Chapter Twenty-Two
Surprised Sidney
After what seemed like hours of work, Tatum was able to cut through the ropes. She got her hands free and then began to untie her ankles. Her head was throbbing but she was still in tact. She decided to keep the knife thinking it may come in handy. She got up from the chair and began for the door. She opens the door and stops dead in her tracks.
"Where do you think you're going beautiful?" Came a menacing voice.
"You! What are you doing here?" Tatum asks.
"You wouldn't be trying to escape now would you Tatum?" The Male menacing voice asked. Tatum said nothing as she backed up. The male figure is coming towards her.
"What do you have to do with this?" Tatum asks.
"That's none of your business." The male said continuing to move towards Tatum. "I should've knifed you the way I did your husband." The male said then laughed.
"You motherfucker." Tatum said angrily and then moves towards the male figure with knife poised to strike her attacker. The male blocks the attack and knocks Tatum out cold again. She lies on the floor on conscience.
"Bitch!" The male voice said.
"Dewey." Gale yelled for Dewey.
"Gale, Jennifer, up here!" Dewey called to them.
"Dewey, here, he got Roman and Angelina too." Gale told him.
"We'll be safe if we stick together won't we?" Jennifer asked.
"Of course, why?" Dewey Asked.
The killer jumps out and punches Dewey. Gale and Jennifer run into a bedroom.
"What's going on?" Tyson asks. Ghost face enters the room wielding the knife. "Oh shit!" He punches Tyson in the face.
"Hey!" Dewey yelled as he entered the room.
"Dewey!" Jennifer yells.
Ghost face slices Dewey's arm and punches him in the face.
"Dewey!" Gale yells.
Tyson tackles Ghost Face. He stabs Tyson in the stomach. Jennifer screams.
"NO!" Gale yells.
Jennifer shuts herself in the closet. Ghost face kicks Dewey. Gale throws a vase at his head. He turns to Gale. Jennifer scoots to the back of the closet. Tyson runs out the door and Ghost face follows…
"Help, police!" Tyson shouts with Ghost Face on his ass.
Jennifer screams and suddenly the closet wall gives and she flips over into a secret passage. Tyson runs down the stairs. Ghost face follows.
"Oh you mother fucker!" Tyson curses trying to get away from Ghost Face.
Tyson runs down a hallway. Ghost face pulls a rug from under him. They struggle and eventually Ghost face throws him off the balcony.
Jennifer is running down stairs in the passage. She stops at the bottom because Ghost face is there. He pulls a knife. She screams and runs back up the stairs and into the hall. She knocks some chairs to block the way. She tries to turn the closet wall back to get into the
room. It won't budge. She runs further and discovers two way mirrors. Dewey is in the next room.
"Dewey!" Jennifer yells. She bangs on the glass. "Dewey!"
Dewey looks at the mirrors, seeing nothing.
"I'm in the mirror Dewey!" Jennifer continues to yell trying to get Gale and Dewey's attention. Ghost face appears at the end of the hall. Jennifer screams. Gale enters the other room. "GALE!" She yells as Ghost face continues to advance on Jennifer. "Get away from me! Dewey!"
"Do you hear something?" Dewey asked Gale.
"Get away from me you asshole! Get away from me, you don't scare me!" Jennifer yells at Ghost Face.
"Look Gale, the mirror's moving!" Dewey says to Gale.
"GALE!" Jennifer yelled.
"Stand back, Gale." Dewey tells her.
"You can't kill me, I'm the killer in 'Stab 3'! I'm the killer…" Jennifer starts to say before Ghost face stabs her in the back.
Dewey raises his gun
"Gale, cover!" She does as he begins to shoot out the glass mirrors.
Jennifer hits Ghost face. He stabs her in the stomach. Dewey shoots the mirror with Jennifer behind it. She falls out, dead. Gale screams.
"TYSON?" Dewey calls his name.
"Tyson?" Gale yells for him.
"I'm gonna check down here, you call for help." Dewey said.
"OK." She dials her phone.
"Tyson?" Dewey calls his name once again.
"Any sign of him?" Dewey asked.
"No." Gale said.
"I'm gonna check out front." Dewey said.
He leaves and Ghost face grabs Gale. They struggle and he pulls a knife. Gale holds it away from her. She screams, but it is muffled. She puts her foot on the wall, and pushes. They fall down the basement stairs. Gale slams into a guillotine set up in Milton's basement. A head comes off. It is just a dummy.
Dewey spotting Tyson's body.
"GALE! Gale?" Dewey asked. Now Gale was missing.
"Dewey!" Gale yells for him. Ghost face jumps but is knocked out.
"GALE!" Dewey calls for her. His phone rings. "Who is this?"
"Dewey, it's me." Gale said on the other line.
"Gale, where are you?" Dewey asks.
"I'm in the basement. I'm trapped!" Gale said.
"Where?" Dewey asks.
"There's a door in the kitchen!" Gale tells him. "Hurry!"
Dewey grabs the doorknob but stops.
"Wait! How do I know that this is you Gale and not the killer?" Dewey asked trying be cautious.
"Dewey, open the fucking door, it's me!" Gale tells him.
"Don't you think that's what the killer would say?" Dewey asked. He was right. The killer has a knack for calling the victims before slaughtering them.
"Come on! He's out cold at the bottom of the stairs." Gale said.
The killer comes to and Gale screams. Dewey opens the door.
"HEY!" Dewey said. He aims his gun ad shoots, but it's empty. Ghost face throws his knife at Dewey. The blunt end hits him on the forehead and he falls down the stairs.
"Dewey! Dewey." Gale said going over to him.
Gale looks up, scared. Ghost face stands about them and pulls out a knife.
At the police station, Sidney sits at the desk bored trying desperately to wait on her husband to show up so they could look for Tatum before the killer gets her. She sees the folder with her name on it. She decides to look through it. She sees photos of her, Billy and Tatum from when they were in high school and college. Her phone rings.
"Hello?" Sidney said.
"Hello?" Sidney's phone repeats what she said.
"Who is this?" Sidney said.
"Who is this?" Her voice repeats.
"Um wh-who's calling?" Sidney asks.
"Um wh-who's calling?" Her voice repeats.
"Gale, Dewey, whoever, um, call me back, I can only hear myself." Sidney said.
"I only hear ya too, Sidney." Ghost Face says using the metallic voice changer.
"Who is this?" Sidney said. Her senses are on high alert.
"The question isn't who I am. The question is, who's with me." Ghost Face said.
"Sidney, stay away!" Dewey yells.
"Sidney!" Gale yells.
Sid goes to the office door.
"Don't do it! If you do one thing to attract attention, one thing, I'll kill them both. Now, do you have somewhere we can be alone?" Ghost Face said menacingly.
"Yes." Sidney said.
"Yeah. Go there." Killer tells her. Sid goes into an inner office. It is Wallace's. "Oh it's hard being friends with you, Sidney. When you're friends with Sidney, you die! Well these friends don't have to, Sidney. It's up to you." Ghost Face says.
"How do I know their voices are…" Sidney asked.
"Are real? How do you know you're not hearing things? How do you know I'm not someone in your head? Somewhere, you know." Ghost Face asks.
"Don't come here Sidney!" Dewey yells and the sound of a Dewey being hit is heard by Sidney.
"Dewey!" Gale yells for him.
"Or do you?" Ghost Face asks.
"You're dead!" Sidney tells him.
"I don't want them, I want you! It's simple. You show yourself, they survive, you run, they die!" Ghost Face said to her and hits Dewey again.
"Oh God! Oh God!" Gale yells.
"Don't you want to know Sidney? Don't you want to know who killed her? Don't you want to know who killed your mother?" Ghost Face asked her.
"I already know who killed my mother. I also know who killed my father, what's your point!" Sidney asked.
"Do you honestly believe Randy Meeks or Stu Macher could killer your mother?" Ghost Face asked. Sidney went quiet for a second. "Didn't think so."
"Who are you?" Sidney asks.
"The other half of you but to learn my identity Sid, you'll have to just come and here and find out." Ghost Face. "Don't you wanna save your friends including TATUM?"
"What!" Sidney asked shocked. The killer had Tatum all this time.
"Yeah!. I know you and that husband of yours has been trying to find her." Ghost Face said as Sidney's face contorts in anger.
"Where is she?" Sidney asked.
"Don't worry she's safe. For how long, that depends on. You show up, they live, you run and they die. GOT IT!" Ghost Face.
"Where?" Sidney asks.
"She'd have been so happy, Sidney, to know we'd be together." Ghost Face told her.
"WHERE?" Sidney asks.
"I'll call you, when you're on your way. On and Sidney, you breathe a word of this to that husband of yours, I Tatum's throat while you watch." Ghost Face said then hangs up.
"Shit, shit shit!" Sidney said.
She reaches for the keys on the table. The car belonging to another detective on staff. With Kincaid missing and Billy with Det. Wallace, Sidney was alone and knew she needed a plan. She decided to search the desk for a weapon. Preferably a pistol. She found it and tucked into the back of her jeans. She looked up and noticed something else that might protect her incase she was shot. She removed her shirt and placed the protective vest on over chest then put her shirt back on. Now she was ready. She grabbed her jacket and is about to leave but before she can, she decides to leave Billy a note. She grabbed a note pad and wrote the words "The Killer Has Tatum" on it. She doesn't write the address fearing that the killer would make good on his promise. She also had to save Gale and Dewey. She then left the precinct unseen.
To Be Continued!