Hawks Hospital

A marine blue SUV pulls up in front of a half rusted iron gate. A guard sitting in a Booth off to the side of the road put down the magazine he was reading. The man stood up and walked over to the window of the driver. Sitting in the drivers seat was a young woman of about 26. She had long, well kept brunette hair and hazel eyes.

“ID and reason for visiting,” asked the guard.

The young woman reached into the pocket of her jeans and pulled out an old tattered tri fold leather wallet. She opened the wallet and what looked to be an old photo fell on the floor and opened revealing an old black and white photo of a family, A man and woman where standing tall over the three children in the photo who were dressed in formal clothes. The woman stared at the photo and entered a catatonic trance.

“Ma’am are you ok?” said the worried guard.

“Oh sorry,” she replied, slipping out of the trance.

She picked the photo up and folded it back into the wallet. She pulled out her license and said, “I’m here to visit a patient.”

He looked at the license studying it closely, and handed it back to the woman in the car. “thank you Amy for cooperating move on ahead.”

The guard walked back to the booth and pressed a button to open the gate. The gate opened with rusted screeching. Amy put the car into drive and headed down the well-paved concrete road through a well-kept garden. She noticed a young boy sitting under a tree, clawing at his ears. Amy kept driving along the road until she reached a left turn into a parking lot. She took the first spot in the lot there were only a few other cars in the public lot. She sat quietly in the car for a few seconds before turning off the ignition and getting out of the car. Amy walked around the back of the right side of the car and opened the trunk. Amy picked up her purse and slung it over her shoulder, she reached into the back for another thing, an old book. It looked like an old children’s book. Amy slipped it into her bag and closed the trunk while locking the car.

She headed down the paved walkway to the front building. She looked at the sign mounted above the building. The sign read “Hawks Creek Mental Hospital.” Amy looked back at the tree she had seen the young boy sitting under tree, but there was no sign of the young boy. Amy turned back and kept walking up the stairs. Another security guard greeted her outside the building.

“Do you know where the young boy sitting under the tree has gone, he’s no longer there?” Amy asked.

The guard looks at her with a confused face and replied, “Ma’am, we don’t allow patients outside during the afternoon. No patient has left the building in a couple hours.”

Amy said, “Well it must have been my imagination,” as she walked passed the guard.

Amy walked through the electronic door and was greeted by another guard standing buy a metal detector. “Ma’am please take off your shoes and put your purse in the box,” the guard explained.

Amy did as the guard requested, she took off her shoes and placed her purse in the box.

The guard continued “Please walk through the detector and pick up your items when you come to the other side.”

Amy picked up her purse and put her shoes back on and walked through another door. As Amy passed through the door, she was greeted buy the warmth of the A.C. In the room she had just entered, there was a large desk with a nurse to greet her.

Amy approached the nurse sitting at the desk. Amy cleared her throat to get the attention of the woman.

Amy said, “I’m here to see a patient.”

The nurse looked up at Amy “What’s the name of the patient you are visiting?”

“I’m hear to see Henry Williams, my brother,” Amy replied.

The nurse looked down at her computer and began typing. “I’m sorry Amy you can’t see him right now, he’s currently under lock down,” the nurse explained Amy replied, “I know, that’s why I’m here to see him I need to talk to him.”

The nurse explained, “Ok but if you must talk to him, you need to go with the escort of another nurse.”

The nurse asked Amy to sit over in the waiting area, to wait for the nurse to come, the nurse pulled up a microphone and spoke into it. “Nurse David, please come to the front desk for an escort.”

Amy walked over and sat in the chair opposite of the doors. She stared out the window and noticed the little boy that she had seen before sitting under the tree, was now running around chasing birds. “Nurse there’s a little child running around out side, who is he?” Amy asked in a worried tone. The nurse looked out the front door “Amy theirs no one out there, no patients aren’t allowed out side now”? She said, as she looked at Amy confused. Amy stood up and headed over to the bathroom and locked the door behind her. She turned the tap on and let the sink fill up with water. She splashed her face to clear her head. She looked into the mirror and noticed a ghostly reflection of a young boy playing with a ball. Amy froze with ghostly chills standing staring at this child playing in the mirror. The child seemed to notice that Amy was watching him and the boy dissipated into thin air, leaving the ball to bounce alone. The bouncing of the ball echoed in Amy’s head slowly getting louder, Amy felt a soft bump on her leg. She turned around and looked down it was the ball the young child was playing with, laying on the floor in the bathroom. Amy scrambled to unlock the door and she ran out the bathroom breathing heavily.

“Ma’am are you ok?” asked the concerned nurse.

Amy responded, “ No, just take me to see my brother I need to ask him why,”

Right as Amy replied, nurse David’s arrived and said, “Miss please follow me.”

Amy stood up straight and calmed down. She followed the nurse down the hall where they passed a room with a broken in door and a floor soaked in blood. This was the room Henry was staying in. Amy and the nurse continued down the hall. They took a left at the end of the hall continued on for about 50 ft. until they came up to a door, the nurse swiped his card across a sensor and the door unlocked. On the 2nd right Amy came to a big steel door with a small window, sitting in the corner inside the room with golden blond hair and wrapping on this wrists. The nurse opened the door and Amy walked in. “Hello Henry, it’s your sister, “Amy,” spoken in a soft voice.

Hennery looked back at Amy and responded, “Why are you here, you shouldn’t be here.”

“I’m here to ask you why you hurt yourself like this?” Amy asked as she pulled the old tattered leather wallet.

“I also want to know why… why did you kill him?” as she pointed to the youngest child in the old photo.

Hennery looked Amy in the eye “He wouldn’t leave me alone, he kept playing with my toys. He deserved to die when he took my ball from my room, so I killed him. I waited until you, mom and dad left me in his care and I tortured him and then killed him as you, mom and, dad walked in the room to scar you” Henry laughed as he spoke.

Amy looked back at her brother with horror. She was left in a catatonic state of anger and memory; she came back to consciousness lying on the floor with the little boy from the garden standing over her. Amy let out a scream of insanity and ran out of her brother’s room, being followed by the laughter of her brother. The nurse ran after her yelling, “Amy are you ok?”

Amy turned around to face of the nurse melting into the shape of the young boy from the garden.

Amy let out a scream but nothing followed but the soft hiss of her breath. Darkness came over her eyes as she ran through the halls of the hospital and fell like a rag doll to the ground, blacking out.

Amy woke to the sound of slow rhythmic beats coming from an ECG, and the blank celling of the room. She was lying in he head was pounding and sharp pains came from her wrists. Amy sat up to get a better look at this mysterious room, She was still in the hospital. Amy looked down at the wrist and she had tightly coiled bandages restricting the blood flow to he hands. As she slowly unwrapped the bandages, the flow of blood came back to her hands. The bandages loosened but blood slowly soaked the bandages, Amy screamed in pain, a nurse rushed into the room to see that she had remove the bandages, and the stiches had opened up allowing the blood from her wrist to flow free. “Doctor,” The nurse screamed as he applied pressure to Amy’s wrist, Amy looked at the nurse as her eyes rolled into the back of her head.

“Amy… Amy are you awake.” These words echoed through her ears as she came to. “What,” Amy replied to the voice?

“How are you felling?” asked the voice.

Amy groaned with a mixture of pain and tiredness as a response.

The voice of the person asked, “Do you know where you are.”

“I’m at the Hawks Creek Mental Hospital to visit my brother,.” Amy answered.

“Yes that’s correct, but after you visited your brother you had an accident,” the voice responded.

Amy came to full consciousness when the voice told her she had an accident. The face of the woman came clear to Amy, she was the doctor that took care of her brother. “What happened to me?” Amy softly asked while rubbing her face.

“You freaked out and run down the hall way after you talked to you brother, Amy you tripped over yourself while running and broke a glass, causing that deep cut in your wrist and fore arm.” the doctor explained.

“So why am I hear, not a hospital?” Amy asserted

“We have decided to take you into our care for a 72 hour psych evaluation.” the nurse replied.

“ Why?” I’m not sick,” Amy said.

The nurse told Amy “you freaked out in an unnatural form and screamed at the guard like he was demonic.”

Amy responded, “Get out.”

The doctor left the room and closed and locked the door.

Amy curled up into a ball and started sobbing, her cry’s echoed through the empty halls of the hospital.

Amy got up and wiped the tears from her face as she walked to the bathroom. She looked at her self in the mirror thinking, “How did my day turn into this nightmare.”

Amy walked over to the shower and turned it on she placed her hand under the water checking for warmth, Amy undressed and got into the warm steaming shower, to attempting to clear her mind of the bad memory’s of the past 24 hours.

Amy stepped out of the shower and dried her self off, after putting on the provided bath robe she walked pass the mirror, Her reflection froze in place. Amy kept walking as the eyes of her mirror followed her out the door. Amy reached to the wall and turned off the light, the reflection of Amy disappeared with the light. Amy slumped down on to her bed, And fell asleep.