Jer woke up to find that she was tied laying on her back again. The room was darker than usual, she realized she had been moved to a different room. It was musty, it must be the basement she thought. Hearing the door open, she turned to see a figure at the top of the steps.
"You are so much trouble. I'd rather rid of you than love you. I had to..." he put his hands to his face and rubbed it, and then continued. " I had to rid of someone else, you are my angel. I took pictures though.."he paused" I wanted her to be you...I made love to her....she begged for more..."He started walking down the creaking stairs. he put the pictures next to her in the bed, and started to walk away.
"How did you kill her?" jer asked, trying to see what was in his mind.
"I stabbed her with a kitchen knife." He responded giggling.
"Why do you laugh at the thought??" She asked horrified.
"Boo killed that person in To Kill A Mocking Bird the same way. I must have read that book 100 times now." He said as his blue eyes sparkeled. "She died too fast though. With you, my angel, your death will be different. I want to breath your soul into mine when you take your last breath.
"How can I see the pictures if I am tied up??" She asks, as she tries not to let panic rise within her.
He sighed and walked back to the bed. Taking the pictures out of the envelope, he scatters them about the bed. "You are my trophe." He says, and then turns and leaves the room.
She looks at the pictures scattered before her. he had not only killed one woman, but five. The last on hardly six hours before. She wanted to scream, but she knew no one would hear her. She started to tug on the ropes, making her wrists bloody and raw... but she got one undone.
-a phone started to ring somewhere in the room.
--- She looks around the room to see if she kind find the phone. 'Q' had left his cell phone, or he had dropped it without knowing it. It lay by the bed on the floor, flashing with an incoming phone call.
"THANK YOU 'Q'!! She says, as she waits for the phone to quit ringing. She dials Roe's cell phone and hopes Roe has it on.
"Hello?" Roe says, in a very tired voice.
"I'm alive..." is all Jer can say before she hears the click of the basement door. She throws the phone under the bed, and lays back in the bed putting the rope around her wrists again. She hoped Roe would stay on long enough to hear her some more.
'Q' came into the room and started to search around. "What are you looking for?" Jer asked. "My phone." he says, as he stands at the end of her bed. "Where did you have it last?" She asks, as she notices the door open.
'Q' bends down to look under the bed, and Jer knocks him over the head with a small lamp. At almost the same time, a car honks violently out on the street. She screams as he grabs for her, forgetting his search for the phone.
Making it to the front door, she swings it open to sunlight. Hearing a loud pop, her legs fall from beneath her. She starts to feel a white hot pain like she has never felt before. A person runs past her, and she blacks out.
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Chris stood before his cousin Kevin in terror. Chris' brilliant plan lost at the sight of a gun aimed at his chest. They were almost face to face, with Kevin smiling a most evil grin.
"What brings you here bud?" Kevin asks Chris. as if nothing unusual was going on.
Chris doesn't answer, and points at the gun.
"I could end your life right here and now, like you ended mine." Kevin says as he waves the gun around and starts to laugh.
"What do you mean??" Chris asks him.
"Jessica...dude." Kevin says as he starts to pace. " All the chicks dig you." he stops and stares at his cousin/ "ALL the ones I killed, there last vision was of you. I was you..." He says starting to laugh.
Chris' terror turns into pure hate. but his hate is still no match for Kevin's gun. "if you are going to kill me, kill me now!!" Chris yells at him.
Kevin stepped the few steps up to Chris, holding the gun point blank to his chest, all the while smiling.
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Bardi had torn some of Jer's bloody shirt and pressed it to the wound. Sirens off in the distance could be heard . Adrenaline had kept Bardi by Jer, even when she heard the two men arguing. Roe was down by the street calling Jessica, and Brawler was in a race to go pick her up. Maybe Jessica could make some sense about what was going on.
A loud pop from a gun is heard from the inside of the house. Bardi tries to hide while still holding onto Jer's wound. Roe runs up next to her with a tear streaked face, and they both try to pull Jer from the doorway.
"Do you think Chris is dead??" Roe asks tembling.
They both are silent, as chris walks out onto the porch and nearly falls to the ground. Roe crawls over to him, and he trembles with tears in her arms.