4 years later:........

The Silence Within.

Odd it was that the very same murder who spent his time at Smith Grove, that his victim would to.

It was late in the afternoon and a nurse who was called the 'caretaker' around smith Grove, was on her evening rounds. Level "C" was the floor where the most dangerous, or out of mind people were kept. She the caretaker stopped at various rooms, giving out meals and giving medication. She was a tall woman, slender and had a slight bend in her back. she was at the age of 49 and wasn't about to croak, either. Some rooms, like the one she went to next needed extra "Attention" Some of the patients were in straight jackets and some were so hyper, they needed sedation to 'calm' them.

"This is it, room 256, patient Nikki LLoyed"

Looking up from her clip board the nurse looked into Nikki's room. She was laying on her bead, hands behind her head, staring up into the empty dark ceiling of her room. IN fact, Nikki wasn't staring into the ceiling of her room. She was reliving the moment Michael Myers ruined her life, the head bashing, her shoulder broke, the cut in her side, the broken ankle...The list of injuries went on and on. But he had scared more than just her body. She was constantly boiling with hate, rage and anger for what he had done to her. Killing her best friend, her father, her....life! All that was left of Nikki was a shell, inside there was nothing. Some even commented, the older orderlies and nurses, that she had the same, emotionless eyes that of Michael Myers.

The 'caretaker' was also known as Sara, her first name. Sara reached into her pocket and pulled out a walkie-talkie. Pressing the PTT button, she spoke.

"Dan, I want some help with Nikki Lloyed down here, out"

"Sara, be right there, need to take care of this hyper kid first, keeps telling me about a blue elephant, out"

"Ok then, but hurry up, I don't like the way she's staring at me right now, gives me the creeps, out"

"Sara the caretaker, Sara the veteran of Smith Grove, creped out?, out"

"Give it a rest you newbie, If you had been here when the Myers kid was here, you would have rason to fear this girl, out"

"What, oh him, well he's long gone, out"

"Fraid' not, Dan, know who got her here in the first place?, out"

"Who, Sara?, out"

"Michael Myers did. After she got bashed across the head with a crowbar and had this nasty fall, all she does is stare and stare, like she's looking into your soul, and....knows who you are, out"

"Look, a 18 year old girl cant do much harm, Sara. I mean, jez......"

At this moment, Sara breaks in, angrily, yelling at Dan and starts to chew him out. Sara is a person who does not often lose her temper.

"Dan, you asshole, you have no clue on this frigging earth, do you? She murdered 5 people before she came here, got it? one with a long fire poker, the other with a bike chain. Then slit this guy's throat say nothing the whole time!"

"(Quietly) Jez, Sorry, sorry, I never knew what she did to come here....I just thought that...."

"Look Dan, are you coming down to level "C" to help me or not?"

"On my way Sara, over and out"

Dan took the keys out of his pocket and started to go through them, trying to get the right one.

"Dan, if you take any longer.........."

"Ah ha! here it is!"

He held the keys up. Handing them to Sara, he grabbed a tranquilizer to sedate Nikki while they gave her the medication she took once a week. Nikki was still staring at her ceiling. Sara unlocked the door and let Dan go in first. This was the only patient besides Michael Myers she had ever been afraid of. Dan walked in, ands pulled in the tray behind him. Sara came in and locked the door, setting the keys on the tray. Nikki's eyes were a pale gray that shone strangely as soon as Dan turned on the lights. Need to see in here, he mumbled to him self and no one in particular.

"Alright Nikki, time for your shot and medication", Dan said to her, as he walked to her bead.

Nikki still lay there, her slow, almost silent breathing the only sign she wasn't dead. As Dan came closer, he felt a strange inkling in the back of his mind, as if something was going to happen, something bad. As Sara stood behind him, Dan Was about to administer the tranquilizer when Nikki whirled on him so fast that he didn't have time to react. bending his wrist back while Sara backed away and screamed ,In an effortless movement she snapped his wrist. Like a bolt of lightning, she grabbed the syringe in his other hand and stabbed him in the eye. The needle and tranquilizer fluid going into his brain.

Dan drooped down to the floor, half life less. Staring at her hand for a moment, Nikki picked up a long scalpel laying on the trolley and went after Sara. Backing away, Sara aimed a kick at Nikki. Sara's foot hit Nikki in the leg and she moved to the side, avoiding another kick. Pushing her hand out, she hit Sara just below the neck and pushed her against the wall and held her there. Bringing the scalpel up, Nikki slashed across Sara's throat and down again across her face. Letting Sara slide to the floor, Nikki picked up the keys on the trolley.

Un-locking the door, She walked out of the room, scalpel still in hand. Smith Grove was dark and had dimly lit hallways in the evening. Nikki walked down the hall, her choppy, short hair reflecting the light. She was almost a replica of Michael. Her anger and rage matched that of Michael's, but this time, she would come looking for him.

"Michael, Nikki whispered softly, almost in a soothing tone, Michael.........

To be continued.........