The Doc Is In

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When I'm in the lift, I hit the 2nd floor button. 

'Gosh, what are you doing to me, Jimmy?' I ask myself.

The lift raises up and I step out. I head to the left and the light goes out. I almost panic when the light comes back on and a man, knocking on the door, is there.

"Jimmy? I'm Doctor Bose. I'm just here to have a little chat, okay?"

The door opens and he walks in saying, "Thank you, Jimmy. I won't be long."

I run over to the door. 217. I go inside. I pull out my ghost box. 

"Anyone here?"

"Hello?"

"Who are you?"

"Doctor Bose. I'm a clinical psychiatrist."

"I saw a man knockin' on a door, telling Jimmy he was there to help. Who was it?"

"It was me- I got a call from Jimmy's mother, Rose. She wanted me to talk to Jimmy, find out what was bothering him. But, Harvey was worried about Jimmy's mind, the things he was imagining."

"Who drew those violent pictures?"

"Jimmy did. He used to draw them."

"When you said Harvey was worried about Jimmy's mind, does that have anything to do with the pictures I found?"

"Yes- they suggested a turbulent personality, but i wasn't particularly concerned until.." He stopped for a minute. "I started to realize how far his imagination went."

I start to get a vision of something I can't even tell. It tells me to go to level one. I turn off the ghost box and go to the lift. All of a sudden I get grabbed and pushed into the wall. 

"What the hell, Hugo?"

"What? Can't you and I have a little fun if we are playing this fun little game?"

"Fun? Are you fucking mental?"

"Yes- but so are you. You can't tell me I'm the only one insane in our relationship."

"Yes, I can. I quit doing bad stuff. I've turned my life around."

I start getting closer to the lift.

"And I have fucking tried!" screams Hugo, grabbing my arm and pulling me back. "I'm so sick and tired of this."

He lets go and starts walking away.

"Hugo, quit running away from your fucking problems!"

"YOU THINK THIS IS RUNNING?!" he yells, running at me with a bat. 

I run into the lift and hit the 1 button. The doors close and I take a deep breath and let it out. What the hell's got into him? Anyway, the doors open and I step out, knowing I have a little time left before Hugo gets down there. I go into the store room and shut the door behind me. I turn back around and see Dr. Bose holding a dead animal. It looks like a rat. I close my eyes. The lights flash. I open them. He and the animal are gone. I turn on the ghost box.

"Is it Dr. Bose?"

"Yes."

"I saw you holding up a dead animal on some sort of wire. What happened?"

"Well, Y/N, Jimmy  was killing things, small birds, animals. He needed to work on his empathy skills. So, I asked him to think of something nice he could do for me. I was surprised, he came up with an idea right away. "

"Who did the chef's hat belong to?"

"Jimmy found it and put it on."

"When you said Jimmy came up with an idea to do something nice for you, did that have anything to do with the hat?"

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