1 The accident

The date was June 23rd and the year was 2010,

The sun was a bright blaze and the tree's were moving within the cooling breeze,

Jack was a ten year old boy who was as full of energy as a sprightly dog excited to see his owner after four hours inside on his own,

"Jack over here I'm open!" Cole shouted as Jack checked the green to make his pass,

Jack chucked the ball bouncing it to Cole but throwing it to hard and getting it caught in between the thick and thin branches,

"Jack come here" Cole shouted as he grabbed a jaggered brick from the dusty ground before throwing it at the stuck ball situated in the tree's,

"Is this safe?" Jack asked as the ball bounced back and hit him on the top left of his head ripping his flesh open and breaking his skull before a price broke off and sunk slightly into his frontal lobe causing Jack to pass out only to awake in a hospital after being pronounced as dead for an hour and a half,

"Where am I?" Jack asked as he held his head where the brick had hit

"In the hospital baby" his mother softly spoke as she held his hand's

"Why am I here and why is the doctor standing with a man in a white hockey mask? And why's the man holding two meat Cleaver's? And why is he saying he's going to kill me" Jack asked as he panicked,

His mum looked at Jack and gentally said "there's no one else here hunny" to him in concern

"Urm Mrs.Sheppard he might develop some kind of mental illness from an accident such as this one, the common illness is a mental health problem known as skitzophrenia and psychosis, if his symptoms grow worse then he will have to go onto medication for it for the rest of his life, but Jack seems to be fine so it is probably just a concussion, but here is the number to NHS 24, If his symptoms grow worse call them and call his doctor as well" the doctor spoke distaughtedly as Jack started to fall back into his comertose state when Jack woke up he was back at his home and his mum was putting him into his bed Jack looked outside and it was pitch black Jack looked back at his mum and she looked back at him,

"Mum that man is here" Jack said as he pointed at the far right corner of his room as Taylor turned and looked at where he was pointing,

"son there's no one here" she said as she kissed Jack's forehead gentally before turning and walking to his bedroom door and shutting off his bedroom light "Good night baby" she said as she closed the door

"who are you?" Jack said as he pulled his duvet cover over his face to just under his eye's

"I am here to warn you Jack, DH is coming for you, he's hunting you down" The man said as he sat on Jack's window ledge

"No he's not... is he?" Jack asked as he panicked slightly

"Yep and he's going to kill you Jack and to make it worse their all in on this, but Jack I have a plan" He said as he started opening every curtain in Jack's bedroom

"no he's not, my mum would never do that to me she love's me.. doesn't she?" Jack said insecurely

"No Jack listen, she think's that your retarded and she doesn't want to have you anymore, just listen" The man said as he enticed Jack to put his ear to the wall next to his mum's room where her and Jack's step farther were talking

"I think that we should put Jack in a hospital as he mentioned that invisible man again and I won't know how to look after him if he's retarded" Taylor said to Jack's step farther Stan,

"Taylor sweetheart, I think you should give him a couple of day's you know, wait and see if he's got concussion or if he's fucking retarded" Stan said as Jack stepped back,

"See Jack, I told you that they don't want you and that they think your fucking retarded, they are probably planning on killing you while you sleep too, they probably already told DH where you are right now too, they know that he want's to kill you Jack" The man said and he started to chuck some clothes into a suit case "we have to move quick though Jack, we can go to Mathew's or that crazy blond boy's" He said to Jack as Jack stood there with tear's in eye's,

"NO!" Jack shouted at the man making Taylor and Stan run into his room

"baby what's wrong?!?" Taylor said as she panicked and as Stan dashed into the bathroom dampening a flannel and running back through putting it onto Jack's forehead

"The man told me that DH is coming for me and you told him where I am and he also told me that you think I am retarded now and I even heard you both say it" Jack said as he started to cry and freak out

"Jack baby we don't think your retarded and we didn't say that you were, there is no man here and DH is not coming for you baby, we are here to protect you" Taylor said as she hugged him and as Stan looked at the windows and locked them,

"Their lieing to you Jack, you can't trust them" The man whispered in Jack's right ear making Jack shove Taylor away and bolting down the stair's

"Jack baby what's wrong?" Taylor shouted as Jack hid in the walk-in cup-board situated in the kitchen rocking back and forth as the man whispered "Jack you need to leave now they know where you are and they hate you Jack, everyone want to get rid of you completely" in Jack's right ear,

"but how do I know that I can trust you? I don't know who you are and I have always been told to not talk or trust strangers so leave me alone!" Jack exclaimed as he started to bang his head off the hard wall ripping his stitches open and knocking himself out leaving nothing but a big blood stain on the wall and making a big banging sound that gave Taylor his exact location,

"Jack!" Taylor shouted and she opened up the cupboard and grabbed Jack placing a bandaid over his re-opened wound and then sprinting him back to his bed before going to call up NHS 24 to get some advice

"Taylor leave it for now, see how he is over the next few day's, he's just suffered a servere head injury, we really can't stress him out any more, than he currently is, and he might return to his normal tomorrow" Stan said completely unaware that Jack's normal was about to change from this day onwards for the rest of Jack's life

Taylor looked at Stan and put her phone down as she sighed "Okay baby, I just hope that he's okay tomorrow and that this is just a product of his concussion and head injury"

Stan looked back at her and said "Baby no matter what, everything will be okay and together we can take on anything and everything" reassuring Taylor as she set up a baby monitor in Jack's room to keep an eye on him throughout the night and before they both went to bed