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Chapter 8

"Darien let me go!" Serena shouted through gritted teeth, trying to pry Darien's hands away from her waist.

"Serena there's nothing you can do." Darien said not even trying to hold on.

"We can try." Serena screamed, still trying to break free, "Darien let me go!" She yelled again when his hands didn't budge.

"I cant, I wont!" Darien said to her, not moving from that spot and pulling Serena further towards his chest. "He will kill you." Darien said, stating the fact, trying to dissuade her from wanting to follow Andrew down the stairs.

"I don't care, he was like my brother," Serena shouted at him, still wriggling in his grasp, tears forming in her eyes, "I cant just let him go." She sobbed, finally giving in and going limp in his arms, tears falling heavily down her cheeks.

Darien pulled her completely to his chest, holding her tightly, wanting to get rid of the pain but not being able to. He fought hard to keep tears from his own eyes as Andrew was his best friend, his death would be a great loss.

Across the room Mina was sobbing hard against Lita's chest. They had been dating for quite a while; Mina even admitted to the girls that she might have even loved Andrew. But Serena didn't want to hear about anyone else's pain, Andrew would be down there all alone, probably dead and she hadn't done anything to help.

Quickly knowing Darien's defences would be down she pushed against him, shoving him back against the counter and made for the basement, she was only a few steps away when the door slammed closed, locking and keeping her from getting inside.

"NOOO! You let him out, you hear me? You let Andrew go!" She screamed banging her fists on the door, "Please take me instead, take me!" Serena wailed, sliding helplessly down the door to land in a bundle on the floor.

Darien felt helpless, there was nothing he could do to make it any better, there was nothing he could say, no actions he could make, nothing. The weight of losing his friend was beginning to bore down on him and he needed to do something to keep his mind off of it, he needed to stay strong for Serena.

Before he could suggest they move a blood gurgling scream came from below. Serena jerked away from the door, it was Andrew- Peter was torturing him. Serena screwed up her face as another scream came from below and a loud bang, laughter followed, sick, insane laughter.

"Leave him alone, don't hurt him please!" Serena screamed, not banging on the door this time, she sat near the table, hands on ears, face screwed up, trying to block out the horrendous sounds. But no matter how much she tried she heard them, they seemed to be in her head, magnified by something. Andrew's screams of pain were getting louder, his protests becoming less.

The noises were torture in Serena's ears, the sounds were inhuman, no one could scream that much, no one could make those sounds.

"Make it stop Darien, make it stop." Serena pleaded, shaking her head, trying one last time to block out the sounds. Darien kneeled down in front of her, not sure whether to touch her or not, but before he tried to sooth her the sounds stopped. They were there one minute and not the next; death must have come for him.

"Its finished." Darien said, holding his hand out for Serena to take, she hesitated at first. To take his hand was to give in, to admit Andrew was dead and she couldn't do that!

"No, no I cant, its not over!" Serena protested, swatting his hand away and pushing herself to her feet. "Don't you realise what he's doing? He's taking us out one by one, Darien, and he wont stop till we are all dead." Serena cried, storming around the room.

"Serena please…" Amy begged with her, trying to stop her from working herself up.

"Don't 'Serena please' me, there is nothing we can do!" Serena shouted again, her throat becoming sore from all the talking and screaming.

"Is that it then?" Raye shouted, deciding to take the offence instead of being shouted at. "You're just going to give up now? After everything that's happened? He killed your god damn sister for Christ sakes and you're going to let him get away with it? You're weaker than I thought!" Raye taunted, turning away from Serena, trying to get her to retort back, it worked.

"I am not weak Raye!" Serena yelled, taking the bait.

"Yes you are, you can't see that you're letting him win! He's playing us all, trying to scare us into an easy kill! Well he wont scare me that easily and I'm not going out without a fight!" And with this Raye stormed out of the kitchen and into the hallway, shortly followed by a fuming Serena.

"Don't you walk away from me!" Serena screamed, turning Raye around.

"What's the matter Tsukino, scared I'm right?" Raye retorted. Serena paused at the use of her last name, no one had called her Tsukino for a long time, and everything was so fuzzy though in her memories of her past.

"I'm not scared of you Raye, you're just trying to cover up the fact that you are frightened with hatred and name calling. Well I see right through you and I don't care what you say, this is my house and you will do what I say!" Serena bellowed back, nearly knocking Raye off her feet with the sheer force. Raye was astounded, no one ever talked to her like that, Serena had never been so forceful in her words and it scared Raye, something was happening inside Serena, some change whether for the good or bad.

"Girls I think we should go somewhere with a locking door." Greg said, holding onto Amy tightly, afraid to let her go. Everyone nodded in agreement and looked at Serena questioningly, they hadn't been in her house much, if at all and didn't know their way around.

"My parents room has a lock on the door." Serena suggested looking around her friends noting all the agreed looks. "Okay then, we will go up there, umm do you think we should get some food first, there's no knowing how long we will be in there!"

So it was agreed, Serena, Lita, Amy and Greg would go up to the room and Darien, Raye and Chad would get some food.

Serena made her way up the long staircase, towards her parent's bedroom leading her friends. She had given Darien directions upstairs to get to her parents room and hoped he was better at navigating than showing his feelings. Lita, Amy and Greg stayed behind Serena, watching her every move, trying to keep away just incase she exploded again. Things were happening a lot in this area, not good most of them.

"Serena?" Came a voice from behind her. She looked around to notice Amy staring bewilderedly into the room next to her.

"Yer?" She asked, starting to walk over to them.

"Is your room meant to be red?"