Chapter 21: Many a Question, and Many an Answer
Everyone immediately shut their mouths. Elliot groaned and looked up from where he was on the ground, but didn't make another sound. Harris wrenched away from the others and walked over to the man. Ana now recognized him as who she had thought was Calvin's gym teacher. An overwhelming feeling of confusion washed over her.
"Hey!" she cried. "You're Calvin's gym teacher!"
"Oh, you remember me," he sneered.
"I'm confused," she stated. "What are you doing here working for Harris?"
"Harris hired me a while ago," he replied
. "After Gibson died, Harris came up to me and asked me to help him."
"Wait wait wait," Elliot grunted, "you were partners with Gibson?"
"Oh, come on!" Harris shouted. "Do we really need a back story?" Everyone nodded, so he rolled his eyes and huffed. "Fine. Fine. Where do we start?"
"Well, how about with the fact that you're supposed to be dead?" Elliot offered.
"Fine," Harris huffed. "I had a friend in the paramedics who owed me a favor. Basically when they revived me, he hid me away so I could escape and get healthy again. Then, once I was healthy and ready to go, I began to plot my revenge. I'd heard about how Ana and her little bitch friends had encountered an old Marine, Gibson, and I went to that city to make sure what I had heard was true. That's where I stumbled upon his partner in crime, and he and I hit it off." Harris turned to Ana and glared. "It turned out he and I both had a bone to pick with you."
"Go to hell," Ana spat.
"Are you going to keep talking?" he asked, tilting his head to the side and giving her an all-too innocent look. "Or are you going to let me finish?"
Ana remained silent.
"I thought so," Harris continued. "And so anyway, while we were still in the early stages of our plan, Len, my partner here, became the boy's school gym teacher in Vermont. We figured this to be just a cover until we concocted a plan to get back at the little bitches, but by a spark of chance, Len here decided to get a little bit touchy-feely with the kid. But we never would have guessed that in doing that, he had set the stage to have the boy contact Anna, who would later contact darling Ana to come and help." He approached her and cupped her cheek, but she slapped him away. He glared at her, but continued.
"So, as if like magic, we were suddenly faced with an opportunity. While Anastasia and her friends were coming to us, we lied in wait at the boy's house, waiting for the chance to get them. But unfortunately, that plan went awry, and we were forced to regroup. Then, I stumbled across this brilliant little place in the ads," he announced, holding his hands up, as if admiring the place in which he stood under, "and I took it. Then, everything just seemed to fall into place. I kidnapped Anna's mother after they got home from Vermont, and in doing so forced Anna to do whatever I said. This helped us also, because she was the perfect lure to get Ana out here and into my web."
"So this was never really Anna's thing?" Ana clarified. "She never wanted to be in on it?"
"No," Harris shook his head. "But she was a pretty big part of it."
"So how did you get Ana out here?" Elliot asked.
"You haven't figured it out?" Harris sneered. "Well, if you insist. It was a simple mind game. I sent a note to her, telling her if she didn't meet me in Central Park at midnight, I was slowly and surely kill everyone she held dear. She even came early." Harris gave her a sickening smile. "Such a sweet girl. But anyway, once I was sure she was there, Len and I drove the van out of where we had hidden it and picked up her, and by chance, we found the chief's daughter there too. That was just a bonus; plus it saved me a lot of time."
"And this was your plan all along?" Elliot asked. "To have us all here?"
"No," Harris grinned, "but I'm glad you asked that." He suddenly walked up and grabbed the gun from Len, who stood there stupidly, not sure what to think. "You see, my entire plan all along was to give Ana what I knew she had wanted for a long time. I still want to do that. But it seems, that just isn't going to happen." Harris toyed with the gun as he spoke, cocking it and undoing the safety. "It seems, there is only one thing left to do."
Harris suddenly raised the gun and approached Ana, placing the cold muzzle to her temple. She gulped and he stared into her eyes menacingly.
"Please don't," she whispered, begging for her life.
"Get ready to die bitch."
Suddenly, the entire room seemed to be filled with the sound of loud pings and gunfire. People ducked. Others shielded others. But no one knew who had fired, and no one knew who had been hit. But Ana knew all too well who had been hit. And also, who was dead.
Notes: SO sorry for the delay… things have been kinda rough around here. With finals coming up and the last few weeks of school just around the corner, the teachers at my school have been handing out work like nobody's business. But the end of the school year is just around the corner, and once Summer comes I should have more time to write and update. ;) I bet many of you other authors out there are nodding your heads; you definitely know what I'm talking about.
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