The Facility

Chapter Four

They let me see the psychiatrist without restraints so long as I stayed seated at all times while he was in the room, he seemed a little younger than I thought he would be.

"Hello Miss Anderson, I'm Dr. Maxwell Rockfield. I've gone over your file and I see you've been through a lot, is there anything you would like to talk about first?" he asked.

"Not really" I said.

"You know you've been taken from your parents, how does that make you feel?" he asked.

"I don't feel any particular way about it, I don't feel for them and I only sometimes try to wonder how my life would have been if I had never been taken from them" I said truthfully as he feverishly jotted down notes.

"You said 'try' have you not been able to think clearly on what life with your parents would be like?" he asked.

"Yeah it's like there's a block and I cannot see anything, maybe it's because I have never seen what a normal life is for someone my age" I said.

"You've never stolen a glance into a normal life while you were out there?" he said.

"They were always watching, take a step out of line and you are done" I said.

"Ok before our next session tomorrow, I want you to watch a movie like The Breakfast Club or The Duff and see what a normal life could be like, I also want you to think about ever seeing your parents. Would you want to and if so what would it be like or why would you not want to" he said.

Then he left, I don't know how I was would be able to watch a movie since my little cell only had my bed and a small work station built into the corner and a small bathroom by the door.

But then Daniel came in with a TV on a rolling cart with a DVD player, I've seen them in houses but never actually worked one.

"I've never actually watched anything on TV" I said as he set everything up.

"Things are going to be different now Callie" he said as a girl came in with popcorn and sodas on a tray, she set it down on the end of my bed and walked out.

"I keep trying to think of what my parents would be like and if I'd want to meet them, but all I can think is no I wouldn't" I said.

"Why is that?" he asked.

"I'm a trained killer, I've killed many and most of them were innocent. I'm not what my parents would expect" I said.

He sat back on the bed with me as the movie started.

"You can relax Callie" he said.

I hadn't realized I was sitting straight on the edge of the bed, he had relaxed across the bed already so I just crossed my legs and sat back against the wall.

"So this is how normal people watch movies?" I asked as he held out the bowl of popcorn to me.

"Yes it's a must, tried to get some chocolate but I didn't want to overload you" he said.

The first movie we watched was Breakfast Club, it made me glad that I never went through this kind of turmoil, all of the things these teenagers went through, the teasing and tormenting made what I went through not seem so harsh.

"So this is what the typical American teenager goes through?" I asked once it was over.

"Not always but a generalization" he said.

"They would rather I be tormented and teased in high school than what I was doing?" I asked.

"Just because it happened in the movie, doesn't mean it would happen to you in real life Callie" he said as he switched movies.