((A/N:Hey everyone, thanks so much for reading this story. It has been a joy to write so far and while it is taking me time to write it all out due to the fact I have a billion other fan fictions that I'm working in let alone college preparations. This fiction is one of the most fun things I have written, something I hope people have enjoyed reading as much as I have enjoyed writing. This fiction doesn't have Tim's side but don't worry the next chapter will pretty much be all about him besides Alex and Jay meeting up to explain what happened the day before but that may be fairly short in the story line. Have a good rest of your summer everyone. ))

Morning Day 003

Jay:

Jay woke up slowly to the lights flickering on and off before turning on completely. Jay grunted slightly, closing his eyes again in hopes that instead of getting up he could sleep in a while longer; it was after all the weekend. His hopes soon shattered when a nurse came in and gently shook him awake telling Jay to sit up so he could take his medication. Jay paused, looking at the nurse suspiciously but after eyeing her a few seconds took the pills and plopped them in his mouth before taking the small cup of water taking a few sips. The nurse seemed satisfied and soon left the room Jay was in and as soon as he saw she was gone he scurried to the sink in his room and spit out the water and soggy pills he believed to be poisoned. He glared at the pills a second before turning the sink on and washing them into the drain where he didn't have to worry about them killing him. He took a deep breath before sighing in relief then getting ready for the day.

He grabbed up his old bed sheets and dirty clothes and slowly rolled them all up in a ball that he could carry in both arms towards the laundry room like the other people in here had told him to do. He followed a small crowd of people, being sure not to look at them and keep his eyes casted on the dirty hall floor. As the people in front of him started dwindling down it was finally his turn to put his dirty things in in which he did quickly before scurrying down the hall to go hide somewhere where there were less people.

He quickly walked down a lone hall and checked each door to see if they were unlocked, none were except one in which Jay immediately went into and locked behind him, sliding down the wall and sitting on the cold floor as he tried to catch his breath. Too many people here, it was so stressful to the young man that he could hardly stand it. He managed get his breathing under control and his eyes began adjusting to the dark. He was in another dark hallway, the sound of a piano was playing somewhere down the hall.

Jay tensed slightly and stayed where he was; oh how he wished Alex was near him to make him brave right now. No wait, he proved himself no longer trustworthy after the stunt he pulled the day before. Yet Jay longed for a friend to tell him that everything was ok, that there wasn't anything wrong with him and make him to investigate with him. He sat there a few minutes before slowly getting up to his feet again and headed for where the sound was.

The hallways seemed different from all the rest, it was practically ruined with fire damage from the looks of it, it had been gathering dust and a part of the ceiling had collapsed. Maybe this place was being worked on and reconstructed and the men working on it was taking a break? That might explain piano music if they brought themselves classical music. Jay finally got to the door that the music was behind; it was loud almost as if there really was a piano behind it.

"H-hello?" Jay whispered and slowly opened the door a crack to look in and was temporarily blinded by light that was shining in from the room before his eyes got used to the light. The room was familiar as if from a distant memory or dream; it was a huge room with instruments all around and composer's pictures all over the room. No, he knew this room- it was an exact replica of Mrs. Thomas' music room at the college he used to attend. Though Jay had only been in that room once to wait for someone to leave it so they could hand out though Jay didn't remember who it was. He didn't recall anyone from college now that he thought about it which worried him a moment before realizing the piano music was still playing.

His eyes scanned the room before they hit a familiar young brown haired boy that he had learned to call Alex who was sitting at the piano playing with a small smile on his face, not yet realizing that someone had entered the room. His eyes were cast downwards at the piano as he kept playing before they slowly looked up, noticing an intruder but instead of looking angry him looked-embarrassed. He immediately stood up looking down at the camera near his feet. He bent down and picked it up before looking back up at Jay who looked a little surprised and unsure of what to do now since the events of the day before.

"You're late Jay." He stated with a smile "We were supposed to start filming hours ago. Where have you been?" he paused seeing the slightly unsure look on Jay's face, deciding to get closer to the young man and feel his forehead to make sure he wasn't sick or something in which immediately Jay flinched and took a step back; his memory of the day before when he had tried to get Alex back into the real world but instead got shoved violently to the floor. Alex was no longer trustworthy and Jay would not let him come near him until he proved he was not a threat. "Hey what's wrong?"

"Nothing." Jay looked away a second not wanting to show that he was hurt from Alex acting like a friend then hurting him the day before and acting like it was no big deal now. He felt the hand touch his shoulder and he immediately shrugged it away and looked at Alex with those natural wide eyes. "Don't touch me." He stated trying to sound as threatening as possible but only seemed to get a smile out of Alex. Obviously Alex wasn't intimidated by him at all which led to Jay being a tad bit frustrated. He adjusted his worn hat before looking at Alex who now had a slightly serious face.

"Jay? Hey-what happened? Did someone do something?" Alex sounded protective, something Jay had never heard in the one he had considered his friend the day before. Jay looked away again getting more and more frustrated over the fact that Alex didn't seem to remember or care that he had hurt him the day before. He moved back a few more steps before running towards the door and grabbing the door knob ready to open and slam it. "Jay, wait!" Alex called after him.

Jay looked back a second before looking at the door and noticed the wood was getting older, the nice white paint beginning to peal and fall off in front of his eyes as if it had aged 20 or so years causing Jay to panic and open the door quickly and run down the hall. His mind not yet registering what had happened. He heard Alex's voice begin to fade into an echo before disappearing all together as Jay got to the end of the hallway. Grabbing that door and swinging it open, ending up in the new dusty hallway he had been in earlier that day. He didn't stop running there; he was in a blind panic as he ran down the hall before bumping into someone hard causing them both to fall.

Jay immediately got up off the person, his eyes unnaturally wider than they normally were from the shock of what he had seen. He looked down a moment still not knowing who he had fallen on top of and saw the brown eyes of Alex who was looking up at him in surprise. "Jay? What's wrong?" he asked "did someone do something to you?" Jay's heart began to beat faster at the memory of the room in the dumpy hallway where Alex had asked the same thing before the door began to change in front of his eyes. He moved away from him before running down the hall again away from the young man and the hallway he had found on mistake.

He finally managed to get to his room and fell back against the sheet less bed anxiously, wishing that he hadn't put his blanket in the laundry room so soon. He felt absolutely insecure without something to hide under and hide himself. He laid there silently feeling his eyes getting hotter as tears welled up in his eyes at the reminder of what he had seen the last few seconds before the fear strike at the thought of the door and seeing a room that looked like a room from his college. Was he seeing things? Was this a result of not taking the medication that the nurses tried to force him to take in morning? He actually hoped it was and that what he had seen wasn't in fact real but just another hallucination of his. He laid there for a while crying slightly before his eyes became heavy and he went to sleep.

Xxx

Alex

Alex had had a fairly normal day the first half, though not seeing Jay made him feel a little anxious considering he felt the need to apologize to him for the day before. He didn't want his only friend in this dirty crazy place to dislike him because of something he couldn't control. As he walked down the hallway he saw Jay running full speed towards him causing Alex to fill with hope at the thought that maybe Jay was running around to look for him but the hope soon shattered as they collided and fell to the dirty floor.

He fell on his back and let out a small sound of pain, he felt like when he woke up the next day he'd be welcoming a new bruise to his body from colliding with the floor. He looked up at Jay about to say something when he noticed the look on his face. Jay was pale, deathly pale and his eyes were even wider than normal. His body was shaking as he struggled away a moment before his eyes casted down at Alex. Something was wrong; terribly wrong and Alex wanted to know who or what had done this to his new friend.

"Jay? What's wrong? Did someone do something to you?" He asked with a concerned tone but Jay didn't answer him, instead Jay backed up a moment before running away again. Towards Jay's own room causing Alex to blink a little surprised at that strange display before walking towards the room only to be stopped by the young man named Tim who seemed a bit off.

"Alex. We need to talk." Tim stated lowly catching Alex slightly off guard, his voice seemed a little different even but that didn't seem to strike anything in Alex instead he looked at him silently not doing anything yet . Maybe he knew something about what had happened to Jay or maybe it was about the painting thing that had happened yesterday. Either way those were both important topics to him today and he needed to clear the painting thing up with both Tim and Jay and he hoped Tim knew what had startled his friend.

"What do we need to talk about?" Alex asked and only received a small static sound coming from Tim's lips before Tim looked down trying to figure out how to word it then look up again. His eyes clearly wild as if he was no longer himself but some wild animal that had wandered into the asylum they were forced to be in. Alex recalled what happened when the masked man had hidden in the padded room Alex had been stuck in and how the voice was similar but just shrugged it off for now. It couldn't have been him, he had believed that person had escaped then.

"Your painting." Tim hissed before looking at him long and hard then looking down the hall a moment "You drew someone in a mask and the Tall one-" Alex was about to say something but the tone in Tim's voice was threatening. Alex blinked a moment suddenly realizing that Tim was more of a threat than anything at the moment so he took a step back only to have Tim grab him by the shoulders and slam him into the wall a few feet behind them. Alex's and Tim's breathing were both harsh from the adrenaline rushing through their veins. Their breathing in sync as they stared at each other; Alex's eyes were wide with fear before they narrowed and he tried to shove Tim off of him. "Get off me!"

But despite the angry warning Alex put out there Tim didn't let go of him causing Alex's anger to bubble over. He angrily put his hands on Tim's shoulder pushing him away from them. Tim growled angrily thrashing around violently trying to get away from Alex's hands so he could attack him and confront him once again about the painting only to get punched in the face with such a force that it made Tim topple onto the floor with a loud yelp. Alex immediately made a mad dash down the hall hoping to get away from the man who had confronted him, not daring to look behind him.

He could tell that the man was getting closer though as they ran down the hall, Alex needed to find a place to hide. Then fate; there was a door down the hall a few yards away from him causing Alex to speed up, running full speed for the door. He finally reached it and reached for the nob. He opened the door quickly and fell inside, slamming the door behind them and not a moment too soon because Tim was now at the door clawing at it angrily, growling as he tried to get in.

Alex looked around the room; it was run down, much more run down then the rest of the hospital. Bits of the ceiling had fallen through and the windows were shattered in this particular room but right now that didn't matter. Right now he needed to find something to put in front of the door so he could make sure the other man couldn't get inside. He found a dresser and began to push it towards the door, his eyes focused on the rotting material his hands were on before he heard his name being whispered around the room. It sounded almost like Jay's voice but Alex knew that couldn't be considering Jay had run off to his room just minutes before, surely it wasn't him and he was in fact going crazy. He simply continued to push, not knowing when Tim would come back to attempting to push the door open but whenever it was it would be too soon.

The whispering began to get louder as if the person stating his name was progressing towards him; the sound of static filled his senses for a second before he blinked and took in the new scenery. Somehow when he had been overwhelmed with static he had been escorted to a different location; it looked like a brand new home that was being moved into. Boxes lined the walls, some furniture was covered with a thin plastic to keep them safe from being torn in a moving van, and someone was scooting something inside the house.

Alex was immediately on his guard, assuming it was probably Tim having somehow brought him here to attack him once again. His adrenaline began to stream through his blood stream preparing him for flight or fight mode before he came face to face with-Jay? But unlike the Jay he was used to, the Jay in the asylum this Jay seemed happy and healthy. He had a bright smile on his face that seemed to light up the room and his skin slightly tanned from working under the sun for hours on end.

Jay chuckled slightly, wiping the sweat from his brow as he looked around the room he and Alex were in. "Still can't get over how nice this place is." Jay whispered before looking at Alex, smile still on his face "Wish I could afford a place like this." He then noticed the now completely new looking dresser that Alex had been pushing in the asylum before looking at Alex curiously "Need help with that?"

Alex looked at the dresser a second, completely in awe at the fact that it looked and felt brand new when just moments before it had been broken and rotting underneath his fingertips when he had used most of his strength to move it. He put a gentle hand on it, not believing how strange this was before looking at Jay and nodding a bit. "Uh, yeah, if you don't mind…" Alex began, sounding a bit at a loss for words as Jay walked next to him, putting his hand on the side of the dresser and began to push. Alex paused a second, taking in the scenery once again before pushing again himself and finally it rested in front of the door before Alex stopped pushing and stood back, taking in their work. Jay attempted to push still as Alex moved away before realizing that the spot it rested was where Alex wanted it to be before slowly moving back to look as well.

"Alex?"

"Yeah?"

"The uh- the dressers in front of the closet, how are we going get into it?" Jay chuckled a bit, Alex paused a moment before frowning and turning away to grab another box and began unpacking, might as well just let the hallucination play out.

"We're not."

"Why?"

"Jay, just drop it, it's not important." Alex retorted sounding like he was at the end of his rope before realizing that the wall he was closest to was beginning to peel around the bottom. It looked like it was ageing a bit, but slowly.

"Uh, alright…"Jay whispered, sounding a bit unsure of himself before going to another box and began unpacking it beside his friend silently. They worked in silence a minute of two before Jay looked over at Alex again, looking a bit confused and worried "Hey Alex…can I ask you something?"

"What, Jay?" Alex was surprised at how almost angry he sounded, he wasn't mad at his friend for anything, not even really annoyed yet his voice said otherwise. Jay winced slightly at the tone before sighing and shaking his head a bit, going back to work causing Alex to look at him in anticipation "What?!"

Ok, he really didn't mean to sound that angry, what in the world was going on with him? This was not how he normally would have spoken to someone, not even if he was angry. Everyone who knew him knew he never really was quick to anger and when he finally did snap he would yell for a second before immediately apologizing and going off somewhere to brood but…no apologies escaped his perced lips as he stared at Jay silently, aware now that he was actually glaring at the young man who was doing nothing but helping him and probably was wondering something that could easily be answered. 'Calm down Alex, calm down.'

But he found that he couldn't calm down, instead he began to angrily pull things out of the boxes and slamming them down against the floor, he was worried if he continued this that sooner or later something fragile would either chip or shatter completely in his unnecessary fury he was somehow unable to control. Jay had flinched when he had been yelled at but remained silent for a short time.

"You just seem…different…I'm kind of worried about you. We all are."

"We?"

"Brian….Tim…?" Jay stated softly, using his tone to hopefully calm his friend down. It seemed to do the trick and mentally Alex was thanking his friend for that. Alex looked at Jay silently a moment before shrugging before looking towards another end of the room, seeming to be looking for something before light glistened against the lens of a camera; his camera from college. He had gotten rid of it when he moved in with Amy but something about the camera being here was eerie, something that he was worried would set him off in another fit of rage if he wasn't careful.

"Alex?" Jay asked this time his voice was echoing once again, causing Alex to whip his head in the direction of where Jay was sitting. Jay was somehow fading away, he was becoming transparent but Alex knew that was coming. But then the walls began to chip and peel around him, falling off the walls like leaves in autumn, and to his surprise…some of them looked like they were burnt or burning still. He grabbed one after a moment and immediately flinched back in pain, somehow they were hot. This didn't seem to be just a simple hallucination after all but within moments his surroundings changed back into the room he had been in early except this time, the dresser was securely in front of the door, two pairs of shoe prints molded within the thick dust of the floor.