A night my life changed

by Steven Angel November 25th 2009, 1:51 pm

Dr. Charles’s Diary.

Dear Diary,

For 10 years I have spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours trying to put together this jigsaw puzzle that makes up the mind of Dave Zombie. I was sure I was succeeding, but there is still so many pieces that are missing, and just when I think that I was putting it back together, Dave refuses help from me. He refuses to be told, and resists my therapeutic methods of making him better. He still needs help, and I have said many times that I own him mind, body and soul. He refuses to be convinced. I admire his resilience, but this has to be tamed, and I will do whatever I can to ensure that I do own him. I have attempted to destroy him with my long time partner Marcus and my favourite client, Dawn. We didn’t succeed. Then, I paid a grand sum of 50 thousand dollars to whoever could destroy him. But we still haven’t succeeded…

Which brings me to the final plan of action. I have met desperate ends, and this may be my most diabolical yet brilliant plan yet. To send Dave to an isolated Mental Institution, the most successful hospital of its kind, this institute was once filled with the World’s most insane and dangerous patients. Patients of whom were homicidal, suicidal, schizophrenic, emotional haemophiliacs, abominations and monstrosities… I think “Dave” would find it very comfortable there.

What horrors await Dave would be too horrific to tell upon paper, when all is done and when I am finally finished with Dave Zombie… I will be the closest thing to God. I promise.

(End Diary entry)

(Dave Zombie chuckled)

Dave- It’s over now Tori, it feels so good! It’s like a huge weight has just lifted off of my shoulders!

(clasping his hands together and rocking back and forth, grinning with glee, looking at Tori with his eyes sparkling with happiness)

Dave- Oh and th…thankyou for letting me stay at your home, it’s a very beautiful place!

Tori- You’re welcome Dave.

(Smiling at this point flashing pearly whites at him)

Tori- I wasn’t going to let you stay at the home with those other maniacs.”

(Dave pets her clean, blonde hair with his big hand)

Dave- I understand Tori. So, does this mean I get to stay here with you forever?

(Tori now looks a little bit apprehensive)

Tori- Well, as long as it takes for us to get you a new place to stay.

(Dave’s face crumpled)

Dave- Oh, so you don’t want me around…

Tori- No Dave! Don’t be silly! I love your company!” Tori said quickly, placing her hand on his thigh and giving it a squeeze, You know I don’t see you as a “Reject”, right?

Dave- Yes, Tori… but…”

Tori- No buts, you are a man Dave, a real man,..

(she smiles),

Tori- Would you like something to eat or drink before bed?

Dave- Milk would be good, warm milk, just like my Momma used to bring me before I went to sleep… before she stopped loving me,

(Dave begins to tremble and bows his head sadly, his lank brown hair flopped in front of his masked face.)

Tori- Don’t you want to take that mask off? It can’t be comfortable to sleep in.

(Tori raised her hands to remove the mask, but Dave flinches and moves away before she could touch it.)

Dave- No, Tori, please, it’s good…

(Raising his trembling fingers to the mask)

Dave- It comforts me, it’s always comforted me.

(Tori slowly got up from the bed they sat on)

Tori- I’ll get that milk…

(Tori walks towards the door with her back to Dave, when she put her hand on the door she looked back towards him, he was whispering to himself with his head bowed again, his hands were clasped together between his knees and he was still shaking, she blinked and left the room.Dave raised his head as the door was pulled ajar)

Dave- she’s so good to us…

(whispering to himself)

Dave- I don’t know why she puts up with us.

(Inside Dave's head) She’s a stupid naive girl, although has a very tasty exterior.

Dave- I like her, I like her a lot, and she’s not stupid, I agree on the tasty exterior…

(Inside Dave's head) We could use her, hurt her, you always agreed pain was sweet.

Dave- Why must you always be so horrible?

(Inside Dave's head) Imagine her little frame beneath our large one, we would crush her, tear her to shreds, remember what we are? We’re a monster, you and me.

Dave- No

(Growing angry)

Dave- I wouldn’t do that to her, I would be gentle, you’re the monster and I’m the man.)

(Inside Dave's head) Remember a little while back? When you and Charlie had your little fallout? And you came crawling back to me at that very moment he went a bit too far.

Dave- I was in the wrong! I was out of order! I went straight back to Doctor Charles…

(Inside Dave's head) Tori forced you back to him, and you hate him don’t you? You fool, you’re such a pushover, you’re only ever happy when you’re with me, when you have blood on your hands, when you’re causing pain and devastation. You’re a monstrosity at heart.

(Dave lay back against the cushions gingerly; he didn’t feel comfortable although the bed was soft.)

Dave- I’m not going to listen to you.

(Inside Dave's head) You can’t ignore me, I’m here in your mind, I’ve always been here in your mind, I live in your eyes, you see what I see, think what I think, do what I want.

(Dave shut his eyes tightly, blocking out his thoughts.)

(Inside Dave's head) Oh and by the way, the war between you and Doctor Charles is far from over, there’s more, perhaps even worse to come.

Dave- A LA LA LA LA!

(Dave clapped his hands over his ears and rolled from side to side)

Dave- I CAN’T HEAR YOU! I’M NOT LISTENING!”

(After minutes with no reply Daves eyes snapped open as he saw Tori standing in the doorway with a glass of milk, he sat bolt upright in alarm, knocking books off the bedside table. Tori looked pale in the face, her brown eyes large with fear.)

Dave- I’m ready to sleep now, Tori, I’m sorry if I scared you…

(Tori came over slowly and passed him the milk without saying anything; Dave downed it in one gulp. It warmed him from head to toe. He smiled and passed the glass back over to her, she went to leave, stopping once again in the doorway.)

Tori- Goodnight Dave.

(Tori spoke quietly whilst snapping off the light and shutting the door.)

(Embarrassed, he lay himself down against the pillows again and for a while simply stared at the ceiling, his ears picked up the sounds of a car rumbling past every now and again. Moonlight streamed in through the window, casting a silver light about the room, he’d never felt so safe, he closed his eyes and let his thoughts drift.)

(A few Hors pass)

(Tori curled up on her sofa with a mug of cocoa, watching What Not to Wear. She was worried about Dave and why he had been shouting to himself, arguing with some voice within his mind, which clearly was not a comforting voice. As the hour grew later, she grew wearier, and soon she was asleep despite her worries.)

(The minute hand ticked past midnight.)

(The doorbell rang.)

(Tori was undisturbed at first, but persistent chiming of the doorbell eventually roused her. She rubbed her eyes blearily, groaned, and forced herself off of the sofa, her bare feet padded against the laminate flooring of her home.)

Tori- Why would anybody be calling round in the middle of the night?

(Speaking out loud, reaching the door. She unlocked and opened the door.)

Charles- Hello, Tori.

(Tori gasped in fright and went to slam the door shut, but he caught it, before she could shut and lock it. He pushed the door open, he was stronger than her, and she staggered back into the hallway, her heart pounding.)

Tori- Doctor Charles, get out!

(Screaming at Charles now)

Tori- Get the hell out right now!

(Charles frowning begins to speak)

Charles- Is this how you greet all your visitors?, So rude you know.

(Charles backed off a little more, knocking into a cabinet upon which was an ornament. She grabbed it and wielded it, circling Charles and threatening to strike him with it.)

Charles- Oh, don’t be silly now Tori, I didn’t come to cause you trouble.

Tori- What do you want?

(Tori is shaking uncontraolably, not releasing her grip on the ornament.)

Charles- I want to see how Dave is doing, if you don’t mind.

(Charles creeps closer towering over Tori)

Tori- You can’t! Get out!, I’ll call the cops!.

(Charles Rolls his eyes)

Charles- Very well, if that’s how it’s going to be…

(Charles turned and headed back toward the door, and for a moment Tori thought he was going to leave, but instead he stood in the door frame, dressed in a long white doctors coat, his hair shining in the moonlight, his face half cast in shadow, looking out into the street. Tori was tempted to hit him in the back of the head then and there, but he hadn’t attacked her, and she was far too afraid to do it. Charles motioned to somebody outside, and she knew that hers and Dave’s doom had been sealed. Charles turned back to her with a grin on his face and moved aside, Lauren screamed as three men in white coats and white masks entered her home, one carrying a hypodermic needle, the others carrying prostrating equipment. Charles grabbed her before she could hit any of them, the ornament fell from her hand, screaming and kicking he dragged her over to the table and pinned her down.)

(Marcus whispers into Tori's ear, one hand clamped over her mouth, the other travelling up her bare leg. Tori heard Charles hollering upstairs as the men entered the bedroom. She struggled, kicking weakly.)

Marcus- Tori, shush, we don’t want to cause a riot now do we?”

Christopher- I said, we’re going to have that break through, even if it kills us!

(Tori recognised it but couldn’t place who it was, it wasn’t Doctor Charles)

Dawn- We’re going to Hell, and he’s coming down with us.

(Tori recognised as Dawn)

(Dawn leaned over, her snarling face bearing teeth at her, she held up a needle,and began to whisper)

Dawn- Take this, it’ll help you sleep…

Charles- And when you wake up, all this will be nothing more than a bad dream.

(The needle was injected into her arm before she could scream again.)

(Dave awakes from this dream. Dave frantically looks around the room and realises no one else is in there and he was remebering the past for what it was and the days leading upto him entering a mental home. Sweat pouring from his face Dave stares in the mirror and realises that his time is here and that he is where he belongs and begins to speak)

Dave- So at Majority Rules I have 15 minutes to save my career the one thing that keeps me going the one thing I have left to me in this world now my one and only love. I was taken from Tori and now she is happy with another and I am but alone in this world and alone is how I feel I am best to be I am the one who walks in different footsteps to others has different. I know I am totally different that is why I am the Reject. At Majority Rules I have got a chance to end the careers of so many other wrestlers in the ring in one night what more could I have asked for in one match there is nothing more, gold is but for a fool to hold to have and to gain respect where I am a man who travels to the ring in search of peace and peace being destruction and carnage. To my opponents at Majority Rules, Welcome to hell and the rebirth of the “Reject” Dave Zombie.

(Scene Fades with Dave punching his fist through the glass)