Chapter 20
Fruition
Point Place,Wisconsin
May 27, 1977 (Friday)
9:05 p.m.
It was going to be a hot and sticky humid night.
The doppelganger went up to the stairs in haste to make sure the hotel room was ready. The handicapped
bathroom was bigger than the standard size and the shower seat was in place. He took the paper bag from the
Rexall and put the contents on the counter. There was a box of latex gloves, baby wipes, bar of soap, a
toothbrush, and toothpaste. He had his nail clipper and razor so he didn't need to buy those. He didn't have any
deodorant. That detail wouldn't matter. Everything was perfect. Now he had to get his brother, the Forman's
would still be sleeping, so he had plenty of time, and with any luck their son Eric had a heart attack and joined
his sister and friends on the other side. He left the door open, the security wouldn't be a problem, the camera
was broken, as he went to get his brother. Hyde couldn't see, he couldn't move, the blanket smelled like death
warmed over. All he could do was let out a small muffled moan over his duct-taped mouth. His eyes went in and
out of sleep. The sound of the car door opening was minuscule at best.
"All right, Sweetie brother pie, it's time for you to get all cleaned up to see the Princess."
He was being carried, carried like carpet. Where were they going? All Hyde could hear was the word princess
before going out again. The twin closed the door with his foot and laid Hyde out on the bed. He put the
sunglasses, watch, and pinky ring on the dresser.
He unrolled the blanket before picking him up and carrying him to the bathroom floor.
"This is all for you, Steven, they don't love you like I do." He kissed him on the lips.
"We have such a busy night planned."
He stood over him to walk to the closet to take out a plastic laundry bag.
"I love you so much, do you hear me?"
Hyde moaned unintelligible sounds. "That's just the medicine I gave you…I have so
much to do…" The twin ripped open the box of latex gloves. "Better start with the gross
stuff first, who else is going to do this? The wretched Kitty Forman? I doubt it."
"You think I'm a bastard, don't you?"
He had to pull in one swift hard motion to take off the boots that were on for 3 months.
"It's okay, the water will help when I put the shower on. Let's undress you. We're going
to see the Princess tonight."
The odor was putrid as he shoved Hyde's beyond repair clothes into the plastic laundry bag until he was left in
what was his white t-shirt and briefs. He grabbed the blue plastic box of baby wipes off the counter.
"Who am I kidding? Kitty would probably relish in the thought of wiping your ass. It's not really right that you
get two mothers and I had none. I think Eric might be dead. Won't that be awesome for Red and Kitty to lose
both of their children? They're too old to have any more babies, that's if they get to live. We'll see how tonight
goes."
Hyde moved his head back and forth in slow-motion as if he were caught between the states of dream and
reality.
[[h—hu—rt…m—me.]]
After five minutes the doppelganger made sure all of the garbage was in the bag before taking his gloves off.
"I brought you fresh underwear for later and new clothes….same as my clothes…oh, it's going to be fun."
He took off his underwear and put them in the filled laundry bag.
"You know, Steven, I am smarter than you. Hell, I'm even more better looking than you. I see that I even have a
bigger penis than yours. I'm going to have to cut your fingernails…..I don't have time to do the toenails, but
we're both going to be wearing socks….Then we'll shave our faces. It didn't take you long to grow a
beard….we'll both be matchie for Jackie!"
When the twin was finished with the grooming tasks he had time to complete, he undressed as well.
He turned the shower on as he picked up his brother to place him on the shower seat where Hyde slid back as
he didn't have the energy needed to sit upright.
"I'll take care of you, Steven….."
He wasn't going to take a risk and take his handcuffs or the secured rope off him. The torn jeans were made for
the trash bin anyway. There was one last game to play to test the fair Jackie's loyalty.
"Do you love me?"
"y-es."
It didn't take long for Not Hyde to give himself and his brother a shower. The difficult part was going to be
dressing him. Hyde was on the shower seat still unable to sit up straight, his body in so much pain; the violation
he felt that would have to be filed and put in the drawer marked 'Later'. The twin dried himself off with a towel
and decided to get dressed first as his brother air-dried.
"I love you, Steven. I really do. No one else loves you in the ways that I do. I got rid of them for you. When I'm
done with them…..it'll just be us….and we can sleep in bed together before we die as one….that's all I ever
wanted…." He zipped up his blue jeans making sure that everything was exact, from the jeans, to the black
t-shirt, to the same kind of white socks. He went over to Hyde and kissed him on the lips.
"While you're naked…we should brush your teeth incase you spit up on me."
He harshly opened the toothbrush from its plastic case and opened the toothpaste before jamming it into his
brother's mouth. He kept the action up for five minutes as he made sure to brush twice. His breath was
disgusting and for good measure he used the same toothbrush on his own teeth as well.
"Can you spit?" He closed his brother's mouth shut to force him to swallow the toothpaste instead; he wiped his
face with a washcloth.
"That wasn't so bad was it? Now we'll get you dressed…and then the games can fully begin, my brother dear."
When the bathroom was cleaned up and Hyde was dressed his brother carried him straight to the bed and
made sure both of the handcuffs were attached to the vertical long wooden bedpost.
"Now we can't have you making a scene so let's just unplug this phone for good measure…."
He went to the drawer to take out his role of duct tape and put another piece over Hyde's mouth.
"Just incase you wake up when I'm gone…. now I'm going to go for a bit, hopefully your eyes will open
more…..and I'll be bringing your beautiful Jackie to you." The twin put his hands through Hyde's hair and kissed
him on the neck and then the cheek. "Let's see if Jackie can pass the test."
Hyde's eyes fluttered, he felt worse than before if that was at all possible. He was able to lean against the wall
to stop from falling over.
"Don't worry, Steven, it will soon be all over and then you will be all mine. Forever. The way our slut of a mother
intended us to be. I'll be back soon." The twin smiled as he turned off the light before leaving the motel room.
After Jackie*
20 Minutes Later
Hyde was starting to come down from whatever substance his brother put in his body and he realized he was
handcuffed to the bedpost in a cheap motel. His ankles were still tied with rope. There was no use trying to beg
for help through his taped mouth. He looked down, even though the lights were off, his sense of smell worked
fine, he was clean, and his clothes were changed.
What else did his twin do to him while he was out of it? The door opened and the lights were turned back on.
"Sweetie, you have to stop being fresh! We're almost there." He propped her up so if anyone walked by they
would think she was just drunk.
Hyde was glad to see that Jackie was still alive.
[[What have you done to her?]]
He noticed his sunglasses, ring, and watch was on the dresser.
His twin carried Jackie to the bathroom and gently put her in the bathtub before shutting
the door, she wouldn't be knocked out for long. He took off his boots and placed them on the other side of the
bed.
The doppelganger walked over to rip the tape from his brother's mouth.
Hyde noticed they were wearing the same black t-shirt and the same faded jeans. It became apparent what his
other half wanted to do.
"What have you done to her?"
"She just took a simple glass of water. I'm sorry about your boo-boo…" Hyde slightly flinched, his brother cut
into his pinky and put a band-aid around it, he already had a bandage around his own little finger.
When Red woke up from his nap, he was probably going to be on the look out for them,
so let him see the El Camino in the parking lot. By the time Red Forman got here, if he even arrived, the rebel
and the princess would be dead.
He walked over to Hyde and put his hands on his shoulders. "I'm so glad that you are fully awake, Steven, I love
you…" Then his hands moved to his face as he kissed him passionately on the lips. Hyde was repulsed, but he
didn't want to say or think anything that would cause him to kill Jackie.
He had his handgun behind his shirt.
"If you try anything, I'm going to shoot her in front of you and you can watch her die…after all of this, it'll just be
the two of us, us blood brothers….we'll leave the world together as we entered the world together."
Hyde watched as his brother walked over to the dresser to put his roll of duct tape away and took out a pair of
handcuffs and some more rope. Hyde didn't realize that they were trick ones.
"I bet you wonder what I'm going do…I'm going to handcuff myself to the other side of the bed, but first I have
to tie my ankles together…" loosely, but that wasn't necessary as long as the tricked-out handcuffs worked,
"May the best man win."
Princess
Jackie had a massive headache; she didn't remember much after drinking the glass of water at her parent's
house. She looked around; she was in a hotel bathroom. She was in the bathtub and the porcelain was still wet
on her skin. She slightly grunted and thought that the sound was so un-like herself, she was supposed to be a
bubbly, slightly snobby, carefree cheerleader. She held onto the edges of the tub and tried to stand up, she put
her hand on the bar. That fake Steven was out there, but maybe her real boyfriend was also out there. She was
too frightened to speak. There was a bag on the floor, it smelled vile and disgusting, but she was overcome with
the sensation to bend down, because it hurt too much to stay upright, and look inside….it smelled like a bag of
dirty diapers, and she could see the clothes, hair shavings, and soiled baby wipes.
Her Steven was here.
Jackie thought she was going to throw up and covered her mouth as she forced herself up and kept her hands
on the sink, she took a few deep breaths. There was going to be nothing left to do, but open the door to see
what was on the other side.
End Game
Hyde watched his brother put his hand across his stomach and bend down, hyperventilating, or pretending to at
least. The twin fixed his position and smiled at his brother on the way up.
"Help! J—Jackie!"
The fucking bastard.
"She'll know the difference."
"We'll see about that." He whispered.
The door opened and Jackie started to run and then she stopped by the end of the bed there were 2 Steven's.
Finding out the information beforehand and then seeing it in front of your face were entirely two different things.
She let out a gasp and cupped her hands over her mouth.
What if she chose the wrong one?
"Jackie, it's me! I'm Steven!"
"Don't listen to him….I'm Steven, he's my psycho twin brother…..he held me hostage for months and killed
everyone that we care about!"
Jackie paced and scratched her hair, "I can't tell you two apart!" she cried.
"Ask me a question/ask me a question"
[[Damn it.]]
You won't win.
"Um, oh," Steven had an identical twin? He never mentioned one. There was a rumor that he had a half-brother
from one of Edna's weekend jaunts, but this was something that Edna and Bud Hyde must have kept from him
for all of these years. She didn't know what kind of questions to ask, everyone's – well everyone who was
left; their lives were on the line. It was too much for the young adolescent girl to handle. "Um, who is my
favorite group?"
"Abba/Abba."
Hyde hated seeing Jackie caught in one of his twin's mind games. He wished he could do something, but he
knew his brother's rope was not tied as tight and although they looked real enough, those handcuffs had to be
fake as well. His brother was going to kill her, and he couldn't stop it from happening. Maybe, he could try to say
something and not be penalized for it later.
"He's going to kill you, Jackie!"
"Don't listen to him, he's the one that's going to kill the both of us, dollface."
Jackie started to cry, she was doing well up until that point, yeah, he knew one of Steven's pet names for her,
but the other Steven said that they were in danger.
Who should she believe?
When shocks happen, the events take place so fast, that you don't see it happening. A group of drunk teenage
kids in a Pontiac don't see the family station wagon that they are about to collide with, a young girl doesn't
realize she was sexually violated because it was under the impression that it was something that they both
wanted, that she had no time to react to being electrocuted in the bathtub, so Hyde, nor his brother, didn't
count on Red Forman entering with his hunting rifle a few minutes later as Jackie's brain continued to process
the two Steven's in front of her. She never thought she could be rendered speechless.
"Red, oh thank God you're here! I'm Hyde! We've been held hostage by this psycho!"
"He's not Hyde! I am…."
Jackie stayed standing at the edge of the bed, she still couldn't tell, they looked exactly the same. Her feet were
cold, but the worn carpet on the floor was warm. She felt like she was compairing two apples in
the grocery store. If one was different, yet similar, you couldn't really tell. The pressure was off her and she was
grateful that Red found them.
"I found Eric." He lied to the two Steven's. Red Forman didn't worry about the details, one of those boys wasn't
Steven Hyde, the one he loved like his second son, and the other one wasn't, it was as simple as that.
"At Edna's with the spiders/At Edna's with the spiders."
What?
Jackie thought that there had to be away to tell them apart. She was silently rooting for Mr. Forman. He was
a veteran of the U.S. Navy; surely he would be able to stop this charade from going any further.
"Red, I'm Hyde!"
"No, he's not, I'm Hyde!"
The doppelganger was happy on the inside; he had them right where he wanted them. He was certain that the
old man was a good shot. But there was the Princess looking demure, vulnerable, and sexy in that long white
nightgown. He could pop open the cuffs, reach for his gun, and drag her into the bathroom. But he wanted his
brother to see her die. He was in worse situations. He noticed that Red Forman had closed the door to the room
with the back of his foot. Did anyone see him come up here with his precious hunting rifle? His brother was
bound and there was nothing he really could do, he could scream as his mouth wasn't taped. Red Forman was
the obstacle. He needed to find away to get rid of the old man before he could do anything else.
"Jackie, I love you….."
Hyde couldn't take much more of this bullshit. The only thing standing in the way of their freedom was his
unstable twin, who could say the right things even when he still couldn't. "No, I love you…I'm Steven, Jackie. You
have to believe me."
"No, I'm Steven, and I love you Jackie…Only you."
Hyde thought that might be their only hope. If he got lost into those thoughts, he would make a crucial mistake.
Even though he was handcuffed and bound to the bedpost, for the first time since this whole thing started, he
felt he could call the shots.
"Don't listen to him, I love you, Jackie."
"No! I love you, Jackie…..Mr. Forman, you need to point that gun at my brother, I'm Hyde. You don't want to
make a mistake and shoot the wrong person."
"Oh, I won't be making a mistake. Jackie, I'd prefer it if you'd lock yourself into the bathroom." Red instructed
"No! I want to stay here."
"Jackie, I love you…" Hyde whispered, he was starting to feel faint, he just wanted this ordeal to be over with.
"No! It's me….I'm Steven, and I love you, Jackie." In one quick move he popped open the fake handcuffs and
reached from behind his shirt.
"Jackie, at least close your eyes!" Steven would never talk like that and Red could tell that he was packing heat
he aimed for the heart and pulled the trigger as the doppelganger wasn't quick enough to undo the loosely tied
rope on his ankles and made it one foot away from Jackie.
It was almost over.
"Steven!" She looked at the right man that was handcuffed to the bed.
The twin smiled as his head hit the sharp end of the dresser and before he fell to the floor
in a hard thud, he had the final words to say to his brother, "I-l—o—ved y—you." Red was
content to let Jackie run to Steven. He kissed her full on the lips. yes, this was her Steven.
She was able to undo the rope, but she had no idea where the key to handcuffs were. Red found them
on the dresser and gave them to her.
"Jackie, I love you," Once Hyde was able to he embraced her tight, "Did he hurt you?"
"I love you too, Steven. I don't want to talk about it right now…. how are you?"
"Mrs. Forman is going to make me go the doctor's isn't she?"
"You bet your ass and so am I." Red added
"Steven!" Jackie cried as Hyde fainted in her arms from the pure exhaustion of it all.
She got on her knees and held his body close to hers, giving him kisses and comforting
words that they would all be okay now.
Red plugged the phone back in the wall to call the police and two ambulances.
They had to get Eric, and to think he passed Edna's soon to be condemned house on the way
to this craphole motel.
The elder Forman would have died if something happened to his kids and that included
the Loud One.
He tried to breathe a sigh of relief, but the real pain, in surviving ordeals such as these, was just
beginning, and as a veteran who had seen a lot of horror during wartime, he knew the
worse was yet to come.
Their family would never be the same again.
Articles in the Point Place Chronicle
Mystery adolescent killer identified as James Steven Hyde, held his identical twin
brother, Steven James Hyde, hostage for months.
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Shot dead in self defense by decorated Navy veteran Red Forman
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Body of Edna Elaine Hyde found in
Michigan
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Public memorial for Michael Kevin Kelso, Fez, and Donna Marie Pinciotti
to be held before the July 4th holiday at the local church, services provided by Youth
Minister, affectionately known to the kids as Pastor Dave.
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Author's Note:
*What happened to Jackie takes place in Chapter 18, Accelerated.
Special thanks to Marla's Lost, nannygirl, and DFT for all of your help and advice.