Saw 3 Chapter 13
Sabrina held her hip as she approached the last level of the game. Painted arrows on the floor curved, pointing inside of a room. There was a wide open space with a large window. In front of the window was a panel with two buttons on it. In between the buttons was a cassette player.
Sabrina walked up to the panel. The timer about the large window ticked.
4:30
She picked up the tape player and pressed play.
"Welcome to the final level of the game Sabrina. And perhaps the hardest. You throw people away like trash. You pick and choose who gets close to you. For this level, you will chose...who dies."
A light on the other side of the window lit up, revealing Nick and Veronica. They were tied up by their wrists and hung upward.
Sabrina dropped the cassette player. "No." She said. Her eyes filled with tears.
"Sabrina?" Veronica asked. She squinted her eyes through the thick window.
The cassette continued. "Press the blue button and save Nick. Or press the Red button and save Veronica. You cannot save both. If the timer gets to zero, they will both die and so will you." Click.
Sabrina's eyes shifted back and forth between Veronica and Nick. The two closest people to her. The two people who mean the most to her. Her best friend and her boyfriend. Two people she can't imagine a life without.
Veronica's face filled with dread. Nick looked terrified.
Sabrina looked at the buttons on the panel.
"Don't do it!" Veronica said.
"I have to choose. Or we'll all die." Sabrina said.
4:01
Sabrina went back and forth between the two people she loved the most. "Nick, you're my boyfriend. I love you. You make me feel needed. And loved." She turned over to Veronica. "You're my best friend. No one knows me like you do."
"Sabrina," Nick said, "It's true. I do love you. You are my everything. I wish I could hold you right now."
Sabrina melted at these words.
"I'm your best friend!" Veronica shouted. "We've known each other longer. We confide in each other. We trust each other. You need me."
Sabrina closed her eyes. "This is cruel. I don't know!"
3:27
"Sabrina listen to your heart," Nick said. "What does your heart tell you?"
"You can get another boyfriend. I'm your best friend," Veronica said.
Sabrina cried and grabbed her waist, bowing over in pain.
"Nick is cheating on you!" Veronica shouted.
Sabrina stood up strait. "What?"
"Don't listen to her," Nick said.
"He is. With Katy Collins. Your new friend." Veronica said. "We've known each other for years."
"If that's true, why wouldn't you tell me!?" Sabrina asked.
"I just found out at the party!" She stomped her foot. "Right before..."
"Before what?" Sabrina asked.
"After I...found out, I escaped to the laundry room where Maya found me." Veronica said.
"Oh who cares about her right now!?" Nick shouted.
"It was her," Veronica whispered to herself.
2:47
"I've always been loyal to you Sabrina," Veronica said.
"You're a liar," Nick said. "Desperate to save your own life."
"Sabrina, have I ever lied to you?" Veronica asked.
Sabrina shook her head. "Shut up. Both of you." She put her hand over her ears for a few moments and closed her eyes. When she opened them up again, she slammed her hand on the blue button.
Nick smiled and sighed with relief. "Thank you. I love you babe."
Veronica leaned back and shook her head. "How could you? After what I just told you? You take his side. He's only going to break your heart. And then you'll be alone!"
"I'm sorry!" Sabrina cried. "I could only save one."
The light in the room Veronica and Nick were held in shut off. They were out of sight.
In the control room, Samuel just finished Maya's surgery. Amelia was in control the game. She shut off the lights.
"What are you doing?" Samuel asked her.
"I have an idea..." Amelia said. "I have to do it now." She ran out of the room.
Samuel peeked outside the room and saw Amelia get in the elevator. She was holding a frying pan.
"Amy?" Samuel asked sternly.
The elevator doors closed with her inside, going up where the game was still being played.
Sabrina backed up from the window where her friends were. She looked around the room. "Where do I go now?" She wipes the tears off her face.
Samuel headed for the elevator a minute after Amelia left. Maya lied on the couch with a blanket over her legs.
Amelia entered the small room Veronica and Nick were tied up in through a secret passage in the floor. She placed the frying pan on the floor. Amelia peeked up, lifting the opening in the floor.
"Who's there?" Veronica asked in the dark.
Amelia's eyes adjusted to the dark from the dark secret passageway. She untied Nick.
He stumbled in the dark, looking for a door. Amelia pushes him through a small hallway in the room, leading to an exit from the building.
Once he was gone, Amelia approached Veronica. "I saw something in you."
"What?" Veronica asked.
"When you were pleading for your life. I saw something. I want to offer you a second chance at life." Amelia said.
There was a pause before Veronica responded. She laughed, "Oh my god. I knew Maya was involved but now I see you're both insane."
"How did you know it was us?" Amelia asked.
"I remember her drugging me." Veronica said.
Amelia paused before speaking again. "I'll let you live if you help us with something." She said.
Samuel went up the second floor of the warehouse. He went into the room where Lucas was still chained up with a cut up hand. He lied his head down on the table.
Samuel pulled a roll of gauze out of his pocket and bandaged up Lucas's hand.
Lucas flinched and sat up. "You. You're the one who kidnapped us. Forced Sabrina to torture us. You're a psycho."
"Not the way to you want to talk to someone who holds the key to your escape." Samuel said. He took out the thin key to the handcuffs. "And, for the record, my daughter's the one that kidnapped you."
Lucas remained still while Samuel unlocked his cuffs. "Don't think about attacking me. The exit is out of this room, down the hallway in the opposite direction of the arrows. You'll find a double door exit. The doors are open. You'll want to hurry before the timer stops."
Lucas looked at the timer.
1:30
Uncuffed, Lucas ran out of the room. He went in the opposing direction of the arrows.
Samuel went back to the secret entrance to the elevator.
Lucas found the double doors and smiled. He pushed the doors open, free and safe.