Chapter 21: No Recovery

Reaper

Sometimes I still heard them, the voices were angry that I had ruined my chance of killing Angy's baby before it could be born. Besides feeling caged, I was kind of thankful to be here, because I didn't want to hurt her and I was scared that I came to close to it. Luckily she still visited me and wasn't angry at me for hurting the student or wanting to hurt her. At first I wasn't allowed to leave my little room until I was calmed down, afterwards I learned that this place wasn't too bad. I made a couple of friends in my ward and I learned how to get certain things like paper, pencils and extra bread by trading things I had. From the others I learned that there were three wards: the psychiatric, terminally ill, and long-term care. Each had its own building…and I started planning how I could get in to the long-term care one when I heard from Angy that Hunter was there in a coma. After she left I think she warned them because they put me on different drugs and were watching me more closely. When she came back the next time I was irritated with her and she noticed this and apologized.

I was playing cards with a friend of mine when I heard my name over the intercom to the go to the visitor's room. Now Angy only came once a month and she visited last week. When I got there I saw a brunette haired young man sitting alone at the table.

"Hello?" I walked in cautiously; looking around to make sure this was who I was supposed to meet.

"Who the hell are you?"

When I sat down he gave me a half smile, "It's Gabriel…your cousin."

It was shocking to see him so much older.

"Your mom tells me a lot about you, but never brought a picture….wow."

I reached out to touch his face but instead he took my hand, "You know you can leave any time you want..."

I nodded, "I still hear them sometimes, and lately it seems they only get louder. The doctors aren't sure exactly what it is because it isn't like what they've seen before. The drugs really don't fix it, but it helps. Besides…keeps me from having to do dirty work, you know?"

Gabe nodded in understanding.

"I still want Hunter to pay and I know he's in the next wing over with the long term care.." I whispered so no one else could hear me.

Gabriel sighed like I was annoying him.

"If you didn't come here to talk then why are you here?"

He cleared his throat and leaned in, "I had a dream…early today about my brother. We were fighting, and he was different."

My head tilted and I started listening to him more intently, "like..evil? Did he hurt you in the dream?"

He nodded, "I need your help to prevent it…I can't tell my mom, Tabitha, or Kyne. You're the only one that can help me."

Gabe stood up and I stood up, but I tripped over the chair and fell down.

"Reaper? Are you alright?"

When I could see him I nodded, the pills were making numb and now I could feel there was a lack of feeling, so I panicked. Confusing I know. "I'll help you…just stay out of my way when Hunter is awake."

He had already signed my release papers, which stated that I'd be under his care. "Don't worry; I've already set you up a place not far from me. Just promise that you'll keep this a secret…Eventually my mom will find out but let's keep this on the down low till she does."

I laughed, the words that were leaving his mouth just amused me since he seemed so business like. I was discharged and sent home with a bag of medication in Gabe's hand. We walked to his chair and he drove me to his place.

"We can change it, but we have to make sure it's permanent…He has this way of changing variables to make the outcome the same."

Gabriel looked confused so I explained, "There was guy I met at a club long time ago and we really hit it off...anyways, I got a text that he was going to die. So I tried as best I could to keep him away from the location I received. He probably just thought I was crazy or hiding something from him. But he still died, horribly…" I paused looking out the car window as he drove to the place I'd be living, "I got a tongue lashing from my father. He said 'Sometimes things can change, but that's not up to us.' So I never tried again, but I've seen people catch breaks before, like Hunter."

We arrived…the place was like a dream. It was fully furnished and had everything I could possibly need. "Damn Gabe this is incredible, thanks for letting me stay here."

After my tour of the place Gabe said he had to leave before Tabitha got concerned. I must admit it was hard to comprehend that he had a wife now, and an important position in government. He grew up without my help and now he was here asking me for help, I couldn't let him down.

Reaching in to his pocket he pulled out the piece of paper that he had written the dream on, "keep this and read it closely...I will find a way around this, even if that means killing Kyne." I opened the folded paper and watched as he walked out the condo.

Another piece of paper was sitting on the counter, a prescription given to me by my doctor to have filled for the medication they didn't have in stock. As I walked to the local pharmacy I thought about a lot of things…like, I could run right into Kyne and not even know it, because I truly had no idea what he looked like. In my head I pictured a miniature version of Hunter.

I went to the counter and handed the woman the tiny piece of paper with my doc's signature. She gave me a strange look after reading it then went in the back. Along with a set of keys, Gabe gave me a credit card that he said I could charge things on until I got myself set up with all of that. He really took after his mother when it came to generosity. So I paid and the snotty chick said they'd be in tomorrow. She talked slowly and wouldn't make eye contact with me…like what I had was contagious or something. Just to prove a point I lunged at her and she slipped while moving backwards and fell to her knees behind the counter.

"Stupid idiot..." I said before leaving. Yeah…the world wasn't much different since leaving it for the happy house. But I had changed, well.. being forced to change...I hated it, this wasn't me and I was starting to realize this as I walked around with normal people.