"Wow! A clown... Do you think he's evil?..." "He smells evil.."
Dave shuddered and turned off the TV. For weird little cartoon characters, they spoke so eloquently.
Sighing, he walked through the living room, shaking from his clown encounter.
"Dave... Shouldn't you get ready for work?"
"Huh? Yeah.. I.. I guess so.." Dave smiled at Cindy and gave her a long kiss, slipping his tongue down her throat and making her moan softly. "I'll be back around 2am.. Wait up for me if you must." Dave said pitifully, still upset.
Cindy laughed, wrinkling her nose. "Daaaaave... What's wrong?"
He shook his head and rubbed his hair. "No.. Nothing.." Dave said grinning nervously from ear to ear.
"Dave.. You're not still weird about the whole clown thing are you?! I mean.. I though we talked that through. I thought you were okay with it?!"
Dave backed out of her arms and shook frantically, stumbling backwards into the kitchen counter. It bit painfully into his back and numbed his legs but he couldn't budge. "You don't understand, Cindy.. You can't understand.. You won't.. The clowns are coming.. They'll get us all.."
Cindy tossed her head of long thick blonde hair and laughed. "Oh Davey..
You're being so silly.."
Suddenly the apartment building began to vibrate and a sickening ripping noise pierced the otherwise quiet noise in the Chicago suburb.
Dave's eyes widened and he cowered in the corner as the ceiling was ripped away to reveal clear blue sky and a looming, sneering clown.
"Davey.. I've come for you Davey.. Come now.. Time to feed Bozo the clown.. You know the time would come.. Come now Davey.."
The large gloved hand reached into the small apartment and plucked Dave up by the back of his shirt. "Davey.. Stop shaking like that.. You'll make Bozo sick with all that moving in his tummy. You wouldn't like to make Bozo sick now would you?? That would make Bozo very angry. You know what happens when Bozo gets angry don't you David?!"
Bozo roared at Dave, spittle and remnants of candy corn and fairy floss covering Dave like a thick pink carnival coating.
Dave spun wildly in the clown's grip, and turned a pale ashen green. "Oh.. Oh-g.. Oh god.." He lurched forward and puked on Cindy's pink carpeting.
Cindy screamed. "Oh Davey! I just got that cleaned!!"
Dave closed his eyes and moaned, wincing as he felt himself being tossed downward and into a hot, wet, and dark hell. He felt himself groping in the darkness, when he stumbled forward and hit his head on something. "Dammit!" Dave cursed before everything went black. Why did clowns have to eat grand pianos too! Of all the bloody things to hit his head on..
***
"Dave? Dave?? Hello? Dave.. Come on.. That's it.." The voices murmured
to him.
***
Dave waved his hands wildly and batted away the clowns as they surrounded him. "No.. Go away.. How.. How did you get in here?!" He yelled at the creepy looking clowns, drenched in saliva and bits of food. They smiled at him eerily and brushed the stuff off his scrubs. Their eyes watery and blood shot, bulging grotesquely from limp eye sockets. They licked dry cracked lips with blue-ish pale tongues and their mouths stretched, widening into evil grins, showing sharp pointed yellowing teeth surrounded by large red clown mouths.
"We live here Dave.. This is a very nice place.. A place you will grow to love. We all love it here.. LOVE it here.. LOVE Dave.. Learn to Love.." and the clowns surrounded him and devoured his presence as he screamed.
**
"Put in 10 mg of Haldol by IV.. No NOT you Luka.. Give me that.."
"Whoa.. Here comes that arm again.. Put him in soft restraints.."
**
"No...." Dave moaned pitifully as the clowns bit and scratched him, clawed at his scrubs and ripped at his flesh. A particularly vicious one had fastened itself around Dave's ankle and was chewing it's way into the bone. Dave screamed and beat the beast over the head with the piano stool. Maybe it was okay after all that the clown had swallowed a piano.
**
Dave's leg connected squarely with somebody's jaw as they put in another
iv line.
"Get four point restraints in here... Fuck.. This isn't working.. Go get Weaver.. We have to get her to sign off on more Haldol.." Muttered Carter, rubbing his face.
**
The clown had screamed, blood streaming from a wound in it's head, a greenish red, un-natural and quite alien by all respects. He had hissed at Dave, baring it's fangs, scurrying away into the nether-reaches of the dark moist caverns with his harlequin friends. Dave struggled to sit up, to move but found it too painful.. The blood ebbing from his wounds was great and he felt sluggish and tired, all Dave wanted to do was sleep. "No!" Screamed Dave.. "I can't give up.. I can't I have to get out. I have to get up. I have to get away from these.. Clowns.."
Dave struggled against his leaden limbs and screamed a soundless anguished howl as the clowns once again advanced on him.
"Don't move Davey.. You'll just make it hurt more.. You don't want that.." Purred a taller, pale clown with a long face and a nose like a ripe squash. He pulled a gloved finger across Dave's chest, leave a trail of the man's own blood. Dave's eyes widened and he groaned as the clown pulled himself inside Dave.
"No... Don't like clowns... Like women.. G-get... G-et off me.." Weeped Dave as the clown forced himself inside.
The clown laughed, a familiar laugh.. A distant memory. The clown hissed at him, biting the back of Dave's neck and making the doctor moan in pain.
With a sharp slicing scratch of his forefinger, splitting him open, his insides heaving outward and steaming in the darkness. Intestines spilling from the open wound like a large pink snake, limp and pulsating slightly. His own heart could be seen now, throbbing against his ribcage, as if it were trying to escape. Dave screamed in agony, tears spilling down his cheeks and he bit his lip, closing his eyes and became rigid against the pain. It was too much. He couldn't do this anymore.. These fucking clowns.
Hadn't he told Cindy they were coming?! Hadn't he told- Dave's eyes opened and widened in fear. Where was she? What had they done with her!?
Dave screamed again and that's when the clowns went for his throat.