Valerie screamed, using her powers to ward of the monster, the monster let out a shrill screech.
"HELP!" Valerie tried again. "Lucas! Please... someone."
The monster ran towards her, Valerie pulled both hands out front, screaming, the monster slammed against a tree, it got up dashing towards Valerie.
"HELP!" Valerie screamed.
She did not have enough energy for this, her ears and nose started bleeding from her loss of energy, blood trickled down her eyes, before she knew it the taste of blood filled her mouth.
Valerie tried to keep the monster as far away from her with her powers, but the monster came closer to her anyway, it scratched her on her right arm.
Valerie screamed.
"HELP!"
The monster slowly approached her like a tiger would do to its prey.
Valerie was losing her energy by the second, her hands becoming tired, her right hand, especially couldn't stand it anymore.
Her head started spinning, but she tried to pull herself steady, remembering the Turing test that her father made her do back at the asylum.
Except she failed, all of them, but she couldn't fail this.
"LUCAS!" Valerie shouted, trying her best to keep the monster away, she didn't want to die, not yet, not by this.
"LUCAS!"
The monster started running back towards her, before it touched her, it evaporated.
Valerie put her hands back down, exhausted, she didn't have time to wonder if she did that, her head started spinning, too much that she couldn't stop it, the last thing she heard was her body, thudding on the spiky ground.
"Valerie..." a voice said, which at the moment she couldn't recognise. "Valerie." The voice said again, this time in a more desperate tone. "Valerie please don't be dead."
Valerie's eyes slowly fluttered open, she winced from a sharp pain in her eyes.
The surroundings looked so different, it was fully white, and everyone was in white coats.
Valerie jerked up, having a horrible idea to where she was, she screamed immediately at the pain everywhere in her body.
She saw a recognisable face, it wasn't Doctor Williams, instead it was Lucas, wearing the blonde wig, her vision was still blurry, so she didn't fully have an idea.
Lucas held her hand tightly.
"Val... it's me." He .
Words wouldn't come out of Valerie's mouth, it hurt her to breathe itself, her screaming increased the pain, she pulled herself not to let out another shriek, reminded it would just make matters worse.
"Lucas?" Valerie asked, trying to ignore the pain in her throat, as she pulled the word out, she was back in her hospital dress, but her wig was still on her head.
"Yeah..." Lucas replied softly.
"Are we at the asylum?"
"No." Lucas assured. "We are at the hospital, you were in terrible condition and when I heard your screams, I tried to run as fast as I could, but I guess I was too late."
Lucas looked at his feet, shame filled his cheeks.
"It'a fine." Valerie told, though her raspy voice made it less believable. "We both got out alive and that's all that matters."
Valerie groaned, her ears started ringing, she pressed her ears for support, but when she took her hands out from her ears, it was bleeding.
"I should get a doctor." Lucas said, panic showing in his voice. A Doctor walked in and wiped the blood out of Valerie's ears.
"Judging by the damage." The Doctor started. "Your ear got slammed against something, or something sharp got jammed, before I treat you further, I need to contact your parents."
"That won't be necessary." Lucas told nervously.
"Yes, it is, now please tell me where they live, are you guys related... or?"
"No." Valerie said. "We are just friends."
The doctor nodded.
"What are your names?"
"Uh... that is also not necessary." Lucas said, his voice breaking. He really didn't want to get sent back home or have Valerie's hurt body back at the asylum.
He didn't even know if this guy was from the asylum, or an undercover detective.
He wasn't ready to take that chance.
"You have helped her enough." Lucas said. "Please discharge her and we will be on our way."
"Boy, are you stupid?" The Doctor snapped. "We need your personal information, you can't just walk into a hospital, with a highly injured patient, then say you don't want to reveal yourself, and ask for discharge."
"Well then..." Lucas started, he pushed Valerie's hospital bed on the Doctor, making him fall to the ground.
"We have got to go." Valerie stated.
Lucas nodded, taking the nearby wheelchair, and placing Valerie on it. He then closed the door of the room, looking it from the outside, he whispered sorry before the door fully closed.
He pushed Valerie's wheelchair to the elevator, hoping no other person in the hospital was alarmed.
When he reached the ground floor, he ran outside, some security guards started following him, he knocked over a driver backing away from his car, and caught the door, carefully helping Valerie in the backseat, before he ran to the front.
Lucas took a deep breath, before he backed at the guards, knocking them out.
"Where do we go now?" Valerie asked.
"I mean... now we both have a disguise, maybe we could stay at a motel, I don't think a hundred dollars is going to buy a house."
Valerie nodded, and Lucas crashed the car through several trees before he parked it outside of a big building.
"We need aliases." Lucas said.
"What is that?" Valerie questioned.
"It's like a fake name, a whole new persona, we are no more ourselves, but that is going to be hard, we need passports and stuff."
"I can get passports." Valerie said, trying to use her powers to get it from a man's purse, but it didn't even move a little bit, instead her legs gave up on her, her body thudding the ground.
Lucas helped her up.
"Let's try without it first." He suggested, heading over to the counter, and checking them in, he must've them pity, because he let them in.
"You are... room fourteen, two beds, one kitchen, a safe, a microwave and three couches." The receptionist said.
Lucas handed him all he had left of his money, and cashier accepted it, thanking him.
Lucas and Valerie walked towards their room; Lucas carried Valerie up there, since her legs were still numb.
He placed Valerie on the bed, walking over to his own, sitting down, and letting out a long sigh.
"I'm sorry." Lucas apologised.
"For what?" Valerie asked.
"I should've been there for you; I never should've told you to go alone, I- I don't know what to say." He replied.
"If you had come along with me, we both would have been dead." Valerie assured. "I'm fine."
Lucas had a hard time believing that, but she was right, they both would have been dead if he came along.
"I'm going to sleep." Valerie said, trying to ignore the fact, that she had been knocked out, for a number of hours, which she didn't even know.
Sleep just wouldn't hit her; she could hear Lucas's soft snoring from the bed beside her.
She knew that even if she slept, she would wake up in a few minutes, the monster's image was lingering in her mind, and so was that fight.
Valerie laid on her bed, her mind fixed on that fight, she had never been so close to death.
She tossed and turned, again, and again.
yet, sleep came nowhere near her.
Valerie just lied down and looked at the ceiling, admiring the carefully carved wooded tiles, eventually, she just started counting them under her breath, since she couldn't get up and do stuff.
Valerie jumped, when she heard a noise outside.
Growling, followed by a shrill scream.
Author's note:
Hello dear readers,
Hope you all liked the new chapter.
We will know more about the dynamics between Valerie and Lucas in the coming chapters.
Thanks,
aspiring_writer