Sanity

Chapter 4

By: Rachel*

Rated: PG-13

Genre: Romance/Philological Thriller

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          His brown eyes slowly opened once again. Turning his head from side to side, he noticed the white, but couldn't focus on anything, what was wrong? No one was in the room, he tried to speak, but couldn't. Struggling to raise his arm above his stomach he gave up as pain shot through his body. A woman walked in soon after and smiled. "Time to go to the group discussion Mr. Spiegel," she smiled and got him a wheel chair.

          His body ached so much as she helped him in, but his cries couldn't be heard. He grimaced, and managed to shove her away a bit. She shook her head. "I believe that friend of yours, the one from yesterday will be there this morning too. I'll be sure that you two sit next to each other okay?" She winked. Clearly she didn't know about the part where he nearly killed Faye…

          Spike's vision was still blurry and wasn't improving. 'Damn it,' he cursed to himself. It had to be the medications. Faye was right, they needed to get out of here.

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          Faye was rudely awoken from sleep, and with the forceful guidance of two of the nurses Faye was sitting in a large room surrounded by people.   

          One rocked back and forth shuddering when anyone passed, one man tried to throw a punch towards Faye after she scurried away to another chair. "You sit right back here you little—"

          "Tomas, we don't hit people!" A nurse scolded and raised a needle into the air. He quickly stopped.

          A man tapped Faye on the shoulder, and he snickered sitting next to her. "Hey…" He trailed off staring at Faye.

          Faye stared back, he seemed sort of normal. "Hey back," she coughed, and stared towards the door as she noticed them bringing Spike in. Her heart caught in her throat.

          "You're new here, right?" Faye nodded, still looking over at Spike. The nurse whispered something to him, and pointed towards Faye, she sighed when she saw them heading over. "Here, a gift from me…" He handed her two matches. "Aren't they just great? You light them, and they eat anything in their path… The doctors and nurses don't know I found these, I took them from Dr. Goda's desk…" He laughed, and patted her on the shoulder. "Use them to make a ruckus!" He jumped up and ran over to another chair. Spike soon sat by her and she glanced over at him, he was in a trance again, yet still fully aware of his surroundings.

          "Spike, Spike it's me." His head straightened, and his lips moved, no words came. "Spike, are you alright?" She moved closer and looked into his eyes, but a nurse pushed her back.

          "Faye, take it easy now." She growled. Faye clenched her fists around the wooden matches. She turned as a girl sat beside her. Faye's eyes widened and she looked down so she wouldn't offend the girl.

          She was clearly anorexic; Faye could wrap her pinky and thumb around her upper arm without a problem. "It's okay; I know I have a problem." She sighed, and patted Faye on the shoulder. Faye nodded and bowed her head. She noted people tapped, and patted each other a lot here.

          "I'm Amy Meyers." She smiled and extended her hand to shake Faye's.

          Faye hesitantly took it and shook, making sure not to hurt Amy. "I'm Faye."

          Amy smirked. "We all heard about you and lover boy next to you." She winked and glanced out the window. "However, the circumstances are understandable; he didn't know what he was doing." She narrowed her eyes and examined Faye's neck. "You've got a nasty burse there, you know?"

          Faye nodded, flinching when Amy poked it. "Take it easy…" Amy backed away quickly. Faye frowned. "The anger problem right?" Faye whispered.

          Amy nodded forwarding her eyebrows. "You aren't angry, wow you really are healing quickly, just like the nurses were saying Dr. Kiga said." She smirked.

          Faye frowned, and couldn't hold it in, Amy seemed normal. "I don't have an anger problem Amy. Faye smiled. "I'm here to get Spike out of this place; I'm a…his…" Faye didn't want to say bounty hunter, nor did she want to lie and say wife or something along those lines.

          Amy's eyes grew wide. "That's so cool; I can help you out…" She looked down at Faye's hands. "Bob stopped by and gave you matches, right?" Faye nodded opening her fist. Amy smirked. "He does it with everyone… I know this is a little extreme, but light someone's head on fire. A distraction, and make a break—"

          Dr. Kiga walked into the room with Jack trailing behind. He eyed Faye, his beady little eyes crawling over every inch of her. Faye shivered and turned back to Amy. "I'll do it." She whispered. Amy pointed to the man in front of her.

          "He's been gone completely for the past year, I overheard the nurses say that there's no hope…" Faye nodded and looked around the room. Peering to her left she felt the cool breeze against her face.

          "Hello everyone," Dr. Kiga laughed as all her patients waved, well, except for Faye. "We noticed that it was really hot last time, so today we opened the widows a bit." Faye smirked; they were on the bottom floor in the main lounge. "It's getting cold out though, so if anyone gets cold during this session, please tell us and we'll either have you move, or close that window for you, okay?" Lots of them nodded, giggling, and jumping about.

          Faye watched as Jack glanced over and twitched uneasily. He knew something, Faye could sense it. She looked at Spike who was looking at her blurred figure the whole time. "We're leaving now Spike… You'll have to get up and run out the window, do you think you can do that for me?"

          Spike tried to nod, but failed to do so. So with all his might he raised his thumb into the air, giving her the thumbs up. She smiled arching her eyebrows up in concern. "You ready?" Amy asked.

          Faye nodded taking the match she looked around briefly. "Yeah," Faye whispered.

          Amy screamed and fell out of her chair rolling across the room. It was like a chain reaction; everyone got up and started screaming. Faye swallowed, and lit the match. "It hurts!" Amy screamed.

          Faye bowed her head. "I'm sorry buddy." She mumbled, and dropped the match down onto his head. Faye tugged Spike up out of his chair. Jack gritted his teeth and tried to push through the crowd as the nurses who ran over to the man whose head was on fire.

          "Stop right there Faye!" He shouted as Faye dragged Spike to the window. Amy saw Jack and smirked. "You're not getting out of here!"

          Amy walked over to Bob and got one of his matches.

          Faye held Spike in her arms protectively. "How'd you know?" she growled.

          "Dr. Kiga said you knew him from another hospital… You haven't been in another hospital Faye; you're in love with him aren't you?" He chuckled.

          Spike's eyes widened and he tried to move to look up at Faye but she just clutched him tighter to her chest. "Hey doctor…" Amy tapped him on the shoulder. "I think it's a little cold in here, don't you?" she lit it and dropped it on his arm. Jack's eyes widened and he pushed Amy to the ground.

          Faye smiled towards her, and helped Spike out the window. "Faye, don't do it!" Jack shouted as Dr. Kiga ran over and hit at his arm with her coat.

          "Spike, come on…" Faye tugged at him and he stumbled out leaning into her, he gritted his teeth and with wobbly legs they staggered forward along with parking lot walkway. She bit down on her lower lip and looked around, where could they go?

          He mouthed her name over and over, and struggled with all his might to say it, but to no avail. 'Faye…' He thought.

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          "Faye!" Dr. Kiga shouted. Jack grabbed her as he ignored the pain of his arm. "What are you doing, we have to stop them!"

          Jack grimaced. "We will, Faye isn't a patient here Kate… She had Jet Black, not Jet Valentine, help her get in here with a fake file. Faye was here to get Spike out, a man we've been keeping here."

          Kate stared at him, and flopped down onto a chair. "You've been keeping this man in here when he doesn't need to be?" She breathed.

          Jack bowed his head nodding. "I was ordered to tell you this evening, I'm sorry it had to happen like this…" He trailed off.

          "You…" She slapped him across the face. He flinched, and closed his eyes yelping. "How could you?!" She screamed. Standing she ran from the room, and quickly ran into her office grabbing her keys, and bag before leaving the building.

          "Kate, no wait up!" Jack growled, one of the nurses tugged him to the ground and poked around at his burned arm.

          "I think you'll survive." She mumbled as they all began to get the crowed under control. Amy walked over to the window and watched as Dr. Kiga fled from the building.

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          "Faye, Faye it's me!" Faye turned and picked up her pace trying franticly to carry Spike's limp body. "I'm going to help you out of here!" She shouted.

          Faye stopped, and turned glancing back. She watched as Dr. Kiga leaned forward and heaved for breath. Extending her hand she shook her car keys. "How can I trust you?"

          "I'll give you two hours before I report it stolen." She smirked, and tossed the keys across the space between them.

          Faye caught them, and stared back up at Kate. "Why are you letting us do this?"

          She smiled. "Jack told me about you, and him." She pointed to Spike. He blinked as his vision began to clear. "I thought you were a little too nice to have an anger problem, if anything maybe a bad case of PMS…" Faye smiled and held Spike tightly.

          Faye bowed her head. "Thank you, but…" Kate pointed to the car next to Faye. It was white, with leather seating on top of it.

          "Be careful, it was a graduation gift from my dad, he'll kill me if anything happens to it." Faye nodded. "Now hurry up and get out of here before I change my mind." She winked and Faye nodded again dragging Spike to the car and lying him down in the back seat. "The effects of his medications should start wearing off soon, he'll be very cold, and hungry too, just so you know… " She handed Faye her credit card. "You've got three hours of spending before it's canceled, too." She waved as Faye started up the car and pulled out of the gated lot.

          Faye nodded. "Thank you," she waved back.

          "Faye…" Spike struggled. Faye's eyes widened and she reached a hand behind her. "It's okay Spike, we made it, we're going to be okay…"

          Spike nodded lying on his side he wrapped his arms around himself and shivered, as he swallowed. Shutting his eyes tightly he struggled to talk. "Cold," he gargled. Faye stopped at a red light and looked back biting down on her lower lip.

          "It's okay, it's the side effects I'll stop somewhere and get a blanket or some more clothes for you, okay?" Spike closed his eyes and sighed as Faye's fingers ran through his hair again, he'd grown to like her doing that.

          Pulling away she turned to the left heading out of the city. Spike coughed and shuttered, the cold was really getting to him now… "Faye…" He mumbled again.

          She glanced back in the rearview mirror as they crossed a mid-sized bridge across river. Spike was shaking violently, and his teeth were chattering together. Speeding up she turned right again, and into a restaurant parking lot. Hurriedly undoing her seatbelt she got out and into the back seat. "Hey…" She trailed off and lifted Spike into a sitting position.

          Turning his head towards her he leaned into her and wrapped his arms around Faye's lower waist, and rested his head against her chest. She was so warm, he hugged her close. "Thank you."

          Faye's eyes grew wide in shock, and she hesitantly put her arms around him. Smiling she leaned against the door and rested her head on top of his. Spike let a small smile trace across his pale lips and slowly drifted off into a deep sleep…

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