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seriously erratic when he came in, but seems nice and deep now. The tests all came back inconclusive or good. Blood work shows nothing bad so far. CAT scan showed nothing. I’ve ordered some more tests, but his care will go over to Dr. Salvador. I’m really just an ER Doctor.”
    “ Oh, I see. Well, in your opinion, what do you think is wrong?”
    The young doctor squirmed, looked back at the still parking lot.
    “ That’s just it, there really doesn’t seem to be anything wrong. For all intents and purposes he’s in a deep sleep, not comatose, but still unconscious to the point of being past waking. Maybe something’ll come up on the tests today. Dr. Salvador’s very good at diagnosing and treatment. He’ll get to the bottom of it.”
    “ Thanks for your help.”
    “ Well, he’ll be going down for testing in a few minutes, so it’s a good time to go home and get changed, bring back stuff to read. That’ll give them time to do their thing and he should be settled back in by the time you come back.” He gave her a smile and patted her arm. “I never promise it’ll be okay, because you never can tell. But cross the bridges as they come. It could go either way and positive thinking will carry over to him.” With that he left.
    Subconsciously she reached in her pocket and felt for the key. Something more was going on and she suspected the thing that followed her out of her dreams was trying to kill her father. A desperate part of her felt responsible. For not telling him sooner, for letting him out of the dreams.
    “ It’s time to find out what I need to do to fix this.”
    Katherine climbed into the Jeep, fastened the seatbelt and leaned back with a heavy heart. In just twelve hours her entire existence had been irreversibly changed. At the moment she felt helpless and vulnerable and she didn’t like it. The tears came and she brushed them away like an unwelcome rain. Leaning forward, she turned the key , put the car into drive and navigated toward the exit.
    The morning was hazy, with a thick veil of fog rising off the mountains in the distance. She pushed the button to roll the window down, letting in the fresh air. Relaxing she gave a signal to turn out of the hospital parking lot toward the townhouse. Glancing sideways, she fumbled in the CD case. Frustrated, she slowed down to look more closely, glancing into the mirror to make sure there was no one behind her. Two radiant red eyes shined back from the darkened interior of the back seat.
    Katherine slammed on the breaks, struggled with the seatbelt, trying to get free. A filmy smoke formed around the eyes, slowly solidifying into a starved human form. It was almost skeletal, with thin gray skin  stretched so tightly over bones it seemed ready to tear. The eyes were cold, no warmth, no heart, no soul lived within. As the smoke took form the sharp facial features stretched into a grimace, showing sharp, pointed teeth where there were any. From the black cavernous throat beyond a red ribbon with a forked end slid quickly in and out as if it were sensing the surroundings.
    The car rolled into a curb as Katherine pushed the gear shift into park and stumbled out into the street. Something had her firmly by the arm and she spun around, all her anger boiling up inside, ready to fight. The seatbelt was wrapped around her arm holding her fast, but the car was empty. Backing away she hunkered on the bank opposite the vehicle. Shaking badly she drew her knees to her chest, took several deep breaths, choking back tears.
    “ Am I going mad, insane, totally nuts!?” she paused, looked around, the anger dissipated into embarrassment. The parking lot lay silent. Considering the circumstances she might have welcomed a curious passerby or good Samaritan.
    “ It’s all in my head. They’re messing with me,” she chided herself, tried to compensate for the lack of anything else to calm the fear. It was all too real. The dreams, these things she was seeing. If only