Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25036236-20140610182645

I was an investigative reporter for the news, who had been doing that for about two years now. My home is in Williamsburg, Virginia. It had an old abandoned hospital named "Old Hickory Memorial Hospital." It was in the middle of the woods, and was a rotted down old hospital that looks like no one even VACUUMED in it for years!

But lets not get so far into the back story of the hospital.

I got home from work and checked my Gmail for any new messages.

I saw there was a new message from my boss, saying:

"Hey, pal! Now listen, we all understand the Old Hickory. Its been rotting for about eight years now, but all the reporters we sent to it has gone missing ever since they entered, and I thought maybe you could go in and see. You have made it back from MANY investigations, so I figured you would suit the job."

I gave him a reply, saying: "What do you want me to do, sir?"

"You are going to discover finally it what has been going on in the Old Hickory."

"Why do we still try to uncover the missing reporters that went there? They are gone!" I replied.

"I do not know, but I can tell that something's going on in there."

"Why would anything be going on in THAT rotted old place?"

"Just do as I say."

"How do I get in? It's all boarded up!!"

"Not all the doors, some are locked. But you can smash the doors in if they are." then he logged out of Gmail

I went to the Hospital at 9:30 P.M. I got my camera, being ready to film, and got my flashlight. I went up to the door, but it was locked. I did what the boss told me and smashed the door in. When exploring, I walked upstairs and stepped on a piece of paper. I picked it up, and it said: "She will come..."

"Who is 'She?'" I thought.

I explored a little more, when I heard someone screaming. I was surprised anyone actually was here anymore. I eventually found out who was screaming, it was a man, strapped down to a bed. He looked like he was in his 40's. When he looked at me, he said: "Leave... leave! Get the hell out!!!" I left the man alone, I walked a little bit more, trying to see if I could film anything useful for the news.

After a bit of looking, I heard a man, praying the Rosary. I opened the door that led to him, and he looked at me, saying "Don't let her find you... Leave..."

"Who is this girl that I need to hide from?" I asked him.

"Lucia..." he replied.

"Who is Lucia?"

"She is coming..."

I heard foot steps coming towards the room, so I hid behind a curtain. I made sure my camera was ready. She came in. Lucia looked like she was 16, which must mean she was eight when the place was abandoned. She wore a bloodstained blue dress, had black hair, black lipstick, and surprisingly, her skin tone was like an average person. She carried a surgical knife and a pair of scissors in her hands.

The man was still praying his Rosary. Lucia took it from him, and said "If he is your god, why doesn't he save you from this?"

"He will..."

"Oh, really?"

Then, she took the surgical knife, and put it to his neck. The patient yelled as she slit his throat. I was horrified at the sight of his blood leaking from his neck. He screamed, then died with a gurgle of his own blood.

"I'm sure you would like to be with him than on this rotten earth."

I guess I gasped too loud. She went to the curtain, opened it, and punched me. She was pretty strong for a 16 year old girl...

I fell to the ground.

"Hello, sir! Let's put you in the waiting room." she told me.

I almost pissed my pants.

She strapped me to a wheelchair, and said "You seem very sick. Oh! What is this?"

She took my camera and watched my footage so far. She said "These horror films, you brought for me? Well thank you, even though I have hundreds more of these." She took my camera, and put it on a table.

"You know, the police boarded up this old place because of the killings I had happening here. They will not show any records, unfortunately."

".. How do you know that much?!" I said.

"All my other patients are journalists and reporters.

"How did you know I was a reporter?

She responded with "You look hungry. Let me get you some food."

She left the room. I was kind of hungry, but I did not want food from her.

Just then, I heard a man screaming. "Calm down, just let me borrow your hands..." I heard Lucia say. I heard the man scream in ballistic pain, then Lucia came back.

"Here! I brought you something special!"

She lifted the lid off the tray. On the plate, it had the two hands, and a glass of blood.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?!" I yelled.

"Eat up!" she said.

"No way, lady!!!" I screamed.

"Have it your way." she said. She took the meal back, and came back with a pair of pliers.

"It seems you have a frog in your throat. Let me get it."

She put the pliers up to my neck, but I kicked her away.

"No!!!" I yelled.

"Obey the Doctor's order!" she yelled back.

"You are fucking insane, lady!!"

"... That's not a polite thing to say to a beautiful young lady such as me..."

I kept kicking her away as I worked my arms loose. When they got loose, she got extremely pissed off.

"Alright, fucker! I am trying to get that frog out of your throat, and you keep rejecting my help! Now hold still!!!"

She tried to cut my neck open with the pliers, I grabbed her hands and took the pliers from her. I cut the ropes to escape.

"Hey, where are you going? The operation is not done yet! We still have to remove that frog in your throat! Let me cut your neck open so I can remove it!"

I ran to the exit. But the hospital was so run down, I ran onto a really weak floor, and fell through. I hurt my leg, though, I was lucky that I could still walk on it. She saw me, and said, "You look hurt! Let me help you there!"

I kept running, the patients were crying to help them, but I couldn't. There wasn't enough time. I ran through the kitchen, she was still on my tail. I saw rotted old fruit, so I picked up an apple and tossed it at her face. It hit her, and she told me "An apple a day won't keep THIS doctor away!!" I had to get out before Lucia got me. And finally, I found the exit.

I hid in a room's closet when she lost sight of me. She entered the room I was in, and said "You're in here, aren't you, you sneaky little fag..." She approached the closet, so I opened it and hit her in the face with the door. Now I did it. She got EXTREMELY pissed off. "You little whore, I am going to slit your throat, and shove my surgical knife down your digestive system..."

I found the exit and ran to it.

"Oh hey! You made a way for me to escape this rotten old place! Thanks!" she yelled to me.

"Leave me alone, you insane bitch!" I yelled back.

I ran and got in my car.

While I got in, she said "This place will go down in flames, like the people during the Black Plague. Thank you for your visit."

I decided to leave my camera there, I was going to die for crying out loud! I could've cared less about that camera at the time!

I started it, put it in reverse, and stepped on the gas. As I left, I saw her give a "good bye" wave to me. She pulled out a lighter, and set fire to the building. The next day, my boss asked me where the footage was, and I explained how Lucia took it and I forgot it in the hospital. He asked me to draw a sketch of what the doctor looked like.



Not long after I left, on the news it said that the Old Hickory Hospital had burned down, due to a person who lit the rotting building.

Ever since I left the hospital, I felt scared. When I turned the TV on, though, there were reports of a girl with a blue, bloodstained dress, black hair, and normal skin tone killing people everywhere by slitting their throats.

There was only a few survivors, claiming that they saw the lady as she was described.

Then, when Lucia was about to kill them, they remember two words she said before she tried to kill them.

"Say AHHHHHHH..." 