Doors

[Mid-afternoon on Tuesday, in the middle of his work shift, and after about a million false starts.]

[Text to Luke H]
Hi?

[Posted Anon, as always, but in a hand that's familiar from other entries on the journals.]

This is Luke from Seattle?

[On the heels of this. Public, except to Sam A]

[Posted as Ian R, but the writing is certainly not his]

[The handwriting is sloppy, frenetic and messy, but female and slightly artistic, even with the visible strikeouts and misspellings.]

I want to go home. I didn't mean to hurt anyone. I swear. I can't even fucking remember doing it, so maybe there's a mistake, because I wouldn't. I broke noses but I no I fought with people in the passed, but its been a long fucking time, and i didnt mean to kill anyone. please i dont want to go to jail, i don't. I dont like it hear. I dont want tostay here. Please I want to go home. Can I talk to Neil? Please? I want to. I'll bheave yeah I swear, if you just let me call. Or Daniel. They have money theyll pay you whatever you want I swear they will if you just call. I can give you there numbers I dont think theyd say no god please. Neil's with Chloe now but hed still help, or Daniel, even tho he's with someone too. Or listen, I'll sign something or whatever swearing I wont hurt anyone or anything and if I do you can lock me up I swear. Huh? Ok. Ok. Ill write about yeah about anything you want. ok. I didnt watn want to be a fucking burdon anymore, no thats all of it but yeah, thats mostly it. but i can go somewhere and not bother anyone yeah? i wont hurt anyone i swear i wont just let me go please let me out? i'm scared.

[Here, there's a space for an ink pool that's large enough to reach the corners of the page, with differing layers of darkness, indicating the passage of time.]

i dont like it when you touch me.

[Another ink splotch, and a drag of pen across the page.]

Bring me my gun.

During this: [Locked to Max M]

idk if you saw the shit just posted from Ian's journal, girl, but he [...] kidnapped my friend from a fucking locked ward in a mental hospital - he's taken her before and sexually assaulted her. Getting her back is, obvs, a priority. I'm filing a missing persons report. Does the dude have other aliases that you know of? Variants of 'Ian' aside.

[Well... close to anon. He gives it a try, anyway.]

First person to send me nice photographic of proof that Ian R., from the journals, is unable to hurt anyone ever again -- say, because both of his hands were recently removed -- or something equally effective if you're imaginative, I suppose, gets $25,000. I can do cash or set up a little casino win for you.

Have a nice day.

[Late Tuesday evening, local programs and radio broadcasts are interrupted by an emergency alert from the LVPD regarding a recent kidnapping. The victim, a 22-year-old patient at Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services, was removed illegally from the facility and is currently missing. The police have reason to believe this was not a random kidnapping. Family and friends ask residents to call in any information they may have on a person of interest, Ian Russell or Lucien Russell, the man whom the same wing the victim was taken from was dedicated to only weeks prior.]