The child

Hello my name is Doctor Albertus Magnus. I am a therapist helping out adults and children alike in the Adelheid Asylum. A few weeks ago they had brought in a child; they said he had murdered his parents, and I, in all my years of working in this insane mad house, I've never encountered someone like this. When the guards had brought in this child, he was drenched in blood and his eyes... I'll never forget them. They were filled with mixed emotions, but at the same time they seemed lifeless, as though he had no emotions at all. I was assigned to observe the child whom I thought was okay but... I was wrong, every time I watched the little boy, he just stared back at me staying quiet, not saying a thing. It had remained like this for weeks: him just staring back at me with those eyes.

Finally after a month had passed, he started talking just a bit. He told me that a man with pitch black eyes had killed his parents. I took note of this, but I never believed him. I mean the house that the child was found in, had his parent's corpses inside, with no trace of anybody else inside the house besides the child. A few hours had passed, and the asylum was shutting off the lights. I had gathered my stuff getting ready to leave, but I heard a scream coming from the child's cell. I ran towards the cell slowly stopping once I was in front of the cell. "IT WASN'T ME IT WASN'T ME IT WASN'T ME!!!" the little boy repeated these words while asleep. It sent chills down my spine. I forced myself away from his cell and gathered my stuff. I waved goodbye to the people who worked with me and walked into my car putting the key in and starting up my engine.

I decided to drive by the house the child was found in, just to see what the child was talking about. It seemed like a pretty decent, it wasn't the best house ever but it was okay. I felt a strange presence once I entered the home, almost as though someone was watching me; I simply ignored it and walked upstairs checking where the child slept in. I entered the room and nearly threw, up seeing my wife Martha cut up into pieces laying on the little boys bed. "M-Martha" I fell to my knees my hands were trembling and I placed my hands on what were left of Martha's corpse. I turned around seeing the child behind me drenched once again in blood, and I was filled with rage wanting to strangle the child, I shut my eyes and counted to five and when I opened my eyes the child was gone, and so was Martha's corpse. I slowly walked out the house and dialed Martha's number on my phone, luckily she answered and was not harmed. I continued to look around the house, thinking to myself that the corpse and the child that I saw was just a hallucination.

A few hours had passed and nothing out of the usual happened; I glanced down at my watch checking the time "9:32 time for work" I sighed, a bit afraid of what was unusual thing was going to happen. I got back into my car and started to head my way back to the asylum. The sun started to come out, which was a relief since I hadn't really seen the sun in awhile, due to being stuck in the asylum. I parked my car and entered the asylum, I was shocked the prisoners were out going berserk. A few of the prisoners were bashing each other against the bars while some were beating the guards to death. No sign of the child, I ran towards my desk and strangely I found Martha waiting there for me. "Why are you here?!" I yelled at Martha she replied saying that she came to check on me since I hadn't been answering her calls. I grabbed Martha and ran towards the child's cell finding a hooded man standing inside the cell. "Martha stay outside the cell and here" I handed her my car keys and my cell phone just in case anything happened to me. I entered the cell, slowly approaching the hooded figure, "Who are you!" I yelled at him

I let out a horrific laugh and looked down at the doctor, "You shouldn't worry, Doctor Albertus, you shall know who I am sooner or later." I smirked and glared at the idiotic doctor. He obviously doesn't know my true intentions yet. I pulled out a small syringe from my pocket. "Goodnight Doctor." I picked the doctor up by his throat, and slowly inserted the syringe into his neck, injecting a fluid into his body, causing the doctor to collapse unconscious.

I slowly woke up; my vision was a bit a bit blurred. I got up noticing my clothes had some blood on it, I looked around the room, seeing the hooded man had vanished... but Martha as well had vanished. "MARTHA!" I yelled out, no response. I walked out the cell and looked around seeing a door open, I walked towards it finding Martha strapped down on to a medical restraint. I saw the child as well, except his eyes were pitch black just like before. I watched Martha struggling to escape as the child walked closer to her. He was holding a butchers knife. I ran towards him but was being pulled back, I turned around seeing the hooded figure. He had the exact same eyes that the child had, it felt as though he was looking back into my soul. I felt paralyzed, I couldn't feel my arms or legs, and I couldn't turn my head away. The hooded man strapped me down on the chair, and whispered into my ear "Sit back and enjoy the show Doc." The little boy held the knife up high, and slowly started to slice off Martha's arm. I shivered hearing the metal scrape against her bone, I shut my eyes, and after awhile I heard nothing except Martha's yells of pain. Then I heard it, I heard the bone crack and my eyes fluttered open, I threw up seeing Martha's arm on the ground. The little boy did the same thing with her other arm and her legs. I felt dizzy and light headed, I wanted to die at that moment. He then cut Martha's stomach open pulling out her organs leaving them hanging out as the blood dripped down on to the floor. The boy then cut her head off holding her up by her hair. I burst into tears pleading for them to take me next. The boy simply ignored me and cut off Martha's face then wearing it as a mask. I watched the blood drip down his cheeks then to his shirt, I continued to plead for them to kill me.

I laughed at the doctor pleading to be killed. "No your punishment has been served." I laughed as the doctor looked up at me confused and sad. "My job is to serve justice after what you've done doctor, or have you forgotten already?" I looked down at him "Don't you remember the couple that you killed years ago! They had a kid and you took them away from him!" I pointed at the child who had been tormenting the doctor "This is the same child I just simply granted him a wish, he wanted to return the favor, you destroyed his life now he gets his revenge, now will you look at the time seems like there are others who still need to be taught a lesson."

I got up clenching my fists watching the child and the hooded man vanish. The person I love is gone just because of the stupid mistake I did years ago. I grabbed a lighter from my pocket and slowly set the asylum on fire. I stayed inside the building watching the asylum and its inmates burn into ashes. I went and picked up the butchers' knife that the child had left, the same knife used to kill me wife. I cut my throat open and fell to my knees my vision becoming blurred and watching a shadowy figure kneel down beside me.

October 28, 2015 Los Angeles Times

Breaking news, the Adelheid Asylum has been burnt down. No survivors were found but we do know how the asylum got burnt down. The doctor who worked there known as Doctor Albertus Magnus seemed to be losing his senses when he finally snapped, killing his wife Martha Raye age 25. What a tragic event, plans of a new asylum are being decided at this very moment. Strangely the body of Doctor Albertus Magnus was never found only the knife that was used, the initials SN were burnt into the knife as well.

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