This is the final chapter. I hope you're not too disappointed with the ending.
Devil's Harvest
Chapter nine
Billie and a group of officers suddenly stormed into the room shouting for everyone to freeze and firing their guns in the air when some of the robed figures started to try and escape. Deaq broke free of the two men holding him and ran to his partner's side.
"Oh God! Oh God!" He sobbed. There was nothing he could do. The wound in Van's chest was massive. He was dead.
Billie ran over her face twisted in anguish. They were too late.
"I'm sorry Deaq! I'm so sorry! We couldn't find the way in!" Tears flowed down her face. Just a few minutes earlier and maybe there would have been a chance to save him.
"Oh God Billie look what they did to him!" Deaq choked out as he tried to close Van's chest wound with his hands. He knew it wouldn't do any good, his partner was gone. But in his shock and sorrow he felt like he had to do something.
They both stood at the table and looked at Van, Deaq covered in his partner's blood. They couldn't believe he was gone. Tears streamed down both of their faces. Van lay dead on the table in a large pool of blood. His eyes were already starting to glaze over.
"Van, I'm so sorry." Billie leaned down and kissed him on his forehead and laid her cheek against his before walking away in shock. She couldn't believe he was dead.
Deaq picked up the red sheet and covered his partner's naked body up to his shoulders. He reached under and picked up Van's limp hand. He felt totally numb, this couldn't be happening. He fell to his knees hanging onto Van's hand sobbing. They had been through so much together and now it was over. His heart broke as he felt the warmth of Van's hand slowly disappear.
"We need to get everybody out of here! This is a crime scene!" One of the commanding officers yelled.
Billie knew Deaq wasn't going to want to leave his partner. She walked over to him and put her hand on his shoulder.
"Deaq, we really need to go. We can't do anything for him now." She said softly.
"Billie I can't leave him. Not like this." He looked up at her and her heart broke when she saw the pain in his eyes.
"Deaq, Van's gone. I don't want to accept it either, but we have to. We got to let them do their job."
"I can't Billie........I can't........" Deaq didn't want to leave go of his partner. He looked so cold and all alone. Finally he gently laid Van's arm across his body.
"I know............" Billie put her arms around Deaq and hugged him. She started to lead him away but stopped when she heard a commotion at the side of the room.
"Get that damn dog out of here!"
Billie and Deaq watched stunned as the white German Shepherd entered the room. Officers started to chase it and it loped around the room till it stood beside the table next to Van.
"Grab him!"
"No!" Billie shouted not quite sure why.
Deaq and Billie looked at each other then back at the dog. It almost seemed to glow it was so white. The dog circled the table three times then stopped and stood on its hind legs. It then put its head on Van's chest and started to whimper.
"Get that dog out of here he's contaminating the crime scene!"
"No! Let him be!" Billie shouted, not sure why but she knew there was something special about the animal.
Deaq grabbed the arm of an officer who was trying to sneak up beside the dog. The man spun around and faced Deaq.
"He was your partner! You want some filthy animal crawling all over his body?"
"Let the dog alone." Deaq said softly.
"Well if you don't care enough about your partner..........."
Deaq twisted the man's arm before he could finish.
"My partner meant everything to me. I would have died for him." He looked at Van's body, tears glistening in his eyes, his heart broken.
"Then why are you letting that dog crawl all over him?"
"I don't know." Deaq said more to himself then to the man. He had no idea himself why he was allowing it. It was just a strange feeling he had that it was the right thing to do.
The dog suddenly threw back his head and started howling mournfully. He then lowered his head and began to lick Van's chest wound, its white fur stained red with his blood.
The police began ushering the coven out of the room. Jason looked at Deaq and smirked as he was led past him.
"I won." He said smiling
Deaq made a move toward him but was held back by two officers.
"I'll see you again you son of a bitch and when I do you're dead!"
Jason just laughed and kept walking. He was taken outside where he and the rest of the coven were locked inside a police van. Two officers stood guard outside of it while the rest of the officers reentered the chamber for some reason drawn to the white dog.
The officers including Billie and Deaq stood transfixed watching the dog's fur continue to soak up Van's blood. Then the dog put his head down near Van's mouth. A soft gasp of surprise went through the group as a white mist came out of the dog's mouth and entered Van's mouth. The whole thing lasted only about fifteen seconds. When the dog raised his head his blood stained fur was once more glowing white. The dog got back down on all fours and headed for the door. The police stepped aside letting him past. Everyone watched stunned as he left the room, all of them feeling like they had just witnessed something special but not sure what.
"Okay, I don't know what just happened here but let's get the crime scene unit in here and let them get their job done." One of the officers in charge said breaking the spell.
Billie and Deaq stayed as the crime scene investigators came in. They wanted to be with Van. The thought of just leaving him lying there alone with strangers was too much for them to bear.
The CSI began their work. One of the investigating officers began examining Van's wound when he took a quick step backward.
"This man is still alive!"
"What?!!" Billie and Deaq ran up to the table.
Van lay on the table as if he were only sleeping. The large wound on his chest looked like it had slowly started to heal.
"That's impossible, that man was dead!" The same officer in charge said as he looked on in disbelief.
"Van! Van can you hear me partner?" Deaq leaned over Van's face, tears ran down his face and dripped onto Van.
Van's eyelids fluttered and then slowly opened. He looked up into Billie and Deaq's smiling faces.
"Boy do you look beautiful!" Billie said.
"What...........what's going on?" Van said confused.
"Welcome back partner." Deaq squeezed Van's shoulder.
"Back? From where?" He winced in pain as he tried to sit up. Deaq gently pushed him back.
"We need a paramedic over here!" Billie shouted.
One ran over and began examining Van. He bandaged his chest and neck, and then checked his vital signs. When he was finished he looked over at Deaq and Billie and smiled shaking his head in disbelief.
"I don't understand it, this man had what should have been a fatal wound, but...........it appears to be slowly healing. He needs to get to a hospital but as far as I can tell if the healing continues he should be fine."
Van looked down at himself and realized he was naked beneath the sheet.
"What happened to my clothes?"
Billie and Deaq looked at each other and smiled. After all he had just been through the only thing he was concerned with was his modesty.
"Just be glad your clothes are the only thing you lost tonight buddy." Deaq smiled down at him.
Most of the officer's wandered around the room in silence. Too stunned to talk.
They didn't fully understand it but they knew they had just been witnesses to a miracle.
The alley wayVan was placed on a litter and Billie and Deaq followed him outside. The sight that greeted them was from out of a horror movie. The police van's doors were open and the coven was gone. The two guards lay in the alleyway in a pool of blood, their throats ripped out.
Four glowing red eyes watched from the end of the alley then turned and ran off as a lone dog howled alone in the night.
The End
Happy Halloween!!!!
TBC??? Next Halloween?