Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4

Chapter 2: Last Chance Gas Station

Kathryn and Karen had been in an intense game of I Spy when the bus drivers decided to stop at this odd little gas station. Deserted and with an orangish red car sitting there like someone was trying to work on it.

"Wow, definitely a scene straight out of Hills Have Eyes!" Karen chirped happily. "All the men are gonna be slaughtered and us girls are gonna be raped and forced to give birth to evil little mutant babies!"

Kathryn, Nick, and Chris looked at the blonde, not sure if they should feel frightened at their surroundings or Karen. Sure, Karen had an obsession with horror movies but this was just plain weird.

"She's really scaring me." Nick commented while slowly scooting away from the blonde as much as he could.

Kathryn nudged Karen and pointed her finger at her, "Stop it before I ring you up to the back of the bus. Got it?"

The blonde pouted as they started getting off the bus. They had been cramped in there for at least six hours, making it close to eleven in the morning; they needed a break.

"Come on, I need a soda!" Chris exclaimed dramatically, "My sugar levels are lower than what's healthy!"

Kathryn rolled her eyes and followed her friends out of the bus, trying to ignore the fact that Leonardo was walking behind her. Her mind played different ways as to how he might try to talk to her but she forced them back as she quickly made a beeline for the small shop. In her haste, she hadn't noticed the odd look she was given by a tall blonde woman watching them from the dirty windows.

Inside the shop, the place was small and had dust thick in the air. It took Kathryn a minute to be able to breathe but she managed.

"Hello?" She called, the place was so small that surely, whoever worked there had to have heard them long before they showed up. "Is anyone here?"

"Yes?" Kathryn jumped and was greeted by the tall blonde woman. She was pretty but simple; her green dress was nothing Kathryn had seen in such a modern time like now and the way she carried herself, it was like an actress from some old western movie almost. Proper and clean.

"Oh!" Kathryn blushed, "I'm sorry, I wasn't expecting anyone to really answer."

Despite her own confusion, the blonde woman smiled and nodded, "Most think that when they come here."

Kathryn still blushed despite knowing that her reaction was quite common. "Sorry. By the way, my name's Kathryn." Kathryn extended her hand out, "And you are?"

"My name's Baby," she smiled, "Baby Sawyer."

Even though Kathryn wanted to ask where the name Baby came from and if it was even a name, she remained polite and asked, "Can you tell me where we are, no one really seems to know where we are."

Baby smiled, "These are some of the back roads of Texas, there are as many back roads as there is road kill around here."

Kathryn glanced around as Baby spoke, now that she wasn't so freaked out she could see how old and worn down the shop was. The wallpaper was still intact but random patches were missing, the wood was a dark color, kind of like it was being washed with soap and water.

"Would you like something?" Baby asked, trying to still see the face of this girl. She looked like Lacie but so did a few other women who strolled down here. "How old are you might I ask?"

Kathryn answered without really thinking, "I'm seventeen, my birthday's in the summer."

Baby perked up a bit. "Well, would you like something?"

"Um." Kathryn nibbled her lip, "I guess I could use a soda and maybe a map?"

Baby nodded, "Of course, follow me." Baby led the brunette toward the back where she stocked up on the stores goods. "Is one all you want?"

"Actually," Kathryn thought about her friends and asked, "can I get four?"

Baby nodded her head and pulled out for Coca-Colas. "Here, that's be a dollar."

"Huh?" At any other gas station four sodas would normally cost at least five or more dollars, how was it here they were a dollar?

Baby immediately understood Kathryn's confusion and answered, "We make far more money selling these things like everyone us to back in the day."

"Oh." Kathryn took the four glass bottles and followed Baby to the front where the cash register and maps were. "How much are these?"

Baby glanced at the maps and shook her head, "They won't help ya much, the back roads aren't on it."

"Really?"

Baby nodded her head, "Yup, I tell you what though. Follow that road right there and you'll be back on the freeway in no time."

"Are you sure?" Kathryn didn't why she was asking, surely the drivers knew where they were going but, who knows. "Do you know these back roads well?"

"Course I do!" she smiled, "Been living her my whole life."

"Really? Are those roads safe?"

Baby nodded, "Yup, it's the drivers you gotta worry about."

Brandon checked his watch, just waiting for his day to end. He loved being a lawyer, it paid well and allowed him to care for Melissa and Kathryn but it was a lot of work. He had to deal with some of the most brainless people and he often wished he wasn't a lawyer just so he wouldn't have to deal with his clients.

"Mr. Anderson?" his receptionist Molly poked her head through the door, "The Grant family wishes to see you."

"Is it urgent?" he asked, he would rather not deal with anyone at the moment but if it was urgent enough he would give them the time they wanted.

"It's about their missing daughter."

Brandon sighed, straightened his posture, "Let them in."

Molly nodded her head, opening the door so that the family of five could enter. The family, consisting of an elderly mother, her equally old husband, their remain twin boys and one's wife, had been searching for their runaway daughter for years but have had no luck. For sometime the father wished to end their search and file the woman as Missing, Presumed Dead but the mother wanted to find something of her lost daughter.

"Morning Mrs. Grant and Mr. Grant." Brandon stood and leaned over his desk to greet the elders, "How may I help you today?"

Mrs. Grant spoke before her husband could, "Our daughter had a secret account did she not?"

Brandon was taken back by this, "Secret account? Like a bank account?" When the elder nodded. "Well, I can't say right off. If it's secret, you'd need a key of code for me to be able to find."

Mrs. Grant pulled out her purse, digging around before finding a small booklet. "My son Richard found this in her old bedroom."

Brandon looked at the extended booklet, he recognized it from when the girl first made the secret account. "Okay, I'll look in the bank's system."

"Wouldn't you already know of it?" one of the twins asked, Brandon had been their lawyer since before their birth, he knew much about the family.

Brandon shrugged, "I've made several secret accounts for my clients, I can't tell one from the other unless I have a code and if that code works, then the account would still be active."

"If there is an account, can we access it?" Mr. Grant asked, suddenly interested in the account.

Brandon shook his head, "Chances are, she has very set regulations on it. No one might be able to access it without her."

Mr. Grant grumbled something but was hushed but his wife. Brandon typed in the code, he waited only a second for the result to pop up. He clicked on it and of course, the specific rules of what the girl had set.

"I'm afraid it can't be access." he announced, "Your daughter has stated that no one except her or her child can access it, if someone else tries, all of what is in the account will disappear. Like it never existed."

"What?" the boy gasped as their mother confidently smiled. "Why would she do it?"

Brandon comfortably sat down, "If I recall, she left because Mr. Grant was trying to marry her off did she not?"

The boys grimaced at that memory and nodded. Mrs. Grant smiled, "Is it possible to access it if she's not able to access it?"

Brandon shook his head, "Unless you find her or find her child, if she ever had one, then no one can access it and it will be liquidated."

"Then we'll find her." Mrs. Grant answered looking at her family expectantly, "Thank you for your time Mr. Anderson."

Brandon nodded, "You're welcome Mrs. Grant."

Kathryn leaned against the window as Karen listened to her Mp3 player. Many of the students had started to fall sleep so the ride was quiet with the occasional mumbling of the adults. Mr. Ferris and the bus driver also had spoken to Baby, taking her instruction and followed the back road. She told them to follow it and it would lead them back to the freeway within three hours. However, They had been driving for three hours and nothing was happening.

"We're lost!" a female teacher complained, "We shouldn't have listened to that woman."

"Victoria, keep it down." Mr. Ferris whispered, "We don't want to cause a panic now do we?"

The woman mumbled but said nothing as the driver spoke, "These roads are too rocky. The tires will give out soon and we don't have any spares left. The second bus already is using their's."

Kathryn heard them, she was confused as to why the woman would lie to them. They hadn't done anything wrong to her or to anyone so why would she give them false directions? Kathryn pushed away her paranoia and thought about her parents. Surely around now they would see what she had done, she didn't dare think of how furious they might be at her.

Now she questioned if the trip was worth betraying her parent's trust, no only that, but Michelle and Benny would probably be upset too. She scolded herself for thinking that this was okay but there wasn't anything she could do now.

Kathryn glanced out the window, noticing how the sun was falling from the sky slowly. If they tried to contact her now, she wouldn't know. No one had a good enough signal for a decent call to get through, much less a text. Even the radio on the bus was having a hard time communicating with the other bus. As she watched the sky, Kathryn realized something odd; no matter where she looked she couldn't find the road side phones or electrical towers.

Sensing her paranoia returning she nudged Nick's head and Karen's shoulder. "Hey."

"What?" the two yawned, not wanting to do anything past what they were doing.

"Tell me I'm crazy." she whispered so no one else heard her, "Can you guys see any towers or emergency phones?"

The two looked at each other like they were already seeing her as crazy but when they watched the window for a few minutes they also never saw either items. Such things are common to see and this was causing quite a panic in the trio.

"It is a back road." Karen tried to reason,"Maybe they haven't added them yet?"

Nick seemed annoyed with Karen's theory but didn't question it. "With these roads, we're definitely gonna lose a tire. What are we gonna do then?"

Kathryn opened her mouth to say something but suddenly, the bus made a loud pop and started to swerve. Everyone's heads shot up and realized that the last tire on both buses had gave way. They were stranded.

"Alright everyone." Mr. Ferris stood up and calmed down the panic teens before they could go into hysteria, "Now, we need to calm. That woman at the gas station said that there's a tow service we could contact if needed. While we call them, I need everyone to stay quiet and to watch out any people okay?"

Everyone mumbled in agreement as the adults tried to contact the other bus. They stayed quiet and listened to the radio.

"Robert this is Bobby do you read over?" the driver said, "Robert are you there?"

The radio only gave out a bunch of static and no human response. Just when the driver was about to give up, they finally got a response. "This is Robert, over."

Everyone released a held in sigh of relief as the driver responded. "Listen, our tire gave way a little after your's. We're gonna need to call that tow service we were told about. Over."

There was static for a minute but Robert eventually answered, "Already tried, no one answered. Over."

Everyone groaned loudly, that was their only hope of getting out of there. "Alright. Just stay where you are and keep the doors and windows shut. Someone's bound to drive on this road eventually. Over."

"I'll keep calling just in case no one was by their radio or phone. Check in on us on the hour will ya? Over."

"Gotcha, over and out." Bobby started locking everything but stopped to ask, "Is there anything you might need from baggage?"

"We'll need the emergency blankets." a female teacher stated, "And probably snacks too."

Mr. Ferris agreed with her and stated, "Let's grab what we need then we'll lock up."

Kathryn and the the other student watched the teachers walk out the bus and toward the the latch door that carried all the student's baggage along with a second First Aid kit and the emergency equipment. When the teachers started back for the bus door the student relaxed a bit. Even Karen wasn't making her usual remarks and references toward Hills Have Eyes, Deliverance, and whatever horror movie with mutants or evil hillbillies.

"I'm worried." Kathryn muttered softly.

Karen nodded her head, "This is really creepy and the sun's gonna set soon."

"Hopefully they packed flares for us." Nick added, "Otherwise the tow people might just drive right pass us."

"Calm down." Chris pushed Nick's head slightly and scolded them, "They'll have to see us, we're a big yellow bus. You can't miss us."

Kathryn nodded, "True but what if there's really some freak out here and sees us?"

"Just think positive."

"You mean like in the Hills Have Eyes?!" Karen started to panic a bit until Chris slapped her on the head.

"You and your stupid horror movies." the raven haired girl rolled her eyes at the blonde, "Seriously, I would think you could act a little bit more mature in such a situation like this."

Karen immediately took the insult to heart and retaliated "Say the one who will die first if we are attacked."

Chris shook her head in annoyance before sitting back down in her seat, "Whatever Ms. Legally Blonde."

Melissa paced nervously in her two story house. Kathryn was never late nor would she not reply to any of her mother's texts. It was odd, the girl was always good and made sure to tell her parents of everything they needed to know. So why wasn't she doing so now?

Trying not to fall into a panic, Melissa garbed her cell and hurriedly dialed her husband's portable cell. "Pick up, please pick up Brandon." she whispered into the receiver.

"Hello?" she sighed in relief as her husband's voice flooded her ear drums.

"Brandon," she tried to be calm but with all that had been happening, "Have you heard from Kathryn?"

"Uh," he thought about it and answered, "Other than this morning, no."

Her breath quickened as she asked, "What did she tell you this morning?"

"That she had stuff to do and that she wouldn't be home until three." he answered, he hadn't really been looking at the clock as he spoke.

"Brandon." Melissa's voice grew even more worried, "It's past three, it's going to be five!"

She could hear Brandon's recliner move harshly as he cursed in realization. "Okay, calm down Melissa."

"Calm down?" she quickly started to hyperventilate, "My baby's missing!"

"Melissa, breathe please." Brandon urged over the phone, "I'm going to call Benny and Michelle, please just relax. She might just be busy shopping and lost track of time, you know she can be forgetful at time."

Brandon hung up and immediately dialed Benny's number. He knew Benny could help him find out where Kathryn was. "Benny?"

"Yeah?"

"I need your help," he explained to his friend their situation and almost immediately did the other man have the answer.

"Do you think she went on the trip?' Benny asked.

"What?!" Brandon wouldn't dare think his sweet Kathryn would do something he said she couldn't do. But in the same breath, with her perfect record she could get away with something like that. But would she do it? "Kathryn would never..!"

"She was pretty sad she couldn't go." Benny reasoned, "Brandon, it's only a possibility."

Brandon forced a sigh as he figured Benny was right. But really, he couldn't see Kathryn betraying his trust. "Try to see if she might be around town and send Michelle over to my house so that Melissa has someone to watch her."

"Alright. Are you gonna check the school?" Benny asked, though even he felt Kathryn wasn't capable of doing things like this, he was kind of waiting for this.

Brandon nodded as he gathered his suitcase and what files he had to take home. "Yeah, I'm heading over there right now."

"Okay."

Brandon hung up his phone and hurried out of his office. "Mr. Anderson, where might you be going?" his secretary asked curiously.

"I have an emergency so go ahead and finish what you're doing and close up." He called over his shoulder as he hurried out the door. He prayed that Benny be wrong, prayed that Kathryn was only wandering the shopping district where clocks are scarce. He knew what he was hoping for was foolish but he still hoped.

Benny waited for Michelle to finish dishing out what money they owed to the service men before telling her the new. He wasn't surprised nor shocked that she didn't react like Brandon or Melissa.

"I suppose we'll have to hunt her down." she sighed, "I just really hope they aren't over there."

Knowing what she meant, he nodded, "I know, if they are I just know they'll be done for."

"Really?" she asked softly as they climbed into their jeep, "What makes you say that?"

"I remember those roads, they aren't tended to so that they force tires to wear down quicker." he explained, "Two buses filled with teenagers, they weren't gonna last long."

"I guess we better start packing." Michelle sighed deeply, driving toward their small apartment first to stock up on some much need and necessary weapons. After one experience with the Sawyers was enough to have the duo prepared for anything.

Kathryn didn't sleep like some of the other students, she was far too freaked out to even blink. She just curled beside Karen and tried not to think of what might be lurking outside. Their remaining sunlight was fading and Kathryn tried her hardest not to watch it like she was always prone to as a child. Luckily for her, Karen and her decided to switch seats so she was in the isle while Karen was against the window.

"Hey." Kathryn blushed as she recognized the voice. "Are you okay?"

"Uh, Leo." she tried to smile at him but she was too shocked to really give out any expressions. "Weren't you sitting in the back with Ricky?"

He scratched his head sheepishly, "Yeah but Chloe was being all touchy and stuff with him so I crawled over here and traded with Chris."

She uttered an "Oh" as she waited for him to say something, she was not good at starting a decent conversation with Leo.

"You never answered my question." he reminded her.

"Oh!" she blushed even darker, "Yeah, I'm okay I guess."

"Freaked out huh?" he correctly guessed, "Can't say I blame you, this place is freaking creepy."

Kathryn fought against a giggle as he used the word freaking over fucking. Kathryn hardly used cuss words when she spoke so she wasn't all that surprised that he tried to limit his own use of the vulgar language.

"Yeah it is." she answered timidly, "I just hope we get some help over here soon."

Leo nodded, "I wish, they'll probably be here around midnight."

"Huh?" Kathryn glanced at him a bit, "What makes you say that?"

He shrugged, "I don't know but I just have this feeling."

Kathryn felt a cold chill shiver down her spine when he said that. It was kind of creepy but she had a feeling that he was somewhere in the ball park with that one. It could have just been Karen's constant urging that mutants would attack them that caused Kathryn to feel extremely paranoid but she just had a feeling that something bad would happen.

Maybe it's just me being scared that dad and mom are losing their minds right now. She thought, After all, by now dad's already trying to find out where we are.

"What's wrong?" he asked softly, shaking her arm a bit.

"I'm just a bit scared." she said, there was no way that she was going to tell him she lied to her parents just so she can go on this trip. Now, she was really starting to regret in but at the same time, she knew she could do nothing to fix her situation.

"If you want," he offered, "You can sit with me."

"Huh?" Kathryn really blushed there, "Uh.."

"Chris's friend moved with his best friend so I don't have anyone next to me." he scooted over to the window. "Come on."

Kathryn blushed and slowly moved into the empty seat. She kind of felt bad sine Karen really hated to be left alone, especially with Nick but she wasn't that far. Just a seat behind her.

"Just lean on my shoulder if you want." he offered, "I don't mind at all."

Kathryn blushed and smiled slightly.

Chapter 2 is done! I actually noticed that, compared to my other stories, I actually didn't really curse all that much in this. I think I deserve an award for that! Lol. Enjoy and please review. By the way thank you MackenzieStarr for being the first to Favorite this story!I love you now!

-Michelle Lacie Kat