The Evil Within

Chapter 3

Beep. Beep. Beep.

Maddey opens her eyes, looking around before sitting up frantically remembering last events. Michael killing the man, him hunting her down, then almost killing her and now? She looked around to only notice she's in a hospital bed. She touches her neck before quickly retracting her hand from the pain, the purple and blue bruises that are probably already formed.

The door opens making her look up to notice a familiar man.

"Dr.Loomis.."Her voice hoarse and sore. She quickly tries to get up but Loomis sits her back down.

"How are you feeling my dear?" He asks holding her hand to look at her. She looks at him before trailing her fingers over her neck.

"I'm..r-really sore...would I be able..to have a..drink?" She looks at him before he nods and leaves the room. Tears escape her eyes as she thinks of possibly running into Michael again and to not have anyone to save her this time. The only thing that is keeping her with hope is that he's back at Smiths Grove locked up.

Loomis comes back with a cup of water placing it in her hands before taking a seat. She takes a sip before looking back at Loomis.

"Michael is....missing" Loomis says making Maddey drop the cup spilling the rest of her drink on the ground.

"W-what?!" More tears fall down her cheeks. Oh god. No. Loomis looks back at her with sympathy.

"We have all the deputy looking for him right now as we speak." Loomis says rubbing her shoulder. " I will put two officers on duty to stay here and watch over you if you would like for extra security" She wants to feel safe, she truly does but knowing that Michael is out there and possibly hunting her down to finish the job she just can't.

"I-I can't stay...I can't stay..here" Loomis looks at her then frowns.

"You need to stay here for another night before you can be sent home, just to get your neck fixed up and to monitor everything before we know your suitable to go." He says standing up and looking at her. She didn't want to stay she wanted to leave as soon as possible but knowing Loomis he's a stubborn man.

"O-okay" she says before looking down at her hands. Loomis nods before his phone buzzes. He answers going silent then he turns around and hangs up.

"Get some rest, I'll be back in the morning" and with that he leaves the room. Making Maddey look up with a confused look. What was that about? She lays back down feeling the drowsiness hit her making it difficult to stay awake. She looks at the clock reading 9:45 pm before succumbing to darkness.

She awakes to the same beeping noise before sitting up and looking at the clock reading 2:12am. The feeling of thirst itches at her throat making her get out of bed, she shudders as her feet touch the cold floor. After standing she begins walking only to have the feeling of being watched hit her, she stops before looking towards the window. A blur of white is all she sees before it vanishes behind a tree, fear hits her hard terrified that it's Michael. I have to get out of here.

She opens the door before looking through the silent hallways, noticing no one around she walks down the hallway slowly trying to stay quiet. The hallways are deathly silent making Maddey extremely nervous and scared to run into a nurse or Michael himself. The exit sign glows brightly in the dark hallway making Maddey's hope rise until a hand grabs her causing her to shriek.

"Miss what are you doing out of your bed? You should be resting." A nurse asked pulling her back, away from the exit.

"N-no please you don't understand, I need to get out of here." Maddey looked towards the nurse pulling her arm out of her grasp. The nurse looked at her before trying to grab her only for Maddey to back away.