Of Crime and Punishment

"Who? Who’s coming?" Gregory askes.

"Who do you think stupid? Don’t start playin dumb with me now, you pathetic wreck."

"But… but I don’t know… I don’t know what’s happening"

"Quit yer bawlin cry baby. Now look up, see that building over there across the street?"

Gregory looks up to see the backside of what might be a commercial complex.

"That’s the Hancock building. Now, get up and go in through the side entrance, the bumbling idiot on guard duty is asleep, you can slip right by" says the wound.

He gets up, he begins to make his way to the side door. He doesn’t know why exactly, but he’s compelled. There is a threat, someone after him, he knows it’s true, but he doesn’t know why. Reaching the side door he grips the knob, after a moment of pause he turns it and opens the door.

As his talking hemorrhage had said, there is the guard, his feet propped up on his desk and fast asleep. Gregory stares at him as he goes past, this nightmarish game becoming more frightful by the second.

"In the elevator Gregy boy"

Gregory makes his way to the elevator at the end of the hall and pushes the arrow heading up. The lighted display at the top shows it to be at floor nine and heading down rapidly, it reaches four, three, two, one…

The elevator reaches the bottom and Gregory waits for the door to open, but instead it decides to swallow him whole. Sharp teeth sprout out from the once lifeless steel and gape outward, the points catch him on all sides, digging into his flesh and force him inside. What seems to be a hot and sticky tongue curls around his body and muscles him down the shaft into a hellish darkness. Gregory screams in blood curdling horror.

~O.o~

Gregory screamed in blood curdling horror. Nurse Claire shut the sliding view shade on cell number five, as both her and the new staff doctor had seen quite enough.

"Like clockwork everyday he goes through that routine. In a morbid way it’s about the only stable thing around here."

"Indeed" said the new doctor. "And how long has he been in this condition?"

"Since he got here four years ago, he murdered a young girl trying to rob a jewelry store, he was shot in the process. He spent nine weeks in a coma as his body recovered, then he moved from comatose to psychotic dementia, as you have seen here."

The doctor nodded his head and thought a moment.

"Yes… I’ve seen it happen before, often the result of the subject not being able to cope with his offences. But… usually… they regress to a tranquil state, with only occasional panicked episodes. Mr. Porter… seems to re-live a daily torment… most interesting."

Nurse Claire just shrugged.

"If you find interest in that kind of horror. At any rate, welcome to Hancock home for the criminally insane Doctor, we’re glad to have you on board."