Chapter 5: Hour 5
Sydney runs toward Dixon and puts her fingers on his neck checking for a pulse, they knew he was dead, but Sydney couldn't believe it. She was in shock, not Dixon.
She sobbed over the body, he was a good friend. Vaughn puts his hand on her shoulder and then she nudges it into a comforting hug.
"Its alright." he whispers into her ear.
She hugs him tighter. All of this death was crazy. Nadia walk to the group. She hasn't seen the body yet.
"Guys I found Dixon about an hour ago he bound me to a desk and ran off has he stopped by?" Nadia says.
She sees the body.
"Oh my gosh." she says.
"Spare us the lies, Nadia it had to be you, we were all here." Jack says.
"No, it wasn't me please, look at my wrists it proves I was tightly tied for an hour, look at these marks, you think I did this to myself!?" Nadia yells.
"It could have happened if Dixon put up a fight." Jack says bluntly.
"Let's not point any fingers, none of us have an alibi and that's clear, any of us is guilty." Sloane says trying to defend his daughter. "Everyone just stays calm." he continues.
"We need to not run off, Marcus made a bad move by leaving, and announcing it to the killer was worse.
And Jack, he was right it was enough to prove to you that he was an innocent man, is his death enough clarification for you." Sloane says with slight anger in voice.
Jack puts his head down and stares into Dixon's lifeless eyes. Jack actually felt guilt. Nobody moved the bodies they all were near the meeting spot.
Sydney scanned the room and say Marshall and Weiss dead, now Dixon, she grabbed Vaughn's hand. It was too much.
Tom stood up; he finally was up to moving again, he could react normally.
"Let's please move away from all these bodies, it is making me uncomfortable. He says.
He was right they were around lots of blood and gore and it was time to move. They went into Sloane's office it would be better there, more cramped, but you could have a good idea of where everyone was in there, also it was partially lit.
They all got cozy as possible in there and waited in silence, it was only hour five and they just decided to wait it out from there. But everyone knew it wasn't going to happen, the e-mail said a double agent needed to eliminate everyone.
And by hour eight. Jack looked at Sydney, he wish he could think she was safe with Vaughn, but honestly he didn't know.
In his mind he knew she wasn't the killer. He knew Sydney and loved her, it wasn't her. His blame went to Nadia and Sloane. Sydney lies on Vaughn's chest. She felt safe, like nobody could get there.
She knew her father thought she was innocent she only wished she could return the favor, in Sydney's mind he could be as guilty as Sloane or anybody else. She thought nothing of it and just stayed where she was, safety.
"I'm going to the washroom, anybody want to come and guard me or have stopped that?" Tom said to break the silence.
"I'll come." Sloane says. "Me too, it's getting creepy here the silence." Nadia says standing up and following them to the door.
"Wait." Jack says. "I will be outside your office door guarding so when you arrive back here I can let you in, Vaughn, Sydney I will be just outside if you need me, just tap the door." Jack says firmly.
Jack walks out the door and closes it gently. Tom spends a couple of minutes in the bathroom. Nadia waits at the end of the hall and Sloane wait by the bathroom door.
Pitch black. They all were standing until a thump was heard and Nadia went running down the hall.
She saw Sloane's body on the ground and Tom came out of the bathroom. Once Tom sees Nadia by the body he backs away from her frightened. She does the same.
"Well, we have a problem, one of us killed him and I know it sure as hell wasn't me and you will say the same." Tom says. Jack comes out of the shadows.
"I came to see what was taking so long, what the hell happened now!" Jack yells. "I found him like this with her near him." Tom says.
"I heard a thump and came running he could have killed him and ran back into the bathroom." Nadia says panicking.
"Let's head back to his office and decide there." Jack says.
"Wait a minute, you were awfully close, and to this "accident" you could have killed him." Nadia says as they walk back. The blame was just splattered onto Jack. He wasn't frightened no one could prove it was him, but he couldn't prove it was either of them as well. He crawled back inside his mind and thought how to tell the others another death has occurred. They arrive back at the office and all walk in.
"Hey where's Sloane?" Vaughn asks.
"Dead" Jack blurts out with no emotion, he had to say it.
"What?" Sydney says. "Four people were out there and still the killer strikes. This can't be happening." Sydney says.
They all sat and went over new rules of if you leave you leave alone, one person can go at a time. It was one of many precautions they all agreed to. Jack asserted himself to fully taking charge, but on good thing about Arvin's death was that when he found out whom the killer was there was nobody to hold him back from unleashing hell on them.
He smiled at the thought of revenge. It was all he had at the time. Not even Sydney cared to join him or even sit by him. Nadia was now alone and Tom too, there was a lot of intensity between the two.
Hour six was right round the corner and the killer need three more to kill and three innocent souls needed to desperately try and survive. Everybody in the room felt a chill for the upcoming hour, hour six.