Chapter 6---Scarlett Letters Burn
What have I done?! What you should have done a long time ago!No! They were my friends!! I didn't want to hurt them...They needed to be punished!For what?! The voice didn't answer. All these thoughts were swirling in my head. My friends were dead. Because of me and that voice. I looked at the memorial booklets from my friends funerals. I can't believe I did that to them.My hands were shaking. My hands. They were clean, but I could see their blood. I could see the nights that I'd gone to them and done those horrible things. I wanted to take back my actions so badly, but there's no second chance when your devils make you dance.
Stop your blubbering! The rest must be finishedmy child, there is much to do...This time...we feast on their fear...and those SeeDs...
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Fujin awoke with a start. What had woke her? A nitemare. She was following the shadowy figure of the murderer. Fujin had watched unable to move as the figure strangled a young woman. She'd only woken up because the murder had started to cut the woman up. Now Fujin felt sick to her stomach.
"Can't sleep?" Squall asked, sitting in the living room, surrounded in darkness.
"No." She wondered what kind of person could murder their friend. A sick one. But maybe that was just the thing. Maybe the murder was sick, as in psychotic. Maybe they had never wanted to, but something in their head was just...severed. The phone rang, startling her out of her thoughts.
"Hello?" Fujin vaguely wondered why the phone was ringing so late. A scream filled the phone. Desperate pleas and the sound of sobs.
"Who is this?!" She yelled at the phone. The sound of manaical laughter now rang in her ears.
"Some one...please help me...please...my baby...please..." The young woman's voice was forlorn and desperate. Not with with hope of savior for her own soul, but that of her unborn child's. The pure fear in her voice set Fujin on pins and needles.
"Do you think you can save the rest?" The voice hissed, almost unnatural in it's malice.
"Who is this?!" The phone disconnected. Fujin was left clutching the phone in her trembling hand, speechless.
"Fujin?" Squall's soft voice cut through the sickened dread and slowed her racing heart.
"It...it was the murderer...I heard one of the girls' screams. Squall... he...she...it is going after the rest if the girls...we have to make sure they're protected." Squall nodded.
"We'll stop by first thing in the morning and pick them up. We can drop them off at Balamb and the girls can stay with Edea, she love to have them, with the baby's coming so soon." Fujin nodded. Once you got past all the ice and the endless supply of 'whatever's, Squall was a good guy. Too bad. As well as they got along, Fujin would have enjoyed hurting him a bit and almost wished he would piss her off once in a while.
"Ok...what time is it?" Squall tossed her the clock. 5 am. Hyne.
"Let's contact Garden and tell them to get ready for their newest arrivals. I think after coffee we can go tell the girls the change in their plans." Squall agreed and went to put the coffee pot on. Fujin follwed him, once again wearing his shirt.
"Are you going to stand around like a paranoid mother while I make coffee?" Fujin frowned and walked to the bathroom. Let's see how he enjoys a cold shower. Fujin took nearly and hour and a half to shower. She was down with in the hour but she enjoyed the feeling of the hot water hitting her skin.
Squall grumbled but he, however, had gotten his revenge and enjoyed his coffee and sabotaged the rest of it. Fujin spat it out into the sink and swore revenge. And she did get it. While Squall was in his shower, she threw all of his clothes out into the hallway, earning curious stares from passersby. She put on the image of an angry girlfriend and slammed the door.
"Where are my clothes?" Fujin opened the door and he rushed out to get them and she locked the door behind him. However her fun was put off when she learned he knew how to pick the locks. The sod.
"Will you just get ready?" Fujin sighed and put her tricks off for another time. Rumagin around, she found a pair of overalls and a green tank top. Squall was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently while she laced up her boots. Fujin smacked the back of his head and walked out the door. She heard him grumble.
" Did you call Edea?" Fujin asked.
"I thought you asked her!" Fujin growled and as they entered Phoung's driveway, she slammed on the breaks hard enough to make him gasp for air from his seatbelt going taunt from the sudden stop.
"Right." They knocked and a very tired looking Kim DongWan opened the door.
"Squall? Fujin?" Fujin gave him a slightly sympathetic look.
"I'm sorry but you and your wife are going to have to come with us." He looked confused but Squall silenced him for the moment.
"It's nessecary that you hurry. Pack your things quickly. May we use your phone?" Kim nodded and lead them in.
"Edea? We've got a few guests for you...we thought that since you've kept the orphanage up, the girls could stay here. I'm sorry this is such short notice but someone forgot to call you." Fujin grabbed the phome from him.
"Yeah, that someone being Squall. Is it ok if they stay?" Edea reassured her and then let the bomb drop.
"You know, you two act like an old couple. It's rather sweet really, to see such young people care so much." Fujin's cheeks went candy apple red and Squall found it vaguely attractive.
"What did she say?" He asked as Fujin hung up. Fujin shook her head and refused to speak to him while the family packed.
"What's this about Ms. Kazeno?" Phoung asked, worry evident in her voice ande features.
"I...I don't mean to alarm you...I got a call from the murderer yesterday." Phoung went deathly pale and her grip on Dong Wan's hand tightened visibly.
"What...what do you mean?"
"I mean that in the middle of the night I got a call and it wasn't pleasant. I can't tell if it's a man or a woman, but whatever it is, it's wicked." Phoung's eyes were glistening with tears.
"What...what did it say?" Fujin hesistated. What was said wasn't pretty. Phoung told her to say, no matter how horrible.
"It played... a recording of one of the other girls. She screamed for someone to help her and save her baby. She cried and prayed for some one to come in time for her baby...and she prayed for you and for God to forgive...whoever it is that's doing this." Phoung was openly weeping now but she nodded. It was going to be alright now. The car stopped in front of the Lee house. Jez'reel was in the fron with her husband smiling and splashing him with the hose. The turned to look at the arrivals and Jez'reel rushed to the car.
"Is everything ok? Sissy, why are you crying, please don't cry." She hugged Phoung tightly and looked to Squall and Fujin for answers.
"We got a call from the killer. It's important that your and ...Minwoo come with us." Squall told them and they nodded, no questions asked. The car was silent. Phoung opened her mouth to speak but Jez'reel shook her head.
"I don't want to know, Sissy. I really don't. I can't handle it right now." Phoung placed her hand on Jes' and stared out the window.
"Squall...get ready." Fujin whispered as the car stopped. The lights in the house were on, but the door was open and no one was around. Several vases in the house were broken and the back window was broken. If the killer came in through the back, why leave through the front? The phone rang and Fujin was afraid to pick it up.
"Hello?"
"Hello Fujin...can you find her in time? Or will her screams not suffice?" The voice hissed, giving Fujin the same cold chill it had early, the same sick fear. Alisha screamed and Fujin nearly dropped the phone. It wasn't the sound of fear or desperation. It was the sound of pain.
"Listen to me! You stop whatever it is that your doing to her!" Fujin demanded and the voice just snickered at her.
"Or you'll what?" The line disconnected. Fujin dropped the phone and looked to Squall.
"We've got to get Melissa before it's too late." With out another word, they ran to the car.
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Run run run, as fast as you can...
A.n: Yay!!! Another chappie...ohhhh frightening...the killer knows Fujin and Squall are on the look out...but what about poor Alisha? Can they find her in time to save her...or will they be too late? Review!!!!!!!!!!
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