Me and Diana sat in the waiting room of the hospital, she was trying to keep calm, and I was pacing back and forth. The doctors told us she fainted during the car ride and smashed into a noise barrier; she was barely clinging on.
"How could we let something like this happen?" Diana asked herself, her face buried deep within her hands.
"I don't know" I said trying to avoid eye contact with my wife. I pulled her into a hug, I wanted to tell her, but I couldn't. Not even when the doctor came in, his face a pale Imation of death.
I awoke with a start to the sound of banging on my front door. I got dressed as fast as I could and ran towards the door. Opening the door two men dressed in black stood on my porch.
"Anthony Matthews?" Said one of them
"Who wants to know?" I questioned
"FBI, we have a warrant to search the premises." They both flashed me their badges before pushing me to the side and entering.
They both made a beeline for my garage, the sound of things crashing down made me realize, they were looking for something specific. I rushed to my daughters' room, making sure they wouldn't see her. I ever so silently knocked on my daughter's door
"Sarah!" I whispered
"Sarah, you have to hide!"
I creaked open the door to her room, she was not there. I flung open the door, my calm demeanor drained from my face. I whipped my head around the room trying to maybe find just a glance from her but to no avail. As I was exiting the room a cold gust of wind blew from the kitchen, I followed the wind like a trance, the back screen door was open wide, it was snowing heavily outside.
I stepped back; my mind was passing me by the second. I needed to leave she couldn't have gotten far, but before I got the chance one of the agents exited the garage and stopped me in my tracks.
"Mr. Matthews are you aware that it's against the law to own such dangerous government chemicals" The agent replied, backing me into the corner of the dining room.
"I need to leave!" came my only response, panic overtaking me
"That's not happening, I'm placing you under arrest." The agent said slapping one of the handcuffs onto my wrist
Before he could get the other one on, I pulled the cuff back and snatched it from his hand. He attempted to restrain me as I tried to get away from him, throwing any kick or punch I could to escape his grasp. One of my kicks landed directly on his knee sending us both tumbling down, but not before the agents head caught the edge of the countertop. I sat there for a second staring at the motionless agent slowly bleeding from his head, I thought to myself what have I done?
My remorse was interrupted by the second officer coming into view and pulling his gun, I booked it out the back-screen door hopping the fence and into the backwoods. I ran the snow whipping past me, haphazardly avoiding branches and trees. I made It pass and found myself in another subdivision, I scanned the area looking for anything to help until I saw a sign of hope. Parked on the side of the street was Kenny's car
I ran straight too it, peering inside Kenny sat in the driver's seat almost waiting for me. I pounded on the passenger window, hoping for him to unlock the door and let me in. I quickly got inside and buckled up.
"Kenny, we have to get out of here, this place is swarming with FBI" I said peering back out into the snow-covered suburb.
"I know." Came the silent reply from Kenny
I turned my head over to ask what he meant but before I could, Kenny landed two mean left hooks into my face. My vision became hazy and I was out. When I came to the weather outside was beginning to look frightful, a nasty blizzard stormed from the windshield. I slowly moved my head towards the driver side of the vehicle, Kenny sat there intently focused on the road ahead.
"Kenny?" I said slowly. "What the hell?"
"You wouldn't listen, now I'm going to have to show you myself." He said pulling into somewhere
The car came to a halt, I couldn't make out where we were or how far we drove. I looked back to Kenny, he looked tensed up and he was shaking.
"Kenny, why are you doing this?" I gingerly reached my hand out to put on his shoulder
But before my hand could connect, Kenny quickly reached into his pocket and pulled out a knife and batted my hand out of the way.
"What the hell?" I gasped
"Stay back, this is for your own good!" Shouted Kenny
I raised both of my hands in the air, at this point I was scared out of my mind
"Get out!" Kenny yelled and pointed at the door
"What's going on?" I asked slowly
"GET OUT!" Kenny pushed me towards the door
I opened the door to the bitter cold and stood there, Kenny came close behind and pointed the knife towards the unknown
"Walk!" Kenny said trying to stow his fears
We walked in silence, only the deafening wind backdropped my kidnapping. Kenny hovered the blade close to my back, marching me along to what I assumed was my doom, but then I realized where we were. Standing in front of me was a lone tombstone among a sea of in ground headstones, a tree frozen close by.
"Read it!" Kenny said from behind my back
I shut my eyes, this wasn't happening
"READ IT!" Kenny pushed me towards the stone, I fell to my knees, eyes still tightly shut
"Fine I'll read it for you!" My eyes shut open as I looked directly ahead.
"Here Lies Sarah Grace Matthews Age- "
"NO!" I shouted as I recklessly swung my arm at Kenny
He caught it, and pushed me back to the ground, my elbow catching the face of the headstone.
"GOD DAMMIT! SHE'S GONE! IT SAYS RIGHT HERE, SHES GONE!" He screamed at me
I looked up at Kenny with a plead in my eyes to not continue
"Anthony, the thing in your house is not Sarah, she is something beyond our comprehension, She is a danger to us and to everything else!" Kenny said pointing the knife towards me
"Screw you Kenny, she's my daughter and I'll decide if she's a threat or not!" I said struggling to sit up
"I'm sorry Anthony, I just wanted to be friends again, I created a monster" He said quietly as he approached
"SHE ISN'T A MONSTER!" I shouted angrily
"I wasn't talking about her." He whispered as he stood above me
Just then, from what seemed like miles away a giant beam of green light shot into the sky, turning the pure snow into a light green. My mind was panicking, that was my daughters light, it could only mean one thing, she must be in trouble. As we both stared into the sky at the beam, I caught Kenny by surprise and swept his feet knocking him to the ground.
I started pummeling him into the ground, throwing lefts and rights into any part of his body that he wasn't trying to defend. I stopped when his arms fell to the side, he was bloody and bruised. I grabbed the knife and his car keys and stumbled back to his car. As I reached the door of the car, I heard him call out from the snow
"Anthony . . . If you leave now, you're losing everyone that ever cared for you, all for someone who doesn't know how to care back!" Came Kenny's raspy voice from the snow
I drove off, following the source of light