Author's note: That it's my first ff in English, please try to be patient.
This time I've been evil….you are warned…
Title: Nightmare.
Part: VII
By Lylou
-Do you think Chris will be okay Elmer?
-Well…she was…hurt and cold…its difficult to know it but…
-Elmer…we were in the next room, we listened her shouts…and the hits…my God poor Chris...
-Look Lona, I don't know what happened to her…or how all of you arrived to that creepy world….but I'm sure she will be fine…
-Hook it's with her?
-I think…yes.
-Dr Abelson is a little obsessed with Hook…
-Why are you laughing Lona?
-Because… love is something strange and wonderful Elmer.
-Why do you say it…Are you in love?
-I remembered how it used to be…
-So…you don't….
-I…I feel lonely sometimes Elmer…
And I like being with you.
-That's all?
-You are young yet…you don't know anything about love…
-I know it hurts.
-Well…maybe you aren't so young…
-And it's good?
Lona walked near to Elmer and spokes soft and close to him…he could feel her warm breath upon his skin…
-….Depends for what baby….
Suddenly the door opened and Dr. Abelson entered into the room followed by Mrs Druse …
-Where is Dr. Hook Lona?
-Don't worry Brenda…you aren't disturbing anything…
-I wasn't worried Elmer…but thanks….now, Where is Dr. Hook?
-He isn't here Brenda.
-I have to speak with you about what happen Dr. Massingel.
-Sure Mrs Druse…come with me please…
-Lona…I wanna go to….Lona wait me …
-Come on Elmer…!
Lona and Mrs Druse walked along the corridor…followed by Elmer.
"-No matter….I will find him by my own way…"
Brenda walked alone on the passage until she turned a corner and founds the last person she wants to see in that moment.
-Brenda….
Where have you been all the day?
-Where I'm been?
And you!
-I was here…doing…things.
-"Doing things"!...
… You leave me to my own luck with those two witches…. ..
Mrs. Rickman wants to slap me!
-What the hell are you talking about Brenda?
-You don't know…!
They were right all the time…. This hospital is haunted!
I've spent the last eight hours in one frightening and dark room with Dr. Massingel and Mrs Rickman.
-Who is Mrs Rickman?
-…Look Steg…do you want something from me?
-You are upset Brenda?
-No but…I'm leaving you.
-You what?
-What you heard…I'm in love with other man.
-You are in love?
-Yes I'm…and he is wonderful…not like you…he had save us!
-I will save you too if I would knee that you…
-…Wasn't here?
-Yes…I mean, No. no of course I've noticed you wasn't here…I told that brainless Hook that you…
Why are you smiling Brenda….
No…you can't…
-Yes…I love him!
…And he loves me.
-Maybe we should talk about this darling…
-Maybe…but now I have to find him.
Sure he is searching for me….
Chris felt it before opened her eyes…something was different…the warm, the smell….all was like being at home finally…better, it was like stay in Hooks bed.
She remembered some weird and frightens images…. And after that she remembered everything, the hits, the blood by her face, Hook….Hook laughing at her, hurting her…and leaving her in that hell…the cold…
Chris scared and opened her eyes abruptly …she recognize Hooks bed immediately…or something very similar to it…and she saw him, sit on the chair next to bed, sleeping with his head laying on the bed.
But she couldn't think clearly, her mouth was hot and pumping, her head was blurred and screaming her to get out of there….so she removed the blankets and slowly went out to the bed.
The first thing she felt was the pain, intensive pain going through her left eye until her ankle…she wished to scream of pain but she didn't, she only wanted to escape from there but Chris could felt how a warm tear crossed her hurtful face.
The second thing she felt….was the cold, the intense cold on her skin and on her bones, the freeze air into her lungs…but she needs to get out of there…
Far away from "him".
Chris looked back for a second, he was still sleeping on the bed…she thought "What if he is …No…you thought that on that terrible room too and remembered what happened…he isn't Hook…"
She dragged slowly by the corridor without looking back.
Ten minutes later she was frozen, tired and dragging her leg…she couldn't walk without felling sick and sail…but over all, she fells dead beat… the head was pumping her and she was scared, she was terrified.
She could feel the bandaging upon her wrists…the careful bandage on her ankle…even the stitches on her face…but she just couldn't think...
On her mind she just could remember "You are mine" and he hurting her more and more…like in the old times, like that night, when she shot him twice….
That night was the last thing she thought about before fall and hit her head with the cold ground.
Hook woke up suddenly…he didn't remember get sleep, he was watching Chris sleeping and now…
He felt a freeze on his spine …she wasn't there.
She wasn't there.
Hooks heart accelerated rapidly….maybe he had come back for Chris…no impossible, Mary told him that she would watch Danny in the old Kingdom…
He wasn't sleep anymore, Hook wakes up and search for Chris, in the kitchen, on the sofa…she just wasn't there…
Hook could felt the fear quickly seizing of him, even, for a minute, he thought that everything had been a dream, that he never had bring her back… that he just had fallen asleep after drinking of more last night…but no, her vanilla smell was there yet, trapped on the covers, he remembered clearly how he bandaged the ankle, the scanner, the smallest stitches that he had give in his entire life, upon her left eyebrow, he remembered felt a chill when he request for a sexual assault test, the infected wounds on her wrists... her lips red-looking and bleeding... Chris body, now cold and rigid...
Hook thought about thousands of scare possibilities and disturbing images while he started to walk along the passage ….
-….Maybe we still can back for those bitches…especially for Dr. Draper…
-Are you unable to hear besides stupid?
The flea bag is watching us!
We lost our opportunity….and it's all your fault Danny!
-My fault!
What is supposed I have to do…!
-How about stop him?
Now I understand why that bitch could kill you…
Danny thrashed Paul and pulled down, he look at him between angry and surprised before raise and speak to Danny…
-This is the last time you do something like this to me….the next time, I will return you to the hell.
It's clear?
-You are not my own….I would do whatever I want.
-You are wrong ….You are mine Danny, and you are here just for one reason…don't you forget about it.
-I don't mind…the only thing who cares here is that….I'm back.
And I'm tired of that crap.
-You can't do it!
-Go to the hell…the flea bag is watching you…not me.
-But you can't destroy all of them by your self…come back Danny…!
-I don't care about the others…I just want Chris…and I know very well what to do….
-You will not even smell she, the damn Dr. wouldn't let you …remembered that in their Kingdom, we are vulnerable…
-She isn't the one who I need to approach …..
She wasn't able to remember what's going on or where she was…she just was freezing and felling the most horrible headache in the world…
But over all, she was scared.
She listened the eco of steps in the corridor, approaching the her and she decided that it wasn't moment to be scared, first she needed to continue alive, she already would have time to be scared later, Chris saw the metallic elevator doors open near from her and without thinking it twice, she crawled painfully until them, while the steps approached to her more and more….
She pushed the button and tranquilized when she saw the doors closing with her inside….she was momentary safe.
Chris could listen the heavy machinery of the elevator working, with her in the ground on the corner and, just for a moment, she could swear that she had listened a voice, like a little girl crying on the ceiling of the elevator…
She was hurt…someone had hurt her, a man, she was almost sure of that, but…she just couldn't remember anything, she needs help.
The elevator doors opened again, silence, there was nobody there, the place looks like an hospital or something similar, she left the elevator as she could and walked leaning on the wall, trying not doing any noise every time she felt her broken ankle.
She had to leave that place, Chris was sure that somebody was following her, the steps that she had listened on that basement maybe he….
She turned the corner and found a man looking very strange at her…he seems a doctor; he was wearing a lab coat and spoke a little bit nervous to her.
-Draper…are you okay?
-…I…You are a doctor?
-…Of course I'm…
-I need help, please…
There is a guy following me and…
-Sure you are okay?
She looked behind the doctor near to her and saw another man, tall, brown hair, with glasses and a lab coat too…the second man ran until them.
-What is she doing here?
-I don't know, but she needs help…
The oldest doctor started to examine her stomach, her neck…. She could felt clearly that there was something strange in that man…he wasn't very professional, it seemed to her that single thing he was doing, was handling her, like if he had wanted to do it for a long time...
And she knew that she was right when she heard the second man speaking, the young man with glasses.
-Dr Stegman... maybe you shouldn't do this...…
-It's just a patience …for God love Elmer...
-But Dr Hook...
-Dr Hook is not here, and he isn't the only doctor on that hospital…
Besides…if the lovely Dr. Draper needs help….
The doors of the elevator opened again and Chris saw another man with lab coat...
He seemed more nervous than the others two and when the last saw them on the other side of the passage sitting on the ground, he ran along the corridor until where they were ... and without she knowing why; Chris felt how the one of grey-haired hair separate abruptly from her.
Like if he was a boy discovered while was making a prank.
The third man had crouched in the ground next to her, Chris could see how their hands shook a little while he looked for the pulse in her neck, but he was smiling, and no one of the other two mans there had smiled to her.
-You scare me like the hell
Again.
He helped her to rise from the ground, slowly, holding her by the waist, she could felt her smooth and warm hands... almost familiar on the fabric of her pyjama... there was something different in that man.
The way on which he was watching her, as if there wasn't anybody else in that corridor…
But the cute stranger was a man, and she was lost and overwhelmed... and something scared yet….. She needed help; she needed speak with a woman.
Later she would find out who was that stranger who was holding her between his arms as if that were normal one for them.
- Elmer... can you go to look for a blanket for Chris?
-... I... know you?
- .. Yes…very good
You don't remember me?
She saw a sparkle of preoccupation and pain in the dark blue eyes of the stranger, that made her feel guilty.
-You do not worry... everything is well….I promised
Nobody will hurt you here.
But he wasn't smiling anymore, and she could felt the tears behind her eyes without knowing very well why.
-I…I need a Dr?
-I'm a doctor…you are fine, just a little lost and tired…
-I want to speak with a woman.
Please.
Hook could feel perfectly his heart breaking in thousands small pieces, she had spoken to him with that voice of scared little girl again, she was scared of him, was scared of everything...
He wanted to cry, wanted embrace she very hard and sleep next to her during one week, wanted to kiss her in every hurt and say that she was out of danger now, that he never would hurt her...
Hook would give whatever to see Chris smiling, just for a second, he didn't like that, he didn't like awake and discover that she wasn't next to him on the bed... and he realized that from now on, he always would be scared of it.
-Elmer…would you go to find Lona?
-Of course.
-Thank you.
The man with grey-colour hair was still there, looking in silence all the scene, they listen they listened heels on the corridor and Chris saw a woman with lab coat running towards her, followed close by the tall man with the glasses.
-Chris…I'm Lona…everything is okay…
You are at home now.
-Home?
-Yes….you work here…you are a doctor…
Don't you remember?
-I remember…the hits…the blood…the cold.
She felt again the warm touch of Hooks hands upon her thin pyjama while he put the blanket on her shoulders.
And his voice, sweet and familiar…like if she have awaked sometime, maybe in other live, with that sound at midnight
-Don't worry about all that Chris…is over.
-Come with me …I will exanimate you… Okay?
-…And what about he?
-Don't worry Chris I will be with you soon…Lona will care you very well.
-You promise it?
-Yes.
The two women walked along the corridor and went into an examination room.
Hook turned to Stegman, who was still there holding him by the neck of his laboratory coat and pulling him against the wall.
-I have seen very well what you were doing… if you touch her again….you will need a doctor, a good doctor, not like you.
It's clear Steg?
-Crystalline.
-…And your head?
-Yes…all the time.
-Well, all the tests that we have done to you before had given negative so… I supposed that just an aspirin or two will be enough…
-That's all?
An aspirin…
-Well…I'm sure that Dr Hook will examine you enchanted …
-And my memories…
How I…?
-That's more difficult to say…maybe tomorrow, in four hours, two months…
-Or… never?
It could happen?
-In theory…yes, but you amnesia it's just a sequel of your trauma…I'm sure it will pass…
-…And meanwhile…?
I'm alone, I don't know anybody, I don't know in who trust…
-That's not true Chris… you are not alone here…and nobody will hurt you.
-It's easy for you Dr. Massingel… but I'm scared, scared of being alone, scared of being with someone…
-Do you trust me Chris?
-Well… I think I could…Why?
-Doctor Hook… the one with…
-…yes I know who is...
-You can trust him.
-But he is…a man, and I don't know why but mostly… I'm scared of the man.
-I understand it…but if you need help…. He is inoffensive.
-Dou you know him very well?
-I guess… I know him enough to assure that to you.
I think you should sleep here…just this night, if you have another relapse…
-I don't want stay alone….
-I will give you my number...if you need something just call me but…
-But…?
-You should stay with Dr. Hook…He will take care of you better than anybody here.
-Why?
We are… involved or something?
-…Really it's not my business Chris…. I don't know all the details… but he cares about you… a lot.
-And me?
I care about him?
-Yes, you do.
The Lonas beeper sounded and she looked the small screen and smiled.
-Excuse me Chris…I have to leave you.
You will be okay?
-Yes… I'm almost calmed now.
-Well.
Remember my advice…. And call me if you want.
-It's from your husband?
-What?
-The message…you smiled like if you were in love…
-Ohh… no, he isn't my husband… but, he makes me happy.
-I envy you.
-Why?
-Because you can remember how is to felt happy.
I just have a broken ankle and small stitches on my forehead.
-You will remember all Chris… everything is going to be okay.
You are at home now.
-Thank you.
-You are welcome.
-Go…don't make him wait…
Lona smiled again and disappeared by the corridor, Chris was alone in the examination room, sitting in the stretcher and with the blanket even on her shoulders… maybe Dr. Massingel was right, maybe her memories will back tomorrow when she awakes up… but tonight…she was lost.
"He cares about you"
The door opened and Chris saw a woman, with blonde short hair, not really tall, who entered without knocking the door.
-Dr. Draper….
Is Dr. Hook here?
-No…he is with another Doctor…Dr Stegman or something similar, I believe.
-I see… sure he is explaining him the new situation…
-"The new situation"?
-Yes….I'm sure that Steg right now is jealous and angry…but it's definitely…
-Can I ask what?
-Me and Dr. Hook…
I've leave Stegman for Hook…
-What?
-Its difficult for you too…?
I can understand it…you always like him…I can see it but finally…
-You two are … involved?
-More or less….we will, soon.
-I see…
Chris rose as she could and walked slowly until the door, turned the latch and left to the corridor, she was still in pyjama and only with the blanket on her shoulders, but she walked until the waiting room of urgencies and saw the big front glass door.
But she felt a warm and familiar hand on the blanket and turned.
-This is becoming a habit...
Where you went?
-Actually …. I hadn't thought it yet...
-Come with me ... you must be tired …
You haven't slept in two days.
-Are you going to take me to my home?
- Better ... I will take you to mine.
-You are going to stay with me …
And your girlfriend will not get upset?
-My girlfriend …?
No, she will laugh at all this when I tell her.
Come on, there is cold here.
-Do you really live here?
Why are you smiling?
-Because ... it's funny…
-Really? ... Isn't funny to me… I can swear it …
-I know, sorry… It's just …
-Here everybody is like you?
-Like me?
-Yes …I need help and you take me to your "home" and …
-Tomorrow, when you remember everything we are going to laugh a lot about all this …
-So … we are friends?
-… More or less …
-You are smiling again.
-I can't help it.
-….Good, if we know so well …tell me anything about me.
-Are you hungry?
- … Not really.
Why do you never answer my questions?
-That's the deal, I will tell everything you want about Chris Draper … and you will eat something.
- … Okay.
-It's strange Elmer …
I never figured to myself something like that….
-Like Chris "situation"?
-Yes … If you are hurt, you hope that your friends and your family will supported you … but if you are alone …
-But she isn't alone Lona.
-I know …but she thinks it.
-She would have to trust in somebody.
-Yes … but trust Elmer, is difficult … the relations are complex, you know it.
-Yes I know it very good.
Elmer smiled in front of the car door.
-So … are you sure you will be okay?
-Yes … I'm tired and sure that my turtle had missed me.
-Sure.
But if your turtle isn't enough tonight and you want some human company …
-You are at the top of my list.
Thank you for accompany me.
-Every time you want.
Lona approached to him and without knowing exactly why, she gave him a fast kiss in the cheek.
-Good night Elmer.
-Are you sure Mary?
-… yes, he isn't here anymore.
-And where is he now?
-I don't know it …
-It's okay honey…
I hope that bastard will burn in hell.
Again.
-You are upset Mrs. Druse?
-Not with you sweetie
-You don't have to worry Mrs. Druse….
He can't touch her …
-You and Antibus fixed all?
-Yes …he can't touch Dr. Chris
Unless if she wants.
-Why on that way?
-We can't force anybody ... if she wants to be with him, it is just her business
-So …It's like a spell or something?
-Yes.
- I do not believe that will happen …
Why would want Dr. Draper approach to that man?
-It's true ….
I promise, I never could invent a similar story.
-I spilled you the hot tea the first time we meet?
-I'm afraid so.
-Oh my God …
-But I forgive you long time ago …
-I can't believe you ... but if it's true …I'm sorry.
-That exactly what you said then...
-Stop laughing!
It's not funny.
Hook settled in the bed next to her and look at Chris in silence during a moment.
She fells a little bit out of place and avoids his look … all was too strange for one night, she need to rest during a week.
Doesn't matter what she was felling or what she thought she was felling….
There was another woman.
Chris felt sad and depressing …the only man who doesn't scares her
-Are you okay?
-… Yes, just tired.
But I don't think I would be able to sleep …
-Yes you will.
-You girlfriend … lives here too?
-… No, it's a shame, but she has her own place.
-Do you love her?
Sorry … really isn't my business …
-Maybe we should talk about all this tomorrow …
-Maybe …
-Sure that you are fine?
You look … sad
-… I'm not sad … I'm still scared.
Chris could felt his arm slowly surrounding her before realized of what was happening. Without known why, she closed her eyes and supported the head on his shoulder while she felt how his breath was moving her hair.
She will wished don't to do it, don't have felt so well next to him, don't have to breathed his aftershave and his warm... but now it was too late, it was like being finally in home, too much comfortable to go away, to be able to go away …
Chris doesn't know anything about herself, but suddenly she knew that she was in love with that man.
-You don't have to worry now.
Nobody is going to hurt you Chris.
-And you?
-Me … I not going to hurt you …
-I know but … there are many ways to hurt someone.
-What are you talking about?
To be continue …