They call me crazy

[SmallKnight]

Henry got done eating and it felt like his stomach was about to explode. Henry used sometime before he connected in his head that Tanner had said that he might actually get a new book today. His mind was pretty run down from the last book, but anything to keep the voices out. "Yeah I really like reading" Henry said with a smile. Henry was putting on a brave face to not show the headache he had. It felt like someone was beating nails into his head, but Henry just sat there and smiled. "So if you can get me another book today... can it be a bit longer ?" He felt one of his hands start to massage his head, but quickly removed it. "I kinda want something a bit more.... challenging"

Henry knew this was really pushing his luck. Just getting one book inside here must had been hard work, but if it has been done surly it can be done again. He just wanted a book that could last him all night until he fell asleep and since Henry almost never slept it would have to a pretty big one. "It's okay if you can't. I understand if you can't do it" Henry said in that small boy voice he sometimes had. The voice was clear as the day was long, but it was low and very high pitch.

[Thinker]

Tanner was a little slower eating, if he wasn't he would get heartburn. It was horrible getting old and the body started to act differently. He was wallowing in a little self pity when Henry pipped up about the book reading. He lifted his gaze and smiled warmly at the boy. "It shows you like reading," he said. "How are things going other than reading your eyes dry?" Might as well try and pick up how this book was affecting Henry.

He noticed a hand reaching for Henry's head but was stopped. He had no idea what that meant, he was getting conflicting messages from the smile and body language. "I wouldn't be able to get a bigger one in tonight," he confessed. "I have a second volume in my car I could loan you. But nothing bigger or more challenging I am afraid. Tomorrow before I come I would be able to find something along those lines."

[SmallKnight]

Henry smiled and looked happy when Tanner talked to him, but on the inside he was struggling to not break down. "I feel fine" he answered when Tanner asked him how things where going. "When I loose myself in a book everything else just vanishes and nothing can hurt me" He said with a smile. "Well I understand that it might be hard getting other books in here" Henry said as Tanner confessed to not being able to bring him anything bigger, but then Tanner said he had volume 2 in his car and Henry once again smiled. "Henry did you forget about us?" Something said far away, but Henry ignored it. He knew what it was, but he did not want to deal with that right now.

"Henry you know you can't block me out for much longer"The voice said again and Henry's Headache began getting stronger. "Why don't you want to talk to me? Don't you like me ?" Henry's headache peaked and Henry could not hold back anymore. He hid his face in his hands and let out a growl of pain. "I am okay. There is nothing around here. I am okay. There is nothing here" Henry began repeating to himself.

[Thinker]

Tanner frowned at the lies that were being tossed his way. He couldn't force Henry to tell the truth, that would be far to easy and his job would be obsolete. He considered the 'everything else just vanishes and the 'nothing can hurt me', statements. He was using the books to hide from reality of his situation, a healthy thing for most normal adults. Henry wasn't healthy or really that normal. He was violent and self destructive.

That look in Henry's eye flared before his face was hidden from Tanner's sight. He frowned, he wasn't having a good day with patients. First he was chomped on, who knew what would happen to him if Henry snapped. He considered for a long while if he should try to talk Henry down from this episode or just get drugs and the orderlies. "That is right, Henry. It is just you and me here. You are strong. You are safe."

[SmallKnight]

Henry could hear Tanner's voice somewhere far away. Tanner was only a few inches, but in Henry's mind Tanner was long gone. Henry was all alone in some kind of dark room by himself. "Henry you know that we only want what is best for you" something said and Henry felt like yelling at it. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" Henry yelled as loud as his voice could let him. "Henry? Don't you remember me? The voice said and the shadow of a girl came into vision. Henry tired to figure out who she was, but he could not remember. "Henry remember what you did?" the girl said as she vanished back into the shadows. Henry snapped back to the real world and as he did the headache went away.

[Thinker]

Tanner was on his feet when Henry bellowed his discomfort and fear. Clearly the boy was not doing well, he was fighting with whatever was going on in his head. Tanner eased himself back in his chair, fearful for his own well being as well as for Henry's. This was the time to be strong and hopefully find some new ground to work with to ease Henry to a more stationary state of mind. "Henry?" He said softly, gentle not to disrupt or cause discomfort in anyway.

Still he had to push just a little in effort to get beyond the rim of silence Henry put up. "Tell me what happened. I want to help. You know that right. I can't help you if you don't let me."

[SmallKnight]

"I don't know what happened." Henry said breathing fast. He was trying to think who that girl was, but to no avail. "There is a girl that told me I did something." Henry said as he starred at Tanner with his eyes wide open. "What did I do ? Did I hurt her? Who is she? Why is she bothering me?" Henry began asking Tanner. Henry could not for the life of him remember who this girl was and that did not help him calm down, but Tanner's calm soothing voice did. Soon Henry was calmed down again.

Henry was still searching his mind for a name, a happening or anything that he could tie to the girl that he had seen. He looked at Tanner once again and asked a question that he fared the answer to. "Did I kill someone?"

[Thinker]

"A girl," Tanner stated keeping his voice in that same tone. He couldn't bring up any information at the moment about a girl in Henry's file. "Well, that was nice of her just to leave that on your lap without explanation." Tanner didn't know if he had hurt or killed anyone. No one was telling him one way or the other.

He knew he couldn't believe anything that really came out of Henry, but there was something about this that had his curiosity. Tanner wanted to know what message this girl was trying to bring or force Henry to remember and deal with. It was very possible that she was just an evil influence that gave pleasure in hurting his brain... Tanner felt a little ill at that whole thought process. "This has some connection with your past. Something you have done that was against someone's rules. Does she come often, Henry? When does she invade your privacy?"

[SmallKnight]

Henry had a very grave look on his face under the whole conversation and you could almost hear the gears in Henry's head turning as he was think. Henry tried to find any logic in his mind, but it just twisted his every toughs into something totally unrelated. He had to have seen her before. He had to know who she was. He just could not remember and that was slowly driving his mind into overdrive. "she never leaves me alone. She is everywhere, but I only hear her voice." Henry knew his outbursts where getting closer and closer to each other. He began biting his nails and bite them as low as he managed. He did not want to go completely psycho, but he felt like that was the road he was heading down. "Tanner... lock me down" Henry said right before he curled up into a ball on the floor.

[Thinker]

That look was a little creepy and really disturbing that was masked over Henry's face. Sounded like a little sister to him, never leaving you alone and seems to be everywhere you don't want her to be. Only hear the voice, that was so much like a sister then. Perhaps just a figment of his imagination, like most of the things that were plaguing Henry.

Tanner frowned when Henry assumed the fetal position, that was always an unhappy sign. He rose to his feet and called the orderly to assist Henry to his room. The boy was mostly carried by the men to his room and eased on the bed, the padded leather shackles were wrapped around the wrists and ankles. "Tell me what is going on, Henry." He said. "What is going on in that head of yours?"