The World Is Ugly
Annabell took off running out of the living room as Gage jumped through the window showering the room with glass shards. He grabbed Riley by the shirt and threw his body against the wall holding him there.
"WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE, TELL ME!" He brought Riley forward and slammed him back into the wall again. Riley's head snapped forward and then back creating a large hole in Annabell's freshly painted walls.
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!" Riley screamed into Gage's face as he grabbed his wrist and tried to push them away from his shirt, but Gage' fist just got tighter.
"DON'T LIE TO ME! YOU TOOK HER AWAY FROM ME! SHE WAS MINE! HER BLOOD WAS MINE!" He growled and came forward attaching his teeth to Riley's neck. He bit down as Riley let out a terrifying, pain filled scream straight out of a horror movie.
Annabell was upstairs in their bedroom pushing whatever she could in front of the door, but she didn't want to be up here hiding like a coward. She wanted to be down there saving Riley from the pain she was scared he was going to go through. When she heard the scream she had to fight herself from moving all the items she had already moved and going after Gage. But she remembered a memory from not that long ago, her and Riley laying on the floor in a pile of blankets, their first night in the new house.
Riley gently pushed the curls out of Annabell's face and pressed his lips on to her forehead. They were laying there under he didn't know how many blankets. He was happy, really happy and by the smile on Annabell's face she was just as happy as him. He finally was able to call her his wife and love her like a husband should. Every night, gently and lovingly, but there was something still nagging at him; maybe it was the scars still so clear on his wife's face. He would stare at them sometimes without even noticing it, until she would slowly raise her hand to hide them from view. That's when he was finally able to tear his eyes away from them.
He felt like those scares were his fault, he should have been watching her, protecting her. Instead, the evil bastard Gage got to her and scared her half to death. He had thanked Jackson a thousand times, but each time Jackson just said he would have felt guilty watching that and not doing anything about it.
"What are you thinking about baby?" He looked down at Annabell who was wrapped in his arms, her naked body covered by the blankets.
"Will you promise me something," her face clouded with worried, but she slowly nodded her head and he hugged her tighter to his side. "Promise me that if Gage ever comes back, and he's back to hurt us. That you will run up here and push everything in front of the door. No matter what is happening to me downstairs, no matter what you hear. Then if you hear him come up the stairs, I want you to crawl out that window and run to Jackson, Jude, or Prue and Brody. Don't stop to see if I'm ok or if it's me coming up the stairs, just run."
"Riley, I…" She sat up hugging the sheet to her chest, she was scared.
"Just promise me Annabell." He sat up to and looked her straight in the eyes, her eyes swelled up with tears, but she nodded. "Say it out loud."
"I promise to run, no matter what." She started crying then and threw her body into Riley's chest. He rubbed her back and cried softly into her hair.
Remembering this now caused Annabell a great pain, she felt like she was breaking in half. The half wanted to keep her promise and run, but the other wanted to run downstairs and protect Riley from the evil monster that was now in her home. She pushed the last piece of furniture against the door and then sat on top of it waiting for the footsteps on the stairs, her signal to run for it.
Downstairs, Gage spit the piece of Riley on the floor; he brought him away from the wall and threw him to the floor. He got down and pressed him down to the floor with his knees. His hands were around Riley's neck as he bit off another piece, Riley let out another scream, even though he tried to stop it, he knew Annabell was upstairs listening to all of this.
"Come on Riley, I know you don't want these scars. These scars that cover my body, THE FUCKING SCARS YOU LEFT ME!" He screamed at Riley before taking a chunk of out of his arm, Riley squirmed and fought under Gage, not knowing how he got so strong in such a short amount of time.
"Gage please don't do this. Don't do this. Think about Brody. Think about your brother." Riley knew that Brody had been trying to get a hold of Gage over and over again with no luck.
"My brother, what brother, I have no brother! He turned on me that night on the tour bus when that dumb bitch slit her wrist. You and her wasted all that sweet blood, saving none for me. It was sooo good Riley, it was like the richest wine there was. I would pay millions for that blood. Just a bottle, maybe two."
Gage smiled a sickening smile that made Riley's stomach turn. His eyes drifted to the ceiling right above him, the master bedroom, where Annabell was waiting to run. He wished he made her promise to run as soon as Gage showed signs of wanting revenge. He didn't know how long he could go through this pain, the pain of his body literately being torn apart bit by bit.
"Is she up there? Is she up there listening to you scream? Listening to you die, I hope she is, I hope she suffers before I make her suffer more. I don't care that there is no more blood left in that body, I will make it mine. I'll make it mine in the way only you should." A look of horror over came Riley's face as he figured out what Gage was talking about, "Yes dear Riley I'm going to rape your wife, but I think I'll take you up there so you can watch, so you can see the pain she's going to go through, listen to her scream while you can't do anything but watch. It was going to be good, the best sex I ever had."
Riley fought harder, angrier giving him strength, Gage smiled as Riley started to fight more. He stood up and pulled Riley up with him. Like he was nothing, but a rag doll he threw Riley into the wall, hard enough that his body sunk into the wall like it was nothing but foam. Gage simply walked over and pulled Riley out of the plaster like it was nothing, ripping off another body piece like it was nothing.
"You know what this is taking to long, let's speed this up." He smiled before tearing at Riley's body with his teeth like a mad man. Shredding him like paper, like his body was butter, easy to tear and easy to cut.
Riley's pain was released in one long scream, he screamed and screamed. Annabell upstairs covered her ears and cried staring at that window, wanting to run, knowing she should run, but couldn't move. She was frozen with fear. That's when she started to make her mistake, she jumped up and started tearing the furniture away from the door, and she was going to save Riley.
Riley stopped screaming, as soon as Gage stopped tearing. Gage nodded as he looked around at all the pieces of Riley on the floor, he dragged Riley like a dirty old blanket up the stairs. Riley grunted in pain every time his broken, ripped up body hit a wooden stair. He hopped Annabell was running, he hoped she was half way to help by now. He closed his eyes and prayed to the God he didn't even know would listen to him. He prayed for Annabell to be running, he prayed for Gage to snap out of whatever this was and return to the old Gage. He wanted the old Gage back, not this evil one, the man was focused on hurting him, well probably killing him and the only women he has ever loved.
Annabell wasn't listening; there was only one more piece to move. She shoved it aside and torn open the door, but there was Gage with a smile on his face, a smile she only seen in horror movies, always on the villain as he went in for a kill.
"Well, well we meet again. How are you Annabell? You good? You great? You SCARED!" He screamed the last word in her face; she screamed and went running for the window.
Gage smiled and threw Riley into the wall; he knew the man couldn't move he hardly had any legs to stand on. He ran after Annabell pulling her body back through the window she was half way through. He flung her hard into the floor behind him, splintering the floor. She screamed in pain and he knelt down and straddled her. A knee on each side of her body, he lowered himself down to her throat and sniffed her jaw line. She whimpered she had yet to see Riley pushing himself up off the floor so that he was sitting up. When her eyes found his she screamed, for the man in front of her was not her husband.
There were large, gaping holes all over his body, his face, his arms; his legs were barely even there. That's when she realized that, that was done on purpose. Gage had made it so Riley couldn't run whatever Gage decided to do to her now, Riley had to watch. This made her cry even more and Riley pleaded with his eyes, his mouth was half gone, there was no way he could say anything to her.
"LOOK AT ME!" She hurried to look at him, he was glaring down at her, his eyes she noticed were not his normal color, they were a black so deep she was lost in them. Something had happened to him, something very horrible and bad. "That's better, so much better. I can see the fear in your eyes you realizing that something bad is about to happen, you're going to wish that you never came back stage that night. You're going to wish that maybe you would have died long ago by the abusive boyfriend that wanted to kill you so long ago, isn't that why you ran away from home? Isn't that why you were going to leave Riley? You were afraid to return to where it all happened."
Annabell froze; she hadn't even told Riley about the two boys that she and Prue had been with before they went to England to follow the black parade tour. The two boys that bruised and beaten both of them, the ones that caused them to run away from everything they knew and loved, the two boys that brought them Riley and Brody, but also Gage.
"How did you…" She started to ask, but her question was stopped by a pain in her shoulder, she screamed and thrashed her body around under Gage's. He sat up with a piece of her shoulder in his mouth, he spit it out and it landed by Riley's hand.
Riley looked down at the piece of Annabell, he couldn't believe what he was watching, and he couldn't believe that he couldn't do anything about it but sit there and watch. It killed him inside; it caused him more pain than Gage's venom on his skin had. He hated this, he hated himself. He hated the truth that Gage just uttered about Annabell's past, so clearly made true by the look of terror on Annabell's face as he said each word about the man that caused her pain.
"I DON'T WANT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS DAMMIT! YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M SICK OF WAITING! I'M FINSHING THIS NOW!" She screamed as his hand ripped away her pants and he began to work on his, he used his other hand to push down on Annabell's mouth and muffle her screams.
There was nothing she could do now.
