The Voices

Time To Move On

My dreams are disoriented and choppy. It's like watching a tv with static on every station except one but it still has some static issues. When I awake I hear movement downstairs. Xander must be awake. When I walk down the stairs I hear her again. What is she doing here. When I see him standing in an embrace with her. I grit my teeth and listen to what she's saying.

"...And when will she be leaving?" she asks

"Soon my dear soon. I've almost get it to where I can take her powers as well."

"Will you give them to me?"

"Of course." He says.

I smirk and think about how easy it would be to plunge a knife in her back and then kill him as well. I shake my head and try to get the voices talking again.

"What do I do guys? He's plotting to get rid of me. He doesn't realize that the people of the asylum didn't make me like this. I was born like this." I pick up a knife and walk over behind them.

"Don't do it!" Anger screams.

"Why not?" I ask

"Because it would be better to make him suffer first. Knock them both out." Anger says

"Hmm sounds good." I knock her out with just one sharp movement to the head and then one to his. "Thank you for contributing to my anger. You have done this one last thing."

I promptly tie them to chairs facing each other, and then I wait.

She starts waking first. When she does she struggles to get out of her chair. I smirk and don't say a word. Then he wakes up. When he does, he has the brains to look around before finding me hiding in a corner.

"Come on Echo. Don't do this. Please, this isn't you. It's Insanity, or Anger." He begs.

"No it's not. I can't tell you what it is. But I know that it isn't them. I believe that maybe this was brought on by something that hurts me." I say

"Xander, please don't let her hurt me." the girl begs him.

I smirk. "Oh honey, nobody will be able to help you for miles."

"Echo this isn't you. This could never be you. You're a sweet, sweet girl. You could never kill somebody" Xander fumbles to tell me. "Please. Even when Anger wanted you to kill me you couldn't do it. You wouldn't let them take over then. Why do it now?" He asks hoping that I'll break.

"Xander...You have broke my spirit more than they ever did at the asylum. They would pick me back up when I fell down. But you literally shoved me down stairs. You don't deserve to live and neither does she." I say and then I slit her throat.

Xander stares at me with amazement. I look around and finally come to my senses. Holy freaking crap. I just killed somebody. I turn and look at Xander with sorrow in my eyes. "I'm sorry Xander. I-I'm so sorry." After saying that I turn and run off. Out of the house and on with my life. I walk with the sun rising in my eyes and setting at my back. But I don't stop. I can never stop. If I do they win. If I stop ever, the voices and the doctors win. So I never stop until I collapse from exhaustion. And everything goes black once more

"Is she alive?" I hear.

"Yes. She is very alive. Now come on, we must take her back to the asylum along with fly boy here."

"Yes sir."

"You have been a very bad girl Echo. Now you must pay the ultimate price for your wrong doing."

I freeze as I'm carried inside a room. When I open my eyes, I see a new room for me. The chair is still there, but I'm not strapped to it. I look around and notice my hands are cuffed to a bar. I tug on them and try to get free. I bang my head against the bed before slowly being pulled into darkness once more