Cody watched Ted's body dangle upside down with a sick sense of dread. His best friend was missing his eyes, his tongue and he had stab wounds all over his body. He didn't want to be looking, but he couldn't force his eyes to look away. Dawn was clinging to him, naked, wet and freezing cold. She had been dunked over and over again in ice water and then left here in this cold room. He would be shocked if she didn't catch hypothermia.

The door opened and Brooke Adams and Kelly Kelly were tossed into the room. He recognized them because they went to his school. Both girls were crying and shaking. "We should have ran," Kelly sobbed. "We should have ran. We were so stupid."

"We couldn't leave Melina behind," Brooke replied. "She was our friend."

"Well staying for her didn't do a whole lot of good, now did it?" Kelly shrieked hysterically. "Now not only does Jeff have her here, but we're here too! What are we going to do now?"

Cody cleared his throat and looked back at Ted's body. "We die," he said simply. He didn't want to say that, but he couldn't help himself. It was the truth as he knew it. And if the old saying was true, the truth shall set him free.

XXXXXXXX

Melina was still unconscious when they got back to Roxxi's mansion so Jeff laid her down on the bed until she woke up. Not having anything better to do, he put in The Nightmare Before Christmas. He had already seen it over two hundred times, but he still liked watching it over and over again. It was one of his favorite movies. "This is Halloween, this is Halloween," he sang under his breath. He grabbed a cherry Tootsie Roll Pop and sat down cross legged on the foot of his bed.

"Jeff?" Roxxi said as she poked her head into the room. Her face was smeared with black paint and she was holding a giant wooden staff in her hands. "I'm going out to the graves to do a spell. Can you be a good boy and not destroy my house?"

"Shush Roxxi," Jeff scolded. "You'll ruin the movie."

"Jeff…"

"Okay, okay, I'll be good. Now be quiet!" He hated it when people talked during his movie.

Roxxi left and Jeff kept watching the movie. It was one of the few things that could keep his attention for any real length of time. Eventually though, Melina began to stir and then she woke up.

"Help me!" she screamed as she tried to jump off the bed. "Somebody help me!"

"Would you stop screaming?" Jeff asked. He was starting to become very annoyed with his new toy. He grabbed her and pulled her into his lap. "I can't hear the movie when you scream."

She kept trying to struggle even though his grip was too tight to escape. "Please don't hurt me," she begged. "Please, what do you want from me?"

"I want you to shut the hell up," he growled. "If I miss Kidnap the Sandy Claws because of you then one of us is going to lose a body part. And let me tell you something: it ain't going to be me."

Melina went quiet and they watched the rest of the movie in peace. Jeff hummed along with the songs and played with her hair the entire time. He didn't care that she flinched every few minutes or she didn't hum along like Beth did. The movie put him in good spirits, just like it always did. "See, was that so bad?" he asked as he took the DVD out of the player.

Melina reluctantly shook her head. She looked confused and scared to death. "Where am I?" she asked quietly.

"Your new home," he answered. He grabbed the Candyland and brought it back to the bed. "Play with me," he demanded.

"This isn't my home," she insisted. "Please, let me go. I won't tell anybody I swear."

He ignored her. Maybe if he quit responding then she would shut up and play with him. "You're being the green dude," he informed her. "And I'm being the blue dude."

"Are you even listening to a word I say?"

"No."

Melina defiantly knocked the game off the bed, making cards and pieces go all over the floor. Jeff paused for a second before sighing out of exasperation. "Okay, that was just plain rude," he informed her. He pounced on her and got her pinned down underneath him. "If you're not going to be play nice then I'm not going to be nice either."

She fought ferociously to get him off of her until his lips met with her. He chuckled inwardly as she froze completely. He liked having that effect on girls. Sure she wasn't kissing back, but that was okay. She would learn to eventually.

He broke the kiss long enough to slip his shirt off. "This game is much better than Candyland," he informed her. He giggled as her eyes widened. "Don't give me that look silly. It's not going to hurt. Much."

She began fighting him again as he ripped her clothes off. That only egged him on even more. He liked challenges when he could muster up the patience to deal with them. It was fun to break the fighters down and weaken them to where they could only scream and beg. But the thought of going one step further than that and making this girl go totally insane…it sounded even more appealing than ever.

She froze again as his lips touched her body again. He had her arms pinned above her head with one of his hands and he used his lips and his free hand to explore her body. He could hear something going on downstairs but it wasn't enough to truly distract him. His pants weren't even all the way off before he thrust into her. Thoughts of fire ran through his brain as he kissed her to muffle her screams. She felt like fire to him. Trish had been pure innocence, Beth had been pure darkness and Melina was fire. Hehehe I like fire he giggled inwardly. Fire pretty, Melina pretty. She's my pretty little fire.

Melina had tears streaming down her face and she was trying to push Jeff off to no avail. "Stop," she begged. "Please stop."

He grinned and began rubbing her clit with his fingers. He was being so rough that he could feel her bleeding and the pain would probably override most of the pleasure. Still, he remembered something Matt had told him once: if you make them enjoy it even a little bit, that very fact can start unraveling their minds. They don't want to feel any pleasure from this and if they do, they'll start blaming themselves. It was all a nice little mind game.

He bit at her neck as he came, drawing blood as he did it. He lapped up the blood and then kissed her on the cheek. "See? That wasn't so bad, was it? He rolled off the bed, put his clothes back on and then tossed her some old clothes he didn't wear much anymore. "Come on lazy butt. I want to go eat dinner."

Someone opened the door without knocking. Jeff turned around to yell at them, only to find himself face to face with Mark. "What the hell?" he said slowly.

"Damn it!" Victoria could be heard yelling. "This is not a hotel James! We can't fit a billion people in here!"

Mark rolled his eyes at her yelling, but he didn't say anything about it. Instead he punched Jeff so hard that he actually fell to his knees. "That was for the unicorn thing," he growled. He looked over at Melina for a moment and then looked back at Jeff. "Get your toy dressed and bring her downstairs. Stacy said dinner is in five minutes."

"Who the hell do you think you are?" Jeff asked in amazement. What the hell was Mark doing? Who told Mark to come in here and start barking orders and throwing punches? And who told him Jeff was even going to listen?

"I'm the guy who's going to knock some sanity into you," Mark informed him. He punched Jeff in the stomach and caught him before he doubled all the way over. "And that was for Trish." He kissed Jeff on the head and then shoved him down before leaving the room.

Jeff coughed and regained his breath. "Mark's going to get it," he told Melina, not caring if she was actually listening or not. "I'm going to get Marky for that. Oh I'm going to get him real good."