Hello everyone! My apologies for taking so long to post a new chapter but I needed to go out and rent 'Session 9' so I could get all the historical facts on the hospital straight! I've also been the recipient of an 'award', so to speak, The HAWLUMS (Hated Author Who Loves Mary Sues) Award. First of all, I have no idea what a Mary Sue is!?!?! Can someone please help me out on this? Anyway, I just wanted to make a point of saying…if anyone has any desire to see the movie Session 9, see it now before you read my story or I'll spoil the movie for you. Thanks to everyone who's read and reviewed this story, and I promise that I won't take forever to add chapters to it anymore ha ha! Oh, and if you want to have an idea of what kind of place your dear Gravitation friends are staying the night at, go to this web site: w w w.danvers-state-ia. com/home. html (I had to put spaces between the words because I couldn't get it to come up any other way...?) I implore you to take a look at the Gallery and check out the Interior pictures…. very very creepy!

" So you're telling us that there's no other way out of here other than the front door?" inquired Tohma uneasily.

" That's right. All the windows are barred and there was only ever one entrance," said Manami as she poured herself a glass of vodka.

" So what's with this place?" asked K admiring his gun.

" Well, as I told you, this is Danvers Mental Hospital. It used to be called Danvers Insane Asylum, but they changed the name about 10 years ago to be more politically correct. It was originally established to provide residential treatment and care to the mentally ill," explained Manami.

" So, why did you freak out earlier?" asked Shuichi as he poured himself a drink as well.

Manami looked longingly into her drink and walked towards the window. She reached up, grasped the rusted bars that kept them locked inside and stared out into the darkness that covered the grounds.

Hiro grabbed Shuichi by the collar and pulled him close so that they were face to face. Shuichi's glass dropped to the floor and shattered as he stared fearfully into the angry man's eyes.

" Apologize to her right now for asking such a stupid question," said Hiro.

" It's okay Hiro," said Manami, before Shuichi had a chance to answer. " None of you know what this house is capable of. But I do."

" What the hell do you mean by that?" asked Yuki. Everyone was now staring intently at Manami hoping to find out more about this strange place they were to spend the night in.

" This hospital has seen its share of death. I'm afraid tonight there may be more," the young girl continued.

Tohma walked over to the girl and grabbed her shoulders and shook her, " Stop talking in riddles dammit!"

" Leave her alone!" cried Hiro as he pushed Tohma against the wall. He raised his arm to take a swing at Tohma when suddenly the lights went out. The group sat in almost complete darkness now. The only source of light was the soft moonlight that crept in through the barred windows casting eerie shadows across the floors and walls.

" Manami, do you know where the fuse box is?" asked K.

" Kumagoro doesn't like the dark," cried Ryuichi.

" Uh, yes. It's in the basement…but I um…well…" said Manami nervously.

" Why don't we all go, I think it would be best if we stuck together," offered Shuichi.

" The kid's right. We shouldn't get separated," added K.

As they walked towards the basement, they passed a small room that had a painting on the wall. The painting showed a beautiful sunset over a lake with a swan floating gently by. However now, the paint was peeling and the picture cast an ominous shadow over the room. Inside the room was a big basin and a smaller medical table surrounded by wires and electrical equipment.

" What's this for?" asked Sakano as he peered into the dark room.

" This was the hydro and shock therapy room," said Manami.

" Hydro and shock therapy?" inquired Ryuichi nervously.

" Yes, the big basin was filled with cold water and the patients were dunked repeatedly into it. The table restrained the patient while they shot volts of electricity through them," Manami explained.

" They actually did that?" asked Shuichi fearfully.

" Uh-huh. Danvers, in its day, was a really revolutionary hospital. It had state of the art equipment, in fact it was here at Danvers that they perfected the pre-frontal lobotomy."

" Perfected?" Tohma said exchanging a glance with Yuki who looked almost as uncomfortable about this as he did. As they continued to walk on towards the basement, Manami continued to explain more and more of the history of Danvers.

" The building was split up into smaller sections, and each of these smaller sections were given a letter. Sections A, B, C and D were for the female patients and G, H, I and J were for the male patients. Sections E was the auditorium and section F was the kitchen. The A and J sections held the extreme patients, that's why they are furthest away from the administration offices in the middle."

" Extreme?" asked Hiro.

" Yes, the extreme patients were the…"

" What the hell is this?" asked Yuki as he walked into one of the rooms.

" Hey Eiri, what are you checking in?" laughed K. The group followed Yuki and walked inside the room and began to look around.

" This was a patients room, or as they called it back then, seclusion. It was some therapy that was big in the seventies, with all these cut outs and stuff. You know, art therapy, creative expression, something like that."

The room was covered in images cut out of magazines glued against the walls. There were pictures and phrases and even drawings that the patient had done. The group was taking in the images and words before them, there was a drawing of a large family, a picture of an old frail woman holding a small monkey, a picture of a china doll who had lost half it's face, and the phrase "Night People" was pasted just above a picture of three people laying dead in coffins.

" Well, this creepy," muttered Shuichi. They left the room and turned right down another hallway. Everyone felt uneasy as they walked onwards feeling as if the darkness that surrounded them was about to swallow them whole. Ryuichi gasped as the group noticed the eerie scene that lay before them. In the center of the hallway was an old empty wheelchair sitting just outside a room glowing in the moonlight seeping in from the window.

" We have to turn back, there's too much water damage to walk on this floor. We can get to the basement another way, lets go," said Manami. The group followed their guide back they way they had came. Everyone, that is, except for Sakano who was unable to move. He stared, fixated on the wheelchair.

Sakano

Sakano's eyes widened as he began to walk towards the wheelchair.

Sakano

" Sakano"

Sakano turned to see Hiro standing behind him. " Come on Sakano, we don't want to get separated."

Sakano followed Hiro back down the hallway, but turned back and took one last glance at the moonlit wheelchair. He shook his head and pushed the scene out of his mind. They caught up with the group and continued down the hall.

" So why did this place close down?" asked Tohma.

" Budget cuts," answered Yuki. The group looked at the man and wondered how he could have known this. " A bunch of hospitals were closed down in the eighties due to budget cuts."

" The Patricia Willard scandal of 1984," said Manami.

" What?" asked Shuichi intrigued.

" Patricia Willard was committed here in 1973 by her parents. She had manic depression you know typical adolescent stuff. In the 1980's however, a new kind of therapy took off, repressed memory therapy. With these new techniques, the doctor's felt they could release certain hidden memories, the traumatic memories that had been locked away. So with the help of the doctors, Patricia recalled that when she was ten, her father raped her. Not once though, he'd do it about three times a week, and it wasn't that he just raped her, he would come into her room late at night and would be wearing a black robe. He'd take her and drive her to a wooded area where her grandparents and her mother were, all of whom were dressed in the same black robes. They'd remove their robes, and engage in group orgies. Then, they would bring out the newborn. Patricia was forced to watch as her mother would cut the baby's heart out with a dagger. She would drink the blood, the others would eat the flesh, and her father and grandfather would rape her repeatedly. She was forced to have abortions and her family would then eat the aborted fetuses…"

" THAT"S ENOUGH!" cried Suguru in terror.

" This happened here?" asked K.

" Oh yeah, here…and everywhere. Satanic ritual abuse syndrome, it was huge in the eighties. It destroyed a lot of families that's for sure. Patricia was ready to sue hers…they were all ready to go to trial until…"

" Until what…" coaxed Ryuichi.

" Until she dropped the suit."

" What? Why?" asked Yuki.

" Her parent's lawyers discovered a physical examination that Patricia had undergone before coming into the hospital. Turns out, Patricia…was a virgin. So her parents counter sued and won a huge settlement. So that's why the place closed down, that, and the budget cuts." Manami replied with a coy smile in Yuki's direction. " Well, here we are."

K walked over to the fuse box and flipped the switch. Nothing happened. " The fuse must be dead. Is there a generator or something around here?"

" Well yes, but I'm not sure where. I'm pretty sure they kept it in one of these rooms down here but I'm not sure which one."

" Why don't we spit up into groups of two and search the rooms," offered Shuichi. " It'll go faster that way."

" Good idea," agreed Tohma. " Suguru, why don't you come with me?"

" Oh um all right…" said the frightened young man.

" I'll go with Yuki," said Shuichi as he grabbed the older mans hand. Yuki wriggled his hand out of the pink haired boy's grasp, and rolled his eyes.

" Fine, I'll go with you."

" I'll stay with Manami, if it's okay," said Hiro looking down at the girl. She nodded as she smiled up at him.

" I guess that means the three of us will stick together," said K.

" Four!" cried Ryuichi.

" What do mean four? There's you, me and Sakano," explained K.

" You forgot Kumagoro!"

" Oh right," said K with a look of concern. " The four of us will go together."

" Let's all meet back in the employee lounge in a half hour ok?" said Hiro. The group nodded and dispersed.

" I just hope everyone will okay," said Manami as she watched the others walk away.

" Everyone will be fine, come on, let's start looking," said Hiro as he grabbed her hand. She blushed a little as she followed behind him as they headed towards the first room.