Free From Hell.
Disclaimer: See Chapter one or two.
Chapter Three. To Protect The Ones You Love.
"Go on, sis... I'll be in there in a minute." Jack said as Karla ran into the house. Jack watched after her and sat on the porch and tookoff his boots. He sat there in the silence for a second watching the sky. Suddenly he heard Karla scream and he got up and ran inside.
"Daddy! Stop it! What are you doing! Stop it!" Karla leaned against her mother's limp figure as her father kept belting into her. "STOP IT DADDY!PLEASE!" Karla screamed.
"Get outta the way you stupid child!" Jack's father roared as he grabbed Karla by the hair and threw her against the wall. She fell to the ground unconcious. Jack looked at Karla with shock. "Karla! Mamma! Father, no!" Jack yelled as he jumped on his father's back and started throwing aimless punches."Stop hurting your own family!" He kept going untill his father threw him off . Jack fell onto the ground but got straight back up, he wasn't going to let him win! He wasn't going to let his own father hurt the ones Jack loved. He was going to protect the ones he loved at all costs, no matter what it took to make his father stop, he would do it. He ran under the table before his father could grab him. He needed a way to get his father to stop this. He looked down and saw his father's rum bottle and grabbed it and ran into the living room, his father closely behind him. Jack turned around fast before his father knew what was happening and stuck his leg out. His father fell like a tonne of bricks. Before his father could compose himself Jack smashed the glass as hard as he could on his father's head, causing him to black out.
Jack ran back into the kitchen and rushed to his mother's side. He looked around and to his relief Karla was awake and seemed okay, other than being terrified out of her wits. She was in the same position her father left her and she was shaking and crying heavily. Jack turned his mother around onto her back. She looked so badly beaten it broke Jack's heart. He tried to shake her so she would wake.
"Mamma? Mamma please wake up!" Jack started feeling tears burning in his eyes. He knew in his mind that his mother was gone, but his heart didn't want to accept it. He knew he had to act fast though, before his father gained conciousness again, so he walked over and picked Karla up and headed out the door. Karla started crying hysterically.
"Jack! What about Mamma?" Karla cried. Jack didn't know how to say this sort of horrific thing to a five year old, but he didn't have time now. he kept walking until their house was out of site and he placed Karla down and looked into her eyes.
"Karla, I don't think Mamma's coming back!" Jack said with the most gentlest voice he could manage.
"Mamma's not coming back? Jack what do you mean! She's just asleep!" Karla said softly. Jack smiled sadly at her.
"Well, she's n-never gonna wake up, lass." Jack said his voice choking from trying to hold the tears back. "But we have to get outta of here as quick as we can, sis! It's not safe here cause daddy will find us and hurt us like he hurt Mamma! Mamma is safe now though! She's up in Heaven and she will never get hurt again, okay?"
Karla's face was wet with tears but she managed a small smile and nodded. "Mamma is free, Jack!" She whispered.
Jack smiled at her and hugged her tightly as tears fell from his eyes. "That's true, sis! She is finally free." He broke the hug to look at Karla again. "Why don't we go and watch the ships for a while, untill i can figure out where to go next, okay lass?" Jack said as he started to walk towards the docks.
"Okay." Karla said as she walked by her brother's side. She loved him so much and hoped that he would never fall asleep and not wake up. She would be so alone without her big brother. She always feels safe with him, nomatter what sort of trouble was happening around them.
Jack watched his sister as she watched the ships, he was thinking that one day he would get her on one of those ships and he would sail her towards freedom. where she wanted to be, but for now they just needed to figure out a way to survive without no home, no parents and no food. He knew they had to get as far away from their Father as possible. They may have been free from the devil for now, but they were still in hell.