This time she scheduled her session with her patient just after two days. This work seemed to be more interesting than listening normal boring people and their common problems.

Her friends tried to take her out that night to clear mind by drinking and partying, but when she came, all she talked about was Anti.

"Is he some kind of your friend we don't know about?" asked one of her girl friends.

"Ooooooor is he your boooyfrieeend?" laughed another girl, stretching her words into sweet tones, flushing her eyelashes at Sam.

Sam raised eyebrow. "Girls, he is my patient. You all know I work for local asylum now, don't ya?"

Both girls looked at each other and then back to her.

"So you blabber all night about some guy who is nuts crazy?" her friend widened her eyes at her.

"Girl, that is sick," grinned the second one in disgust.

Sam umbrage folded her hands and was mostly silent for the rest of the night.

She went back home tired and drunk. It was a miracle she found her home. She got off her clothes before collapsing into the pillows.

She had wild dreams. Once she was in the deepest, darkest place. She heard whispers, saw shadows in the corner of her eye. Suddenly three big shadows appeared in front of her. They circled her and pounced at her. Sam screamed but nothing happened.

She opened eyes. She was standing on destroyed street of big city full of grey dust. People were screaming, running away from dust storm rising above them. She heard cries, screams and the ground was shaking. Inside the dust wave she saw three male figures walking like nothing happened.

Suddenly pictures flashed before her sleeping eyes. Romanian cities on fire, soldiers murdering each other in one dugout or turning their weapons against themselves, modern cities in wars, buildings collapsing. And inside everything were three figures with flashing eyes. One red with black irises, second pure white, third brightly green and blue.

She woke up at 7 o'clock with beeping alarm, covered in sweat and panting. She needs answers and she needs them now!

********

"Good morning, Anti," as always she entered the booth, sat in her chair and put speaker online.

Anti was already seated on carpet in front of glass, waiting for her. Before he greeted her, he was humming some tuneless song and rocking from left to right, looking at the ceiling.

"I brought you something," she smiled. At the same time the small trap door in lower part of the metal door on his side opened and a hand in a metal glove quickly shoved a small plate with a paper box inside. Then the small door closed immediately.

Anti looked surprised, but got up slowly and while looking back to her, picked the tray up and immediately smiled.

"Are you fokin kiddin' me!?" he started laughing, "you really brought me one?! I had one of these like a century ago!" Anti opened small food box and picked up a huge burger full of meat, sauce and cheese..

Sam smiled, she wanted to make him happy. With a positive attitude she can continue his convalescence much quicker.

Also he looked so cute when he smiled. She shook in surprise. Not falling for patient, she repeated to herself. That will be totally unprofessional.

Anti sat back in front of her, tray on his legs and bite big chunk of burger, chewing like crazy.

"Shall we continue? I have some more unanswered questions,"

He nodded, happily munching on his treat.

"If every session goes as well as the previous one we had, I will gladly bring you another gift."

Anti looked at her, cheeks full like hungry gerbil, sauce all over mouth. It was incredible how big his mouth was considering how tiny lips he had.

He chewed and gulped what he had in, "with this treat you earned few honest answers for free, doc," grinned and took another giant bite from the burger.

Thank god she bought him triple one.

Sam was not wasting precious time of his good mood. "How long are you here on Earth?"

He showed her three fingers on left, less smeary hand, trying to hardly chew what he had in mouth.

" Three years?" she asked, but Anti shook his head.

"Thirty?" her brow raised, when he shook again.

"Three what? Centuries?" Another head shake.

"Oh you are kidding me. Three millenias?" she laughed, but then saw him nod calmly like it was three days.

Sam wrote new information in her notebook and sighted. "Ok, I just pretend I believe you and you and your friends are here since hunters and gatherers. How did you get here anyway?"

Anti swallowed, "we got out from our world. It is much more fun here."

"And what have you been doing since?" her pen fastly wrote information on paper.

"Mostly killin'," he answered shrugging, like he was fishing all the time.

Sam was staring at him for a long time, not knowing what to answer for such honest but brutal answer. He didn't even blink, just opened mouth and licked his lips from burger sauce and he didn't even move his eyes from hers. She broke the gaze immediately.

"Can you show me your...powers?" she asked almost shyly.

Anti raised one of his bushy eyebrows and his mouth slowly outspread into huge grin. He started to getting up like in slowed movie.

Sam blinked. The tray was suddenly sitting on the carpet alone, making soft "dung" on the carpet. Anti and his burger were gone.

She looked around the room.

"Up here!" she heard his voice so she raised her head. Anti was sitting comfortably at the ceiling, biting his burger. Sauce was dripping around his nose and in his hanging overgrown hair and splattering on the tray below him.

"Impressive."

"That is not all," Anti smiled. With another glitchy move he appeared on the far side of the room. Glitch and he was closer to her booth. Another one and another, faster and faster, closer and closer. Sam instinctively tried to curl up in ball of fear.

Anti glitched three times more and appeared right in front of the booth, but he measured his move wrong and crashed his face into glass with a subdued "THONG!"

Sam tried to smother her laugh, but she couldn't hold it in and started laughing aloud.

Anti peeled himself of glass and rubbed his hurt nose. Then he saw his poor burger, smeared all over his tank top where he crushed it between himself and the booth and groaned sadly.

"I will bring you another one," assured him Sam while drying tears of laughter from her eyes. Anti just growled.

The Door in the booth opened so fast it crashed into wall behind it and doctor Ash stormed in, hands ready to fight whatever was in this room.

"Doctor?" she looked at him surprised of his entry.

"Doctor?" he replied, confused on what is going on. The patient stood safely in his cell and the potential Lady in despair was comfortably seated in her armchair, redoing her damaged makeup.

"Is everything OK? I heard noises," asked doctor Ash.

"Yes, sir, we were just having fun here," she replied.

The shock in doctors face could be painted on canvas, "really? Oh fine, that is great, well continue then like I was not here," he quickly retrieved back in lobby and closed door behind him.

Sam and Anti looked at eachother, short silence, then they both burst out laughing.

"I hadn't laughed this much for a long time," Anti said between breaths followed with another wave of laughter.

"Me neither," Sam was wiping new tears from her eyes, trying not to touch mascara and still bursting into short chuckles.

They slowly stopped with laugh and now they just stared at their own feet, little ashamed of their previous action.

"I must admit," started Anti and raised his eyes to her, "ya are by far of the best doctor who ever tried to treat me."

Sam was so flattered she blushed and lowered her head even further down trying to hide it.

"Ya asked about my abilities. Well ya have seen one," continued Anti, trying scrub away remains of squished hamburger off his tank top. "I can also do this," he raised hand. Door behind him opened by itself and book floated its way from his bedroom and seated itself softly on his open palm.

"Handy thing. I want to do that too!" she smiled at him.

Anti shrugged, like it was nothing, clearly pleased with her interest.

"I can also read minds, but I sadly can't show you this. That drug cocktail they gave me everytime before you came decreases my abilities. Or for another treat you can send me one unprotected scientist here. I would have fun with him," he smiled and his smile was suddenly not nice at all.

Sam was slowly getting used to his twisted jokes

"I read your file, Anti, and I saw pretty disturbing images," she admitted, "is there any reason why you do such things? - outside being fun," she added, when he breathed in for an answer.

Anti fell silent for a moment, visibly fighting with his own mind about trusting her or not. Then he decided.

"Every once a week those lab rats found out, that I started to look strangely transparent. So they decided to give me a treat - living animal. It is not such a joy as killing human beings and Dark would probably kill me where I stand, but it is enough to keep me here. Without it I would slowly return into my world."

Sam raised eyebrow, "why don't they just let you go back to your realm? It would be one less problem for them."

"They are so desperate to make an experiments on me and my buddies, they'll do anything just to keep us locked and safe for them."

She frowned "I need to have serious discussion with the local doctors!"

Anti laughed "nobody has eves stood for me like ever! Ya, doc, are really a precious cinnamon bun," he grinned at her.

Sam smiled back, not knowing what he meant by it and then her phone buzzed. "I think that is all for this session. You must be exhausted from all that performance today" She started to pack her things.

Anti pressed palms on glass and watched her, "that half an hour sure flies fast."

"It sure does. Do you want anything from me for next time?"

He was thinking about something, but then just casted his hands around, "surprise me."