Sleeping With Ghosts

Okay, this is the last chapter. But there is an epilogue, I'm just not done writing it yet, so stay tuned. Thank you everyone for your reviews, please enjoy.

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Gerard

My vision slowly came into focus. I remembered running up the stairs, going through the passage, then someone hitting me really fucking hard over the head. My head was throbbing and my stomach felt kinda weird, like it was on fire. I tried to reach a hand up to rub one of my temples, then I realized it, my hands were tied down. I woke up a little more fully and bit my lip to keep from crying out.

I was tied down to a bed, in the old operating theater. Dr. Harvey was there, and then I figured out what the burning was. Frank was there too, and he was cutting into my stomach. He didn't seem insane at all, he was staring very intently at his work as he sliced into my belly. I finally had to hazard a look down and I felt like I was going to faint. He was carving the word "vampire" into me! I couldn't hold it in anymore, I screamed.

Dr. Harvey moved up, he backhanded me across the mouth. "Now you be quiet or I'm going to cut your throat myself, understand?" I nodded and winced as Frank continued on, unconcerned. I cleared my throat, swallowing so I could talk. I knew he was going to kill me, there was no way that wasn't happening, but I needed to stall for time. Brian had been with me, he'd be able to tell Stef and Mikey what was going on. "Why are you doing this?" I groaned.

"My boy, I have to cover my tracks." He gave me a condescending grin, then made a motion with his hand. Frank stopped what he was doing and pulled back, stepping away. "I know where you were tonight, I don't know how you got in, but I suppose I'll have to chalk it up to another mystery about you that's never going to be solved." I stared at him, then asked, "Mystery?"

"Yes... Oh where to begin? Your first night here, even after you were given the shot you were screaming about Brian Molko. Imagine my surprise as I reviewed my patient files the next day and found his name there. Very unfortunate soul, he was. Committed for being a nymphomaniac, though we don't usually do that unless the person is a risk to society. He was a beautiful specimen though, and he's served me well."

"What do you mean by that?" I asked, this wasn't making any sense. Dr. Harvey smiled at me again, saying, "Don't you know what I'm doing down there? Why they're all in comas? Simply put, I'm using them to test new drugs. You'd be surprised how useful it is having a coma patient for that, they're halfway dead anyway, and we can monitor the effects simply by looking at their brain wave patterns. And if they do die, well, we just harvest the organs and give them to private agencies for quite a bit of money, and start all over again."

I glared at Dr. Harvey, saying, "You're doing all of that on top of murder? What kind of monster are you?" He stepped closer, staring down at me. "And what makes you say murder young man?" "Kaelyn told me you murdered her, she didn't kill herself!" I spat. Frank gave a look over to Dr. Harvey, then started giggling. Yeah, see that was the Frank Iero I knew, completely fucking insane. Dr. Harvey meanwhile simply scoffed. "Still convinced you can see spirits eh?" "I know I can, her name was Kaelyn Brown, you killed her!" I yelled.

Dr. Harvey seemed taken aback, and Frank stopped giggling. They stared down at me in amazement. Finally Dr. Harvey said, "I think we'll just have to save you for the coma ward. Frank, if you want to finish do it quickly, I'll fetch the necessary equipment." Dr. Harvey turned and left, Frank meanwhile smiled at me and came back over to the bed, cutting into my stomach once again. "What are you guys gonna do to me?" I managed to ask. It was hurting so bad now, I could barely see. "He's going to put you in a chemical induced coma and experiment on you." Frank replied. "Why are you helping him?" "He lets me hurt people, why shouldn't I?"

I heard the sound of footsteps, my sight was getting a little blurry as the pain raced through my system. I was in agony, and as I felt something poured into my lacerations I knew why. Frank was pouring salt into them and rubbing it in with his hands. He started to hit me to drive it in more and if I hadn't been tied down I'd have been jerking all over the place. Finally I heard Dr. Harvey say, "Alright, that's enough Frank."

He pulled away, and I turned my head in the direction I knew they were standing. My eyes started to clear a bit, and I saw them, then I saw THEM. Brian, Kaelyn, the nurse, the orderly, and the two invisible ghosts. They'd come into focus, they were twin boys, each had had their throat slit. The twins went over to Frank, grabbing him and lifting him off the ground. Kaelyn, the nurse and the orderly went over to Dr. Harvey and did the same.

They started to scream, not knowing what was going on as the ghosts got their revenge. They threw the two men down and started beating them, kicking them, biting them, doing whatever they could to hurt him. Brian meanwhile came over to me, releasing me from my bonds and helping me to stand. "Go, run." He whispered, giving me a small shove, and I did. I was hurting, I was actually naked, but I was running. Trying to get as far away from the screams as I could.

But then I felt arms grab me and I screamed even louder than Dr. Harvey and Frank, then cried, "No, please, let me go!" "GERARD! It's me!" I stilled and turned around, seeing my brother. "Mikey?" "Yeah..." "Where's Stefan?" "Went to call the cops. Oh God Gerard." He was staring at my stomach. I shook my head and grabbed Mikey, hugging him and kissing him. "No, it's okay now little brother, it's all okay."