Adam had dropped Laddy off at daycare a little after eight. Heading straight to work he informed his boss that the next day he would have to take the morning off for a medical reason. Understanding his boss gave him a friendly pat on the shoulder and told him not to worry about it and how he understood it was hard raising little ones. Giving a weak smile Adam tried to focus his mind on work instead of a million and one problems that were slowly backing up in his head.

Around five he got off work and decided he would see Alison before he picked up Laddy, he didn't know if this was the best idea in the world…but he felt he needed to see her before they drove to the clinic tomorrow. Knocking on the apartment door, Diana answered and gave him a strange look as he stood in the doorway.

"Hi…Diana is your mother home?"

Alison then walked in front of the door behind her daughter, she looked at Adam as if he was the last person she wanted to see at that moment. Feeling his visit was a mistake, Adam thought about turning around and calling her later tonight…but Alison cleared her throat.

"Don't be rude Diana."

Diana lifted her eyes at Adam and simply turned in the opposite direction, a few moments later the sound of her bedroom door was heard shutting. Standing there in silence Alison moved to the side.

"Come in…"

Adam walked in as she shut the door behind him, turning around and looking at her right away he felt unstable. Trying to control himself he stuffed his hands in his pockets and tried to find the right words to say.

"Come on in the living room…you want anything?"

Alison was all ready making her way to the couches as Adam followed behind.

"No…I'm fine, just wanted to see you."

Alison sat herself down on one of her cream colored couches before looking across at him as he settled down.

"I was going to call you tonight and tell you the plans."

"Oh?"

"Yeah…my appointment is at eight in the morning, Diana will all ready be at school."

"I'll have Mrs. Sawyer watch Laddy…"

"It won't take long…just drive me back here so I can get into bed, Diana is going to spent the night over her aunts."

"Does she know?"

Alison simply shook her head.

"I told my sister about it…but no Diana doesn't know."

"That's good."
"Yeah…but she's smart, I think she knows something is going on."

Adam stared down at his hands.

"Would you rather come back to my apartment?"

Alison simply shook her head.

"No…in fact I don't think we should see each other anymore after this, things are getting too confusing."

Adam took a heavy breath before slowly getting up and sitting beside her. Staring into her big blue eyes he felt his heart begin to slowly thump. He slowly reached over and touched her cheek.

"Keep the baby."

Alison looked down and simply shook her head.

"I can't…"

"Why?"

"You know why…it was just a mistake."

"That's what Laddy was…"

"Yeah, but you know the truth, it just wouldn't work out."

Adam felt himself ready to cry, he tried his best to hold it inside before he began sobbing right in front of her.

"Please…please don't kill the baby."

Alison leaned over, cupping Adam's face with her hands and kissing him softly on the lips. Adam held onto her as they held each other for a few minutes. Somehow this reminded Adam of the time Larry and him held each other on the bathroom floor. Shortly after Adam left feeling humiliated and totally alone. Somehow yet again he screwed things up for himself. Walking to his car outside he knew that tomorrow it would be done and finally finished. No matter how much he would fight with her, or try to stop it from happening…it was all ready out of his hands.

Rain began to fall from the darkened sky. Adam looked up as he zipped up his jacket and felt raindrops gently hit his face. For that one moment in his life he felt peaceful…as if nothing could touch him.

Getting into his car, he put on his high beams and used the windshield wipers as he drove along the back roads outside of the city. Silent tears went down his face as he laughed to himself. Who was he kidding…Alison didn't want to be with a closer like him. She was married to a doctor of God's sake…she didn't want some deadbeat who might or might not have been the cause of her husband's death. He had screwed up everything…even Laddy. Hating Amanda, and the man who had done this all to him he just wished that none of this had ever happened.

Fifteen minutes later he reached the preschool and headed inside. Walking into the small classroom, he spotted Laddy right away and smiled as she sat on the carpet with a few other babies and slowly pushed plastic blocks around. Somehow as awful as he had been feeling…just seeing here there brightened his day. Walking over to sign her out the teacher flirted with him and informed him that she was getting better at trying to stand and walk. Adam smiled as he handed her back the clipboard and got her car seat ready. There was five or six attempts of trying to get her hooked in, but she kept wiggling out of his grip to play with the others who were still waiting for their parents to pick them up. Finally Adam pretended to leave the room and said goodbye to her, as she began screaming at the top of her lungs and crying…this time there was no problem at all getting her in the seat.

Outside it was pitch black out and the rain was getting heavy, hurrying to the car he hooked Laddy into the seat as he reached around front. Starting up the engine he eyed Laddy in the rearview mirror and began driving up towards the highway.

A few minutes past in which he eyed Laddy starting to slowly drift off as she held her rubber dog in one hand. Smiling he took the off ramp onto the back roads which cut off at least a good twenty minutes of city traffic. Driving past wooded area, he drummed his fingertips on the steering wheel and reached to flip on the radio.

That's when it made an off noise and a voice that Adam swore he would never hear again filled up the speakers of his car.

"Hello Adam…I would like to play a game."

Suddenly the thoughts of Amanda, Alison, Laddy, the abortion, and so many other things that had taken over his life the past two years…became shattered as he heard that one voice fill the car. Freezing, Adam clutched onto the steering wheel, praying he would just wake up and it would be a dream. The tape played on…

"It has been some time since you played my last game, but you didn't win my son, you were nearly saved from blinded lust and pity…I have said it once and I'll say it again, you're an angry person Adam and people like you sit back and watch your life waste away."

Adam thought for sure his bladder would let go as his heart began to race deep in his chest, his eyes drifted back to Laddy who was now sound asleep. He then remembered the nightmare he had a while back of waking up tied up to a chair with some device on his head…and how Laddy was laying only a few feet away. He remembered Jigsaw's cold voice telling him through the darkness that he would be killed if he didn't kill the baby. Waking up screaming, he took Laddy in his arms and tried to block out the thought of Jigsaw even coming close to her.

"You didn't deserve to escape the last time, but I struck a deal up with the person who committed this act for you…the same person you threw out on the street and mistreated like you did in the beginning like your child."

Flashes of Amanda came through his head.

"I tried to prove to her that you were an ungrateful person who didn't care about others, nor did you play the rules of my game fair…instead you sat around like you always did in your life and waited until Dr. Gordon pulled the trigger."

Adam then had a flash of when Lawrence aimed the gun at him and how he begged at the top of his lungs about how he wanted to live.

"You were given so many chances at life, even if they were mistakes…yet still you impregnate women and only think of yourself, mistreat your daughter and out of your own fears give her up…plan on dying the same angry mistreated person you were born as."

Adam saw he was in a wooded area off the highway where no other cars were. He thought of slamming on the brakes but he stiffened as the tape finished.

"I told my dear Amanda the only way I would let you live is if she save your daughter up…watching you from afar I notice your mistakes are catching up with you and truly you don't deserve to raise this life…she will be taken from you and raised from the ones who truly understand my work…Amanda will be tested one final time for her will…as you have been tested to save one's life."

Adam then tried the breaks…they didn't work.

"Adam…I will take your daughter…"

Adam tried the breaks again as the car began to spin out of control, within moments it slid off the road and crashed.

At first Adam thought he was dead…his eyelids fluttered open as he found himself half in, half out of his upside-down car. Pieces of it were thrown all about the side of the road, some still flicking with fire. Adam stared up at the night's sky as he felt a sudden sharpness of pain zing through him, blood began gushing from his mouth.

A piece of the car was crushing him. Laying there for a moment, unable to move the thought of Laddy came to him as he shot right up. His eyes scanned the wreck and the darkness of the woods around him…panic entered him as he began screaming for his baby.

"She's right here."

Adam slowly turned his head and saw the man they called Jigsaw…the same exact man who slowly stood up that night in the bathroom. In his arms was Laddy, crying and squirming about.

"Let go of her!"

Adam screamed as blood ran down his face.

The man softly smiled down at the baby before slowly shaking his head.

"I feel Amanda will fail her final test too…"

Adam then saw the man looked sick, nearly fading away almost. He then knew his game was to prove to Amanda and Jigsaw that he wouldn't waste his life or repeat his mistakes. But here he was giving up his daughter out of fear, and not being able to stop the murder of his other unborn child. Looking up at his baby in that monster's hand he struggled and tried to get up.

"I'm sorry Adam…she is mine now."

"NOOOO!"

"GAME OVER!'

In a moment's time the gun was raised as Adam's eyed bugged out…freezing those last words rang through his head into the darkness of night as the gun fired.

There was a moment of silence as John stood there, holding the baby as she cried from the crash…she was untouched, which seemed lucky. Holding the baby closer to him, John placed the gun back in his cloak pocket and smiled down at the little one.

"Come on dear…your life has just begun."

"Please take care of her…she's more important then you think."

The slightly older woman looked down at the sleeping baby as John stood on her doorstep. He had driven a great distance to reach this place.

"But John?"

"No questions…just promise me you'll love her as if she was your own."

The woman looked down at the baby.

"Where are her parents?"

"Lost…"

Slightly nodding, the woman slowly took the baby into her arms and looked up at him.

"I promised you once I would do anything you asked of me…if this is what you want I'll do it."

John nodded.

"It is."

"This is going to be the last time I see you won't it?"

John nodded again and placed his hand on her shoulder.

"Her name is Laddy…"

Before leaving John kissed his fingertips and placed them on the baby's soft skin.

Back in the city Alison sat on her couch starting at the clock…Adam was almost an hour late. Crossing her arms she began to cry softly to herself.

She hadn't asked for any of this.

And finally…a few months later as Amanda pulled the envelope from John's desk draw…it told her that Adam and the baby had died in a car wreck earlier that year…which should be a sign to go forward with his work since there was nothing else left.

Amanda's anger heated her up inside as she sat there with the letter…everything she had worked and risked for was dead.

Her baby and Adam.

Tears filling her eyes she stared in at John and Dr. Lynn and felt pure hate build inside her.

A half an hour later as she fell to the ground clutching her throat, she looked up at John and right before she slipped away…she thought of her baby.

"Adam?"

"I'm going to help your…I'm going to free you."

The end.

Hey everyone it's Cusackattacks here.

First I would like to thank everyone who read and reviewed my story, thank you so much everyone for the kind words…I'll be sure to check out any of your work that's been posted on this site. Most of all thanks to Animorphgirl who helped post and give me tips on the overall flow for the plot and Alexxb for the amazing review I got (best I ever read in my life...thank you)

I hope everyone enjoyed the story, I apologize for spelling and grammar mistakes and the few plot holes that surrounded the story in general. I'd like to think this was a pretty cool and dramatic take on the character of Adam since at least in my eyes I felt his storyline in the first film along side Dr. Gordon was the most powerful out of all the other films.

I've been a huge Saw fan since the movie was first released back in 2004. I remember how badly the film terrified me and how I because hooked as a horror fan on the series. I found this to be a breath of fresh air for horror films in this era. In fact just last month I was lucky enough to travel to Cherry Hill NJ and meet Leigh Whannel at a horror movie convention. The guy is a total sweetheart in life and gave the news that filming for Saw 4 starts this April.

I got the idea for this story after watching Saw 3...a certain deleted had the characters of Amanda and Adam in it for a brief moment in time shown during a flashback. I happened to see some very bad flirting on Adam's part…and a lot of regret seen in Amanda's eyes. Maybe I'm reading too much into this film but the "mercy killing" that takes place a little later on in the film had be thinking about how badly Amanda really did feel about Adam, and what if…just what if she had let him go?

Yes it was a lot like a soap opera, but I found this would be the best way to show Adam and how he was so effected after the events in part 1. I really liked writing this story since the last thing I posted was back in July. If there's another questions just post them in a review or message them and I'll be more then happy to answer them…also I did leave the door open for a part II depending on reviews. Thanks so much to everyone to read this and were amazing Saw fans much like myself.

Hope to see you all around.

peaceeee

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee,—and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

- Sonnet 29