"Welcome Home Addison Marie"
Trigger Warning~ Slight mention of Rape, nothing too extreme. And a gif of a spider.
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March 16th, 2006 Biloxi Mississippi
The stone walls of Old Stones Asylum were cracked and mossy, thick dark green vines climbed the building's exterior and the wooden door was rotted and eaten by termites. The rusted hinges creaked as the double doors opened, cockroaches and other creepy-crawly critters skittered into the comfort of the darkness the moment the light shone in the long hallway making Addison Cullen shiver as goosebumps rose on her arms. The double doors suddenly slammed closed behind her making a scream escape her mouth as she backed into a wall trying to catch her breath "it's just an empty building, nothing can hurt you in here"...
She took a deep breath breathing in the dust and mold before continuing her walk down the dark hallway, she could smell the stench of old bleach mixed with musty air and rotting meat, and she could see the dust particles floating in the air. Her fingertips trailed over the cracks in the stone feeling the negative energy seeping into her body. Snap. Fizzle. Pop. Blurred memories began to clear, she could remember the stained and uncomfortable mattresses, the nightmares that made her toss and turn in that prison cell, and before she knew it, she had found her old room...
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Her tiny little prison cell with a single lumpy mattress and a tiny barred window, her tiny little prison with cold and rough stone floors stained with vomit and God knows what else. She wondered if any other patients had been in her room, how many other patients had slept where she slept, cried where she had cried, screamed where she had screamed, how many other patients had been in her shoes right where she lived...How many had gone to sleep and never woke up on the same lumpy mattress where she had dreamed of dying...
Addison stepped closer to the walls fingers outstretched tracing all the faded carvings and the moment her fingertips touched one spot on the rough stone all the air escaped her body, she traced the faint letters that were carved into the wall from nails, her nails... "I'm not insane"...
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Addison contuined down the dark halls walking towards the rooms that she felt drawn to, inside the first room was old equipment used for what Addison guessed was electroshock treatment and a single hospital bed with leather straps both chewed through by rats. Jasper was right Addison's curiosity had gotten the best of her and without thinking, she climbed into the bed setting the straps across her wrists and ankles. She laid back closing her eyes with a shaky breath. Snap. Fizzle. Pop.
*Addison's panic continued to grow as Doctor Arden placed the equipment on her temples before shoving the mouthguard in-between her teeth muffling her screams and pleads for help, "this'll only hurt for a moment". Addison's body violently lurched as the electricity zapped her skull frying her brain making her scream and sob louder behind the gag as it happened over and over, her body convulsing at the pain. "Welcome Home Addison Marie"*
Addison gasped her body violently lurching forward almost tumbling out of the bed and into the floor as she tried to calm the tightening in her chest, she was remembering, those blurred memories were clearing up and she wasn't sure she was ready for that to happen.
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Addison stumbled out of the treatment room continuing her search of the rooms, inside the second room was what she figured to be an old shower room, several rusty shower heads hung on the walls, and jaggedly placed titles covered the grimy floors and walls. The smell of blood, mold, and something rotting made her stomach churn, somehow she just knew something bad had happened in this room but she still stepped underneath one of the rusty shower heads touching the chipped tiles like she was searching for a memory.
*"Stay quiet and you'll enjoy this" one of them whispered turning the squeaky knob the pipes rattling as the cold water washed over the girl making a high-pitched yelp escape her lips only for it to be muffled by a calloused hand slamming over her mouth. "Shhh".*
Her stomach twisted and turned into complicated knots as she backed away from the showers, she decided she didn't want to be in the dark room anymore...
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Addison leaned against the vine and spiderweb covered walls, Jasper was right to be concerned, she didn't know what she was doing wandering around the asylum, she was just searching for ghosts... "just get the damn files and leave" she mumbled continuing her walk down the halls not stopping until she got to the admission office. The admission office was practically spider city, cobwebs covered every single crevice and wall, and the little crawly monsters scattered around the floor making her shiver in disgust. She tugged on the cabniet drawer only for it to stay tightly closed, she began tugging and tugging until eventually she grew annoyed "open sesame God damnit" she growled using all her strength to get the drawer open creating a loud bang. "Easy Peasy".
"Okay, Brandon Twins, Brandon Twins, where the hell are the Brandon Twins files" she muttered to herself as she flipped through the mess of files before finally finding the ones she needed, "Hello, Mary Alice Brandon and Hello, Addison Marie Brandon". She shoved them into a bag before picking up the leather journal labeled Addison Marie, "wait what the fuck?" scattered underneath all the files was another file labeled Dr. Stephen Arden, "what- in- the- hell" she mumbled in confusion before grabbing the file and shoving it into her backpack as well. "Time to get the hell out of this place".
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Addison didn't waste any more time, she rushed through the dark hallways remembering how it felt that night when they finally escaped the asylum, she remembered the taste of copper shavings in her mouth as she pushed herself to run faster, she remembered tightly holding onto Alice's wrist dragging her along as the patients screamed and cried. Addison skidded to a stop at the double doors chest heaving with adrenaline and she turned her head to look at the asylum one last time, and her breath suddenly caught in her throat at the sight...
"A-Addison?" It was her... It was her... her brown locks barely even reached her ears and she was dressed in a blue patients dress and an oversized burgundy cardigan, this is what people meant when they claimed the asylum was haunted... It was haunted by the lost souls of the patients, their former selves doomed to walk the hallways forever lost and alone... scared... "We did it, Addison... We escaped this hell... and- and Mary Alice is safe and happy" she was talking to herself, maybe she was truly crazy, or maybe the asylum just made you go insane. "We've moved on... We're married to- to Jasper Whitlock, he goes by Jasper Hale though, and we have a family, we're not so alone and lost anymore... God, I wish you weren't still trapped here".
Her former self walked towards her in a stumbling daze, and then Addison saw her... "Allie-Cat..." of course, their former selves were together, their former selves were forever together, Alice's lips barely moved as her arm slowly raised pointing at the double doors and then Addison heard the ghostly sound... "Leave, Leave and never come back"... Addison only hesitated for a moment staring at herself and her ghost of a twin before turning around stumbling out the doors into the fresh air, she would never talk about the ghosts of Old Stones Asylum, not even to her twin or husband...
A/n~ Alright, Alright hear me out here, I read this thing about Mary Alice when I was researching some things on her past life, and I saw this thing where the former self of Mary Alice Brandon still walks the halls of Stone County and I thought "wouldn't it be cool if Addison saw her former self?" so that's my explanation.
Hope you enjoyed, and feel free to leave any comments or criticisms.
{Also, it's 3:00 in the morning and this is technically the first draft but my tired brain has convinced itself that the first try was great and didn't need any editing other than a few spelling mistakes, so I hope this was as good as my brain thought it was, if not I am so sorry} <3 Jade