The Nightmare

☬ Chapter Twenty: Broken Spirit's ☬

The image on the right or above is of the Doctor, he looks extremely scary. Lordy...

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Heather continues running down the hallway gasping for air, she slows down her pace to a sudden stop. She bends over gasping for air, glancing back she doesn't see Dahlia. Letting out a sigh of relief she stands up straight and begins to jog.

"What was she talking about when she said she was showing me the truth?" Heather ask's herself, "And why was she eating my...dad? And why was she laughing at Rain? What happen to them? Did she do it? But that's impossible." Heather disregards the last comment she made, shaking her head. She stops when she hears someone walk through a puddle, Heather runs to the nearest door and opens it and heads in. Closing the door behind her quietly, she slightly hides, barely able to see out the window in the door. She see's a black silhouette of someone walking by. Heather lets out a sigh of relief as she closes her eyes and puts her back to the door.

She suddenly feels a gust of wind, crossing her arms she opens them to see a small park covered in a light shade of ash. Frowning in confusion, Heather walks away from the door to stand on a rigid path crossing straight through the park. Looking around she sees the park surrounded by tall old buildings. Looking at a tall tree in the corner of the park she sees a tire swing swinging around and a merry-go-round spinning close by it.

"What the hell is this place? Am I still in the Asylum?" Heather anxiously ask's herself as she makes a 360 turn looking at everything. She hears a few footsteps from a narrow path behind her, she quickly dives into a thick bush. Peering out she sees Harry, Rain and Alex walking on the path through the park.

"Dad?" Heather softly says to herself in shock.

"This park gives me the creeps. I don't like it at all." Harry says as he gets his weapon ready.

"Yeah I don't have a good feeling about this place either." Rain nervously says as she looks around at the sky. She slightly shakes as a gust of wind blows on the back of her neck.

"We can't just go back now. Chris expects us to look for clues." Alex says sympathetically. Heather sees Rain and Harry both suddenly stop walking, staring straight ahead. Alex continues walking, he glances back and notices them still, he walks back to them.

"What is it?" Alex asks as he looks straight ahead also.

"The merry go round stopped moving." Rain says as she stares straight ahead without blinking.

"And the tire swing stopped swinging too." Harry adds. Alex and Heather both glance at the play items to see them completely still.

"Holy shit, I got goosebumps." Alex says as he rubs his arms, trying to warm himself up. He turns around and walks off leaving Rain and Harry. Before either of the two could walk, they hear the merry go round creak and groan as it slowly spins.

Heather and Rain both glance back at the tire swing to see someone hanging by the neck. Heather gasps as she covers her mouth. Heather then sees a little girl standing on the merry go round, covered in gashes and blood stains.

"It's starting." Rain softly says to Harry.

"That's me when I was a little girl. What the fuck is going on?" Heather softly ask's herself, frowning in confusion. As Heather looks up she sees Harry on his knees in front of Little Heather, pleading for her forgiveness.

"Heather, I'm so sorry I left you! I never should of left you in that place. Please forgive me!" Harry begins to sob as he embraces Heather in a hug.

"He can't possibly be talking about that time when....I was attacked by the B.O.W? He left me in some old abandoned house, while a B.O.W. was chasing us through the woods. He thought it would be safe for me there while he took out the monster. But the monster ended up catching my scent and attacked me, nearly killed me. If it wasn't for Cybil I probably would of been dead." Heather says to herself as she reminisces on the past event.