Title: House Arrest 20/20 + Epilogue
Author: Forsaken2003
Pairing: William/Xander
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I own none, all belong to Joss Whedon
Comments: Always welcomed!
Summary: William is under house arrest after assaulting his teacher. When he starts people watching he notices something strange about his neighbour.
Warnings/Spoilers: Human Verse. Out of Character. Also character death (Not the boys)
Note: (An S/X adaptation if the movie 'Disturbia'.) Uses actual dialogue from the movie Please don't sue!
Beta'd by: Whichclothes
Part Twenty
Michaels dumped William onto the chair beside his dad's desk. William's eyes fluttered open and he blinked as he tried to get his sight focused. Michaels popped open the camcorder and pulled out the tape that had the video of the dead woman on it. He then sat himself down onto the couch.
"So, he got her on tape?" Michaels asked as he watched William. "I really didn't want this. All I wanted was to live in peace, which is why we gotta keep the spotlight on you. You've done most of the work already. You are the troubled neighborhood boy who cried wolf. But now…" A smile slid onto Michaels's face. "You are really going to snap.
First, you killed your buddy because he was calling your boyfriend behind your back. And now we gotta bring your mom over here so you can slit her throat, because she just wouldn't stop blaming you for killing your dad," Michaels explained to William as he pulled out a cloth from his sock. He unwrapped it to reveal the red handed knife that William had used the other day for his bagel. "So, it sounds good? Good."
He stood back up and made his way back to William who flinched back. "Pen and paper." Michaels grabbed a sheet of paper placed it in front of William and stuffed a pen into William's bound hands before slamming them onto the desk. Write this down.
"Dear Xander, I killed Oz..."
"Will?" Xander's voice called out from the bottom of the stairs. "Will!"
The distraction startled Michaels long enough for William to smacked Michaels with his bound hands and send him to the floor. William hopped out the door and bumped into Xander. "Oh my God, Will!"
"Behind you!" William's yell was muffled behind the tape that gagged him. Xander turned a little too late as Michaels back handed him into the wall. William tried to pounce on Michaels with an angry cry.
Michaels pushed William down just before Xander shoved him, sending him over the banister.
Xander scrambled to help William to his feet. He pulled William back down the hall.
He shoved William inside as he spun back and slammed the office door shut. William flipped the lock into place.
With a quick tug Xander ripped the duct tape off William's mouth. William screamed in pain. Xander searched William's pockets for his phone. "It's dead."
Xander scrambled to the desk and grabbed a pair of scissors. He cut William's ankles and hands free. "Where's your mom?"
"Michaels's house." They both froze as they heard metal clank on metal. William stood and searched for a weapon. Xander panted heavily as he leaned against the door.
A metal object crashed through the door inches away from Xander's head. He screamed and scrambled over to where William was located.
Wildly, William looked around as Michaels continued to smash the door in. "We have to jump," He opened the door out to the deck and ushered Xander out first. When they both were on the deck he took a deep breath ready to jump. "Now!" Simultaneously they ran to the left side of the house and jumped over the fence into Xander's backyard and into the pool.
They both emerged from the water and William looked down to see the red light flashing on his ankle bracelet. He looked up and smirked when he saw Michaels standing on the deck and staring down at them. "I've got to get my mum." William swam to the edge. "Make sure the cops are coming, okay?"
"Fuck that!" Xander followed and heaved his body from the cool water. "I'm not letting you go in there alone!" William opened his mouth to argue. "Are you coming or not?" Xander asked and started his way to Michaels's house.
They rushed to back to the front of William's yard where he pulled the garden shears that he used for his boundary before bounding over to the front of Michaels's house. William used the handles of the garden shears to break the glass on the door. The glass shattered and he stuck his hand through and unlocked the door. He walked in, Xander right behind him. "Mum!"
Officer Gutierrez walked out of a convenience store with a milkshake and burger when dispatch called him. "13-Adam? 13-Adam-74, come in."
He grabbed his radio, "13-Adam-74. Go ahead."
"Yeah, I realize your shift's over, but that kid just hopped the fence again. You still want first dibs?" the dispatcher asked.
Officer Gutierrez smirked. "13-Adam-74. Yeah. Yeah, I'll take care of it. Roger that. Over." He took a large bite out of his burger. "Yeah, when I take care of it."
"Mum?" William called out. They both listened for any kind of sound. Nothing.
"Here!" William nudged Xander. "The bookcase!" He rushed over and tried to push it out of the way. Xander came and helped. Together they pushed it away with ease.
Xander grabbed a lit lamp near by and pulled the shade off while William knelt down and pulled the grate off the air duct. "Mum?" William accepted the lamp and put it and his head into the small hole. He stared at the dead redhead for moment before turning his head to the left to see if his mum was in there. William screamed and pulled his head out and almost slammed his head into Xander's.
"What?" Xander grabbed at William. "I-is it your mom?"
"No…" William stood and took a breath. "There's another woman. It looks like she's been there a couple months. We got to keep moving." They continued to walk. William occasionally banged on a wall.
Xander looked confused, "What are you doing?"
"Mum is a realtor. I broke into her computer and found the prints for Michaels's house. He added a section. I'm thinking that's were he is keeping my mum."
They walked past a window just before lightning struck again. Michaels outside and just stared in.
William banged on another wall. This time it sounded hollow. "This is it!" They heard muffled screams. "Mum!" He pounded a few more times on the wooden wall before it popped open. William and Xander looked at each other before entering the secret room.
William found the light switch and turned it on. The room lit up. It looked like an operating room of some sort. Xander nudged William in the shoulder and pointed over to a deep freeze that had a lock on it. With a deep breath William approached it and slowly lifted the lid. It was full of ice; he used the garden shears to move some of it around before he determined there was no one in it. They both heard the screams again.
Officer Gutierrez pulled up to Michaels's residence a short time later. He saw that the window on the door had been broken and the door was ajar. With a shake of his head he walked up the sidewalk.
Xander pulled back a white drape to reveal more of the room. He picked up a set of keys and a wallet that was on the cupboard.
"That's one of the club girls," William told him and Xander dropped it as if he had been burned. William's brow furrowed when he spotted a red wig. His fingers touched it gently. "She never left." He looked up and saw a light coming from behind the cupboard. "We got to move this."
"Count of three. One. Two. Three." They pulled and the cupboard moved with ease just as the bookcase had. It slammed against the wall. There was another secret passage that led to the basement.
Officer Gutierrez turned on his flashlight as he stepped on broken glass. He bent down when William had dropped the lamp. "Mr. Michaels? Sir, are you here? Police."
He head flew up when he heard a loud noise.
"Mum?" William called out as he tried the light switches. "Mum?"
"There's a flashlight." Xander said and grabbed it and knocked something down the stairs before he was able to turn it on. He shot William a look before he led the way down the stairwell.
Officer Gutierrez stood up and grabbed his gun when he heard another crash. He slowly made his way down the hall.
When Xander and William reached the bottom the flashlight danced across more photo I.D.s of other missing women. William's mother cried out. "Mum?"
The floor creaked under Officer Gutierrez's weight as he walked further down the hall. He had no idea what was going on but he had the feeling that there may be more going on than he knew about.
William was looking around the room and wasn't watching where he was going that his head slammed into a pipe. "Bloody hell!"
"Are you okay?" Xander whispered as he shined the light at William's face.
"Fine, we need to find my mum," William told him. He could worry about any kind of concussion after he knew his mom was safe.
Joyce's muffled cries became louder. "Mum?" William started moving again. The wooden panels beneath his feet creaked. He bounced a little to make sure they would hold his weight. It couldn't and it collapsed under him.
"Will!" Xander cried out as William disappeared from sight.
William let out a groan when he hit muddy water; he pushed his hair back from his eyes. He guessed it was some underground sewage. Just what he needed, to smell like shit on top of everything else. "Give me a hand, pet." William called up and stood. When something brushed against his leg he looked down and screamed. Another body had risen from under the water. William looked around and saw several other bodies as well. "Now!"
Xander lay on his stomach and reached his hand out to William. "Come on. Grab my hand."
William latched on to Xander's hand and was pulled out from the watery grave. "Why do I keep finding the bodies?"
Before Xander could answer him the screams started up again.
Deciding that his gut feeling was too much to ignore Gutierrez stopped and reached for his radio. "Dispatch, 13-Adam..." He was cut off when Michaels stepped out of the darkness behind him and with a hard twist broke Officer Gutierrez's neck.
"Mum?" William called out.
Xander waved the flash light around hoping to spot her. Something clattered behind them making them jump. They saw no one.
More cries echoed off the walls. They were louder now; William knew his mother was close. They continued forward. When they turned the corned they saw Joyce with her hands tied above her to a pipe, duct tape covered her mouth. "Mum!" William rushed to her. "You're okay, you're okay. Here, I got you." He used the garden shears to cut the rope.
Joyce fell to the ground. Xander moved to help her just as she was pulled up by Michaels, who held a knife to her throat. He tossed Joyce at Xander sending them both to the ground and Michaels went for William.
William ducked just as the knife came at his head. It clanked against the cement wall. He made a move to run to get some space between him and Michaels but this time he wasn't fast enough and Michaels slashed the knife into William's back before slamming him into a wall.
Michaels slammed William into the wall again making him lose his grip on the garden shears. He placed the knife against William's neck. "You made me do this."
Xander grabbed some kind of tool that lay where Joyce had been tied up and jammed it into Michaels's leg.
With a scream Michaels turned around and back-handed Xander.
Free, William bent down and grabbed the shears. He opened them just as Michaels turned his attention back to him and raised the knife. With a scream William thrust the shears forward into Michaels's chest. He slammed him into the wall imbedding the shears further. Michaels dropped the knife.
William grabbed the front of Michaels's shirt with one hand while he kept the other on the shears and forced him backwards before he pushed Michaels through the broken floor boards and into the water.
Xander helped Joyce up and they walked over to where William stood. They all stared down at Michaels who stared back at them with dead eyes.