Chapter 10: Inda Hospital
"Aidan?" Rachel asked.
Aidan is still sleeping in his hospital bed.
"You said Samara can't hear us when we sleep…you're sleeping now…Tell me how to stop her…"
"Yeah, like, I'm not in a coma…and if I am sleeping how can I talk to you?"Aidan asked, without opening his eyes or sitting up.
"Just tell me how to help you." Rachel pleaded
"Helping me changes everything!" Aidan said.
"I'll do anything I swear…" Rachel said.
"Like drown me?" Aidan demanded.
"Okay…you do have a point there…" Rachel said.
She kisses Aidan's head.
"Remember when you said you'd come into my dream with me?" He asked.
Rachel frowned.
"Well…I've been meaning to talk about that…"
He suddenly grabbed her arm and she started seeing Aidan's dream in her head.
The well, the stone going over the well, a fountain, a ring of people holding hands, a sewn flower pattern, a suitcase, a picture of the virgin Mary and Jesus. A piece of paper that sayd 'for Samara' on it, Anna Morgan turning on the hill, the Shelter Mountain Inn tree, The drip coming out the bathroom tap, Samara getting the bag over her head and a quick flash of a baby and then a dinosaur head.
Rachel looks terrified.
Anna throwing herself off the cliff, down into the water, the stone moving over the well again.
Aidan relaxes his grip.
"Phew!" He said. "That was a lot to flash at you in one minute."
"God you are Samara…putting images in my head…Aidan? Aidan?"
"Miss Keller?" A voice asked from behind.
Rachel spun around to see a woman doctor in a posh white lab coat and clipboard watching her.
"I'm doctor Tadpole at the psych ward child services. I was hoping to speak to Aidan when he wakes up…Everything alright in here?"
Her concerned face is a tell tale sign that she feels everything is not alright.
"Ya! S'fine thanks." Rachel said.
"I was hoping to speak with you, too…Rachel isn't it?"
Rachel nodded.
"About his…situation…" Dr T said.
"I'm sorry, what kind of doctor did you say you were again?" Rachel asked.
"Well I was an amphibian technician but I switched majors…now I'm a plain old psychiatrist"
"That's like…mental stuff, right?" Rachel asked.
"Right." Dr T said.
"Oh yeah! Snaps for Rachel!"
"I spoke with a doctor…Coji in Seattle…He was Aidan's doctor?" Dr Tadpole asked.
"He was?" Rachel said, confused. "I always thought his name was Dr Smith…"
Dr Tadpole stared at Rachel.
"Look…If we could maybe talk later?" Rachel asked. "I need to see what's harming my psychotic son…"
Dr Tadpole looked at her records.
"Right…Dr Coji said you dealt with some PPD when Aidan was born? Post Partum Depression?"
"Or Pishy Probing Doctor…" Rachel hissed. "Anyways that was only in the first movie...I like him now…"
"A lot of frogs, when they have babies, eat their young. Like you, they have problems adapting to the stresses of motherhood…" Doctor Tadpole said.
"I'm not planning on eating Aidan…what does this have to do with what's going on with my son?" Said Rachel.
"Have you been under stress?" Doctor T asked.
"I'M NOT GOING TO EAT AIDAN!" Rachel yelled.
Rachel sat in a chair and began humming.
"What in toads name are you doing?" Dr T asked.
"Blocking out your Jedi mind tricks…" Rachel said.
"Have you ever felt unable to expeirience love for Aidan?" Dr T asked.
"Well there…NO!" Rachel yelled.
"Have you ever hurt him?"
"Not much of a psycho expert are you?" Rachel asked, frowning. "You're meant to disguise the question…"
Dr T looked at Rachel.
"What am I thinking now?…Okay, okay…now?" Rachel asked.
"However unintentionally, have you ever, left him alone? Abandoned him? Forced him to watch a disturbing video tape of images that could and probably would have killed him?" Dr Tadpole asked.
Deep breath from Dr T.
"I'd like to be with my frog…I mean, son, now please…if you don't mind."
"Oh!" Dr T yelled. "Let's press the big red button!"
Presses it 20000000000 times.
"How fun it that? Can I have a go?" Rachel asked her.
Suddenly Dr Tadpole is very serious again.
"I can't let you stay with Aidan anymore." She said.
"I'm his mother!" Rachel shouted.
"There are bruises on his body, Miss Keller…he was hypothermic and very near death."
"That's not because of me!" Rachel yelled.
"You must leave now." She said to Rachel.
2 big burly bodyguards appear. She bent down and whispered in Aidan's ear.
"You can't have him, Samara. You're going back to where you came from."
She kisses Aidan's head.
"Yep…That's right Samara…You're tadpole food…"
Hey! Just so you know, watch the part of the movie and listen. It does sound like she says Dr Tadpole at the start, so I just went with it. Lol.