I will never forget that night. It is permantely seared into my brain. The images still haunt me even now, but for you to know what happened I have to tell you everything.
Robin hugged herself as she staggered along the desserted road, she didn't know how long she had been asleep, but it seemed the day was coming to an end and the darkness started to loom over her no matter how quick her pace was trying to keep up with the light. As Robin headed in whatever direction she chose her mind started to wander. She was terrified at the fact she couldn't remember anything that had happened since she woke up. The only image she had in her head was of Shane and that she had to find him.
She felt the cold invade her body and her bones shivered, she was only wearing a T-shirt and a pair of scruffy jeans, the night had turned bitterly cold. Robin looked up ahead and saw a road sign at the side of the road. She felt a glimmer of hope flicker inside her and she jogged towards it. There were names of a city and towns that she vaguely recognised but couldn't remember where she knew them from.
She heard a rustling sound behind her and turned round, nothing was there. Robin shrugged putting it down to the wind blowing the grass and leaves. She turned back wrapped her arms around herself and headed towards the direction the sign indicated the city LONDON was in. She had only walked for a couple of minutes when she heard the rustling behind her again, she looked round she was going to say it was the wind when she realised something. There is no wind. Robin peered into the darkness hiding the road from her sight. The feeling of being watched crept under her skin, but not only being watched, she was being hunted. There was a buzz in her head, she shook her head hoping it would shake the buzzing out of her mind.
A low grumbling came from the darkness snapping Robin to attention. The growl deepened and although she couldn't see anything in the dark she could feel the thing was very close. She started to back away her eyes scanning in front of her to see her stalker. She could hear the buzzing getting louder and when she listened harder it wasn't a buzz anymore it was all a group of voices shouting as one. And they were all shouting one word. Run. The stalker started to snarl and Robin felt hot breath on her face, she knew it was an animal because the breath smelt of raw meat and had another smell to it that Robin didn't recognise. She focused her vision and saw two eyes starting at her. They were the most horrific thing she had seen.
They were not eyes that belonged to an animal, They were human eyes. Eyes that looked similar to Robin's but the pupils were slits and there was no white that usually surround the iris. She saw her reflection staring back at her but Robin knew she wasn't smiling and she deffinitely wans't waving and her reflection was. The animal or whatever the thing was snapped and Robin fell back on to the ground. Looking up at the beast helped her gauge how big it was it formed a shadow against the night sky, Robin couldn't see anymore features but she knew it was big. She started scrambling back, and she saw the shadow lower as it moved towards her. She guessed it was on all fours but she kept scrambling away, she tried to turn and get up ready to sprint but she took too long and was pinned back to the ground.
She yelped as she felt sharp claws dig into her shoulders and felt the hot breath on her face. even though it was very close to her face she still couldn't see it fully. A guttural growl grew deep from within and Robin felt the power of the growl through the beast's paws. She squirmed underneath the weight but the claws digged deeper, she cried out in pain as the claws pierced her skin. The beast moved it's head closer to her and she could see the razor needle-like teeth, she could see the slavia faoming at the sides of the beasts mouth but the teeth were coated in a green liquid. Robin squirmed desperately she didn't realise she was screaming her lungs out. The beast snapped his jaws at her and she flinched crying out in terror. She screamed in pain when a drop of green liquid escaped the safety of the creatures mouth and onto her skin. It burned like someone was sticking a rod fresh from a fire into her skin. She felt her skin burn and she felt tears in her eyes as the pain intensified.
The beast had become bored with his prey and decided to end the game, The jaws closed around her shoulder and she screamed in more pain as she felt the teeth that were like a million needles stabbing into her pushed down on her shoulder. The next thing she saw was the beast flung to one side the needles dissapearing from her shoulder. She gasped in disbelief, pain and terror as she laid there. The beast growled and a gun shot rang out clear into the night sky. She heard a yelp and then a shadow loomed over her. Her eyes widened and she tried to get away but her body wasn't allowing any movement. She couldn't move any of her limbs and then she suddenly became aware of the pain from her shoulder and started crying. She felt her body leaving the ground and being carried somewhere and then she blacked out.
"So you're telling me, that she was just wondering around and it attacked her?" A voice asked sarcastically.
"That's what I saw. She blacked out after I picked her up, the poison was working it's way through her quicker than normal." Another voice replied simply. Robin didn't recognise any of these voices. She knew she needed to find Shane that's all she knew. She willed herself to open her eyes. She needed to know where she was, and find a way out.
"I think she's waking up," the first voice said with a tired tone. "I need to let him know that she's alive. You will have a lot to explain. You know that right?" The voice was distant but she could still hear it. She forced her eyes to open the light blinding her. She closed them and opened them again more slowly to allow the her eyes to adjust gradually. She heard a sigh from behind her and tried to sit up too soon and her head began to spin.
"Whoa, whoa. You don't want to do that!" The voice called and she felt hands grab her shoulders from behind. Robin yelped and pulled free, jumping off the bed and turning to her captor. "Hey, easy you haven't fully recovered." The man said to her. Robin wobbled and caught herself on the table she was laid on.
"Ohh," she moaned as the room started to spin. She gripepd onto the table for support as she srunched her eyes closed until the nausea passed. She opened her eyes and the man started to move to her and she took a step back.
"It's okay."
"Stay back!" She hissed at him. He stopped where he was and looked at her raising his hands up in a way to show her he was not going to harm her.
"I'm not going to hurt you, but you need to rest." He said quietly Robin stared at him with narrow eyes. "You were badly injured and you are weak from the attack." He said hoping this would convince her otherwise. She looked him over before speaking.
"Move back." She said taking a step and he took one back. she took another and another while he moved backwards. She reached the table and held onto the edge not wanting to sit on it and it meant she would have something to keep between them.
"See. You're okay, I'm not going to hurt you." He said in a gentle tone, Robin didn't trust him so she didn't smile. "What's your name?" He asked.
"Don't tell him your name." The voice whisepred in her head, Robin jerked away. My name? She asked herself. What is my name? "It doesn't matter. Ask him for his name." The voice instructed her.
"What's your's?" She asked obediently. The man looked at her with a curious expression.
"My name is Blain," he said staring into her eyes. Robin stood holding onto the table. "Can I know your name?" He asked. Robin looked at him and saw his face shift from polite to concern.
"Don't tell him your name." Robin jerked away from the voice.
"Who are you?" She hissed at the voice in her head and Blaine's face shifted from concern to worry.
"I'm no one," the voice replied codly.
"Then get out of my head!" Robin cried and collapsed to the floor, the last thing she saw, was Blaine hurrying over to her. She woke up in the same place she woke up earlier. She decided she wouldn't do what she did last time and pushed herself into a sitting position.
Her head felt like she had a hammer tapping on the inside. She moaned as she rubbed her forehead.
"I thought as much," the voice said quietly. "I hope you've learned your lesson." He said. Robin looked up and saw Blaine stood at the end of the table by her feet with a kind smile. He held out his hand. "How about we try again? Hi, I'm Blaine." He held out his hand and Robin stared at it like she had never seen a hand before. She looked at her own and then back at him. "How about you tell me your name?" He coaxed her. Then Robin deffinitely snapped to attention.
"I-I don't know." She said in a quiet voice. Blaine looked at her confused. "I don't remember." What is my name? She looked at Blaine.
"You don't remember your name?" He looked at her concerened and sat down by her feet. Robin would have pulled her feet away but she couldn't bring her legs to obey her. Robin shook her head frowning at herself trying to think. "Do you remember what happened last night?" He asked her seraching her face. Robin gasped as images from the night before flooded into her mind like a nightmare tearing itself through a dream.
"Yes. I was attacked. I was walking down a road after escaping and I read a sign. I heard something behind me and turned but nothing was there. I kept walking and heard it again. I saw the eyes. Those terrible eyes, and my reflection wasn't me. It was moving. It pinned me down and I felt my skin burning and then it bit me. I remember something knocking that monster off of me and then picking me up. I- I don't remember what happned after that." She said looking at Blaine who was nodding as she spoke.
"That is correct. You were attacked," he said and Robin watched him. "Why were you escaping?" He asked. Robin looked at him blankly and then blinked.
"I was... in a room. A room that I think was a storgae room. But it had no door, and there was a voice... I tried to escape and climbed out the window before anything happened." Robin said she didn't think it would be a good idea to tell this man about the voice in her head.
"What else do you remember?" He asked looking at her.
"That's it. I woke up there and I escaped and now I'm here." She told him. "Why don't I remember my name?" She asked mostly to herself, oddly the voice wasn't speaking to her.
"You mentioned something early that concerns me. You said 'who are you?' as if someone else was here and then just before you collapsed to the ground you shouted 'Get out of my Head!'" Blaine said looking at Robin gently. She didn't know what to do, she didn't know whether she should trust the voice that was keeping quiet and who she thought she had gotten rid of when she escaped. Or this stranger. Both had saved her the voices told her to run away and Blaine took the monster off her and took her here.
"Urm, there was a voice in my head." Robin finally said hoping she didn't get left in the middle of nowhere.
"I see," Blaine murmured to himself looking at the ground. Robin gulped nervously. "Is the voice still there?" Robin heard a buzz in her ears and put her hands over her ears shaking her head. Stop that! she growled in her mind the buzzing died down.
"What is it?" The voice whispered in her mind. Robin looked at Blaine and the voice snarled. "What does he want?" It snapped visciously.
"Yes. Sometimes theres more than one. At the moment it's just one." Robin told him and the voice growled.
"Does it know your name?" Blaine asked her looking at her forehead. Robin waited for the voice to speak to her.
"Why should you tell him your name? How can you know he can be trusted?" The voice whispered in her ear. How do I know I should trust you? Robin asked back with venom leaking into her mental voice. What is my name?
"Fine. Your name is Robin." The voice answered reluctantly. Robin looked at Blaine.
"Robin." The name sounded right as she said it. she started to smile. "My name is Robin." Blaine looked at her.
"Robin. It's nice to meet you." Blaine gave her a gentle smile and Robin nodded.
"Who is this man?" The voice asked. Robin hesistated and Blaine must have seen the hesitation on her face because he looked at her concerned again.
"It wants to know who you are." She told him, Blaine's smile became a thin worried line.
"I wouldn't tell it for now." Blaine said slowly. Robin's head was filled with an angry growl. You are in my head! You will not growl or tell me what to do! Understood? You are in my territory you will do as I say! Robin said viciously in her head and then realised she was talking with a voice in her head.
"It's not happy with that but I told it will have to accept the fact that it is not in control." Robin told him with a triumphant smile. Blaine gave a smile showing his teeth when a man and a woman came to them. Robin finally looked around at where she was, and realised she was in a room with cupboards and the table she was sat on.
"Hello. I see you're awake." The man said the woman was staring at Robin with a suspicious look. Robin stared at the man who was talking to her and nodded.
"Her name is Robin, but she has no other memories apart from when she woke up and got attacked." Blaine said to the man, he nodded and looked at Robin with sympathy.
"Do you know where you were heading?" He asked her, her ears started to buzz and she ignored it.
"I woke up in a room which looked like a storage room. It had no door and I didn't want to stay there so I escaped out of a window. I was walking down the road and I saw a sign. And then I was attacked by that monster." Robin said she left out the detail about the voices.
"Smart move." The voice whispered.
"Why were you walking down the road?" The man asked and Robin became defensive. Why should she tell this stranger what she was doing. He put a hand on her shoulder and she jerked away. What do I do? She asked in her mind.
"I wouldn't advise telling him everything. Say most of what you were doing." The voice advised. Robin looked at the man whose face was clouded with confusion.
"I was walking down the road to get as far away as possible from that place." Robin told him. The man nodded thoughtfully and turned to Blaine.
"How bad are the injuries?"
"She suffered from a blow to the shoulder and the poison has been drained out she is just a bit weak and will need more rest from when she became a bit adventurous and tried to run before she could walk." Blaine said with a smile, Robin frowned.
"It's a saying." The voice told her and the frown dissapeared. What are you? She asked. "I'm nothing." That's not possible you have to be something. She told the voice and then looked at Blaine who was now speaking in a quieter tone to one side with the man, the woman was still watching her. "You're correct on some level but there are many other ways of existing without being something." The voice whispered and Robin rubbed her head. You're not making any sense. She said but the voice didn't reply, she sighed and six pairs of eyes well four pairs of eyes looked at her suprised.
"Well Robin. It seems you got off lightly." The man said to her with a cheerful smile but his eyes were holding something. Something she didn't trust.
"I think she needs more rest." Blaine said to them and looked at Robin.
"I'm not staying on the table am I?" She asked, the voice in her head sighed and she snarled at it.
"No, I'll take you somewhere quiter unless you want to lay on the table with an apple in your mouth." Blaine laughed and Robin stared at him confused. She had an image come into her mind.
"He's saying you would become the dinner. It's a joke." The voice told her. "Laugh." Robin chuckled weakly and Blaine looked at her as if she did something that was slightly insane.
"Okay? Follow me. Are you okay to walk?" He asked as Robin slid off the table and stood upright, a wave of dizziness washed over her and she held on to the side until it passed.
"Yep." She replied and walked over to the door where he was stood. He led the way down a corridor. Robin looked around, the wallpaper was beige. They passed many rooms with closed doors. She looked at the back of Blaine.
"I guess you don't meet many people who can't remember much about themselves and have a voice in their head?" Robin asked him. They came to a set of stairs and started to climb them. Blaine shrugged.
"I've seen stranger things." Robin smiled at this and at the top of the stairs she saw a group of people lounging about on a sofa staring at a TV. Blaine gestured her to keep following him and they walked down another corridor and the doors were all open and as she walked past she gathered they were all bedrooms.
"What is this place?" Robin asked in amazement. Blaine turned to look at her and smiled kindly.
"Home." He said quietly and opened a door. "Here we are. You should be able to get some sleep in here." He said to her letting her step in first. She took in the room.
It had a small bed against the wall, a chest of drawers against the other wall.a window directly opposite her. The walls were a faded sky blue and the floor was wooden. The room was bare and empty. Robin nodded and turned to Blaine, he was watching her with curiosity.
"What is it?" She asked suddenly on edge.
"Nothing," he shook his head. "I'll come back for you when you should have fully recovered." He left closing the door behind him. Robin turned back to the room.
"What are you going to do now?" The voice taunted her. Be quiet. She instructed and the voice grumbled.
"Do you have a name?" She asked aloud, no one was with her so she no one was there to think she was crazy.
"Yes. I have a name that my kind call me by." The voice responded cautiously.
"You will tell me this name." Robin instructed. "If you want me to co-operate with you." Robin told the voice. There was a sigh.
"They know me as, Strach. Pronounced as Stra-ck." Strach told her.
"Okay. Strach. Why are you in my head?"
"I was called and for some reason I was bound to you."
"Are you a friend or foe?" She asked nervously.
"I'm here to help you." It replied, Robin nodded. "Which means I will speak up if I disagree with what you are doing." It told her Robin chuckled.
"If you think that will work fine. We have to agree on some terms." She told the voice, it replied with a grunt. "I'm the one that is in control not you. I make the decisions and you advise me. We work together. Understood?"
"Yes." The voice replied.
"Good. Now I think we should rest." Robin said laying down on the bed, althought it looked uncomfortable she fell asleep quite quickly, sucked into a dreamless sleep.
"A good idea." The voice murmured softly into her ear before she was lost to the darkness of sleep.
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Hey guys!! Here is part 6 I hope you are enjoying Whisper so far!! It's been really fun writing this and seeing where it leads! So comment on what you think (vote if you liked it and think it deserves one) also follow me to find out when I post another part up or any other stories I post in the future. Thanks guys. And thank you to the people who have read it so far! It means a lot to me that you have even read it. Hope you enjoy Part 6. Lamb