Insanity is a Girl's Best Friend

Chapter 2

 

I hit the hard, cement ground, skinning my palms. I let out a small groan and looked around, finding myself in a large deserted city.

 

Fairport.

 

And Fairport only existed in one place.

 

F.E.A.R.

 

“Fuck.” I swore and stood up, wiping the dirt off my palms. The only weapon I had on me was my handy-dandy switchblade. That would be no use against Alma or Fettel. “I’ll have to find someone…..”

 

I walked for a while until I entered a building, a building that was all too familiar to me. Maybe I could find the room where Paxton Fettel was shot through the head. I tapped my chin with my fingernail and then heard Fettel’s voice.

 

“A war is coming. I’ve seen it in my dreams. Fires sweeping over the Earth, bodies in the streets, cities turned to dust….retaliation.” the sentence ended with a chuckle.

 

Was I only hearing him in my head or was it all over? I DO have schizophrenia, so maybe this is all in my head.

 

“Maybe this is all a fucking dream……” I said quietly to myself and opened up my bag, finding my flashlight. I turned it on and shined it through as I walked through the building.

 

“When is the last time you felt…..human?”

 

“Too long ago…..” I found myself answering. “Insanity…..my best friend.” I sighed softly and continued along. “Where are you Alma? Paxton Fettel? Wait……..” I stopped walking. “What year is this…..? If this is 2027, then both Fettel and Alma should be dead…..”

 

“Talking to yourself there?”

 

“Maybe.” I mumbled. “Insanity really is my best friend.”

 

“How so?”

 

I whirled around and saw a young, Korean woman. Jin Sun-Kwon. “Talking to yourself is one of the symptoms.” I replied to her question.

 

“Uh-huh. Anyway, what are you doing here? This place has been closed down ever since the Point Man left with his new sister.”

 

“Huh…..how long has it been?”

 

“Two years.” Jin replied.

 

Two years after F.E.A.R 3, then why…..Fettel shouldn’t be alive. Unless….the Point Man didn’t really kill him……I thought and noticed Jin was staring at me strangely. “I was deep in thought.”

 

“I can see that.” She replied and shined her flashlight in my face. She suddenly gasped. “What’s….your name? I mean your full name.”

 

“Genesis Elizabeth Randell.” I replied and Jin gasped.

 

“That can’t be possible……..I knew a person with the same name as you, except her last name was Mandell.” She looked closely at my face. “That’s so weird……you two almost look exactly the same….same scars too…..”

 

Oh, I should’ve said. I have a few scars on my face. One on my forehead, my left cheek and on the right side of my jaw and stretching down to my neck.

 

“Even she had the same eyes and hair…..” Jin mused to herself. “Well, people say everyone has a twin out there. My name is Jin Sun-Kwon. C’mon, let’s get out of here. This place gives me the creeps.”

 

I followed Jin outside and back into the city. “So how did you get here?” she asks.

 

“….I ran away from home.” I replied darkly and Jin turned to me. “I killed the man who tried to rape me. His wife will be devastated when she finds his mutilated body.”

 

Jin stared at me for a moment, shock evident in her voice. “You’re joking, right?”

 

“Right, I’m joking. Family problems.” I lied and after years of practicing, even the people who can detect liars can’t detect me when I lie.

 

Jin chuckled nervously. “You had me going there for a second Genesis.” She turned around and continued to walk, with me following her.

 

“And you enjoyed every single second of it.” I heard Fettel say.

 

“I did.” I said.

 

“What did you say?”

 

“Nothing…..”

 

………………………………….

 

Jin and I walked into a building somewhere in the middle of the city and she explained that there were still some Replicas going around somewhere, to some unknown reason.

 

Because Fettel is still alive. I thought.

 

“Jin, are you bringing strays home again?” a man asks.

 

“I guess so.” Jin chuckled.

 

Jin introduced me to her captain Ray Wagnor and the rest of her team. “Damn Jin! She looks just like Genesis!”

 

“Her name is Genesis, Nigel.”

 

Nigel’s face dropped. “No way. Does she have the same last name? She looks just like her!”

 

“No, her last name is Randell.” Jin corrected.

 

“Sounds the same.”

 

Jin walked over to a desk with papers on it and pulled out one, handing it to me. It was Mandell’s profile. Wow, she looked exactly like me, the hair, the clothes, the eyes, even the skin and piercings and disorders. Said her partner was Jin Sun-Kwon and her date of death was….November 1^st, 2026…..1 day after her birthday.

 

Cause of Death: Suicide.

 

“How did she kill herself?” I question, handing the picture back to Jin.

 

“Shot herself through the head.” Nigel replied. “Said she couldn’t stand life anymore and bang, shot herself right in front of us. It was messy.”

 

Couldn’t have been messier than when I killed Derek. I thought. “What time is it?”

 

“Past midnight.” Jin replied and then she pulled Nigel to her and they talked quietly, but I could hear them. “It’s strange, isn’t it?”

 

“I know! Looks exactly like her, except they have different last names. What should we do? Genesis died three years ago.”

 

“I’d say we keep an eye on her.” Jin then turned around to look at me, but I was gone. “What?”

 

I walked down the street, back to the building where I went to before. I shined my flashlight to have light. “So this……….other Genesis died three years ago, in 2026. Could it be fucking possible that I had an alternative self……….in this world?”

 

I sighed softly, knowing no one would hear me. “I need to get some sleep……”

 

………………………………

 

I opened my eyes and sat up, looking around. I was still in the same building that I had found and fallen asleep in. “So it wasn’t a dream….”

 

I stood up and grabbed my flashlight, turning it on and shining it forwards. I saw a man walk out of the room.

 

“Are you going to follow me Genesis?”

 

My eyes narrowed. “You’re the one who’s following me stalker.”

 

I heard a chuckle. “My my, even the other Genesis had quite a mouth. No wonder you two are so much alike. Appearance, personality, insanity. But are you going to kill yourself like she did?”

 

“Why don’t you just show yourself and we’ll see who the strongest person here is.” I taunted.

 

I suddenly felt cold lips near my ear and the voice was right there. “Delighted.”

 

Something pinched the back of my neck and the scenery changed before me. I saw Genesis Mandell and Paxton Fettel standing a good few hundred feet away from each other.

 

“Why are you following me?” she questions, emerald eyes glaring at the man before her.

 

Fettel chuckled. “Why not?”

 

I noticed he didn’t have the red, wispy smoke around him. This must’ve been before he got killed by the Point Man. “You’re….how as they say, interesting. Your body screams of insanity, so why must you be with people who are sane?”

 

“You’re psychotic. Insanity and Psychotic are different terms.” Genesis scowled. “Stop following me.”

 

The scene was replaced with a different scene. There were no words being said, but I saw Genesis yelling at Jin, Nigel and the others while she had a gun to her head. Jin said something and Genesis shook her head.

 

Then, she pulled the trigger.

 

The echoing sound of the gunshot made me jump a little, but then the scene disappeared and I felt hands grasp my arms. “So, are you going to do the same thing?” the dark voice said in my ear.