Chasing the Darkness/ Chasing the Night Chapter 8 Italics means flashbacks

Rip had remembered the last time she had made love to her husband, the day before his death. For the first time since Silent Hill, Rip had felt sexual. She felt like she could take on the world. She knelt before her husband and took him down her throat. It was so warm and she had loved the taste of his hot flesh in her mouth. She swallowed hard, Rip straddled her husband. She couldn't describe how much she loved him- words were unable to express her emotions at the moment in time. His lips were warm on her neck, and soft. It was sensual seductive. She leaned her head back and enjoyed the warm sensations down her neck, the soft kisses, gentle holding, warm caresses.

The next day it was all over. Hans was dead. Her life fell apart. She was breaking. She lost her rock, her companion, her lover, her friend, her mentor, everything. She cried for 6 months after Hans died, three months later the Letter from Silent Hill appeared. It gave her that faint glimmer of hope.

She left the next day.

She awoke to cool water being splashed on her face. Stetson was looking at her with a caring face.

"Where's the baby?" she asked disoriented.

"What Baby?" Stetson asked.

"Nevermind, I remember now. Where did you get clean water?"

"I brought it with me, but what baby?"

"It's ok, nevermind, I remember now."

"Remember what?" he asked back

We were on our way to Brookhaven hospital when we were called and told that our Doctor didn't show up for his shift. When we got to obstetrics, we were told that Dr. Avondale Napyeer would deliver our baby. I was in so much pain, and Dr. Napyeer said an epidural would harm the baby. I believed him, and soon after the baby was delivered—a girl, I passed out from the pain. When I woke up Hans was holding my hand, he-he told me that our little girl didn't make it. It confused me, I had heard my little girl cry, I had seen her ultra sound, there was nothing wrong with her. The obstetrics nurse had acted so weird afterward, it scared me, and I had a feeling she had something to do with it. We never learned what the doctor had done to her. We left Silent Hill for good 3 weeks later.

"That's very tragic."

"I didn't want to come back, but that letter, I came back, I almost wish I hadn't."

"What's next on your list?" Stetson asked.

"Toluca hotel."

"Why Toluca hotel?"

"That's were Hans had his affair."

"How do you-"

"I caught him." She swallowed hard and paused. "I knew something was wrong when he was leaving Saline for Silent Hill almost every weekend and it was a three-hour drive. He told me he was meeting with Doctors to get us into an IVF program, but this had been going on for 4 months. One day I drove to Silent Hill myself, when I went to check into a room they told me that I already had a reservation, they gave me a room key, my heart raced as I opened that door. It was my worst fear. I caught him; I caught both of them in the act. It felt like a hot knife in my heart. I was sick. I will never forget the look on Hans' face. I drove home in such a flying rage that I barely remember what happened. I made that three-hour drive in less than two. Hans came home about an hour later. I didn't want to hear any of his excuses. He didn't have any, he had a reason. He told me that I wasn't a bad wife, but instead he told me that his appetite for sex was insatiable. He told me that he didn't want to 'burden' me. I thought it was pathetic. But, after a while, I forgave him."

"I know, you've told me." During the time that Rip and Stetson were speaking they made their way to the hotel. The room that they were looking for was 339. She prayed to see her husband this time. Prayed he was on the other side of the door.

She opened the door. Her heart sank when she realized that he wasn't there. Rip stood in the doorway while Stetson searched the dirty, dank and slightly cryptic room. He found a tape in the rotting drawer and decided to put in the VCR. It only took a few seconds to realize that this was homemade porn. For the first time Stetson was able to see what Hans had looked like. Rip turned from the splintered doorway when she heard the television.

"He taped his affair." Rip said dumbfounded. Stetson turned off the television.

"What's next?" he asked with a sigh.

"Our last trip is to Brookhaven Hospital."

End Chapter.

Saline is a city in Michigan that once held Ypsilanti State Mental hospital, one of the worlds largest mental hospitals. It was demolished by Toyota about a year ago, after being abandoned for about 10 or so. Since there is some speculation on where SH takes place in this story I am placing it in Michigan, because some of the buildings there will be backdropped for photoshoots, like Northville hospital will be brookhaven. I have acquired the paperwork for this, all that needs to be done is whiting out the names of the people who were going to go with me. If you'd like to be in this photoshoot or explore this old abandoned hospital, contact me, and I'll give you the paperwork, but you do have to submit to a drug test. Also, if the 2 people who fucked up their chances of going try to fool me into giving them the paperwork, I'll know. So don't even try it. I won't name names here either.

Room 339—

Room 339 is where I stayed at Acen 2006. While I keep in contact with one of my roommates, it's the one that I don't like that I felt compelled to name this room. The fact that while I was having a decent time at the con, and in respects the room, my fiancée was in surgery, and in a way I feel like that what I was doing was cheating on him, even though he told me to do it.