CHAPTER 4

I'd been sat on Katie's bed for hours. My stomach had started growling from lack of food and Jack was pacing the room trying to get a reaction out of me. I didn't know what he had planned but he was muttering to himself and glancing at me out of the corner of his eye. "Speak before you end up like everyone else!"

"Shut up!" I screamed at him. I slowly got to my feet and faced him. "What do you want from me? Why don't you just finish me off?" I choked back a sob and fell to the ground.

"You are going to be… perfect. You are so weak, but I can make you strong." Jack stood in front of me as I looked at the floor. "You could be brilliant. All of that anger that you have locked away is a magnificent weapon. You just need to know how to use it to your advantage."

"Shut up. I'm not angry."

"Of course you are! Your father was hardly ever there. Your mother was there but pined after your father like a little puppy. You were never given the attention that you deserved."

"I can change that. I will never ignore you." He hooked his hands under my arms and pulled me to my feet. "One more day. One more day and you will be perfect. You just need to be left to think about everything for one more day and then you will break. Once you break you will be reborn. I will remodel you into the perfect little girl."

"What do you mean?" I completely confused now. He was making no sense.

"I'll put it in simple terms for you. I will kill you and tear your damaged, little soul into different pieces. Then you will be like me… well, no power or strength for you, unless you ask me nicely, but you'll be with me forever and that's the main thing. I am going to show you how anger can be a good thing. You will help me collect souls and I will help you become invincible."

"No one's invincible. It's a dream for those that are weak and fear death."

"Do you fear death?"

"No. I fear pain and torture, but death is a silent retreat and a place of escape. I will welcome it now."

"You can say that all you want… but death will be no paradise for you or the rest of these souls on this goddamn ship."

"You will lose. I won't let you take the innocent people on board this ship."

"Innocent? Ha! The only innocent person is Katie. She's the only one that I cannot brand. Katie was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Everyone else? They deserve their fates. Even your mother."

"I don't believe that my mother has done something that bad that she deserves eternal punishment."

"Well, your mother is a murderer and a cheat. When you were 3 she got drunk and took painkillers to get rid of her unborn child and she repeated that only a couple of years later when she found out that she was once again with child. The reason she did that was because she had slept around and didn't who the father was to either child."

"No, she wouldn't do that." Tears began to build up in my eyes as I thought about what Jack was saying. "I don't believe you."

"I really don't care. Just wipe your cheeks, sit on the bed like a good girl and shut up. You will never leave me and you will not do anything against me. You're too weak to even try it." He ended with a laugh. "Enjoy your last night of being alive."

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AN: A filler chapter since I haven't updated in a while. I will be having some jumps in time but that's only because I don't want to drag everything out since I will be writing about when Epps comes aboard the ship.

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