Today's the finale day. I just have to wait a couple more hours until I'm out of this fucked up cell. Although Kayla has visited me a couple times, those moments of peace would be annihilated by the pain, fear, and visions. The visions were the worst, "Emma" would visit me everyday and plague me in my dreams, constantly haunting and taunting me. I felt like the medicine was amplifying the visions and making them stronger everyday, and this scared me. I was beginning to question my sanity, questioning what was real or what wasn't. The only thing that was keeping me going was the real Emma and all of my friends on the surface and Matt and Shea.
After about a couple of hours I hear footsteps come down the hallway and stop in front of the door. I was lying on the ground when the door opened, allowing light that I haven't seen since my incarceration flow in the room. The light was blinding and I closed my eyes and held my hands in front of my face. After a couple seconds my adjusted to the brightness and I look up and realize it is Dr. Jones with two guards next to him. He gave me a smile as he and the guards stepped into the room and standing above me, looking down at me.
"Enjoying your stay Jacob" Dr. Jones said as he looked down on me. When I didn't respond his playful expression turned into a serious one.
"Get up" he said harshly. I tried but I couldn't.
"I said get up!" He shouted angrily.
"I can't" Is all I could say with my weak voice. He rolled his eyes and turned to one of the guards.
"Help him up." Th guard gave Dr. Jones a nod and picked me up by the waist and set me up straight. Right when he let go I immediately collapsed and slammed my head against the floor, letting out a painful groan.
"Oh for fuck sake...have it your way. Guards carry him" he said while face palming.
My straitjacket was taken off (finally) and both guards grabbed me by the armpits and lifted me up. I was then dragged out of the cell and down a hallway. Although being dragged by the armpits hurt a little. It felt really good that I didn't have to use my legs.
As I was being dragged I lifted my head and decided to observe my surroundings and I realized I wasn't the only one here. There were multiple cells with multiple prisoners that ranged from men to women and children. Some of the screams were from fear and some even sounded painful. Seems like I wasn't the only person that had endure the terrors. I felt a little bad but that feeling quickly disappeared and I just looked at the ground.
After about three minutes we arrived at a elevator and took the elevator down what I thought to be was one floor. The elevator doors opened and in front of me was what appears to be a hospital. Walking around were doctors and nurses that I speculated to be just as cruel as Dr. Jones and patients either being rolled around in a wheelchair or strapped to a bed with restraints. I prayed that I wouldn't end up like them.
I was then thrown onto one of the wheelchairs by the guards and then they started to roll me towards a room.
'Great. Now I'm going to be strapped to a bed and experimented on.'
I was about to enter the room but a nurse stood in front of them and told them to halt. This nurse was different. She was about my age while all the other nurses were at least eighteen. Maybe she wasn't like the others.
"I'm instructed to take patient Jacob Portman to another room" the nurse said grabbing my wheelchair. I recognize the voice, it was on the tip of my tongue but I couldn't determine who's voice it was.
The guards looked at each other and nodded towards the nurse and walked away. I was then rolled towards the opposite direction toward the medical rooms and I was relieved. I looked up but couldn't see her cause she was on my left side and just decided to relax.
We soon arrived at a room and we entered. The room was a typical doctors room that you would find at a normal hospital. I was then pushed to the corner and she immediately locked the door. I was startled by this until I heard her voice again.
"Its good to finally meet you Jake" she said with a smile.
My eyes widened when I heard her say this. "Kayla?" I stuttered still suprised.
She smiled and gave me a little wave. I tried to get up and hug here but felt extreme pain and I plopped back into the chair.
"We can talk later about the important stuff later. For now let's get you patched up." I nod at her and she begins to rummage through the cabinets until she found pills. I took them and realized they were painkillers because I instantly felt better. She began to bandage up the deep cuts that were on my arms and legs.
"Alright last but not least" she said while putting on a new pair of surgical gloves and gesturing to the bandage that was wrapped around my face. The bandage was covered with blood and she began to unwrap the bandage that stuck to my face like tape. Her expression became concerned after she took the entire bandage off my face.
"What? Is something wrong" I asked with a worried tone. From the expression on her face I could tell something was really wrong.
"From what I could tell, you injury to your eye is pretty bad." My skin felt like it went pale when I heard this.
"Will it ever heal?" I said with a soft voice.
"Yes of course it will. It's just going to take a long time" she said and I breathed a sigh of relief.
"But I have a friend named Shea, she has the peculiarity to heal people. She could probably heal my wound" I said with reassurance in my voice.
"Yeah I know Shea. I met her about 5 months ago. She's one of the only good ones in this place. Although that could work, it would take a toll on Emma" she said while she was setting up a board with numbers and letters on it.
"How?" "You know how Shea suffers from the wound she heals on another person?" I nod at her with sweat dripping down my face.
"Last time she healed a wound like that, she was in a coma for about two weeks. It was miracle that she survived that" Kayla said while sitting down next to me.
"Your right. I'm not gonna force that upon her. This will just heal on its own" I said while looking Kayla in the eye.
"It would be the best." She patted on my shoulder and walked over to the board. "Alright Jake. Cover your left eye and read me this row of letters" she said while pointing to one of the rows.
"ABHAWTY" "Excellent! What about this one" she said while pointing towards a second row.
"WODBTU" I said still staring at the board.
"Good. Now let's try your other eye" She said nervously. She pointed towards one of the bigger rows of letters.
"Can you read off this row?"
I covered my right eye and my vision became immediately blurry. I couldn't read any of the rows at all. I couldn't even read the one she was pointing too. Although I wasn't completely blind in my left eye. I might as well be because everything was too blurry. I couldn't even recognize Kayla.
She seemed to notice something wrong and she lowered her hand.
"You can't see the row...can you" she said with sadness. "Can you see anything?"
"I can see out of it but everything is extremely blurry" I said as I lowered my hand from my left eye.
"Well at least your left eye is not totally blind. It will heal but it will take quite a while" she said while walking towards a cabinet.
"You will need to wear this so that your eye is protected from any hazards" she said while showing me a medical eyepatch. She began to wrap the eyepatch around the back of my head.
"Thank for you doing this" I said while adjusting the eyepatch she gave me.
"Your welcome. It's not hard to treat inju-" I cut here off my grabbing her.
"No I mean thank you for talking to me while I was in solitary confinement." If I didn't had you, I think I would have completely lost it" I said with a smile.
"Your welcome Jake. You are all clear now. I'm going to walk you to the cafeteria now" she said while walking to the door and opening it. I walk pass here and we begin to walk to the elevator. The elevator doors close and we begin to go up.
"What's the reason why your here Kayla?"
"Because of my visions, mind powers and such my parents thought I was suffering from a mental disorder and they sent me here. That was 6 months ago. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia" she said.
"You seem sane and normal compared to the other patients and you have been here for over 5 months, what's your secret" I asked.
"The doctors don't know this, but my peculiarity greatly dulls and slows down the side effects of the "medicine" they give us" she said while making quotations with her fingers.
"Your lucky, you can actually resist the medicine unlike all of the other patients, the medicine has definitely taken a toll on everyone" I said with a chuckle.
"Yeah, I feel sorry for them but some of them had to suffer" she said with a shrug.
We reached the floor and we began to walk down the hallways towards the cafeteria. We reached the door and a guard opened the door for us.
"Will I see you again?" I said hopefully. She looked at me and smiled.
"I work on the hospital floor every other day. I'm off tomorrow and we might come across each other either in the cafeteria or the recreational area" Kayla said happily.
I thank her and walked through the door. All eyes wondered to me when they heard the door shut. I glared at all of them and all of them shifted their focus on their food. I walked over and grabbed a tray of food and sat down and began to eat.
After about a minute I heard a voice from my left side call out to me.
"Mister? What happened to your eye?" I turned my head to the left to see a child that was around ten years old who looked half Chinese and half Irish.
"A fight" I said while continuing to eat my food. Her eyes widened and a smile went across her lips.
"You look really cool with that eyepatch!" she shouted happily. I couldn't help but crack a smile at her statement.
"Thanks" I said while pushing my food outward, directing my full attention to this young girl.
"Mister my name is Rylan. What's yours?" "Jacob but you can call me Jake" I said while holding out my hand that she proceeded to shake.
"Not a lot of people here are friendly. Can I be your friend?" she said with hope in her eyes. I said yes. This girl was sweet and kind. She didn't deserve to be in a horrible place like this.
"What's your peculiarity Rylan?"
"My peculiarity is to project images and videos that I remember through my eyes. Like here watch this" she said while pointing towards the table. I looked down and saw an image of a house that I assumed to be used to be hers. I was amazed by this and looked at her to see her eyes are completely like a wight. That creeped me out but I ignored it. She looked at me with a smile on her face.
"I also have a really good memory. That was a photo of my house that I haven't been at for about 6 months."
I was about to comment on this but I then hear two voices behind me that I immediately recognize.
"Jake?" Shea and Matt said with happiness. I turned around and they were shocked. Shea's eyes widened and she gasped loudly while Matt just stood frozen with shock. Shea began to run towards me and she hugged me. I hugged her back and she looked at me.
"What did they do to you?!" She said with tears in her eyes. "We thought you died mate" Matt said, still shocked to see my injury.
"I can't see through my left eye so I need to wear this eyepatch" I said while pointing to my eyepatch. Sheas head shot up and began put here hands on my face.
"Here I can heal your wound. It will be good in n-" I grab her hands and hold them firmly.
"No. healing this wound can seriously hurt you and even kill you. Kayla told me about what happened last time you did something like this" I said with a serious tone. She didn't seem convinced but she looked sad and gloomy.
"I'll be fine don't worry" I said while smiling. She seemed convinced by my statement and she backed off.
"Who are these people?" Rylan said while squinting at Shea and Matt.
"Rylan. This is Matt and Shea, they are my other friends that I met when I first arrived in the lower levels" I said while pointing to Matt and Shea. They shook each other's hands and greeted each other. Shea then turned her attention on me.
"Do you wanna talk about what happened to you and what you went through last week" Shea said while looking at me. The pain and terror came back and I started to become afraid. Shea grabbed my hand and those feelings disappeared.
Im sorry I brought it up. But you can talk to me about it when you are ready" Shea said with reassurance.
"Thank you for your support" I said while smiling at Shea. I then turned my attention to Matt and motioned him to sit next to me. He obeyed and he sat next to me.
"I have a lot of questions Matt. Remember your promise you made me last week?"
He nodded at me and replied "alright ask away."
Sorry for the shitty cliffhanger. Im gonna start to type the next chapter tomorrow. Sorry about the updates becoming slower, I have finals next week so I gotta study but after next week the updates will be faster. Ok bye
