Part 1:Chapter 3-I Hope You Die In A Fire

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(4 years later)

"Why don't you get a job you lazy piece of scum?!" Brian yelled at the top of his lungs at Lucas. Who was sitting on his coach; and doing nothing…AGAIN!

"Yeah, well why don't you come over here, and make me; and see what happens!" Lucas shot back as he dug his hand into a bag of ships. He was definitely getting tiered of this old man always being on his case. He had tried to ignore him, which explained why the stupid TV was all the way up.

'If you could even call it a TV!' Lucas rolled his eyes. Having been to the future several times he knew it would be a couple of more decades before the humans finally got a descent picture on these stupid devices.

"Hey, I'm talking to you!" Brian yelled.

"And I'm not listening now back off!" Lucas snapped.

"That's it!" Brian walked over to the TV and turned it off.

"Hey, I was watching that!" Lucas hissed looking ready to jump up from his seat, and pounce him.

"I can't believe she would want you around!" Brian yelled.

"Yeah, well she does so get over it!"

"You're not good enough for my Angel!"

"Please, no one's good enough for her in your eyes!"

Lara groaned as she tried her best to ignore their voices. Which were so loud that they traveled up the stairs; and into her room.

It wasn't easy!

She balled up her paper in frustration at this rate she'd never get any work done. She sighed and tried to start again. She tries convincing herself that when she final became a detective it would all be worth it. Lara smiled, ever since she was a little, she had wanted to become a detective for the California police department. It was a career that many in her family had pursued, her late grandfather more specifically. Lara dreamed of following his footsteps, a dream that she thought was going to be dead and buried when Will was born.

However, her mother had encouraged her to follow her dream. Telling her it would become a good example of perseverance for her own son when he was older.

'Speaking of Will…' Lara looked over her shoulder to check on her son.

Will, who is now five years old, is playing on his bed with his favorite toys; a stuffed T-Rex and plastic shark. He makes soft roaring sounds as he pretends the T-Rex is chasing the shark.

Lara sighs 'It's pretty sad when a baby can play quieter and he's right behind me!' she rolled her eyes at the thought, and screamed as her father's voice continues to get louder and louder. "That is it!" She yells. She gets up and storms downstairs. "Dad could you please stop yelling!" she snapped at her father.

"Me! This lazy bum is the one who wont get up and-" Brian began.

"Then argue with him somewhere else I'm trying to study!" Lara snapped.

"You hear that?" Brian asked Lucas. "Lara is trying to get a job so Will can have a better future! That is what you should be doing!" he says practically spitting in the demon's face.

Meanwhile, Lucas looks even more ready to pounce then before.

Lara can see him as clear as day. The demon was actually thinking about it, and she could tell. "Seriously Dad please just drop it!" she snapped only adding fuel to the flames.

"No, I'll drop it when his lazy bum becomes a decent FATHER!" Brian yelled.

"THAT'S IT!" Lucas screams.

Lara waits for disaster to happen, but instead Lucas freezes at the sound of the phone. It rings once, than twice, then it rings again.

"Are one of you guys going to get that?" Amber's voice asked, coming from the kitchen.

Lucas growls as he sees the phone on the coffee table in front of him. He picks up the receiver and answers it. "Hello?"

"Uh yes this is Kate, Katelyn Moore." A woman's voice answered. "I'm a friend of Lara's is she home?"

"Yeah, give me a minute." Lucas rolled his eyes and held out the phone for Lara. "It's some girl named Kate."

"Katelyn Moore?" Lara asked surprised. "She hasn't talked to me since I told her I was pregnant."

"Well she wants to talk to you now." Lucas said rather annoyed. "So take the phone!" He forced it into her grasp. "I need to get some air!" he snapped storming out the front door.

"Unbelievable!" Brian yelled. "He is not good enough for you!" he whispered to his daughter before going out the kitchen door; which lead to the backyard.

Lara almost stopped him, but then she advised against it. After all, if she knew her dad, he was probably going to blow off some steam in the garage. She then remembers the phone and decides to answer it. "Hello?"

"Hey Lara, is that you?" Kate asked.

"Yeah, it's me, listen I'm not unhappy that you called, but I thought you didn't want to speak to me." Lara said as she sat down on the couch.

"Lara darling I didn't mean anything by it, my parents thought you were a bad influence, because you were 17 and pregnant!" Kate explained. "Anyways I hoped that I could make it up to you?"

"How?" Lara asked.

"Well you know my brother is a detective in Cali, and well I remember how you wanted to be one too. You still do right?"

"Uh yeah I've been going to the collage down the road but it's a slow process." Lara sighed.

"Well what if I told you that the academy over here had an opening." Kate asked.

"I'd say that's great, but I can't just move to California." Lara explained.

"Well you're going to have to cause I already signed you up for the scholarship; and you got it!" Kate exclaimed.

"Wait slow down you signed me up for a scholarship?!" Lara was dumb founded.

"Well your mom did all the paperwork, and mailed it up: but it was my idea. I thought; hey if your gonna say sorry for abandoning your best friend during senior year; then you might as well make a real good apology gift."

"Kate, I don't know what to say." Lara said through tears.

"Say yes!" Kate exclaimed.

"But Will?" Lara cried.

"It's all taken cared of I have plenty of room in my place for you, and Will." Kate explained.

"But Cali is a dangerous place for kids, you know that." Lara cried even more.

"Darling this is your dream, not to mention it could be the start you, and Will need to get the life you both deserve." Kate said trying to reason with her.

Lara knew she was right, but at the same time she was scared for Will. Cali was a populare topic on the news, and not for a good reason. Not only had the number of street crime increased, but there were also several kidnappings in the area. The numbers were terrifyingly high and always seemed to make the newspapers. Newspapers all across the country mentioned them, and the idea of taking Will there right now seemed dangerous.

Will walked down the stairs cautiously, holding onto the rails for support. He smiles as he sees his mother talking on the phone. Moments later he runs from the bottom stair and over to her. "Mommy I'm bored." He says, hitting his hands softly on her knees.

"Not now Will mommy is talking" Lara whispers to him.

"But I'm bored" Will cried.

"Then go play out back, Papa is out there." Lara told him with a tiered smile.

"Okay!" Will jumped up for joy and ran for the back door. He absolutely loved going outside where there was nothing to hold him back. He didn't have to worry about running into the table, or breaking Gram-Gram's vases.

No, out here he was free…

Will opened the back door and took in a deep breath of the afternoon air. It was warm still; but Papa said it wouldn't stay that way for long.

'Stupid piece of-!'

Will covered up his ears as he heard a voice say one of his mother's no-no words; but strangely it didn't do him any good. He immediately picked up on what was going on, he was hearing someone's thoughts. At first, he was confused by this, that was until his father explained. He told him that their kind had special powers that humans couldn't even imagine.

"Their kind..." Will had found it strange that his father referred to himself, and his son as a different from the rest of the family. Regardless he soon learns to accept it; and eventually he begins to think this way himself.

Unknowingly to Will this is what his father wants, he wants Will to see himself as a demon; not a human! He wants his son to suppress his human nature so munch until it's nothing but a distant memory, leaving his demonic genes to take a more dominate roll.

Making Will 100% Demon!

'If I had it my way, I'd kill that Son Of A -!'

Will covered up his ears again, and stomped his foot in frustration as another no-no word reached his ears. His father said it would take time for him to learn how to tell the different between thoughts, and actual speech. He also said that it would take even longer to learn how to block out thoughts he didn't want to hear.

'I got to get him out of our lives somehow, Lara will thank me later.'

Will whirled turning in every direction as he tried to figure out where the voice was coming from. He forced himself to follow his father's advice, and not panic.

"Let the thoughts lead you to their owner."

Will closed his eyes and obeyed his father's words, before walking blindly forward.

'He's not human there's no way that scum can be human.'

Will stopped as he runs into something, he opens his eyes to see that is the family garage; the thoughts where coming from in there. Will crackled the wooden door opened, and peaked inside.

It was Papa, and he was swinging his wooden bat at a sack of flour.

'He's a monster, a heartless monster!'

Will's brow frowned. Who was Papa talking about? And why did it make him so angry?

'That swine first he gets Lara pregnant, then he doesn't have the common courtesy to show up for his son's birth!'

Will blinks in confusion 'Is he talking about daddy?' Will imminently shook away the thought. 'Of course not Papa would never-'

'I've got to get rid of him somehow, but how it's not like I can just kill him!'

'Why not? Hell you'd be doing everyone a favor; a piece of scum doesn't deserve to live!'

Brian froze as the door of the garage was suddenly ripped off its hinges.

"You liar!" Will screams as he bursts though the door, but it is not the grandson that Brian has come to know.

The boy's eyes are engulfed in what appears to be blue flames. The same flames lick his fist as the young boy continues to shout. "My Daddy is not a monster he loves me, he loves mommy!" Will screams; but it is not his normal voice that rings out.

No this voice echoed with a demonic sort of rage.

Brian yelped as the garage begins to shake all around him. He looks at his grandson as if for the first time. "You- Your no child- you're some demon spawn. You're a-"

"No you're the Monster!" Will screamed; finishing his sentence. "No one talks about my Daddy that way, NO ONE!" Will screamed louder as the blue flames began to overcome his entire body. The flames then moved on to engulf the entire garage.

"Help somebody help me!" Brian yelled. He turned to the window behind him, and goes to climb out. Only to stop dead in his tracks as he realizes that someone is watching him. It's Lucas standing outside the garage; watching it burn with a big evil smile on his face. "You!" Brian screams. "You did this!"

"No you did." Lucas mused.

Brian suddenly screams as the fire begins to climb up his body, it soon engulfs him. He screams for William to stop.

Will just stands there and watches as he burns.

Lucas gives his son his famous slow clap of approval. Most of the boy's abilities had come naturally enough; but today was a special day.

For today was the first day his son had acted like the demon he was meant to become.

Lucas smiled as Brian's screams got louder and louder. It was just too bad that the Winters had no neighbors. 'Stupid humans; don't they know how dangerous it can be in these woods?'

"Okay Kate I'll think about it." Lara sighs as she continues her conversation on the phone unaware of her father's torment.

"Well don't take too long this Fall is just right around the corner." Kate advised.

"It was great hearing from you" Lara said, and it was true. Lara had missed her friend.

"You too girl, talk to you soon, okay?" Kate sounded almost hopeful.

"You bet." Lara agreed.

"K bye."

"Bye" Lara hung up the phone, and was about to go back up to her room when she heard the most unearthly scream.

It was Amber; she was staring out of the kitchen window, screaming at the top of her lungs.

"Mom what is it!" Lara raced in to see her worse nightmare. The garage was on fire!

"Will!" Lara pushed pass her mom, and out the door. "Will please NO!" She runs towards the barn only to be grabbed by Lucas.

"No you have to let me go, Will he's in there!" Lara screamed trying to fight her way out of his hold.

"William's fine." Lucas whispered into her ear.

"How could you say that?" Lara cried. "Will and Dad are in there, their burning alive!" Lara fell to her knees as the reality became too much. "After everything I was going to lose him anyways!"

"You haven't lost him." Lucas said softly as he knelt down beside her. "Lara he's not gone... see look."

Lara looked up and gasped as her son Will, walked out of the burning garage completely unharmed. "William?" she rasped. "Come- Come to mommy…get way from the fire."

Will obeyed his mother and ran into her arms. "Why are you crying mommy?" he asked.

"Baby I was so worried." Lara froze as she realized, "Where's Papa?"

Will pointed at the garage, "Papa called daddy no-no words," he explained. "He deserved to be punished."

"You? You did this?"

Lara turned to see her mother; tears streamed from her mother's eyes. "You killed him!" Amber screamed.

"Mother of course not he's just a child!" Lara screamed.

"No mommy, Gram-gram's right I did do it?" Will answered honestly.

Lara looked at her son in pure disbelief. "Wh-What?"

"You little-" Amber began.

"Mom it was an accident; right Will?" Lara asked hopefully.

"An accident, Lara look at him! There's not a scratch on him! Not even ash from the smoke!" Amber yelled.

Lara did her best to ignore her. "Baby please just tell mommy it was an accident, and it will be okay." She was begging now. She ran her hand through his golden hair looking almost hopeful.

But the answer she got was not the one she wanted to hear.

"He deserved it mommy" Will repeated as if it was no big deal at all.

"You monster!" Amber screamed.

"Will, why would you say that?!" Lara tried her best not to yell.

"Papa was going to get rid of Daddy" Will explained. "I was protecting Daddy." William obviously looks confused by his mother's reaction, and it becomes clear that he doesn't fully understand what he has just done.

"That thing is no child!" Amber screamed. "I want it out of my yard, I want it out of my house, and I want it out of my life."

"Mother you don't mean that!" Lara screamed. "it was an accident!" She demanded.

"Lara either you disown that demon child or you're dead to me!" Amber screamed.

"Mother!" Lara began.

"No I mean it!" Amber screamed.

"I will not disown my child!" Lara yelled.

"Then you are dead to me!" Amber screamed. "Get out all of you, get out now; and never come back!"

"Mother-" Lara couldn't stop the tears from falling.

"How could you?" Amber screamed. "How could you side with that thing, that monster?"

"Monster?" Lucas spoke up, finally speaking for the first time. "The only monster I see here is you. Brian gave me crap about abandoning Lara, but now your gonna just kick us out on the street."

"Don't you dare say his name!" Amber screamed. "Get out… All of you!"

"Fine!" Lara yelled. "You want us gone so badly fine!" Lara picked up her son and grabbed Lucas' hand. "I have a great opportunity at the law enforcement academy in California. We'll go there."

"What a coincidence." Lucas said with a sly smile. "I have some friends in Cali they can hook us up with our own place!" he said smirking at Amber.

"Really?" Lara asked surprised.

"Yep, let's go babe." Lucas pulled Lara along. "We've got some packing to do." Lara reluctantly followed him her eyes never leaving her mother.

Amber was on her knees with her hands covering her face, she was crying. "You're all dead to me, DEAD TO ME!" She screamed over, and over again.

Lara forced herself to look away, and push forward.

It only took them seconds to pack thanks to Lucas' magic touch, and moments later they were in getting into the car.

Lara strapped her son in trying her best to keep the tears out of her eyes. "I'm sorry mommy..." William whispered.

Lara shook her head. "You have nothing to be sorry about sweetie it was an accident." She told him, and then closed his door before getting into the passenger seat.

"No it wasn't." Will whispered. He looked out the window, and tried to understand. Mommy was crying and so was Gram-gram, 'Should I be crying?' he asked himself. William looked to his father for guidance.

Lucas read his son's thoughts loud and clear, and gave him a firm head shake.

'No.'

Will turned back to his window, and watched as the car drove further, and further away. He didn't shed a single tear for his grandfather's death; he felt nothing for his loss.

Lucas couldn't help the smile that spread his way across his face. They were finally leaving this hick town. 'I knew that idiot would get himself killed if I waited long enough.' His all-seeing eye narrowed on his son knowing all too well of what path he just started him down.

A bloody path to Hell!

'Your gonna go far kid' he thought knowing Will could hear him. 'I can see it now!'

William just continued to stare out the window as Amber's and Brian's screams echoed in his minds.

Not knowing that they had been his victims, and also not knowing that they were only… The first of many!


Chapter End Notes

Well that's it for now, As always, I thank you for reading, and ask that you please leave a comment.

The next chapter will be up next Monday, but until then...