Fiction | Horror | Short Story
Vanessa…
Will they return again soon? Or will they be gone forever..
Once there was a lone girl walking in the forest with nowhere to go. They were 19 with long brown hair and was wearing Jeans and a T-shirt. They were hiding from someone.. But who? They were hiding from the only family member they have left. Their Father who is very abusive and has been ever since they were a baby. They have siblings.. but they both moved out leaving them behind. This girl was named Vanessa, but have wanted to change it just a little.. They hate being called Vanessa now because it triggers bad flashbacks and they have PTSD.
Vanessa had ran out of their house and into the forest after their Father threatened to send them somewhere.. Somewhere terrible. Vanessa has been trying to escape but has always failed.. This time though seems like a better chance. Vanessa had seen the end of the forest and once they completely exited it, they had seen their father in his truck with two white vans with creepy looking people inside.. Vanessa’s Father got out of his truck and started angrily walking towards Vanessa. They tried running away back into the forest but their Father had caught up to them.. Vanessa’s Father grabbed them from behind and picked them up to put them in one of the white vans which was already ready for them. Vanessa kept kicking and screaming but their Father had showed no reaction to it and forced them into first white van.
The white clothed man in the passenger seat turned around and forced a rag over Vanessa’s mouth and nose with chloroform on the rag. After that, everything went dark and the van drove away with Vanessa’s Father back in his truck not caring about them at all. On the back of the truck it had a small sign on the bottom reading: “Experimental Asylum.” Vanessa later woke up in a small white room. They were wearing a Strait Jacket which they didn’t realize until they trying moving their arms down. Vanessa started to panic until one of the men from before walked into the room.
“Where am i?! What do you want from me?!” Vanessa tried to ask the man, but the man didn’t reply. Instead, the man grabbed a syringe from his pocket and also grabbed something to inject Vanessa with.. He filled up the syringe and Vanessa started backing away towards the wall, terrified. The man then put the container away and still holding the syringe, started walking towards Vanessa. He grabbed Vanessa’s shoulder to keep her from moving away anymore. Vanessa was terrified, They tried to kick the man, but he had already injected the unknown substance into Vanessa’s neck. Vanessa blacked out and hit the floor with a thud.
It was night when Vanessa woke up again. Their eyes felt.. different. There was a mirror in Vanessa’s room. They walked over to it and saw their eyes looked completely different. Originally, their eyes were brown, but now they were black with different colored outlines. One eye was outlined with a dark purple and the other eye was outlined with a dark red. their pupils also changed drastically. the purple outlined eye also had a purple pupil which was shaped like a big oval shape with a circle in the middle. The red outlined eye had a white pupil which was shaped like a scribble. Vanessa was scared but they also kind of liked how their eyes looked now..
A little after Vanessa saw their eyes, another man came in with some food for Vanessa so they wouldn’t starve. The man placed the plate of food on Vanessa’s bed as there was no table or desk in the room. The man then left and Vanessa took the plate of food and ate quickly as they thought it would be taken away from them before they could finish. A while After they finished eating, another man entered the room. It was time for the next injection. Vanessa saw the syringe and tried to hide under their bed but the man dragged them out and injected the next unknown substance into Vanessa’s neck again and.. Vanessa blacked out.
Vanessa didn’t wake up until the next day. They looked into the mirror again to check for another change and.. There was. Their hair had changed from brown, to black fading into a dark red shade. Vanessa knew there was no going back to how their life was before all this but still, they wished they could go back. Eventually Vanessa came to like their new look, but at what cost? The men kept coming to inject Vanessa with unknown substances and eventually, Vanessa started becoming dangerous. They had eventually gotten very deadly powers from the experiments and the men who were experimenting on them had started to have to put Vanessa in restraints. Vanessa had also stopped talking due to thinking they can’t. Every time they would try to tell the men to stop, they would shock them.
Eventually, the experiments had started to become too much for Vanessa.. They would fight through all the terrible pain though. They would be in pain non-stop. One day they would fight one of the men who were doing the next experiment. “Vanessa. You need to quit fighting right now or else i will have to shock you again.” Vanessa would stay quiet for a second before replying. “Vanessa is not my name anymore. I am Vanny.” The man would not speak anymore and forced the syringe deep into their neck. Too deep. Vanessa, or.. Vanny would drop to the floor. The man forced the syringe back out and it had blood on it.. Vanny was dead. Gone. After they died, their body would start to glitch. The only power they had that wasn’t deadly. After their body glitched, it would fade away. But they weren’t gone. Not forever. Just for now.
