Albert Opens Up
Family's New Shrink Ray
chapter 100
by
copier
· original author:
pats2015
As Dr. Carroll sat with her small remaining group of patients in the rec room she thought back to one of the last conversations she had with her grandfather.
Back in his day during times of crisis most facilities' doctors and staff would abandon their patients to their fates. During a particular brutal storm it was just him alone with his patients hunkered down in that old building. Maybe it the freedom felt in the face of of danger. Maybe it was the lack of prying staff members. Her grandfather swore that he had some of his greatest break throughs during that horrendous storm.
Right now Dr. Carroll was attempting to do the same thing as her grandfather so many years ago. She was finally going to get her toughest patient to open up about his trauma. Albert Goldstein.
If she could get Albert to finally share his experience it would be the first step on the long path to treating him. Then who knows? Mr. Goldstein was a well known business man before his breakdown. Bringing him back from the depths would really put her facility on the map. Not to mention potentially gain her a new appreciative wealthy donor. This was her shot.
"So I know everyone's a little on edge with all the recent reports. It's important to remember this is a safe place. This building had seen better days but it's withstood everything from hurricanes to the last, let's say incident. We have nothing to fear in here. Now I figured we'd all benefit from a little morning session. I thought their was no one better to start us off then our friend Albert."
The large man in the seat briefly raised his head when he heard his name. When he saw the eyes of the doctor and the other patients on him he quickly brought his gaze to his feet.
"Albert I know you have had it rough here so far. I can't imagine how different this must feel from the life you lived only months ago. That's why I think it's important you talk about what happened. Albert you are an important example to everyone here. No matter how powerful we may be we all sometimes hit a snag in life. Show everyone else how we are not defined by our worst moments. Bring us back to that day.
Dr. Carroll and the other patients waited with bated breath. She worried she might have pushed too hard and that Albert would retreat even further into his shell. She had no way which direction this would go. That was up to Albert.
"It started driving to get my daughter. My precious little girl when I arrived at the school she...she was huge. My baby that was barely big enough to cradle when she was born was bigger than a building. It felt like a nightmare. I was powerless. I swore to her mother I would always protect Beth."
"Of course you did. Like any good father." Dr. Carroll.
"I wasn't a good father. I tried to be but I failed. It was the worst failure of my life."
"But you tried Albert. That's what matters. Like you tried to get Beth's attention that night right?" Carroll asked.
"Yes. I did. And it's the reason I can't even look myself in the mirror anymore. And why I've lost her."
"Keep going Albert." The doctor urged.
"I tried to get her attention at her feet. I was nothing to her. Not even worthy of the reaction of an insect would receive. I felt like less than the dirt between her toes."
"But you got free from her toes didn't you?"
"I did. With a little help from Beth. Who would've guessed my angel was such a fighter. When she took off her heel to beat that giant demon spawn I fell out of her shoe and was lucky enough to grab onto to her skirt. By some miracle I was able to hang on while the two of them traded blows. Then I made one of the worst decisions of my life. I pulled back her skirt and flung myself into her underwear."
Dr. Carroll had heard all the rumors but hearing the actual story from Albert was both exhilarating and heartbreaking.
"As I sat inside the warm musty confines suddenly my whole world was ripped from me and I was forced into a tight crevice. I remember the light started to fade and I was drawn deeper and deeper into this pulsating maw. It wriggled and throbbed as it drew me in. First my head. Then my arms and legs. I fought it. Like I was being dragged into Hell itself. But the harder I fought the quicker I was gobbled up by it. It grew tighter and tighter as my whole body was pulled inside."
"Keep going Albert. Deeper." Dr. Carroll prompted her patient.
"I thought was tortured wedged in the toes. I would've gladly taken a lifetime of torture between Beth's toes if I could forget was it was like inside there. The heat. The smell. The sounds. I was coated head to toe in slime. With each breath I took the gaps around my chest tighten locking me in place. It was like being wedged in a living, breathing cave. One that threatened to erupt at any moment.
No one said a word. Everyone was left stunned by what they had just heard from the man who barely spoke a word until this day.
"The worse part was how I got out."
Dr. Carroll, along with everyone else, was hanging on Albert's every word. Two thoughts popped in her head in that moment.
"Boy would her grandfather be proud seeing her continue his work. I wonder how he would've operated with giants on the loose?"
Back in his day during times of crisis most facilities' doctors and staff would abandon their patients to their fates. During a particular brutal storm it was just him alone with his patients hunkered down in that old building. Maybe it the freedom felt in the face of of danger. Maybe it was the lack of prying staff members. Her grandfather swore that he had some of his greatest break throughs during that horrendous storm.
Right now Dr. Carroll was attempting to do the same thing as her grandfather so many years ago. She was finally going to get her toughest patient to open up about his trauma. Albert Goldstein.
If she could get Albert to finally share his experience it would be the first step on the long path to treating him. Then who knows? Mr. Goldstein was a well known business man before his breakdown. Bringing him back from the depths would really put her facility on the map. Not to mention potentially gain her a new appreciative wealthy donor. This was her shot.
"So I know everyone's a little on edge with all the recent reports. It's important to remember this is a safe place. This building had seen better days but it's withstood everything from hurricanes to the last, let's say incident. We have nothing to fear in here. Now I figured we'd all benefit from a little morning session. I thought their was no one better to start us off then our friend Albert."
The large man in the seat briefly raised his head when he heard his name. When he saw the eyes of the doctor and the other patients on him he quickly brought his gaze to his feet.
"Albert I know you have had it rough here so far. I can't imagine how different this must feel from the life you lived only months ago. That's why I think it's important you talk about what happened. Albert you are an important example to everyone here. No matter how powerful we may be we all sometimes hit a snag in life. Show everyone else how we are not defined by our worst moments. Bring us back to that day.
Dr. Carroll and the other patients waited with bated breath. She worried she might have pushed too hard and that Albert would retreat even further into his shell. She had no way which direction this would go. That was up to Albert.
"It started driving to get my daughter. My precious little girl when I arrived at the school she...she was huge. My baby that was barely big enough to cradle when she was born was bigger than a building. It felt like a nightmare. I was powerless. I swore to her mother I would always protect Beth."
"Of course you did. Like any good father." Dr. Carroll.
"I wasn't a good father. I tried to be but I failed. It was the worst failure of my life."
"But you tried Albert. That's what matters. Like you tried to get Beth's attention that night right?" Carroll asked.
"Yes. I did. And it's the reason I can't even look myself in the mirror anymore. And why I've lost her."
"Keep going Albert." The doctor urged.
"I tried to get her attention at her feet. I was nothing to her. Not even worthy of the reaction of an insect would receive. I felt like less than the dirt between her toes."
"But you got free from her toes didn't you?"
"I did. With a little help from Beth. Who would've guessed my angel was such a fighter. When she took off her heel to beat that giant demon spawn I fell out of her shoe and was lucky enough to grab onto to her skirt. By some miracle I was able to hang on while the two of them traded blows. Then I made one of the worst decisions of my life. I pulled back her skirt and flung myself into her underwear."
Dr. Carroll had heard all the rumors but hearing the actual story from Albert was both exhilarating and heartbreaking.
"As I sat inside the warm musty confines suddenly my whole world was ripped from me and I was forced into a tight crevice. I remember the light started to fade and I was drawn deeper and deeper into this pulsating maw. It wriggled and throbbed as it drew me in. First my head. Then my arms and legs. I fought it. Like I was being dragged into Hell itself. But the harder I fought the quicker I was gobbled up by it. It grew tighter and tighter as my whole body was pulled inside."
"Keep going Albert. Deeper." Dr. Carroll prompted her patient.
"I thought was tortured wedged in the toes. I would've gladly taken a lifetime of torture between Beth's toes if I could forget was it was like inside there. The heat. The smell. The sounds. I was coated head to toe in slime. With each breath I took the gaps around my chest tighten locking me in place. It was like being wedged in a living, breathing cave. One that threatened to erupt at any moment.
No one said a word. Everyone was left stunned by what they had just heard from the man who barely spoke a word until this day.
"The worse part was how I got out."
Dr. Carroll, along with everyone else, was hanging on Albert's every word. Two thoughts popped in her head in that moment.
"Boy would her grandfather be proud seeing her continue his work. I wonder how he would've operated with giants on the loose?"
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