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Chapter Three- My Lamb and Martyr

"I'm treading water,

I need to sleep a while.

My lamb and martyr, you look so precious.

Won't you come on up closer,

close enough so I can smell you.

I need you to feel this,

I can't stand to burn too long.

Release in sodomy.

Oh, for one sweet moment I am whole.

Do unto you now, what has been done to me,

Do unto you now, what has been done?"

Tool- "Prison Sex"


Cal and Jim pulled into the parking lot of Johnny Reb's Boot Scooters. They had just pushed a tall native girl out of their truck after having what they call fun with her.

Jim clapped Cal's shoulder. "She sure was a good lay." He laughed.

Cal nodded and took a swig from his bottle. Jim opened the door of the bar. Reptile spotted the bottle in Cal's hand. "Hey, you can't bring that in here." Cal tossed the bottle off into the mud and went inside.

Jim said, "Reptile. Get us a shot. Doubles."

Reptile said, "I think you've had about enough."

"Am I still standing?" Jim asked. Reptile nodded. "Then I ain't had enough."

Reptile sighed. "Fine. Two beers, then you're going home to sleep it off." Jim and Cal took a seat at the bar. Besides them, only one other person was in the bar. A bearded man sat in the corner drinking his beer in silence.

The men joked and laughed together. Cal and Jim had almost forgotten about their little activity with Reptile's barmaid.

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Leah's entire body ached. All she could see was black. There were voices. She knew these voices? No, she wasn't sure. Another sound. Purring. An engine? Was she in a car? A click of the locks on the doors and one swung open. Two hands on her back. She hit the ground hard. Laughter. Sounds of the truck driving off. Leah was teetering on the edge of consciousness.

She wanted to die. Or was she already dead? Was this death? No. If it were, her father would be here to take her to heaven with him. He wasn't here. In fact, no one was here. Leah groaned. She was waking up, becoming more coherent, now. She realized she was near the woods, she could hear the sounds of animals inside.

She sat up and bit back a groan of pain. Pulling herself up, Leah suddenly remembered what happened. Cal and Jim had attacked her at the bar. Beat her. Pushed her out of the truck. Wait, why was she in the truck? Leah racked her brain but couldn't remember. She pulled herself to her feet and almost instantly stumbled when she took a step forward. Somehow, she managed to find her way back to the bar. She saw Jim's truck parked outside.

Anger bubbled up inside her. The fucking bastards beat her, kidnapped her and then came back to drink. She picked up a rock with the intentions of throwing it through the window. Leah drew her arm back and just as the rock was about to shatter the glass, Leah caught sight of a shotgun inside. She saw red. Wasn't fully in control of herself. The rock shattered the glass. Leah snatched the gun. Stumbled inside, her vision blurry. Someone else was controlling her body. This wasn't her. Someone else was making her do this.

Leah pulled open the door to Johnny Reb's. It slammed behind her. The four men in the bar looked up at her and instantly fell silent.

Jim stood up from the bar, "Hey. That's my gun." He said.

Leah stared at him, her breathing heavy. Her sweaty, bloody hands gripping Jim's shotgun. Cal mumbled, "Oh fuck" under his breath.

Leah looked up at the sound of his voice. She made the mistake of looking directly into his eyes. The entire evening snapped back into clarity then. She remembered those cold hazel eyes as the eyes of the man who had raped her.

The gun aimed at Jim, fired. Reptile ducked. Jim fell. Another shot, Cal went down. Reptile surfaced from behind the bar, gun in hand. A pain in Leah's left thigh. Another shot, Reptile went down. Five more shots, then just clicks. The gun fell from Leah's hands. She turned and ran from the bar into the rain. She stumbled in the woods behind the bar. Tripped over a log and everything suddenly flooded her.

The pain in her leg caused her to limp along. She pushed her hands through her hair and pulled. The pain seemed to bring her back down to reality. A sob escaped her throat. She limped through the woods until she reached a house. She climbed up over the fence, ignoring the intense pain in her leg. It increased exponentially when her feet hit the ground. She bit down on her finger to keep quiet.

The house was dark and silent and Leah realized she was in the backyard. She hobbled across the yard and went up to the back door. She tried the doorknob, but it was locked. She used her elbow to smash a hole in the window. A thick shard of glass fell and Leah slipped her hand in and unlocked the door.


Meanwhile, back at Johnny Reb's Boot Scooters.

Reptile screamed at the pain in his shoulder. Leah's aim had been off, luckily. He had only been hit in the shoulder. He yelled to the others, "Call Sheriff Swan!"

No one answered, but there was the sound of footsteps and then a figure came around the bar. It wasn't Jim, nor Cal, but the bearded man who sat in the corner. His name was David.

Reptile groaned again as David spoke on the phone to Charlie Swan. David hung up and came over to Reptile. "That girl killed Cal and Jim. They're both dead."

Reptile didn't answer. Charlie Swan came through the door five minutes later. Paramedics helped Reptile into the ambulance. He would be okay after they fixed his shoulder. Reptile told Charlie that it was Leah Clearwater who had shot them. Charlie immediately got in touch with the other officers and alerted them.

He was walking to his cruiser when a black SUV pulled up to the bar. "Sheriff Swan!" A voice called as a man slipped from the driver's seat. Charlie sighed and turned to him.

The man was Carter Jennings, the man who had won the sheriff's election over Charlie. Come Monday morning, Charlie Swan wouldn't be sheriff anymore. Carter Jennings would.

"I thought you might could use a hand out here." Jennings said, coming to Charlie's side.

Charlie shook his head. "Nope. It's not Monday, yet. I'm still sheriff. On Monday, this will be your problem. Till then, I'm in charge." He turned and walked to his cruiser.


A/N: This is up early as well, but no one's reviewing. :( So here's chapter three. Alice will be back in chapter four, yay! Thanks to the people who did review and to CGDIB and LCM for being awesome.