I OWN NONE OF THE SONGS OR THE BANDS MENTIONED.
Marcus and Jade were alone. They paced the apartment paranoid. "What if Nat's already dead?" "What if Hayden's dead?" "What if Shannon's dead?! THEN I'M NEXT!" she didn't mean to raise her voice. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door and they jumped. "Okay… we are way too paranoid…" she said. Marcus nodded. All three of them went upstairs and unlocked the front door. They opened it to see two policemen. "Oh. Hi. What do you want?" Lily asked. "Hello, I'm officer Alanson, this is officer Redding. Your friends just witnessed the deaths of Hayden Quinn and Natasha Browning. They're in shock and you need to pick them up." "They're dead?" Marcus said, bottom lip quivering. "Oh…my god…" Jade sniffed as she began to cry. Then sob.
"Hello, miss…" "Amanda StStewart. My friends call me Mandy." "Well Mandy, your friends are on their way. But it should be 3/4s of an hour. So we're sending you through to our Russian therapist to help calm you down, Doctor Roschka. She's right through here." The man led her through to a room with a red therapy bed and a red haired woman with glasses. "Good afternoon, Amanda. Please take a seat." She said, motioning towards the chair. Mandy padded slowly and sat down. "Now…" she said tapping her pen. "We are going to play some music. Two songs. And I'm going to monitor the reactions that you have. Just relax. You are safe. You are secure. You can say anything, or hide anything you want. Ready?" she said soft as velvet. Mandy nodded. First came one of her favourite songs. "Where is my mind?" by the Pixies. The song seemed eerily similar to some things that were happening. "With your feet in the air and your head on the ground," Becca's death in her vision. "Your head will collapse," That was basically what Hayden's head did. "I was swimming..." That's what Natasha was doing, before she died. "They tried to talk to me, he swears…" She had tried to talk to Ash, before the cart hit him. Then the worst thing. "Where is my mind? Where is my mind? Where is my mind?" That was the worst thing. Where was her mind when she had the visions? Where was it when she didn't save Justin? Where was it when she had forgotten her friends that died as if they didn't matter just because their hearts stopped beating? She was sobbing, holding the sound with every ounce of her strength. Dr. Gredion was watching. Her heart throbbed at the fact a little girl, who had only recently become an 18 year old, had to endure the mental torture of watching her friends die in all of those horrific ways. She was hesitant to put on another track, fearful of what it would do to the poor girl's fragile psyche. But she put it on. It was the song she had heard on the bus. But it was a piano version. Every lyric fit the accident at edeNTowers. "Overwhelmed by paranoia and, can't concentrate or settle down, my mind has almost crashed. In my eyes I see a coming plague, destroys everyone I love, I'm saved but it's a bittersweet cake. The chains are broken aaaaaand, I'm so sad I can't stand, There is no wonderland. The chains are broken, and everything is falling down. Everything feels like a stalkers breath, Cold as ice and discomforting, freezing like you're dead," Turn it off." Mandy sobbed. "Mandy, are you ok?" she said, genuinely concerned. "If I open up to you, do you promise it stays in confidence?" The doctor nodded. "Of course. There will be no records of any kind of this meeting. You can speak to me, Miss StStewart. Mandy sighed. "In August, I had a vision of edeNTowers collapsing. I saw all of my friends die. In my head. Anyway, I escaped. But it happened. I saw something happen before it did. And I thought it was over, but then everyone began to die in the order they did in my vision. And I found out that we were meant to die that night and we cheated death. And now we have to keep cheating or we'll die. And I don't want to die. I don't want anyone to die, but seven of us already have. And I know who's next. But, when I couldn't save anyone else, I just don't see what I can do." "You are better than me, Mandy." Mandy turned to her. "What?" "When I was younger, I escaped a tram accident. In a terrible way. I only saved myself, but… I did something unforgivable to save myself." She began to cry. "I let someone else take my place. She thanked me, when I was leading her to her doom. And years ago, I saw of the Bridge accident. I found a loophole, but it came with a horrible price. Mandy, I am here to prevent you from doing what you may soon regret. Will you make the same mistake I did?" Mandy shook her head. "No matter what, I couldn't end someone else's life by force." Dr. Gredion nodded her head. "Good. I know you can do this. You are strong. You are a fighter. You can win." She said. Jade burst into the room. "Time to go." She said. Mandy sat up, and turned once again to Dr. Gredion. "Thank you." She whispered. The woman nodded and sent them out.