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“This presents an issue.” Sinclair sighed as he watched the Todd creature scream and sprint out of the therapy room. I was in complete hysterics as the only friend I had in this hell hole was suddenly transformed into a horrible monster, killed and eaten two orderlies, and is now going on a rampage through the rehab center. 

“Of all the things I expected to happen, this surprisingly wasn’t one of them.” Spencer pulled his face mask down and chuckled softly as he reached into his pocket and pulled out his pack of smokes, slapping the box against his bony hands. I looked around at the three people who had completely ruined my life in such a short time. Sinclair, puffing away on a cigar and seemingly talking with his shadow about the situation, Nurse Taylor fidgeting around and concerned about the monster that had been unleashed into the rehab, and Spencer with not a care in the world, struggling with his bic lighter. 

“How could you…” I whimpered as I looked over at Sinclair. He didn’t even bother acknowledging my presence as he talked to his shadow. His shadow didn’t seem to make any noises but he tilted his head to the side as if he was receiving instructions from Sinclair. “How could you?!” I screamed at Sinclair again, standing up suddenly and going to attack him. Before I even got within a few inches of him, his shadow lunged out and grabbed me by the throat. I coughed and gagged and thrashed against the rotten skeletal creature as it gurgled at me and opened its mouth, ready to eat me. 

“No, don’t eat that one. I’d rather have her suffer for longer than have an easy way out of it.” Sinclair blew a cloud of smoke in my face and sent me into a further coughing fit as the shadow squeezed me tightly by the throat. It gurgled in annoyance and tossed me back on the floor, clearly upset over not being allowed to eat me. 

“You bastard!” I screamed at him again, trying to get back up before I was grabbed from behind by Nurse Taylor and held in a full nelson by her. I thrashed and tried to get her off of me, but she had an iron grip on me and soon she had stopped me from moving altogether. 

“You brought this on yourself you stupid woman,” Sinclair blew another cloud of cigar smoke into my face as he grabbed me by the face, his shadow peeking over his shoulder to watch the event play out. “Your contract was very clear, no relationship is allowed with a patient. This is grounds for termination of both you and your family.” He tapped on his cigar over my head and a large clump of ash fell off of it. “But, until then I will keep you around and punish you for stepping out of line.” He placed the cigar back into his mouth. 

I gritted my teeth, but with the possibility of my family being hurt or killed, kept my mouth shut. Suddenly Nurse Emily came running into the therapy room panting uncontrollably and pointing out into the hall. “T-there’s a monster! Killing patients!” she screamed, panting uncontrollably.

“Bring her along. She’ll want to see what happens to her little friend.” Sinclair sighed, rubbing his tired eyes and walking out into the hall, bumping Emily out of the way. Taylor released me and motioned for me to follow after Sinclair. I wanted so badly to punch every single tooth she had out of her stupid head, but instead, I dug my fingers into my palm and walked after Sinclair. 

The halls were drenched in blood and viscera. Todd had rampaged through the halls and had seemingly ripped anyone who had gotten in his way to complete shreds. Sinclair, despite his posh appearance, walked completely unaffected through the blood and gore. We followed this trail of blood straight to Todd. We found him in the Rec room, attacking a group of husks who offered him no resistance. 

“Better stop him, before he eats all your food.” Sinclair looked at his shadow, which quickly emerged over his shadow, and let out a screech at Todd. Todd quickly snapped his head over towards the scream, a half-eaten torso in his mouth. Todd screamed back at the shadow like a wild animal interrupted from eating its meal. 

“R…E…D…!” Todd gurgled out. Whenever he called out my nickname it was a knife into my soul. I hoped that maybe some part of Todd was in there, but by the way, he now moved and how mangled and horrible his body was, I knew that there was no way that there was anything of Todd left in there. Todd seemed much larger than Sinclair’s shadow and he clearly thought that he had a chance against it, as he dropped the half-eaten person out of his mouth and pounced toward the shadow. 

The two tar covered creatures collided with each other and soon they both morphed into a giant mass of black tar that began to bubble and gurgle as the two fought each other. I thought that because Todd was so much larger than Sinclair’s shadow he might stand some kind of a chance, but as the mass of tar gurgled and bubbled on the floor of the rec room, it was soon plainly obvious that Todd was completely outmatched. 

After a moment of uncertainty, the mass of black goo spit the Todd Creature back out and his limp body slid across the floor of the rec room, his body melting into a blob on the floor and losing all identifiable features that he had possessed. Sinclair’s shadow emerged from the puddle on the floor and gurgled its sick little laugh over Todd’s melting body. 

“Didn’t care for the taste?” Sinclair asked as he flicked his cigar at me. “Well, what are we supposed to do with him?” the businessman asked, crossing his arms and looking around at the carnage that Todd had managed to cause in a few short minutes of a rampage. 

“We could toss him down in the morgue, sir.” Nurse Taylor walked past me and as she did she grabbed me by my bun and dragged me along with her. I grunted and screamed at her, but with Sinclair and his shadow so close to me, I knew it was futile to put up any kind of resistance.

“Hmm, not a half-bad idea.” Sinclair stroked his chin in thought as he looked down at the mass of black goop before him. “Would be a much better method of disposing of bodies as well.” He looked over at his shadow, and it nodded at him in agreement. The shadow took a moment to peer at me with its bright white eyes and let out a gurgled laugh at me. “As for you, Nurse Valois.” Sinclair knowing my last name certainly caught me off guard, I had been certain that he had no idea what my name even started with. 

“I can always use another test subject,” Spencer arrived with a bag of chips in his hands and a cigarette in his mouth. I looked over at him in worry, scared at the prospect of turning into something like Todd. I watched as Spencer opened the bag of chips and began to eat some of them. To my surprise, instead of the food just falling through his jaw, it floated around in his mouth as if I was watching an x-ray of him eating. 

“I’d rather not waste valuable testing materials on a woman.” Sinclair recoiled at the very thought. And while I was thankful, his blatant misogyny quickly covered up any goodwill that had earned the blonde asshole. “Keep this one on ice for me, Nurse Taylor. I’m sure I’ll think of something later.” Sinclair turned back to the mass of goop that Todd had become and had his shadow scoop it up. 

I watched as the group left me alone in the carnage and gore. Nurse Taylor stopped in her tracks and quickly turned back around to me. That stupid smile was back on her face and her smug aura just permeated from her. “Would you kindly, return to work, Nurse Cassandra? While Mr. Sinclair thinks of an appropriate punishment, you still have a job to do.” She waved her fingers at me and practically skipped away back to Sinclair and Spencer. 

It took me the entire day to process what had just happened to Todd. It didn’t truly hit me full force until I returned to his room and found the rose on the floor. I bent over and picked up the flower and thought back to Todd’s sweet face when he gave it to me. That sweet guy who had been a shining light for me in all of this terror. He was gone. Transformed into a horrible creature that probably would have killed me as easily as he did all the patients he had eaten. I started to cry uncontrollably. Hard and to the point that I began to hyperventilate. I was lucky to have closed the door to Todd’s room so no one would walk in on me like this. 

I hid the rose under my shirt and carried it back to my room. Walking past the group of nurses who immediately began whispering and pointing in my direction. But at that time I could give a rat’s ass about what they were saying about me. I returned to my room and closed the door behind me. Lifting my shirt up and pulling the rose out and carried it over to my sink, filling a little cup with water and placing the rose into it. Until my inevitable punishment, I wanted at least a small beacon of hope and love. 

The next few days I was little better than one of the husks. I barely talked or ate and did my duties to the bare minimum. I watched a couple of nurses load a gurney with several body pieces left over from To...

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