Chapter 29 - Who Is Crying?

Fiona didn't respond to any thing or anybody. The psychiatrist, Flynn O'neil told Adam to take her outside of the house, like garden, lake side area or parks.Fiona was always in a daze while awake or asleep. She ate when nurses fed her, took medicines and did her business.Her body was regaining weight little by little but still was a bag of bones. She had never got out of the room she was brought.The doctor was examining her while she got up. A maid entered the room with a tray of breakfast. It was special diet the doctor planned for Fiona.Fiona's stared at everything with her as usual black look and her eyes darted at the maid.For a fraction of second, her lips quivered and her eyes watered. Her body trembled with slight tremor. She tried to say something but her voice didn't come out."Hey, hey, you are alright?" The doctor asked her. Fiona glanced and him and blinked her teary eyes.The maid got scared and looked at the Dr. O'neil's face panicked.Dr. O'neil was confused as well but suddenly he noticed that the maid was pregnant and her big belly was noticeable."You, please leave the room." He told the maid. The maid left the room."It's okay. It's okay." He tried to clam her down. After about one hour, Fiona stopped crying. She calmed down but didn't eat the breakfast. The doctor tried a lot but couldn't make her eat a single morsel.She was looking at her lap like a doll, no response, no movement, her slow breathings were telling that she wasn't a statue.The nurses couldn't feed her any food in breakfast. But she ate some vegetable soup in lunch and dinner, but the amount was little.Normally the doctor gave her sedatives in her IV solution for a peaceful sleep. But that night, Fiona fell asleep as soon as she finished her dinner. The doctor avoided the sedative for this night.At night Fiona woke up from his sleep with a loud shrill of cry."Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Stoppppp." She screamed.In the semi dark room, she was frantically looking for the door."Please stop, Who are you?" Fiona questioned, her body was shaking.She tried to get up from the bed abruptly but ended up falling on the floor due to her weak body. She stood up on her wobbly legs with the support of the bed.She couldn't hear the unbearable sound of crying anymore, it felt like someone was pouring hot lead in her ears.She turned and made a mad dash towards the door not caring for the IV cannula which was plunged in her wrist.In a result, the ripped open IV cannula cause a bloody clutter on her wrist. But she was so lost in the horror of that moment, she didn't feel it. Blood was dripping from her wrist. But to her dismay the door was locked."Open the door! Someone please open the door! Please save me!" She was hitting the door with both of her hands.But no one came."Open the door! Please!" She cried. Her hands bruised as she was hitting the door continuously with so much force.Suddenly her whole body flinched, she turned around. Her face drained all blood and sweat beads formed in her forehead.Now she was seeing things, a baby was coming towards her. His whole body was bloody and he was crying.For a second, she couldn't even scream, her voice stuck in her throat.Hairs of her body stood up in horror."S-s-stooooppppp. W-w-ho are you?" She choked on her tears."Please! Believe me, I didn't kill you. I didn't do anything. Don't come near me!" She begged.Sliding against the door, her body fell on the floor in hopelessness when she realized no one will come to open the door and she shrank against the door. Burying her head between her knees, she closed her eyes and covered her ears with both hands so that no sound comes to her ears, nothing terrifying comes before her eyes."I didn't do anything, I didn't know anything. Don't hurt me. Don't hurt me." She was muttering. Her lips were trembling and teeth were rattling.Suddenly she heard a click sound and turned her head to see the door was open. She tried to stand up and run but her wobbly feet couldn't bear her weight, she was about to fall. Two strong hands held her body and prevented her fall."What happened? Why are you screaming?" A deep voice questioned her, in another time she would run away hearing this dreadful voice. Because it belongs to her tormentor. But now all she could hear was the horrific crying."Stoppp! Please make him stop." Fiona pleaded before him, joining her both hands."Whom are you talking to?" He asked."A baby, his little body is full of blood." Fiona sobbed.Adam turned on the light and held her waist. His eyes glaced at the room and then looked at Fiona. He noticed the bloody mess of her left wrist caused by the IV cannula."Baby? What baby? No one is here." He asked raising his brows in confusion."Can't you see? His crying is getting louder. He is coming towards us." Fiona responded pointing before him. Wriggling her body, she slipped away from his hands.Adam couldn't understand what's wrong with her. No one was there, what was she talking about?"Noooo! Please don't hate me, I didn't do anything." Fiona cried, her body was shaking. She tried to run but Adam blocked her way."Let me go from here. He hates me. The baby hates me. He is saying I am a bad mom." Fiona tried to push him but Adam caught her waist tightly."Where are you going?" He queried."I am going from here. The baby hates me, he is saying I killed him and he is coming to hurt me." She wailed.Adam stood there confused, after waking up, she didn't talk at all. Tonight she woke up and started screaming, but what the hell was she sprouting?And why was she behaving like a distraught woman?"Hey, listen. There is no baby here, no one is crying. Let's get back to sleep." He pulled Fiona's arms to take her back to the bed."No! Let me go from here. I can't sleep here. I am scared! He will hurt me!" Fiona shouted and jerked his hands from her arms. She ran out of the room and Adam went after her.Fiona turned behind and whispered herself," He is still coming after me."She hid behind Adam's large body and begged, "Please, stop him. Tell him, I am not a bad mom. I didn't kill him. Or he will hurt me. Please save me. Her hands were clinching his shirt in desperation..Her chest was heaving up down and tears were falling freely from her eyes. She was looking at his face to save her with her teary, pleading eyes.Adam couldn't help getting surprised and laugh at the irony of the situation. He was the person who wanted to almost kill her and she was begging before him to save her? Has she lose her sanity? Doesn't she remember anything?But again what was she talking about? What baby?Thousands of questions rose in his head."No one is here, no baby, no one. Let's go back." Holding her hands, he was walking back to the room."Lehmme go! I didn't kill him. He is going to hurt me! I won't go there!" She shouted hitting his chest to get free.Adam's shirt stained with her blood. All of a sudden, Fiona's struggles died down and she fainted in his grip. Adam held her and laid her boney body on the bed.She was looking like a ghost, dark curcle under her eyes, messy hair, skinny body. Adam's heart was beating fast seeing her at this state. Adam called the psychiatrist who was currently staying at his mansion for Fiona's treatment. Doctor O'neil first mended her bloody wrist, bandaged it and adjusted the IV canula carefully."So, what happened?" He asked and listened everything Adam said."Hmm." He hummed, tapping his fingers on his knuckle."I think she is mentally unstable. The mental and emotional trauma from the loss of her baby affected her greatly. She couldn't take so much violence. Subconsciously, she blames herself for her child's death and she is experiencing visual and auditory hallucinations. There is no child but she can see a child and hear his cries. Her condition is worse than thought." Doctor O'neil explained.Mentally unstable?The doctor's words hit Adam's nerves."Are you sure?" Adam quried."Yes." O'neil replied.His jaws tightened, he greeted his teeth. A surge of anger filled his senses.He wanted to beat up the doctor.But who could he be angry at other than himself?Adam took a deep breathe and calmed himself."She was unresponsive after waking up. She didn't say anything till now. Her nightmare and this hallucination are closely linked with today's event. Today, when she saw a pregnant maid with her visibly big belly, she showed response for the first time. This nightmare is consequence of the trauma and today's event triggered it." The doctor added."But do something now! She fainted." Adam pressed knittng eyebrows together, pointing at Fiona."I didn't see how she acted now. I will start her treatment from tomorrow. I have to run therapy on her if needed alongside medications. But I must say her mental breakdown wasn't any one day process. She was tortured day after day and lost her child. You have to patient with her treatment. Because these type of trauma takes time to heal and to some people it doesn't heal completely. And she fainted from her mental stress. I have already injected sedative. Nothing to do for now. We have to wait and next day I will start her treatment." The doctor concluded and got up from the chair."Night." He left the room.Adam couldn't understand what to do.She is mentally unstable.The words were echoing in his head. He started pacing in the room, he was tensed.With a big sigh, he sat on the bed, beside Fiona.This was unexpected, he never imagined things to be turned out like this. She was crying, blaming herself for the loss she wasn't even responsible.The child which was result of his selfish lust and cruel revenge game. He was the one who planted that child inside her.If loss of the child makes her like this then how much she loved it? To think it properly, he was the reason of her child's death.But it was your child too.Suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his head. Rubbing temple he closed his eyes.I want to keep her with me forever. She was the girl who loved her child even though it was result of a rape. I will never lose or or let her go.But if she becomes like this then what am I supposed to do?He thought.Whatever happens as long as she is breathing, she is mine. I don't care if she is mentally stable or not.He lay beside her head and examined her sleeping body. He remembered the time he took her here. He remembered the first time he saw her, the first time he took her innocence.She was perfect in everyway and now she was broken. He is indeed successful tainting her body, souls. But after breaking her what he feels for her?He was sure for a tainted man like him, it was anything but love and he didn't care for that feeling as long as she was one of his belonging.The sweet smell from her body calmed his narves, a peaceful sleep overtook his sense....Next day Fiona woke up and opened her eyes slowly. Thick curtains of the room were closed, preventing any sunlight entering the room.A loud gasp escaped from her mouth as her eyes fell on the person lying beside her. Her breathing became heavy and face paled.Only one thing was echoing in her brain."Run!"Fiona acted on instinct, she tried to get up but felt a sharp tug in her wrist, from the IV cannula."Ahhh. " She winced.Adam was a light sleeper, he woke up sensing light movements beside him. He opened her eyes to see Fiona was trying to get down, again her wrist was bleeding.Fiona's body froze when she looked at his eyes, her muscles went numb.Her brain was saying, "Run, Fiona!"But her body didn't comply, it became frozen.

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