Chapter Nine: "Toxic"
"I'm so bored" Adie groaned from on top of the Master bed. "We can't really do much without you being put in danger." Paige said. "Can't we at least turn on the television?" Adie asked. "Nope, Rob scared that background music to TV shows, movies, or commercials can be a sign." Paige responded taking a long sip of a bottled water, since Rob was worried of drinking contaminated water. "Ugh, this is so boring." Adie complained once again as the door swung open.
"My shift." Takbir said walking into the room. "You going to be okay alone?" Paige asked Adie who nodded in return. "I think I'll just sleep. With everything that's happened, I'm exhausted." Adie responded as she got under the covers and pretended to sleep to pass the time.
"How's she holding up?" Victoria said sitting on the couch, covered in a blanket, reading a magazine. "Where's Rob?" Paige asked looking around and not finding him. "He's safe-proofing the guest room so we can rest in between shifts." Victoria answered. Paige walked over next to Victoria and sat beside her on the couch. "So…." Victoria said a little stuck on conversation.
Suddenly, the plasma screen television on the wall across from both of them turned on, the sound of static filled the room as black and white dots engulfed the screen. Rob stepped out of one of the two guest rooms on the second floor of the cabin and looked over the balcony at the two girls below.
"Who turned the television on? I thought I unplugged it." Rob said noticing the plug from the plasma screen that hung on the wall wasn't connected to the outlet. Then the television began to gather information from the satellite on the roof. "Unplug everything!" Rob yelled running down the stairs as Victoria and Paige jumped off the couch and began to pull the audio/video connections off along with the cable connections yet the Television still downloaded information.
"Nothing's working!" Victoria yelled as Takbir entered the room after hearing the commotion and an image appeared on the television screen. On the television screen, was Britney Spears's music video for Toxic. She was in a flight attendants uniform as the music video started.
"Baby can't you see. I'm calling a guy like you. Should wear a warning. It's dangerous, I'm fallin'. There's no escape, I can't wait, I need a hit. Baby, give me it. You're dangerous, I'm lovin' it. Too high, can't come down. Losing my head. Spinning 'round and 'round. Do you feel me now? With a taste of your lips I'm on a ride. You're Toxic, I'm slipping under. With a taste of a poison paradise. I'm addicted to you, Don't you know that you're toxic?" The song played, emphasizing on the poison and Toxic, as Rob ran towards the master bed room and attempted to open it only to find it had automatically locked itself when Takbir exited the room.
"Adie!" Paige Shouted to her friend who was on the other side of the door. Adie, had fallen asleep, and being a deep sleeper, did not hear the four survivors outside her door shouting to get her attention. A female Black Widow, a highly poisonous spider with a black body and red hourglass shape on her back, crawled into the room, to avoid the cold night air, through the slightly open window leading into the Master bedroom.
The spider crawled over to Adie and walked on top of her exposed right arm and rested there momentarily. Adie feeling the spiders fuzzy legs on her arm, quickly moved her hand, disturbing the spider causing it to bite. Adie woke up at the sharp pain in he wrist. It felt like a pin prick but within seconds her hand began to go numb. She saw the spider, jumped out of the bed and ran towards the door, attempting to open it but not being successful.
"Help!" Adie shouted banging on the door with her left hand. "Back away from the door!" Rob shouted from the opposite side. He went over to the fireplace and opened the case containing the musket and pulled it out. He returned to the door and shot point black at the lock, immediately opening the door.
Paige was the first to run in and hug Adie who stood against the far wall. "It bit me!" She shouted staring at the spider who was now scurrying to exit the room the same way it came in. Takbir ran over to it and with one stomp, squished the spider beneath the sole of his shoe.
"What type of spider was it?" Rob asked Adie. "I don't know." She shouted on the verge of tears as her entire right arm went numb. "It was a Black Widow." Victoria said. "It had an hourglass shape on it's back, probably a female since males aren't known to bit." Rob ran to a cabinet in the bathroom and went through a box full of syringes, searching for an anti-venom. "we have anti-venom for every single spider except for a black widow!" Rob panicked.
"That's because Black Widow's aren't indigenous to Northern United states. They usually live in the south." Victoria chimed in. Rob grabbed Paige's keys and walked out of the room, followed by Paige while Takbir and Victoria took responsibility of Adie. "Where are you going?" Paige asked. "To the nearest hospital. I'm not going to let her die." Rob grabbing his sweater and stepping outside. "Let me come with you." Paige pleaded but rob just turned around and placed both hands on her shoulders.
"I'm not going to lose you too. If something Happens to Adie, Death will come after me, then the order will start over again and If we're together, He's just going to take us both out." Rob told her. "Promise me you'll come back!" She whispered. "I promise." Rob muttered pushing a stand of her brown hair out of her face. Paige pulled Rob into a hug, giving him a kiss on the cheek. "I'll be waiting for you." She whispered into his ear before letting go of their embrace and walking back to the cabin.
Rob entered her blue Prius and pulled out of the dirt road, heading to the main road that led out of town. As he drove, he was suddenly pulled out of his concentration and sent a couple weeks back to the gas station as he had before when he had relived the experience through Paige's eyes. Except now, it seemed as If he was in Adie's body.
He once again witnessed the lorry carrying the gas tank Slamming Helen's body against the window of Roy's truck before pinning him between the pump and his truck. He saw Paige's prius catch on fire. He could see Trent catch on fire inside while Paige jumped into the backseat to get away from him. "Paige!! Trent!!" Rob shouted in Adie's voice as she had done so in his vision. He once again saw Pierre get his head smashed with the falling debris before Paige was impaled by the shard of glass.
He also saw Paula get run over before Takbir caught himself on fire. He witnessed His car explode with both Chris and Victoria inside and a large shard of glass flying through the air heading for Adie, only this time something different happened, She was struck by the Glass but was still alive as she fell towards the ground, The Glass missing any major veins or arteries, but paralyzing her entire body. He saw himself being thrown into the wall by the explosion, his spine breaking as he died a quick and painless death. He still lay inside Adie's body as she was burned by the flames caused from the explosion, before a piece of the roof gave out and landed directly on his, well Adie's, head splattering blood everywhere.
He was back in Paige's Car only while he was having his vision, he swerved off the road and was heading directly towards Clear Corman Lake. He hadn't been the last to die after all. He died before Adie meaning that This was Death's plan from the beginning. To separate him from any survivors as He died alone without their knowledge. Now he would never return to the cabin with The anti-venom. Now, He wouldn't keep his promise to Paige. And now, He was going to die.
The blue car plummeted off a cliff and into the freezing waters below, The song from the Cabin Replaying in his head. "It's dangerous, I'm fallin'" referring to him driving off the cliff. The car began to sink as the water pressure began to press up against the glass of the locked car. He tugged at his seatbelt which was stuck, the rest of the line from the song entering his mind. "There's no escape." It was all true.
There was absolutely no way he could get out of this. He was going to die and there was nothing he or any of the other survivors could do to stop death. After he drowned, Adie would die from the poison and the chain would restart killing Paige, Takbir, and finishing it off with Victoria. He closed his eyes tightly as the windows burst and water filled the car, accepting his death and defeat at death's hands.
Author's note: Another Twist! Rob was supposed to die before Adie! What will happen to the others who have no Idea he's dying? and will Rob die? Please read and Review. I'm going to upload the Applicaton for The sequel to this story in a bit. I can only tell you that three will survive this and go to the sequel, I'm going to make you wonder who they are cause i'm so evil!