Chapter 1

A/N: Okay, I decided to try something kinda new. Yes this is supposed to have a sort of "Phantom of the Opera" feel to it, here's hoping it works.

It had been ten years since the end of the Jigsaw murders. Detective Hoffman had disappeared, of course everyone assumed he had died (and good riddance to him too), and the police had chained up the last Jigsaw warehouse. Once the initial shock had died down, the general population allowed Jigsaw and Hoffman and the murders to fade into the past.

The torn crime scene tape fluttered in the crisp night air, rats scurried along the ground looking for food. The sound of approaching footsteps sent them running away, footsteps were rare nowadays.

A group of people approached the rusted gate. Without pausing, they all hopped over the fence and headed for the locked door.

"Okay Ginny, you know what you need to do." The leader of the group said, removing her hood.

"I hate you guys, you know that right?" the one named Ginny scowled at them as she put her gloves on.

They all laughed, Ginny eventually joining in. "Helen, in all seriousness though, why do I have to be the one to do this?"

"Because you're the only one with the guts to do this. Remember Cancun?" she gave her friend a flashlight and a walkie-talkie, "Now remember: go in, get something Jigsaw-y and come back." Walking around to the side of the building, Ginny found a broken window and climbed in.

She landed on the floor with a loud *thud*. Wincing, she turned on the flashlight and shined it around the room. "Holy crap!" she said to herself as she took a few tentative steps forward. Reading old news reports and hearing stories from Helen's crazy godmother Jill was one thing, but actually seeing the inside of an old Jigsaw warehouse was an entirely different story. "Helen, you guys should really come in here. You guys gotta see this!" she said into the walkie.
Ginny continued to walk around, it was astounding. There were old mannequins with random pieces of metal attached to them, crude dusty blueprints for some of the traps reported, she didn't want to admit it but she was fascinated.

"Ginny, what's taking so long?" Helen's southern drawl through the walkie startled her.

"Sorry, I'm trying to find something that even one of your bimbo sisters would recognize as Jigsaw." A clanking sound from behind her made her jump. "Who's there?" she called out, pointing the flashlight in the direction of the noise, no answer. "Of course there's no answer, there's never an answer." She facepalmed and continued to look around.

Narrowly avoiding the flashlight, he continued to watch the young woman rifling around the warehouse. By now he was used to the occasional break-in, watching them run away screaming when they heard any noise. This one was different, maybe it was his imagination or a trick of the dim lighting but this woman seemed to look at the traps and pieces with a sort of admiration or reverence; it intrigued him. He overheard her speak with another person on a walkie about taking a trap, maybe for some kind of joke. Coming up with a plan, he decided to help the woman out. From the opposite side of the warehouse, he placed a doll and a box on a table away from her.

"Ginny," she heard a strange voice from the shadowy part of the warehouse.

"Okay, seriously who is there?" she said, slowly reaching for her knife.

"By the doll." A light turned on in the back, illuminating what Ginny assumed was the "Billy" doll Jigsaw was known to use. Holding the knife in a defensive position, she slowly walked over to the table. As she reached out to open the box that was next to the doll, she heard footsteps behind her. "Don't turn around, and put the knife down."

Reluctantly, Ginny put the knife down. "Who are you and what's going on?" she asked, preparing to fight the strange man off.

"I'm not going to hurt you," he said in a gruff voice, "I'm going to help you. In that box is a trap that I believe is what your friends sent you in to find. But before I loan you this, you're going to answer a few questions for me."

Twenty minutes later, Ginny handed the box through the window to Helen's friend and then climbed back out. The friend helped her out and handed her a cigarette.

"Thanks Ceci," she said, lighting the cigarette and taking a long drag, "ah sweet cancer."

"So what did you snag?" Helen asked.

"Feast your eyes on what was affectionately known to the world as the Reverse Bear Trap!" She opened the box with a flourish, removing the trap, "Known as the trap that Amanda Young escaped from, the very mention of it striking fear into the hearts of lesser men and women." As if on cue Ceci whimpered and hid behind Helen. "Shut up ya pansy. Now Helen, when you're done scaring your pledges or whatever it is you have planned, I want it, ok?"

"Deal, man Ginny I wish you were a sister so you could watch what I have planned for those little bitches!"

"Yeah, well unlike you I'm not made of money, and you know I'm too damn stubborn to be a sorostitute. Besides, you can put the videos up of your plan on YouTube."

"Good point. Okay let's go drink at Ginny's, I'm not bringing the good shit to the house."

Ginny put out her cigarette, "Let's do this!"

He watched Ginny and the others slink off into the night, they hopped over the fence and dodged the booby traps with cat-like agility. Stepping back from the window, he went into the back of the warehouse he called 'home'. Sitting down on his bed, he itched at his scar, even after all this time it still bothered him at times. It would be interesting to see if the girl kept her end of the bargain.

Ginny sat on her couch while her friends busted out the Rock Band. She couldn't get that dark and mysterious voice out of her head, it sounded almost sexy but Ginny quickly chalked that up to not getting laid in months. Helen handed her another beer.

"You okay Gin? You look distracted."

"Yeah, I'm good, just a little sore from that bad landing." She looked at the box on the counter. If she followed through with the deal, things were going to get interesting.

A/N: Yeah, trying something a bit new. I've got plans for this story ^_^, lemme know what you guys think.