Well hello there ^.^ This randomly came to me while reading Stephen King for some reason. Updates won't be frequent due to exams, but I'll try my best. Please enjoy! I expect it will be between ten and fifteen chapters long.
To add a bit of mystery I thought I would start at the end. So yeah, please enjoy and review!
The Queen Vic is in a quiet kind of darkness as the three of them stand there amid the black. Thoughts of betrayal, revenge and hatred are the only emotions present in the room, the threatening masses a suffocating wall between them, but bringing them all closer at the same time. Tears stream down her face and once they start she in unable to stop them. How can two people be so cruel, how can two people want to ruin her life so much? Only one word can describe them: evil.
In her hand the cool metal of the knife presses against her palm, oddly comforting in its menacing demeanour. She has never contemplated murder before now, never before wandered what it would be like to watch someone's life drain away before her eyes. But she imagines in now; it makes her feel a swooping sense of elation in her stomach that sends a sickening shiver down her spine. It is wrong to feel this way, but she can't help it; she wants them to pay.
Her eyes are blurred with tears and she is consumed by bitterness, not noticing when there is a movement to her right. For a while, the three of them had been held in place by the simple piece of metal clutched tightly in her hand, but now he leaps forward after sensing the change in her and sets time in motion again. A devious smile captures his face as he grabs her from behind and grips her wrists in his hands, nails digging in painfully. Unprepared, she throws herself against him, desperate to free her hands; but once again she fails; once again she is left powerless and in tangled in his impossible web.
"I've got her. Take the knife," he orders. In his arms, she pants heavily, watching as the dark haired woman edges closer.
The other woman hesitates and she tries to catch her eye, tries to get her to show some mercy.
"Take the knife from her," he repeats again more firmly, his smooth voice shaking dangerously.
Her eyes move side to side, drinking them both in as she makes her choice, carves her destiny from stone.
"No. I don't want to. We've done enough, just leave her," she trembles visibly as she speaks, her voice straining and uncertain.
"Do it!" he yells, his grip on his daughter weakening for a fraction of a second.
It isn't much, but it is enough.
Biting down hard on his arm, she fights the urge to retch as the taste of his skin clings rebelliously to her tongue.
He lets go.
She forces herself forward and darts to the other side of the Vic, smiling as she hears him wince in pain.
He follows, tearing after her and knocking his accomplice out of the way in the process.
None of them notice when the Vic door creaks open and another figure joins the frantic commotion, calling her name.
Knowing she only has one chance, one shot, she throws the knife sharply through the air and prays it reaches her target.
He stops and the dark haired woman screams.
In the darkness, someone falls.
Once again, he grabs her but this time she doesn't care.
She watches as a figure crumples in the darkness, falling slowly towards the floor with an spoken yell lingering on their mouth.
Then suddenly she is only aware of her own screaming and desperation to get to their side, but he wrenches her back and forces her to suffer. She can't watch, closes her eyes to shut it all out, but his hands reach around and he forces them open.
She will never forgive herself now, not with this and everything else that has happened. She feels herself falling, falling into an endless chasm only this time there will be no one to bring her back from the brink.
And her world shatters around her like her heart.
Hope you enjoyed this, odd and confusing as it may have seemed. Sorry about the short length, but I didn't want to make it too detailed as this scene will be the end chapter as well. It is pretty obvious who two of them are, but I won't tell you who the other woman is. So, anyone care to guess how Ronnie got herself in this situation? And who do you think Ronnie accidentally knifed? Jack? Roxie? Peggy? Ben? Read and you will find out eventually =D
