A Visit from an Old “Friend”
By: Bethany Belt
Summary:
(Complete! (Takes place after The Mummy Returns)) Evy, Rick, Alex,
Jonathan and Jenny (Jonathan’s new wife, an American) are living very happy
lives. However, Evy’s old boyfriend,
Jack, isn’t. Ever since she left him, he
has had nothing; he has been nothing. He
wants his life back and he’ll do anything to get it!
Disclaimer: I only own Jenny, Jack and Lisa…the
rest belongs to Mr. Stephen Summors.
Rating: PG-13 (R?) for lots of violence, a
little language, a little adult/sexual content.
It just depends on your opinion.
Author’s Note: Reviews are greatly
appreciated! Please go easy, it’s my
first fanfic. I’ve had ideas for a while
but this is the first one I’ve actually written. I have a lot more of ideas, so let me know if
you like this one and if you do, I’ll work on writing more stories! Please review! Oh yeah, my e-mail is Carnation1577@earthlink.net. It’d be great if you could put “the mummy” in
the subject so I don’t accidentally delete it thinking its spam…I get a lot of
that. ENJOY!
Chapter One: Dreams
Evy
stirred and moaned in her sleep, which awoke Rick. He looked at the clock on the small table
next to his side of the bed. It read:
“You
fell out of bed.”
“Well,
I figured that much.” she said, looking at him with that ‘duh’ look on her
face.
“You
were dreaming, again, and you almost
slapped me, again. What do you keep dreaming about that makes
you do that?” he asked, concerned. He
expected to hear something about their past expeditions to
“Actually,
um, I don’t remember.” she lied. She got
up and got back under the covers.
“How
can you not remember almost killing me?
Three nights in a row?!” he said, getting a little frustrated at her
stubbornness.
“I
didn’t almost kill you! I just…never
mind. I’m going back to sleep.” she
snapped, and closed her eyes. Rick
couldn’t take it anymore.
“Evy? Evy, I know you’re not asleep. Look at me, we
need to talk.”
“We
can talk in the morning.” she replied, her eyes still closed.
“No,
Evy, we need to talk now. I’m tired of not knowing what is wrong with
you, and I’m starting to get concerned.” he said. Now Evy was getting angry. She sat up quickly and said,
“There
is nothing wrong with me! I dream, just like everyone else. It’s nothing unusual! And you need to stop worrying so much! I’m fine.
It’ll pass. It always does.” She was now staring at him.
“What
do you mean ‘it always does’?” he asked, starting to get concerned. Evy searched for an answer. She didn’t want him to know that she’s had
these dreams before. And she didn’t want
to talk about why she had them.
“I
mean, it will pass just like it has these past three nights.” she lied.
“But
that’s just it, these dreams won’t pass because they just keep coming back and
I don’t want you to have to go through this every
night.” he said, trying to get her to come out and tell him what was going
on in her head.
“Rick,
there’s nothing I can do, and if I tell you, there will be nothing you can do
to get these dreams to go away. So why
try?”
“Because
I’m not going to believe nothing can be done about it until I at least try to
help!” He was getting more
frustrated. He figured that if he
couldn’t get anything out of her, then he would just go to her brother
tomorrow. He would know what was going
on. And if he tried to get out of it,
well, Rick would make sure that wouldn’t happen. He wanted to know what was going on with his
wife. “But, I guess I understand if you
don’t want to talk about it.” he said, knowing that he was going to find out
tomorrow.
“Good,
because I don’t. Now if you don’t mind, I’m going back to
sleep.” And with that, she lay back down
and went to sleep.
Chapter Two: Rick and Jonathan
The
next morning Rick woke up and went to the bathroom just across from the
bed. Evy was still asleep. Rick knew that she would sleep for a while
longer because ever since she started having these dreams, she would always
sleep in, and head into work later. She
never got yelled at by her boss for being late, since she now owned her own
library.
Rick
figured that Jonathan and Jenny would already be awake. Well, Jenny would anyway. Jonathan was probably sleeping off another
hangover, as usual. And Alex was
probably still sleeping. After he came
out of the bathroom, he went downstairs and looked for them. And as he predicted, Jenny was already
sitting at the table in the kitchen, drinking her morning tea and reading the
paper.
“Morning,
Jenny.” Rick said sleepily.
“Morning.”
she replied. Jenny was just a little
shorter than Jonathan and she had short, blonde hair. “How are you?
You sound more tired than usual.”
“Evy
was having dreams last night and woke me up.
Do you know when Jonathan will be up?” he asked, as he walked over to
the counter and poured some tea for himself.
“He
should be up anytime now, why?” she asked, very curious to why Rick actually wanted to talk to Jonathan.
“No
reason.” he lied.
“You’re
lying.” she said in kind of a sing-song voice.
“I
just had a question for him.”
“Right.”
“Who
do you have a question for?” Evy asked as she walked into the kitchen. Rick thought for a quick escape.
“I
was gonna ask my boss when I’m gonna get my raise. We were supposed to get them over a week
ago.” he quickly lied.
“Oh.”
she said, not sure if she wanted to believe him. But she did.
She walked passed Rick to the tea and poured herself some, waking her up
a little before she took a shower and left for work.
Evy
soon left for the library and had taken Alex with her. He loved going to the library. He would read the whole day while they were
there. Jonathan was now awake. He had sent Jenny in to town to buy some more
drinks, since he had drank all of what they had last night. Now was Rick’s chance to talk to Jonathan
about Evy.
“Hey,
Jonathan. How ya doin’?” he asked,
coming over to sit next to Jonathan on the couch.
“Um,
fine.” he said, confused.
“Good,
good.” Rick said as he patted Jonathan on the back.
“Are
you ok?” Jonathan asked worriedly.
“Yeah,
I’m fine. I just had a question about
Evy.”
“Oh,
ok. What is it?” he asked, not
concerned, thinking Rick just wanted to know something about what to get her
for a present again. He liked to get Evy
things for no reason, but sometimes didn’t know what the perfect thing would
be, so he would ask Jonathan.
“Well,
I was wondering if something happened to her before we met that would make her
have nightmares every night.” Jonathan
froze. He knew exactly what it was, but
didn’t know if he should tell Rick. He
knew that Evy didn’t intend for Rick to find out.
“Um…uh…hmm. Let me think on that one.” He acted as if he was thinking really hard. Rick just rolled his eyes.
“Jonathan,
I know you know, ok? And I need to know so I can try to help
her.”
“Know
what?” Jonathan said, playing dumb.
”Jonathan! I’m not in the mood for your stupid act
ok? Now just tell me already!!” Rick was
getting very impatient.
“Ok,
ok. Calm down ol’ chap.” Rick just glared at him. Jonathan knew that he would end up telling
him sooner or later, so, why wait? It
would probably only lead to pain of some kind.
“The reason she’s having nightmares is because of Jack.” he started to
explain.
“Who’s
Jack?” Rick asked quickly.
“Are
you gonna let me tell the story, or keep interrupting?” Jonathan snapped.
“Sorry.”
“Now,
as I was saying, she has nightmares because of Jack. Jack was her American boyfriend from high
school through college and a while after she graduated. It would have been over before they got out
of high school if it weren’t for him being so…the way he was. It’s hard to explain. Um, he wouldn’t let her go. That’s the best way to put it. He made sure that she would never leave
him. Well, he tried to. Obviously, that didn’t work. She eventually ran away, and we haven’t seen
him since.” 'Ok...so
I told him most of the
truth. Just the ending was a small lie.' Jonathan thought. They had in fact seen him once since she ran
out on him.
“Ok. So she dreams that she’s still with him?”
“I
guess.”
“So
when she yells, she’s yelling at him?”
“I
suppose.” Jonathan said.
“And
that’s it? That’s all you’ll tell me?”
“Yes. I figure Evy should tell you the rest.”
“Oh,
so there is more. You and I both know that she won’t say
anything. She’s too stubborn.”
“Yeah,
but when she finds out that I’ve already started telling you, she’ll figure
that she might as well tell you the rest.
After she gets done killing me that is.”
“Don’t
worry; I’ve got your back on that.”
“Really?!”
Jonathan asked, surprised.
“Well,
I’ll try.” Rick said smiling slightly.
Chapter Three: Rick and Evy
Jenny
was the first one to come home. And then
Evy and Alex. All evening Rick and
Jonathan went without saying anything to Evy.
After dinner, Evy decided to go up to the small room on the top floor of
the house that they used whenever they wanted to get some work done, or just be
alone, or read for a while. They had a small
library in there as well. Evy went up to
do some paperwork as well as order some new books for her library. She told Rick that she would be to bed
soon. So everyone else decided to go to
bed. Rick was the only one that didn’t
actually go to sleep. He waited for Evy
to come down so he could talk to her about Jack.
It
was not even an hour later and she came to bed.
She changed into her dark, silk nightgown and headed toward the
bed. She thought that Rick was already
asleep because when she walked in, he was facing the other way. As she laid down, she noticed that he was
wide awake, just staring out the window.
“Hey. What are you doing still
awake? You’re usually asleep by now.”
she commented.
“I
was just thinking.” he said quietly.
“About
what?” she asked curiously. She was now
under the covers with him.
“You,
of course.” he replied. She chuckled
softly at that.
“Well,
what about me?”
“Your
past.”
“My
past?” she asked, a little confused.
“Yeah,”
he said, “I was thinking about the people in it, that you had to put up with.”
“I’m
confused. What are you talking about?”
she was pretty sure, but knew that she hadn’t said anything, and wondered how
he could’ve found out, if she was even right.
Rick sat up slowly and just looked at her. “What?” she asked.
“Why
didn’t you tell me about him?”
“Who?”
she asked slowly.
“You
know exactly who I’m talking about. Your
boyfriend from high school through college.
Jack, was it?”
“Oh,
God. How’d you find out?”
“Jonathan
and I had a little talk today.”
“Jonathan? Ooo, I should—“ She started to get up, but Rick stopped
her. Now they were both just sitting
there.
“You
aren’t gonna do anything to Jonathan. I
made him tell me.”
“Why? Why would you ask Jonathan?”
“Because
you wouldn’t tell me anything.”
“Yeah,
because I didn’t intend for you to know!
If I don’t tell someone something, I have a reason!” She was very frustrated and both Rick and
Jonathan.
“Look,
I just wanna know what happened. I don’t
want you to have nightmares every night for the rest of your life!”
“I
won’t have them every night I only had them for about
a week last time!” She wished she
hadn’t said that.
“You
mean you’ve had these before?”
“Yes,
of course I have. Look, what all did
Jonathan tell you?”
“Just
that Jack was your boyfriend and that he wouldn’t let you go. He said that you would tell me the rest. He thought that it would be better if you
told me.”
“I
guess I might as well. He’s already told
you enough to get to wondering and you’ll never leave me alone about it and
I’ll eventually end up telling you.”
“Sooner
or later, yes, I would have found out.” Rick said, telling Evy that she was
going to have to tell him right here, right now, or he would keep bugging her
until she did.
“You
really want to know, don’t you?”
“Of
course I do! Why wouldn’t I?”
“I
don’t know,” she said, “I just didn’t want to tell you just so you could get
all worried and overprotective of me again.
You’re just starting to get out of that habit.”
“Evy,
I’ve never gotten out of that habit, I just don’t show my protectiveness as
much, but I’m still just as protective as I have been in the past.” She gave him a small smile and leaned up
against the wall. “I’m not going to be
more protective because I don’t think that’s possible, I just want to know
what’s going on in your head and see if there’s anything I can do to help out.”
“I
know you’re just trying to help. But I
really don’t think there’s anything you can do.”
“Oh,
I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to come up with something.” he said.
“What? Are you going to kill him?”
“If
I have to, yes.” She chuckled at the
thought.
“I
don’t know if that would help my dreams, but it would make me feel better. But you can’t just go and kill him. He doesn’t even know you.”
“So? If I have a good enough reason, I’ll kill
anyone if it makes you feel better.” She
chuckled again.
“I
don’t think that will be necessary.”
“I’ll
make that decision as soon as you tell me everything about you two.”
“All
there really is to tell is that it’s just he wasn’t 100% good news.”
“Evy.”
Rick said, knowing that wasn’t all.
“What?”
“I
want you to tell me everything.”
“Everything?”
“Yep. Everything.”
“Ok. Fine.
I can tell that you won’t give up, so I might as well tell you
now.” Rick smiled, loving the fact that
he got Evy to actually cooperate with him.
“It started in high school. We
met on the first day of 11th grade because we were science
partners. We were assigned to be
partners all year long. We got to know
each other quite well and by 12th grade, we were dating. We graduated together and attended the same
college. Where he studied to be an
engineer and I studied archeology. He
was to go to college for 8 years, and I was to go for only 4. However, when I left, he gave up college and
got a job as a construction worker. I
went on with my archeology. A year later
we moved in together and that’s when things headed for the worse. After a couple years, he started to get
frustrated that I was always gone on digs.
So after a very long, loud argument, I ended up quitting and working as
a grade school teacher. A year later, he
got the idea that I was cheating on him, which I wasn’t. So he started going to the bar every night
and coming home drunk. Each night he
would get home later than the night before.
When I tried to talk to him, he just ignored me and crashed in the
bed. Then he stopped ignoring me, but he
wouldn’t talk about what I wanted to talk about. He’d just yell at me all the time, and then
crash. He always told me that if I’m
going to go around with other guys, I shouldn’t mind him coming home drunk all
the time. After the second week of him
doing this, I couldn’t take it anymore.
So I stayed home from work one day to talk to him. That didn’t go so well.”
“What
did he do?”
“It’s
a little hard to remember, yet it feels like it was yesterday…”
Chapter Four: Flashback
*~*~Flashback~*~*
“Why
are you still here? Aren’t you supposed
to be seeing some other guy today?” Jack asked Evy.
“Jack! I’m not
seeing anyone else!! I don’t know
where you got that idea, but it’s never been true! I would never do that!” Jack scoffed and rolled his eyes, not
believing her. “But the more important
question is: why are you still
here? Shouldn’t you be at the bar by
now, checking out some woman so you can go home with her?”
“Listen,
Evy, just because I go to the bar, doesn’t mean that I’m going home with other
women.” Evy scoffed and roller her eyes,
just like he had done, and then left.
She
went into town to think. She knew she
couldn’t go to school, since she had already called in on personal leave, so
she went to see Jonathan instead. They
talked, but Jonathan wasn’t really any help.
She ended up going home a couple hours later, and finding Jack was
already out to go bar hopping. She just
sat and watched TV until he came home.
She was constantly checking the clock to see how late he would be
tonight. Last night it was
“What
do you mean, I live here!” he slightly slurred his words.
“I
mean, why are you here and not still at the bar getting drunk for no reason?”
“Because
I felt like seeing you while I was still sober.
What? I can’t see my future wife
while I’m sober?”
“’Future
wife?!’”
“Yes. I’ve come home sober so you would know that
I’m serious about this question: will you marry me?” He pulled out a ring box and opened it. It was a pretty nice ring, being they didn’t
have all that much money. Teachers
didn’t get much then and construction workers got a fair amount. Evy hesitated. She knew that she didn’t want to go that far,
especially since their relationship wasn’t all that well right now. “Well?” he asked impatiently, while taking
her hand and starting to put the ring on her.
“Jack,”
she said, pulling away, “I think we should wait a little while before we take
this big of a step.”
“What?!”
Jack said, getting angry.
“I
just don’t think this is the right time, that’s all.” Evy started to slowly back away, seeing the
anger in his eyes.
“You
will marry me, Evy. I will make sure of that. Even if I have to knock you unconscious for
it, we will get married!” He saw that she was backing away, but for
each step she took back, he took a bigger one towards her, until he was right
in her face.
“Why
do you want to get married? According to
you, I’m cheating on you.”
“But
just this morning, you said that you weren’t.
Did you lie to me, Evy?”
“No
I didn’t lie. I’m not cheating.”
“Well,
there ya go. You’re not cheating, and
I’m not cheating, so why not get married.”
He was still right in her face, still angry but starting to calm a
little.
“Because
it’s just not right. It’s not the right
time.”
“Why
isn’t it?” He was starting to get
angrier again.
“Well,”
she cleared her throat, obviously nervous of what he was going to do to
her. She spoke slowly, “our relationship
isn’t that strong right now.”
“Strong? You’re worried about the strength about our
relationship? I’m asking you to marry
me, and your worried about that?!” She
had now backed up into a wall, with him even closer to her face. She started breathing a little faster,
getting very nervous and a little scared of him. She still spoke slowly.
“Of
course I am. Marriage is a very big step
and I think we should wait for the right time.”
“What
else could be more right?” She just
stood in silence. “Answer me!!” He was starting to yell.
“Please,
calm down, Jack. We just need to wait
and see.”
“Calm
down?! Calm down?!?! You are blowing me off and you expect me to
be calm???”
“I’m
not blowing you off. I’m just holding it
off.”
“Until
when?! Huh?! If you’re saying ‘no’ now, then you’ll always say ‘no’!! So you might as well just go ahead and say ‘yes’!!”
She jumped when he said the last word for it was so loud.
“No. I can’t.”
He wasn’t pleased with this. He
slapped her hard across the face. She
didn’t cry, but she shouted out when his big hand came into contact with her
gentle face.
“I
think I heard you wrong. What was that
answer?”
“No.”
she said quietly. This time he didn’t
slap her. He punched her, making her
fall to the floor, tears now in her eyes.
Yet she refused to show that she was becoming weak. She held back the tears and stood back up,
looking him straight in the eyes.
“Now,
let’s try this again. Will you marry me
Evelyn?” She paused, not knowing what to
do. She wanted to say no, but she didn’t
want to risk getting hit again. The
hesitation didn’t please Jack and he backed her against the wall, holding her
throat, not hard enough to choke her, but enough to show the threat. “Answer me, Evy!!” Each second that she didn’t answer, he put a
little more pressure on her throat.
“No!” He had had enough. He took his other arm and hit her hard in the
stomach, while letting go of her throat.
She doubled over in pain but he pulled her back up to his face by her
hair. She shouted out in pain
again. And now he could see the tears.
“Oh
Evy, don’t cry. There’s no need for
that. All you have to do is say the word
‘yes’. And this will all end.”
“Never. Not if you’re going to be like this.” He frowned and now he really was choking
her. She was at least a foot above the
ground, struggling to get away and breathe.
But he never gave in. At least not
until she kicked him in the groin. Now
it was his turn to double over in pain.
As soon as she hit the ground, she took off running for the door. However, she wasn’t quick enough. He came up behind her, grabbed her, and threw
her across the room. She knocked into
the bookcase, knocking almost all the books off. She now lay on the floor, trying to get up
and get away, but again, she wasn’t quick enough. He walked over to her and started kicking her
in the ribs and stomach over and over.
He only stopped because the phone rang.
She continued to lie on the floor, trying to catch her breath, while
also crying.
“Hello?”
he said, as if nothing was going on. Evy
didn’t have the strength to say anything otherwise she would have yelled for
help. “Jonathan, how are you? I’m sorry but Evy can’t come to the phone
right now. She’s working on grading
papers from school.” When Evy heard that
it was Jonathan, she got the strength to shout.
“Jonathan,
help me!” Jack came over to her quickly
and covered her mouth. She struggled but
she wasn’t getting anywhere.
“Oh,
it was just the TV. I was waiting for
Evy to get done grading papers and decided to see what was on.” She finally bit him and he let go, almost
shouting out in pain.
“Help!!”
she shouted again. Jack finally had to
knock her unconscious.
“Sorry,
I can’t seem to find that damn remote.
Ah, there it is!” he said, acting
as if it was just the noise of the TV.
“Now, what did you want?...Well, as I said, she can’t come to the
phone. I’ll have her call you though,
but she has a lot of papers to grade so it may be tomorrow. Is that ok?...Ok. Bye.”
He hung up the phone a drug Evy to the basement by her feet. She woke up on the way there because of the
repetitive smack on her head from being drug down the stairs. When she realized what was going on, she managed
to get a foot loose from his grip and kick him in the face. She got up and ran up the stairs as he
realized he now had a bloody nose. That
just pissed him off even more. He ran
after her but by the time he got upstairs, he couldn’t find where she
went. Then she heard her talking.
“Jonathan! You have to help me! Jack’s—.”
She didn’t get to finish her sentence because Jack had come up behind
her and covered her mouth and hung up the phone.
“That,
my dear, was a big mistake!” He tied her to a chair in the kitchen as well
and gagged her. Then he called
Jonathan. “Hello, Jonathan? I’m sorry about that phone call from
Evy. She had fallen asleep in the study
and was in a trance like thing and called you.
I guess you could call it a type of sleepwalking. Or sleep talking
for that matter. I’m terribly sorry
about that. I’m gonna get her to bed so
that doesn’t happen again. Good
night.” And with that he hung up. He turned back to Evy, who was looking at him
in fear. “Now, as for you missy. I’m forced to punish you for that little incident.” She already had a red cheek, a bruised cheek
bone, bruised ribs, and marks on her throat.
But that just wasn’t enough. Jack
left the room for a minute, only to return with a needle with something in
it. She didn’t know what it was and had
the feeling that she didn’t want to
know. He didn’t untie her until after he
injected whatever it was into her, which was quite painful because he wasn’t
very gentle. She could feel that the
inside of her elbow would also be bruised the next day, if he let her live that
long. As soon as he injected it into her,
she could feel her whole body going limp.
She couldn’t move. She could
still breathe however. She wanted to tell
her arms and legs to throw a fit and get out of his arms, and she wanted to
scream loud in his ear, but she couldn’t.
She could only look at him and hope that he didn’t do anything else to
her.
Jack
knew something that Evelyn didn’t. The
injection would only last a couple minutes for he didn’t give her that
much. He injected enough to allow
himself time to tie her up. He took her
to the bedroom and tied her to the bedpost at the foot of the bed and sat her
on the floor. She could only imagine what
would come next. She dreaded it, hoping
that she was wrong.
She
felt funny all of a sudden…she could move!
However, she was already tied up.
And Jack was standing above her, just staring at her with his angry
eyes. She was in a lot of pain, and Jack
knew it. That’s what made him think that
she wouldn’t try to get away again.
However, he was wrong. He had
failed to tie up both of her
hands. And when he leaned down to her,
she kicked him hard in the groin as well and punched him in the face with her
free hand. He laid on the floor
paralyzed with pain. She quickly undid
the cloth around her other wrist which was now red, and ran as fast as her tiny
legs would, and as fast as she could without causing much pain. On her way out the door, she grabbed the keys
to her car. She got in it and drove
away.
She
ended up going to Jonathan’s because it was the only safe place she could think
of to go. When she arrived, she pounded
on the door as hard as she could until he opened it. She nearly hit him on the forehead, but
managed to stop just before she did.
“Evy?! What on earth happened to
you?!?!” He brought her in and fixed her
up while she explained everything.
*~*~End
Flashback~*~*
Chapter Five: Rick and Evy Again
By
the time Evy was done explaining everything to Rick, she was almost in
tears. And Rick was holding her close as
she buried herself in his chest. “Evy,
I’m so sorry! I wish you would’ve told
me sooner.” he said, feeling terrible for what Jack had done to her.
“I
should’ve. I’m sorry.”
“It’s
ok. I understand why you wouldn’t want
to talk about it. So, I take it that’s
where the scar on the inside of your elbow came from? And it’s not from falling off a tree?” he
asked.
“Yes. I’m so sorry I lied.” She started crying.
“Shh. It’s ok.
I’m here. It’s ok.” He couldn’t really be sure that it was ok,
but he had to say something. He couldn’t
just sit there.
“There’s
something else that I didn’t tell you.” she said, getting over her crying fit.
“What?”
“I’ve
only had these dreams once before. It
was just after I left him and went to Jonathan’s. But, when I had the dreams, he came
back. In real life. Jack came back and tried to take me
back. Luckily, Jonathan was there and
had some friends over. His friends threw
him out of the apartment after they found out who he was.” She laughed a little at this memory.
“Do
you think that will happen again?” Rick asked, a little scared that this guy
might come back and kidnap Evy and who knows what he would do to her.
“I
don’t know. I hope not but something’s
telling me it will. It might just be the
fact that it happened last time. It was
probably just coincidence though, since it was right after I left him. But it’s been years now. He’s probably forgotten all about me.”
“I
doubt he’s forgotten you. But, he may
have given up on getting you back. Plus,
even if he does come for you, I’m
here and you know that I would never
let you go. No matter what!”
“I
know.” Evy said, assured that nothing would happen with Rick there to protect
her. They finally laid down and fell
asleep in each others arms.
Surprisingly, Evy had no dreams that night. And when they woke up, they were still in
each others arms, just the way that they’d fallen asleep. Evy was the first to move and get out of
bed. She went to the bathroom across the
way to take a shower and get ready for work.
Rick got up and went downstairs to get breakfast ready so she and Alex
would get something before they left.
Alex was going with his mother to the library again. He made some bacon and scrambled eggs. Jonathan and Jenny were the first to come in
and eat. They then left to go in to town
and spend the day with each other. Alex
was the next to come in and he ate and then went into the living room and
watched TV until his mom was ready to go.
She
finally came down and ate. Her and Rick
talked a little about general things.
Rick told Evy that he wasn’t sure if he’d be home when she got there
because he was going to go to the store since they were low on groceries. But he figured that he should be home by the
time she got there, since she usually stayed late. Usually until
A
while later, at about
Evy
worked until only
“Yes?”
he called back.
“It’s
time to go! Pick out some books if you
want to take any home!” She knew that
since she was leaving a half an hour early, he probably wasn’t finished with
his books. He chose two to take
home. “Ok. Take your books and wait for me in the car, I
have to lock up.” she said sweetly.
“Ok,
mum.” Alex replied as he trotted off to the car. Evy made sure that all the lights were turned
off and everything was locked. She
turned the sign on the front door to ‘closed’ as she locked it. Then she headed to the car.
On
the way home, she noticed that there was a car that pulled off the side of the
road just after she left the library and was now behind her. She didn’t think of it, but she noticed that
it followed her all the way until she pulled into the driveway. She though it was a little strange but pushed
it out of her mind, thinking nothing of it.
When
they entered the front door, Alex went straight to his room to finish his
books, and Rick came to greet his wife.
“Good to see you home early.” he said, taking her into his arms. “How come you decided to take off?” he asked.
“No
reason really. I had nothing else to do
at the library. I finally finished all
my work. So for now, I think I’m done
staying late. I’m going to return to my
normal hours next week.”
“Good! Now a can spend 3 more hours a night with my
wonderful wife! I can’t wait.”
“Me
neither.” she said as she leaned in to give her husband a kiss. Just as their lips met, Jonathan came walking
in.
“Please,
take it in your room!” he complained.
“Shut
up Jonathan!” both Rick and Evy said in unison.
“Well,
fine!” he said, returning to his room.
Rick and Evy then went upstairs, in each others arms the whole way. They spent the rest of the night together in
their room. << a/n: I think you know what I’m getting at. >>
Chapter Six: He’s ba-ack
The
next day was Saturday, so Evy got to stay home.
Rick and Evy had talked Jonathan and Jenny into taking Alex to the zoo
for the day, leaving the two home alone for most of the day. They started out having a lovely breakfast which
they ended up making a huge mess in the kitchen. Then after that, they went for a stroll in
the woods in their backyard. They went
down to the creek and laid on the ground just listening to the peaceful water
flow across the rocks.
A
couple hours later they returned to the house for lunch. Again, they made a huge mess, so now the
kitchen was twice as bad as it was after breakfast. They spent a while cleaning it up. It was around
Rick
went to look out the window to see who it was.
“It’s not them. I don’t know who
it is. It’s someone in a grey car.”
Evy
started to get a little scared at this.
“Is it a
“Yeah,
how’d you know?” he asked, thinking that it was strange that Evy would know
what the car looked like, without even seeing it.
“Oh
no.” she said more to herself than Rick.
“’Oh
no’ what?”
“It’s
him!”
“Who?”
“It’s
Jack!! I saw it following me home last
night from the library to the driveway.
I saw that it looked a little like his car, but didn’t think anything of
it! We have to get out of here now!!”
Rick could see that she was panicking.
She was already halfway to the backdoor.
“Wait,
wait, wait! Evy, come back!” She stopped and looked at him. “How do you know that it’s even him? There are tons of grey
“Remember
my dreams?!” she said, starting to shout out of fear. “And plus he followed me home last
night! So that explains how he knows I
live here! We have to leave right now! Let’s go!”
Just then, there was a knock on the door. “Rick, don’t answer it! Let’s just go out the back door and he’ll
never know we were home!” Rick hesitated
for a moment, and then remembered everything that Evy had told him about what
Jack did to her, and headed to the backdoor with Evy. The knock was getting louder on the front
door as if the person was getting impatient.
Just before Rick and Evy reached the backdoor, the front door was kicked
open. They looked back to see none other
than Jack. And the worst part of all was
that he was loaded with weapons. Knifes,
guns, explosives, everything. Evy took
one look at him and just froze. She
couldn’t bring herself to move. She just
stood there and stared at him in total fear.
“Hello
Evy! It’s so nice to see you again!” Jack said, in a very evil, yet sarcastic
voice.
“Evy,
come on,” Rick said as he tugged on her, “we gotta go! Come on!!”
He finally gave up and picked her up and carried her out the back
door. Just as Rick shut it behind them,
a knife blade came flying towards the door and came out a little on the other
side, almost hitting Rick’s head with the point. Rick put Evy down, seeing that she was now
mobile, and they ran to the neighbor’s barn and hid in the loft, in case Jack
had followed them.
After
a while of just sitting there, Rick decided to go see if Jack was still
around. “You wait here, I’ll be back as
soon as I check and see if he’s still out there. Don’t go anywhere!”
he ordered.
“Ok. Be careful.
You don’t know what he’s capable of.”
“Don’t
worry. I’ll be right back.” With that, Rick went down the stairs and
searched the inside of the barn, and then the outside. Then he went to check the house. No one was there and he noticed that the car
was gone. He headed back to the barn to
get Evy and tell her that he was gone.
*~*~Back to Evy~*~*
Evy
was waiting for him to return and then he heard him coming up the stairs to the
loft. She looked, but no one was
there. ‘Maybe it was just my
imagination.’ she thought. She looked
out into the field from the little window area from the loft. She didn’t see Rick and figured that he was
in the house checking for Jack.
Just
then, she felt a knife come up to her throat, as well as a hand over her
mouth. She didn’t dare move. “You scream, and I won’t hesitate to kill
you, understand?” Jack asked in a very angry yet determined voice. She cautiously shook her head, and he let go
of her mouth and removed the knife. She
turned to face him. And saw him
smiling.
“What
the hell are you doing here?!” she yelled.
“I’m
here to rescue you, of course!”
“Rescue
me?! From what exactly??”
“From
your husband, brother, son, and sister-in-law.”
“And
what makes you think that I need ‘rescuing’ from that?!”
“The
fact that you’re not with me tells me that you’re in need of being rescued.”
“If
I were with you, then I would need rescuing!”
He reached over and brushed his hand on her cheek. She turned away.
“Don’t
be stupid, Evy. I wouldn’t wanna have to
bring myself to kill you. And don’t
think for a second that I won’t.” He
then started looking her over. “You have
changed, since the last I saw you. You
are so much more beautiful. I’ve never
wanted you more.” She scoffed.
“Always wanting what you can’t
have.”
“Oh
I can have you. And I will.”
he said, leaning in to kiss her. But she
turned away again. As soon as she turned
back, he tried again. This time she
slapped him, and then regretted it, remembering what happened last time she hurt
him. He started to get angry with her,
but didn’t do anything to her, yet. He just took her by the arm and dragged her
down to the ground, and they went looking for Rick, who was still in the
house. When they found him, Jack stayed
in the shadows and threw Evy at him and her and Rick fell to the floor.
“Evy? What are you doing? I told you to stay in the loft!” he
said. Just then, Jack came out of the
shadows and grabbed Evy again, this time putting a gun to her head.
“Don’t
move and she lives!” Jack said as he
moved himself and Evy toward what was the front door. Rick stayed where he was staring at Evy’s
fearful eyes, wishing he could do something.
Before he knew it, Jack and Evy were in the grey car and down the driveway. As soon as the shock left Rick, he packed his
guns and headed out. Even though he
didn’t know where Jack lived, he was pretty sure that Jonathan would know.
Chapter Seven: Rescue Evy
When
Jack and Evy got in the car and left her house, Evy started asking
questions. “Jack, what the hell do you
think you’re doing?!”
“I’ve
never known you to curse, Evelyn. Shame
on you. That damned husband of yours
must be a very bad influence on
you. It’s a good thing I got you away
from him.”
“He’s not a bad influence, Jack, you are!” Evy shouted.
“Look,
Evy, do you really wanna make this hard for you?” he asked as he pulled his gun
out again, just holding it in his lap.
She didn’t reply, instead she just stared out her window. Jack then put the gun away.
*~*~Back to Rick~*~*
When
Rick got to the zoo, he went straight to the where the lions were. He knew that Alex was fascinated with them
and that’s where they would probably be.
Strangely, the place was almost empty.
Rick figured that it would be packed on a Saturday and all. ‘Oh well,’ he thought, ‘that’s just the
easier it will be for me to find Jonathan.’
When he entered the lion area, he saw the three standing just where he
had predicted. “Jonathan!!” he shouted
across the place. “Jonathan!!!”
“Rick,
what are you doing here?” Jonathan asked, confused.
By
now Rick was right next to Jonathan.
Rick felt safe to talk to Jonathan because Alex was not in earshot, as
was Jenny (although he didn’t worry about her hearing this). They were on the other side of the lion area
where the lions were laying. “Jack came
back! He took Evy.”
“What?!” Jonathan was now very concerned for his sister, being he knew how Jack was.
“I
need to know where he lives!”
“Why? Are you going to his house?”
“Of
course!! I have to get my wife
back! And his house is the only place I
think he would take her!” Rick was
starting to get impatient so he was starting to raise his voice.
“I’m
going to come with you. I’ll show you
how to get there.”
“No! You’re going to stay here so Alex doesn’t get
concerned! Just tell me where he
lives!!”
“Ok! Jeez.
Keep your pants on, ol’ boy! He
lives on
*~*~Back to Evy~*~*
Jack and Evy were now and his house. And he pulled her inside.
“I see you still have our old place.” Evy said, a little
surprised.
“Yeah, I couldn’t really afford a new one right away,
being you took all my money. I’m saving
up for one though.” Jack led Evy into
the living room and he sat on the couch, pulling her down with him. “So, how has your life been these past few years?”
“Jack, don’t start conversation with me like we’re still
dating, ok? Because we’re not! I left you a long time ago. Just get over
it, ok?!” She had now gotten up and was
almost yelling at him, but knew better than to really raise her voice too much
to him, in case he was still as violent as he used to be. Unfortunately, she still raised her voice a little more than what she’d intended.
“Don’t you raise your voice to me! I would think you would know better! Obviously I didn’t teach you very well.” He got up, and started towards her, backing
her into a wall, lightly putting his hand around her throat. She thought that this was going to be just
like the last time, but was wrong. He
started kissing her neck, here and there.
Something that she only allowed Rick to do. Her body started to tingle with fear. She didn’t dare knee him, for she remembered
what happened last time.
“Jack,
stop it. We aren’t together anymore, and
you have to let it go.”
“I’m
not going to let you go. I told you that
years ago. I wanted you then, and I want
you now.”
“We
don’t always get what we want.” She
moved away from him, but he just followed her wherever she went.
“I
do.” he said. Evy noticed that he had
that look in his eye, and it scared her.
She desperately looked around for any kind of weapon or means of escape. But she was out of luck. He moved closer to her.
*~*~Back to Rick~*~*
Rick was now speeding down the road, toward
*~*~Back
to Evy~*~*
She moved a step away for each step he moved towards
her. However, his steps were much bigger
than hers, and he caught up to her. She
was now against the back of the couch.
He kissed her passionately and his hands started roaming. She pushed him away, but he just came
back. He wasn’t going to give up now
that he was this close.
*~*~Back
to Rick~*~*
Rick finally saw it.
*~*~Back
to Evy~*~*
While he was kissing her, she got
the courage, and bit down hard on his lip.
He squealed and pulled away. He
put his hand up to his mouth and saw blood on it when he looked at it. He then looked up at Evy with an evil grin on
his face. She was scared to death of
what he was going to do.
*~*~Back
to Rick~*~*
“Just five more blocks.” Rick said
to himself as he rushed towards Jacks house.
*~*~Back
to Evy~*~*
Jack lunged at Evy throwing them
both over the back of the couch. They
rolled off the seats and fell to the floor.
For a moment, they just laid there, dazed. Then Evy remembered her situation and started
to get up. However, Jack stopped her by
rolling over on top of her.
*~*~Back
to Rick~*~*
“Three more to go.” Rick said, still
rushing.
*~*~Back
to Evy~*~*
“Get off me!” she shouted and
started struggling.
“No can do, Evy. You’ve been a bad girl and I have to teach you a lesson. One that you’ll never forget.”
“Get off!!” She kicked him hard
in the leg, making him roll off of her.
She quickly got up and ran. He
was right behind her.
*~*~Back
to Rick~*~*
“One more!”
*~*~Back
to Evy~*~*
She was heading to the kitchen,
because she knew that there was a door just past it. She was next to the table when he caught up
with her. He grabbed her and turned her
to him. He leaned her backwards over the
table so she was facing him, and started choking her, while shaking her a
little. As well as yelling things that
she couldn’t make out.
*~*~Back
to Rick~*~*
“Finally!” He got out of the car and headed down the
sidewalk towards the door. Though it was
a long sidewalk, he could still see the front door. But he knew it would take him a bit to get
there.
*~*~Back
to Evy~*~*
After she was starting to lose her
fight, he let go of her. She fell to the
floor, trying to catch her breath. He
just stood over her. When he could tell
that her breathing was ok, and she wasn’t dieing, he joined her on the floor.
*~*~Back
to Rick~*~*
“Halfway there!”
*~*~Back
to Evy~*~*
“Let go of me, you basterd! Let go!!” Jack had grabbed both of her wrists with one
hand and held them above her head. He
used his free hand to start lifting her skirt.
It was now above her knees, where as originally, it hung past her
ankles.
*~*~Back
to Rick~*~*
“Two thirds of the way there!!”
*~*~Back
to Evy~*~*
“Get your filthy hands off
me!!” She was yelling as loud as she
could, but that didn’t stop Jack. He now
had her skirt lifted above her hips and was undoing his blue jeans.
*~*~Back
to Rick~*~*
“Three more steps!”
*~*~Back
to Evy~*~*
“No!! Get off me!”
She was struggling the best she could but he was holding her down and he
was much stronger than she could ever
dream of being. He now had both of them
exposed and was just about to…
“EVY!!!” Rick came barging in the front door. Jack still didn’t stop. He was now “thisclose” to her <<a/n: I
got the “thisclose” thing from the book “The Mummy”. And I think you know what is “thisclose” to
her. I hope you do because I’m not going
into detail. You’ll just have to figure
it out.>> Rick came running in and
saw the terrible site. He tackled Jack
and started beating the crap out of him.
Evy covered herself again, and quickly crawled to the corner and curled
up, putting her knees to her chest and wrapping her arms around them. She closed her eyes, wishing that it was
over…or better yet, not happening at all.
At the thought at what was going on she started crying, still curled up.
Rick
and Jack fought for quite some time, and then Rick finally got the chance to
reach for a gun. It only took two
seconds after he reached it to shoot Jack.
He just shot him in the arm, for he intended for him to suffer for a
little bit. Then he remembered what he
saw Jack doing to his wife when he ran in, and shot him in the head. Jack fell dead to the floor, a puddle of
blood quickly getting bigger where his head lay on the floor.
Evy
was still in the corner, not paying any attention to what was now going
on. She just stayed curled up doing her
best to protect herself from Jack, obviously not knowing that he was dead. Rick put his gun away and found her sitting there. He cautiously went to her and slowly put his
hand on her arm, knowing that she was probably very skittish after what had
just occurred. He was right. When he touched her, she jumped and curled up
tighter, whimpering and crying.
“Evy? Evy, its ok. It’s me, Rick. Jack’s dead.
I killed him, just like I said I would.
He’ll never bother you
again. I promise. Come on, Evy. It’s ok.
I’m here. And I’ll never let
anything happen to you!” As soon as all
this registered in her brain, she threw herself into his arms, and he held her
close, rocking her back and forth, trying to get her to calm down.
A
couple minutes later, Jonathan came running in.
He was alone. He actually thought
ahead and had dropped Jenny and Alex off at the house before coming. At first, he didn’t see anyone. He only said that the door and been kicked
open. Then he thought he saw blood on
the floor, and at first, he didn’t want to know whose it was. He slowly looked and saw that it was
Jack. He hopped over the lifeless body
and then saw Rick and Evy. “Evy! Rick, what happened?!” Jonathan asked, very concerned for his sister.
“You
don’t wanna know.” Rick said quietly.
“Oh.”
Jonathan said, knowing what had happened just from Rick saying that. “He didn’t…did he?”
“No.
But he was close.” Rick replied,
standing up with Evy and walking out of the house. Jonathan followed closely.
Chapter Eight: Comfort and Explanations
They
arrived home within 30 minutes and Jenny and Alex were watching cartoons. When they saw Evy, the immediately ran to
her. Alex got there first. “Mum?
Mum, what happened?!” He was really concerned for his mother. He always was when he saw her upset. He was afraid something happened and he might
lose her again.
Jonathan
walked over to Alex, “You’re mum’s fine, Alex.
She just needs to be with your father right now, ok? Come on, let go back to the TV.” Jonathan took an unwilling Alex back to the
TV. Jenny followed.
Rick
took Evy upstairs. The whole way home,
Evy hadn’t let go of Rick for one second.
And she was still clinging on to him for dear life. When they got to the bedroom, Rick sat them
down on the bed, still holding onto Evy.
“Evy?” She moaned softly,
indicating for him to continue. “I know
that probably don’t want to talk about it, but I need to know what he did to
you.” She sniffed, and slowly sat up
away from him. Just enough to look him
in the eyes. “Did he fight with
you? Did he hit you, or anything? Or just try to…’take you’ so to speak?”
“He
didn’t hit me. But he choked me.” She finally revealed the marks that were
still on her throat.
“Oh
my God, Evy…”
“And
he had me bent backwards over that table, which hurt my back a little.” She turned away from him to allow him to see
if there were any marks there. He lifted
her shirt a little, enough to see that there were pretty good size bruises on
her lower back.
“He
hurt your back more than ‘a little’. You
have some pretty big bruises.” He
lowered her shirt again and she turned back to face him. “Is there anything else he did?”
“Well,
what you walked in on wasn’t all he did.
He ---.” It was hard for her to
finish, just thinking about made her want to curl up in a ball again. So she leaned into Rick again. And he held onto her.
“It’s
ok. Take your time.” he said, rubbing
her back, where there were no bruises.
“He
kissed me. And he roamed my body while
he did it.” Tears were now in her eyes
again. Rick didn’t know what to
think. He couldn’t come close to imagining what she had gone
through that day. He knew that there was
nothing he could do for her but comfort her.
So that’s exactly what he did.
“It’s
ok now. You don’t have to ever worry about him again! I promise
you that I’ll never let anything
happen to you again, ok?” He started
rocking them again.
“Ok.”
she replied. It was almost night, so
they decided to go to sleep, the best they could. Surprisingly, they slept quite well.
Chapter Nine: Back to
It
was 2 months later, and life was back to normal. Alex started school, Rick was back to work,
Evy was as well. Jonathan stayed home
all day, and Jenny went to the store everyday to get more drinks. They all remembered quite well what had
happened, but it didn’t bother them, being that Jack was dead. Evy had her times, when she remember it a
little too well (although who
wouldn’t?) but Rick was always there for her.
The
next year, Jonathan and Jenny ended up having a baby girl. She was named Lisa Michelle Carnahan. Alex was very excited to have a little cousin
to play with. Although he didn’t enjoy
the stinky diapers, he still loved having her around.
Life
was great for the three O’Connell’s and the three Carnahan’s. And they lived normal lives for the rest of
their times. Although, with the
O’Connell’s, nothing is really normal, now is it?
The End