Full Mental Case

Nature of the Beast

I came into work the next evening crying. I sat at my desk and hugged my stomach and covered my face.

"Hey it's party... Addy." Chace said.

I couldn't look at him.

"Addy what's wrong?" Gregory asked me.

I could sense him next to me.

"Nothing." I cried.

He touched my back.

"What happened?" Chace asked.

"Is it the change?" Gregory asked kneeling by my side.

I raised my head to look at him but tears blurred my eyes.

"Oh my god. Who did this to you?" Gregory asked touching my face.

I heard the doors to the mental ward open. Chace looked up and I looked up and saw Troy.

"How did you get past security?" Chace asked leaning on his broom stick.

"I gave him a fifty." Troy said and glared at me.

"You did this to her didn't you?" Gregory asked.

"Who are you another one of Addy's partners?" Troy asked.

"No, I'm your worst nightmare." Gregory said.

"A gentlemen in my day didn't put his hands on a lady. No matter the way she treated him." Chace said.

"I wouldn't have had to do this if she didn't disrespect me like that yesterday." Troy said pointing at me.

I just covered up my face in shame.

"How dare you." Gregory spat and was about to strike Troy.

"No!" I said to Gregory and grabbed his arm.

"Don't put your hands on him." I whispered.

He looked at me and lowered his hands.

"Come on we're going home." Troy said grabbing my arm.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Chace said.

Troy turned back at Chace.

"You don't tell me what I do with my property." Troy growled.

"She's not..." Gregory stopped and looked at me.

"Don't. Just leave us alone." I said to him.

"You're quiting this job there is no way in hell you're coming back to this nut house!" Troy said pulling me as if I was a child.

"Troy I'm not a child!" I yelled at him as we got to the car.

He slapped me. I fell onto the car.

"Get your ass in this car!" he yelled at me.

I cried opening the door and climbing in.

"You know what, I'm going to show you what will happen if you come back here." he said.

I stared out the window sniffling.

"Put on your seat belt." he told me.

I listened to him.

Three months with this man and he's slapping me around as if I'm his bitch. I should have knew from day one he was bad news. I thought he loved me. I was dead wrong.

"Why did you do that?" Greg asked Chace.

"She said to leave them alone." Chace said.

"You don't think." Greg said.

"It is the night of the full moon." Chace said shrugging.

"Chace we can't let her kill him." Greg said.

"I warned him." Chace said shrugging.

Greg grabbed Chace's arm.

"You don't know how she'll feel in the morning." he whispered.

Chace frowned.

"Okay. Let's follow them." Chace said.

Troy pulled me out of the car.

"Take off the damn seat belt!" he yelled.

I did as he said. He grabbed my wrist and pulled me onto the ground.

"You are a disrespectful disgrace. Ooh you better be glad I love you. So did you tell them how you got your scars? Huh?" he asked.

"Troy, don't do this." I said to him looking into the sky.

"Don't do what? This?" he asked and slapped me again. I fell onto the ground.

"Huh is that what you didn't want me to do?" he asked.

I sat up.

"I loved you." I said to him.

Troy knelt and picked me up by my shoulder.

"I love you too." he said and kissed me.

I pushed him off me.

"You're crazy. I've seen patients saner than you!" I yelled.

"Like who, maybe that Chace guy right?" he asked me.

I looked at him and then I saw a flicker of black behind a tree. Something wasn't right.

"I've been keeping a secret from you." I said to him.

"Good admit it, you're sleeping with Chace, I knew it. You're a slut!" he yelled.

"No, listen to me." I said to him.

He grabbed me by the arm and pulled me close to his face. I was so close our noses touched.

"I tell you what to do, I own you now." he said.

"I don't see no ring on my finger." I whispered.

He pushed me on the ground.

"You're nothing without me nothing but a slut and a Whore..." he stopped and turned around.

"Where the hell did you guys come from?" he asked looking at Chace and Greg.

"Leave her alone Troy. If you want to fight. Fight me." Gregory said.

"Or me." Chace said.

Troy smiled and scratched his eyebrow.

"A janitor and some random guy. Wow you've really out down yourself Addy." Troy said turning around.

I glared at him and pulled myself up to my feet. My arm was sore, my face was sore and I could feel the moon rising. I saw Gregory prepare by taking his shirt off.

"You don't know what's been going on with me. While you were sleeping in my house and acting as if you run the place. I've been fighting my own demons." I said to him.

"What the hell are you talking about?" he asked.

Gregory started to scream out and he held his side and then it stopped and he looked back up.

"What the hell was that?" Troy asked.

"He's a werewolf." I said to him in his ear.

He looked at me from the corner of his eye but kept his eyes on Gregory.

"Bull." he said.

Gregory screamed again hugging his stomach and then finally dropping to his knees. He raised his head high in the air and screamed in pain.

"He's faking it." Troy mumbled.

"Chace, over there. He's a vampire." I whispered.

Chace smiled and fangs showed up.

"No, that can't be." Troy said.

"Oh, and Troy. You forgot me." I whispered.

He turned around and looked at me.

"W-what the hell are you?" he asked his teeth chattering.

I glared at him and went to take a step forward but the change was coming. I dropped to my knees.

I forced myself back up fangs and claws showed. I stood up in front of Troy. And I rubbed his cheek.

"I'm the big bad werewolf. Hit me again. I dare you. I can smell your fear. I can taste your flesh." I whispered into his ear.

He shivered.

"Oh and Troy." I said quietly.

"What?" he asked in a shaky voice.

"If you don't get your stuff out of my house. I'll pile it up and burn it with you in the middle of it." I growled.

"O-okay." he said.

"One last thing." I said.

"What?" he asked.

"Run!" I growled.

He backed away from me shaking. I dropped to the ground and ripped my clothes off. I started to change. Troy started to run back to the car. The moon's power enveloped me with power. The wolf could sense Troy's fear and it grew hungry. Gregory had just finished his transformation and turned charged Troy's car.

He hopped onto the hood and then the roof of the car. Troy sped off Gregory hopping off of the car and howling making sure Troy could see him from the rear view mirror. I joined in his victorious howl.