~Chapter 9 Amara~
It's been about 1 week since Carter had her freak out about her mom, and 2 weeks since I've seen my children or fiance. Maybe it's been more than 2 weeks I don't know anymore, all I really know is that this fucking place is driving Carter and I more insane than we already are. Carter says something quietly over on her bed, I turn and look at her, "What?" Carter doesn't move for a second but when she does, it scares the crap out of me. She flops onto her back and lets out this really disturbing sound.
"U GHGHGHGH HGHGHGHGHGHG LE POP!" She sits up and places her feet on the floor.
"What did you say?" I ask her again. Carter growls and walks over to the door.
"I said I want OUT!" I jump as she slams her fists against the door. I hop off my bed and grab her, dragging her back to the bed. As soon as we sit down the door flies open.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE!" THe nurse screams.
"It was next door." Dr. Fine appears next to her, "Relax, Rachel. Come on girls, time for group therapy." He smiles at us as we pass by the nurse. I smirk and stick my tongue out at her. The nurse fumes as Dr. Fine leads us to the therapy room, "Take a seat anywhere." There are two seats left but they're on opposite sides of the circle. Carter walks up to one of the chairs and sits. I walk up to the girl next to her, I lean down and get in her face. She blushes as she meets my eyes.
"Hey hun, can I sit here? You see this is my best friend and if she sits by any other girls, she tries to kill them." I lean closer to her ear and whisper, "Men don't bug her." The girl stands quickly and goes to the other chair. I plop into the chair and smirk. Dr. Fine is looking at me.
"Really." I wink at him and lay my head on Carter's shoulder.
"My bitch." Dr. Dipshit kinda rolls his eyes.
"Okay everyone, to start off the session we are going to go around the circle and say your name and what is bothering you today?" The doctor looks to his left at the girl sitting next to him, indicating that she's going first.
"My name is Suzan, I'm 17...and um I'm here because...I'm afraid that they're going to kill me." Dr. Fine looks at her smiling.
"Go on, tell them who they are." Sophia looks down at her hands.
"The baked beans...I'm fine though. I can go home if I want. My boyfriend is waiting for me!" I smile and she starts playing with the ends of her hair. I giggle.
"Crazy girl." I whisper to Carter. She smirks and rolls her eyes.
"My boyfriend is 16 and his name is Bob." Sophia looks at the boy next to her.
"I'm Timmy, I'm 21. These idiots threw me in here cause they think I have a shopping addiction. My girlfriend likes my shopping, she's 15 and her name is Veronica. She's pregnant with our first child." He looks to the next person. Carter nudges me with her arm, I look at her. She leans closer to me and whispers.
"These people are insane, dude." I nod.
"We have to get out of here." Carter looks to the window.
"There aren't any bars on the windows. I say tonight we sneak out and leave through one." I nod in agreement.
"Mary?" I jump and glare at Dr. Dunderhead.
"Don't fucking call me Mary." I growl at him.
"Language." He says ignoring what I said and I roll my eyes.
" I'm Amara, I'm 20. I think it's complete bullshit that I'm in here, I didn't even do anything wrong until they tried to take my kid away, and now I'm stuck in this hellhole when I should be at home with my 2 week old twins and my fiance," I say, the doctor looks at me.
"Tell them why you're really here." He says and I glare at him then look around at the group.
"I'm in here because I fucking kill people and these asshats think that it's ethically wrong to do that, so they threw me in here when I'm clearly not crazy at all," I say laughing a little. I look at Carter, "Your turn Cuz." Carter starts playing with the edge of her shirt.
"My name is Carter, I'm 18 and I'm in here cause I was walking in the woods with Amara and her daughter. I went to see who was on our property and next thing I know I was tied to a chair in the police station...ALL OF YOU ARE IDIOTS!" My eyes grow wide as Carter stands up and kicks her chair across the room, "I WANT TO GO HOME!" Carter pulls a handful of her hair out and falls to the floor, sobbing. I get down next to her.
"It's okay." I rub her back as she cries.
"No, I want to go home with Hoodie and I don't want to be pregnant anymore!" My face falls, "That's not what I mean. I want my baby to be here already! I don't want my child to be born in an insane asylum." I continue to comfort her and I feel tears sting my eyes.
"It's going to be okay, Jack, Hoodie, and dad will find us it won't be long now and we will be out and you will have your beautiful little baby." I say getting her to a sitting position and holding her in my arms. I look up and everyone is staring at us.
"Mary, I need to talk to you in my office after this session." Dr. Shitface says, I glare at him then help Carter back into her seat.
"Next?" Carter sniffles as the girl next to her giggles.
"I'm Sophia, I'm 18 and I'm in here cause they think I'm obsessed with finding out who murdered my brother, Buckley. I have a boyfriend named Deron, he's 34. I also like duck herding." As she finishes, Dr. Fine stands up and has our guards take us to our rooms.
"Mary, stay behind." I growl at the name he uses.
"Amara., and I'm not going without Carter." He looks at her and sighs.
"Fine." I follow him to his office, practically dragging Carter behind me. We get to his office and he opens the door.
"Have a seat," He says shutting the door behind us, Carter and I sit down and he takes a seat behind his desk. He opens his bottom desk drawer and pulls out a file, flipping through it.
"Can you hurry up, I have better things to do then sit here and watch you flip through a file." I say rolling my eyes, he ignores me and continues what he's doing. Out of the corner of my eye I see Carter staring out his office window, like she's in a trance.
"In your file it says you were found in the woods with Carter and a little girl, who is now missing, but it says nothing about any family, relatives, or significant other. So the question is who are these people you claim are going to come break you two out." He says making Carter and I pay attention to him.
"Nothing, I was just talking." Dr. Fine crosses his arms on his desk and leans forwards.
"You don't seem as insane as the other doctors assume...Maybe it's time to let you go." Instantly I get to my feet, my hands on the desk and my face inches from him.
"I'm as insane as they get!" I growl out through my teeth. He side glances to Carter, who is now sitting in the chair with her knees tucked under her chin as she rocks back and forth staring out the window as the raindrops crash against it causing little thumping sounds, "If anything she's the insane one." Without thinking I grab his chin in my hand and turn his head so he can't see her, "If I get out so does she, If she stays...so do I." I let him go and walk over to Carter as she starts quietly laughing. I place a hand on her shoulder, Carter looks up at me as the smile slowly slips off her lips. Her mouth opens and she lets out this banshee type wail. Her hands fly to her ear as her rocking becomes more violent .
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" I kneel next to her.
"Baby, it's okay we won't touch you." Carter stops rocking and removes her hands from her ears, I meet her tear filled eyes.
"Not you...Him." I glance back at Dr. Fine for a second.
"Dr. Fine won't touch you." She shakes her head again.
"Not him...Dad." I stand up and back away from her.
"He's not here, Carter." She nods her head.
"Yes, Yes he is...He's watching me, talks to me, sits next to me. He says our time is coming and when It matters most I'll come to him in need of help and I'll have to pay in return for his help." she says, I look over at the doctor.
"I need you to let us out of here, I need to get her back home where there are people there that can protect her," I say while rubbing Carters back trying to calm her down.
"I'll comply with your wishes, for a price." I slowly turn my head towards him.
"What do you want in return?" I watch as his eyes shift over to Carter's broken form.
"10 minutes with her." I shake my head in refusal.
"No, go to hell." He leans back in his seat.
"I guess you're staying here." I look back at Carter before turning back to him.
"Why her?" His hands go up in the air.
"Something about broken people gets me going." I huff and cross my arms.
"What about me?" I wait as Dr. Fine looks me up and down.
"Very well." He gestures with his head for me to follow him. I follow behind him, running my hand over his mahogany desk. We go into the back room of his office, he closes the door and locks it. He smiles at me in a creepy way as he walks towards me. His hands go to my waist as he pulls me against him. I raise my right hand in front of his face. His head jerks backwards, I yank my hand away from his face. The pen in my hand and his eye on the end of it, "Go to hell." I shove him away from me, his face frozen with a shocked expression. I open the door and run out into the office. Carter is standing now tapping on the window.
"Open, open, open, open." I pause as I watch her, she giggles as she continues to tap, "Window, window, open, open." My heart races as I hear a knock on the office door. I run over to Carter and cover her mouth with my hand, still covered in blood, and I smack her hand away from the window.
"Sh." Fortunately she stays silent. When the clicking of the heels fades away I let her go and open the latch on the window, I slide it up. Carter laughs.
"OPEN!" Before I can stop her, Carter leaps head first out of the window.
"Carter!" I put my feet through the window and slide down the roof, "I swear." I mumble to myself as I chase after her. I follow her into the cemetery across the street, "Carter!" She doesn't stop though, she keeps running until she enters the woods, "Carter!" I break through the tree line and continue running and shouting for her. Finally I see light coming through the trees. I break through and stop. Carter is standing in the middle of the clearing in front of Offender, "Carter! Get away from him!" She turns her head to me and waves me over, I quickly walk beside her. My heart stops and my eyes widen. Sally is standing beside Offender with her arms wrapped around his left leg, "Sally baby? Are you okay?" She nods slightly and hugs his leg tighter.
"He saved me from the mean people." I glare at him, "Give her to me." He doesn't move, he just stands there before turning his head slightly to the right to face Carter.
"I'll hand her over if you give me what I want." Carter wraps her arms around herself.
"I can't, Amara. I just can't." She starts to cry again.
"What do you want from her?" He continues to face Carter.
"I want her." I throw my head back and laugh.
"No. Never gonna happen." He tilts his head just as I hear screaming coming towards us. Suddenly I cheer up as Jack, Hoodie, Masky, Ben, and Toby come running at us. Offenderman suddenly disappears. The boys stop and look around. I smile widely as I realize Sally is still standing there, "SALLY!" Sally giggles and jumps into my arms.
"Mommy!" I hug and kiss her until I remember Carter. I put Sally down and turn. Carter's gone.
~Carter~
When everyone starts running towards us, something in my head says I can't go back with him, so I take off running, as fast as my pregnant belly will allow, towards the house. As soon as my feet hit the wooden floor something inside my head tells me to go to the attic, so I do. I close the attic door and sit in the dark corner. My arms wrap around my legs, pulling them to my chest. I don't move or make a sound as I hear everyone downstairs running to every room calling out my name.
"Carter!" Amara says right at the attic door. The door slides open so I curl up tighter, it doesn't work though because Amara looks directly at me, "What are you doing up here?" I hide my face in my arms and shake my head as the voice in my head asks me the same question.
"What are you doing up here? Go back down there and act like yourself!" The voice pauses a moment as I sniffle and Amara kneels next to me, "Do it or they'll take her away and put you back in that awful place." She whispers into my ear, not Amara, the voice. Sighing, I look at Amara.
"I can't go back, I don't want to go back," Anger boils inside of me as I stand up and place my hands on my stomach, "YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!" Amara holds her hands out towards me.
"I won't make you go back, you know that. You're just messed up because we were there so long." The old me forces me to calm down, I sigh and walk towards her. I put my arms around her waist and place my head on her chest. She hugs me back, "I love you, Car." I sniffle again.
"Love you too, Mara." I let her lead me down to the living room where everybody is waiting, "I'm sorry." They give me hugs and suggest we all sit and watch TV., Amara is sitting on the ground playing with the twins, who look to be around 6 months old, and Jack is sitting next to her smiling at them. After a few hours of watching that one weird show, with the insane hot guy, there's a knock on the door. Amara sighs and gets up, Jack's eyes following her as she walks.
"Who knocks on our door? We're in the middle of the woods." Amara looks back at Jack with the expression of I don't fucking know but whoever it is I'll kill them. When she opens the door she glances back at us.
"Yeap, I'm gonna kill him." I stand from my place on the couch and make my way to the door. Amara growls at me to stay back, I already know who's at the door so I move her aside.
"Come with me or I take back the child." I nod my head as Amara starts to object to him.
"Okay." Her head turns to me with a shocked expression on her face.
"What? NO!" Amara says, pushing me behind her, "You don't get to take Carter or Sally, and you know very well I'll kick your ass into next week because I've done it before." I say stepping forward into his personal space. He stares(?) down at Amara.
"Fine then, I'll just take you instead." Before I can do anything they are both gone and I'm left standing there in shock.