The Littlest Firefly

Chapter 4

The House Built on Sin

A/N: Sorry it took so long, for one. Thank you to those who have reviewed! I love you all! Mother Firefly, in this chapter, as played by Leslie Easterbrook, NOT Karen Black. Otis as he was seen in The Devil's Rejects (grey hair, beard, etc). By the way, I met Bill Moseley (Otis) yesterday and let me just say... OMG!! He is awesome!! Sid Haig (Cpt. Spaulding) is cool too, but I think he was high...

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"Right up here, mister man." Baby pointed to a concealed road a little ways ahead of them," Just turn up there and keep going straight."

"Alright." Paul replied as he turned onto the road. Once they started to drive up it and their entry point had disappeared, it was nearly dark. Maggie, who had been reading a magazine, reached to turn on one of the overhead lights.

"Keep going. Keep going." Baby told Paul, grinning once again. It was as though she knew he was reluctant to keep going, thinking this girl was just taking them on a wild goose chase for her own entertainment.

There was a sudden bang, and the RV began spiraling out of control. It was a blowout, which Paul knew, so he tried to turn into the spiraling to stop them from hitting something, but the RV slammed head on into a tree.

"Shit!" Paul yelled, jumping up and limping to the door.

"Oh my God, Paul, you're bleeding!" Maggie exclaimed, jumping up and running to him.

"I hit my head on the steering wheel, sweetheart. But I'm fine."

"Whoa... this sucks." Baby said, and once again, there was that childish laughter.

"Oh my God, will you shut up?!" Eden exclaimed, finally reaching her breaking point with the girl.

"Aunt Eden, just chill." Alex responded delicately," Everyone just chill. Her hosue is right up the road, we can use her phone."
"Sure, you can use my phone." Baby replied," And my brother, RJ has a tow truck. He can tow it to a mechanic."

"Then I guess there's no need for a phone then, is there?" Maggie responded, now unable to hide her irritation any longer. She walked off of the RV, helping Paul walk. Eden was talking under her breath to John, who was trying to calm her down.

"Baby, just relax. Yeah, she's a little..." John watched as Baby skipped up the dirt road, singing to herself," ...odd, but she is helping us. We have to give her that."
"How do we know she's going to help us? I have a really bad feeling about this." Eden continued, gripping his hand a little tighter as they walked out of the trees. Ahead of them was an wooden gate with a deer skull at the very top. There were cows in an enclosed area, and then beyond them, there was the house. It was larger than they had expected; it definately had two floors at least, and a large wooden porch with homemade chairs on it. There were chimes hanging from the ceiling outside, and they were ringing vaguely with the light breeze.

"Wow. This is awesome. Mom, Dad, I want a house like this." Michael called back to them.

"I don't." Ferrah replied, a chill going down her spine as she looked at the house. There was soemthing weird about this place. She couldn't put her finger on it, but she got a weird, almost sinister vibe from it.

"Don't worry about it. There ain't no way I'm living out here if this girl is any indication of how the other people are." Paul replied, grimacing in pain. He had banged his knee on the steering wheel as well when they had hit, and now, walking was almost excruciating.

They got to the gate, and Baby stopped her singing and dancing to open it. But once she was through, the skipping continued until she was up to the door. The family followed her, and watched as she banged on it.

"Mama?! Shay?! RJ?!" She yelled, catching them all of guard and causing them to jump. Ferrah covered her ears, and rolled her eyes," Open the door! It's me!"
"Oh my God, do you have to yell?!" Ferreah asked, taking cues from Eden and Maggie, and showing her aggravation at Baby.

"They won't open the door unless I yell."

The door opened and a woman was standing there. She was older, but there was a certain resemblance between her and Baby. This was, no doubt, the mama she had been yelling for. The woman was mildly attractive, not as hot as her daughter was, but still pretty all the same. Her hair was more disheveled than Baby's, her mascara and eyeliner were running a little, and above all of that, she looked older, but there was no doubt the two were mother and daughter.

"Precious!" Baby's mother purred in a southern drawl, putting both of her hands on Baby's face and kissing both of her cheeks," How's my beautiful baby doin'?"
"Good." Baby was smiling gigantically, clearly loving all this attention she was getting from her mother. It was odd for the Westley's so see, consdiering Baby was in her twenties at least, and she was acting like a five year old, giddy over her mother's undivided attention.

"Who are your friends?" Mother asked again, ignoring the three girls completely, and looking at the boys. She winked at John, giggling as she outstretched her hand to him," Mother Firefly."

"Mother Firefly?" Ferrah asked, furrowing her eyebrows to show that she found this to be the most ludicrous name she'd ever heard.

"Mother Firefly." Both Baby and Mother Firefly answered before erupting into hysterical laughter.

John, knowing that this woman fancied him, decided to play it nice with her so they could get in and get out of there quickly.

"Hi, I'm John." He replied, shaking her hand. She intertwined her fingers with his, and moved closer to him, grinning. Eden scowled, but knew that John was just trying to be nice so they could hurry things along," We had a bit of an accident up the road, and we are wondering if your son could use his tow truck to take our RV to a mechanic."
"Oh, RJ is a mechanic, darlin'." Mother Firefly laughed, as she pulled John so he came into the house. Once they were inside, to their shock, they saw the biggest man they had ever seen sitting on the couch watching an old Mickey Mouse cartoon on mute. His face was wrapped in dirty gauze, but they could still see, even in the dark, the dark crevices burns had left on his face. Ferrah held onto Maggie's arm, now starting to tremble with fear. She just wanted to get out of there, to get away from these weird people. She had nothing against people with deformities, even ones as gruesome as this poor guy's, but all of these people were just too weird.

"Oh, don't be afraid of Tiny, sweet thing." Mother Firefly told Ferrah who had her head against Maggie's arm," He's harmless. He just looks this way because of a little accident we had a couple years back." Mother Firefly laughed slightly, and beckoned for them to sit down on the couches.

"It's ok." Maggie whispered to Ferrah soothingly, hoping Mother Firefly wouldn't hear. She didn't; she was too busy telling Tiny, to go find RJ. Tiny rose to his feet, and slowly lumbered out of the room.

"I want to go, Mom."

"Shh..." Maggie responded, kissing her head.

"Ants in the pants, huh?" Mother Firefly asked with a smile," My girls were the same way. Always runnin' around, lookin' for somethin' to do. They both hate doing nothin'."

"You have another daughter?" Michael asked, and he and Alex both smiled excitedly at each other.

"Is she as gorgeous as Baby?" Alex asked, and Baby smiled at him, and then licked her lips sensually.

"Oh, my Shadows is the most gorgeous lil devil on this side of the Mississippi. Both of my girls are." Mother Firefly replied, stroking Baby's face when she looked up at her. Baby had looked offended that her mother had said that Shadows was moee beautiful than she, but after she added on the last part, that smile came back to her face," They both have their special traits. Baby is innocent, and Shay is... like I said, she's my little devil."

"Evil..." Baby whispered, making claws with her hands and roaring jokingly.

"Where is this Shay? I think we should meet her." Michael told Mother Firefly and Baby eagerly.

"She's around. Probably upstairs with my brother, Otis."

"Wow, there are plenty of kids running around here, aren't they?" Paul asked, trying to keep the conversation going just because awkward silence would be a lot worse than chatting with these strange ladies.

"Oh yeah. All by different daddy's." Mother Firefly replied with a grin," I was quite promiscuous in my youth, see. Otis isn't really mine though. He was a drifter. He found us up at Captain Spaulding's, came to live with us when Shay was just this high..." Mother Firefly put her hand to her side so it was about four feet off the floor," But he's like a son to me. That boy is quite a handful. Then again, he's not really a boy anymore. Rufus was by a trucker I met while on the job..." She laughed at the last part, but the fact that this woman was a prostitute when she was younger was anything but funny," Baby and Shadows were by a man named Earl. Earl's the reason why Tiny looks like that. Earl wasn't a bad man. He just..." She paused and smiled," ...thought our house was possessed by devils."
"I can see why." Eden muttered under her breath.

"What's that?" Mother Firefly asked, narrowing her eyes slightly.

"Oh, nothing." Eden replied sarcastically.

"Something you wanna say, baby doll?" A voice asked from the doorway. Everyone looked, and to the horror of every Westley in the room, they saw a girl walking down the stairs. If they hadn't wanted to leave before, they certainly wanted to get out of there now that she was in the room with them.

She was beautiful, no doubt about it, but those black pits she had for eyes were the most unsettling thing they had seen there. There was something behind them, and it sent chills down all of their spines. It was both insanity and evil.

This was Shadows Firefly.