The Net: Nightmare on the Highway: Chapter 10
The scene changed on the TV to reveal a dark, garbage filled ally way. A dark form was walking towards the camera crew and withing a few seconds the form was revealed to be a man. A man they both knew well. Sean stepped out of the shadows with an evil grin on his face.
"I'm gonna get you this time, Angela," he said to the camera. "I'm gonna get you."
And when he reached the lens, and was so close Angela and Jacob could see the fibers on his shirt and the pores on his face, he kept coming. They stared with wide eyes as his lifted a foot up and into the camera. But the camera didn't stop him. His foot came through the TV screen and into their hotel room.
"Jacob! He's not dead! I told you he wasn't dead!" Angela shouted, gripping Jacob as hard as she could without taking her eyes off the TV.
Two hands came out next, holding onto the sides of the TV they pulled the rest of Sean's body through.
Jacob was shaking with a fear he'd never known before. Sean was no longer human. He just couldn't be. He was no longer easy to deal with, no longer a bumbling idiot of a Praetorian. Now, he was a bumbling idiot who could come back to life at will. Jacob tried to remain calm for Angela's sake, but it didn't work. He knew Sean was after her, and if he could come back to life like this, then he'd do anything to get her.
Sean Trelawney grinned as he walked towards the couple on the bed. "I'm here for you Angela," he said, pulling a gun out from behind his back and aiming it at her. "Why don't you just come with me. Come quietly and no one will get hurt."
Angela looked briefly into Jacob's eyes as if to tell him how much she loved him before slowly getting off the bed.
"No!" Jacob jumped to his feet. "No! Take me instead! Please. I will do anything for her. Take me, and leave her alone. You don't need her."
"Jacob!" Angela turned to him, fear in her eyes.
"Ah, such a noble cause." Sean looked from one to the other before motioning Angela back onto the bed. "You stay here, sweetheart. One move after him, and he's a dead boy. Got it?"
Angela nodded furiously, pleading with her eyes to Jacob not to do this. He shook his head and went to Trelawney's side. The Praetorian grabbed his shoulder with one hand and with his gun in the other he suddenly began to lift off the ground. Angela's mouth dropped open and Jacob uttered a small cry of surprise when Sean pulled him upwards towards the ceiling. The Praetorian's head disappeared and his neck and shoulders. Jacob flinched as his own head neared the ceiling. But he went straight through as if nothing was there. He came up into the motel room above theirs. The room was dark and the bed appeared empty. Sean kept floating upwards, taking Jacob with him. Going through the second ceiling Jacob found himself outside, on the roof of the motel.
"What are you going to do with me?" Jacob asked when Sean came back down to the roof once Jacob was through.
"Well..." Sean was cut off by something catching the corner of his eye. He grabbed Jacob's shoulder again and pulled him to the edge of the roof. Jacob looked down to the hard pavement where one car sat in the parking lot and gulped. Trelawney pushed him over, while still holding onto his shirt. Jacob screamed for Trelawney to bring him back up, but the Praetorian was hardly paying attention as Angela came into view, panting from her sprint up the stairs.
"I told you not to follow us or I'd have to kill him. Did you really want to risk his life?"