Dark inside (Solby)

Monster

Colby's POV

After twenty minutes the doctors left and a sad looking nurse told me I could see him. I walked back inside and I almost started crying again when I saw him asleep like that. It was like nothing had changed and it hurt my heart. I sat next to him and held his hand in between mine as I rested my forehead against it as I held back tears.

"I'm sorry." I whispered. "I'm so sorry" he squeezed my hand when I said that and I looked up to see him looking back at me.

"Not your fault love. It's really not" I wrapped my arms around him and sighed happily as he hugged me back and both of us started to cry. I was so happy he was awake and okay even after everything that had happened.

"Im so glad you're okay"

"I couldn't just leave you here. You have a promise to fulfill" he said smiling and I laughed.

"That's true. I can't let my promise be broken. It's a very important promise." I looked at him and he reached out to me and pulled me into the bed with him.

"Daddy do you have a stuffy?" He asked with hopeful eyes and my heart just melted. I reached over and opened my bag and handed him baby Winnie the Pooh and he squealed as he held him close to his chest. "Tank woo"

"Of course princess. Anything for you." I gently kissed the side of his head and held him close. "I think I need to take better care of you." He looked at me confused and shook his head.

"No you hwave dwone so much for me"

"Doesn't mean I don't need to take better care of you. Besides it would only benefit us it wouldn't cause any harm."

"Twue.....bwut dwont Do awanything you dwont want twoo" he said softly and I smiled nodding as I kissed the side of his head. He giggled and sighed just as a doctor walked into the room. Sam whimpered softly and I held him closer to me, eyeing him suspiciously.

"I'm not here to take him away from you calm down" the doctor said clearly a little annoyed and it was gonna piss me off if he kept that up. He glanced at the chart he was holding and he stopped looking stunned and terrified. "You went to the castle on the hill? Are you crazy?" I blinked in surprise.

"You know about the castle?"

"Yes....that's where my son died....from those marks. He went by himself though so when he was attacked by whatever it was no one was there to bring him to safety he bled out slowly, but only because it looked like someone had tried to fix the wounds to the best of their abilities." Sam looked up at me and a thought crossed my mind. What if she hadn't been trying to kill us, but she was trying to turn us. So she could have a family. And this doctors son was the closest she got to changing someone until his family found him and stopped the process.

"I'm so sorry doctor. That's terrible" I said softly. "If it makes you feel better we killed what attacked us....and I'm assuming your son" he looked at me stunned and raised an eyebrow.

"You killed it? Huh didn't think that thing could die" then he went silent and went about doing his job. I watched him nervously, now feeling even more suspicious then before and the instant he left I hopped out of the bed and looked at Sams wounds, which were basically healed. There weren't even stitches. I carefully started to unhook him from the machines after turning them off so they wouldn't set off any alarms after double checking to make sure everything was okay. Then I changed him into his normal clothes before carrying him out of that hospital as quickly as I could. As we were walking out I heard a scream and turned just in time to see that thing jump at a nurse from our room and tackle her to the ground. Everyone screamed and started running and I sprinted out of the door with Sam in my arms trying to get to the car. I knew that stupid doctor was up to something. It just didn't feel right and now I knew what. He was trying to kill us. I slid into the car and Sam scrambled into the passengers seat holding Winnie close to him as he cried.

"It's okay it's gonna be okay" I said as I started the car and drove off just as the creature lunged out of the hospital, but it didn't see us go. I sighed in relief and drove us home as I laced my fingers with Sams. "You're okay. That thing won't hurt you again I promise." He nodded and was still crying so the instant we got home I held him close to me and tried to soothe him. Elton was running out of the house to us and he looked at us concerned.

"Are you guys okay?" He asked when he reached my car door "we saw what happened on the news and freaked."

"Yea were fine. We would have been dead had I not thought something was off though."

"What do you mean?" Devyn asked surprised

"That thing came after us. It came from our room once I had carried Sam out" they all stood there in shock for a minute before the helped me get Sam out.

"Well you guys are safe and that's what matters"

"Yep. And now I'm going to take care of him" I said as I walked upstairs and closed his playroom door and locked it before sitting in the rocking chair and holding him close.

"W-What if that t-thing comes here?" He sniffed as he clung to me.

"It won't come here. It's not gonna hurt you ever again I promise" he looked at me with big blue eyes and nodded. And I knew he needed my care now more than ever