Twelve months almost to the day after Graham stepped out on front of an oncoming bus, he awoke. His eyes rolled about for a moment. To him, the light which surrounded him seemed extremely bright and it took a moment or two for his eyes to adjust. His initial moment of thought was one of I'm still alive ... crap.

It was obvious from his surrounding that Graham was lying in a hospital bed. His second moment of torture had brought him right back to where the first moment had taken him. Only so much recovery can occur in such a place.

There was a nurse in the room, and she worked in such a position that had her back to Graham. Her humming seemed to have a familiar tone to it. When she turned, Graham's eyes opened wide with panic. He was barely able to move and barely able to make a sound let alone scream or shout. The noise he did make was more like an inverted shriek.

As far as Graham was concerned, the nurse, it was Sarah, she was Sarah, she is Sarah ... and even though he believed that it wasn't Sarah who caused him the physical torture, he couldn't help but feel that he was in some sort of immediate danger.

This nurse attempted to calm Graham, but it was clearly obvious that she was only having the opposite effect. She called for the doctor who quickly came into the room with two other nurses. The nurse that Graham is sure was Sarah, left the room. She stopped for a moment in the hallway and began to cry.

Graham soon calmed down; the doctor was reluctant to give him a sedative since after all Graham had only just woken from a twelve-month sleep. Therefore, his trip to where his physical torture had taken place and his subsequent stepping out in front of a bus may as well have only just happened yesterday and in that 'yesterday' moment ... Graham was losing it.

Doctor Derrick Harris had been Graham's doctor since Graham arrived at the hospital after being hit by the bus. The doctor explained to Graham that a year had passed, a year that Graham spent in a coma and the Doc also said he knew of the torture and of the surgeries that Graham had previously gone through. Further surgeries were necessary and had taken place over the months of his sleep, especially seeing to the fact that Graham was where he is due to stepping out in front of a bus.

It would also be explained that the mental stress Graham endured may make him perceive things not to be as they actually are and the nurse he thought was Sarah, is not Sarah at all, but Graham knew different. In his heart he knew it was Sarah, her hair may be longer now and the colour of her hair may have changed from blonde to red, but he knew positively that the nurse was and is her.

Her name now is Jane, and it became clear over the next few weeks, during Grahams rehab, that there was something going on between Jane and the doctor. The physical therapy that he would go through was a torture within itself. Graham was highly motivated to endure the therapy as for if he could do anything about it, he was going to prevent the doctor from being Sarah's next recruited torture victim.

It was useless, however Graham tried, he couldn't convince the doctor that Jane was indeed this Sarah person. It was useless trying to convince the doctor that his life was in danger. Even using the logic that possibly Sarah's true name extends as Sarah Jane; someone who once went by Sarah is now going by Jane. As far as the doctor is concerned, Graham is mentally unstable and what has happened to him has totally consumed him.

Over the weeks of Graham's rehabilitation, he never confronted Jane, well that was until the final time he would have a chance to talk to her. On one particular evening, Jane and the doctor were to head out together after work. Graham overheard Jane speaking on her phone.

'Yes, it won't be long now, we'll be leaving soon.'

Had she been in conversation with he, or she, who had physically put Graham through so much torment? If so, then then the doctor's time may just be up. Having moved toward the nurse, Graham grabbed her left arm; she turned and broke away from his grip easily. With the recovery from his injuries and his wake from a lengthy slumber still in an early stage, Graham had little power or strength in his grip.

'Sarah, you don't have to do this.'

'My name is not Sarah' she spoke with a clear anger in her voice.

Doctor Harris approached and asked Jane if she was alright. She responded saying that she was just fine while at the same time making eye contact with Graham. She moved toward the doctor, then made eye contact with him before she continued to speak.

'I'd like to freshen up at home before we head out if that is alright with you?'

'Yeah sure' responded the doctor as he now reached to take Jane by the arm while looking over toward Graham as if to say to him that what he is thinking is just all in his head.

Graham felt sick to his stomach. Dry heaves were soon to follow. Having not eaten for quite some time and not really feeling up to eating, made sure that he had nothing to actually throw up. He knew what the doctor was in for. He could not convince anyone of this and most definitely was in no condition physically to go do anything about it.

***

The doctor awoke to total darkness. The last thing he remembered was sitting down on a couch in Jane's living room and now he is chained to a wooden chair with most of his clothing having been removed. He could hear movement. He wasn't alone. Four lights around the room, one on each wall of a rectangular room, took the surrounding space out of total darkness but these lights were kept dimmed and the lighting would remain at a low level.

At this moment the doctor knew he should have taken Graham's warnings a little more seriously though right now was no time to dwell on what he should or should not have done. Within this darkened room, a person wearing protective clothing and a clown mask, which covered the whole head, was revealed by that low level of light. A little different to how it began for Graham though variety may just play a big part in the motives of all that is happening.

Being a doctor, Derrick was used to saving lives and helping those in his care to recover from whatever they needed to recover from whether that be illness or injury. At this particular moment he was about to receive multiple injuries of his own. He wished he could have an 'I told you so' moment followed by rescue but there would be no such luck.

Panic set in quickly, if it hadn't already, when the person in protective clothing approached the doctor while carrying an iron chisel in one hand and a lump hammer in the other. The chisel was placed at the base of the smallest toe on the doctor's bare left foot and when the hammer connected, the toe not only came clean off the foot but was also propelled away.

The terror in seeing something like this coming is unlike anything Derrick could have previously imagined. Derrick roared in agony upon losing that toe, an agony which had only just begun and would continue with hot wax being poured over the wound followed by the exact same thing happening to the smallest toe on the doctor's right foot.

Derrick may be a grown man, but he couldn't help himself crying as he begged for mercy. His attacker walked over to a counter and came back with a Stanley knife. This knife would be used to make a cut right along the top of the doctor's right eyebrow. This would be done as the attacker held the doctor's hair with one hand and using the blade in his or her other hand.

The doctor squealed as the incision was made and when his head was released the blood began to flow down the right-hand side of his face as well as getting into his eye. His immediate reaction would be to reach for his eye, but his hands were bound just as the rest of him was bound with chains to a chair.

'No more ... please no more ... I'll get you whatever you want ... please'; Derrick struggled to get those words out.

The Stanley knife was again to be used slitting the base of both nostrils of the doctor's nose. Derrick's eyes crossed as he watched the blade approach his nose. By this moment he was unable to see out from his right eye.

Four electrical nodes were soon attached to the doctor's chest and when a switch was flicked, an electric charge ripped through the doctor. This would happen over and over with the charge increasing each time.

A swat team entered a house through the front and back entrances. It took a fair bit of searching before a hidden door which led to a basement was found. Doctor Derrick Harris was found dead. His attacker was nowhere to be seen. It wasn't due to Graham's ramblings that any search took place; rather it had been an anonymous phone call which came from a female voice on the end of a pay phone that prompted police to enter the house where the doctor's body had been found lifeless.

Nurse Jane never returned to work at the hospital. The files the hospital had on her were investigated and had been found to be faked. No background check had been made on her the day she was given employment.

Upon his release from that same hospital, Graham was sure he could see her in the distance, and he was sure he could see her once again in the distance when he attended the doctor's funeral.