The Artist and the Twins

Chapter 9
Hospital Horror

"And that's when you came in." I said to Mike. "Saying that I was lucky to survive and asking me how I got hurt."

"...You've been through a lot." Mike said. "You're very lucky they didn't kill you." I looked at him.

"Yeah..." I said.

Another officer came into the room. He was carrying a large brown cardboard box. He put the box on a nearby chair.

"Brie?" he said.

"Yeah?" I said.

"We found a few things at the crime scene, and some things at the old house nearby. Can you take a look at them later to see if any of these things look familiar to you?"

"...Yeah. I guess.." I said. I was feeling super lazy. "I'll get to that later." A doctor came into the room.

"Hey, visiting hours are over." he said. "You two officers have to leave." Mike looked disappointed.

"But what about Brie? " Mike asked.

"We'll call you if anything happens." the doctor answered.

Then Mike and the other officer said goodbye to me and left the room. Later that night, I was wide awake. I didn't feel like sleeping. All the things that happened to me in the forest were haunting me. I shivered. Its never warm in the hospital. I didn't want to complain on how cold it was. It was bearable. I began to feel tired. I figured I should get to sleep now. I closed my eyes. Then I had a nightmare.

I was in the forest, running from something. I ran as fast as I could but I couldn't get away. I tripped on a tree root, and looked behind me. It was Rin. She had an axe in her hand, and was laughing like Shion Sonozaki from Higurashi. She raised the axe and was about to strike. I ran away before she could kill me. As I ran, I could still hear her laughter. I saw someone in the distance. I realized the person was Jeremiah. I ran as fast as I could to get to him.

"Jeremiah!" I yelled. "Help! Please! Rin's trying to kill me!" I finally got to him.

"Jeremiah listen to me!" I said as I turned him around so he could face me. "Rin's catching u-" I realized that it was Len wearing Jeremiah's clothes. He had an evil smile.

"What's wrong?" he asked. "You can tell me." He began to laugh. I tried to get away, but Rin had caught up with me and swung the axe at me. Right before it hit me, I woke up. My heart was beating super fast, and I was shaking. That dream seemed almost real. I looked at the clock on the wall. It was three AM I didn't want to go back to sleep. I thought I would have another nightmare if I did. I looked at the box on the chair. I didn't even want to see what was inside it. I'm already having nightmares, I didn't need anything to make them worse. I layed awake in my hospital bed, waiting for the sun to come up. I started to fall asleep again. I tried to force myself to stay awake, but before I knew it, I was asleep again. I had the same nightmare as before, and woke up the same way. There was a doctor in the room with me, she was putting a damp towel on my forehead.

"Doctor...? is that you..?" I asked.

"There there." said the doctor. "You looked like you were having a nightmare."

"Oh it...was terrible..." I said. "Rin was trying to kill me... with an axe...and I couldn't get away in time.."

'Wow.. this is familiar...' I thought

The doctor put her hand on my shoulder. Her hand was slightly cold.

"Well you're safe now." she said. "Back in your hospital room...with us." The lights came on and there was no doctor in the room with me. It was Rin.

"But you look kind of sick.." she said. "you may need an injection." Len came into the room with a syringe with a large needle. This was extremely bad for me, because I have aichmophobia. Which is a fear of needles. They were gonna put drugs into me! I tried to reach for the help button, but I couldn't move my arms. I looked and realized that I was strapped down to the bed.

"How did you two get in here!" I asked. "The doors were locked!"

"We've been here all along." Len answered. He walked over to me with the syringe. "It'll only sting for a while."

"No! Go away!" I yelled. The needle was getting closer. "Please stop!" They were both laughing. The needle was about to poke me. I was starting to hyperventilate.

"GET AWAY!"

I sprung up in my bed. I looked around. Nobody was in the room with me. I wasn't strapped to the bed anymore. I looked at the clock. It said it was five thirty AM. I couldn't believe it! I didn't even know if I was dreaming or not! I was shaking and breathing like crazy. I stayed awake until the sun went up. The next morning, a doctor came in to see how I was doing.

"Are you feeling okay?" he asked.

"No. Not really..." I answered.

"Why?"

"I didn't sleep very well last night."

"Why?

"I was having nightmares.."

"About what?" He sat down in the chair close to my bed.

"About...uhh..."

"You can tell me."

"Well... ok. I had nightmares about two...people...trying to kill me." I started shivering again.

"Who was trying to kill you?"

"Uhh...Rin and Len.."

"Who are they?" I looked at the doctor. He looked like he was listening to me, but I'm not sure if he really was or not. I was silent for a while.

"They're...uhh...my old dolls..." I finally said. "They're trying to kill me because I donated them to the daycare center..." The doctor looked at me for a while, and finally stood up. I knew it. He was just like the rest of them. Nobody believed me except for Mike.

"I see." he said. "I'll check on you later." He walked towards the door.

"Wait, doctor." I said.

"Yes? What is it?"

"Am I allowed to get out of bed and walk?"

"Of course." He looked on the floor. "What is this doing here?" He reached down and picked up a syringe with a large needle. My heart skipped a beat. It was the same syringe from my nightmare.

"I'll just throw this away. Ok?" he said. I slowly nodded.

"Is something wrong?"

"Th- they tried to use that to kill me!" I said. The doctor looked at the syringe. He looked at the drug inside it.

"What is in here?" he asked.

"I- I don't know! All I know is that it's extremely bad if it enters a human body!" The doctor looked at me. He probably saw something in my eyes saying that I was telling the truth. and he finally said.

"I'll have this tested for you. okay?"

"O-okay..." After that, he left the room. I got out of my bed and walked over to the cardboard box. I hesitated to open it. I didn't even know what was going to be inside it. But there was only one way to find out what was inside. I opened the box. My phone and my taser were inside of it. I took out my phone and my taser, and put them beside my bed. There was also the pictures that I drew when I was a kid, the picture I drew recently, the glass pitcher, and the cinnamon stick. I took out the cinnamon stick, and waved it to see if syrup would appear. Nothing happened. I laughed a little bit, because I remembered what Rin and Len were saying about this 'Wonderful and magical stick'. I put the stick aside and continued to look in the box. There was the knife that almost killed me, the picture of me when I was a kid, and the two things that nearly scared the crap out of me, Rin and Len. They were in their plush doll forms. I quickly closed the box and ran to the phone near my bed. I dialed Mike's number and waited for him to answer.

"Hello?" said Mike.

"Mike! it's me Brie." I said.

"Oh hey! What's up?"

"I was looking in that box your friend put in my room."

"Oh ok. Did anything look familiar to you?"

"Yeah pretty much...Pretty much every single god damn thing!"

"Ok"

"And there was two things in that effing box that were really familiar"

"What?"

"Rin and Len! What the hell was that other officer thinking!"

"Wait wait wait. Rin and Len are in the same room as you?"

"uh.. Yeah?"

"Then put the box somewhere else. If they're in the box, then just put it somewhere else."

"Oh okay. I'll do that now. Bye"

"Bye" I hung up. I walked over to the box and picked it up. I walked out of my hospital room, snuck past the doctors, and made it outside. I looked at the cars in the parking lot. I saw a red truck. It was the kind of car that nobody liked or wanted to drive because they're not very safe. I still find it amazing that people would even still buy them. I figured it would be an okay place to put the box in. I ran over to the truck, put the box in the back of it, and ran back into my room without anyone noticing. The doctor came in when I came back in.

"Oh hey!" I said. "What's up?"

"Hi." he said. "You know that syringe I found earlier?"

"Yeah?"

"I had it tested."

"What was in it?"

"It was just something for a fever."

"...What?"

"Just something for a fever" he patted me on my shoulder. He left the room and closed the door. I sat there on my bed silent. But I was relieved that I was finally safe from Rin and Len. I layed down in my bed. I felt so relieved, I wanted to sleep. I was almost asleep until I heard something. The sound of evil laughter. I sat up.

'What that...?' I thought. 'No.. no it can't be. They're in the back of that truck outside.'

Then suddenly, I felt something grab both of my hands. Rin and Len came out from under my bed.

"Did you really think you could get rid of us that easily?" Len asked. I was scared out of my mind.

"You two were in the box!" I yelled. "How did you get in here?"

"We snuck out while you were talking to Mike." Rin answered laughing. "You still look sick..."

"No no! I'm fine! really!"

"No. Rin is right." Len said as he took a syringe out of his pocket. "You need this."

"How did you even get that?" I asked. "The doctor took that away!" They laughed.

"Oh we put that there so your doctor wouldn't suspect anything" Rin answered. She pinned me down. "Let's try this again." Then Len stabbed me in my arm, but not with the syringe, it was with a scalpel. He left it in there for a second or two, and then began stabbing my arm repeatingly. I screamed in pain.

"Oh dear.." Len said. "My eyesight must be going poor. This is a scalpel, not a syringe." he laughed as if the whole thing was a joke. Rin laughed with him.

"Stop it...!" I yelled. "It hurts!..." I could barely stand the pain. I was bleeding all over the bed. "SOMEBODY HELP ME!"

"Go ahead. Scream all you want." Rin said. "They won't get here in time." I looked beside my bed. I saw my taser and my phone. I wished I could get the taser, but I couldn't.

"Rin I don't know weather to inject the drug here.." Len said. He pointed to my left shoulder. "Or here." he pointed at my neck.

"I think right at the neck would be good." Rin said. I tried to get out of Rin's grip, but she was stronger than I was.

"Ok then." Len said. He was about to jam the needle into me, until..

"Brie?" The door opened. It was my friend Yumi Hayashi. "I came to see how you were doing." I looked at Rin and Len. They were back in their plush doll forms, and they were both on the floor. The syringe was next to Len. I looked at my arm. It was healed. I ran over to Yumi, and hugged her. I was almost crying.

"Thank you!" I said. "Thank you thank you!"

"Woah.. Someone was lonely." she said.

"No. that's not it.."

"It isn't? then what is?"

"If I told you, you wouldn't believe me."

"Oh come on. just tell me. I promise I won't laugh."

"Well okay... you see..." I told her every little thing that has happened, and she believed every word of it. I was happy that another person believed me. Yumi looked at Rin and Len, and picked them up off the floor. I was wondering why they weren't turning into their human forms. They probably just do that when I'm completely alone.

"So what should we do with them?" she asked. "Obviously you don't want to keep them." I thought about what to do with Rin and Len. Then, I decided.

"I have an idea." I said. "I'm getting released from here today so..."