Shelby woke a few hours later to a wet cloth on her forehead. It was wiping blood off her face she opened her eyes and found Jason. She was lying on her back looking up at him. Her head was pounding with a killer headache. Jason stopped when she saw that her eyes were open. Jason turned away from her. "Thank You" she said her voice was so soft it was more like a whisper. Jason heard it. She sounded like the timid girl who was his friend when they were just kids.

Jason never meant to harm her. He brought her hear to protect her. He didn't want anything to happen to her. When he saw those people trying to take her away he lost it. He tore those people away from her and killed the boy and then the girl. It was easy. When he saw that girl smashing Shelby's head against the wall anger boiled in him that he had never felt before.

Shelby watched as Jason stood up. He went to walk out but she stopped him by grabbing his wrist. "Jason" she said softly, she saw that the wound on his back was still bleeding. "You are bleeding" she says he turned to look at her. He pulls his hand away and walked out the door. She wanted to repay him for cleaning her up. Her left eye was still swollen shut so she couldn't see much. Laying back down made the pain her headache was giving her subsided a little bit. She still didn't know why she had attacked Colt when he stabbed Jason in the back but she felt the need to protect Jason.

She knew he wasn't the same boy she knew when she was little but she wanted him to be her Jason no matter how afraid she was of him. Jason was her friend at one point but she could never trust him. He had hurt her but then he saved her from getting killed the night before. She knew that if he hadn't interfered she would dead. She couldn't fight back because she was so weak. She was thin and unnourished from lack of food and water.

Shelby heard footsteps coming back towards the room. She looked to the side and found Jason was standing there with a backpack in his hands he threw in down to the side of the makeshift bed. She sat up and opened it. There was food and water in the bag. There were even woman's clothes in the bag. That looked like they would fit. She would only be able to change my top since she was shackled by her ankle yet. She would change later. She grabbed out a bag of chips and opened it. She took one and placed it in her mouth. Her mouth overflowed with saliva. She took out more and placed them in her mouth and chewed them. She felt her stomach growl from the hunger it was feeling. She finished the bag and pulled out a water bottle and drank the whole bottle.

Jason watched as she ate more, Jason saw her wince in pain every now and again. He didn't know what to do now with her. She was badly hurt and didn't look like she would live if she kept like this. He didn't want to let her go because he felt if he did she wouldn't come back. Even if she wanted to the people in town wouldn't let her come back. He knew she would die if he didn't find away to get her strength up.


Two days had passed since the run in with the couple who had failed to rescue Shelby. She was able to open her eye a little more, she felt herself getting a bit stronger but Jason hadn't removed the shackle around her ankle. She knew he didn't trust her but even with him finding her food and water she knew she still needed a doctor. Jason would not let her go though. He wasn't going to let her go and Shelby knew that.

As the two days passed Jason had become gentler with his childhood friend. She would see him come back with bodies of the people would trespass on his land. He would give her the backpacks to make sure that she got what she needed. Jason would sit with her and she would talk.

The more time she spent with him the more comfortable she felt around him. She was still afraid of him however. She knew that if she ever crossed him he wouldn't hesitate to kill her like all the others he had killed. She however needed to stretch her legs. She had been cooped up in the basement of the house that she had lived in for years for so long that she felt she was forgetting how to walk.

Jason was currently now standing in the doorway watching her as she ate a small bag of chips. She was savoring the food he brought her. She had to get him to trust her long enough to into town and get some supplies or even let her upstairs so she could wash up and change clothes. She knew this house well enough. She had grown up here. She had however never been in the basement till a few weeks ago when Jason brought here.

Shelby didn't even know if people were looking for her anymore they most likely thought that she was dead and not coming back. It might work to her advantage she never liked to be watched anyways she liked her privacy and the only people who ever understood that was Clay and Mrs. Voorhees at times. Mrs. Voorhees had been overprotective of her. So had Clay but she loved that about him. She spent most of her day thinking about him.

"Jason" She whispered it was quiet but she knew he heard her. She had always been a quiet speaker even when she was a kid. Jason liked that about her when they were kids it meant that nobody else could ever hear what they were saying to each other. "I am cold and dirty is there any way I could go upstairs and get cleaned up I promise I won't runaway" she said to him. Jason walked over to her and crouched down. She shied away from him he reached out and touched her face. She shuddered and pulled away from his touch. Jason pulled his hand away from her.

"Please" Shelby said to him. "I won't go anywhere I promise" she said to him. She wouldn't either she knew what would happen if she tried that again. He would kill her without a second thought. Jason reached out and unlocked the shackle on her ankle. He wrapped one arm under knees and the other arm wrapped around her shoulders. He lifted her up she picked up the backpack that had clothes looked like they would fit. Jason carried her out of the makeshift bedroom she had in the basement and headed up the small amount of stairs.

Shelby recognized the house well. It was a bit messier then it was the last time she had been in the house. Jason carried her to the bathroom and set her down on the toilet. It was an actual toilet instead what she had down in the basement. Jason stood outside the door with his back to her. Shelby knew he wouldn't let her out of his sight. Which meant the door stayed open. She turned on the sink faucet and grabbed the wash cloth. She found a bar of soap and wrapped it in the wash cloth. She put it under the running water and soaped it up. She started with her face. She looked in the mirror and she saw how bruised it really was.

Shelby hissed in pain when the cold water hit her cuts. She fought through it and scrubbed the dirt and blood of her face. Once it was clean she removed her shirt and washed that down as well. She put the clean shirt on from the bag and removed her pants she then washed her legs and feet. After making sure that she was clean she pulled on the pants in the bag. The clothes were a perfect match. Shelby found that there was a brush in the bag that had a hair tie wrapped around it. She brushed her tangled red hair and tied it up with the hair tie. She found a pair of socks in the bag so she put them on her feet so they wouldn't get cold.

She picked up the backpack and walked over to Jason. "Jason I am done" She said to him. Shelby felt much better. She felt clean and that made a difference to her. Jason turned around and picked her up again. Once again not trusting her to walk afraid she would run on him. Instead of taking her to the basement he carried her down the hallway and to a bedroom. He kicked open the door and set her down on the bed.

Shelby watched as Jason sat down in a chair by the door. She pulled her legs up to her chest and watched him. He was staring at her making sure she didn't run. He had brought her to a room where she would be comfortable. She knew he wouldn't move from where he sat. She knew he didn't trust her.

Jason watched Shelby as she sat on the bed. She was watching him just as he was watching her. He couldn't let her run again. He had to keep her here it was the only place she was safe. He wouldn't let anything happen to her.


Shelby watched as Mrs. Voorhees busied herself with house work. She had to get Shelby to go out and play but Shelby just wasn't feeling it. She had no one to play with not since she had lost her best friend a year ago. The camp was opening tomorrow and she didn't want to go but she had to since Mrs. Voorhees was the cook of the camp. Shelby would have to see the kids that push Jason in the lake. Even though they never found his body she knew he wasn't coming back. She walked outside the cabin and saw that counselors were working to make the camp safe and fun for the kids that were coming tomorrow.

Shelby walked around the campground and as she walked she kept her head down thinking of what she and Jason would be doing right now.

"You should smile anybody would love to be here" Shelby jumped at the sound of a boys voice behind her.

"Yeah well I don't have any friends here nor am I expecting any" She said to the boy. She looked him over. He had shaggy brown hair and deep brown eyes. He was no older than her.

"Yeah well everybody needs a friend" he said.

"I had a friend but he is no longer here" she said walking away.

"I am Clay" He said Shelby ignored him and walked away kicking dirt as she walked.

Shelby woke and found that she was in room in the house that she was a hostage in. Her dreams had been filled with Jason and Clay. One of them was when she met Clay. She didn't remember that she had remembered meeting him when she was eighteen not when she was twelve. Maybe it was a memory she lost. Clay had really been the one that saved her from the seven year depression she seemed to have been in. She knew that Mrs. Voorhees didn't like him but she didn't care she had grown to love Clay. Mrs. Voorhees was holding on to Jason while Shelby was trying to let go.

Shelby found that Jason was still in the room watching her. She should be happy that she had Jason back only this wasn't her Jason this was somebody else. This Jason killed people and enjoyed it. She had to get out of here only she didn't know how and even if she did he would only come after her and bring her back here. Shelby was trapped and for now she would have to make best of it. She didn't know how to do that right now but she is smart she will figure it out somehow.

Shelby pulled the dirty covers off her and pulled her legs up to her chest. She didn't even feel safe at all. She knew she had helped Jason a few days ago with the two teens that almost saved her. Jason watched her carefully. She knew she could never escape with him watching her. Jason wasn't going to let her out of his sight again.

Shelby pulled the backpack to her and opened it up. She pulled out the item of food and opened it. She took a bite and chewed it slowly making sure to savor it.

Jason watched her as she ate. She hadn't been asleep for very long. She really was looking sick and he knew that she was dying slowly. She had lack of sleep and she was beginning to show signs of being malnourished. She had lack of sleep and that wasn't doing her any good. He just wasn't going to let her go. He had to get her help but if she went to a hospital there was a large chance she wasn't coming back to him anytime soon or if she would ever come back.

He had lost her once he wasn't doing that again.

"Jason" he looked up at her face.

"Please let me go" She said to him. The clothes she was wearing were baggy on her. They didn't fit her at all. She had lost a lot of weight in the last two weeks. Jason stood up and shook his head at her. Shelby's face fell. "Please Jason" She said to him. "If you let me go I will come back I promise" She said to him well she was more like pleading with him to let her go.

Jason walked over to her and sat on the bed. He reached out and one of his dirty hands touched her face. She didn't move knowing that if she did he wouldn't react well. She let him trace her face with his thumb.

Jason's thumb ran over her soft skin. He remembered when they were kids she had a slight tan to her skin now she was as white as a ghost. Her eyes were sunken in and there were dark circles under them. Tears were falling from her eyes.

"You have no idea what I went through when I saw you drown" She said to him. "I watched them while the other kids beat me. I was sore and broken. I couldn't save you but, you can save me Jason. You have to let me go" she said to him. Jason again shook his head at her with a no. "I am sorry I couldn't save you Jason. You want to protect me right" She asked him. This time he nodded. "Then you have to let me get some food before I die. You don't want that do you" She asked him he again shook his head no. "So let me get the help I need. I will come back I promise" She said to him.

Jason reluctantly nodded at her. He walked to the bedroom door and opened it. He walked back to her and lifted her in his arms. She wrapped her arms around his neck as he carried her out of the house. She knew he could get her to the town and the clinic. He had after all kept up with the car that she had escaped in and brought her all the way back here.