Run boy, run boy
The chant echoed in his ears.
Run boy, run boy
It was too far and too near
Run boy, run boy
It was everywhere
Run boy, run boy
The dead were everywhere.
.
.
.
Nico did what he had to do. He did what Shadow Man made him do. He crawled out of that rectangle, into the light, took off running because that's all he knew to do.
Shadow Man didn't follow. His long arms couldn't stretch into the light.
But there were other shadows. When his eyes stopped melting and the light wasn't so painful, he could see the shadows. They ran alongside him until they fell back. They crept out of tall things and short things and things he had never seen before. They crept out of himself.
And they all whispered.
Run boy, run boy
When his legs hurt too bad and his eyes had melted away, they whispered before he could stop.
RUN BOY!
Loud, too loud. Yelling and screaming and whispering and screaming
Run boy
Run
never stop
never stop
run
keep running
They're gonna get you
So loud like momma's cries and Zoe's cries. His legs collapsed but they kept on screaming and everything hurt but they didn't stop.
He tore tore tore at his ears and they bled bled bled onto the ground and they still didn't stop
They're coming
They're gonna get you
Run!
They sounded like Shadow Man but they'd never be him. His legs refused to move and listen to them. He couldn't hear anything and one of his ears was in his hand.
Blood
dripping
dripping
drenching
.
He wanted momma
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Dr. Solace moved his hand to Case 142's cheek, then to the sewn-on ears and the blood-clotted hair.
"You don't have to run anymore, They're never gonna get you. You're safe here."
The shadows whispered different. Run run run, they still chanted. Case 142 could only ignore them when looking into Dr. Solace's eyes, and maybe that was what he liked about him.
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Hear No Evil
FanfictionThe doctor-in-training sat across from Case 142, sat on the blood stained padding and the spot the two doctors stopped breathing. "My name is Will Solace. Nico, can you hear me alright?" A jerk of a head. A small showing of the blood stained teeth. ...
