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章節 3: 3. Hospitalized

Damn...my body hurts like hell...

I slowly opened my eyes, I didn't know why, but I just had to look that way, which was to the far end of the room.

And there she was in her long black looking cape, with her hoodie down covering her hair and half of her face. She was walking with a thud as her cane touched the hospital floor, I tried to move but I couldn't, she was grinning wide, showing her rotten teeth and wrinkled face, she was coming towards me.

Oh my god...please not now...

Then she was behind me, her rotten smell hit my nose as I felt her decaying body embrace me. Her long nails scrapped my arms, I could see the bloody rotten fingernails. She was humming above my head, that was when she said.

"My beautiful child, you are too precious. Come with us, live with us...my dear son had been waiting for you..." She whispered in her old shaky raspy voice, then she touched my jaw and move it to look the other way, and saw the tall man that I would see from time to time, since when I was eight.

I had felt his presence several times, but he always come and go so I never think much of him. But now I was whimpering, I was crying, I was truly terrified for my life. I could feel my body was getting weaker. Her laughter filled the room, as the man walked to the other way.

My body felt hot and cold at the same time, I was shivering, my teeth was chattering, then a loud beeping sound echoed inside the room.

I could see people in scrubs surrounded me, they were sticking needles in my IVs. Then she was gone, just like that as the machine sound was back to its regular beeping rhythm.

And then what ever they put in me seemed to do the work, as I felt my eyes slowly became heavy and I drifted off to sleep.

*****

It was daylight when I opened my eyes, and the nurse that was taking my vitals greeted me.

"Good afternoon miss, we have been waiting for you to regain consciousness. Let me get the doctor for you. And there are police officers outside, waiting to take your statements, we are waiting for you to wake up, to do the procedure on assault victims. I'm truly sorry that this happened to you..." She tapped my hand and walk out of the room.

I could feel my tears falls down to my cheeks.

I finally did it, I ran away. Now I just need to hide and run further.

I sat up and tried to get up, my body hurts but I had to do this. I must get away before they found me here. I groaned as I try to put my feet down to the cold floor.

How the fuck am I going to do this? I don't have my shoes and my clothes.

But before I could answer my own thought, the nurse came back with the officers, a woman and a man. The woman quickly came to my side.

"I must go, before they found me. Please, you got to help me. I can't do this anymore, I won't....please...." More tears came running down my cheeks. I still felt dirty from last night, but they had changed me into a hospital gown. This was my lowest point, I felt like I just wanted to gave up and die.

"Sshh...miss, you're safe now. We have security on your door. No body enters without our approval. I'm sergeant Green and, this is my partner Lieutenant Kelly. We will continue with the gathering of evidence for your case. We had already collected your clothes and shoes. My partner will wait outside until we're done with this." She was wearing surgical gloves when she hold me, and helped me back to my bed.

The nurse came back with another female nurse, she was carrying a large bag and put it aside and start to arrange them in order. I was nervous as the other nurse close the bed curtain, and cocoon us all in.

Sergeant Green caressed my shoulder, trying to calmed me down. "So what's your name? It's okay, we can talk about anything, just to keep your mind off of this." She said to me softly.

"Florence...I can't...why don't you tell me, what's going to happen to me after this." I looked at her, while the nurses started scrapping from under my nails, and combed my hair, and took the scraps and put in in the evidence bag, and marked it carefully.

"We need your last name dear..." The older nurse asked, while she was jotting down information on her pad, and then to the evidence bag.

"Patterson." I said lowly.

Then the other nurse help me stripped off my hospital gown, I was teary and crying as I looked at my battered state. Older wounds were still visible, but the fresh ones were horrifying to look at.

"Sshh... just let it out, I couldn't even try to imagine being in your position. Please bear with us, it'll be over in a few moments okay? This will make sure, that we will put all responsible person in jail for a long time." Sergeant Green said softly, while she rubbed my back. Then the nurses start the embarrassing moments, as they took close up detail pictures of my wound on my naked body.

I could feel sergeant Green was sighing behind me, when she took in all of my wounds, I could feel the anger in her. I could feel how mad she was with the people that had done this me.

"We will get them. You just be strong for us. I'm just asking you that, it must be hard but please...be strong okay Florence?" She asked, while the nurses kept on taking my pictures, lifting my arms, turning my body, my legs, they kept on taking my pictures quietly. It felt like hours, while I kept on crying and sobbing, and listening to sergeant's Green soothing words.

Then it was finally over, as the nurses gathered back all of their equipment.

"Florence dear, I'll be back later after the police finish taking their statement. I will help you wash your body in the bathroom okay? You are a strong woman." The older nurse came up to me and caressed my hand. Then they opened the bed curtain again, once I was back in my hospital gown.

Lieutenant Kelly came into the room, minutes later.

"He could stand outside if you're not comfortable with male presence." Sergeant Green informed me.

"I'm sorry, I'm good...he can stay." I told her. I could feel that she's a young mother, and that she truly cared for me. That made me felt safe, that made me believed her.

"Now if you could state your full name for us, and tell us everything then we could carry on with the next procedure." She nodded to her partner as he flipped open his pad and start scribbling.

"Flo, I'm Florence Patterson. My parents are Cindy and Jared Patterson...." Then I told them the whole story.

I could tell, that they were skeptical about me being a clairvoyant but kept on taking my statement anyway. They must've known that I couldn't possibly, do this battering to my own body. That there was someone out there, that was responsible for my state of being.

I told them that he didn't rape me, but they advise me to pressed charges on assault, and attempted rape I nodded to her, and started crying again, as I remembered what happen to me last night.

"Hey, it's okay we got their names, it'll be over soon." She caressed my arm tenderly then I felt it, the motherly loss, how she had just lost her baby. She was not a young mother. She was supposed to be one, but lost the baby as she was injured in a shootout. The baby I saw must be the future one, I did saw her earlier with a beautiful baby boy.

"I'm so sorry about your loss, but not long now...it's a baby boy, a handsome one..." She was taken back with my words as she looked at her partner. He was shocked but was back to writing down on his pad seconds later, trying to keep calm as he nodded to sergeant Green.

An hour later it was all done, then they left me alone in the hospital room.


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章節 4: 4. Him

I had always hated hospital, there were too many wondering spirits. The emergency doctor told me, that I could leave tomorrow, or the next day. It all depends from the assessment from the psychiatrist, that I'll be meeting in a couple more hours.

"But I don't have money to pay for all of this? Maybe I should leave now? I'm good, I'll think of something." I was seriously nervous about the hospital bill.

"Ms. Patterson, the nurse will later give you a form for the abused victim shelter, we had a connection with an non profit organization who take care of abused victims such as yourself. Look, you don't need to think about that for now. You're very lucky that to came to this hospital. We have very generous organizations that support special cases. So, please concentrate on getting better yeah?" He looked at me, while I finally relaxed.

I was still hoping that I could leave right away, not just because of the expenses but I was worried about spending the night again with all of the spirits. Even in the day time, I could feel their presence.

But the doctor said that it was a procedure from the hospital for the assaulted victims, that there would be counseling session for my trauma.

Last night I was dreading to spend the night at the hospital, but the pain meds were making me sleepy, so I was thankful for that. This afternoon I was scheduled for a therapy session with Dr. Hayes. I highly doubt that he or she would help me with my problems. But I still need the doctor's approval that I was stable enough to be let out of the hospital.

"Ms. Patterson..."

"Flo, please call me...Flo, I'm not big on my parent's name." I told the older nurse that had been taking care of me since yesterday.

"Well then Flo, I'm Maggie. How are you today darling? I got some forms for you to fill out, are you up for it? Look Flo...Dr. Markov had informed me about your concerns, later this afternoon you will meet with someone from the shelter. They will provide everything for you, to start your new life. But now you can fill out the forms, then I will take you to see Dr. Hayes in about thirty more minutes."

"Thank you Maggie, I'm good with the forms. I can do it now." I smile at her and took the form, then shivered as I touched her hand. I felt all sadness that she felt for all of her patients, tears fell down as I submerged in her feelings.

She looked at me confusingly. "Flo? Is everything okay?"

"Mmm hmm.. I'm good." I never was a big fan of letting people know of my so called talent. I wanted people to see me as a normal human being. I never wanted all of these touchy feelings, it drained my energy and toyed with my emotions.

"Look...you can tell anything okay? Or maybe you can talk later with Dr. Hayes, just make sure you unload..okay?" She touched my shoulder, again her feeling surged throughout my body. I winced and pulled back from her touch.

"I'm sorry Maggie..."

"Oh Flo my child...it's okay. You just get yourself better, okay?" She wiped my tears away then leave me and said that she would comeback later for my schedule with the psychiatrist.

I surely didn't expect to find him behind the desk. And by the look on his face, he was also surprised to see me. Maggie introduced me to him, then left us for our session.

"So, Ms. Patterson..."

"Please it's Flo, Florence just not Patterson." I told him as he scribbled something down on his pad.

"Right, it's Walter for you then...we might as well keep this assessment light." He smiled and started flipping trough my files. Then his eyebrow arched and his facial expression sadden.

"Look, this is beyond context. But the last time we met, I was sure that you can feel me?" He got up from his chair and stood up, he looked at me, then quickly lookout his office window, he look stressed already.

He must be in his early thirties, but he looked older from all of his burden.

"I should've fought for you harder, I knew that there were something wrong with you at that bus station." He run his fingers trough his thick hair.

I never felt this, but his sadness made me wanted to comfort him. His eyes were deep and dark his expression was framing his handsome face. My toes curls inside my borrowed hospital clogs.

"Florence?" He asked me

"Hmm? Yes sorry...I'm not sure if the police had shared my information with you yet. I'm a clairvoyant, I see things, feel things, it's what put me in this situation. That night, when I accidentally touched you, your sadness overwhelmed me. Thank you for trying though, I should've fought harder also. But..."

"Hey, it's okay...we're here to let you unload, not to put the blame on you." He was about to comfort me with his touched, but retrieved his hand back.

"Sorry, it's a habit..." He told me with his deep voice. I never knew that I could be attracted to a man by hearing his voice.

"It's okay, thank you for understanding. So...where should I begin?" I smiled at him and try to lighten up the conversation.

"Florence, this psychological stuff is my study. But it was brought early on by my other ability, I don't know what it's like to be a clairvoyant. But I know what it's like to feel and see things. That night at the station, I can feel that your presence were attracting them." He told me while looking intensively at me.

So I was right... He can sense me, he can see the dead, the spirits...

I was having all the funny feelings inside my heart. I never felt this. I was suddenly happy.

What is wrong with me?? This man is trying to be professional and help me.

"Look, I have a group outside of this hospital we usually meet up twice a week. It's for people like you and me, how to cope with them, channel our emotion, share our days, meditating and other stuff to unload our burden." He gave me his card and wrote down the schedule and the address for the next meeting.

I took his card and we continue on with our session. It was really nice to have someone to listen to all my experiences and rants without judgement. And he was actually listening to me, as he asked me several questions regarding my stories.

Our session ended as Maggie escort me back to my room. We were just getting out form his office, walking down along the hospital hallway, when there was a commotion in front of us.

Then a woman ram my body down, as she got on top of me. She was crazy, but the energy that I felt was truly immense. It was like she was being possessed by a man, a very bad man. I cried as she tried to choked me, I could see her face was changing from her to another, a man's face.

She was screaming when she was pulled off from on top of me, my energy was sucked to hers. Then Walter was by my side. "Maggie could you get her some water? I'll wait with her." Then she nodded and went to get some water, after she seated me down on one of the sofa in the waiting area.

"Flo...I'm going to transfer my energy to you, she had sucked you dry. Do you trust me?" He whispered in my ear without touching me. He was careful not let me touched him and drained more of my energy.

"Yes..." That was all I could say to him.


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