~Chapter 11 Amara~
I watch Carter's eyes close, something snaps inside me. It feels like there's fire running through my veins, it starts in my chest and spreads through my arms and my legs. I cradle Carter's body in my arm, "Everything's going to be okay now, he won't get away with this, I promise." I whisper into her ear. Her body is limp in my arms and it only reminds me that she's gone forever. She won't come back like I did, Sally hugs the little kitten to her chest then gets up and leaves. Jack is following her and Dad has already left. I let her body down onto the forest floor. I stare at her face a moment before I take her knife out of it's holder. I take the knife and slice my wrist open, I hold it over the hole in her chest, the blood drips into it, "I'll make it all better, I promise." I kept recutting it each time it stopped dripping blood. Finally after who knows how long my body starts to feel drained so I let the cuts heal. I get on my knees and kiss her cheek, "I love you, Carter." I stand up, putting each leg on either side of her body. I take both our knives and stab myself in the chest. I don't feel the pain, just a little sting, I pull the knives out. I watch the holes in my chest slowly start to close up on their own, so I do it again.
"Stop, Amara, you're going to hurt yourself." I hear a quiet, weak voice say. I look down and see Carter's eyes are open and staring up at me, I look where the hole in her chest is supposed to be, but it's gone.
"You're alive...the hole is gone….OH MY GOD YOU'RE ALIVE!" I yell and then lay my head on her chest crying,"You were dead, I thought you were gone," I say in between sobs. I feel Carter pet my head until she gasps and sits up, pushing me off her in the process,
"OH MY GOD!" She stands up and grabs my arm, pulling me up with her.
"What?!" I follow Carter through the trees.
"HURRY!" She reaches back and grabs my hand.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" I hear her giggle loudy.
"WE'RE HAVING A WEDDING!" The mansion comes into view and before I know it we're inside.
"TELEPORTATION! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" I see Ben and Toby jump off the couch shirtless. Carter stops and points at Ben.
"LET IT BE KNOWN THERE IS A WEDDING TODAY!" She then drags me up the stairs, and pulls me into my room. The babies are asleep in their crib and Jack is sitting on the bed watching them. He looks over and sees Carter.
"WHAT THE HELL!" He yells, jumping up off the bed. He goes to hug Carter but she stops him.
"WE DON'T HAVE TIME! THERE IS TO BE A WEDDING TODAY, YOU HAVE TO GET READY!" Carter yells and pushes Jack out the door and the babies start to cry. I glare at Carter and walk over to the crib.
"Awe, is Auntie Moo Moo being too loud?" I say in a baby voice, picking Emma up in one arm and Phoenix in the other. I rock them slowly until they calm down, I lay them back down. I watch Carter start to go through my closet, as I make bottles for the babies.
"I FOUND IT!" Carter yells pulling my wedding dress out of the closet. I make sure the bottles aren't too hot and I give them to the babies.
"I like how you just died and this is what you are worried about." I say laughing a little, she laughs too. Carter holds the dress up to me and her eyes start to tear up.
"You're going to be such a beautiful bride." she says smiling, tears rolling down her face. I smile back and hug her, after a few seconds I feel this wave of power surge through me. I pull away from her a little, looking at her confused, I move my hand down to her stomach.
"What are you-," she starts to say but I shush her, I close my eyes and focus when I feel the power surge through me again and I hear a fluttering sound. My eyes widen and I pull my hand away. Carter is looking at me with a look of confusion and annoyance.
"Who the hell said you could touch my stomach!" She says glaring at me, I glare back at her.
"You're fucking baby thats who," I say, her eyebrows raise and she crosses her arms.
"Excuse the cheese out of you!" I cross my arms and lean backwards.
"Don't start talking dairy to me." Carter growls and takes the dress out of the bag.
"Strip it down." Her face goes blank, "Not what I meant!" I smirk as I take off my shirt. The door opens and I cover my chest with my shirt. Hoodie looks at Carter and grabs her around the waist before placing a kiss on her lips. I clear my throat and he pulls away.
"Excuse me." He looks at me and smiles.
"THREE WAY!"He yells and I glare at him.
"I'M GETTING MARRIED!" I yell and throw my shirt at his face, then I push him out the door. Carter pouts at me.
"That was my main squeeze though." I roll my eyes and continue to undress myself. Carter hands me the dress, I put it on and she zips it up. I turn to look at her, she smiles at me. My dress has a solid breast cover but the waist is see through and the skirt puffs out at the end of it. The breast part is covered in black sparkles and the trail has a black trim.
"Okay, in the dresser by the closet there should be a black dress with a white flower on it and a suit for the babies and Sally has a pink dress with three trails of flowers going down the middle." I say, Carter turns around and gets the clothes out.
"Okay if you change and dress the babies and get Sally ready, I can do my hair and makeup and then we should be ready." I watch as Carter goes over to the crib and starts getting the babies ready. I go into the bathroom and shut the door behind me. I set the curling iron out, plug it in, and pull out my makeup from under the sink. I curl my hair and do a headband braid, when I hear Carter yell something about how the clothes won't go on the babies and I laugh. I wash my face, brush my teeth, and do natural looking makeup.
"I GOT IT!" I hear Carter yell as I exit the bathroom, Sally is sitting on my bed, in her dress, smiling as she watches Carter put Emma back in the crib. I walk over to the crib, look down at the babies, and make a confused face.
"Umm Carter...I think you got the babies mixed up, you put Emma in the tux and Phoenix in the dress," I say trying to contain my laughter, Carter looks at Emma then Phoenix.
"DANG IT!" She yells and redresses the babies, I take Phoenix in my left arm and Emma in my right.
"There everything's all better," I say looking down at them, Phoenix is half asleep and Emma is tugging at the sleeve of my dress babbling to herself. Carter leaves the room for a few minutes and comes back in a sleeveless, long, black sundress. She's pulling a black wagen with white bows on it.
"I need to take Sally and the babies so they are ready, your dad should be In here shortly," Carter says and starts to tear up again, I smile and set the babies in the wagen.
"I'll see you out there," I say wiping the tears from Carter's face. They leave, I sit on my bed, and put on my white flats. I hear a knock on the door.
"Come in," I say getting up off my bed, the door opens and I see dad standing there. Dad walks over to me and takes me in his arms.
"You did good." With that said he lets me go and takes my arm, taking me down the stairs and over to the back door.
"Wait." Dad looks down at me and I look up at him, "I don't know if I can." He chuckles and runs a finger down my cheek.
"You're just nervous, it'll be fine." I nod my head slowly as the music starts to play. We're about to walk when Carter starts singing that one rump song, then a small child's voice joins in. A second later I hear Hoodie snatch the microphone away.
"Carter, Sally sit down." They start playing the song I picked out, Halo. The door opens slowly, leading out to the yard is a long white rug with black chairs, the arch is black and covered in white flowers. I look down at the end of the aisle and see Jack standing there, he smiles at me. I smile back, as dad and I start to walk down the aisle I start to tear up, thinking about everything we've been through and how we got to where we are today. We get to the end of the aisle, dad kisses the top of my head, and I take Jack's hand. Everyone takes their seat as the ceremony begins. It takes about 10 minutes for everyone to get seated and for Jack and I to get through our vows. Now it's time for us to exchange rings.
"Amara, do you take Jack, to be your husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day until death do you part?" Dad says.
"I do," I say, tears streaming down my cheeks as I slip the ring on Jack's finger.
"Now, Jack, do you take Amara, to be your wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day until death do you part?" Jack looks at me and smiles.
"I do." Jack says and puts the ring on my finger.
"I now pronounce you husband and wife, you may kiss the bride." Everyone cheers and claps as we kiss. Jack and I walk back down the aisle together this time as everyone brushes their hands across our shoulders while we walk by. Someone pulls Jack away from me and not a moment later I'm being dragged away by Carter.
"Where are we going?" I ask her as we make our way into the house.
"You need to put your reception dress on, duh." I follow her up the stairs and into her room where she literally forces my dress off of me as gently as she can.
"Put this on." She hands me a strapless white dress that goes down to the middle of my thigh and is fluffy at the bottom, before sitting on the bed to play with her stupid non-working phone.
"Zip." Carter stands, tossing the phone on the bed, she zips it up and then grabs my arm once more.
"Hurry up!" I jump over Sally's doll that is lying in the middle of the floor as Carter drags me back outside. Carter stops, spins me around, and shoves me. I bump into someone's chest, only for them to grab my waist and kiss me. I smile and wrap my arms around Jack's neck. He pulls away, putting his forehead on mine.
"I love you." He whispers.
~Carter~
The vision of Sally running up to me wearing her beautiful little dress warms my heart. My hand goes to my stomach, covering the bump. I haven't felt it move yet but any day now I should. I'm broken out of my thoughts as Sally's arms wrap around my waist and her head falls to my stomach.
"Hi, Baby! Hi, Aunt MooMoo!" I run a hand through her hair.
"Hi Princess." She pulls out of the hug and pulls on my hand.
"Let's dance." I smile and follow her to where everyone else is dancing.
"Sal? What's on your back?" The smile on Sally's face widens as she pulls the blanket that's wrapped around her body to the front of her. She opens it a little and before I can look inside a little kitten head pops out.
"Mew!" My mouth falls open.
"OH MY GOD! KITTEN DANCE PARTY!" I gently take the kitten out of the blanket and hold it to my chest. Sally and I start dancing to the fast music, and just saying my dance moves were pretty awesome...kinda...no they weren't but I really didn't care.
"Carter!" The song ends just in time for me to hear Amara yelling for me. I look down at Sally, who is still dancing, and make my way to Amara.
"What's up?" She notices the kitten in my arms and she giggles.
"Dad wants to do a check up on you." I look around, everyone is heading towards the house and the music is now turned off.
"Yeah, okay." Amara, the kitten, and I head up to the infirmary. I lie on the bed and hitch my dress over my stomach. Amara throws a blanket over my legs as Slendy puts the stupid jell on my stomach.
"COLD!" I yell at him. Amara beside me laughs and lays her head on my shoulder.
"There it is." I look at the screen. To see the outline of a baby's profile.
"That's my baby." I say quietly. Amara sniffles next to me, "Hello little Knight." I place a hand below my breast, so I don't get in the way of the wand. Slendy looks at me.
"Would you like to know what it is?" Amara jumps up and covers my mouth with her hand.
"Yes!" I roll my eyes but nod my head. Slendy moves it to a different position before stating.
"It's a boy." When Amara squeals I sit up and wipe the gel from my skin. I fix my dress and leave the room to go to mine. I stay alone for a while before the door swings open and Amara steps in, she walks over to my closet and pulls out a dark purple sundress with skulls on it.
"Put it on and come downstairs." Amara slams the door behind her. I get up and put on the sundress and my silver sparkly socks. I go downstairs and sit on the couch next to Hoodie. I lean my head on his shoulder, as Amara walks into the room.
"Soooooo since dad and Jeff have a baby, I thought it would be a great idea if you and Hoodie watched Sally, Emma, and Phoenix while Jack and I are gone." She says with a big smile on her face, I glare at her, "And before you get all angry about me leaving you two with 3 kids, just remember there's like 20 people here to help you," I'm about to say something when the basement door swings open. I turn and see a guy wearing a blue sweatshirt with a yellow smiley face in the corner of it, jeans, he's wearing a white mask with a smile painted in blood on it, and he seems to be covered in either red paint or blood.
"HELENNNN, WE THOUGHT YOU DIED!" Amara yells at Helen?, runs over and hugs him. When she pulls away there is red whatever it is all over the front of her shirt and on her arms. I laugh and she glares at me. Helen takes off his mask, he's got shaggy black hair, pale skin, and blue eyes.
" Who is that?" He asks looking at me.
"This is Carter, my cousin," Amara says, "She came here almost a year ago," I wave at him.
"A year ago, how long was I down in the basement?" Amara opens her mouth to reply but I answer first.
"A year ago. Just a guess. Obviously." Amara glares at me.
"Rude, I was going to say I don't think I've seen you since Jack and I first got engaged, so it's probably been around 2 years or so…..How are you even alive?" The smile on his face widens as he reaches into his pockets and pulls out handfuls of candy.
"Candy!" Just then Jack walks into the room carrying Phoenix and Emma. This Helen guy shoves the candy back in his pockets.
"Hey Ja- WHAT ARE THOSE!" I crack a smile when Emma squeals and claps her hands before putting them out to Amara. A smile graces my lips as Amara grabs her from Jack and hugs her to her chest.
"This is Emma." Amara says proudly as Emma smiles at Helen, "And that's Phoenix." We all look at Phoenix, who has one hand gripped in his hair and the other in his mouth.
"Nix." Amara looks at Helen confused.
"What? I'm not going to go around calling my nephew a super long ass name." Jack steps between the two and hands me Phoenix.
"We'll be back in about 2 weeks." He grabs Emma from Amara and hands her to me as well. Jack leaves the room before coming back in with cases of his and Amara's bags.
"Wait! Guys I can't watch them alone!" Amara stops and comes back over to me.
"You'll be fine, besides you have Hoodie to help you." Amara kisses my cheek and grabs her bag from Jack.
"He doesn't talk to me much anymore." She rolls her eyes.
"Probably because you've been getting kidnapped and killed a lot lately." I shrug my shoulders as they wave goodbye.
"Bye my babies!" Amara shouts. Sally waves frantically, tears falling from her eyes. The door closes behind them and the house falls silent. Sally sniffles and runs up the stairs.
"Sally!?" A male voice shouts, a second later a body comes tumbling down the stairs.
"You okay, Babe?" Toby shouts down the stairs. Ben sticks his arm up and gives a thumbs up. I set the babies in their playpen. They stay quiet, just staring at me.
"Hungry?" Emma's tongue pokes out from between her lips.
"Thirsty?" Helen asks. Phoenix throws his chubby arms in the arm and squeals, "I'll take that as a yes." I point at him and glare.
"Watch them with your life!" I leave the living room and go into the kitchen to get their bottles. The bottles are almost done when a high pitched scream comes from the living room. I drop the bottles on the counter and teleport into the room.
"WHAT HAPPENED!" Helen is holding Phoenix in his arms as they both cry. Emma is lying on her back sobbing and scratching her cheek. I pick her up and hold her to my chest.
"It's okay baby. It's okay." I rub circles on her back and slowly she calms down. I turn to glare at the boy.
"What happened." He wipes the tears from his face as Phoenix continues to sniffle.
"They were staring at each other and then Nix just reached over and slapped her. She started crying and then he started crying! It was just too much!" Helen quickly pushes Nix into my arms and runs up the stairs, jumping over Ben who is still lying on the floor by the stairs. My tentacles come out of my back and wrap gently around the babies, holding them apart to contain the violence. I take them upstairs to my room where I find Hoodie setting something up in the dark corner of the room.
"Hoods, what are you doin?" He turns around and jumps.
"Jesus Freakin Christ! You scared me." I smirk and go over to the bed Nix and Emma are already sleeping so I set them on the bed. Hoodie's arms wrap around my waist, his hands resting on my stomach.
"Just think. We'll have one of our own soon." My body tingles and my stomach sinks.
"Yeah." I laugh lightly and pull out of his arms, "I'll be back, can you watch them?" He nods his head and places a kiss on my lips.
"Right back." I teleport outside the house, deep into the woods. This part of the forest is darker than the rest. The wind picks up from it's slow breeze. I stop beside a tree and lean against it. My hands move to my stomach, my nails rest against it. Anger fills me as I start scratching at it.
"Get out. Get out. GET OUT!" Tears fall from my eyes onto the leaf below me. My fingers are wet and slick with blood. I fall to my knees as blood drips from my bleeding stomach.
"Get out, please. I'm not ready." Pins and needles radiate through me for a moment before stopping. My body feels numb and I can't help but wishing I had died. I drop my hands to my thighs and look at the blood covered leaves. The sound of leaves rustling catches my attention. I look up, coming face to face with a tannish-brown creature. It's eyes are blacked out and it's mouth is in a snarl, drool falling to the ground to mix with my blood. I look away from the creature, when I do this tingle in my head makes my brain feel weird.
"Her scent is different. It smells as if darkness is filling her heart and the salty moist scent of tears is evident on her skin. Something about her scent is wrong, the rotten scent is mixed with one of light." My eyes once again meet the creatures, "Her scent is as if she's just given up on everything. Anger and love boil through her." I sigh and reach a hand out to the creature.
"I can hear you." The thing's face looks shocked as I touch its cheek.
"Rake." It whispers in my head.
"Carter. I think you should come home with me." The creature leans its head down to my stomach. It sticks its tongue out and licks across my scratches I had made. Instantly the cuts heal and the blood vanishes. The creature stands and grabs me in it's arms. The speed that it runs surprises me. Every once in a while I'll point to a direction for him to go. After a few minutes we appear in front of the mansion. Rake sets me down and I grab his hand, leading him into the house.
"I'M HOME!" Slendy appears with Jeff and Hyde.
"What is this? You can't just bring random things to the mansion!" I roll my eyes as I take Hyde from Jeff.
"He's good." I switch Hyde to my other arm, not realizing he was right beside Rake. Jeff's eyes widen more than usual and before I can stop it, Rake licks Hyde from chin to forehead. Hyde giggles and reaches his arm out toward Rake.
"Awee look, they like each other." Jeff makes a face of disgust and takes Hyde from me.
"Now he needs a bath." he says, looking down at the slobber on the baby's face. Jeff leaves the room with baby Hyde.
"Come on, Rake." I take his arm and lead him up the stairs to the attic, "You can stay here." I watch as he climbs up the steps to the attic, "Goodnight." Rake growls in return.
"Carter!" I jump as Hoodie's voice carries down the hall. I quickly make my way to our shared room.
"What's wrong!" Hoodie has his back to me but when he turns around I can't help but laugh. Hoodie, Emma, and Phoenix are all covered in pasta sauce while dry cereal and cheese puffs liter the ground.
"They actually eat anything?" Hoodie shakes his head with a worried look on his face.
"Go take a shower." I take Emma and Phoenix in my arms and set them on my bed, food surrounds the bedding. Cheese puffs, dry cereal, some pasta sauce smeared around. I smile at the babies and pick up a cheese puff, Phoenix gives me a look of curiosity. I slowly raise the cheese puff to my mouth and place it on my tongue. Phoenix's mouth falls open in shock and as soon as he does Emma grabs a handful of cereal and shoves her little fist in his mouth. I quickly pull her away, "Emma!" She gives me a smile so big I can't help but laugh. I look back at Phoenix, who is now slobbering all over the cereal, "Cute." I hold Emma as I sit cross-legged on the bed, Emma sits in the middle of my legs and Phoenix crawls over to me, he puts his hands on my knees and lies his head on Emma's lap, "Bath time?" They both look at me, eyes wide, "I'll take that as a yes." Emma's eyes fill with tears before she starts bawling, "You'll be fine." I use my tentacles to carry them into the bathroom as I use my hands to plug the tub and turn the water on warm. Once the tub is full I place undress them and place them in the water. Emma is still crying but Phoenix is splashing in the water and giggling. I take the sponge and lather them in baby soap. All the mess is cleaned from them so I dry them off and teleport us to their room. I set Emma on the changing table as Phoenix is being held by my tentacles. I put Emma in her diaper and I try to put on her onesie but she just cries again, "Okay, you don't have to wear it. Instantly the crying stops. I replace her with Phoenix and go through the same thing, "None of you want to wear your clothes? I don't blame you." A knock on the door sounds before it opens.
"You want me to take over?" Hoodie asks me. I'm about to ask him to wash the bed sheets when Masky comes out of nowhere.
"Gotta go, job to do." I watch as he grabs Hoodie by the back of his shirt and drags me away.
"Oh no, it's fine. I'll watch the kids and clean the mess. That's fine." I pick the babies back up and teleport us to my room. My tentacles once again hold them as I pull the sheets of the bed. I walk down the stairs to the laundry room.
"What are you doing?" I jump as a voice sounds behind me. I turn around while using my other arms to put the babies in the basket on top the washer and throw the sheets in there as well.
"You look like you belong here so who are you?" He leans towards me and pulls his mask off. His eyes are just black holes, leaking black liquid and his mouth looks relatively normal.
"Can I have one of your kidneys?" My mouth falls open.
"No!" His head tilts towards my stomach, "Oh." A hand appears on his shoulder.
"AH!" The blue boy falls to the floor, a normal looking boy appears behind him, scars littering his face.
"Leave the pregnant girl alone E.J." The scared boy smiles at me.
"Liu." I shake his hand and his head twitches to the side.
"Sully." His head twitches again and his smile returns.
"Ooookay. Go find Slendy so I can finish up here." I push them both out of the room and shut the door. I turn around and press the start button on the washer. I put my head down on top of it, "Too many people showing up." I say to myself as the washer kicks on. The shaking of it causes my brain to get scrambled. I sit up and laugh loudly. Phoenix and Emma are sitting in the basket jiggling because of the vibrations of the washer. Their little baby fat jiggles away as their laughter and squeals of delight fill the room. Once the jiggling ceases I pick them up, after switching the sheets to the dryer, and take them up to bed where they fall asleep instantly. I go to my room where the bed has new sheets. A note lies on top and I read it aloud, "Knew you were busy. Made your bed for you- Helen." I place the note on the nightstand and change into my pajamas. I lie in bed and stare at the ceiling, awaiting Hoodie's return. He doesn't come back before I fall asleep. I finally fell asleep around four in the morning.