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Chapter 4 "The Final Step In The Plan"
A/N: Thanks to everyone who has reviewed; I'm too tired to thank you all individually but, a huge thanks to you all. This chapter is rated R for violence, but please read it anyway. And I hope no one thinks I'm too sick or twisted for writing this chapter alone, not to mention the whole story because, I promise, I'm not, I've just read a lot of horror books myself and have a very good imagination. :-D Okay, here we go:
Dominic sat outside the Halliwell's house and looked at his watch impatiently, he had driven for hours to get here, most of the night actually, and now it was the around the time when Piper should be walking to school, but she was no where to be found. Dominic tapped his fingers impatiently on his car window and waited, checking his watch again. He'd worked so hard for his plan to fall into place, and Piper not walking to school would screw it all up. Dominic waited a few more minutes before getting out of the car and walking up to the Halliwell's door, ringing the bell.
Piper answered the door, her eyes rimmed red from crying, over Cassie, Dominic supposed. "Can I help you?" Piper asked in a quiet voice. "Hi, I'm a police officer" Dominic told her sounding authoritive "We found your friend Cassie, please come with me to the police station" Piper's eyes lit up, "You found her?" Piper asked excitedly and followed Dominic out to his Buick, pausing only once she got to the sidewalk. "Where's your police car?" Piper asked, cautiously but still clearly not wanting to come across as rude. "I don't have one" Dominic answered, grinning, "But I do know where Cassie is" Dominic grabbed Piper by the wrist and start to pull her toward the car. Piper's large brown eyes filled with terror and she stared to pull back, "Help!" she screamed and Dominic punched her to keep her quiet. His fist hit the side of her temple and she blacked out instantly. As Dominic dragged her body to the car, another girl, smaller than Piper ran out of the house. "Piper? No, don't hurt her!" the girl screamed running to Piper's unconscious, slumped over body as Dominic dropped her on the sidewalk. The small girl skidded to a stop next to Dominic and looked up at him in horror, realizing the mistake she'd just made in her concern over Piper. "Well, well, well, you're one of Piper's sisters aren't you" the girl nodded silently, tears streaming down her face "What's your name?" Dominic asked "Phoebe" the girl practically whispered. "W-who are you?" Phoebe asked. "Your murder" Dominic answered, pushing Phoebe into the car and dumping Piper in after her. Phoebe's eyes widened at his words and she scrambled to climb over Piper's body to get back out of the car but Dominic knocked her out as well and the climbed in the car and drove away quickly before anyone had a chance to notice Piper and Phoebe's disappears. Dominic looked into the back seat at the two unconscious sisters and smiled to himself, he got two girls for the effort of one, that didn't happened very often.
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Piper felt a throbbing pain in the side of her head and opened her eyes slowly, letting them adjust to the dark as she looked around. Where am I? Piper though, wincing in pain as she sat up. She was in a small, dimly lit room, sitting on a mattress that was torn and dusty. Piper felt something next to her and cautiously reached a hand out, the pain in her temple preventing her from turning her head enough to look at it. Piper felt something soft, like fabric. Ignoring the pain, Piper turned her head and saw her hand resting on Phoebe's cotton tank top. Phoebe rolled over and sat up, looking just as confused as Piper. There was a bruise along her jaw and dried blood on her lip. "Where are we, Piper?" she whimpered, inching closer to her big sister. "I don't know" Piper answered, noticing Phoebe was shivering and wrapping her arms around her sister's small body.
"He has us" a voice said, from a shadowy corner. Both girls jumped and Piper looked in the direction the voice had come from, recognition lighting her features. "Cassie!" Piper gasp, "Are you okay? Who's he?" Cassie shrugged "Dominic, Tommygirl27, he took us" Cassie spoke slowly and Piper noticed her eyes looked clouded over. Almost like she's drugged, Piper thought, before she realized what Cassie was saying. Tommygirl27, it wasn't a 14 year old girl at all, it was the man who kidnapped them! "We need to get out of here" Piper said, standing up, seeing the small window above them. It was much too tall to reach. "We can't get out" Cassie answered in a monotone, staring off in to space. "We have to" Phoebe said, her voice quivering in fear and on the edge of tears. Piper jiggled the door knob and saw, as she had suspected, that it was locked.
Suddenly the girls heard a key in the lock and Piper wrapped her arms protectively around Phoebe, as they both cowered against the wall. Cassie didn't move, she was used to him coming and going by now, and with the combination of the drugs and exhaustion for constant fear of being raped or beaten again had numbed her from any more feelings.
"Hello girls" Dominic said, "I'm sure your friend Cassie, here, has told you who I am" "Yes" Piper answered quietly, trying not to show her fear. "I hope you like this room Piper it will be yours for a while." Dominic told her, putting a hand to her cheek and caressing it softly. Piper flinched, "Please let Phoebe go, and Cassie. You can keep me just don't hurt Phoebe" Piper begged. "Piper, honey" Dominic said, his voice sickly sweet, "Why would I do that when I already have all three of you?" Piper looked down at the floor, realizing he was right. "Now, Piper, you were my target, my goal and now I have you. But don't worry, I don't have a use for Cassie anymore and Phoebe was never in the plan" Piper nodded, hoping this meant the he'd just let them go, and unwilling to believe anything differently. "I'll go get you girls some food, you must be starving" Dominic said, pulling Piper to her feet by her hair and crushing his lips against hers in a rough kiss before shoving her to the floor again and walking out, locking the door behind him.
Pier felt the bile in the back of her throat rise and fought it back down before she threw up. How could he do this? "We are going to get out of here, right Piper?" Phoebe asked, her voice desperate and begging. "Yeah, Pheebs" Piper said, trying to sound strong for her sister, while inwardly she tired not to panic.
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Dominic walked back down into the basement a few minutes later, carrying three bowls of soup, all drugged with codeine. "Lunch time" he called, opening the door and setting the bowls down on the floor. Cassie grabbed hers hungrily, Dominic had been gone for almost a day when he had to kidnap Piper, so she hadn't been given any food in a while. "Eat" Dominic ordered, looking at Phoebe and Piper. Piper looked uncertainly at Cassie and then slowly took the two bowls and handed one to Phoebe. While they ate, Dominic formed the final step to his plan in his mind. The sooner he got rid Cassie and Phoebe the better, they just took up space and now he had what he wanted; Piper. All he needed to do was tie up Cassie and Phoebe and then he could just leave them down here to starve, for all he cared. Piper was his love.
Dominic pulled out the thick roll of duct tape from his pocket and walked towards Phoebe. Piper instinctively covered Phoebe's body with her own, shielding her. "Dominic shoved Piper to the side and pulled Phoebe's arms behind her back, taping them as she cried. Piper lunged at Dominic, but he batted her away easily and she fell against the wall, hitting her head again. When Dominic was done tying up Phoebe, he moved on to Piper, who was either in too much pain or too dazed from hitting her head to struggled much, either way Dominic didn't care. She was being submissive as she should be, he thought kissing her on the cheek again. Piper snapped out of her haze and crawled away from him quickly, moving closer to Phoebe again.
Dominic stood up and turned around to tie up Cassie when he saw that she'd opened the door and was tiptoeing out. Anger surged in Dominic, how dare she try to escape? She was just in the way now that he had Piper and she was trying to cause more trouble? Dominic lunged for her, grabbing her ankles and pulling hard. It happened so quickly that Cassie didn't have time to put out her hands to break her fall and her head thudded against the thin carpet with a thud as she fell. Dominic dragged her back into the small room as Cassie, still seeing the opened door, struggled and kicked, fighting against her drugged up state to escape. Dominic was overwhelmed with rage. "STOP STRUGGLING" he shouted, pulling her the rest of the way back in the room and standing up, dropping the key to the door in the process. He clicked on a heavy metal flashlight he'd brought with him to see in the poor lighting and picked up the key again. Then he turned on Cassie, seeing that she was trying to sit up, he shoved her to the ground and sat on her stomach, cutting off her air and started to beat her, with his fist first, and then with the blunt end of the flashlight. He was just so angry, he couldn't stop. How dare she try to escape…how dare she? After a while Dominic felt Cassie stop struggling and was still. He heard a scream, from Cassie or one of the others, he didn't know, it all sounded so far away, he was in trance, hitting and punching Cassie with all of his might. After a while, he sat back, out of breath and wiped the sweat off his forehead, smearing it with blood in the process. Dominic stopped and looked down at his hands, in one hand he still held the flashlight, which was now covered in blood and in the other hand he held a piece of Cassie's corn silk yellow hair, except, Dominic could see as he looked at it that there was a piece of bone stuck to it and it was no longer attached to Cassie head. The top half of Cassie was a mass of blood. Dominic had cracked her skull in several places and masses of her hair littered with little bits of bone and brain tissue were laying in the vicinity that used to be Cassie's head and were also suck under his fingernails.
Dominic shrugged to himself and wiped his hands on his jeans, stand up and leaving to get a garbage bag to put Cassie in, no longer caring if the other girls tired to escape, he realized that they'd seen everything and were probably far to scared to move, let alone escape. Dominic came back with the bag and folded Cassie's lifeless body neatly into it, scooping up the remnants of skull and hair, dumping it inside too. He worked quickly and effectively until there was nothing left of Cassie beside a large blood stain on the carpet and a black trash bag full of her battered and broken body. "Night girls" Dominic said calmly, picking up the bag and walked out, this time remembering to lock the door.
Dominic put the trash bag in the trunk of his Buick and planned to dispose of it tomorrow, along with another body-Phoebe's.
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Piper finally aloud herself to breathe again once he'd left. Piper looked down at Phoebe who'd passed out from fear when Dominic had started to beat Cassie. Piper hadn't, she'd seen the whole thing, her best friend being beaten to death, and now she stared at the drying puddle of blood in front of her and her stomach twisted. Piper crawled onto her hands and knees and threw up. She couldn't believe Cassie was really dead, but she was numb from shock, and it made her more determined than ever to escape, so she and Phoebe didn't end up the same way.
A/N: I'm sorry I had to change the rating, but I'll really try to lower it back down to PG-13 for the next (and final) chapter. Please review. Please, please, pretty please? Thanks.
