"I have a plan."
"You should plan to kill yourself."
"No. I'm doing something else."
A time later (PS THIS IS THE DRAMTIC ENDING SO PAY ATTENTION!!!!)
Devi slowly came to. She had the sensation of being somewhere dark. Dark, and close. And she couldn't move much.
"Hello Devi."
She jerked into alertness.
"Johnny?!?!"
"Yes, it is I. I tried to help you, you know. I tried to get them to put up your paintings. You're so GOOD."
Realization dawned on her face.
"You made that scupture drop... you KILLED all those people, so-"
"Yes. But I did it for YOU. And I'm so, very, very sorry for trying to kill you that one time."
"Have you gorged yourself at last, in your lust for blood?"
"Yes. I have had more than enough killing. But the wall..." He looked at the floor.
"I need to keep the wall wet."
"Let me GO, Johnny. I want to go, and never see you again."
"He said you'd say that." Johnny pointed to two garishly painted statues. "So I made a backup plan. You see, we have a guest."
He pulled down a ragged blanket that Devi hadn't even noticed. Behind in, also bound was-
"ALEX!"
"Yes."
Alex saw her, and suddenly became very angry.
"LET HER GO! Do what you a want with me, but let Devi go! Have you no pity?"
"I love her! Does that mean nothing? I love her!"
"Show some compassion!"
"The world showed no compassion to me.
"Devi, this is all quite simple. Stay with me. Or..." He gestured to Alex.
"You bastard."
"You, sir, are as good as dead. The only thing that can save you now, is Devi." HE turned back to her.
"Start a new life with me. Buy his freedom. Agree, or send your lover to his death. This is the choice. This is the point of no return."
Devi took one last look at Alex. A single tear trickled down her cheek.
"Let Alex go." She said softly.
"No! Devi, leave! He won't really kill me."
"Yes, he will." She looked at the floor. More tears came, unbidden.
Good Johnny. See? I told you that was the only way to get what you wanted.
But she isn't happy. She loves him... not me...
So?
Upstairs, there was a crashing noise. (They were in the VERY uppermost basement.)
"Police! Come out with you hands up! We've connected you with the deaths of FIVE people, and we will NOT hesitate to shoot!"
Johnny looked, panicked, at his two captives. With one fluid motion, he cut them both loose.
"Take her. Forget me. Forget all you've seen."
Alex made like to kick Johnny.
"Leave me here! Forget all of this." Johnny hurled a knife up the stairs, and an unseen man fell, dead.
"Go now, don't let them find you!"
He threw another knife.
"Two stories down, there's a passage, it'll take you to my neighbor's house."
He looked up the steps again.
"GO! Go now, and LEAVE ME!!"
Devi ran down a flight of steps, casting one last look back at Johnny. He was throwing another knife.
They soon found the passage, and scrambled through it. Behind them, gunshots echoed.
(FYI , Johnny never uses guns on anyone other than himself.)
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