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The day after you had your episode with Loka, you contacted your associates about having a meeting at your house about the scream research going forward. You want to present the data you have collected and the conclusions that you have made to them. A strategy needs to be devised to help Stevie stand up to Jennette and her scaring. Stevie doesn't deserve to go through the same sleep issues you have. If you and your associates act fast, we may be able to help him bounce back to his normal sleeping patterns. Hopefully, he won't have any other serious mental disorders down the road because of this. The worst he might get is ADHD. Or a little worse, he could get depression when he gets older. But either way, he is probably going to be on some type of psychotropic drug in the future because of the scream extraction process. You notified your associates that you wanted them to meet at your place at six and you would order out for them before you all went back to Stevie's house to observe his sleeping patterns again.

You woke up a little bit earlier to get some more research. Loka woke up an hour before six. Since you are going to have more guests later, you're going to order In-N-Out Burger from GrubHub for everyone. She has liked their food ever since she's been here. The monster especially likes their milkshakes. She'll even steal from your own milkshake once she is done with hers. After you and her get all set up, the two of you sit on the couch to watch some Netflix. She has been watching The Office on her own lately and has been making you watch it with her. Her arms are wrapped tightly around you as she uses her face to nestle your face with her soft face fur. You hold her tightly in return and cuddle her back. Your nostrils take a whiff of her fur. That strawberry shampoo she uses on her fur makes her smell really nice. In response to her wonderful smell, you rub your face against hers too. You close your eyes as you take in the bliss of this moment. You're always so hesitant when she engages with you like this. But as much as you give resistance to her loving assaults, she always makes you crack and you give in to her in some little way. She hasn't made you crack all the way. But soon she might.

Her caressing is soon stopped as she startles you with a laugh. “Hahahaha… Dwight is so funny. He tries his best to outwit Jim and always fails in the most hilarious ways." She giggles on your chest.

To be honest, You've never been into this show too much. You agree that Dwight is a funny character but what kills the show for you is Michael Scott. Or you should say Steve Carell as an actor in general. His humor feels so forced and fake. You just can't stand it. It reminds you of those retards in those reality shows who force fake drama. It's so artificial. Parks and Recreations is way better than The Office in your opinion. You aren't really paying attention to the show. You're just enjoying the moment with your cute cuddle monster.

Right when you were feeling really nice with her, you hear your doorbell ring. You take a look at the time on your phone and see it is six o'clock. “They're here. You want to come meet them at the door with me, little lady?" You asks as you hug her tight to get a response from her.

She giggles in response to your squeeze. “Yes, Doc. Let me just pause the show." She reaches for the PS3 controller to pause the episode she was watching.

You walk towards your door to open it for your associates while Loka tags along behind you. You open the door, your associates walk themselves into your home and greet you. She greets them each with a hug as they come in. They seat themselves in the living room with Loka and yourself. You tell them that you are going to order In-N-Out off of GrubHub for them. They tell you what they want for their orders and you punch in their orders on the app. Once everything has been ordered, you head into your office to get your computer and the paged documents that contain the data that you have collected on the topic at hand. You hand everyone a packet of your collected research. Then you go to your TV to connect your Macbook to show them a PowerPoint presentation of your scream extraction findings.

The information that you are presenting to them is more thorough than the research you collected the other day when you came up with your hypothesis. You woke up earlier today because you wanted more data to prove your hypothesis. And you have found the data in question and you are in the process of strutting the infographics in their faces with your PowerPoint. You lecture for about thirty minutes before the food arrives at your house. Everyone takes a little break to get situated with their meals before you continue on with your presentation.

After about an hour or so, you finish up your PowerPoint. “So in conclusion." You say. “I think we need to help Stevie stand up to Jennette so he won't get any more brain damage from the scream extraction process and whatnot." Not the best way to end a presentation. A little akward. But, all that matters to you is that you got the point across.

Your assistant has an angry look on her face while the two other scientists are in deep thought about the information that they were presented with. Loka on the other hand is just sitting next to the biologist nonchalantly while drinking your milkshake without a care in the world. Jane gets up from the couch to walk up to you. She confronts you with a slap to the face. You don't say anything. Your hand just reflexes to your face to soothe the sting of her slap.

“I warned you about this from the very beginning and now you are telling me what I told you a month ago." She jabs her pointing finger into your chest. “You're no different to Wendell Johnson! How do you feel knowing that you have your own literal monster study in hopes of curing your own disability?!" She jabs her finger at your chest again. “God, Joe. I expected better from you."

“Fuck Jane, cool it! How was he supposed to know that the monster's tech would cause such neurological damage?" Defends Walter. “When I first heard about the scream energy, I thought it was getting energy from the acoustics of kid's scream. We now know from the experiments we conduct that it's not but… But come on. The monsters have been doing this for god knows how long. How was he supposed to know the side effects of this?"

“A scientist should always be aware of the dangers their experiments could have!" the brunette yells out.

“We were mostly only observing the whole thing." The Dane says calmly. “We only experimented on him once through the whole observation. And besides, from what I see from the data that he has presented us. An affected users brain can take it a few times and not suffer from long-term neurological changes if the scream extraction is only done a few times. But I will agree, that maybe it was wrong for us to extract scream from Stevie the other day. But what's done is done. Now we know it can cause harm to the person being affected by the device. I know what we did was wrong but sometimes you need to take a shot in the dark to know whether what your doing is a good thing or not. Even the best intentions can cause the greatest pains. You'll never know if you don't try. Also, this is more than just trying to help one kid to stand up to his monster. We are dealing with an alien species that has been among us in the shadows for a long time. But stopping one monster from scaring one kid is not going to solve the problem. Monsters are scaring kids all across the globe and are causing brain damage to the kids they scare through their scream extracting machines. We need to make contact with the monsters and offer them an alternative energy source so they don't have the need to come over here to get scream."

“Yeah! I can't believe I'm agreeing with fucking Hans but he's right." The biologist says in agreement. “Even Joe told you this before. Helping Stevie get rid of his monster only helps Stevie. It won't stop the monsters from getting their precious scream. And plus, how the hell will we get Loka back to her world if we don't observe the monsters and test their technology for ourselves? Hell, We won't even be able to make first contact with the monsters without using their tech."

“And another thing to add about your presentation. Why are you so certain that the scream extraction is affecting everyone?" Hans asks. “The effects you could be seeing might only affect Stevie or people like Stevie. It could be harmless to most people but it may affect people with certain genetic predispositions."

“I don't think that is the cause." You reply. “I myself was scared by a monster when I was little." Everyone in the room except Loka expresses shock on their faces. “In fact, I was actually being scared by Loka's own mom believe it or not." You walk over to your computer to open the Ipad drawing you made of her mom.

“Wow, your mom looks a lot like you, Loka." Walter remarks.

“I know right, but she's a lot more scarier and taller than me. But uh, she retired from scaring because of her bug spray run in with the doc." Loka looks at you with a little bit of anger in her eyes. “And mom is blind in one eye now because of that." She breaths out deeply. “I don't blame Joe for what he did to her be honest though. I would probably do something just as bad if someone kept breaking into my room and scaring me each night too. I'd probably would have bitten them and give them a gud nomming. Nom!" she says as she ends her sentence with the snapping of her teeth.

“Yeah, she sure does look like her mom. Uh again, I'm sorry about your mom. You know, like I was six and all."

“It's okay, Doc. It's all water under the bridge now."

“Okay, Okay. But as I was saying Hans, I was scared by monsters too and I would say that I would be the person to fit your idea of genetic predispositions that you are talking about. But Stevie on the other hand, his family doesn't have a history of sleeping disorders. The sleep pattern data I have collected this entire time shows his brain is looking more and more like an insomniac's brain. I even reached out to other sleep doctors who have had kids with monster problems. And they reported that many of those kids too have families that don't have a history of sleeping disorders. Many of them also don't have family histories of serious mental health issues like schizophrenia, ADHD, autism, bipolar disorder, depression and other serious disorders. These didn't exist until they started reporting their sleeping issues because of their monster encounters."

“Oh fucking god, I can't believe I got to agree with Hans here, again!" The biologist interjects. “But, don't you think this could all be a case of… You know, correlation does not mean causation? I mean, they could have had other genetic or environmental causes that could have lead to those disorders."

“Maybe Walter, Maybe. But I want to play it safe here. I don't want the kid to deal with the same sleeping issues I have. And I know this is a hypothesis, but I am so certain that this is what's causing all of these issues. And to add to that, I am a sleep doctor. If I have a cure for someone's sleeplessness, I think it's ethical for me to provide that cure for my patient. Even if that means I lose important research on his observations in the process." You pause for a few seconds. “I don't want a boy's health on the line for my own scientific achievements. It would make me feel guilty for the rest of my life and I don't want that on my conscience."

“Hmmmm, I have a suspicion that these disorders are a byproduct of the psionic negative energy transfer that is occurring from the scream extraction process. All humans have some limited ability of ESP in one way or another. These psychic abilities affect us all the time without us even realizing it. Moods of people can affect the whole collective consciousness of everyone. Even ideas from one person on one side of the world can bleed into the consciousness of another in a form of psychic osmosis. In the literal sense, these floods of ideas can appear as a revelation to those who are not familiar with these ways of thinking. I can imagine the prophets of old seeing ideas they can't comprehend and thinking it is the word of god while in reality the ideas they receive through their “revelation" really came from someone else." The physicist explains. Or more like meta-physicist to be honest.

Walter looks like he's going to seize with all of that parapsychology talk that the Dane has just babbled. “Ahhhhh… Come on, this shit's been debunked! I thought you would know that since you can pretty much make a nuke in your basement if you wanted to. All of these ESP larpers are all scam artists. Hell, the CIA wasted six million in taxpayer's money on Project Stargate of all things to see if we can astral project to other parts of the world so they could spy on people. I don't want what we are doing here to go to that level of retarded!"

“I'm not going to debate this with you." He tells him sternly. “Trust me when I tell you this after we are done building that doorway to Loka's world, you'll see all of the evidence for it. I promise you'll be a believer of ESP phenomenon after all of our work is done."

“Don't think I'll stop criticizing your ESP bunk just because you don't want to debate about it!"

“I don't care really. Frankly, I've tried too hard to convince people of the unbelievable and I've just given up at doing so at this point. People usually change their minds when they see the real thing. But even if ESP hits you in the face, you'll probably still make logical fallacies on how it was a trick or an illusion. You're not worth my time. In fact, I'd say your an oxygen thief for giving me all of these appeals to authority arguments."

“FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE! At least I don't believe that scanners are walking amongst us and can explode people's heads with their telepathy and shit!" The hotheaded biologist yells back. Loka then starts massaging his shoulders. “Huh… Hey, what are you doing?"

“Relieving that built-in tension of yours. You got to take a chill pill and not get angry so easily. Hans knows what he's talking about. Have an open mind."

“HAVE! HaVe A oPeN mInD aBoUt PsEuDo!…" The monster massages his shoulders with more intensity causing him to sink into the couch more. Hans snickers at his display. You even find it funny too. Your assistant on the other hand looks disgusted.

“Shhhhhhh, relax Walter. Relax." She says quietly to him.

“Well… This is awkward." The brunette says uncomfortably.

“I just had to calm him down. I don't like it when you guys start fighting. I know you are a know it all hot head. But sometimes you just got to let the other person believe what they want to believe."

“But he's wron-"

“Shhhhhh!" She interrupts him. “You both have big brained brainiac arguments that the two of you will never agree on. Just let it go."

“But-"

“Shhhhh!.. Just let it go."

Walter just sits there for a bit dozing off to Loka's massage while everyone else just remains dead silent. You feel nature calling and make this a perfect excuse to walk away from this Walter episode.

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Right around a quarter to eight, You and your work associates are about to head out to help Stevie with his monster issues, but a certain agitated monster holds you all up because she wants to talk her friend out of scaring the kid.

“COME ON! STOP BEING DUMB AND LET ME TALK TO MY FRIEND!" She angrily yells out at you.

“Woah, calm down. We went over this. We don't want you to get near Stevie and we don't want you to talk to Jennette."

“Joe! She's my friend! She'll listen to me!" j

“Hey, you told me this yourself. Those monsters on the other side are always monitoring what goes on in those kid's rooms. What if the other monsters found you in Stevie's room trying to convince Jennette to stop scaring Stevie, huh? Wouldn't that put you in more trouble with them? You told me that they banish bad monsters to our world. Aren't you afraid of never going back to your world?"

“I DON'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT THAT ANYMORE!" Wow, this is the first time you have ever heard the monster use harsh language towards you or anyone else for that matter. She must be very determined to talk to her friend. She starts sobbing into her hands with all the frustration she is feeling right now. “Sniff... I don't want to go back to a world where hurting kids is my day job! I DON'T WANT THAT, JOE! I DON'T FUCKING WANT THAT AT ALL! There are better and safer power sources out there besides scream. Grrrrrrr… If I get banished by those sicko monsters, so be it. I don't want to be involved with scream harvesting anymore. It's crazy and it's ridiculous. Sniff… It's just so… Tiresome…" She continues to sob quietly in her hands.

You gesture to your associates to leave your house. You'll meet them later. It's time to console Loka and her frustrations for now. You try to get her in a hug but she pushes you away in anger.

“DON'T TOUCH ME!" The upset monster walks over to your couch to lay on it so she can sob her face out on the couch pillow. “Just go. Leave me alone."

This is just so disheartening. You can't just leave her here like this. Don't give up, just help her to understand. Make her feel better. Let her know this is nothing personal. This is just you trying to be professional and cautious. You slowly approach the monster and lay yourself on the couch next to her to spoon her into your hug. However, She doesn't take it too well. The sobbing monster starts lashing out at you. She hisses at you to let her go. You don't relent to her though. So you hug her harder and shush her to keep her relax like how she would shush you to sleep. Her left horn is poking into your shoulder uncomfortably throughout all of this. She's putting way more resistance to your soothings than you do to hers. Loka then takes a strong bite into your left arm. Ow, it was the most painful bite you have ever felt. You hold your breath and moan as you clench your teeth together in pain. The monster's maw didn't let go of your arm until she tasted the blood that she drew from her bite. You run over to the kitchen faucet to clean out the flesh wound. She left deep teeth marks on your arm. Luckily she didn't rip off a big chunk of your arm flesh in the process. God damn! It looks like a shark bite. You take a quick look behind you to see that you dripped some blood on your floors as well. As you're cleaning your arm and stopping the bleeding with some paper towels, you hear more quiet sobbing right behind you. You turn your head around while keeping your bloody arm in the sink to see the sorry monster has brought you some medical tape and a bottle of peroxide from your bathroom. She really knows how to move around your house quietly. You even noticed that the fur around her lips has your blood stained on them. Making her look like she put on some joker makeup sloppily around her lips. Tears are streaming down her face as she offers you the medical tape and peroxide.

“I'm… I'm so sorwy..." The monster says to you as she sobs harder. You take the medical tape and the peroxide from her. As you're drying off the water that is on your arm, Loka gets you in a forgive me hug and starts crying her eyes out into the back of your shirt. After you dry the bite area, you apply some peroxide causing you to moan in pain a little. “Oh my god! … I hurt you really badly didn't I?" She says with panic.

“Oof, I think I'm going to need a few stitches too, to be honest. Hey, I got a roll of cotton in the bathroom too. Can you get that for me? I don't think this medical tape alone will be good enough to stop the bleeding." You say calmly.

She storms right out of your kitchen and storms right back to you with the cotton roll. The short monster grabs a stool and stands next to you with the cotton roll in hand. “Ewww… I gave you a bad bite… I'm such an idiot!" She hits her head with her hand manically over the bite she gave you.

With your good hand, you grab the hand she is harming herself with. “Loka, don't hurt your lovely face like that. I don't want you to physically hurt yourself like that over this."

“Why would you even care about my horrible face? After what I did to you? … You should hate me for what I am. I'm a monster! I hurt kids on my day job and bite you when I get angry. HATE ME, JOE! HATE ME!" The monster yells out at you in distress.

“I would never hate you, Loka. I would never." You tell her with sincerity.

“Well… You should… I'm a bad person."

“Truly bad people know when they are doing bad. You're just a normal person who was just doing their day job. You just weren't given all of the information. That's all."

“Bu-"

“Shhhhh." You interrupt her. “You're a good person and you're a good friend. A good best friend. You just had a moment of weakness. Just like when I had a moment of weakness the other day when I pushed you."

“… I deserved it though… I'm a mons-"

“Shhhhh." You interrupt her again. “No, that was completely uncalled for. I should have never have gotten that angry with you and I am sorry I did that to you. You didn't know what was going on with your job. How could you have?"

“Following orders is just an excuse."

“It can be. It always depends on the circumstances. You had to get a job and sustain yourself in your world somehow. Your world revolves around scream energy. You're surrounded by it. That's like saying you endorse slavery because you buy an Iphone that is made in a Chinese factory that has slave labor conditions. Everything is made in China now and I and other average Joe's don't have control over that. That's just the way the world is. You can't beat yourself up for what your own people endorse. I don't want you to hate yourself because you are a monster either. I want you to feel good about yourself. And before you started watching all of those horror movies and found out of the dark secrets of scream, you've always loved yourself when you've been around me. Have you been feeling negative about yourself for a while now?"

More tears flow out of the monster's eyes. “Yes, I saw how those monsters in those movies scared humans like yourself. I'd always felt deep down that you viewed me the same way. And you probably think of me as one of those scary monsters now too because of that bite I gave you." She looks at your arm again and sees more blood oozing from her bite. “Ohhhh! It's still bleeding really bad! I can't believe I did that!" She cries more hysterically again.

You put your good hand on her shoulder. “If you were anything like the monsters in those movies, you would have eaten me all up on the spot. And you would have probably ripped my forearm off as well. Plus, those movie monsters would have never helped me patch up this boo-boo." You show her your bleeding arm again. “How about you help patch me up. You'll be truly forgiven if you at least do that for me, lady."

With tears still streaming from her eyes, she blushes when you refer to her as your lady. “Thank you, Joe. I'll help patch you up." She starts to unroll the cotton roll around your arm and cuts them with a pair of scissors she got from the kitchen draw. Next, she wraps up your arm with some medical tape. The monster wraps a few layers over your arm and cuts off the tape once she is done with her work. “I'm sorry again for what I did to you."

You get her in a tight hug and squeeze her to your chest. She rests her head on your shoulder. “I forgive you, Loka. I forgive you. Don't ever think I'll hold a grudge over this, okay."

“Okay." She replies.

The two of you sit there in your hug until you get tired of standing near the sink. So, you pick up the little monster off of the stool she was standing on and bring her over to the couch she just bit you on. The blood drips on the floor are bothering you, but you want to prioritize her for the time being.

“Am I bothering you?" She asks anxiously.

“No, you're fine. It's just the blood on the floor that is bothering me."

“Don't worry about that, doc. I'll clean it up for you when you leave." She hugs you tighter in response. “Don't get up, yet. I want you to hold me a bit longer." Her snout nuzzling gets more intense against your cheeks. She's rubbing the blood and tears from her face to yours. “Can I tell you the real reason why I don't like being a monster?"

You rub the back of her head and neck for reassurance. “Sure, tell me."

“I wish I was a human like you so we can get married and have a family." She sobs at the thought of the unattainable fantasy. “I really, really, really want to be with you forever. If I couldn't go back to my world for whatever reason, at least we would always have each other. I love you, Joe." She then digs her face into your shirt to cry herself out more.

Your hands rub the back of her head as she cries herself out on your shirt. “I know. I know. I'm here for you, always." You lay there with her for a bit before you meet up with the others again.

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Sometime later, you're back to your nightly routine of putting electrodes on Stevie's face. He remains still as you put them on his face. You brought something for him today to actually help him with his monster problem. Right now though you are trying to think of a way to convince him to stand up to his monster. Damn it! Stop stalling, you might as well just shoot the shit with him and get him to deal with his problem head-on.

“Doc. What happened to your arm?" He points out.

“Oh, this… This is an iguana bite I got from my pet Iguana. She got mad at me earlier and bit me." You lie.

“Wow, you have a pet iguana? Is he really big?"

“Yes… She is very big. I let her walk around my house freely too because of how big she is."

“That sounds really cool, doc. It almost sounds like having a scaly doggy around the house. I wish I had an iguana."

“Trust me, it's a lot of work. I wouldn't recommend one until you are older. But, I was thinking about something recently regarding your monster. I read something about monsters being repelled by water. In fact, it works on aliens too. There was this one farmer who was being attacked by an alien and he managed to even kill it with a cup of water he had." You failed to mention that the alien incident you've mentioned happened to be the plot of Signs but he doesn't know that. So you keep running with it.

“Really? Water could get rid of my monster… Wait Doctor Shomoe, wasn't you telling me that the monster didn't exist?"

Oof. This kid catches on quickly. Time to tell him he has to fight his “delusions" with “delusions."

“Look, Stevie, you believe this monster is real so you have to deal with it how other believers might deal with it. Other people who have encountered monsters have gotten rid of their monsters by splashing them with some water." You hand him a spray bottle. “This right here has water and a little vinegar in it. Monsters don't like the smell of vinegar either." You're making this assumption since Loka doesn't like the smell of vinegar that much either. It makes her gag a lot. You first learned of this when Jane brought a salad to your place a while ago. The monster got one whiff of the strong vinegar and started to gag a lot from the odor. She ran to the bathroom soon afterward but luckily she wasn't sick enough to upchuck her previous meal in the toilet. The monster just felt like she was going to throw up. So if it affected Loka as badly, you'd figured it would mess up Jennette just as much. “Monster Experts say the smell makes them all nauseous and sick. It will make them run away from you like there is no tomorrow… M'kay."

Stevie removed the cap on the spray bottle and takes a whiff of its contents. “Eww. This smells very icky."

“Yes, I know. No monster likes that smell at all. All the experts say so. So maybe you got to do what the monster experts say."

“But… But, Doc… What if it doesn't work." Stevie says with fear in his voice.

“What's the worst the monster is going to do to you?"

“He can eat me or attack me!"

“Let me ask you something? Has this monster ever laid a single finger on you?"

“No, Doc. But the monster has removed the sheets off of my bed."

“But has this monster ever touch you, Stevie?"

“No..."

“So Stevie, if this monster never even touched you from day one, what makes you think it will touch you if you squirt water on it?"

“Huh… Maybe it will if it is provoked."

“Stevie, I don't think the monster will touch you at all. I think if you stand up to it, it will cower away from you. I think all of its scaring is a bluff. If you ever try to touch it or throw something at it, I'd think it would just run away from you. That monster is a pussy cat if you ask me, Stevie."

“You really think so?"

“I know so. Just squirt that gun at that monster and your monster problem will be a thing of the past. Trust me." You get up to turn off the light. “Good night."

“Good night, Doc." You close the door and go back downstairs to observe “Stevie's sleep" AKA to watch out for Jennette.

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Stevie's moment to shine is drawing near. It is almost four in the morning. The time frame that Jennette comes into his room to scare him of his precious scream energy. During your whole observation session, all you've been able to think about is how upset Loka probably is right now. You want her to be able to see her friend again, but the circumstances aren't right for that. You want her to be able to see her world again too. Taking that away from her would probably be very devastating for her despite what she has said to you about her world earlier. Most people would be very upset if they were denied their own homeland and you would expect her to be no different. Hopefully, you all will be able to establish first contact between humanity and the monsters at some point in the near future. It would be a very different and interesting world if you were able to accomplish that. You hope to see that reality someday.

Besides, you are here now with Jane, Walter and Hans. But without that happy little monster of yours, Loka. She would have made this night more lively for the four of you. Right now though, you are just on the edge. Waiting for that red dragon monster to creep out of that closet with the hope that Stevie will squirt her away with the spray bottle you have given him.

But ever since you told the kid to stand up to his monster, his sleeping has been very light. He is actively keeping himself up so he can prepare himself for his tormenting monster from the looks of it. The kid just goes through these little micro naps and just bounces back to consciousness. You're impressed he is even attempting to do this. You were expecting him to just cower away in all honesty. However, he looks very determined to get rid of his tormentor.

A few minutes later, The red dragoness herself steps out of the child's closet. She crawls right up next to his bed readying herself for her nightly jump scare. However, Stevie pulls his sheets up and sprays her in the face a few times with the mist bottle. Jennette stands there petrified. The kid takes the opportunity to spray her in the face more. The smell of the vinegar starts to accumulate in the room more and more from his heavy misting. The dragon monster then walks back against his wall clumsily. She's moving very sickly from what you can see from the camera feed. The camera's microphone can hear her making unhealthy moans as if she has a really bad stomach ache. While she is flailing and moaning against his wall, Stevie plies off the electrodes on his face and gets out of his bed to spray her down with more of the vinegar mixed water right into her face. The monster's eyes start to water from the vinegar. Causing a stinging sensation in her eyes. She starts to rub her eyes with her fingers but the rubbing only makes the irritation worse for her irritated eyes. The dragoness makes a loud moan from the eye irritation and from the nauseating vinegar smell. Then out of nowhere, her cheeks puff up and she hurls right on Stevie. Soaking his pajamas in monster vomit. The kid just stands there all paralyzed from all the puke that is soaking into his clothing right now. “MOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!" He then cries out. The kid starts to sob hysterically from the drenching. Jennette takes this opportunity to walk back weakly to his closet and continues to puke her lunch out on his bedroom floor. What makes this worse for the kid is that his flooring is all carpet. That smell of vomit is going to take a lot to cleanout. The sickly monster makes it out of his room and back to her world before his mom runs back into his room to see the mess she made of Stevie and his room.

You and your associates run up there afterward to help the poor kid. But right before you all are able to get to his room, Mrs. O'Brian walks her sobbing son to the bathroom to get all of the vomit washed off of him. Her son cries to his mother about the mist bottle you have given him and how that triggered the monster's gag reflex. Thus causing the monster to vomit on him and all over his room's carpeting in the process. Once she gets him in the shower to clean himself off, she walks out with his vomit-soaked pajamas to confront you about it. With a furious brow, she holds up the soiled pajamas to your face. “EXPLAIN YOURSELF RIGHT NOW! DID YOU GIVE SOMETHING TO MY SON TO MAKE HIM VOMIT LIKE THIS!?" She asks with self-righteous anger.

“No, I didn't give him any new drugs or anything like that? I would never do such a thing." You say defensively.

“Cut the bullshit! He told me you gave him a spray bottle with funny-smelling water in it. What did you put in that water!?"

You get really uncomfortable with her accusatory attitude. You've got to think of a convincing lie to tell her on how he supposedly “puked himself." “Oh, that's what you're talking about. It was just water with some vinegar mixed into it. That's all. I thought if I'd let him fend off his imaginary monster with a made-up way of repelling it and… And you know… Th- That it would help him conquer his fear of his monster. But it looked like the vinegar may have triggered his gag reflex, unfortunately."

She still wasn't very happy about that explanation either. The mother knows you guys are up to something besides just sleep observation. But she has never been able to find much but the electrodes you put on her son's face to the other equipment that you have. All of the money you keep paying her off on probably gave her that suspicion. “That's a load of shit! What's in the bottle you gave to my son?"

“But it really is just water and vinegar." You walk yourself into the kid's room to fetch the mist bottle. “Look, smell it for yourself." You unscrew the cap of the water mister and offer her a whiff of the vinegar saturated water.

She takes a cautious whiff of it and pushes the water away from her nose. “A lot of things can smell like vinegar. I won't believe that's just water and vinegar until you drink it."

My god, this woman is the end of me. “Fine, I'll drink it." You drink a few gulps of the sour water. It just tasted like really deluded vinegar. The flavor was a little gross, but you're not going to upchuck like Jennette. “See, nothing toxic is in that water mister." You say as you screw the cap back onto the misting bottle. “It's just as I said. It's just water and vinegar."

“Maybe it's not the water, but I bet those sleeping drugs you're giving to my son for free are experimental drugs. What are the side effects of those drugs?"

You would never test a new drug on one of your patients. Especially on a kid. The gall of this woman. “Ma'am, I would never do that ever. I even help the pharmaceutical industry with developing new sleeping pills. Now I'll admit that those pills I gave him can cause nausea, but they were working fine on him when he was taking them. I've been observing him since he's been on those pills. I can confidently say that the pills didn't cause him to vomit like that." You explain to her in a composed manner.

“I want you to take my son off your damn pills and I want you and you're clown crew to take your things out of my house right this instant!"

“Wait ma'a-"

“I SAID TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE!" She interrupts with a fierce yell.

“Okay, sorry. We'll leave." You say with defeat. To be honest though, you were able to help Stevie get rid of his monster and she gave you an out of your sleep observations too. So, you and the others start taking down everything from the kid's room and back into your truck. While you and your associates are picking up the last of the stuff in the living room, you get a call from Loka. You pick up the call, “hey Loka, is everything okay over there?"

“Joe, there's someone or something in the house. It's staring at me right now in the living room as we speak." She says quietly. The monster sounds really scared right now too.

You're terrorized upon hearing that. Who is this intruder that knows about her? Whoever it is, you and everybody else with you needs to haul ass and get to your house to protect the scared monster. “Loka, listen. Runaway from him and hide. We'll come as fast as we can!"

“I can't hide from it. It gets into every room I go in. Please, Joe. Hurry!"

“Don't hang up on me, lady. I want to know if you're breathing on the other end until we come over there! You understand!" You say with panic.

“Yes, I will."

You turn to your associates, “we need to get back to my house! ASAP! Someone broke into my house and is holding Loka hostage." You turn to Walter, “I want you to drive over there with me right now. You were able to beat the tar out of me a month ago and I think you would be perfect to help me with the intruder at my house."

The biologist gives you a salute, “I'm ready to kick ass, sir!"

“And Jane, I want you and Hans to pick up the rest of our equipment and then head straight back to my place for assistance, okay!"

“Okay, we'll meet you there as soon as possible." Your assistant affirms to you.

You and Walter run out of the house and into your vehicles. You manage to drive out of there before the biologist. He tails right behind you soon afterward. Both of you are speeding to your house like there is no tomorrow. After about eight minutes of over the *over the speed limit driving, you and him manage to make it to your house. Upon exiting your car, you don't notice any signs of a break-in. The door isn't opened or smashed up and the windows look completely fine. *

** Walter gets ahead of you and tries to open your front door. “Damn, the door is locked. Come on, get that damn key of yours and open up this door, man. I see him right in the living room. Get over here before I break your door down!" **

*You pull out your phone, “Loka, hang tight, we're coming in right now!" You rush over with your keys in hand to unlock the door. When you get to your door, you peek through the door's window. The man who has broken into your house is standing right next to your TV in your living room. The man looks familiar. You've seen him a day or two ago by the front door when you were about to head out with Loka and two other times a few weeks ago too. But the strange thing is that you are never able to get any of his features. All you ever see of him is a black silhouette of a man in a fedora hat. And this is the closest you have ever seen him and he is still featureless like a black void. The only difference this time is that you can see what appears to be glowing white eyes from him this time. His eyes don't even show any other details on him. He is still a silhouette of a person. *

** Once you open up your door, you and Walter run right into your house but the man is nowhere to be seen. He just vanished into thin air. You run over to the area he was standing by to see if he hid anywhere in your living room to find no stranger lurking anywhere. Walter looks around to see if he's run off to some other part of the house. “Loka, where are you!" You yell out in your house. On the couch, you see a blanket with pillows covering it with two black horns protruding from the pillow pile. The scared monster you've come to love over the past month is hiding under there. “Loka, don't be afraid. Were here for you now." You say as you walk over to the monster. With your hands, you move the pillows out of the way. Underneath, you see that she's shielding her eyes from the outside world with her owns hands. Almost as if thinking that if she can't see the intruder, he won't see her either. You place your hand on the side of her head. She's shivering with fright. You sit down on the couch to take her into your embrace. Bringing her face to your chest. She hugs you in response. The monster sobs on you in relief. “There, there, lady. Everything is all right. I'm here now. Shhhhhh..." You shush her to relax her anxiety while rubbing her back to calm her. While you're comforting her, you see the man again in your backyard through your back door window. “Walter, get over here, now! He's in my backyard!" You yell out to him. But, right as you're keeping your eyes on him, you blink once and he vanishes again. **

** The biologist runs back into your living room. “Where is that mother fucker!" He asks as he looks through your back door window. **

*“I don't know. I saw him for one moment and when I blinked, he was gone in the next." *

*“Disappeared? How can you lose track of someone so fast?" He tells you with puzzlement. *

*“That thing moves very strangely." The scared monster remarks. “It moved with a weird jitter or like it was glitching out of reality. It can be in one place for one second and then be somewhere else the next second." *

*“You mean like it was on a low frame rate or something? Like as if it was moving like five frames per second?" The biologist adds. *

*“Yeah or like it was a really jank anime that has weird jumpy, flickering animations. It was the creepiest thing I've ever saw. I first saw it in my room and I ran to the doc's room to hide. But when I locked the door, it was standing in your room somehow." She starts to shake more in your hug. “It… It didn't even force its way into your room… It just got in there. I… I even tried to hide in your garage and it managed to get in there too. The thing even tried to walk up to me the few times I locked myself in those rooms. Again, it had this weird jittery movement. Like as if it was on a low frame rate. I was running around the house for a good few minutes to get away from it. Like, the whole thing was really scary. I didn't know what to do and I felt that leaving the house would have been a big mistake. So I hid myself under the blanket that I left on the couch and covered my face with the pillows and then called you for help." The monster hugs you even tighter. “Thank you, thank you so much for saving me, guys. I was so afraid. I knew I could count on you." *

** As soon as she told you all of that, you hear a knocking from your front door. You see that it's your assistant and Hans. Walter walks over to the door to let them in. “Did you fellas catch that guy that broke in?" The physicist asks as he and the brunette walk themselves into your home. **

“We saw him but he moved really fast and left. He apparently chased Loka around the house, but she didn't get any physical harm from the guy and everything in the house looked spotless when we came in. Hell, there wasn't any forced entry anywhere on the doors or windows either. This fucker is a sly one. Do you think he's from some alphabet agency or something?" The biologist asks Hans.

*“Walter, that was no person. People don't move like that. I… I think it was…" Loka gulps and inhales deeply, “I think it was one of those shadow people I've told you about." *

*Hans looks to the monster in intrigue and worry. “A shadow person. Hmmm, this is worrisome." He remarks. “Did it move from one place to another in an instant and have jarring movements like as if it was moving on a lower frame rate?" *

*“Yes! It did all of that." *

*“Was it wearing a fedora hat or no?" *

*“Yeah, it was wearing one. Do you know a lot about these shadowy thingys." *

“Unfortunately, I do. And a hat man is a bad omen. A very bad omen. It usually means that something bad is going to happen to someone."

*Loka is startled when hearing this. “Ummm, wh… What kind of bad things?" *

*The physicist is silent for a bit. Trying to be as reserved as possible. “It means that you or someone you know is going to die or have a terrible accident." *

*“Oh, it's worse than I thought!" She shrieks out. “What are we going to do! I'm either marked for death or one of you guys are. I only wish I knew how the CDA got rid of one of those things when they went through a door! I… I never imagined I would ever encounter one in real life! I'm so scared! Is there anything we can do about this thing?!" *

*“There are ways of dealing with them. But it's very hard to catch them. They find you. It's never the other way around. Unless you had the equipment and tools for it that is. I do ha-" *

“-Wait, hold on! Why are we entertaining shadow entities here?" The biologist interrupts. “Wouldn't it be better to entertain the idea that this person was some type of fed or some man in black or something? We are harboring an alien after all and those types of people would be interested in that. They probably already know that we are keeping Loka here already for all we know. Aren't shadow people just hallucinations from sleep paralysis or cases of pareidolia? We don't need Hans to go all ghostbusters for something like this? All we really need to do is just add some motion sensors around the house and some cameras to catch our perpetrator. And maybe you also need to get a gun, Joe. You know, just to be safe and all."

*Han stares at Walt with a stern look. Giving him an eyebrow raise with his right brow. “I don't doubt that those G-men are spying on us, but what we are dealing with is not man-made. It's otherworldly. These beings are on a different frequency than us. They are of higher dimension. You can't deal with something like that with bullets. They are probably getting attracted to the negative energy we are containing in our experiments and are most likely feeding off of our own negative energy as well." *

*Jane starts to laugh when hearing his explanation. “Wait, are you actually saying that these shadow people are psychic vampires?" *

“Yes, that's exactly what I am saying. Don't think I didn't notice the mockery in your voice. I am being very serious about this. These beings are very dangerous. Especially a hat man. They are the most dangerous of the shadow people. These guys can kill you in many different ways. I don't recommend going up to them or trying to touch them."

*“Or what, Hans? Am I going to get nightmares or something?" Walter says mockingly. *

*“As I said before, it can kill you or it will be very painful. You can have a shock go through your arm or even get exposed to the radiation that it emits. Oh, that reminds me..." The physicist runs out of your house and runs back in with a Geiger counter. The thing starts going off the fritz when he starts going towards the spot it was standing by before. He then opens up your back door and it goes off again. Then he points the thing at Loka and it beeps even louder. “Well, I think this confirms that it was stalking her around the house. She has a lot of beta radiation on her. And in some areas I point the survey meter at, I am even finding low amounts of gamma radiation like X-rays." *

*The radioactive monster looks worried. “Wait! What is radiation? Is it dangerous?" She asks. *

*“You haven't been exposed to a legal dose of radiation from the shadow man. You pretty much received a few X-rays and have Beta radiation all over you. All you really need to do is just dispose of your clothing and take a shower. In fact, you don't even have to get rid of your clothing. You can leave it outside for a bit to let the leftover radiation particles decay off of your clothing and then wash it. The radiation it emits has a very short half-life. It'll go away on its own in a day. But I still recommend a shower though." *

*“I'm going to do that right now then." *

*Right when she was about to go take a shower, Walter grabs her by the shoulder and stops her in her place. “Hey, if you are worried about radiation poisoning, don't be. As Hans said, you've just been exposed to a very low amount of radiation. Also, the studies I've done on your samples show that you're immune to very high levels of radiation. I GMOed some amoebas a while ago with the DNA I got from you and exposed them to all sorts of radiations. I've even exposed those tough little bastards to some radium and they were able to survive with it in their environment with no issues whatsoever. You're an extremophile, Loka." Interesting, he's already used her DNA to make so indestructible microbes. You have to get more info about his findings later. *

*The confused monster doesn't know what that even means or how to even feel about that. “Okay… I'm just going to take a shower now." She walks away from him. *

*“Hey, also don't scrub your skin too much. You just want to gently wash off the stuff with your shampoo and don't use conditioner." The Physicist howlers to her before she closes the bathroom door. “You also need to take a shower and wash your clothing when you get the chance." He points to you. “You definitely got radiation on yourself from hugging her before. Just do all of the same things I've mentioned and you should be fine." *

*“What about my house and my furniture? Would I have to decontaminate that too?" *

*“Again, the beta and gamma particles the shadow entity emits have a very short half-life. It should just all decay in a day or so. You don't have to throw away your couch or your clothing over this. This isn't like a nuclear disaster or a radon leak. This is nothing to worry about. Just take a shower right after she's is done. That's all." *