The Horror       Is Alive

Chapter 4: It's Just A Needle, It Won't Hurt...            So we took a quick walk to the hospital because I was only about a block and half away, and when we arrived, the Brookhaven Hospital looked more like an insane asylum than a hospital. A huge brick wall surrounded the compound with a rusty gate entrance with, what looked like a, security booth. "This is the hospital?" "Yeah the owner wanted maximum security at all times, we all had to check in before we started and sign out when we left, sometimes when he was having a bad day he would make the guards search are bags. We heard rumours that they conducted experiments down in the basement with some of the patients, none of the people I was friends with here ever saw or witnessed any of that first hand though so it is just a rumour." "That's sick!" "Yeah, but anyways you go ahead and I'll wait here... Sebastian, can... can I take the gun, it'll make me feel better." "Sure here, I'll be back in a minute." Little did I know I would later wish I had of taken the gun with me. I entered the hospital through the main door, it opened into the waiting area for patients. I started my search by checking behind the desk for check in dates, most of the dates were all weeks prior except for one. It read, Jack Finney, the date was about three days ago, I couldn't understand why anyone left alive in this town would check in. "Hello, is anyone here?" I screamed at the top of my lungs, so if they were hiding they would hear me. I started to climb over the reception desk in the waiting room when I heard a shot fire in the room behind the counter, the shot startled me and I toppled over the desk onto my face on the floor. "Crap that hurt." I cautiously opened the door expecting the worst because I knew whatever was on the other side of the door was armed. Low and behold there was a middle-aged man with dark brown hair and light framed glass standing over what looked to be one of the mummy wrapped doctors. The corpses was wrapped in the same old looking wrap as the mummies in the school, but this time was wearing a doctor's trench coat with a stethoscope around it's bloody neck, the only thing that differentiated this corpses from the others at the school was that this ones face wasn't wrapped. Perhaps this one was a little more human. I obviously startled the man in the glasses because he jumped over and behind a desk taking aim at me. "Who are you?" he cried. "I'm Sebastian Locke, I'm in town on vacation, I'm not here to hurt you, please put down the gun... It's scaring the shit out of me." "Just than Alyssa ran in carrying the huge assault rifle, " I heard shots, is everything ok? Doctor Finney?" "Alyssa, what are you doing here, I figured you would have been turned into one of them." He said well gesturing towards the dead mummy doctor. "Oh my god! What the hell is it?" "It doesn't matter it's dead," I pointed out. "Doctor Finney, do you know what's happened to the people here?" I asked. "I'm afraid I might know why, in fact I believe Ms. Mason might also..." "Alyssa, is that true, do you know what's going on here?" I asked. "Not exactly, well... you know I use to work here, and well... we did a lot of experimentation with our patients. It's not like we hurt them or anything... or at least... we didn't mean too. A lot went down in the basements here, a lot of stuff that I can't tell you." She confessed to me.  "Alyssa, please, I need to know. Even if you don't tell me, my curiosity is going to make me going in search of an actual answer, you realize that right?" "Sebastian, I'm sorry... I can't." "Well... Finney, can you stay with Alyssa well I'm gone?" I asked me with a simple reply of, "all right."

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