Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Until Dawn or the game or story. All rights go to Supermassive Games. IF I owned this game...I don't what I'd do, but it'd be great. All I own is the plot, the storyline, and any OC who may show up within the story, so please enjoy and as always please leave positive reviews only! I don't have a PS4, but I watched YouTubers like DashieGames RunJDRun, PewdiePie, and GhostRobo, and I fell in love with this game. The story was immersive, the characters were amazing and had feeling (except Emily, she was a total bitch). Also, the only two characters that are not added in this story are Emily and Matt. I can't stand Emily's character because she was a total ass, and Matt I thought was a total whimp for not standing up agaist Emily when she was pushing him around. So, please, let me know if I should continue!
Bold underlined- Chapter titles/Character perspective
italics - Thinking/in thought
italics underlined - memories/Dreams/flashbacks
Survivors -
Josh
Sam
Chris
Mike
Ashley
Jessica
Previously on Until Dawn: Beyond Isolation - "Easy now Josh." Doctor Hill said his voice gentle and reassuring. "You'll be better soon. Just stay calm." Josh drew in a deep calming breath and tried to keep himself as calm as he could. "He wanted to hurt us." The sound of Mike's voice cut all around him again, causing Josh to look around again. "Where the hell is he?" He muttered quietly to himself. "He was the psycho." Now it was Ashley's voice that reached his ears, panicking in terror. "How was I supposed to know Josh had these saws and the gun and oh my god."
"It's my fault." He muttered as if in a trance-like state. "It's my fault. It's all my fault." "Though by the sounds of things, it looks like you won't be alone for long." Doctor Hill said quietly as Josh began to rock back and forth on his knees now like a small child.
"No you won't be alone for long." The Doctor said as he placed his hand on the handle of the door now. "Deep breaths, Josh." He instructed as he left the room. "Deep breaths..." There was a loud metallic clanking sound as the door shut and Doctor Hill locked it behind him. As Josh continued to rock on his knees clutching his head while trying to breathe and calm himself down, he suddenly heard two framilliar voice's singing. "Frere Jacques Frere Jacques. Dormez vous? Frere Jacques Frere Jacques. Dormez vous?" Josh immediatly reconized the song and the voice's and a sharp stab of pain shot through his head.
Wincing he tried to control his breathing now, as it came out in hard gasps and an overwelming panic attack began to consume him and the voice's continued. "Sonnez les matines! Sonnez les matines! Ding dang dong." "No." Josh murmured now rocking back and forth faster on his knees and the pain in his grew more and more intense by the second. "No. No."
"You manipulated us!" He could hear Chris's voice in his head now. "You're a coward! Are you insane?!" "Oh god no!" The sound of Ashley's voice crying out in a pain-filled sob reached him as memories of that tragic night a year ago came flooding back into him. Every tortorous thing he did to his friends and hearing their screams of pain and terror as he continued to panic. "No! No!" He screamed out now just as he heard the deep voice of the psycho now. "How does it make you feel?" "No!" Josh cried out now trying to keep himself from sobbing. "I don't take orders from you...You can't tell me what to do... You can't tell me what to do anymore..."
Tears pooled from Josh's eyes as he closed his eyes and clutched his head harder now as he fell onto his side with his knees drawn up to his chest. "Time has run out for Josh." The Psycho whispered into his ear as if he was right next to him. "Please..." Josh found himself murmuring now as everything in his head pounded painfully. All the noises and the voices of those closest to him were too much to take.
"Please...Just let me die...I'll do whatever you want me to do..." He said sobbing as he broke down. "Please..." "I thought we were close..." Suddenly Josh stopped as he heard Sam's soft voice reaching his ears now. "After his sisters dissappeared he'd come and talk to me...He said I was the only one who understood him. I thought...I thought we had a connection." "It's my fault." Josh cried. "It's my fault. I lost your trust...Your faith in me...Sam I'm so sorry..." He sobbed as his body shook. "I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry."
NOW...
Chapter 6 - Fear
Sam opened her eyes just as Chris pulled the car into the parking lot of the hospital and rubbed her eyes sleepily. "Finally you're awake." Ashley said as Sam stepped out on wobbly legs to pull back the passanger seat in order to let her out. "Man this place gives me the creeps." Ashley murmured rubbing her arms. "Tell me about it." Sam agreed. "To think that Josh's parents could be cruel enough to send him to a place like this." "Wouldn't be the first time." Chris piped up as the girls both turned to look at him. "He's been in and out of therepy and mental institutions since Hannah and Beth's-" He stopped and swallowed deeply before lowering his voice, "Accident." He finished.
"It's all our fault." Ashley murmured sadly. "We did this to him." Sam gently put a hand on her friend's shoulder. "Ash, let it go already okay? everything that happened was a year ago. This is a chance for all of us even Josh to have a fresh start. We need to remind him of that." Chris and Ashley both nodded as all three of them walked into the building. They approached a short plump woman at the reception desk who seemed preocupied with the stacks of paper in front of her to notice them. Sam eyed a bell nearby and hit it.
A small little ding noise went off as the woman looked up from her paperwork with narrowing emerald green eyes that looked like viper slits, and her dark red hair, which was so rich and dark it was like blood was pulled tightly back from her face into a neat bun ontop of her head. "Yes? can I help you?" Sam took in a deep breath before speaking, "We're here to see our friend Josh Washington." The woman's emerald green eyes narrowed at each one of them unamused and simply went back to her paperwork ignoring them. "Hey, did you not hear what we said?" Chris's voice spoke up suddenly now with a hint of frustration and anger. "We said we're here to see Josh Washington."
The woman looked up again at them from her paperwork and spoke in a low hissing voice, "That patient in particular has been exibiting signs of volatile behavior and has been admitted to solitary confinement for the remainder of his stay here." "Solitary confinement?" Ashley's voice came out in a low whisper as she looked toward Chris's direction, and Chris replied, "Would it be possible to see him for just a little while?" "No." Was the only reply that came from the plump woman as she once again turned her attention back to her paperwork. "No do yourselves a favor, and show yourselves out of here before I call security."
The three of them turned to look at each other now as they walked away from the reception desk and out into the hallway, turning a sharp corner to avoid being detected by security monitors. "What do we do now?" Ashley asked her voice slightly shaking in fear. "Something's not right about this." Chris said looking over at Sam who nodded in agreement. "We need to see Josh." Sam said her brown eyes scanning all around the area they stood in to make sure they were alone. "He could be in a lot of trouble and may need our help. His parents should never have put him in here in the first place regardless of what happened with Hannah and Beth. It wasn't Josh's fault." "But he still blames himself." Ashley pointed out logically. "I mean if I was in his shoes, and I lost my sisters like that, I would be losing my mind too." Chris and Sam nodded in agreement.
"So what do we do? How do we get down to wherever the solitary confinement room is to see Josh?" Ashley asked. Sam took her phone out of her pocket and quickly diled in Mike's number. "Hey Mike, it's Sam. I'm here at the facility with Ash and Chris, but there's a slight problem. They won't let us see Josh so we need to sneak in and find where he is, and we're going to need a distraction."
As exhaustion finally took it's toll on Josh and he went into a peaceful dream-like state, the peacefulness of his dreams didn't last long. Being down in the mines where he was nearly torn apart by Hannah, who had been transformed into a wendigo was the last thing he remebered as her hands clenched tightly around his head and began squeezing it so hard his head pounded with agony. Then the dream shifted, and he could now envision the dead bodies of Matt and Emily.
Their decapitated corpses, hanging from chains on decrepit wooden rafters with drying blood soaking their clothes. As he looked around, he could see Matt, Emily's decaying heads with thier cold dead eyes staring at him with their tongues lolling out of their mouths, greying and rotten. He tossed and turned moaning softly as he tried to will the horrible visions away, but as hard as he tried, the visions wouldn't leave him. He then looked around and gasped in shock as he noticed the bodies of Sam, Ash, Chris, Mike and Jess all around him now. their bodies already cold and lifeless, and all of them staring at them with the same look in their cold dead eyes.
"No!" Josh cried out putting his hands to the sides of his head in panic. "No! No! This can't be happening!" "Why did you do this Josh?" suddenly found himself looking down and let out a sharp gasp of fright. Sitting there in his hands was the gray and rotten decapitated head of his sister Beth. Her cold lifeless eyes stared up at him as he then noticed that there was chunks of flesh missing from her head and as he could now taste the savory flavor of meat in his mouth, he could feel bile rising up in his throat as he fought the urge not to throw up.
Realizing what he had done, he dropped Beth's head to the ground and fell to his knees as his hands were stained with dark drying blood. His body shook and his breathing now came out in quick hard gasps and his chest began to tighten with anxiety. He had been eating his sister's head! "NOOOO!" With a scream of pure terror, he finally awoke with a jolt crying and screaming as his body shook with fear. He couldn't remember what had happened before he was rescued and brought here, and now he knew the horrible truth.
"We can't deal with this anymore Josh." His mother's voice echoed in his head now as he could see her standing in front of him alongside his father who just gave him a very stern look of dissapointment. "You're dangerous son." His father said in a gruff voice. "Volatile and dangerous. You don't deserve to live among society especially not after what you did to your sisters." "No." Josh whispered his voice shaking in fear. "No, please no." He begged softly. "You're a coward Joshua." The hallucination of his father continued. "A worthless, coward who's become a bloodthirsty murdering monster." His parents were right, he was a monster, and right now all Josh could think about was the feeling of death, and how much he yearned for it. How much he wished he was dead so that he would never have to feel the pain of loss ever again.
TOO BE CONTINUED...Wow! Poor Josh! Will Sam and the others figure out what's going on before it's too late? Only time will tell, as chapter 7 will be up as soon as I can get it. Also, yes I am well aware that in the secret ending of the game Josh was eating the head of the stranger, but I decided to change it for this story in particular to make it more interesting. Hope you enjoyed and as always please review!
