Section 5- Treatment

Synopsis

Adalade Mathews is tormented by her abusive past. She finds it difficult to enter dark and scary places, as these places make her re-visit her trauma of the past. Her father kept Adalade captive in an attic when she was seven years old, after her mother was killed in a car accident. Adalade’s father was given the sentence of 13 years imprisonment but later came to find his daughter and gain revenge. By the time her father is released, Adalade is now a mother of one and a successful psychologist and studies domestic abuse. Whilst at a dinner party she calls her friend whom is babysitting her daughter. During this phone call she hears the abduction of her daughter and that all too familiar sound of her fathers sinister laughs. This is when Adalade realises that she is the only one who can stop him to save her daughter. She uses her connections in the law enforcement and her knowledge of domestic predators to follow her fathers trail. Whilst in the haste of trying to find her abducted daughter, she is a witness to a car accident; she immediately sees the connection between this accident and her own mother death. Scratched in to the bonnet of the car involved was an address. This leads her to the place where it all started. Adalade now realises what she has to do, she acquires a gun. Goes to the address scratched in to the bonnet and has to overcome her trauma of being in the house where her domestic abuse began. After struggling to enter the house she is surprised by her father who ties up Adalade next to her daughter in the attic. Adalade manages to become free using a protruding nail from the floor boards, and shoots her father repeatedly in the chest.

Treatment

Nostophobia
Every night is the same for Adalade, constant sleepless nights that she has never been able to control. You see Adalade keeps a secret, a secret that she even tries to keep from herself; a secret so painful that it torments her every single night of her life. Nobody knows of this secret and Adalade makes sure of it, you see this secret has manipulated Adalade to believing that it never happened in the first place, but yet it happened and there are scars to prove it.
At one point Adalade had a normal childhood with normal things, normal parents and a normal life; nothing was wrong until she reached the age of seven. This is where Adalade’s life would be flipped upside down, inside out and then spat into the gutter. You see there was an accident involving a 4 tone lorry and a little family car, and inside this little family car was Mrs Mathews a fourth grade teacher; also known as Adalade’s mother. A seven year old girl losing her mother, what could be worse? Well let me tell you.
After the accident things were changing in Adalade’s home, her father was manic depressed, he couldn’t even wash his own clothes let alone look after a seven year old girl who had massive needs. For the first few months Adalade’s father was a drunk, a shadow of his former self, his behaviour began to change dramatically and it was for the worse. Some times Adalade would go without food for days, wearing the same clothes for weeks and never being shown affection when it was severely needed. However this was the good side to Adalade’s life now, not being fed or clothed was often a relief for her, you see her father turned against Adalade, he could see his wife in her and it drove him insane, he could not look Adalade in the face without bursting into rage or into a depressive mess.
Then things got worse, much worse.
“Mr Mathews, this is Adalade’s school here, we haven’t seen your daughter for at least 2 months, and we have tried ringing on several occasions but there has been no answer”
“Yes?” replied Mr Mathews
“Well what is the reason for this absence? We know about your wife and that things must be difficult, however Adalade needs to be in school, it may do her some good”
“YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MY WIFE! And as for Adalade .......well how do you know what is best her? Goodbye!”
This phone call was the start of dreadful events, Adalade’s life would now be living hell and there was no escape.
“Not been school Adalade?” asks Adalade’s father
“w.....well I can’t get there.... daddy” Adalade replies looking at the floor and fidgeting with her hair.
“So.....this is my fault? Is that what your saying? MY FAULT!? I SPOSE YOU THINK YOUR MOTHER WAS MY FAULT TOO, DONT YOU? Listen to me you little bitch, things are going to change around here and I mean this!” Mr Mathews is mad, real mad, and mad to the point of explosion; his face goes bright red with his veins protruding out of his head. He grabs Adalade by her hair; beats her repeatedly across her whole body and then throws her into the attic.
For many months this abuse was happening, no one around to know or do anything about it, Adalade was all alone. She had nothing and no one to care for her, spending most of her days in the dark crying out for her mother; however this crying attracted him. It wasn’t as if Adalade didn’t want to go to school but the bruises and marks on her face made it very difficult, plus it’s doubtful for a seven year old to take full control of their lives. As time went on and the abuse from her father got severely worse Adalade was a shell of a child, she was so terrified off her father that she spent every hour of every day in the attic, she wouldn’t dare leave for the thought of him catching her.
Until her 9th birthday....
They both came flying out of the front door of the house, Adalade is screaming intensely hoping someone will notice, and they did. Just so happens that a police car was rolling down the street and caught this little girl screaming and a man who looked threatening in pursuit of her.
The police stopped Albert and took Adalade for safety, they discovered the attic in the house and also the fact that Adalade was kept in there most of her days, they found all the server scars on Adalade’s body and the fact that this is one tormented child. Albert had no chance, they had caught him red handed and there was nothing he could do, this had gone further than just domestic troubles. Albert was sentenced to thirteen years in prison.
As time went on Adalade began to take control of her life, she began back at school and wanted to help people who are in the same position as she was. Adalade became very motivated in her life, taking complete control for the first time since her mother died. As the years past the memories of her father and the attic were fading out of her life, however they came back and tormented her at night, this Adalade could not escape.
Now a successful psychologist and studies of domestic abuse Adalade does help the people who are stuck in these dark and painful situations, after all she is defiantly one to understand. Also a nice surprise was installed for Adalade, she gave birth to a little girl which she cherished with her whole life, nothing was more important to Adalade.
As time went on and Adalade and her daughter led a very close, but yet normal life and to Adalade nothing could ruin this life she was leading. Well so she thought....
Its been thirteen years since her father went to prison and she had no idea what he had installed for her, his ‘precious’ daughter. To Albert Adalade has destroyed him, his wife died and then his daughter betrayed him and he wanted revenge.
When Adalade was at a dinner party she had a phone call, a muttering, deep voice on the other end. Adalade paniced because it was her baby sitter ringing, all she could think about was her daughter. She drove back as fast as she could to find her daughter missing and her baby sitter unconscious laying on the floor. Hysterically she rang the police and a full search is trying to find Adalade’s daughter.
This was Adalades nightmare, she couldn’t function, all that was going through her head was the thought of her daughter being harmed. In was now a week and there has been no leads for the police to follow, this was crushing for her. It was late at night and Adalade got a phone call, this voice was so familiar to her... almost too familiar... then it came to her. It was her father, the man she banished from her life and never speaks a word about. She knew that he was out for his revenge and was taking it out on his granddaughter.
She now has to go through all her past memories that she has suppressed for so many years and this itself breaks Adalade down into a depressive mess. She decides to use her links in the law enforcements; she has no faith in the police so takes action herself. She requires her own firearm. Out on the hunt to find her father and daughter Adalade was on a old country lane when she witnessed a car accident, this accident was very strange, nobody in the car... however there was a address scratched into the bonnet, 197 Totters Road. Adalade went white, his address shook her through and through because it was the house where she was held and beaten by ‘him’.
Adalade made it to this address and entered, the house was a mess and falling apart. All of a sudden Adalade was hit over the head and everything went black, it must of been a few hours later she came around to find herself tied up in the attic she had spent her childhood in, but one thing was great for Adalade, she was with her daughter.
After several hours of being beaten by her father all the memories came flooding back to her and she lost herself, however there was a protruding nail sticking out of the floor board just behind her hand, using this nail she managed to rip her hands free and grabbed the hidden pistol from inside her boot, Adalade got her daughter to safety and waited for her father to come through the attic door. BANG BANG BANG BANG ....six shots, right into the chest of her father and she had a strange satisfaction of putting this monster in his place, in hell.
Adalade and her daughter are now safe, all the monsters in her closet have seemed to fade away, she can live her life with her little girl.