"Is that true Matthew? Did you hurt that boy at the school?" Dr McColl was looking down at him with her usual patronising face.
"No, I didn't. Evelyn did." He said again stubbornly.
"You can't tell her that you idiot! They'll think you're crazy when you're really not!" Evelyn screamed, and Matthew held his hands over his ears until she finished. He hated Evelyn for doing what she did, and he wasn't going to listen to anything she said.
"Evelyn doesn't really exist does she? She's just part of you." The Doctor said, unsure, she wasn't used to dealing with this sort of situation.
"I'm part of her." He corrected her.
"How?" Dr McColl asked, but Matthew shrugged.
"Is she here with us now?" She enquired. Matthew shook his head.
"Are you sure?" Dr McColl pressed, and Matthew sighed. The Doctor nodded.
"What is she saying to you now?" Matthew was bored of answering questions.
"Let's leave the building. Let's just knock her out and leave." Evelyn said, swooping in from the left.
"No." Matthew said quietly.
"No what?" Dr McColl asked
"I'll do it for you." Evelyn said, her face turning evil. Matthew screamed and jumped back, looking frantically for a way out.
"Okay, I'll do it, just don't hurt anyone!" Matthew shouted, and he was too busy looking around chasing Evelyn with his gaze to notice Dr McColl leave the room quietly and lock the door. Evelyn was waiting for the doctor to leave so that she could carry on her plan.
"Good boy." Evelyn came to a halt by the locked door and handed Matthew a paperclip. Matthew looked at it and knew what she wanted him to do.
"I can't pick locks; I've never done it before!" He shouted and his face was red in panic.
"It's the only way we're going to get out freely. Quick, before they come after you!" But he refused to move.
"I'm not doing it!" He said, sitting on the floor cross legged.
"Then I'll do it for you!" She said, and once again he was dived into darkness. He picked the lock with ease and ran down the hall. Evelyn left his body and he was stood at the end of the hall by the receptionist area and there were three doctors blocking the way.
"Matthew, can you calm down for me?" He recognised that voice to belong to Dr McColl. He turned around to see the child psychiatrist behind him. There was a ringing in his ears which he soon realised was out of his head. The fire alarm had gone off. Was there a fire? People were evacuating the building confused.
"Put the hammer down Matthew." A male said from the line of three doctors. He looked down in his hands and saw blood and a hammer.
"I broke the fire alarm thing and grabbed a hammer for you." Evelyn said, in a voice that made it seem like she wanted Matthew to thank her or be proud of her. Matthew threw the hammer through the wall and Derek appeared behind the line of doctors.
"What's going on Matthew?" He said, pushing gently past the doctors. He approached Matthew and was warned to be careful.
"I'm not crazy!" He shouted and dived away from Derek.
"I never said that Matthew, I asked what was going on."
"Matthew, you need to go to the field NOW!" Evelyn urged, and pulled him through the line of doctors. He was grabbed by the middle doctor and pulled back.
"Oh no you don't!" He said, and Evelyn left him behind. She ran away.
"EVE!" He called. Matthew flailed and tried to get away but the grip was too strong.
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He sat alone in the confinement room with no Evelyn to be seen. He was holding a pen, he didn't remember where he got it from, but he spun it around and around in his hand as he struggled to keep his anger restrained. It was all Evelyn's fault that he as stuck in here, not his, yet everyone else seemed to think otherwise. There were no windows in the room and there was a single chair, a bed and a table. He wondered if he would be in the room long enough to have to use that bed. He stood up, looking at the door, begging for it to open. He heard nothing through the walls and felt as though he was starting to lose his sanity if he hadn't already, from being confined in such a small room.
The door opened and a scared looking nurse walked in. She told him that he had a visitor, and that there would be severe consequences should the visitor be attacked. Matthew almost rolled his eyes but his heart melted when the visitor entered the room.
"Hikari" He said, stepping forward.
"Would you like me to stay here?" The nurse said.
"No, you can go." Hikari said.
"I'll wait outside; call me if you need me." And the nurse left. Matthew took a few steps away from Hikari and looked at the ground, toeing it carefully.
"It's okay Matthew." She said, but they both knew that it really wasn't.
"It's not though." Matthew decided to state the obvious.
"It will be. They said that they're going to put you in confinement for a while, do some tests on you, and then, if the results are okay, then you're free to go!" Hikari emphasised the positive.
"And what if they're not?" Matthew said, not looking up from the floor.
"I don't know... Sorry." She lied. She didn't want to hurt his feelings by telling him that he would be put in a psychiatric hospital with crazy screaming patients. Especially now, with his unstable emotions.
"You're lying." He said, and that was all he remembered.
The world was then severed into tiny pieces, and Matthew was taken away from everything he knew and loved. Hikari was escorted to the Emergency section of the hospital, and no one knew of Matthew's whereabouts. He had run from the hospital, from everything and everyone in sight, and he only needed to get to the field.
Completely out of breath, he reached the field, and collapsed in the middle. He was glad that the field was entirely out of sight because he was then too tired to move or go anywhere. So he fell asleep then and there, in the company of the growing grass.
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