Sweet Serial Killer
Category: TV Shows » Vampire Diaries
Author: JustLola
Language: English, Rating: Rated: M

Chapter 2: Chapter 2

Disclaim : I do not own Vampire Dairies. Or any song, movie or artist I refer to in this fanfiction.

Chapter 2

Do you think that he, Could be you?

"We are receiving a new patient at the hospital." I turn my head towards Dr. Josette Laughlin, she is the Head of the Psychiatric Hospital here in Mysticfalls, Virginia, or as other people would like to call it the lunatic asylum, looney bin in other terms.

"A new patient? From where? Is the patient a transfer or a new incident or what?" I look to Dr. Klaus Michaelson who is seated right across from me rather curious about the new information. He was rather a brilliant doctor thou and specialized in patients that suffer from schizophrenia. He already had a very good reputation and most doctors looked up to him, so did I. His thesis on the mind-set of a schizophrenic mind in today's time and age was beyond brilliant.

"A transfer." Josette says as she looks towards me. I knew what this meant, I was probably the lucky doctor who the patient would be assigned to because we rarely got transfers for schizophrenic patients, the hospital already had most of them because this was one of the best institutes for that kind of illness. I give her a soft smile which goes unnoticed by the others in the room. "But there is a bit of a problem." My face fell as I heard this, this never meant anything good.

"What problem?" I find myself asking as I look to Klaus and then to Dr. Bonnie Bennet who is sitting next to me, Dr. Bennet focused more on people who suffered from mental trauma or people who had suicidal tendencies. I on the other hand worked all around, my patients differed and I rarely had a specialized target because I liked to help everyone I could. I didn't really have a forte for any type of person because there was never one cases that was ever the same. I was rather well with criminals but that rarely happened where they assigned criminals to the hospital.

"I really don't think it's a good idea to have this patient here." Josette states giving us a strained look from where she was sitting, she looked uncomfortable talking about this. She sighs and I can see that she's clearly under stress. I could understand that surely, we were currently underfunded and understaffed and this place was falling apart and we had no idea how to fix everything that was breaking. "It can either mean good news but it can turn into our worst nightmare as well." Josette says.

"Will it be a security risk for the staff and or the patients that are already here?" Alaric Saltzman asks from next to Klaus, he was our head of security here at the hospital.

"A huge security risk." Josette replies placing her head in her hands. "But the state is willing to subsidize a lot towards the hospital if we do accept this patient." Josette continues. Okay then this was a high-profiled case because why else would the state get involved financially? It's not like we haven't had some high profiled criminals here in the past, I mean we had the likes of Charles Manson and Theodore Kaczynski in this hospital before, so this wouldn't be a problem. Surely this patient could not be worse than either one of those.

"How much are we looking at?" Bonnie asks, not that I really cared about how much they would subsidize towards the hospital. But the hospital did need it.

I watch as Josette smiles brilliantly. That most likely meant a lot. "Enough to bring this hospital to a 4 star rating. So there will be some renovations to the building, up-grades for the medical equipment in the medical wing, Ric you can hire more security and we could upgrade our security system…"Josette continues as she speaks about getting more furniture and linen, I look to the other side of the table as I see Dr. Olivia Parker, our head physician at the hospital, her eyes are sparkling as she listens to the promises that are being made. Hopefully they would not be empty promises.

"Who's the patient? It has to be a high profile patient if the state is willing so assist this hospital with so much." I say and all eyes are back on me because I had a valid point. It had to be true. But I couldn't place my finger on who this high profiled criminal might be that would be transferred here.

"And to who will the patient be assigned to?" Klaus asks. Yes I wanted to know that as well. Yet I already knew the patient would be assigned to me.

"Well, it depends. It's between either you or Dr. Gilbert." Josette says and I furrow my brows, she's still contemplating to who she would give the patient to. That's quite interesting. "I feel it would be a better choice to assign the patient to Dr. Michaelson but then again it's not your line of work. And you already have a full schedule of patients to attend to." Josette says but I know all in all I will be the lucky doctor who would get the patient, not that I minded, I loved working with my patients, helping them. But something tells me I do not want this patient.

This only made me feel more nervous on who was coming, who the patient was. I watch as Josette lean back in her chair, pulling her briefcase up, on top of the table and then she brings out an arch lever file that is completely full. I frown. What was this?

"This is the patient's file." Josette says gaining everyone's attention and answering my unasked question.

"You're not serious?" Bonnie asks as she leans forwards to reach out for the file but Josette pulls it from her.

"This is a very sensitive matter Dr. Bennet." Josette says as she looks towards Klaus and myself. I look to the front of the file, the name doesn't even look familiar, and I have never seen it before.

"Damon Salvatore?" I say his name and it feels like the whole room freezes over. Did I say something? I frown towards Josette then look to Klaus for some light on the matter. Who was this Damon Salvatore?

"I think Dr. Gilbert should be assigned the patient." I hear Klaus say and might I add that I hear fear in his voice as he speaks, I frown, why was he willingly giving me the case? I'm not even sure I was the right person to do this. "I mean I don't think myself or Dr. Bennet would be a great choice for this patient." Klaus says and I am truly confused on what the hell was going on at the moment.

"What Michaelson? Are you scared of a little sociopath?" I hear Ric say. What the hell were they talking about, I truly have never heard of this Damon Salvatore before. "But I can see why you're sceptical about taking him in Dr. Laughlin. It would be a major Security Risk for the hospital and ourselves." Ric continues to say on a more serious note.

"Wait why? I don't understand who is this Salvatore person?" I ask and I think I heard them all gasp out of shock because I didn't know who this person was, nor what he did.

"Why would they assign 'the angel of death' to this hospital?" Dr. Bennet asks and I finally understand what's going on. I final know why there is this big meeting over this one patient. My question soon forgotten because Bonnie just answered me, my eyes widen in disbelieve. They wanted to assign this person to me? Why?

"According to his sentencing he must be evaluated at a Psychiatric Hospital, where it must be determine what is wrong with him, whether he truly just is a sadistic murdered or whether he's clinically insane, whether this is actually a mental issue. And we are the only hospital with the needed requirements to hold a convicted murderer such as him." Josette says and then it started, they were talking over each other, trying to convince each other that this would be the worse decision that we would ever make and then others tried to stand their ground with all the improvement that we could get if we accept him.

I didn't listen to them, I switched of their irrelevant nonsense that they were blubbering about, but I also didn't need to because I already knew what all this was about. Would you want the world's most renowned serial killer in the same building as you? Hoping that when you turn your head for a mere second and look back that he would slit your throat? You won't feel safe, you wouldn't feel at ease. This was clearly a security risk issue.

I reach forward towards the file and pull it closer. In the end it would be whether or not I would accept him as my patient because Klaus already made it clear that he wouldn't take him. I pull the file closer until it's in front of me. The Angel of Death now had a name. Damon Salvatore, that's Italian right? It should be. I open the file, I look at the first page reading the notes.

"Why don't they just evaluate him at the prison?" I ask as I look at the long list of Psychiatrist that has attended to him. Josette goes completely quite, this only leads to the rests going quite as well. Silence fills the room. "I mean he's been attended to by at least 11 other Psychiatrist since he was arrested and sentenced." I continue to read over the list of Doctors that has had this man as their patient.

"His last Psychiatrist killed himself after booking himself into a mental institution." I slowly look up at the people around the table as Klaus says this. "They went insane after having sessions with him." Klaus continued looking down as well.

"You want to risk your staff getting insane as well?" Olivia almost screeched from the other side of the table. This was all new news to me, after he was caught I barely gave this whole angel of death thing my attention, I had other things to worry about. I had patients to attend to, I didn't have to worry about what went on in the court house.

"It's not like that." Josette answers and I look back to the file in front of me. "I have some of the best Psychiatrist in this Country and I believe that we can do this." Josette counters but then they start up again, I just continued to look over the file. I have studied 8 years to become a Psychiatrist and I have practiced for 3 years. I had confidence that I would be able to attend to this patient yet, the names that I read on the list of his previous Psychiatrist scared me because they were well known names. How would I be able to live up to any of them? How would I be able to walk in their shoe's they had more years' experience then I had.

"How long before they want feedback if we accept the patient?" I ask as I continue to scan the file, paging to the next page of all his details. To my surprise there was very little details about Salvatore in his file. Almost none.

"I need to inform them by Friday." Josette says low as the other still continue bickering. I understand that she wanted to renovate this place, fix it up but would it really be worth it?

"I'll give you feedback as soon as I worked through his file." I reply and she gives me a small smile.

"You can't seriously consider this Gilbert." Klaus exclaimed as he rises from his chair.

"Like I said Dr. Michaelson, I'll go through the file and see if I'm up to it." I reply closing the file.

"Meeting adjourned." Josette announces and I am the first person to rise to my feet as I rush towards to door. I needed to work on this file, and I needed to do it as fast as possible.m Salvatore. A few names seem rather familiar. But I don't believe that I have ever or will ever have the pleasure to meet any of them. I page to the second page and the only information that they have on Salvatore is a name and a surname. That was it, only Damon Salvatore. No identification number, no date of birth, no fixed address or relatives. Nothing. Might it be that this was just an identity he came up with when they captured him? Might be.

I move to my exam pad: False Identity to cover up his real identity. Follow up on where he comes from. Follow up on his past.

I move along to the next page and they seem to be notes from the previous doctors, previous psychiatrists. I look at them and study them for some time, but there is nothing that I can make out, absolutely nothing among the mindless scribbles that were left by the now deranged men who attended to him. Some words I could make out but I think I already knew this. I start to make a list on my exam pad. Saddest, murderer, killer, serial killer, monster, savage, cannibal, satanic worshipper? I laugh a little at that one. Haven't had the pleasure of attending to one of those yet. Well this could be a first

I continue to page until I finally reach the case docket. 235 charges of murder can be linked to several other cases with similar modus operandi. This would be interesting. I start to read the investigation dairy, the statements of the first responder and investigating officer. 'The patient lures victims into secluded area's where he tortures the victim, to the point where the victim begs for death, the patient kills the victim by slitting either the wrists and or the throat. Victims' limbs are severed and scattered in the vicinity of the crime scene. Limbs indicate signs that pieces has been taken off or cut off or even shredded of with teeth. Clear signs of cannibalism can be seen in victims.

Victims are between the ages of 16 and 30. Victims are female with 3 cases where males was involved as well. Males were torn to shreds. Bodies unidentifiable.' I look at some of the pictures that were taken from the scene and gasp. I was not prepared for that, the bodies of the males, it looks like it was pushed down a tree shredder. I shudder. I look to the pictures of the Richmond Greek house and frown, as I look over the pictures of the girls in their rooms. There was blood everywhere, seems like Salvatore enjoyed to be messy. He wasn't a neat freak, yet he was highly intelligent not to get arrested easily. But that didn't fit the descriptions. Most serial killers liked to be neat freaks, they planned things to perfection. There was no two ways about it. Maybe he was insane.

I start writing again. Patient shows no remorse in the way he displays his victims. Patient's kills are messy, blood scattered meaning that he's ruthless and animalistic. He shows no affections towards victims in regarding that he leaves them naked or rather on display, might the patient be sexually involved with the victims before killing them. Patient leaves his victims on display to be easily found? I frown he lures them to a secluded area, maybe even have sexual relations with them, because why else would they be naked? He leaves the bodies to be found easily as well? I get the feeling of superiority complex in the victim. But I couldn't be sure unless I interviewed him. I continue to look at the case docket and the pictures. But there was never an indication that there was sex with the victims because the body was disassembled. The red of the blood on the pictures drawing me to them making me curious as to how this man's mind works.

Would I even be in a position to get this man to talk? I page back to previous notes and noted that they all have one thing in common. The patient remains silent throughout the whole session. I doubt I would get him to talk but I could try? I mean what did I have to loose, except my reputation. I hear a knock on my office door and look up as Bonnie opens the door to poke in her head, she gives me a small smile.

"You do know that our shift is about to end right?" Bonnie asks and I look to the clock on my desktop. Indeed it was time to almost go home. Not that I planned on going home tonight. I didn't have plans to be home, I would rather stay here and work but I wasn't in the mood for the office either.

"I know." I say as I push the file forward on my table. Bonnie eyes me before slipping into my office completely, closing the door behind her.

"You're not considering taking him… Are you?" Bonnie asks as she reaches towards the file and pulls it towards her, glancing at the case docket. "Elena?" she asks and I sigh, running my hand through my hair.

"I don't know Bonnie." I say pulling my bottom lip into my mouth and lightly nibbling at it. To be honest I had no idea if I wanted this patient. "I mean if it means we can renovate the hospital so be it, then I'll do it." I say looking to the side of my computer. There was a picture next to it of me and my current boyfriend. That reminded me I need to call him a bit later.

"Elena this man is a lunatic, who knows what's going to happen if they bring him here? We could get killed by the damn fucker." Bonnie asks paging through the file, her eyes going wide as she stare of some of the crime scene pictures. She wasn't cut out for this.

"Bonnie…it will be okay, I mean we can renovate the hospital, beef up the security. It's going to be okay." Was I trying to convince her or myself? I wasn't sure at all.

"Just make sure you're okay before accepting this patient Elena." Bonnie says as she closes the file and she places it on my table again. She sees me staring at the picture of myself and Tyler and frowns. "How are the two of you doing?" Bonnie asks, I look from the picture towards her. How were we doing? We have only been dating for a few months now, and it seemed like things were going nowhere.

"We're okay, nothing too serious." I say. We actually had a fight yesterday, I want him to commit to something more than occasionally going on dinner dates or going to the Grill to have some drinks. We never spent time with each other, not alone, I mean we hadn't even had sex yet, that was mainly because I wanted to go slow but hell we have been dating for little over 4 months. I expected something more out of this.

"That's what scares me." Bonnie says and I frown towards her.

"Why?" I ask and she just shakes her head from side to side.

"You're a serious person, nothing you do is ever not serious." Bonnie says and I roll my eyes at her.

"We'll get there." I mutter as I shut down my computer and place Salvatore's file in my briefcase. I would look over it later tonight as well. I grab my keys and my handbag as Bonnie opens my office door and we start to make our way out of my office. I stop briefly to lock my door and I glance at the letters on it. 'Dr. Elena Gilbert – Psychiatrist'. I worked hard to be where I am today and if they wanted me to accept Damon Salvatore as my patient then so be it.

As we make our way to the main building Bonnie motions towards her open door and I just nod my head, while she was packing up I would quickly go and see Josette. I walk towards her office and it feels like my heart is beating out of my chest as I lightly knock on the door. I hear her mumble a 'come in' before I wrap my hand around the door knob and pull the door open.

"Ah Dr Gilbert." Josette says as she looks up from the papers that are scattered over her desk.

"Dr. Laughlin may I steal a moment of your time?" I ask as I move towards her desk sitting down on the chair in front of it.

"Sure Elena, have a seat make yourself comfortable." She motions with her hand towards the seat I am currently in and then she moves to try and get all her papers in order. "What's on your mind?" she asks with a smile. I loved working with Josette, she was a such a lovely person, easy to talk to, fun, loving, she was not only my boss but one of my friends as well, well everyone here was close and everyone here were good friends.

"The Salvatore case." I say as I fish his file out of my briefcase. Her eyes grow momentarily as she looks the file. "Have you gone through it?" I ask as I open it to the first page where my notes are now placed.

"No, to be honest they only approached me about it last week Friday." Josette says as she looks at me, waiting for me to either say yes or no to accepting this case. "Elena if you really don't want to then don't accept the case." She sound uncertain about the whole situation.

"I'll accept Salvatore as my patient, I think that maybe I can help, and I think that I would be able to do the mental evaluation. I mean we can highly benefit from the subsidizing, and the hospital need it." I say and at this I'm not sure why her eyes are so wide, it seems that she's either surprised or shocked that I accepted the case.

"Elena are you sure?" Josette asks.

"Completely. I mean it's not like he'll be spending all 12 life sentences here with us right? It's just until we finish the mental evaluation." I say and I mean that would take up to 6 months, it might be more but it wouldn't be forever.

"You're being selfless you know that?" Josette asks and I just smile towards her as I close the file and place it back into my briefcase.

"We need that money to keep this place up and running." I say and Josette laughs at that.

"You need me just tell me." I just smile and nod my head at her.

"When do we get him?" I ask because I needed to be prepared if I was going to take him in.

"The 1st of March." Josette says and my eyes go wide, she said next month, and I thought it would be late next month to give us more time but the 1st of March was only two weeks from now. Two weeks was not a lot of time to get this place in shape for a convict like Damon Salvatore. Would they even do all the things that needed to be done before he came. I can see Josette's sheepish smile as she looks to me and I just huff out a breath and nod my head. Okay so I had two weeks. We had two week. "Sorry." She mumbles her apology.

"Okay then." I say before I rise from my seat and make my way towards the door, turning towards her one last time. "Hope they can fix this place up before he arrives." I say and with that I am out of the door and on my way towards home. A lovely lonely night with my newest patients case file. I would need to check if I missed anything with my preliminary investigation that I conducted.

I just knew that this would not go well with the other staff but, hell, I had to take the patient so they should just keep their mouths shut. I was doing this for the future of the hospital.