A/N: You guys have me freakin' dedicated to finishing up this story. I posted and left my house for like 2 hours, and I come back to 6 reviews! I like the speculation in your Review DeviousDegrassi, you totally made me laugh with that Manny thing.

Heart Breaker

"Why are you attacking me?" Jay finally huffed at Peter, tired of being chased around trees.

"You know why I'm attacking you." Peter growled back at him.

"I didn't kill anyone."

"I didn't say you did." Peter dove at Jay again, but he dodged around another tree. He tried reversing his circle, but Jay was on his toes, and followed suit. "Emma thinks you killed them, though, and I haven't seen any proof otherwise."

"That's because they stole my shit." Jay said, "How am I suppose to prove that I'm not the killer? Huh?"

"If you're dead, and the killer is still killing..." Peter licked his lips, sweat was running down his face. Jay hadn't made any attack on him since he went for the axe, but that didn't mean he wasn't just waiting for an opening. "Then I'll believe it wasn't you."

"Are you threatening me?" Jay glared harder. He had been trying to defuse the situation, but he wasn't up for sticking around while the group of teenagers had it in their minds he needed to be dead too. Peter gave him a wicked smile, confirming his threat. Jay sneered at his opponent and dropped backwards B-boy style (this would be a way to drop to the ground in order to start a break-dancing sequence). As Peter lunged at him again he tossed sand in the boy's eyes, then rolled out of the way. He ran off into the woods again. Peter stood up, shaking his head, and letting the loose dirt fly off of his face. The dirt in his eyes hurt, but if he rubbed it he knew he'd injure his eyes far worse. He started back toward the shed, blinking away the dirt best he could.

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"Hey look!" Liberty exclaimed. She found a Jeep. They weren't very far from the shed. The jeep had moss growing on it, and looked like it was far from being in running condition. She pried on the driver's side door with no luck. The door was jammed, or locked. Ellie raised up the hood and leaned over to see the engine. She had seen Sean working on cars when she lived with him. J.T. wandered around the back of it.

There was an old metal barrel filled up with rainwater just off to the side. It had an old worn out sign that said, "Trash can, Please Don't Litter". He walked around the can, it looked as abandoned as anything else around here was. He couldn't imagine that the Jeep would work, everything around here was old and broken. The horn sounded, startling him. Liberty called out that it was an accident. He grabbed his chest and told himself "Don't be so jumpy J.T., we're probably miles away from the killer by now."

He was incredibly wrong. The hooded figure was standing right behind him, and reached out just then to grab a fist full of J.T.'s hair. J.T.'s head was submerged in the gross rainwater, he tried to scream for help, his voice was muffled by the water. It tasted as foul as it looked. He tried pulling his head up, but the killer had better leverage. He regretted screaming, because now he was sucking in water in his gasping attempts to get air. He couldn't breath, he could get his head out of the water. Suddenly it was all not a problem to him anymore, he stopped struggling. He felt very peaceful and serene in his last few seconds of life.

"J.T.? Do you know anything at all about cars?" Liberty called from inside the Jeep. Ellie walked around to the passenger side door that Liberty had left open. Liberty jumped, scared by the sudden movement.

"I wish Sean were still around." Ellie told her sadly, "I have no idea what I'm doing."

"Yeah, but he's not." Liberty said sternly, "J.T. quit clowning around. Come over here an help us out. J.T.?"

Ellie stepped away from the door so Liberty could clamber out. The two of the girls circled the Jeep, Liberty found J.T. head first in the water filled trash can. Liberty turned around and looked at Ellie, who had just made her way around to the back. Ellie looked at Liberty then at J.T., she didn't say anything, she didn't move. Liberty backed away from Ellie slowly, not wanting to turn her back on the girl. She had seen Hazel's body, with that big blood knife wound. She only turned to run when she was out of sight. She didn't know where she was running to, but she wiped away the tears from her eyes as she ran there.

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"I know this isn't something you can get over, ever, really." Alex spoke to her girlfriend in tow, she was speaking more for the comfort of her own voice than anything else. She was scared. What had happened to Marco and Dylan, that could have been her and Paige. It could have been anyone. "But I'm with you Paige. I'll stay with you. We'll get through it together. Today, and always."

"Thank you, Alex, for everything" Paige sniffled, she was still crying, though not as hard. She was trying to be brave, she really didn't want to die. She just couldn't stop thinking about her brother, or about Spinner. She had shared so many special moments in her life with both of them. Now they were just gone, dead, someone had ripped their futures away from them. She tugged on Alex's hand, and Alex stopped. She pulled her close, and Alex put her arms around her. She was still looking around them, rather than focusing on Paige. Paige gently pushed Alex's back against a tree, so she would have one less direction to have to watch that way. Alex gave Paige a weak smile, and Paige returned it. She gave Alex a quick kiss, and the smile grew a little more. Alex was wonderful, she couldn't believe she almost let her get away. At least out here tonight she hadn't lost Alex yet, she still had that to cling onto.

Alex didn't like the tree blocking her view, she was afraid for Paige being left out in the open like that. She wouldn't even be able to swing the shovel properly if someone did come at them. So she pulled Paige up to the tree, and resumed Paige's former position. She still wasn't comfortable with it, she was on edge. Something was wrong. She kissed Paige again. She could almost hear him. The killer was close, her instincts were screaming at her. She looked over her shoulder, she couldn't see anyone. Paige screamed, Alex looked back to Paige. It was too late, the knife was already drawn across her throat. The hooded kid holding the knife seemed surprised to see Alex looking right at them. The killer was only glancing around the tree, one arm holding Paige's head, while the other had slit her throat. Alex's eyes twitched from the killer to Paige. Paige's pleading eyes begged for Alex to save her, she didn't want to die. She had a whole life ahead of her, she was to young to die. Blood was gushing out of her throat, staining her shirt red. Alex was terrified. She was mortified. Alex felt like she was a complete failure. Paige was dead. She failed Paige in the only way that had mattered, she failed to protect her from this psycho. She howled in rage and lunged around the tree at the killer. The killer obviously wasn't expecting the attack, and lost the knife. The killer was running. Alex was on his, her, whatever's heels. Alex would have their head, or die trying. She no longer cared about her own well-being, all she cared about was vengeance. This fucker would pay, and they would pay with their own blood.

She reached out, she almost had the hood in her grip and someone barreled into her. She tumbled to the ground, with Liberty landing on top of her. She violently pushed Liberty off of her and stood back up. She started in the direction the killer had run, but they were long gone. She turned back to Liberty, rage burning in her eyes.

"I was this close." She snarled. Liberty's face was streaked in tears. Alex softened a bit, she knew she would have plenty of tears of her own after she got that bastard. Liberty wasn't the killer, she had been in sight at the same time as the guy. She put a hand out to help Liberty up, "Come on. Get up. We're going to go back to that shed, and we're going to torture the answer out of all those fuckers. One of them killed Paige, and one of them is going to die for that."

"Someone killed Paige?" Liberty asked meekly, taking Alex's hand, "Someone killed J.T. I thought... I thought it was Ellie."

"When did you loose sight of Ellie?" Alex demanded. If Ellie was the killer, she didn't think she'd have a hard time over-powering her. Liberty was on her feet again.

"Couldn't have been more than... than... two minutes ago." Liberty stuttered. She looked at her watch, "We were suppose to be back at the tool shed in... less than a minute."

"She could have done it." Alex nodded, "Could have been Craig, crazy bastard. Could have been his little bitch girlfriend. Or either of those two loons Peter or Emma. Better go see what's happened with them."

"You forgot Jay." Liberty added, as she started walking, "He and Toby are the only unaccounted for people out there."

"Jay didn't do it. Maybe Toby." Alex surmised.

"Toby didn't do it. How do you know it wasn't Jay?"

"How do you know it wasn't Toby?"

"I know Toby, this isn't something Toby could do." Liberty explained.

"Well, there ya go. Jay didn't do this." Alex said. She knew for sure it wasn't Jay now, she could have caught Jay. This killer was more athletic than him. Just then the flicker of orange flames came into sight. The two of them ran up to see the back of the shed, completely engulfed in fire.

From the other side Craig and Manny had just run up, Peter was yelling Emma's name in the doorway. Craig ran up right behind Peter, he could see Emma curled up in a corner. She was petrified by the fire. Peter wasn't running in to save her. A board from the ceiling snapped in half and fell. It hadn't landed anywhere near Emma, but it didn't snap her out of the petrification either. Craig yelled Emma's name, she seemed to respond to his voice. She looked at the doorway.

"I want you to crawl toward me Emma!" Craig told her, "I'll come get you!"

She nodded and started to slowly inch across the floor. Craig covered his mouth with his hand and headed in, right past Peter. Manny ran up and glared at Peter. Her boyfriend shouldn't be having to risk his life to save Emma. Peter was here with her, why didn't he grab her when he ran out?

Emma stopped moving. "Keep moving Em!" Craig encouraged. The flames weren't too bad in between them. If she hurried they would be fine. Craig kept moving toward her, at least she had moved out of the corner. There was a 'snap' and Craig yelled. His ankle was jacked in a bear trap, he knew instantly it was broken. He reached down and started clawing at the trap, it was anchored to the floor.

Alex and Liberty ran up to the front at this point.

"Craig!" Manny yelled in at him, "What happened? Get out of there! Emma! Come on! I thought you said you didn't want to die!"

Emma looked at Manny and seemed to suddenly realize she was about to be burned alive. She got a hardened and determined look and crawled quickly across the floor to Craig. She started clawing at the bear trap too. She pulled on the anchor. She cut her hand trying to pry the jaws apart. The blood made the trap even more slippery. Craig pulled with her. They couldn't budge the damn thing. Another board broke, and fell. He was getting light headed, he knew she was getting light headed too.

"Get out of here." He told her, "Take care of Manny for me."

"No Craig!" Emma whined, "There has to be a way to break this thing... maybe if I get an axe? You can't just... just..."

"They're all on fire. There's no way, Em. Go." He told her, she shook her head, tears were running down her soot covered face, "GO!" He yelled at her, "GET OUT OF HERE! GO!"

"I'm so sorry Craig." Emma whimpered, then she half crawled half ran out of the shed. The flames were rushing across the floor now. Had she waited a moment longer she wouldn't have been able to get out. Outside Manny and Peter helped her stand up. Peter ripped a part of his shirt and bandaged up her hand. When Emma was safely away from the fire Manny went to go back. Peter grabbed her shirt and held her back.

"You don't want to watch that." He told her. Craig started screaming, horrible tortured screams. Manny pulled free from Peter's grip and walked off to be by herself, she found Ellie. Ellie was crying too, her dark eye make-up clearly visual even in the darkness. Jay set his head against a tree and watched the flames rise into the sky, the others didn't know he was there. He planned to keep it that way. Peter hugged Emma's head to his chest, and they both stood just out of reach of the flames watching the shed crumble into the fire. Alex glared at everyone she could see. None of them were wearing a hoodie. Some people had brought bags, but now those were lost in the flames too. Liberty covered her ears against the sound of Craig's suffering.

His tormented screams echoed through the woods, Craig was burning alive.

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A/N: To all of the other Palex fans who got through this chapter, I'm sorry, believe me, it sucked to write... but Palex is not the right equation for the surviving couple. It's always some white chick and a dude, that's the way it goes man. I still have quiet a few people to kill, but I guess now you know the killer wasn't Craig, eh?