Chapter 9 part two: You Are Weak
Writing like this is a flashback.
'thoughts'
On to part 2:
Kelly hates the fact that she is stuck behind while her boyfriend gets to go on an adventure. She hates her nerves for going crazy, she hates her insecurities, and she hates her fear. She knows she will back down if she feels threatened and with that fact she wondered why Louis wanted her to watch Lee. She knows if Lee tries something she will probably flip out and do something stupid and she knows that Louis knows it too. She hopes that isn't Louis's plan, she hopes he is not hoping that she will let Lee escape or for her to kill him or something. She still has no idea what her boyfriend will do, she will want to think he would lead everyone to George but part of her is smarter than that. Part of her knows that in order to protect Lee, Louis will do anything, including murder. Still she knows he is a good person too. She looks into the fireplace wishing she can go too just to make sure everything goes according to plan. It wouldn't be hard, just grab floo powder, she knows the address but then again Louis asked her to stay.
Deciding to stay, she looks away from the fireplace to a pile of books on the floor. Walking to the pile of books she picks one up and looks at the book, apparently a spell book, but one so old the name has vanished. She opens the book to see a list of spells with some underlined as she reads she feels the faintest touch on her leg. She looks down to she sees a cat, a fat orange cat. Smiling she bends down and picks up the cat watching as it tries to twist out of her hands. Flopping down on Hermione's couch she starts to pet the cat whispering in his ear, "what a good cat you are but man she over feeds you doesn't she? Don't worry Mr. Kitty your master is going to come back soon. Don't worry." The cat starts to purr and licks her arm in a friendly gesture and she squeezes the cat against her. Her comforting words did nothing to calm her as she continues to pet the cat; she can feel something evil lurking within that factory, something that Louis isn't planning of.
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Hermione is lucky that she is the last person out of the fireplace since everyone landed on top of each other. She landed on top of Fred who groaned with her weight. Finally she kicks herself off landing on her feet next to the tiny fireplace, its rocky frame clouded in coal. She helped Fred up who just thanked her with a small smile as he helped Ron up, who in turn helped Harry up who helped Louis up. They all took a minute to look around them, look at the dark, gloomy empty room. Everyone just sees an old house, everyone but Louis. Even now he can still see the awful trashy furniture, can smell the cigarettes and booze. He can still hear the television blazing and the sounds of his mom screaming and his father's moaning. He can still see the blood laced about the floor, changing the dirty white carpet to musty rust.
"Okay so where can we find the car?" Fred asked snapping Louis out of his trance. Blinking away the memories he turns to him with a tiny smile.
"In the garage, here I will lead the way." Louis whispered his voice rich with childhood fear. Even though he knows his mom and dad are long gone he can't help but tiptoe across the rusty carpet, cringing every time anyone makes a sound. He hears a crash and looks around seeing Ron on the ground.
"What happened?" Louis whispered, his hands sweating.
"I tripped over my shoelaces sorry." Ron whispered an apology his face a ripe tomato red.
"Don't do that again." Louis says as he looks around the corner, waiting to see his blob of a father running out of his bedroom, a beer in one hand, a whip in the other, asking what the noise is. He can see him, all his three hundred pounds drunkenly hitting the walls as he continues on.
"Louis?" Hermione asked bringing him out of his memory as he looked back at the group, a dark scowl on his face.
"Louis, what is wrong?" Hermione tried again, putting her hand upon his shoulder, a warm comforting gesture that did nothing to calm his nerves.
"Nothing, come on." Louis says gesturing for them to follow him as he walks around the corner and into the second story living room. Here too is naked of all life, the furniture is gone, all that is left of pictures is it's blackened dust, the flowery wallpaper he hated so much is hanging off the wall like little waves. He always hated this living room, hated the bars that his parents used to put up so Lee and he were stuck in the living room, running around like caged horses.
He looks around to see if the bars are still in the back corner and relaxed once he finds that they are gone. He takes a leisurely step hearing the familiar creak of the wood beneath the brown carpet. He looks down seeing the blood stain that is still there, the blood stain that came from his childhood friend Amy, his only friend, so very long ago.
He was in his bedroom with Amy, they are both ten, drinking milk and playing videogames. They are playing Super Mario Brothers trying to once again beat Browsers castle which they haven't been able to defeat. Lee is sitting down between them watching them play as if it is a television show. About the third death one of them will let Lee play but for the most part it is just the two of them. Of course Lee is telling them what to do which is oddly comical because about ninety percent of the time Lee is incorrect.
"Louis go left." Lee yells watching as a bone creature is coming at Mario from the right.
"I can't, the stupid elevator isn't up yet." Louis yells back as he jumps on the skeleton creature over and over again until the elevator finally is at the top floor. Louis jumps out of the elevator without looking.
"Louis watch out, the magician." Amy yells but it was too late as Mario hits the magician head on killing him instantly.
"Damn it, okay your turn." He says to Lee throwing the controller to his younger brother and now it is his turn to watch out for anything. For an hour they continued to play with no problem laughing and talking about sweet nothings. Finally Amy decides that she doesn't want to play and so she gives the controller to Lee who just smiles with glee.
"Come on Louis; let's go get something to drink." She says cutely looking at Louis as she wipes her sweaty hands on her red long dress.
"Sure what would you like juice, milk, coke?"
"I want juice." Lee calls from the bedroom making both Louis and Amy laugh before continuing walking. Louis looks at Amy, the way her dress flies up with every step, the way her brushy blond hair was messy thrown into pigtails, the way her hands felt so soft when she grabs his hand. They smile at each other as she leans up against him and he blushes as he holds her tighter. It seems so perfect, it seemed so innocent, and it was so wonderful.
"Come on I'll race you to the kitchen." Louis says as he starts running, Amy laughs along with him as she starts to run down the second floor hallway. He smiles as she catches up to him as they run into the second floor living room. She outruns him gaining the lead and in order to make sure he wins he decides on tripping her. Sticking out a foot he laughs when she trips and lands painfully on the cabinet breaking his dad's prized star trek spaceship. He immediately runs over to her and helps her up before looking at the spaceship, trying to find out if it was savable or not. When he decides that it is not savable he feels the familiar feeling of fear. His fear isn't for him, it is for Amy. He knows he has to get her out of here before his dad sees this mess.
"Amy, I need you to go into my bedroom and stay there." He says with urgency as he sees his parents' door start to open.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to." Amy said feeling lousy for breaking the toy.
"Go now." He yells as the door opens all the way and his dad's boots comes into sight. Amy looked at Louis in confusion frowning when she sees the panic on his face without another look she runs into Louis's room. Louis watches as his dad approaches, his dad already looks dangerously angry.
"What the hell was that noise?" He growls in anger before noticing the spaceship in his son's hand.
"Is that my spaceship you have?" His dad growls as he put a hand out for his son to put the spaceship. Shaking slightly he hands his dad his broken spaceship. His dad is silent for a minute as he looks at the spaceship before glaring at his son.
"You broke my spaceship. How many times do I have to tell you to keep your pathetic hands off of my shit? Look what you did?" His dad yelled shoving the toy in Louis's face.
"Maybe if we use glue…"
"Its broken, nothing we can do can make it whole again. You know what happens when something is broken right?" His dad says calmly before throwing the spaceship harshly against Louis's head cutting him badly. Louis screams a little which only gets his dad even madder and he shoves his son against the wall. Suddenly punches showered him, hitting every part of his body as his dad screams at him, "you think you know everything you fucking little loser. You think you are exempt from rules, well you are not exempt from rules you little punk."
"What is all the yelling about?" He hears his mother asking and he turns to his mother begging her without words to help him. She does not, just stands there and smokes a cigarette.
"This little fucker broke into my cabinet and broke my spaceship. Carla why haven't you taught your son to behave in my house, I swear woman can you do nothing right?"
"Ryan, he is only ten years old. This is how ten years olds act." Carla answered without any trace of emotions, in fact after marrying her husband fifteen years ago she has no reason to feel anymore. Her husband beat every emotion out of her years ago, she is now just a walking pile of meat, and that is all she is seen as. Carla looks at her son, her eyes empty as she takes another drag of her cigarette. Louis stares back at her still begging her for help that she could never give. Ryan glared at his wife with flames of anger, grasping his son's wrists so tight that he swears he broke the bones.
"Ten, he is only ten years old? When I was ten I didn't even touch anything that wasn't mine. When I was ten I wasn't as pathetic as this useless creature. What kind of role model is he to Lee when he acts so careless?" Ryan screams though the room, the venom of his words echoing in the house. Louis bites his lips from the pain and prays that Lee and Amy don't hear.
"What do you want me to do about it?" Carla asked softy as Ryan thinks it over. With a smile he lets go of his son who just collapses on the floor like melting butter and stares with fear as his dad approaches his mom.
"What do I want you to do?" He asked slowly, emphasizing every word as he takes his wife's arm in his hand. He caresses her arm before kissing the arm, Carla still is emotionless. Seeing this he smiles again before twisting her arm harshly getting a scream, not from Carla, but from Louis. Carla just smiles at Ryan.
"I'm not afraid of you." She says loudly so her son could hear. Ryan face turned red with rage as he starts to push her toward Louis, Carla didn't fight back, Carla didn't have the bravely, she just lets him push her against the wall next to where Louis is sitting. She slides down next to Louis and pulls the crying boy into his arms as she stares up at Ryan.
"I will teach you to fear me again Carla." Ryan hisses as he throws Louis out of her arms and slams a boot into Carla's face immediately causing her to bleed. She remains silent but Louis was screaming and trying to find some way to help her. Finally he throws himself on his father and tries to punch him which only made Ryan madder. He grabs his son from his legs and thrusts him to the ground harshly. Glaring at his wife one last time he turns and stares down at his son.
Louis stares back at his dad trying to look brave but the tear tracks on his face gave him away. With a smile his dad kneels down beside him and stared into his eyes, "you thought you can help your mother? Look at her Louis, look at her pathetic weakness. Why do you think she deserves help?"
"She is my mom." Louis cries back looking between his dad and his mom in the corner, blood gushing out of her nose, eyes empty.
"Louis let me tell you something, it doesn't matter that she is your mom, that I'm your dad, and that Lee is your brother. It doesn't matter who your friends are or when you get older who your lover is. The only thing that matters is that the weak will destroy you. Don't get involved with the weak. Choose your side Louis, your mom is weak, I'm strong. Don't let her make you weak."
"She is strong."
"What has she done in her life? Nothing, fuck she can't even keep the goddamn house clean. At least I have done something in my life."
"You work in a fucking factory." Carla says with a monotone from the corner as she tries to stand up.
"Hear that son all I do is work in a fucking factory. I don't care for my family; I don't shop for my family, hell I have to do both the dad and the mom job in this household. Your pathetic mom just spends all day in front of the fucking television or reading novels. Fuck I have been taking care of Lee and you for almost your whole life. God I pray you turn out like me and not like your fucking lazy mother."
"I don't want to be like you." Louis yells back, as he felt a tiny ball of anger growing in the pit of his stomach. He can't believe his dad will insult his mom like that.
"Don't want to be like me boy." His father yells before throwing a punch at Louis and making him cry out. His father hits him again and again until Louis is black and blue all over.
And as Ryan is hitting Louis no one noticed Lee and Amy standing by Louis's door watching in shock. Amy quickly grabs Lee's hands and runs back inside Louis's room as she takes the crying seven years old in her arms and smoothes him.
"Hey everything is going to be fine." She says as she pats Lee in the back.
"Dad is hitting Louis again." Lee cries out hugging the older girl closer to him getting her red dress damp with his tears. She hushes him as she looks around the room finding a baseball bat in the corner. She stares at Lee again for a minute before staring back at the baseball bat.
"Lee lets play a game." She whispers as they listened to Lee's screams, so loud, even though they were two rooms away.
"What kind of game?"
"Hide and seek." She answered as she bends down to look under the bed and then runs over to the closet and opens the door. She frowns as she tries to find a proper hiding place before turning back to Lee.
"I'll be it. But hide really well ok. I want you to make it really hard for me to find you. Deal?" She asked the boy who nods weakly.
"Okay then I will count down from ten. You need to be in a hiding place before I reach zero. Oh and stay in this room ok?" The girl asked and when the boy nods she relaxed a little.
"Ten," the boy runs, "nine," the boy squeezed in under the bed before pulling boxes in front of him so he was completely hidden. When she gets to zero she looks around to see if she could find him. She looks in the closet, under the desk, and finally she looked under his bed, finding boxes there she smiled before running over to the bat in the corner. Picking it up, she looks once more around the room before opening the door a little and spying on his friend and his parents. Finding that his dad is still hitting Louis she sneaks out and tiptoes behind Ryan and without hesitance she smacks Ryan on the head.
Ryan feels the back of his head, at the little bump that is now present before he turned around expecting to see Lee instead he came face to face with a girl. He couldn't stop the laughing as he looks between the girl and his son.
"Look at that Carla, Louis brought a little girl home." He jokes. Louis looks up as his friend rushes to his side and stays beside him holding his hand as she asked if he is okay. Carla watched the two kids for the first time ever she has emotions and it is straight fear.
"Come on Louis get up." Amy tries again not noticing his father grabbing the bat that she has dropped. Louis looks at the fear in her wonderful forest green eyes. He tries to smile at her before he noticed a figure behind her. He looks up at his father who had the bat in his hand with a smile and Louis shakes his head at his father before trying to push Amy away. Amy refused to leave him as she tries to help him to his feet. Then the bat is swung and Amy collapses next to Louis, the blood gushing out of her head. And in the stillness of the living room Louis screamed.
"Louis, Louis, Louis snap out of it." Fred snaps as he hits Louis across his face bringing Louis back to the present. Louis blinks as he touches his face, the slap still vibrating against his skin. He looks up to find everyone staring at him with confusion and he tries to blink the tears that are forming in his eyes away.
"Louis is everything okay?" Hermione asked looking at Louis with concern; Louis just nods as he looks down at the blood stain again, still so red.
"Yeah everything is fine. Umm let just go down the stairs, the garage is connected to the kitchen." He states as he looks back down at the bloodstain. When nobody moves he yells at them, "go to the kitchen; once you get down the stairs go right, it's the first door."
"What about you?" Ron asked with a hint of distrust in his voice, after all this is Lee's brother how are they supposed to know that he wasn't involved with the kidnapping to begin with.
"My dad hid the keys in his bedroom before they left. I have to find it." He answers carefully as he looks up from the bloodstain.
"Let me come with you." Ron eagerly says as he still does not trust Louis. Louis is Lee's brother therefore he is a threat to the mission, a threat to George, hell he is threat to all of them. There is no way he is letting Louis out of his sight for a single second.
"Fine." Louis whispers eyeing Ron with annoyance.
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Lee looks around the shed with interest while humming a tune. He still can't believe his brother locked him in here, silly boy. He almost wanted to laugh at his brother's idiotic behavior; does he really expect him to stay here? Lee knows he can escape at any time he wants; he has the tools for it, but he thinks that Louis locking him in the shed is bloody brilliant so he can wait to escape until a little later. This way Lee is sure that he won't get arrested and Louis will get what is coming to him. He can't wait until Louis steps onto the factory property; he really wants to be there just to see his brother's reaction. He feels a dull pain in his stomach as he pictures his brother's shocked look the minute he opens the factory doors, oh god he really wants to be there. Hopefully his brother will be dumb enough to grab George's friends so they can all be killed as well.
He looks around again eyeing the tiny gap in the door trying to imagine ways he can pry it open. There are ways, he knows, but he wants a fool proof plan. He doesn't want to try and break out only to find his brother's slut standing there pointing her pathetic excuse of a wand at his chest. Still he makes a list of anything that can help; there is a chainsaw, an axe, couple of saws. He smiles again, 'leave it to my brother to lock me in a shed full of weapons.'
After a while Lee hears the shed open and there in front of him is Kelly. She looks at him cruelly before taking out a camera and taking a picture of him. He glares in a response as she steps inside the shed and shuts the door behind her. She turns the shed light on before sitting on the step staring at him intensely afraid that if she takes her eyes off him he would strangle her. He just smiled as he watched her trying to intimidate her.
"What?" He asked with a sly smile as he tries to read her watch. She noticed but didn't care.
"I wanted to see you all scared being stuck in this shed." She answered as she played with her camera taking another five pictures of him.
"I don't look scared now do I?" He asked back casually.
"No." She answered truthfully before looking away from Lee.
"So then you came in here for nothing. How about you be a good woman and go back to your apartment and make me some food. Maybe a sandwich or something."
"Fuck you Lee. I would never make you any food." She spits out before standing up and glaring at him. He just smiles with excitement that he is making her unhappy.
"But you would make Louis a sandwich? Why is it because you think he is a good person at heart? You think he is prince charming who has come and swept you away to a one bedroom palace? I hate to break it to you sister but he is just as bad as me."
"Liar, take it back. My boyfriend is a good person."
"Honestly he hates everyone, even you Kelly. Trust me the moment he feels his life is threatened he will become selfish, only saving himself."
"Liar."
"Ask him about Amy Franz if you don't believe me."
"Amy Franz?"
"Amy was his first and only friend during his childhood. He let his dad rape and than kill her when she was only ten. Dad even made Amy Burgers; they tasted wonderful by the way."
"He was a kid back then, he was powerless. Now he is an adult, he wouldn't let someone get hurt."
"He had his first girlfriend when he was sixteen, her name was Roxanne Davidson. She was a pretty thing with long brown hair and chocolate eyes. He was crazy for her unfortunately so was dad. She too was raped and killed, right in front of Louis and he didn't even try to stop it once."
"He probably felt powerless against your dad."
"When he was eighteen he bought a couple of guys home from soccer practice just to hang out for a couple of hours. While boys being boys decided to drink some of dad's beers. When dad found out he knocked each boy out and tied them by their feet in the bathtub. Then he made them drink peroxide so they will puke all of the beer out. Unfortunately peroxide also caused burning of the neck and mouth and it killed the boys. Do you want to know what your loving boyfriend did?"
"What?" Kelly questioned eyeing Lee with suspension. She knows he is trying to get her upset but it isn't going to work, she will not let it happen.
"Dad told him to sit on the toilet and watch. You should have seen his face."
"I don't fucking care about that. What I do care about is making sure you can never hurt anyone ever again." Kelly nearly screams as she takes her wand out and touched his chest with the tip. Okay so he did get her angry.
"What do you think you are doing Kelly?" Lee asked without concern, he knows she is too weak to actually hurt him but if she wanted to play this game than he will play along.
"I should fucking kill you, and not because what you did to that stranger but because you fucked up my boyfriend's life."
"He would be fucked up even without me."
"Well it doesn't matter he is gone and probably wont get back for at least two hours which means I can kill you right now and he would never know."
"He won't come back at all." Lee said with a wide smile, his eyes full of excitement and need.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Wait and see." Lee nearly sings smirking at Kelly who has lowered her wand and looks at him in fear. He feels excited by her emotion, she doesn't look so plain when she afraid, actually he never seen her look so beautiful.
"What are you talking about?"
"It's a secret." He purrs.
"Tell me now." She ordered, her face turning dangerously red with ripe anger.
"Don't you just love secrets? Never tell your secrets because your power goes away when you tell your secrets." He says loudly staring into her sparkling eyes so full of fear and hate, a beautiful combination of emotions.
"You fucking asshole, tell me or I swear to god I will kill you." She says feeling like for the first time in her life capable of murder.
"Let's talk about a fairytale." He says calmly making Kelly become really confused.
"What?"
"A long time ago lived a princess so beautiful that no man could ever own her. She was a free woman allowed to roam wherever she pleases and was so sweet that everyone liked her. She was the last real beautiful person, inside and out, and everyone wanted her. Guys and girls alike would have loved to hit that sweet piece of ass and she got tons of offers but she always rejected them. When asked why she stats that she belongs to Prince Charming." He begins his voice low and husky. He smiles at Kelly's face; he knows how much Kelly hates fairytales.
"Prince Charming was a very charming person as well, full of passion, full of laughter. He was the kind of guys girls lusted after, and so when everyone heard he captured the princess's heart no one was surprised. Everyone thought that the princess would give up on the prince when he declared that she means nothing but a friend to him. It was only after the second month with her crying that she belongs to the prince that everyone started to hate Prince Charming. The Prince was hated by everyone, with his long red hair and beautiful pale body; he was such a handsome man, handsome enough to be with the princess. Unfortunately Charming loved somebody else a wrench named Alicia and Alicia loved him too so much. It was even said that the prince and Alicia will marry when the moon is next full. So everyone was forced to watch the princess growing older watching the prince and his wrench with miserable eyes. She never told the prince her feelings, never gave any hints just declared that she belongs to him and no one else. It was such a waste of beauty. The town people became mad as they saw Alicia and her prince kissing, the princess crying behind them. They wanted the prince to break up with Alicia, wanted the prince died, wanted the princess to give up on the prince and chose another to love." He adds as if reading it from a book, he looked so relaxed, it is very unsettling.
"Then one day the princess was in a field picking flowers for no reason but enjoying the beauty. There was some noise behind her and she turned around only to find Prince Charming picking some flowers. He smiled at her as she smiled at him, her heart racing. 'What a beautiful day to pick flowers.' He said to her as she smiled even more before replying 'it counts what the flowers are for.' He laughs a little as he stands up, 'Yes it was nice seeing you again princess.' The prince said as she started to head back, the princess groaned and threw her flowers to the ground, 'why must I love him so,' she cursed the skies. 'You don't.' A new voice said startling her as she turns around to see a gorgeous man, the judge, the most important person in the world." Kelly rests her head against the door and listens to the fairytale. It is easy to tell how mush she loath fairytales by the angry glares she is giving Lee.
"She was a little shocked to see the judge in such a place because the judge hated nature but she just smiled politely and asked kindly, 'what do you mean sir?" The judge laughs a bit before grabbing her hand, a pale hand wrapped in a dark hand. He helps her to her feet and says in the most polite way, 'you don't have to love him you can love anyone. Anyone would be eager to love you, I am eager to love you.' She looks at the man and frowned, she felt disgusted with just thinking of being with this man and so she told him so, 'I belong to Prince Charming and no one else.' He growled with her answer before leaving her alone as he questions her disgust for him. He wasn't bad looking; he had money, hell he was the best person for her but that bitch didn't want him. A week passed and the judge couldn't get the princess out of his thoughts. Pictures of the princess, naked and tied to the bed, possessed him at all hours. Sometimes at work he would see the naked figure dancing erotically for him, begging him to fuck her. And everyday he would find her and ask her on a date only for her to say the same thing, 'I belong to Prince Charming and no one else.' Eventually his obsession grew so much that every time he sees her he wants to just strip her naked and ride that ass forever but he never does anything. Just keep pleading her to go out o a date, just one date, and she always rejected him." He adds but his good nature vanished and it is replaced with a weird combination of anger and desperation.
"A month goes by and he decides to try again, bringing flowers only to find Prince Charming and the Princess together, picking flowers while telling jokes with each other. He could see the lust in each other's eyes, oh how they wanted each other. If it wasn't for Alicia they probably would have. He watched them for a while, most of the time they were talking about honeybees and flowers and fruity crap like that but then it happened. Prince Charming brushed the princess's hair out of her face and both leaned in for a kiss. The kiss was short probably less than two seconds. Charming freaked out after the kiss saying he made a terrible mistake and ran away leaving a hurt princess in his wake. The look on the princess's face made the judge decide makes his obsession a reality. She looked so vulnerable, so young, he couldn't help himself. Dark at night he steals the princess and locks her in his castle where no one, even her prince charming, can save her." He adds his voice getting higher with every sentence, his eyes looking more insane with every word.
"For awhile everything was going the judge's way. He gets to fuck the princess anytime he wants, Alicia was executed for a crime he made up, and Prince Charming was a crying idiot. Everything was perfect until the drunken idiot who happens to be the judge's brother finds information about the princess's whereabouts. Out of stupidity he decided to try and break him out. Of course Prince Charming, torn by grief losing both his girlfriend and the girl he fall in love with, overhears and demands to come with him so Prince Charming can save the princess and everything will be wonderful. The princess's brother the ugly prince and his girlfriend the annoying princess decides to come along as well dragging their friend, the hero, with them. Together the five of them started on the dangerous roads to the Judge's palace unaware that the minute they open the door they lives will be over." Lee is now is total madness, Kelly doubts he even knows she is there anymore. She decides to find out.
"Why?" Lee blinks as he notices where he is and he laughs.
"The castle is packed with traps, traps which killed countless others in the past with other steals."
"Other steals have you done…"
"Shut up and let me tell my story…Where was I…. The judge was found it by his own brother the drunken idiot. The drunken idiot finally has enough nerves to try and save the princess from her tomb." Lee replies looking at his fingernails with interest.
"What will happen?" Kelly asks softy, so softy that he can barely hear her.
"There are dangers within the palace, dangers that awaken in twenty minutes. They have twenty minutes to run all the way up the tower and reach the door unless they all die. If they make them they will find the princess on a bed, naked and bloody but still alive, with all her beauty destroyed. If they still want to help her they can try but touch the Judge's treasure and your ass is grass"
"You are going to kill everyone, even your brother?"
"The plan was made the moment the princess was sold to the judge, the castle is where the princess lies and the castle is where the rest shall perish as well. That is why the drawing was made, to give everything away."
"How?"
"Most people are heavy sleepers, they make breaking in quite easy. Crawling on all fours, resembling a dog the judge found the map in the annoying princess's house and drew the castle with great detail to give his horrible crime away. Then afterwards he spun a riddle out of his pocket and written down beneath the castle to hurry them along. Then in the midst of excitement the judge stayed after to watch each person sleep and plan the most murderous of plans. The only problem was the judge didn't know how impatient he was, wanting to kill them all way too soon. The annoying princess and the ugly prince he didn't want to suffer, a simple twitch on his hand told him that they wanted to cover those soft necks and squeeze. The judge could imagine the orange hair tickling his hand as he chokes the ugly prince who will fail to scream. The annoying princess with her hair brown and fuzzy would meet her own death in her own time. A simple fly would do her the trick only with a failed broom and no wings. As for prince charming, with all his faults, will do anything to find the princess and break her free. The judge knew this and couldn't help but raise a knife above the prince's head and imagine turning cute boy into a pile of rotting meat and selling it to all that are hungry. " Lee says with a smile on his face. He could picture the blood smearing on his face. He can imagine licking the blood off his lips, he bets he tastes sour.
"The control of the situation gave the judge an arousal, the feel of their lives in his hands made him eager to get laid. If only someone would have woke up, such a disappointment. Roaming freely in the complete darkness of the house the judge crawled up to each royal person and gave them a lick across the face. They all tasted so differently. The annoying princess tasted of sweat and vanilla while her mouth tasted with cherries, virgin cherries. The ugly prince holding the princess in his protective hands tasted minty, his lips had traces of vanilla and chocolate. Prince charming smelt like a king, with a soapy smell to him, and his face tasted like sweat, sweet sweat which tickled his tongue as he pushed his tongue across his eyelid. And none woke up, the judge smiled with gleam, as he promised himself he will have to do this again if it calls for it." He hints staring at Kelly without a smile. He is full out serious here and she knows it.
"Did you…?"
"Shut up let me speak woman. Plenty of weapons, the judge did bring, in case one unfortunate soul should wake up. He brought his wand, always useful, knives, guns, and anything else that can cause harm. When no one woke up he just crawled around like a dog would, so it looked like there was a dog inside with a mask on, a frightful sight if any should awake. An omen which would have screamed death but they were almost dead to the world, all safe in their perfect dreams. "
"Stop saying those things Lee." Kelly pleads no longer acting tough, no longer trying to fool both Lee and herself that she was brave. She has her hands over ear, her wand sticking out of her hand in a weird position. If he would just reach his arm out he could grab it from her. He finds his arm start to strength for the wand but stopped himself, 'no, that wouldn't be intimating enough.'
Lee was oddly silent for a minute as before saying, without his loving fairytale, "the mind is a fascinating study Kelly. Sometimes your mind plays tricks on you, makes you think your dreams are reality. Sometimes you wake up to discover the dreams are reality and the reality is but a dream. The reason I am telling you this is because this could be just a bad dream which you can wake from or you could close your eyes and open them again to find yourself in an even darker setting. What do you think this is reality or a bad dream?"
"You are a fucking freak." She screams out still covering her ears with her hands.
"If you only knew half of it my friend." Lee admits looking smugly at Kelly before looking at the wand in her hand. He knows that she has the same wand as his, he knows because his brother told him two years ago. He smiles before looking at her once again, "close your eyes Kelly and see for yourself. It is only fun when you get that moment of insecurity, the minute of hesitating opening your eyes because you don't want to see what is in front of you. Don't be a wimp Kelly, close your eyes."
Kelly glared at Lee but closed her eyes hoping that Lee doesn't overpower her in her moment of weakness. She waited a minute…two…nothing happened. Lee didn't charge at her, Lee didn't try to take the wand away from her. He did absolutely nothing. She started to open her eyes but hesitated.
"Open your eyes Kelly and join the party." Lee nearly whispered in her ear and she opens her eyes.
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Ginny sighs as she patted her mom on her knees looking up at the clock sitting in the kitchen.
"He wasn't a bad person. Maybe a little on the wild side, but he didn't deserve to be kidnapped. He doesn't deserve to be…"
"Mom don't talk about it, everything is going to be fine." Ginny says patting her mother's knee again. She wishes she can give more comfort for her mom but she can't.
"My baby is gone, and kidnapped by his own friend, it breaks my heart." Molly cries out again before sobbing. Ginny sighs and wonders if she is ever going to stop crying.
"At least he isn't dead." Ginny said comforting as she looked at the clock again, underneath George was the word missing. Ginny watched as Molly looked up at the clock still crying.
"It doesn't give me any comfort." Molly sadly admitted. Ginny brushes her mom's oily hair with a brush. Since George disappeared Molly hasn't moved from the couch. She just sits there sulking and crying. Molly has even lost a lot of weight, it is getting scary.
"It should, it means we can get him back."
"What state will he be in?" Molly snapped at her daughter and than felt guilty. It isn't Ginny's fault that George was kidnapped but honestly she doesn't want to see her daughter, she doesn't want to see anybody.
"I don't know mom." Ginny said again reading the rest of the clock. Arthur had a sign that says researching, Fred and Ron both had rescue mission. Ginny just squeezed her mother's hand as she watched the clock with interest waiting to see something changing on the clock. She prayed that Fred, Ron, and Harry knows what they are doing and don't get themselves killed, but somehow she feels relief. Maybe they found out where George is she prayed that it was true.
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When Kelly opened her eyes she finds herself in Hermione's apartment. She laughed as she sits up on the couch and looks around. She must have fallen asleep. She laughed with relief and pets the cat once again.
"It was just a dream, thank god." She says joyfully as she pushes herself up from the couch and walks over to the kitchen to get herself a glass of water. Looking though the cabinets to find glasses she swears she hears something coming from the bedroom. Pausing she flips the switch for the lights but nothing happened. She hears the noise again this time a little bit closer and she started to shake as she opened the cabinets quickly trying to find a knife. Finally she finds it and picks up a butcher knife. Taking small steps she headed into the living room at the same time Hermione's cat is running out of the living room, his fur standing up on his back. She pauses as she watches the cat scratching at the front door, meowing miserably. Feeling fear wash down her back she couldn't help but hear Lee in her mind, 'find yourself in an even darker setting.' Shaking she continues to head for the bedroom, door open wide when she hears a noise behind her. Turning around she sees the cat scratching at the ground right behind her as if warning her of something evil lurking in the darkness. She ignored the cat and looked back only to see the bedroom door shut. Feeling a sense of dread she turns to run when she felt something stab her in her leg. She falls to the ground harshly screaming, her knife sliding out of her hand. She looks around as she tries to get at her knife when she sees it. It looked like a dog walking, a black body and a white head. But as it got closer she discovered that the dog was a human with a white mask on walking exactly like a dog. Isn't that what Lee said he did? The dog has stopped moving now and was laughing as it stood up again taking off the mask.
"OPEN YOUR EYES KELLY!" Lee screams into her ears causing her to open her eyes. She screams and fall landing on her butt in the middle of the shed. Trying to calm herself down she glares at Lee who just smiled.
"So this must be reality huh?" And he had the nerve to laugh at his own question. She hisses as she tries to stand up and than freezes when she felt pain, looking down at her leg she discovered two giant holes in the exact spot where Lee stabbed her in her dream. She puts a finger over the hole and than raises the hand to her face seeing the smeared blood
"What the hell?"
"Listen little girl that is only a taste of what your reality can become. Fuck with me Kelly and I will fuck with you. You have no idea how powerful my magic is." Lee promises his eyes looking strangely empty.
"Why?" She yells, shaking slighty.
"I don't like you Miss Blurr, never liked you, never will. I can kill you Kelly without using my wand or my hands. Do you want to find out how?"
"Louis won't let you."
"Again, back to the dark fairytale again, go you are a sucker for fantasy. Okay then the drunken idiot and his followers ventured into the castle grounds not knowing that the second the heavy door is opened death will quickly come."
"What?"
"When the door is open it will cause a ticking."
"What is the ticking, a bomb?"
"Tick, tick, tick, tick…." Lee repeated saying the one word over and over again.
"It is a bomb then. And they have only twenty…"
"Twenty minutes is all they have, twenty minutes they waste in vain, twenty minutes gone so fast, pray that they reach the door in time."
"Stop with the fucking riddles Lee." She screams again.
"Why, riddles are the funniest to solve."
"What happens when they reach the other door?"
"If the door they do reach the ticking will stop and all will be fine, touch my treasure and hell will become real."
"You are just repeating yourself."
"If the chains circling the princess should crumple and disappear a door will open upon the second floor and the front door will disappear forever more. Than the cells locked in the darkness will open with a bang and anyone there shall stay there for all time."
"Are you telling me that whatever is in the cells will kill them?"
"The things within the bloody cells are anyone's worst nightmares, silent killers who knows how to be fast, rabid creatures who has a taste for human blood. They will work fast, and attack slowly, taunting their victims until they are too terrified to move. Then they move in, circling the terrified statues, and when they attack they make it as painful as can be. That is the base of their game; cause as much pain as possible, before silencing their victims forever more."
"They are going to die then?"
"You can save them Kelly."
"How?"
"Give me your wand and untie me. Let me go to the factory and get my brother out. I can convince them to not go in there. I can save them."
"You got to be out of your mind." Kelly responded and Lee put up a look of hurt before touching his chest.
"Only a woman can crush a guy's heart. Fine, the witch denied the judge's offer and sentenced everyone to death. And that my dear is the end of this fairytale." Lee said which will turn out be the last thing he will say to Kelly who just stared at Lee with shock.
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Louis kicks his parents' bedroom door open and walks inside the room looking around.
"Where would the keys be?" Ron asked as he stepped inside the room, his adrenaline making him shaky.
"I have no idea. Just start looking for the keys if you have to break stuff than do it." Louis yelled as he pulled the mattress off the bed before throwing it back on the bed. He moves over to the small dresser pulling and dumping out drawers. Still nothing. He can hear Ron throwing something on the floor and he in turn started in the closet pulling empty boxes out and shaking them impatiently. Finally in the last box he hears something when he shakes the box and with happiness he opened the box to find the keys.
"Ron, I found the keys." Louis says with a smile but he didn't hear any reply. Frowning he turned around only to find him alone in this empty room. Blinking he looked around calling Ron's name, "Ron?"
Standing up he couldn't help but feel goosebumps as he walked out of the room and looked in every room in the top story to find Ron but he wasn't there. With one last look at the second story Louis descended down the stairs to the first story. Up ahead he sees someone moving toward the kitchen and knowing it was Ron Louis groaned.
"Ron wait up." He called to Ron but as soon as he speaks Ron starts to run to the kitchen. Louis watched Ron running with confusion before he starts to run after him. He runs into the kitchen seeing Ron already sitting down at the table with everybody else.
"How did you get here so fast?" He asked Ron, man he either has to be a good runner or him, himself, is really slow.
"What are you talking about? I have been here the entire you." Ron says looking at Louis with alarm. He thinks that Louis is really mentally unstable, anyone agree?
"What do you mean, weren't you with me in my parents' room?" Louis asks his voice getting lower as he looks around the room.
"Nope, you told us to go to the kitchen while you find the keys." Ron points out not looking at Louis. If he had been looking at Louis he would have seen his face pale and his eyes go wide as Louis looks back at the rest of the house.
"You weren't in the hallway just now?" He asked afraid to know the answer. If Ron has been here all along than who was in the hallway, in the bedroom?
"No, I have been sitting in this chair the whole time."
"Why are you asking Ron those questions?" Hermione questioned after noticing the panic in his eyes.
"We have to leave now." Louis screamed ignoring her question. He doesn't know who that was and he doesn't care to find out. He opens the garage door and immediately gets inside the first car, he doesn't care if no one is following; he is going to get himself the fuck out of this house. Just as he turns the car on he hears doors opening and jumped when Hermione, Ron, and Harry squeezed in the backseat while Fred got into the front. He started the car and paused looking at the group with suspension. Is this really them? He doesn't trust anything anymore not after the whole Ron bedroom thing, for all he knows they may not be really them, how can he tell?
"Louis come on lets get moving." Fred begs, his patience running thin.
"Who are you?" He asked Fred and Fred looked at him like he was crazy.
"Are you okay Louis?" Hermione asked leaning over to peer at Louis.
"How can I know that you guys are actually the real people?" Louis whispers his hands reaching below his seat where a gun is.
"Trust us Louis we are the real people." Ron says
"Prove it." Louis replies but takes his hands off the gun.
"God damn it Louis you start this car or I am going to jinx you until you do." Hermione hisses and Louis turns the car back on and pulls the car in reverse.
"Aren't you going to open the garage first?" Ron asked looking at the end of the garage which is getting closer with every second.
"There is a lock on the outside, I am just going to run the car backwards and break the door."
"Cant you use a spell?" Fred asked and Louis smirked.
"Dad was big on making everything magic proof in this house. That is why the cars are still here today."
"You think running it will do the trick?"
"It's going to have to." Louis replies as he pushed on the gas pedal even harder so the car was reversing faster. The gang ducked when the car smashed though the door and everyone laughed with a little relief when they see bright sunlight. Louis on the other hand was looking more at the setting sun, the sky already a canvas of pink and purple hues. He doesn't like the setting sun; he doesn't like to know that they will arrive at the factory in the night. He never liked going to factory at night.
Backing down the driveway he thought he saw something moving in the garage. Stopping the car he stared into the garage. Something was shining in the garage and that shining thing was going from one side to the garage to the other.
"Louis what are you waiting for?" Ron asked with annoyance, honestly what was wrong with Louis.
"I'm going." Louis answered in a monotone as he puts his car in drive and pushes on he pedal harshly speeding away from that house to never return again. He did notice though the other car opening in the garage and he forced himself to keep silent so he wouldn't scare the rest of the group. And he keeps thinking to himself 'just go to the factory get the young man and get the hell away from this dreadful country.' Nothing good lurks in this country, not after the great fire, not after the massacre. This country is the definition of hell. He turns to Fred and then to the other three and couldn't help but think 'they have no idea what they are getting themselves into.'
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Lee smirks at Kelly before reaching out and putting his hand on the chainsaw. He taps the chainsaw with his hand, his eyes glued on Kelly who just stands there silently, like a life-size puppet.
He started to drag the chainsaw over; the chainsaw makes a scraping sound as it moves around on cement. Kelly watches the chainsaw moving like a cat watching a mouse. He just kept staring at her, a perverted smile on his face. He dared her to stop him, she dared him to just try it, and both refused to talk.
The chainsaw is further dragged and Kelly stepped back with instinct, the threatening of her life is too much for her, regardless how brave she is desperately trying to be. He knows this too and with it became even more confident as he pushes the chainsaw in his lap. In regard she steps back even more so her back was against the door, her hand on the handle as she continued to stare at Lee. Lee just taps the chainsaw delicately before giving the chainsaw a little kiss. When he turns the chainsaw on Kelly jerked a little but that was all much to Lee's disappointment.
It was only when Lee stood up at Kelly begins to sweat. Her arrogance failed her as she realized she should have run a long time ago. She begins to sweat as Lee started to walk forward as she pulled the handle opening the door. She walked backwards not keeping her eyes off Lee for a second and he just walked, easily, while she is shaking and trying to walk as fast as possible. Now in horror movies she would have tripped on something and he would have killed her but this is real life. She didn't trip and he didn't kill her. She made it to her house and locked the door and Lee didn't try to break in after her. He just stands next to her back door, the chainsaw humming in his hand.
"You are the biggest wimp in the world, my dear. But I have to thank you for helping me escape." Kelly slides down the door and covers her ears with her hands as she calms her nerves as she whispers an apology, "sorry Louis I wasn't strong enough." She hears him laugh as he throws the chainsaw to the ground and walks off the property and she prays she never sees him again and then couldn't help but think she doomed everyone.
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The drive was long and frustrating. Louis could barely remember which dirt roads too use and would get turn around really easily. Fred is restless, his need to see his brother so much that he is yelling at Louis whenever he makes a wrong turn. Ron felt sick, Harry is complaining that brooms would have been better, and Hermione is just getting a headache.
Once again Louis turns down a dirt road only to pull to the side and turn around. Finally Fred really snaps, "God damn it Louis. Are you just fucking with us? Where is the fucking factory at?"
"It's somewhere around here. I just dot remember which road is the right road." Louis replies looking at the gas and frowning, there is only a quarter left. He continues to frown as he as once again drives back to the stop sign and looks at the eight different dirt roads. The sky was now a colorful arrangement of blues, pink, and purple hues, with the sun so low that Louis had to squint his eyes to be able to see.
"What are we going to do?" Hermione asks nervously, every time Hermione goes on a car ride regardless how short the car ride is she ends up having to use the restroom. And the forty five minute car ride has so far taken two hours and they are not even close to the factory.
"We tried road one to five, so I guess we can try the next three roads." He guesses looking at the three roads he hasn't taken yet. They all looked like they haven't been driven on for a very long time.
"Is there anything that can help us know we are on the right road like a sign or a landmark?" Harry asks looking around finding nothing, just wheat, not even any signs, just wheat.
"Yes, you will see an orange factory called "Ogami Oranges." It will be about five miles up the road and will be the first thing you will see except for of course wheat." Louis answered pointing to the fields of wheat on all sides.
"Does anyone live around here?" Ron asked and Louis pauses to think about it.
"Not around here no, most live in the cities that we passed earlier. There are in fact only about six houses in this country and most are abandoned."
"Why?"
"Apparently six years ago there was a nasty fire that wouldn't die out. It took firefighters half a year to stop the fire. Everyone who lived in the country moved away didn't seem to want to stay in a fiery country grave."
"Is that why your parents moved?"
"No, they never made it to the fire they left ten years ago." Louis says, his voice becoming very dark, his eyes narrowing.
"Why?" Ron asks apparently not seeing Louis's dislike for this conversation.
"Its nothing that concerns you, it is in the past and the past can never threaten your present." He says and Ron looks at him with confusion, what was he talking about?
"Otherwise he doesn't want to talk about it." Hermione says to Ron.
"Exactly. Now everyone which road should I take?" He asked looking at the roads with panic, what if he gets them lost in the middle of this country, what if they run out of gas? So many questions are running though his mind and he definitely getting overwhelmed.
"Take the forth road." Hermione guessed pointing to the really bumpy dirt road with thick wheat in the path.
"No the fifth." Ron said and pointed to a smoother road.
"The sixth." Harry says staring at the slightly smoother road, hell he would think if there is a factory around the road would have to be smooth. Fred closed his eyes for a minute waiting until someone comes up with a solution to their problem.
"Take the forth road." Someone whispered in his ear and Fred would have sworn he felt someone's hand on his shoulder. "The fourth road will take you to the factory but hurry."
"The fourth road." Fred screamed at Louis pointing to the bumpy road with certainty. Louis looked at the road for a minute and then sighed as he started on the road. This didn't help Hermione; with every bump the urge of urination became more urgent. This also did not help Ron who is looking green from carsickness. Everyone was shaking from the vibration of the car which only added to everyone's discomfort. Luckily in ten miles the road smoothed down and everyone can relax again as they continued to drive hoping to get to the factory before nightfall.
When they saw the orange factory everyone shouted with happiness, they found the right road. Their happiness quickly turns into horror as they see dozens of crosses by the road. Everyone looks at the crosses with dread, somehow everyone thought the same thing, people died here, people have been buried there.
"Those crosses are for the sixty factory workers who died from a fire inside that orange factory. It closed down slightly afterwards because no one wanted to work there. They said that their bodies would come back at nighttime and scare everyone away. But don't worry those crosses are just there for remembrance, the bodies are buried in cemeteries miles away from here. It is just a old superstition." Louis informs everyone looking at the crosses. When he was a kid he always believed that there were bodies there and it always frightened him, now they look like decorations. Good decoration for a ghost town.
There drive past the factory with its many crosses, the descending sun making the crosses nearly glow. The sun was low in the horizon now, nearly fully descended. And no light from the moon or the stars will be there to help them thanks to clouds. Fred watches the sun with many emotions, the main emotion is of depression, a feeling he always get when the sun sets. He never can explain it but he hates sunset, he finds it too gloom, he prefers the sunrise. George on the other hand loves the sunset, he finds it absolutely beautiful but he also loves the sunrise. Hermione couldn't help but chew her nails as she watches the sunset. This place is so creepy during the day how is it going to be like in the night? As for Louis he just speeding up wanting to make it to the factory in time and they have at least another thirty minutes.
They passed another factory, one with boarded up windows and doors. The factory was big yet very ugly and had a red line across its door.
"What is that line across the door?" Hermione asked looking at the factory with interest.
"It means that the city found this factory unfit to be run. Most of these factories around here were closed down due to health problems. This one, Mrs. Piggy's Treats, closed down because people kept losing limbs in this factory. And it wasn't the people who deal with the machines it was the managers, secretaries, janitors. It was really bizarre. A lot of good people died in this factory." He answers as he continues to drive past another factory; this one was really banged up and looked like a nuclear plant.
"No way, it's a nuclear plant." Fred asks worriedly.
"No, it's a chemical plant." Louis answers with no trace of emotion.
"What happened to it?" Harry asks looking at the plant.
"It was one of England's best chemical plants; some said it was the most important of all chemical plants. It opened in 1962; by 1970 the plant grossed over 1.7 billion dollars. The workers and the owners were all really nice people and helpful. If anyone needed a job and had two hands they can find work here. In '78 everyone was supposed to do their station checkup but some forgot to do so. Turns out there were a crack in one of the vessels. The day after the checkups the crack connected to another crack in another vessel which broke both vessels. The vessels contained hydrofluoric acid. By the time anyone knew about the spill everyone on that floor was burned so badly that no one could recognize them. After that the company discovered at least ten more vessels which had cracks in them and so they decided the safest thing to do is to close the factory until they fix the cracks. It never got reopened."
"Is everything so tragic around here?" Hermione asks feeling a little scared.
"My dad used to call this road the death road because all you see is death and destruction. In this country everything ends tragic, it always has been that way and it will stay that way. My dad said it was only a matter of time before something happened at the factory we are going to."
"Did it?
"I told you already everything around here ends with tragedy. Even the houses here ends tragically. My old neighbors Fred and Mary vanished. They asked my parents to watch over their house for a day and than never came back. Eventually their bodies were found, skinned and tied to crosses, even today the crosses are still there."
"Holy shit!"
"When I was a kid there was another kid who lived in a house about 2 miles away from me. He was a quiet kid, always paranoid about everything. One minute he was on his way to school and the next moment he was dead, gunshot to his head. I'm telling you anyone who goes to this country meets some type of doom. That is way only six families stay here, everyone else considers this place to be cursed."
"Cursed?"
"They say it has been cursed since it was discovered back in the 1700's. The earliest account I heard was in the 1900. Some outlaws was running from the law and found this land, thought it would be a good hiding place. Some policemen followed them here. After the third month the policemen started to search for them. Eventually they found them dead, never could tell from what, they had no marks, no bites, nothing. They just dropped dead."
"That's creepy." Hermione truthfully says as she looks at yet another factory. Each factory they passed looked long deserted, the only sign of life seems to be crosses spread all across the road.
"The next one coming up suffered two different mass deaths. One of them was an outbreak of e-coli; everyone thinking it was just a sickness didn't go to the hospital until it was too late. Three hundred out of a thousand died. The factory was shut down for a while but reopened, hiring three hundred more people to replace everyone that died. Everything was going great for awhile until it happened."
"What happened?"
"It's nothing that concerns us." Louis replies darkly seeing the factory come into view. He turns into the factory road and continues on the gravel road before parking his car, "we are here."
Oh god I finally finished this chapter, I thought I would never get to the end I only planned on this chapter being fifteen pages but it is actually twenty four. I wrote and rewrote the fairytale probably about fifteen times and I am still not fully pleased with it. I wanted to write in more details in the fairytale but I don't want to make this a thirty page installment. Tell me what you think of this chapter, I spent probably two weeks on this chapter, spending at least one full week reading though the chapter. I hope you enjoyed it.
Thank you for everyone who replied, you guys are amazing and I am happy that my story manages to stay suspenseful.
Who is ready to see George again?