OtVoM: Chapter 2
Author's Note: This is one of two chapters in this story that makes this story have an M rating. If you are sensitive to the topics of sexual abuse, rape, gun violence, and death, PLEASE do not read a certain part of this chapter.
Of course, this story's chapter is censored here on FFNet, so it can follow the guidelines of what can and can't be posted here without any trouble. If you want to read the uncensored version of this chapter, it is up on AO3. I won't link it anywhere, but you can search my username on there and find it yourself; it's the same username that I use here.
It was now past midnight in Peach Creek, Eddy woke up from his nap a few hours ago to make himself some dinner before going to bed for the night. He was currently sleeping when he heard a noise that got his attention; it was a loud tap that was coming from outside of his bedroom window.
He groaned a little at the noise, not really thinking it over too much before slowly realizing that it was someone outside in his backyard. Eddy grumbled a little as he got up out of his bed to open his back door, only to widen his eyes at who was standing there.
It was Zoey, she had come over to his house in her tank top, pajama pants, and some house shoes; not even wearing her hoodie or her winter jacket. He could tell she was in a panic, and had also been crying for a long time, "Zoey?! What's—"
Zoey quickly went over to hug him, sobbing into his shoulder as she did, "Eddy, I-I can't take this anymore!"
Eddy stood there for a short moment in shock before letting her come inside his room from the cold, there was still a lot of snow outside, "Zoey, please, you gotta tell me what's going on," he said as he led her to his bed to sit down with her.
"I-I…" Zoey started to say, trembling more and more as she did, "I've been having these awful nightmares this entire week, and all of them were the same dream."
"A nightmare?"
Zoey nodded her head to him before looking down towards the floor, closing her eyes in pain, "It was a dream about your older brother! He… H-He…"
Zoey opened her eyes to see where she was now. She could feel herself being dragged into a dirty room by her bound wrists; the room looked abandoned, having a single bed, a blanket hanging to the side, and one side table, as well as a window with a lit candle on the windowsill. The room had a direct view of a local shady business from Sunflower Shoal on the other side of the street, a shoddy convenience store, and a gas station. The room was bone-chilling cold because of the frigid temperature outside.
Zoey widened her eyes when she noticed who was dragging her into the room; it was Eddy's older brother, Evan. He had knocked her out and brought her here. She started to violently struggle to let herself free from Evan's grasp, "Let go of me, you fucking prick!" she yelled at him.
"Aww, don't be that way with me, baby doll!"Evan said to her as he shoved her onto the bed nearby, "I'm finally gonna have my chance to play with you now AND get my revenge! Isn't that the best?!"
Before she could try to run away, Evan grabbed her by her ankles so she could not move. There was some rope already tied to the end of the bed; he started to use it to bind both of her ankles to the bed, much to her horror.
Zoey struggled once again to set herself free, "Y-You're not getting away with this!" She shouted to him.
"Heh, is that right?" Evan started to say as he finished binding her ankles to the bed. He then went over to her arms to do the same thing with her wrists to the metal bed frame with the rope that was already there, "You really think anyone is gonna stop me this time? This abandoned building is perfect for torturing people like this, it's also soundproofed; no one will EVER hear you scream!"
Zoey widened his eyes as she could see and feel Evan ripping off the clothes she was wearing. She could only scream and shout at him to stop, "Yes! There's that awesome body I remember seeing from you all those years ago!" Evan said with a sick smirk after he finished taking her clothes off, "Now it's even more developed! Very nice!"
He then started to quickly take off his shirt and shoes, "I hope you're prepared for the last few minutes of your life, baby doll; it's gonna be the wildest ride you've ever been on!" Evan said with another sick smirk as his pants fell to the floor.
Zoey could feel herself panicking more and more as Evan started to lean over her whole body on the bed, the look on his face and his dark blue eyes was the only thing she could see in front of her now, "P-Please STOP IT!" She yelled at him, tears falling down her eyes.
Evan proceeded to do the unthinkable to her. It was about eight minutes later that Evan finally finished having this way with Zoey, getting off her and sitting next to her on the bed. What she went through felt worse than going through Hell itself, lasting an eternity for her.
"Ah! It's been so long since I've last done that! It's such a great thrill!" Evan stated to Zoey as he put his clothes back on, smirking at her once again, "I usually had a lot of condoms with me back then, so consider yourself extra lucky for experiencing that raw and rough feeling, courtesy of yours truly!"
Zoey started sobbing because of what happened to her, "I-I, W-Wh… why…" she muttered, sounding disoriented from what she had gone through, her voice sounding hoarse from all the screaming she did.
"Anyway, now that I'm done playing with you…"Evan started to say as he got up to go over to the only side table in the room. He opened the drawer to grab something out of it, a pistol, "It's time for me to finish this. I have a cardboard casket to toss you in later with your name on it. The ocean is nearby, and the sharks need to be fed."
Zoey widened his eyes in terror, "P-Please… s-stop this…" she weakly uttered.
Evan approached Zoey's side, pointing the barrel of the gun he held to her chest, right at her heart, "Do you have any parting words to say, baby doll? You might want to speak up now before I pull this trigger and end your life."
Zoey only stayed silent for a moment before closing her eyes in sorrow, sobbing even more, "E-Eddy... I thought we could be together forever, but I-I guess I was wrong… I'm sorry Dad! I-I'm so sorry Eddy!"
"Aww, isn't that fucking sweet of you," Evan mocked her with a chuckle, narrowing his dark blue eyes as he put his finger on the trigger, "Don't you worry, baby doll, I'll make sure you and my little brother are reunited in Hell!"
BANG!
Evan fired the gun at Zoey's heart with no hesitation, no remorse. Zoey widened her eyes in pain as her body reacted violently from the point-blank impact. So much blood splattered from her chest, gushing out from the bullet wound; her face grew paler and paler at a rapid pace. More tears rolled down her face as her head limped to the side, the light quickly faded from her bright blue eyes that were still open. She had stopped moving. She had stopped breathing… Her death happened instantly.
"Mission complete," Evan chuckled aloud as he went to put the gun back in the drawer, "I should go get that cardboard box to put her in so I can throw her into the ocean," he turned back to Zoey's body, "It's truly a damn shame that a beautiful woman like you had to die like this. I could have just kept her here as a plaything, but I needed to get revenge on my little bro..." he shrugged his shoulders a little, "Oh well, it's not like anyone would miss either of them."
Evan then walked out of the room nonchalantly, leaving behind Zoey's cold, lifeless body; her blood had splattered all around her and the bed she lay on. Zoey's wrists and ankles were still tied up to the bed frame, and all her ripped clothes were still on the floor. Evan did not even use the blanket nearby to cover her body, she was left there like a piece of trash on the side of the road. The only thing left on her was the necklace she always wore, with the promise ring that Eddy gave her all those years ago.
Eddy remained silent as she described her nightmare to him in detail, completely stunned in horror. Zoey could not stop shaking and crying, "I-I'm sorry about walking over here to wake you up, but this nightmare felt so real; like it was happening to me at that moment! I could feel what he was… W-What he was d-doing to me, and it scares me to death that it could be some sort of premonition! It might happen in the future!"
She could immediately feel herself being pulled into a hug by Eddy. Zoey could only hug him back as she continued to sob, still trembling from what she described to him.
"Zoey, I'm really sorry that you keep having those dreams," Eddy started to say, remembering those terrible two days several years ago. His older brother was arrested twice for attempting to both hurt and kill Zoey in the way she just described, "I don't know what I can do to make you feel better… Heh, some great boyfriend I turned out to be," he muttered sarcastically to himself.
Zoey stayed silent to him for a moment, "It's alright. Just being here with you is comforting enough for me to forget for a moment."
Eddy smiled at her; hugging Zoey tighter as he did. While he was hugging her, he glanced over to his nightstand, where he was keeping something hidden inside the drawer, something that he bought a few days ago, 'I guess asking her about doing that for her birthday is out of the question. Really bad timing for it,' he thought to himself, closing his eyes with another thought, 'Not like we're both ready for that kind of thing anyway, but you know…'
"… Eddy, there's something else you need to know."
Eddy let Zoey out of his hug to look at her in confusion, "What is it?"
"It's about my dad…" Zoey started to explain, biting her bottom lip before saying, "He's had a cancerous tumor since mid-November, and now it's finally taking a toll on him. He was going to try and get medical assistance to help him live longer, but when Mom died, he gave up on trying… H-He only has a few days left to live, maybe a week at most. I'm going to have to call hospice early tomorrow morning; he told me to do this for him yesterday."
A tense silence filled the room for a second before one of them said anything, "I'm so sorry for keeping this a secret from you; I didn't want you to worry about us, but now it's too late to do anything, and… M-Maybe these nightmares are happening because I'm stressed out over my dad and the short time he has left," Zoey stated to him in sadness.
She then felt his right hand cusp against her left cheek, "Everything will be alright, Zoey," Eddy said to her with a gentle smile, "I'll try to help you out with your dad as much as I can. And, umm… I won't let anything bad happen to you anymore, I promise."
"… I know you will, thank you," Zoey replied with a smile of her own. The young couple leaned in to give each other a kiss, staying like this for a minute before separating.
They both got up from where they sat on his bed, "Do you need me to walk you home?" Eddy asked, "You came here without a jacket, and…"
"Thanks, but I'll be fine," Zoey stated to him, "Though maybe I could wear your yellow hoodie until then? I can give it back to you tomorrow."
"Good idea."
Eddy walked over to his closet to grab the hoodie he usually wore in the Fall, handing it over to Zoey as he did, "Can you text me when you get back home? Just so I know you got back home safely."
Zoey made one more smile to him, "I will."
She puts on his hoodie before opening his back door to leave his room. Eddy made a sad face when she left, "Zoey…"
Author's Note (October 27th, 2023): I'm so sorry if I brought any sort of bad memories for anyone on the subjects that were brought up. Granted, the subjects that came up are a part of this story and were conveyed as a dream/nightmare, but I still want to apologize anyway.
Please, if you or anyone else is going through something like this in real life, please speak out about it. No one deserves to go through something like this. Period.