I had awoken to the sound of people talking and to the slight hum of a machine. I wasn't sure of where I was so taking a risk I decided to open my eyes only to be blinded by the bright light a top my head. I blinked the spots that appeared in my vision away and began to sit up.

It was then that a nurse had noticed that my eyes had opened and that I was sitting up.

'Ah, your awake.'

I nodded my head "Yes".

'Do you know where you are ?'

I shook my head "No".

'Ah, I see...well your in the hospital...you had gotten into a fight at school.'

I blinked owlishly at the nurse. I was confused but decided against voicing my confusion and instead settled on nodding my head as if I understood what she said.

'Well, now that your awake I'm going to get the doctor so that he can check you and your medical records for any abnormalities or to see if your missing anything.' 'Also, your teachers' called us and said that they were going to be coming to visit you.' Said the nurse as she began to walk out.

I said nothing and just blinked.

'*Sigh* well, anyways I'll be back in a minute.' Said the nurse as she waked out of the room.

I just looked at her retreating back and when she was finally gone I had laid back down, my head resting against my pillow with my hands behind my head and began to think.

'Why am I here?' 'The nurse said I had gotten into a fight but I don't remember being in any fights recently.' 'And who are my teachers?' 'I've never had any teacher that actually cared for me much less want to visit me in the hospital...hmm I don't think I should trust this place.'

It was then the nurse had come back into the room with the doctor following behind her.

'See, I told you that the girl was awake, now go on and do what you always wanted to do.' The nurse said whispering the last part so I couldn't hear her.

The doctor nodded before walking in front of my bed and smiling at me.

"Why hello there...Layla." He said smiling.

I shivered.

'He's hell in itself.' 'I need to get out of here.' 'Run, he's the one that broke you, oh, so long ago.' These were my only thoughts.

I managed to bring myself out of my thoughts to hear him ask;

"How are you feeling dear?"

I feared him but, I tried to form a coherent response and answer him anyway.

"f-fine." Shivering a bit from the fear I felt.

'Hmm...we'll see about that dear girl.'

"Well, let me run some tests on you and check your medical records, and we'll see if what you say is true." Said the doctor.

I shivered involuntarily at the doctors' tone but just slowly nodded my head.

He smiled. I didn't like that smile, it made me sick.

After about five minutes of the doctor checking me he said that I had missed one of my flu shots and had been scheduled to have it but never did. I wanted to run for my life but I didn't want to be seen as crazy and defiant so I just nodded my head.

The doctor smiled and went to go grab the things he needed to administer the shot.

About a minute later the doctor had returned with the tray holding everything he needed.

He picked up the syringe.

The syringe didn't hold the normal substance that I had been used to seeing in a flu shot. The liquid was a violet purple color.

I was afraid and I was now beginning to feel just as powerless as I had been back then.

He flicked the syringe at the base and then smiled.

"It's ready." He said as he licked his lips.

I backed up a bit pushing myself farther into my pillow. The doctor saw this and ordered the nurse to hold me down.

The nurse nodded and did as she was told. I struggled to try and wither out of her grasp as best I could but it didn't work.

"Good job on holding her down." "Now I can administer this without being kicked." He smirked.

When he said that I frowned.  He saw this and said;

"Aw, don't give me that look you'll be an excellent and strong puppet when I'm done with you.~" He said as he grinned a Cheshire grin.

I thrashed around a bit more before I managed to kick him in the stomach.

I smirked slightly at seeing him in pain.

"You bitch!, nurse! I thought I told you to hold her down!"

I screamed and said; "Fuck you!, I'll never belong to you nor ever be your god damned puppet!"

"Sorry but I'm afraid it's too late for that dear!" "Once I heard you entered this hospital I immediately took the chance to be your doctor!"

It was then that he had stabbed me in the arm with the syringe and I watched as the violet-purple liquid drained from the syringe in pure fear not being able to even move from my spot or thrash around.

After a minute the syringe was completely drained of the substance that it once held. It was then that the doctor had pulled out the needle from my arm and had put it on the tray from earlier. He then grabbed a Band-Aid and had put it on the place he stabbed me with the syringe.

"There we go, not so bad was that?" "Also you can let her go now." He said with disdain.

My frown deepened. I hated him. My fear on the other hand had continued to sky rocket.

"Fine be that way, lets go nurse."  He said he began to walk out of my room. It was then that not a second later he stopped in the door way and said; "Oh and by the way, your teachers should be here just in time to witness the show."

I grinded my teeth in anger.

With that he smiled evilly and continued to walk out .

The nurse nodded and then said; ' Your teachers should arrive in here in about five minutes.'

I said nothing too enraged and worried about what was going to happen to me.

With that the nurse and the doctor both exited the room leaving me to my own thoughts;

'I fear the worst is going to happen to me ... I need to find a way to get out of here without alerting the other staff members of the hospital.' 'But...how am I going to do that when I've been weakened?' 'You can't...No I can't!' I said thinking to myself frustrated with how weak I was.

I heaved a sigh before hearing footsteps coming towards my room. I frowned not wanting my teachers or who ever it was to see that I was awake so I slid deeper into my covers and closed my eyes.

It was then that the footsteps abruptly stopped in front of my hospital room before coming into the room I was in.

It was then that I heard voices. One of the voices sounded like it belonged to a female while the other belonged to a male.

I peaked open one of my eyes to see two people in my room. I wasn't sure of who they were but, I knew that they were familiar to me so I decided to open both of my eyes.

It was then that the two had noticed that I had my eyes opened.

"Layla?"

I blinked owlishly at the duo.

"Do you remember who we are?"

I frowned slightly trying to rack my brain for the answer. It was then that two names popped into my head and I said;

"Ms. Chavez, and ....Mr.Piontek...a-are those your names?" I said slightly afraid that I might've gotten them wrong.

The two just smiled and nodded their heads.

"T-The only thing is... that I don't remember anything about you two except your names...I don't even remember what happened to me that made me end up here... all I know is that I got in a fight..." I said frowning slightly.

"C-Can you tell me what happened?" I asked shyly.

The two nodded their heads and decided to tell me.

"Well, one of your classmates... had injured you pretty badly and had ended up stabbing you in the heart and you just... smiled about it all and then you fainted due to blood loss and we worked hard to save you."

"It...It was pretty bad."

I nodded my head in understanding. It was then that I felt a searing pain within my stomach. I bent over holding my mid-section in pain heaving and panting as sweat began to form on my brow.

"Layla?" "Layla?!" "Layla!, What's wrong!?"  Ms. Chavez screamed.

The pain then began to spread like a virus thought my entire body until it reached the very crown of my head.

"Layla, calm down and tell us what's happening."

I wanted to scream but instead forced myself to lay against my pillow.

I had my eyes shut tightly together as I gritted my teeth together.

I had finally managed to calm myself down enough to get out a few words;

"I...I wOn'T ....BeCoMe...A PupPeT!" I managed to say through labored breaths and grinding teeth.

It was then that the pain had returned only stronger this time. I screamed.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

My back arched and I screamed even more. I could no longer control what my body did.

The two teachers eyes widened in realization at what I meant. They immediately came to my side and tried to get me back onto my hospital bed. It was just as they were going to touch me an electric field had surrounded me and had shocked them.

The two teachers retracted their hands in slight pain from the shock.

It was then that the electricity flowing around me had stopped and I had stopped moving all together.

I had opened my eyes surprising the two teachers.

"Layla?"

"Yes?" I answered in a dead voice.

The two shivered at the lack of emotions from me.

"Nothing ,we're going to try and check you out of here."

"Ok."

Within a few minutes I had been checked out of the hospital and was ready to leave.

As we walked out of the hospital one of my teachers spoke up;

"Layla?"

"Yes?"

"We know about your living conditions and if you want we could come to check up on you every now and then...if you'd like?"

I tilted my head to the side for a moment before shrugging my shoulders and saying;

"Sure..."

The two teachers smiled at me and said; "Well then it's settled, let's go Layla." "You can choose whoever you want to ride with back to your house while one of us follows behind."

"O-ok...is it ok if I ride with y-you Ms.Chavez?"

She just smiled at me and said; "Sure."

It was then that I had gotten into her car and had given her the directions to my house. In a few minutes we had arrived at my house.

The two had gotten out of their cars and followed behind me. When I reached the door of my apartment I had fished the keys out of my pocket and had made my way inside along with the two teachers.

"Well...here we are...my home..."

"Layla...how were you able to afford this?" Asked Mr.Piontek.

"I...I'm living off my parents funds and money...." I said quietly.

"I'm amazed by you Layla...you got this all by yourself and your doing exceptionally well in school too, how do you manage?" Asked Ms.Chavez.

"H-honestly, I don't know anymore..." I said scratching the back of my head sheepishly.

"Anyways...if you guys want to stay for the night...I have two guest rooms that you guys could use..."

The two blinked in surprise at my behavior. Not a moment later they both smiled.

"Sure, we'd love to stay." Spoke Piontek.

I smiled slightly before saying; "Wait...do you...do you guys have clothes for the night and tommorow?"

The two looked at each other and shrugged and said they'd be right back.

It was a few minutes later when they came back with bags in their hands.

"I-I assume that those bags hold your clothes?"

"Yup!"

"O-ok...anyways...let me take you t-to your rooms..." I said as I began to drag them towards the guest rooms.

"H-here we are...the rooms a-are practically t-the same...so n-no need to fight or quarrel over them...anyways i-i'll let you guys settle in...feel free to meet me in the d-dinning room when your done."  I explained.

They both nodded their heads in understanding. I smiled at both of then and then made my way towards the kitchen to begin making dinner.

Soon after I started though I began to feel dizzy. A moment later I fell to the floor unconscious with the stove still burning.

A mere minute later the two teachers come rushing to the kitchen to check out the loud noise that they just heard and saw my unconscious form on the floor.

"Layla? Layla?! *Sigh* Mr.Piontek, can you please help me out here?"

"Sure...I'll get Layla off the floor and you turn off the stove."

"Ok."

Ms.Chavez made her way to the stove and turned it off while Mr.Piontek had picked up Layla's unconscious body and had laid her on the couch.

"Let me take her temperature and see if she's ok."

"Alright, let me go get a thermometer if she has one."

"Mr.Piontek, I'm pretty sure that she'll have one in her medicine chest in the bathroom..."

Mr.Piontek nodded and had gone to the bathroom and grabbed the thermometer and gave it to Ms.Chavez.

Ms.Chavez then proceeded to take my temperature.

The thermometer read 105.5° farenheight.

"Crap, it seems like she has scarlet fever... Piontek go get me a cold wet washcloth to put atop her forehead, please."

Mr.Piontek then made his way to the bathroom picked up a washcloth and then ran it under really cold water. After a few minutes of doing this he shut off the faucet and made his way back to Ms.Chavez and gave her the wash cloth.

"Thank you."

I set the cold wash cloth on top of layla's forehead and move her hair out of her face.

She seemed to be in a lot of pain. Our best bet now was to wait for her to come to while trying to keep her temperature down.

*Inside Layla's dream*

It was pitch black. I was tired of the darkness, all I ever wanted was the light. It was then that I heard a voice. The voice sounded oddly like my own. I then began to walk towards the sound of my own voice and then  when I walked far enough I saw a light. I ran to it wanting out of the darkness that surrounded me. It was then that I heard my voice peirce the air.

"You can't escape, it's impossible... you are the darkness itself...You held all the hatred in and now look at what you've become...A worthless human with nothing to look forward to." "Just give up already, just let me take over already...I can get you out of the darkness." Spoke my voice.

"If your going to get me out of the darkness then....I trust you." I said carefully.

It was then that something appeared in front of me. It was a shadow doppelganger of my self.

"Good to know that you'll take me up on what I have to offer for you m'dear....now stay absolutely still and I promise you it won't hurt."

I nodded my head in understanding and stood still.

My shadow doppelganger smiled and began to fade away. When she faded away completely I was held down by shadow hands of some sort and then one of the hands took a knife and cut open my chest where my heart lay.

"W-what's happening?!" "Why am I being torn open?!" I said now slightly afraid of what was going to happen to me.

"Your being torn open so I can take over m'dear!"

My eyes widened in realization at the mistake I just made.

It was then not a moment later that my dark side had flew into my chest cavity and into my heart.

I screamed. It was then that I fell to the "floor" unconscious.

*Back on the outside*

"AaAaAhhhhHhHHhHHhhhh!!!!!!!" I screamed in almost a glitchy voice.

My back arched and I screamed even louder.

Ms.Chavez was taken for surprise when I started screaming and was even more surprised when my back arched.

"Mr.Piontek, try to get her back onto the couch!"

Mr.Piontek nodded his head and forced me back down on the couch.

As soon as I was back on the couch my eyes immediately snapped open.

I blinked. I brought my hands up and looked at them as if studying them for a moment and then looked around the room before saying;

"What happened?"

The two teachers blinked at me owlishly before saying;

"Layla, you fainted when you were cooking and then you developed a high fever." Explained Mr.Piontek.

I blinked surprised before saying; "Ah, I see...well...I better finish up making dinner so we can eat."

The two looked at me as if I was crazy before heaving a sigh.

"Alright Layla we'll be here watching you so if you faint again we can come to your rescue."

"Ok, dinner should be ready in about fifteen." I said.

The two nodded their heads in understanding.

Fifteen minutes later dinner was on the table and everyone was eating. After they were done they cleaned up their mess and had gone to bed. Layla smiled to herself thinking what a crazy day it was and how tomorrow was going to possibly be even crazier. She smiled once more to herself, satisfied with the day before drifting off into a peaceful slumber for the night.
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