Targets
A/N : Warning: there's gonna be mentions of abuse and death, cussing, and dark themes…the usual ^_^ Any ways on with this first chapter. Please Review and tell me what you think :D **it's in Kendall's POV…so no confusion**
Chapter 1: Nightmare's Past
I walked into the house carrying the bags of food from the market that mom sent me and Katie to go get, Katie bringing in the rest behind me. I looked around the kitchen, feeling like something was off, but everything looked normal to me. Momma had a pot of water on the stove, making tea. I smiled, she loved her chamomile tea, she said it calmed her… whatever that meant. Katie smiled at me and helped me put the food away. After about ten minutes, we still saw no sign of Mom… hmmm… we did live out in the country and she loved her rose garden… maybe she was there…
"Katie-bug, I'ma go see if Mom's in the garden. Start your homework." I said heading to the door.
"Awww… I hate homework… will you help me, big brother, with math? Please? You know I suck at it" She said, smiling.
"Sure baby sister, when I get back, k?" I smiled back.
I walked out onto the porch and looked out into the garden.
I helped her plant those rose bushes… they were her favorite kind of flower… she also loved romance novels. I knew she was still heartbroken from dad… he should have never did what he did to her, after everything she gave him and still it wasn't enough for the fucking prick. My Mom is still beautiful, still young, and full of life and she gave it all to him…but he cheated on her with the neighborhood whore…and she found them in their bed.
That was almost a year ago. I could tell she was still hurt by it and it hurt me to see her hurt. We had lived in Minnesota all our lives and by law they had to be separated for a year before she could file for divorce, which I thought was fucking stupid, but whatever.
I was pulled away from my thoughts as I reached the rose garden, the smell was intoxicating, and I knew why she loved them so much. How could she not?
" Mom? You out here?" I said, walking onto the path, listening to the birds singing. The bushes were big, taller than me, so she could be pulling grass from the walk way and I could not see her.
I hummed as I walked towards a corner, but stopped dead when I saw feet. I knew they were Momma's little black flats… there was blood on them… but my brain wasn't comprehending what I saw. I heard a moan, softly, and I snapped outta it, running to her and dropped to my knees beside my mother.
Her skin was deathly white, colorless; I could see the blue veins under her skin. She was bleeding from her head and stomach. I put my hands over the stab wound and applied pressure, making her moan again.
"Mom… c'mon, you have to stay awake!" I said, urgently. Her blue eyes opened and she smiled a little before it turned into a grimace,
"Kenny he-"she started coughing, her blood staining her white teeth red, "he's here" she whispered.
I felt my blood run cold, but I still had to ask, my stomach clenching.
"Who? W-Who did this Mom?" My voice thick with unshed tears
"Rick…h-he's –"she whispered, but stopped dead in her sentence as her eyes widen at something behind me. At first I thought it was Katie- God she didn't need to see her like this-
"Here" a voice said behind me that sent waves of chills down my spine that quickly turned to anger. I turned around to face the motherfucker, but I was met with a bat that sent me quickly to the ground and the last thing I heard before darkness took over was my mother screaming,
"NO! DON'T!" then darkness…
I woke to screaming and crying, the room spinning and I hadn't even opened my eyes yet. I tried moving, but everything hurt too much to. It took me a couple of minutes to realize that I was tied to a chair with my hands tied behind my back and my ankles duct taped to the chair legs. It seemed like it took me forever to open my eyes- they were heavy and felt like they were glued shut- actually my right eye wouldn't open. It was crusted shut with blood.
I tired focusing on the screaming to see where it was coming from… Katie
"Ah, look who finally decided to join the party! Kendall! You gave me a little scare- thought maybe I hit you too hard and you were down for the count." My father said. I looked into the same green eyes that I have and felt sick to my stomach. I searched for Katie, knowing that she had to be scared shitless.
My eyes found Katie. She looked unhurt, her eyes red and puffy from crying, her body shaking. I smiled a little at her to tell her that it would be ok. Next my eyes searched the room for my mother. But I didn't find her and that made my heart seize, frozen by terror. What did he do to her?
"Looking for your whore of a mother?" Rick snarled in my face.
"What did you do to her?! Where is she?!" I yelled, struggling against the ropes that bound me to the chair. He laughed and punched me in the face, snapping my head back, my vision wavering again.
"I'll tell you where she is! I KILLED HER WORTHLESS ASS!" he yelled in my face, spit hitting my cheeks. He left the room and dragged in her body. My world stilled and started to crack, falling to the ground in big chunks.
"KATIES NEXT!" He said pulling out a gun, "CAN YOU STOP ME!? YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT!?" he rounded on Katie, cocking the gun hammer, looking at me, smiling a twisted evil smile.
"Let's play a game, baby boy… you have to the count of …let's say …TEN…" he laughed again. The motherfucker was drunk, "think you can save her?"
I could feel my body shutting down and the shock trying to take over. I shook my head. No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no! I could feel the seconds ticking by…. I looked at Katie and I could see the fear in her eyes, the hopelessness, the hatred…
"TEN…"
I struggled, thinking he wouldn't actually kill his baby girl…his own flesh and blood…
"NINE… EIGHT…" He giggled.
I struggled even harder… still not believing he would do it…
"SEVEN"
"SIX"
Katie started screaming and crying. I could feel her heart beating against her chest in time with mine…
"FIVE... FOUR"
"KENDALL!" Katie screamed, her eyes pleading with mine. I had to do this… I was her big brother… I was her super hero that kept the monsters from under her bed…
"THREE…"
I was failing… I was gonna let my baby sister die by the hand of this mother fucker…
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I screamed, fighting against the ropes, feeling the ropes eat away at my wrists, feeling my muscles rip and popping my shoulder outta the socket.
"TWO…"
Rick's laughter echoing in my ears, egging on the rage… somehow I, by the grace of God, got loose of the ropes and tape just as he said that final word that ended it all,
"ONE…" I tackled him to ground just as he fired the gun, the bullet ripping through my upper shoulder, ripping a scream from my raw throat and from Katie. But I didn't let that stop me. I pounded my fists into Rick's face, feeling the bone crunch under each blow, but I was quickly tiring out. He pushed me offa him and on to the ground, kicking me in the ribs hard enough that I felt one crack after the first hit. It took my breath away and left me struggling on the floor.
"THAT WAS NOT FOR YOU!" Rick scolded me like a little kid, "IT WAS FOR KATIE! DAMN YOU!" he kicked me again, picking up the gun that I knocked from his hands, turning towards Katie as she huddled against the wall in a ball, her hands over her head…
I reached out to him, my hand grabbing his booted foot; stopping him… he looked down at me,
"Please don't… she's just a little girl… she's your daughter!" I whispered, desperately. He laughed and kicked my hand away from him,
"She's nothing but a worthless whore just like her mother…" he knelt down next to me and whispered in my ear, " Now watch her die…it's all your fault, boy" he shoved my head against the wood and stood up over Katie's trembling form and pulled the trigger, the bullet ripping through her chest, silencing her screams
"NNNNNOOOOOOOOO! YOU BASTARD! HOW COULD YOU!?" I screamed, crawling over to her, holding my baby sister as she took her last dying breath, watching as the light seeped away from her body, with her last dying breath, my name falling from her lips,
"Kenny" then she was gone.
I held her body close to mine for a long time, before she was jerked away from my arms and Rick stood once again before me,
"You better make sure you kill me, you son offa bitch." I whispered coldly. He smiled as he pulled the trigger again the bullet ripping through my chest and through a lung.
"I'm betting on it, you pussy" Rick whispered, pulling the trigger again and then everything went black.
A/N: MUWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA MOMMA'S GOT HER MOJO BACK! TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK PEEPS! LIKE IT? HATE IT? WANT MORE OF IT? RRRRRRREEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW =^_^=