Lucid's POV
"Mr. Crescent!" Nyctalgia and I both looked up at the same time and spoke in unison, "Yes?" The lady at the desk smiled, "Are you boys twins?" We looked at each other an smirked, "Nah we ain't TWINS were adopted in from England he's from Africa!" Nyctalgia laughed, "Yea I'm totally from Africa man!" The lady laughed, "Get asked that a lot?" We both smiled and nodded, "Get asked it about a million times a day!" She laughed again as we spoke in unison. "Well anyhow we can take you back to get patched up now." She nodded towards the door where a man in a long white doctors coat and a woman in scrubs was standing. Nyctalgia shrank back into the wall. "Dude bows not the time to dwell on your fear of needles and other surgical devices. Come on!" I pulled him to his feet and lead him over to the doctors. Sammy followed behind with Scout in her arms. "Will I have to get shots? I don't want shots!" I pat him on the back, "That all depends on what the doctor does bud I can't control that." He started to pout, "So you can control my pain and other things but you can't do a damn about shots?!" I shook my head, "Nope! Sorry bro." The doctors lead us into a room and I say Nyctalgia on the bed. "I'm sorry but you guys are going to have to wait outside the room." The male doctor started to wave us out the door. Nyctalgia grabbed my sleeve and looked at me like he was about to cry. "Nah uh don't you dare cry! You've been to the doctors how many times now?!" His eyes became misty and he wiped his eyes, "But that's not the same as a hospital. People die in hospitals and there are ghosts and other things that stay here. I don't wanna be alone..." He started to cry a little bit. I sighed, "Come here." I pulled him into a hug and he buried his face in my chest. I let go of him and placed my hands on his shoulders, "Tell you what. I'll go get you ice cream from the hospital cafeteria if you want." He looked up at me his eyes puffy and red, but he smiled slightly."Really?" I nodded and smiled, "Yep just for you!" He nodded, "Ok." I pat his head, "There. There." He laughed. "On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your pain?" He smiled, "Physical or emotional?" We both laughed and I walked over to the door. "Now do exactly what they tell you or I'm eating your ice cream." His eyes widened and he shook his head, "No my ice cream!" I smiled and walked out the door. I told Sammy to wait outside the door while I went to the cafeteria down the hall. A retreated down the hallway and followed the signs that pointed to where the cafeteria was. I texted him real quick to see what he wanted. 'Hey what u want?' He texted back almost immediately. 'Something w/ SPRINKLES! :D' I rolled my eyes an smiled, 'I should have known.' He sent back a smiley face and I pocketed my phone. I stood in line an looked at the ice creams. I grabbed the only one I saw with sprinkles and held it as I made my way through the line. I suddenly felt like some one was watching me. I looked with my eyes at first and didn't see anyone near me. Then I turned and saw a man in a corner by the doorway staring at me. He had a hood on so I could see any aspect of his face. I turned back around quickly certain that he saw me look at him and quickly paid for Nyctalgia's ice cream. As I was walking towards the doors I could feel his eyes on me as I walked closer and closer to him to exit the cafeteria. When I walked past him it felt like electricity jolting through my body. I walked quickly out the door an stared in front of me. I heard him follow me and then halfway down the hall he grabbed my shoulder. As I was turning around to question him he pushed me against the wall on my stomach. "Hey what's your problem man?!" He lifted the back of my shirt and I tried to pull it back down. "Dude let go! That's not..." He let go of my shirt and pressed me harder into the wall. I heard him whisper in my ear, "Nice tattoo..." My eyes widened and he released me. I quickly looked back at him but he was already back at the end of the hallway and disappearing behind the corner. "The hell man." I stumbled backwards a couple steps then walked quickly back towards the room Nyctalgia was in. 'What kind of psycho is he?" I looked behind me and there he was standing about 50 feet behind me. I sped up and turned the corner and looked back again. He was closer this time. I kept my eyes forward and didn't look back. He appeared next to me and I jumped away from him and pressed myself against the wall. I saw him smile this crazy psychotic smile and I stared at him wide eyed. He tried to reach out and grab me but I bolted out of the way and down the hall. As I ran back to Nyctalgia's room I could hear him laughing. It got louder and louder with each step I took. And it didn't stop til I turned the corner to Nyctalgia's room. Sammy looked at me curiously as I turned the corner breathing heavy and with my hair a mess and my shirt bunched up in the back where the man had grabbed me. "You ok Lucid? You look like someone was chasing you."I fixed my shirt and ran my hand through my hair. "I'm fine. Just wanted to get back to the room before the ice cream melted." I held up the ice cream it was still frozen and looked ready to eat. She smiled, "Ok just thought I'd ask cause you looked kinda scared." I chuckled, "Me scared never."
Nyctalgia's POV
The doctor had me take my shirt and shoes off after Lucid left the room. I sat on the bed looking at the doctor nervously. He told me to lay down so that he could see what was broken and what wasn't. He started poking and prodding different areas of my body and I would flinch and yell "Ow" when ever he hit something that was broken. He went all the way down my body, he even went to places I didn't want him to go. 'Kinky little bastard.' When he was done he made me hold out my hand that was tweaked for him. He held my wrist and told me to try and flex my hand as far as I could. I tried to move my hand but I barely opened it and I was already grimacing in pain. He told me to try and open it more and try I did. I got it about halfway before I started to yell and tears started to form in my eyes. He pat me on the shoulder lightly and said I could stop. After that he had me stand up and try to stand as straight as physically possible, because for some reason slouching in pain isn't allowed at the moment. 'Yay so much fun! -_-' As soon as I tried to move my back a wave of pain jolted throughout my body and I leaned back against the bed and held onto my side. He had me sit back on the bed and told me to lift up each foot so he could inspect it. I lifted my left leg and nothing was wrong but when I lifted my right leg and poked it I flinched. I dropped my leg back down and he started writing stuff down on a clipboard. I watched him then he looked at me and told me I'd have to do an X-ray. I looked out the window into the hallway and saw Lucid holding my ice cream and talking to Sammy. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the doctor moving something towards me. I looked over and nearly got my eye taken out by a needle. I yelled and leaned away from him on the bed. Lucid looked in at me and saw me staring at the needle. He opened the door and tried to come help me but the nurse stopped him. He started to argue with the nurse saying that he could help out. "Sir you need to go back outside!" She pushed him out and he stared at me worried through the door. "It's just a shot nothing bad will happen." "What kind of shot?" "The kind that will knock you out and help with the pain." My eyes widened, "Nope. Nah uh! No shots for me!" I tried to way out of the bed but the nurse pushed me back down. She clamped my mouth shut with her hand and held me down on the bed. The doctor pushed my head to the side softly and pushed the needle into the skin on my neck. My eyes widened in fear and I tried to escape their grasp. He injected the fluid into my neck. The nurse held me still as I squirmed under her weight. I started to feel dizzy and I saw Lucid with his hands pressed against the glass and staring at me in horror. Then suddenly everything went dark within my view. I lifted my hands in front of my face and they started to change. They morphed into claws, then fins, then they were covered in feathers. I watched them change and then I heard laughter. I turned and saw a man in a dark hood standing in the corner by the door. He was laughing. I held my hands over my ears and curled into a ball. "Shut up. Shut up.." I felt hands on me and I screamed, "Stop laughing! Stop laughing at me!" I looked towards where the man was and saw he was now inches from my face. He smiled evilly down at me and I stared at him in horror. Was I going crazy or was this the medicine that the doctor gave me. "Go away...Leave me alone..." I heard the nurse ask me something, "What's wrong sir? What are you seeing?" I shivered as the room turned deathly cold. "A man..in a dark hood. He's laughing at me...make him go away..make..."The last thing I heard besides the laughter was Lucid yelling my name. And someone shaking my shoulders trying to ask me something. "Dark..hood.." Then everything turned black.
