As Lincoln was sleeping, he had a dream where he was running around in the woods stark naked past the cool breeze and air and the beautiful view of nature.
But he stopped and hid behind a tree and saw a deer near a river where fish were swimming there.
He sprang from behind the tree and ate the deer and fish as it tried to escape from Lincoln, but he was too strong. He ate the deer and six fish violently as he ate them until they were clean to the bone except for the antlers of the deer, of course, with blood from the deer spilling onto the ground and on Lincoln's body.
The next day at 12:30 pm, Karoline went to room 2001 on Level 20 to check if Lincoln had eaten his lunch and taken his pills.
As she opened the door calm slowly in order not to disturb Lincoln, she saw Lincoln in his bed asleep with a pair of headphones on connected to his phone listening to Phil Collins' songs on his music app on his phone.
She also saw him with food tray on the table… untouched as she smiled and closed the door behind her.
"Mr. Loud," Nurse Thomas said to wake Lincoln up.
Lincoln had opened his eyes and saw it was her, as for the past week one of the good things about this place was seeing her.
He might have stopped crying, but he felt so scared and alone with his best friend dead and no one knowing what animal attacked him, being around with strangers in a country he doesn't know, his best friends' parents crying about their dead son and not coming back until they feel better in 2 months, and his sisters being missing, along with his parents being brutally killed about 3 months ago.
He smiled and paused his music while taking his headphones off.
"Hello, Nurse Thomas," Lincoln said in a happy tone.
"Please call me Karoline," as she replied in a happy voice too.
He smiled happily back at her.
"Then you can call me Lincoln."
"Your first name is named after the last name of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln?"
"Yup."
They both laughed as they found that his first name was after a famous U.S. president in the 1860's.
As they stopped laughing, she walked toward his bed, and sat with him while looking at his untouched food.
"Lincoln, what's the matter? Are you not hungry?" Karoline asked him.
"Yes, I'm afraid so. I did took my pills, though," Lincoln said.
"That's good, Mister… I mean Lincoln. But I'm afraid you have to at least eat most of your food. I was ordered to give you this food and I can't just throw of all this food in the trash. What am I going to do?"
"OK, if eat about half or 90 percent of this food, will you be satisfied, Nurse… I mean Karoline?"
"Sure! The doctor will be happy that you'll be back to be ready to go outside after a good meal. After all, I heard that people can't work without an empty stomach," said Karoline happily.
Karoline then went to the window to open up the shades, with the sun shining in Lincoln's room, as he blocks his eyes with his arms from the sun.
"Ow, my eyes," Lincoln says as he groans.
"Sorry about that," Karoline says in an apologetic voice.
She then closed the shades a bit with some of the sun still shining in his room.
"That's better," Lincoln says as he thanks the nurse.
"You're welcome," Karoline says with a smile.
Lincoln then takes bites of his food, finishing 97 percent of his food and drinking his drink, while Karoline was watching him dreamily as she thought he was cute like a son she could have.
Later, when Lincoln takes his nap after eating his food, he dreamt that he was running in the woods again, but this time he had his clothes and backpack on before stopping to hide behind a tree.
As he looked to see what he saw, he was shocked to see what looked like he was sleeping in his hospital bed with an I.V. in his arm in a small clearing of trees.
Standing with him was Karoline, dressed in her nurse uniform, looking beautiful like Marilyn Monroe. She then walked to his sleeping self as she patted his forehead happily and put her hand on his arm as Lincoln was still watching very curiously.
Just then, his sleeping self snapped open his two red eyes that were looking at her as he opened his mouth with two sharp, wet, dripping fangs hissing and growling.
It cuts to the next day at 2:30 pm, as Dr. Johnson was talking to Lincoln about how he was feeling after his stay in the hospital. He kindly told Lincoln that he was going to leave tomorrow and send a plane for him, but he'll have to stay with someone in Romania for 2 months until he and Clyde's parents were feeling better and ready to call Lincoln to go home.
Lincoln was feeling relieved and scared at the same time, because of not only with his best friend murdered, coming back to Royal Woods to see his parents and friends, being attacked by a mysterious creature and meeting the friendly nurse he liked that treated him like his mom used to, but also that he had to stay in a foreign country he has never been to and doesn't know what to do around here.
He looked at a nervous and uneasy Lincoln after seeing his charts that notes about Lincoln's nightmares.
"So, Mr. Loud. Have you had nightmares like this before?" the doctor had asked Lincoln.
"I mean, sure, I did have some freaky ones….., but not as really freaky and frightening like this one recently," Lincoln replied uneasy.
"Lincoln, I talked to the sergeant and lieutenant today in my office this morning at 8:40 and we agreed that the creatures that attacked you and your best friend could be vampires because not only do they always bite their victims on the neck, but they can also turn into bats and wolves."
"Wait, they can also turn into wolves?"
"I guess so. We even found out that they may not be ordinary vampires because they may have other powers that never had before. I know it sounds confusing, but this may be true."
"Maybe, but I think that the pub people at the town know something they don't want us to know."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Come here, please."
Dr. Johnson had walked up to Lincoln as he wanted to tell the doctor about he wanted to tell him as he whispered.
"When Clyde and I were at that pub last week, we saw a cross on the wall and we knew it was used to block out evil like vampires and demons, but the pub people had kicked us out like we knew something and could call them for being crazy or something else," Lincoln whispered to the doctor.
"Oh, I see," the doctor replied as he walked back next to Lincoln's bed.
"So do you think I'm crazy or what?"
"Well, here's how I see it: You're not crazy. Yet. However, a bite mark on the neck is usually something a vampire would do and you could be right about what happened."
"Really?"
"Yup. I may even talk to them if they know about this vampire thing that happened."
"Thanks, doc."
"You're welcome, Lincoln."
He then patted Lincoln's head and started to leave his room.
But Lincoln told the doctor for one request he wanted to have.
"Doctor?" Lincoln asked.
"Yes, Lincoln?" Dr. Johnson had asked.
"Can you please send in Nurse Thomas to my room tonight? I rather not be alone tonight after what I'm experiencing lately."
The doctor smiled at his request.
"Sure. I'll send her in with you," the doctor said to Lincoln.
The doctor had left the room and Lincoln was laying back in his bed as he sighed in relief.
We then cut later at night about 10:35 pm with Nurse Thomas reading the book Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice to Lincoln as he slept again with sweet dreams while having a bit worriment about the vampire problem he was having lately.