~Chapter 8 Amara~
After I hear the door close I open my eyes and sit up on the bed, remembering something. I jump up off the bed, and throw my shoes on while trying to run down the hallway, "Where's Jack?" I ask out of breath from running down the stairs. Ben and Toby jump up.
"We weren't doing anything!" Ben says quickly and I roll my eyes.
"I don't care what you were doing, where's Jack." I ask again in an annoyed tone.
"He's in the basement…I think." Toby says, I sigh and walk over to the basement door and swing it open.
"JACK GET YOUR ASS UP HERE!" I yell down the steps. I hear Jack whine about not wanting to leave his candy alone as he walks up the steps. I laugh a little and he just pouts like a child, "I need you to watch the babies for a little bit I need to go out." I say.
"But you just had 2 babies and you lost a lot of blood, you should wait a little bit." He says putting his arms around my waist.
"I'll be okay, I won't be gone long, I just have to go get something for Dad." I say and kiss his cheek. He smiles and lets me go.
"Be safe." He says.
"I will...and I swear if you try to give the kids candy you are a dead man!" I say as I turn to go out the front door. I walk outside and into the woods, I walk for about 20 minutes when I get to the place Carter was telling me about when she first brought Constance here. I walk over to the hollow log and look in it, and there I see him, little baby Hyde. I pick him up out of the log, he fusses and stares up at me with wide green eyes. I smile and rewrap his blanket around him, "Dad and Jeff are going to love you." I say and start to walk back to the house. When I get back I hear Sally run down the stairs.
"MOMMY, Daddy let me hold the babies and…." she stops dead in her tracks when she sees Hyde in my arms, "DID YOU HAVE ANOTHER ONE?" She yells running over to look at the baby in my arms.
"Shhh, no it's not mine, It's a surprise for Grandpa Slendy, and Jeff." I say smiling at her, she giggles and follows me to their room. I knock on the door, "Hey Dad, Sally and I have a surprise for you and Jeff." As soon as the door opens I yell, "SURPRISE, MEET YOUR NEW SON!" He looks(?) at me for a second.
"Our what?" he says.
"I got you and Jeff a baby since you two can't have one, and Constance is kinda dead so she won't care." I say holding Hyde out to him. He takes the baby from me and looks(?) down at him. Hyde moves around in his arms and smiles up at him, "Awe, he likes you already!" I say when Carter comes down the hallway almost running into me, "Carter, where are you going?" She turns and looks at me.
"I need to kill someone, I'm pissed off!" she says then notices the baby, "Cute baby…...you and Sally want to come with me, you haven't been killing in a while." She asks. I look down at Sally and she shakes her head yes.
"Yeah sure Jack has the babies right now anyway." I say. Carter grabs my wrist and starts dragging Sally and I down the hallway, "BYE DAD I HOPE YOU LIKE THE BABY!" I yell as she drags us down the steps and out the door. We've been walking for about half an hour before we hear voices coming through the trees. Carter held up a hand, stopping us in our tracks.
"Just up ahead." She whispers as we sneak closer. We stop again and she gestures for me to wait. Carter then crouches and starts crawling across the forest floor over to the voices. Not even a minute later Sally screams, from a little ways behind me, Carter is yelling, and I have arms wrapped around my shoulders and I'm on the ground. I stay still trying to see Sally and Carter. I turn my head to see a policeman pinning Sally to the ground.
"SALLY!" I scream before I decide what to do. I snap back my head, busting the man in the nose.
"AH, SON OF A BITCH!" The man lets me go so I stand quickly and face the man. He has a bloody nose and is pointing his taser gun at me, "GET ON THE GROUND!" Behind me I hear a grunt and then screaming. I turn around to see Carter run past me, straight at the cop. He shoots and the next thing I know Carter is on the ground shaking. Somebody grabs me from behind and then I feel cold metal on my wrists.
"You are under arrest." The woman turns me to face her. I smile at her.
"You can't arrest me. Don't you know who I am?" I lean closer to the woman, "I'm fucking insane!" I pull out my knife and slice at her, cutting her throat open in just one swipe. Everything goes quiet as she falls to the ground.
"MOMMA!" I look over to see one of the male cops holding Sally by the hair while dragging her to the car. Another cop appears in front of me and grabs my throat as I try to break free from his grasp.
"SALLY!" I kick the cop in the knee.
"OW BITCH!" The man kicks the back of my knee and I fall. He pins me down by the throat.
"LET GO OF MY DAUGHTER YOU ASSHAT!" I scream at the top of my lungs, suddenly I feel a pain on my head and everything goes black.
I wake up in an almost dark room. I feel a pain in my head, I try to reach up and touch it but I can't. I look down to see that my hands are handcuffed to the chair, "Son of a bitch," I mumble. I look around the room, Carter is sitting in the chair next to me still passed out, there seems to be this mirror-like window in front of us. It takes me a minute to realize that we are in an interrogation room, then it all comes back to me, we got caught by police and they took us….but where's Sally? Just as I'm about to panic, a man walks through the door, I watch as he sets a folder on the other side of the table.
"Mary Woods, I'm glad you're awake, I have some questions I'd like to ask you." I flinch at my birth name.
"That's not my name!" I growl at him.
"What's your name then?" I think for a minute then start to giggle.
"My name is Washma Butt," I say then bust out laughing like an idiot. The interrogator glares at me as I continue to laugh like a mad woman.
"Amara….where are we?" Carter asks weakly, I immediately stop laughing and look over to her.
"Well we got arrested by officer fucktard over here and now we are in an interrogation room." Carter looks at me confused still, "You probably don't remember much of it you got tazed and-." I start to say more when the police officer cuts me off.
"That's enough talking." He says and I glare at him, Carter gives him the look of oh shit now you've done it.
"Um excuse me, you don't get to tell me when to stop talking, you tazed my best friend, and you STOLE MY DAUGHTER, SO YOU DON'T GET TO TELL ME WHEN I'M NOT ALLOWED TO TALK!" I yell trying to pull my hands out of the handcuffs.
"Amara." I stop and look at Carter.
"What?" I growl out. Carter continues to stare at me before she breaks and starts laughing really creepy. The cop and watch her for a second before I start giggling as well. The man stands up and goes to the door.
"You guys are mental." He mumbles as he walks out the door, we stop laughing and I pull out a hair clip.
"Keep watch." I tell Carter as I unlock my cuffs and start on hers, just as I get hers unlocked the door opens. We freeze and look at the man. I purse my lips at him and smile, "HONK HONK!" I grab Carter's hand and we run past the cop.
"SUCK IT YA CHEESEBUTT!" Carter yells back at him. I stop dead in my tracks but Carter keeps running, straight into a cop with a gun, pointed right at her.
"DON'T MOVE!" He yells, Carter and I both stop. I start to walk slowly towards Carter, "I SAID DON'T FUCKING MOVE!" He yells, his hands shaking as he points the gun at me now. I put my hands up slowly and keep moving towards Carter.
"Carter get behind me." She starts to protest but I glare at her and she reluctantly moves behind me.
"I SAID STOP!" he moves his finger to the trigger.
"You won't shoot me, and even if you had the guts to, I would just come back stronger and more powerful than you could even imagine." I say smirking at him. I go to run at the police officer when I hear Carter gasp and fall to the ground, I go to help her when someone grabs my hair. I growl and turn my head to the side to see the interrogator holding me by my hair.
"You two really are crazy aren't you." He says, that's the last thing I hear before I feel something hit my head and I slip out of consciousness.
~Jack~
It's been a week since Amara, Sally, and Carter disappeared. Hoodie and I have searched almost all of the forest and haven't found a trace of them. I look down at the twins sleeping soundly in their crib, even though they were just born a week ago they look to be around 2 months old.
"Hey." I look up at Ben and smile weakly at him, "How you doin'?" I shrug and sit down on my bed.
"It's been hard, they keep growing older and Amara's still gone...Do you think they left us?" Ben sits next to me and pats my shoulder.
"No, they'll be back. They can take care of themselves." I nod and walk to the door.
"Come on." Ben follows me down the stairs and to the kitchen, "What do you want?" Ben shrugs.
"Whatever you want to make." I roll my eyes while setting the baby monitor on the counter. I just grab a couple bowls, milk, and cereal. I make our bowls and sit down as we quietly start eating. I look down into my bowl, trying to stare into its soul, until I hear this god awful sound and then I'm covered in milk. I frown and slowly look up, glaring at Ben.
"Did. You. Just.-" Ben stands quickly and waves his arms around.
"NO NO NO NO I'M SORRY!" I stand up as well.
"You. SNEEZED IN MY FUCKING FACE!" Ben tries to run away from me but I grab the back on his shirt, "Come here you little nerd freak!" The kitchen door opens and Toby walks in holding his stomach.
"You can't hurt my boyfriend!" I stop and turn my glare to Toby.
"Why the hell not?" He rubs his stomach and gets this creepy look on his face, then he says in a western accent.
"Imma havin his baba!" Ben giggles and I growl, dropping Ben to the floor, and walk up to Toby.
"You're a boy you idiot." I grab the neck of his shirt and rip it open. About 20 stuffed animals fall to the floor.
"Oops." I smack his stomach hard and he groans.
"Plus I'm the bottom babe." Ben comments behind me. I throw my arms up.
"So done!" I leave the kitchen and go up the stairs to Slendy's office door. I'm about to knock when I hear this strangled sound and a slap coming from inside. I lean back raising my foot, I kick the door and it flies open revealing Jeff sitting on the ground and Slendy standing over him with a tentacle. It hits Jeff on the back and he groans, "WHAT THE FUCK!" I scream. Slendy and Jeff both look up at me.
"This isn't what it looks like!" I close my mouth and close the door, going to my room. I open the door and I immediately hear Emma fussing, I pick her up and rock her. She's calm for a few seconds she starts to cry, I pick up her bottle and start to feed her.
"It's okay, everything will be okay, mommy will come home soon," I say softly.
~Carter~
I haven't seen Amara in about 2 days because the stupid doctors threw me into the solitary confinement room just because I tried to stab my therapist. I roll my eyes and attempt to get out of my "hug me jacket" as one of the other solitary patients called them.
"Ms. Knight!" I jump up and smile kindly at the man.
"Hello Dr. Fine." I step closer to him and tilt my head to the side, "You're lookin fiiiine." I giggle and step away spinning.
"Careful now Ms. Knight, if you fall you won't be able to catch yourself. You wouldn't want to hurt your baby would you?" I stop and glare at him.
"This "baby" is nothing to me. I don't care what happens to it." I sit on the floor, "Can I go out now. I've been good." Dr. Fine sighs and looks at his clipboard.
"I guess so, but if you try to injure somebody else you'll stay here." I jump back up.
"YAY!" I try to stand still as he unwraps me from my jacket.
"Come on." I skip beside him down the hallway to my original room. He opens the door, revealing Amara sitting on my bed.
"CARTER!" She jumps up and hugs me. I hug her back as Dr. Fine closes the door behind us. Amara lets go of me after a few seconds then sits in the middle of her bed, humming a tune that sounds familiar.
"Is that pop goes the weasel?" I ask sitting on my bed watching her rock back and forth while humming the tune. She looks at me and stops humming.
" Yeah, it is…..I miss Jack," She says with a blank expression and continues what she was doing.
"Amara? You okay girl?" I stand up and walk over to her, "HEY!" I poke her forehead but she doesn't even blink, "Whatever!" I huff and walk over to the door, I lean my head against the window. Suddenly a man comes running down the hallway.
"THEY'RE USING MY TOOTHBRUSH! HELP! HELP! THE MONKEYS ARE USING MY TOOTHBRUSH!" I giggle and slide the window open as much as it can, "TOMMY!" He stops in front of our door.
"What's wrong hun?" He points back down the hallway.
"The monkey's are using my toothbrush!" I reach a hand out towards him. He grabs it in his.
"You tell those monkey's to fuck off and use their own." Tommy smiles at me nodding.
"Okay! Thanks Mom!" He lets go of my hand and runs back to his room screaming.
"FUCK OFF EVIL MONKEYS!" Behind me Amara giggles. I turn around to see her staring at me.
"He called you mom! You're old!" I purse my lips at her.
"You're a mom, Mara." Her mouth falls open and she jumps up, going to the sheet of metal we use as a mirror. Amara grabs it from the sink and drops it on the floor. Then she does the unexpected, she drops her underwear and stands over the mirror.
"I don't see any babies." I slap my hand to my face and flop on the ground, "Jubilo?" Amara walks over to me and pokes my side with her toe, "Jubilo?" I look at her like she's insane. Amara kneels down beside me and pokes my side with her finger, she looks like a child kneeling with that look on her face, "Jubilo, talk to me." I roll my eyes at her.
"My name is NOT Jubilo, it's Carter...and I'm not joyful at the moment." Our door opens.
"Time for your injections girls." I smirk and put my arm straight up.
"Come at me bitch." I stick up my middle finger as he slides the needle into my arm. Amara just giggles as the needle goes into her arm.
"It tickles." The male nurse grabs my arm and drags me to my feet.
"In the bed if you want to lie down." He pushes me onto my bed and I lie back.
"Yo! Nurse!" He glances at me as he starts to close the door. I smirk, "See you in hell." He closes the door. Amara is swaying back and forth in the middle of the floor, "The hell you doing." She smiles at the ceiling.
"I'm dancing." I nod as my eyes start to go fuzzy. I blink, there standing in front of me is my mom.
"Carter, why are you still in bed?" I sit up shocked.
"Mom?" She sits next to me and smiles.
"You okay baby?" I move away from her.
"No, you're not real!" I curl up in a ball, rocking back and forth, "You're dead." I mumble into my knees. Mom laughs at me.
"I'm not dead, silly!" She goes to touch me. I stand up and move to the furthest wall.
"No, cause if you're here then that means it wasn't real. I want it to be real but I don't and I want it to go back to normal!" Mom stands in front of me with a concerned look on her face. She reaches out and takes my face in her hands. I start to cry as she strokes my cheek.
"I'm real. This is real honey. I'm here." My sniffles turn to sobs.
"I got lost mommy. I'm so sorry that I got lost. I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I just got so lost momma!" Something hits my shoulder, I blink and mom is gone, replaced by Amara.
"Carter?" My lip trembles as she hugs me to her chest, we're on the floor rocking back and forth,"Everything is going to be okay, we'll get out of here soon, I promise," Amara says softly, trying to calm me down. After a few minutes I stop crying and my breathing slows, "Come on let's get to bed, sleep will do us both good," Amara says and helps me up and into bed, she turns to go to her own bed when I grab her wrist.
"Please, don't leave me," Amara turns and looks back at me with a sad smile and climbs into bed with me.
"It's okay I'm right here," she says holding me. I smile and feel my eyes start to close.
"Thank you." I say softly drifting into sleep.