Black Kitten Chara: Here is chapter two! Originally, I had going to have everyone working in the Insititution shown in this chapter, but I decided to cut into two parts to save some time. So, enjoy and don't forget to review!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Hollow Fields or American McGee's Alice!
Inside the Insititution was just as impressive as the outside. The main room was tall with a spirling staircase leading upwards on the wall, and everything from the floor to the walls were made out of light brown wooden. The ceiling was a clear glass dome that let in the afternoon sunlight and the front desk was as thick and tall as the dark brown oak it was made from.
"Whoa..." Simon said as the four teens walked up to the front desk. Claude rang the small golden bell five times before a short and fat woman with bumps of her pasty, wrinkly face and her tightly-coiled red curls under the white cap that matched her old-fashioned nurse's outfit.
"Whataya what?" The woman yelled as Francine was heard wimpering.
Claude gulped as he regain his voice. "Um, my name is Claude James McGinty. We have an appointment."
The nurse looked unhappy as she got out a clipboard and said, "We need the full names of all of the vistors plus the paitent's name. So, who are you wee friends?"
Carmen gulped, which is unusually for the normally confident girl, as she said "Carmen Leanna Banks."
"Francine Lousie Steinwald."
"And Simon Flazel Belljoy." As soon as Simon said his middle name, Carmen brusted out laughing at it. "What?"
"I just can believe your parents gave you Flazel for your middle name. Do they hate you or something?" Carmen said through laughs.
Simon rolled his eyes and said, "That is a perfectly good name for a boy, mind you. Plus, I didn't pick it! My grandfather did, and what was I supposed to do as a newborn? Just sit there and take it, that's what."
As Carmen and Simon argued, Claude went back to looking at the now annoyed nurse as he said, "We are here to see Lucinda Penelope Snow."
The nurse gave a cruel smile as she said, "Oh, from the idoit's ward? That daft girl is the most ridicoulous paitent Dr. Whitfield as ever had! Always sleeping, mummbling about her twisted-up fansty world even as a young woman, if you can call her that!"
"Hey! It's not her fault that she saw her family get roasted." Francine said.
The nurse rolled her eyes as she kept talking and ingoring the small girl. "And when the monster is awake, she goes into violent fits that she even attacked my percious nephews. There are times when she awakes up, and she rocks back and forth like the looney she is, mummbling in cryptic language as she draws these wretched drawings. Disgusting that Whitfield still trys to help her, because I would have taken her to the electric chair and finish her off!"
"One more word, and you will regret it." Carmen mummbled as she stopped arguing with Simon to hear what this woman had to say.
The nurse laughed as she continued on to further the anger of the teens. "My nephews and I try to whip her into shape. The whippings and the leech treatment should have told her who is boss, but that mind of hers wouldn't take it! I offer to shave her head and drill a hole in it, but no according to Whitfield. And the damn nurse Diana keeps her door lock so my nephews can't have fun with another looney girl."
Claude had enough of this nurse as he slammed his hands against the desk and looked the woman in the eyes. He let a growl from his throat be heard as he said, "Listen, we want to see her now!"
The nurse looked annoyed as she pushed a button on the desk and mummbled, "Nurse Diana to the front please."
For the next five minutes, Claude kept his eyes locked with the disgusting nurse as she ingored him and flipped through the papers on her clipboard. Simon, Carmen, and Francine all were behind him as they stared down the ugly nurse with hate filling their eyes and their lips turning into deep frowns.
Finally, a young nurse came down the steps and breathed, "Yes, Nurse Ratchet?" through heavy breaths. She was a young, blonde nurse with her hair in a thick braid and her green eyes bright with innocence. Her pale skin looked flawless comapre to her fellow nurse and she was much taller and thinner than her senior nurse. Depsite wearing the same old-fashioned nurse uniform, she had a noticable large chest and long legs under her long skirt.
"Hello, nurse!" Simon said excitely as Carmen rolled her eyes.
Ratchet looked at her younger nurse and said, "These dolts want to see Paitent Snow. That looney girl that you try so hard to protect."
Diana's face became red as she said, "Of course, Nurse Ratchet. I think Lucy will be pleased to see them."
She motioned for the teens to follow her as Nurse Ratchet looked back at her clipboard. The teens stuck their tounges at the unnoticing Ratchert as they followed Diana up the stairs and they avoid another paitents.
"I'm sorry you had to deal with that bat. She must have been quiet unloved as a child, because I have never met a woman so cruel." Diana said once they were out of ear-shot of Ratchet.
Carmen speed up to be next to Diana and asked, "Did she meant everything about Lucy's condition? She is really that bad?"
Diana pursed her lips together as she sighed. "Well, Lucy is a strange case. Ratchet did tell you the truth about most of her condition, but I know a different side to Lucy."
"What is it?" Claude asked, now interested in what the young nurse had to say.
"I have been with Lucy since she arrived. I knew her sister very well because we went to the same school in the same grade. I decided to keep Phoebe happy in Heaven by helping her sister. Sad case Lucy is, and I wish it didn't happen. But God does have a plan for her." Diana said with sadness covering her voice.
"What about this other side that Ratchet doesn't know?" Carmen asked.
"Well, since I am around Lucy more than Dr. Whitfield is then I see her as Phoebe used to describe her. When she is awake and not violet or mummbling, she goes down to the resting room with the other paitents and acts like a happy, caring girl. But something always happens that cause her to fall back alseep, go into a violet rage, or have hallucations. I try my best to protect her from Ratchet's nephews by locking her door." Diana continued on as they reached the top.
"Wait, have they raped her?" Claude asked harshly.
"No, no, no! Whitfield keeps 24/7 watch on the rooms of his paitents, and Lucy can tell when those beasts come in by their footsteps. Not hard to miss them." Diana said as she lead the teens through a hallway.
"So, she can be healed?" Simon said with hope in his voice.
Diana looked back at the blonde boy and sighed. She fiddled with the choker around her neck as she said, "It depends on her, truth be told. I have tried to help her myself by fixing her stuffed rabbit, but she yelled until that button eye came off. But, I guess if someone from her past came along and was willing to help her heal, then maybe she would get better."
"We went to the same grade school as her. We were her best friends before she was sent here from Nullsville, Austraila. Will that count?" Francine asked.
Diana sighed again as she lead the teens through double doors into a hallway whre an elevator was at the end. "Maybe. But-" Before she could finish, the intercom came on with Ratchet's voice at the end of it.
"Diana, clean up in room 5689." Diana sighed again as she threw her hands in the air when the intercome went off.
She looked at the teens and gave her best smile, with no avil. She pointed at the elevator and said, "Lucy's room is on floor 19, and it's Room 9078."
"Thank you." The teens mummbled as Diana left them alone in the hallway.
Carmen looked at Claude as the doors slammed shut behind the young nurse. In her eyes, Claude could tell that Carmen was freaking out inside and wanted to know from someone who always had the answer if Lucy was going to be okay. And unfortunately for Claude, he was that person.
"She's going to be okay." Claude whispered as the four began to walk down the long hallway to the elevator. He sounded so unsure, that he started not to believe his own words. "She's going to be okay."
As the four walked down, a door in front of them swung open as the screams of a totured paitent was heard. Francine covered her mouth in shock as two very large men in white uniforms came out. The first man was short, had a thick crop of grey hair, and was slightly smaller while still being able to eat Claude or Simon. The second one was bald with a huge hunchback and distorted face, and he was much bigger in both size and height then the first man.
"Oi, and make sure you don't tell a soul!" The smaller man said to someone inside the room. He slammed the door quite hard as his beady eyes laid on the four teens. He nudged his worker's side as the two approched the teens. "Well, well. Who do we have here?"
"Oh, a bunny?" The larger man said as he clapped happily.
The smaller man looked at him and snapped, "No, you dimwit!" His eyes returned to the teens as he said, "And what are you dolts doing here? Come to see a loon? Or maybe they're here to admit themselves?"
Carmen rolled her eyes as she walked up to the smaller man. "And who are you, exactly? So rude to ask us our names while you have yet to give us ours."
The smaller man laughed as he said, "Well, darling, my name is Berck. This is my twin brother, Brick."
"Hello." Brick said happily, almost child-like. Simon leaned into Francine and whispered, "How much do you want to bet the big one ate their third brother in the womb?" Francine slapped Simon on the shoulder, but was also trying not to laugh.
Berck looked at the four teens then laid his eyes back on Carmen. "So, are you going to answer or be a bitch?"
Carmen gave her million-dollar smile as she flipped her hair. "Well, we are here to see our friend. You must of heard of her because you two fit the ugliness that a nurse described you two to be. Lucy Snow?"
Berck laughed as he said, "That loon! I never even knew she had friends to see her from the last six years she has been here!"
"Yeah! We tried everything from leeches to whipping her, but nothing works. And if the damn nurse kept the door open, maybe we can get her to react and scream. But we haven't tried anything since the time she stabbed me with a spoon after feeding that rabbit of hers." Brick said evily.
Claude felt his blood pressure rise as the two orderlies talked. He was never the type to fight unless it was self-defense, but at the moment he felt the urge to gorge the eyes of the two orderlies. He grabbed Carmen's wrist and said, "Let's go. Lucy needs to see us."
Carmen nodded her head as they began to walk pass the orderlies, but Berck grabbed her shoulder and roughly pushed her to the ground. "I never got your names, you bitch!" Carmen fell into a wooden stand that had a flower vase, which fell to the ground with her.
Simon and Claude turned around and both yelled, "Who said you can touch a girl?!" They both ran towards the orderlies, but Brick grabbed them by the collar of their shirts and held them up. "You will not touch my brother, oh no. So, I am going to break your necks now."
Simon and Claude waved their legs above the ground as the pleaded, "Someone help!"
Francine was helping Carmen up as she saw all of this, and she looked around in a panic. As the boys's faces began blue, Francine saw an umbrella and grabbed it from the stand. She ran behind Berck without being noticed and slammed the umbrella between his legs. "Ohf!" The fat orderlie fell to his knees.
Brick was still choking the boys as Francine ran behind and slammed the umbrella between his legs, causing him to drop the boys and let out a huge "OW!" before he fell to the ground.
Francine dropped the umbrella as she and Carmen ran to their friends's sides. "Are you okay?" Carmen asked.
"No time. Get to the elevator." Claude said between breaths as they got up and ran to the elevator. Simon pushed the button as the old, iron gate elevator came down slowly and the orderlies began to get their senses back.
As soon as the elevator opened, the four teens crammed inside as the orderlies saw them and ran to the elevator. But by the time they got there, the four teens were already going up.