After the 15th attempt Danny decides that he's just going to accept it. He needed a quick vacation and what better way to cause some chaos in a place that clearly didn't have good records if they thought he was a patient. He could use the break and the other patients drew his attention, something deep inside him urged him to stay just a bit longer (he could sense the pain and that not everything was well and good in the facility).
When there were morning rounds the employees didn't bat an eye at a new face. They didn't pay any attention to the new addition of people that made them unsettled were they too look in their eyes for too long. They didn't notice that this new patient seemed to disappear when it was time for patients to go to sleep or that they didn't know which wing he came from in the mornings.
After spending so much time they noticed when there was something new. They stared at the boy with black hair and blue eyes that seemed to change to the color green if you stared too long. And if you stared even longer there were those that said his hair shifted to white and his skin lost any sort of warmth you would be lucky to find in the asylum.
But other than an image that made a pit appear in your gut, the new guy was alright. He didn't attempt to stab anyone or describe murders in graphic details in the dark. Instead, he made jokes and puns that didn't match the gloom that hung over them. Even in the face of threats he didn't lose the lightness that followed him around.
He didn't belong in Arkham.
It only took two weeks for them to know that 'Danny' simply showed up one day. For them to know that no one was roomed next to him or warned by the guards about a new patient. When asked about his arrival Danny simply laughed, stating that he had informed the guards he wasn't a patient but was repeatedly ignored or kept from leaving.
"I can leave, but there are a few things I plan to do before I go," the young man had said.
"What's that?" someone asked.
A few of the fellow patients shifted uneasily at the smile that appeared on Danny's face. His teeth seemingly grew longer,whispers built like echoes in their ears and the shadows in the corners reached out the longer they continued to look at Danny. But it all disappeared when an employee with a scowl appeared with cups of medication, no cup in sight for Danny despite arkham's tendency to assign medication for every patient.
It was after that day that they noticed how Danny's eyes were almost always green as he looked at certain employees who most of the patients grew tense when they were near.
Two days later Frank Caldwell, a man with straying hands stopped showing up to work. That evening in the dark the patients whispered to each other with a smile about how Caldwell seemed to have three missing fingers and was sent to a facility.
Three days later Allison Bolton, a women responsible for cooking meals served them with shaky hands and shifty eyes. The food tasted better than it ever did before.
Four days later the showers' water temperature range grew to something that didn't only just have both extremes.
Five days later their bed sheets no longer made their skin itch in the night.
Six days later the little pills that came in cups didn't fog their minds so much. The nurses offered cups of water with them.
Seven days later three guards called out of work for broken limbs. Each corresponding to the one they used to inflict bruises and breaks almost everyone was familiar with.
On the eighth day Danny appeared again and the patients all saw how they guards and nurses flinched at his gaze. Danny simply laughed and tapped his fingers on the table in a song that made the lights flicker before he disappeared again (though not for long).
