| Critical | A Gabe Helmy Fanfic (Sequel to "Thin Air")

|Blackouts|-Ch.2

Jennifer's pov
I have not seen Gabe in over a month. I promised every week, but lately it's been harder and harder to see him. It's been harder to want to see him. Gabe has just become worse by what Dan has been telling me. He has started talking to himself more and screaming to the sound of doors opening. He thrashes around sometimes as if he is possessed. Gabe was moved to a different floor last week. Dan said he didn't know which, but he would let me know as soon as he found out. He also told me Gabe has been suffering from extremely long blackouts. He said they have lasted from 4 to 8 hours at a time. I don't know how to deal with it. I don't know how to help.

Dan's pov
The endless sound of typing on the computer in the main office filled my head. All I could focus on right now was Phil. I haven't seen him in three months. I promised every week, just as Jennifer had promised Gabe. Both of them seem to get worse and worse at a quick pace. Phil has always been bad from the start, he has always been more terrifying with his disorders than Gabe has. They are not monsters. No matter how horrifying they can really be I should never say they're monsters. Disorders do not make people, and people do not make their disorders. That sickens me. The fact that others claim to have disorders when they don't sicken me. Phil has become sad. He was already depressed when he came here, he felt nothing before. Now he seems sad by the camera recordings used to monitor patients. Noah(a guy who works in the monitoring room at the mental hospital)told me Phil will just sit down and start whispering my name, then accelerate to yelling it. The way he screams scares me sometimes. He seems to hurt his lungs, he has said to me before that they harshly burn a lot. I don't know how to deal with it. I don't know how to help.

{ Ahhhh Ch. 2 is out now!! I'm so happy a few of you have found my story again ~ Jess}