Inner Demons

Chapter 3

"Momma! Dad!" I cried.

I opened my eyes and saw I was outside my parents bodies laying dead in front of me. My mother twisted her head with a sickening cracking sound of broken bones and glass.

"Look what you did!"

"Mom?"

My father's eyes didn't blink as he shouted, "Your a killer! You killed us!"

"Dad I-I'm sorry-"

"(Name)."

I gasped when I saw it was Doctor Bennett in front of me with my parents, the knife still lodged in his gut bleeding profusely all over the ground.

"You caused this!" He shouted.

"I'm-im so sorry." I said backing up.

Suddenly I fell into the floor falling and falling and falling until I landed into the padded room as before with Doctor Bennett in front of me. There was another version of me in front of him with an insane smile and my hand on the knife.

Screams of agony echoing as I stepped back desperately looking for a way out.
She suddenly stood up and turned around her creepy smile still stretched impossibly wide like someone had extended her mouth.

The other version of me pounced and grabbed onto my shoulders digging her bloody nails into them. I screamed in agony and fear as she made me fall to my back.

I felt gravity shift again and when I opened my eyes I was standing in a room with bodies of innocent children and woman and men around me brutally killed with the knife in my hand.

Accusations were being screamed at me and I sobbed collapsing to my knees. When I opened my eyes the world was apocalyptic and was rotting with death. Corpses of innocent people littered the streets the metallic smell of blood in the air that was so thick I could taste it.

"Please stop." I whispered closing my eyes and holding my head.

"Why did you do this to us honey?"

I opened my eyes and saw my mother had appeared in front of me with glass shards sticking out of her body. She had a tearful face showing pain and betrayal in her (eye color) eyes I inherited.

My father was beside her looking down in shame with the same wounds as her.

"Mom- Dad." I went to step forward but a wall of bars appeared in front of me as their swirling and fading figures began to walk away into the darkness.

"Mom! Dad! I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! Please come back!" I said.

The bars disappeared and I ran but when I was only a few feet away my pace slowed much slower than them so my finger tips just barely brushed their backs. I was walking in slow motion as I tried to catch up to them.

"(Name) wake up!"

"No! Mom! Dad! Come back! I'm sorry!" I shouted.

"(Name)! Snap out of it!"

"I'm sorry!"

Suddenly everything turned white and I opened my eyes gasping for air. My skin was covered in goosebumps and sweat. I didn't understand what was going on until everything came back to me and I saw Agent Colson was in front of me with his hand still on my uninjured shoulder that he was shaking to wake me from my nightmare.

"Are you okay (Name)? You sounded like you were having a terrible nightmare."

It happened to me every night.

I would dream about my parents death and people accusing me and calling me monsters. I would vent to Doctor Bennett and he would remind me it was just a dream so it didn't mean anything and it was just my worries getting the best of me.