Disclaimer: I. Don't .Own. SAW. Just the plot line that Billy tied to his tricycle.
A/N: Well, here's the next chapter, It's been like a week, I'm sorry! And thanx to Animorphgirl for the specs on this part of the story, I haven't seen the first movie in a while.
Amanda was nervous; she had never done this sort of thing before. After John had chopped off most of her hair to make it more manageable for what the were doing, Amanda dressed in the cloths that John provided, and sent her after Adam, he said that he would explain the rest later after she had gotten a hold of him.
She had gotten to the apartment complex where she used to live, the usual hanging around waiting for whoever was their pimp that week. That's when she spotted Adam, just coming out the door, she tried to hurry in, but he caught her saying, "Hey, I like your hair, very…rock star-ish."
"Thanks…" she replied almost inaudibly, making her way up to his disgusting apartment, which was worse than hers used to be, and that was saying something.
It was grimy and full of rats and a few maggots and roaches as well. Pulling on the pig mask that she had in the backpack that she carried, she roamed around the place, wondering how long he was going to be gone. Thankfully it was only two hours after he came stumbling in half drunk, his camera taking random pictures that he would regret later. She stalked in behind him, a sneer rising on Amanda's lips; this was going to be more entertaining than she thought.
The capture only took minutes for Amanda, though it felt like a few antagonizing hours for Adam. She cornered him in his darkroom, and knocked him out with the same drug that John had used on her. Making sure that there was no one on the stairs, she drug him out into the van that she had drove there, and met John back at the hotel, then followed him to an abandoned warehouse across town, Adam still out cold. Apparently, Zepp had acquired Dr. Gordon, and the three of them moved the two men down a long dingy hallway into a bathroom that looked like a massacre had taken place. This was not going to be easy. John then dismissed Zepp, and turned to Amanda; everything was falling into place nicely.
"Now Amanda, I need you to shackle Dr. Gordon to that pipe over there, and then start filling that tub full of water." Amanda did as she was told, and then John started to explain the specifics of "the game" as he called it, it was much more elaborate that she could ever think of.
"These two men are connected, but they do not yet know it, and will not for at least another day, while I get the rest of this set in place. You see, Adam has been paid by Zepp to track Dr. Gordon to see who he was cheating with, and now the two are stuck in here to sort out their differences, when Adam realizes that Dr. Gordon is the one that he's been tracking. But there is a catch. Dr. Gordon must decide if he can take his revenge out on Adam to save is family, who Zepp will soon have in his possession, for he had a part in this too, because what he doesn't know will kill him. A slow acting poison to be exact." John's tone was callous, Amanda could tell that he wasn't totally himself, now she saw the other side of him, the madman taking over.
"Ok, so what's with the bathtub?" Amanda asked, topping off the water, wondering if there was more to fear from this man of many faces.
"That's where you're going to put Adam, he's the one who should wake up first, his drug was a little less potent, put him just under the surface, so his nose sticks out but nothing else." John was moving out of the room, and fear creeping into her voice, Amanda called, "Where are you going?"
"Just to go get a few more supplies for you to set up, but don't worry about that Amanda, just make sure those two don't wake up."
John didn't know if he was ready for this, his first real test. This was going to be the biggest test, to see that if he could really watch these two men die. He sat in a swivel chair, in front of a mass of television monitors, one of which was trained in on the bathroom, where he watched his new assistant work. Amanda pulled off the toilet lid, placing the two hacksaws in the tank, and then shutting the lid. She took the snapshots out of the duffel bag then, and placed them in the doctor's pocket. John then went to go make the next tape, and as he placed Billy in front of the camera, he studied his small friend. He had added a more moveable mouth to Billy from the last time he had been used for both Amanda and Paul, and he looked even sinister, with his half bald clown hair sticking in all directions from all the moving that the toy had been through. But John turned Billy to the camera, and with the voice changer, recorded the rules of the first game ever. He just hoped that the two men would learn their lessons, whether that required them to die or not. If Dr. Gordon learned his, then there would be at least one man dead, Adam. But if Adam prevailed, the doctor and his family would die, and if Adam passed this test…but his thought were broken by Amanda calling out, "Hey I'm done, what now?" He used the intercom that had been built it long ago.
"Take the bag outside, I have a few things that I need out of it, and a few hours to finish what I have to do." She nodded, and met him in the hall.
"Well, what else is there to do?"
"I have to kill myself."
