Disclaimer: HEHEHEHEEEE… I am hypnotizing this wasp with Nine Inch Nails's "Closer"… AAAARGHHHHH MY BUM! OK! I don't own any of Jhonen Vasquez's characters. Oh crap. MY BUTT! MYY BUUTTTT!!! IT'S ALL NUMB!!!

Part 11

(Nny's View)

I paced around quietly, the TV forgotten.

Kill her… Kill her… Kill her

The voices whispered.

"No… I… can't…"

She hurt you… kill her…She isn't any different from all the others… kill her. KILL HER.

A loud ringing interrupted. I looked around swiftly for the source. The phone. The phone? No one ever calls me…

I slowly picked up the receiver and answered, "…Hello?"

There was no answer, only harsh breathing.

"Who is this?" I demanded.

A low chuckle came from the other end and then a scream. Devi's.

"DEVI?!"

"No, but she's here with me…" A voice rasped.

MEAT!

Click! The other end went dead.

The phone fell from my hand.

"SHIT!" I shrieked and ran out the door. I sped through yards with the car and came to a halt in front of Devi's apartment.

I blanched as I saw the front door. It was literally clawed through. The door was in splinters.

I pushed the door in and it fell off its hinges.

I walked in the dark room and the lights switched on.

"Just in time…" Meat smiled and gestured his long claws towards the bound and gagged Devi. She looked terrified.

I've got to help her…

I lurched forward, but Meat struck like a cobra. He dragged Devi up off the floor by the neck and drove his other clawed hands deeply into Devi's abdomen. I froze. Meat laughed and withdrew his five claws. Devi gave a strangled cry through the gag and five bloody spots grew on her white blouse. Meat let go ove her and turned around towards me, smiling widely. Behind him, Devi slumped to the ground.

"NOOO!" I shrieked. "DEVI!"

Meat laughed once more and hurled out of the door.

I crawled over to Devi. She was breathing harshly.

"Devi… I'm so sorry… don't… don't die… I… I love you…" I choked out. "Don't die…"

"I'm sorry that I didn't believe you Nny… I… love… you… too…" She whispered and she fell unconscious.

"NO! DEVI! STAY WITH ME!" I hesitated before picking her up.

I carried her out to the car. I gently laid her in the passenger seat and rushed her to the hospital. The nurses wouldn't let me in with her. The thought of killing them crossed my mind, but I decided that Devi would need all the help she could get.

So I waited. I waited for Devi in the waiting room. Here, I would stay until I heard from her…

(Jen's View)

(Next Morning…)

I called Nny around noon on the phone.

No one answered.

I decided to go over to his house. Again.

I walked over past the axed tree and realized that Nny's door was wide open and his car was gone. I went into his house anyway. I had to talk to him. I would wait for him. We need to fix things. I care about the guy too much to just let go…

I fumbled around for a light switch in the dark room. Nny probably has black curtains… It's so bright outside and dark in here.

"Shit", I walked into the couch.

As my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I saw the single lightbulb hanging from the ceiling and pulled the cord. The dim light revealed the room to me. A stained, worn couch and a bloody television with actual bunny ears. Past the living room was the dank kitchen.

I hesitantly sat on the couch. I twiddled my thumbs idly.

(A half hour later…)

"Doom doom doom de doom… Ah who am I kidding?"

I got up and looked around. I went into the kitchen and checked the cupboards.

Nny will probably kill me if he saw me looking through all of his stuff. Oh well… I'm probably going to die anyway, might as well make the best of it… Carpe Diem.

In Nny's cupboards, there were only dusty cans of Skettios. He had a carton of milk and a few fudge popsicles in the fridge.

"(Damn, no wonder he's so skinny…)"

I made a note to make Nny decent food… if I lived…

I looked around the kitchen and spotted a doorway that lead further into the house.

"(Huh… that's weird… the house didn't seem very big from the outside…)"

I stepped into the doorway and glanced down at the dark stairs leading downwards. I glanced up and spotted another lightbulb. I turned it on and I slowly descended the steps. The stairs creaked horribly and by the time I stepped foot on floor again, I had already lost most of my nerve.

Again, I squinted through the darkness again for a light. The previous light had faded, it was not enough to sustain both the stairway and the room. As the light dimly shone through the room, glares from all over the room partially blinded me. I looked for the sources and gasped.

A wall of knives and swords, another wall of tools, a contraption that was made to sever all limbs at once… The last wall was covered with various, sharp, and shiny objects.

A movable metal operating table and a chair laid in the middle of the room.

I nearly shrieked with joy, "LOOKIT ALL THE SHINY, SHARP THINGIES!!!"

I picked up a steel long sword with chips of ruby embedded in an intricate design on the hilt. I swung it around a couple of times, but I got too excited and I sliced off the wooden handles of 6 axes.

O.o

"Oops… sharp…" I commented to the sword. I decided to carry it around just in case… and because it was SO COOL!

I spotted another stairway going downwards. These stairs spun around in a downward spiral.

As I came down to the floor, I spotted a switch and flipped it on. A blinking, buzzing light came on, revealing paintings. Paintings of eyes and monsters. The same kind that was randomly scattered around the house. The obvious effort and detail brought out their life.

"Wow…" I breathed.

Nny was not just an extremely disturbed individual, he was an extremely talented, disturbed artist.

I walked around examining each painting carefully. The eyes, however… disturbed me. They looked too real… they followed my every movement, but I checked. They were only paint…

I came to a boarded doorway.

Dripping red words were painted across the boards:

NEVER AGAIN…

I peaked through the cracks of the boards, into the darkness.

Curiosity won over reason…

I pried the boards off the doorway with my trusty sword and stared into the looming darkness. I walked in. I faintly saw a lamp and turned it on. The light barely showed through all the dust that covered it.

To be continued…