For 30 minutes, Elaina and Squeak walked from the basement, and made it all the way to the first floor to the main hallway, due to several hallways and corridors being blocked. The two stumble upon two documents. Elaina picks up both of them, and begins to read one of them with Squeak reading:
Subject F33 shows signs that indicate that she might be pregnant. Morning sickness, cravings, etc. But that should be impossible. When a female patient is admitted here and permanently, they are either given a hysterectomy, or their tubes would be tied. It seems they overlooked her for some unknown reason. Who knows how many women they've overlooked? We can't do anything about this now. Until she gives birth, we will give the child away.
~A. Russell~
“This is talking about Nix.” Squeak explains. “She became pregnant after that misogynist assaulted her. This document is eight months old, so… she still might be in the infirmary!”
“But we’re still going to this sanctuary to see if my daughter's there. Correct?” Elaina reminds her.
“Of course. No need to worry, the infirmary is in the same direction as the sanctuary.”
Elaina sighs. “Okay. Let's see if we can find this "Nix" person, then we’ll go to the sanctuary.”
Elaina then hears static from her earpiece, and puts it in her ear. “Hello? Evee?
“Mama.” Evee responds via earpiece. “Can you hear me?”
Elaina sighs with relief. “Yeah, baby. I can hear you. Are you okay?”
“I'm okay. A lady has me, and we're going to the sanctuary.”
“What lady?”
“Her name is Twitch.”
Elaina looks at Squeak for confirmation that she knows someone who is Twitch.”
Squeak nods. “Twitch is a part of us.”
Elaina nods. “Okay. So, where are you two now?”
“We passed... a lunchroom.” Evee answers.
“They passed the cafeteria on the second floor.” Squeak explains. “They're a little far off from the sanctuary.”
“How far?” Elaina asks quietly as she holds the earpiece away from her mouth.
“About 25 to 30 minutes away, and we're 15 minutes away from it.”
Elaina nods in understanding. “Well, we might as well take the detour. We're going to them.”
Also,” Squeaks continues. “It's still the same way as the infirmary.”
“How big is the infirmary?”
“Very big. It's like a mini hospital.”
“Okay.” Elaina says, then puts the earpiece close to her mouth. “Evee, sweetie. We're coming to get you and Twitch. Let's see if we can meet halfway somewhere, if Twitch know where she’s going.”
“Okay.” Evee responds. “Also, there's another scary man.”
“Another man? What did he look like?”
“I didn't see him, but I heard him say something about wanting to see me bleed…”
Elaina’s anger starts to course through her instantly, making her take her gun out of the holster.
“Danny...”
Elaina looks at Squeak, and sees her looking at the second document that had the name "Daniel Levi" on it.
“Do you know him?” Elaina asks quietly.
Squeak just nods, and shows Elaina the report on the man to where they read it together with the document stating:
Subject: L15, Daniel Levi, Age 35, was admitted to us at the age of 20. Deemed unfit to be sent to prison due to eating a cellmate's ear and fingers off. During his admittance here, he refused to eat the food, and lost an alarming amount of weight starting from 285lbs to 180lbs. He glared down certain people to where he was questioned about this. He answered with a comment: "Have you ever craved something so much, that you stare at it, longing for it? I don’t want to eat anything else besides what’s caught my eye. Would you like to be next?" It was now obvious that he resorted to cannibalism. We had to forcefully give him nutrition through a tube in order for him to cease his need to eat people, but I don’t know how long that will last.
~D. Walter~
“Oh, God...” Elaina shudders. “So, where do we go, Squeak?”
“The infirmary is to the left of us.”
Elaina nods, then moves her earpiece back again. “Evee.”
“Yes?” Evee answers.
“I need you and Twitch to meet us at the infirmary. I’ll see you then.”
“Yes, Mama.”
Elaina turns off her earpiece, then looks at Squeak. “Lead the way.”
Squeak starts to guide Elaina down another long hallway.
. . . . .
As Twitch was walking with Evee still in her arms, she looks through the dark with the camcorder’ night vision. She then finds an unlocked security room with lockers and monitors showing every area in the building. Twitch walks inside and puts Evee down, then looks at the monitors to see if she could spot anyone she knew; with Evee looking at the monitors as well.
“Mommy!” Evee shouts happily. “I see Mommy!”
As Evee points at one of the monitors, Twitch looks at the monitor and sees Squeak, and Elaina together, making Twitch slightly gasp.
“M-Mother of the Heiress.” She comments. “That's them, alright.”
Twitch then looks at another monitor and sees a man who was fair skinned with buzz cut hair in a black makeshift robe, standing right next to a switch located in what seems to be a different portion of the basement.
“Lorison.” Twitch whispers sharply. “W-What the hell are you doing?”
Lorison looks to the camera’s direction, and pulls the switch down, causing all the power in the building to turn off, and switch the emergency lights on
“F-Fuck...” Twitch mutters under her breath.
“What happened?” Evee asks.
Twitch sighs. “A man named L-Lorison turned the power off to the entire b-building. The generators are on at least, but we might need to take a detour to the basement.”
“But, what about Mama?”
“Don't w-worry. We'll come back up here in no time. Get on my back.”
As Evee gets on Twitch's back, Twitch holds the camcorder to turn the night vision back on, and proceeds to walk out if the security room into the hallway.
. .
For a few minutes, Twitch and Evee remained silent as Twitch traversed the halls.
“So...” Evee speaks slowly. “How did you get in this place?”
Twitch tries to find the words to explain to Evee. “I… I d-did something that I shouldn't have done.”
“What did you do?”
“My…My father did some b-bad things to me, and I was m-moved from home to home. I was mostly d-distant with the families I was with. My father came back when I was 22, and I... made him disappear. I ended up here ever since.”
“What did your daddy do to you?”
“Let’s just say fathers should never do things to their daughters. It’s things you should never hear about, Little E.”
“Oh...”
Evee decided to ask about something else. “What did you mean when you said I have royal blood?”
“Well, you are the daughter of Alvin and Elaina Beckett, r-right?”
“Yes?”
“Until we get to S-Sister Mary… or Lorison, they'll tell you.”
“Alright.”
During the walk into another hall, they arrive at the stairs leading to the basement.
“Alright.” Twitch speaks. “Let's go down.”
She holds the camcorder at the ready, and begins walking downstairs with Evee on her back.
. . . . .
At the exact time, Elaina turns on her flashlight due to the lights turning off, wondering where she needed to go with Squeak.
“What just happened?” Elaina asks.
Squeak starts to hyperventilate. “The main power's off! And if the main power's off... Nix...”
“Calm down. A building like this should have generators. And wherever this Nix girl is, I'm sure there's power where she is.”
Squeak was unable to listen as she quietly hyperventilates for several seconds, and then stops suddenly.
“One thing bothers me,” Elaina starts. “Why would there be patients in a pharmaceutical company?”
“What do you think?”
Elaina, hearing a low dead tone voice, turns around to see Squeak with a cold and dark look on her face. Elaina was confused at this change of emotion and different tone of voice.
“They took us from people who didn't want us anymore; family, people who were our friends.” Squeak continues in a cold dead tone. “I'm sure you've seen more of us when you came in. It's obvious that we're subjects, patients, prisoners; all being used to take the drugs, be part of their experiments. The fucking tortures!”
“Squeak,” Elaina speaks in a slow calm tone. “Please, calm down.”
“Your husband... he was... our friend. Mine, Twitch, Sister Mary, Nix, Seven, and others. But... Ooh! That other rat bastard doctor!
Elaina was slightly unsettled. “Squeak, just breathe. Who are you talking about?”
“I'm not Amy!” She retorts. “I’m Reni.”
Elaina looks at her with her brow raised. “Reni?”
“I'm the reason she and I are here.” Squeak continues as Reni “I killed her parents. They were such neglectful bastards! Her father was never there mentally or emotionally. Mother was always berating and beating her down. Such a beautiful home they had, only to be such fakes…”
Elaina realizes what Squeak was suffering from. “Dual personality.” She mutters to herself then speaks to Squeak. “Okay... Reni. I understand. You… did what you could to protect her.”
“They neglected her!” Squeak continues. “Just like the doctors here! Beckett was the only one who showed us kindness. But that rat, Darson, hated him.”
Elaina remembers the name, but no face came to mind. “Darson?”
“Yes. When I find that fucker, he's dead, just like those deadbeat parents of hers!”
Elaina then puts her hands on Squeak’s shoulders in order to calm her down. “Look at me, Reni.”
Squeak, as Reni, looks Elaina in her eyes.
“I understand where you're coming from. If anyone wanted to hurt my daughter, I would do everything in my power to stop it. I would never neglect my daughter, and I would give her the world, if I could. And if you were my child, I would give you the same.”
Hearing this makes Squeak tremble as she breathes.
“I understand you had a reason to do something about her situation, but there was a better way to do it.”
“Like what?”
“Call the police. If not, run to the closest neighbor and call there. If you did, you wouldn’t be here, and your parents would’ve been in prison. Also, in this god-forsaken place, what doctors now? So, right now, I need you to calm down, and we're going to find your friends, my daughter, and my husband. Now, take a deep breath.
Squeak closes her eyes, and breathes in through her nose.
“Now, breathe out.”
Squeak then breathes out through her mouth, the sighs with relief.
“Better?”
Squeak then opens her green eyes meeting Elaina’s brown eyes, back as Amy. “Better. Thank you...”
“You're welcome.”
Elaina then looks around in different directions. “So, where do we go now?”
“Well, we're on the first floor in the main hallway.” Squeak explains. “We need to go left into another hallway. At the end of it, we make a right, and there will be a big window showing the inside of the infirmary with a nearby.”
“Do you know where Nix is in there?”
“No. We'll have to search. I hope she's still alive...”
“Like I said, if there are generators on in this place, which there is, then I know there's power where she is. Now, let's go.”
Squeak nods. “Okay.”
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