A quick glance behind me, i don't know why, how did i get here ?
I was standing on someone's front porch in front of the door, why had i come here ? . The last thing i could remember was that i had just gone to bed after dinner and, no ... we were having a session , i ? , i can't remember , i don't know , a state of panic began to rise in me but it quickly became lost , i felt lost and cold , the wind was clawing at my face with its cold talons making me wince a little , i had not realized that the front door was now open , there was now a young man standing in front of me looking rather rushed.
His hair was a complete and utter mess , it probably always looked that way cause it seems he probably never introduced it to a hair brush , his glasses also looked really dirty and messy , he probably hadn't cleaned them in a while , and his clothes looked as though he had just flung them on like he had just foreseen the worlds end and was getting a head start , i felt like i should know his name , but i didn't ,
'hi , you must be Mrs Long' must i , must be ,
'yes , am i late ?' i deliberately avoided saying his name , cause well , i didn't know it ,
'uh , no in fact your early'
'ah ok , old habit'
'i was just about to let the dogs out for a while , but since you're here now , would you mind if i let now ?'
'yeah sure , have they been fed ?'
'yeah yeah , umm if i'm late back , they're food is in the cupboard by the back door '
'ok cool' i moved out of his way letting him run to his car , his dogs quickly followed , he had a lot of dogs , none of which had collars on but i guess he trusted them not to run of , i went down the porch steps to join the dogs on the dry grass , some came over to greet me , they all looked pretty healthy and normal considering the fact that there were so many , as i watched the man pull away from the house in his car he gave me a quick glance and a waved goodbye , i waved back as he drove up the lane and into the distance.
I felt strangely at ease as i breathed a deep lungful of calmness and peace into the world and dumped myself onto the hard ground taking in the view whilst occasionally scratching one or two of the dogs as they passed me by , one of the dogs , one of the older dogs decided to sit down beside me requesting some well deserved attention.
Nearly an hour had passed and most of the dogs had now settled down on the patch of grass after doing there business and stretching their legs , the sun was now beginning to set on the lines of the horizon across the fields and as if on cue the icy winds of night began to pick up , i began pondering of how i actually came to being where i was , i don't remember arriving here by transport so i must have walked here , wherever here is , i have know idea who that man was or even why i'm here , the sun had now set and as the colours began to merge together once more turning day into night i picked myself and made my way back to the house and the dogs followed me close by , opening the front door the dogs quickly came into the house to escape the dark and cold and sat in the living room by the fireplace.
Not long after entering the house i started to feel really tired and the fact that the snore's erupting from the dogs could probably wake the dead was not helping either , it was getting really cold now , every time i breathed out a thick cloud a vapour blinded me for a moment , i tried and failed to warm myself up on my own and so resorted to loading up the fireplace and eventually after burning half a dozen trees i finally tore my coat away from me and sat down on the sofa by the fire , whilst building up the fire , some of the dogs had moved around the room while others only shifted their positions , the dog that had earlier sat down beside me outside had now hopped up on to the sofa and led down so that his head was resting on my lap , he quickly fell asleep as i scratched his ear and not long after they had all fallen back to sleep , i began to drift of , i tried hard to stay awake for a while but i was so warm and comfortable i struggled to fight the urge , in the end i gave in and fell asleep as the wood crackled and spat in the distance.
A loud thud caused me to jump awake as i registered the sound , i stood up and looked around the room and noticed all the dogs had gone , vanished , i began to wonder if that man had got back home whilst i was asleep , the fire had long since died out and i could now barely see anything , let alone me feet in front of me , or around someone's house , whilst slowly making my way around the house , i was surprised that with all the noise i was making trotting around the house , i was surprised that i didn't hear the dogs stir or walk about the house at all , it was all so silent , another loud thud made me shriek a little , it sounded as though it had come from upstairs somewhere ,
'hello , is anyone here ? ' , i managed to the stairs after a while and i began to climb them slowly , if there was a burglar here or even a gang that had not heard me which was unlikely with all the noise i was making i didn't want to alert them , armed or not , as i continued climbing the stairs i managed to trod on what seemed like a lump of metal , i wasn't sure what it was so i decided to pick it up and began to feel both ends of the object to find out what it was , i must of pressed a button of some sort because suddenly a bright light came shooting out one end leading me a clear path up the stairs.
I checked all the rooms on the top floor and so far so good , but i still haven't found any of the dogs , none of them , no trace , no movement , nothing , as i searched each of the rooms my hopes of finding the dogs began to decrease rapidly , perhaps they got out ? , i was so confused i felt like crying , no , i couldn't , i wouldn't. There was one last room that i had not checked , the bedroom , i slowly approached the door ,
' hello ? , is someone in there ?' i grabbed the handle of the door and began to twist the knob slowly, the door creaked opened as i entered the room and at that point i felt as though i was walking on something slippery and wet , i had a feeling , but i didn't like it , i dropped the light of the torch on to the floor in front of me and nearly dropped it in surprised , there was a huge dark pool of blood surrounding my feet , i felt my heart begin to beat like a drum and i began to tremble like a leaf , as i froze myself to the spot i moved my light forward and followed a trail of blood across the room where it finally stopped at the foot of a bed , i moved the light up the frame of the the bed where it came to rest on something on top of the bed , my mouth dropped in terror as there on the bed was a pile , of dogs , soaked in blood , a scream got caught in my throat , just then a creaked was produced in the room and i pointed my light in that direction , i screamed in terror as i saw a man standing there with a knife in his hand , i immediately dropped the torch on the floor and the light was gone , i couldn't see anything now and i was still screaming , screaming at the darkness.
I opened my eyes to find myself sat up in a bed and still screaming , i stopped when a door opened a few feet away , it was Hannibal , my heart was still beating hard and fast and i struggled to keep up with it , tears were now flooding from my eyes as i couldn't get that image of the dogs out of my head ,
'Mrs Jones , what happened ?' i couldn't speak , i hadn't the air to speak , only tears to cry , he came over quickly and pulled me to his chest trying to sooth me ,
'shh , its over ' i managed to croak out a few words against his chest ,
'please help me '
