Chapter 13- While the Fire Burns
John's heart started to race… Kane had kidnapped Torrie to get to him. She could die a horrific death and it would all be his fault. John frantically tried to get out of the police station. He had no idea where to look, where to find any of them. All of a sudden he went really faint and froze solid in the doorway. He started to have a flashback to the shoot out with Mark Calloway.
"Mark your on top of a roof just give it up"
"No you think you can stop me I kill anyone who gets in my way."
"John I am going to have to go up there. He isn't coming down."
"Dave there's no way. You heard what he said. Stop trying to be the damn hero all the time."
"Look we are to serve and protect. Calloway is not in custody so we are not doing our job right."
"Screw the damn job you will get your self killed"
"John I am your best friend and always will be but you can't say that just because your wife and family screwed you over"
John punched Dave straight in the jaw.
Dave held his mouth. Without even looking at John he slowly got up and climbed higher on the roof.
"Mark I'm Officer Dave Batista. You need to think about this. You have kids what must they be thinking. Look Mark just put the gun down and we can talk things through."
Calloway laughed "No talking necessary" Calloway shot Dave four times causing him to fall from the roof.
John shouted "NO" He jumped up and before Calloway could fire another shot John shot him once in the heart and once in the forehead killing him instantly.
John fell to his knees. He could see the blood of his partner all over the floor.
John came around as Randys badge fell from his pocket. John quickly stormed out of the door. He wasn't going to be alone again. He wasn't going to let anything happen to Torrie. He would find her and save her no matter what it took.
…...
Torries eyes shifted back and forward. She was terrified and was in pain all over her body. She could not move. She had been nailed between two pieces of wood against the wall. . She could scream for help as her mouth was taped shut. Torrie kept struggling trying to escape but it was useless. Both her hands were nailed between two pieces of wood against the wall. Her ankles were tied to two metal objects on the floor. Tears were running down Torries face from the severe pain she was in. She shuddered suddenly as the door opened and her two kidnappers walked in.
Kane said in a deep dark voice "Hello Miss Wilson. Hope you are comfortable up there."
The other large man tapped Kane on the shoulder and laughed saying "Sarcasm is no way to talk to our guest brother. After all she won't be with us for long."
Kane grinned and replied "Yes of course" Kane then looked back at Torrie and asked her "Would you like some food or drink? Don't worry I am a chef I can bring it to you."
Kane walked to the table and picked up some hot sandwiches. He pushed them onto Torries forehead burning a little bit of her hair. She screamed painfully and silently underneath her taped up mouth.
Kane picked up a bottle of red wine and smashed it on the wall above her head. Glass fell in to Torries head and she was drenched in the red wine.
Skip laughed as he watched Kane's despicable acts against Torrie. Kane laughed deeply and loudly in to Torries ear while she moaned and cried without anybody hearing her.
Skip then pulled Kane away and they stood in front of each other. As they stared into each others eyes Skip said "I think she has had enough refreshments. Now for us to have our fun."
Skip and Kane both laughed evilly as Skip walked over to the fire place. He pulled a crow bar out of the wood pile next to it. Skip pushed the end of the bar into the fire and held it there until it was a bright burning red. As he took it out Kane walked over to Torrie and ripped her top open so her stomach was exposed. Kane held Torries waist so that she couldn't struggle. Skip walked over and trusted the bar into Torries stomach. Torrie bit her lip she was in so much pain. Blood was coming from her wrist and lips. Skip eventually pulled the bar away.
Kane sniggered and said "Let's take the tape off and hear her scream."
Skip replied "Ok let's take some measures to make sure we don't get any unwanted visitors."
Skip and Kane started to pour some kind of liquid in the Front doorway and all over the hall.
…...
John had been round to Kane's café. He had totally trashed the place looking for Torrie but there was no sign. John stopped in the road trying to think where to look next. He then remembered what Torrie had said about Skip and Kane being brothers. He quickly ran round to Skip Sheffield's house.
…...
Kane aggressively ripped the tape from Torries mouth. The force of how he ripped it took of a small part of her skin. She cried out and screamed in pain "Help John someone please help"
John arrived at Skip's house and heard Torrie screaming. He shouted "TORRIE"
Torrie shouted "John be…" Kane put the tape back over her mouth. They heard John running up the path. "Kane smiled and turned to Skip "And so it begins."
John kicked the door in and saw Torrie nailed to the wall with Kane and Skip stood in front with a smile on the face.
John went to run towards them but Skip threw a match to the floor setting the whole hall and doorway alight. John had o quickly jump back. John looked on as the only thing he could see was Torrie tied to the wall through the fire. It was like someone had showed John his image of hell. He frantically tried to get in but there was no way he was getting though the fire.
John ran round the back of the house kicking the back gate down. He looked through the back door and could see the fire spreading. John punched through the window and headed to the front room. He got to the front room and no one was in there. The pieces of wood had been taken down. John heard loud heavy footsteps from the floorboards from upstairs. He ran to the stairs but stopped as he saw the fire raging and burning everything in sight. John heard Torrie scream but go silent straight away. Kane and Skip were taunting John with Torries voice. John ran his hands across his face. Without even thinking he put his jacket over his head and ran through the fire to the stairs which wasn't burning yet. He looked back round and saw the whole bottom of the house starting to burn. He knew that he and Torrie were in a lot of trouble but he was determined to get Torrie out safely. He slowly walked up the stairs not wanting to alert Kane and Skip.
Before he could get halfway up Kane stood at the top of the stairs holding Torries wristband.
John stopped still and snapped "Where is she?"
Kane laughed and replied "Does this belong to someone you love?"
John gritted his teeth and replied "Don't play games let her go."
Kane's face turned to a glare "Answer the question or Skip kills her right now."
John shouted back immediately "Yes it belongs to someone I love"
Kane replied "Oh that's sweet well me and Skip have something belonging to someone we loved. Skip come here"
Skip approached the top of the stairs holding a gun to Torries head.
Kane looked back at John. "Do you recognise this? It belonged to our father. It was the same gun he used to kill your partner."
John shouted again "Let Torrie go this has nothing to do with her."
Skip replied "You see that's where you are wrong. When you killed our father in cold blood….."
John snapped back "Cold blood he had murdered like fifteen people including my best friend how is that cold blood."
Skip shouted "Don't interrupt me or I will throw her into that furnace right now."
John stood on the stairs feeling more and more anxious.
Skip carried on "As I was saying. When you killed our father in cold blood we loved him and it took you so long to love someone so we could even the score."
John answered "That's what this is about revenge on me. You killed half the town to get revenge on me."
Kane laughed and replied "No that was just a warm up and a way of honouring our father's legacy."
John started to plead and go up the stairs on his knees as the fire continued to burn. "Please do whatever you want to me just let Torrie go."
Skip and Kane both said in unison. "We can't do that"
John breathed very slowly knowing what he was about to do was a big risk.
All of a sudden John threw his phone up in the air knocking the gun from Skip's hand. With one swift motion John pulled Kane by his legs throwing him down into the furnace below. Skip took one small glance down which was the window John needed. He ran up the stairs and punched Skip straight in the mouth. Skip only staggered a little bit but it was enough for John to get Torrie safely to the floor. Skip stood back up as John hit him again. John hit Skip for a third time but it still had no effect. Skip stared back at John shaking his head.
John tried to strike Skip again but Skip caught his wrist. He twisted John's wrist round in a painful way. Skip had all the control over John at this point. Skip looked down at John saying "You killed my father. Then you killed my brother. Now you will die."
As Skip was Talking John glanced down to see one of the floor boards were loose. As Skip reached for his gun John stamped on the loose floorboard causing it to lift up and hit Skip knee. John got free of Skips grip and picked up the wood and broke it across Skips head.
Skip was still standing so John looked for something else he could use. He spotted a mirror led on a chair. John cracked that over Skip's skull but he still wasn't going down.
Torrie shouted "John the hammer"
John quickly picked up the hammer and struck Skip square in the forehead finally knocking him down. John stood over him as Skips eyes rolled back in his head.
John ran over to Torrie. "Sorry that took so long"
Torrie sarcastically and painfully replied "Don't worry about it I'm having a ball."
John answered "Ok point taken. Let me try and get these out."
John took away the wood just leaving the nails in Torries hands. He went to try and pull the nails out.
Torrie screamed "Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch you can't just yank them out like that. I will have no hands left. For a knight in shining armour you're not very…"
John leant down and passionately kissed Torrie. As he was kissing her he used his hands to pull the nails from her hands.
As they stopped kissing Torrie painfully said "Thank you for that made it a little better."
John answered "Urm yes we need to wrap your hands up otherwise you will lose a lot of blood."
John looked around and found some tea towels. He tied a few of them together in two bundles. He gently wrapped them around Torries hands.
Torrie watched as John was tending to her. "I don't want to be in this town anymore"
John laughed and replied "Neither do I"
Torrie smiled and answered "Well here's a plan…. OH MY GOD JOHN!"
They both looked down the stairs as they saw Kane getting to his feet. John told Torrie to stay behind him. Kane's arms were both on fire but it wasn't fazing him at all. His forehead had gone black from the smoke and the burning fire shone of the top of his forehead.
Torrie whispered in John's ear "What shall we do?"
John replied "Running would be a good idea."
Torrie quickly answered "Where to? Were upstairs and downstairs is on fire."
John and Torrie looked at each other then ran towards one of the rooms. John kicked one of the doors open. As they ran inside Torrie was a little sick on the floor.
The room was covered with body parts and body organs. The foul stench mixed with the smoke. All over the walls were pictures of Mark Calloway, Kane and Skip. There were school pictures, Thanksgiving pictures, graduation pictures. The wall could not be seen with all the photographs over the wall.
Torrie said while coughing and spluttering "Aww that guy must have really loved his two boys."
John pointed at one of the photos on the far wall. It was a picture of Kane, Skip and Mark Calloway stood in front of a mutilated body. The body had candles stuck in all over it and behind them was a banner saying happy birthday Dad.
Torrie gulped and coughed again "That's Disgusting. I am guessing that you were the anonymous cop that shot their father."
John quickly replied "That's a story for another day darling"
John and Torrie coughed and spluttered as they got over to the window. John kicked the window open breaking the glass. John looked back at Torrie.
As he was coughing he said "Torrie there's quite a big ledge. Do you have the strength to walk along and then get down to the ground using that fence?"
Torrie leaned out of the window to have a look. She was a bit nervous but then heard footsteps at the top of the stairs.
She then quickly said "Yeah I can do it"
Torrie climbed out of the window being careful not to cut herself on the glass and got onto the ledge. John went to follow on behind her but the wall wasn't very stable.
Torrie started to cry with fear as John got back through the window. John assured her "Go on Torrie it cant hold both of us. As soon as you are down I will follow."
Torrie nodded her head as she slowly walked along the ledge. John took a glance back to the room. He saw Skip and Kane stood in the doorway. The fire had burned all the way up the stairs. John kept looking as he could see the fire behind Kane and Skip knowing there was no escape.
He shouted out "Keep going Torrie. Get down and go and get help"
Torrie shouted back "John I'm not leaving you"
John replied "Just do it Torrie I want to know you're safe before I can get out of here."
Torrie shouted back "Ok then" She carried on along the edge anxiously waiting to see if John was alright.
John stared into Kane and Skips eyes. "No you have what you want so do your worst."
Skip snapped as he and Kane walked slowly forward "You're so stupid John. You thought you could kill our father, kill a descendent of the founder of this town and get away with it."
John smiled and replied "That was the plan yeah. I killed a murderer that deserves to rot in hell."
As the continued to move forward Kane said "Why are you smiling? You know you about to die."
John continued to grin from ear to ear and replied "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
John nodded his head and smiled at them again.
Skip got angry and threw a small table across the room. "Your arrogance is sickening. I want you to beg for your life Cena. Get on your knees and beg for forgiveness."
John shook his head and replied "Not today boys"
Inside John was terrified. His heart was racing and the sweat was dripping down his body from being so scared. He wasn't going to show his fear. These two were like animals and he did not want to show fear. Torrie had got away and that was all that mattered to him.
Kane pulled something from a draw and waved it at John. "You see this John it's been handed down from generation to generation. I will stick it in your neck twist it around and then with one swift pull take your throat out. Now how does that make you smile."
John smiled "You no what it does."
John pulled out one of the pieces of glass and threw it straight into the side of Kane's head. Blood started spilling from Kane's head as he fell to the ground. Before John could realise Skip ran towards him and speared him straight out of the window.
The two of them fell down through the glass greenhouse. John landed on a wooden table and led unconscious. A small trickle of blood came out of John's ear.
Skip had fell into a pile of compost bags. Although he had taken a hard fall he slowly got to his feet. He clicked his neck, picked up a pitchfork and walked over to where John had fallen. Skip started to breathe heavily and spit blood from his mouth.
As he stood over Johns motionless body. He held a pitchfork just above John's neck.
As he lifted the pitch fork up he uttered the words. "And so it ends."
As he was lifting the pitchfork he heard a soft but stern voice behind him say "Your damn right it ends."
As Skip turned around Torrie swung a steel spade hitting Skip square in the face. He fell back onto a long sharp piece of glass that went straight through his chest.
Torrie covered her eyes as the glass went a deep dark red. Skips eyes rolled back in his head as his eyes closed and he died.
Terror rose up her eyes, her body was wrenched with pain but she still made herself move. Torrie stumbled over to John's unconscious body.
The courageous, strong police officer John Cena lied unconscious on the floor. Breath was still in his body, sensing the rise in his chest and stomach.
Torrie let out a horrifying gasp, seeing his frame. "John! Oh my god!" Torrie immediately put her arms around John lifting him up from the cold floor, into her arms.
"Wake up, baby come on please" Torrie spoke in total fear, tears in her eyes.
"Baby, come on" her arms were around his back cradling him, his limb body was just in her arms. "Love you so much" she muttered to his unconscious body.
Her arms were around him. "Wake up, come on John please wake up. I need you, come on" Torrie pleaded, she needed a miracle. The only one that could protect her was the fallen officer, lying unconscious in her arms.
Torrie kept her arms tightly around him, she then breathed her air in form of a kiss. His chest rose higher, he coughed and stirred.
She hugged his head, keeping her grip tight not wanting to even let him go or to lose him.
The first time, a relief smile came across her face "Thank god" but John still had his eyes closed.
They were still in a great danger.
John painfully sat up and saw Skip's bloody body on the side. John said "He fell like that right?"
Torrie replied "Yeah he fell like that."
Before John could say something else one of the other top windows smashed open from the fire with flames coming out.
John struggled to his feet with Torries help.
John coughed and said in an agonised voice "We have to get away from here I think that house is going to blow. I can hear the flames from here."
John and Torrie struggled out of the greenhouse. All of a sudden the downstairs windows blew open smashing glass all over John and Torrie as they fell to the ground to take cover.
The both struggled back to their feet as the saw the last remains of the greenhouse fall to the ground. They both ran a little bit away to avoid any small glass going in their eyes.
The whole house was on fire. Flames were coming from all sides of the detached house. John was pacing in the garden trying to see an opening. He looked down the side of the house where the flames were not as big as the rest of the flames.
John quickly said to Torrie "We have to get down there it's our only chance. We might get a little burned but we will have to take that chance."
John then looked down as Torrie pointed to her burnt and scarred stomach saying "I think I can handle it."
John pulled her towards him and kissed her saying "You really are one hell of a women."
They went to run to the side of the house. The stopped and stared up at the window they had climbed out of. They saw just Kane's head and eyes with flames to his front, sides and behind him. They heard the sound of Kane's laughing even above the burning house. Torrie went to run down the side of the house but John had just stopped and was staring up at Kane. Torrie went back and pulled John by his wrist.
The two of them stood at the one end of the path as they saw the flames increase. The held each others hand and ran through to the front garden and out of the gate. They ran over to the phone box as the saw the house blow for one last time. They stood behind the phone box as police cars, ambulances and fire engines pulled up by the house. Torrie looked confused as her phone went off in her pocket.
John laughed and said "They put your phone in your pocket"
Torrie replied "I don't remember that"
Torrie answered the phone "Hello. Yes Mr Layfield. I have been working hard. Well urm. Actually I do have a story for you I quit bye sir."
Torrie smiled quite impressed with herself. She turned around to talk to John and he was inside the phone box. She opened the door to listen into the conversation.
"Hello Mr Long. Yes I was at the scene of the Fire. The murderers was Skip Sheffield and Kane Jacobs. There were both inside the house when it blew. Anyway I am calling to tell you I quit. Give my regards to Chris and Adam." John put the phone down and laughed as he watched Mr Long stressing outside the house.
Torrie said "You quit your job. What was that about?"
John replied "I'm sorry darling you inspired me."
Torrie replied "Ok then well what are we going to do for jobs now."
John laughed and replied "I could really see myself as a milkman."
Torrie laughed and rested her head on Johns shoulder "I would see you more as my superman or even better my Prince Charming. What about me what could I do?"
John put his arm round Torrie and said "Maybe you could be my Wonder Women or just my beautiful Princess Torrie."
The turned to face each other and passionately kissed as the Moon shone in sky. They got their breath back and Torrie said "Ok man of my fairytale dream. Where will our enchanted castle be?"
John replied "How about Alaska?"
Torrie snuggled up into Johns shoulder as the walked down the quiet moonlit road.
End of Story
First things First
HBK. HBK the greatest of all time is going into the hall of fame. Best news I have heard in wrestling for a while. He thoroughly deserves it.
2nd of all Evil of the Soul is finally finished. I hope people liked the final chapter and I hope it wasn't a disappointing chapter.
Thank you to all my reviewers who have read this Story. You make my days with your reviews and keep inspiring me to write.
Thank you again to Kelly for her assistance and for keep driving me to write.
Thank you all So Much again and hopefully I will have a new story to write Again soon. (Once I have move to the City Lol)
Bye Bye
Matt