-Mr. Small's house-
Nicole was having a good time with Mr. Small. He was charming and funny, even back in high school, he can make anyone raise a smile from a bad mood, that's one of the reasons she had a bit of a crush on him in high school. "So why did Jamie, all of a sudden started going to you after school?" "Ah, that's a long story. Jamie started to have problems when she suffered a bit of abuse and neglect, but she's a good kid, but for someone who's a bully, she's not even bad. She's just, let's say, misunderstood about the things she has encountered." Nicole could understand why Jamie could go to Mr. Small for help; consolers have been able to help kids who have suffered any kind of abuse, since they could be the only ones to talk to about personal things. "Wanna know something a bit funny Nicole?"
"Sure, why not." "Well, Jamie told me not to tell, but I worry that it may be too late for her, but she said that she had a crush on Gumball." That caught Nicole completely off guard. "Really?" "Yes. She said that he was kind to a lot of people and was the only person to give her any kind of affection, but after he was committed as a murderer, she just lost it a bit. I swear, she talked about how Gumball was someone she wanted to be with but she was so blind, but she started to cry when the subject of Gumball was brought up. Then after a couple of days, she started to pull herself together which was great progress for her since it was raising her self esteem since she stopped bullying and was able to get her grades up. I was so proud of her; I guess I could call her like my own child, a daughter perhaps."
Nicole didn't know what to expect from Jamie, but she felt sorry for the poor child. She never got the chance to ever get the chance to know her. "Don't worry Steven; I hope they will find Jamie before it's too late." She said that to him and laid her hand on his hand and that caused him to chin up and believe in hope for the young one. "Thank you Nicole." Then he got up preparing something up, but Nicole only wished that she would have gotten some rest at least. It made her smile that she has made it that long with up rest, but she hopes that they get Brown, that son of a bitch.
-Principal Brown's house-
"Can you tell me what's going on?" Principal Brown was now arrested and was being taken outside with two police officers and then he was forced to wait outside while they investigate. Though after a couple of minutes, they have come up with no clues or evidence that he was holding Jamie captive. They have checked all around the basement, attic, and rooms in the house. The chief was at the kitchen and was rubbing his eyes. "What should we do now?" Said a fellow rookie, wondering what they can do if there's no proof of any evidence that he, Principal Brown, committed a crime. "Just give me a minute." The rookie left and he was alone, but he designed him to be good at solving crimes, but then he remembered the number that could prove Principal Brown was the murderer. He took out his phone, then called the number and went looking for a ring. This was it, this will sent Brown to jail for good.
-Mr. Small's house-
Back at his house, Nicole was seeing Mr. Small cleaning up some dishes, but then she spotted a black bra in a laundry pile, she wondered who's that was. Then she heard a vibrate coming from somewhere, then she got closer and she saw his cell phone and was next to Small, but then something gave her the feeling that she was wrong. "Hello, I'm sorry I couldn't get back to you, but please leave a message." That was Principal Brown's voicemail, and then he turned back and gave her a smile. It was all clear now; Nicole took out her gun and pointed out to Mr. Small. "Put your hands on your head!" "Come on, Nicole. Let me go this once." He knew why she pointed the gun at him and they both know the answer now. "Steven Small was the 'Sleeper Child'". "Get down on the ground!" "Nicole, please we're-" Then Mr. Small grabbed Nicole and as she is trying to break free, he threw her down the basement floor and Nicole shot the light that showed where could they be at.
She covered his sight, but she covered her sight as well. Darkness was everywhere. As she was worried she might get hurt, she took out her gun and prepared herself to shoot Mr. Small. Though she can't believe that someone she that she had completely trust over and betrayed her. She started to question who was really there to trust, like Oliver, Mr. Fitzgerald. She saw nothing, though she couldn't feel safe anywhere anyway, then she started to know that cats may have been able to see in the dark, well for her, she couldn't since she was too scared. She then bumped to the wall, but it felt like no wall she had encountered, then she jumped when Mr. Small yelled in the dark, but couldn't tell where he was since it felt like he could have been anywhere. "Nicole! You don't understand what it's like in my shoes when no woman loves you and you could only find companionship with these children. My god, I've been doing this for over 10 years.
10 years! I've skinned many types of kids and due to my body, I was able to disguise myself into them and I could feel myself in them. My god. So warm." Nicole then felt a doorknob and she opened it slowly and when she opened, she slowly went back. As she took her first back step, she fell. She fell and yelled from down and crashed her back on a cage. She then saw the door and then a light turned up and she feel the darkness closing in her eyes as if no hope was left for her. "Hello?" She quickly opened her eyes and she look over and she saw Jamie. She then remembered that she has felt suffering and pain, the same that Nicole. This has been to recoup herself, but Jamie was Nicole, just younger and she needed to live, so she wouldn't die in vain. Then Mr. Small came to the door with a knife, and then he jumped down to the cage and was on Nicole.
As Steven Small raised the end of his blade that would soon end Nicole's journey to what others would refer as a life. "Good night, slut." He then gave all his strength to stab Nicole, but she quickly grabbed his hands and stop the knife that could make her feel that this was all for nothing. This was to end the logic of Gumball, his logic was to her salvation of feeling that she mattered. Gumball only scared his opened wounds, but it wasn't caused by Gumball. She did this to herself, so it was her job to heal them. "I'm…not…a…slut!" She then overpowered him and brought both of his hand to the side and she punched him, there he would drop his knife. The knife fell downwards and was next to Jamie. She grabbed the knife, but didn't know what to do with it since he was not near him. He got up and she grabbed her gun, but she was quickly smacked in the face and the gun was no longer in hands.
As she was facing up, down on top of the cage, she then was getting choked by Mr. Small by both of his hands. She tried to get his hands off of her, then she flipped positions, by throwing to her right, but was still getting choked. As she was starting to see black and Mr. Small was about to kill Nicole. Though a miracle had just occurred. Jamie had in her hands the knife and he was on the top of the cage and she got up and then she jabbed Mr. Small in his knife with the knife. Blood lashed down on to Jamie's body and it went on her damaged white shirt, going through her face as it drips down. All the way down from her horns to her tail. The blood of redemption was raining on her and then she took out the knife, while Nicole was able to get his hands off her blue neck. The blood squirted out with one more drop of blood flowing through. Nicole then heard police cars coming close to the house. She then grabbed her gun and then Jamie smiled at her with her face covered in blood. She smiled back, knowing that the reign of the "Sleeper Child" was now dead, forever dead.
-A couple of minutes later-
Nicole was taken outside and Jamie was covered with a black blanket and they were taken outside. Nicole saw the chief of police and he wanted her to come to her. She walked towards him. "Watterson, I thought I told your friend to tell you that if you gave us the wrong guy, you would be out of the squad." Nicole looked down on herself for that. "But by golly, you stopped him, saved Jamie, and became a hero today. I'm here to tell you that you've been promoted to a real policeman-I mean policewoman. I'm here to shake your hand to see if you accept. You accept?" Nicole let a smile, she shook his hand, and then he told her "welcome to the force, Watterson." She felt proud and was happy because she has emerged to someone known around and wasn't known as a slut from high school. She was now known as the hero of Elmore.
-Meanwhile-
Mr. Fitzgerald was knocked out, but as he was on the couch of his old house. The shameful acts that were harshly commit to him as a child was too painful to speak of or even remember. As he was still knocked unconscious, he was then shaken for a while to wake up and when he opened his eyes, he didn't know what was real and what wasn't.
-Back with Nicole-
Nicole had become a policewoman, but she wanted to do something for Jamie. She asked her to drive her to an address and leave her there. As she was driving Jamie over to the address, she was talking to her about Gumball. Jamie then revealed to her that Gumball was somebody that mattered to her a lot, but there was someone else that she wanted to tell how she felt because she thinks she saw someone else in Gumball. Then she dropped her off at the house, then she drove away. Nicole was very tired so she decided to head back to her house. As she parked in front of her house with her station wagon. She took out her keys and opened the door. She looked and saw her living room, there she started to feel something unusual though. She didn't mind it and went upstairs to take a shower. As she stepped in the bathroom, she felt an unusual presence there. She didn't care, so she took off her shirt and skirt and was in her undergarments.
She then took off her bra and panties and step towards the shower. She started the hot water and took a hot shower. As she put shampoo and as the foam and water drips through her blue breasts and going towards down under. She continues and then she starts to feel as if something was missing. She then was in her white towel, after her shower and headed to her bedroom. There she changed with no one there, after she was done changing, she laid herself on the bed and fell into a deep sleep. A couple hours have passed and she was dreaming of something unusual. She dreamt about the black bra, those belong to Jamie, but another pair of panties were there. They were white and not something a 12 year old wore. She then dreamt Anais in her position with Mr. Small, though she dreamt him rapping Anais. Then he remembered about only Anais wearing those panties and that Anais had a connection with Mr. Small, but why didn't he kill her there. Then she awoke from her dream, terrified. She checked the time and it was 7:04 P.M.
She rested her hand on her forehead thinking of what she has dreamt, but then she went to the bathroom and washed up her face. Then she heard, yet another vibrating sound and she found her skirt and she took out from the pocket and was the phone. She knew she was in trouble since she was suppose to return the phone back so she assumed it was trouble and she answered it. "Hello." "Nicole we have some bad news." "What is it?" "It seems that Mr. Small's prints that we checked on Anais were not a match and we found semen in Anais vagina." She covered her mouth knowing that her daughter was molested. "Oh, my god." "That's not all. While we checked at the morgue for the body, we looked at Penny's blood and there was something wrong in it and when we checked for her body, her body was missing. Nicole we think Gumball had something to do with it." As she was hearing this, she was shocked, then of Mr. Small didn't kill Anais, then it had to be Gumball. "We need you to come back to the police station to talk to Gumball." "I'm on my way." She closed the cell and she ran downstairs and grabbed her keys and rushed outside and got in her car and drove quickly to the police station.
-Police Station-
As it was getting dark and was clear in the sky, a hooded man gets in the station and rushes past the receptionist, opened the door and went to the interrogating room. As he is making his way there, He quietly crouches his way slowly through the door and spots the door, but he tries to open it, but fails. He struggles with it, until he looks at the chief's, the pink doughnut, window, nearby. He then spotted a key for the interrogating room at the front desk of the chief's desk by the window. He then opened the door, while looking both ways to make sure no one was lurking anywhere he wouldn't expect to be seen or heard. He then quickly grabs the keys and rushed through the office, still by crouching his way to ensure no one could see him or detect him. He rushed as his heart slowly pounded, but only when heard. Inside this deviant's heart was flaring up. What this "thing" was doing was giving up life to end another's.
As he slowly closed the door on his way out, he pulled out a small item that was position as a knife, but was made from pen and was in a perfect, yet elegant formation of a weapon. As he crouched his way to the room, he slowly placed the key in its slot and opened the door, but he spotted Gumball Watterson with two guards. He went inside, while closing the door slowly and locking, later hiding behind the side wall by the door. "Look Watterson, just get in and then wait for Mrs. Watterson." Then the door opened and a thrown Gumball was in the room. As the hooded man crouches behind Gumball, he then tackles him down, the minute he turns over. He then hits Gumball with his right and then left hand from the ground. "For her!" He repeated his saying for every punch he laid on Gumball, until Gumball raised his leg up and high enough to kick him back from him. Gumball then takes out from his knife, which hid from behind and then takes it out and positions it from unlocking it.
As the hooded man takes out the knife, custom made, and gets ready to leave Gumball with a final blow that would soon determine his last seconds of life. He then takes off his hoodie and reveals to himself as one person known as Tobias. "For Penny." Then he ran towards him with the pen as his weapon, as he raised it high as it would fly as the nearby majestic phoenix, flying towards it choice of direction of flying all would south for the winter, but this had the choice for its own. Gumball immediately unlocked his handcuffs in time, which as he got close to Tobias, he stabbed him in his stomach which Tobias later feels the pen, jabbing to his intestines. Gumball then went close to his hear and whisper, whisper as the wind hollowed itself to a bloody hollow. "Do you know what it's like to feel such tremendous pain in your body?"Gumball has sacred him with his dark and yet so evil British accent which has symbolized him targeting such death and time as if he was to decide who will die and live. He was god by his voice as the protagonists die and die, our heroes die so young.
As Tobias had his mouth open, but was speechless towards the fact that he was feeling such pain as he felt a pen, stick so deep and yet had it to a row of his stomach and Gumball was preparing to lose its order of it. "When you feeling the sense of vomiting" At that moment he jabs it deeper, nearly stuff his hand into his stomach. As he starts to drip blood at a steady pace and goes down on his black sweater, though the blood can't be stopped. "When you the wretched and the weak has felt the pain and suffering of one's spirit being…slowly… crushed…but… pointless fucks like you, will end soon by simply…" Then Gumball quickly takes out the pen, as quick as a ticket swipe in a vending machine as in one quick second. Though the pen was connected with what has appeared to be a kidney. It disturbs Tobias, seeing his kidney, the one taken out of his inner body and sees it beating as it was his heart.
Tobias slowly blinks his eyes, and then Gumball slowly says his final word to Tobias as Gumball then closely looks him in the eyes and says his last word to him. "…Death." Gumball turned his back and gave Tobias a final blow of a sucker punch and Tobias was knocked. Gumball then dragged him under the table, he kept him in secret and kept the fallen spirit as he laid under it all as so was the answers of what takes the last lives of a fellow cat, driving him to madness. Though was he crazy as they say he was? Gumball saw the blood, so he grabbed Tobias sweater and cleaned up the blood and later cut the sleeves with the knife from Tobias. He tied him up under the Tobias and kept the bleeding from stopping since he didn't want him to die, not yet. He then used the part of the sweater to clean up and hid under the table. He then went on his chair and acted as if nothing happened and had the knife that Tobias had with him from behind where the handcuffs were suppose to be.
Meanwhile, Nicole drove up with her station wagon and slams the door and heads straight to the police station, determine not to let Gumball intimidate her because of her past. As she opens the door and walks to the interrogating room, passing the receptionist, Nicole then walks through the narrow hallway. As dark as it may get, nothing will stop her from getting to do what she was going to do. She then goes to the door, but can't open it. As she struggles through it, she heads to the room, behind the double mirror where the keys to enter the room where at. As she heads to it, no one is there. It seems deserted, but she finds the keys and quickly grabs it and rushes when it started to frighten her out a bit. As she rushes out, the chief and a rookie came in from another door and were talking about a certain topic. Though Nicole went inside and turned to see her son, Gumball. "Hello Nicole." He said in his accent, trying to intimidate her.
"Take a seat." She kept eye contact with him, since she doesn't trust him for a second. As she took out the chair and pulled herself in, she knew that this would be the last one since this will determine the crime that will lead Gumball for all the pain and suffering that he has caused in such short time. "Let's just get this over with." Gumball then cracked his neck, loud enough to hear from all around of the room. This sign of fear wasn't getting to her since she was build with rage, but didn't show since she needed to know the truth on her own. "So how's it been going?" Nicole gave him a dirty look. "Well with the help with Oliver, I found the 'Sleeper Child'." Gumball gave a sinister smile and just said "Charmed. Anything else I should know Nicolette?" Nicole hated that name. "Yes, if you must know that it was-" "Steven Small." Nicole then had her eyes wide open. "N-No" "You're lying. Nicole, I know, who else put that cell phone under your car seat?" Nicole remembered that he escaped one time and left, but he returned. A lot can happen in a couple of hours. If she could think and have some time to think it through.
"You…Why?" "Nicole, think of me as your director. I'm making your life as a movie and it's a psychological drama that bends your mind to its deepest and darkest moments to create its hero. Our savior or even our simple yet twisted protagonist. Nicole…I knew what I was doing this whole time. I carefully take each step and turn it into my advantage." Nicole then remembered back in the bathroom. No trace of a white hair or skin, but blue fur. She assumed it was from her, but if her prediction was right, then it was true what they have called her son. Dangerous, psychopathic, manipulative, and overall injustice murdering mastermind. "You…You fucking bastard! You killed Anais! Your own sister!" She then slammed both of her fist which showed veins on her knuckles and her clenched claws causing the table to shake. Gumball just smiled. "Why!? God, why!?" "Crucifixion symbolizes the ultimate sin that was committed like with the lord. But Anais as it was carved on her 'slut', she committed infidelity at a young age." Then he leaned closer to her. "The bitch deserved to die, yet, I didn't kill her." He whispered to her, but Nicole got up and slapped him. "Bullshit! You lie!" "Then what about Tobias?"
Nicole rose a bit of an eyebrow and questioned what he said. "What are you talking about?" Gumball eye's, so pure, yet an antagonist's detonation of a force of hate would soon be released to a powerful finale, slowly looked down. Nicole didn't understand until she look down on her feet and saw blood on her feet. She then slowly went down and saw Tobias, tied up, bleeding away his life. Nicole screamed as loud as anyone can hear. She turned and went to the door, but it wouldn't open. What happened was when she came inside the room, the chief locked the door and Nicole was in such fear, she needed to get help. She turned to the double side mirror and screamed out, while banging through the window. "Help! Help! Help!" As her yelling was not heard by the human ear due to its isolation of any sound and just records, only if chosen to record. She kept banging, then she turned to Gumball. "No help coming?" Nicole went to Gumball and smacked him with her right fist. As he fell to the floor, he coughed up a bit of blood due to its impact.
Nicole let out a tear, hitting her son as if she had no shame as a mother. She has hit one person that has made her relive her fears and consequences of her past that has unlocked true to terror of a mother's love or wrath. Nicole couldn't tell, she has beaten her son and made him cough blood, blood that was dripping his blue cheek between his soft sky blue furs and was shown between his sharp feline teeth. Nicole then grabbed him by his shirt and raised him up. "You should fucking die! YOU'RE NOT MY SON!" Then Gumball pulled both his hands up high and in his right hand was the knife that was hidden behind his back. Nicole then looks that he hasn't been in handcuffs this entire time. He was messing with her mind and was taking advantage of the situation, he lowered his right arm as quickly as possible and let her have it. He stabbed her by the stomach. She slowly looks down when they have both maintain eye contact. As she looked down at the knife that has been jabbed deep into her stomach. As blood slowly, but blood continues to rapidly get out of her body. It rapidly pours out from her white t shirt, dripping down her gray skirt. As her blood colors her outfit, Gumball then takes out the knife and Nicole lets go of Gumball. She couldn't get her eyes out of the wound that has been implanted into her body.
