The Psychotic Doctor

SEVEN YEARS AGO

It is morning and today is the first day of a new week which meant that we had tests on our bodies to see the progress of their research, the institute's research.

It was the day I hated the most, we got to meet the rude and wicked doctors just to have tests done and any one of the wicked doctors could even as easily plan our deaths.

I sighed as I stood up from the bed after the alarm system set to wake all the test subjects sounded, I yawned loudly, walked to the door, and was almost about to get out of the room when I realized that my roommate Caleb hadn't woken up yet. I looked at his bed and saw him still sleeping with his mouth open as he drooled. That clown, I thought smiling and shaking my head. If the authorities found him like this he is sure to get punished. What was he even doing last night that would make him sleep like this, I thought.

I sighed and went close to him to wake him up. I shook him endlessly but he didn't wake up.

"wake up" I shouted into his ears but he just pushed me away and blocked his ears. This was it, I'm pissed at him for not waking up so I kicked him in the stomach and he held his stomach groaning and he finally woke up from his deep slumber.

"what was that for" he said as he held his stomach in pain.

"Today is Monday and you're still sleeping like a dead man, I don't know but maybe you want to be a dead man"

"for fuck sake Reed, there are a lot of ways to wake a person up but you just decided to kick me"

"whatever. Let's just go out before the security comes to look for us"

"fine," he said and followed me as we left the room.

We headed for the test room where we would be tested. We usually had the tests before we ate anything.

We arrived at the room and saw that some tests had already started as some of the test subjects had been strapped to their respective beds.

I and Caleb went to our beds and lay down on them and some guards came to strap us up with Caleb lying down beside me. After we were strapped up we were suddenly injected in our arms and I slept off.

This wasn't the first time we'd had these tests and Caleb and I had been best friends for as long as I know since we had found ourselves in the Institute.

But right now I could feel something was wrong somewhere. From the abyss of darkness I was lying in, I started hearing screams, it was far but it seemed close by, the darkness started lifting and light started to settle in.

I opened my eyes only to see Caleb screaming with red veins popping out everywhere on his face and a doctor holding an injection close to Caleb was smiling at the pain Caleb was in.

" What the hell did you do to him" I said as tears started to well up in my eyes.

"Oh, I guess the injection that was given to you wasn't enough to keep you down huh" the doctor said still smiling. I looked at his ID card and it read Dr. Mark.

"What the hell did you do to him" I shouted once more as I realized that Caleb's pain seemed to have escalated as even his shouts became louder.

"I am just performing a test on your friend but perhaps I could just test on the both of you and see the result before he dies"

"What do you mean before he dies" I shouted shaking in the bed I was in with anger.

"Oh, I guess I could just start the test already, I don't think I have the time to carry my reportbook right now," he said not even acknowledging Reed's presence there.

"What the fuck do you mean," Reed shouted once more and a guard came to the place with a syringe and was about to inject Reed once more.

"Just please stand by, I want to test something on the test subject"

"But he's not your assigned test subject"

"I know he's not and did you see me touching him? No. I just want to test his emotions so please stand by"

"Yes Doctor" the guard replied and stepped aside.

The doctor suddenly carried a small knife and started tearing Caleb's skin.

"No, no, no, no, no," Reed shouted in tears continuously as the Doctor pierced Caleb's skin. Then the doctor started to cut off Caleb's fingers.

"No. Please. No" Reed said in tears as he looked straight into Caleb's crying eyes but he stayed helplessly strapped on the bed.

His best friend was been tortured right beside him but he couldn't do anything to stop it, nothing. The doctor looked at Reed's face and smiled and next, he started stabbing Caleb in the stomach. By now Caleb had lost a lot of blood and he couldn't even shout anymore as all his energy had drained. Reed watched as Caleb was continuously stabbed by Doctor Mark endlessly until he died. Then Dr. Mark looked at Reed's face and started laughing.

"Don't worry he died a glorious death. He was killed by me" Dr Mark said and continued laughing maniacally at Reed. Reed cried as his friend was killed right in front of him and he couldn't do a thing.

Dr. Mark suddenly came towards Reed and was now smiling at Reed. Reed immediately started struggling on the bed in the hopes that the chain he was strapped in would just snap and he would peel off that annoying smile from this psychopath's face but that was when the guard injected the contents of the syringe into Reed's shoulder and Reed was consumed by the darkness once more.

***

It has been a few weeks now and Reed hasn't seen Doctor Mark or gotten any leads to who he is or where he was. On one faithful day during another test, the effect of the medicine had faded off from his body and no one had realized he had woken up. He then heard some of the doctors talking about one Doctor Mark saying that he had been transferred to another institute and Reed swore then and there that he would get his revenge on Dr. Mark no matter what, for killing his best friend as long as he was alive.

***

PRESENT

Reed arrived at the supposed place he would meet David and he stood from a distance watching David's house.

***

A drunk man holding a bottle of vodka came down from a taxi and the taxi driver drove off. He walked down the road then walked towards a house and sat down on the front porch with his back against the door and his eyes fixated on the stars that were in the sky. Reed looked at the man as he sat on the front porch of the house Reed was told was David's house. He watched this man carefully from across the street and after some time he crossed the road and approached the man.

" Hello, there Sir. The sky is beautiful ain't it "

He said and sat beside the man.

" Who are you and what do you want "

"You're drunk but you're still afraid. Is that how scared the institute made you" Reed said and in a flash, the man broke the bottle of the vodka he was drinking and pointed it at Reed's neck and Reed raised his hands in surrender.

" Who the fuck are you and how do you know about the institute," the man asked as the drunkness he once had earlier disappeared.

" David you're as harsh as ever," Reed said and in an instant, the broken bottle was now in his hands and pointed towards David's neck.

" and who the fuck are you" David shouted.

" I can't believe you don't recognize me, David"

"Reed"

"what's up bro" Reed replied and threw the bottle away.

"Long time, how have you been,"

"I'm great,"

" What the fuck brought you here anyway "

" Is that how you treat an old friend"

" Just answer the goddamn question"

" I came here for you"

" And why is that"

" I am creating a team"

" for what purpose"

" To destroy the institute"

" and how many people do you have presently"

" It's just about twenty of us plus you, twenty-one," Reed said and David chuckled loudly.

" Charlotte said the same thing but I never expected it to come out of your mouth, you were said to be the smartest of us all but you are dumb as fuck. Do you know that the institute has about 200 test subjects now and they obey the Institutes every command, not to talk of their top twenty, the black hounds, we are just twenty-one frickin' rejects from the black hounds and you want us to fight 200 rogues, twenty black hounds, not to talk of the unknown"

" It doesn't matter once I find the rest of us okay"

" and how do you intend on doing that "

" Just the way I found you"

" The only way or reason I will be joining you is if we fight hand-to-hand combat three rounds and I don't win any, just to see the kind of leader I will have my faith in "

" fine. Deal"

"Let's see what you got" David replied.