Rachel entered the house a limp Anna slung over her shoulder. For someone of her build she was surprisingly strong.
Anna's head rolled about as she tried anyway she could to get away from Rachel but it was pointless. She could only watch as blurred lights and wallpaper went past her vision everything moving twice as slow. Any thought she had instantly disappeared as she was too weak to hold onto it. She could just about register the sickly taste of blood in her mouth and feel the hot liquid drip down the side of her face. She must have done it when the car crashed, though she couldn't be too sure. She couldn't be sure of anything at the moment.
After what seemed like hours she felt herself fall through the air and land on a bed. Looking around she noticed that she wasn't in hers but in Alex's. "Alex" she said weakly somehow managing to find her voice even though it was barely above a whisper.
"Don't you worry about her Anna, she's right there" Rachel said and she grabbed Anna's body and sat her upwards. On the floor she could make out Alex's still form, right the way she had left her. Rachel let her drop backwards and her back hit the soft mattress once more.
"Where's Amy" she mumbled incoherently the worry for her other sister hitting her once more.
"Well i can't really say the same for her" Rachel laughed as she sat on the edge of the bed next to Anna.
"What have you done to her" came Alex's voice from the floor. Even in her drugged state it was filled with venom. She better not of hurt her Alex said to herself as she tried to move. Finally she could feel the effects wearing off now as she got more strength and movement in her limbs.
"Let's just say she put up a fight, but she couldn't stop the inevitable" Rachel laughed as she walked over to Alex and kneeled down next to her. Gently she brushed the ahir out of Alex's face so she could see it clearly.
"No, no" Anna whimpered from the bed. Rachel let out a loud laugh. Alex's body tensed up at her words. Please no she can't be gone Anna thought to herself trying to hold in the sob that was threatening to leave her lips.
"Oh yes yes" she said sitting back down next to the girl. Gently she ran a hand over the girls head. Anna tried to move away from her touch but her limbs felt too heavy.
"I'm gonna kill you" Alex yelled from the floor as she slowly started to get up. She succeeded in getting onto her knees as she regained feeling in her muscles but fell straight back down when Rachel's foot slammed into her arm which was supporting her weight.
A loud crack was heard and Alex howled in pain. She knew that it was broken.
"Yeah right" Rachel growled angrily at the girl.
"Leave her alone" Anna said as she found some strength in her anger and rolled herself over. She tried as hard as she could to get herself off the bed but found it impossible. But she could tell the difference between now and five minutes ago, her arms and legs didn't feel as bandy as they did. Rachel just turned to look at her and laughed at her.
"Yeah like I'm going to do that" Rachel said as she looked down at the girl who was clutching her arm in agony. She was about to say something again when a loud bang came from downstairs.
The two girls heard it as well and both turned their attention to the doorway. Rachel growled angrily and picked up the knife. "Don't you dare move" she said waving the knife at them. "Well it's not as if you can" she grinned before leaving the room.
As soon as she had gone Alex started to get up once more. Pain was stinging through her arm as she tried to put as little pressure on it as possible. Finally once she got to her feet she limped over to the bed next to Anna.
"Come on, let's go" Alex said as she grabbed her sister and pulled her up but with one hand she couldn't support her weight.
"She killed her Al" Anna whispered as tears slipped down her face. Alex laid her back on the bed and wiped them away.
"Shh calm down" she said knowing that she would never be able to get her sister out of the room until the drugs had worn off a bit more. She held in her own tears but only for Anna's sake. She couldn't be dead, she just couldn't.
Suddenly footsteps echoed down the hall and the two froze in fear. She held Anna's limp hand tightly. The steps got closer and closer until suddenly a bloody hand came around and grabbed a hold of the doorframe. Finally though a whole body came into sight and the two recoiled in shock.
There in the doorway stood a battered and bloody Amy. "We have to go now" she said breathlessly one hand wrapped tightly around her waist as she took shaky steps into the room.
Alex jumped up from the bed and grabbed the girl pulling her to her tightly. "We thought you were dead, she told us you were dead" Alex said as tears slipped down her face.
"I almost was" she said before turning her attention to Anna. "Come on kiddo, we gotta get you out of here but you're gonna have to help us okay" Amy said as she kissed her sisters head softly and with her free hand she and Alex pulled her into a sitting position.
"Amy you're okay" Anna said her voice filled with relief. Amy just put on the best smile she could muster but that was hard due to the excruciating pain her face was in. There was only small patches of skin visible beneath the blood soaked surface. Three large slices went down the side of her face and her lip was heavily split and swollen as was one of her eyes.
"What did she do to you" Alex asked as she watched the other girls hand tighten around her waist once more.
"She caught me from behind, hit me across the head a few times but i got her too, next thing you know she was going at me with a knife, slashed me few times across the face and slashed my stomach, thankfully she didn't manage to stab me, next thing i knew there was a syringe sticking out of my neck and i was waking up in the basement" Amy said as she winced at the pain in her stomach. Definitely a few broken ribs as well.
"Jesus" Alex muttered as they readied Anna to stand.
"Right she'll be waking up soon, Just wait there, i'm gonna make sure the coast is c-" she said as she stepped out of the room but before she could finish her sentence Rachel appeared from nowhere and plunged the knife that was in her hand deep into Amy's stomach. The force of it made Amy slam backwards into the wall her eyes wide in shock.
Anna and Alex could only watch helplessly as the knife was ripped from their sister's body and she slid down the wall a long blood trail following behind her. Her hands trembled as she tried to stem the bleeding from her stomach.
Rachel turned and spun the knife in her hand menacingly. "One down" she muttered as she looked at the two teenagers on the bed. Alex got to her feet and stood in front of Anna protectively. Looking over Rachel's shoulder she could see Amy slowly pushing herself up off the ground.
"Two to go" Rachel said as she lunged towards Alex. Alex managed to get out of the way of the knife and punched Rachel hard in the face with her non broken arm. The woman spiralled backwards the knife flying from her hands. Once Rachel had gotten her bearings she went towards Alex but was stopped when Anna pushed herself off the bed and straight into her path. The two women clattered to the ground and Rachel quickly jumped on top of Anna slamming her hand into her face repeatedly in a frenzied rage.
Just as Alex was about to jump on top of Rachel Amy got there first and grabbed Rachel by her top flinging her off Anna.
"Get out now" Amy screamed at Alex as she gripped Rachel by her hair and slammed her head against the floor.
"What about you" Alex said as she helped Anna off the floor. Her face too was covered in blood where her nose had been broken. She slung one arm around Alex's shoulders as she was still groggy from the drugs and Alex put one around her waist.
"Don't worry about me, just go" Amy screamed as she grabbed Rachel once more and threw her across the room. Pain racked her small frame but she continued to fight nonetheless.
The two youngsters looked at her none of them moving. "Go" Amy screamed over her shoulder and finally they scurried out of the room Alex gripping Anna tightly.
"That's for drugging my sister's" Amy yelled as she slammed her foot into Rachel's face hard. "That's for what you did to me" she yelled again as she sent the blonde sprawling onto her back. "And that's for killing my mom" she yelled once more as she stamped on her stomach. She went to do it again when Rachel's hand shot out and grabbed her ankle pulling her off her feet and to the floor.
"Ahh" she groaned as the pain in her body began to get too much. Rachel managed to get on top of Amy and she punched her solidly in the face then in the ribs and face again. Her body got weaker and weaker with every blow and stars danced dizzily in front of her eyes. She tried to fight the blonde woman but her body would not allow it.
Suddenly though Rachel got to her feet at walked over to the door picking up the knife and she strolled menacingly back to the youngster who was lying completely helpless on the floor.
She could just about make out Rachel stopping next to her side and falling onto her knees the knife still clutched tightly in her hand. As her head fell to the side something caught her attention. There not two feet away from her was a syringe. And it was unused.
"I warned you" Rachel muttered her eyes like ice as she toyed with the knife in her hand. Amy slowly began to slide her hand across the floor and tried to grab a hold of the syringe.
Anna and Alex stumbled out of the front door her arm still tightly around her younger sister's as the pushed themselves as far away from the house as possible. "We shouldn't have left her in there, we need to help her Alex" Anna said as she tried to pull away from her sister and go into the house but the grip around her waist was too strong.
"I know, but I can't let you go in there Anna" Alex said as she held her sister tightly too her. She wanted to go back in to, to help out but she couldn't risk her little sister.
"I don't know why you didn't like me, i never did anything wrong" Rachel said as she leaned right over Amy her face only inches from the youngsters blood soaked one.
"You were having an affair with my dad" Amy growled her adrenaline starting to kick up more as she thought of all the reasons why she hated Rachel. "You should have been looking after my mother, but instead you were screwing her husband" she spat through gritted teeth as she finally got a grasp on the syringe and began pulling it towards her.
"I guess I couldn't help myself" Rachel said simply her eyes alight in glee but in anger also. "Ah you know I'm going to get Anna and Alex right, once I'm done with you right, just like i did to your mother" she laughed in the girl's blood soaked face.
Amy's face twisted into one of anger and she spat into Rachel's face her blood dripping off it. Rachel wiped the bloody saliva off of her face and with one last look of hatred she said. "Sleep tight Amy". And with that she brought the knife into the air and plunged it down into Amy's stomach but as she did this she felt a sharp sting in her neck and she realised that Amy had managed to get the syringe into her at the same time.
Amy's eyes widened in pain as Rachel twisted the blade in the stomach. She tried to shout and to scream but her voice had disappeared. Above her she could see Rachel swaying side to side slightly and she pulled the knife out of Amy about to plunge it into her once more when she fell to one side her muscles weakening.
"I'm going in there Alex" Anna said as she ripped away from her sister and headed towards the door. The drugs had completely worn off now and even though she was petrified she pushed on towards the house determined to save her sister.
"Wait Anna" Alex said hurrying after her.
"Don't try and stop me" Anna said as she reached for the door knob and pushed it open.
"I'm not going to stop you, I'm coming with you" Alex said as the two crept into the house quietly. There was no sound to be heard coming from anywhere and this worried the girls.
"Ring the police and an ambulance" Anna ordered and Alex picked up the phone next to the door and rang up the emergency services. Anna continued her way up the stairs her heart thundering in her chest. She didn't know what she might find when she got in there, who she might find.
After the walk to the room which took agonisingly long Anna stopped just before it too frightened to walk around into the room. Sucking in a deep breath and rubbing her hands on her dress she stepped around. Her jaw fell down to the floor in shock. "Amy" she cried sprinting forward and falling to her knees next to her eldest sister. To her right lay Rachel the bloodied knife in her hand loosely flat on her back.
"You okay" Amy whispered looking at her sister's own bloody face. Anna nodded as she stroked the hair back off of the girls face.
"Thanks to you" she said putting her hand over the newest stab wound and trying to stem the bleeding. The wounds though were now bleeding profusely and stopping the blood was becoming increasingly difficult.
"No problem" she answered weakly feeling her body begin to shut down. Everything was starting to go blurry and stars started dancing in front of her vision. "Where's Alex" Amy croaked noticing the her other sister wasn't there.
"Phoning an ambulance" Anna cooed as she pressed down harder on the wounds.
"They're not going to get here in time" Amy whispered as she felt her limbs become even heavier then they were.
"Don't say that, don't you dare say that" Anna scolded not liking the way her sister was talking. She couldn't lose her, not now. She needed her. They all did.
"I can't fight it any longer Anna, it's too hard" she muttered as she tried to focus her eyes.
"Please keep fighting Amy, i lost mom, I lost Matt, I cannot lose you as well" Anna sobbed as she pulled her sister right up into her lap tightly.
"You haven't lost Alex, or dad, you'll have to hold on for them" Amy said struggling to get her words out now. She grabbed one of Anna's hand and squeezed it gently. The pain it was causing her mentally was excruciating, she hated seeing her sister like that.
"But I'd be losing you" Anna cried her voice breaking in heartbreak. She was giving up, Her stubborn sister was giving up.
"I love you yeah just remember that I love you kiddo" she managed to get out before her breath suddenly hitched in her throat and her head lolled to the side and her body went limp in Anna's arms.
Anna let out an agonising cry as she cradled the girl back and forth in her arms. Sirens roared in the background and she could hear Alex bounding across the landing and into the room. "No, No, she's not" Alex said as she looked at the scene of carnage in front of her. She slowly walked further into the room and fell to her knees next to the girls. "No" Alex cried as tears slipped down her face. Anna just nodded and buried her head in the girls chest. She was gone.
So is she really gone or was she saved! All will be revealed next chapter peeps :D x