Okay, heads up folks, this chapter is pretty damn short. I know, I am sorry. I am not at all pleased with it, but I had been working on the damn thing for so long now. Also been rewriting the damned thing various times and none of them spoke to me. So yes, I settled. Unfortunately. Just take it easy on me with this.

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Originally I wanted to go to this place alone, but someone had other ideas. Really, I wanna know how the hell my best friend even knew that I was planning on leaving. Then again, she's known me for years so it shouldn't've come as much of a surprise to see her standing in the middle of the woods. Honestly, there wasn't any reason for her to go with me other than maybe moral support. No, that's not why she followed. I knew her better than that.

Matter of fact, I was going to be quite content to just let her follow and not acknowledge her. But that would've wound up with me getting a rock tossed at my head. No thanks. She's got quite a mean pitch.

I should know, I've been on the receiving end of it quite a few times in the past. So, I know that she won't just up and leave. Might as well…

I just paused in stride, feeling a frown pull at my lips and annoyance flare.

"Seriously?" I mutter. I really do need to have a little chat with the Fates after all this because I am seriously thinking that they are enjoying messing around with my life a little too much.

J.D grins widely. "What? You thought that I was going to let you go back in there alone?"

I frowned. "It'd've been preferred."

"Sar, really?" she huffs. "You should know that I am not going to let you deal with that shit alone. Once was enough."

"Last time I checked you didn't even know that I had been caged up," I answer, coming up to her. "But, if it'll make you happy, then by all means, tag along."

She chuckles. "Happily! Thank you."

I roll my eyes.

It was a few moments later when J.D started staring at me. The only time she does that is when she wants to start asking me questions. Either that or she was trying to annoy the hell out of me before we even get to the destination. That could definitely be the case.

"Okay," I drawl, glancing over at her. "What is it?"

"Did you happen to let your sister know where you're going?" she inquires almost too innocently. Almost like she was trying to catch me at something.

A smirk. "Well, yes, Bella does happen to know where I am going," I reply. Matter of fact, she forced me to take my cell phone with me and practically threatened to have Lillian called if I didn't keep in touch with her. I mean, I wasn't going all the way across the country, just outside of the town, since that is basically where the facility laid. Deep in the woods…actually, it wasn't all that far from where we lived in Forks, but the walk would take some time. It's why I preferred to go by myself.

J.D smirks. "Let me guess, she threatened you with Lil."

"How astute of you," I mock. "It's about the only thing she could threaten me with at this moment." Well, it wasn't so much a threat as it was a promise. I may be the older sibling, but Bella will always worry as if she were the elder.

I find that I don't mind it so much.

"What do you think we'll find there?" my friend asks after a few moments.

"Answers," I reply without missing a beat.

"Either that or more questions," she murmurs.

I just look over at her, with a raised brow and a frown. There were times like now that I swore she was a bit psychic, but then again, the same could be said for me.

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It took a couple more hours and we finally saw the outline of the abandoned hospital. It was just as creepy, rundown and horrifically battered as it had been several years ago. Still sent cold chills down my spine just by seeing this bit of it. And if I were anyone else, I might've just bolted back home without caring if I even got those answers. However, I was a lot more stubborn than that. I needed to know. I needed to get these nightmares under control so I could at least somewhat get back on track with my life. Or at the very least find out if I needed to be put into a rubber room.

J.D had become a little bit more tense next to me. She had seen the building the same time I did. If there was one thing we had in common it was our distaste and hate for hospitals. That and being a couple of overly sarcastic bitches, but that's beside the point.

"There it is," she breaths, sounding like she had eaten some bad spinach.

I nod. "Yup, the bane of my existence."

"One of them," she mutters, then adds. "We going in through the front or…"

She had trailed off deliberately.

I remained silent, thinking, as we came closer to the building, every nerve shaking and every muscle tightening with tension, twitching with the urge to get the hell out of there. But, I didn't listen to what my body wanted, forcing myself to relax. I wasn't going to be able to do this being as tightly wound up as I had become. Nope, not a bit.

"The front," I state after a moment. "There shouldn't be anything in there, well not on the surface anyway, besides, the glass doors are broken, so we can slip on in." I glance at her. "You were hoping we'd go climbing up the walls, weren't you?"

She just grins widely at me. "Who me? Nope. Don't know what you're talking about."

Yeah, sure she doesn't.

We stood there, looking up at the doors and I once again felt that chill go down my spine as well as creep up it. Okay, that's odd. The only time it does that is when we're being followed and that should be impossible. Last time I checked, no one but J.D had followed me out here. Closing my eyes, I focused my hearing on the surrounding area, trying to ascertain if we really were being followed, but I heard nothing except the animals, the wind in the trees…and the water from the river. Right, so maybe I was losing my mind.

Good to know.

That or I've become really damn paranoid.

Probably that last one. Sounds accurate.

"I think we're being followed," J.D whispers as we step into the lobby, looking around, there wasn't much to the place anymore. Almost as if people had looted it, but it still looked like something from a horror movie.

So it wasn't just me. "Pretty sure," I state, taking a few steps towards the staircase. "But we don't have time to deal with whoever it is," I pause, glancing back. "Besides, I don't think they're here to hurt us. At least, not yet."

"Huh?"

"I could be wrong though," I mutter darkly, feeling the rage surface for a split second, causing my hands to clench into tight fists before relaxing again. "We'll just have to wait and see what happens," I glance at her. "C'mon, we gotta get to work."

"Did you take your shot, by the way," J.D asks as we descend.

I shook my head, "Nope."

She blinks, looking at me with wide eyes. "Why the hell not?!"

"I need to be able to control it on my own," I state simply, disregarding her concern. "I can't do that by taking injections all the bloody time. Besides, I talked to Michael before I left and he even said that I shouldn't take it."

She shot me a scathing look. "Yeah, because the resident on the subject."

I roll my eyes. "Jesus, if Sherry confirmed that he's stable than that should account for something."

"Look how long it took though," J.D warns. "That was without those injections."

"You worry too much."

"And you don't worry enough," she bites back. "You really do need to take better care of yourself."

I turn, eyes dark with anger. "And you're one to talk, J.D."

She flinches back as if slapped. "That's not fair," she whispers, voice full of hurt. "You damn well know about my own past," she snarls. "So how dare you throw it back in face like that!" Storming past me, and making it a point of not looking at me at all, she continues on into the basement, not bothering to see if I was coming.

I just stared at the wall, feeling a whole range of emotions, the most prominent one being guilt. I honestly hadn't meant to inadvertently throw her own past into her face like that, but dammit, I do take care of myself. I just wanted to be able to control my condition without the use of those damned injections. I wanted to have some semblance of a normal life…then again, so did J.D.

"Shit."

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A/N: Okay, yes this chapter is incredibly short. I know, I realize that. It's meant to be. Why? Drama! That's why. I know it's been a bit since I last updated. I won't lie, I am losing my drive, but that's more with depression than anything else. I am working on getting myself out of my funk so please do me a favor and leave a review as it will (possibly) help me out with is problem.

Um, let's see, anything else? Nope. Not at the moment. Yeah, I know, I don't have anything else to say. Shocking!