Warning contains violence and gore
Chapter 4
Out front, a rusty vehicle pulls up to the diner. After parking, the door opens and out walked a young looking red haired woman. She enters the diner, but not before using a napkin to wipe off the door knob.
All heads turned to the new visitor. First seeing her, Will instantly felt attracted to the woman and races over to greet her.
"Well hello there and welcome to Paradise Diner. I am Will Shuester and I will be at your service." Will says trying to flirts.
"Why thank you." the woman blushes.
"Yes, uh…Rachel can you come and take this lovely woman's order please." Will flashing a grin at the blushing red head. Rachel rolls her eyes while grabbing a menu. Will guides the woman to a table and pulls out her seat.
"Thank you." she says. The woman wiped down the chair before taking a seat. Rachel looks at the woman with a bemused expression before handing her the menu. "Oh I already know what I want." she says.
"Okay." Rachel says pulling back the menu and taking out her note pad. "Okay, what will you have?"
"I'll have a steak. Rare and a glass of water with no ice." the woman says.
"Okay. I'll have your older right up." Rachel says before turning to walk away.
"Rachel is it?" the woman asks.
"Yes" Rachel says with a smile.
"That's a very beautiful name." the woman says.
"Thank you." Rachel smiles before going to put in the woman's order.
"You know speaking of beautiful names, I still haven't gotten yours." Will says trying to be smooth. In the far corner of the diner, Katy rolls her eyes.
"Emma." the woman replies.
"Emma. Yep just what I thought. Beautiful name for a beautiful woman." Will flirts. Emma blushes.
"Psst Will" Will hears his name being called from the kitchen. Will turns to see Leroy and Brittany standing by the kitchen doorway. Will lets out a groan before politely smiling at Emma.
"Excuse me. I have some business to attend to." Will says getting up. Before he leaves, he places a soft kiss on Emma's hand. In the back Leroy and Brittany roll their eyes while Emma blushes even more. Will makes his way to the kitchen with a scowl. "What?" he hisses.
"We have a bit of a problem." Brittany says.
"What?"
Back out front, Emma was becoming friendly with the other patrons in the diner.
"Hello. I'm Emma…Emma Pillsbury." Emma introduces herself.
Russell was the one who responds.
"Well hello Emma. My name is Russell and this is my wife Judy and our daughter Katy." Russell says. Both Katy and Judy give half ass waves.
"What a beautiful family you have there." Emma says.
"Why thank you Emma." Russell says. "Emma if you don't mind me asking, you wouldn't know what's going on would you? The Tvs and radios are down, we were just hoping you might have heard something on the way here." Russell says.
"Oh well you don't have to worry about that. It'll all be over soon." Emma says with a big smile.
"Oh well thank you Emma." Russell before giving his wife a smirk. Judy just rolls her eyes
"Okay so what's up? Did you get the car fix?" Will asks.
"That's the problem." Leroy says.
"It looks like it's programmed by some kind of computer or something." Brittany comments.
"That's why you interrupted me?" Will says a bit annoyed.
"Oh come on Will you could totally do better…or could she do better…?" Brittany says starting to get confused.
"What she means is there's no way these people are getting out of here." Leroy cuts of the confused blonde.
"Shit" Will says realizing the dilemma.
"What? We can just call a tow trunk and have them fix it." Brittany says.
"That's not going to happen." Leroy says.
"Why?"
"Because the phone isn't working." Will answers.
"Oh…damn."
"And here you go." Rachel says giving Emma her meal.
"Thank you." Emma say. She looks back up at Rachel. "How far along are you?" she asks.
"Oh umm…just about there." Rachel answers.
"And the father, I bet he's excited." Emma asks innocently.
Though the question was innocent Rachel stiffened. She never liked talking about the father of her baby. One because she didn't know him, but mostly because of how she got pregnant in the first place. She was at a pretty low point in her life and she was taken advantage of. If it hadn't been for Brittany and her father being there for her, she doesn't know where she'd be right now. She couldn't just tell people that, so she came up with the next best thing.
"Oh well I-I wouldn't know." Rachel responds.
"Oh he's…" Emma trails off.
"Out of sight, out of mind." Rachel says quickly.
"I see. So I take it you're not married." Emma says.
Rachel was starting to get a little uncomfortable with this questioning, but decided it was polite to answer anyway.
"Oh no, I'm…I'm to young for that. Beside I don't need a man to take care of me. I am a very independent and capable woman." Rachel says confidently.
"But what about the baby?"
"Oh I have that handle. My father and best friend will help me." Rachel says.
"But it's going to burn." Emma says.
"Excuse me?" Rachel asks stunned, not believing this woman just said what she think she said.
Suddenly the mood in the diner changed. It felt dark…and evil. Emma looks back up at Rachel. What was once an innocent shy germ-o-phobic woman turn to this sadistic mad woman. She looks up at Rachel with a creepy grin.
"I said your fucking baby's gonna burn." Emma says as if with pride.
"Go to hell lady!" Fuming, Rachel slams the check down on the table and storms away.
Rachel storms into the back with angry tears rushing down her face.
"Whoa whoa, Rachel…Rachel what's wrong?" Leroy asks his crying daughter.
Rachel was sobbing uncontrollably, so she was unable to give an answer. Just then they heard a creepy yet joyous laugh coming from the dining area. They looked and watched as Emma joyously cut into her steak laughing away.
"All the little babies are going to burn." Emma says excitedly, shocking everyone in the diner.
"Whoa whoa, Emma…" Will says as he walks out.
Russell clears his throat. "Uh Emma, I don't think…" he starts to say, but is cut off when Emma looks sharply at him. Her eyes now pitch black and soulless.
"Shut up you fucking self righteous bastard, all you do is complain complain complain!" Emma shouts.
Russell was shocked to silence, Katy let out a chuckle behind her hand.
"Excuse me? What the fuck did you just say to my husband?" Judy snaps, defending her husband.
"No Judy…" Russell says trying to hold back his wife as she got up from her seat, but Judy snatches her arm away and goes up to Emma, who was sitting with a very satisfied look on her face.
"I don't know who the fuck you think you are you little bitch, but you will not talk to my husband that wa-" Judy was cut off when Emma swiftly jumped from her chair, sinking her teeth into Judy's neck, ripping out a big chunk of Judy's neck. Blood splattering over the walls and windows.
"Judy!" "Mom!" both Russell and Katy scream in horror as they watched Judy go down holding her neck, blood pooled in her hand.
Emma storms out of her chair, flipping the table over. This was no longer Emma, this was someone/something else. Her eyes were pitch black and her teeth were small like baby teeth, but sharp.
"YOU'RE ALL GONNA FUCKING DIE!" Emma shouts.
"Rachel stay down" Brittany whispers. Rachel does as told and stoops down out of sight.
Leroy quickly goes over to the stove, grabs a skillet and hurtles it at Emma's head knocking her down. It seemed to look like it worked, until Emma came back up with a huge dash in her face from where the pan hit her and blood oozing from it.
"Oh shit" Leroy muttered.
Emma lets out a startling growling scream before hopping off a booth and on to the ceiling.
"What the fuck?" Puck shouts.
Emma proceeds to crawl on the ceiling. Will pulls out his shot gun, and starts shooting at Emma. Emma dodges them. She falls from the ceiling behind Will then slaps him across the face with force, throwing him across the diner. The gun fell from his hands and slides over to Brittany's feet. As Emma starts towards her, Brittany quickly picks up the gun and aims it at her.
Emma lets out a howl laugh "You'll never protect her."
Brittany looks at her with wide eyes.
"Shoot her!" Leroy yells. "Brittany shoot the bitch!"
Emma opens her mouth wide, wider than the human jaw can go, screeching as she charged for Brittany, gliding across the floor. As she approaches, Brittany closes her eyes and goes to take the shot. Suddenly the loud sound of gun shots were heard in the diner and Emma falls to the ground. Dead with three bullet holes in her back. Brittany opens her eyes to see that it was not her who shot but Puck. He was standing there with a smoking gun drawn in his shaking hand.
"Somebody help me!" Russell shouts as he attends to his bleeding wife. Puck was the first to get to them. He takes off his scarf and hands it to Russell.
"Put pressure on the wound." He instructs. "Someone call 911! And keep an eye on the lady. Who the fuck was that anyway?" he shouts.
After wrapping the scarf around Judy's heavily bleeding neck, Puck along with Will helped Russell take her out to Puck's jeep. The four, along with Katy, got into the jeep and pulled out of the diner parking lot.
"How far is the closest hospital?" a panicked Russell asks as he holds on to Judy's neck.
"Uh about 75 to 80miles." Will answers.
"80 miles? Look I'll drop you off but I can't stay." Puck says.
"Okay, whatever, just get us there please." Russell says frantically.
As they drove, they come to a strange looking cloud.
"Whoa, what the hell is that?" Katy asks.
"What are you talking about? It's clouds can't you tell." Puck says sounding a little unsure himself.
"Clouding? Fucking clouds don't buzz!" Katy exclaims.
As they got closer, so did the clouds. Suddenly it's quiet except for a buzzing sound coming from the AC. A fly came in from the air vent. Nothing to worry about, but soon more followed until soon the car is filed with them. Puck tries to quickly turn the truck around as they fight off the invading flies.
"I don't get it. I just don't get it. How was she still standing after I throw that pan at her? It should have snapped her neck, but she was still standing. Like it was nothing." Leroy wonders out loud while holding his daughter protectively.
"Britt?" he heard his daughter call out to her friend. He looks over to her and finds the blonde looks a little green.
"Brittany?" Brittany looks up from her shell shocked state.
"Huh?"
"Are you okay?" he asks concerned.
"Uh I think…" Brittany trails off before running into the bathroom to throw up. Rachel was right behind her. Leroy later followed.
"Whoa, hey it's okay." Rachel rubs her back, just like she used to do when Rachel was going through her morning sickness.
Brittany finishes emptying out the contents of her stomach.
"I-I couldn't do it." Brittany chokes out.
"Couldn't do what, Britt?" Rachel asks softly.
"I…I couldn't shoot her." Brittany says, tears falling down her face. Rachel looks shocked and looks up at her dad. Leroy sighs.
"Britt, it's okay. A lot of people can't pull the trigger their first time." Leroy says.
"No you-you don't understand. I froze. If-if I didn't pull the trigger then….then she would have killed you." Brittany cries. "She would killed you, Rachel and the baby, and I couldn't do anything about it. It would have been all my fault. Just like the party." Brittany cries.
Rachel looks at her best friend still shocked. She couldn't think of anything to say to her. Leroy wasn't any better. He knew the blonde blamed herself for what happened. If he was honest at first he did too. If she hadn't taken his baby girl to that party, then she wouldn't be in the mess that she is now. But he knew that it wasn't her fault. She tried everything she could to protect Rachel. She still is.
"Brittany…" he starts but stops when he hears to sound of a slamming car door. Leroy gets up to go check on it while Rachel helps Brittany clean up.
"Weren't they suppose to go to the hospital?" Rachel asks as she and Brittany came from the bathroom.
"That's what I thought too." Leroy says before going outside. "What happened?" Leroy asks as they came back into the diner. Leroy stops Will by grabbing his arm. "Whoa what happened?"
"I think I need to grab my bible." Will says.
Leroy looks at his good friend both shocked and confused. He can't remember the last time Will took out a bible. He didn't even know he had one.
"What? Why?" Leroy asks.
"I don't know what's going on, but someone has to start praying." Will says before going into the diner.
Leroy watches his retreating friend in confusion before he also hears the buzzing noise. He turns to find the same clouds coming over the diner.
"What…the…hell?" he says as he slowly walking back into the diner.
End of Chapter 4