Chapter 4

Anita was in excellent physical condition she had built up a substantial muscle mass, allowing her to hit hard climb faster and when push came to shove give her an edge in a unpleasant situation. She was half way inclined to see how long her strength and endurance would last her, with the current task at hand yet she was gifted with a reasoning brain. Still the idea of carrying Emma Weight all the way back to her room was not a favorite, she dressed her or more accurately wrapped her in what might have been a gown or the remnants of a sheet to preserve some of the woman's modesty, she ended up looking a bit like a giant rolled up cigarette feet poking out one end her head out the other. She was an unresponsive load stone that didn't budge. Still it was fairly easy to begin with but she quickly started to live up to her name. Anita put her down in a corridor propping her up against a wall she needed something to move her about in. She looked about for something to help maneuver Emma about. In a storage room she found several wheel chairs they were enhanced for patient transportation, well to make sure that the patients stayed in the Chair.

Anita decided that there current configuration was unnecessary she selected the most reasonable wheel chair and started to modify it. Anita removed a head rest designed to hold a patient in some contorted form of agony. The straps could be undone and cast aside the wheel chairs had a very modular design and construction. So she removed the arm straps chest straps devices that would clamp each foot in place. She did retain the waist strap on the bare bones of the former overly engineered wheel chair. And it was a pretty light wheel chair some of them looked like mobile torture rooms to hold a patient down and interrogate them, one chair looked like it had a hot water boiler built into it the less known about that the better.

It was relatively easy to get Emma into the chair and then strap her in place so she didn't fall out, Anita got Emma to the stairs she debated trying to maneuver the chair down the stairs or trying to get the old lift working. Anita decided that she didn't want to be trapped in the mobile steel coffin but she would rather take it slowly and carefully. She took Emma out of the chair with a grunt of effort she carried her down the stairs then returned for the chair also carrying it down the stairs. Back in the chair it was relatively easy to get her out of the old asylum grounds. The path had become overgrown but was still solid enough underneath the greenery to make the journey easy. The door hidden in the fence proved a little difficult to to get the chair through, but a silent curse and a few scrapes and it rolled on. Anita noted a cleaner stood there and just nodded as Anita wheeled Emma to the service entrance around the back of the health farm, Anita had to make a choice she needed some help she didn't trust the cleaners or the manager, she did know one person she could probably appeal to who had come off as more malleable to Anita's needs.

Lily heard a creaking noise she woke up before she could get out of bed, she saw that some one was in the room with her. She tried to make a noise a strong hand clamped over her jaw stopping her from making a single noise. She saw Anita her head was full of questions the woman looked serious she slowly and quietly spoke to her, “Just be very clam and very quiet I need your help and I need you to be discrete.” She was shocked but intrigued “what is going on have you lost your mind” Anita held up a hand “just give me a second” She wheeled Emma into the room and laid her down on the floor. Lilly looked at her then helped Anita pick her up and put her on her back on the bed, leavening her in a comfortable position Anita planned to leave her in Lilly’s care. 

Lilly was silent looking over Emma, Anita began to give some information away a carefully controlled amount of information, she wanted to make sure Lilly did exactly what she wanted her to do. She put on her most convincing serious face, “I thought something was fishy with Emma. So I followed a few leads I found her at the asylum.” Lilly looked at her “You could be fired for going there, I could be fired for helping you!” Anita shook her head “look at her something bad is happening”  Lilly seemed to freeze, she went with a knee jerk reaction “we should call the police!” Anita grasped her hands firmly. “We don't want to do that it would shut this place down, we could all lose our jobs!” Lilly looked unsure what to do “whats going on?” Lilly looked confused but she was in a malleable state where she was open to suggestion. Anita shrugged “to be honest I don't know, I found her worse than this” Lilly looked at her unresponsive eyes “do you think she fell?” Anita held up Emma's arm with the needle marks “look at her seriously was this an accident?” Lilly fell silent her hands up to her mouth she could believe that something more benign was going on up until this point, she wanted to believe something else was going on.

Anita looked at her sternly “some one did this to her,” Lilly looked at her chipped tooth she shuddered “they must have been a monster.” Anita nodded in agreement “I think they used old drugs they found in the asylum on her, there must have been a stash some where. I think the stuff loses its potency after a while so they just guessed it and injected her with a lot, they were lucky they didn't over dose her.” Anita realized that she had made a small slip describing it as them rather than a singular individual, however Lilly didn't seem to pick up on it. Lilly shrugged “these people must be part of the staff if we make our selves targets,” Anita looked at her “we might provoke whoever did this best to keep it quiet.” Lilly nodded “I did a first aid course I can look after her for a bit I guess.” Anita hugged her “thank you I need to get some investigation work done to find and deal with the people who did this to her, it could be anyone about don't mention it to anyone at all.”
 
Anita had to get more answers Emma would be out of the loop for a bit, if she didn't come out from under the drugs in a few days on her own, Anita would start looking for a doctor who would be discrete and some pretense to leave for a few days maybe a family emergency. She had to make progress one way or another, she noticed a yellow sign cleaning in progress she looked around there was a cleaner with a spray can and a cloth in the corridor. She casually walked up to them “point me in the direction of Hanna now.” The cleaner was about to say something he took one look at Anita and his whole demeanor changed he spluttered, “second floor break room.” Anita nodded and headed over to see Hanna, she might get a straight answer now that she had been delving in the asylum. Hanna was not there but there was a note it was in an old flowing script 'cant talk hear meet me by tennis courts'.

Anita groaned the cleaners had radio's with them, after she had spoken to that cleaner they must have radioed ahead. Still giving it some thought Anita would rather have any further conversation away from the asylum away from Mayweather or her associate or anyone else that could ask questions. There was a small shed more of a large box where bits and pieces related to the tennis courts were kept like balls and spare rackets. Hanna was standing just behind it she looked at Anita “you found Emma now get going.” Anita shook her head Hanna had a sharp intake of breath she looked disappointed, “I supposed as much” she narrowed her eyes “did you see anything strange while you were there anything at all.” Anita shrugged it cost her little and she didn't tell the whole truth about the dead woman in the straight jacket, “I saw something it wasn't there for very long it must have been nothing.” Hanna looked like she had gone white for a second a look a strange one crossed her eyes “I hope it was nothing I pray it was nothing.”

Anita looked at her “OK Ms Chambers I have Emma out of harms way, what is going on you owe me answers.” Hanna laughed bitterly “I don't owe you anything I will give you a bit of a history lesson about this place, back form the oldest part of its history.” Anita waited for more ghost stories she might get something useful from it. “I mentioned several area’s of the asylum that it would be dangerous to visit. They were dark places of torment and regret recrimination lives ended.” She paused calming down, Anita made note to visit those areas something more must be going on. Hanna continued “the old boiler the water garden the chapel they might still have something dangerous there.” Anita put her hand on her shoulder “dangerous are you just winding me up?” 

Hanna shook her head “the chapel has quite a bit of a story with it that old monster Cranwell was a great proponent of healing through faith. Sometimes he said that someone needed to suffer before they were deemed worthy of being healed, sometimes one of his little apostles or trustee's would inflict the suffering some times he would do it but he always liked to watch.” A look of disgust crossed Anita's face as she continued with the story “he had a few devices he liked to use called them Morality enforcers and jackets that held a woman's hands contorted up behind her back he called them a vestment of virtue. The poor woman who was trapped in one had no chance of resisting his sadistic advances. There was a cross on a long staff in the chapel he would beat those he found morally lacking with it until they capitulated. He was a terrible hypocrite, he drank strong liqueur his prayer book was hollowed out he carried a flask with him, he played cards with the orderlies and worse took advantage of every female patient that took his eye.” Anita figured there had to be some relevance but she couldn't guess what.

Hanna continued on almost as if Anita was not there “with the water garden it had a pool that was used for treatments by the senior nurse. It was more like torture she would enjoy wrapping them up in a straight jacket and letting them freeze in the water or holding them under until they were almost at the point of suffocating then just letting them catch a breath of air and then doing it again.” Anita shook at the image the thought of suffocation by drowning was a terrible way to go. “Sikes the nurse like to play with exotic animals she had a python and I think she had an alligator as well they were small creatures then that didn't need much looking after, they were as cold blooded as her.” 

Hanna stopped for a second a hint of pain came into her voice “She was a monster that switched both ways. She was certainly attracted to the original Dr Higgs who didn't see her as anything other than an underling. Certainly he never harbored any romantic infatuation he preferred an intellectual woman like Courtney Chambers. She used to read all the time several languages, she had a knack for languages that was her undoing she saw him as a colleague he saw her as more. She helped him and she shouldn't have, David shouldn't have keep that thing.” Anita looked at her puzzled “what thing?” “forget I said that” Hanna continued “Sikes got so jealous of Courtney that she killed her of that I am sure, she got what was coming to her didn't like it herself.” 

She continued digging up asylum history “Fredric ash was a monster a dog that growled at whoever Dr Higgs wanted threatened, he followed orders to the letter which was why he was declared cured. It was why he was made an orderly and why he was promoted to chief orderly, it was his responsibility to get rid of what was left of Dr Higgs experiments when they went wrong. To get rid of people who asked to many questions they had a one way trip to the incinerator.” Anita looked appalled “Fredric had plenty of other uses if someone needed to confess to something or if there was something you needed to know he would find it out eventually, the furnace was his little playground remember that.”  Anita shook her head more ghost stories more rubbish and pointless history lessons, she would have to get information form somewhere else there might be something else left behind by Mayweather and her partner in crime.

Anita headed back to the asylum to the area that had been searched, she thought she heard the tread of footsteps. She wandered into the room where she had found Emma. Clarissa and Reggie ambush her, well they made a lot of noise as they got closer Anita smiled and felt behind her back. Clarissa entered she was holding a wrench Reggie was behind her carrying a straight jacket for Anita, one of the institutional specials with more buckles straps and clasps than were necessary to hold three people down. Clarissa started to gloat. “I know that there was something wrong with you when I met you, your after it as well don't deny it.” Anita responded “and what is it by chance?” Mayweather grinned, “smart alec wont be so smart once your in a jacket and I start breaking your toes,” Anita remained cool grinning “not going to happen.” 

Clarissa grinned “Emma cant help you she will be drugged up for another day at the very least she cant tell you about this.” Clarissa held up a little note book bound in leather Anita grinned Wider “let me guess some notebook from Nicky” Clarissa added a menacing tone to her voice, “I don't know how the little slut got it but she found, I think its a diary, Emma just needs a little persuasion to decode it.” Anita laughed at her “you need help deciphering it and your to stupid to do it yourself.” Clarissa looked at her “I am a descendant of Nicky carmine and I will soon be enjoying my families rightful inheritance.” Anita dismissed her “big dreams for a dietitian” she saw red “I am the senior dietitian!” she screamed in indignation.

Anita dismissed her “your the the only dietitian” Clarissa waved the wrench “I am instrumental senior” Anita looked at her “I have had enough of amateurs night.” Anita's face changed all emotion drained from it she pulled a gun on them from the small of her back form a hidden holster in one practiced swift move, the gun was trained on Clarissa but she could turn on Reggie in a split second. Clarissa and Reggie looked at each other. Anita looked at Clarissa “Drop the wrench” Clarissa dropped the wrench she looked nervously at Reggie he looked back each one expected the other to save them. Clarissa had a far less commanding tone in her voice “you wouldn't use that.” Anita looked at them “give me trouble and I might, I might knee cap the pair of you and leave you in a cell with no food or water three days maybe two if you bleed a bit more than you have to you will be dead.” Reggie peed himself and Clarissa looked like she was going to have a panic attack.

Anita looked at them “give me real trouble and I might get creative we can go out into the woods and you can dig your own graves or I might let you be romantic and you can dig each others graves.” Reggie looked nervous “you wouldn't to much noise.” Before he had finished the sentence Anita had pulled a silencer out of a compartment on the same holster with a click and a twist it was on the end of the gun. Reggie made a whimpering sound. Anita turned to Reggie “now Reggie I want you to put Clarissa in the straight jacket,” he looked at Clarissa then shrugged holding out the jacket she reluctantly put her arms in it. He did up the straps at the back then the crotch strap forcing her skirt to ride up. Then he fed her arms through the loops and buckled the strap at the rear he stood back and made an apologetic look towards Clarissa.

Anita looked at him “is it lose” he hung his head Anita gesture “then tighten it,” Clarissa winced as Reggie started to pull the myriad of straps on the back of the jacket tight after a minute or two he got to the crotch strap she certainly didn't enjoy that. Anita looked at Clarissa, She could tell what was going to happen “don't its tight enough already please.” Anita looked sternly at Reggie “now tighten it some more its not like you haven't wanted to everyone that met her has.” It took Reggie another five minutes to get the jacket tight enough so that Anita was happy with the results, Clarissa was not happy but she couldn't do much about it. Anita looked again at Reggie producing a pair of plastic cuffs for Reggie he sighed and turned around hands behind his back. Two tugs and the cuffs were secure behind his back. Anita picked up the diary and began to march the two vault hunters out of the asylum back to the health farm for a more detailed interrogation.

They got a little way up the corridor when the three of them stopped. Something lumbered around the corner, it was the corpse that Anita saw earlier it was suddenly up and about. The horrible eyes were open and it had gotten the gag off. The mouth yawned open like a chasm, a set of chisel like teeth colored a metallic shade of gray could be seen. Reggie was the closest it went strait for him he screamed as it bit into his shoulder. Anita saw the zombie for want of a better word go for Reggie. Anita aimed and fired putting two rounds into its head just moments after it bite Reggie and started to go for a second bite, it collapsed to the floor Clarissa screamed. Anita looked around not believing what she had just seen. Reggie didn't look to good he was leaking red but it wasn't going to kill him. Nervously they started to move away but the corpse got up. They heard the foot steps and a tearing noise as the creature pulled at the jacket slowly working itself free. The two holes in its face were slowly filling up like candle wax being poured into a container. Anita started to fire as the zombie attacked them again it aimed for Reggie to finish off what it had started. 

Anita emptied her entire gun into it, the monster continued forwards with no apparent effect. The corpse bite Reggie again this wound looked a lot worse he was bleeding badly. Anita grabbed the corpse and spun it around with a hip throw it rolled on the floor and started to rise again, they got through a security door which Anita started to pull shut. The zombie moved towards them they manage to shut the door behind them Clarissa and Reggie throwing there weight behind it with Anita, she locked the door. It thumped against the door there was a screaming sound then the sound of more blows. As sturdy as the door was it didn't look like it would hold it forever.

Reggie collapsed against the door he started to bleed out, Anita ripped his shirt to pieces trying to shove a bundle of fabric into the wound to stop the blood flow, she knew it was hopeless but she still had to try. Clarissa looked heartbroken she let a tear slip down her face “this cant be it I cant say good bye to him” she looked at Anita wile she tried to stop the blood flow with scraps of his own shirt. He looked at Clarissa a sad look in his eyes he could tell what was going to happen he sat in a pool of his own blood “Look my love I'm sorry I wasn't good enough for you.” She started to weep “Reginald don't leave me Reginald don't leave me alone I love you please … oh” his eyes were dead. There was a moment when Clarissa and Anita looked at each other half expecting Reggie to spring back to un-life an animated corpse, a zombie like in some sort of horror movie he just sat there and did nothing. Clarissa let the tears flow as Anita hoisted her up by the shoulders of the jacket. Anita closed Reggie's eyes they slowly walked away just looking back Reggie didn't move but the banging on the door had intensified.

Clarissa looked at Anita “I heard the story's that mad cleaner told me about the place warned me … I didn't ... it was I thought it was nonsense.” Anita dragged her along the corridor there was the sound of something else moving along the corridor, then two things were banging on the door. Anita felt herself starting to worry how many more of the zombie patients were there? Clarissa sobbed on her shoulder talking to no one in particular “sorry Reggie I didn't believe ghost stories it can't be real I must be hallucinating” she cried a few more bitter tears as Anita dragged her along the corridor.

There were a few more sounds of movement and banging as they went through the place. Anita thought about leaving Clarissa behind as a distraction for a second but she shook her head that would be unprofessional, besides Clarissa might still know something useful to find the vault, Anita had to wonder did Emma know about the zombie patients did her employer was that the reason that she was kept in the dark. Did David the manger know, was this some experiment of his family. The banging on the doors got Anita more and more worried she practically dragged Clarissa off her feet as they rapidly retreated from asylum. Anita still had the presence of mind to lock several of the heaviest doors behind her. As they got further away she could still hear the banging. The banging only died down when they were out of the asylum. Only then did Anita realize that both her and Clarissa were utterly covered in Reggie's blood. 

Anita dragged Clarissa back to the health farm it was time to abandon all subtly, when killer zombies that didn't give a shit about bullets started to come out of the wood work almost everything was up for debate. Anita made sure that the door on the dividing fence was sealed then dragged Clarissa to the rear of the property. There was a cleaner there, Tom Jennings looked at her at the blood, at Clarissa in the jacket he sighed shaking his head “oh joy and rapture Its happened again great.” He looked at her “I will call Hanna give me a minute.” Anita got a hose pipe out from a shed and washed down the blood off from Clarissa and herself the cold water did help bring Clarissa out of her shock. Only then did Anita feel her own heart thumping in her chest she hadn't realized that her heart was racing ready to explode. Tom finished on his radio he walked up to her he looked at Clarissa's jacket questioningly. Anita looked at him “Clarissa stays in the jacket where can I stash her and where is Hanna chambers.” Tom Jennings opened a cupboard and a dazed Clarissa was pushed inside he pointed towards the running track Hanna was sitting on a bench taking a long puff from a cigarette. 

Anita walked over still soaking wet Hanna looked at her “how bad was it, what did you find”. Anita took a deep breath “one thing like a zombie bullets hardly slowed it down it killed Reggie, we didn't stay around but I think there are more, will Reggie turn into one of them?” Hanna shook her head “those are unfortunately the smallest problem out there.” Anita gulped the way Hanna acted there were much bigger issues things Anita really didn't want to meet. Hanna sighed “OK time for the short version of the story we don't have time for the long version, I am the original Hanna Chambers I have lived hear in one way or another for the last 80 years trying to keep a lid on that place. You see Dr Higgs a brilliant chemist developed a serum that could extend life. Some components of it were developed form tribal medicines a lot of the basic formula was derived form an Aztec recipe that my sister decoded. She was injected with a third generation of the stuff the serum. We were told it was a vitamin shot I got the same thing. if someone had the serum in there body when they died then they could possibly come back.” 

She paused letting all that sink into Anita's brain the world spun around in Anita's head, Clarissa continued “the stronger the serum the better the chance, there were four variants the 1st variant was pretty weak used on a lot of the patients they had about a 50/50 chance of coming back as a mindless creature. They are effectively zombies hungry ones with a hell of a healing factor which you can attest to if you tried to shoot one. The 2nd variant of the serum was about 80% effective experiments were done on low ranking staff members, mostly orderlies they turned into creatures that could follow quite complex orders not hungry animals but they heal just as quick, but no will of there own this brings us onto the big problem.” Anita waited with trepidation for the other shoe to drop Hanna sighed, “the version 3 serum is about 100% reliable the people that come back are able to think plan. There was a mixed bag of results with there sanity, some mutate and change over time a bit of a mix on the results if your a normal human and you don't die you kind of get frozen. I mean you don't age but as time goes on you develop a healing factor. The strongest version of the serum version 4 Dr Higgs used on himself when he was almost killed by the five ways killer. He instantly became a monster. But he had created several other monsters who were not very happy about there new status, he was sealed in his own lab by his own cronies.” 

Anita looked at her backing away as if she was going to bite her “your one of those things?” Hanna slapped her around the chops in indignation. “I am still human I would look over a hundred if not for the serum.” Anita decided not to push the issue “fine can you help me in any way or is it a case of run and wait for them to go back to sleep?” Hanna looked at her thinking “your after the vault you will help me deal with this mess yes” Anita nodded. Hanna pulled a locket out from her top and gave it to Anita along with a scrap of paper. “When Dr Higgs developing the serum there was effectively a version 2.5 one of my friends and orderly bill disappeared he had been the unlucky volunteer for its trials. He retained his mind like the version three serum but he was controlled he was hypnotized to obey anyone wearing that locked, on the bit of paper is a map he could be a powerful ally.” Anita looked at the paper it told about the forgotten grave of ticket stub Bill. She looked at Hanna “ticket stub bill?” she looked back “he liked to go to the cinema.” Anita would dig up a new friend later on she had so many other things to deal with.

Anita headed back towards the health farm she had to get some rest make a few preparations get some more ammo her bullets didn't stop the blasted zombies but they did slow them down a bit. She heard a foot step and turned there was the manager  David he looked rather distraught. “Anita whats going on I heard things” Anita decided that if she was going to get on his good side she had better blame all this on Casandra and Reggie digging around in the asylum, in fact for all she knew they were the ones responsible. Anita was as calm and collect as she could be “Casandra Mayweather and Reggie were digging around in the old asylum hunting the mobsters vault. They found something and Reggie is dead, also Emma is still hear she found them they did something to her she is not in a good way.” He sat down resting on a wall “Its all happening again its coming apart I wont make the mistakes of my ancestors, I have to get everyone out no more blood on the family name.” He looked at her “you went looking for Emma have you found that.” Anita patted him on the shoulder “Hanna told me the short version of it.”

David became very quiet, Anita hugged him “is there anyway to fight those things that is permanent.” He reached behind his back and pulled out an old revolver. Anita had to resist drawing her own gun. “my father found a weakness at least something that damages the type one serum patients.” Anita looked at the gun she had six shots David continued to explain “its loaded with silver bullets or more accurately silver jacketed bullets a single shot heart or head will stop a type one patient might even stop a type two but I have never tested that.” Anita thought “what if you shoot them anywhere else?” David looked thinking “my fathers journal claimed that two bullets to the center would do enough damage to put them down permanently. My farther had two revolvers and some ammo made. In all honesty I am keeping the second revolver for myself there is very little ammo left so you have six shots and I have six shots we get the guests out of hear and then find some way to deal with this issue.” Anita could not agree with him more, they had to get rid of the zombies to get to the vault at least she though that they did.

David handed her a radio “Call me if you find anything.”  Anita looked at David “there is one thing that you could probably help with.” Whats that?” he asked curiously, “I have Clarissa in a straight jacket she was rather violent to Emma and she has seen a type one zombie kill Reggie.” David looked a little confused “violent to Emma?” Anita clarified,“she beat her up tied her up and drugged her she is still heavily drugged if you could get information from Clarissa it would be helpful.” David scratched his head “OK show her to me,” Anita took him round and opened up the cleaners closet a terrified Clarissa looked back at them she was still soaking wet. David looked at her Anita put her hand on his shoulder “can Clarissa be left in your care” David grinned looking at the straight jacket. “My dear you look lovely now I will have to keep you like this for your own good. Of course can't have you running off.” Clarissa must have realized what she looked like her voice was panicked “I am not mad I saw a zombie, zombie we are all going to be eaten by zombies!!!” David sighed “OK your definitely staying in the jacket, I might make it a bit tighter I think I can find a gag somewhere.” David started to take Clarissa away she babbled “Zombies” one more time before being dragged out of site. 

Anita got a few precious hours of sleep with her door locked. She had the revolver with silver bullets right next to her bed. An alarm went off a few caffeine pills and other stimulants and Anita was up. David had arranged for the the guests to be evacuated she watched as staff members slowly escorted the guests and there baggage to a couple of waiting coaches, a couple of very sleepy members of staff helped people with there baggage. David had concocted a cover story of structural issue with the building or a gas leak or something that could be explained away as fixed later. He promised a woman a full refund while gently shoving her on to the coach. With a couple of smaller buses most of the staff were told to leave as well, David did look nervous with his clip board several members of staff were not to be found and a few of the guests had disappeared, was it something relatively mundane or should they be worried? Anita knew what she would be betting on.

Anita got a call on her radio “hello is Anita there, calling Anita can you respond?” She paused for a second looking for a button then tapped it “Anita hear how can I help?” “its Lilly hear David contacted me. He said he convinced Clarissa to tell him what Emma had been dosed with, he sent me to find an antidote in her office in a desk draw. Its starting to work Emma is coming around, he also said Clarissa has a few accessories and wont be a problem any more whatever that means.” Anita could only guess what restraints Clarissa was now enjoying, but then she had wrapped up Emma in a similar amount so she deserved what she got! Anita was now almost ready to proceed with the plan, to find out after so much effort what was going on with her employer. She smiled in relief it was good to get some positive news, “I will be with you in about five minutes.” Anita checked that she had the revolver and her regular gun then headed across the grounds. David had talked about shutting the main gait once most of the staff were gone keeping the trouble contained as much as possible. She was now free of guests but a relatively minor problem, had been replaced with a major problem at least there were no police to turn up and get eaten yet.

In short order she arrived at Lilly door and knocked. The door slowly opened Lilly was holding an umbrella like a club possibly the worst weapon that she could have found, Anita suppressed a snicker at the sight. She put the umbrella down “Its you Anita” Anita sighed Lilly looked a little panicked Anita looked over at Emma she seemed to be awake blinking, Anita patted Lilly on the shoulder “OK Lilly thank you very much you have been a grate help.” Lilly looked at her with a faint hint of suspicion “this whole structural stability problem that's a load of rubbish what is really going on.” Anita looked at her solemnly “you don't want to know just pack your things and get out of hear as quick as you can OK.” Lilly looked a little disgruntled “I suppose that your right.” Anita nodded “Now I need you to give me a bit of space to talk to Emma” Lilly was a little hesitant to leave her room but she complied with a nod.

Anita walked over to Emma she grabbed her hand and shook it vigorously Emma's eyes opened. She looked at Anita then around the room she squinted and grasped her head groaning in pain. Anita hugged her in a reassuring manor “got a bit of a headache there Emma?” Emma held out her hands examining them her body ached all over and her movements were stiff from being in severe bondage so long. She looked nervously at Anita “who are you whats going on?” Anita smiled “you know what happened to you do you.” Emma thought for a second “for no reason Clarissa and Reggie kidnapped me they have been torturing me for days.” Anita shook her head “there was a reason you were after the vault, they were after the vault the person employing you sent me after you when you didn't report in, now I need to know how far you got.” Emma looked at her “I don't want anymore to do with this what about Clarissa and Reggie?” Anita looked at her “Clarissa is bound up under wraps and Reggie is dead, tell me what you know.” Emma looked at her eyes full of fear “you killed Reggie?” Anita shook her head “someone else did that just spill the beans.” 

Emma looked like she was way in over her head she sighed “I made a deal with a guest hear and took her spare key.” Anita nodded “I know I got her other key what did you find about the vault?” Emma took a deep breath, “its in the old asylum not the health farm and it consists of an outer vault and an inner vault both rigged to a large amount of dynamite enter in one wrong code and your toast.” Anita looked a little skeptical “OK I'm not saying I don't believe you but how do you know that?” Emma grinned “I found a note book hidden under the floor in the old room nick the soap had, it was in the bath room under a panel, it had a bear trap hidden under it I nearly lost a hand. The note book is in a code some of it I could work out the first bit the warning is easy. The rest not so much, he must have had two or three other note books around somewhere if we don't find them then its all for nothing no code no location you have seen how massive the asylum is Clarissa and Reggie have been at it for years and only scratched the surface.” 

Anita had the one note book she had to find several more to find the vault and open the vault, David and Hanna had agreed to help her if she agreed to help them how much she helped them and how much she helped herself was yet to be seen. She would not be surprised if some of the note books were in the hands of them to use as leverage against her and anyone else after the vault. Emma pushed on “who killed Reggie who else is hear another crew looking for the vault?” Anita looked a little guarded as she spoke to Emma “its not another crew its hard to describe but this place has been evacuated of guests and most staff.” Emma looked at her drawing her own conclusions “I have heard the ghost stories I even heard the cleaners gossiping but I didn't put any stock in it.” Anita nodded “I saw Reggie die there is definitely something else going on.” Emma turned white as a sheet “in that case I think I made a mistake!”

Anita looked at her she tried to keep any hint of judgment out of her voice, “what did you do Emma?” She was slow to answer “one day I found a letter addressed to me shoved under my door, the name was from a former employee of the original asylum I thought it was some one just using the name.” she seemed to pause and froze it looked like she was going to have a panic attack she calmed her self and continued. “But now I am not to sure she had me doing things.” Anita looked at her “who was it what was the deal that they made.” Emma recounted the story briefly “First off I found a letter detailing a dead drop by the water the pool by the garden the sunken garden, who left it by my room I am not sure. I started to correspond with them I though I found a source of information and I had, they knew the asylum. I thought it someone who had studied the place maybe a staff member or ex staff member who was keeping an eye out on the place. I thought they wanted a few headlines or maybe they just wanted a cut of the vault proceeds I made a deal with them.” Anita griped her arm “what did you do” her eyes were deadly serious.

She looked at Anita “I made a deal with Sikes, some times she signed her letters the shark.” Anita prompted “go on what was the deal.” Emma paused realizing that she might be in some real trouble. “Well she directed me to the note book, she told me that Jill had been poking about she has someone else in her confidence inside the health farm.” Anita moved a little closer to Emma “What did you do in return what was your part of the deal?” She looked ashen as the blood drained from her face “I unlocked a few doors in the asylum I moved a few packages for her some basic stuff, I think I might have made it easier for some of those things to get out. I had to look In a few places for the other diary's but I blundered into Clarissa and you know the rest.” Anita looked at her Emma worried was she going to render judgment. Emma could feel the potential ramifications of her actions she imagined how much Anita might object was she going to be restrained again? anything but that.  

She tried to think of anything else useful “we correspondent by letters she helps me get the contents of the vault and I help her get revenge on Dr Higgs. I thought she meant David, I thought she was just an ex employee with a grudge, but she must mean the original one didn't she.” Anita patted her on the arm “Sikes died but I have seen one live corpse and one of the original staff, so why cant Sikes be alive. Did you ever see her.” She shook her head “no I never saw her but there was a feeling like I was being watched a few times.” 

Anita reached out and touched Emma under the chin holding her face up she looked at her in the eyes “I don't have time to deal with you it might be best to just leave though you might consider staying and helping to clear up the mess that you have made.” She saw an easy way out “I think I might be going then.” Anita's grip tightened to the point Emma was terrified “One further thing do anything else to make this situation worse or get in the way and I will guarantee that your time with Clarissa will be a pleasant memory by comparison understand.” Emma sobbed and nodded.

Anita now had to conclude that there were some of the nastier creatures or should that be people, the line was probably up for debate. But whatever they were they were active in the asylum, ones with actual brains not just the brainless critters. She went to her room she had a call to make. The satellite phone had a reassuring weight to it, Anita activated it and waited for the call to her employer to be picked up. The answer was very quick “I assume that you found Emma?” her employer had a voice changer Anita responded sharply “yes she tracked down a note book in code from soapy, she also made a deal with an ex employee of the institution to help them get revenge on a another former member of the institution,” there was a pause “you think it was a sell out a double cross?” Anita had to entertain the possibility “possibly she is not in a good way she fell afoul of two health farm employee's that were vault hunting one is dead the other indisposed.” there was shock form the other end of the phone “you had to kill someone?”

She corrected them quickly “no a former patient killed them” the response was more surprise, “that place was shut down a long time ago your saying that there are still nut balls there.” Anita gave her best go at explaining the situation, “oh yes you wouldn't believe me if I told you everything.” She was retentively pleased with the response “enough people have disappeared looking for that vault to make me believe in something going on.” She gave the briefest version possible “One of the doctors created some serum that makes people psycho and hard to kill, like in a horror movie” there was a response “OK I will buy that, also I didn't tell you the rumors or you wouldn't believe me. I have a journal from a Tom Jennings about how the place went to hell go on.” Anita grinned “Met Tom he is old now, but its besides the point its the vault that's what your going for.” 

There was a brief pause “to right its the vault, knowing soapy he put it right in the middle of the zombies to act as protection he was smart and twisted like that.” He spoke to her after a pause to think “place is evacuated now?” Anita with some relief confirmed “oh yes” her employer continued “I think it is time to play my cards, including the little horror story now is the best time to find the vault.” Anita had to give a warning “These things don't care about regular bullets you have to be real careful” Her employer continued “a few zombies wont keep me out of it” Anita thought “silver seems to do the job for some reason.” Her employer thought about it “I might be able to think up something” Anita awaited new orders prompting her employer “what now?” her employer grinned “I am coming in with back up shot guns and Molotov's, try to find more info get Emma out and don't get killed.” The phone went dead Anita couldn't believe that she would be battling zombies for a mobsters millions in the husk of an asylum, she had to make what preparations she could.