They waited for next evening to draw near before heading back to town. They figured it would be safer if darkness had come once they reached the town so they better could hide in the shadows in case Kenny and his men were hanging around their homes.
"Has any of you seen my phone?" Roman asked.
No one replied.
"Baby girl, have you seen it?" He asked and looked at her.
She shook her head.
"I could have sworn I left it over here yesterday," he said.
"Maybe you remember wrong. You did drink several beers last night," Dean said.
"Yeah, maybe," he said, still looking at her as if to see if she might be lying to him.
"I promise I'll look for it. I'll turn the entire cabin upside down. I'll text Seth or Dean if I find it, okay?" She said.
"Yeah, okay," he said and walked over to her and placed a kiss on her cheek. "Be safe, alright?"
"You too," she said and smiled.
As soon as they were gone, she walked upstairs and took out his phone. After finding out where she was, she knew it was a three hour drive back to the town. They probably would spend an hour in there and then drive back home. She wouldn't see them for seven hours. It gave her a lot of time.
She walked downstairs, sat down and just looked at the phone. It took her around two hours to gather up her courage. She logged off Roman's facebook and on to her own. There was a lot of private messages from Kenny, none of them pleasant to read. She took a deep breath before she started typing.
"I'm sorry but I needed some time on my own. You scared me and I ran away in fear. It was a cowardly thing to do, I know that now."
She didn't have to wait long before he replied.
"Where are you?"
That was all he wrote. She knew him too well to know it was the only way he could restrain his anger. Keep it short so he wouldn't write what he really wanted to say. She knew he was furious.
"I'm far away from town, maybe three hours or so. Will you come and pick me up? I'm ready to come home."
She slowly started to shiver. There was no turning back now that she had sent it.
"Tell me where you are and I'll come right away."
She swallowed and typed in the address. Around three hours to go until he would be there.
She waited another hour. The guys would be reaching town around this time. She texted Dean.
"Found it."
She didn't know why she did it. Maybe because she needed that last lifeline to be open in case things didn't go as planned. How could they go as planned? Her plan was shit. She knew it but she also knew she had to try.
Darkness had fallen. She turned on the porch lamp but left the cabin in darkness. She only needed that little light to guide Kenny there. She took a flashlight and a kitchen knife and went outside. She hid in the first row of trees and waited. She would be able to see him due to the porch light but he wouldn't be able to see her.
She jumped as Roman's phone buzzed in her back pocket. She took it out. There was a message from Dean.
"On our way home to you, pumpkin."
She sighed as she wondered if she would actually get to see them again. She texted him back.
"Don't be mad at me. Forgive me."
She silenced the phone completely and put it back in the pocket. She knew he would be calling her within seconds to find out what she meant by that and she didn't have the time to try and explain it.
After three misplaced calls, Dean was getting more than nervous.
"Step on it, Seth!" He shouted. "Something's wrong."
He tried calling again but still she didn't pick up.
"Fuck! What are you doing, pumpkin?" He yelled.
She looked up as she heard a car approaching. Soon after it rolled in and stopped. Kenny stepped out of the car. He was alone. She watched him as he shut the car door and looked around.
"Silvia?" He called out.
"Show me your gun," she called back.
He turned around to face the direction her voice came from.
"Where are you?" He asked.
"Don't fucking bullshit me. Just show me your god damn gun," she yelled.
A twisted smile came over his face as he pulled out the gun and held it in the air.
"Put it in the front seat," she yelled.
He opened the car door, put the gun inside and closed the door again.
"Lock the car," she yelled.
He pressed the button on the key and the car beeped and blinked to signal it was locked.
"Walk up on the porch and put the key down in front of the door," she yelled.
He walked up and put the key down as she demanded and then came back down to the car.
"You got two choices now. You can either try and get back to the key and back inside the car to get your gun but I'll be gone before you do or you can try and keep up with me," she yelled.
He smirked in the direction of her voice.
"I don't need a gun to control you," he yelled.
"Fuck," she muttered to herself, feeling how her hands were shaking. "It's now or never."
She turned on the flashlight so he could see where she was. He smiled and took a couple of steps in her direction.
"Are you coming willingly or do I need to go over there and drag you out?" He yelled.
"When have I ever made things easy for you?" She yelled back.
His face turned angry and he started sprinting towards her. She turned around and ran into the forest. She knew she had a small advantage. She had been in this forest the day before and she had the flashlight. He just followed the sound of her and what little light he could see from the flashlight.
As she was almost there, she turned off the flashlight. She just hoped she wouldn't trip in the darkness for the few final steps. She didn't. She dug down behind a big tree and heard as he came running full speed, not knowing that he was passing her. And then the scream. That ear-piercing yet so beautiful scream. She leaned her head back against the tree and smiled. Her smile turned to a chuckle at first and then a full on laughter. She knew it had worked. She could hear him screaming through her laughter. Never had she been so happy that Kenny was a short man and not with the best psysic. He would never be able to get himself up from that hole.
As her laughter died down, she took in his screams even more. They sounded different than she had imagined. They weren't the screams of an angry man, rather a man in pain. She crawled to the hole, turned on the flashlight and shined the light down on him. She let the light run over him and noticed his leg. It was in a weird position and the bone was sticking out of it.
"Does that hurt?" She asked mockingly.
"Fuck you, bitch!" He growled.
She chuckled again. She sat up and dangled her feet down the hole, mocking him on purpose as she kept the light on him.
"You know, all I ever wanted was to be loved and accepted for who I am," she said.
"You're not worthy of being loved," he said.
"That's what I used to think too. That's why I ended up with you in the first place. I didn't care about myself or where life would take me. I think I secretly wanted you to kill me at some point just to get out of my misery," she said.
"Why don't you come down here and I'll gladly do it now?" He sneered.
"I tried playing it by the rules. I gave up my one true love, well three actually, and I lost myself in the process. No one can ever make me feel like they do. No one can ever love me and make me love like they do," she said.
"Get me the fuck out of here!" He yelled.
"You're wrong. You're the one who's not worthy of being loved," she said.
"Are you even listening to me?" He asked desperately.
"Finally! Fear! Yes, I'm listening but I just don't care," she answered.
She held up the kitchen knife and shined the light on it.
"Oh god," he whimpered.
She dumped it into the hole.
"You got two choices. You can either wait till you die from natural causes or you can end your own life. Slit your wrist or your throat or even stab yourself. I don't care how you do it. Either way, you're not getting out of that hole," she said.
"This is murder!" He said with panick in his voice.
"A few minutes ago you weren't above killing me but now it's wrong? And no, this is not murder. You chose to run into a dark forest in the middle of the night. You fell into a hole without me ever touching you. You either die like that or commit suicide. No one ever laid a hand on you," she said.
"You're a psycho!" He screamed.
"Guess you taught me well, huh?" She said and chuckled.
"Whose car is that?" Seth asked as he drove up to the cabin.
"I have an idea," Roman said.
"That motherfucker!" Dean shouted.
They all jumped out of the car and ran into the dark cabin screaming her name. No response. They ran from room to room without any luck.
"Call her again!" Roman shouted.
Both Dean and Seth tried calling his phone but she didn't pick up.
"Fuck! She's somewhere out there with that fucker," Dean said.
Roman quickly found three flashlights and handed them out.
"Let's go find her," he said.
They all walked out in the forest, shouting out her name.
"I swear to god I'm gonna kill him if he has laid a finger on her," Dean growled.
"He better not have touched her," Seth growled next to him.
"Wait wait wait, you guys hear that?" Roman said and stopped walking.
They all listened. Her voice was coming somewhere from the darkness. She was singing.
"Now that's why I like to hear. If she's singing, she can't be hurt," Dean said.
They followed the voice and shortly after they could see a light coming through the darkness. As they came closer, they saw her sitting there with her feet down the hole and a flashlight in her hand.
"Oh god, baby girl, you scared the shit out of us," Roman said as he hurried towards her and put his arms around her.
Dean and Seth were fast next to them. Dean shined his flashlight down in the hole.
"Ehm guys..." He said.
They all looked down at Kenny.
"Get me the fuck out of there! She's crazy! She's gonna leave me to die here!" He screamed as he saw them.
"What happened?" Roman asked.
"He fell," she answered.
"What do we do?" Dean asked.
"You get me the fuck out of here!" Kenny yelled.
"I was gonna leave him there," she said.
"To die?" Seth asked.
"Yeah. He won't be able to hurt any of us if he's dead," she said.
Roman grabbed her under her arms and dragged her away from the hole. Seth and Dean followed.
"Baby girl, are you sure you know what you're saying?" Roman asked.
"Yes. Look, I never touched him. He chased me and fell. Just my luck he broke his leg. He's never getting out of there," she answered.
"But he didn't just chase you and fall. You let him here on purpose," Seth said.
"That's true," she said.
"You set this whole thing up. You stole my phone and contacted him and you made him come out here to end in that hole," Roman said.
She took his phone from her back pocket and handed it to him.
"That's also true. Look guys, you wanna get him out of there and save him, go ahead. I won't stop you. Just let me get far away from here first. You'll never see me again and you better run too because once he's better, he's coming for all of us," she said.
"So save him and lose you?" Roman asked.
"You can't have it both ways," she answered and sighed.
The guys looked at each other.
"Doesn't seem like a hard choice to me," Dean finally said and put his arms around her, dragging her towards him and kissing the top of her head.
"I'm not letting you go either," Seth said.
Roman looked at them. It really wasn't a hard choice for him either but he always had to think things through a little more than the other two. He finally walked back and looked down in the hole at Kenny.
"Sorry pal, but you hurt the wrong woman. If you weren't already down there with a broken leg, I'd break it myself," he said.
"No no no, don't leave me down here!" Kenny screamed as they all started walking away.
"So what now?" Seth asked as they stepped up on the porch.
She pointed towards the car key in front of the door.
"Someone wears gloves before touching that. We'll drive his car back to town. I know where to park it. A really sketchy neighbourhood with lots of bad people. The police will just think it has been another drug deal gone wrong and that he has disappeared due to it. They'll never look into it. They never do. Trust me, I've been around these people for way too long to know how it goes," she said.
"And then?" Roman asked.
"Then we go back here and continue living the way we want to. No Kenny, no death threats, no drama. Just the four of us in a beautiful forest with no people around to judge us," she answered.
"I like the sound of that," Dean said and dragged her into a hug.
"In a week's time we'll go out and fill the hole with dirt. He should be gone by that time. It'll be like he was never here," she said.
"So let's get started on the hard part. You two in his car while Silvia and I take mine," Seth said.
"Once we get back here, we're so getting drunk and fucked up," Roman said.
"Or we'll just fuck," Dean said and chuckled.
"I'm down with both," she said.
Seth laughed and pulled her out of Dean's arms so he could kiss her.
"I promised I'd never leave you again. Will you promise the same?" She asked.
"Oh babe, we never left you to begin with. We just waited for you to come back where you belong," he answered.