Nightmares and a Lonely Girl::Chapter 3:: Doctor, Doctor

++No Recap, I don't have time so go and read the others again!++
Everything was so different, it was scary, like I had just walked into a horror movie. I followed Sally along an old brick path and through a very broken, crooked gate. There was a small band playing a very melancholy song nearby, except they weren't, um... human, this place was weirder than I thought. They had funny instruments, but I think I could make out what they were supposed to be.
Zero floated on ahead of us. We passed crooked buildings, some looked like they were going to collapse any minute. There was a fountain shaped like a monster of some sort, spitting out green slimy stuff. There was no one around.
"Jack's House is just up here." She said, pointing towards a huge house, placed at the top of a giant set of stairs. "He should be in here."
We walked to the door and rang the doorbell, if that's what it actually was.
I didn't know what to expect, if he's anything like the place he stays, this might be a bit of a shock! We stood in silence for a few moments, until we heard a shuffling sound from behind the door. It opened slowly revealing a tall, okay very tall, very skinny, man... with skeleton fingers...and... and a...skeleton head...with no eyes...or skin..or..."Holy Crow..."
[authors note:i say this a lot now! and yes it's a quote from twilight! maybe she reads the books!]
Naturally, everything starts to spin.
"I am Jack Skellington" He said, after greeting Sally, taking a grand bow. "I am the Pumpkin King of this wonderful town! Welcome! please, do come in." He stepped aside making room in the doorway. "So who is this then, Sally?"
"I'm not sure, she couldn't tell me her name. Zero found her in the woods. I don't think she's from around here. Jack, what should I do with her?"
"She's going to have to stay somewhere. Hmmm... does the doctor have a spare room?
Sally stood pondering for a second. "No, I don't think he does, but she could sleep in the spare bunk in my room."
"Yes that is a possibility, she will need to be cleaned up a bit, she looks like she's been through a lot." They both turned their heads to look at me.
It was incredibly unnerving, awaiting my fate to be decided by people I've never met before! Believe me I would remember if they looked like that!
This is so bizarre! [I love that word]
I suddenly realised my mouth was gaping open, and I immediately snapped it shut.
"Little girl, please, don't be scared. You can stay the night at Dr. Finkelstein's house, in Sally's room."
I could only nod, unsure if agreeing to this was a good idea. My mother brought me up not to talk to strangers, and these people certainly were strange.
But i agreed all the same, and followed Sally down the steps towards the fountain, after she had said her farewells to Jack.
She led me to another building. It was and odd shape, sort of small and squinted and the bottom, with a HUGE sphere at the top, which had a large round window, with bars in front. It looked like it was made of metal and would fall over if you threw a rock at it!
We walked through the large double doors, and, just my luck, a spiral staircase, though not as fancy as you usually picture them when you hear those two words, like in the fairytale stories, sort of more run down, and in a house possibly homed to a psychotic obsessive old man in a horror movie, though I could be wrong. The door slammed behind us and we began the long trek up the stairs.
"Sally, is that you? Did you get what I told you?" A voice called from the top of the stairs. Definitely a man, check.
"Yes Doctor. But I need your help, may I have one favour?" Sally replied.
"Yes, what is it my dear? If it's to go out anywhere tonight then I'm going to say absolutely not! You know you are forbidden fr-" obsessive Check.
"No, no doctor. I found a girl in the forest. I think she's lost and has no where to stay, and Jack said she could sleep in the spare bed in my room."
We walked around a corner at the top of the staircase, to find a man in a wheelchair that was falling apart. He wheeled around to reveal the most peculiar thing I have ever seen.
He was wearing a white coat, and had, what I think, was a ducks bull, and a ring with metal bolts around his head. Horror movie guy, Check He looked quite old (Check) and smart. I wonder why they call him doctor?
I began to look around the room for the first time. It was full of different machines and medical equipment, chemicals and body parts that seemed to move. Psychotic. Check.
So I wasn't totally wrong.
He wheeled down a corridor towards another large door and opened it. It looked more like a prison cell than a bedroom.
"This is where you will be sleeping for the time being. Sally also sleeps in here so she can take care of you. I do not want to be disturbed now, as I am conducting a very important experiment." He turned and nodded. "Sally." And left without another word.
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It was cold that night, Sally had found something for me to change in, and some spare, home made, sheets for the extra bunk.
It took me a while to fall asleep. After my day, I was thinking to much. What is this place? Will I ever see my mum again? That was almost impossible to think about.
The biggest thing keeping me awake was fear. Fear that anything could happen to me when I'm asleep. The doctor could try and experiment on me, maybe that's why Sally is the way she is? I shuddered.
I finally found the courage to close my eyes and at least try to sleep.
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This is the girl in the story (She has a name only the people who have read the concept ideas for this will know what she's called, otherwise OH WELL!
I drew this picture by the way! so please! no stealing! it belongs to me and is signed by me (this one is the edited version, for the origonal please go to this link:
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