Chapter Six: He's ba-ack

The next day was Saturday, so Evy got to stay home. Rick and Evy had talked Jonathan and Jenny into taking Alex to the zoo for the day, leaving the two home alone for most of the day. They started out having a lovely breakfast which they ended up making a huge mess in the kitchen. Then after that, they went for a stroll in the woods in their backyard. They went down to the creek and laid on the ground just listening to the peaceful water flow across the rocks.

A couple hours later they returned to the house for lunch. Again, they made a huge mess, so now the kitchen was twice as bad as it was after breakfast. They spent a while cleaning it up. It was around 2:15pm that they got finished. After that, they sat and watched TV until they heard a car pull up in the driveway. At first they thought that it was Jonathan, Jenny and Alex returning from the zoo, but then they realized that it was too early for them to be home already. Maybe something happened, causing them to come home sooner than they had expected.

Rick went to look out the window to see who it was. "It's not them. I don't know who it is. It's someone in a grey car."

Evy started to get a little scared at this. "Is it a Toyota?"

"Yeah, how'd you know?" he asked, thinking that it was strange that Evy would know what the car looked like, without even seeing it.

"Oh no." she said more to herself than Rick.

"'Oh no' what?"

"It's him!"

"Who?"

"It's Jack! I saw it following me home last night from the library to the driveway. I saw that it looked a little like his car, but didn't think anything of it! We have to get out of here now!" Rick could see that she was panicking. She was already halfway to the backdoor.

"Wait, wait, wait! Evy, come back!" She stopped and looked at him. "How do you know that it's even him? There are tons of grey Toyota cars in the world, how do you know that's his?"

"Remember my dreams!" she said, starting to shout out of fear. "And plus he followed me home last night! So that explains how he knows I live here! We have to leave right now! Let's go!" Just then, there was a knock on the door. "Rick, don't answer it! Let's just go out the back door and he'll never know we were home!" Rick hesitated for a moment, and then remembered everything that Evy had told him about what Jack did to her, and headed to the backdoor with Evy. The knock was getting louder on the front door as if the person was getting impatient. Just before Rick and Evy reached the backdoor, the front door was kicked open. They looked back to see none other than Jack. And the worst part of all was that he was loaded with weapons. Knifes, guns, explosives, everything. Evy took one look at him and just froze. She couldn't bring herself to move. She just stood there and stared at him in total fear.

"Hello Evy! It's so nice to see you again!" Jack said, in a very evil, yet sarcastic voice.

"Evy, come on," Rick said as he tugged on her, "we gotta go! Come on!" He finally gave up and picked her up and carried her out the back door. Just as Rick shut it behind them, a knife blade came flying towards the door and came out a little on the other side, almost hitting Rick's head with the point. Rick put Evy down, seeing that she was now mobile, and they ran to the neighbor's barn and hid in the loft, in case Jack had followed them.

After a while of just sitting there, Rick decided to go see if Jack was still around. "You wait here, I'll be back as soon as I check and see if he's still out there. Don't go anywhere!" he ordered.

"Ok. Be careful. You don't know what he's capable of."

"Don't worry. I'll be right back." With that, Rick went down the stairs and searched the inside of the barn, and then the outside. Then he went to check the house. No one was there and he noticed that the car was gone. He headed back to the barn to get Evy and tell her that he was gone.

Back to Evy

Evy was waiting for him to return and then he heard him coming up the stairs to the loft. She looked, but no one was there. 'Maybe it was just my imagination.' she thought. She looked out into the field from the little window area from the loft. She didn't see Rick and figured that he was in the house checking for Jack.

Just then, she felt a knife come up to her throat, as well as a hand over her mouth. She didn't dare move. "You scream, and I won't hesitate to kill you, understand?" Jack asked in a very angry yet determined voice. She cautiously shook her head, and he let go of her mouth and removed the knife. She turned to face him. And saw him smiling.

"What the hell are you doing here!" she yelled.

"I'm here to rescue you, of course!"

"Rescue me! From what exactly?"

"From your husband, brother, son, and sister-in-law."

"And what makes you think that I need 'rescuing' from that!"

"The fact that you're not with me tells me that you're in need of being rescued."

"If I were with you, then I would need rescuing!" He reached over and brushed his hand on her cheek. She turned away.

"Don't be stupid, Evy. I wouldn't wanna have to bring myself to kill you. And don't think for a second that I won't." He then started looking her over. "You have changed, since the last I saw you. You are so much more beautiful. I've never wanted you more." She scoffed.

"Always wanting what you can't have."

"Oh I can have you. And I will." he said, leaning in to kiss her. But she turned away again. As soon as she turned back, he tried again. This time she slapped him, and then regretted it, remembering what happened last time she hurt him. He started to get angry with her, but didn't do anything to her, yet. He just took her by the arm and dragged her down to the ground, and they went looking for Rick, who was still in the house. When they found him, Jack stayed in the shadows and threw Evy at him and her and Rick fell to the floor.

"Evy? What are you doing? I told you to stay in the loft!" he said. Just then, Jack came out of the shadows and grabbed Evy again, this time putting a gun to her head.

"Don't move and she lives!" Jack said as he moved himself and Evy toward what was the front door. Rick stayed where he was staring at Evy's fearful eyes, wishing he could do something. Before he knew it, Jack and Evy were in the grey car and down the driveway. As soon as the shock left Rick, he packed his guns and headed out. Even though he didn't know where Jack lived, he was pretty sure that Jonathan would know.