The Demon House

Chapter Six

Hiei sat alone in the hospital bed staring out the open window. He, even with his bleeding throat miraculously, forced them to put him in a room with a window for him to stare out since he was sure he wouldn't be getting any visitors. It was a few days after the incident and his neck was healing up nicely according to the doctors. But since when did he listen to humans? Seriously?

He continued to stare outside. His favorite weather to stare at, least favorite to be stuck in. The rain. Small drops entered into the room, making it a few degrees cooler. Memories of his friend's death danced around in his head, and had been since it happened. Kurama he cared about. Icelena he did not. She was a human fool just like all the others on this green earth. She deserved to die. All humans did. But why did he somehow believe deep down that he was wrong? He didn't CARE, but somehow he thought that he was just wrong. Oh no, Kurama, why did you have to stick me with humans? Then he nodded off to sleep.

About an hour or so later Camille, Hiei's girlfriend and fire demon in her own right, came in and saw her little demon asleep. Suddenly she heard his voice speak to him in her mind. She immediately thought: Oh, no. He's talking through his mind in his sleep again. Something a long the lines of:

"Why did I have to become human? Oh, no. I can't believe my only good friend is gone. Dang it, Kurama. Why did you have to let yourself get killed like that by that menace? And the pathetic ice girl. She was so annoying. But it's a good thing Camille doesn't know......." Camille jumped up almost immediately. Why hadn't anyone told her? Were they afraid she couldn't handle it? Icelena was her best friend and Kurama (well, actually Yoko) was her older brother, for pete's sake! Why didn't she know? She wanted more than anything to wake Hiei up and ask about all these things. When they told her Hiei was in the hospital they refused to tell her why or what happened. So she wanted to find out for herself. She had just now noticed, as she was watching him sleep, that his neck was bandaged.

This was getting creepy. If something like this happened to Hiei, her friends knew how attatched she was to him. They would have told her or something. This thought entered her mind over and over and over again. It was disturbing. The wound in his neck was still bleeding, she also noticed. This was bad. Terrible. If this happened days ago, and it was still bleeding, then he was not doing well! He was in deep trouble!

She quickly glanced at the heart monitor beside his bed. It was turned off. They must have thought he was well enough that they didn't need to watch him all the time. Well, did she have news for them! She looked over at the still open window. There was lightning storming around outside. It was a very depressing storm, not the kind you wanna jump outside and run around in, just to feel alive and powerful. The kind that makes you wanna lie down, close your eyes, and cry for three hours and never stop. After lightning rained from the sky for a few minutes she decided to close the window. Then, her maternal instincts (and her hormones) got the best of her and she went to tell someone about Hiei.

She walked the halls of the hospital and got more and more terrified with each nervous step. Because with each nervous step, she didn't see much. Just your normal hospital. Except for the fact that all the doctors were gone.

Camille's pace got faster and faster. Her heart rate sped up more and more. It was like an endless maze. Everything to gain, everything to lose. Beads of sweat formed on her face. And to make it all worse, the lights dimmed until they were almost off. She could barely see where she was going as she ran through the halls of the hospital, looking for someone to tell about Hiei's condition to try to save his life before....NO! She didn't want to think like that! She had to keep her mind focused on the posative. Hiei was going to live. She hoped.

Then random colors and shadows appeared in front of her face. she looked around and all she saw were the colors. It was frightening and distracting. So she took out her communicator and tried to call Yusuke. She had dated him in the past. She would have called Icelena if it weren't for the obvious setback. The little screen on the communicator went straight to a black and white fuzzy screen. Camille panicked. But you know what really got her to fly off her rocker? When she heard a blood-curdling scream. Coming from Hiei's room.

She ran as fast as she could trying to find her way through the empty hospital. But it was very difficult to find something in almost pure darkness. Not to mention tha fact that the walls and doors kept changing everywhere she went, keeping her from Hiei's room for a reason. Meanwhile she heard a voice in her head.

"Camille! It's me! Do you think anything can stop me? Not even death can put me down for long! And I will torture your world until you've all been driven insane! Your world will be turned upside down and it will all be because of me. How does that make you feel? Nevermind, don't answer that. Am I driving you insane yet? Good, good."

Beads of sweat dripped down Camille's face as she screamed bloody murder at the voice.

"You creep! Why are you doing this? Aren't you worried about people putting you down for this?" The voice replied:

"I'm not worried because I have nothing to lose."

"Nothing to lose..." Camille said without voice.

"Now, I'll lead you to your boyfriend. But when you freak out, make it good." These last words from the voice scared her almost motionless.

Suddenly her mind went blank and it was like her body was moving, but she was completely numb to the muscles working so hard. Her thoughts were not her own. And what was ahead of her made her want to look away, but due to the numbness, she couldn't move a muscle. Camille reached the room with Hiei in it and the hold on her mind was strong. It kept her at bay while the helpless fire demon writhed in pain on the floor. His eyes were wide and pale and he was clutching his throat so hard he couldn't breathe. He rolled on the ground some more and finally, after about fifteen minutes, he fell limp. And at the same time Camille was released from her numbness and she instantly fell to her knees with an extreme headache. Tears streamed down her red face. She stumbled toward Hiei and held the demon in her arms while all the doctors returned and one saw her there crying....

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