The GhostMan - Part 2

CHAPTER 2: FEAR

I thought I must be dreaming so I got back in bed and lay there telling myself to wake up, It didn't work. I stayed in bed hours, nothing changed. My flat was still a mess and I couldn't get out of it no matter what I did. I got up and put the kettle on and made myself a cup of very strong coffee. I tried to ring the police but both my mobiles wouldn't work. I then had a go at fixing the TV, but that was too smashed up to to anything with. I sat on the sofa drinking my coffee when something appeared before me. I jumped, it was all white and cloudy but then it became clearer. It looked like a man. It ran across my living room and towards the kitchen, I sprang up and went after it but when I turned the corner into the kitchen there was nothing. I looked around in fear but there was no sign of the man. Confused I just stood there shocked, until I collapsed on my knees with my head in my hands.

That didn't last long, I heard a sound, “itsmeitsmeitsmeeitsmeitsmee” ,a man's voice. I looked up and there was the cloudy man again jumping around looking at me, it ran again, I ran again but once more it vanished and now I was again stood in my living room in confusion and in fear.

The time was approaching for Dr Sango to reboot the system, fear and hope were evident on his face. He paced the lab looking at his watch, less then an half hour to go. He went over to his desk, which was made of fine dark oak. He go a key out from his grey jacket and unlocked a small drawer, third one down. From the drawer he took a small bottle of Scottish highland whisky and opened it. He downed about half straight from the bottle then sat on the desk. He pulled out a Dictaphone from his trouser pocket and began speaking into it, “This is Dr Sango, I am about to boot the dreamland console up again after a shut-down and awaken ghostworld once more. I fully expect success in this, but should anything go wrong and I die here today please please accept my apologies for what may occur”. He got off the desk and approached the main console and put the options up and selected dreamland boot up and put in the security passwords which were helen, ghostman, phoenix, 1576. Then he selected EXECUTE!.........

I sat down again, got up again and put the kettle on and made another coffee. I drank it while I tried to get my head around things. I then got up and made my way to the toilet. I opened the bathroom door but there was the man on the toilet for a second then it vanished I looked into the toilet I put my head down and stared into the dirty mess my toilet had become I cried, tears down my face. What had happened to me and my life, my sad life, was this even real I thought to myself, am I real? I sat on the toilet and then made my way to the bedroom and sugar, the man once more was on my bed wriggling around, this time I leapt for my bed. I landed, no man in sight, I lay there, I lay there in fear of what was happening. I thought of my past, my job, my wife, my kids. I had a flash back of typing data onto a screen, a password of some sort, helen, ghostman, phoenix, 1576, I couldn't remember what It was for and then images passed before my eyes. I saw genetic tissue samples, cloning devices, blood samples, needles, my wife layedn the floor, my kids dancing, my first car, my friend Dr o, My friend Dr Sango, that hit a nerve and the images went. Dr Sango had been my best friend for a number of years and we had worked together, I couldn't remember what we worked at though. I remembered him drinking whiskey and offering my some but I don't drink so I declined, my memories felt scattered. Who was I, help I cant even remember my own name! Who am I, I panicked and got off the bad and searched for something, anything with my name on, I never found it.

CHAPTER 3: OTHERME AND GHOSTMAN

All went dark, Dr Sango was thrown to the floor. A ladies voice rang out “Dreamworld operational, Ghostworld online” The Dr got up off the floor and walked towards the main console as the lights flickered on and off. A searing screech sounded loud and the lab shook and the lights went out, followed by a hot white flash. Half blinded and dazed the Dr felt his way to the controls and asked for a voice status. “all systems functioning, MEP weak, PTC operational, bio dome1 damaged and non-operational, matter transferred to bio dome 3, lights damaged switching to backup power in ten minutes, electro-ghost-fusion reactor damaged but operational” the ladies voice said, if not slightly slower. Dr Sango breathed a sigh of relief as he sat down on a chair, rubbing his eyes.

I went to the living room and checked the doors and windows again, still stuck. I sat on the sofa for a while, suddenly realising I was hungry. I got up and headed for the kitchen. I found some beans and sausages and put them in a pan and turned the cooker rings on, it worked fine. While they were cooking I made myself another cup of coffee. I enjoyed my beans and coffee then sat down thinking what on earth was going on. Maybe I was some secret science project of maybe on a game show like big brother or something or maybe I was just crazy. I looked out the windows again, some kids were playing football out front, my hopes leapt up and I banged on the window and shouted. About fifty times I did, but they just didn't hear me. Their football rolled all the way up to my window and this ugly looking brat looked straight at me, through me like I wasn't here. Maybe am in hell I thought, maybe I am dead.

I sat back on the sofa then suddenly the cloudy man appeared in front of me, I panicked first but stayed where I was. I knew he would just vanish if I tried to get him. I looked at him, he just stood there. I was gob smacked, he looked just like me. I said nothing, I just looked. “I am you and you are me, I am you and you are me” the man said in a slow strange voice. I couldn't speak, I tried but no words came out. “I am Ghostman, you are Otherme, yes you are Otherme” he said and pointed at me. Otherme is as good a name as any other I thought. I was about to get up slowly but then something happened. There was a blinding hot white flash, I couldn't see. I rubbed my eyes but I still couldn't see. I just sat there, no idea where the man was. I just sat there tightly and after about an hour I could see again, the man was gone. I thought about the man who looked just like me but spoke slower and strangely. He called himself Ghostman and he called me Otherme, that's all I had at the moment. I would call myself Otherme and If I should see the man again I would call him Ghostman.

Something strange happened to me today. I did what I normally did, I made a nice cup of tea and put some music on and kicked a football around my home. I played the song Ghost in the machine by Blaze and had a rocking dance. Then I saw this man drinking in my living room and it smelt like coffee, yucky I thought to myself. I approached him this time but he vanished, other times I ran away from him because I was scared. I decided to call myself Ghostman and this man that keeps appearing I called Otherme due to him looking just like me. I saw him again on my sofa, I approached and said to him “ I am you and you are me, I am you and you are me” he just sat there looking at me. I then said “ I am Ghostman, you are Otherme, yes you are Otherme” he just sat there again. I noticed Otherme start to move but then there was this blinding white hot flash that hurt my eyes. I huddled down on the floor covering my eyes for some time. When I opened them Otherme was gone again. I got up and made another cup of tea and put my music back on.