Chapter 4
Angel and Andrew walk down the main staircase onto the ground level floor. Once they stop walking to figure out how to find everyone Matt runs straight into Angel.
"What the hell? Matt watch… what happened? Where's Terri?" Angel asks worried.
"She's dead." Matt says breathlessly.
"What?" Sandra asks as she and Jeff walk up to them. Jeff had a big smile on his face.
"What's up with you Jeff?" Andrew asks giving him a weird look.
"What?" Jeff responses with an innocent look on his face.
"Any way, what happened to Terri?" Angel asked as she stood up.
"We were in the kitchen and I went into the big walk-in refrigerator to get something to eat. Then I heard Terri scream and when I came out she was lying on the floor with a bunch of knives stuck in her. Where's Adam, Christian, Chyna and Stacey?" Matt asks looking around.
"I don't know." Andrew says as they all hear a faint 'help me' in the background.
"That was Christian, wasn't it?" Jeff asks looking at Angel.
"Yeah he's still down there with Adam." Sandra says answering him.
"It sounds like he's in trouble. Let's go help him." Matt says as he starts for the basement.
They all follow him to the basement door and they open it. Christian is on the third step and he is straining to get to the first step. Angel and Sandra go to help him. They each grab one of his hands, but since he is without the use of one leg he has trouble standing.
"Where's Adam?" Angel asks helping him up.
"He's dead. He got locked in an Iron Maiden." Christian says out of breath.
"Eww" Sandra said with a disgusted look on her face.
They continue to help Christian up and they almost have him up to the top step but his hand slips from their grasps and he falls. All Sandra and Angel can do is watch him fall down the stairs.
"Christian!" Angel yells as Christian falls down the steps.
Christian hits the concrete floor headfirst and dies instantly. Angel goes to cry in Andrew's arms and Sandra just stands there.
"Hey wait where's Chyna and Stacey?" Jeff asks looking around behind them.
"Don't know let's go look for them." Matt says as they all start towards the library.
They all search in the library because that's where they were last seen. Angel was looking around and she thought a book looked interesting, which happened to be the same one Chyna thought was interesting. So she pulled it and the bookcase opened to show the door.
"Hey you guys. Come here look at this it's a door!" Angel says as they all start over towards her.
She opens the door and slams it before it gets even halfway open.
"What was that?" Andrew asks confused.
"Oh god look for your fucking self." Angel snaps frighten.
They opened the door and all they could see was part of someone's hand sticking out from the crack between the walls. They all shut the door and went out into the hall to try to figure this whole thing out. Angel still has the book in her hand and Matt notices it.
"Hey what's that?" Matt asked pointing to the book in Angel's hand.
"It's a book of your family history. Why don't we sit down so I can explain it to you? I was gonna tell ya sooner but you kinda ran into me and told me Terri was dead." Angel explains as they sit around her on the steps.
"Ok well what does it say?" Jeff asks curiously.
Angel opens the book to the first page with the family tree on it.
"Look this is a family tree of all the Hardys, I mean all the Hardys." She says as she shows Matt and Jeff all of their ancestors and them.
"Look it has the date you both were born and the date you die is tomorrow." Angel says looking at them both.
"But it is tomorrow." Sandra says as they look at their watches.
"Oh my god. I'm not gonna let it happen." Angel says stubbornly.
"We're not gonna let it happen." Sandra says just as stubbornly as Angel does.
"Yeah we're not. I just don't see why or how we are all dying." Angel says baffled.
"I wanna know who's next." Jeff says eerily.
"I wish I knew but I don't. All I know is that we are being picked off one by one. By someone or something in this house." Angel says looking around the main hallway.
"Then why don't we just get the fuck out of here?" Matt says getting up and heading for the door.
"That would be a good idea if we had the key to the gate." Andrew says stopping him dead in his tracks.
"Well now what?" Jeff asks looking at Andrew.
"Why don't we just go to our rooms and go to bed?" Andrew asks looking around at everyone.
"Fine by me." Sandra says standing up.
"Sounds good to me but I ain't sleeping by myself." Angel says freaked out.
"No shit that's why you got Andrew." Sandra says being a smart-ass.
"I was trying to be funny." Angel says.
"Well ok I'm tired I'm sure you all are so I'm going to bed. Peace." Matt said as he started to walk to the staircase.
"Yeah me too." they all say.