Hell is Empty excerpt, Darker Than Black, Tales of Horror

Hell is Empty excerpt

Darker Than Black, Tales of Horror

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It didn’t long for her to understand that the IV was just to keep her alive. As the days dragged into weeks, she started to resemble a skeleton. She wondered if she could be kept alive indefinitely like this, like a coma patient. Despite the constant high from the sedatives the figure occasionally spiked into her IV, she would panic and struggle against her bonds. Her wrists and ankles had been rubbed raw from her constant wrestling against them, but still she couldn’t slip through. Still, she refused to accept her fate.

The next time the doctor figure entered, he was pushing a laptop computer on an old fashioned rollable television stand. Taken aback, Mary Beth didn’t yell at the man this time. Instead, she quietly watched as he placed it in front of her, locked the wheels, plugged it in and queued up a video. He pushed play, tapped the mouse a couple times and walked out.

Her eyes fixed on the computer screen; she sat through several moments of static before a video began to play. She was appalled by what she saw and turned her head, but couldn’t keep it turned away. This wasn’t just any type of disturbing video. It was something much more dubious; foretelling her fate in no uncertain terms, and leaving little doubt what unmerciful action was about to befall her.

The video showed a young woman, about her age, starved half to death, strapped to the same table she was now. The doctor figure slowly inched towards the woman, with his hands skillfully gripping a scalpel. He put the blade next to her vagina and without hesitation split the girl all the way to her throat, Jack the Ripper style. She did not die instantly, but rather terribly, with her bowels exposed and her dying screams only drowned out by the harried screaming of Mary.

All alone in this dreadfully white room, Mary tried her best to puke, but there was nothing in her stomach to purge. So, she dry heaved until her starving stomach cramped relentlessly, sending blinding pain through her senses. Gasping for air, tears streamed down her face, as the video looped over and over again. There was no escaping the torturous death of the girl in the video and no escaping the evil which was surely going to happen to her, whenever the mysterious doctor figure chose the time of her end.