Locked in Madness

"Patient 0136 please come with me." a woman dressed in a white nurse dress stood in the doorway with a clipboard in hand.

The girl nodded and followed the nurse to the end of the hall into an elevator then to a large room with surgical knives laid out onto the table and a chair that sat in the middle.

"Please have a seat so we may begin."

The woman smiled slightly at the girl as she threw a familiar glance before she sat in the chair.

"Please do not move." the nurse flipped a switch. The chair strapped down the girl's wrist and ankles as a contraption dropped onto her head.

"We begin in..3..2..1.." the nurse flipped another switch.

The girl screamed as electricity filled the contraption then green goo streamed through the syringes causing a surge of pain to fill her limbs. Her vision went black as the nurse stopped the contraption to a man who entered the room.

"She is compatible." the nurse's voice echoed in the girls head before she fell unconscious.

..

"My name is Snow. I'm a patient here at beacon mental hospital.. I'm here for..for.." she paused then looked up to a man wrapped in bandages. She couldn't see his face well enough due to the bandages he wore but his eyes were as if they pierced through your soul. She thought.

"Go on." the young man nodded.

She thought for a moment. "I'm here because..." she paused "because..i was left here."

"Left here? Explain, please."

She sighed slightly. "My family didn't want me says Jimenez, they left me on the steps near the front door leaving no trace of ever returning.." she frowned. "He said it's because of what I can do, my imagination is much too real for the good of people around me."

The girl looked to the man as he wrote down several things on his notepad before clicking a pen then sitting up.

"Your imagination?" his voice was deep and monotone almost.

"Imagination is nothing in reality." The young man stated.

"Reality is what we make it to be." he sat still for a moment then got up to push his chair closer to the girl.

"Is your reality different from mine?" he leaned in close.

"What do you see me when you look at me?" he leaned back with a stern look etched on his face.

"Just a guy in bandages.." she muttered.

He scuffed." just a guy in bandages.." he shook his head slightly then looked at the girl again.

"We'll continue tomorrow, you are free to leave." he opened the door for the girl, then shut it slowly as she left his room.

"Just a guy in bandages.-" he sighed.

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"Snow Gabriel?.." a nurse called into the dark room.

"Dr. Jimenez would like to see you." the nurse opened the iron door and smiled slightly at Snow as she walked out of the room rubbing her eyes from sleep for it was still dark outside.

"Follow me." The woman dressed in white walked down the hall with snow close behind. The halls were silent as the other patients slept in their rooms, only a few were awake but that was because they were the ones who were taken back for special tests. Snow thought.

Entering a bright room with a man sitting in a desk in the middle greeted them as they walked through the door.

"Snow, please come in." Dr. Jimenez puts on a false smile.

Snow squinted her eyes at the bright lights before taking a seat in front of Jimenez.

"How has your time with Ruvik been?"

He held his hands in front of him on the desk.

"It's fine." Snow muttered.

"Okay. Good. Now Snow as you get older we are going to move you to the upper levels of the hospital." Jimenez paused. "So time with Ruvik won't be a necessary anymore." he glanced out the window then back to Snow.

"But why?.." Snows eyes fixed in confusion. She had been seeing Ruvik every day since the first week she was put in this mad place.

"He has..other importance to attend to here." Jimenez stated before getting up and walking towards the door.

"Now it's off to bed Snow, you will be brought to your new room in the morning." Jimenez put a hand on Snows shoulder before she walked out of the room and smiled as she walked down the hallway. "In time." Jimenez's eyes fixed into a wonderment gaze.

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Snow heard a knocking on the door and smiled as Ruvik came into sight.

"Nice to see you again." he nodded as he shut the door quietly behind him.

Snow frowned at the thought about what Jimenez said.

"What's troubling you?" Ruvik sat on the bed beside her.

"The staff said it won't be necessary for you to see me anymore." Snow stared at the ground.

Ruviks eyes filled with confusion but a hint of anger lingered in his tone.

"He said you had more important things to do." She scratched her temple.

"He? you mean jimeze doesnt want you to see me anymore." He paused.

"No, nothing is different unless he changed something while I was away on my own research." Ruvik spat.

Snow looked to Ruvik as he got up.

"No need to worry, I will visit you when I can." Ruvik smiled slightly before opening the door. Snow smiled and nodded as Ruvik left the room.

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The mornings were quiet in the hospital.

The only sounds entering the hallways were small droplets of water hitting the floor,

Her new room wasn't anything great, a small bed with a thin mattress and a sink nearby but she didn't see a toilet until she looked in the corner, she walked up to it and peered inside the porcelain bowl. 'Gross.' she thought before pulling away.

The boy across the hall, Leslie was his name. She thought. He started to repeat a phrase over and over causing Snow to walk up and try to peer through the bars of her door but she wasn't tall enough. Her door was locked and she let her arms fall to her sides then sighed with annoyance, she wanted to see what was wrong since he was her friend after all. He's been here longer than I have but yet he's been in the same place since I've got here a few years back. Snow sighed again then plopped down on her bed, her feet dangled slightly off the ground enough for her to swing her feet to keep herself entertained.

The door clicked then opened as Ruvik stepped into sight.

"Let's go." he whispered.

Snow smiled and bounced on her toes towards the door then slowed down as she passed Leslie's room. She wanted to look in but she was too small to peek through the window. Snow frowned but snapped away from the door forgetting she was following Ruvik.

He was already going down the stairs to the basement

Snow jogged to catch up with him before he noticed she was behind.

"Lacking a bit I see." He smirked as she tried to sneak up behind him.

'Damnit' Snow made a face and let out a breath of air.

Upon entering the lower level of the hospital Ruvik had warned her before about the patients that stayed in this level after the last experience she had with a patient here. "Stay away from the last two doors." Ruvik looked to snow and walked slowly down the hall with her close behind.

"What's wrong with those doors?"

"They're just newer subjects..I mean patients here." He quickly corrected his self.

Ruvik opened the last door at the very end of the hallway. "Come on there's nothing to be afraid of." he said sarcastically with a smirk.

Snow smiled at him slightly as she walked into the dim room.

"You can stay as long as you like there's just a few things I need to take care of." Ruvik looked to snow watching her plop down at the desk and curl up in the chair.

He smiled before closing the door behind him as he left.

Snow laid her chin on her hand and continued to stare at the door in deep thought. 'What did he mean by subjects..'