I...A͞M̛..̛.̨HER̸E̸.́.̶.̵ - AntiSepticEye

Part 10

{Trigger Warning} [Edited]

       Jack really wanted to wake up from his nightmare

He found himself in an office room, watching someone as they spoke into their phone. The man paced back and forth, and for a minute Jack thought he was watching himself. But then he noticed the snapback hat and the neon NERF gun laying on the table, and he realized that he was, in fact, looking at Chase Brody. That confused Jack even more than his amnesia because Chase was a fictional character, and how could he exist? Jack listened as Chase talked to someone on the phone.

"Look, Stacy... I'm sorry! Just don't take the kids away, please!" He paused and ran his fingers through his hair, then flinched.

"H-hey sweetie! D-daddy loves you..." He trailed off as the phone beeped and whoever he was talking to hung up. He set the device down on the table and sat down in one of the chairs. He put the snapback hat on and fiddled with the camera that was hidden under it. The scene shifted.

Jack stood in another office room now. Chase was facing a camera, a neon NERF gun in his hands. A blinking red light showed that the camera was on and recording. Chase smiled at the camera, though his eyes betrayed him. They were full of sadness and dismay, but most unsettling: fear. But he grinned and continued his act.

"I call this one: Stacy, I Love You, Please Don't Go!" He raised the NERF gun to his head and pulled the trigger. A gunshot rang out, and as he fell to the ground, the NERF casing slipped away to reveal a very real, legitimate pistol. If Jack wasn't already asleep, he would have fainted. He would have run to the other man's side, but his dream seemed to forbid it. A puddle of blood pooled around Chase's head before the scene shifted again.

This time Jack found himself in an ER room. As he watched, a doctor ran around, seemingly in a panic. A string of German curse words echoed through the area. Jack turned his attention to the hospital bed.

Chase had a bandage around his head, thick with blood. His face was pale as snow and his eyes were closed. The heart monitor next to him beat at a steady but slower pace.

The doctor glanced at the monitor and scribbled something onto the stack of papers in his hand. He pulled a chair over to his patient's bed and sat down.

Jack noticed two things right then. One was that he recognized the doctor. It was, in fact, Doctor Schneeplestein, another Altered Ego. The second thing was that the doctor was crying. Hard. He held Chase's hand.

"Why Chase? Why did you do this? You could have talked to us!" His thick German/Irish accent was sorrowful.

Suddenly a long beep rang through the room. The doctor jerked his head up to look at the monitor. Nothing but a long, straight line. He panicked, doing anything and everything that might save his friend, but to no prevail.

He broke down in tears, grasping Chase's hand desperately. A beep echoed through the room as Chase's heartbeat was detected, a miracle. The distraught doctor looked up at the monitor slowly, shocked.

"I don't know what's happening, but this will be our secret." A laugh sounded from the doorway and the doctor spun around to face Marvin, who smiled grimly.

"Our secret indeed."

The room faded around Jack, and he swore he heard crazy laughter from far in the distance.

He woke with a start, his eyes snapping open as he sat up straight. He looked around at his surroundings, alert.

"I remember what he did to me."