Mitchell awakens to the sound of his sons screams. He instantly gets out of bed and races to the door, flinging it open and running down the hall.
He enters his son's room, seeing him trashing around on the bed.
"Christopher! Wake up!"he demands, attempting to grab the boy.
Suddenly, Christopher is thrown across the room into his dresser. Mitchell shrieks, taking a step back.
Chris lays limp on the ground, his legs twitching.
"My baby!"his mother runs to his aid.
"A-al-ice."Christopher says.
Mitchell instantly run out of the room towards Alice's room.
"Call the police!"he calls as he bursts into Alice's room.
Alice screams as she sits up from her bed.
"What?!"she says.
"Are you okay?"he asks, running towards her.
"I'm fine Papa, what's going on?!"she says.
"We need to go to the hospital!"he says.
.......
Alice sits quietly as they wait. Her brother had been in surgery for a few hours. She feels his presence near by, and she sits up straight.
"Papa. May I have a few moments to myself?"she asks.
"Yes, of course."he huffs, stressed.
Alice excuses herself.
Then, a woman approaches them.
"Mitchell Cortez?"she asks.
"Yes?"Father Cortez stands.
"My name is Mika Dunn. Child protection services."She flashes her badge to them.
"Cps? What's cps want with us?"He asks.
"Well, the hospital finds it a little unusual that both your children ended up at the hospital within the same week with suspicious injuries."she says.
"Well that has nothing to do with us."Mitchell exclaims.
"Right. Mind if we speak to your daughter?"She says.
"She stepped out for a bit."Mitchell says.
.....
Alice walks slowly towards her brothers room. She approaches the door, slowly turning the knob. She pulls the door open and steps inside softly closing the door behind her.
Her brother, who was resting with a spine injury, immobile, opens his eyes.
He had a breathing tube down his neck and couldn't speak. And there, he sees his sister, being marionetted by the creature he had been thrown by.
Tears begin to fall from his eyes as he looks into his sister's glossed over, dead eyes.
The creature lifts her arm, and she turns off the oxygen that the tube was supplying. He panics as he begins to breathe on his own, through his nose.
The creature then makes Alice pick up a throw pillow on one of the chairs, and Christopher lets out a soft whimper.
"Don't worry Christopher. Your soul will leave with master."her lips don't move, but the creature behind her speaks.
.....
"There she is."Mitchell says as he sees his daughter approach, a bag of chips from a vending machine in her grasp.
"What's wrong papa?"she asks.
"This is Ms. Dunn. She'd like to talk to you."he says.
"Right in here sweetie."Mika opens a door to a private room.
....
"Tell me about your father Alice."Mika says.
"He's a great man. He loves kids, you should see how he is with the choir students. I'm sure he wants more but Mama can't have anymore."Alice responds.
"Does your father ever punish you when you're in trouble?"she asks.
"Well sometimes. Every child needs a stern parent right?"Alice responds.
"Does he hit you?"Mika asks.
"Of course not!"Alice says.
Mika takes notes in her notepad as Alice speaks again.
"But."She says, causing Mika to look up.
"If we do something really bad. I'm talking really, really bad. He takes us down to the basement."Alice says.
"The basement huh? What does he do in the basement?"She asks.
"Papa doesn't let us talk about it."Alice says.
"You can be honest with me love."Mika says.
"Well..sometimes he'll take his wooden cross..and he'll hit me across the back with it.."she says.
"Christopher too."
"How many times does this happen?"Mika asks.
"I don't know..papa usually gives us medicine to help us sleep afterwards."she says.
"Good god."Mika huffs.
....
The two women exit the room, and find the parents frantically speaking to the doctor.
"What do you mean?! This can't be happening!"Mitchell says.
Mika runs over to the doctor, whispering something in his ear. The doctor then looks at Mika and nods. Mika huffs and turns towards Mitchell.
"Sir. I'm gonna need you to come with us."
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