End of the road for Lucas Buck

Sorry if my punctuation is bad I have tryed my best

Disclaimer:I own no characters in American Gothic

This carries on from the final episode "The strangler"

Ben flung the heavy sheriffs award on the desk and stared at it with disapprovel and disgust.

Floyd looked up at him, confused at his reaction to the reward.

"You should be happy that Lucas won the award Ben," he muttered whilst eating his sandwich, which was barely getting into his mouth.

"Oh I am happy Floyd," Ben said without even trying to sound convincing.

Even if Ben made it sound even more unconvincing,Floyd would react the same. He wasn't the sort of person who could pick up on your mood by your tone of probably not even by your actions for that matter.

Floyd looked at him blankly, then carried on reading the paper .

"Dog stuck up a tree with a bucket on his head," he read the headline as more of his sandwich escaped his mouth, he looked up at Ben to see his unamused face.

"That's very interesting Floyd, but if you don't mind, read in your head and don't talk with your mouth full," Ben looked at him a second then carried on looking at Gage Temples police file.

Floyd looked up.

"Ok Ben," Floyd said with his mouth shook his head at Floyd's forgetfil .

"Look deeper...," the words echoed in Ben's head as he looked through the file.

"What you looking at Ben?"

Ben quickly covered the file with paper work and looked up to see the sherrif's curious face waiting for an expanation.

"What were you looking at Ben?"

His dark brown eyes fixed on Ben, his eyes curiously glanced at Bens desk, then back at Ben.

Ben started uncomfortable, Ben knew deep down that Lucas could sense when he was up to something just by looking at him. That's the thing that scared Ben the most, Lucas was unpredictable. Ben knew so little about Lucas and yet Lucas seemed to know everything about him he knew things that he couldn't possibly know like that incident with Bens brother, Ben never told anyone...

"Just looking at some paperwork,"Ben lied.

"Well Deputy no need to look all defensive,you can go home now."

"I can go home now," Ben said trying to hide his fear in his voice.

Lucas looked at Floyd. "You can too Floyd."

Ben started to walk towards the door,looked over at the desk.

"I will, I just need to tidy up first," he said trying not to sound desperate.

Lucas gave him a puzzled look and smirked.

"Everything will be just how you left it when you come back tommorrow well almost..."

"Almost...," Ben said trying to hold back a gulp .

"Ben...are we a bit slow today or is it

Ben felt a spark of fear flow through his body, he pushed the feeling away and carried on, he was defeated and decided to go home to not arouse anymore suspicion by staying overtime(which was very unusual for Ben)

Ben looked once again at the paperwork and left the station, followed by Floyd.

Ben kept thinking about the file left on his desk.

What if Lucas found it?

How would he react?

What would he do?

Ben has known Lucas for a long time, you would think Ben could understand him better but on the contrary, the more he tried to understand Lucas the more he felt like he didn't really know him.

Lucas strolled casually towards the desk, searched through the papers to find a file beneath, he looked towards the door.

"The son of bitch," he muttered.

A sound came from behind him, he turned around.

Meryln stood with her arms crossed,her face was stern,her brown eyes were fixed on his every move like a predator getting ready to get its prey.

"I am going to get you Lucas," her eyes stayed fixed to his as Lucas strolled towards her.

"Things are gonna change around hear I can already feel it,can you?," she said with determination in her soft firm voice.

"No I don't," he smirked as he walked into his office.

"You can't escape this time Lucas, I will put you in your grave for good this time," her words echoed from behind him as she faded.

He smiled.

"The boy becomes the man Merlyn, you just remember that," he shouted with satisfaction.

"Every boy becomes a man Lucas it doesn't mean he will turn out like you," her voice echoed around the room

"You remember what happened to Gail?"

Lucas looked around his office. Lucas knew that deep down Merlyn knew that he was a big part of Calebs life now, if he was gone it would greatly effect Caleb. A boy without a farther is doomed to not learn right and wrong and the way to control his power which is one of the hardest lessons to learn and when Caleb learns to channel his power he will a reached his full potential and he needs a farther to reach his full potential.

There was no response.

"Or are you trying to forget?"

Lucas channeled flashbacks into Merlyn's head.

Merlyn looked from above watching Lucas.

A pain suddenly erupted in her head.

She saw Gail walk towards the cot, she pulled back the the cover, there was a baby doll with a knife in its heart the image faded as another image appeared. Caleb looked at Meryl with a evil look on his face. "I'm tired of your preaching. Tired of your white dress. And I don't wanna see you no more. So why don't you just go somewhere and decompose?"

The words kept repeating themselves in Merlyn's head, she stopped watching Lucas and the flashbacks were gone.

Lucas sat in his chair,put his feet up on his desk. He held the file tightly, sighed and started scheming.

I already tryed to get a ghost to kill Merlyn and that failed, maybe I should try looking closer to home some one more human, he thought.

The question is who would be willing to do it?

How about Selena...she has killed someone and I dare say she would do it again if I used my powers of persuation or maybe Gail, she has seen the dark forces at work and if I some how convince her Merlyn is evil I might be able to use that to my advantage, he thought.

Killing a ghosts dead heart is far better than destroying the they say a person without a heart is cold inside whether it's beating or not.

Convincing someone to kill is one thing but convincing some one to kill a ghost that's another can of worms.

Selena tampered with her glass as she waited for her date, she looked up at the clock and knew deep down that he wasn't going to show because he was a doctor and doctors attend more appointments than they do dates,she had learnt that from the past few days where all the promises of a dinner and a little foreplay were followed up by flowers and more empty promises. She hates being stood up and it was becoming all too samey.

She heard a knock at the door. Her heart fluttered and she moved towards the opened the door. No one was slammed the door behind her swiftly went back into the kitchen,grabbed her glass and looked for the whisky in the black cupboards.

"Typical Doctors never on time...," Lucas said sarcasticaly whilst holding a full bottle of whisky in his hand.

Selena looked at him and the bottle of whisky with her ravenous slowly walked seductively towards him and looked deep in eyes, her tight black cocktail dress that moulded into her body as she walked didn't leave much to the imagination.

"Why you here..,," she bent over, leaned on the table and put her head in her hands waiting for an explanation.

"Wanted to see you and bought you a drink," he said while giving her a lustful stare .Selena snached the bottle of whisky,poured it in her glass and took the glass, slowly put it to her plump red lips and drank it in one swallow.

That was the thing Lucas liked about Selena, she was like a predator and she would lure her prey and go in for the kill like a hungry lion.

"Why you want to see me darling... did Gail finally realise what an souless bastard you really are..."

Lucas got up and took a few steps towards her.

"Gail is the past," he lied.

"So she did kick you out," she smiled with satisfaction, false pity and certainty.

Selena's heart started to beat as he was inches away from her.

Lucas could smell the sickly intoxicating perfume she wore , he liked it.

Lucas carresed her cheek,Selena looked up in to his eyes,she leaned forward to kiss him, she clossed her eyes and felt a warm mouth against hers.

She heard a noise coming from behind her, but she didn't care the kiss got more aggressive.

"Lucas...," she said opened her eyes. It was Billy she was kissing. He stopped.

"Why did you say Lucas?"

She looked at him and avoided the question with the only way she knew how, she kissed him vigorously.

"I should be late more often if this is what I get," he said cheekily pulling away from her embrace and reaching towards the fridge.

"I have cooked your dinner, it's in the oven," she let the dissapointed tone get hidden underneath her smooth voice.

Did he really come to see her?

She looked down at the table where the whisky bottle up the whisky bottle and started pouring. She hoped this would ease her dissapointment but the whisky was also reminder of his visit.

"I see you liked the whisky I bought for you," he smiled warmly as he waited for his dinner.

"What...you bought me this?...thank you," she said puzzled and gave him a warm smile.

She shook her head. She was with Billy the whole time why would she fantasize about Lucas?

Gail tossed and turned as she fought the unwelcome images that invaded her sleep, her eyes swiftly opened as she felt a comforting arm on her shoulder, she looked at the once empty bedside and saw Lucas layed down,proped up on one arm and carressing her shoulder.

"I am here now, no more bad dreams, not while Lucas Buck is around," he said quietly as she cuddled him.

Gail always felt safe with didn't know why, the strange dreams seemed to dissapear when he was with her and the harsh reality seemed to not seem so harsh.

Gail drifted to sleep in his arms.

He kissed her head softly.

Gail was running on. From what?.She stopped.

There was nothing behind her, she looked down, she was dressed strangely and her hair felt was holding a bag, she rummaged through the bag intill she found a mirror.

She looked at her reflection, it wasn't was Gage Temple staring back at her in the mirror.

She dropped it and kept running. Merlyn suddenly appeared in front of her, her dress flowed with the wind, Gail fell over and slowly moved away.

"You wanna know what it feels like being dead?"

Gail froze and shook her head.

"Then stay away from Lucas Buck," her voice defiant and her brown eyes were angry.

"He is like a cancer, you have to cut him out before he kills you, like he did my mother," she faded.

Gail looked at her hands, they were covered in blood, she was on the cold hard floor.

She was outside the hospital. She looked up there was a broken window and Lucas Buck was smirking at her from the broken window. He was wearing a deputy uniform.

This can't be she dragged her painful heavy legs and scuffled towards the shards of glass, she could see her reflection for a brief second, in the shard of glass, then it formed in to Gage temple's reflection.

"Don't end up like me and so many others Gail," the reflection of Gage said desperately whilst blood was coming out of her mouth.

Her face was bruised and blooded and her blonde hair was the colour of blood.

Everything went black... all Gail could hear was a constant echo.

"Someone's at the door"

Gail awoke, her body soaking with sweat and her breathing was heavy, she looked over at the empty bedside.

Just a dream she told herself. Just a dream...

TO BE CONTINUED...