocates,
when the air to breath is just behind the gates.' "
Mr. Hollow seemed to be in his thoughts.
"What do you think that might be the meaning of the message?" he asked Luna. The girl smiled in a devilish way before rising from her wheelchair. The doctor gasped as he saw the piece of glass in her hands. She had opened the knots with it while they were talking. As Luna approached him, Mr. Hollow was desperately trying to smile calmly and reach the button to call security.
"I think, Mr. Hollow, that it symbolizes me. You see, I have realized how the drugs you give to me affect my mind. They kill my imagination for hours. They make my mind blank. And I don't want that. I don't want to be boring, so because that's what you're trying to do to me, I intend to escape."
The doctor realized that even though he tried to press the button, it didn't seem to work because nobody came. The situation left him no other option than to pick his hand gun from the drawer and point at Luna with trembling hands.
"I suggest you calm down now, Ms. Oakfield. Violence is no option."
Luna laughed.
" 'No option'? It seemed to be a good option for you when you raped me!"
His back against the wall, Mr. Hollow felt terrified. The realization that he didn't even have bullets to shoot Luna with didn't help at all.
"Don't do this. This will only dig your grave deeper."
Luna lowered to the doctor's level and gave him a sweet smile.
"Oh, don't worry about my grave. You should be wondering about your own since your going to move there for good any second now."
