Where the River Flows

A House of 1000 Corpses/Devils Rejects fanfiction

By: Butterfly Wolf

Disclaimer: I only own Sarah, Jason, Styx, Nox, and Lithium. Everything else is owned by Rob Zombie and the film producers. I make absolutely no money. And I obviously do not own Barbie, that's just Otis's nickname for Sarah.

Authors note: : D

"Daddy!" yelled Baby as she emerged from the basement, running to give him a big hug which he gladly accepted.

"There's my Baby Girl! How you doin?" He asked, tussling her hair as she munched on her bubble gum.

"I'm doin great, Daddy, do you meet the new psycho!?"

Mother Firefly turned from her position at the stove, warming up some vegetables to go with the chicken.
"Now hunny, you know its not polite to call people that."

"YEahhhh, but he's got the mental ward wrist band and everything!"

Said Baby with a pout, one arm still wrapped around Cutter who rolled his eyes.

"Aw hell with polite. He's a damn loony and he got the band to prove it, damn kid shot up a customer for shoutin it out when he saw it." Said Cutter, turning to get into the fridge, Baby leaning over him to get something to drink her self.

Mother Firefly turned with a look of surprise.

"Did he really? He's down there tauntin them kids with knives but I didn't think he'd do that."

Cutter opened a beer and turned back to her, taking a gulp and leaning against the counter.

"Yeah, some customer walked in while he was reaching up and lookin at something and his jacket slipped and show'd it off. Dumbshit shouted it out and cripple boy in the living room was on his feet quicker than a rooster with a fire-ant up its ass, shootin the guy up and then they both turned to me. I had'a convince'em they pointing at the wrong guy."

Baby listened intently, looking at him as she played with her gum, a glass in the other hand full of fruit juice.

"How'd ya do that?" She asked, taking a sip.

Cutter leaned back for another second and took a deep drink of his beer before crunching up the empty can.

"Skinny ass came over and saw the blood from the last asshole to piss me off and said I had some skeletons in my own closet."

To which all in the room chuckled.

Nox groaned as she sat there and watched Styx continue to make stabbing motions at the people in the cages between the bars, making them all shrink back in terror.

Tiny sat next to her now, looking a lot more calm since Baby and Mother Firefly had come down. Both had given her a very awkward hug on her part and watched Styx for a minute, Nox warning them that he didn't like to be touched, and if they tried he might turn that knife on them before they left.

Suddenly, she sniffed the air.

Something didn't smell quite so much like piss anymore.

Sniff sniff…FOOD!

Nox jerked up and looked over at Styx who had that crazed little childish grin on his face as he jabbed his knife between the bars at the people.

"Hey! Styx! I smell food, I'm pretty damn sure they'll be there when you get back."

Styx turned and glanced at her with a pout.

"Food doesn't take that long to eat."
Pout.

"Styx!"

He whined but pulled away from the bars, still pouting and walked over to Nox who got up from the bed to stand.

"I smell chicken, so wipe that look off your face."

Suddenly Styx had a look of absolute joy as he turned to run up the stairs like an excited child.

Nox rose an eyebrow after him before stretching and looking at the…person next to her with a smile.

"Hey! I want food, you want food?" She asked, briefly forgetting his deaf.

But Tiny just nodded his head, probably reading her lips and smelling the food as she turned to walk up the stairs, fallowed closely behind by him.

Sarah walked into the kitchen just as everyone finished chuckling.

Feeling a little out of place, she rose an eyebrow.

"Eh, miss something?"

Cutter smiled at her then chuckled again.

"Naw, just family talk. Where yall from anyways?"

Sarah thought for a minute if telling these people their house's location was really a good idea before replying.

"Arlington."

"Ah, well that's not too far away." He said before reaching into the fridge for another beer, earning a hit from Mother Firefly.

"Now Johnny you gonna drink up all Rufus and Otis's beer you keep getting in there!"

"Aw, ta hell with whitey and R.J., I'm thirsty."

Mother Firefly rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, well when R.J. comes in here lookin for a beer you tell him to go ta hell."

"I will!"

Sarah smiled at the families bickering before Baby suddenly jumped up in front of her.

"Hi! I haven't learned your name yet!"
Sarah licked her dry lips and smiled again, reaching out her bloody hand from…well hell if she knew. Probably just got on her hand from being in Otis's room. That was enough to explain the unexplainable when it came to blood stains.

She held out her somewhat bloody hand to Baby who with a big smile took it with a shake.

"I'm Baby Firefly!"

Sarah gave a crooked smile and a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah…something out of a comic book series."
"Yeah, when Otis moved in he made it all up."

Sarah gave an understanding nod.

"Sooo what is the psycho boy's name?" Asked Baby, looking at her as she leaned back almost seductively over the counter, causing Sarah to raise an eyebrow again.

"Ah, Styx. We ah, broke him out of Weeping Willows."

Baby smiled and looked at her.

"Yeahhh, I remember seeing something like that on the TV. They caught some footage of it, camera's of the hospital, but ya cant see nuthin good, no blood or nuthin, just a buncha doctors getting beat up by someone in a white outfit."

Sarah chuckled, having also have seen the clip after having got home that night. Yeah, she was maybe, four feet out of the camera's range when that footage was taken.

"Yeah. Lithium luckily destroyed all his papers."

Mother Firefly was pouring the vegetables into a bowl now to be served at the table as she looked over her shoulder.

"Surely burnin some papers aint gonna let the boy run free, someone's got to remember him!"

Sarah gave her first sadistic grin since she entered the house, staring at the wood of the counter.

"Nah. Styx drove his doctor crazy, so crazy the man hung himself in his house, Styx's notes from their sessions as his note, which Lithium disposed of. When we all broke him out, Jason went into the ward and fucked with the machinery, zapping the shit out of himself so bad his left arm has permanent nerve damage. Since the machinery went out, psycho's ran wild."

Cutter gave a somewhat impressed look as Baby leaned over closer to her.

"I don't remember seein that on the television."
Sarah gave her a kind smile.
"Of course not, dear, they don't want enforcement fuck ups shown on TV, else you might loose your faith in them."

They all laughed at that, just as Styx ran into the room rapidly searching for chicken.

"Calm down boy, it'd be served in a minute. Just go take a seat somewhere."

Sarah glanced inside the dinning room in which Styx ran, counting the chairs and then the number of people before turning back to the family.

"Ah, where we gonna sit?" She asked.

Tiny, Nox, and Jason appeared near the doorway, Jason dazed and Nox with a raised eyebrow before smirking.

Throwing an arm around Jason's shoulder in an over-friendly gesture for someone who hated Jason as much as she did, she leaned over him.

"Jason can sit on the floor."