Chapter Ten

Jace was treating a patient named Sawyer Saws. Sawyer is a thirty year old male who substitutes for special needs children in an elementary school. Sawyer had fainted from being too dehydrated and hit his head on the desk in his classroom. Jace told Sawyer he was suffering from a concussion and that he needs to be treated at the hospital to get an MRI to be sure there is no serious injury to his head. Jace was putting a bandage on Sawyer's forehead where Sawyer bumped his head. Sawyer was put on the stretcher and taken to the ambulance.

Once Sawyer was put in the ambulance, he was taken to the hospital to receive treatment. As Jace and Alex were headed to another emergency this time shortly after arriving back at the station, Jace received a text message from Detective Knox while he was riding the ambulance. Jace was reading the text message sent from Detective Knox after he pulled out his iPhone from his pocket. Jace read the message from Detective Knox.

After Jace reads the text message from Detective Knox, he thinks for a second. When Jace and Detective Knox met up in a coffee shop, Detective Knox was talking to Jace about some of the stories she had read about the abuse at the New Eden psychiatric hospital. "So I was reading from the book, I did find some information about when the psychiatric hospital had first been established. New Eden was first opened in late 1845, and is runned by a young man who obviously doesn't show the name of the person in the book who would run this place.

I even did some research online, and it doesn't show any research about the hospital, who would run this hospital, and other things, didn't pop up on the internet. So this book was obviously some fairy tale story written by some fictional writer or something like that," says Detective Knox. "Detective Knox, I've been having these dreams. I have nightmares about this hospital. I see children in my nightmares that they're being tortured, I hear horrific screams and just where children are crying and screaming in pain. So how can this even be a fairytale? Huh? I mean I'd just. I'd just want answers, why am I having nightmares and dreaming about this horrific place. Someone obviously wrote this book to prove that this hospital does exist, just like Aleix who had been haunting me, she is also telling me that this hospital does exist as well," says Jace.

"Jace. I'm sorry. But..." Jace interrupted Detective Knox.

"Please, Detective Knox, I swear I have been seeing this young girl who I'd think died of complications from the abuse. She was a patient at that hospital and somehow she escaped. She was also one of my patients as an EMT, and she died of a cardiac arrest because it showed in her system that she was given a drug that led to her death. I'd think her doctor had given her a drug that wasn't approved by the FDA. And the medication that Aleix had been prescribed was called Cyxlophone. Which I have never heard of before,"  says Jace.

"So you think that this psychiatric hospital was built to abuse children?" says Detective Knox.

"Yes. As for someone who can be this crazy and evil, I'd say yeah," says Jace. "And I also think that the person who wrote the book, they were just sharing their story with the world for people to see that they're also a victim of this place," says Jace, once again.

"But if they'd written the book, then how come they didn't write down the location of this particular hospital?" wondered Detective Knox.

Jace takes a deep breath and says, "oh. It doesn't show anywhere in the book, not even on the internet where this hospital is located either," says Jace.

"Wait. Do you know who wrote this book? Does it have the author's name? Because how old are these children? In your dreams?" says Detective Knox. "I'd say around ten to fifteen years old. The kids. They suffer from psychological disorders and are being treated like they're garbage from their doctors and nurses. And the author's name is Mitchell Draty. We can look him up on the internet," says Jace.

"You'd see I'm worried that if this hospital does exist, why haven't they shut it down? And why would this person who may also be a victim of this horrific thing like this would not tell us the person who runs the hospital, or where the hospital is located and other things," says Detective Knox.

"Maybe they're afraid to get caught. And the author uses a fictional character's name in the book where the character plays the role of Mitchell Draty, so as I was reading the book, I figured it was Mitchell who is the real character in the book, he'd just didn't want to put his name out there," says Jace.

"And are you sure you're one hundred percent right about this?" asked Detective Knox.

"Yes. I seriously doubt it. I'm thinking this guy is probably a teenager who wrote the book. A teenage boy who was using his own story where he wrote about himself being a victim of a horrific situation, but uses fictional characters' names instead so they'd wouldn't get caught and I guess it's their way of saying that they'd need help shutting this hospital down," explained Jace.

Detective Knox nods her head. "Ah I see what you're saying now. It makes sense. So we just have to go talk to this guy. Maybe he can tell us more information about this hospital and other things," says Detective Knox.

"Yeah. Okay, let's go find him," says Jace. "Okay, can you look up on your phone to see where this guy lives?" say's Detective Knox.

"Uh yeah," says Jace. Jace grabs his iPhone and he searches for Mitchell Darty on the internet. "He resides in Baltimore, Maryland 21218 at 2204 N Calvert St.," says Jace.

"Okay, great," answered Detective Knox. "Let's get going," says Detective Knox once again.

Both Jace and Detective Knox had stood up from their chairs before grabbing their things and leaving the coffee shop. Once Jace and Detective Knox had walked out of the coffee shop, they walked to their own cars and they went to see Mitchell Draty.

After arriving at Mitchell Duty's house, Jace had knocked on the door of Mitchell's house and he waited for Mitchell to answer the door. Detective Knox was standing next to Jace. Until footsteps began to approach the door and after the door was being opened, Mitchell saw Jace and Detective Knox standing outside of his back porch.

"Can I help you?" says Mitchell. Mitchell is this young boy, he's around his teenage years and he was home alone.

"Hi, are you Mitchell Darty?" wondering Jace.

"Yes? What can I help you with?" Mitchell.

"Well, my name is Jace Parker and this is Detective Knox. We came by to talk to you because well, we know that you were a patient at the New Eden hospital, am I correct?" says Jace.

"Yes. How do you know about that?" wondered Mitchell.

"We read your book. You published a book a few months ago and I found it at this library and well I read that the fictional character you used in your book about them being in this New Eden hospital, you are that character but you didn't use your real name?" says Jace.

"Yeah. And my name is not really Mitchell Draty. It's Timothy Howard," says Timothy.

"What? But the author's name is Mitchell Draty. We even found the address of your home under your name Mitchell Draty," says Jace, in confusion.

"I'll explain why. Come inside," says Timothy.

Jace had stepped inside Timothy's house and Detective Knox followed him from behind. After Timothy shuts the door, he walks into the living room and he sighed as he turned around, facing Jace and Detective Knox. Timothy folded his arms together.

"So, can you please tell us why you didn't use your real name in the book?" says Jace.

"I was a victim at New Eden. I was there for about six months before I was able to find my way to escape from the hospital. Um. I was abused there," says Timothy.

Jace and Detective Knox looked at each other and then looked back at Timothy. "Timothy, I have been having these dreams about this place. And I had a patient named Aleix Bosfti. She was ten years old, and died of cardiac arrest. The medical examiner told me that she died from being given a prescription that was prescribed by a doctor that the prescription was never even approved by the FDA," says Jace.

Jace takes a deep breath before he continues to talk. "Also, after Aleix had died, she has well been sort of coming back to haunt me. She's been giving me these signs also telling me that she was a victim of that psychiatric hospital as well," says Jace.

"Aleix Boysfti. Yeah. She and I met at the hospital before I had found my way to escape the hospital and I found out she did as well," says Timothy. "Yeah. The medical examiner said that right before Aleix had escaped, she still had the drug in her system which hadn't completely cleared from her body, after her escaping from the hospital and she died of complications shortly thereafter," says Jace.

"Aleix and I were brutally tortured by Dr. Jackson Navel. He is the one who is the head of the hospital and he tortured us. As well as making us really sick. But somehow I got lucky that the drug I have been prescribed by Dr. Navel didn't kill me. But for Aleix, she wasn't so lucky after all," says Timothy.

"So, why didn't you use your real name in the book? Including the author's name?" says Jace.

"I didn't want to get caught," says Timothy.

"You didn't want Dr. Navel to find out that you shared your experience in the hospital and you were afraid to get caught?" wondered Jace.

"Yeah. If Dr. Navel found out about me writing about a book where I was a victim of this hospital, he would probably kill me. The only reason I wrote this book is because this hospital is out in the middle of nowhere, and I waited for someone for so long to finally come talk to me about my story of being the victim of that hospital because I want someone to help me shut it down," says Timothy.

"Why didn't you try to talk to the police about it after you found your way back home?" wondering Jace.
"I was afraid they would look at me like I was insane or something," says Timothy. Jace sighed.

"Okay. So that's why you didn't put the location of this hospital in your book. It is out in the middle of nowhere," says Jace.

"Yeah. But please, you have to shut this hospital down. They're just going to keep killing more kids. I'd hope you're able to shut this hospital down. That place is nothing but garbage and full of hatred for children," says Timothy.

"Okay Timothy. If you can help us, we can do our best to try and stop this madness by making it worse," says Detective Knox.

"Okay, I will," says Timothy. Jace nods his head and Timothy sighed and he softly smiled at Jace. When Jace and Detective Knox walked out of Timothy's house, Jace had stopped Detective Knox from walking and Detective Knox turned around and looked at Jace.

"What's wrong?" says Detective Knox.

"Um. I remember that Aleix had tried to attack me," says Jace.

"She tried to attack you? What do you mean?" wondering Detective Knox.

"We-well, she tried to strangle me. She tried to kill me," says Jace.

"So? You think this girl after she died, she's dangerous now?" wondered Detective Knox.

"I don't know. Something is just not adding up here. I mean first my patient dies, then she comes back to haunt me, and I start seeing this psychiatric hospital that is full of evil in my dreams and then I find out about another victim who knew Aleix telling me he knew her and also Timothy telling me about this doctor giving out illegal medications to patients as well as other doctors and nurses who abuse them as well. Something isn't quite right with this," says Jace. "Why would she try to kill me if I am trying to help them to stop the abuse at this hospital? It doesn't make any sense," says Jace, stroking his hair to the side.

"Was this before you started to have bad dreams about the hospital, or afterwards?" wondered Detective Knox.

Jace sighed and said, "before." 

Detective Knox nods her head. Jace walks past Detective Knox as he heads back to his car. Therefore, Jace was this time driving the ambulance and he and Alex are on their way to treat another patient. Alex was talking to Jace about Kate, his girlfriend and how they had a great time at her twenty-fourth birthday party at Logan's.

Alex told Jace that he and Kate had their first kiss while standing outside of Logan's restaurant and how in love Alex was with Kate.

"And she even told me that I'm her first real boyfriend. No offense but, she's my first real girlfriend since all the women I been dating before I met Kate sort of cheated on me and never really liked me back," says Alex.

Jace wasn't really with it in his mind. He was still thinking about what Timothy had told him about the book and the hospital and how he knew Aleix and how Jace was still seeing Aleix as a ghost. Jace had a flashback of Aleix and he remembered how he was staring at her and Aleix was evilly smiling at him. Jace was spacing out while he was driving the ambulance.

Alex continued talking about Kate and the voice of Alex started fading away. Jace sighed and he continued thinking about Timothy, Aleix, and how Aleix tried to kill him as well as having flashbacks of the horror psychiatric hospital. Jace also remembered in his flashback where Timothy was telling him and Detective Knox that he was also a victim of the abuse and he and Aleix escaped from the hospital. Jace still couldn't figure out what was going on.

"Jace?" says Alex.

"Hm?" says Jace.

"Did you even hear a word of what I just said," says Alex.

"No. Sorry. I have a lot on my mind," says Jace.

"Oh. Do you want to talk about it?" says Alex.

"Um no. I'm just not gonna say much to you about me possibly being haunted by this girl and so I'm just gonna keep on trying to figure out why she's haunting me," says Jace.

"Jace," says Alex.

"What? It's obviously you don't believe in what I say anymore," says Jace.

"Well, you do sound crazy sometimes," says Alex.

Jace takes a deep breath and says, "well I'm sorry you feel that way," Jace snapped.

"Jace, have you seen a specialist or someone about this? Like maybe a therapist or a psychiatrist or something," says Alex.

"No. And I'm not going to. I know that there is something going on and this girl Aleix, our patient has come back to haunt me for some reason. I don't know why but I'm gonna find out, and if I don't find out why, I may never get to save myself from her trying to haunt me, and as well trying to find out why I'm dreaming about this psychiatric hospital as well as talking to Timothy Howard, who was a victim of that psychiatric hospital as well.  I'm just trying to find answers to my questions, and I know I'm not crazy, I'm just not. I know what I know," says Jace, as he is sort of beginning to talk really fast.

"Jace?" says Alex.

"What?" Jace snapped.

"It's not because I think you're crazy, but I just don't believe in ghosts," says Alex.

Jace was beginning to breathe heavily. "Jace, relax, you're gonna give yourself a heart attack," says Alex.

"I'm not crazy, Alex!" says Jace, beginning to hyperventilate. "Jace stop, relax," says Alex. "I'm not crazy!" says Jace.

"Okay, okay, you're not crazy," says Alex.

Jace was beginning to calm down. "You are not crazy," says Alex, gently rubbing Jace's back while Jace was driving. "I don't know why I acted that way," says Jace, as he looked at Alex.

Alex was confused on why Jace was acting so strange. Jace took a deep breath and he exhaled his breath really loud. Until Jace and Alex were about to pass this red light and once they'd reached the middle of the traffic light, Jace then turned his head and he noticed Aleix standing in the middle of the road and Jace screamed and stomped on the break really hard.

In an instant, Jace and Alex were badly hit by another vehicle. The ambulance had flipped multiple times and Jace and Alex were upside in the ambulance while unconscious. The ambulance was upside down.

The other vehicle was severely totaled. The other driver was severely injured. Until sirens were being heard. Jace while still in the ambulance, he had woken up in the ambulance and he had blood covered all over him. He turned facing the passengers seat and he noticed Alex was unconscious. Jace began to breathlessly breathe through his stomach pain.

Jace Parker who is breathlessly experiencing stomach pain after an ambulance crash is likely suffering from serious internal trauma. His symptoms indicate a potential life-threatening emergency, even though he's still sitting upright. A first responder would need to act quickly to stabilize him. He saw another ambulance coming and other first responders arriving at the accident scene. Jace then heard another paramedic talking to him while kneeling on his knees, and the paramedic was trying to tell Jace that everything was going to be okay.

Jace breathlessly spoke to the paramedic saying he's in pain. That his stomach was hurting. Jace then noticed Aleix standing behind the paramedic and Jace began to panic. He groaned in pain. Jace turned facing Alex once again and he tried to wake Alex up by shaking him to get a response. Alex did not wake up. Until Jace started slowly to lose consciousness.

He went into cardiac arrest after he completely lost consciousness. Jace was rushed to the hospital. Alex was rushed to the hospital as well.  About a day after the accident, Jace groaned a little bit. The hospital room was all sharp angles and muted colors, a stark contrast to the comfortable, lived-in chaos of Melissa Parker's home. She sat in a chair that pretended to be comfortable but was actually just a slab of thinly padded plastic.

For hours, she had been watching Jace, her son, sleep a drugged and unnatural sleep. The easy, familiar rhythm of his chest rising and falling was interrupted by the persistent, synthetic beep... beep... beep of the heart monitor. Melissa ran her hand over her face, feeling the fatigue etched into the lines around her eyes.

It felt like a lifetime ago that she had received the call, her blood turning to ice water as the hospital operator explained the details: an ambulance crash, her son and his partner, Alex, involved, and Jace listed in stable but serious condition.

Melissa's world had narrowed to the four walls of this room, with its scent of antiseptic and the low hum of machinery. Jace was not her son anymore, not in the way she knew him. He was a patient, an occupant of a bed that didn't belong to him. The standard-issue hospital gown swallowed his broad shoulders, a humiliating uniform that replaced his familiar EMT jumpsuit.

An IV line snaked out from the pale skin of his hand, a clear, silent lifeline feeding him what he needed. The gentle hiss of the oxygen tube resting in his nose felt like an intrusion on his personal space. He was hooked up, connected, measured, and monitored—everything she couldn't protect him from.

Melissa's gaze drifted from her son's peaceful face to the bandage peeking out from beneath his hairline. She had already been told he'd be okay, that he just needed rest. But her body refused to believe it. Her stomach felt hollowed out, her heart a heavy, aching presence in her chest.

Every doctor she had seen come and go had treated Jace with the cold professionalism of his job—one more critical case. But to her, he was just Jace. Her son. Outside the door, the world continued. People walked, cars drove, and the sun set and rose again. But in this room, time was an unmoving, suffocating weight. Melissa gripped the armrests of her plastic chair, forcing herself to breathe slowly, in and out, just like the monitor reminded her.

All she could do was wait for him to wake up, to see his real eyes open again and let her know he was truly there. While lying on the hospital bed in his dark hospital room, Jace  was wearing a hospital gown, as well as a nasal cannula in his nose to help him breathe. He also had an IV inserted in his left middle arm and an ID bracelet on his right wrist. He was hooked up to a patient monitor where it tracks his blood pressure, his heart rate as well as wearing a cuff on his upper left arm. He had sheets and blankets lying on top of him.

Jace (after opening his eyes) was looking around the room where he heard the patient monitor beeping. Jace squeezed his eyes shut, and he was in pain from the accident. Jace opened his eyes once again. Jace then gently turned his head to the side of his bed where he saw his mother sitting on a chair while holding his hand. 

"Mom?" Jace said, in a weak tone of voice.

His mother Melissa Parker gasped as she lifted her head and she stood up in her chair while continuing to look at Jace. "Oh sweetheart," says Melissa, in a soft tone of voice. Melissa kissed Jace's forehead as she leaned over and she began to softly cry. She was thanking God for keeping Jace alive. Jace softly groaned once again.

He was very weak. Jace was severely injured and in pain. Melissa looked right into Jace's eyes and Jace was looking at his mother with a worried expression on his face. "I am so glad you're okay," says Melissa. She kissed Jace's forehead once again. Melissa took her fingers and stroked Jace's hair to the side.

"Mom?" says Jace, in a weak tone of voice.

"Yeah?" wondered Melissa.

"Where is Alex?" says Jace.

Melissa sighed. "I am sorry sweetheart, but he didn't make it," says Melissa. Jace tried so hard not to cry. He began to hyperventilate. Melissa was shushing Jace, trying to calm her son down. "Shh, it's okay. It's okay," says Melissa. Jace had tears streaming down his face.

As Jace continued lying on his bed, in tears, he stared at the ceiling of his hospital room, trying to figure out why and how the accident had happened. He couldn't believe that his partner and his best friend Alex had passed away. Jace couldn't wrap his head around the fact that he was never gonna see his best friend ever again. Alex is gone forever and he is never coming back.

While Jace was still at the hospital, he was sitting on the edge of his hospital bed when Detective Knox came into his room after knocking on the door. Jace turned his head and he noticed Detective Knox standing behind him. Jace was quiet and he turned facing the wall. Jace sighed. He was still depressed over the loss of Alex.

"Jace. I am so sorry about what happened to your friend," says Detective Knox.

Jace takes a deep breath and exhales his breath. "I think something darker is going on," says Jace.

"What?" says Detective Kmox.
Jace swallowed before he continued to speak. "I think that Aliex has come back to life but it's not really her," says Jace.

"What do you mean? What makes you say that?" says Detective Knox.
Jace was trying to hold back his tears. "I saw Aleix at the scene. She was standing there on the road just watching me struggle to breathe in the ambulance. It was like she was. I don't know. She was just standing there evilly smiling at me. I think there is something more to the story. I just know. I don't think it is Aleix who watched me struggle. I think there is something more evil. I can just feel it in my bones," explained Jace.

Detective Knox walked closer to Jace. "Jace? Do you think that this girl you have been seeing, Aleix? Um. Do you think that she was killed by some demon and they killed her?" wondered Detective Knox.

"I'd think that something demonic is in that hospital. And I think Aleix wasn't just killed, but I think that the doctors and the nurses there are being possessed and forced into killing these kids. And I think that the demon forced this doctor to give out illegal drugs to these children because this demon forced these doctors and nurses to kill children. No matter if it's giving them the wrong medication, or electrocuting them. I'd think that something demonic is inside Aleix. She's come back to life. I think this demon is telling me that it's telling me that it's still alive and telling me that I cannot stop them from killing more kids. I don't think this is really Aleix who is haunting me. I think something more sinister killed Aleix," explained Jace.

"How do you know?" wondered Detective Knox. Jace sighed. "I remember reading in the book Timothy wrote that kids at that hospital would see this dark shadow being inside the hospital. And Timothy since he was the victim of the whole situation, he also said he saw a black shadow go though the children's rooms at night. Timothy said it felt dark and evil. Like it wanted to kill. And until it started with one of the doctors who was being possessed by this monster who made them force themselves to kill children. This evilness, this darkness, whatever this thing is, it forces doctors to kill children. Not only that, but I also read in the book that in the year of 1845, after the hospital was first established, there was this doctor. Years ago a doctor named Tanner Hawkins, he was a psychiatrist at New Eden, and one day he decided to kill this young boy by giving him the wrong prescription medicine and the boy died by complications of the abuse. After they'd died, Tanner had killed more children and not only by giving them the wrong medicine but as well as electrocution and starvation. Until one night, Dr. Hawkins had died just a couple years after opening his own hospital and being the head of the hospital. Cause of death was suicide," says Jace.

"So the doctor committed suicide after killing his patients, and you think that this doctor is really the one forcing these other doctors to kill children?" wondered Detective Knox.

"Yeah. I think this evilness, this demonic creature, is really Dr. Hawkins. He was really the one who tried to kill me even though it wasn't really Aleix who tried to kill me," says Jace.

Detective Knox nods her head. "But I don't know for sure, until we find more evidence of this kind of thing." Jace sighed. "I'm just all in my head right now," says Jace.

Detective Knox walked up to Jace and she sat next to him on the hospital bed. Jace turned his head a little to hide himself from Detective Knox so as not to see him cry. Jace was wiping his tears. But Detective Knox already knew that Jace was crying. He was missing his best friend. He was missing Alex.