The others stared at Julie with worried, big or narrowed eyes.
"Talk about what?" Barry asked with a sigh and Julie gave him a glare that showed him she meant business.
"What do you think Barry?" She turned to Ray and Helen. "I know no one of us likes to think about what happened...a couple of years ago but ... it did."
"Don't start with that Julie." Barry shook his head looking at Ray and Helen too for support. Helen crinkled her eyebrows not sure on who to look at.
"Yes I'll start with this! Don't even try to deny it. You know that something is going on. Look at us! It has to do with out past...and it's time we deal okay. So sit down and listen."
The firm voice made Barry raised on of his eyebrows with dislike, but after a few seconds of silence he did pull up a chair next to Helen's bed and sat down. When she had all eyes on her Julie took a deep breath.
"Okay, I think...no I know that somebody is trying to kill us. For reasons...we all know." She turned her eyes away for a few seconds but then shook her head and straightened her back. "Despite what people think I didn't try to kill myself. The pills I took weren't even mine. I have regular tylenol next to my bed, this was something much stronger but of course the doctors didn't believe me when I said they weren't mine."
"What are you saying?" Barry asked lazily and Julie sighed.
"That somebody planted them there. Either to kill me or to get you all here."
Ray decided to cut in. "But only Barry and Helen were called her first. And we were all four in the accident so..."
"I know." Julie interrupted.
"But you're hard to get a hold on. We tried." Helen gestured at Barry. "But we couldn't reach you until we got the number from Julie. Maybe the...killer...didn't manage and figured that we'd get you here if we came."
Barry grunted. "Killer? For all we know no one is dead! Maybe there's just someone here who's trying to mess with our heads or something. It can be totally unrelated to the accident! It can be some psycho who met you in therapy or something." He said nodding at Julie who looked insulted.
"Barry." Helen said firmly. "You might want to live and forget but so far ... it isn't working! This is the second time this comes back to haunt us. You know it is!" Her eyes got shiny with tears. "I don't want anything to happen to any of us. Now...tell the others what your attacker told you."
"Heller." Barry pleaded but she turned her head away from him and he sighed.
Julie narrowed her eyes. "He said something? Barry what did he say?"
He sighed again before he spoke. "He said I was next. But apperantly he was high or something cause..." He threw a sad eye at Helen. "...I wasn't next."
A silence fell over the room for a few seconds.
"Hurting Helen is hurting you." Ray then mumbled coyly glancing at Julie. Her cheeks turned pale pink and she avoided looking into his eyes.
Helen though turned her head back at Barry and linked her hand with his. She gave him a little smile and he smiled too.
"So so far Julie's been nearly killed, Barry beaten up and Helen close to death too. Guess I'm left then." Ray swallowed hard leaning against a wall. Death and despair seemed to follow them hand in hand. They were just better off staying away from each other.
"What are we supposed to do about it? Leave town?" Barry asked and Helen shook her head.
"That would qualify as running and hiding. Not dealing. I want to get rid of this Barry. I'm beyond sick of it. Even if it means that I die."
"Don't say that." Barry stood up so quickly his chair fell backwards down on the floor with a loud noise that made them all flinch. He squeezed Helen's hand. "No one is going to die."
"Besides...I think I might know who it is...that's doing this." Julie's voice was cracked and weak but they all heard her clear as day. Staring at her all three seemed to have too many questions on their minds to get any off them out.
"There's a nurse here. I keep seeing him around on places he really shouldn't be. I think...he might be involved. I didn't think too much about him first when I stayed here but I recognized him...and the smiles he was giving me. There was something there."
Ray got a pained wrinkled between his dark eyebrows thinking there might be something romantically implied. Julie who read his mind shook her head.
"I had seen him before...I remember where today." She sighed looking at her hands, gathering courage. "I've seen him in therapy." She agreed with a quick glance at Barry. "He has the sessions before me I think. Ever since I started there."
"Oh my god." Helen mumbled putting a hand over her mouth. She was feeling sick to her stomach. "But why? Why would he do this?"
"I don't know." Julie flung her arms out. "Maybe he's a remote relative or something."
"God this is crazy." Barry shook his head. "I still say we get the hell out of here until things cool off."
Ray nodded agreeing. "Yeah maybe we should relocate anyway. If it's true what you're saying that it's a nurse at this hospital then staying at the hospital might not be the smartest thing to do."
Helen sat up in her bed. "I think so too. I don't want to be here anymore. This place gives me the wiggens. I think we should go to a hotel or something. A new hotel." She added with a nod at Barry.
Even Julie nodded. "Okay, that sounds like a good idea. Ehm... I guess if I go and get a car then you guys can check Helen out of here."
"Good idea." Barry helped Helen to get her legs over the bed as Julie headed for the door. Ray followed her.
"I'll go with you."
She looked at him for a few seconds but then nodded. "Yeah okay. See you guys at the entrance?"
"Okay." Barry said who'd just gotten Helen's clothes from a drawer. Julie and Ray hurried down the hall and towards the exit. There was a rent-a-car office close by where they'd get a car in a few seconds hopefully Julie told Ray.
It only took them a few seconds before they got there. Julie touched Ray's arm.
"I just need to go to the bathroom." She apologised and saw the look on Ray's face. "You're not coming in with me. What happened to Helen..." She paused herself. "It was different. You can get the car and I'll be out in a second. Okay?"
Ray nodded. "Okay, but don't be too long."
They moved in for a kiss but then froze mid-move awkwardly realising they weren't together anymore.
"I'll be quick." Julie rushed away from him and in behind a bathroom door.
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Helen had gotten dressed faster then she ever had in her entire life. She hated hospitals and the prospect of leaving made her speedy gonzales. Unfortunatley the hospital staff didn't have the same reaction. Signing her out took almost half an hour.
They kept insisting that she shouldn't leave and that Barry couldn't take care of her even though they didn't really give her any good reasons to why she should stay.
Using her evil eye and most angry tone of voice she finally got to sign some slips and was then free to leave, altough she got some nasty eyes from the nurse taking the hospital pen back from her.
Helen shook her head. "Morons." She mumbled as Barry put his arm around her. They went to the entrance, standing right by the sliding glass doors so they'd have perfect vision of all people going in and out.
"Where are they? They should've been here now." Helen sighed after ten minutes glancing at the watch on her arm.
"I'm sure they'll be here." Barry hugged her a little tighter and she leaned her head back so he could lean down and give her kiss. He didn't mind terribly the others being late. It just meant more alone time with Helen, something he never minded. He glanced at a clock up on the wall and frowned a little.
Worry starting to grow within him.
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Julie got out from the bathroom later then anticipated. The bathroom had been occupied for a long time.
She didn't see Ray and went up to the desk. "I'm sorry has Ray Bronson rented a car here? I just came in with him but I seem to have lost him." She smiled apologizing and the girl behind the counter smiled widely back at her.
She checked a book right in front of her and then nodded. "Yes, he rented a Saab it appears. I believe he went down to the garage to get it."
"Oh good. Where would this be?"
The girl gave Julie directions and she smiled for thanks before walking down to the underground garage to find Ray. She really wanted to get moving.
"Ray?" She called as she pushed the red, heavy door open and took the first steps into the garage. It was drafty and dark, she got cold shivers down her spine.
"Ray." She repeated taking slow steps between the cars. She wished somebody else would be there too. Being what appeared to be alone in a big abandoned garage wasn't what she counted as a safe feeling. Something trickled down her neck and she jerked around.
There was nothing there.
"I'm being paranoid." She mumbled to herself but then heard soft hissing noise.
"Julie..."
"Ray?" she tried to sharpened her ears, narrowing her eyes to see better around the cars. "Ray!" Her voice raised to a high sound pitch and she turned around again.
"Julie." The voice came closer. "Over here."
It wasn't Ray. She could tell and immediatley turned around and started to run. Steps followed her and she ran faster then she'd ever done in her entire life.
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A/N: I do believe Rivers is Helen's last name in the book but Shivers is the one in the movie. I don't think that's Barry's nickname on her. That was Heller. But I'm not sure. Anyway, in this story her last name is Shivers.
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"Talk about what?" Barry asked with a sigh and Julie gave him a glare that showed him she meant business.
"What do you think Barry?" She turned to Ray and Helen. "I know no one of us likes to think about what happened...a couple of years ago but ... it did."
"Don't start with that Julie." Barry shook his head looking at Ray and Helen too for support. Helen crinkled her eyebrows not sure on who to look at.
"Yes I'll start with this! Don't even try to deny it. You know that something is going on. Look at us! It has to do with out past...and it's time we deal okay. So sit down and listen."
The firm voice made Barry raised on of his eyebrows with dislike, but after a few seconds of silence he did pull up a chair next to Helen's bed and sat down. When she had all eyes on her Julie took a deep breath.
"Okay, I think...no I know that somebody is trying to kill us. For reasons...we all know." She turned her eyes away for a few seconds but then shook her head and straightened her back. "Despite what people think I didn't try to kill myself. The pills I took weren't even mine. I have regular tylenol next to my bed, this was something much stronger but of course the doctors didn't believe me when I said they weren't mine."
"What are you saying?" Barry asked lazily and Julie sighed.
"That somebody planted them there. Either to kill me or to get you all here."
Ray decided to cut in. "But only Barry and Helen were called her first. And we were all four in the accident so..."
"I know." Julie interrupted.
"But you're hard to get a hold on. We tried." Helen gestured at Barry. "But we couldn't reach you until we got the number from Julie. Maybe the...killer...didn't manage and figured that we'd get you here if we came."
Barry grunted. "Killer? For all we know no one is dead! Maybe there's just someone here who's trying to mess with our heads or something. It can be totally unrelated to the accident! It can be some psycho who met you in therapy or something." He said nodding at Julie who looked insulted.
"Barry." Helen said firmly. "You might want to live and forget but so far ... it isn't working! This is the second time this comes back to haunt us. You know it is!" Her eyes got shiny with tears. "I don't want anything to happen to any of us. Now...tell the others what your attacker told you."
"Heller." Barry pleaded but she turned her head away from him and he sighed.
Julie narrowed her eyes. "He said something? Barry what did he say?"
He sighed again before he spoke. "He said I was next. But apperantly he was high or something cause..." He threw a sad eye at Helen. "...I wasn't next."
A silence fell over the room for a few seconds.
"Hurting Helen is hurting you." Ray then mumbled coyly glancing at Julie. Her cheeks turned pale pink and she avoided looking into his eyes.
Helen though turned her head back at Barry and linked her hand with his. She gave him a little smile and he smiled too.
"So so far Julie's been nearly killed, Barry beaten up and Helen close to death too. Guess I'm left then." Ray swallowed hard leaning against a wall. Death and despair seemed to follow them hand in hand. They were just better off staying away from each other.
"What are we supposed to do about it? Leave town?" Barry asked and Helen shook her head.
"That would qualify as running and hiding. Not dealing. I want to get rid of this Barry. I'm beyond sick of it. Even if it means that I die."
"Don't say that." Barry stood up so quickly his chair fell backwards down on the floor with a loud noise that made them all flinch. He squeezed Helen's hand. "No one is going to die."
"Besides...I think I might know who it is...that's doing this." Julie's voice was cracked and weak but they all heard her clear as day. Staring at her all three seemed to have too many questions on their minds to get any off them out.
"There's a nurse here. I keep seeing him around on places he really shouldn't be. I think...he might be involved. I didn't think too much about him first when I stayed here but I recognized him...and the smiles he was giving me. There was something there."
Ray got a pained wrinkled between his dark eyebrows thinking there might be something romantically implied. Julie who read his mind shook her head.
"I had seen him before...I remember where today." She sighed looking at her hands, gathering courage. "I've seen him in therapy." She agreed with a quick glance at Barry. "He has the sessions before me I think. Ever since I started there."
"Oh my god." Helen mumbled putting a hand over her mouth. She was feeling sick to her stomach. "But why? Why would he do this?"
"I don't know." Julie flung her arms out. "Maybe he's a remote relative or something."
"God this is crazy." Barry shook his head. "I still say we get the hell out of here until things cool off."
Ray nodded agreeing. "Yeah maybe we should relocate anyway. If it's true what you're saying that it's a nurse at this hospital then staying at the hospital might not be the smartest thing to do."
Helen sat up in her bed. "I think so too. I don't want to be here anymore. This place gives me the wiggens. I think we should go to a hotel or something. A new hotel." She added with a nod at Barry.
Even Julie nodded. "Okay, that sounds like a good idea. Ehm... I guess if I go and get a car then you guys can check Helen out of here."
"Good idea." Barry helped Helen to get her legs over the bed as Julie headed for the door. Ray followed her.
"I'll go with you."
She looked at him for a few seconds but then nodded. "Yeah okay. See you guys at the entrance?"
"Okay." Barry said who'd just gotten Helen's clothes from a drawer. Julie and Ray hurried down the hall and towards the exit. There was a rent-a-car office close by where they'd get a car in a few seconds hopefully Julie told Ray.
It only took them a few seconds before they got there. Julie touched Ray's arm.
"I just need to go to the bathroom." She apologised and saw the look on Ray's face. "You're not coming in with me. What happened to Helen..." She paused herself. "It was different. You can get the car and I'll be out in a second. Okay?"
Ray nodded. "Okay, but don't be too long."
They moved in for a kiss but then froze mid-move awkwardly realising they weren't together anymore.
"I'll be quick." Julie rushed away from him and in behind a bathroom door.
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Helen had gotten dressed faster then she ever had in her entire life. She hated hospitals and the prospect of leaving made her speedy gonzales. Unfortunatley the hospital staff didn't have the same reaction. Signing her out took almost half an hour.
They kept insisting that she shouldn't leave and that Barry couldn't take care of her even though they didn't really give her any good reasons to why she should stay.
Using her evil eye and most angry tone of voice she finally got to sign some slips and was then free to leave, altough she got some nasty eyes from the nurse taking the hospital pen back from her.
Helen shook her head. "Morons." She mumbled as Barry put his arm around her. They went to the entrance, standing right by the sliding glass doors so they'd have perfect vision of all people going in and out.
"Where are they? They should've been here now." Helen sighed after ten minutes glancing at the watch on her arm.
"I'm sure they'll be here." Barry hugged her a little tighter and she leaned her head back so he could lean down and give her kiss. He didn't mind terribly the others being late. It just meant more alone time with Helen, something he never minded. He glanced at a clock up on the wall and frowned a little.
Worry starting to grow within him.
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Julie got out from the bathroom later then anticipated. The bathroom had been occupied for a long time.
She didn't see Ray and went up to the desk. "I'm sorry has Ray Bronson rented a car here? I just came in with him but I seem to have lost him." She smiled apologizing and the girl behind the counter smiled widely back at her.
She checked a book right in front of her and then nodded. "Yes, he rented a Saab it appears. I believe he went down to the garage to get it."
"Oh good. Where would this be?"
The girl gave Julie directions and she smiled for thanks before walking down to the underground garage to find Ray. She really wanted to get moving.
"Ray?" She called as she pushed the red, heavy door open and took the first steps into the garage. It was drafty and dark, she got cold shivers down her spine.
"Ray." She repeated taking slow steps between the cars. She wished somebody else would be there too. Being what appeared to be alone in a big abandoned garage wasn't what she counted as a safe feeling. Something trickled down her neck and she jerked around.
There was nothing there.
"I'm being paranoid." She mumbled to herself but then heard soft hissing noise.
"Julie..."
"Ray?" she tried to sharpened her ears, narrowing her eyes to see better around the cars. "Ray!" Her voice raised to a high sound pitch and she turned around again.
"Julie." The voice came closer. "Over here."
It wasn't Ray. She could tell and immediatley turned around and started to run. Steps followed her and she ran faster then she'd ever done in her entire life.
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A/N: I do believe Rivers is Helen's last name in the book but Shivers is the one in the movie. I don't think that's Barry's nickname on her. That was Heller. But I'm not sure. Anyway, in this story her last name is Shivers.
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