I keep this smile frozen on my face and my eyes blank. If I move a muscle
they'll know and I'll have missed my perfect opportunity. I hear a woman
whimper and suddenly the door is thrown wide open. The power out works
better than I imagined...heightens the fear. I don't dare move...blink or
breath. The Kairi one screams while the other girl shrieks about like a
mental patient. 'I thought she was dead.' I can't tell who said this. They
must be talking about that hand I placed in the kitchen before I set it on
fire. Well...the officer was getting just a little too nosy. I had to do
something.
Sora looks at me closely. Sora...oh my dear Sora. You've insulted Riaz. No one but me...I'm the only one able to insult my sister. I can tell she was hurt at the things you said to her...and about her. I'll make you pay for that Sora. The older brunette, Squall asks if I am dead. I want to laugh but I must wait...the right moment will come soon.
{Kairi}
"Don't go NEAR her!" Yuffie cried, yanking Squall back by his arm. I stared at Riaz's wide eyes and strange smirk. Unsettling was an understatement.
"I thought she was burned...who was in the sink then?" Sora wondered aloud as he ran his hands through his hair nervously. He peered down at her until he was nearly inches from her glossy eyes. I thought I saw her smirk widen. Sora stumbled back suddenly. "Get out. We have to get out right now." He moved so quickly I had no time to ask. He just grabbed my hand and pulled me off the bed. Sora unlocked the door with a furious speed.
Squall slammed the closet door shut and locked it. "You see her move? You saw her move didn't you?! She's fucking alive and she's going to fucking kill us!" Yuffie stared in sheer horror at the closet. Sora finally got the door unlocked.
"Lets go. Hurry. No one left behind." He pushed me into the dark hallway and started to do the same to Yuffie when the closet door rattled. We all froze. There were no tears, no whimpers, and no fear. Pure adrenalin rushed through me. All I knew...all I focused one was getting my friends out of here. I wouldn't let that woman get to anymore of them. And just as suddenly the door stopped rattling. A wave of calm washed over me. Four of us against her...bring it on.
{Yuffie}
The closet door flew open and there she stood in all her murderous glory. I felt Squall grab my upper arm and literally shove me out of the room. "Oh Soooooora." Riaz sang out with a maniacal chuckle.
"Go. GO!" Squall yelled and slammed the door behind him. We ran blindly, stumbling down the stairs until we reached the safe light of the living room. I fell panting onto the sofa.
"Where do we go? We can't get out!" Kairi asked, looking out the window.
"Move." Sora instructed. She ducked and half a second later a chair was hurled at shocking speed. The window cracked but held strong. "Damn!" He growled. Squall picked up the chair and raised it to deliver what would have been a crushing blow to the glass.
"This would have been so much easier..." A smooth voice glided through the room. All heads swiveled in her direction. She held a pistol in one hand. "If you wouldn't run it would be so much easier. You all brought this on yourselves. I would have went easy on you." She shook her head. "You can't blame this on Riaz you know. Really it would hurt her feelings. She actually liked you people- God knows why."
"You're a fucking skitzo." Sora said incredulously. Riaz glared at him.
"Shut up! I am not schizophrenic. You're already on my shit list Sora don't push it!" She growled, jabbing the pistol in his direction. "Riaz has no control over what I do with her."
"Really? Then what's your name?" Kairi sneered. She seemed to have lost all fear of the psycho. I envied her bravery for a moment. Riaz turned her eyes on the red head and for a split second she lost the evil look and almost seemed normal.
"I no longer have a name. You're nameless when you're dead." She leaned against the railing and began to speak in an almost conversational tone. "Of course I did have a name at one point. My parents named me Rachel. I was Rachel Catherine Rellik. Only two minutes older than Riaz but when you're a twin every minute counts." She took a deep, slow breath. I glanced at Squall out of the corner of my eye and shrugged ever so slightly He returned the gesture as if to say 'I don't know.' If we were gonna make a move it would have to be now.
"My parents hated me. I don't mean the usual teenage mindset of thinking they wanted to ruin my life. I mean they truly hated me. Left me sorta fucked up ya know? Riaz was never hateful to me...she always felt so bad about the way I was treated and always seemed to have a soft or cheery word. When my dad went crazy one day he hauled off and killed my mother. Riaz...Riaz shot this exact gun and killed my father." She shook the pistol lightly. "Of course we established that I'm crazy right? I watched my mother die and my sister kill my father...you can hate someone and still be affected by their death."
"I took the blame for Riaz and said I killed my father. She was so scared they were going to imprison her. What else could I do. They interrogated me all the time...the courts, the officers, the everything. Just got to be too much and I snapped. Took out 4 people during my court appearance with this very gun..." She paused again to admire her pistol. Sora motioned to Squall and me to follow his lead. "I ran out and ran home...killed myself before they could get to me. They put Riaz in a foster home until she was old enough to come back and live with me...I love Riaz but everything had screwed her up too. Such a shame...explains the interior decorating though." She smiled.
"When people are...unfortunate enough to stop by I take her over and have my bit of fun. She doesn't like that but...I'm dead and damned to this house so I might as well enjoy it." The murder was back. We'd waited too long.
"Now!" Sora yelled. Squall hurled the chair he had been holding in her direction, distracting her momentarily. This gave Sora half a second to jump on her and pull her to the ground. She bit his arm in an attempt to free herself. Kairi grabbed and wrestled the gun out of her hands.
"Got it!" Kairi cried joyfully. Riaz hissed at her and kicked her in the stomach. She doubled over coughing and dropped the gun. Sora stupidly let Riaz go and rushed to Kairi's side. Riaz grinned and picked the gun up, kicking Sora in the head as she did.
"Stop!" She shrieked and held the gun up. Squall and I stopped our attempt to kick the window in.
"Run!" Squall shoved me in the direction of the kitchen. We all simultaneously flew into the dining room. I slammed the door and locked it.
"What now?" A shot rang out and the lock on the door flew across the room. Riaz kicked the door open and moved in. We all stepped back.
"This is enough!" She hissed, her breathing labored. The floor shuddered violently and caused the china on the table to rattle. Riaz grinned that same fanatical grin and looked at the ceiling. I suddenly realized what she was trying to do.
"KAIRI! Move!" I yelled but it was too late. Kairi looked up to find she was right under the smoke alarm. And the knife fell.
{A few minutes later}
"I've got her." Sora buried his knee even deeper into Riaz's back. She grunted and tried to squirm out of his grip. He didn't let her. "Go get that window unlocked!" He ordered me, glancing over his shoulder. Sweat ran down his face, his eyes wide and wild. I nodded and ran into the living room, pointedly keeping my eyes away from the bloody body of Kairi.
"Get that." Squall pointed to the chair. I handed it to him quickly.
"Hurry I don't know how long Sora can keep her down." I fluttered behind him nervously, watching as he broke the leg off of the severely battered chair and began to beat the crack in the window. Whatever curse she'd put on them were holding up well.
"Sora can handle himself." Squall growled and gave a last hit to the window. It shattered. "Thank God." He muttered and pushed the dangerous, jagged glass away from the edges. "Go. Sora! Come on!" He yelled. There was a sudden thump and cry of pain. Sora's voice yelled for help but it was silenced by a gunshot. My breath stopped.
"No...SORA!" I screamed, running toward the door.
"Yuffie NO!" Squall grabbed the collar of my shirt and dragged me back. "Go. Go now!" He helped me out the window. Sora...Sora was supposed to be able to keep her down. He told us to go...he'd be fine...I felt a bullet go right past my head and shrieked.
"FILTH!" Riaz screamed, firing again. Squall crawled out of the window in less than two seconds.
"Go!" He roared once more and I did. Blindly. The rain, the air, the smell of the storm greeted me and I was so glad to have made it. More shots ran gout but we were home free. When we reached the road I fell to my knees, breathing deep and fast. Squall did too.
"We...we made it!" I gasped. Squall looked at me, then back at the ground.
"You hurt?"
"No."
"Thank God." He straightened and let the rain pour down his face.
"You?" I asked.
"Nope."
"Thank God." We both chuckled. My laughter turned into tears. I couldn't believe all of this had happened. If this was a dream I wanted to wake up right now.
"Its over now. Don't cry." He noticed my quiet sobs and sighed heavily.
"Its not over Squall. It's never over! All of those people...Selphie..." I stopped, overcome with the hurt and disbelief I'd been ignoring for the past few hellish days. Squall murmured my name and pulled my soaked, sob wracked frame to his. His words brought back the dream. Their eyes begged me to help them...Yuffie please. I'd failed. Failed miserably. I stayed in his arms for what seemed like ever. At least until I could hear sirens in the distance. I looked up. Squall let me go and stood up, squinting in the icy rain. I was tired and hungry and cold and...
And last thing I remember was seeing the beautiful sight of flashing red and blue lights.
{TBC}
Lordy. My shortest chapter yet. Man, as stupid as this chapter was and as stupid as this sounds, I really freaked the crap outta myself writing it. I don't know where it came from...I'm not crazy. I mean honestly. I've never even had suicidal thoughts so to have that come from my imagination...blah.
SO! Recap...Sora and Kairi are dead, SO SORRY! Riku and Jailyn are dead. Aerith and Cloud are dead. The nameless officer and Selphie are dead. Yuffie and Squall are alive...whee!! I knew they'd be the main ones from the beginning. This story has always had a supernatural undertone, I meant for it to. So that's the whole 'Twin possession' dealie-o. The epilogue should be up in a few days if not tomorrow...heh. Don't expect a happy ending...
Reviewer thanks:
Kagome200315: I didn't WANT to kill him! I wrestled with myself forever with that decision...my friend (who I confide all my fanfic secrets with even though she could care less – love you Allison!) told me to quit worrying about it so much and just do it. So I did. Believe me it was the hardest decision of this story...that's why I didn't go into detail with it!
Deplora: SQUALLIE LIVES! Teehee. Aw and Sora is too clueless to kill. Thanks fer reviewing! Can I have meh Riku back now?
KingdomHearts309: Hehe I know she doesn't hate me! To repeat: I didn't want to kill Riku at all. I LOVE HIM TOO!
Greyspark: Jailyn and Riku were ur favorite couple? COOL! They were mine! Besides L/Y.
Pingpong867: SORA OR KAIRI?! THE KILLER?! Hehe would have been a killer plot twist...no pun intended. Okay so it was a little intended. But it was the dead tryin to kill em! Don't worry. Be happy. Doooo doo doo do do do doo do do do do de dooo. DEATH! NO! NOT THAT SONG!
Does anyone know why my story is not showing up on the normal list of stories? I even searched for it and it said there were no matches. Stupid fanfiction.net.
Pwease review!
Sora looks at me closely. Sora...oh my dear Sora. You've insulted Riaz. No one but me...I'm the only one able to insult my sister. I can tell she was hurt at the things you said to her...and about her. I'll make you pay for that Sora. The older brunette, Squall asks if I am dead. I want to laugh but I must wait...the right moment will come soon.
{Kairi}
"Don't go NEAR her!" Yuffie cried, yanking Squall back by his arm. I stared at Riaz's wide eyes and strange smirk. Unsettling was an understatement.
"I thought she was burned...who was in the sink then?" Sora wondered aloud as he ran his hands through his hair nervously. He peered down at her until he was nearly inches from her glossy eyes. I thought I saw her smirk widen. Sora stumbled back suddenly. "Get out. We have to get out right now." He moved so quickly I had no time to ask. He just grabbed my hand and pulled me off the bed. Sora unlocked the door with a furious speed.
Squall slammed the closet door shut and locked it. "You see her move? You saw her move didn't you?! She's fucking alive and she's going to fucking kill us!" Yuffie stared in sheer horror at the closet. Sora finally got the door unlocked.
"Lets go. Hurry. No one left behind." He pushed me into the dark hallway and started to do the same to Yuffie when the closet door rattled. We all froze. There were no tears, no whimpers, and no fear. Pure adrenalin rushed through me. All I knew...all I focused one was getting my friends out of here. I wouldn't let that woman get to anymore of them. And just as suddenly the door stopped rattling. A wave of calm washed over me. Four of us against her...bring it on.
{Yuffie}
The closet door flew open and there she stood in all her murderous glory. I felt Squall grab my upper arm and literally shove me out of the room. "Oh Soooooora." Riaz sang out with a maniacal chuckle.
"Go. GO!" Squall yelled and slammed the door behind him. We ran blindly, stumbling down the stairs until we reached the safe light of the living room. I fell panting onto the sofa.
"Where do we go? We can't get out!" Kairi asked, looking out the window.
"Move." Sora instructed. She ducked and half a second later a chair was hurled at shocking speed. The window cracked but held strong. "Damn!" He growled. Squall picked up the chair and raised it to deliver what would have been a crushing blow to the glass.
"This would have been so much easier..." A smooth voice glided through the room. All heads swiveled in her direction. She held a pistol in one hand. "If you wouldn't run it would be so much easier. You all brought this on yourselves. I would have went easy on you." She shook her head. "You can't blame this on Riaz you know. Really it would hurt her feelings. She actually liked you people- God knows why."
"You're a fucking skitzo." Sora said incredulously. Riaz glared at him.
"Shut up! I am not schizophrenic. You're already on my shit list Sora don't push it!" She growled, jabbing the pistol in his direction. "Riaz has no control over what I do with her."
"Really? Then what's your name?" Kairi sneered. She seemed to have lost all fear of the psycho. I envied her bravery for a moment. Riaz turned her eyes on the red head and for a split second she lost the evil look and almost seemed normal.
"I no longer have a name. You're nameless when you're dead." She leaned against the railing and began to speak in an almost conversational tone. "Of course I did have a name at one point. My parents named me Rachel. I was Rachel Catherine Rellik. Only two minutes older than Riaz but when you're a twin every minute counts." She took a deep, slow breath. I glanced at Squall out of the corner of my eye and shrugged ever so slightly He returned the gesture as if to say 'I don't know.' If we were gonna make a move it would have to be now.
"My parents hated me. I don't mean the usual teenage mindset of thinking they wanted to ruin my life. I mean they truly hated me. Left me sorta fucked up ya know? Riaz was never hateful to me...she always felt so bad about the way I was treated and always seemed to have a soft or cheery word. When my dad went crazy one day he hauled off and killed my mother. Riaz...Riaz shot this exact gun and killed my father." She shook the pistol lightly. "Of course we established that I'm crazy right? I watched my mother die and my sister kill my father...you can hate someone and still be affected by their death."
"I took the blame for Riaz and said I killed my father. She was so scared they were going to imprison her. What else could I do. They interrogated me all the time...the courts, the officers, the everything. Just got to be too much and I snapped. Took out 4 people during my court appearance with this very gun..." She paused again to admire her pistol. Sora motioned to Squall and me to follow his lead. "I ran out and ran home...killed myself before they could get to me. They put Riaz in a foster home until she was old enough to come back and live with me...I love Riaz but everything had screwed her up too. Such a shame...explains the interior decorating though." She smiled.
"When people are...unfortunate enough to stop by I take her over and have my bit of fun. She doesn't like that but...I'm dead and damned to this house so I might as well enjoy it." The murder was back. We'd waited too long.
"Now!" Sora yelled. Squall hurled the chair he had been holding in her direction, distracting her momentarily. This gave Sora half a second to jump on her and pull her to the ground. She bit his arm in an attempt to free herself. Kairi grabbed and wrestled the gun out of her hands.
"Got it!" Kairi cried joyfully. Riaz hissed at her and kicked her in the stomach. She doubled over coughing and dropped the gun. Sora stupidly let Riaz go and rushed to Kairi's side. Riaz grinned and picked the gun up, kicking Sora in the head as she did.
"Stop!" She shrieked and held the gun up. Squall and I stopped our attempt to kick the window in.
"Run!" Squall shoved me in the direction of the kitchen. We all simultaneously flew into the dining room. I slammed the door and locked it.
"What now?" A shot rang out and the lock on the door flew across the room. Riaz kicked the door open and moved in. We all stepped back.
"This is enough!" She hissed, her breathing labored. The floor shuddered violently and caused the china on the table to rattle. Riaz grinned that same fanatical grin and looked at the ceiling. I suddenly realized what she was trying to do.
"KAIRI! Move!" I yelled but it was too late. Kairi looked up to find she was right under the smoke alarm. And the knife fell.
{A few minutes later}
"I've got her." Sora buried his knee even deeper into Riaz's back. She grunted and tried to squirm out of his grip. He didn't let her. "Go get that window unlocked!" He ordered me, glancing over his shoulder. Sweat ran down his face, his eyes wide and wild. I nodded and ran into the living room, pointedly keeping my eyes away from the bloody body of Kairi.
"Get that." Squall pointed to the chair. I handed it to him quickly.
"Hurry I don't know how long Sora can keep her down." I fluttered behind him nervously, watching as he broke the leg off of the severely battered chair and began to beat the crack in the window. Whatever curse she'd put on them were holding up well.
"Sora can handle himself." Squall growled and gave a last hit to the window. It shattered. "Thank God." He muttered and pushed the dangerous, jagged glass away from the edges. "Go. Sora! Come on!" He yelled. There was a sudden thump and cry of pain. Sora's voice yelled for help but it was silenced by a gunshot. My breath stopped.
"No...SORA!" I screamed, running toward the door.
"Yuffie NO!" Squall grabbed the collar of my shirt and dragged me back. "Go. Go now!" He helped me out the window. Sora...Sora was supposed to be able to keep her down. He told us to go...he'd be fine...I felt a bullet go right past my head and shrieked.
"FILTH!" Riaz screamed, firing again. Squall crawled out of the window in less than two seconds.
"Go!" He roared once more and I did. Blindly. The rain, the air, the smell of the storm greeted me and I was so glad to have made it. More shots ran gout but we were home free. When we reached the road I fell to my knees, breathing deep and fast. Squall did too.
"We...we made it!" I gasped. Squall looked at me, then back at the ground.
"You hurt?"
"No."
"Thank God." He straightened and let the rain pour down his face.
"You?" I asked.
"Nope."
"Thank God." We both chuckled. My laughter turned into tears. I couldn't believe all of this had happened. If this was a dream I wanted to wake up right now.
"Its over now. Don't cry." He noticed my quiet sobs and sighed heavily.
"Its not over Squall. It's never over! All of those people...Selphie..." I stopped, overcome with the hurt and disbelief I'd been ignoring for the past few hellish days. Squall murmured my name and pulled my soaked, sob wracked frame to his. His words brought back the dream. Their eyes begged me to help them...Yuffie please. I'd failed. Failed miserably. I stayed in his arms for what seemed like ever. At least until I could hear sirens in the distance. I looked up. Squall let me go and stood up, squinting in the icy rain. I was tired and hungry and cold and...
And last thing I remember was seeing the beautiful sight of flashing red and blue lights.
{TBC}
Lordy. My shortest chapter yet. Man, as stupid as this chapter was and as stupid as this sounds, I really freaked the crap outta myself writing it. I don't know where it came from...I'm not crazy. I mean honestly. I've never even had suicidal thoughts so to have that come from my imagination...blah.
SO! Recap...Sora and Kairi are dead, SO SORRY! Riku and Jailyn are dead. Aerith and Cloud are dead. The nameless officer and Selphie are dead. Yuffie and Squall are alive...whee!! I knew they'd be the main ones from the beginning. This story has always had a supernatural undertone, I meant for it to. So that's the whole 'Twin possession' dealie-o. The epilogue should be up in a few days if not tomorrow...heh. Don't expect a happy ending...
Reviewer thanks:
Kagome200315: I didn't WANT to kill him! I wrestled with myself forever with that decision...my friend (who I confide all my fanfic secrets with even though she could care less – love you Allison!) told me to quit worrying about it so much and just do it. So I did. Believe me it was the hardest decision of this story...that's why I didn't go into detail with it!
Deplora: SQUALLIE LIVES! Teehee. Aw and Sora is too clueless to kill. Thanks fer reviewing! Can I have meh Riku back now?
KingdomHearts309: Hehe I know she doesn't hate me! To repeat: I didn't want to kill Riku at all. I LOVE HIM TOO!
Greyspark: Jailyn and Riku were ur favorite couple? COOL! They were mine! Besides L/Y.
Pingpong867: SORA OR KAIRI?! THE KILLER?! Hehe would have been a killer plot twist...no pun intended. Okay so it was a little intended. But it was the dead tryin to kill em! Don't worry. Be happy. Doooo doo doo do do do doo do do do do de dooo. DEATH! NO! NOT THAT SONG!
Does anyone know why my story is not showing up on the normal list of stories? I even searched for it and it said there were no matches. Stupid fanfiction.net.
Pwease review!