Alex awoke in the morning and turned over, looking at Kristen who just smiled at her. She turned back around and looked at the time. 11:30 AM.

She sighed and got up, going to the living area looking for Lisa but she wasn't in her usual spot. She turned her head in confusion. 'She's usually here.'

She ran down the corridor and looked into the barricaded room where they usually put her. She wasn't there either.

Alex started to freak out. 'She wouldn't leave me here myself, would she?' She turned and saw Val and ran up to her, "Hey, where's Lisa?"

Val turned and looked at her, "Dr. Cullen and I thought that it might be good for you to get a small break from her." She smiled and walked away.

"Wait, what?" She ran up to her again, "No, you can't just do that! We're best friends, she won't like this."

"Really? And what can she do?"

"She-" She didn't know what to say, "You and I both know how bad Lisa can be, especially to nurses who think they know better." She 'humpft' and folded her arms. "In fact, she's really evil to them."

"Exactly, which is why we seperated you both."

She lost her smirk and as she turned to leave again Alex pulled her back around, ready to yell at her but Dr. Cullen caught a hold of her, "Alex? It's time with your session with me." She let go of Val, glaring at her then pushed Dr. Cullens hand off her shoulder. She followed him until they got to Dr. Gardez's office and as soon as he shut the door she picked up a chair and threw it at him. Which he missed.

"You! You took Lisa. Get her back here."

Dr. Cullen took a cautious step towards her, knowing that she was angry, "Now, Alex. It was for your own good."

"My own good? My own good?!" She repeated, "If you're doing something for my own good then get me the bloody hell out of here!"

She continued to yell at him, somehow getting off the subject at hand, "And I know why Kristen hates you! I figured it out. She's from wolf decendants so it's obviously your ancestors are vampires!" She yelled but then took a thoughtful moment, "Unless, you're the actual vampires who were there at the time Kristen's great grandfather made the treaty with you."

"Alexandria, do you truly believe that I am I vampire?"

She looked at him and rolled her eyes, "Of course. You're pale, paler than me so to speak, your eyes are golden which is definetely not normal and you're cold as ice." She then scoffed, not knowing if she was right or not since vampires probably didn't exist and she she didn't want to be kept there for longer, "When is Lisa coming back?"

"She might not return for a while, she's being sedated and going for shock therapy."

"Shock therapy?!" She repeated him and picked up the name plate that was on the desk then threw it at him, "She doesn't need that!"

"Oh?" He questioned, ducking out of the way from the plate she had thrown, "Do you have a degree in psychology?"

"No, but-"

"Then how do you know what she needs?" He interrupted her before looking at the clock. "Our session is over. I'll see you tomorrow."

She groaned and walked past him, smelling his scent as he opened the door and let her duck under his arm to get out.

-A small time skip to a month-

"Ah, Alex, please do come in." Dr. Cullen greeted her, it turns out Dr Gardez's family problem was a little more. He got another job but never told anyone until the last minute. And until the hospital could find another replacement, Dr. Cullen took up the post. "I assume that now you have gotten your anger out on me you would care to be more cooperative?"

Alex walked in the office and sat on a chair and shrugged, "Depends."

"On what?" He shut the door and sat on his chair.

"If you ask me questions and I answer, then I get to ask you questions and you answer." She said, finally wanted some answers.

"That's not really how it works, dear. But seeing as I'm a reasonable man-"

"Vampire," She cut in as he chuckled.

"Then I will allow you to ask me questions."

"Alright." She smiled at him.

He did too and got on with the questions. After a couple he asked, "So, what exactly did Lisa say to you?"

"Well, she told me that we shouldn't be here, she said that instead of getting help, we should just live with our disease. That our disease makes us who we are."

"And you believe her?"

"Well, yeah. Lisa is very manipulative." She said and couldn't believe that she just called her best friend manipulative.

"Yes., we know. So what do you think your 'disease' is?"

Alex shrugged, "I don't know." She couldn't exactly tell him that she had already read her files.

He just nodded, "Have you figured out why you are here?"

She shrugged again, "Because I tried to kill myself." She spoke quietly and looked down at his name plate on the desk. They had to order one for him for the time being. She sighed and looked back up at him, into his ember eyes.

"And why did you try to kill yourself?"

"Like I said before, I wanted to get rid of the pain. But, it's a little deeper than that." She frowned and continued, "All my life I've been bullied and I didn't know how to handle it. At the age of thirteen I had become friends with people that were called 'emo's' and I too changed into one. I listened to all the music, I started wearing dark clothes and when I was at my friends house, I had a breakdown. I told her about the bullying, the name calling, just life in general. I mean, my dad was always working so I never really had that bond with my father. It was there but it just wasn't enough to know that I was loved. I hated it but when I asked my mom if I could go stay with her, she said Bella was enough for her to handle. I took it the wrong way. I thought she didn't want me. I thought my parents hated me. And when my little sister refused to come up to see us in the summer, I thought it was because she hated me too."

She had started crying and took a tissue from a box that Dr. Cullen passed to her. When she dried her tears he just nodded at her to continue. "As I was saying, I had a breakdown in my friends house and when I did, I felt even worse now that I had spilled my guts to her. What she did next, if I could go back and stop it I would. She held out this razor blade to me, one of those single blades that men would use and she took my wrist and cut it lightly. At that moment I felt everything disappear as my blood slowly descended from my wrist. I liked it and I took the blade from her and did it a few more times. She told me to keep the blade and I did. From then on it's just been a daily thing. If things got too much, I turned to my blade. If I had a bad day, I turned to my blade. And the night I tried to kill myself, I hadn't used my blade in days and I thought I was going mad, everything just came at the one time and as it did I didn't know how to handle it. People from work had seen my scars and I got fired for 'promotion of self-harm'. So instead of being brave and lift my head up, I was a coward and I let my head hang in shame. I ended up with the blade in my hand and I just kept thinking, 'You don't want to live like this. You're a coward. People are going to laugh at you because you're stupid.' And that's what made me cut deeply." She finished and wiped at the fresh tears that came down her face from her eyes. She sighed and looked up at Dr. Cullen who was smiling proudly. "What?" She asked, warily.

"Alex?"

"Yes?"

"You have just took a big step in getting better." He smiled and got up and put his hand on her shoulder, squeezing it lightly. "Tomorrow, you'll get a two hour session." He looked at the clock, "And it looks like your time today is up."

She looked at the clock and frowned, "But what about my questions?"

He sighed and looked at her, "I have another patient but soon, I promise."

Alex nodded and wiped the last of her tears and left the office, watching as another girl entered. She smiled smally but proudly at herself, knowing that she could be out of there soon. She walked into the living area and sat with Cynthia, who was laughing at the news.