Jennifer ran into the mall. "Help, Scissorman is after me." Shoppers turned to her. A security guard came up to her.
"Calm down," he said. Jennifer took a deep breath. "Now what happened?"
"Scissorman murdered a friend of mine in the parking lot." The security guard took her into a back room and called the police. It seemed to take forever for the police to get there. Jennifer heard sirens outside. All of the customers had left already. And the mall's corridors were deserted.
The door to the room opened. Jennifer glanced over expecting to see a police officer. Instead Scissorman ran into the room. Jennifer glanced around. She was in the employee break room. Jennifer got out of her chair and grabbed the closest weapon she could find. She picked up a large coffee maker and through it at Scissorman. He fell to the ground giving her time to run out.
Jennifer ran through the mall towards the exit. The area near the entrance was a wide area with a large fountain. There were three sliding doors. Only there had been. Jennifer glanced at an empty wall. The doors were gone. "What's going on?"
Jennifer heard Scissorman coming. The closest store was a women's clothing store. Jennifer ran into it and hid in the dressing room. She waited in silence. She heard Scissorman outside. And then, to her horror, the baby started to cry.
Jennifer burst out of the dressing room. Scissorman charged towards her. She darted out of the way and bumped into a circular rack of clothes. It fell on top of Scissorman.
Jennifer ran back into the corridors, again. She ran towards an area that had an emergency exit. To her horror there was simply another empty wall. How could this happen. Scissorman never had this kind of power before. The baby was still crying. Jennifer knew that she had to do something. She ran into a toy store hoping to find a toy that would make her quit crying. She grabbed a stuffed animal. It didn't work. Then Jennifer saw some duct tape that an employee had put near the register.
After taping the baby's mouth closed she saw a doll. The box claimed it had the most realistic crying sound in any doll. She grabbed one and started to hear Scissorman. She ran into a sporting goods store. She activated the doll and put it in the floor. She took the real baby and hid. She picked up a baseball bat and waited for Scissorman to show up.
As expected, Scissorman followed the sound of the doll. He stood in front of the doll and Jennifer charged at him. She started beating him with the bat. After he fell to the ground she ran back to her baby. She picked it up and ran out.
The mall had two stories and Jennifer decided that it might be safer to go on up to the second floor. She got into an elevator and glanced at the buttons. But she saw the R button. Immediately she remembered that the elevator went all the way up to the roof. She pushed the button and took the elevator up to the roof.
She ran across the roof to the stairway that was designed as a fire exit. She ran down the stairs and to safety.
Jennifer sat in the police station. "So the doors were gone?" Gotts asked confused. "They were simply jammed for us."
"Assistant Inspector Gotts?" Jennifer said.
"Remember I got promoted. You don't need the 'Assistant' part anymore," Gotts corrected.
"When did Helen die?" Jennifer asked.
"The time of death was late last night or early in the morning," Gotts told her.
"So that means that I really did hear them. If I would have said something she would be okay," Jennifer said.
"You can't blame yourself. We're putting a cop at your house for tonight," Gotts said.
"Thanks Assistant Inspector Gotts."
"It's just Inspector."
