Time to see what Hoffman is up to now. This is also where we find out how he survived after SAW 7. Enjoy.
Chapter 5
Hoffman was in the middle of talking to Adam over the phone still. He was also keeping an eye on Daniel and Alison over the camera feed on his monitor.
"It should take him a couple of hours to get here. When he does, the real fun begins." Hoffman said.
"What should I do with the box at the moment?" Adam asked.
"Leave it where it is for now. Just keep on doing whatever he told you to do until I tell you otherwise. You got that?"
"Yes. Yes I got that. Bye for now."
Hoffman hung up without responding and put the mobile phone away in his pocket. He turned to the desk with the monitor and some controls and pressed the first in a line of small buttons. The room where Alison and Daniel were was filled with the voice of Hoffman in the style of Jigsaw. A deep and sinister voice.
The voice made Alison jump but she soon regained what composure she had right now. The voice echoed around the room, causing a faint vibration in the walls and floor.
"Greetings Alison and Daniel. You are both here because you've lost someone very dear to you. For you, Alison it is your husband Lawrence Gordon. And for Daniel it is his father, Eric Mathews. I understand that naturally you are distressed by their absences but you two have both taken it too far. Alison has resorted to excessive drinking to cope with the fact that Lawrence has left her and Daniel, you are often involved in criminal activities since your father's passing. When this night is up we will see if you have learnt not to waste life constantly grieving for others for longer than is necessary. Soon your game will begin and we will see."
That seemed to be all the voice had to say as it stopped at that moment.
"What the Frick?" Daniel cursed.
"OK, just stay calm." Alison tried to reassure him.
"What's going on?"
"You heard him. We're both here for wasting our lives with people that are longer a part of them."
"What's going to happen to us?"
"I don't know." Alison replied as she glanced up at the camera that was positioned high up on the wall in the corner of the room.
Hoffman saw her looking at the camera on the monitor in his observation room. It didn't intimidate him though as he assumed that was what the look was for. As soon as Lawrence arrived the game would begin. And Hoffman would have his revenge for leaving him to die in that filthy bathroom.
It was only by luck really that he was able to make it out. About a day and a half had passed since Lawrence had locked him up in the bathroom and sealed the door for good. When it unexpectedly slid open again and there, in the doorway, stood Adam Stanheight with a test mannequin in both hands. Hoffman had to shield his eyes from the new light being let in through the open doorway. Adam stepped into the bathroom and stood in front of Hoffman.
"What do you fucking want?" Hoffman asked.
Adam didn't say anything but instead dropped the mannequin onto the ground in front of Hoffman and glanced at the other corpse chained to the same pipe as Hoffman. A mannequin in place of his own body.
"I'm here to save you." Adam finally answered.
"Why? Who are you?"
Adam knelt down to speak to Hoffman more directly.
"My name's Adam Stanheight. You might remember me, you might not. That body you see next to you. That isn't really me. It's one of these."
Adam drew Hoffman's attention to the mannequin on the floor beside him.
"Adam?" Hoffman said as he tried to remember where he had heard that name before. "I remember John saying something about an Adam when he was talking about Lawrence and setting up a game for him."
"Yeah, well I'm that Adam. So did you now much about the bathroom 'game' at the time?"
"I was Jigsaw's apprentice until he turned on me and sent Lawrence to kill me. Motherfucker chained me up in here. His little way of creating irony I suppose."
"I think we could help one another out here." Adam said. "I'll save you the same way Lawrence saved me. I'll swap you for this mannequin, I even managed to find identical clothes for it. He'll never know you escaped. In return you help me to kill him. That's what you want too after all, isn't it?"
"Kill Dr. Gordon? Why do you want him dead?"
"He thinks I'm working for him now. But I still hate the Jigsaw legacy for what it did to me. And now there's only Lawrence left I... We have the perfect chance to end the whole thing."
"And what about me? I'm Jigsaw too."
"Not any more it seems."
Adam looked back over his shoulder into the corridor outside the bathroom. He had to be quick otherwise Lawrence might find him here.
"Now do you want to live or not?"
Hoffman had a quick think about this for a moment. But the answer was obvious.
"Alright. You got the key?"
"Of course."
Adam took out the key for Hoffman's shackles and unlocked the chains. Hoffman slipped his foot out and got to his feet.
"Now I'll tell you everything I've learnt about Lawrence and his part in the Jigsaw legacy and then we can come up with a plan to kill him."
Adam carefully chained the mannequin in place of Hoffman and locked the shackles up once again. Thinking to himself:
And once we've done that, you'll be next.
So, Adam actually saved Hoffman. But it's so he can use him by the sounds of it. Chapter 6 will be up soon.
