Author's notes: So in posting this chapter i do feel the need to warn certain readers that it does get a little graphic/crazy. If you don't care at all then meh.
The Doctor did not reply right away and nervously snickered "My bad apples or inner demons so-to-speak. Through here is my madness."
After a small pause the metal slot on the door opened and a pair of eyes covered in a shroud peered through. A quick glance and the slot closed after which the door swung open. Both entered and the door slammed close. The room inside was small and square while the room adjacent to it was very large. The only thing that separated the two rooms was a very big sheet of glass two feet thick. But Eleanor was unable to make any of this out right away because the moment she stepped inside all she saw was a red haze that enveloped the room and two guards wearing identical shrouds.
Doctor Gill immediately produced two shrouds and gave one to Eleanor. He then directed her to the room on the other side of the glass. As she walked through the red fog she found the smell to be sickly sweet but it also seemed to empower her. As she approached the glass she found she could see the other side clearly. The fog only seemed to be shin high in the opposing room.
"I do no…," Eleanor was about to comment when a small boy rose from the fog. He quickly sat down causing the mist around his feet to swirl away revealing several toy soldiers. The boy picked put several of the toy soldiers with his grubby hands and started to play with them.
Eleanor turned to Doctor Gil confused as to what madness he was talking about. When she could not see him through the haze she looked back just in time to see a man thrown against the glass. His eyes almost pleaded with her when his twisted in agony. Eleanor followed his gaze down to his abdomen wear a knife protruded. Blood seeped out of his body and ran down the glass. The poor man collapsed and was lost in the fog. The sight left Eleanor feeling queasy but not as much as what she now witnessed. Multiple man danced around the room killing one another while the boy played with his toys soldiers.
"They are going to kill him doctor," Eleanor yelled behind her. "We have to rescue him now!" She began beating on the glass while the boy smiled where he sat.
"No Ms. Lamb," Doctor Gill exclaimed rushing up to her and grabbing her arms. "Trust me dear there is nothing you can do for him. I have already tried…"
"But," she protested as her eyes turned to the boy obliviously playing in the midst of these demons. She gasped as one the one man with the knife through it towards the boy. Another guy stepped in the way and caught the blade in his leg. He screamed in agony and shot the other dead. He wrenched the knife out and tried to scream in pain but all he could do was gurgle on the blood spilling from hit slit throat. His body fell with a thud right next to the child. As he died he looked up to see the same man with the knife smiling over him. With his final breath he extended his arm and pulled the trigger. The bullet sailed through the other man's jaw and exited his brain. Both died moments later while the brutal struggle around them continued. Now only three men were left. One had a sinister smile while another was furious and the last looked on blankly. They were encircled around the boy and were aiming their guns at each other. The sudden standoff caught Eleanor by surprise. Maybe these three did not want to fight, she thought.
"This town ain't big enough for the three of us," Eleanor heard the boy say. "Somebody gonna halfto die. Now draw ya varments."
Eleanor looked down at the boy. Mounds of overturned toy soldiers, presumable dead, were piled all around him except for the three remaining that stood in front of him. They were standing in a circle looking at each other.
"Boom," the boy cried out.
The man with the sinister smile fired his shotgun. The angry man looked surprised as the slug hit him in the throat and severed his head. He dropped his rifle causing it to go off.
"Rata-tata-tatata," They boy shouted.
The man staring blankly looked down at the multiple bullet holes forming a diagonal line across his chest. Blood dripped from his mouth and he fell sideways.
The last man standing laughed crazily at his victory while the boy squatted next to his last toy soldier.
"Boom," the boy said ripping off the soldiers arm.
The laughing man stopped for a moment. He glanced at his missing arm but only saw what was left of his shattered bone sticking out of his mangled flesh. "hehe he he… aha ha ha ha."
The boy looked at Eleanor and an innocent smile spread across his face. "Boom," he said ripping the soldier's head off. Eleanor dreaded what that meant. The laughing man placed the barrel in his mouth and kept laughing. A moment later the slug entered through his brain from the bottom of his skull. The momentum of the piece of metal churned the man's soft brain tissue into jello-like substance that traveled out the man's head where it accompanied bits of the skull. The whole mess ended up on the far side of the room and slide down the glass panel next to where Eleanor had previously stood. B
But she was no longer there nor even in the room. The terror of what she had witnessed was too much. She dreaded to see more and ran out of the room screaming. Her feet pounded away from the accursed metal door and across the stage.
"Stop her! Somebody stop her," Eleanor heard Doctor Gill shout behind her.
A pair of strong hands grasped Eleanor from behind and held her steady. She struggled vainly to escape but to no avail. She closed her eyes and wished to be gone from Gill's mind. As she did so her body started becoming opaque.
By this time Dr. Gill had already reached her. He grabbed onto her wrists as she struggled. "No Eleanor you must not. Open your eyes. Open your eyes!"
Eleanor gave in and opened her eyes and her body reacted by becoming solid again. Gill then placed his hand over her head. Red mist exited her pupils and was sucked into Dr. his fingertips.
Eleanor felt a kind of release from what she had just witnessed. "What was that?"
The doctor sighed in relief. "It was rage, hate, and unspeakable evil rolled into one. It was once my subconscious but it had been taken over when my psyche was corroded. I was able to recover my mind but not my subconscious. I was like a child with power to abuse and subordinates I could do away with at any moment."
Eleanor abruptly knocked Gill over and stood up. "Why, why you bastard did you have to show me that- that hell. I could have gone a lifetime without witnessing such…"
"It was for your own good," Gill replied as several people helped him to his feet. "If I can find what ails you and mend it I wanted to be sure that you do not become the monster that I became. I showed you my hell so you would know what evil truly feels like."