Oct. 23, 2025

Spooky Halloween Horror Stories — Vampires, Revenge & Winter Frights

Spooky Halloween Horror Stories — Vampires, Revenge & Winter Frights
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Settle in for a feature-length horror story triple bill—full novellas packed with vampires, blood-soaked nightlife, and a blizzard-born revenant. Perfect for Halloween, spooky season binges, and anyone hunting scary stories that go for the throat without filler.

• Vampire Night — Joe Ruston
Cleveland after dark turns carnivorous when a sunglasses-at-midnight predator and his razor-smiled companions drift from a one-way joyride into a neon strip-club nightmare, leaving a trail of sharp-toothed mayhem behind. If you like slick, street-level vampire chaos with attitude, this one sinks in deep.

• The Final Yes — Charles Campbell
A 227-year-old vampire lives by a chilling rule—you must consent to be turned—but a grandmother named Molly McBride, a vulnerable child, and a hungry hive pull that code toward doom in small-town South Carolina. Consent, corruption, and the consequences of predation collide.

• Blood and Snow — Rob Fields
Heiress Veronica Grande flees assassins into the Strickfield backwoods, dies in a whiteout—and rises changed by a warm, tainted river. Now a snow-pale force of nature with inky blood, she hunts the hunter through the blizzard. Think slasher revenge fused with toxic-myth Americana.

New here? Each novella stands alone—queue it up, kill the lights, and press play.

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Hello, my spookies. Can you believe it? Halloween is right

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around the corner, just days away. The decorations are up,

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the candies mysteriously half gone, and every night feels just

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a little more like a horror movie in the best

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way possible. And you know me, I can't let the

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season slip by without turning things up to maximum spooky.

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So tonight we're going all in with a weekly spooky

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novella compilation, three full length horror stories to sink your

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teeth into while the moon's still high and the pumpkins

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are still fresh. First, we hit the streets for a

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midnight joy rock with fangs in Vampire Night. Then we

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drift into the final Yes, a chilling reminder that not

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every offer of love or immortality should be accept And finally,

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where the snow begins to fall, we'll find what happens

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when vengeance refuses to stay buried in blood and snow.

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So light a candle and pour something dark and delicious.

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It's time to get cozy. Halloween is practically breathing down

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our necks, and that's how we like it. Vampire Night

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by Joe Rustin from New Dynamic Press, narrated by Enrique

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Cuto prologue. The jet black Impala tears through the Cleveland

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night like a bat out of hell, the headlights off

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making it practically and visible. It whips down Frankfort Avenue

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at speed, flying right on past the do not enter

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sign of the one way road, spoiled for choice. When

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it comes to parking, it veers right into one of

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the lots, narrowly avoiding the parking attendant on duty. The

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scrawny guy jumps backward just in time, saving himself from

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getting clipped by the front bumper. The Impala doesn't stop,

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It doesn't even slow down. It continues on into the

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lot proper and heads toward the far end, near the

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fence that encloses it, and pulls into a spot. It

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idles for a moment, then shuts off, the previous roar

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of the engine, dying and allowing the relative quiet of

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the night to settle in. After a few moments, the

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driver gets out, a tall man in a leather jacket

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a pair of sunglasses on. Despite the overwhelming darkness, his

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name is Colgan, not that he ever offers it to anyone.

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He circles around to the back of the car. Once there,

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he fits the key into the hole on the trunk,

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gives it a twist and opens it up. The inside

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has been customized, the sides padded with pink velvet, giving

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it an almost casket like appearance. Entombed are two women, who,

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upon the trunklet opening, begin to unfurl their limbs from

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one another and climb out, hands lazily, attempting to fix

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their messy hair and wrinkled clothes Maxine rock Sand he says,

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the first is attempting to get her mohawk to stand

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back up. The latter is fixing the chain on her

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nose ring. Without needing an invitation, he kisses one, then

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the other. By this time the parking attendant is caught

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up to them. He approaches, angry and out of breath,

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and immediately launches into a slew of complaints how they

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they were going the wrong way on a one way,

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and how they almost hit him with their car, and

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how they need to pay the fee to park here.

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Colgan doesn't rush kissing rox Anne. If anything, he prolongs it.

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The attendant stands there, fuming but not sure what to do.

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In the absence of an actual idea, he just beerates

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them some more. Are you even listening, moron? Apparently not, hey, jackass.

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The attendant reaches out and grabs the man by the shoulder,

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making a valiant attempt at giving him a rough pull.

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It's like trying to move a brick wall slowly. Colgan

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loosens his lips from ROC's hands and turns to stare

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at the man, a smear of lipstick on his close

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lipped smile. What happens next happens fast, practically in the

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blink of an eye. Colgan catches the wrist of the

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offending hand and then effortlessly twists it to the side.

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The sickening crack of bone sounds, and the attendant lets

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out an agonized scream. It turns into whimpering soon enough,

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as Colgan continues squeezing his arm where he's broke it,

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driving him down to his knees. When the attendant looks up,

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face twisted in pain, it's to three smiles leering down

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at him, though there's something off with the expressions. It's

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the teeth, he realizes. The teeth are wrong, like some

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kind of childhood nightmare come to life. They're thin and sharp,

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like needles. Colgan rips the attendant forward and past himself,

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slamming him face first into the rear bumper of the Impala.

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He grabs him by the back of the head next

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and effortlessly lifts him up just enough to clear the trunk,

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before driving his throat down against it and then slamming

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the lid like a makeshift guillotine. Doesn't behead the attendant, though,

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simply biting into the flesh on the back of his neck.

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He cries out, blood from his broken nose, flying out

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into the velvet lined interior of the trunk. His voice

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echoes around himself in his panic, The attendant doesn't at

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first realize that he isn't alone in the trunk. No,

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there's someone else stuffed far into the back, a woman.

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It looks like her uniform saying seven to eleven. Her

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dead eyes stare at him, glossy like marbles. Her throat

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is a mess of dried gore. The trunk lid is

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lifted off his neck, and the attendant tries to push

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himself up with his one good hand, struggling against his fate.

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Before he can make anything resembling an escape, though the

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two women descend upon him. Chapter one, You're a Hot

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Mess Jessica, you know that. Don't talk to me, Amy,

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I can't piss if you're talking to me. The clerk

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at the BP station the one caddy corner to Progressive

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Field is a liar. He tells the girls Amy, Megan, Zoe,

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and Jessica. She's out of sight, presently duck down on

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the other side of the car, pants around her knees,

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trying to take a leak in public, that they don't

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have an indoor bathroom. That part is true. They do not,

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in fact have an indoor bathroom. Amy made sure to

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ask multiple times for clarification, and each time got the

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same exact answer fed back to her. The lie is

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when the boy behind the counter he couldn't be any

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older than eighteen or nineteen, so he doesn't care. He's

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thinking about his next math test, probably tells them that

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it should be clean, considering it had been emptied out

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earlier this week. His words don't exactly stand up to scrutiny.

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If it's been emptied out this year, Amy would honestly

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be shocked. What she saw in that porta potty will

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haunt her for years to come. She fully expects to

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wake up in the middle of the night, coming off

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a PTSD nightmare, drenched in a cold sweat. Yes, she's

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being dramatic, but still she leans back against the Toyota

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parked off to the side of the pumps front bumper

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aimed at Carnegie Avenue, fully expecting to see FEMA vehicles

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pull into the otherwise empty lot any second to cordon

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off the thing and declare it a disaster area. She

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says as much as she passes her cigarette to Megan, who,

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after a puff, passes it on to Zoe. It earns

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her a few giggles. It's mid July and late evening,

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a hot, sticky day creeping steadily into a hot, sticky night.

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The dog days of summer are upon them, and Cleveland

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has become a swamp. The asphalt from all the road

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acts as a heat sink. The moisture rolling in off

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Lake Erie offers up all the humidity anyone could ever

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want put together. The city seems to be trying to

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steam its population like broccoli. The sound of urine splashing

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the concrete punctuates their idle conversation. I can't believe you

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got us kicked out of an Applebee's, Amy says, as

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the cigarette returns to her. Technically it was Jessica. Megan counters,

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Come on, guys, I'm trying to focus. Here comes a

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quiet voice from behind the car. It's honestly kind of

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impressive when you think about it, though, Zoe offers, I

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didn't even know Applebee's did kick people out. I thought

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it was like waffle House. You know, you do something

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outrageous and they give you a free meal or something

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for entertaining the guests. Well, the guests were entertained alright,

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Amy says, passing the cigarette to the left. You'd think

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they'd never seen tits before. Megan remarks, before taking a puff.

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Probably never seen them at the Applebee's bar, that's for sure.

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You shouldn't encourage her when she's drunk, Amy continues, You

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know how she gets, no, Amy, how do I get?

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Jessica's words are spoken slowly as she struggles to her feet,

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bouncing her ass off the car several times before she's

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fully upright. She manages to get her pants back up

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around her waist before she circles around the car. Her

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eyes are glassy, her hair's slightly a mess. She takes

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the cigarette right from Megan's lips and sucks the last

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bits of life from it before flicking the butt out

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toward the road. Too much fun for the average person,

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Amy offers that seems to satisfy her. She finds her

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grin reflected in Jessica's face. It's been a day and

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it isn't over yet. They've been at it since five o'clock,

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and this time at the gas station is the biggest

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lull their evening has had. No one's ready to call

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it a night, though. This could be the last time

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they get to hang out, all of them together like this,

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so making it last, even if that means they're going

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to have the hangover to end all hangovers in the morning,

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it's worth it to Amy's left the whole reason they're

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out and about hitting up the bars of their youth

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where they used to have to use fake IDs, and

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now they don't even get carted. Megan short, round blonde hair,

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a big, toothy smile, the sweetest girl in the world, really,

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at least that's what Amy thinks. Also one of the

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craziest bitches she's ever met, but that's neither here nor there.

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There's an engagement ring on her finger and a doctor,

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specifically a somnologist whatever that is waiting at home for

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her whenever their girl's night comes to an end. The

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plan is, after they say their vows, they're getting the

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hell out of Dodge. Megan soon to be hubby Brett

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has taken a job down in Springwood, and while that

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isn't necessarily far away, it's far enough. The promises of

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I'll keep in touch are well intentioned, but no one

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is kidding themselves. Life happens, time happens. The years haven't

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been exactly kind to their friend group, and Amy doubts

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they're going to start taking it easy on them now.

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Take for instance, Zoe, who presently is lighting up another

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cigarette that after she takes a few initial hits on,

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we'll pass it to Megan, who will pass it to Amy,

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and so on and so forth. She's got dark hair

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that she cuts herself, all choppy and stylish, so skinny

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that she has to stand in two places at once

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just to cast a shadow. She works as a hairdresser

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when she isn't bouncing from one disc functional girlfriend to

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the next. Could probably make rent a lot easier if

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she didn't spend most of her money on psychotic women.

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Then there's Jessica Tall, blonde, pretty all leg could have

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been a model, or an actress or a porn star,

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made something of herself. She's never been married, but she's

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been engaged a bunch, is already in talks with a

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new guy, who she says has really swept her off

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her feet. This time is different, her words, it's always different,

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the only constant being that she's scared to be alone.

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Two kids at home, different fathers, but she's a good

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mom or tries to be there with her own mother

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right now, facilitating her current drunken escapades. Finally, Amy herself.

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She's the designated driver tonight, which means she's only had

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a few beers while the others have had a few

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too many. Red hair, skinny because she forget gets to eat,

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gifted with large breasts, which just means her boss finds

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it difficult to take her seriously. She works at a bank,

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makes okay money enough to keep the lights on and

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the internet paid, so she can keep looking at online

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colleges with the intention of applying, but never actually doing it.

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It isn't lost on her that she probably had it

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the best out of all of them before Megan's news,

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and this is after a messy divorce. She wishes she

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could find a nice doctor, but they would probably just

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prescribe her prozac and call it a day. I feel

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like I'm getting sober, Jessica says, what the hell are

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we doing? I mean, it's getting kind of late. Zoe answers,

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glancing down at her phone. Nine o'clock is not late,

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you old maid. Come on, it's one of Megan's last

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nights as a free woman. Amy wipes the sweat from

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her brow, loosens the strands of red hair that had

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been sticking to her forehead. All we've done is drink.

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I think it's time we get Megan some action. The

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shorter blonde looks caught off guard. She looks up expression

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of shock and says, you did not hire me a prostitute. Okay, Charlie,

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sheen reel it in. We're going to a strip club,

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not getting you piped. Oh, Megan says. She almost sounds

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disappointed for a moment before smiling. I could do a

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strip club good because you didn't really have a choice

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in the matter. Jessica's been looking forward to this since

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I told her I've basically just been pregaming the woman

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in question. Explains her pregaming would put a lot of

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seasoned drinkers under the table. All right, my little drunk bastards,

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get in the car. Next stop Wings and Dings, Chapter two.

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Wings and Dings is only twenty minutes from her apartment

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by foot, which is good since she doesn't own a car,

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so Joan just hoofs it every day she works, which

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is most days. She sets off north up East thirteenth Street,

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walks the entire way in the shadow of the Reserve

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Square building, then turns left onto Superior Avenue. It's late,

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getting later, but even with the sundown and the moon

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creeping higher and higher into the sky, it's still hot

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and muggy. Joan's tank top sticks to her back as

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she walks, damp with sweat. She regrets the biker boots now,

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but it's too late to turn back. Besides, sneakers aren't

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exactly her style, and style is important to Joan. She

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crosses the intersection of East twelfth and Superior zigzags between

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bright orange cones guys working on the road with a backo. Specifically,

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one guy's working neck deep in a hole while six

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others watch in the reflective glass of the eleven eleven

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Superior Building. She takes a moment to be vain and

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look at herself in the public mirror. During the day,

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the entire city gets mirrored. Here at night, aided by

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the glow of street lights, she can really just see

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herself and a little bit across the street. Tall black

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hair done in a punky undercut, blue eyes encased, and

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thick liner, strong jaw, athletic figure. She looks good, better

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than she did when she rolled back into town a

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few years ago after failing to make a name for

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herself in California. It turns out that it doesn't matter

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how badly you want to chase a dream. Sometimes it's

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just faster than you are. The light glints off the

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ring in the left corner of her bottom lip, off

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the dozen or so piercings spread between two ears. She

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turns her attention back ahead faces Cleveland at night, which

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is a lot like Cleveland in the daytime, just darker.

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A different flavor of people creep out and fill the streets,

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her kind of people. Joan gets as far as the

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Hampton Inn before the thoughts creep back in failure. The

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word has been dogging her lately, keeping her up at night,

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driving her to drink good thing. She's a bartender. She

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grew up not far from here, west bank of the Flats.

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Now she works on the East Bank. It's like that

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bon Jovi song who says you can't go home. What

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he should have been asking is why would you want

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to take a right at the Federal Reserve Bank take

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a left onto Rockwell. It isn't like Joan doesn't like

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her hometown. On the contrary, she likes Cleveland, all of it,

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even the not so great parts. The urban decay, the

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smell of lake erie permeating everything, that same stench getting

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carried along by the Cyoga River. The people, the food,

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the culture. She just thought she used to think about

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more than just self loathing. Believe it or not, that

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when she came back here she would be a bit

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better off than when she left. On the contrary, she's

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probably at the lowest point her life has ever sunk to.

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For fuck's sake, she works in a strip club owned

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by her aunt Diane. Not even as a stripper, at

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least there's money in that. No, she just tends bar

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and watches other people enjoying their lives. Up on the left,

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Joan passes the park. The statue of Tom L. Johnson

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sits in a chair with his back to her, his

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gaze focused on the casino across the way. She feels

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that she's getting closer to work, try as she might

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to drag her feet. The thing is, it's not even

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a cool strip club. What Wings and Dings is is

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another family failure. Aunt Diane had set out to create.

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Get this a male version of Hooters. Okay, all right,

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that's fun. It's not going well. Every attempt she's made

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to open up another location has ended in absolute disaster,

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like approaching bankruptcy type stuff. Besides men on poles, their

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other claim to fame is there sixty nine flavors of Wings? Yeah,

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like the sex number.

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Ha ha.

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Buffalo Wild Wings only has twenty two flavors, and they're

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a national chain. To get that kind of variety, corners

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have to be cut. Here's the lemon pepper one, which

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is just a chicken wing dusted with lemon pepper. Here's

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the garlic salt one, which is just a chicken wing

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dusted in garlic salt. Here's the Lawry's one. And no,

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it's not a promotional item. It's just something Aunt Diane

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had in the spice rack, lamenting her existence. At least

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passes the time Joan crosses west third. The road gets

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a lot worse here, cracks, potholes, big stretches of cold patch,

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beads of sweater on her brow, threatening to streak down.

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She can't tell if she's out of shape or if

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it's the weather, maybe both. So much humidity she feels

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like she's swimming. Her tank top clings to her by

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this point, as if she took a dip in a pool.

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Cross West sixth, continue on down the avenue. On the

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right a red brick building with a four lease sign

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plastered on the side. On the left a parking lot,

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one of three. There's another right next to wings endings

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another across from it, all owned by the same company.

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A sign in the front of each says, please pay.

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The uniformed attendant Joan doesn't see him, though. His name's

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Marty or something, and usually he's out on the sidewalk

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front and center, taking his job as seriously as a

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high school hall monitor. She knows this because he's always

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trying to get her attention. Joan isn't sure she would

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quite classify what he does as cat calling because it

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isn't creative enough. It's just as sad though. Another sign

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says they have monthly parking available, which to her sounds

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like a good way to get your car stolen and

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early bird specials a real steal. Wings and Dings is

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up on the right, next door to a little bar

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called Tommy's that it shares a wall with. It's an

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unsuspecting single story building of red brick. The entrance a

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heavy metal door with a blacked out window above it.

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The name of the club is printed in chipped white

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letters spray painted right onto the brick. Beside it a

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chalkboard routinely washed clean by the rain or vandalized by

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passer by. Today in green chalk, it shows the happy

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hour times, and below that in red proclaims that they

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have football on the television. Joan really really hopes the

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TV goes out again. Before heading inside, she stops to

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light a cigarette by the door, figures its best to

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get the first smoke break of the night out of

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the way. Really, she's just buying time or wasting it

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depends on your perspective. She glances across the street, across

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the one of three parking lots there must be one

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hundred cars parked in it, but she never sees anyone

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actually come back to claim them. Maybe they're the ones

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renting a space for a whole month. Who knows. Past

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it is an apartment building. Past that the imposing tower

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of the Carl B. Stokes United States Courthouse. It gleams

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even at night. Why a courthouse needs to be so modern?

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Art is beyond her need to spend those tax dollars somehow,

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she guesses. Joan takes another puff, diverts her gaze down

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the avenue toward where it opens up onto West Ninth.

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The occasional car passes, but besides that, it's dead the

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night still. There's a street light at the end of

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the avenue and one at the beginning, but none in between.

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So Joan stands in the dark. In the distance, she

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hears an ambulance. Pretty quickly, it fades into the soundtrack

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of the city indistinct, shouting traffic. What might be a

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gunshot could be a car backfiring. She catches movement in

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her periphery, so she glances back to the parking lot

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across the street. There, moving across the dark background is

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a darker silhouette Joan thinks for a moment that it's Marty.

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She dismisses that thought though the figure too tall, too broad.

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Marty's a shrimp of a man. Besides, this figure isn't alone.

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Her eyes adjusting to the shadows, Joan sees more shapes

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moving people walking. The lot doesn't have a single light

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in it, a fact she's never really noticed before but

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now is acutely aware. The hair's on the back of

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her neck stand on end, but Joan feels silly for it.

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She isn't scared per se. It's just somewhat unnerving to

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see people moving around in the dark. It sparks a

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primal sort of reaction. At the entrance to the lot,

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where there's a little booth promising five dollars parking in

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the evening, the initial figure stops. Joan knows it's rude

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to stare, but she can't help herself. She watches the

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other people come to a halt beside him. Two or

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three she can't really be sure, for the dark in

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the distance. The man, she's fairly certain it's a man anyway,

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seems to have the same idea as she does. She

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hears the faint but distinctive metal clink of a Zippo

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lighter being flicked open, spots the flame and watches it

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turn the end of a cigarette into a burning ember.

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This action makes the people more real, less like demons

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prowling the shadows. She can't make out any of the

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finer details of the figures, but she assumes they're just

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punks like her, trying to make the best of a

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Friday night. Somewhere off beyond the lot, a howl rings out.

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Could be a dog, could be a coyote. She's heard

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they come into the city sometimes to scavenge. It's enough

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to pull her out of her staring contest. How long

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she's been at it, she has no idea. Her cigarette

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is mostly ash now. She knocks off the excess, takes

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one last drag, then flicks the rest out into the

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street before turning. Reaching for the door handle with her

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hand around it, the door pulled half open, she stops.

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It's an unconscious action, her pausing to look back across

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and up the avenue, sparing one last glance at the people.

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That initial fear she had felt watching them skulk across

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the parking lot returns tenfold when she does using the

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lit end of his cigarette as a guide, she can

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tell the smoking man is facing her, now staring back,

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returning the favor of her voyeurism. His cohorts are too.

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They don't have cigarettes to give away their exact position,

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but she can sense their eyes, knows they're digging into her,

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can practically feel them doing it. Then suddenly, hey, Joan,

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what's up? She jumps. Can't be helped. She steps over

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the threshold a bit too fast to appear natural, and

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lets the door slam shut behind her with a heavy thud.

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Her attention turns to the man talking to her, Brian

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the bouncer. He occupies the little buffer room between the

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street and the club prop in a fancier place. It

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might be called a reception area, or maybe a lounge,

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something like that. Joan thinks it resembles a glorified closet,

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though all painted black. It throbs from the music deeper

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in the club. Oh sorry, I didn't mean to startle you,

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he apologizes. Nah, Nah, it's cool, Bee, What did you say? Asked?

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What's up? Is all? Oh? Live in the dream? You

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know how it is? Brian's big, like a real mountain

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of a man. He towers head and shoulders over. Joan

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towers over most other people too, who weren't themselves brought

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up on a steady diet of gamma radiation. You know

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you're late again, he tells her. Diane's pissed. Diane's always pissed.

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Joan reasons, yeah, well try and not get fired. Alright,

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you're the first cool bartender we've had. Aw you think

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I'm cool. Joan leaves it on that comet. She knows

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Brian is sweet on her, doesn't know why, but he is.

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She wishes she felt the same. He's a nice guy.

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She pushes through the swinging doors and crosses into a

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whole other world, immediately greeted by loud, boisterous, bass boosted

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remixes of rock and pop songs that make the walls

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vibrate with life, Neon lights and hues of blue and

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pink flash, making every other step a tripping hazard. They

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pulse in time with the music. At least that's the plan.

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Sometimes they feel too erratic, too random, to be attempting

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any kind of pattern. The club is longer than it

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is wide, and still shows evidence of its former life

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as a common Midwestern bar, like the one next door.

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Faux wood paneling on the walls in a solid concrete floor,

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probably still beer stains on the seats from these days too.

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Joan doesn't trust the cleaning job the janitor does. The

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bar is located at the far end. In between her

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and it are a slew of booths lining the walls

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in two small circular stages, each one occupied by a

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decently built man in a speedo, both gyrating their hips

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in time to a Lady Gaga song. Most of the

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clientele is women in their thirties and forties, and that's

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00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:31.480
what she sees as she weaves her way past them,

453
00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:36.000
crisp dollar bills coming up from Michael Kor's bags at

454
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:39.279
the bar aunt, Diane is mixing a drink, but even

455
00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:44.039
so seems to just know that Joan is nearby, like

456
00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:49.400
she has a sixth sense for disappointment. You're late, she tells,

457
00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:52.119
her voice raised, either so she can be heard over

458
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:56.200
the music, or because she wants to yell above the

459
00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:59.480
liquor shelves. The TV shows some game of some sport.

460
00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:03.680
I'm always late, Joan responds as she rounds the counter,

461
00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:06.599
dropping into a crouch so she can dig her apron

462
00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:12.440
out from under it. You're always late, Diana agrees. Exasperated.

463
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:17.519
Standing back up, Joan pulls the apron overhead begins nodding

464
00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:21.119
at her back. What are you making? I'll finish it up.

465
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:25.039
You can head out, she says, don't worry about this.

466
00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:29.839
Get me six shots of vodka. What brand didn't specify?

467
00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:34.160
Dealer's choice. The shelves behind the bar are filled to

468
00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:40.279
bursting with liquor, mostly organized tequila's with tequilas, whiskeys with whiskeys,

469
00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:44.680
Vodkas with vodkas. They have Smirnoffin's Vedka and Crystal Lake

470
00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:48.880
and Kettle One. Given it's her decision, Joan settles on

471
00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.359
gray goose, nabs the bottle by the neck, and then

472
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:56.160
turns to the counter to work. Grab a tray, set

473
00:32:56.200 --> 00:33:00.359
it down, arrange six shot glasses on it. Begin to pour.

474
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:05.839
That's too much, Diane chastises her from the side. It's

475
00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:08.240
a shot as long as it fits in the glass.

476
00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:12.519
It isn't too much. It's too much. Do you want

477
00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:15.599
me to pour it back in and try again? The

478
00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:20.160
woman goes quiet after that. Lips pursed, Joan can hear

479
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:23.400
the groaning of the scales as she weighs the option

480
00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:27.720
of firing her on the spot. She never voices her decision.

481
00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:32.960
Joan picks up the tray and asks which table. By

482
00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:36.079
stage two, the three women with the bad die jobs

483
00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:40.359
you see him? Yeah, I see them? Good. Diane pushes

484
00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:43.480
the drink forward. A woman takes it with a polite smile,

485
00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:46.960
and call your mom when you get a chance. I will,

486
00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:51.440
Joan lies, all right, I'm heading out. If you burn

487
00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:54.400
the place down, I know, I know, make it look

488
00:33:54.440 --> 00:34:08.760
like an accident. Drive safe. Chapter three, the GPS takes

489
00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:12.639
her down Carnegie Avenue has her turning up Ontario Street

490
00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:15.760
on the other side of Progressive Field. Amy might have

491
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:18.760
lived in Cleveland all her life, but that doesn't mean

492
00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:22.159
she knows the flats very well. Certainly not enough to

493
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:25.719
find a small strip club. Last thing she wants to

494
00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:29.039
do is get lost this time of night. How'd you

495
00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:32.639
even hear about this place? Megan asks from the passenger seat.

496
00:34:33.159 --> 00:34:36.159
She has a red bull in her hand, chemically inducing

497
00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:40.760
a second wind. Friend at work, the redhead explains. She

498
00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:44.440
veers gently to the left onto West Huron. On the right,

499
00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:49.280
the Landmark Office towers looms, an imposing structure of concrete

500
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:53.280
and glass. Twenty two stories done with an art deco flare.

501
00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:56.519
The side of the building is dominated by a massive

502
00:34:56.599 --> 00:35:01.440
billboard for the Cavaliers for the Love for the Land.

503
00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:07.000
Is it full sausage or banana? Hammocks, Jessica inquires from behind.

504
00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:11.360
I don't think it's legal for it to be full sausage,

505
00:35:11.880 --> 00:35:15.960
Zoe offers. Amy's eyes flick up catch the brunettes in

506
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:20.559
the rearview mirror. She's quick to return them to the road. Besides,

507
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:24.840
she continues, if it was, they'd have to be byob

508
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:28.920
that's how other strip clubs work. You go to a

509
00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:32.239
lot of strip clubs. I date a lot of strippers.

510
00:35:33.159 --> 00:35:36.199
Amy takes a right after the post Office Plaza building,

511
00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:40.840
turns right onto West Sixth, quickly turns left onto West Prospect.

512
00:35:40.920 --> 00:35:44.239
Once it ends, veer's right back on to West Sixth,

513
00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:47.880
her GPS yelling at her all the while giving orders

514
00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:51.079
as quickly as it can, she turns left down a

515
00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:57.159
one way Frankfort Avenue. Well this is spooky, Megan says,

516
00:35:57.599 --> 00:35:59.920
leaning forward to get a better view of the shadow

517
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:04.119
we rode they've ended up on. Halfway down the avenue,

518
00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:08.800
the GPS announces your destination is on the right It's

519
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:12.039
a squat, little red brick building that at first glance

520
00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:16.880
looks abandoned. It isn't until Amy sees the name Wings

521
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:20.760
and Dings plastered over the door that she's confident she's

522
00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:24.679
in the right place. There's two parking lots beyond it,

523
00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:28.599
one on either side of the avenue. Amy chooses the

524
00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:31.400
one on the left. Sees the little booth where the

525
00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:36.280
attendant should be reflected in the moonlight. This is sketch,

526
00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:40.480
Jessica observes, what you want the club to be in

527
00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:45.039
Hunting Valley, Amy asks. She glances back at the blonde,

528
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:48.719
then returns her gaze to the road. She begins to

529
00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:52.320
turn into the parking lot, but immediately has to stomp

530
00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:55.280
on the break, causing the toyota to jerk as it

531
00:36:55.320 --> 00:36:59.599
comes to a sudden stop. She comes this close to

532
00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:04.119
hitting a group of people occupying the entrance. Amy hadn't

533
00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:07.679
even seen them until her headlights lit them up from

534
00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:11.440
one of her friends, and oh shit rings out. Megan's

535
00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:14.960
hand extends forward in a flash, pressing against the dash,

536
00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:19.679
bracing for an impact that doesn't come. Her heart skips

537
00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:24.119
several beats, beating in her ears like a drum. Clenching

538
00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:27.519
the steering wheels so tightly that her knuckles turn pale.

539
00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:31.239
Amy stares at the person closest to her front bumper,

540
00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:34.880
a man with short, dark hair wearing a pair of

541
00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:39.239
sunglasses and a leather jacket. He's flanked on his left

542
00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:43.000
and right by girls with messily cut, colorfully dyed hair,

543
00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:48.599
studs in their ears and faces. They're pale too, in fact,

544
00:37:48.639 --> 00:37:53.000
intensified by the light of her high beams. Despite their

545
00:37:53.079 --> 00:37:57.639
near brush with vehicular homicide, the three don't move. They

546
00:37:57.639 --> 00:38:00.760
don't even seem bothered. The man when the center just

547
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:04.199
keeps on smoking his cigarette as if nothing is a miss.

548
00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:10.320
What's this dude's deal? Megan asks, honk your horn, Amy,

549
00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:15.280
Jessica suggests she really doesn't want to do that. Then

550
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:19.159
Jessica repeats herself, and despite the anxiety welling up in

551
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:23.039
her chest like a balloon, Amy presses the horn, issuing

552
00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:27.519
a loud beep. The man smiles. One of the women

553
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:31.360
he's with laughs. Then he plucks the cigarette from his mouth,

554
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:35.039
gives it a flick, sends it flying towards the car.

555
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:39.000
It hits the windshield, leaving a mark of burnt ash,

556
00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:43.679
before rolling down to get stuck on her wipers. What

557
00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:47.920
the fuck, Zoe says from the back seat. Amy isn't

558
00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:50.760
sure if she's still recovering from the jolt of having

559
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:53.960
almost hit someone with her car, or if she's just

560
00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:58.159
pissed now that he threw his cigarette at her. Either way,

561
00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:02.239
she honks the horn again, holding it longer this time.

562
00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:08.360
Now both women laugh. Then they finally move, stepping to

563
00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:13.239
the side and then walking parallel with the car, seemingly

564
00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:17.960
heading across the road. She sincerely hopes they aren't going

565
00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:20.960
to the strip club too, or else this girl's night

566
00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:25.639
is going to come to a swift end. What a

567
00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:29.960
fucking dick, Megan murmurs, craning her head to look after

568
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.280
the punks. Amy, swallowing hard, moves her foot back to

569
00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:37.679
the gas and steps on it, Pulling up into the

570
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:41.079
darkness of the lot. She casts a glance at the

571
00:39:41.119 --> 00:39:45.719
booth where the attendant should be, but it's empty. Maybe

572
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:50.039
they're in another lot, she thinks, she just doesn't want

573
00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:54.199
to get a ticket. Amy finds a spot and pulls in,

574
00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:57.800
then puts the car in park. After taking a moment

575
00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:00.960
to get her bearings, she twists the key, he pulls

576
00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:04.039
it out of the ignition and steps into the muggy

577
00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:08.000
embrace of the night. Her friends follow suit, and soon

578
00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:12.480
enough they're walking across the lot toward the avenue, huddled

579
00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:17.599
close together. Again, they pass the booth again. Amy looks

580
00:40:18.559 --> 00:40:24.800
it's definitely empty, probably out of business. Zoe suggests, just

581
00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:29.679
left all the signage up free parking in Cleveland. Don't

582
00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:33.440
look a gift horse in the mouth, Jessica says. They

583
00:40:33.480 --> 00:40:37.920
crossed the road, the punks nowhere in sight. Either they

584
00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:40.719
went into wings Endings or they slipped off to some

585
00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:44.880
other dark corner of the city. Amy's hoping for the latter,

586
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:50.480
but as with all things, she's expecting the worst. Hold up,

587
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:54.519
I'm gonna smoke before we head in. Amy stand with me,

588
00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:58.519
Zoe asks her, and the redhead really wants to make

589
00:40:58.599 --> 00:41:01.719
up an excuse she has to go to the restroom

590
00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:05.840
or something, but can't think of one quick enough resigns.

591
00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:10.840
She says, Yeah, I can do that, Oh, Megan, hold on.

592
00:41:11.480 --> 00:41:14.800
She reaches into her purse, digs around, then pulls out

593
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:19.039
a wad of bills, all singles. Both blondes are only

594
00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:21.960
too eager to accept the gift, and then, with the

595
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:26.920
cash in tow, head inside. Amy posts up next to

596
00:41:26.960 --> 00:41:30.719
the door, leaning her back against the bricks, finds herself

597
00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:35.320
staring at her feet, at the sidewalk, at anything except

598
00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:41.039
the brunette. You've been avoiding me all night, Zoe says,

599
00:41:41.119 --> 00:41:44.079
as she uses a cheap gas station bick to light

600
00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:50.360
her smoke. I've been corralling our friends all night. Amy reasons, yeah,

601
00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:55.199
but I mean you never return my texts either. Amy's

602
00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:58.599
throat feels suddenly tight. The heat of the night must

603
00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:03.480
be intense. That or she's about to spontaneously combust. Her

604
00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:08.960
face feels hot, Yeah, she answers after a moment, not

605
00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:13.679
sure what else to say, Zoe doesn't speak again, not

606
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:17.400
right away. She takes a moment to enjoy your cigarette

607
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:23.159
and reassess her approach, change her game plan. If you like,

608
00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:27.599
regret it, you can just tell me no hard feelings.

609
00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:33.280
Judging by her voice, there would in fact be hard feelings.

610
00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:37.920
It's not that, Amy says, which she isn't entirely sure

611
00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:41.000
is the truth. It's not the whole truth at least,

612
00:42:41.960 --> 00:42:46.159
then what is it? Can we not? She asks, her

613
00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:49.519
words a bit too quick, her tone a bit too harsh.

614
00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:52.800
She looks at Zoe and knows. Her expression is the

615
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:57.000
same one she gives unruly customers at the bank, a

616
00:42:57.079 --> 00:43:02.199
strict parent scolding a child. Let's just be here for

617
00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:06.199
Megan tonight, all right. We can talk about us later,

618
00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:12.159
all right. The brunette turns her attention away. Amy does

619
00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:15.320
the same. She can vaguely hear the music from the club,

620
00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:19.599
can feel it in the bricks. When Zoe is done

621
00:43:19.639 --> 00:43:22.039
with her cigarette and says she's ready to head in,

622
00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:25.719
she tells her to go ahead, that she'll be along shortly.

623
00:43:26.599 --> 00:43:30.800
She needs to make a quick phone call. That's a lie.

624
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:35.440
She just needs a moment to herself to breathe. After

625
00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:38.800
the brunette disappears through the door, she finally feels like

626
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:43.360
she can. Amy digs back through her purse. She's been

627
00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:45.639
trying to quit, but there's still a pack of pall

628
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:49.639
Malls there at the bottom, along with a book of matches.

629
00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:54.039
She puts the cancer stick between her lips, strikes a match,

630
00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:58.119
and lights up. The initial rush of nicotine is just

631
00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:01.599
the relief she's been looking for since picking Zoe up

632
00:44:01.639 --> 00:44:06.239
earlier that day. A good idea on paper, not so

633
00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:09.599
good in practice. It isn't like she doesn't want to

634
00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:14.000
be friends with the brunette anymore, No, God, No, far

635
00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:16.400
from it. They've known each other for so long that

636
00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:19.800
Amy can't rightfully picture a life without Zoe in it.

637
00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:24.280
But it's complicated right now, getting more so with each

638
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:29.679
text message. She ignores her parents wouldn't approve, but they're Baptist.

639
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:33.360
They wouldn't approve of much. Got another one of those.

640
00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:37.440
The voice comes from her right, and Amy looks to

641
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:41.000
see who it is. Her blood runs cold when she

642
00:44:41.119 --> 00:44:44.440
spots the man she almost hit with her car, sauntering

643
00:44:44.519 --> 00:44:49.199
up those two women still flanking him. She tries to

644
00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:52.400
say something, finds her throat has all but decided to

645
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:56.119
squeeze entirely shut. It can barely fit a breath of

646
00:44:56.159 --> 00:45:01.480
air through it, let alone a sentence. What's wrong? Cat,

647
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:05.679
got your tongue, he asks, giving her a big, close

648
00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:10.599
lipped grin. Come on, no hard feelings about earlier, right,

649
00:45:11.400 --> 00:45:14.159
He holds up his hands and mocks surrender. But it

650
00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:18.400
doesn't make Amy feel any better. There's a fear only

651
00:45:18.440 --> 00:45:22.480
a woman will truly understand being confronted by a strange

652
00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:25.360
man in the dead of night, even if he does

653
00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:29.320
have a couple of women with him. Statistics of rape

654
00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:32.199
and murder start pouring into her head like a faucet's

655
00:45:32.199 --> 00:45:36.280
been turned. She goes on autopilot, reaching back into her

656
00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:40.679
purse and retrieving the pack of cigarettes. Her fingers dig

657
00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:42.880
one out, and she offers it up to the man.

658
00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:48.000
Amy's hand shakes, and for a moment the man just

659
00:45:48.159 --> 00:45:53.360
looks at it, letting it do so. Finally he accepts

660
00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:57.719
the smoke, but doesn't ask for a light. Out comes

661
00:45:57.800 --> 00:46:02.159
a zippo. It gleams, so does he. In fact, up

662
00:46:02.199 --> 00:46:05.960
close and personal, Amy is taken aback by just how

663
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:09.559
pale the man is, so pale, in fact, that the

664
00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:14.480
veins beneath his skin shine through, looking like black forks

665
00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:19.440
of lightning. Maybe he's sick, she thinks. If he is,

666
00:46:19.559 --> 00:46:23.639
though it's contagious. The women to either side of him

667
00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:28.599
have the same quality about them, a sickly paler. They're

668
00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:33.119
wearing sunglasses too, Whatever kind of disease they have must

669
00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:36.760
make them sensitive to light. The woman on the left

670
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:39.639
has a bright purple mohawk. The one on the right

671
00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:42.320
has a chain connecting her nose ring to a loop

672
00:46:42.360 --> 00:46:45.440
in her ear. When the man lights his cigarette, it

673
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:49.159
gleams brightly. He takes a drag and then passes it

674
00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:52.360
off to Mohawk, turning his whole body to do so

675
00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:58.800
much appreciated, he says, twisting back. Amy, still not able

676
00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:01.239
to find words that will fit through the pinhole that

677
00:47:01.400 --> 00:47:06.440
is her throat, nods. She even attempts a smile, though

678
00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:10.159
she can't say how successful she is. None of them

679
00:47:10.199 --> 00:47:12.360
try and back off of her. Now that they have

680
00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:16.800
the cigarette nose ring even comes closer, leaning against the

681
00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:20.559
wall to Amy's right, blocking her path to the club's door.

682
00:47:21.639 --> 00:47:27.760
She feels suddenly claustrophobic. The woman grins, Ain't you a

683
00:47:27.800 --> 00:47:33.679
pretty thing? She says, I've always loved redheads. The man

684
00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:37.480
reaches up and removes his sunglasses, looks down at them

685
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:40.679
while he folds the arms, and then tucks them into

686
00:47:40.679 --> 00:47:46.239
his jacket pocket. When he glances up, Amy audibly gasps.

687
00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:51.480
Can't help it. His eyes are black, from the pupils

688
00:47:51.519 --> 00:47:55.440
to the sclaras like a night sky with no stars,

689
00:47:55.639 --> 00:47:59.079
just two abyssle pits that under the right light, she

690
00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:02.880
has no doubt she could see herself reflected in. She

691
00:48:03.039 --> 00:48:08.199
thinks of the movie Jaws. She thinks of Sharks. He

692
00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:12.760
steps forward, now just barely a foot separating them. He

693
00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:16.360
extends an arm, presses his hand against the wall beside

694
00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:20.679
Amy's head, and leans in. Let's see if we can't

695
00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:25.199
get your tongue back from that pesky cat. Huh. He

696
00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:30.159
grins again, this time spreading his lips. His teeth are

697
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:35.000
like needles, like some deep sea fish. Amy stares at

698
00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:39.320
them and begins to breathe so hard that she's borderline hyperventilating.

699
00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:44.280
Without warning, a scream rips up through her throat and

700
00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:58.199
out into the night. Chapter four. Harvey Kowalcik didn't use

701
00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:01.199
to do stuff like this, But then he used to

702
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:06.159
be a married man, a happily married man. Then his

703
00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:11.039
lovely wife of thirty two years passed away, taken from

704
00:49:11.119 --> 00:49:15.320
him by the big sea. His kids were already moved

705
00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:17.280
out on their own by then, and he had been

706
00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:21.199
a few years retired from the police force. This left

707
00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:24.199
him with a lot of time to sit and come

708
00:49:24.239 --> 00:49:27.440
to terms with things he had otherwise been putting off

709
00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:31.679
for most of his life, things such as the fact that,

710
00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:36.400
despite his happy marriage and his two sons, his wonderful daughter,

711
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:44.880
and his stereotypically machismo career, Harvey Kowalchek is a gay man. Sure,

712
00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:48.199
he hides it well, he was raised Catholic, and that's

713
00:49:48.239 --> 00:49:53.599
what Catholics do. Hide things, bury them deep down until

714
00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:57.880
they become ulcers. Sure some things come out during confession,

715
00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:03.880
but not everything. With nothing to distract himself from himself,

716
00:50:04.360 --> 00:50:09.280
hiding it began to make less and less sense. It

717
00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:12.920
isn't even really much of a revelation. He's more or

718
00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:17.039
less known he's gay since his late teens, maybe earlier,

719
00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:20.000
just never had the gumption to do anything about it

720
00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:25.320
outside of the occasional dirty magazine or porno flick. Now, though,

721
00:50:26.159 --> 00:50:31.199
he's been dipping his toes into the scene. He starts

722
00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:34.960
with the bars. Those are easy enough. If he gets

723
00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:37.440
cold feet, he can claim he didn't know what kind

724
00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:40.920
of establishment he'd walked into and beat a quick retreat

725
00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:47.239
back to his car. No harm, no foul. Next the clubs,

726
00:50:48.199 --> 00:50:51.719
he's finding he has a real passion for dancing. It's

727
00:50:51.880 --> 00:50:54.719
just a matter of learning these crazy new dances they

728
00:50:54.800 --> 00:50:59.920
have nowadays. Every Friday. For the past few months, like clockwork,

729
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:03.800
he's been coming to Wings and Dings. He's a frequent

730
00:51:03.920 --> 00:51:06.960
enough flier by this point that most people know him,

731
00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:09.920
and he, in turn knows most of the dancers by

732
00:51:10.039 --> 00:51:14.239
name and has a few favorites. None of them are

733
00:51:14.280 --> 00:51:17.519
working tonight, though, so he just sits in his booth

734
00:51:17.599 --> 00:51:21.280
by the entrance, enjoys the energy of the room, and

735
00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:26.760
indulges in a favorite hobby of his, people watching. It's

736
00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:29.440
a habit from being a cop, same as the reason

737
00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:32.199
why he candied at a restaurant. Unless his back is

738
00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:34.840
to the wall and he has a clear line of

739
00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:39.119
sight toward the door, his eyes flick to the stage

740
00:51:39.159 --> 00:51:43.079
closest to him. Almost sixty in his prescription for viagra

741
00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:46.719
is suddenly no longer needed. Not when he's watching the

742
00:51:46.760 --> 00:51:49.840
fit young guy on the pole spin and spin and

743
00:51:49.960 --> 00:51:54.320
spin around the metal bar like he's a top, looks

744
00:51:54.360 --> 00:51:56.880
like he's smuggling a squirrel in all its nuts and

745
00:51:56.960 --> 00:52:01.119
his lime green speedow. His game moves to the women

746
00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:04.960
surrounding the stage, most are half his age. At least

747
00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:08.920
routinely a few will look his way, giving him the

748
00:52:09.039 --> 00:52:12.119
side eye, before turning back to their friends to whisper

749
00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:17.599
amongst one another. Maybe they call him creepy, probably call

750
00:52:17.679 --> 00:52:22.400
him much worse. He doesn't care, not anymore. Used to be,

751
00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:26.719
he would just the slightest hint of scrutiny would have

752
00:52:26.840 --> 00:52:31.159
him running for the hills. Nowadays, though, he just takes

753
00:52:31.199 --> 00:52:35.000
it with a grain of salt. They chose wings endings

754
00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:38.960
for the same reason he did. It's out of the way, obscure,

755
00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:44.320
not super popular, less likely to get recognized all the

756
00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:49.679
darkness interrupted by neon lights, but still offering substantial shadows.

757
00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:52.960
Offers a kind of anonymity. If they want to add

758
00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:55.559
a bit of bigotry onto their night out before heading

759
00:52:55.599 --> 00:53:00.159
home to their unhappy marriages, so be it. He looks

760
00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:03.920
deeper into the club, toward the other stage. The heavy

761
00:53:03.960 --> 00:53:06.480
set blonde that had come in is now getting a

762
00:53:06.559 --> 00:53:10.639
lap dance, arms flailing in the air, laughing so loudly

763
00:53:10.719 --> 00:53:13.719
that she can be heard over the music. Harvey doesn't

764
00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:16.440
know the musician, but he knows the track well enough,

765
00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:20.880
having heard it played over the speakers a few times.

766
00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:24.360
Some woman singing to someone else about how they need

767
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:27.039
to shut their mouth and run her like a river

768
00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:32.360
sounds hot, he has to admit. The bartender is weaving

769
00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:36.039
through the club, coming his way just in time too.

770
00:53:36.599 --> 00:53:40.079
He's down to just ice cubes in his glass. Another

771
00:53:40.159 --> 00:53:43.360
gin and tonic Harve Joan asks him when she comes

772
00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:47.840
to a stop by his table. I'd appreciate it, tanker Ey.

773
00:53:48.840 --> 00:53:51.880
You know me so well, know you well enough to

774
00:53:51.880 --> 00:53:54.960
take this bad boy, she says, reaching out to grab

775
00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:57.800
the menu off the table and tuck it under her arm.

776
00:53:58.519 --> 00:54:01.880
Sixty nine flavors of wings and not a one worth

777
00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:05.159
writing home about. He's gotten into the habit of eating

778
00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:09.280
before he comes or right after. The drinks are fine, though,

779
00:54:09.719 --> 00:54:13.679
and Joan pours them heavy. She'd tell your aunt to

780
00:54:13.719 --> 00:54:17.760
cut the menu down, maybe make it a bit more edible,

781
00:54:18.320 --> 00:54:22.800
Joan offers, smiling. Harvey smiles back, Well, I was going

782
00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:27.679
to say, refined. That's because you're nicer than me. Okay,

783
00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:31.840
one tanga, age gin and tonic coming up. She takes

784
00:54:31.840 --> 00:54:34.760
his empty glass and marches back off into the fray.

785
00:54:35.639 --> 00:54:38.960
He watches her go, thinking what he has after most

786
00:54:38.960 --> 00:54:42.400
conversations with the bartender. What he would look like with

787
00:54:42.480 --> 00:54:45.400
that many piercings. Used to be a time he had

788
00:54:45.480 --> 00:54:48.920
seriously considered getting his ears done, but it never came

789
00:54:48.960 --> 00:54:53.320
to pass. Too old, Now, he thinks, would probably look silly.

790
00:54:54.119 --> 00:54:56.320
He still has a full head of hair, but it's

791
00:54:56.360 --> 00:55:00.639
gone entirely gray. Now his face is a map of wrinkles,

792
00:55:00.679 --> 00:55:04.199
and stress lines, deep fissures that threaten to cut even

793
00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:08.119
deeper with every passing year. His stomach used to be

794
00:55:08.199 --> 00:55:10.639
flat as a board, but it's starting to round out

795
00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:14.280
the front of his polo. Makes him look vaguely pregnant

796
00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:19.360
early on in the pregnancy. Sure, but the point remains pregnant.

797
00:55:20.559 --> 00:55:23.480
It sucks coming into a new lifestyle when you're already

798
00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:27.639
past your prime. It is what it is, though Harvey

799
00:55:27.679 --> 00:55:32.599
supposes it's just nice to be himself whatever age he's at.

800
00:55:33.199 --> 00:55:36.480
He leans back in his booth, eases his sore back

801
00:55:36.559 --> 00:55:41.639
against the uncomfortable padding. Sure, Wings and Dings isn't fancy,

802
00:55:42.199 --> 00:55:50.519
but Harvey has yet to have a bad time here.

803
00:55:51.960 --> 00:55:57.519
Chapter five. Scottie is the cook at Wings and Dings,

804
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:01.480
which means he's most likely the janet because hardly anyone

805
00:56:01.599 --> 00:56:06.119
ever actually orders any food. He sweeps the floors, cleans

806
00:56:06.159 --> 00:56:08.960
the restrooms, and when the piles of frozen wings go

807
00:56:09.079 --> 00:56:11.920
bad in the walk in, he throws them out just

808
00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:14.880
in time for the weekly delivery of fresh ones to

809
00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:19.599
take their place. He gets how Sissyphus must feel. They're

810
00:56:19.639 --> 00:56:23.239
doing Greek mythology in school right now. Scott he's nineteen,

811
00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:25.840
but he didn't have enough credits to graduate last year,

812
00:56:25.960 --> 00:56:30.280
so here he is doing it all over again, trying

813
00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:34.320
to actually commit himself. This time, it's either commit himself

814
00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:37.880
or commit suicide. At this point, he is not going

815
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:40.280
to be twenty and sitting in a high school classroom,

816
00:56:41.119 --> 00:56:43.280
he pushes the broom from one end of the corner

817
00:56:43.320 --> 00:56:46.599
to the next. The kitchen spans the entire backside of

818
00:56:46.599 --> 00:56:49.519
the club. Between the employee bathroom and the walk in

819
00:56:49.719 --> 00:56:52.719
is a stretch of the standard food service fair, a

820
00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:56.039
three compartment sink, a flat top that he's never used

821
00:56:56.360 --> 00:56:59.360
and he's pretty sure isn't even plugged in. Then a

822
00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:03.400
row of four deep friars. The oil basically cooking itself

823
00:57:03.480 --> 00:57:07.000
because it doesn't have the opportunity to cook anything else.

824
00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:10.079
How often does he need to switch out the oil?

825
00:57:10.880 --> 00:57:13.159
Scotty keeps meaning to look it up on his phone,

826
00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:17.679
but keeps forgetting. Speaking of his phone, that's what he's

827
00:57:17.719 --> 00:57:21.079
playing with at present. Sitting on top of the prep table,

828
00:57:21.480 --> 00:57:25.360
he has headphones and music blaring. His social media feed

829
00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:28.840
is a depressing reminder that life isn't going how he

830
00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:33.719
wants it to. Friends, going on vacation, going to college,

831
00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:38.440
going out he hasn't updated his status in six months,

832
00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:44.039
isn't sure what he even updated with Ugh missus Becker's

833
00:57:44.119 --> 00:57:48.239
class is such a drag. He doesn't do anything outside

834
00:57:48.239 --> 00:57:51.440
of work and school. He doesn't hang out with people

835
00:57:51.480 --> 00:57:55.360
anymore because they're off being adults and he's stuck being

836
00:57:56.400 --> 00:58:01.599
Thunk thunk thunk. Scotty only barely hears noise. He isn't

837
00:58:01.639 --> 00:58:04.639
sure what it is either. He looks up and around

838
00:58:04.679 --> 00:58:08.039
the kitchen, finds himself as alone as he always is.

839
00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:12.000
After a few moments long enough for him to think

840
00:58:12.039 --> 00:58:17.639
he's just hearing things, it comes again. Thunk thunk thunk.

841
00:58:18.920 --> 00:58:22.880
He reaches up, pulling out an earbud. Dave Grohl blares

842
00:58:22.920 --> 00:58:26.119
from it, singing about how he's got another confession to make.

843
00:58:26.880 --> 00:58:30.119
He waits again for the sound to come, and when

844
00:58:30.119 --> 00:58:36.960
it does, he actually recognizes what it is. Knock, knock, knock.

845
00:58:38.079 --> 00:58:41.199
Someone's knocking at the back door, the one that lets

846
00:58:41.199 --> 00:58:44.840
out behind the building. He's basically the only one who

847
00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:48.400
uses it, him and the delivery driver, and it isn't

848
00:58:48.400 --> 00:58:52.559
a delivery day, so the list of people who could

849
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:57.679
be wanting in is exactly none. It's probably a homeless

850
00:58:57.679 --> 00:59:04.519
person looking for a handout. That's what Scottie reasons. Anyway, knock, knock, knock,

851
00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:09.000
whoever it is, they aren't going away, so he pulls

852
00:59:09.039 --> 00:59:12.599
the other earbud out, sets his phone aside, and slides

853
00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:15.800
off the prep table. It's a short walk to cross

854
00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:19.719
the narrow kitchen. When he reaches the back door, there's

855
00:59:19.760 --> 00:59:23.599
a moment of hesitation before he grabs the handle, gives

856
00:59:23.639 --> 00:59:26.880
it a twist, and pushes it open. He isn't sure

857
00:59:26.920 --> 00:59:29.079
what he expects to find waiting for him on the

858
00:59:29.119 --> 00:59:34.159
other side, so he opens it slowly. There in the

859
00:59:34.239 --> 00:59:36.760
darkness of the alley between the club and the building

860
00:59:36.840 --> 00:59:41.559
behind it is a woman. She's shorter than him, with

861
00:59:41.639 --> 00:59:44.960
bright blue hair and a chain connecting the loop in

862
00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:49.000
her right nostril to a piercing in her ear. She

863
00:59:49.159 --> 00:59:52.880
has on big, chunky sunglasses, despite the fact that it's

864
00:59:52.920 --> 00:59:56.760
the middle of the night and she's incredibly pale, so

865
00:59:56.920 --> 00:59:59.679
much so that she practically glows in the light pouring

866
00:59:59.679 --> 01:00:03.039
out it the kitchen. Scotty doesn't know what to say.

867
01:00:03.519 --> 01:00:06.159
The hypothetical situation he had cooked up in his brain

868
01:00:06.280 --> 01:00:11.719
didn't prepare him for this. She breaks the silence. This

869
01:00:11.880 --> 01:00:15.519
is wings endings right. She offers him a close lipped

870
01:00:15.559 --> 01:00:20.719
smile after asking, uh, Scotty should tell her that the

871
01:00:20.920 --> 01:00:25.119
entrance is around in front. Instead, he just says, yeah,

872
01:00:25.239 --> 01:00:29.440
it is perfect. She walks right on in and brushes

873
01:00:29.480 --> 01:00:34.000
past him into the kitchen. Scotty should definitely tell her

874
01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:36.719
that she can't be back here, but all he's thinking

875
01:00:36.800 --> 01:00:41.440
is that she is very pale. She's kind of pretty

876
01:00:41.480 --> 01:00:44.760
from what he can see around her sunglasses. It's his

877
01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:48.960
responsibility as an employee of the club versus his being

878
01:00:49.000 --> 01:00:52.440
a man. He releases the door and it swings shut.

879
01:00:53.679 --> 01:00:58.280
Oh wow, this dump serves food. She's over by the

880
01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:02.519
friar baskets, lifts one by the handle, lets it splash

881
01:01:02.599 --> 01:01:07.119
back down into the hot oil. He just watches, not

882
01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:12.639
sure how to react. Yeah, hence the uh wings in

883
01:01:12.719 --> 01:01:17.360
the name. So it seems she turns on him. His

884
01:01:17.480 --> 01:01:20.559
eyes go to the split in her leather jacket. She

885
01:01:20.719 --> 01:01:24.440
has a crop top on. A crucifix dangles from her

886
01:01:24.440 --> 01:01:29.119
belly button. Scotty swallows, not exactly sure what sort of

887
01:01:29.159 --> 01:01:33.119
situation he's found himself in. Is it too early to

888
01:01:33.119 --> 01:01:39.559
be writing deer penthouse? You're staring? Huh what you're staring,

889
01:01:39.679 --> 01:01:43.679
you perve, the woman says. She flashes him a close

890
01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:49.639
lipped smile. Probably has bad teeth. Scottie thinks, oh, sorry,

891
01:01:50.559 --> 01:01:54.280
don't apologize. She steps over to the prep table where

892
01:01:54.280 --> 01:01:57.719
he'd been sat previously and pulls herself up on it

893
01:01:58.440 --> 01:02:01.559
without asking. She picks up one of the earbuds and

894
01:02:01.679 --> 01:02:05.480
sticks it in her fingers, then go to his phone,

895
01:02:06.039 --> 01:02:11.400
tapping at the music app, probably changing the tunes. So

896
01:02:12.159 --> 01:02:18.360
want to fuck? Record scratch? Scotty blinks, staring at the woman. Finally,

897
01:02:18.400 --> 01:02:24.880
after a few moments of silence, he manages what I asked,

898
01:02:24.960 --> 01:02:29.079
if you want to fuck? Scotty isn't a virgin, but

899
01:02:29.159 --> 01:02:32.119
he feels like it in that moment. Nerves are getting

900
01:02:32.119 --> 01:02:36.119
the better of him. Well. She peers at him over

901
01:02:36.159 --> 01:02:38.960
the top of her sunglasses, but he's too anxious to

902
01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:46.239
make eye contact. He stares at her knees instead. Sure, Sure,

903
01:02:47.039 --> 01:02:50.599
he feels like the biggest loser on the planet. Then

904
01:02:50.639 --> 01:02:55.960
come here. Awkwardly, Scotty shuffles forward. Once he's close enough,

905
01:02:55.960 --> 01:02:59.039
the woman snatches him by his waist, jerks him forward

906
01:02:59.199 --> 01:03:03.719
and inserts him between her legs. They're close now he

907
01:03:03.800 --> 01:03:09.840
can smell her something like perfume and copper. It fills

908
01:03:09.880 --> 01:03:15.480
his nostrils, makes his head swim Kiss me. She doesn't

909
01:03:15.480 --> 01:03:19.119
frame it as a request. Scotty looks up, sees his

910
01:03:19.159 --> 01:03:23.199
face reflected back at him in her sunglasses. He swallows,

911
01:03:23.599 --> 01:03:28.079
steals his nerves, then does as he's bid, leaning in

912
01:03:28.760 --> 01:03:33.880
his eyes, drifting closed. She meets him halfway. Her lips

913
01:03:33.880 --> 01:03:39.079
are cold clammy. The kiss escalates quickly when her tongue

914
01:03:39.079 --> 01:03:43.599
comes into play, bridging the gap between their mouths. He

915
01:03:43.679 --> 01:03:46.599
has to race to keep up with how fast she's moving.

916
01:03:47.199 --> 01:03:50.280
When his tongue slips past her own and into her mouth,

917
01:03:50.360 --> 01:03:56.000
though he brushes up against her strange teeth, his immediate

918
01:03:56.079 --> 01:04:00.559
thought is to pull away. He can't help it him

919
01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:03.480
from doing that, though, is the woman's hands on his head,

920
01:04:04.159 --> 01:04:07.920
holding him close and pulling him in. She opens her

921
01:04:07.920 --> 01:04:12.679
mouth up wider it covers his own. Now, Scotty feels

922
01:04:12.679 --> 01:04:16.519
something like needles pricking the perimeter of his lips. He

923
01:04:16.639 --> 01:04:20.119
tries to pull away in earnest now, but his struggling

924
01:04:20.159 --> 01:04:22.920
is in vain. She has a vice grip on him.

925
01:04:23.639 --> 01:04:28.079
That stabbing sensation only becomes worse. Pain irrupts just as

926
01:04:28.119 --> 01:04:32.960
the taste of blood hits his tongue. He screams. Her

927
01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:37.360
mouth catches it. He tries to push her away. It's

928
01:04:37.480 --> 01:04:41.920
like shoving a brick wall. Panic sets in. Scotty begins

929
01:04:41.960 --> 01:04:44.760
to hit her, to no avail. She bites clean through

930
01:04:44.760 --> 01:04:49.000
his lips, and only then does she release him, the

931
01:04:49.159 --> 01:04:53.599
cook flailing backward and hitting the opposite wall. He can't

932
01:04:53.639 --> 01:04:56.400
see the damage done to his face, but he can

933
01:04:56.440 --> 01:05:00.440
see his lower lip hanging from the woman's own. She

934
01:05:00.599 --> 01:05:03.079
spits it out onto the floor, where it makes a

935
01:05:03.119 --> 01:05:07.639
wet slap against the tile. Her cheeks and chin are

936
01:05:07.679 --> 01:05:14.199
painted red. What's wrong, baby? Don't you like foreplay? When

937
01:05:14.199 --> 01:05:18.159
he screams, blood and saliva fly forward. It's a short

938
01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:22.320
lived expression, though. The woman launches forward off the prep table,

939
01:05:22.519 --> 01:05:25.599
earbud ripping from her head as she closes the distance

940
01:05:25.639 --> 01:05:28.480
between them and the blink of an eye. Scotty's scream

941
01:05:28.599 --> 01:05:32.400
gets cut off when her hand seizes his throat, squeezing

942
01:05:32.440 --> 01:05:37.719
it so hard as to shut him up completely. That's okay,

943
01:05:38.280 --> 01:05:41.599
we can move on to the real fun. She smiles

944
01:05:41.639 --> 01:05:46.159
at him, exposing thin needlelike teeth the length of a finger.

945
01:05:47.400 --> 01:05:52.199
When she opens her mouth, it's far too wide it

946
01:05:52.320 --> 01:05:55.719
makes Scotty think of a snake. She dives into the

947
01:05:55.760 --> 01:05:58.840
crook of his neck and clamps her jaw down. He

948
01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:02.719
feels her teeth hair through his skin, then feels her

949
01:06:02.760 --> 01:06:08.159
begin to suck. All he can do is weakly try

950
01:06:08.199 --> 01:06:11.119
and fight her off, a battle he lost before he

951
01:06:11.199 --> 01:06:15.480
even started. When that fails, he can't find the strength

952
01:06:15.559 --> 01:06:18.239
to keep at it. Scotty just stares up at the

953
01:06:18.320 --> 01:06:23.880
kitchen's dirty ceiling while darkness creeps in to the edges

954
01:06:24.639 --> 01:06:38.639
of his vision. Chapter six, Megan is getting married. She's

955
01:06:38.679 --> 01:06:42.760
going to be missus Brett McKay. The future is awesome

956
01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:45.440
and bright and full of so much promise that it

957
01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:49.599
makes her feel like she's going to explode. Megan also

958
01:06:49.719 --> 01:06:53.559
has a face full of ass. She's courting sensory overload,

959
01:06:53.920 --> 01:06:58.000
hot pink speedo, shrink wrapping, jiggling flesh, the smell of

960
01:06:58.079 --> 01:07:02.400
body lotion and sweat, the toeve low remix reverberating in

961
01:07:02.440 --> 01:07:06.519
her chest. This makes her feel like she's going to explode, too,

962
01:07:07.199 --> 01:07:10.920
but in a different way. Heat burns between her thighs.

963
01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:14.519
She hopes Bread isn't too tired when she gets home

964
01:07:15.559 --> 01:07:18.559
to her right, Jessica is the best hype woman she

965
01:07:18.599 --> 01:07:23.320
could ask for, cheering, laughing, feeding her drinks to Jessica's right,

966
01:07:23.559 --> 01:07:28.039
Zoe is quiet, keeps looking toward the door, making comments

967
01:07:28.039 --> 01:07:31.920
about what's taking Amy so long. She doesn't know what's

968
01:07:31.960 --> 01:07:34.960
going on with her friends, but she can guess. Zoe

969
01:07:35.039 --> 01:07:37.159
never did know how to keep it in her pants.

970
01:07:37.880 --> 01:07:41.760
Dollar bills get stuffed into the dancer's waistband. She isn't

971
01:07:41.800 --> 01:07:45.039
sure how many the shots of tequila have gone straight

972
01:07:45.079 --> 01:07:48.480
to her head. Jessica is pushing another into her hand.

973
01:07:48.960 --> 01:07:52.039
She spills most of it down her shirt, cackles like

974
01:07:52.079 --> 01:07:56.599
it's the funniest thing in the world. Then all hell

975
01:07:57.360 --> 01:08:02.840
breaks loose. Harvey can see the bartender working her way

976
01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:07.000
back toward him, zigzagging through the crowd, drink in her hand.

977
01:08:07.719 --> 01:08:10.880
She's about ten feet from his booth when the entrance

978
01:08:10.960 --> 01:08:14.920
doors swing open, so hard that they bang noisily against

979
01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:17.680
the wall, loud enough to be heard over the drone

980
01:08:17.720 --> 01:08:21.960
of the music. Harvey's attention immediately snaps to his left.

981
01:08:22.720 --> 01:08:26.720
There's a gun in his boot, has been since twenty sixteen.

982
01:08:27.399 --> 01:08:30.800
Can't be too careful nowadays. It's the second thing that

983
01:08:30.840 --> 01:08:35.560
pops into his head. The first being what the hell

984
01:08:36.479 --> 01:08:39.359
the bouncer He's pretty sure his name is Brian or something,

985
01:08:39.800 --> 01:08:43.399
is soaring sideways and backwards through the air like he's

986
01:08:43.399 --> 01:08:48.119
been thrown almost, which seems preposterous. The guy is huge,

987
01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:52.239
built like a linebacker. He keeps on flying too, for

988
01:08:52.359 --> 01:08:55.600
several feet, before eventually hitting the floor and finally skidding

989
01:08:55.640 --> 01:08:58.439
to a halt at the foot of the stage. The

990
01:08:58.520 --> 01:09:02.199
man dancing there, startled, stumbles back from the pole, takes

991
01:09:02.239 --> 01:09:05.520
one step too many, and walks right off the edge.

992
01:09:06.159 --> 01:09:08.960
He lands on a woman, who shrieks and responds before

993
01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:11.159
shoving him the rest of the way to the floor.

994
01:09:12.199 --> 01:09:16.039
Brian's limp. Harvey can't tell if he's dead or not.

995
01:09:16.720 --> 01:09:18.880
He would make his way over to check, but his

996
01:09:19.000 --> 01:09:22.479
eyes are darting back to the door while he simultaneously

997
01:09:22.520 --> 01:09:26.520
pushes himself to his feet. The doors swing outward, then

998
01:09:26.960 --> 01:09:32.800
in outward, then in. On the final repetition, they stop

999
01:09:32.880 --> 01:09:36.159
short of closing all the way, like something's blocking them.

1000
01:09:36.880 --> 01:09:39.399
Harvey leans down, hikes up the right pant leg of

1001
01:09:39.439 --> 01:09:42.520
his slacks, and pulls the glock from his boot. He

1002
01:09:42.640 --> 01:09:45.039
rights himself in time for the doors to get another

1003
01:09:45.119 --> 01:09:50.520
shove gentler than Brian's impromptu entrance. A man enters between them,

1004
01:09:50.920 --> 01:09:54.000
casually strolling into the club without a care in the world.

1005
01:09:54.600 --> 01:09:59.199
A woman with a purple mohawk follows closely behind safety

1006
01:09:59.199 --> 01:10:03.199
off bullet in the chamber both hands. He must be

1007
01:10:03.239 --> 01:10:06.800
outside of the man's periphery. That or he just plane

1008
01:10:06.840 --> 01:10:10.840
doesn't notice him in his lonely corner. It gives Harvey time,

1009
01:10:11.479 --> 01:10:14.840
which he needs. He hasn't done this in a while.

1010
01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:19.920
The muscle memory is still there guiding him. Harvey raises

1011
01:10:19.960 --> 01:10:22.319
the gun, aims at right at the man in the

1012
01:10:22.399 --> 01:10:26.079
leather jacket, and is about to start reciting lines he's

1013
01:10:26.119 --> 01:10:30.720
said a thousand times before. When the stranger turns and

1014
01:10:30.800 --> 01:10:34.319
looks right at him. It must be the darkness of

1015
01:10:34.359 --> 01:10:37.319
the club making his eyes so dark. The retired cop

1016
01:10:37.359 --> 01:10:40.880
thinks like pits in his face. It isn't like the

1017
01:10:40.960 --> 01:10:45.239
lights are flattering. There's something off about him though. His

1018
01:10:45.399 --> 01:10:49.239
skin has an unhealthy paler to it, like he's sick

1019
01:10:49.319 --> 01:10:53.640
with a terminal disease. Fear reaches a gnarled hand up

1020
01:10:53.680 --> 01:10:57.119
and seizes Harvey by the bowels. He forgets his training

1021
01:10:57.159 --> 01:11:03.119
and instead just squeezes the trip. A loud bang rings

1022
01:11:03.119 --> 01:11:06.239
out in the club, which is followed swiftly by a

1023
01:11:06.319 --> 01:11:10.560
chorus of screams. His shot connects with the man's right shoulder,

1024
01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:15.600
sends him jerking back, but he doesn't fall over. Instead,

1025
01:11:15.640 --> 01:11:18.960
he stares at the newfound wound in his person as

1026
01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:21.600
calmly as one might observe the hole in their sweater.

1027
01:11:22.560 --> 01:11:25.880
In for a penny, in for a pound, Harvey fires again,

1028
01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:29.000
and this time his bullet lands center mass bores a

1029
01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:31.960
hole through the man's white shirt and into his stomach.

1030
01:11:32.560 --> 01:11:36.079
Blood immediately starts to color the fabric. The light of

1031
01:11:36.119 --> 01:11:38.720
the club is what makes it look black. Has to

1032
01:11:38.760 --> 01:11:45.600
be still, the guy hasn't gone down yet, drugs, Harvey surmises, PCP,

1033
01:11:45.840 --> 01:11:51.199
probably meth. Maybe. The man extends his arms to either side,

1034
01:11:51.359 --> 01:11:56.119
the universal gesture of really, there's a smile on his face,

1035
01:11:56.640 --> 01:12:00.680
a horrible, awful smile. Even at this distance, Harvey can

1036
01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:04.560
see there's something terribly wrong with the guy's teeth. Then

1037
01:12:05.039 --> 01:12:08.079
the woman with the mohawk lunges forward, and despite him

1038
01:12:08.079 --> 01:12:12.039
squeezing the trigger again and again and emptying the magazine

1039
01:12:12.039 --> 01:12:27.840
into her, she keeps on coming. Chapter seven. It all

1040
01:12:27.920 --> 01:12:31.000
happens so fast that Joan's brain has to sprint to

1041
01:12:31.079 --> 01:12:34.920
keep up. Here comes Brian, flying through the door like

1042
01:12:35.000 --> 01:12:38.439
he's weightless six' eight but tossed around like a rag.

1043
01:12:38.520 --> 01:12:41.640
Doll she drops the glass she's carrying when she sees.

1044
01:12:41.720 --> 01:12:44.479
Him hears it explode on the floor by her. Feet

1045
01:12:45.119 --> 01:12:49.000
gin And tonic shower her. Legs troy dancing on the

1046
01:12:49.000 --> 01:12:53.239
stage That brian slams, into stumbles, backward ends up falling

1047
01:12:53.279 --> 01:12:57.000
onto a. Customer the woman screams and, flails pushing the

1048
01:12:57.000 --> 01:12:59.039
poor stripper the rest of the way to the. Floor

1049
01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:04.439
her a pair of. Strangers she feels like she knows

1050
01:13:04.479 --> 01:13:07.680
who they, are, though even if she's only ever saw their,

1051
01:13:07.720 --> 01:13:12.239
silhouettes because the way they stare at the club feels

1052
01:13:12.239 --> 01:13:16.880
familiar to the eyes that dug into her. Outside her

1053
01:13:16.880 --> 01:13:20.000
gut tells her as much, anyway and it's seldom been.

1054
01:13:20.000 --> 01:13:23.399
Wrong the hairs on the back of her neck stand on.

1055
01:13:23.600 --> 01:13:26.720
End she Sees harvey get up and pull a. Gun

1056
01:13:27.279 --> 01:13:31.640
he looks like he's about to say, something but instead just.

1057
01:13:31.760 --> 01:13:35.920
Fires panic begins clawing its insidious way up Through joan's,

1058
01:13:35.960 --> 01:13:39.800
body even before the man That harvey shoots first seems

1059
01:13:39.840 --> 01:13:42.079
to just brush off the two new holes in his.

1060
01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:46.079
Body the female stranger starts rushing the old, man takes

1061
01:13:46.079 --> 01:13:48.960
several shots and, counting but doesn't slow down for a.

1062
01:13:49.039 --> 01:13:53.399
Second she leaps lands hard Against harvey and sends him

1063
01:13:53.439 --> 01:13:56.239
reeling backward into his booth with her on top of.

1064
01:13:56.319 --> 01:13:59.800
Him she raises her left hand and maybe it's a

1065
01:13:59.800 --> 01:14:03.680
true of the, light but her fingers look unnaturally. Long

1066
01:14:04.520 --> 01:14:07.359
joan isn't so sure it is a, trick though not

1067
01:14:07.479 --> 01:14:10.600
when those fingers slash down and a splash of blood comes,

1068
01:14:10.640 --> 01:14:14.039
out painting the wall behind the booth with a visceral.

1069
01:14:14.119 --> 01:14:19.880
Spray in the, dark it looks black liquid. Night joan's

1070
01:14:19.880 --> 01:14:23.640
body switches to. Autopilot she, turns sees a flurry of

1071
01:14:23.680 --> 01:14:26.359
movement in her periphery and looks in time to see

1072
01:14:26.399 --> 01:14:29.199
the man diving into the crowd by the. Stage then

1073
01:14:29.319 --> 01:14:32.680
hears an eruption of panicked cries that drowns out the blaring.

1074
01:14:32.800 --> 01:14:36.399
Music she can't help but look sees in the flashing

1075
01:14:36.439 --> 01:14:40.239
neon lights a middle aged woman clutching her, stomach nodded

1076
01:14:40.279 --> 01:14:45.840
intestines spilling out around her. Hands her face is surprisingly,

1077
01:14:45.920 --> 01:14:50.960
serene shock numbing the. Pain the assailant is atop another

1078
01:14:51.079 --> 01:14:54.960
victim already face buried in her. Throat all she can

1079
01:14:55.000 --> 01:14:58.720
do is jerk. Hopelessly troy is backpedaling away from it,

1080
01:14:58.760 --> 01:15:01.439
all and the bartender to help him to his. Feet

1081
01:15:02.319 --> 01:15:05.039
neither one knows quite what to, do but what they

1082
01:15:05.079 --> 01:15:09.560
do know is they need to. Move people have begun

1083
01:15:09.680 --> 01:15:13.520
running for the, Entrance others stand stock, still frozen with.

1084
01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:16.920
Fear joan opts to move as quickly as she can

1085
01:15:17.039 --> 01:15:20.279
for the, bar With troy close, behind heart pounding in her.

1086
01:15:20.279 --> 01:15:23.720
Ears she uses a stool as a step, ladder goes

1087
01:15:23.760 --> 01:15:25.800
from it to the bar and then to the floor

1088
01:15:25.840 --> 01:15:28.640
on the other, side falling hard onto her ass and

1089
01:15:28.680 --> 01:15:32.560
out of. View the dancer follows right after, her landing

1090
01:15:32.560 --> 01:15:37.000
on her. Left she's, trembling despite trying to will them

1091
01:15:37.039 --> 01:15:41.319
to do, so her hands will not remain. Still troy

1092
01:15:41.399 --> 01:15:45.960
is faring no. Better he's gasping for, breath practically. Hyperventilating

1093
01:15:46.479 --> 01:15:52.439
wait until he finds out there's blood in his bleached. Hair, fuck, fuck, fuck,

1094
01:15:52.680 --> 01:15:56.439
Fuck she chants like a. Mantra with the loud, music

1095
01:15:56.520 --> 01:15:59.279
she can barely hear herself. Think not that she's having

1096
01:15:59.319 --> 01:16:04.680
any particularly brilliant, thoughts just pure primal fear rushing through

1097
01:16:04.680 --> 01:16:07.800
her mind like a freight. Train after a moment of,

1098
01:16:07.840 --> 01:16:11.640
sitting she shakily twists around and onto her, knees raises

1099
01:16:11.640 --> 01:16:15.199
herself up just high enough to peer over the top

1100
01:16:15.239 --> 01:16:15.479
of the.

1101
01:16:15.520 --> 01:16:15.640
Bar.

1102
01:16:15.880 --> 01:16:21.119
Counter high pitched screaming mixes with the chorus Of Motley, Cruz, Girls, Girls.

1103
01:16:21.199 --> 01:16:26.359
Girls spilled liquor stings her. Nostrils another, smell, too has

1104
01:16:26.399 --> 01:16:31.760
begun to permeate the, club something like. Rust what she

1105
01:16:31.880 --> 01:16:34.760
sees makes her feel sick to her. Stomach the woman

1106
01:16:34.800 --> 01:16:38.520
who had Attacked harvey is now indiscriminately slashing at anyone

1107
01:16:38.600 --> 01:16:42.000
unwise enough to get. Close those that do can only

1108
01:16:42.039 --> 01:16:45.479
cry out as arcs of blood erupt from newfound gashes

1109
01:16:45.520 --> 01:16:48.800
in their. Person she's fairly certain no one's made it

1110
01:16:48.800 --> 01:16:52.119
to the. Entrance the man is leaning against the stage

1111
01:16:52.119 --> 01:16:56.720
Where troy fell, off licking his. Fingers joan can't hear

1112
01:16:56.760 --> 01:16:59.800
it for the, music but it looks like he's. Laughing

1113
01:17:00.720 --> 01:17:03.600
at this, point she's seen. Enough she drops back down

1114
01:17:03.640 --> 01:17:06.840
behind the, bar a nauseous feeling rolling in her, stomach

1115
01:17:07.079 --> 01:17:09.560
the taste of bile creeping up in the back of her.

1116
01:17:09.600 --> 01:17:15.279
Throat troy is saying something what she asks him voice.

1117
01:17:15.319 --> 01:17:21.520
TREMBLING i, said we gotta, go, man he, repeats go, Go,

1118
01:17:23.039 --> 01:17:26.399
yeah they. Do she nods at. Him first things, first,

1119
01:17:26.479 --> 01:17:29.199
Though she digs her phone out of her. Pocket we

1120
01:17:29.279 --> 01:17:31.680
got to call the, police she tells, him having to

1121
01:17:31.800 --> 01:17:34.319
use both hands to keep her phone steady while her

1122
01:17:34.359 --> 01:17:39.159
thumb punches in nine one. One just make it. Quick oh,

1123
01:17:39.279 --> 01:17:42.600
fuck oh. Shit she raises the phone to her. Ear

1124
01:17:43.159 --> 01:17:46.159
here's the dial. Sound it can't take any more than

1125
01:17:46.199 --> 01:17:48.840
a couple of, seconds but it feels like hours before

1126
01:17:48.840 --> 01:17:52.760
she hears nine one. One what's your? Emergency joan is

1127
01:17:52.800 --> 01:17:54.840
about to tell the operator on the other end what's,

1128
01:17:54.880 --> 01:17:58.960
happening not that she's really all that sure. Herself when

1129
01:17:59.000 --> 01:18:01.279
a body flies over the top of the bar and

1130
01:18:01.359 --> 01:18:04.840
smashes into the shells behind, it glass and liquor rained

1131
01:18:04.920 --> 01:18:08.119
down on her And, troy and the thrown woman falls

1132
01:18:08.159 --> 01:18:13.079
dead at their. Feet troy, Screams she does, too feels

1133
01:18:13.119 --> 01:18:15.359
it rip up and out of her. Throat in the,

1134
01:18:15.439 --> 01:18:18.880
Chaos she throws her. Phone doesn't mean, to it just

1135
01:18:18.960 --> 01:18:21.479
flies out of her. Hand she's about to go for

1136
01:18:21.520 --> 01:18:25.119
it when the kitchen door swings. Open out walks a

1137
01:18:25.159 --> 01:18:29.439
woman she's never seen. Before definitely isn't a new. Cook

1138
01:18:30.239 --> 01:18:33.760
when she turns her dark eyes On, joan though the

1139
01:18:33.840 --> 01:18:39.560
bartender knows she's one of. Them the horrible toothy smile

1140
01:18:39.640 --> 01:18:44.199
the woman gives her is just. Confirmation on the, phone

1141
01:18:44.239 --> 01:18:47.319
the operator is asking, hello are you?

1142
01:18:47.359 --> 01:18:47.600
There.

1143
01:18:47.760 --> 01:18:50.960
Hello it's a short walk from the kitchen door to

1144
01:18:51.000 --> 01:18:53.880
the bar. Space the woman makes it with a confident,

1145
01:18:53.920 --> 01:18:56.960
stride the chain connecting her nose ring to her ear

1146
01:18:57.119 --> 01:19:01.039
bouncing with each. Step she's saying, something But joan can't

1147
01:19:01.039 --> 01:19:03.319
make sense of. It not over the sound of her

1148
01:19:03.359 --> 01:19:06.960
own heartbeat doesn't. Matter as soon as the woman reaches,

1149
01:19:07.000 --> 01:19:09.960
her stepping Over troy like he's not even, there she

1150
01:19:10.119 --> 01:19:12.239
dips and grabs her by the front of her tank,

1151
01:19:12.279 --> 01:19:16.359
top hauls her up and to her. Feet she thrusts

1152
01:19:16.399 --> 01:19:19.520
her back and against the. Bar it, hurts But joan

1153
01:19:19.600 --> 01:19:22.319
has more to worry about than some lower back. Pain

1154
01:19:23.279 --> 01:19:27.359
she's going to. Die she knows. It doesn't like, it

1155
01:19:27.720 --> 01:19:31.239
but it's just a. Fact joan, figures, though that if

1156
01:19:31.279 --> 01:19:33.880
she has to, die at the very, least she can

1157
01:19:33.880 --> 01:19:37.680
fight like hell before it. Happens pour me something, Strong,

1158
01:19:37.840 --> 01:19:42.600
Sweetie nosring is. Saying joan's response is to reach up

1159
01:19:42.880 --> 01:19:45.479
snatch the chain in her fist and rip it down

1160
01:19:45.600 --> 01:19:48.279
as hard as she. Can it tears from the, ear

1161
01:19:48.560 --> 01:19:51.840
taking the piercing it's attached to with. It the woman,

1162
01:19:51.960 --> 01:19:56.640
screams then she Slashes joan across the, chest leaving in

1163
01:19:56.680 --> 01:20:00.800
the wake of her claws four angry red. Lines she's

1164
01:20:00.880 --> 01:20:04.239
readying up for a second swipe When troy tackles her

1165
01:20:04.319 --> 01:20:08.039
from the, left knocking her. Sideways it's a short lived.

1166
01:20:08.119 --> 01:20:12.039
Victory Nose ring catches, herself shoves the dancer off her

1167
01:20:12.039 --> 01:20:15.319
with such force that he's thrown back several feet and

1168
01:20:15.439 --> 01:20:19.399
lands on his. Ass it Gives joan, time though her

1169
01:20:19.439 --> 01:20:23.239
hands blindly search the bar behind. Her she finds a

1170
01:20:23.279 --> 01:20:26.960
bottle the, tanga a gin she used For harvey's. Drink

1171
01:20:27.880 --> 01:20:30.680
she seizes it by the neck just in time, too

1172
01:20:30.920 --> 01:20:34.279
as Nose ring lunges back at her murderous intent in

1173
01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:38.239
those abyssal. Eyes joan swings the, bottle connects it with

1174
01:20:38.279 --> 01:20:41.840
the woman's, head an audible thunk that she can feel

1175
01:20:41.880 --> 01:20:44.560
the whole way. Up her arm rings, out and she

1176
01:20:44.720 --> 01:20:48.960
falls to the, side clutching the bar counter for. Support

1177
01:20:49.079 --> 01:20:53.640
dazed but not, Dead joan drops the bottle and turns

1178
01:20:54.000 --> 01:20:57.199
begins to run. Away she makes it maybe two feet

1179
01:20:57.239 --> 01:21:00.319
before Nose rings slams into, her knocking her down to the.

1180
01:21:00.359 --> 01:21:04.279
Floor Nose ring follows her down, too and lands right

1181
01:21:04.319 --> 01:21:07.880
on top of. Her the bartender, rolls a move she

1182
01:21:07.920 --> 01:21:11.079
immediately regrets as she stares up into the woman's hellish.

1183
01:21:11.119 --> 01:21:16.159
Mouth drool drips from around her needlelike, teeth painted red

1184
01:21:16.239 --> 01:21:19.760
already from a prior, Meal it hits her in the.

1185
01:21:19.800 --> 01:21:23.560
Face despite her best efforts to shove the woman, off

1186
01:21:23.840 --> 01:21:27.000
she can't manage to even make her. Budge all she

1187
01:21:27.039 --> 01:21:30.239
can do is amuse. Her it seems as Nose ring.

1188
01:21:30.439 --> 01:21:34.279
Laughs starving on the streets Of la doesn't seem like

1189
01:21:34.319 --> 01:21:36.159
such a bad way to. Go all of a, sudden

1190
01:21:36.960 --> 01:21:41.079
she glances up And joan follows her gaze Sees troy,

1191
01:21:41.119 --> 01:21:44.560
again this time armed with the chef knife she uses

1192
01:21:44.600 --> 01:21:48.760
to cut. Limes he shouts Something joan can't quite make it,

1193
01:21:48.800 --> 01:21:52.000
out before plunging the knife down into the woman's. Back

1194
01:21:52.479 --> 01:21:56.640
she cries out a, terrible high pitched, noise then slashes

1195
01:21:56.680 --> 01:22:00.760
at the, dancer knocking him backward, again this time into

1196
01:22:00.760 --> 01:22:04.359
where the counter wraps around toward the. Wall she rises

1197
01:22:04.479 --> 01:22:08.239
up off the bartender rushes toward him and pins him

1198
01:22:08.239 --> 01:22:12.079
to the wooden. Surface from her, back the knife glimmers

1199
01:22:12.239 --> 01:22:15.439
like a singular beacon of. Hope it's All joan can

1200
01:22:15.520 --> 01:22:18.079
do to struggle to her, feet the front of her

1201
01:22:18.119 --> 01:22:21.680
tank top a mess of red and shredded. Fabric she

1202
01:22:21.800 --> 01:22:24.520
takes the few steps forward she needs, to and then

1203
01:22:24.600 --> 01:22:27.680
grabs hold of the knife's, handle yanking it from the woman's,

1204
01:22:27.720 --> 01:22:31.079
flesh only to plunge it right back. In she manages

1205
01:22:31.119 --> 01:22:34.399
to do this a second, time foul smelling black blood

1206
01:22:34.439 --> 01:22:37.479
pouring from the holes in the woman's leather, jacket before

1207
01:22:37.600 --> 01:22:42.279
Nose ring throws herself, backward Knocking joan back with. Her she,

1208
01:22:42.359 --> 01:22:45.840
turns seizes the, bartender and throws her to the, side

1209
01:22:46.039 --> 01:22:50.319
directly into the liquor. Shelves bottles. Fall joan feels a

1210
01:22:50.359 --> 01:22:54.319
cut on her. Forehead stars dance in her vision before

1211
01:22:54.439 --> 01:22:57.560
Nose ring can attack her, Again Though troy comes up from,

1212
01:22:57.560 --> 01:23:01.439
behind smashing a glass over her. Head it does nothing

1213
01:23:01.479 --> 01:23:04.560
but piss her off and distract, her which is All joan.

1214
01:23:04.720 --> 01:23:07.880
Needs as the woman, turns the bartender pushes through the,

1215
01:23:07.960 --> 01:23:11.680
pain she launches, forward seizes the knife once, again and

1216
01:23:11.800 --> 01:23:16.760
returns to doing her. Best Norman bates, impression just fucking.

1217
01:23:17.399 --> 01:23:21.319
Die her words are, desperate but they seem to do the.

1218
01:23:21.359 --> 01:23:24.359
Trick she drives the knife in at an, angle feels

1219
01:23:24.359 --> 01:23:26.800
it sink in all the way up to the. Handle

1220
01:23:27.560 --> 01:23:31.000
Nose ring cries out, again but doesn't throw her off

1221
01:23:31.079 --> 01:23:35.680
like last. Time, instead she slumps forward Against, troy then

1222
01:23:35.840 --> 01:23:40.079
slips slowly to the. Side, finally she begins the short

1223
01:23:40.159 --> 01:23:45.119
journey to the. Floor joan follows her, down breathing heavy

1224
01:23:45.399 --> 01:23:48.720
tears stinging her, eyes and her hands still clutching the

1225
01:23:48.760 --> 01:23:52.479
handle of the. Knife her right arm burns from. Exertion

1226
01:23:53.640 --> 01:23:57.479
she might stay there forever on her. Knees troy grabs

1227
01:23:57.479 --> 01:24:00.119
her by the, shoulder, though and hauls her to her.

1228
01:24:00.119 --> 01:24:05.560
Feet she looks down at the woman the. Monster then

1229
01:24:05.680 --> 01:24:08.039
she casts her eyes out at the club to see

1230
01:24:08.079 --> 01:24:12.720
the unfettered violence unfolding from the other. Two it all

1231
01:24:12.760 --> 01:24:18.520
seems simultaneously like a, dream yet it's painfully. Real come,

1232
01:24:18.560 --> 01:24:21.760
on the dancer is, yelling even as she looks on

1233
01:24:21.840 --> 01:24:24.119
at the. Slaughter joan is being pulled away from the

1234
01:24:24.159 --> 01:24:28.279
bar and toward the kitchen. Door she doesn't, blink not,

1235
01:24:28.520 --> 01:24:43.960
once until she's pulled through the. Door chapter, Eight dominic

1236
01:24:44.079 --> 01:24:48.960
just needs. Money he's in COLLEGE. Csu dancing on the

1237
01:24:48.960 --> 01:24:52.119
weekends is an, ideal but it makes him enough to pay,

1238
01:24:52.119 --> 01:24:54.800
rent and at this point he has to accept that

1239
01:24:54.880 --> 01:24:57.600
the five year plan he made in high school is

1240
01:24:57.640 --> 01:25:01.159
going to have a few bumps along the, Way, okay

1241
01:25:02.039 --> 01:25:06.319
a lot of, bumps such as not getting the job

1242
01:25:06.399 --> 01:25:10.479
he wanted and having to settle for wings, endings and

1243
01:25:11.039 --> 01:25:14.239
his girlfriend leaving him because she's going to go to

1244
01:25:14.319 --> 01:25:16.800
college out of state and doesn't want to do the

1245
01:25:16.880 --> 01:25:23.640
long distance, thing and people trying to kill. Him the

1246
01:25:23.720 --> 01:25:26.720
last part comes as a. Surprise he has to admit

1247
01:25:27.520 --> 01:25:30.439
he watches the chaos unfold and isn't sure what to.

1248
01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:34.840
Do in just an electric blue, speedo he's not exactly

1249
01:25:34.960 --> 01:25:38.680
dressed for a, fight all the, same the fight comes to.

1250
01:25:38.800 --> 01:25:44.680
Him after killing that ex cop what's his, Name Harry Howard,

1251
01:25:45.439 --> 01:25:49.479
harvey the mohawked woman cuts into the screaming crowd with

1252
01:25:49.560 --> 01:25:54.399
abandon the man, too though he's further, away not the

1253
01:25:54.439 --> 01:25:58.640
one that Reaches dominic. First he stands between himself and

1254
01:25:58.680 --> 01:26:02.279
the bachelorette party's been entertaining for the past however, long

1255
01:26:03.079 --> 01:26:06.960
it isn't his intention to protect. Them not, really he

1256
01:26:07.079 --> 01:26:10.760
just hasn't had the chance to move. Yet now it's too.

1257
01:26:10.840 --> 01:26:17.720
Late fear, true, fear pulse, pounding hair, raising, pants, Shitting

1258
01:26:17.880 --> 01:26:23.159
fear floods every corner Of dominic's. Being he's about to start.

1259
01:26:23.199 --> 01:26:25.960
Pleading it's about the only thing he can think to,

1260
01:26:26.039 --> 01:26:29.000
do having Seen mohawk move a mile a minute without.

1261
01:26:29.039 --> 01:26:33.239
Trouble when her hand reaches out at speed and grabs

1262
01:26:33.239 --> 01:26:40.039
hold of, him his, balls, Specifically dominic, yelps high, pitched.

1263
01:26:40.560 --> 01:26:44.680
Pained there's an intense pressure as the woman retracts her

1264
01:26:44.720 --> 01:26:49.199
hand a tug and a. Pull his speedo is torn,

1265
01:26:49.239 --> 01:26:53.560
away but it isn't. Alone he feels a, tearing a,

1266
01:26:53.600 --> 01:26:57.399
SNAPPING a sound like a wounded animal rises up in his,

1267
01:26:57.479 --> 01:27:00.840
throat but he can't manage to make more than a.

1268
01:27:00.880 --> 01:27:07.000
Peep feeling, lightheaded his legs, shaking the dancer looks down

1269
01:27:07.039 --> 01:27:13.439
at his now nude. Body there's his, cock, shrunken fear below,

1270
01:27:13.520 --> 01:27:18.199
it a mess of. Red it paints his thighs and

1271
01:27:18.239 --> 01:27:22.640
the floor at his. Feet he looks up slowly to

1272
01:27:22.720 --> 01:27:25.880
Where mohawk is leering at him with a nightmarish grin

1273
01:27:26.840 --> 01:27:30.800
in her right. Hand she rolls his testicles between her

1274
01:27:30.800 --> 01:27:35.760
two long fingers like a coin. Trick he's fairly certain

1275
01:27:35.800 --> 01:27:39.319
he's going to. Vomit dominic can feel his cheap lunch

1276
01:27:39.359 --> 01:27:42.840
from McDonald's racing up from his stomach and flooding his

1277
01:27:43.039 --> 01:27:48.880
esophagus before he, spews, though the hand holding his gonads

1278
01:27:49.119 --> 01:27:53.640
strikes forward and clenches his, face contracting his jaw and

1279
01:27:53.720 --> 01:27:58.680
holding his mouth. Shut dominic feels his testicles squish against his.

1280
01:27:58.800 --> 01:28:03.439
Cheek one, pops not unlike a, grape spraying his skin

1281
01:28:03.560 --> 01:28:06.760
with fluids he would rather not think. About he isn't

1282
01:28:06.800 --> 01:28:12.319
sure how he's still. Conscious, Frankly dominic isn't wholly sure he.

1283
01:28:12.520 --> 01:28:16.119
Is maybe this is all a, dream he tells, himself

1284
01:28:16.359 --> 01:28:19.199
and he'll wake up in a cold sweat late for. Work,

1285
01:28:20.119 --> 01:28:25.720
yeah that's. It mohawk's left hand plunges. Forward he thinks

1286
01:28:25.760 --> 01:28:28.720
she just hit him in the, stomach but it's more than.

1287
01:28:28.720 --> 01:28:33.279
That the pull of skin feels far more. Intense he

1288
01:28:33.359 --> 01:28:36.640
can't move his head to, look, though so he's left

1289
01:28:36.720 --> 01:28:40.920
blissfully unaware of the whole that's just been punched through his.

1290
01:28:40.960 --> 01:28:46.359
Midsection his vision is fading any minute. Now he's going

1291
01:28:46.399 --> 01:28:52.560
to wake. Up this isn't, real can't be any minute.

1292
01:28:52.600 --> 01:29:05.880
Now chapter, Nine megan's bachelorette party is. Ruined, no that

1293
01:29:06.000 --> 01:29:08.800
isn't the most pressing thing right, now but it's what

1294
01:29:08.880 --> 01:29:12.359
she can't help but. Think her awesome and bright future

1295
01:29:12.399 --> 01:29:17.199
had seemed so, close and now it's infinitely far. Away

1296
01:29:18.159 --> 01:29:20.520
she doesn't even know if she's going to be alive much,

1297
01:29:20.520 --> 01:29:25.239
longer let alone get married and have. Kids the blood

1298
01:29:25.279 --> 01:29:27.199
of the stripper who had been giving her a lap

1299
01:29:27.279 --> 01:29:29.760
dance soaks her front from the hole that had been

1300
01:29:29.800 --> 01:29:33.800
punched through his chest and out his. Back at first,

1301
01:29:33.840 --> 01:29:39.479
warm now it's cold and. Sticky eyeliner draws dark streaks

1302
01:29:39.520 --> 01:29:42.560
down her face from the tears that refuse to stop.

1303
01:29:42.640 --> 01:29:46.680
Falling the heavy set huddles behind the, stage closest to the.

1304
01:29:46.720 --> 01:29:50.079
Bar jessica is right behind, her a hand on her.

1305
01:29:50.119 --> 01:29:53.960
Back next in line Is. Zoe all three peer out

1306
01:29:54.000 --> 01:29:57.039
at the, club at the living nightmare playing itself out

1307
01:29:57.119 --> 01:30:00.560
before their very. Eyes she doesn't know what to. Do

1308
01:30:01.199 --> 01:30:03.479
in the absence of a, plan all she does is

1309
01:30:03.560 --> 01:30:07.479
sit there and. Watch not ten feet in front of,

1310
01:30:07.479 --> 01:30:11.760
her there's mohawk all over a. Woman megan guesses she

1311
01:30:11.800 --> 01:30:14.920
should count herself, lucky having not been chosen as the

1312
01:30:14.960 --> 01:30:19.000
next victim in the woman's murder. Spree mohawk has her

1313
01:30:19.039 --> 01:30:22.720
head thrust into the crook of the lady's, neck needlelike

1314
01:30:22.880 --> 01:30:27.439
teeth digging into the, flesh throat flexing as she sucks down.

1315
01:30:27.520 --> 01:30:32.760
Blood the victim is dead. Already her unseeing eyes stare

1316
01:30:32.800 --> 01:30:37.199
blankly At, megan face frozen in a twisted expression of

1317
01:30:37.319 --> 01:30:42.760
pain and. Horror her fate isn't. Unique there's bodies everywhere now.

1318
01:30:43.479 --> 01:30:47.039
More by the minute people are, running they're. Screaming some

1319
01:30:47.199 --> 01:30:50.520
slip on the gore that paints the ground land, sprawling

1320
01:30:50.880 --> 01:30:53.399
get attacked before they can manage to get back to their.

1321
01:30:53.399 --> 01:30:57.199
Feet others almost make it to the, door but end

1322
01:30:57.279 --> 01:31:02.800
up stopped short by the man lingering. There others may

1323
01:31:02.800 --> 01:31:05.600
be also wanting for a, plan do like she and

1324
01:31:05.640 --> 01:31:09.079
her friends do and shelter in, place wait for their

1325
01:31:09.159 --> 01:31:14.079
turn to. Die megan now knows how the cows at

1326
01:31:14.119 --> 01:31:17.960
the slaughter house must, feel standing in, line listening to

1327
01:31:18.000 --> 01:31:21.239
their fellows up ahead getting. Killed and what do they?

1328
01:31:21.279 --> 01:31:27.319
Do the only thing they can do shuffle forward when

1329
01:31:27.319 --> 01:31:32.840
it's their. TURN i called the police Comes jessica's trembling.

1330
01:31:32.920 --> 01:31:37.479
Voice what are the police going to? Do zoe, asks

1331
01:31:37.479 --> 01:31:42.600
in response her, words a wet croak, Die megan, thinks

1332
01:31:43.279 --> 01:31:46.800
but she doesn't say. That she didn't Think RIHANNA'S s

1333
01:31:46.840 --> 01:31:49.760
AND m would be the soundtrack to her. Death but then,

1334
01:31:49.840 --> 01:31:53.119
again she also didn't think she would die in a strip,

1335
01:31:53.159 --> 01:31:56.239
club or that the thing that would kill her would be.

1336
01:31:57.159 --> 01:32:03.680
Monsters heart disease, maybe but not these pale. Horrors monsters

1337
01:32:04.039 --> 01:32:07.359
the stuff Of hollywood movie magic And Stephen king. Novels

1338
01:32:07.920 --> 01:32:11.000
But megan can't think of another word for these. Things

1339
01:32:11.680 --> 01:32:16.640
they have fangs and claws and a hunger for. Blood they're.

1340
01:32:16.680 --> 01:32:21.960
Monsters it isn't the scream that gets her, attention not

1341
01:32:22.119 --> 01:32:25.680
with the chorus of them filling the. Club, no it's

1342
01:32:25.720 --> 01:32:29.119
the reaction that both the attackers have to the. Scream

1343
01:32:30.439 --> 01:32:35.039
they look, up puzzlement on their. Faces megan dares a

1344
01:32:35.079 --> 01:32:38.840
look to the, bar sees the source of, it a

1345
01:32:38.880 --> 01:32:43.720
woman being mercilessly stabbed by the. Bartender it doesn't take

1346
01:32:43.760 --> 01:32:45.840
her having a front row seat to see that the

1347
01:32:45.880 --> 01:32:49.560
woman is one of. Them her nasty teeth glimmer as she.

1348
01:32:49.680 --> 01:32:55.359
Screams she looks, back sees the man mouthing. Something can't

1349
01:32:55.399 --> 01:33:00.680
hear it for the. Music they're, distracted, though their chance

1350
01:33:01.840 --> 01:33:05.960
come on while they're. Busy she finds herself saying shocked

1351
01:33:06.039 --> 01:33:09.039
she has the ability to even plan something so, bold

1352
01:33:09.359 --> 01:33:13.000
let alone. Enacted as her body begins to, move she

1353
01:33:13.039 --> 01:33:16.640
doesn't get, up but rather begins to crawl on hands

1354
01:33:16.680 --> 01:33:19.920
and knees to the. Left the floor is sticky with

1355
01:33:20.000 --> 01:33:23.199
spilled beer and spilled, blood but that's the least of

1356
01:33:23.239 --> 01:33:26.680
her concerns right. Now there's a bathroom on this side

1357
01:33:26.720 --> 01:33:30.199
of the, club between a set of. Booths she doesn't

1358
01:33:30.239 --> 01:33:32.279
know if they'll have a window or, what but it's

1359
01:33:32.279 --> 01:33:35.000
closer to the front door at, least and gets them

1360
01:33:35.039 --> 01:33:39.199
out of sight for a moment or. Two megan glances

1361
01:33:39.239 --> 01:33:42.760
over her shoulder to make sure her friends are. Following they,

1362
01:33:42.800 --> 01:33:46.760
are she's relieved to. Find she directs her eyes forward

1363
01:33:46.760 --> 01:33:51.079
again continues on her. Way she can barely hear the music,

1364
01:33:51.159 --> 01:33:54.000
now her heart pounding in her ears like a snare.

1365
01:33:54.079 --> 01:33:57.239
Drum she doesn't know if the monsters can see. Her

1366
01:33:57.880 --> 01:34:02.239
she can only hope that they can hand and if they, can,

1367
01:34:03.399 --> 01:34:07.520
well she's sure they'll let her. Know she reaches the,

1368
01:34:07.560 --> 01:34:13.680
booths twists right and continues crawling not far. Now her

1369
01:34:13.680 --> 01:34:18.079
breath comes and shutterers snot runs down her. Chin Maybe

1370
01:34:18.199 --> 01:34:21.239
zoe's earlier concern for Where amy had gotten off to

1371
01:34:21.800 --> 01:34:27.359
hadn't been just her worrying over. Nothing Oh, God, amy

1372
01:34:28.520 --> 01:34:32.920
they left her out, front the same front these things entered. From,

1373
01:34:34.039 --> 01:34:38.359
no she can't dwell on. That, now there's time to mourn.

1374
01:34:38.479 --> 01:34:43.000
Later the booth ends And megan follows it around to

1375
01:34:43.039 --> 01:34:46.399
the sticky leather. Back the archway for the bathrooms is

1376
01:34:46.439 --> 01:34:49.199
in front of, her but she doesn't come up off her. Knees,

1377
01:34:49.840 --> 01:34:53.479
instead she keeps crawling right on right for the, women

1378
01:34:53.720 --> 01:34:57.520
left for the. Men even though the circumstances maybe allowed

1379
01:34:57.600 --> 01:35:00.640
that she can choose whichever she wants May meagan still

1380
01:35:00.640 --> 01:35:03.960
ops for the door on the. Right she almost makes

1381
01:35:04.000 --> 01:35:07.079
it there when there's a loud thud not far behind,

1382
01:35:07.119 --> 01:35:11.960
her too close for. Comfort megan wouldn't even look dead

1383
01:35:12.039 --> 01:35:15.079
set on making it to the bathroom if it weren't

1384
01:35:15.079 --> 01:35:18.640
for the sound Of zoe. Screaming she turns, around feels

1385
01:35:18.640 --> 01:35:21.439
all the breath and her lungs. Vacate the woman with

1386
01:35:21.520 --> 01:35:24.359
the mohawk has the brunette pinned to the wall has

1387
01:35:24.479 --> 01:35:27.359
ripped her right off the floor so that her feet are.

1388
01:35:27.439 --> 01:35:31.560
Dangling zoe stares at, her and she in turn stares At.

1389
01:35:31.640 --> 01:35:36.119
Zoe if she And jessica both Rushed, mohawk then maybe

1390
01:35:36.319 --> 01:35:38.840
they could knock her, back grab the, brunette and make

1391
01:35:38.880 --> 01:35:41.239
it into the bathroom in time to barricade the. Door

1392
01:35:42.159 --> 01:35:45.840
it's a big. Maybe more likely they'll all three of

1393
01:35:45.880 --> 01:35:51.239
them die in quick. Succession zoe mouths, something it looks like.

1394
01:35:52.199 --> 01:35:59.279
Help megan mouths something, Back i'm. Sorry she turns quickly

1395
01:35:59.319 --> 01:36:01.800
and grabs the door handle for the, bathroom uses it

1396
01:36:01.800 --> 01:36:04.239
to hoist herself up to her, feet then shoves it

1397
01:36:04.319 --> 01:36:09.439
open and clamors. Inside jessica follows close, behind almost tripping

1398
01:36:09.439 --> 01:36:12.479
on her heels as she. Does she manages to push

1399
01:36:12.479 --> 01:36:15.119
the door shut and twist the lock just in time

1400
01:36:15.479 --> 01:36:18.079
For mohawk to crash into it from the other, side

1401
01:36:18.319 --> 01:36:23.199
denting the metal inward toward. Them both blonde scream then.

1402
01:36:24.880 --> 01:36:29.119
Silence it's almost as deafening as the music and screaming

1403
01:36:29.119 --> 01:36:32.239
had been with a locked. Door megan feels the promise

1404
01:36:32.319 --> 01:36:39.720
of relative safety we Left. Zoe jessica says that safety

1405
01:36:39.760 --> 01:36:45.000
seems to vanish with her friend's, words, Yeah megan, stammers

1406
01:36:45.920 --> 01:36:50.960
what else can she? Say we left? Her. Yeah When

1407
01:36:51.039 --> 01:36:54.479
megan repeats, herself the word. Cracks the tears are falling.

1408
01:36:54.520 --> 01:36:59.960
Again did they ever actually? Stop something slams into the door.

1409
01:37:00.119 --> 01:37:03.960
Again both women. Jump she thinks it's mohawk at, first

1410
01:37:04.000 --> 01:37:08.439
but then she hears the loud, groan the, whimper the

1411
01:37:08.520 --> 01:37:13.000
pleading from the other. Side the woman is using zoe

1412
01:37:13.279 --> 01:37:17.399
as a battering. Ram the second hit comes and it sounds.

1413
01:37:18.000 --> 01:37:22.960
Wetter maybe that's Just megan's, imagination but it. Does both

1414
01:37:23.000 --> 01:37:26.159
her And jessica cry out in, desperation but their words

1415
01:37:26.159 --> 01:37:30.000
aren't going to help. Here there just isn't a lot

1416
01:37:30.039 --> 01:37:35.439
to do otherwise except try and. Escape it's a small.

1417
01:37:35.439 --> 01:37:38.680
Bathroom one quick turn And megan has taken stock of

1418
01:37:38.720 --> 01:37:41.159
all she needs to a row of sinks on the

1419
01:37:41.199 --> 01:37:44.840
wall by the, door four stalls opposite. Them the strip

1420
01:37:44.880 --> 01:37:47.119
of floor in the middle leads to a small window

1421
01:37:47.199 --> 01:37:49.760
up near the, ceiling and that's where the heavy set

1422
01:37:49.800 --> 01:37:52.760
blonde runs, to looking up at it with a foolish

1423
01:37:52.840 --> 01:37:57.239
expression of hope briefly crossing her face before reality comes crashing.

1424
01:37:57.279 --> 01:38:02.359
In she won't. Fit it isn't even worth. Experimenting she

1425
01:38:02.439 --> 01:38:06.600
can tell from where she's. Standing help me, Up jessica,

1426
01:38:06.680 --> 01:38:12.319
says as she sidesteps her. Friend JESS i won't, fit she,

1427
01:38:12.479 --> 01:38:17.399
responds tears choking her. WORDS i. Will the other blonde,

1428
01:38:17.439 --> 01:38:20.600
answers and AND i can run and get us. Help

1429
01:38:21.000 --> 01:38:24.920
the door should hold until. THEN i won't, Fit, jessica

1430
01:38:25.520 --> 01:38:28.960
help me. Up trying to hold back her sobs as

1431
01:38:29.000 --> 01:38:32.760
best she, can but failing, Miserably megan kneels down and

1432
01:38:32.840 --> 01:38:36.760
clasps her hands together For jessica to step. Into once she,

1433
01:38:36.920 --> 01:38:39.760
does the heavy set blonde uses the wall for support

1434
01:38:40.119 --> 01:38:43.079
and gives her a. LIFT a third bang rings out

1435
01:38:43.079 --> 01:38:46.640
from the. Door there's no more groaning that follows. It

1436
01:38:47.399 --> 01:38:51.439
jessica opens the window and thrusts her head. Out all,

1437
01:38:51.560 --> 01:38:55.159
right just lift a bit, more she, instructs voice slightly.

1438
01:38:55.239 --> 01:38:58.920
Muffled megan, does even as the fear of being alone

1439
01:38:59.039 --> 01:39:03.680
starts to creep. In this is, it she, thinks the.

1440
01:39:03.880 --> 01:39:09.640
End no, wedding no, honeymoon no big, house no. Kids

1441
01:39:10.640 --> 01:39:13.520
she pushes her would be made of. Honor further, up

1442
01:39:13.960 --> 01:39:17.479
hears her loudly complain as her tits make squeezing through

1443
01:39:17.479 --> 01:39:21.920
the narrow slot. Difficult once they're, through, though it's smooth.

1444
01:39:22.000 --> 01:39:25.920
Sailing at a, point gravity takes, over And jessica just

1445
01:39:25.960 --> 01:39:29.399
slips From megan's. Hands as she topples through the. Window

1446
01:39:30.479 --> 01:39:32.920
she hears the other blonde let out a loud yell

1447
01:39:33.039 --> 01:39:35.800
from the other side of the wall as she tumbles

1448
01:39:35.880 --> 01:39:39.000
to the. Ground the next bang that comes from the

1449
01:39:39.000 --> 01:39:43.800
bathroom door is rougher. Louder it Isn't zoe this, time

1450
01:39:44.399 --> 01:39:48.560
But mohawk. Herself megan is sure of. It are you,

1451
01:39:48.600 --> 01:39:54.720
okay she calls toward the. Window, Yeah jessica, answers sounding

1452
01:39:54.760 --> 01:39:57.880
like she's in. Pain, Okay i'm going to get, help

1453
01:39:58.039 --> 01:40:02.439
just hang on if she announces her, intentions the bathroom

1454
01:40:02.479 --> 01:40:06.279
door finally gives up the fight and slams, open bent and,

1455
01:40:06.439 --> 01:40:09.880
ugly but not so much as the woman who stands

1456
01:40:09.920 --> 01:40:23.479
in the opening and Flashes megan her awful. Smile chapter, Ten.

1457
01:40:25.399 --> 01:40:25.520
Car.

1458
01:40:25.680 --> 01:40:30.439
Thirteen Respond Officer Chase perry's cruiser is parked on the

1459
01:40:30.479 --> 01:40:33.239
side of the road at the intersection Of detroit In

1460
01:40:33.319 --> 01:40:36.960
west twenty eighth Between Linda's market And North High. Brewing

1461
01:40:37.560 --> 01:40:39.920
he's got the rear view mirror adjusted so he can

1462
01:40:39.960 --> 01:40:43.560
see his. Face his fingers aggressively working at a ZiT

1463
01:40:43.640 --> 01:40:46.800
on his. Chin when the call comes over the, motorola

1464
01:40:47.760 --> 01:40:50.760
his left hand drops to the remote microphone clip to his,

1465
01:40:50.880 --> 01:40:54.600
chest squeezing the button on. It his right stays with

1466
01:40:54.680 --> 01:40:59.399
the angry red. Bump this Is car, thirteen he, Says, Hey,

1467
01:40:59.520 --> 01:41:02.920
chase the voice of Dispatcher Tim moore is a welcome

1468
01:41:02.960 --> 01:41:07.279
one to interrupt the otherwise boring. Night only kind of Night, chase,

1469
01:41:07.319 --> 01:41:11.199
ever seems to get keep him busy out. There, no he.

1470
01:41:11.319 --> 01:41:13.920
Isn't it's his third month on the job and he's

1471
01:41:14.000 --> 01:41:17.199
yet to see any real. Action part of him supposes

1472
01:41:17.199 --> 01:41:20.119
he would count himself lucky for, that but His Clint

1473
01:41:20.119 --> 01:41:24.279
eastwood fantasies are going woefully. Unfulfilled brought up on the

1474
01:41:24.319 --> 01:41:27.840
stories his father would bring. Home the Senior, perry also a,

1475
01:41:27.920 --> 01:41:31.279
cop he's been itchin to kick ass and take names

1476
01:41:31.279 --> 01:41:36.920
since he graduated the. Academy hasn't happened, Yet, NonStop you

1477
01:41:37.039 --> 01:41:39.840
actually just caught me on the heel of thwarting a bank, Robbery,

1478
01:41:39.880 --> 01:41:43.199
tim he, says it's like an action movie out. HERE

1479
01:41:43.199 --> 01:41:45.760
i tell, you, WELL i hope you can fit this

1480
01:41:45.840 --> 01:41:49.920
into your. Schedule then got uh two calls both from

1481
01:41:49.920 --> 01:41:53.239
that place On Frankfort, Avenue Wings. Endings you know the

1482
01:41:53.279 --> 01:41:56.880
place Mail strip. Club, yeah don't you go? There a

1483
01:41:56.880 --> 01:42:00.840
lot hor, horror funny. Guy first caller didn't say, anything

1484
01:42:00.880 --> 01:42:03.640
but the second said she was being attacked By let

1485
01:42:03.640 --> 01:42:06.760
me check, here SO i get this, Right, yeah right,

1486
01:42:06.800 --> 01:42:11.159
HERE i jotted it down. Monsters sounds like you're getting

1487
01:42:11.159 --> 01:42:15.079
crank called my. Dude sounds like, that don't. IT i

1488
01:42:15.119 --> 01:42:17.920
figure it's either that or a possible ten to. Nine

1489
01:42:18.079 --> 01:42:22.239
you got, Narcan, yeah somewhere in here might need. THAT

1490
01:42:22.399 --> 01:42:24.479
i don't. Know check it out in radio, back will?

1491
01:42:24.520 --> 01:42:28.600
You only because you asked so? Nicely what's the? Address

1492
01:42:29.239 --> 01:42:31.800
tim feeds it to him And chase punches it into THE,

1493
01:42:31.840 --> 01:42:36.439
gps then releases the microphone and sighs. Loudly he twists

1494
01:42:36.479 --> 01:42:39.319
the mirror back into, place puts the cruiser into, drive

1495
01:42:39.800 --> 01:42:43.199
and pulls away from the. Curb this fucking zid is

1496
01:42:43.239 --> 01:42:46.520
going to drive him, insane that, is if the boredom

1497
01:42:46.560 --> 01:42:49.399
doesn't do the job. First he takes the right up,

1498
01:42:49.479 --> 01:42:53.079
ahead veering onto the ramp for The Cleveland Memorial. Shoreway

1499
01:42:53.560 --> 01:42:55.680
it connects the west bank to the east bank of the.

1500
01:42:55.720 --> 01:43:00.359
Flats he punches. It no siren doesn't see why he need.

1501
01:43:00.399 --> 01:43:05.920
It the speedometer climbs fifty sixty, seventy keeps. Going he

1502
01:43:06.000 --> 01:43:09.520
switches lanes to pass a slower, car moves back without.

1503
01:43:09.560 --> 01:43:12.800
Signaling the city passes by him on the, right a

1504
01:43:12.840 --> 01:43:16.520
blur of brick and concrete and, steel but mostly. Decay

1505
01:43:17.279 --> 01:43:21.319
Lake erie on the, left unbothered and, unmoved just sitting there.

1506
01:43:22.000 --> 01:43:25.640
Stinking it isn't like he thought he would be kicking

1507
01:43:25.680 --> 01:43:27.720
down the door of drug dens and cleaning up the

1508
01:43:27.760 --> 01:43:31.720
streets with good old fashioned. Steel, okay maybe that is

1509
01:43:31.760 --> 01:43:35.439
what he. Thought chase's FAVORITE tv show Is The. Shield

1510
01:43:35.760 --> 01:43:39.439
he could be a, younger more Handsome Michael. Chicklis he's

1511
01:43:39.479 --> 01:43:42.880
still holding out hope. Anyway it's early in his. Career

1512
01:43:43.359 --> 01:43:45.680
he's got the smell of the academy on, him that's.

1513
01:43:45.720 --> 01:43:48.800
All once he's a bit more, experienced has a few

1514
01:43:48.880 --> 01:43:51.039
notches in his, belt the brass will be putting him

1515
01:43:51.039 --> 01:43:54.279
on all the big dick. Jobs the local gangbangers will

1516
01:43:54.279 --> 01:43:57.720
find out that he's one bad ombre be nice if

1517
01:43:57.720 --> 01:44:01.239
his complexion could clear up before. Then chase can't think

1518
01:44:01.279 --> 01:44:04.960
of a single badass with. Acne he goes from the

1519
01:44:05.000 --> 01:44:07.680
passing lane to the exit ramp and one fell, swoop

1520
01:44:08.079 --> 01:44:11.760
cresting down Toward Lakeside avenue before turning left Onto west.

1521
01:44:11.840 --> 01:44:15.479
Sixth he blows through the intersection With Saint Clair, avenue

1522
01:44:15.800 --> 01:44:17.880
and then it's just a little bit further before HIS

1523
01:44:17.960 --> 01:44:21.079
gps is telling him to turn right on To. Frankfort

1524
01:44:22.079 --> 01:44:24.199
maybe when he's done with this bogus, call he'll pick

1525
01:44:24.279 --> 01:44:27.279
up a late lunch and a tube of clearasil for

1526
01:44:27.319 --> 01:44:30.960
this goddamn. ZiT he's still squeezing it with his right

1527
01:44:31.000 --> 01:44:33.399
hand when he spots the blonde running out from the

1528
01:44:33.439 --> 01:44:37.560
side of wings endings and directly into the. Avenue chase

1529
01:44:37.600 --> 01:44:40.720
doesn't have time to, stop but he tries. Anyway he

1530
01:44:40.840 --> 01:44:43.199
slams on the brakes a lot of good it does.

1531
01:44:43.279 --> 01:44:47.840
Him he's going fifty and the cruiser. Skids all he

1532
01:44:47.960 --> 01:44:50.680
sees is her hair lit up in the, beams her

1533
01:44:50.760 --> 01:44:55.319
wide dough eyed. Expression then he feels the sudden jolt

1534
01:44:55.760 --> 01:44:59.439
as the front end connects with her body and he's thrust,

1535
01:44:59.479 --> 01:45:15.279
forward headbutting the steering. Wheel everything goes. Black chapter. Eleven

1536
01:45:17.279 --> 01:45:20.399
Both joan And troy cry out in horror when they

1537
01:45:20.479 --> 01:45:24.000
see the state of the Cook, scottie strewn across the

1538
01:45:24.039 --> 01:45:27.840
prep table like so much meat and clearly. Dead his

1539
01:45:27.960 --> 01:45:31.119
throat is torn open and blood soaks his apron not

1540
01:45:31.239 --> 01:45:34.840
to mention the clothes beneath, it realizing that they might

1541
01:45:34.920 --> 01:45:37.960
share his fate soon enough if the. Idle, though both

1542
01:45:38.000 --> 01:45:40.520
the bartender and the dancer managed to get over their

1543
01:45:40.560 --> 01:45:44.520
shock and press on, wordlessly assuring one another that the

1544
01:45:44.560 --> 01:45:47.000
only thing they can think about right now is getting

1545
01:45:47.000 --> 01:45:50.479
the hell out of wings and. Dings they push the

1546
01:45:50.479 --> 01:45:53.319
freezer in front of the kitchen, door both needing to

1547
01:45:53.359 --> 01:45:55.640
work together to move the thing despite it being on.

1548
01:45:55.720 --> 01:45:58.920
Wheels it probably won't help them in the long, run

1549
01:45:58.920 --> 01:46:01.479
but it might buy them so, time and that's a

1550
01:46:01.520 --> 01:46:05.760
precious commodity right. Now, afterward taking a moment to, Breathe

1551
01:46:06.119 --> 01:46:10.159
troy Inspects joan's. Wounds normally she might take a fence

1552
01:46:10.199 --> 01:46:13.680
to a guy oggling her, chest but this one time

1553
01:46:13.840 --> 01:46:16.600
she isn't going to raise a stink over. It he

1554
01:46:16.640 --> 01:46:20.800
reaches out and peels shredded fabric. Away every little touch.

1555
01:46:20.920 --> 01:46:25.119
Stings there are exactly four gashes that have been drawn

1556
01:46:25.159 --> 01:46:28.039
into her, flesh stretching from the top left of her

1557
01:46:28.079 --> 01:46:32.239
rib cage up over her right, tit stopping just short

1558
01:46:32.279 --> 01:46:35.560
of her. Shoulder they don't seem to be bleeding anymore at,

1559
01:46:35.640 --> 01:46:40.279
least but they're going to leave wicked. Scars that's. Okay

1560
01:46:40.840 --> 01:46:46.359
she can live with. Scars do you feel? Okay do?

1561
01:46:46.479 --> 01:46:49.880
You joan manages a bark of laughter that turns into

1562
01:46:49.960 --> 01:46:53.159
a half. Sob she has to keep reminding herself not

1563
01:46:53.319 --> 01:46:58.039
to break down into. Tears, No jesus, Fucked. Joan what

1564
01:46:58.079 --> 01:47:01.239
the fuck is wrong with their? TEETH i don't, KNOW

1565
01:47:01.640 --> 01:47:05.399
i don't. Know and their fucking. Eyes Man harry shot.

1566
01:47:05.439 --> 01:47:08.279
THEM i saw him shoot. Them he shot that lady

1567
01:47:08.439 --> 01:47:13.920
like six fucking. Times joan's hands physically grasp its straws

1568
01:47:13.920 --> 01:47:17.520
while she, speaks trying desperately to find any sense in

1569
01:47:17.600 --> 01:47:22.079
what's going on. Here it seems. Impossible they've left the

1570
01:47:22.119 --> 01:47:24.720
realm of real and accepted fact in the rear. View

1571
01:47:25.640 --> 01:47:29.239
they are in the land of. Nightmares now we gotta get,

1572
01:47:29.279 --> 01:47:34.520
out get, Help, yes they. Do, nodding snorting snot back

1573
01:47:34.560 --> 01:47:37.600
into her, Nose joan pushes herself up from where she's

1574
01:47:37.640 --> 01:47:40.920
been leaning against the wall as the adrenaline of the

1575
01:47:40.960 --> 01:47:44.079
previous fight With nosring begins the pain in her chest

1576
01:47:44.159 --> 01:47:47.800
becomes more and more. Apparent she tries to push it

1577
01:47:47.800 --> 01:47:50.319
out of her mind for, now but the throbbing ache

1578
01:47:50.359 --> 01:47:53.560
isn't making it. Easy the back door of the bar

1579
01:47:53.760 --> 01:47:56.279
is located in the far right corner by the walk

1580
01:47:56.279 --> 01:47:59.439
In their path takes them past where they've moved the.

1581
01:47:59.479 --> 01:48:03.359
Freezer As troy passes in front of, it it launches,

1582
01:48:03.439 --> 01:48:06.960
forward clipping the dancer and sending him. Sprawling he tries

1583
01:48:07.000 --> 01:48:09.840
to catch himself on a, table but, fails ends up

1584
01:48:09.920 --> 01:48:12.560
hitting his knees with the air knocked out of. Him

1585
01:48:12.800 --> 01:48:15.640
the freezer connects with the opposite wall so hard That

1586
01:48:15.720 --> 01:48:18.920
joan is. Shocked it doesn't go right through. It it bounces,

1587
01:48:18.960 --> 01:48:21.840
back rolling a foot or so before coming to a.

1588
01:48:21.880 --> 01:48:26.760
Stop it's the. Man he holds the kitchen door, open

1589
01:48:27.119 --> 01:48:29.800
letting the noise of the club behind spill in for

1590
01:48:29.880 --> 01:48:33.600
a moment before he steps forward and it swings. Closed

1591
01:48:34.319 --> 01:48:38.840
she sees, him but more, pressing he sees. Her there's

1592
01:48:38.960 --> 01:48:41.479
rage in those black voids he has in place of.

1593
01:48:41.560 --> 01:48:45.960
Eyes it's etched into his face. Too he, moves and in,

1594
01:48:46.000 --> 01:48:52.039
turn so does she cat meat. Mouse his stride brings

1595
01:48:52.119 --> 01:48:55.720
him forward at an impossible speed And joan only narrowly

1596
01:48:55.760 --> 01:48:59.199
avoids him by diving to the. Left the freezer's in

1597
01:48:59.239 --> 01:49:01.920
the middle of the floor or blocking any easy, escape

1598
01:49:01.960 --> 01:49:05.760
so thinking, fast she clambers up and onto the flat top,

1599
01:49:05.840 --> 01:49:09.439
grill thankful the club never uses the, thing and crawls.

1600
01:49:09.479 --> 01:49:12.840
Forward she makes it to the end before he snatches

1601
01:49:12.880 --> 01:49:16.000
her by the ankle one quick, tug causing her to

1602
01:49:16.079 --> 01:49:18.680
land flat on her gut and her head to dangle

1603
01:49:18.720 --> 01:49:22.199
over the deep. Frier the sizzle pop of three hundred

1604
01:49:22.199 --> 01:49:26.439
and fifty degree oil just feet below her. Face the

1605
01:49:26.439 --> 01:49:29.880
metal guard that lines the, flattop meant to keep grease

1606
01:49:29.880 --> 01:49:33.399
from splashing, out cuts into her neck causes her to.

1607
01:49:33.520 --> 01:49:36.479
Choke she grabs hold of it as she's, pulled but

1608
01:49:36.560 --> 01:49:39.840
it doesn't. Help it bends as she holds on for dear.

1609
01:49:39.920 --> 01:49:43.960
Life then her fingers begins slipping the side of the

1610
01:49:44.000 --> 01:49:47.199
guard that faces the deep friar slick with residual. Grease

1611
01:49:47.960 --> 01:49:51.760
she Curses scottie and his shoddy cleanup job right before

1612
01:49:51.800 --> 01:49:57.079
she loses her grip. Entirely she Hears troy yell call

1613
01:49:57.159 --> 01:50:00.720
the man a. Motherfucker the hand on her ankle lets

1614
01:50:00.800 --> 01:50:04.720
up with the almost simultaneous sound of a. Scuffle joan

1615
01:50:04.760 --> 01:50:07.000
doesn't look back to see what the dancer is done

1616
01:50:07.039 --> 01:50:09.960
to earn her her. Freedom she just claws her way

1617
01:50:10.000 --> 01:50:12.479
forward and then off the grill and on to her,

1618
01:50:12.520 --> 01:50:16.479
Feet thinking, fast her heart beating a mile a, minute

1619
01:50:16.560 --> 01:50:19.199
she grabs a pot from a shelf and thrusts it

1620
01:50:19.239 --> 01:50:23.439
into the deep fryer just in time. Too troy flies

1621
01:50:23.479 --> 01:50:26.640
by behind her. Throne as she. Turns the man is,

1622
01:50:26.720 --> 01:50:31.319
there barely a few feet separating. Them joan swings the

1623
01:50:31.359 --> 01:50:33.520
pot up and out of the deep, fryer filled with,

1624
01:50:33.560 --> 01:50:36.359
oil and douses the left side of the man's face with.

1625
01:50:36.399 --> 01:50:43.039
It he doesn't, scream he, roars stumbling back with both

1626
01:50:43.079 --> 01:50:45.880
hands reaching for where his pale skin is now turning

1627
01:50:46.000 --> 01:50:50.560
pink and. Red ugly blisters already begin to. Form the

1628
01:50:50.600 --> 01:50:54.279
bartender could press her, luck but chooses not. To the

1629
01:50:54.359 --> 01:50:57.239
pot clatters to the, floor and she turns and sprints

1630
01:50:57.279 --> 01:51:01.399
toward the back, door ripping it. Open only then does

1631
01:51:01.439 --> 01:51:04.760
she look For troy and finds him struggling to his

1632
01:51:04.840 --> 01:51:08.560
feet by the walk. In come on that seems to

1633
01:51:08.600 --> 01:51:11.520
do the. Trick he pushes himself off the, wall practically

1634
01:51:11.560 --> 01:51:15.319
throwing himself toward the. Door he isn't fast. Enough. Though

1635
01:51:16.079 --> 01:51:18.720
something hits the other side of the. Door joan can

1636
01:51:18.760 --> 01:51:22.600
only assume it's the. Man whatever it, is it's heavy

1637
01:51:23.279 --> 01:51:25.840
enough to throw the bartender out and into the. Alley

1638
01:51:26.640 --> 01:51:30.720
the door slams loudly shut behind. Her she stumbles over

1639
01:51:30.760 --> 01:51:33.560
her own feet ends up landing flat on her Ass.

1640
01:51:34.680 --> 01:51:39.920
Troy she screams it voice. Horse it's too, Late though

1641
01:51:40.359 --> 01:51:42.720
the rational part of her brain knows that for a,

1642
01:51:42.800 --> 01:51:46.119
fact even if she went back in, there it only

1643
01:51:46.159 --> 01:51:49.520
served to get them both. Killed there's still a piece

1644
01:51:49.560 --> 01:51:51.840
of her that wants to try and save the, dancer

1645
01:51:51.920 --> 01:51:56.760
though there just wouldn't be anything left to. Save back

1646
01:51:56.800 --> 01:51:59.760
on her, Feet joan begins to. Run it's all she

1647
01:51:59.800 --> 01:52:03.600
can do at this. Point chunky boots thud heavily against

1648
01:52:03.640 --> 01:52:05.920
the ground as she rounds the side of the club

1649
01:52:06.119 --> 01:52:09.159
and makes her way toward the. Street there's a car,

1650
01:52:09.199 --> 01:52:12.920
there she, sees parked in the middle of the. Avenue

1651
01:52:12.920 --> 01:52:15.399
only as she draws a little closer does she see

1652
01:52:15.399 --> 01:52:18.079
that it's a police. Cruiser the light bar on the,

1653
01:52:18.119 --> 01:52:22.079
top not on the front, end is dented. Inward a

1654
01:52:22.159 --> 01:52:25.239
blonde crumpled on the ground in front of. It the

1655
01:52:25.319 --> 01:52:28.199
presumed owner of the. CAR a cop is sat on the.

1656
01:52:28.279 --> 01:52:31.920
Curb joan doesn't stop running until she's in front of.

1657
01:52:31.960 --> 01:52:37.000
Him he's, younger younger than, her even there are tears

1658
01:52:37.119 --> 01:52:40.079
running down his cheeks and a deep cut across his.

1659
01:52:40.159 --> 01:52:45.119
FOREHEAD i didn't see, her he, says voice a wet.

1660
01:52:45.199 --> 01:52:49.479
Mumble he gestures. Hopelessly it isn't my.

1661
01:52:49.640 --> 01:52:50.640
FAULT i didn't see.

1662
01:52:50.680 --> 01:52:54.720
Her we need to, go she. Says the scene is

1663
01:52:54.760 --> 01:52:58.479
shockingly normal compared to what's coming for. Them it barely

1664
01:52:58.560 --> 01:53:01.640
even catches her off guard the way she sees. It

1665
01:53:01.680 --> 01:53:05.600
they can worry about vehicular, homicide accidental or not later

1666
01:53:05.960 --> 01:53:09.600
when there aren't monsters around trying to kill. THEM i

1667
01:53:09.720 --> 01:53:13.640
didn't see, her the cop, repeats wiping his nose on

1668
01:53:13.680 --> 01:53:17.439
the back of his, arm leaving a streak of snot shut,

1669
01:53:17.520 --> 01:53:21.399
up shut. Up we have to go. Now he isn't.

1670
01:53:21.439 --> 01:53:25.720
Moving something is. Though she catches it in her vision

1671
01:53:25.760 --> 01:53:29.840
and looks up the. Man he's strolling down the side

1672
01:53:29.840 --> 01:53:34.439
of the, building now coming right toward. Them there's nothing

1673
01:53:34.479 --> 01:53:37.479
to do for the, cop she. Decides she leaves him

1674
01:53:37.520 --> 01:53:39.960
to sit on the curb and half, walks half runs

1675
01:53:40.119 --> 01:53:43.600
to the open driver's side door of his. Cruiser the

1676
01:53:43.720 --> 01:53:47.239
keys in the ignition the engine still. On the air

1677
01:53:47.279 --> 01:53:50.600
bag isn't, deployed and for that she's at least. Grateful

1678
01:53:51.319 --> 01:53:54.520
despite all the computers and radios and, shit she's fairly

1679
01:53:54.560 --> 01:53:58.039
certain it drives just like a normal. Car she slams

1680
01:53:58.079 --> 01:54:00.520
the door shut just in time to cut out the

1681
01:54:00.520 --> 01:54:03.600
surprise scream of the cop as he's jerked in one

1682
01:54:03.640 --> 01:54:06.039
fluid motion from where he'd been sat on the curb

1683
01:54:06.319 --> 01:54:10.479
and into the, air feet dangling off the, ground foot

1684
01:54:10.479 --> 01:54:12.800
on the. Brake joan throws it out of park and into,

1685
01:54:12.840 --> 01:54:16.039
reverse slams on the gas once she, has and begins

1686
01:54:16.079 --> 01:54:19.399
flying backward from the. Scene she backs right up into

1687
01:54:19.399 --> 01:54:21.479
a car parked on the other side of the, avenue

1688
01:54:21.760 --> 01:54:24.520
gives herself a, jolt but is no worse for, wear

1689
01:54:24.920 --> 01:54:28.119
at least she doesn't think. So in the beams of the,

1690
01:54:28.159 --> 01:54:32.560
headlights she sees the dead blonde curled up on the,

1691
01:54:32.600 --> 01:54:39.159
asphalt the cop feet kicking, hopelessly the man face buried

1692
01:54:39.199 --> 01:54:42.760
in his. Throat the thought to hit the attacker with

1693
01:54:42.840 --> 01:54:45.920
the car crosses her, mind but she isn't confident it

1694
01:54:45.920 --> 01:54:48.319
would do anything other than leave her without an escape,

1695
01:54:48.399 --> 01:54:52.319
vehicle so when she puts the cruiser in, drive she

1696
01:54:52.439 --> 01:54:55.720
turns the, wheel avoiding the scene entirely as she guns

1697
01:54:55.760 --> 01:54:58.239
it for the end of the. Avenue she doesn't know

1698
01:54:58.279 --> 01:55:03.119
where she'll, go knows that anywhere is better than. Here

1699
01:55:04.399 --> 01:55:07.359
she barely slows down as she veers right Onto west,

1700
01:55:07.439 --> 01:55:12.000
ninth the tires squealing. Loudly joan almost loses control of the,

1701
01:55:12.119 --> 01:55:15.720
vehicle but manages to keep it in. Check she's done.

1702
01:55:15.720 --> 01:55:19.800
It she thinks she's made it. Out excitement explodes up

1703
01:55:19.840 --> 01:55:22.640
from deep inside, her and she begins slamming her hand

1704
01:55:22.640 --> 01:55:27.279
against the steering wheel while screaming. Expletives That's, joan a.

1705
01:55:27.399 --> 01:55:30.680
Survivor she makes it as far as the intersection With

1706
01:55:30.720 --> 01:55:33.560
Saint clair when there's a heavy thud on the roof

1707
01:55:33.600 --> 01:55:36.239
of the, vehicle like the car has been struck with a.

1708
01:55:36.319 --> 01:55:40.079
Meteor the surprise catches her to, panic and she twists the,

1709
01:55:40.079 --> 01:55:44.239
wheel almost hits another park, car but manages to straighten

1710
01:55:44.279 --> 01:55:48.000
out her trajectory in time to avoid the. Collision she's

1711
01:55:48.039 --> 01:55:52.399
heading Down Saint, clair now Toward west. Tenth denial sets

1712
01:55:52.439 --> 01:55:56.199
in tries to, anyway it quickly makes itself scarce when

1713
01:55:56.239 --> 01:55:59.319
a fist comes from nowhere and smacks into the. Windshield

1714
01:56:00.119 --> 01:56:03.159
the first hit doesn't, shatter it just makes a round

1715
01:56:03.199 --> 01:56:05.600
break in the center of her, vision from which a

1716
01:56:05.720 --> 01:56:09.640
hundred little cracks spiderweb out From the second, hit, though

1717
01:56:10.159 --> 01:56:15.159
comes right through fingers topped with thick. Nails no claws

1718
01:56:15.359 --> 01:56:17.560
reach for, her and she has to lean all the

1719
01:56:17.600 --> 01:56:21.680
way back to avoid their. Grasp, Screaming joan does the

1720
01:56:21.720 --> 01:56:24.800
only thing she can think to, do which is step on.

1721
01:56:24.920 --> 01:56:28.319
It the speedometer climbs as she makes short work of the.

1722
01:56:28.359 --> 01:56:31.560
Avenue at the bend Where Saint clair Becomes Old River,

1723
01:56:31.680 --> 01:56:35.359
road she slams on the, brakes tires squealing loudly as

1724
01:56:35.359 --> 01:56:38.640
they're forced to come to an unexpected. Halt the man

1725
01:56:38.680 --> 01:56:41.760
on the roof goes flying, forward hits the pole with

1726
01:56:41.840 --> 01:56:44.880
a loud snapping sound That joan can not only hear

1727
01:56:45.000 --> 01:56:49.119
but feel deep in her. Skeleton he lands in a

1728
01:56:49.159 --> 01:56:54.319
heap on the, ground. Motionless she's breathing. Hard tears are

1729
01:56:54.359 --> 01:56:59.760
streaming down her. Face come, on she, says do it fuck?

1730
01:56:59.800 --> 01:57:03.439
Her as if on. Cue the man begins to. Stir

1731
01:57:04.079 --> 01:57:07.840
it's a, slow sluggish. Movement he stumbles to his, feet

1732
01:57:08.239 --> 01:57:11.039
one arm bent completely. Backward at the elbow so that

1733
01:57:11.079 --> 01:57:14.920
it points in the opposite. Direction one leg is violently

1734
01:57:14.960 --> 01:57:18.640
turned inward toward the. Other joan takes her foot off

1735
01:57:18.680 --> 01:57:22.680
the brake and floors the gas. Pedal before the man can,

1736
01:57:22.720 --> 01:57:26.399
react she's plowing into, him narrowly avoiding pinning him to

1737
01:57:26.439 --> 01:57:29.640
the pole and instead driving him down the incline toward

1738
01:57:29.680 --> 01:57:32.840
The Cioga. River he stares at her through the, windshield

1739
01:57:32.880 --> 01:57:36.239
pitch black, eyes spelling out all the awful things he

1740
01:57:36.279 --> 01:57:42.199
wants to do to, her but she doesn't. Relent you fucking,

1741
01:57:42.920 --> 01:57:46.680
bitch she hears him scream, it then drives her foot

1742
01:57:46.720 --> 01:57:49.640
down hard on the brake for the last. Time there's

1743
01:57:49.680 --> 01:57:52.560
a wrought iron fence lining the walkway that straddles The

1744
01:57:52.640 --> 01:57:56.319
kyoga to keep people from falling, in and beyond that

1745
01:57:56.760 --> 01:58:00.520
a muddy embankment toward the murky. Water as she, stops

1746
01:58:00.560 --> 01:58:03.800
the man again is launched, forward this time hitting the

1747
01:58:03.880 --> 01:58:07.680
fence and tearing it clean from the. Ground she doesn't

1748
01:58:07.720 --> 01:58:10.479
know if the decorative spikes that top it stab, him

1749
01:58:10.520 --> 01:58:13.960
but she only hopes they. Do he keeps flying until

1750
01:58:13.960 --> 01:58:18.159
he hits the, water landing with a. Splash she doesn't

1751
01:58:18.239 --> 01:58:20.640
know how. Long she just sits there and looks on

1752
01:58:21.119 --> 01:58:23.960
foot on the, brake waiting for him to come crawling

1753
01:58:24.039 --> 01:58:27.960
out of the water like the monster he. Is she

1754
01:58:28.079 --> 01:58:32.119
isn't sure she breathed the entire time she. Does the

1755
01:58:32.199 --> 01:58:34.279
crackle of the radio is what brings her out of,

1756
01:58:34.319 --> 01:58:40.319
it giving her a. Start cart thirteen Respond joan doesn't

1757
01:58:40.359 --> 01:58:42.560
know what she's doing with all the bits and bobs

1758
01:58:42.600 --> 01:58:45.840
at the. Console she presses button after button to no,

1759
01:58:45.920 --> 01:58:50.920
avail each time saying hello but getting nothing, back her

1760
01:58:51.000 --> 01:58:55.319
voice steadily becoming more and more cracked and broken as she. Proceeds,

1761
01:58:56.199 --> 01:59:00.720
finally after much trial and, error her hello is. Answered

1762
01:59:01.720 --> 01:59:06.159
who is? This i'm the bartender for Wings, Endings she

1763
01:59:06.359 --> 01:59:22.399
manages to, SAY i we need. Help. Epilogue three months

1764
01:59:22.439 --> 01:59:26.840
on from the, Incident joanes still has trouble. Sleeping who.

1765
01:59:26.840 --> 01:59:30.479
Wouldn't every time she closes her, eyes those people are,

1766
01:59:30.520 --> 01:59:35.279
there waiting like they've carved their likeness into the back

1767
01:59:35.319 --> 01:59:41.359
of her. Eyelids, no not, people. Monsters people don't have

1768
01:59:41.479 --> 01:59:44.479
needle like teeth and pitch black eyes and claws where

1769
01:59:44.560 --> 01:59:48.319
fingernails should. Be she thinks of the cop who had

1770
01:59:48.359 --> 01:59:50.720
been sat on the, curb the one who hit that

1771
01:59:50.760 --> 01:59:55.039
poor blonde who almost almost got. Away she thinks about

1772
01:59:55.079 --> 01:59:58.000
how when the man had, him he was tearing into his.

1773
01:59:58.079 --> 02:00:02.680
Throat same story For. Scottie his throat had been absolutely

1774
02:00:02.720 --> 02:00:06.520
destroyed when she And troy found. Him what does that

1775
02:00:07.600 --> 02:00:10.199
they never found the guy she flung into The Cioga.

1776
02:00:10.319 --> 02:00:13.760
River could be he drifted out deeper Into Lake. Erie

1777
02:00:13.840 --> 02:00:17.319
the police say they never found the woman she, killed,

1778
02:00:17.359 --> 02:00:21.760
either the woman with the nose. Ring joan isn't sure

1779
02:00:21.800 --> 02:00:24.239
if the lady with the mohawks stole her away or what.

1780
02:00:24.399 --> 02:00:30.760
Happened maybe these monsters dissolve after. Death maybe they didn't really.

1781
02:00:30.840 --> 02:00:35.560
Die there's a scary, thought one that's occurred to her

1782
02:00:35.640 --> 02:00:38.680
time and time. Again in the little hours of the,

1783
02:00:38.840 --> 02:00:43.479
night the club is. Closed hard to come back from

1784
02:00:43.520 --> 02:00:47.520
something like, This she. Figures the stack of overdue bills

1785
02:00:47.560 --> 02:00:52.640
threatening imminent cancelation of crucial services probably didn't help. Her

1786
02:00:52.680 --> 02:00:56.600
aunt will, survive, though like her, Niece, diane is a.

1787
02:00:56.640 --> 02:01:00.640
Survivor joan hears she's going to franchise as a burger.

1788
02:01:00.760 --> 02:01:05.520
King she moves quietly through her studio. Apartment the clock

1789
02:01:05.520 --> 02:01:09.119
on the stove reads two. Am her pot of coffee

1790
02:01:09.159 --> 02:01:12.119
is only half, drunk though and it seems like it'd

1791
02:01:12.159 --> 02:01:15.600
be a waste to leave. It she pours herself another

1792
02:01:15.680 --> 02:01:20.840
cup from the kitchen. Counter she crosses the, floor passes

1793
02:01:20.880 --> 02:01:24.600
by a television Showing night of The Living, dead and

1794
02:01:24.720 --> 02:01:28.840
stops at the window that overlooks the. Street her reflection

1795
02:01:29.000 --> 02:01:33.279
is a stark reminder of that. Night, topless it's her

1796
02:01:33.279 --> 02:01:37.119
apartment sewer means she can see the four scars running

1797
02:01:37.119 --> 02:01:42.520
horizontally across her. Chest she fingers, one an unconscious action

1798
02:01:43.079 --> 02:01:47.680
while taking a sip of the bitter. Coffee in, Therapy

1799
02:01:48.079 --> 02:01:51.880
joan often offers up theories of maybe if she had

1800
02:01:51.920 --> 02:01:55.279
done this or, that things could have turned out. Differently

1801
02:01:56.279 --> 02:02:00.359
maybe not For brad or For, harvey definitely not For,

1802
02:02:00.439 --> 02:02:04.000
scottie but certainly For. Troy she could have saved the.

1803
02:02:04.079 --> 02:02:10.680
Dancer it isn't your, Fault joan comes the canned. Response, yeah,

1804
02:02:10.720 --> 02:02:13.960
well she pays the person to say, that doesn't She

1805
02:02:14.920 --> 02:02:18.520
it's a weekly visit to make herself feel. Better it isn't.

1806
02:02:18.560 --> 02:02:23.680
Working survivor's guilt is a bitch like. That outside the,

1807
02:02:23.720 --> 02:02:28.000
window her eyes Scan Elm. Street her apartment is located

1808
02:02:28.039 --> 02:02:29.920
in a building that looks like it had been a,

1809
02:02:29.920 --> 02:02:34.560
warehouse at some, point probably was across the. STREET a

1810
02:02:34.600 --> 02:02:38.680
similar building houses the cafe she now works. At good

1811
02:02:38.720 --> 02:02:43.359
thing about cafes they close before. Dark they seldom get

1812
02:02:43.399 --> 02:02:47.640
attacked by monsters. Too from what she, Hears joan doesn't

1813
02:02:47.680 --> 02:02:50.359
know what she's looking for when she inspects her little

1814
02:02:50.399 --> 02:02:55.560
slice Of. Cleveland that isn't. True she does, Know she

1815
02:02:55.760 --> 02:02:59.399
just wishes she. Didn't in the wake of what she's been,

1816
02:02:59.479 --> 02:03:06.279
through every detail becomes. Suspect she doesn't recognize that, impala for,

1817
02:03:06.319 --> 02:03:09.560
instance parked half in and half out of the beam

1818
02:03:09.600 --> 02:03:12.520
of the street. Light she's sure she would know if

1819
02:03:12.560 --> 02:03:16.560
she'd seen it. Before it's an older, vehicle a. Classic

1820
02:03:17.159 --> 02:03:20.600
both in front and behind it are much, cheaper more economic,

1821
02:03:20.720 --> 02:03:26.640
models less. Descript, rationally she knows it's probably someone visiting another,

1822
02:03:26.680 --> 02:03:30.640
tenant or someone got a new, ride or. Whatever but

1823
02:03:30.760 --> 02:03:33.960
that isn't how her brain decides to file things away.

1824
02:03:34.000 --> 02:03:39.359
Anymore from her, perch she continues her watching or, Spying

1825
02:03:39.760 --> 02:03:41.800
it depends on how one wants to look at. It

1826
02:03:42.399 --> 02:03:50.560
when something catches her eye a Flame given the, distance it's,

1827
02:03:50.680 --> 02:03:55.960
tiny but it still stands. Out there's someone standing near the,

1828
02:03:56.000 --> 02:04:02.119
Impala joan realizes in the shadows a darker silhouette on

1829
02:04:02.199 --> 02:04:06.039
a dark. Background the flame is nothing more than a.

1830
02:04:06.119 --> 02:04:11.479
Lighter it's just someone having a, smoke she, realizes but

1831
02:04:11.600 --> 02:04:15.479
it still sends a chill down her. Spine the person

1832
02:04:15.600 --> 02:04:20.520
lights their cigarette and the flame goes, away replaced by

1833
02:04:20.560 --> 02:04:24.760
a burning orange. Ember using the lit end of the

1834
02:04:24.800 --> 02:04:28.880
cigarette as a, Guide joan can tell where the person is.

1835
02:04:28.920 --> 02:04:42.960
Looking they're staring up at her, window at Her The

1836
02:04:43.039 --> 02:04:49.720
Final yes By Charles. Campbell i'm two hundred and twenty

1837
02:04:49.840 --> 02:04:54.960
seven years, old relatively young for my, kind but still old.

1838
02:04:55.079 --> 02:04:59.479
Enough winter is my favorite time of year because the

1839
02:04:59.560 --> 02:05:04.520
night's longer and the air outside suits the coldness of my.

1840
02:05:04.680 --> 02:05:10.520
Flesh i've turned a few people in my. Life the

1841
02:05:10.560 --> 02:05:13.840
catch is there are rules to turning people to, vampire

1842
02:05:14.279 --> 02:05:17.119
and the first of which is they have to agree

1843
02:05:17.680 --> 02:05:21.680
to be. Turned in other, words the tournee has to say.

1844
02:05:22.760 --> 02:05:27.680
Yes let me back up for just a moment before

1845
02:05:27.720 --> 02:05:30.720
you get to the, YES i guess the first thing

1846
02:05:30.840 --> 02:05:35.279
is targeting the next, vampire preferably young and with no

1847
02:05:35.479 --> 02:05:40.119
immediate family to speak. Of although this criterion isn't set in,

1848
02:05:40.199 --> 02:05:45.359
stone there is the occasional notable. Exception my notable exception

1849
02:05:46.239 --> 02:05:50.680
is seventy three year Old molly. McBride i can't say

1850
02:05:50.680 --> 02:05:53.159
THAT i Found molly because the truth of the matter

1851
02:05:53.319 --> 02:05:57.560
is that my progeny led me to. Her after learning

1852
02:05:57.600 --> 02:06:01.119
Of molly's story and HOW i factor into, IT i

1853
02:06:01.159 --> 02:06:04.600
am compelled to sit here on her front porch until

1854
02:06:04.600 --> 02:06:10.600
the sun. Rises From, MOLLIE i received my final. Yes

1855
02:06:12.239 --> 02:06:16.000
the following chronicles what happened here and what has led

1856
02:06:16.039 --> 02:06:20.560
me to witness my first sunrise in over two, Centuries

1857
02:06:25.560 --> 02:06:32.199
fall twenty, twelve seven point thirty two. Am, hello, sweetheart

1858
02:06:32.239 --> 02:06:36.079
are you? Hungry Freddie rogers asked the, skinny bow legged

1859
02:06:36.199 --> 02:06:39.720
girl sitting at the bus. Stop eight year Old Lisa.

1860
02:06:39.800 --> 02:06:43.720
Frausto Gave freddie a cautious look and nodded her. Head,

1861
02:06:44.239 --> 02:06:48.960
yes here you. Go freddie removed a package of cheese

1862
02:06:49.000 --> 02:06:51.960
crackers from his jacket pocket and held it out To.

1863
02:06:52.039 --> 02:06:56.319
Lisa her gloved hand wavered slightly as she reached out

1864
02:06:56.359 --> 02:07:01.880
to grab the. Food LISA i saw voice. Began who

1865
02:07:01.960 --> 02:07:05.439
is your? Friend molly asked from the screened in. Porch

1866
02:07:06.239 --> 02:07:09.760
lisa turned in her grandmother's, direction with her eyebrows, raised

1867
02:07:10.159 --> 02:07:13.359
giving a clear view of her light brown. Eyes she

1868
02:07:13.479 --> 02:07:18.279
opened her mouth to speak When freddie, Interjected i'm, sorry,

1869
02:07:18.399 --> 02:07:22.439
miss don't matter WHO i. Am, mister what are you

1870
02:07:22.520 --> 02:07:26.439
doing talking to my? Granddaughter molly's own light brown eyes

1871
02:07:26.479 --> 02:07:30.560
were trained on the new. Stranger, hey don't take. OFFENSE

1872
02:07:30.920 --> 02:07:34.439
i was just walking by and she looked. Hungry freddie,

1873
02:07:34.479 --> 02:07:39.600
ANSWERED i feed her just, fine. Stranger molly fired. BACK

1874
02:07:40.680 --> 02:07:43.279
i asked her if she was, hungry and she said she,

1875
02:07:43.520 --> 02:07:47.520
was didn't, you? Sweetheart freddie turned his gaze back On.

1876
02:07:47.640 --> 02:07:52.680
Lisa GRAN i did tell HIM i was, Hungry lisa,

1877
02:07:52.760 --> 02:07:56.039
said now standing closer to the edge of the. Sidewalk

1878
02:07:56.560 --> 02:07:59.960
the bus would be there at any. Moment you, know

1879
02:08:00.000 --> 02:08:02.359
oh What i've told you about talking to and worse,

1880
02:08:02.479 --> 02:08:08.439
yet taking things from. Strangers, look, Miss freddie, started, mister

1881
02:08:08.760 --> 02:08:12.359
this ain't none of your, affair so shush. It the

1882
02:08:12.439 --> 02:08:15.880
bus hissed to a, stop right beside the little auburn

1883
02:08:15.920 --> 02:08:20.760
haired girl standing in her usual morning. Spot we'll discuss

1884
02:08:20.800 --> 02:08:24.399
this more when you get, home young. Lady, Yes, Graham

1885
02:08:25.119 --> 02:08:29.680
lisa muttered as she stepped into the big yellow. Bus i'm,

1886
02:08:29.720 --> 02:08:33.119
Sorry i'll be on my, Way freddie, said as he

1887
02:08:33.199 --> 02:08:36.279
started back down the sidewalk with the bus pulling, away

1888
02:08:36.920 --> 02:08:40.960
leaving behind a trail of black. Smoke the maintenance budget

1889
02:08:41.039 --> 02:08:43.000
must have taken a hit for the new school. Year

1890
02:08:44.079 --> 02:08:49.000
what's your, name? Stranger freddie stopped mid step and turned

1891
02:08:49.000 --> 02:08:53.560
to Face molly once. Again the Name's Freddie rogers and

1892
02:08:53.600 --> 02:08:58.560
who are? You my name Is molly. McBride, well Mister,

1893
02:08:58.720 --> 02:09:03.039
rogers where where you? Headed i'm headed to. WORK i

1894
02:09:03.119 --> 02:09:07.119
work at the finance company. DOWNTOWN i kind of gathered

1895
02:09:07.159 --> 02:09:09.520
it with some type of office. Work by the way you're,

1896
02:09:09.560 --> 02:09:14.119
Dressed molly noted the neatly pressed dress slacks and button

1897
02:09:14.199 --> 02:09:18.159
up shirt with tie underneath his light blue. Jacket i'm

1898
02:09:18.199 --> 02:09:21.159
sorry about that with your. Granddaughter no harm. MEANT i.

1899
02:09:21.239 --> 02:09:25.640
PROMISE i know who you are, now Mister, rogers AND

1900
02:09:25.720 --> 02:09:29.239
i know where you. Work molly smiled As freddy waved

1901
02:09:29.279 --> 02:09:32.399
back at her and continued his trek to the office

1902
02:09:32.880 --> 02:09:38.359
Of Fraser. Financial three point thirty three, pm the screen

1903
02:09:38.399 --> 02:09:41.760
door slammed shut and the sound of little feet filled the.

1904
02:09:41.760 --> 02:09:48.399
Hallway Gran, Mom i'm, Upstairs molly yelled through her open bedroom.

1905
02:09:48.520 --> 02:09:52.920
Door she was working on ironing that day's. Wash her

1906
02:09:53.039 --> 02:09:56.760
Daughter karen hadn't made it home from work. Yet she

1907
02:09:56.920 --> 02:10:01.479
was usually home Before, lisa but not that. Day Grand

1908
02:10:01.479 --> 02:10:04.840
Grand lisa took the steps two at a time and

1909
02:10:04.920 --> 02:10:07.920
sported a wide ear to ear grin when she stopped

1910
02:10:07.920 --> 02:10:11.680
in the. Doorway what is, it? Dear molly set the

1911
02:10:11.720 --> 02:10:13.760
iron down on the back of the ironing board and

1912
02:10:13.840 --> 02:10:18.720
moved Toward. Lisa where's mom still at? Work what's got

1913
02:10:18.720 --> 02:10:22.119
you grinning like? That? GRIN i gotta wait on, mom.

1914
02:10:22.199 --> 02:10:25.840
Kay lisa's freckled face had a small smudge of dirt

1915
02:10:25.880 --> 02:10:28.840
on her right cheek and the faintest line of sweat

1916
02:10:28.880 --> 02:10:32.560
had formed on her. Forehead that's, fine we'll still have

1917
02:10:32.640 --> 02:10:34.960
to discuss what we do when a stranger speaks to.

1918
02:10:35.000 --> 02:10:40.199
You i'm, Sorry, GRAN i didn't mean, To. Dear there

1919
02:10:40.239 --> 02:10:43.279
are bad people out. There they can pretend to be,

1920
02:10:43.399 --> 02:10:46.840
good and some of them may even be. Good but

1921
02:10:47.479 --> 02:10:50.199
you should never speak to strangers and you should never

1922
02:10:50.359 --> 02:10:55.479
ever take anything from. Them do you, Understand? Lisa, Yes,

1923
02:10:55.560 --> 02:11:00.800
GRAN i Understand. Lisa sometimes when little girls or boys

1924
02:11:00.840 --> 02:11:05.319
talk to, strangers they get taken away and they never come.

1925
02:11:05.359 --> 02:11:10.319
Home molly's eyes locked Onto lisa's and they conveyed personal

1926
02:11:10.399 --> 02:11:14.680
experience on this. Topic i'm, Sorry, GRAHAM i PROMISE i

1927
02:11:14.760 --> 02:11:18.960
won't talk to. Strangers good, Girl let's go wait on your.

1928
02:11:19.000 --> 02:11:21.600
MOTHER i have a roast in the. Oven how's that?

1929
02:11:21.720 --> 02:11:25.359
Sound molly grabbed her wide eyed granddaughter by the. HAND

1930
02:11:26.119 --> 02:11:28.479
i smelt it WHEN i walked. IN i could eat

1931
02:11:28.520 --> 02:11:31.960
the whole. Thing, well according to what you, told Mister,

1932
02:11:32.079 --> 02:11:37.039
ROGERS i don't feed. You who's Mister. Rogers he's the

1933
02:11:37.079 --> 02:11:40.000
stranger that you talked to this. MORNING i found out

1934
02:11:40.000 --> 02:11:43.760
who he. WAS i thought you wasn't supposed to talk to,

1935
02:11:43.840 --> 02:11:48.439
Him lisa, said. Puzzled that's. Right but because he talked to,

1936
02:11:48.479 --> 02:11:50.600
YOU i had to find out who he was and

1937
02:11:50.680 --> 02:11:53.600
if he was good or, Bad molly, said as they

1938
02:11:53.720 --> 02:11:58.600
entered the kitchen and unclasped. Hands well is he good or?

1939
02:11:58.640 --> 02:12:02.279
Bad lee, asked as she peered through the glass on

1940
02:12:02.319 --> 02:12:05.960
the oven. DOOR i don't know, yet but he Seems,

1941
02:12:06.000 --> 02:12:08.920
okay reach over there and get me the mixer and

1942
02:12:08.960 --> 02:12:11.640
the big bowl over the. Sink you can help me

1943
02:12:11.720 --> 02:12:15.319
mash the. Potatoes we can use the gravy from the. Roast,

1944
02:12:15.760 --> 02:12:20.159
kay gran it smells so. Good they both heard the

1945
02:12:20.159 --> 02:12:23.680
front door close and keys hit the coffee. Table, mom

1946
02:12:24.000 --> 02:12:26.840
come in the. KITCHEN i gotta tell you. Something the

1947
02:12:26.960 --> 02:12:30.199
sound Of Karen frausto's high heels click clacked as she

1948
02:12:30.319 --> 02:12:33.840
stepped into the, kitchen and Skinny lisa sprang into her.

1949
02:12:33.960 --> 02:12:38.159
Arms tell me all about, it, Sweetie karen smiled at her.

1950
02:12:38.239 --> 02:12:46.239
DAUGHTER a late night at work had turned into an

1951
02:12:46.279 --> 02:12:49.640
early morning For Freddie. Rogers the end of the month

1952
02:12:49.760 --> 02:12:52.359
was here and the books had to be reconciled before

1953
02:12:52.399 --> 02:12:55.600
the division manager arrived at eight am later that. Morning

1954
02:12:56.359 --> 02:12:58.640
he was on the brink of a mental collapse when

1955
02:12:58.640 --> 02:13:02.159
he logged off his. Computer freddie was the only employee

1956
02:13:02.239 --> 02:13:05.319
left in the. Office the other three full timers had

1957
02:13:05.359 --> 02:13:08.279
left at eight p. M the previous evening after logging

1958
02:13:08.279 --> 02:13:11.399
in twelve. Hours NOW i WISH i had a, car

1959
02:13:11.840 --> 02:13:15.119
or even a, Bicycle freddy mumbled to himself as he

1960
02:13:15.199 --> 02:13:18.279
grabbed the light blue jacket from the coat hanger beside

1961
02:13:18.319 --> 02:13:22.399
the office. Entrance freddie stared at the illuminated keypad for

1962
02:13:22.439 --> 02:13:25.840
a few, seconds trying to remember the correct alarm. Coat

1963
02:13:25.920 --> 02:13:30.520
before tapping the numbers, seven, two nine, five the word

1964
02:13:30.720 --> 02:13:34.800
armed flashed in bold. Letters freddy had twenty eight seconds

1965
02:13:34.840 --> 02:13:37.520
to let himself out and lock the door behind. Him

1966
02:13:38.119 --> 02:13:41.640
oh it's quite, Nippy freddy said aloud as he stepped

1967
02:13:41.640 --> 02:13:45.399
into the colder than average fall. Night Downtown, Langley South

1968
02:13:45.399 --> 02:13:48.680
carolina was empty save for a gimpy white and brown

1969
02:13:48.800 --> 02:13:52.600
cat accompanied by a small black Mud they were both

1970
02:13:52.680 --> 02:13:56.279
staring at, him hoping for a handout from. BEHIND a

1971
02:13:56.279 --> 02:13:58.600
couple of garbage cans put out in front Of LANGLEY,

1972
02:13:58.720 --> 02:14:02.760
rx no doubt for an early trash. PICKUP a low

1973
02:14:02.840 --> 02:14:07.039
lying fog hovered over, downtown covering the street, lamps making

1974
02:14:07.039 --> 02:14:10.359
them look like blurry circles of light hidden inside of a.

1975
02:14:10.399 --> 02:14:14.119
Cloud freddie pulled up the collar of his jacket and

1976
02:14:14.199 --> 02:14:18.159
began to walk the sidewalk back. Home his loafers felt,

1977
02:14:18.199 --> 02:14:21.119
heavy and he kept his eyes trained on the sidewalk

1978
02:14:21.119 --> 02:14:24.199
in front of. Him freddie was just beginning to fall

1979
02:14:24.239 --> 02:14:28.319
into a walking version of highway hypnosis when he heard

1980
02:14:28.359 --> 02:14:34.640
a whisper hello over. Here freddie stopped his march and

1981
02:14:34.760 --> 02:14:37.560
stared into the fog for a good five seconds before,

1982
02:14:37.600 --> 02:14:45.520
replying who's. There i'm, hungry. Mister the whisper, Returned are

1983
02:14:45.560 --> 02:14:48.560
you the little GIRL i saw? Yesterday what are you

1984
02:14:48.640 --> 02:14:51.760
doing out here at this? Hour freddie placed his right

1985
02:14:51.760 --> 02:14:54.159
hand out in front of his forehead as if he

1986
02:14:54.239 --> 02:14:57.399
was shielding his vision from the. Sun he was trying

1987
02:14:57.439 --> 02:15:01.359
to make out the demure figure stand just behind the street.

1988
02:15:01.399 --> 02:15:07.279
Lamp i'm, hungry, mister the whisper. Repeated your grandma is

1989
02:15:07.319 --> 02:15:09.760
going to kick both our. Tails let me get you.

1990
02:15:09.800 --> 02:15:13.159
Home freddie stepped closer to the street lamp and the

1991
02:15:13.199 --> 02:15:18.720
figure receded into. Darkness, yepp what the? Hell the little

1992
02:15:18.760 --> 02:15:21.640
black mutt was right Behind, freddy nipping at the backs

1993
02:15:21.640 --> 02:15:24.399
of his ankles and pulling on his left pant. Leg

1994
02:15:25.079 --> 02:15:28.560
the cat stayed put behind the garbage. Cans he would

1995
02:15:28.600 --> 02:15:32.439
win no man's best friend. Award freddie turned and knelt

1996
02:15:32.439 --> 02:15:35.520
to remove the little stray from his. Ankle he grabbed

1997
02:15:35.560 --> 02:15:38.800
the dog with both hands by his. Midsection the little

1998
02:15:38.800 --> 02:15:41.760
fella growled but didn't relinquish his grip on the hem

1999
02:15:41.800 --> 02:15:46.239
Of freddy's. Slacks come on, Now freddy, started right before

2000
02:15:46.239 --> 02:15:50.439
a sixth sense kicked. In goose pimples broke out on both,

2001
02:15:50.600 --> 02:15:52.720
arms and the hair on the back of his neck

2002
02:15:52.840 --> 02:15:59.199
stood at. Attention i'm, hungry. Mister from, behind sharpened nails

2003
02:15:59.239 --> 02:16:02.319
sunk deep Through freddie's jacket into the meat of both,

2004
02:16:02.479 --> 02:16:06.439
arms and two tiny legs rapped tightly around his. Middle,

2005
02:16:07.159 --> 02:16:11.079
yepep the little black dog backed away From freddie and

2006
02:16:11.199 --> 02:16:14.359
kept barking at the long haired girl attached To freddie's.

2007
02:16:14.399 --> 02:16:17.760
Back her face buried deep into the nape of his.

2008
02:16:17.920 --> 02:16:21.039
Neck freddie pounded on the top of her head with

2009
02:16:21.159 --> 02:16:24.399
both fists as hard as he. Could the sounds of

2010
02:16:24.479 --> 02:16:27.640
sucking and slurping filled the, air along with the constant

2011
02:16:27.760 --> 02:16:31.239
yep of the. Dog the cat had seen enough and

2012
02:16:31.359 --> 02:16:35.799
split with each. Slurp freddie, weakened and it wasn't long

2013
02:16:35.879 --> 02:16:38.920
before he was face down on the. Sidewalk the little

2014
02:16:39.000 --> 02:16:42.399
vampire was in a feeding frenzy and couldn't stop even

2015
02:16:42.440 --> 02:16:46.879
if she wanted. To freddie's final thoughts before he lost

2016
02:16:46.920 --> 02:16:52.719
consciousness for good were never talk to. STRANGERS i hope

2017
02:16:52.719 --> 02:16:56.639
that little girl and her grandma are. Okay you look

2018
02:16:56.719 --> 02:16:59.520
like you're about to, burst. Sweetheart tell me what it,

2019
02:16:59.600 --> 02:17:03.639
Is karen said as she placed her finger Under lisa's.

2020
02:17:03.680 --> 02:17:08.280
Chin lisa wriggled her nose a little and, Replied, MOM

2021
02:17:08.600 --> 02:17:12.559
i got a special letter from Missus wilkes. Today where is?

2022
02:17:12.600 --> 02:17:17.559
It what did it? Say molly asked Gran, Mom it's

2023
02:17:17.600 --> 02:17:20.360
said THAT i am gifted and, talented and they want

2024
02:17:20.360 --> 02:17:22.280
me to be a part of the gifted and talented.

2025
02:17:22.319 --> 02:17:26.799
Program lisa pulled a neatly quarter folded piece of paper

2026
02:17:26.840 --> 02:17:29.920
from her back jean pocket and handed it To. KAREN

2027
02:17:31.120 --> 02:17:33.000
i don't need a piece of paper to tell me

2028
02:17:33.079 --> 02:17:37.559
you are gifted and, Talented. Poodle i've always known. That with,

2029
02:17:37.639 --> 02:17:41.319
That lisa wrapped her arms around her mother's. Waist karen

2030
02:17:41.319 --> 02:17:44.920
winked at her own mother with, pride And molly smiled

2031
02:17:44.959 --> 02:17:48.600
back at. Her there were three gifted and talented women

2032
02:17:48.639 --> 02:17:53.760
in this household strong. Too Karen fraustow was a thirty

2033
02:17:53.760 --> 02:17:56.559
four year old, widow which made her one of two

2034
02:17:56.639 --> 02:18:00.719
widows in the. House her, Father, milton had passed away

2035
02:18:00.840 --> 02:18:05.159
six years. Before her Husband, jeffrey was killed in a

2036
02:18:05.200 --> 02:18:08.040
seven car pile up ON i twenty two years ago

2037
02:18:08.520 --> 02:18:11.799
When lisa was just six years. Old he was on

2038
02:18:11.799 --> 02:18:14.399
his way back from The Atlanta airport when an elderly

2039
02:18:14.440 --> 02:18:18.360
woman driving an older Model thunderbird crossed through the median

2040
02:18:18.600 --> 02:18:21.959
just past The Appling georgia exit and plowed head on

2041
02:18:22.120 --> 02:18:25.000
into a Silver, jetta setting off a tragic chain of

2042
02:18:25.079 --> 02:18:28.799
misery starting with her Husband seabring plowing into the back

2043
02:18:28.879 --> 02:18:32.200
of the already Demolished jetta at over seventy miles an,

2044
02:18:32.239 --> 02:18:36.200
hour and so on and so, on with the five

2045
02:18:36.280 --> 02:18:40.360
vehicles behind. Him fast forward a couple of, years And

2046
02:18:40.520 --> 02:18:44.680
molly was firmly entrenched as caretaker for her two. Girls

2047
02:18:45.399 --> 02:18:48.719
karen had shown no interest in other men Since jeffrey passed.

2048
02:18:48.760 --> 02:18:54.520
Away her focus was on providing For. Lisa karen's official

2049
02:18:54.600 --> 02:18:59.120
title Was Advertising Sales, executive a fancy name for a

2050
02:18:59.159 --> 02:19:03.360
salesperson working for the Local fox, affiliate and she worked

2051
02:19:03.399 --> 02:19:06.239
late on this particular day closing a deal with The

2052
02:19:06.319 --> 02:19:10.520
Ford Auto group renewing and up selling their current television.

2053
02:19:10.559 --> 02:19:14.360
PACKAGE a nice commission would be coming To karen and her.

2054
02:19:14.399 --> 02:19:18.879
Family i'm so proud of, you. Sweetie your daddy's smiling

2055
02:19:18.879 --> 02:19:22.559
at you right. NOW i can feel. It, OH i

2056
02:19:22.719 --> 02:19:25.280
know he, is and your grandfather is right there with,

2057
02:19:25.440 --> 02:19:28.680
Him molly said as she moved a chair from under

2058
02:19:28.680 --> 02:19:32.000
the kitchen, table patting the, seat Inviting lisa to PLoP

2059
02:19:32.040 --> 02:19:37.239
down for. Supper mom that smells so, Good karen smacked her.

2060
02:19:37.239 --> 02:19:40.559
Lips you sit down right there And i'll fix both

2061
02:19:40.559 --> 02:19:43.719
of my girls a. Plate molly lived to take care

2062
02:19:43.760 --> 02:19:46.760
of her. Girls if it weren't for, them she'd probably

2063
02:19:46.799 --> 02:19:50.799
be pushing up, daisies, milkweed or something up from the.

2064
02:19:50.840 --> 02:19:54.879
Ground the three strong women ate supper and talked about

2065
02:19:54.879 --> 02:20:01.559
how gifted and talented Little lisa. Was FIVE A. M

2066
02:20:02.319 --> 02:20:06.520
i know you're. Hungry please don't remind me, again the

2067
02:20:06.600 --> 02:20:09.360
skinny man with ashy skin and no hair on his

2068
02:20:09.440 --> 02:20:13.840
head said to his little, COMPANION i need to. EAT

2069
02:20:14.520 --> 02:20:17.719
i have to. Eat the dark haired girl with oil

2070
02:20:17.799 --> 02:20:22.159
black eyes. Replied the fog was beginning to settle, in

2071
02:20:22.719 --> 02:20:25.959
and they stood outside of The frausto residence under the

2072
02:20:26.000 --> 02:20:29.559
street lamp At lisa's bus. Stop we beat the others.

2073
02:20:29.600 --> 02:20:32.399
Here you go down that way and find a dog

2074
02:20:32.559 --> 02:20:35.719
or cat or something to tide you. Over the bony

2075
02:20:35.760 --> 02:20:40.159
finger pointed down the sidewalk that headed into. Town i'll

2076
02:20:40.159 --> 02:20:42.399
move across the way and see WHAT i can. Find

2077
02:20:42.840 --> 02:20:44.840
i'll meet you back here in this spot in an,

2078
02:20:44.879 --> 02:20:49.799
hour you. Understand the little vampire nodded her. Head her

2079
02:20:49.879 --> 02:20:53.159
long black hair had no shine and no. Bounce it

2080
02:20:53.280 --> 02:20:57.600
was the hair of the. Dead the hunger pangs knifed

2081
02:20:57.639 --> 02:21:00.799
into her and put her in a single. Mindset would she?

2082
02:21:00.920 --> 02:21:01.440
Die?

2083
02:21:01.760 --> 02:21:05.079
No she was a, vampire and the hunger would gnaw

2084
02:21:05.120 --> 02:21:08.520
at her and torture her for, relief but she would not.

2085
02:21:08.680 --> 02:21:12.040
Die only the brief pain of a wooden steak or

2086
02:21:12.079 --> 02:21:14.879
a burst from the yellow sun would do that. Trick

2087
02:21:15.799 --> 02:21:18.200
the pain of hunger was so bad that she wished

2088
02:21:18.239 --> 02:21:21.200
for either of those. Options as she shuffled down the,

2089
02:21:21.280 --> 02:21:25.440
sidewalk listening for anything she could grab that would gush,

2090
02:21:25.479 --> 02:21:30.920
blood giving her. Relief the hungry little vampire walked well

2091
02:21:31.000 --> 02:21:34.680
past the hour deadline set by her companion until she

2092
02:21:34.719 --> 02:21:39.120
heard a, yep. Yep there were two little tender morsels

2093
02:21:39.159 --> 02:21:41.879
in the forms of a little black mut and a

2094
02:21:41.920 --> 02:21:46.200
white and brown, cat parked behind some garbage. Cans shannon

2095
02:21:46.319 --> 02:21:49.760
rolled her tongue across her fangs and took a thirsty

2096
02:21:49.840 --> 02:21:52.879
gulp as she started out from under the street. Lamp

2097
02:21:53.520 --> 02:21:57.040
she stopped her approach when she heard the jingling of

2098
02:21:57.120 --> 02:22:02.399
keys and eased back into the. Shadows the footsteps moved steadily,

2099
02:22:02.440 --> 02:22:05.479
closer and she could make out the man looking across

2100
02:22:05.520 --> 02:22:08.719
the street at the yapping, dog and the you stay

2101
02:22:08.760 --> 02:22:12.639
over there And i'll stay over, here. Kat the nails

2102
02:22:12.639 --> 02:22:17.319
on the little Vampire shannon's fingers expanded outward into razors sharp.

2103
02:22:17.360 --> 02:22:22.799
Points her fangs were dripping with, cold thick. Saliva as

2104
02:22:22.799 --> 02:22:29.600
she called out hello over. Here the man, paused looked

2105
02:22:29.639 --> 02:22:33.840
in her, direction and yelled out to, Her i'm, hungry

2106
02:22:33.959 --> 02:22:39.440
Mister shannon licked her lips As freddie took his final.

2107
02:22:39.520 --> 02:22:47.719
Steps karen Escorted lisa to the sidewalk in front of

2108
02:22:47.760 --> 02:22:50.680
their home and waited with her for the smoky bus to.

2109
02:22:50.920 --> 02:22:54.719
Arrive this was a rare treat for them both Because

2110
02:22:54.840 --> 02:22:57.559
karen was usually, up dressed and on her way to

2111
02:22:57.600 --> 02:23:02.000
the station by six thirty am most. Mornings she figured

2112
02:23:02.000 --> 02:23:04.159
that she deserved a morning to make her daughter and

2113
02:23:04.239 --> 02:23:07.879
mother breakfast and See lisa to the bus. Stop she

2114
02:23:08.040 --> 02:23:10.879
closed a big up cell the day, before so she

2115
02:23:11.040 --> 02:23:15.799
deserved this morning send. Off. Mom what Was dad's favorite?

2116
02:23:15.840 --> 02:23:20.200
Color lisa. Asked her shoulder length auburn hair was pulled

2117
02:23:20.200 --> 02:23:23.239
into tight braids on both sides of her. Head the

2118
02:23:23.280 --> 02:23:26.040
same light brown eyes that belonged to her mom and

2119
02:23:26.079 --> 02:23:30.159
Her graham were wide when she asked the. Question lisa

2120
02:23:30.239 --> 02:23:33.639
remembered her father for, sure but she was only six

2121
02:23:33.680 --> 02:23:35.959
when he, died and she didn't get to know her

2122
02:23:36.000 --> 02:23:39.840
father very. Well in that short span of. Life his favorite,

2123
02:23:39.840 --> 02:23:42.840
color the movies he liked to. Watch was he a

2124
02:23:42.840 --> 02:23:47.319
football or a baseball? Dad those types of. Things his

2125
02:23:47.399 --> 02:23:50.959
favorite color was the exact color of your. Eyes he

2126
02:23:51.079 --> 02:23:53.600
stared into them for hours on end when you were a.

2127
02:23:53.639 --> 02:23:59.719
Baby karen, replied trying not to well. Up these questions weren't,

2128
02:23:59.760 --> 02:24:04.719
sad so she fought through her instinctive reaction to release the. Tears,

2129
02:24:05.280 --> 02:24:08.879
mom what color were his eyes in the picture in my?

2130
02:24:09.000 --> 02:24:12.840
Room they looked sort of? Green were they? Green, yes,

2131
02:24:12.879 --> 02:24:17.840
sweetie they were emerald, green and they were. Beautiful he

2132
02:24:17.920 --> 02:24:22.239
adored you so. Much that did, It and a single

2133
02:24:22.280 --> 02:24:26.639
tear was released from the bottom corner Of karen's left. Eye, Oh,

2134
02:24:26.680 --> 02:24:30.920
mom don't, Cry i'm. Sorry lisa dropped her pink tin

2135
02:24:31.040 --> 02:24:34.120
lunch box along with Her Neon lime book bag on

2136
02:24:34.159 --> 02:24:38.120
the sidewalk and gave her mother a tight. Hug in mid,

2137
02:24:38.200 --> 02:24:41.200
hug the smoky yellow bus stopped right in front of

2138
02:24:41.239 --> 02:24:44.600
them with its all too familiar squeal and smoke. Cloud

2139
02:24:45.879 --> 02:24:49.520
you go on to school, now misgifted and. TALENTED i love.

2140
02:24:49.559 --> 02:24:53.639
You karen Handed lisa her lunchbox and gave the back

2141
02:24:53.639 --> 02:24:57.959
of her head a quick stroke as she turned toward the. Bus, Bye,

2142
02:24:58.000 --> 02:25:02.719
MOM i love you, Too lisa hollered As molly watched

2143
02:25:02.719 --> 02:25:07.040
from the front. Porch, bye, dear love. You we're having

2144
02:25:07.159 --> 02:25:11.159
chicken and dumplings for. Supper karen watched with hands on

2145
02:25:11.280 --> 02:25:14.399
hips as the bus pulled away in a smoky, cloud

2146
02:25:14.879 --> 02:25:18.200
and then walked back toward the, house stopping briefly to

2147
02:25:18.280 --> 02:25:21.760
remove the morning paper from the paper. Box in the

2148
02:25:21.799 --> 02:25:26.079
age of iPads and, Smartphones mollie still subscribed to The Achin.

2149
02:25:26.200 --> 02:25:29.719
Standard she was from the old school and liked getting

2150
02:25:29.760 --> 02:25:35.440
newsprints smudged on her fingers every. Morning, MOM i miss,

2151
02:25:35.520 --> 02:25:40.319
Him karen, SAID i know you, Do, SWEETIE i know you.

2152
02:25:40.360 --> 02:25:45.520
Do ONE, o TWO A. M. Shannon the others are,

2153
02:25:45.559 --> 02:25:48.639
Here victor said as he opened the back door to

2154
02:25:48.719 --> 02:25:53.600
the up until recently vacant mobile. Home it was a

2155
02:25:53.639 --> 02:25:56.639
double wide that had seen better, days but it was

2156
02:25:56.680 --> 02:25:59.879
sturdy enough For victor and his progeny to take. Refuge

2157
02:26:00.479 --> 02:26:03.840
they shared the back bedroom during the daylight. Hours the

2158
02:26:03.879 --> 02:26:07.680
windows were covered in sun blocking film That victor kept.

2159
02:26:07.680 --> 02:26:13.799
Handy oh the life of a, Vampire. Victor it's so

2160
02:26:13.959 --> 02:26:18.680
good to see you and You, shannon my, dear you

2161
02:26:18.760 --> 02:26:21.319
are more beautiful every TIME i set my eyes on.

2162
02:26:21.479 --> 02:26:25.600
You veronica trained her black pools on the little blood

2163
02:26:25.600 --> 02:26:31.399
sucker At victor's. Side, veronica you are too. Kind tell

2164
02:26:31.440 --> 02:26:35.719
me Where's ivan And? Sandra are they with? You victor

2165
02:26:35.799 --> 02:26:39.680
held out a pasty. Hand you Mean neil And. Sandra,

2166
02:26:40.000 --> 02:26:43.959
VICTOR i know you do that on. Purpose, oh they

2167
02:26:43.959 --> 02:26:47.559
are out hunting for hoboes or some unfortunate kitty cat

2168
02:26:47.680 --> 02:26:52.079
or stray. Pooch they'll be here. Soon veronica was, stunning

2169
02:26:52.520 --> 02:26:55.920
the kind of vampire that is imagined in, movies, novels

2170
02:26:56.159 --> 02:27:00.440
and the occasional cable. Series she had waste, length cloud

2171
02:27:00.479 --> 02:27:03.200
white hair that wisped when there was a breeze and

2172
02:27:03.360 --> 02:27:07.239
lent itself to be touched when you got. Close Unlike

2173
02:27:07.280 --> 02:27:11.159
shannon's black, Dresses veronica's did seem to have some sort of.

2174
02:27:11.239 --> 02:27:16.200
Life her body hugging black dress accentuated her natural, curves

2175
02:27:16.559 --> 02:27:20.000
and she had no problems getting. Food she drained her

2176
02:27:20.079 --> 02:27:23.520
last meal the previous, night right after he came for

2177
02:27:23.559 --> 02:27:29.239
the last. Time veronica was the, walking talking embodiment of

2178
02:27:29.280 --> 02:27:33.719
a beautiful. Death the heavy cranberry lipstick set against her

2179
02:27:33.760 --> 02:27:37.760
pale face and flawless, skin along with pearly white fangs

2180
02:27:38.079 --> 02:27:40.319
made her one of the most beautiful creatures on the.

2181
02:27:40.319 --> 02:27:44.879
Planet veronica was the queen of this, hive And, Langley

2182
02:27:44.920 --> 02:27:49.639
South carolina was supposed to be a brief. Stop only

2183
02:27:50.520 --> 02:27:58.360
it didn't quite work out that. Way, Downtown, yep, yep,

2184
02:27:58.680 --> 02:28:03.239
Yeer neil over, HERE i got. One sandra held the

2185
02:28:03.239 --> 02:28:06.280
little black mut out at arm's length as she kicked

2186
02:28:06.280 --> 02:28:09.479
and wriggled in the air trying to break. Free sandra

2187
02:28:09.520 --> 02:28:12.239
had her claws sunk into both sides of the struggling.

2188
02:28:12.280 --> 02:28:16.840
Dog hold him. STILL i got something. Too neil stepped

2189
02:28:16.840 --> 02:28:19.680
from behind the pharmacy building holding the hand of a,

2190
02:28:19.719 --> 02:28:24.200
skinny run down crack. Addict Simon fargoni had lost his

2191
02:28:24.319 --> 02:28:28.159
soul In. Vietnam what remained was a drug rattled body

2192
02:28:28.920 --> 02:28:32.200
that operated on the most primal of. Levels feed the,

2193
02:28:32.280 --> 02:28:35.760
hunger check out of this world for a, while rinse and.

2194
02:28:35.879 --> 02:28:39.920
Repeat his needle ridden arms were all tracked up on both.

2195
02:28:40.000 --> 02:28:44.840
Sides sandra shook her head in utter. Revulsion you eat

2196
02:28:44.879 --> 02:28:47.639
that And i'll Have fido over. HERE i know we're,

2197
02:28:47.719 --> 02:28:50.600
vampires But i'm afraid i'd catch something IF i drank from.

2198
02:28:50.600 --> 02:28:54.799
That sandra turned her eyes back to the black. Mud

2199
02:28:55.479 --> 02:28:58.319
he had stopped wriggling and was breathing rapidly with his

2200
02:28:58.399 --> 02:29:01.680
tongue flopped out the left side of his. Mouth, well

2201
02:29:02.079 --> 02:29:05.319
you drink the dog dry And i'll finish this gross

2202
02:29:05.360 --> 02:29:09.399
looking thing. Off neil placed the black nail from his

2203
02:29:09.479 --> 02:29:13.120
index finger on the backside Of simon's neck and flicked

2204
02:29:13.120 --> 02:29:17.639
aside a lice filled mound of. Hair oh this is fucking,

2205
02:29:17.760 --> 02:29:23.680
disgusting BUT i gotta. Eat neil sank his sharp canines in,

2206
02:29:23.799 --> 02:29:27.559
deep And simon didn't make a move or a. Sound

2207
02:29:28.239 --> 02:29:30.520
his eyes were already rolled into the back of his

2208
02:29:30.639 --> 02:29:34.319
head Before neil even opened his. Mouth this would be

2209
02:29:34.319 --> 02:29:42.000
a sweet release For. Simon sweet and. Oblivious. Ah the

2210
02:29:42.079 --> 02:29:45.719
dog let out a tortured howl When sandra's fangs punctured

2211
02:29:45.719 --> 02:29:48.719
through the black fur and released the flow of. Blood

2212
02:29:49.399 --> 02:29:52.680
sandra didn't like the sensation of sucking the blood over

2213
02:29:52.719 --> 02:29:55.280
the top of the heavy coat of, fur but she

2214
02:29:55.399 --> 02:29:59.799
hated the hunger pangs even. More neil And sandra were,

2215
02:29:59.879 --> 02:30:04.079
very very young, vampires turned just over three years. Ago

2216
02:30:04.440 --> 02:30:08.040
both turned By veronica on a night after some heavy

2217
02:30:08.120 --> 02:30:12.520
drinking and deviancy with The. Queen neil And sandra were

2218
02:30:12.520 --> 02:30:16.319
a couple that had an insane obsession with vampires and

2219
02:30:16.399 --> 02:30:20.280
the romanticized vision of their, lifestyle a vision that was

2220
02:30:20.319 --> 02:30:24.239
certainly in question as he watched the lice scurry around

2221
02:30:24.280 --> 02:30:27.360
in the head of his current meal and she gagged

2222
02:30:27.399 --> 02:30:31.799
on the matted fur of. Hers neil was close to

2223
02:30:31.840 --> 02:30:34.440
six feet tall with a crew cut and light brown.

2224
02:30:34.520 --> 02:30:38.200
Hair sandra was almost as tall As, neil's sporting shoulder

2225
02:30:38.280 --> 02:30:43.479
length sandy blonde. Hair they, both as all, vampires had black.

2226
02:30:43.520 --> 02:30:48.559
Eyes sandra released the drained mud and it sounded like

2227
02:30:48.600 --> 02:30:52.399
a wet bath towel hitting. Cement neil was finishing off

2228
02:30:52.440 --> 02:30:57.000
the last drops From simon When sandra, Said, neil it's

2229
02:30:57.040 --> 02:30:59.920
time to. Go veronica will be looking for us. Soon

2230
02:31:00.840 --> 02:31:04.200
neil looked up At sandra with the Cold simon laying

2231
02:31:04.280 --> 02:31:08.079
on his side underneath him on the. Concrete i'm satiated.

2232
02:31:08.639 --> 02:31:13.319
You i'm still a little, hungry BUT i had. Enough come,

2233
02:31:13.360 --> 02:31:16.600
on we must leave. Now sandra was curt in her

2234
02:31:16.680 --> 02:31:20.280
reply and turned her back To. Neil he began to

2235
02:31:20.319 --> 02:31:24.440
walk down the sidewalk leading out of. Downtown the fog

2236
02:31:24.600 --> 02:31:28.120
was back and the air held some. Moisture i'm. Coming

2237
02:31:28.760 --> 02:31:32.760
neil Dropped simon into THE rx dumpster and jogged lightly

2238
02:31:33.079 --> 02:31:35.559
to catch up With, sandra holding his hand out to.

2239
02:31:35.600 --> 02:31:39.639
Her she glanced down at her side, quickly but didn't

2240
02:31:39.680 --> 02:31:43.440
take his. Hand she continued to walk at a rapid.

2241
02:31:43.479 --> 02:31:48.479
Pace nine minutes, Later what took you to so, Long

2242
02:31:49.120 --> 02:31:53.040
veronica asked the approaching. Pair took while to find a?

2243
02:31:53.120 --> 02:31:58.559
Vagrant neil, replied and, You veronica, asked looking In sandra's.

2244
02:31:58.600 --> 02:32:02.479
DIRECTION a, dog and it was, bad but not as

2245
02:32:02.559 --> 02:32:06.479
bad as the Man neil. Drained sandra twirled the ivory

2246
02:32:06.559 --> 02:32:10.520
bracelet around her. Wrist was he a little black? DOG

2247
02:32:11.120 --> 02:32:15.440
a quiet voice, asked just above a Whisper, shannon that.

2248
02:32:15.600 --> 02:32:19.479
You sandra moved Toward, victor who had been silent since

2249
02:32:19.479 --> 02:32:23.959
they walked. Up shannon stepped from behind. Him, yes it's.

2250
02:32:24.040 --> 02:32:27.680
Me was it a little black, dog she asked, again

2251
02:32:27.799 --> 02:32:33.040
without looking, Up yes it, Was sandra. Answered is it a?

2252
02:32:33.079 --> 02:32:37.520
Problem neil, asked with aggression in his. Tone, no it's

2253
02:32:37.600 --> 02:32:41.360
not a, Problem victor interjected as he stepped back in

2254
02:32:41.399 --> 02:32:44.440
front Of shannon and kept his full focus On. Neil

2255
02:32:45.399 --> 02:32:48.239
let's all go inside for a talk and we'll figure

2256
02:32:48.280 --> 02:32:52.200
out where we're. Going. Next sound like a, Plan veronica,

2257
02:32:52.280 --> 02:32:56.920
asked trying to lighten the. Tension, victor MAY i go

2258
02:32:57.040 --> 02:33:00.959
for a? Walk shannon. Asked victor was the only one she.

2259
02:33:01.079 --> 02:33:06.600
Trusted he turned her and he cared for the others

2260
02:33:06.719 --> 02:33:10.879
just frightened. Her victor gave a cursory look To, veronica

2261
02:33:11.360 --> 02:33:14.719
and she gave him a slight head. Nod, sure my,

2262
02:33:14.840 --> 02:33:18.239
dear just stay close by and be back in an.

2263
02:33:18.239 --> 02:33:22.000
HOUR i don't want anything to happen to. You victor

2264
02:33:22.079 --> 02:33:24.520
ran the back of his hand down the side Of shannon's.

2265
02:33:24.600 --> 02:33:29.600
CHEEK i, will she, answered and walked away into the.

2266
02:33:29.719 --> 02:33:40.360
Night lisa couldn't go back to. Sleep she was awakened

2267
02:33:40.399 --> 02:33:43.280
by a barking, dog and her body wouldn't let her

2268
02:33:43.360 --> 02:33:47.399
drift back To La La, land so she decided to.

2269
02:33:47.479 --> 02:33:51.280
Draw lisa pulled the rolling chair from her art desk

2270
02:33:51.360 --> 02:33:54.200
and flipped on the. Lamp she opened the front drawer

2271
02:33:54.200 --> 02:33:57.479
and removed an assortment of colored pencils and placed them

2272
02:33:57.520 --> 02:34:01.440
in a pink plastic. Cup sitting atop her, Deck lisa

2273
02:34:01.520 --> 02:34:04.639
started with the top piece of blank, paper beginning with

2274
02:34:04.719 --> 02:34:08.200
a light blue pencil for the. Sky lisa was working

2275
02:34:08.200 --> 02:34:10.920
on blending in the white paper with the blue pencil

2276
02:34:10.959 --> 02:34:15.479
to form a pretty set of. Clouds when she heard hello,

2277
02:34:15.719 --> 02:34:20.360
there it was barely above a, whisper but it was.

2278
02:34:20.479 --> 02:34:24.479
Distinct lisa placed the blue pencil flat on the paper

2279
02:34:24.840 --> 02:34:27.440
and it rolled to the edge of the, desk a

2280
02:34:27.479 --> 02:34:31.079
metal lip keeping it from hitting the. Floor her first

2281
02:34:31.120 --> 02:34:33.520
instinct was to go wake up her mother or Gran

2282
02:34:34.559 --> 02:34:40.120
she ignored it and, Listened hello, there the quiet voice.

2283
02:34:40.120 --> 02:34:44.920
Repeated lisa pushed slowly away from the desk and stood.

2284
02:34:45.000 --> 02:34:47.520
Up she leaned over the front of the desk and

2285
02:34:47.559 --> 02:34:51.159
peered through the. Window the fog was, back but she

2286
02:34:51.200 --> 02:34:54.479
could make out the street. Lamp just below the street

2287
02:34:54.520 --> 02:34:57.959
lamp right where she awaits the oil belching bus every,

2288
02:34:58.079 --> 02:35:02.399
day was a girl with very dark. Hair the strange

2289
02:35:02.440 --> 02:35:06.040
girl raised her right hand and began a slow moving.

2290
02:35:06.120 --> 02:35:12.120
Wave lisa smiled through the window and waved. Back she

2291
02:35:12.319 --> 02:35:14.600
used both hands to pull on the metal lip on

2292
02:35:14.680 --> 02:35:17.200
the front of her desk that kept her pencils from

2293
02:35:17.280 --> 02:35:21.479
hitting the. Floor with a little, effort the desk moved

2294
02:35:21.520 --> 02:35:24.680
a few inches away from the, window just enough For

2295
02:35:24.799 --> 02:35:28.680
lisa to step behind. It she opened the lock on

2296
02:35:28.719 --> 02:35:34.040
the window and raised it about a. Foot Hi lisa

2297
02:35:34.120 --> 02:35:36.959
said in a hoarse voice that was supposed to be

2298
02:35:37.040 --> 02:35:42.399
a loud. Whisper, Hello shannon said to the squinting. Girl

2299
02:35:43.200 --> 02:35:46.280
lisa was trying to see her clearly through the. Fog

2300
02:35:47.559 --> 02:35:53.399
what's your, Name lisa Asked. Shannon that's a good. NAME

2301
02:35:53.920 --> 02:35:59.120
i like that, Name. Shannon where's your, Mom lisa. Continued

2302
02:36:00.159 --> 02:36:03.479
she's not, Around shannon, said as she stepped through the

2303
02:36:03.559 --> 02:36:07.159
yard and looked up at the second story, window Giving

2304
02:36:07.239 --> 02:36:12.000
lisa a better. View CAN i come? IN i gotta

2305
02:36:12.040 --> 02:36:15.040
get my. MOM i can't open the door for. Strangers

2306
02:36:15.520 --> 02:36:19.079
i'll go get her. Now lisa quickly turned away from

2307
02:36:19.120 --> 02:36:22.959
the window and ran toward her bedroom. Door she turned

2308
02:36:22.959 --> 02:36:28.680
the knob Ha lisa, screamed what is the matter with, you young.

2309
02:36:28.600 --> 02:36:32.239
Lady it's almost three o'clock in the. Morning mollie was

2310
02:36:32.280 --> 02:36:35.559
coming to see what all the yelling was. About there's

2311
02:36:35.680 --> 02:36:39.159
a little girl out, There, gran she's outside and. Alone

2312
02:36:39.760 --> 02:36:43.120
we need to let her. In lisa pulled On molly's

2313
02:36:43.159 --> 02:36:46.760
hand to come to the. Window, okay, dear let me

2314
02:36:46.840 --> 02:36:50.120
get over. There molly crossed the room and Helped lisa

2315
02:36:50.200 --> 02:36:52.239
pull the desk out a little more so she could

2316
02:36:52.319 --> 02:36:56.600
view out the. WINDOW i don't see, Anyone, Lisa. Gran

2317
02:36:56.959 --> 02:36:59.959
she was right under my. Window her name Is. Shannon,

2318
02:37:00.360 --> 02:37:04.680
Shannon lisa hollered through the open. Window shush, it, child

2319
02:37:04.959 --> 02:37:07.959
you'll wake the. Neighborhood let's go to the front. Porch

2320
02:37:08.760 --> 02:37:13.200
lisa started to dart. Away lisa with. Me molly motioned

2321
02:37:13.239 --> 02:37:16.479
to her with her. Hands get back, here, Yes. Gran

2322
02:37:17.399 --> 02:37:21.239
lisa followed her grandmother down the, stairs creaking with every.

2323
02:37:21.280 --> 02:37:24.520
Step molly flipped the wall switch and the lights in

2324
02:37:24.559 --> 02:37:28.399
the living room came to. Life you stay right, There

2325
02:37:28.959 --> 02:37:32.200
molly Ordered lisa as she removed the black golf umbrella

2326
02:37:32.239 --> 02:37:35.799
from the coat rack beside the. Door her name Is.

2327
02:37:35.840 --> 02:37:39.760
Shannon she was right under my. Window, okay shush. It

2328
02:37:40.680 --> 02:37:43.799
molly glanced out the window before slowly opening the front.

2329
02:37:43.799 --> 02:37:48.239
Door she was greeted by a, slow cool breeze and

2330
02:37:48.280 --> 02:37:51.360
the haze of fog it cut through the screened in.

2331
02:37:51.559 --> 02:37:57.680
Porch hello out, there little, Girl, shannon you out. There

2332
02:37:58.680 --> 02:38:01.639
molly looked around and wished she had bothered to slip

2333
02:38:01.639 --> 02:38:06.120
on her bedroom shoes because the concrete was. Cold lisa

2334
02:38:06.159 --> 02:38:09.440
poked her head out the. Door, Gran is she out? There?

2335
02:38:09.840 --> 02:38:14.399
Shannon you? There lisa parroted her, grandmother and they were

2336
02:38:14.399 --> 02:38:17.600
both met with the sounds of rustling leaves and a

2337
02:38:17.639 --> 02:38:21.959
brief whistle of. Wind there's nobody out, here at least not.

2338
02:38:22.159 --> 02:38:26.000
Now molly pulled the flaps of her housecoat close together

2339
02:38:26.360 --> 02:38:28.719
and motioned For lisa to go back into the. House

2340
02:38:29.360 --> 02:38:33.000
lisa ignored the gesture and moved past her, grandmother opening

2341
02:38:33.040 --> 02:38:36.280
the screen. Door, lisa get your butt back in, Here

2342
02:38:36.840 --> 02:38:41.079
molly sternly, Shouted, shannon it's, okay it's just My. Graham

2343
02:38:41.280 --> 02:38:46.680
she'll help. You CAN i come? In the voice whispered

2344
02:38:46.959 --> 02:38:51.840
where Only lisa could. Hear, yes you can come. In lisa,

2345
02:38:51.879 --> 02:38:56.760
replied get in here. Now molly Had lisa by her,

2346
02:38:56.799 --> 02:39:00.319
wrist pulling her back toward the. DOOR i heard. Her

2347
02:39:00.920 --> 02:39:04.920
she's out, There. Gran molly tugged hard on her granddaughter's.

2348
02:39:04.959 --> 02:39:10.120
Wrist Ouch, gran, Okay i'm. Coming lisa backed into the,

2349
02:39:10.159 --> 02:39:13.959
house looking back towards the street with every. Step, lisa

2350
02:39:14.319 --> 02:39:16.639
go to. Bed the bust'll be here in a couple of.

2351
02:39:16.639 --> 02:39:20.319
Hours you need to get some kind of. Sleep molly

2352
02:39:20.399 --> 02:39:24.479
pointed the tip of the umbrella toward the. Stairs she was, There, Gran,

2353
02:39:25.200 --> 02:39:29.399
okay she was, there but now she's, Gone so go to.

2354
02:39:29.479 --> 02:39:33.239
Bed molly had grown tired of this argument and all

2355
02:39:33.239 --> 02:39:37.239
her patience was. Gone lisa sensed this and finally gave In,

2356
02:39:38.399 --> 02:39:43.600
okay gran good, night and thank you for. LOOKING i love.

2357
02:39:43.639 --> 02:39:48.479
YOU i love you, too. Sweetheart molly replied and walked

2358
02:39:48.520 --> 02:39:51.479
toward the kitchen to get a glass of. Water lisa

2359
02:39:51.559 --> 02:39:55.360
marched up the, steps wondering where the mystery girl disappeared.

2360
02:39:55.360 --> 02:39:59.360
To she walked through her open bedroom door and quickly

2361
02:39:59.440 --> 02:40:02.639
closed it as soon as she got. Inside she didn't

2362
02:40:02.639 --> 02:40:06.440
want anyone to. Hear Vampire shannon was sitting in the

2363
02:40:06.440 --> 02:40:10.479
corner Of lisa's, bed with her legs crossed and her

2364
02:40:10.520 --> 02:40:14.719
hair covering her black. Eyes index finger held to her

2365
02:40:14.760 --> 02:40:20.120
lips to indicate. Silence once the door was, closed she

2366
02:40:20.280 --> 02:40:24.840
lowered her hand and, Said, lisa please to meet. You

2367
02:40:26.280 --> 02:40:30.159
how did you get in? Here victor stood in the

2368
02:40:30.200 --> 02:40:33.799
center of the what passed for a living room in

2369
02:40:33.840 --> 02:40:36.879
the double, wide with a hand on each, temple nails

2370
02:40:36.920 --> 02:40:41.159
protruding digging into his cold, flesh producing a small trickle

2371
02:40:41.200 --> 02:40:44.159
of blood on each side of his. Face veronica and

2372
02:40:44.239 --> 02:40:49.920
her brood watched As victor whispered, Quietly, shannon it's time

2373
02:40:49.959 --> 02:40:55.040
to return your creator commands you to come. Back victor

2374
02:40:55.120 --> 02:40:59.159
relaxed his hands and waited by the trailer. Door the

2375
02:40:59.239 --> 02:41:02.000
first sign of an orange hue were beginning at the

2376
02:41:02.040 --> 02:41:06.079
base of the. Skyline dawn was upon, them and for

2377
02:41:06.120 --> 02:41:12.200
the first time, Ever shannon didn't respond To. Victor veronica

2378
02:41:12.319 --> 02:41:16.200
leaned close To, victor stuck out her pink, tongue and

2379
02:41:16.319 --> 02:41:18.479
licked a line straight up the right side of his

2380
02:41:18.559 --> 02:41:22.520
blood trailed, cheek stopping at his ear with a frosty,

2381
02:41:22.600 --> 02:41:30.120
smile and, WHISPERED i Guess shannon found something. Better victor

2382
02:41:30.239 --> 02:41:33.719
turned his head to meet her, gaze their noses almost.

2383
02:41:33.760 --> 02:41:38.520
Touching dawn is, Here, veronica we must sleep back. Here

2384
02:41:39.360 --> 02:41:41.399
he led the three of them to the sun blocked.

2385
02:41:41.399 --> 02:41:46.200
Bedroom veronica immediately took the bed and Invited victor to

2386
02:41:46.280 --> 02:41:49.520
lie beside. Her he took his position on the floor

2387
02:41:49.920 --> 02:41:54.719
While sandra And neil joined their. Queen she'll be back, Tonight.

2388
02:41:54.840 --> 02:42:00.799
Victor don't, Worry veronica. Reassured or maybe she, won't or

2389
02:42:00.879 --> 02:42:04.959
maybe she's really dead, now who, knows Said neil as

2390
02:42:05.000 --> 02:42:08.479
he looked down on the floor at the older. Vampire stop, It.

2391
02:42:08.600 --> 02:42:12.360
Neil sandra Grabbed neil from behind by both shoulders and

2392
02:42:12.440 --> 02:42:15.120
pulled him out Of victor's, sight which was just as.

2393
02:42:15.120 --> 02:42:19.520
Well neil was one more comment away from becoming goo

2394
02:42:19.719 --> 02:42:29.559
on the Mattress lisa's bedroom three hours earlier through the.

2395
02:42:29.600 --> 02:42:33.440
Window you left it open AND i jumped, Up shannon,

2396
02:42:33.479 --> 02:42:37.799
replied you can't jump that. High how did you really get?

2397
02:42:37.799 --> 02:42:40.959
In Did grahan leave the back door? Unlocked she does that,

2398
02:42:41.040 --> 02:42:45.479
sometimes Said. Lisa the only light in the room was

2399
02:42:45.520 --> 02:42:48.680
from the desk, lamp And shannon's hair sheltered her face

2400
02:42:48.959 --> 02:42:53.959
just enough to conceal her. Eyes, LISA i like, you

2401
02:42:54.559 --> 02:42:57.280
And i'm a little, hungry BUT i PROMISE i won't hurt.

2402
02:42:57.319 --> 02:43:00.799
YOU i can get you something to. Eat we have plenty.

2403
02:43:00.840 --> 02:43:03.520
DOWNSTAIRS i just have to be careful not to wake.

2404
02:43:03.920 --> 02:43:07.920
No shannon cut her off mid. SENTENCE i don't eat

2405
02:43:07.920 --> 02:43:11.639
what's in your. KITCHEN i eat a different kind of.

2406
02:43:11.680 --> 02:43:16.959
Food what do you, Eat lisa, asked, curiously still not

2407
02:43:17.040 --> 02:43:21.120
getting a clear view Of shannon's. Eyes let's talk about that.

2408
02:43:21.239 --> 02:43:25.000
Later tell me more about, You. LISA i want to

2409
02:43:25.000 --> 02:43:28.479
be your. Friend you're much nicer than the COMPANY i usually,

2410
02:43:28.600 --> 02:43:34.680
Keep shannon, said, purposely keeping her eyes. Obstructed, WELL i

2411
02:43:34.760 --> 02:43:36.719
live with gran AND i know you saw her just

2412
02:43:36.760 --> 02:43:40.200
a little while. Ago and my. Mom her Name's. Karen

2413
02:43:40.840 --> 02:43:43.360
my dad got killed a couple years ago in a car.

2414
02:43:43.399 --> 02:43:47.799
WRECK i remember, him BUT i don't if you can understand.

2415
02:43:47.840 --> 02:43:50.520
That lisa twirled her hair as she tried to get

2416
02:43:50.520 --> 02:43:54.879
a closer look At shannon's. FACE i can understand. THAT

2417
02:43:55.520 --> 02:43:58.520
i remember my, daddy BUT i don't remember him. Too

2418
02:44:00.079 --> 02:44:03.440
dad's gone. Too lisa crossed the room from her rolling

2419
02:44:03.520 --> 02:44:06.440
chair to the edge of the. Bed shannon just stared

2420
02:44:06.479 --> 02:44:11.399
down between her crossed. Legs, Yes, lisa my daddy's gone.

2421
02:44:11.399 --> 02:44:15.559
Too it was so long, ago but sometimes it doesn't

2422
02:44:15.600 --> 02:44:20.479
seem that long. Ago shannon lifted her head to Meet lisa's.

2423
02:44:20.520 --> 02:44:25.159
Gaze lisa reached forward with both hands and parted the

2424
02:44:25.280 --> 02:44:30.920
hair From shannon's. Eyes oh, My lisa reacted first to

2425
02:44:30.959 --> 02:44:34.600
the frigid white, skin then what looked like two black

2426
02:44:34.680 --> 02:44:39.399
marbles set against the whites of her. Eyes it's, Okay

2427
02:44:40.239 --> 02:44:44.000
please don't. SCREAM i just need a. FRIEND i don't

2428
02:44:44.040 --> 02:44:48.040
want to go back right, Now shannon, said her face remained.

2429
02:44:48.079 --> 02:44:54.639
EXPRESSIONLESS i, Won't lisa, Started are you a? Vampire i've

2430
02:44:54.639 --> 02:44:58.040
seen pictures in? Books are you like the ones ON. Tv,

2431
02:44:59.360 --> 02:45:03.200
YES i am a, Vampire, lisa and, No i'm not

2432
02:45:03.360 --> 02:45:05.879
anything like the pictures in your books or the ones ON.

2433
02:45:05.959 --> 02:45:09.000
TV i don't want to be a vampire any. MORE

2434
02:45:09.600 --> 02:45:11.799
i just want to go back to my time and

2435
02:45:11.920 --> 02:45:17.120
live a normal life your, Time lisa, asked positioning herself

2436
02:45:17.120 --> 02:45:19.920
on the bed right in front Of. Shannon they both

2437
02:45:20.000 --> 02:45:23.799
Sat indian, style facing each. OTHER i was born in

2438
02:45:23.879 --> 02:45:27.280
nineteen thirty. Nine have you ever Watched The wizard Of,

2439
02:45:27.319 --> 02:45:33.000
Oz shannon. Asked lisa nodded her head, yes And shannon, Continued,

2440
02:45:33.840 --> 02:45:37.600
well that was the year that movie came. OUT i

2441
02:45:37.639 --> 02:45:40.520
remember my mother talking about it over and over as a,

2442
02:45:40.639 --> 02:45:42.840
child and one DAY i got to see it with

2443
02:45:42.840 --> 02:45:45.719
her at The Nickel movie On Broad. Street it was.

2444
02:45:45.799 --> 02:45:49.680
Glorious the world was black and, White dorothy was taken

2445
02:45:49.719 --> 02:45:54.719
to a far away land and the world burst into full. Color, Well,

2446
02:45:54.879 --> 02:46:00.799
lisa my journey has been quite the. OPPOSITE i lived

2447
02:46:00.799 --> 02:46:03.799
in a world vibrant and full of color UNTIL i

2448
02:46:03.920 --> 02:46:07.000
became WHAT i am to. Day Now i'm living in

2449
02:46:07.040 --> 02:46:13.680
a world devoid of, color devoid of. Life what happened to, You?

2450
02:46:13.799 --> 02:46:18.719
SHANNON i want to? Know in mere, Minutes lisa's best

2451
02:46:18.760 --> 02:46:24.840
friend was a vampire Named, shannon and vice. Versa my

2452
02:46:24.959 --> 02:46:28.319
daddy was a. Laborer he worked jobs as they, came

2453
02:46:28.440 --> 02:46:31.959
and he worked. HARD i was an only, child which

2454
02:46:32.040 --> 02:46:34.600
was a blessing because of the hard times back. Then

2455
02:46:35.520 --> 02:46:37.840
daddy had taken a shot to his privates by a

2456
02:46:37.920 --> 02:46:40.520
mule one. Day he was hired to help one of

2457
02:46:40.559 --> 02:46:43.840
the farmers finish plowing for the, season And daddy wasn't

2458
02:46:43.840 --> 02:46:46.520
well versed in the finer arts of plowing a, field

2459
02:46:47.600 --> 02:46:50.000
from WHAT i Remember mom telling me WHEN i asked

2460
02:46:50.040 --> 02:46:52.559
WHY i was the only, one she said that he

2461
02:46:52.680 --> 02:46:55.319
was inflicting some kind of punishment on the poor, beast

2462
02:46:55.920 --> 02:47:00.559
and the beast exacted immediate and baby killing. Revenge that

2463
02:47:00.760 --> 02:47:04.920
was it for brothers and. SISTERS i was eleven years

2464
02:47:04.920 --> 02:47:07.639
old when my mom gave her permission to come. Inside

2465
02:47:09.079 --> 02:47:12.639
that was the day my parents died AND i was

2466
02:47:12.680 --> 02:47:21.440
Turned november, third nineteen fifty, ten forty two p. M

2467
02:47:22.600 --> 02:47:25.719
there was a loud pounding on the front, door And

2468
02:47:25.879 --> 02:47:29.600
Jelia crayton sat straight up in her. Bed shannon was

2469
02:47:29.639 --> 02:47:33.000
standing in the doorway to her, bedroom casting a giant

2470
02:47:33.040 --> 02:47:38.959
shadow against the. Wall, Mom i'm afraid some one's about

2471
02:47:38.959 --> 02:47:42.120
to knock the door. Down shannon was trembling in her

2472
02:47:42.120 --> 02:47:47.840
bare feet and. Nightgown but it wasn't from the cold. Air, Jeez, Louise,

2473
02:47:47.920 --> 02:47:51.360
shannon it's your. Father three sheets to the wind, again

2474
02:47:52.040 --> 02:47:55.600
And julia removed her robe from the bedpost and slipped

2475
02:47:55.600 --> 02:47:59.760
her arms into the, sleeves leaving the front. Loose his

2476
02:48:00.280 --> 02:48:04.440
are probably in his. Pocket come. On shannon followed her

2477
02:48:04.479 --> 02:48:07.239
mother out of the bedroom and down the. Hallway as

2478
02:48:07.280 --> 02:48:11.399
the banging. Continued angelia turned on the front porch light

2479
02:48:12.079 --> 02:48:15.520
and peeked out the. Window gerald was, there all. Right

2480
02:48:16.120 --> 02:48:18.920
he was hunched over with his WHITE t shirt untucked

2481
02:48:19.120 --> 02:48:22.440
from his unbuckled work. Pants his left arm was draped

2482
02:48:22.479 --> 02:48:25.559
over the neck of a white haired. Woman she was

2483
02:48:25.639 --> 02:48:28.479
rapping on the door with her left, hand her right

2484
02:48:28.559 --> 02:48:33.840
firmly Around gerald's. Hip, hello he says he lives. Here

2485
02:48:34.520 --> 02:48:36.360
the woman from the other side of the front door,

2486
02:48:36.440 --> 02:48:39.399
yelled And jelia stood in front of the door with

2487
02:48:39.479 --> 02:48:42.520
her hand on the brass. Knob don't open, it, mom

2488
02:48:43.040 --> 02:48:46.559
something's not. Right shannon stayed just in the shadow of the.

2489
02:48:46.600 --> 02:48:50.680
Hallway it's, okay, dear it's your. Father he's passed. Out

2490
02:48:51.280 --> 02:48:54.440
go on back to. Bed And julia smiled at her

2491
02:48:54.520 --> 02:48:59.280
daughter and nodded her. Head, miss he says he lives.

2492
02:48:59.319 --> 02:49:02.120
Here he was lying on the. Road are you going

2493
02:49:02.120 --> 02:49:06.920
to open the? Door And jelia did just. That gerald's

2494
02:49:06.959 --> 02:49:09.600
head was flopped straight, down so all she could see

2495
02:49:09.600 --> 02:49:13.399
at first glance was the top of his. Head CAN

2496
02:49:13.399 --> 02:49:17.680
i bring him? In Miss? Why of, Course angela. Answered

2497
02:49:18.440 --> 02:49:22.079
veronica immediately snapped her head, up Holding gerald up only

2498
02:49:22.120 --> 02:49:24.479
by her right. Arm she grabbed the top of his

2499
02:49:24.600 --> 02:49:27.639
hair sprayed mop and pulled his face and the front

2500
02:49:27.639 --> 02:49:30.559
of his blood soaked t shirt into. View the gash

2501
02:49:30.600 --> 02:49:32.559
in the front of his neck looked like a black,

2502
02:49:32.600 --> 02:49:36.159
hole and his face was devoid of, color devoid of.

2503
02:49:36.239 --> 02:49:39.600
Life he crumpled to the, ground And veronica pushed through the,

2504
02:49:39.639 --> 02:49:42.840
door Throwing angelia on the. Hardwood the back of her

2505
02:49:42.879 --> 02:49:47.000
head bounced off the. Maple angelia was, gurgling trying to

2506
02:49:47.040 --> 02:49:50.200
Call shannon's. Name blood was welling up in her, eyes

2507
02:49:50.479 --> 02:49:53.879
and she felt the tickle of white hair brush against her,

2508
02:49:53.920 --> 02:49:58.120
nose And jelia blinked rapidly as she felt the pull

2509
02:49:58.200 --> 02:50:00.639
on the back of her dark brown hair and the

2510
02:50:00.799 --> 02:50:04.399
arch in her neck as it was pushed. Up angelia

2511
02:50:04.559 --> 02:50:07.319
coughed up a little, blood and she could feel it

2512
02:50:07.399 --> 02:50:11.079
running down the corner of her, mouth immediately followed by

2513
02:50:11.120 --> 02:50:14.200
an ice cold sensation trailing it back up to her.

2514
02:50:14.239 --> 02:50:19.040
Lips veronica's tongue lapped the blood back up To angelia's

2515
02:50:19.079 --> 02:50:24.799
mouth and gave her a final cold, kiss And jelia

2516
02:50:24.879 --> 02:50:27.920
was on the edge of consciousness and she could make

2517
02:50:27.959 --> 02:50:31.360
out Little shannon's feet standing at the corner of the,

2518
02:50:31.399 --> 02:50:35.719
hallway just ten feet from the front. Door she was

2519
02:50:35.760 --> 02:50:40.959
frozen in. Fear shannon couldn't look, away, speak or scream

2520
02:50:41.319 --> 02:50:44.559
As veronica drained her mother right in front of. Her

2521
02:50:45.440 --> 02:50:50.079
when she was, done she turned to the trembling. Girl, hey.

2522
02:50:50.159 --> 02:50:54.959
Sweetie veronica's cranberry lips parted in a wide, grin revealing

2523
02:50:55.159 --> 02:50:59.680
her crimson covered. Fangs you don't want to be, next do?

2524
02:50:59.840 --> 02:51:03.559
You shannon shook her head quickly from side to. Side.

2525
02:51:04.360 --> 02:51:08.559
GOOD i got a proposition for. YOU i got SOMEBODY

2526
02:51:08.600 --> 02:51:11.920
i want you to. Meet he's a nice. Guy you'll like.

2527
02:51:12.000 --> 02:51:15.719
Him he used to have a daughter about your. Age you.

2528
02:51:15.840 --> 02:51:21.200
Interested out of, Fear shannon nodded her head up and.

2529
02:51:21.360 --> 02:51:31.559
Down Lisa victor's calling, ME i must go, Now shannon

2530
02:51:31.680 --> 02:51:36.000
rose from the bed and started to the. Window, no don't,

2531
02:51:36.000 --> 02:51:39.760
go it's almost. Daylight you won't make it in. Time

2532
02:51:40.760 --> 02:51:44.159
you can stay here UNTIL i get. Home lisa Grabbed

2533
02:51:44.159 --> 02:51:46.799
shannon by the hand and pulled her to the walking.

2534
02:51:46.920 --> 02:51:50.000
Closet there's a big blanket right there on the top.

2535
02:51:50.040 --> 02:51:54.479
Shelf lisa shoved shoes and boxes from the closet, floor

2536
02:51:55.040 --> 02:51:59.440
making room for her. GUEST i have to. Go, No,

2537
02:51:59.600 --> 02:52:02.479
shannon and you don't have. Time you can go. Tonight

2538
02:52:03.040 --> 02:52:06.120
just stay in here and be. Quiet don't Let graham

2539
02:52:06.159 --> 02:52:09.799
hear you get under. Here lisa held up the peach

2540
02:52:09.840 --> 02:52:14.040
color flower pattern full size blanket And shannon reluctantly curled

2541
02:52:14.120 --> 02:52:17.639
up on the. Floor lisa gently placed the flower pattern

2542
02:52:17.680 --> 02:52:22.799
blanket on top of her. Friend shannon whispered thank. You

2543
02:52:24.319 --> 02:52:30.399
lisa closed the. Door, lisa you awaken, There molly swung

2544
02:52:30.399 --> 02:52:33.040
the door. Open lisa was sitting on the edge of her,

2545
02:52:33.040 --> 02:52:35.799
bed fully dressed in blue, jeans a light BLUE t,

2546
02:52:35.959 --> 02:52:39.120
shirt and a pair of light pink. Nikes her hair

2547
02:52:39.239 --> 02:52:42.200
was combed out and her light brown eyes were. Fresh

2548
02:52:42.600 --> 02:52:44.920
you look all bright eyed and bushy tailed this. Morning

2549
02:52:45.479 --> 02:52:47.840
considering how late you were up last. Night did you

2550
02:52:47.879 --> 02:52:50.520
get up and drink a pot of. Coffee, No, GRAN

2551
02:52:51.440 --> 02:52:54.680
i don't. Know i'm just not, Tired lisa, answered with

2552
02:52:54.680 --> 02:52:57.680
a quick glance at her closet. Door it didn't go,

2553
02:52:57.799 --> 02:53:01.760
unnoticed But molly didn't let. On, well come, on, now

2554
02:53:01.799 --> 02:53:04.200
your mother's already downstairs and she's about done with her.

2555
02:53:04.239 --> 02:53:07.639
Toast come on so you can tell her By lisa

2556
02:53:07.680 --> 02:53:10.680
couldn't help. Herself she took one more glance at the

2557
02:53:10.719 --> 02:53:14.079
closet door before following her grandmother out of the, room

2558
02:53:14.680 --> 02:53:19.559
and again it didn't go. Unnoticed love, you. Mom lisa

2559
02:53:19.639 --> 02:53:22.079
stepped in front Of karen as she exited the, kitchen

2560
02:53:22.600 --> 02:53:27.360
laptop bag in. Hand hey, poodle you're up. Early karen

2561
02:53:27.440 --> 02:53:29.559
leaned in and Gave lisa a quick smooch on the.

2562
02:53:29.639 --> 02:53:33.600
Cheek i'll see you after, Work miss gifted and talented

2563
02:53:34.280 --> 02:53:37.799
that Guy karen a kiss on the cheek in. Return come, On,

2564
02:53:37.920 --> 02:53:40.639
lisa your eggs are, done and you don't eat cold scrambled.

2565
02:53:40.639 --> 02:53:44.239
Eggs molly scraped the fluffy yellow goodness onto a. Plate

2566
02:53:44.840 --> 02:53:48.360
in the, Background News channel six was beginning their early morning.

2567
02:53:48.360 --> 02:53:52.120
Broadcast in early, news the body of a local homeless

2568
02:53:52.120 --> 02:53:55.040
man was found in Downtown, langley this morning by The

2569
02:53:55.120 --> 02:53:59.520
Langley Landfill. Service identification is pending notification of the next of.

2570
02:53:59.600 --> 02:54:02.760
Ken an early report from a confidential source in the

2571
02:54:02.760 --> 02:54:05.760
police department states the death is of a bizarre. Nature

2572
02:54:06.200 --> 02:54:09.360
News channel six will provide updates as more information becomes

2573
02:54:09.360 --> 02:54:12.479
available on this breaking. Story now on to today's.

2574
02:54:12.479 --> 02:54:16.959
Weather i'll bet That's, Simon molly, Said you mean that

2575
02:54:17.040 --> 02:54:20.559
old guy that rides his rusty bike on the. Sidewalk lisa,

2576
02:54:20.639 --> 02:54:24.559
asked wondering if her new friend knew anything About simon's.

2577
02:54:24.559 --> 02:54:29.319
Demise the answer would be, yes she knew What neil had.

2578
02:54:29.360 --> 02:54:33.319
Done shannon was much more discreet in her victim's. Disposal

2579
02:54:34.079 --> 02:54:38.000
nobody ever found a trace of Poor. Freddy his would

2580
02:54:38.000 --> 02:54:42.600
go down as an unsolved missing person's. Case karen was

2581
02:54:42.639 --> 02:54:45.040
at work And lisa was on her way to. School

2582
02:54:45.799 --> 02:54:48.079
molly was In lisa's room with one hand on the

2583
02:54:48.120 --> 02:54:52.000
knob of the closet. Door something inside of her, Said,

2584
02:54:52.639 --> 02:54:56.159
molly don't turn that. Knob just go back downstairs and

2585
02:54:56.159 --> 02:54:59.079
get the breakfast dishes washed. Up then go Watch Judge.

2586
02:54:59.159 --> 02:55:03.760
Judy don't turn the. Knob it's, Nothing it's really, Nothing

2587
02:55:04.360 --> 02:55:08.040
molly said to. Herself she released the doorknob and did

2588
02:55:08.040 --> 02:55:12.200
an about face to Make lisa's. Bed molly started at the,

2589
02:55:12.239 --> 02:55:16.239
base tugging on the sunshine patterned bedspread so that she

2590
02:55:16.239 --> 02:55:18.959
could get to the bed sheets. Underneath there was a

2591
02:55:19.040 --> 02:55:21.959
large spot in the center of the. Bedspread it was

2592
02:55:22.079 --> 02:55:25.239
dark and, faded like something had pulled the color out

2593
02:55:25.239 --> 02:55:28.479
of it just by sitting on. It it certainly wasn't

2594
02:55:28.479 --> 02:55:31.239
the work of the washing, machine and there was an.

2595
02:55:31.280 --> 02:55:35.200
Odor molly leaned in close with her nose and it

2596
02:55:35.239 --> 02:55:40.600
was a sweet, smell with something rotten just. Underneath it

2597
02:55:40.680 --> 02:55:45.520
was pleasant and sickening at the same. Time my, god

2598
02:55:45.760 --> 02:55:49.239
what is that? Smell molly asked out loud as she

2599
02:55:49.360 --> 02:55:52.520
tugged at the bedspread with both hands until it lay

2600
02:55:52.559 --> 02:55:55.120
in a clump at the foot of the. Bed molly

2601
02:55:55.200 --> 02:55:57.840
pushed her hair up off her forehead with the palm

2602
02:55:57.879 --> 02:56:00.799
of her hand and stepped back to the closet. Door

2603
02:56:02.520 --> 02:56:04.479
need a new, blanket SO i got to open, it

2604
02:56:04.879 --> 02:56:07.520
she reasoned with the inner voice that had just talked

2605
02:56:07.520 --> 02:56:11.079
her out of turning the knob moments. Before this time

2606
02:56:11.200 --> 02:56:15.040
she turned the. Knob she immediately saw the peach colored

2607
02:56:15.079 --> 02:56:20.360
blanket covering something on the closet. Floor don't pick up that, Blanket, molly,

2608
02:56:20.440 --> 02:56:23.680
girl you ain't gonna like what you. See the inner voice.

2609
02:56:23.719 --> 02:56:27.440
Returned molly ignored it and lifted the blanket from the.

2610
02:56:27.479 --> 02:56:31.959
Floor shannon was lying there with her eyes, closed dreaming

2611
02:56:32.040 --> 02:56:36.360
the same dream as. Always molly released the blanket as

2612
02:56:36.360 --> 02:56:41.680
she gazed upon the sweet smell of. DEATH i know

2613
02:56:41.799 --> 02:56:46.239
what you, Are molly whispered and closed the closet. Door

2614
02:56:47.440 --> 02:56:52.200
shannon turned, over her nails extended in her. Sleep this

2615
02:56:52.479 --> 02:56:57.959
was her, dream this was her. PAST i have someone

2616
02:56:58.000 --> 02:57:03.239
to introduce. You tonica stepped into the master bedroom Holding shannon's. Hand,

2617
02:57:04.280 --> 02:57:08.079
veronica please don't tell me you killed that little girl's. Family,

2618
02:57:08.799 --> 02:57:12.680
please please don't tell me that's what you. Did victor

2619
02:57:12.719 --> 02:57:17.239
looked At shannon with a heartbroken. Gaze, Okay, VICTOR i

2620
02:57:17.280 --> 02:57:19.680
won't tell you THAT i killed her. FAMILY i just

2621
02:57:19.879 --> 02:57:24.319
found her. Outside isn't that, right. Sweetie shannon was still

2622
02:57:24.399 --> 02:57:27.440
firmly in fierce grip and would have shaken her head

2623
02:57:27.520 --> 02:57:30.440
yes If veronica had asked her if elephants were lavender

2624
02:57:30.760 --> 02:57:33.040
or if the moon was really a big rubber. Ball

2625
02:57:34.079 --> 02:57:37.639
Veronica victor slammed both hands on top of the oak

2626
02:57:37.719 --> 02:57:41.120
dresser sending splinters of wood flying as it buckled in the.

2627
02:57:41.159 --> 02:57:47.719
Center why, vagrants vagabonds and, animals that was what you agreed.

2628
02:57:47.760 --> 02:57:51.000
To victor wanted to fly across the room and rip

2629
02:57:51.040 --> 02:57:53.879
her throat, out but logic quickly set in before he

2630
02:57:53.920 --> 02:57:57.360
could act on that. Urge victor was old and, strong

2631
02:57:57.840 --> 02:58:04.280
But veronica was, older and she was the queen you

2632
02:58:04.360 --> 02:58:07.440
call for your little girl in your, Sleep. VICTOR i

2633
02:58:07.440 --> 02:58:09.840
thought you'd be HAPPY i got you a new. One

2634
02:58:10.440 --> 02:58:15.120
you are one ungrateful, Beast. Victor i'm still up for a.

2635
02:58:15.159 --> 02:58:20.040
Snack Guess i'll empty her. Too that registered With, shannon

2636
02:58:20.360 --> 02:58:23.159
and she tried to pull her hand From veronica's icy.

2637
02:58:23.239 --> 02:58:26.920
Grip veronica reached with her other hand and pulled hard

2638
02:58:26.959 --> 02:58:31.639
on the back Of shannon's long. Hair no, Please shannon

2639
02:58:31.719 --> 02:58:35.920
screamed as she finally found her. Voice victor sprang across the,

2640
02:58:36.000 --> 02:58:39.040
room Grabbing veronica by the top of her white, hair

2641
02:58:39.200 --> 02:58:43.520
pulling her face back away from the screaming. Prey. Victor

2642
02:58:44.479 --> 02:58:49.120
now we're getting, Somewhere veronica. Smiled the faint trails of

2643
02:58:49.200 --> 02:58:52.040
dried blood looked as if they were painted down the

2644
02:58:52.120 --> 02:58:56.040
corners of her. Lips veronica released her grip On. Shannon

2645
02:58:56.920 --> 02:59:00.440
there was no escape from the, room absolutely no way

2646
02:59:00.479 --> 02:59:04.360
she could make it to the. Door shannon's survival instinct kicked,

2647
02:59:04.399 --> 02:59:07.440
in and she scrambled on her hands and knees until

2648
02:59:07.479 --> 02:59:10.639
she was under the bigger than king sized. Bed the

2649
02:59:10.680 --> 02:59:14.040
bed was enormous and had almost three feet of clearance

2650
02:59:14.120 --> 02:59:20.200
underneath Well Victor veronica started as she Peeled victor's hand

2651
02:59:20.239 --> 02:59:23.360
from around her. Neck SHOULD i go under there and get?

2652
02:59:23.360 --> 02:59:26.840
Her or are you all three of us know she's

2653
02:59:26.920 --> 02:59:31.479
not leaving this room. ALIVE i hate, You. VERONICA i

2654
02:59:31.520 --> 02:59:33.559
hate you for doing this to me and to. Her

2655
02:59:34.280 --> 02:59:38.200
what did she do to deserve, This victor, asked knowing

2656
02:59:38.239 --> 02:59:41.239
the unfair, choice he was going to present the frightened.

2657
02:59:41.360 --> 02:59:45.719
Child blame her drunken. Daddy he was the one that

2658
02:59:45.760 --> 02:59:49.399
could barely walk. Home he presented the easy meal and

2659
02:59:49.520 --> 02:59:52.399
showed me where he lived to. BOOT i didn't even

2660
02:59:52.399 --> 02:59:56.000
know he had a. Child she was a. Bonus oh

2661
02:59:56.040 --> 02:59:59.479
AND i know you don't hate, Me. Victor veronica moved

2662
02:59:59.479 --> 03:00:03.399
toward the. Bed just, Stop you've done. Enough leave the.

2663
03:00:03.479 --> 03:00:06.079
Room you KNOW i can't let her just walk, out

2664
03:00:06.159 --> 03:00:11.120
so please. Leave victor rubbed the top of his bald.

2665
03:00:11.159 --> 03:00:14.319
Head he was dressed in an elegant black suit with

2666
03:00:14.399 --> 03:00:17.959
black leather shoes that were surprisingly quiet when he, stapped

2667
03:00:19.159 --> 03:00:22.239
as you, Wish, victor just call out if you need my.

2668
03:00:22.520 --> 03:00:26.200
Help veronica power walked out of the room with both

2669
03:00:26.239 --> 03:00:29.319
hands on her hips and glanced back over At victor

2670
03:00:29.879 --> 03:00:33.600
before she closed the. Door victor knelt down with his

2671
03:00:33.680 --> 03:00:39.239
hands draped over his. Knees. Hello first THING i want

2672
03:00:39.280 --> 03:00:42.399
to say Is i'm so sorry about your mom and.

2673
03:00:42.479 --> 03:00:46.479
DAD i know you're very frightened, child AND i WISH

2674
03:00:46.559 --> 03:00:49.639
i could truthfully say That i'm not going to hurt.

2675
03:00:49.680 --> 03:00:55.040
You BUT i can't say. THAT i know you Heard

2676
03:00:55.120 --> 03:00:59.920
veronica say, it But I'm. Victor what's your, name Dear?

2677
03:01:01.399 --> 03:01:06.559
SHANNON a whisper came from under the. Bed, SHANNON i

2678
03:01:06.639 --> 03:01:11.079
must ask you a, question but you must understand that either,

2679
03:01:11.159 --> 03:01:16.600
way you will not leave this room. Alive victor lightly

2680
03:01:16.639 --> 03:01:22.079
tapped the floor with his. Nails, MISTER i don't want to,

2681
03:01:22.159 --> 03:01:27.079
Die please don't kill. Me shannon's voice was breaking and

2682
03:01:27.159 --> 03:01:30.559
she cried as she. Spoke victor looked down at the,

2683
03:01:30.600 --> 03:01:34.159
floor so ashamed of What veronica had done and of

2684
03:01:34.200 --> 03:01:37.000
what he would have to, do but he was going

2685
03:01:37.040 --> 03:01:40.159
to Let shannon decide which way it was going to. Be,

2686
03:01:41.799 --> 03:01:46.920
shannon either, way you are going to die. Tonight but

2687
03:01:47.000 --> 03:01:49.879
you can rise up and become a vampire like myself And,

2688
03:01:50.479 --> 03:01:54.360
veronica or you can be put in the. GROUND i

2689
03:01:54.479 --> 03:01:57.959
know this isn't an easy. Choice if you decide to rise,

2690
03:01:58.000 --> 03:02:02.840
again you will have my. Protend if, not you may

2691
03:02:02.920 --> 03:02:05.680
or may not go to a better, place maybe a

2692
03:02:05.719 --> 03:02:08.159
place you heard about sitting in your church On, sunday

2693
03:02:08.920 --> 03:02:12.040
but you won't be of this. World you have to

2694
03:02:12.120 --> 03:02:16.520
tell me now Before veronica comes. Back If veronica comes,

2695
03:02:16.520 --> 03:02:19.280
back she'll make the decision for, you and she's not

2696
03:02:19.360 --> 03:02:23.159
as compassionate AS i. Am but you know that, already don't.

2697
03:02:23.159 --> 03:02:27.639
You shannon slowly crawled from her hiding place with tears

2698
03:02:27.719 --> 03:02:31.040
streaming down her. Face the tops of her knees were

2699
03:02:31.079 --> 03:02:34.239
skinned up from the, floor and her nightgown had pulled

2700
03:02:34.280 --> 03:02:38.079
free from her right. Shoulder the eleven year Old shannon,

2701
03:02:38.159 --> 03:02:42.079
SPOKE i don't want to be put in the. Ground

2702
03:02:43.440 --> 03:02:48.840
i'll stay with, you So i'll ask, You, shannon do

2703
03:02:48.920 --> 03:02:53.040
you want to be turned to? Vampire victor locked eyes

2704
03:02:53.159 --> 03:02:59.799
on to, Her, Yes shannon. Replied shannon spent the next

2705
03:03:00.040 --> 03:03:04.479
fifty plus years regretting this. Decision if it were hers

2706
03:03:04.520 --> 03:03:08.000
to make, again she would have a headstone right beside

2707
03:03:08.079 --> 03:03:12.479
her mother and, father and she would be in the.

2708
03:03:12.559 --> 03:03:16.840
Ground it was almost time for the bus And karen

2709
03:03:16.879 --> 03:03:20.280
had just pulled into the. Driveway mollie was sitting on

2710
03:03:20.280 --> 03:03:24.280
the front porch waiting for her. Daughter karen stepped out

2711
03:03:24.319 --> 03:03:28.719
of her old but paid for Burgundy Ford. Taurus her

2712
03:03:28.799 --> 03:03:32.079
dark brownish red hair was a little tussled and out of.

2713
03:03:32.159 --> 03:03:36.319
Sorts she had her laptop bag under one arm and

2714
03:03:36.399 --> 03:03:40.200
a huge stack of papers under the. Other mollie propped

2715
03:03:40.200 --> 03:03:44.120
open the screen door and held out a. Hand, Here,

2716
03:03:44.239 --> 03:03:49.440
karen give me that. Bag mollie grabbed the. Laptop, oh thank, you.

2717
03:03:49.559 --> 03:03:53.360
Mom karen brushed By mollie and the screen door clang

2718
03:03:53.440 --> 03:03:58.319
shut behind them. Both how was your, day, Dear molly, Asked,

2719
03:03:59.000 --> 03:04:01.879
oh it was fair To. MIDLAND i had double booked

2720
03:04:01.879 --> 03:04:03.920
a meeting with two clients this morning and had to

2721
03:04:03.959 --> 03:04:06.360
move one to the afternoon and had another in the

2722
03:04:06.360 --> 03:04:08.000
middle of the, day SO i didn't get to eat

2723
03:04:08.040 --> 03:04:11.719
the lunch you, packed SO i am, Starving karen, said

2724
03:04:11.760 --> 03:04:15.120
with a big. Smile the grin Took molly back to

2725
03:04:15.200 --> 03:04:17.799
when her daughter was a little, girl back when she

2726
03:04:17.920 --> 03:04:20.440
smiled at her that, way with her pretty brown eyes

2727
03:04:20.520 --> 03:04:24.639
all lit. Up the simple things still excite, her like

2728
03:04:24.680 --> 03:04:28.840
the prospect of mom's. Cooking, well, dear you are in

2729
03:04:28.920 --> 03:04:31.719
all kinds of luck, today because there's a fresh pot

2730
03:04:31.719 --> 03:04:34.680
of chili simmerin in the crockpot and an entire package

2731
03:04:34.680 --> 03:04:37.639
Of Oscar meyer hot dogs in the, refrigerator just waiting

2732
03:04:37.719 --> 03:04:41.799
to be thrown on the, Griddle molly. Said karen kissed

2733
03:04:41.799 --> 03:04:44.760
her on the cheek in. DELIGHT i Think i'll have

2734
03:04:44.799 --> 03:04:49.280
the chili minus the. Dogs do we have any? Saltines karen.

2735
03:04:49.360 --> 03:04:53.760
Asked her method of choice for consuming homemade chili was

2736
03:04:53.799 --> 03:04:56.799
to have crumbled up saltine crackers in the bottom of

2737
03:04:56.840 --> 03:04:59.760
the bowl before drowning them in the slightly sweet and

2738
03:04:59.799 --> 03:05:04.120
mi utterly spicy. Chili the secret to the sweetness was

2739
03:05:04.159 --> 03:05:06.719
That mollie used baked beans for the base of the

2740
03:05:06.719 --> 03:05:11.319
hot chili instead of your standard gray chili. Beans, Yes,

2741
03:05:11.440 --> 03:05:14.399
karen they're in the top left cabinet above the. Stove

2742
03:05:14.959 --> 03:05:16.840
why don't you go ahead and get your shower Before

2743
03:05:16.879 --> 03:05:19.280
lisa gets home and we can all sit down together for,

2744
03:05:19.360 --> 03:05:23.840
supper But i'm so, Hungry karen whined like she did

2745
03:05:23.879 --> 03:05:26.239
when she was a little, girl trying to Get milton

2746
03:05:26.280 --> 03:05:29.319
to Convince mollie to let her have an early. Taste

2747
03:05:29.360 --> 03:05:32.399
molly dipped into the pot with a tablespoon and rounded

2748
03:05:32.440 --> 03:05:34.760
her lips as she blew onto the spoonful of hot

2749
03:05:34.840 --> 03:05:38.959
chili before shoveling it Into karen's. Mouth they both heard

2750
03:05:39.000 --> 03:05:42.159
the hiss and squeal of the. Bus now go on

2751
03:05:42.239 --> 03:05:45.440
and get your. Shower we'll eat. Directly mollie made a

2752
03:05:45.479 --> 03:05:49.680
showing motion with her. Hand, yes, Ma'am karen. Said as

2753
03:05:49.719 --> 03:05:52.520
she turned toward the. Stairs there was the noise of

2754
03:05:52.559 --> 03:05:55.639
the screen, door a book bag hitting the, floor and

2755
03:05:55.680 --> 03:05:58.600
the familiar footsteps running by the kitchen for the. Stairs,

2756
03:05:59.440 --> 03:06:02.639
lisa wait a, minute young, Lady molly yelled out to her.

2757
03:06:02.680 --> 03:06:06.920
Granddaughter dang, It lisa mumbled under her breath as she

2758
03:06:07.040 --> 03:06:10.840
turned around and stepped into the. Kitchen we have something to,

2759
03:06:10.920 --> 03:06:14.040
discuss and we need to talk about it. Quickly your mother's,

2760
03:06:14.120 --> 03:06:16.239
upstairs AND i would rather not get her involved if

2761
03:06:16.239 --> 03:06:19.200
we don't have. To you know What i'm referring, to don't.

2762
03:06:19.239 --> 03:06:23.639
You molly's brown eyes were looking directly Into Lisa's there

2763
03:06:23.680 --> 03:06:26.600
was no point in trying to feign. Ignorance the jig

2764
03:06:26.760 --> 03:06:31.799
was up And lisa knew. It, yes, ma'am That's, shannon

2765
03:06:32.239 --> 03:06:35.479
The shannon we were looking for last. Night she just

2766
03:06:35.559 --> 03:06:39.440
needed a. Friend. Gran lisa finally broke the staring contest

2767
03:06:39.440 --> 03:06:42.920
with her. GRANDMOTHER i know what she, Is, lisa AND

2768
03:06:42.959 --> 03:06:45.079
i know there are others like her that'll be looking for.

2769
03:06:45.120 --> 03:06:47.760
Her i've had a run in with their kind. Before

2770
03:06:48.239 --> 03:06:50.079
as soon as it turns, DARK i want her out

2771
03:06:50.079 --> 03:06:54.040
of this. House do we understand each? OTHER i Understand,

2772
03:06:54.079 --> 03:06:58.200
gran but the people she's with aren't. Nice they're not,

2773
03:06:58.399 --> 03:07:01.479
people And i'm not nice, Either dear not when it

2774
03:07:01.479 --> 03:07:04.159
comes to protecting you and your. Mother i'll put a

2775
03:07:04.159 --> 03:07:07.440
piece of woodener right. Now is that what you? Want, No,

2776
03:07:07.600 --> 03:07:10.719
gran please don't do. That she'll leave when the sun goes.

2777
03:07:10.760 --> 03:07:13.879
DOWN i promise she. Will lisa's voice had a twinge

2778
03:07:13.920 --> 03:07:16.840
of panic in. It she could hear her mother walking

2779
03:07:16.879 --> 03:07:19.959
down the. Stairs the taste of the chili induced a

2780
03:07:19.959 --> 03:07:23.440
three minute. Shower, okay then not a word to your

2781
03:07:23.440 --> 03:07:32.079
mother and let's be done with. It six eighteen pm.

2782
03:07:33.000 --> 03:07:38.559
Sunset you gonna give it another Go, victor old, Boy neil,

2783
03:07:38.639 --> 03:07:42.680
asked with a hint of perverse, delight you would be

2784
03:07:42.680 --> 03:07:45.639
best served not to speak with me UNTIL i Find.

2785
03:07:45.680 --> 03:07:50.399
Shannon your mere presence is an, Irritant victor, said calmly

2786
03:07:50.680 --> 03:07:54.040
as he once again planted his nails into both sides

2787
03:07:54.040 --> 03:07:58.559
of his. Head, neil you better let it, Be veronica.

2788
03:07:58.639 --> 03:08:02.280
Started i've seen him ripped throats out of vampires, before

2789
03:08:02.639 --> 03:08:04.959
and on a couple of occasions it was almost. Me,

2790
03:08:05.840 --> 03:08:08.719
oh you'll heal, eventually but you won't be able to

2791
03:08:08.719 --> 03:08:12.120
eat until you, do and you know there's nothing like

2792
03:08:12.159 --> 03:08:16.840
that pain of, hunger So i'd advise you as politely

2793
03:08:16.920 --> 03:08:20.840
AS i can to shut the fuck. Up sandra Slapped

2794
03:08:20.879 --> 03:08:23.159
neil on his ass and grabbed him by the. Hand

2795
03:08:23.959 --> 03:08:25.920
let's get out of here before you start something that's

2796
03:08:25.959 --> 03:08:28.959
going to hurt us. Both neil tried to Give victor

2797
03:08:29.000 --> 03:08:31.559
an intimidating stare as he was led out of the,

2798
03:08:31.639 --> 03:08:36.440
room And veronica let out a. Giggle just, go, you young,

2799
03:08:36.360 --> 03:08:40.840
Fool veronica, said and perched back on the bed as

2800
03:08:40.879 --> 03:08:44.840
she Watched victor go through his. Incantations If shannon were,

2801
03:08:44.879 --> 03:08:47.879
near she would not be able to resist these, commands

2802
03:08:48.360 --> 03:08:52.760
she would have to come just outside the mobile. Home,

2803
03:08:53.799 --> 03:08:56.520
Sandra i'm going to stake him one of these. DAYS

2804
03:08:56.639 --> 03:08:59.639
i hate that. Guy neil pulled the fresh t shirt

2805
03:08:59.639 --> 03:09:05.239
over his. Head just don't antagonize. Him, Okay veronica can

2806
03:09:05.360 --> 03:09:08.959
kick his, ass but If veronica's not, around he can

2807
03:09:09.040 --> 03:09:12.079
hurt us pretty. Bad he might hurt us bad even

2808
03:09:12.120 --> 03:09:16.719
If veronica is. There sandra said, Calmly i'm not scared of.

2809
03:09:16.799 --> 03:09:23.040
Him neil defiantly, replied you should. Be you really should.

2810
03:09:23.079 --> 03:09:30.479
Be sandra Returned lisa's. Room, shannon it's time for you to.

2811
03:09:30.520 --> 03:09:33.920
Go lisa was teary eyed as she gazed into the

2812
03:09:33.959 --> 03:09:39.040
lifeless black eyes of her new. FRIEND i Know victor's

2813
03:09:39.079 --> 03:09:41.920
calling me right, now and it's taking all of my

2814
03:09:42.040 --> 03:09:46.239
focus to stay here for even another. Minute shannon held

2815
03:09:46.280 --> 03:09:50.000
out her hand And lisa grabbed. It it was a cold,

2816
03:09:50.040 --> 03:09:54.520
sensation and her black nails were sharply tipped but. Retracted

2817
03:09:56.079 --> 03:09:58.760
will you come? Back you're always welcome as long As

2818
03:09:58.760 --> 03:10:02.600
graham doesn't see. You lisa gave a little. Wink, NO

2819
03:10:03.559 --> 03:10:06.479
i don't THINK i shall, Return. LISA i want to

2820
03:10:06.559 --> 03:10:09.840
thank you for. Listening it's been a while since i've

2821
03:10:09.879 --> 03:10:14.639
talked to someone like, you like. That shannon relinquished the

2822
03:10:14.680 --> 03:10:17.879
hold On lisa's hand and pushed up the window sill

2823
03:10:18.000 --> 03:10:21.200
that she entered the night. Before she pounced up onto

2824
03:10:21.200 --> 03:10:24.440
the sill like a sneaky. Cat her MAROON t shirt

2825
03:10:24.520 --> 03:10:28.479
fluttered a little in the cold. Breeze it's, Freezing, Shannon

2826
03:10:28.879 --> 03:10:33.159
do you need a? Cup lisa stopped. HERSELF i guess you. Don't,

2827
03:10:34.040 --> 03:10:38.159
NO i GUESS i, Don't shannon replied with a, SMILE

2828
03:10:38.760 --> 03:10:42.479
a real smile at a real, GIRL a real smile

2829
03:10:42.559 --> 03:10:45.639
that was all hers to. Cherish it was a memory

2830
03:10:45.639 --> 03:10:48.959
in a mind overflowing with, them but a good memory

2831
03:10:49.159 --> 03:10:52.719
none the. Less the bad memories still had the most,

2832
03:10:52.760 --> 03:10:56.520
weight but this good one was now locked, in and it,

2833
03:10:56.639 --> 03:11:00.360
helped if only for a, Moment shannon remembered who she

2834
03:11:00.479 --> 03:11:05.920
used to be before she became this. Monster, Goodbye. Lisa

2835
03:11:06.520 --> 03:11:09.840
shannon flipped backward out of the, window her shirt fluttering

2836
03:11:09.840 --> 03:11:12.360
in the wind and jeans rubbing together as she brought

2837
03:11:12.360 --> 03:11:15.079
her legs above and around her head in a backward,

2838
03:11:15.120 --> 03:11:19.079
somersault with her white sneakers crunching the leaves underneath her

2839
03:11:19.319 --> 03:11:25.840
as she. Landed, Goodbye, Shannon lisa's eyes released the. Tears

2840
03:11:27.319 --> 03:11:30.479
shannon was at the edge of The frausto's lawn when

2841
03:11:30.520 --> 03:11:33.239
she heard a voice that she had rather not. Encountered,

2842
03:11:34.280 --> 03:11:38.319
shannon where you've, been you little? Vamp your butthole creator

2843
03:11:38.399 --> 03:11:41.799
is looking for, You neil, said smiling with fangs on.

2844
03:11:41.879 --> 03:11:46.520
Display i'm going to him. Now shannon glanced At neil

2845
03:11:47.040 --> 03:11:50.879
and then back at her. Feet were you in that?

2846
03:11:50.959 --> 03:11:56.159
House someone whispered from behind into her. Ear shannon turned

2847
03:11:56.200 --> 03:12:01.319
And sandra was there with an, evil threatening. Grin shannon,

2848
03:12:01.399 --> 03:12:06.440
lied So sandra started looking over At neil for. Approval

2849
03:12:07.200 --> 03:12:09.520
you MEAN i didn't see you do a nice three

2850
03:12:09.719 --> 03:12:13.200
sixty out that? Window you know the window that little

2851
03:12:13.239 --> 03:12:16.799
girl is staring out of right? Now you leave her,

2852
03:12:16.879 --> 03:12:20.840
Alone shannon. Screamed i'll Tell victor and he'll rip both

2853
03:12:20.879 --> 03:12:24.520
of your heads. OFF i swear he. Will Easy. Now

2854
03:12:25.120 --> 03:12:27.920
neil held out his right, hand extending and retracting his.

2855
03:12:28.040 --> 03:12:31.840
Nails we're not gonna hurt. Her who else is in?

2856
03:12:31.879 --> 03:12:35.280
There victor is calling AND i have to go to him.

2857
03:12:35.319 --> 03:12:39.360
Now shannon started her march back to the. Trailer neil

2858
03:12:39.399 --> 03:12:42.959
And sandra followed close behind the echo of their steps

2859
03:12:43.040 --> 03:12:48.440
rang In shannon's, ears and their conversation tormented. Her so

2860
03:12:49.319 --> 03:12:51.239
do you think we can turn the girl and have

2861
03:12:51.360 --> 03:12:56.600
her join our little Perverted adams, Family neil, STARTED i don't.

2862
03:12:56.639 --> 03:13:01.040
Know Maybe i'm wondering what sort of grocery are living

2863
03:13:01.079 --> 03:13:05.559
with the young. Lass sandra, Answered, OH i don't. Know

2864
03:13:06.120 --> 03:13:09.959
neil kept. Going they were both almost brushing Against shannon

2865
03:13:10.000 --> 03:13:13.440
as they followed so close. BEHIND i think we need

2866
03:13:13.479 --> 03:13:16.639
to go back and case it. Out shannon came to

2867
03:13:16.719 --> 03:13:20.159
a hard, stop her nails on both hands fully, extended

2868
03:13:20.520 --> 03:13:23.360
pivoted around quickly on her left, foot as if she

2869
03:13:23.399 --> 03:13:27.000
were doing an about. FACE a very important detail that

2870
03:13:27.040 --> 03:13:31.360
Both sandra And neil forgot was That shannon was older

2871
03:13:31.479 --> 03:13:35.479
and stronger than both of them. Combined they mistook her

2872
03:13:35.520 --> 03:13:40.120
size and her tendency to hide Behind victor for frailty and.

2873
03:13:40.200 --> 03:13:44.120
Weakness shannon's fangs dripped as she ripped across both of

2874
03:13:44.159 --> 03:13:48.920
their bellies in a crisscross. Pattern neil immediately howled in blinding.

2875
03:13:49.000 --> 03:13:55.479
Pain A sandra's fangs dug into her lower lip as

2876
03:13:55.520 --> 03:13:58.239
she placed her hand over the hole That shannon had just.

2877
03:13:58.360 --> 03:14:02.399
Made she stared at in amazement As shannon turned around

2878
03:14:02.799 --> 03:14:07.520
and continued her walk To. Victor you leave them, alone

2879
03:14:07.680 --> 03:14:11.879
Or i'll kill both of. You shannon disappeared down the.

2880
03:14:11.920 --> 03:14:15.479
Sidewalk When neil was certain she was out of, earshot

2881
03:14:15.959 --> 03:14:21.440
he chirped out an unenthusiastic fuck. You oh aren't you

2882
03:14:21.600 --> 03:14:24.920
the brave? One sandra said as she helped him to his. Feet,

2883
03:14:26.319 --> 03:14:30.639
Oh i'm not done. Yet neil smiled and turned back

2884
03:14:30.840 --> 03:14:32.319
toward The frausto home.

2885
03:14:38.239 --> 03:14:38.319
The.

2886
03:14:38.399 --> 03:14:43.000
Trailer victor was standing there with fists clenched at his,

2887
03:14:43.120 --> 03:14:46.840
side his fangs piercing his lower gums inside of his.

2888
03:14:46.959 --> 03:14:51.000
Lips his black dry fit shirt clung to his cold.

2889
03:14:51.079 --> 03:14:55.559
Skin it had the look of Lycra veronica's white hair

2890
03:14:55.719 --> 03:14:58.840
whisked in the light. Breeze she was dressed in her,

2891
03:14:58.840 --> 03:15:02.760
classic hip hugging black, mini wearing the same crimson lip

2892
03:15:02.799 --> 03:15:06.479
color that she always. Did they were both transfixed On

2893
03:15:06.559 --> 03:15:10.520
shannon's steady march toward. Them something was different in her.

2894
03:15:10.559 --> 03:15:16.079
Walk there was, Anger. SHANNON i take it you have

2895
03:15:16.120 --> 03:15:20.559
a good, Explanation victor. Began she stopped right in front of,

2896
03:15:20.639 --> 03:15:25.120
him slowly raising her stare to meet his. Eyes veronica

2897
03:15:25.200 --> 03:15:30.120
snickered behind, him And shannon's eyes darted to. Her what's,

2898
03:15:30.159 --> 03:15:35.239
wrong sweetie, cat got your? Tongue veronica licked her lips and,

2899
03:15:35.360 --> 03:15:39.239
Continued you didn't see my fruit bats out? There did?

2900
03:15:39.280 --> 03:15:44.239
YOU i saw? Them shannon, answered what is wrong with?

2901
03:15:44.280 --> 03:15:44.360
You?

2902
03:15:44.440 --> 03:15:48.600
Shannon did something? Happen victor placed both of his hands

2903
03:15:48.600 --> 03:15:53.920
on her. Shoulders, yes something, Happened shannon, said with her

2904
03:15:53.920 --> 03:15:59.159
eyes still trained On. Veronica, Well i'm having all sorts

2905
03:15:59.159 --> 03:16:02.120
of fun, guesses but why don't you just go ahead

2906
03:16:02.440 --> 03:16:07.360
and spit it. Out veronica's smile disappeared and turned just

2907
03:16:07.559 --> 03:16:11.840
like that into a wicked, sneer an all too familiar

2908
03:16:11.879 --> 03:16:15.559
sneer that used to Scare shannon and probably still SHOULD

2909
03:16:16.559 --> 03:16:19.360
i left them back. THERE i hurt, them but not too.

2910
03:16:19.399 --> 03:16:22.920
Bad shannon moved her eyes back To, victor and she

2911
03:16:23.040 --> 03:16:28.200
hesitated slightly before she, continued it didn't really matter Because

2912
03:16:28.280 --> 03:16:31.159
sandra And neil certainly weren't going to keep their traps

2913
03:16:31.159 --> 03:16:34.559
shut when they got back to The Queen. BEE i

2914
03:16:34.639 --> 03:16:37.360
met a little girl last, night that's WHERE i, Was.

2915
03:16:37.479 --> 03:16:43.639
Victor we talked all night AND i felt. Human, ha

2916
03:16:44.399 --> 03:16:49.200
you felt what did you? Say? Human? Really with your

2917
03:16:49.239 --> 03:16:52.680
fangs all out and dripping all over the. Place, Please

2918
03:16:53.479 --> 03:16:58.639
veronica burst into. Laughter shut, Up. Veronica victor raised a

2919
03:16:58.680 --> 03:17:03.120
hand over his head with A. Cla you heard me call?

2920
03:17:03.200 --> 03:17:08.879
You victor, ASKED i. Did shannon, returned don't do that,

2921
03:17:08.959 --> 03:17:14.719
again Said. VICTOR i. Won't shannon, replied enough of this.

2922
03:17:14.879 --> 03:17:19.280
Shit why did you hurt my? Babies veronica stormed Through,

2923
03:17:19.360 --> 03:17:22.239
victor shoving him to the, ground and dug her claws

2924
03:17:22.239 --> 03:17:26.799
Into shannon's. Shoulders shannon didn't flinch As veronica locked eyes with.

2925
03:17:26.840 --> 03:17:30.040
Her they threatened to kill, her AND i hurt. THEM

2926
03:17:30.399 --> 03:17:32.319
i told them if they hurt her or her, Kin

2927
03:17:32.799 --> 03:17:36.719
i'd kill. Them AND i meant WHAT i. Said veronica

2928
03:17:36.799 --> 03:17:41.600
felt a twinge of was it? Pride, well my Little?

2929
03:17:41.639 --> 03:17:45.520
SHANNON a fresh grin spread Across veronica's face as she

2930
03:17:45.600 --> 03:17:49.280
retracted her claws and Rubbed shannon's, arms painting them in.

2931
03:17:49.319 --> 03:17:53.280
Blood i've never seen this sight of. YOU i like.

2932
03:17:53.360 --> 03:17:57.600
It shannon stepped around the white haired vamp and Assisted

2933
03:17:57.680 --> 03:18:02.079
victor back to his. FEET A veronica blindside wasn't easy

2934
03:18:02.120 --> 03:18:05.079
to get up from. Quickly victor had been the victim

2935
03:18:05.159 --> 03:18:09.159
of his. Share, well you said you didn't hurt them

2936
03:18:09.159 --> 03:18:13.440
all that, bad so where are? They veronica? Started down the.

2937
03:18:13.479 --> 03:18:17.280
Sidewalk If shannon's heart had a, beat it would have

2938
03:18:17.319 --> 03:18:20.600
went into high gear with that. Question she had turned

2939
03:18:20.600 --> 03:18:24.159
her back on. Them she should never have turned her

2940
03:18:24.200 --> 03:18:27.799
back on. Them mollie was watching through the slightly cracked

2941
03:18:27.840 --> 03:18:31.440
bedroom door when the little black haired vampire back flipped

2942
03:18:31.440 --> 03:18:34.920
out Of lisa's. Window lisa was sobbing as soon as

2943
03:18:34.920 --> 03:18:40.000
she stepped. Inside sit, Down, LISA i gotta share something with.

2944
03:18:40.079 --> 03:18:43.639
You she grabbed her granddaughter by the hand and led

2945
03:18:43.680 --> 03:18:45.680
her to the, bed where they both took a. Seat

2946
03:18:46.600 --> 03:18:48.959
mollie kept a hold of her hand as she, CONTINUED

2947
03:18:50.040 --> 03:18:52.440
i know you liked that little, girl And i'm sure

2948
03:18:52.440 --> 03:18:57.360
she liked, you but she's not. HUMAN i, Know gran

2949
03:18:58.200 --> 03:19:01.440
she told me. THINGS i know she, did BUT i

2950
03:19:01.520 --> 03:19:04.639
need to tell you things. Now your mother's lying. Down

2951
03:19:05.079 --> 03:19:07.239
the late hours are catching up to, her so it's

2952
03:19:07.280 --> 03:19:09.680
just you and me right. Now there's something that your

2953
03:19:09.719 --> 03:19:12.319
mother doesn't. Know and because you met up with this,

2954
03:19:12.360 --> 03:19:16.360
GIRL i think you need to hear. This you're scaring.

2955
03:19:16.440 --> 03:19:20.680
Me Grand, good that's what it's meant to, do And

2956
03:19:20.799 --> 03:19:27.920
molly began her crystal clear recollection of. DEATH i was

2957
03:19:27.959 --> 03:19:30.159
thirty nine years old when we were blessed with the

2958
03:19:30.159 --> 03:19:33.680
birth of your. Mother back, then that was considered very

2959
03:19:33.719 --> 03:19:37.000
old to have a, child not like. Today Missus baker

2960
03:19:37.040 --> 03:19:40.440
had Little gerald last year and she was forty. Two

2961
03:19:40.559 --> 03:19:44.000
there's something that your mother never, knew and its knowledge

2962
03:19:44.040 --> 03:19:47.479
that died with Both milton and my parents years before

2963
03:19:47.520 --> 03:19:51.920
your mother was. Born you, SEE i got pregnant shortly

2964
03:19:51.959 --> 03:19:55.280
After milton AND i got. MARRIED i was barely seventeen

2965
03:19:55.360 --> 03:19:58.440
and we lived two towns. Over your grandfather was a

2966
03:19:58.479 --> 03:20:02.159
traveling salesman when we got, married not the bank manager

2967
03:20:02.200 --> 03:20:05.120
that you knew him as he traveled up and down the,

2968
03:20:05.200 --> 03:20:10.280
southeast selling anything from new fangled electronic toothbrushes To hoover vacuum.

2969
03:20:10.319 --> 03:20:13.360
Cleaners he had a catalog he sold, from and his

2970
03:20:13.440 --> 03:20:17.239
car was always loaded with demonstration. Models it was hard

2971
03:20:17.239 --> 03:20:18.920
work and it kept him from home a lot in

2972
03:20:18.959 --> 03:20:23.239
the beginning of our. Marriage Jason fitzgerald McBride was born

2973
03:20:23.319 --> 03:20:26.280
in the summer of nineteen hundred and fifty, seven and

2974
03:20:26.319 --> 03:20:28.639
by the end of winter in nineteen hundred and fifty,

2975
03:20:28.680 --> 03:20:33.159
seven my baby was. Gone it was dead of, night

2976
03:20:33.559 --> 03:20:35.879
AND i remember the wind howling like wolves at the,

2977
03:20:35.920 --> 03:20:40.079
moon and it was very. Cold oh so. COLD i

2978
03:20:40.159 --> 03:20:42.440
kept the woodburn and stove, going So jason AND i

2979
03:20:42.520 --> 03:20:45.000
made residence in the living area close to the warmth

2980
03:20:45.040 --> 03:20:49.120
of the. FIRE i recall everything about that night except the.

2981
03:20:49.200 --> 03:20:52.239
TIME i don't know what time it was when the scratching.

2982
03:20:52.280 --> 03:20:56.360
Started Little jason was wrapped securely in his basket right

2983
03:20:56.399 --> 03:20:58.920
beside the SOFA i was sleeping, on and we were

2984
03:20:58.959 --> 03:21:02.120
about five or six feet away from the. STOVE i

2985
03:21:02.159 --> 03:21:04.520
remember THAT i had my hand draped over the, side

2986
03:21:04.879 --> 03:21:07.680
and his little pink fingers were coiled around my index.

2987
03:21:07.760 --> 03:21:12.440
Finger the noises woke. Me it came from the tall

2988
03:21:12.479 --> 03:21:16.159
window in the living, room the sound of nails on.

2989
03:21:16.280 --> 03:21:19.719
Glass it was a god awful noise That i'll never.

2990
03:21:19.760 --> 03:21:23.440
FORGET i pulled my finger From jason's tiny grip and

2991
03:21:23.479 --> 03:21:27.159
stepped across the ice cold. Floor the scratching got louder

2992
03:21:27.159 --> 03:21:29.360
AS i approached the, curtains AND i could make out

2993
03:21:29.360 --> 03:21:31.319
the figure of a woman BEFORE i reached up to

2994
03:21:31.360 --> 03:21:34.559
pull the curtains. Apart she was standing there with her

2995
03:21:34.639 --> 03:21:38.719
dark eyes scratching at my, window smiling with just her red,

2996
03:21:38.760 --> 03:21:42.559
lips not showing as much as one. TOOTH i thought

2997
03:21:42.600 --> 03:21:45.959
she was lost and. Disoriented she was wearing a tight

2998
03:21:46.000 --> 03:21:48.799
black dress and a matching choker with some sort of

2999
03:21:48.879 --> 03:21:53.120
circled symbol hanging from its. Center jason started to whimper

3000
03:21:53.159 --> 03:21:55.600
a little AS i stared at the most beautiful Woman

3001
03:21:55.639 --> 03:21:59.799
i'd ever. SEEN i ignored. Him, NOW i think you

3002
03:22:00.120 --> 03:22:02.799
trying to warn me not to open the. Door there

3003
03:22:02.840 --> 03:22:05.280
was nobody around, her and she looked as young AS i,

3004
03:22:05.479 --> 03:22:08.879
was maybe. YOUNGER i couldn't leave her out, there AND

3005
03:22:08.920 --> 03:22:12.520
i opened the front. Door she was standing, there just

3006
03:22:12.559 --> 03:22:15.079
staring at, me just a couple of feet right in

3007
03:22:15.120 --> 03:22:17.719
front of, me AND i held out my hand to

3008
03:22:17.760 --> 03:22:20.200
her and asked her to come in from the. Cold,

3009
03:22:21.239 --> 03:22:27.959
then Dear, lisa my world went. Dark WHEN i, awoke

3010
03:22:28.360 --> 03:22:30.799
the front door was wide, open AND i could see

3011
03:22:30.840 --> 03:22:33.600
the vapor from the AIR i was. BREATHING i was

3012
03:22:33.639 --> 03:22:36.840
face down on the cold, floor staring up at the baby.

3013
03:22:36.879 --> 03:22:41.079
Basket then there was the blood trail that started a

3014
03:22:41.079 --> 03:22:44.319
few feet away from the. Basket there was some on

3015
03:22:44.360 --> 03:22:47.799
the back of my night. Shirt the vampire bitch had

3016
03:22:47.840 --> 03:22:51.559
stepped over me as she fed on Little, jason leaving

3017
03:22:51.559 --> 03:22:54.760
a trail behind her as she walked. Out to this,

3018
03:22:54.879 --> 03:22:57.520
DAY i don't know why she spared me and only

3019
03:22:57.559 --> 03:23:00.920
took my. Baby she had to Know milton wasn't at.

3020
03:23:00.959 --> 03:23:03.680
Home she must have been watching me for days leading

3021
03:23:03.719 --> 03:23:07.799
up to killing my. Baby of, COURSE i reported it

3022
03:23:07.840 --> 03:23:10.200
to the, authorities and with all of the, blood it

3023
03:23:10.239 --> 03:23:12.639
went from a missing person's case to a murder, case

3024
03:23:12.680 --> 03:23:15.440
to an unsolved cold case and a police file somewhere

3025
03:23:15.440 --> 03:23:20.159
collecting dust in a record's. Room milton AND i, Grieved

3026
03:23:20.840 --> 03:23:22.959
we buried our, child and it took UNTIL i was

3027
03:23:23.000 --> 03:23:25.399
thirty eight years old to gain the courage to have.

3028
03:23:25.440 --> 03:23:33.000
Another i'll never forget the face of that, beautiful white haired. Woman, Now,

3029
03:23:33.079 --> 03:23:37.600
lisa you know something that nobody else, knows not even your.

3030
03:23:37.600 --> 03:23:42.879
Mother it's our. Secret my first instinct was to kill

3031
03:23:42.879 --> 03:23:46.200
that little creature in your, closet AND i probably should.

3032
03:23:46.239 --> 03:23:49.920
Have if she comes, back there is no doubt THAT i.

3033
03:23:50.000 --> 03:23:56.600
WILL i hope you now understand. Why Grand i'm so.

3034
03:23:56.680 --> 03:24:00.719
Sorry i'm so. Sorry lisa Hugged molly type around her,

3035
03:24:00.719 --> 03:24:05.319
neck hot tears rolling down her. Cheeks you should tell

3036
03:24:05.360 --> 03:24:09.200
mom she had a. BROTHER i can't tell, Her. LISA

3037
03:24:09.479 --> 03:24:11.680
i only told you because of the visitor you, Had

3038
03:24:12.440 --> 03:24:15.319
BUT i can't tell. Her after all this, time you

3039
03:24:15.399 --> 03:24:19.440
can tell her After i'm. Gone molly Stroked lisa's auburn.

3040
03:24:19.520 --> 03:24:23.120
HAIR i don't want you to, Go, GRAN i love

3041
03:24:23.159 --> 03:24:27.159
you more than. Anything lisa released her hug and Kissed

3042
03:24:27.200 --> 03:24:31.200
molly on the. Cheek we all have to go, sometime,

3043
03:24:31.239 --> 03:24:36.079
Dear molly. Replied the door To lisa's room creaked. Open

3044
03:24:37.079 --> 03:24:41.479
well isn't that, Precious neil, asked while Pulling karen by

3045
03:24:41.479 --> 03:24:43.559
the back of her hair and pushing her in front

3046
03:24:43.559 --> 03:24:48.600
of him into the. Bedroom Mom lisa, shouted it's so, Precious.

3047
03:24:48.680 --> 03:24:52.520
Neil sandra replied and held up her right hand to

3048
03:24:52.559 --> 03:24:56.760
give an extended claw finger wave To. Lisa let her,

3049
03:24:56.799 --> 03:25:02.520
go Said, Molly oh, no not, yet old. Lady playtime

3050
03:25:02.600 --> 03:25:07.399
has just, Started neil, replied with his fangs on. Display

3051
03:25:11.360 --> 03:25:15.079
with blinding, Speed shannon Passed veronica on the, street just

3052
03:25:15.120 --> 03:25:18.319
off the left edge of the. Sidewalk the stars were

3053
03:25:18.360 --> 03:25:21.200
out and the moon was. Full there would be no

3054
03:25:21.360 --> 03:25:25.840
fog on this. Night i'm right behind, you, Sweetie veronica,

3055
03:25:25.920 --> 03:25:29.719
said as she picked up her. Pace victor followed closely behind.

3056
03:25:29.760 --> 03:25:34.200
Them shannon had one. Purpose she didn't care About veronica

3057
03:25:34.319 --> 03:25:37.520
Or victor in that. Moment all she cared about was

3058
03:25:37.559 --> 03:25:41.360
getting back To. Lisa her listless hair lay flat down

3059
03:25:41.399 --> 03:25:44.079
the back of her neck as she pushed hard to get,

3060
03:25:44.079 --> 03:25:47.280
there to get to that lawn and back into that,

3061
03:25:47.360 --> 03:25:54.200
house inside the frousto. HOME i, said let her, Go

3062
03:25:55.040 --> 03:25:59.760
molly calmly repeated, herself AND i, said, no you will

3063
03:26:00.920 --> 03:26:05.639
wait a. MINUTE i, Said, bat get. IT i, said

3064
03:26:05.680 --> 03:26:08.719
you old, Bat neil, said as he looked down Into

3065
03:26:08.799 --> 03:26:13.879
karen's brown. Eyes, look just take. Me karen rasped out the.

3066
03:26:13.879 --> 03:26:16.959
Words the sharp pain Of neil's claws had now turned

3067
03:26:17.000 --> 03:26:21.239
into a throbbing. Numbness just moments, before While molly And

3068
03:26:21.280 --> 03:26:24.239
lisa were having their special, Talk karen was in the

3069
03:26:24.319 --> 03:26:27.079
kitchen getting a glass of water when she saw the

3070
03:26:27.120 --> 03:26:29.879
injured kid hunched over on the steps of the screened in.

3071
03:26:30.040 --> 03:26:33.399
Porch his shirt was ripped in the center and soaked dark.

3072
03:26:33.440 --> 03:26:37.200
Red without, hesitation she let the kid and his girlfriend

3073
03:26:37.280 --> 03:26:41.079
into the. House as soon as she, did black claws

3074
03:26:41.079 --> 03:26:44.000
were pushing into the front of her throat enough to draw.

3075
03:26:44.040 --> 03:26:47.440
Blood karen's head was snapped, back and she was led

3076
03:26:47.520 --> 03:26:50.479
upstairs by another set of claws digging into her. Back

3077
03:26:51.799 --> 03:26:54.319
on the front of her, nightgown a black trail formed

3078
03:26:54.319 --> 03:26:56.920
from the blood running down her neck and under the,

3079
03:26:56.959 --> 03:27:00.760
fabric there was another black trail that soaked lower, back

3080
03:27:01.319 --> 03:27:03.559
some of it finding its way through the back of her.

3081
03:27:03.600 --> 03:27:08.040
Panties let's just go, Okay i'll go wherever you. WANT

3082
03:27:08.159 --> 03:27:11.760
i won't. Scream just leave them. Alone karen tried her

3083
03:27:11.799 --> 03:27:14.760
best to, negotiate but she had nothing to barter. With,

3084
03:27:15.799 --> 03:27:19.319
no Said, molly without a hint of. Fear you're not

3085
03:27:19.399 --> 03:27:24.000
taking another one from, me another. One she's got that

3086
03:27:24.079 --> 03:27:29.639
old timer's. Disease she doesn't know what she's. Saying sandra

3087
03:27:29.719 --> 03:27:34.760
giggled like a. Psychodemon oh fuck. This neil jerked hard

3088
03:27:34.840 --> 03:27:37.760
On karen's, neck and his stomach turning crack filled the.

3089
03:27:37.799 --> 03:27:41.239
Air he sunk his fangs into the front of her. Neckline,

3090
03:27:41.840 --> 03:27:45.559
No molly's seventy three year old body moved like a

3091
03:27:45.600 --> 03:27:48.879
woman half her. Age she Released lisa's hand and sprang

3092
03:27:48.959 --> 03:27:51.079
like a coiled rattlesnake from the edge of the, bed

3093
03:27:51.239 --> 03:27:53.959
plowing herself into the front of her, daughter knocking her

3094
03:27:54.040 --> 03:27:56.920
and kneel to the. Ground karen was limp when she

3095
03:27:57.000 --> 03:27:59.920
hit the, floor blood spurting from her carotid art or

3096
03:28:00.440 --> 03:28:03.280
in rhythm with the beat of her slowing, heart a

3097
03:28:03.360 --> 03:28:09.040
disturbing gurgling noise emanating from her slashed. Throat blood filled her.

3098
03:28:09.079 --> 03:28:14.799
Mouth Mom, oh my, god. Mom. No lisa scrambled on

3099
03:28:14.799 --> 03:28:17.120
her hands and, knees grabbing a shirt she had thrown

3100
03:28:17.159 --> 03:28:20.280
on the floor not more than an hour. Before lisa

3101
03:28:20.319 --> 03:28:23.280
pressed the shirt on top of the blood. Fountain karen

3102
03:28:23.360 --> 03:28:26.280
was speaking To lisa with her eyes because her mouth

3103
03:28:26.440 --> 03:28:31.959
no longer. Worked they, said it's, okay. Sweetie we'll all

3104
03:28:31.959 --> 03:28:35.680
be with your daddy. Soon we'll See grandpa And gran'll be.

3105
03:28:35.799 --> 03:28:41.920
There we'll all be together. Again it'll all be. Okay, No,

3106
03:28:42.159 --> 03:28:46.399
mom please. Don't lisa didn't get the last word out

3107
03:28:46.719 --> 03:28:49.559
before she was sent flying through the. Air her back

3108
03:28:49.639 --> 03:28:53.280
slammed hard against the closet, door splintering the, top caving

3109
03:28:53.280 --> 03:28:56.200
it in. Slightly lisa hit the floor with almost as

3110
03:28:56.280 --> 03:29:00.639
much Force sandra planted her fangs Into Karen fine her

3111
03:29:00.680 --> 03:29:04.280
trip to. Darkness mollie was pushing herself off Of, neil

3112
03:29:04.600 --> 03:29:09.159
trying to reach her. Daughter, No, karen my, Baby, karen

3113
03:29:10.120 --> 03:29:13.719
not like your. Brother blood Covered molly's face and the

3114
03:29:13.760 --> 03:29:16.239
top half of her favorite night. Shirt it was a

3115
03:29:16.280 --> 03:29:20.319
gift From lisa On molly's last. Birthday it was her favorite,

3116
03:29:20.360 --> 03:29:24.719
color pastel. Green neil was slow to get up because

3117
03:29:24.760 --> 03:29:27.920
of the still fresh gash in his mid. Section courtesy Of,

3118
03:29:27.959 --> 03:29:31.760
Shannon sandra's right hand covered her own stomach as her

3119
03:29:31.799 --> 03:29:35.440
face buried In karen's. Neck molly was on her feet

3120
03:29:35.680 --> 03:29:38.520
and the right one was surely. Broken she could feel

3121
03:29:38.520 --> 03:29:41.120
the pain of a million, needles and her ankle was

3122
03:29:41.159 --> 03:29:45.600
swelling very, rapidly but she walked on. It mollie grimaced

3123
03:29:45.600 --> 03:29:48.159
as she held out her blood soaked, hands reaching for

3124
03:29:48.200 --> 03:29:51.639
the back Of sandra's sandy blonde hair with the clothes

3125
03:29:51.639 --> 03:29:54.280
of a. Fist she had clenched one handful of, hair

3126
03:29:54.520 --> 03:29:58.040
But sandra kept. Going she was lost in her. Appetite

3127
03:29:58.479 --> 03:30:01.719
neil struggled to his. Feet as he, rose he slipped

3128
03:30:01.760 --> 03:30:05.680
on the large pool of blood and stumbled clumsily, forward Grabbing,

3129
03:30:05.719 --> 03:30:10.120
molly sending them both crashing back to the. Floor mollie

3130
03:30:10.200 --> 03:30:12.200
ripped out a chunk of hair on her way, down

3131
03:30:12.520 --> 03:30:16.120
But sandra didn't flinch as she was ravenously devouring the

3132
03:30:16.200 --> 03:30:21.200
rest Of karen's. Lifeblood molly was face down And neil

3133
03:30:21.280 --> 03:30:24.680
clawed up on and straddled her. Back molly was in

3134
03:30:24.719 --> 03:30:27.760
excruciating pain When neil leaned in close to her right,

3135
03:30:27.799 --> 03:30:32.600
Ear i'm gonna turn your, granddaughter you old. Bitch she's

3136
03:30:32.639 --> 03:30:36.280
gonna be one of. Us then he sank his fangs

3137
03:30:36.680 --> 03:30:41.159
deep into the back of her. Neck shannon was the

3138
03:30:41.200 --> 03:30:43.440
first to the, home and she barreled through the screen

3139
03:30:43.520 --> 03:30:47.200
door and flung the front door wide. Open her invitation

3140
03:30:47.399 --> 03:30:50.840
was standing so she could enter without. Delay she moved

3141
03:30:50.879 --> 03:30:53.559
with the speed of a, cobra tearing up the, stairs

3142
03:30:54.000 --> 03:30:56.920
hesitating for just a millisecond in front Of lisa's door

3143
03:30:57.280 --> 03:31:01.280
before sending it flying back into the little Girl's lisa

3144
03:31:01.360 --> 03:31:03.319
was lying still on the floor in front of the,

3145
03:31:03.399 --> 03:31:08.120
closet And sandra And neil were both furiously. Feeding shannon

3146
03:31:08.200 --> 03:31:11.639
moved with a deadly. Elegance it was so, fast but

3147
03:31:11.760 --> 03:31:15.399
to her it was all in slow. Motion she almost

3148
03:31:15.440 --> 03:31:18.159
glided to the right side of the. Room the pink

3149
03:31:18.200 --> 03:31:20.920
cup was still sitting right there on the top Of lisa's,

3150
03:31:20.959 --> 03:31:25.159
desk with freshly sharpened wooden colored pencils poking out of the.

3151
03:31:25.200 --> 03:31:29.280
Top shannon's mouth was wide open as she, moved and the,

3152
03:31:29.360 --> 03:31:33.920
thick cold saliva dripped heavy like a leaky. Faucet she

3153
03:31:33.959 --> 03:31:36.159
was getting worked up into her own frenzy as she

3154
03:31:36.200 --> 03:31:39.879
pulled four sharpened pencils from the, cup a red, one

3155
03:31:40.159 --> 03:31:44.000
a blue, one a black, one and a green. One

3156
03:31:44.040 --> 03:31:47.360
shannon gripped two in each hand and leaped high into the.

3157
03:31:47.399 --> 03:31:50.959
Air As sandra Dropped karen's, cold dead body onto the,

3158
03:31:51.000 --> 03:31:54.520
floor it was too late for. Her when she turned

3159
03:31:54.520 --> 03:31:58.079
toward the determined little. Vampire shannon let out a cry

3160
03:31:58.120 --> 03:32:02.600
as she came down. Hard the sharpened tips of the

3161
03:32:02.600 --> 03:32:06.200
red and blue pencils pierced just Below sandra's left, breast

3162
03:32:06.520 --> 03:32:09.760
and with the speed of a, Bullet shannon pressed them

3163
03:32:10.120 --> 03:32:13.840
all the way in with her right. Palm oh, no

3164
03:32:14.799 --> 03:32:18.799
Were sandra's last. Words she began to shake. Violently her

3165
03:32:18.840 --> 03:32:21.719
body was trembling all, over and blood filled her eyes

3166
03:32:21.760 --> 03:32:24.879
before they, burst sending a crimson spray all over the.

3167
03:32:24.920 --> 03:32:28.719
Walls sandra's chest sunk in and the skin on her

3168
03:32:28.799 --> 03:32:32.719
body started to. Boil after a few, seconds it, settled

3169
03:32:32.719 --> 03:32:35.200
and there was nothing but a pile Of sandra's clothes

3170
03:32:35.719 --> 03:32:39.360
and an ivory bracelet lying in a nasty black soup

3171
03:32:39.399 --> 03:32:43.159
on the. Floor shannon was focused and didn't spend another

3172
03:32:43.239 --> 03:32:46.399
thought on the dead. Vampire sandra had barely gotten the

3173
03:32:46.440 --> 03:32:49.000
words oh no out When shannon Hit neil with the

3174
03:32:49.040 --> 03:32:52.319
black and green sharpened pencils just under his left shoulder.

3175
03:32:52.319 --> 03:32:55.680
Blade neil pulled up From molly and arched his back

3176
03:32:55.760 --> 03:32:59.520
in pain as he screamed to the, sky ah, no,

3177
03:33:00.040 --> 03:33:04.280
oh you. Can't neil collapsed and flailed about for a

3178
03:33:04.319 --> 03:33:08.920
couple of seconds before he was boiled. Away the scream

3179
03:33:09.040 --> 03:33:12.040
came from Outside, SHANNON.

3180
03:33:11.879 --> 03:33:12.520
I know what you.

3181
03:33:12.639 --> 03:33:18.000
Did you killed my. Babies veronica was. Furious victor was

3182
03:33:18.040 --> 03:33:20.920
standing just behind, her but neither one of them could

3183
03:33:20.959 --> 03:33:25.520
come in because they weren't. Invited lisa still wasn't moving

3184
03:33:25.840 --> 03:33:31.200
And molly was bleeding. Out molly, whispered they can come,

3185
03:33:31.239 --> 03:33:37.200
In they can come. In, No shannon, began but it

3186
03:33:37.239 --> 03:33:40.479
was too. Late veronica was immediately in the, room With

3187
03:33:40.559 --> 03:33:43.920
victor right. Behind shannon was already in front Of, lisa

3188
03:33:44.079 --> 03:33:48.120
standing over. Her oh you little blood sucking. Bitch i'm

3189
03:33:48.120 --> 03:33:50.920
going to kill that little. Girl you don't know what you.

3190
03:33:51.079 --> 03:33:55.799
Did veronica's claws were completely extended and she started Towards.

3191
03:33:55.840 --> 03:34:00.159
Shannon the bulrush wasn't going to work Because shannon was

3192
03:34:00.159 --> 03:34:05.079
planted and prepared stop At veronica right. Now victor Grabbed

3193
03:34:05.159 --> 03:34:08.239
veronica by the back of her left. Hand veronica came

3194
03:34:08.280 --> 03:34:11.399
back across with her right and left four razor sharp

3195
03:34:11.479 --> 03:34:14.719
lines across his right. Cheek she followed that up with

3196
03:34:14.760 --> 03:34:17.239
a hard kick to the groin that doubled him. Over

3197
03:34:18.040 --> 03:34:21.559
shannon reacted While veronica was, occupied and dropped to her

3198
03:34:21.639 --> 03:34:24.280
knees and raked her own claws across the back Of

3199
03:34:24.399 --> 03:34:29.959
veronica's left calf. Ah veronica screamed, out and with quickness

3200
03:34:30.000 --> 03:34:33.479
faster Than shannon Or victor had ever, Witnessed veronica had

3201
03:34:33.479 --> 03:34:37.239
her talons buried into the front Of shannon's. Throat she

3202
03:34:37.399 --> 03:34:39.959
Rose shannon up off her feet and into the air

3203
03:34:40.000 --> 03:34:43.200
with her hands flailing and. Clawing her feet were kicking.

3204
03:34:43.280 --> 03:34:48.920
Violently veronica quickly Pulled shannon nose to nose and said nighty,

3205
03:34:49.040 --> 03:34:52.840
night before launching her back across the room through the

3206
03:34:52.840 --> 03:34:55.079
window that she had flipped out of earlier that. Evening

3207
03:34:55.879 --> 03:34:58.479
there was the splintering of wood and the shattering of,

3208
03:34:58.559 --> 03:35:01.440
glass followed by a f blood of cold air entering the.

3209
03:35:01.520 --> 03:35:05.799
Room victor was still writhing on the, floor only beginning

3210
03:35:05.799 --> 03:35:09.159
to recover When veronica was on top of the little Unconscious.

3211
03:35:09.239 --> 03:35:13.239
Lisa veronica was briefly taken with her auburn colored hair

3212
03:35:13.600 --> 03:35:20.239
and fair. Skin YOU i know. You mollie was. Standing

3213
03:35:20.639 --> 03:35:22.680
blood was pouring out of the back of her, neck

3214
03:35:22.799 --> 03:35:26.280
and her legs were shaking, severely threatening to buckle at any,

3215
03:35:26.319 --> 03:35:31.760
moment but she was. Standing veronica slowly, turned gazed back

3216
03:35:31.799 --> 03:35:36.440
At molly and, REPLIED i know you. Too your appearance

3217
03:35:36.440 --> 03:35:40.040
has changed quite a, bit BUT i remember. YOU i

3218
03:35:40.159 --> 03:35:43.239
watched you in that tender morsel for a good week

3219
03:35:43.600 --> 03:35:47.600
BEFORE i scratched at your. Window veronica's attention was turned

3220
03:35:47.600 --> 03:35:51.000
from Little lisa to the old lady staring her. Down

3221
03:35:52.040 --> 03:35:56.319
his name Was, jason my baby that you. Killed his

3222
03:35:56.520 --> 03:36:01.319
name Was. Jason molly began to. Cry her legs continued to,

3223
03:36:01.360 --> 03:36:04.280
tremble but her hands were steady behind her back as

3224
03:36:04.319 --> 03:36:07.559
she held the black and green pencils she lifted from the.

3225
03:36:07.600 --> 03:36:11.959
Floor veronica stood, up now fully engaged with the Weakening.

3226
03:36:12.000 --> 03:36:14.920
Molly she took a brief glance out of the crater

3227
03:36:15.040 --> 03:36:17.319
in the wall that used to be a window and

3228
03:36:17.399 --> 03:36:20.520
Saw shannon lying crumpled in a heap under the street

3229
03:36:20.600 --> 03:36:23.719
light of the bus. Stop she could Hear victor shuffling

3230
03:36:23.719 --> 03:36:28.840
on the, floor but didn't look. Back, Okay Jason, Mason

3231
03:36:29.239 --> 03:36:33.079
no girl's he'll be Chasin who gives a? Fuck veronica

3232
03:36:33.159 --> 03:36:36.360
walked Through sandra's puddled mess and stopped in front Of.

3233
03:36:36.360 --> 03:36:40.040
Molly victor was up and slowly walking toward the. Women

3234
03:36:40.520 --> 03:36:42.520
he made it just around the corner of the bed

3235
03:36:42.600 --> 03:36:45.239
when he bent down and scraped something from the. Floor

3236
03:36:46.239 --> 03:36:49.879
what are you doing back, There, Victor veronica, asked keeping

3237
03:36:49.920 --> 03:36:54.000
her eyes fixed On. Molly i'm getting the, Girl victor.

3238
03:36:54.040 --> 03:36:57.760
Said molly saw what was happening Behind veronica and, whispered

3239
03:36:58.440 --> 03:37:01.520
please just finish, it make it quick for me and my.

3240
03:37:01.639 --> 03:37:06.239
Granddaughter victor slowly stepped toward. Them molly leaned in And

3241
03:37:06.360 --> 03:37:09.760
veronica pulled her close around her. Waist they were locked

3242
03:37:09.760 --> 03:37:12.879
in a deadly, embrace And veronica opened up two new.

3243
03:37:12.920 --> 03:37:16.200
Holes these were in the front Of molly's neck and

3244
03:37:16.239 --> 03:37:19.879
she had hit the main. Pipeline molly returned the embrace

3245
03:37:20.399 --> 03:37:22.799
with the blue and black pencils gripped in her right.

3246
03:37:22.840 --> 03:37:26.799
Hand veronica was in her frenzy And victor was right behind.

3247
03:37:26.840 --> 03:37:30.319
Her the life was Leaving molly's eyes and both of

3248
03:37:30.360 --> 03:37:33.360
her hands began to. Tremble she let go of the

3249
03:37:33.399 --> 03:37:37.200
pencils and they hit the, floor stuck in the. Blood

3250
03:37:37.799 --> 03:37:42.479
veronica's eyes widened And molly's eyes. Closed When veronica felt the,

3251
03:37:42.600 --> 03:37:45.840
quick sharp pain pushed through the back of her skin

3252
03:37:45.959 --> 03:37:49.360
tight black, dress they both fell to the floor. Together

3253
03:37:50.280 --> 03:37:53.159
victor was holding one end of the broken corner of

3254
03:37:53.200 --> 03:37:57.840
the window. Sill the, other, sharp jagged end was buried

3255
03:37:57.879 --> 03:38:03.040
deeply Into. Veronica he felt the slightest twinge of guilt

3256
03:38:03.440 --> 03:38:06.719
as he let go of the other. End veronica slumped

3257
03:38:06.760 --> 03:38:09.239
to the floor on her, back with her face, up

3258
03:38:09.719 --> 03:38:16.360
looking At. Victor you killed, Me, Victor now you're getting.

3259
03:38:16.399 --> 03:38:21.840
Somewhere veronica smiled one last time as her skin began to,

3260
03:38:21.920 --> 03:38:26.760
boil and just Like neil And, sandra she was a

3261
03:38:26.799 --> 03:38:33.559
pile of black. Goo, Goodbye. Veronica victor quickly turned his

3262
03:38:33.600 --> 03:38:37.280
attention To. Molly she was just hanging on to. Consciousness

3263
03:38:37.799 --> 03:38:40.639
victor was on his knees and he looked Into molly's.

3264
03:38:40.639 --> 03:38:44.799
Eyes i'm very sorry for what happened. Here do you

3265
03:38:44.840 --> 03:38:47.879
want me to end this for you right? Now molly

3266
03:38:47.920 --> 03:38:53.239
shook her head and gave a tired. Whisper, No, LISA

3267
03:38:54.200 --> 03:38:58.159
i can't Leave. Lisa victor felt her eyes upon. Him

3268
03:38:58.680 --> 03:39:02.120
lisa was now standing and Watching victor hover over her.

3269
03:39:02.120 --> 03:39:07.239
GRANDMOTHER i can turn her AND i can protect, Her victor, Offered,

3270
03:39:08.120 --> 03:39:12.319
no you can turn me AND i can protect. Her

3271
03:39:13.159 --> 03:39:17.200
molly returned her vision was coming and going. Soon it

3272
03:39:17.239 --> 03:39:19.399
was going to be like turning off an old picture.

3273
03:39:19.440 --> 03:39:22.840
Tube everything was turning, black and she was almost to

3274
03:39:22.879 --> 03:39:25.399
the point where the tiny little light was going to

3275
03:39:25.479 --> 03:39:29.799
finally go black the way they did in old. TELEVISIONS

3276
03:39:30.120 --> 03:39:33.559
i don't. KNOW i think it's too, late Said. Victor

3277
03:39:34.440 --> 03:39:38.879
shannon's voice, answered it's not too. Late turn, Her, Victor

3278
03:39:39.399 --> 03:39:43.360
lisa's mother is. Dead turn her. Now victor turned his

3279
03:39:43.440 --> 03:39:47.079
sight upon the black haired death, angel and if he was,

3280
03:39:47.159 --> 03:39:52.079
capable he would have. Cried leave the, room Said. Victor

3281
03:39:52.879 --> 03:39:56.040
shannon Grabbed lisa by the hand and they walked out.

3282
03:39:56.079 --> 03:40:02.000
Together your name Is molly mc. Bride my, Creator veronica

3283
03:40:02.280 --> 03:40:05.639
killed both of your, children and in, TURN i killed. Her,

3284
03:40:06.600 --> 03:40:11.280
molly is it your desire to be? Turned victor stroked

3285
03:40:11.280 --> 03:40:17.239
her gray hair as he asked the. Question, yes then

3286
03:40:17.319 --> 03:40:20.879
keep your eyes. Closed he will die and will rise

3287
03:40:20.920 --> 03:40:25.399
again at. NIGHTFALL i will not be. Here take care

3288
03:40:25.479 --> 03:40:28.479
of both of. Them, molly you have lost so, much

3289
03:40:28.520 --> 03:40:32.159
AND i shoulder a good share of that. Blame victor

3290
03:40:32.239 --> 03:40:35.760
gashed his own wrist and dripped his blood Into molly's.

3291
03:40:35.799 --> 03:40:45.680
Mouth she accepted his, gift And victor turned. Her victor

3292
03:40:45.760 --> 03:40:48.680
had cleaned up the mess on the front, lawn secured

3293
03:40:48.680 --> 03:40:51.440
a king sized blanket over the enormous hole in the

3294
03:40:51.479 --> 03:40:54.920
wall In lisa's, bedroom throwing the splintered wood and glass

3295
03:40:55.000 --> 03:40:58.840
out onto the. Lawn before doing, So lisa sat in

3296
03:40:58.879 --> 03:41:01.719
the kitchen staring at the clock on the. Oven it

3297
03:41:01.840 --> 03:41:06.520
flashed four o EIGHT. A. M shannon Helped victor. Clean

3298
03:41:07.079 --> 03:41:09.399
they were experts in the art of cleaning up crime,

3299
03:41:09.479 --> 03:41:13.479
scenes although none were quite this. Large the rooms were,

3300
03:41:13.520 --> 03:41:18.159
spotless organized and smelled of pine. Cleaner karen was cleaned

3301
03:41:18.200 --> 03:41:21.399
and wrapped in a. Bedspread there couldn't be. Questions When

3302
03:41:21.440 --> 03:41:24.040
victor was no longer. There he had to tie up

3303
03:41:24.079 --> 03:41:27.200
the loose ends as best he. Could he stepped into the,

3304
03:41:27.280 --> 03:41:32.920
kitchen Cradling karen's lifeless. Body. Child lisa turned her, head

3305
03:41:33.159 --> 03:41:37.360
her light brown eyes filled with anger and. Sorrow your

3306
03:41:37.399 --> 03:41:40.760
grandmother is going to rise, tonight and when she, does

3307
03:41:41.639 --> 03:41:44.879
you'll need to help. Her if those in authority come

3308
03:41:44.920 --> 03:41:48.200
around asking questions that you can't, answer she can and

3309
03:41:48.319 --> 03:41:52.799
will be taken. Away do you. Understand shannon held out

3310
03:41:52.799 --> 03:41:55.719
her hand And lisa took it as she, Answered, VICTOR

3311
03:41:56.479 --> 03:42:01.959
i understand THAT i hate. YOU i hate, YOU i hate.

3312
03:42:02.000 --> 03:42:05.840
You put my mom, down put her, down put hurt.

3313
03:42:06.079 --> 03:42:11.520
Down lisa sobbed. Uncontrollably shannon pulled her close and motioned

3314
03:42:11.520 --> 03:42:15.040
For victor to leave the. Room victor walked out of

3315
03:42:15.040 --> 03:42:18.879
the front, door still Holding. Karen he walked and, walked

3316
03:42:18.920 --> 03:42:22.399
with the moon shining so. Bright he walked until he

3317
03:42:22.479 --> 03:42:25.639
was deep in a wooded area just outside the edge of.

3318
03:42:25.719 --> 03:42:29.440
Town there was a line of flat planks nailed together

3319
03:42:29.559 --> 03:42:33.879
lying atop the soft soil leaves that almost covered the top.

3320
03:42:34.079 --> 03:42:39.239
Entirely victor carefully Lay karen on the ground and lifted

3321
03:42:39.280 --> 03:42:42.719
the corner of the. Planks he pushed them along about

3322
03:42:42.760 --> 03:42:45.520
seven or eight feet before he rested them back on the.

3323
03:42:45.559 --> 03:42:48.280
Ground he tapped his foot on the top of the

3324
03:42:48.319 --> 03:42:52.079
mound of soft, dirt and with his hands he. Dug

3325
03:42:52.760 --> 03:42:56.399
victor dug quickly until he finally felt a, hand then

3326
03:42:56.440 --> 03:42:59.840
a torso and. Legs he widened out the area Around

3327
03:43:00.079 --> 03:43:05.399
Freddie roger's corpse and returned To. Karen he gingerly lifted

3328
03:43:05.440 --> 03:43:09.719
her body and eased her into position Beside. Freddie he

3329
03:43:09.840 --> 03:43:14.559
Draped karen's still limber arm Around freddie's stiff. Waist they were,

3330
03:43:14.639 --> 03:43:19.680
strangers buried together in a spoon. Position karen And freddie's

3331
03:43:19.719 --> 03:43:24.559
final thoughts were in essence the, same both thinking Of

3332
03:43:24.639 --> 03:43:29.040
lisa And molly's well. Being karen would first be a missing, person,

3333
03:43:29.680 --> 03:43:33.760
then Like, freddie another cold case file in a records room.

3334
03:43:34.000 --> 03:43:43.319
Somewhere shannon was on the porch awaiting him when he. Returned,

3335
03:43:44.600 --> 03:43:49.479
victor she's upstairs with her. GRANDMA i made her. Understand

3336
03:43:50.360 --> 03:43:54.639
she has to stay with us. Now, No, shannon not.

3337
03:43:54.879 --> 03:43:59.639
Us you have to stay with. Them victor eased himself

3338
03:43:59.680 --> 03:44:04.399
into the rocking. Chair, victor you can't leave. ME i

3339
03:44:04.479 --> 03:44:08.079
have to follow. You you you made. Me shannon was

3340
03:44:08.120 --> 03:44:10.920
in a. Panic oh it's true THAT i turned you

3341
03:44:10.959 --> 03:44:13.879
into what you are, now BUT i didn't make. You

3342
03:44:14.680 --> 03:44:20.120
somewhere in, you you maintained your. Humanity TONIGHT i found mine.

3343
03:44:20.159 --> 03:44:24.840
Again i'm going to sit right here and see the

3344
03:44:24.879 --> 03:44:29.520
first Sunrise i've seen in over two hundred. Years victor

3345
03:44:29.600 --> 03:44:34.799
smiled and rocked steadily in the. Chair But, VICTOR i,

3346
03:44:34.879 --> 03:44:41.799
Can't shannon, Began oh you, Can, shannon my dear, child you,

3347
03:44:41.920 --> 03:44:46.000
can and you. Will you have to show them you're the.

3348
03:44:46.040 --> 03:44:49.280
Oldest mollie will certainly sit on this porch one day

3349
03:44:49.440 --> 03:44:51.920
and do What i'm. Doing she's doing this out of

3350
03:44:51.959 --> 03:44:56.079
the love of her. Grandchild there is an education In lisa's,

3351
03:44:56.120 --> 03:45:01.920
future a marriage. Children Once molly is finished raising, her

3352
03:45:02.440 --> 03:45:06.399
she'll be right here in this, chair and who, knows

3353
03:45:07.600 --> 03:45:10.760
you may be sitting right beside, her holding her, hand

3354
03:45:11.639 --> 03:45:17.600
watching the. Sunrise i've never told you, This, shannon BUT

3355
03:45:17.680 --> 03:45:21.239
i love. YOU i love you As i've loved my own.

3356
03:45:21.319 --> 03:45:28.440
Daughter you've made this old vampire very. Proud now go

3357
03:45:28.520 --> 03:45:35.239
upstairs and tend to. Them without saying another, Word shannon

3358
03:45:35.280 --> 03:45:39.040
put her arms Around victor's neck and hugged him. Tightly

3359
03:45:41.000 --> 03:45:47.159
the screen door closed behind. Her victor rocked until, dawn

3360
03:45:57.200 --> 03:46:08.120
blood and snow By Rob fields prolog, Perspective Veronica GRANDE

3361
03:46:08.239 --> 03:46:11.559
i managed to escape From Ridgeway heights and was feeling

3362
03:46:11.600 --> 03:46:18.000
relief at having escaped the. KILLER i kept replaying the

3363
03:46:18.040 --> 03:46:21.600
events in my head that had happened prior to escaping

3364
03:46:21.600 --> 03:46:26.639
From Grande, estate my new, HOME i REMEMBERED i had

3365
03:46:26.639 --> 03:46:30.639
finished having sex with my boyfriend before the shit went.

3366
03:46:30.719 --> 03:46:34.280
DOWN i had to hide him quickly before throwing my

3367
03:46:34.360 --> 03:46:38.600
few scraps of clothes on and making my. Escape even

3368
03:46:38.639 --> 03:46:41.719
in my present, SITUATION i was still amazed HOW, i

3369
03:46:42.760 --> 03:46:48.520
of all, people had Inherited Oliver grande's entire. Fortune remembering

3370
03:46:48.600 --> 03:46:52.319
even further, BACK i recalled how my mother had raised

3371
03:46:52.360 --> 03:46:55.920
me since giving. Birth mom was a maid who worked

3372
03:46:55.920 --> 03:46:58.639
hard to keep a roof over our heads and food

3373
03:46:58.719 --> 03:47:02.079
on the. Table WHEN i was finally old enough to work,

3374
03:47:02.120 --> 03:47:04.760
MYSELF i went out and got an after school job

3375
03:47:04.840 --> 03:47:09.280
to help contribute to paying our. Bills and, then on

3376
03:47:09.360 --> 03:47:14.479
that one fateful day it was a fairy tale that just.

3377
03:47:14.600 --> 03:47:17.959
HAPPENED i answered the door to see two middle aged

3378
03:47:18.000 --> 03:47:22.239
men wearing what appeared to be expensive. Suits my, mother

3379
03:47:22.360 --> 03:47:25.959
whose Name Isabella, sableson was scared that these men were

3380
03:47:26.040 --> 03:47:30.040
there to kill both of. Us those fears were quickly

3381
03:47:30.079 --> 03:47:32.280
put to rest when one of the men Gave mom

3382
03:47:32.719 --> 03:47:36.840
the Big manila. Envelope as she read the, contents the

3383
03:47:36.879 --> 03:47:42.639
men explained they were lawyers on retainer From Oliver. Grande

3384
03:47:42.680 --> 03:47:46.440
one of the richest men in the. Country i'd say

3385
03:47:46.440 --> 03:47:49.440
his wealth and power was quite comparable to The mirons

3386
03:47:49.440 --> 03:47:53.920
who live over In. Strickfield on that, DAY i learned

3387
03:47:53.920 --> 03:47:57.920
That Oliver grande And mom had had an affair when

3388
03:47:57.959 --> 03:48:00.559
she worked for him as a maid At Grande. Estate

3389
03:48:01.280 --> 03:48:04.840
When abella Told oliver that she was pregnant with his,

3390
03:48:05.000 --> 03:48:08.079
child the two of them had a huge fight that

3391
03:48:08.280 --> 03:48:12.879
ended with her leaving the. Mansion, Devastated mom was left

3392
03:48:12.879 --> 03:48:15.360
on her own to raise the child growing within her.

3393
03:48:15.399 --> 03:48:19.079
Womb the lawyers explained to us That oliver had come

3394
03:48:19.079 --> 03:48:22.959
to regret ever Sending abella. Away he had desired her

3395
03:48:23.360 --> 03:48:26.120
and wanted to marry, her but he had let the

3396
03:48:26.159 --> 03:48:30.120
mantle of prestige get the better of, him so much

3397
03:48:30.159 --> 03:48:33.879
so that he could never see what he truly had With.

3398
03:48:34.040 --> 03:48:38.799
Mom the gasp and the bewildered look On mom's face

3399
03:48:38.840 --> 03:48:42.079
only confirmed what the lawyers told her and what was

3400
03:48:42.120 --> 03:48:46.920
on the. Papers Oliver grande had passed away and left

3401
03:48:46.959 --> 03:48:52.040
his entire fortune to. Me for, YEARS i KNEW i

3402
03:48:52.120 --> 03:48:55.079
Was Veronica, grande BUT i never knew the real reason

3403
03:48:55.079 --> 03:48:58.600
why my last name was different From. Mom's the men

3404
03:48:58.680 --> 03:49:03.159
explained That oliver my father left his entire fortune to,

3405
03:49:03.239 --> 03:49:06.239
me to atone for the great wrong he had done

3406
03:49:06.799 --> 03:49:10.479
in Sending mom away all those years, ago and for

3407
03:49:10.559 --> 03:49:14.520
not being a father to me. HIMSELF i couldn't believe

3408
03:49:14.559 --> 03:49:18.159
it myself When mom let me read the. Documents to be,

3409
03:49:18.239 --> 03:49:21.239
HONEST i was used to my lot in. LIFE i

3410
03:49:21.360 --> 03:49:24.120
wasn't the most popular girl At Ridgewood Heights South High,

3411
03:49:24.159 --> 03:49:27.719
school BUT i had a nice circle of. Friends me

3412
03:49:27.840 --> 03:49:30.399
And mom were just getting, by but at least we

3413
03:49:30.479 --> 03:49:33.559
had each. Other it still hasn't sunk in yet THAT

3414
03:49:33.639 --> 03:49:39.319
i was now wealthy beyond my wildest. Dreams no sooner

3415
03:49:39.360 --> 03:49:42.840
Had mom AND i moved Into grande, ESTATE i would

3416
03:49:42.920 --> 03:49:46.239
quickly learn that there were Other grande family members who

3417
03:49:46.280 --> 03:49:48.840
FELT i had absolutely no right to any of my

3418
03:49:48.920 --> 03:49:53.200
father's fortune. Whatsoever there was no way to contest the. Will,

3419
03:49:53.319 --> 03:49:57.799
However the envelope also contained a copy of A dna

3420
03:49:57.959 --> 03:50:02.559
test that was taken on. Me unbeknownst to Either mom or.

3421
03:50:02.639 --> 03:50:06.200
Me the test proved THAT i, was in Fact Oliver

3422
03:50:06.319 --> 03:50:12.000
grande's biological daughter and his youngest. Child now the entire

3423
03:50:12.120 --> 03:50:16.799
fortune was mine and mine. Alone of, COURSE i was

3424
03:50:16.799 --> 03:50:19.159
going to share it With. MOM i, mean why WOULDN'T.

3425
03:50:19.200 --> 03:50:22.479
I i hadn't even been living In Grande estate a

3426
03:50:22.479 --> 03:50:25.079
full week when someone dressed in all black kicked in

3427
03:50:25.159 --> 03:50:27.879
my bedroom. DOOR i had only managed to put on

3428
03:50:27.920 --> 03:50:30.520
shorts and A t shirt before the killer started shooting at.

3429
03:50:30.559 --> 03:50:34.280
ME i managed to. Duck THEN i shoved the killer

3430
03:50:34.360 --> 03:50:38.399
down and. FLED i screamed For, mom BUT i was

3431
03:50:38.440 --> 03:50:41.879
never able to find. Her AS i dodged gunshot after,

3432
03:50:42.000 --> 03:50:44.520
GUNSHOT i REALIZED i had no other choice but to

3433
03:50:44.559 --> 03:50:48.399
Flee Grande. ESTATE i did feel comfort in knowing that

3434
03:50:48.440 --> 03:50:51.959
the killer hadn't found my. Boyfriend at the same, TIME

3435
03:50:52.680 --> 03:50:56.079
i was very worried About. MOM i ran to the

3436
03:50:56.120 --> 03:50:58.920
garage and grabbed a key fob to one of the new. Vehicles,

3437
03:50:58.920 --> 03:51:01.760
THERE i found the correct car by pressing the horn.

3438
03:51:01.760 --> 03:51:05.120
Button AS i got into the, CAR i just missed

3439
03:51:05.120 --> 03:51:08.239
getting shot in the. HEAD i managed to make it

3440
03:51:08.239 --> 03:51:10.719
out of the garage and out onto the. Road it

3441
03:51:10.799 --> 03:51:14.479
wasn't long before another vehicle was pursuing. ME i was

3442
03:51:14.559 --> 03:51:17.719
panicking SINCE i never drove an advanced sports car. Before

3443
03:51:18.319 --> 03:51:21.799
EVENTUALLY i calmed down and told myself to drive it

3444
03:51:22.239 --> 03:51:25.959
like a normal. Car fortunately for, me the sports car

3445
03:51:26.040 --> 03:51:30.719
had an automatic. Transmission, EVENTUALLY i lost my pursuer and

3446
03:51:30.840 --> 03:51:34.600
continued to speed down the. Road AS i was trying

3447
03:51:34.600 --> 03:51:37.760
to determine who could possibly want to kill, ME i

3448
03:51:37.840 --> 03:51:42.000
saw it was starting to. Snow nothing to worry about

3449
03:51:42.000 --> 03:51:45.000
at the. Moment AS i kept driving faster and, faster

3450
03:51:45.559 --> 03:51:49.799
the snow started to blow and come down. Hard THEN

3451
03:51:49.840 --> 03:51:52.520
i REMEMBERED i was getting closer to The strickfield, area

3452
03:51:53.280 --> 03:51:56.159
and remembered hearing how that village almost always seemed to

3453
03:51:56.200 --> 03:51:59.000
be the one place where winter liked to settle. Down

3454
03:52:00.079 --> 03:52:03.680
every year they got hit with a blizzard or, two maybe.

3455
03:52:03.680 --> 03:52:07.239
MORE i started to FEEL i was sliding a little

3456
03:52:07.440 --> 03:52:10.879
and saw the roads had quickly become. WHITE i couldn't

3457
03:52:10.879 --> 03:52:15.200
believe how fast winter could truly happen Around strickfield or

3458
03:52:15.239 --> 03:52:18.360
in much Of Feltner. COUNTY i really didn't want to

3459
03:52:18.399 --> 03:52:20.799
have to slow. Down IF i, DID i knew it

3460
03:52:20.799 --> 03:52:23.120
would only be a matter of time before the killer

3461
03:52:23.159 --> 03:52:26.760
would catch up to me. Again WHEN i started to slide,

3462
03:52:26.799 --> 03:52:29.319
AGAIN i KNEW i had no choice but to slow.

3463
03:52:29.360 --> 03:52:32.799
DOWN i turned on to a main highway and crossed

3464
03:52:32.799 --> 03:52:36.319
Into Feldner. COUNTY i could hear the gusting winds AS

3465
03:52:36.360 --> 03:52:39.239
i continued to struggle to stay on the. ROAD i

3466
03:52:39.319 --> 03:52:42.760
even had the windshield wipers going fast and the defroster on.

3467
03:52:42.920 --> 03:52:46.680
FULL i gasped and felt my heart sink WHEN i

3468
03:52:46.719 --> 03:52:51.559
saw familiar headlights behind me and knew that the killer

3469
03:52:52.319 --> 03:52:56.360
had finally caught up with. Me even Though i'd turned,

3470
03:52:56.399 --> 03:53:00.040
OFF i could see the vehicle chasing me was the

3471
03:53:00.120 --> 03:53:02.959
HUMMER i passed in the garage on the way to this.

3472
03:53:03.159 --> 03:53:07.920
Car that hummer could easily handle the snowy. Conditions my

3473
03:53:08.040 --> 03:53:12.559
sports car. COULDN'T i shrieked when the hummer rear ended.

3474
03:53:12.559 --> 03:53:17.200
Me leave me, ALONE i yelled over my. Shoulder the

3475
03:53:17.280 --> 03:53:20.600
hummer rear ended me. AGAIN i cried out and felt

3476
03:53:20.639 --> 03:53:23.840
my heart Pounding when the car started to. SLIDE i

3477
03:53:23.959 --> 03:53:27.920
fought to maintain control and straighten the. Car REALIZING i

3478
03:53:27.920 --> 03:53:30.959
could either let the hummer keep striking me or take

3479
03:53:31.000 --> 03:53:34.280
a chance with the speed of my, VEHICLE i slammed

3480
03:53:34.319 --> 03:53:38.440
the accelerator. Down no sooner WAS i leaving The hummer.

3481
03:53:38.479 --> 03:53:43.000
BEHIND i started to spin. Fast this TIME i had

3482
03:53:43.040 --> 03:53:46.440
no way of controlling the. VEHICLE i continued to spin

3483
03:53:46.600 --> 03:53:49.879
UNTIL i finally went off the. Road the car slid

3484
03:53:49.920 --> 03:53:53.239
down a small hill until the driver's side slammed into a.

3485
03:53:53.319 --> 03:54:00.120
Tree the engine died almost. Immediately Oh, jesus, please, NO i.

3486
03:54:00.159 --> 03:54:03.280
Groaned it was then WHEN i looked and saw the

3487
03:54:03.360 --> 03:54:09.040
hummer's lights out the passenger. Side. NO i quickly moved

3488
03:54:09.040 --> 03:54:11.280
to the passenger side door and started to push it.

3489
03:54:11.319 --> 03:54:13.879
Open the winds were making it harder for me to

3490
03:54:13.920 --> 03:54:17.559
push open enough just to get. Outside WHEN i finally,

3491
03:54:17.559 --> 03:54:21.319
did the door slam shut hard and. FAST i shrieked

3492
03:54:21.319 --> 03:54:24.879
when the windshield glass suddenly, shattered and knew the killer

3493
03:54:24.920 --> 03:54:29.040
had fired a gun at. ME i screamed again AS

3494
03:54:29.079 --> 03:54:32.920
i ran into the. Woods as fast AS i was,

3495
03:54:33.000 --> 03:54:35.959
RUNNING i could feel how freezing cold it really. WAS

3496
03:54:36.639 --> 03:54:39.200
i never had the time to put on anything suitable

3497
03:54:39.559 --> 03:54:43.639
for this raging. BLIZZARD i managed to snag a, jacket

3498
03:54:43.799 --> 03:54:47.000
but it was only made for. AUTUMN i KNEW i

3499
03:54:47.040 --> 03:54:50.680
had to keep going in spite of the freezing temperatures

3500
03:54:50.959 --> 03:54:55.120
and how damp and numb my bare feet. WERE i

3501
03:54:55.200 --> 03:54:58.000
shrieked again when the bullet narrowly missed me and hit

3502
03:54:58.079 --> 03:55:01.399
a tree AS i. Passed forced myself to keep, running

3503
03:55:01.680 --> 03:55:05.200
but KNEW i couldn't run for much. Longer the frigid

3504
03:55:05.280 --> 03:55:08.319
cold was really starting to get to. ME i knew

3505
03:55:08.399 --> 03:55:10.600
it would only be a matter of time Before i'd

3506
03:55:10.719 --> 03:55:14.719
likely drop. Over AS i came to a small, CREEK

3507
03:55:15.159 --> 03:55:18.600
i groaned and KNEW i didn't have a. CHOICE i

3508
03:55:18.680 --> 03:55:21.159
cried out at the frigidness of the water on my bare.

3509
03:55:21.159 --> 03:55:25.159
FEET i managed to make it to the other, side

3510
03:55:25.159 --> 03:55:28.600
only to feel the immediate heat of the bullet that

3511
03:55:28.639 --> 03:55:31.440
had hit me in the back of my right. SHOULDER

3512
03:55:32.040 --> 03:55:34.959
i screamed and fell on to my. Side the pain

3513
03:55:35.120 --> 03:55:38.680
hurt so much THAT i began to. CRY i could

3514
03:55:38.719 --> 03:55:42.719
already feel the tears freezing on my. Face just the,

3515
03:55:42.799 --> 03:55:45.920
SAME i forced myself to get back on my feet

3516
03:55:46.239 --> 03:55:49.920
and keep moving to preserve my. LIFE i could feel

3517
03:55:49.920 --> 03:55:53.399
my blood pouring out from my. WOUND i was also

3518
03:55:53.479 --> 03:55:57.760
feeling quite. Soaked. Now the snow and winds continued to

3519
03:55:57.840 --> 03:56:00.520
blast me in spite of the FACT i was in a.

3520
03:56:00.559 --> 03:56:04.479
FOREST i groaned at my injury and how bitterly cold

3521
03:56:04.520 --> 03:56:07.559
my feet. WERE i was wondering if they were frostbitten by,

3522
03:56:07.600 --> 03:56:11.000
now even in the, DARKNESS i could see they were

3523
03:56:11.079 --> 03:56:16.479
still flesh. Colored but for how much? LONGER i KNEW

3524
03:56:16.520 --> 03:56:19.360
i couldn't stay out. HERE i had to keep running

3525
03:56:19.719 --> 03:56:24.600
and find. Shelter THEN i heard the gun shot and

3526
03:56:24.680 --> 03:56:29.399
felt the searing pain in my lower left. Back, AGAIN

3527
03:56:30.159 --> 03:56:35.239
i staggered and. Fell my blood was making the gathering

3528
03:56:35.319 --> 03:56:39.479
snow around me. Red AS i forced myself to get,

3529
03:56:39.559 --> 03:56:42.280
UP i took one more gun shot on my right.

3530
03:56:42.360 --> 03:56:45.639
SIDE i screamed my loudest WHEN i felt the bullet

3531
03:56:45.680 --> 03:56:49.360
had gone into my. STOMACH i knew NOW i was

3532
03:56:49.399 --> 03:56:53.239
as good as. Dead how far WAS i from the nearest,

3533
03:56:53.280 --> 03:56:57.079
Town how far Was? Strickfield for that, Matter even IF

3534
03:56:57.120 --> 03:56:59.040
i could get to a house and call for, HELP

3535
03:56:59.200 --> 03:57:01.799
i knew no emergency services would reach me in, time

3536
03:57:02.360 --> 03:57:07.239
especially with a blizzard going. On, STILL i wasn't going

3537
03:57:07.280 --> 03:57:10.559
to make things easy for the. KILLER i forced myself

3538
03:57:10.600 --> 03:57:14.000
to get back to my feet and keep. Running just, Die,

3539
03:57:14.159 --> 03:57:17.959
Veronica the killer yelled behind. Me you have no right

3540
03:57:18.040 --> 03:57:21.399
to any Of oliver's, money no. Right the mask the

3541
03:57:21.479 --> 03:57:25.159
killer was wearing was muffling the. VOICE i called on

3542
03:57:25.319 --> 03:57:28.879
every last ounce of STRENGTH i had left and sprinted

3543
03:57:28.920 --> 03:57:32.159
through the. WOODS i dodged one more bullet AS i kept.

3544
03:57:32.200 --> 03:57:35.680
Running for a brief, MOMENT i could actually feel my

3545
03:57:35.799 --> 03:57:39.600
body heat warming Me AS i kept running and. Running

3546
03:57:40.360 --> 03:57:44.040
after several, minutes fatigue and blood loss were finally catching

3547
03:57:44.079 --> 03:57:46.920
up to. ME i moved and hid behind a big.

3548
03:57:47.000 --> 03:57:50.319
TREE i could see the shape of the, killer BUT

3549
03:57:50.440 --> 03:57:52.280
i couldn't tell if it was a man or a.

3550
03:57:52.319 --> 03:57:55.639
WOMAN i knew there would be no way to determine

3551
03:57:55.639 --> 03:58:00.639
the killer's identity BEFORE i would finally, die and that

3552
03:58:00.879 --> 03:58:03.799
was if the killer would catch me and actually give

3553
03:58:03.840 --> 03:58:08.360
me the satisfaction of unmasking before shooting me for the final.

3554
03:58:08.440 --> 03:58:12.200
TIME i remained WHERE i was and continued to hope

3555
03:58:12.200 --> 03:58:15.559
the killer wouldn't find. Me it was then WHEN i

3556
03:58:15.639 --> 03:58:20.040
looked and saw the big river, there and it showed

3557
03:58:20.079 --> 03:58:24.440
no signs of. FREEZING i wasn't sure IF i was delusional,

3558
03:58:24.479 --> 03:58:28.239
now BUT i could swear there was a, faint reddish

3559
03:58:28.280 --> 03:58:34.879
green glow coming from the water. Itself funny thing the

3560
03:58:34.920 --> 03:58:39.079
water was actually warming. Me THEN i shook my head

3561
03:58:39.559 --> 03:58:43.399
and knew this couldn't be. Possible my pain now became

3562
03:58:43.520 --> 03:58:46.040
too much for, me AND i began to cry. AGAIN

3563
03:58:47.440 --> 03:58:50.440
i was mortally, wounded improbably to the point WHERE i

3564
03:58:50.520 --> 03:58:54.000
was about to finish bleeding. OUT i cried more WHEN

3565
03:58:54.040 --> 03:58:57.360
i KNEW i was being hunted like an animal and for.

3566
03:58:57.559 --> 03:59:00.600
Money ALL i ever wanted was a better life for

3567
03:59:00.680 --> 03:59:03.959
me And. Mom and then when we finally got, IT

3568
03:59:05.520 --> 03:59:09.239
i lowered myself and sat against my big. Tree IF

3569
03:59:09.280 --> 03:59:11.719
i was going to, DIE i would die with the

3570
03:59:11.760 --> 03:59:17.479
warmth of this water beside. Me and THEN i felt

3571
03:59:17.479 --> 03:59:22.559
my eyes rolling up into my skull AS i finally,

3572
03:59:22.639 --> 03:59:29.399
died or SO i. THOUGHT i wasn't sure how LONG

3573
03:59:29.479 --> 03:59:32.159
i was, dead BUT i would later determine that a

3574
03:59:32.280 --> 03:59:35.959
huge gust of wind had blown my body right into

3575
03:59:35.959 --> 03:59:39.879
that warm. RIVER i THINK i may have floated out

3576
03:59:39.920 --> 03:59:44.360
into the seemingly glowing yet murky waters BEFORE i finally

3577
03:59:44.399 --> 03:59:48.840
sank below the surface and remained motionless for several. Minutes,

3578
03:59:49.840 --> 03:59:53.520
unfortunately neither the killer NOR i had any knowledge of

3579
03:59:53.559 --> 03:59:57.319
this part Of Feldner. County maybe if we'd, known we

3580
03:59:57.399 --> 03:59:59.639
might have made it a point to avoid this very

3581
03:59:59.719 --> 04:00:03.079
air that came to be known as the backwoods Of.

3582
04:00:03.159 --> 04:00:08.479
Strickfield Most, unfortunately neither of us knew of the horrors

3583
04:00:09.239 --> 04:00:13.040
that awaited us in, here and there was certainly no

3584
04:00:13.200 --> 04:00:17.760
way of knowing that years, ago toxic waste had emptied

3585
04:00:17.799 --> 04:00:21.159
from a corroded barrel that was dropped here and had

3586
04:00:21.280 --> 04:00:26.159
rolled into this very. River the toxic waste had mixed

3587
04:00:26.200 --> 04:00:29.479
with the water and contaminated it to a point where

3588
04:00:29.479 --> 04:00:33.000
those who lived in the backwoods here never went anywhere

3589
04:00:33.000 --> 04:00:38.000
near it for any. Reason as the, warm murky bath

3590
04:00:38.360 --> 04:00:41.959
continued to soak my body for several, minutes who would

3591
04:00:41.959 --> 04:00:45.840
know for sure exactly what kind of mutations would come

3592
04:00:45.879 --> 04:00:52.639
as a. Result and THEN i finally felt myself starting to.

3593
04:00:52.760 --> 04:00:59.159
Twitch then again and, AGAIN i opened my eyes and

3594
04:00:59.280 --> 04:01:03.079
felt the water warm embrace all around. ME i soon

3595
04:01:03.200 --> 04:01:06.319
lifted my arms and felt my hand break the. SURFACE

3596
04:01:06.920 --> 04:01:11.280
i made a tight fist and knew something had. HAPPENED

3597
04:01:12.120 --> 04:01:13.799
i knew somehow.

3598
04:01:14.799 --> 04:01:15.280
THAT i was.

3599
04:01:15.399 --> 04:01:19.879
Changed WHEN i emerged from the waters that became my.

3600
04:01:20.000 --> 04:01:23.879
COCOON i knew it was time to get revenge on

3601
04:01:24.000 --> 04:01:29.799
the fucker who murdered. Me the killer growled and roared in.

3602
04:01:29.879 --> 04:01:34.920
Frustration how COULD i have possibly gotten? Away? RIGHT i,

3603
04:01:35.000 --> 04:01:39.040
mean the killer Knew i'd taken three lethal shots from

3604
04:01:39.120 --> 04:01:43.079
the high powered rifle. Used the killer had seen plenty

3605
04:01:43.120 --> 04:01:46.959
of my blood and KNEW i was seriously, Hurt YET

3606
04:01:47.920 --> 04:01:52.040
i managed to get. Away the blizzard continued its raging,

3607
04:01:52.159 --> 04:01:55.280
fury even though the killer was warmly. DRESSED i could

3608
04:01:55.319 --> 04:01:59.319
only guess there was no returning To Ridgeway heights until

3609
04:01:59.360 --> 04:02:03.200
there was a hundred percent certainty THAT i was confirmed.

3610
04:02:03.319 --> 04:02:08.479
Dead that meant a POSITIVE. Id it was a short

3611
04:02:08.479 --> 04:02:12.000
time later when the killer heard the sounds of my.

3612
04:02:12.159 --> 04:02:16.559
Laughter the killer stopped and raised the. Rifle who is?

3613
04:02:16.600 --> 04:02:20.959
That then my laughter was heard. AGAIN i must have

3614
04:02:21.120 --> 04:02:26.479
sounded like an innocent, Girl, Veronica the killer, growled show,

3615
04:02:26.559 --> 04:02:29.200
yourself let me put you out of your goddamn. Misery

3616
04:02:30.360 --> 04:02:34.200
the killer heard my innocent laughter again and saw my

3617
04:02:34.360 --> 04:02:38.600
dark shape in the. Trees the killer took quick aim

3618
04:02:38.799 --> 04:02:43.079
and fired missed. ME i sang in a voice you'd

3619
04:02:43.120 --> 04:02:47.399
hear in scary, movies and laughed. Innocently. Again you Think

3620
04:02:47.440 --> 04:02:51.520
i'm playing games, Here, Veronica the killer. Roared you had no,

3621
04:02:51.719 --> 04:02:54.639
right you goddamn, bitch no right to any Of oliver's.

3622
04:02:54.680 --> 04:02:58.399
Wealth but the killer could only hear my innocent laughter

3623
04:02:58.920 --> 04:03:02.479
one more. Time when the killer saw my dark shape

3624
04:03:02.520 --> 04:03:06.319
again in the, trees it only resulted in another wasted.

3625
04:03:06.360 --> 04:03:11.200
Bullet the killer heard my innocent laughter yet again and

3626
04:03:11.319 --> 04:03:15.559
turned to. Run when my innocent laughter came the loudest,

3627
04:03:15.639 --> 04:03:21.760
yet the killer groaned upon tripping and falling. Forward god damn.

3628
04:03:21.840 --> 04:03:25.680
It the killer muttered and reached for the. Rifle only

3629
04:03:25.760 --> 04:03:28.399
now the killer saw one of my bare legs and

3630
04:03:28.479 --> 04:03:32.600
feet right next to. It the killer looked up and saw. Me,

3631
04:03:32.719 --> 04:03:36.399
NOW i was still wearing the shorts AND t SHIRT

3632
04:03:36.760 --> 04:03:39.319
i had put on after having sex with my, boyfriend

3633
04:03:39.600 --> 04:03:44.200
AND i didn't appear to be the least bit. Cold even,

3634
04:03:44.280 --> 04:03:50.799
more my entire, body including my, hair was as white as.

3635
04:03:50.799 --> 04:03:58.559
Snow my, nails, fingers and toes or solid. Black for the,

3636
04:03:58.639 --> 04:04:02.479
record none of my nails were. POLISHED i would later

3637
04:04:02.639 --> 04:04:06.799
learn that my toxic eyes were a bluish gray with green.

3638
04:04:06.879 --> 04:04:10.559
Irises the killer could see the gunshot wounds on my,

3639
04:04:10.600 --> 04:04:14.040
body but THAT i was no longer, bleeding nor WAS

3640
04:04:14.040 --> 04:04:18.239
i feeling any. Pain the killer quickly grabbed the rifle

3641
04:04:18.280 --> 04:04:21.399
and stood. UP i just stood there as the killer

3642
04:04:21.440 --> 04:04:26.719
aimed at me and pulled the. Trigger. Click THEN i

3643
04:04:26.840 --> 04:04:33.879
smiled sweetly and laughed innocently. Again Aw suddenly my cute

3644
04:04:33.920 --> 04:04:37.200
face turned into one of utter rage AS i rushed

3645
04:04:37.239 --> 04:04:40.520
at my. MURDERER i easily jumped on my, prey and

3646
04:04:40.559 --> 04:04:43.600
we were soon wrestling in the. Snow get off, me you,

3647
04:04:43.719 --> 04:04:46.719
bitch the killer, yelled BUT i was in no. Mood

3648
04:04:46.799 --> 04:04:49.440
for small. TALK i wanted to tear the mask right

3649
04:04:49.479 --> 04:04:53.639
off my killer and see who it. Was, HOWEVER i

3650
04:04:53.719 --> 04:04:57.120
hadn't counted on the killer having a second, weapon a.

3651
04:04:57.200 --> 04:05:00.440
HANDGUN i cried. Out WHEN i took a bully right

3652
04:05:00.479 --> 04:05:04.239
in the, HEAD i fell and landed on my. BACK

3653
04:05:05.159 --> 04:05:08.680
i must have laid there for several. Minutes the killer

3654
04:05:08.799 --> 04:05:11.719
managed to reload the rifle while not taking their eyes

3655
04:05:11.760 --> 04:05:16.639
off of. Me, SUDDENLY i sat up sharply and. Screamed

3656
04:05:17.120 --> 04:05:20.159
even though the killer screamed in, RESPONSE i still couldn't

3657
04:05:20.200 --> 04:05:22.040
tell if it was a man or a woman with

3658
04:05:22.120 --> 04:05:25.719
the mask covering their. Mouth, however the killer did point

3659
04:05:25.719 --> 04:05:29.520
the rifle at me and, shoot AND i was flat

3660
04:05:29.559 --> 04:05:34.479
on my back. Again the killer again moved away from,

3661
04:05:34.520 --> 04:05:38.639
me the rifle. READY i still wasn't feeling like taking

3662
04:05:38.680 --> 04:05:42.159
my death lying down and sat up. AGAIN i got

3663
04:05:42.200 --> 04:05:45.920
back to my feet and glared the killer. Down but

3664
04:05:46.040 --> 04:05:48.479
the killer wasn't going to just let me come for

3665
04:05:48.600 --> 04:05:51.760
my revenge and emptied the rest of the rifle into.

3666
04:05:51.799 --> 04:05:56.879
ME i pointed right at the. Killer now you can't kill.

3667
04:05:57.239 --> 04:06:04.559
ME i tightened my. Fists i'm already. Dead the killer

3668
04:06:04.680 --> 04:06:07.959
finally got the MESSAGE i, MEAN i was only shot

3669
04:06:08.040 --> 04:06:10.840
several times and had inky blue blood all over. Me

3670
04:06:11.520 --> 04:06:14.479
when the killer turned and ran, AWAY i howled with.

3671
04:06:14.680 --> 04:06:20.920
Rage now my hunter had become the. HUNTED i chased

3672
04:06:20.920 --> 04:06:24.559
the killer all the way back to the. Hummer unfortunately for,

3673
04:06:24.719 --> 04:06:27.680
me the killer made it back inside and locked the.

3674
04:06:27.760 --> 04:06:32.040
Doors ALL i managed to do was shatter the driver's

3675
04:06:32.040 --> 04:06:34.840
side window out before the killer managed to get. Away

3676
04:06:36.040 --> 04:06:40.040
feeling mad as, HELL i tightened my fists and howled

3677
04:06:40.120 --> 04:06:43.000
so loudly THAT i was sure anybody who was dumb

3678
04:06:43.120 --> 04:06:45.680
enough to be out and about in these woods had

3679
04:06:45.719 --> 04:06:51.799
to have heard. Me ah these, WOODS i knew right

3680
04:06:51.840 --> 04:06:55.639
then and there THAT i could never return To Ridgeway heights.

3681
04:06:55.680 --> 04:07:01.319
Again the backwoods Of strickfield would forever be my new.

3682
04:07:01.360 --> 04:07:11.159
Home one year, Later perspective A Bella. Sableson it was

3683
04:07:11.200 --> 04:07:13.639
a little over a year ago that my daughter's car

3684
04:07:13.719 --> 04:07:18.000
was found out in the backwoods area Of. Strickfield veronica

3685
04:07:18.000 --> 04:07:20.600
managed to get more than one hundred miles away the

3686
04:07:20.719 --> 04:07:24.920
night she fled From Grande. Estate she was eventually found

3687
04:07:25.000 --> 04:07:28.440
by her. Pursuer when the police searched for her after

3688
04:07:28.440 --> 04:07:31.639
the blizzard was. Over they managed to find the fall

3689
04:07:31.760 --> 04:07:36.200
jacket she was wearing partially buried under some. Snow there

3690
04:07:36.200 --> 04:07:40.920
were no signs Of veronica. Herself, however the police reports

3691
04:07:40.920 --> 04:07:44.280
and newspapers said that my daughter was never found and

3692
04:07:44.360 --> 04:07:48.319
may still be out in Those strickfield backwoods. Somewhere she

3693
04:07:48.440 --> 04:07:51.639
never returned To Grande, estate AND i never got so

3694
04:07:51.760 --> 04:07:53.920
much as a phone call or a text from. Her

3695
04:07:55.440 --> 04:07:58.680
now it's finally come down to. This i'm sitting in

3696
04:07:58.719 --> 04:08:01.440
an suv with four us who are going to help

3697
04:08:01.479 --> 04:08:05.399
me Find. VERONICA i never got close to any of, them,

3698
04:08:06.159 --> 04:08:08.399
however WHEN i told THEM i was planning to come

3699
04:08:08.440 --> 04:08:12.520
To strickfield to look For, veronica and why they agreed

3700
04:08:12.559 --> 04:08:16.040
to come with. Me you know what this means to Find,

3701
04:08:16.120 --> 04:08:21.120
VERONICA i tell. Them the Driver Amos, kulp glanced at

3702
04:08:21.120 --> 04:08:24.159
me in the rear view. Mirror we'll find. HER i.

3703
04:08:24.239 --> 04:08:26.840
KNOW i want to Find veronica just as badly as you.

3704
04:08:26.959 --> 04:08:30.319
Do but you didn't have to rent a cabin for us.

3705
04:08:30.360 --> 04:08:33.719
TOO i start to, say don't worry about. It amos.

3706
04:08:33.760 --> 04:08:37.040
Interrupts turns out the trapper owns the cabin owed me a,

3707
04:08:37.079 --> 04:08:40.440
favor So i'm just calling it. In, besides it's better

3708
04:08:40.479 --> 04:08:43.000
than paying for a motel or hotel and having to

3709
04:08:43.079 --> 04:08:46.000
keep driving back out this way From strickfield Or pendleton

3710
04:08:46.479 --> 04:08:48.799
with this. Cabin we're only a few miles away from those.

3711
04:08:48.799 --> 04:08:53.520
Backwoods veronica disappeared In We're All, Good Abella trina had

3712
04:08:53.520 --> 04:08:56.079
her arms folded in front of her and didn't speak

3713
04:08:56.159 --> 04:08:59.360
much during the. TRIP i Wish veronica would have called

3714
04:08:59.360 --> 04:09:02.000
the house or left let us know somehow that she's all.

3715
04:09:02.120 --> 04:09:05.200
RIGHT i don't get. It she inherited all Of grande

3716
04:09:05.239 --> 04:09:07.239
A state and all that, money not even a week

3717
04:09:07.319 --> 04:09:11.280
later she disappears out. Here that's why we're going to

3718
04:09:11.319 --> 04:09:15.680
investigate those backwoods just outside Of, STRICKFIELD i, say putting

3719
04:09:15.719 --> 04:09:18.920
a hand on her. Shoulder why didn't the state police

3720
04:09:18.959 --> 04:09:22.879
thoroughly investigate that area when they Found veronica's, Car tristan,

3721
04:09:22.959 --> 04:09:25.479
asked sitting on the other side of. ME i, MEAN

3722
04:09:25.840 --> 04:09:27.639
i get it was during a blizzard in, all but

3723
04:09:28.520 --> 04:09:34.040
just saying that's just, It morgan, says riding. Shotgun it

3724
04:09:34.280 --> 04:09:36.760
was during a. Blizzard it would have been hard to

3725
04:09:36.799 --> 04:09:39.159
try and look for somebody during a bad blizzard like,

3726
04:09:39.200 --> 04:09:42.680
that especially in a heavily wooded area like those. Backwoods

3727
04:09:43.600 --> 04:09:47.559
persistence may be paying. OFF i, Say i've been spreading

3728
04:09:47.600 --> 04:09:50.639
the word around on social. Media i've even taken some

3729
04:09:50.719 --> 04:09:54.680
trips To strickfield. Myself then that phone call finally came

3730
04:09:54.760 --> 04:09:57.239
last week from someone that said they saw my daughter

3731
04:09:57.680 --> 04:10:00.680
somewhere in that same wooded area where her car was

3732
04:10:00.680 --> 04:10:04.719
found over a year. AGO i, GROAN i will not

3733
04:10:04.879 --> 04:10:09.440
rest UNTIL i Find. Veronica it's important THAT i find her.

3734
04:10:10.280 --> 04:10:13.719
Well we want to know what happened To veronica, Too trina,

3735
04:10:13.799 --> 04:10:18.719
replies not much further to the, Cabin amos. Says it's

3736
04:10:18.760 --> 04:10:22.319
not long after we cross The Feldner county. Line amos

3737
04:10:22.360 --> 04:10:25.399
turns off onto a dirt road and drives a short

3738
04:10:25.399 --> 04:10:28.239
distance before we turn up the drive that goes to the.

3739
04:10:28.239 --> 04:10:32.040
Cabin When amos, stops we get out of the suv

3740
04:10:32.200 --> 04:10:35.639
and bring our bags. Inside we keep our backpacks with

3741
04:10:35.719 --> 04:10:38.360
our gear in the. Car as soon as we're all,

3742
04:10:38.399 --> 04:10:41.520
inside we get startled when someone else is coming in

3743
04:10:41.600 --> 04:10:44.639
the back, door an older man appearing to be in

3744
04:10:44.680 --> 04:10:48.360
his early. Fifties can we help, you, SIR i. Ask

3745
04:10:48.920 --> 04:10:52.360
amos puts a gentle hand on my. Shoulder It's, okayabella

3746
04:10:53.079 --> 04:10:56.079
this Is Tom, barlow the trapper who's letting us have the.

3747
04:10:56.079 --> 04:10:59.879
Cabin the man. SMILES i just want to make sure

3748
04:11:00.079 --> 04:11:02.920
y'all got here BEFORE i took. Off then he looks

3749
04:11:03.000 --> 04:11:06.280
us all. Over so what brings y'all this? Way some

3750
04:11:06.479 --> 04:11:11.280
hunting and? Fishing probably some, Hunting amos tells. Him in

3751
04:11:11.319 --> 04:11:14.239
those woods just off the main. Highway he points in

3752
04:11:14.280 --> 04:11:20.040
the direction that. Way tom's face suddenly. Drops tell, me

3753
04:11:20.120 --> 04:11:24.399
y'all ain't. Serious he points in the same. Direction ain't

3754
04:11:24.399 --> 04:11:28.920
nobody told you none about them woods Outside? Strickfield what about?

3755
04:11:28.920 --> 04:11:34.239
Them trina, Asks they're just normal, woods. Right tom looks

3756
04:11:34.280 --> 04:11:36.920
at all of. Us, now IF i didn't know, Better

3757
04:11:37.399 --> 04:11:40.280
i'd say he's probably thinking we're not right or. Something

3758
04:11:40.959 --> 04:11:43.680
ain't none of you ever been To. Strickfield there's all

3759
04:11:43.799 --> 04:11:46.200
kinds of stories that go on in them back woods

3760
04:11:46.200 --> 04:11:49.879
outside Of. Strickfield those that have been in there and

3761
04:11:49.920 --> 04:11:52.719
live to tell about, it, well even they'll tell you

3762
04:11:52.840 --> 04:11:57.840
all the things they seen in them. Woods like What morgan,

3763
04:11:57.959 --> 04:12:03.280
Asks like What tom repeats with some, surprise young. Lady

3764
04:12:03.840 --> 04:12:07.440
there are stories about things ranging from acts of cannibalism

3765
04:12:07.479 --> 04:12:11.079
to strange. Creatures there have even been talks about some

3766
04:12:11.239 --> 04:12:15.159
little children walking around in, there ones that came back

3767
04:12:15.159 --> 04:12:18.520
from the. Dead we listen As tom tells us a

3768
04:12:18.600 --> 04:12:22.239
story he heard about a little backwoods boy Named billy

3769
04:12:22.319 --> 04:12:25.760
McCracken and how he was killed and came back to.

3770
04:12:25.879 --> 04:12:29.760
Life also how he turned some other kids living in

3771
04:12:29.799 --> 04:12:34.479
the backwoods into things like. HIM i don't know none

3772
04:12:34.479 --> 04:12:36.360
what brought him back to, life but there was a

3773
04:12:36.360 --> 04:12:39.079
man who saw him and almost didn't make it out of. There,

3774
04:12:39.639 --> 04:12:43.520
Yeah Mike cruise was his. Name Then tom gets. Agitated,

3775
04:12:44.040 --> 04:12:47.399
LOOK i ain't making this shit. Up i'm telling y'all right,

3776
04:12:47.399 --> 04:12:50.440
now you do not want to go in them. Woods

3777
04:12:51.000 --> 04:12:53.600
the rest of us are looking at each. Other THEN

3778
04:12:53.639 --> 04:12:57.920
i talked To. Tom, LISTEN i know you mean, well

3779
04:12:58.040 --> 04:13:01.600
but my daughter disappeared into those woods over a year,

3780
04:13:01.600 --> 04:13:04.479
ago AND i got a tip saying she was seen

3781
04:13:04.520 --> 04:13:08.680
in those same woods just. Recently we're just here to find.

3782
04:13:08.680 --> 04:13:13.399
Her tom studies us for a. Second, Look, MAN i

3783
04:13:13.399 --> 04:13:16.280
can understand where you're coming. FROM i. DO i got

3784
04:13:16.280 --> 04:13:18.799
two boys on my. OWN i suppose i'd want to

3785
04:13:18.840 --> 04:13:21.600
look for him too if they turned up. Missing but

3786
04:13:21.719 --> 04:13:24.879
you're talking about them backwoods over. There. NOW i can't

3787
04:13:24.879 --> 04:13:27.239
stop y'all from going into them. Woods but if y'all

3788
04:13:27.280 --> 04:13:29.559
go in, THERE i ain't promising. You you're gonna come

3789
04:13:29.600 --> 04:13:34.680
back out the. Same some people become, changed and many

3790
04:13:34.719 --> 04:13:39.479
people they just don't come back out. Again, Ever tom

3791
04:13:39.559 --> 04:13:42.680
turns and opens the back. Door he motions for us

3792
04:13:42.719 --> 04:13:45.719
to come to. Him we go out onto the back. Porch,

3793
04:13:46.520 --> 04:13:50.360
also take a good look at that. Sky there's a

3794
04:13:50.360 --> 04:13:53.399
blizzard coming, soon pretty mean one from the looks of,

3795
04:13:53.440 --> 04:13:56.440
it probably gonna reach here in the next. Hour you

3796
04:13:56.559 --> 04:13:59.879
go into them, woods especially in that, shit don't plan on.

3797
04:13:59.879 --> 04:14:04.280
It anybody coming for. Y'all Then morgan speaks, Up come,

3798
04:14:04.319 --> 04:14:07.920
on it can't be all that. BAD i Read strickfield's

3799
04:14:07.920 --> 04:14:10.319
own mayor lives out in those. Woods you don't hear

3800
04:14:10.360 --> 04:14:14.280
anything About Mayor Patrick gunter going. Missing tom just looks

3801
04:14:14.319 --> 04:14:18.399
at us. Now LIKE i, SAID i can't stop, y'all

3802
04:14:18.440 --> 04:14:23.959
but Remember i'll warned. You nobody says anything for a little.

3803
04:14:23.959 --> 04:14:26.799
Bit When tom sees we're not moved by what he,

3804
04:14:26.879 --> 04:14:30.200
said he groans and shakes his head a. Little then

3805
04:14:30.239 --> 04:14:33.319
he Hands amos the. Keys if you'd have told me

3806
04:14:33.440 --> 04:14:35.719
about this BEFORE i agreed to let you use the,

3807
04:14:35.760 --> 04:14:41.360
cabin i'd have said. No BUT i owe you for

3808
04:14:41.440 --> 04:14:43.559
helping me when my truck broke down a few months.

3809
04:14:43.559 --> 04:14:46.719
Ago we talked To tom for a little bit, longer

3810
04:14:47.079 --> 04:14:49.600
then he, leaves telling us he wants to get back

3811
04:14:49.639 --> 04:14:53.200
To strickfield before the blizzard. Hits we watch him get

3812
04:14:53.200 --> 04:14:56.040
into his truck that he had parked out back and take.

3813
04:14:56.120 --> 04:15:02.479
Off now it's just. Us was he really expecting us

3814
04:15:02.479 --> 04:15:05.479
to believe all that shit about about what he just told?

3815
04:15:05.559 --> 04:15:09.920
Us tristan, ASKED i, GROAN i don't give a flying

3816
04:15:10.040 --> 04:15:12.639
fuck if there's a maniac with a hockey mask walking

3817
04:15:12.680 --> 04:15:15.639
around in those, woods one way or. Another i'm going

3818
04:15:15.680 --> 04:15:18.799
to Find veronica WHEN i finally see, her alive or,

3819
04:15:18.799 --> 04:15:22.079
dead then and only then WILL i give up searching for.

3820
04:15:22.120 --> 04:15:25.120
Her if all of you were still coming with, me

3821
04:15:25.799 --> 04:15:30.200
then we're going. In if, not we didn't come over

3822
04:15:30.239 --> 04:15:32.159
a hundred miles with you just to leave you here

3823
04:15:32.200 --> 04:15:35.680
and head back. Home tristan tells, me like you, said

3824
04:15:36.120 --> 04:15:39.760
we gotta Find. VERONICA i look at all of them

3825
04:15:40.200 --> 04:15:42.760
and see they have every intention of sticking with. Me,

3826
04:15:43.600 --> 04:15:47.319
okay get everything, unpacked then we'll leave here and head

3827
04:15:47.319 --> 04:15:52.840
into those. Woods what was this tip you, Got trina asks.

3828
04:15:52.879 --> 04:15:56.120
ME i got a phone call from a man who

3829
04:15:56.159 --> 04:15:59.319
says he Saw veronica back in the. WOODS i. ANSWER

3830
04:16:00.200 --> 04:16:02.200
i dig into my purse and pull a few things.

3831
04:16:02.239 --> 04:16:05.920
Out this is a picture Of VERONICA i posted on

3832
04:16:05.959 --> 04:16:09.920
social media and on missing POSTERS i tacked. Up THEN

3833
04:16:09.959 --> 04:16:12.959
i raise a small piece of notebook. Paper the man

3834
04:16:13.000 --> 04:16:16.000
who called me gave me this. Address he lives in

3835
04:16:16.079 --> 04:16:19.200
those backwoods there. Somewhere we need to get to this

3836
04:16:19.360 --> 04:16:23.920
place and talk to. HIM i, Groan why DIDN'T i

3837
04:16:23.959 --> 04:16:28.120
think to ask for? Directions the others don't question me any.

3838
04:16:28.159 --> 04:16:31.600
Further the truth, WAS i already knew a blizzard was

3839
04:16:31.639 --> 04:16:34.639
coming this, way BUT i refuse to wait one more

3840
04:16:34.719 --> 04:16:38.520
moment AFTER i got that phone. Call as soon as everybody's,

3841
04:16:38.600 --> 04:16:42.600
ready we leave the. Cabin we get back into the

3842
04:16:42.680 --> 04:16:52.959
suv and head towards the backwoods Of. Strickfield, Perspective, Trina

3843
04:16:53.600 --> 04:16:56.479
it sure got dark fast Once amos drove us into the.

3844
04:16:56.520 --> 04:17:00.239
WOODS i can't help looking behind us and seeing those

3845
04:17:00.319 --> 04:17:04.680
nasty looking clouds moving really, fast almost as if they're

3846
04:17:04.840 --> 04:17:08.760
sealing the way out of. HERE i can't help thinking

3847
04:17:08.840 --> 04:17:13.079
about What Tom barlow told. US i don't, know he

3848
04:17:13.159 --> 04:17:15.520
didn't seem like he was fucked in the head or on.

3849
04:17:15.600 --> 04:17:19.559
SOMETHING i, MEAN i THINK i did smell a little

3850
04:17:19.639 --> 04:17:23.120
pot on, him but a couple of us do. Pot in,

3851
04:17:23.159 --> 04:17:25.440
Fact morgan AND i both shared a smoke before we

3852
04:17:25.520 --> 04:17:29.239
left the, cabin just the. Same neither of us go

3853
04:17:29.360 --> 04:17:33.559
on talking about things like, walking dead kids and. STUFF

3854
04:17:34.559 --> 04:17:37.600
i look out the window and see the trees waving

3855
04:17:37.639 --> 04:17:41.399
as the winds are picking up more and. More, yeah

3856
04:17:41.479 --> 04:17:45.360
it's definitely going to be a bad. STORM i look up.

3857
04:17:45.360 --> 04:17:50.040
Front anything on THE, gps. Amos i'm using THE gps

3858
04:17:50.040 --> 04:17:53.159
that came with the. Car he. REPLIES i even tried

3859
04:17:53.159 --> 04:17:55.920
a FEW gps programs on my. Phone none of them

3860
04:17:56.000 --> 04:17:59.239
have anything on the roads back. Here you'd think there'd

3861
04:17:59.239 --> 04:18:02.959
be at least some. Thing there's nobody walking around out,

3862
04:18:02.959 --> 04:18:06.520
here or we could ask somebody for. Directions tristan, Mutters

3863
04:18:07.600 --> 04:18:10.239
i'm even trying to use my own. PHONE i, SAY

3864
04:18:10.760 --> 04:18:14.079
i punched in the Address abella told, us but nothing's showing.

3865
04:18:14.200 --> 04:18:14.360
Up.

3866
04:18:15.200 --> 04:18:20.879
SHIT i got no, bars now me, Either morgan, groans damn.

3867
04:18:20.920 --> 04:18:24.959
It everybody else confirms they've got no bars on their.

3868
04:18:25.000 --> 04:18:28.600
Smartphones i'm about to Ask abella how she got the phone,

3869
04:18:28.600 --> 04:18:31.920
call but THEN i see wires on the poles and

3870
04:18:32.079 --> 04:18:35.239
know the people living out here are probably using. Landlines

3871
04:18:35.959 --> 04:18:40.399
abella sighs. Hard Now i'm not going back one way or.

3872
04:18:40.440 --> 04:18:44.600
Another i'm finding this address and getting some. Answers we

3873
04:18:44.760 --> 04:18:47.680
tell her we're with, her and then it starts. Snowing

3874
04:18:48.360 --> 04:18:50.920
it's not going to be long before everything gets white.

3875
04:18:51.280 --> 04:18:55.959
Fast we soon stop at an. INTERSECTION i can't read

3876
04:18:56.000 --> 04:18:59.319
that road, Sign tristan. Says then he gets out and

3877
04:18:59.319 --> 04:19:02.159
goes to look at it up. Close he comes back

3878
04:19:02.200 --> 04:19:07.079
and gets. IN i think that Says Skeeter. Road we

3879
04:19:07.159 --> 04:19:11.200
need to find Old dutch. Road abella reminds. Us guess

3880
04:19:11.200 --> 04:19:13.680
we'll just have to keep driving around and here until

3881
04:19:13.680 --> 04:19:17.280
we find, it or unless we find. Somebody amos, says.

3882
04:19:17.920 --> 04:19:19.959
Glad we pulled off for gas before we hit the.

3883
04:19:20.000 --> 04:19:22.760
Cabin we got a full, tank so we should be.

3884
04:19:22.840 --> 04:19:25.479
Good if we get, low we can always leave here

3885
04:19:25.520 --> 04:19:28.559
and head Into. Strickfield we take a vote in our

3886
04:19:28.680 --> 04:19:32.760
unanimous and heading Down Skeeter. Road amos turns and takes

3887
04:19:32.840 --> 04:19:36.200
us further into the. BACKWOODS i look out the window

3888
04:19:36.239 --> 04:19:39.959
and see it's really dark, now the snow is really coming,

3889
04:19:40.000 --> 04:19:43.280
down and the wind is picking. UP i have a

3890
04:19:43.440 --> 04:19:47.079
very bad feeling about. This we've been driving down one

3891
04:19:47.239 --> 04:19:50.680
road after. Another we can read some of the road.

3892
04:19:50.760 --> 04:19:53.000
Signs the ones we can't we have to get out

3893
04:19:53.079 --> 04:19:56.159
and read them under the car's. Headlights this time it's

3894
04:19:56.200 --> 04:19:58.280
my turn to get out and read the next. Sign

3895
04:19:59.079 --> 04:20:01.360
it's hard to open my door with the wind blowing

3896
04:20:01.399 --> 04:20:04.319
hard against. It WHEN i do get it open and get,

3897
04:20:04.360 --> 04:20:07.479
OUT i slip and fall flat on my. ASS i

3898
04:20:07.559 --> 04:20:09.399
get back on my feet again and look at the.

3899
04:20:09.440 --> 04:20:13.639
Sign it's not Old dutch. ROAD i get back in

3900
04:20:13.680 --> 04:20:16.680
the car and we continue. On we come by a

3901
04:20:16.680 --> 04:20:20.360
few more roads and still don't find the right. One

3902
04:20:20.399 --> 04:20:23.959
we still don't see anybody out. Here we've passed a

3903
04:20:24.000 --> 04:20:28.159
few houses and, cabins even some, trailers but they all look.

3904
04:20:29.000 --> 04:20:32.559
Dark you'd think there'd be somebody home in these. PLACES i,

3905
04:20:32.639 --> 04:20:35.319
mean it's not like it's late at night or. Something

3906
04:20:35.840 --> 04:20:38.479
with that, blizzard it almost makes it seem like it's

3907
04:20:38.559 --> 04:20:41.280
night back. HERE i look at my watch and see

3908
04:20:41.319 --> 04:20:46.000
it's just after four. O'clock thinking about. Slipping amos has

3909
04:20:46.000 --> 04:20:49.360
four wheel drive on on the. SUV i can't believe

3910
04:20:49.440 --> 04:20:52.479
how slippery it is. NOW i can hear the wind

3911
04:20:52.520 --> 04:20:56.680
blowing fierce as the snow keeps coming. Down amos also

3912
04:20:56.680 --> 04:20:59.959
has the windshield wipers going looking at the, roads, Though

3913
04:21:00.520 --> 04:21:02.920
i'm thinking it's only a matter of time before they're

3914
04:21:02.920 --> 04:21:05.920
too snow covered and we won't be able to keep

3915
04:21:06.000 --> 04:21:09.079
driving on. Them i'd be lying IF i said these

3916
04:21:09.120 --> 04:21:13.120
woods didn't look. SCARY i don't know how many miles

3917
04:21:13.159 --> 04:21:15.200
these woods, are but it seems like we've been in

3918
04:21:15.280 --> 04:21:18.920
here a long. Time as big as these woods, are

3919
04:21:19.159 --> 04:21:21.079
we might as well be looking for a needle in a.

3920
04:21:21.120 --> 04:21:26.200
Haystack tristan mutters when he Hears abella. Sigh he quickly

3921
04:21:26.239 --> 04:21:30.040
looks her. Way, sorry you still want to keep, Going,

3922
04:21:30.079 --> 04:21:34.440
Abella amos, Asks this weather's only getting worse and the

3923
04:21:34.559 --> 04:21:39.239
roads are getting real. Bad abella clinches her. Fist veronica

3924
04:21:39.319 --> 04:21:42.159
is my, daughter and we will find. Her god damn. It,

3925
04:21:43.000 --> 04:21:47.079
yeah her mind's definitely made. Up guess that would explain

3926
04:21:47.159 --> 04:21:49.959
why she packed provisions in her backpack and had us

3927
04:21:50.000 --> 04:21:54.399
do the. Same another road coming, Up morgan, says the

3928
04:21:54.440 --> 04:21:56.399
sign's got snow on. It i'll have to get out

3929
04:21:56.399 --> 04:22:00.440
and brush it. Off amos slows down and. Stops Then

3930
04:22:00.520 --> 04:22:02.760
morgan gets out and has to stand on the front

3931
04:22:02.799 --> 04:22:06.879
bumper to reach the. Sign she brushes it. Off what's

3932
04:22:06.920 --> 04:22:09.799
the name of that road, Again, Abella she calls, out

3933
04:22:10.319 --> 04:22:14.719
Old dutch. Road abella calls, back this is. It we

3934
04:22:14.760 --> 04:22:18.319
hear her cheer Old dutch. Road she gets back down

3935
04:22:18.319 --> 04:22:21.319
and comes back. In now we just need to pick a.

3936
04:22:21.360 --> 04:22:24.799
Direction we'll go left and see what the house numbers.

3937
04:22:24.799 --> 04:22:28.120
Are amos, says we need to look for twenty one

3938
04:22:28.239 --> 04:22:32.120
Old dutch. Road abella tells. Us amos turns left and

3939
04:22:32.159 --> 04:22:35.239
starts driving. Again it takes a few minutes before we

3940
04:22:35.280 --> 04:22:38.559
finally come up to the first house looks more like a.

3941
04:22:38.639 --> 04:22:42.440
Hut amos, stops since it's on my. SIDE i get

3942
04:22:42.440 --> 04:22:45.360
out and try to look at the. Mailbox there's no

3943
04:22:45.479 --> 04:22:49.399
number on. IT i open the, box no. MAIL i

3944
04:22:49.440 --> 04:22:51.479
walk up to the. HOUSE i have to do some,

3945
04:22:51.600 --> 04:22:54.760
looking BUT i eventually find the rusted out numbers next

3946
04:22:54.760 --> 04:22:57.680
to the. DOOR i turn and go back to the. Car,

3947
04:22:58.520 --> 04:23:02.319
FIFTEEN i tell all WHEN i get back, in we'll

3948
04:23:02.319 --> 04:23:03.680
have to go to the next place to see if

3949
04:23:03.680 --> 04:23:06.239
we're going in the right direction for sure or not on.

3950
04:23:06.399 --> 04:23:10.239
It amos replies and gets us going. Again we go

3951
04:23:10.360 --> 04:23:14.120
further down the. Road that snow's just coming down so.

3952
04:23:14.360 --> 04:23:19.600
Fast amos is even taking his. Time it's then when

3953
04:23:19.680 --> 04:23:24.600
the headlights reveal the next house directly. Ahead what the

3954
04:23:24.639 --> 04:23:27.920
headlights couldn't have shown us was that the road ahead was.

3955
04:23:28.079 --> 04:23:31.120
Curved we would end up finding out the hard way

3956
04:23:31.479 --> 04:23:35.639
when we'd suddenly feel the car dip. Fast what the?

3957
04:23:35.680 --> 04:23:40.120
Hell amos. Scrumbles he shifts into, reverse but we're quickly

3958
04:23:40.159 --> 04:23:45.520
finding out we're. Stuck. Shit, Morgan tristan AND i get

3959
04:23:45.520 --> 04:23:48.879
out and take a. LOOK i quickly look back At

3960
04:23:48.920 --> 04:23:53.239
amos when he rolls his window. DOWN i tell him small.

3961
04:23:53.319 --> 04:23:55.920
Ditch there was so much snow we couldn't see. It

3962
04:23:56.799 --> 04:23:59.440
we don't Hear amos, groaning but we can see the

3963
04:23:59.479 --> 04:24:03.399
front tie spinning in the, car not moving to put it.

3964
04:24:03.479 --> 04:24:08.200
Mildly where? Fucked When amos turns the motor, off we

3965
04:24:08.319 --> 04:24:11.079
all get out and head to the back to get our.

3966
04:24:11.120 --> 04:24:14.920
Backpacks there's no mailbox out here at the, road BUT

3967
04:24:15.000 --> 04:24:17.040
i head up to the house to check the. Address

3968
04:24:17.600 --> 04:24:19.799
WHEN i reach the front, PORCH i look for any

3969
04:24:19.879 --> 04:24:22.760
kind of a. NUMBER i even brush off the sides

3970
04:24:22.799 --> 04:24:26.959
at the. Door there's no mailbox here. EITHER i even

3971
04:24:27.040 --> 04:24:29.399
try knocking on the door a few, times with no.

3972
04:24:29.559 --> 04:24:33.399
SUCCESS i shriek when somebody puts a hand on my.

3973
04:24:33.440 --> 04:24:38.360
Shoulder it's a. BELLA i can't find any house. NUMBER

3974
04:24:38.639 --> 04:24:42.040
i tell, HER i don't think anybody lives. Here A

3975
04:24:42.120 --> 04:24:45.799
bella motions for me to move. Aside then she turns

3976
04:24:45.799 --> 04:24:49.360
the knob and opens the. Door we go inside and

3977
04:24:49.479 --> 04:24:53.520
confirm that nobody lives. Here the furniture looks broken and.

3978
04:24:53.600 --> 04:24:56.639
Battered the place looks like it hasn't been cleaned in.

3979
04:24:56.760 --> 04:24:59.639
Years at least it's a good place to get in

3980
04:24:59.639 --> 04:25:02.319
out of the snow and talk about what we're going

3981
04:25:02.360 --> 04:25:07.319
to do. Next god damn, It amos. Growls nothing we

3982
04:25:07.360 --> 04:25:10.440
can do about, it. Buddy tristan tells him the best

3983
04:25:10.440 --> 04:25:12.000
we can do is walk till we get out of

3984
04:25:12.000 --> 04:25:16.200
here and maybe make it To. Strickfield we don't even

3985
04:25:16.360 --> 04:25:20.559
know Where strickfield, Is amos, REPLIES i point in the.

3986
04:25:20.600 --> 04:25:24.440
DIRECTION i think it's that. WAY i saw the compass

3987
04:25:24.440 --> 04:25:27.879
on your, Dashboard. Amos abella gets us to try looking

3988
04:25:27.920 --> 04:25:30.600
around for anything that might have this address on. It

3989
04:25:31.200 --> 04:25:34.360
after looking in all the, rooms there's nothing to be,

3990
04:25:34.440 --> 04:25:39.399
found not even a. Bill tristan, mutters assuming they even

3991
04:25:39.479 --> 04:25:43.719
get bills out, Here what are we doing? Now morgan,

3992
04:25:43.799 --> 04:25:47.879
asks we don't have a. Choice abella, says we have

3993
04:25:47.959 --> 04:25:51.879
to find twenty. One she looks at us now you know,

3994
04:25:51.920 --> 04:25:55.159
what you people don't have to come with. Me just

3995
04:25:55.200 --> 04:25:58.600
stay in here and keep out of the. Blizzard amos

3996
04:25:58.600 --> 04:26:02.319
puts his hand On abella's. Should i'm going with, you me,

3997
04:26:02.440 --> 04:26:06.399
TOO i, SAY i guess we're heading back. Out morgan.

3998
04:26:06.479 --> 04:26:10.600
Mutters as a plan is being, DISCUSSED i can't help

3999
04:26:10.639 --> 04:26:14.440
looking out at what was probably the kitchen. Window just

4000
04:26:14.479 --> 04:26:17.719
out of, CURIOSITY i turn one of the faucet. Taps

4001
04:26:18.239 --> 04:26:22.760
much to my, surprise water actually trickles. Out the people

4002
04:26:22.799 --> 04:26:25.159
that live out in the country use well, water meaning

4003
04:26:25.159 --> 04:26:27.639
they're not hooked up to the city and paying water.

4004
04:26:27.680 --> 04:26:31.319
Bills AFTER i shut the water back, off my eyes

4005
04:26:31.360 --> 04:26:36.719
are suddenly wide. Open something's moving behind the trees by

4006
04:26:36.760 --> 04:26:41.479
what looks like a firewood pile. Outside when the others

4007
04:26:41.520 --> 04:26:45.000
turn to, ME i tell them WHAT i. Discovered, yeah

4008
04:26:45.120 --> 04:26:50.479
there is something, Moving morgan, Says is that a? Person

4009
04:26:51.319 --> 04:26:54.319
and then the figure comes out enough for us to

4010
04:26:54.399 --> 04:26:57.920
see that it is a. Person if we didn't know,

4011
04:26:58.079 --> 04:27:03.879
better we'd swear was a girl wearing just shorts and

4012
04:27:03.920 --> 04:27:06.879
A t. Shirt is that.

4013
04:27:08.520 --> 04:27:08.639
Is?

4014
04:27:08.680 --> 04:27:13.760
That? Veronica abella. Stammers we don't waste any time and

4015
04:27:13.840 --> 04:27:16.120
have to exit through the front door since there's no back.

4016
04:27:16.159 --> 04:27:18.760
One we trudge through the snow and head out. Back

4017
04:27:19.559 --> 04:27:22.879
the person isn't there. Now when we get to where

4018
04:27:22.959 --> 04:27:25.559
we thought we saw, Her amos quickly points to them.

4019
04:27:26.040 --> 04:27:29.920
Footprints he quickly, says looks like whoever it is is walking.

4020
04:27:30.719 --> 04:27:35.399
BAREFOOT i turn and. Move, well let's follow. Them as

4021
04:27:35.440 --> 04:27:39.600
we move and follow the, Footprints abella calls, Out, Veronica,

4022
04:27:40.319 --> 04:27:43.079
veronica it's. Mom we came out here to find. You

4023
04:27:43.719 --> 04:27:46.319
we continue to follow the tracks through some more of the.

4024
04:27:46.360 --> 04:27:51.719
Forest eventually we come to another. House this one makes

4025
04:27:51.760 --> 04:27:55.440
me think of the Story console And. Gretel it's not

4026
04:27:55.559 --> 04:27:57.920
a candy house with a witch living, inside but this

4027
04:27:58.040 --> 04:28:02.399
place is definitely not on any path or. Road the

4028
04:28:02.399 --> 04:28:06.479
footprints lead right to the. House when we reach, it

4029
04:28:06.959 --> 04:28:10.079
we can see the front window is broken. Out there's

4030
04:28:10.120 --> 04:28:13.879
no glass. Around looking, inside this place looks like the

4031
04:28:13.959 --> 04:28:17.440
last house we were. In whoever it. Is when in,

4032
04:28:17.479 --> 04:28:21.879
Here morgan, says we footprints. Here we all climb in

4033
04:28:21.959 --> 04:28:24.680
through the front. Window it's then when we hear some.

4034
04:28:24.840 --> 04:28:27.639
RUCKUS i move away from the others and head to

4035
04:28:27.719 --> 04:28:30.239
the back of the. House the others are right behind.

4036
04:28:30.280 --> 04:28:32.600
Me when we get, there we see that the back

4037
04:28:32.639 --> 04:28:37.159
doors wide. Open she's back. OUTSIDE a belly yells. GO

4038
04:28:38.280 --> 04:28:40.840
i sprint out of the house ahead of. Everybody NOW

4039
04:28:40.879 --> 04:28:43.600
i can see the person. RUNNING i got, THIS i

4040
04:28:43.719 --> 04:28:46.440
yell over my. SHOULDER i can see the long white,

4041
04:28:46.440 --> 04:28:49.159
hair AND i know for sure it's a. Woman IF

4042
04:28:49.200 --> 04:28:53.959
i didn't know, better i'd swear she's got white. SKIN

4043
04:28:55.120 --> 04:28:58.079
i don't mean what society calls white. SKIN i mean

4044
04:28:59.280 --> 04:29:03.200
she's just as white as the. Snow, Stop, veronica is

4045
04:29:03.200 --> 04:29:08.079
that you? STOP i, yell whoever this is can really,

4046
04:29:08.200 --> 04:29:11.760
run even in bare feet and in the. Snow i'm

4047
04:29:11.760 --> 04:29:14.040
a track star at my high, school but she's making

4048
04:29:14.079 --> 04:29:16.920
me look. Bad i'm still ahead of the, others. THOUGH

4049
04:29:17.399 --> 04:29:20.879
i follow the girl through some thicker woods now and

4050
04:29:20.920 --> 04:29:25.559
THEN i hear some laughing sounds like a young girl

4051
04:29:25.600 --> 04:29:29.280
who's happy as can. BE i see the footprints again

4052
04:29:29.319 --> 04:29:32.239
and pick up the. Trail i'm surprised this girl can

4053
04:29:32.280 --> 04:29:35.280
walk out here, barefoot let, alone in the clothes she's.

4054
04:29:35.280 --> 04:29:39.520
Wearing wait a, Minute abella said that was what she

4055
04:29:39.639 --> 04:29:42.200
was wearing when she fled From Grande estate that night

4056
04:29:42.879 --> 04:29:47.399
and ended up getting lost in. Here, veronica, PLEASE i call.

4057
04:29:47.479 --> 04:29:50.799
Out if it's, you just. Stop your mom's been really

4058
04:29:50.799 --> 04:29:54.520
worried about you all this. Time she hasn't given up on. You.

4059
04:29:54.600 --> 04:29:58.680
PLEASE i hear the happy laughter again AS i keep

4060
04:29:58.719 --> 04:30:02.920
following the. Footprints it's getting frustrating since it's really. Dark

4061
04:30:03.319 --> 04:30:07.360
it's gotta be sunset by. Now. SHIT i quickly take

4062
04:30:07.399 --> 04:30:10.440
off my backpack and go for the flashlight. INSIDE i

4063
04:30:10.520 --> 04:30:14.440
turn it on and see the footprints. AGAIN i hear

4064
04:30:14.479 --> 04:30:18.079
the happy laughter one more. Time WHEN i turn, AROUND

4065
04:30:19.120 --> 04:30:24.159
i finally see her and. Gasp her skin and hair

4066
04:30:24.239 --> 04:30:31.280
are snowy. White her eyes look so. Evil where her

4067
04:30:31.319 --> 04:30:34.559
eyes should have been, white they were like a grayish.

4068
04:30:34.559 --> 04:30:39.600
Color her eyes themselves were sickening. Green her nails are completely,

4069
04:30:39.639 --> 04:30:46.040
black fingers and. Toes it's Definitely, veronica, Though oh my,

4070
04:30:46.200 --> 04:30:49.559
god what happened to? You veronica just looks at. Me

4071
04:30:49.680 --> 04:30:57.280
now Tree, now she whispers. Eerily BEFORE i can call

4072
04:30:57.319 --> 04:31:00.559
out to the, Others veronica leaps at me and takes me,

4073
04:31:00.639 --> 04:31:03.760
down making me drop the. FLASHLIGHT i groan and struggle

4074
04:31:03.799 --> 04:31:06.719
to get her off of, me But veronica quickly overpowers

4075
04:31:06.719 --> 04:31:10.479
me and pins my wrists. Down oh, fuck my wrists

4076
04:31:10.520 --> 04:31:15.159
suddenly burn with the cold from her. HANDS i continue

4077
04:31:15.200 --> 04:31:18.680
to struggle against, her BUT i can't believe how incredibly

4078
04:31:18.719 --> 04:31:23.040
strong she. Is get off of, ME i, shriek help help.

4079
04:31:23.120 --> 04:31:29.280
Me veronica looks at me. Softly, trina she whispers. Again

4080
04:31:30.159 --> 04:31:34.440
we look at each other for several. Seconds then she looks, sad.

4081
04:31:36.200 --> 04:31:41.200
Hungry her hands are so cold they really burn my

4082
04:31:41.280 --> 04:31:44.760
wrists to where they feel like they're. Frostbitten and Then

4083
04:31:44.840 --> 04:31:49.319
i'm feeling even more. Pain When veronica lowers her head

4084
04:31:49.879 --> 04:31:54.000
and bites right into my, THROAT i can't even scream

4085
04:31:54.639 --> 04:31:57.760
to try and call for help. Again as soon AS

4086
04:31:57.840 --> 04:32:01.120
i feel the flesh on my throat torn, AWAY i

4087
04:32:01.159 --> 04:32:04.760
stop struggling against whatever this thing that once Was veronica

4088
04:32:04.959 --> 04:32:10.799
is and feel my life slipping. AWAY i lose more

4089
04:32:10.920 --> 04:32:18.760
and more control over my, body and then everything gets

4090
04:32:18.879 --> 04:32:28.120
dark forever perspective a miss. Culp it's really hard trying

4091
04:32:28.120 --> 04:32:31.000
to keep up With, trina even in hiking. Boots i'm

4092
04:32:31.040 --> 04:32:33.200
surprised she can run in the snow like she. Does

4093
04:32:34.399 --> 04:32:36.799
guess that's what comes with being on the track. Team

4094
04:32:36.799 --> 04:32:40.399
At Ridgewood Heights South High it's also dark to where

4095
04:32:40.440 --> 04:32:43.920
we have to use our. Flashlights now we keep calling

4096
04:32:43.959 --> 04:32:48.920
out For. Trina abella keeps calling out For. Veronica Now i'm,

4097
04:32:49.000 --> 04:32:53.319
Confused if that girl we saw Was, veronica then why

4098
04:32:53.360 --> 04:32:55.520
the hell didn't she ever try to get in touch

4099
04:32:55.559 --> 04:33:01.799
with anyone? Instead veronica's really living here in these woods

4100
04:33:02.280 --> 04:33:06.240
for a whole. Year if that is, her then how she's?

4101
04:33:06.279 --> 04:33:09.360
SURVIVING i Know veronica has never been much of a.

4102
04:33:09.439 --> 04:33:12.279
Hunter she didn't even like WHEN i talked about. Hunting

4103
04:33:13.119 --> 04:33:16.119
we keep following the tracks made by Both trina and

4104
04:33:16.200 --> 04:33:19.520
the barefoot. Girl we finally reach a point where there's

4105
04:33:19.560 --> 04:33:24.639
blood in the. Snow there's also a broken. Flashlight we

4106
04:33:24.680 --> 04:33:29.080
don't see anyone, here not a. Soul but THEN i

4107
04:33:29.200 --> 04:33:32.880
notice something out of the. Ordinary you, guys see How

4108
04:33:32.919 --> 04:33:37.400
trina's tracks end, HERE i point, Out but look the

4109
04:33:37.400 --> 04:33:40.680
ones of the bare feet they're the only ones that

4110
04:33:40.799 --> 04:33:44.400
keep going from. Here tristan gets a little. Scared, now

4111
04:33:45.119 --> 04:33:48.720
you don't suppose whatever that girl was Got, trina do?

4112
04:33:48.840 --> 04:33:52.599
YOU i really don't know for, SURE i tell Him.

4113
04:33:53.639 --> 04:33:58.759
Trina tristan calls. Out morgan And abella also call out For.

4114
04:33:58.840 --> 04:34:04.000
Trina bella continues to call out For, veronica but nobody answers.

4115
04:34:04.040 --> 04:34:07.080
Back trina's gotta be able to hear. US i, mean

4116
04:34:07.319 --> 04:34:11.360
she couldn't have gone that far. Away still seeing the

4117
04:34:11.400 --> 04:34:16.319
blood and broken flashlight here makes me. Wonder after a little,

4118
04:34:16.319 --> 04:34:20.959
bit we stop calling out For. Trina, ah she's, dead,

4119
04:34:21.040 --> 04:34:25.279
Man tristan, says shaking his head. Quickly she's got to be.

4120
04:34:25.360 --> 04:34:28.520
Dead she ain't calling back to. US i think that

4121
04:34:28.560 --> 04:34:31.520
girl must have gotten. Her she shouldn't have gone off by.

4122
04:34:31.520 --> 04:34:36.599
HERSELF i raise my, Hand, tristan don't. Okay we can't

4123
04:34:36.599 --> 04:34:39.759
afford to be losing our, shit not out. Here we

4124
04:34:39.880 --> 04:34:44.000
have to keep, Going abella tells, us But. Trina morgan

4125
04:34:44.080 --> 04:34:46.360
tries to, say BUT i put my hand On morgan's.

4126
04:34:46.360 --> 04:34:49.479
Shoulder we'll look for. Her she can't have gone. Far

4127
04:34:50.439 --> 04:34:54.000
BUT i Think morgan was Believing. TRISTAN i don't like.

4128
04:34:54.080 --> 04:34:57.360
THIS i think something did happen To. Trina there's no

4129
04:34:57.439 --> 04:35:01.319
way she wouldn't answer back. Again A bella tells us

4130
04:35:01.319 --> 04:35:03.720
we can go back and get out of the. BLIZZARD

4131
04:35:04.319 --> 04:35:07.639
i didn't think things would happen like. This, no we

4132
04:35:07.720 --> 04:35:11.040
gotta stick together. NOW i, say we don't know what's

4133
04:35:11.080 --> 04:35:14.119
going on out here With trina. Missing the others are

4134
04:35:14.200 --> 04:35:17.680
quick to agree with. Me, Still i'm beginning to Think tristan's.

4135
04:35:17.759 --> 04:35:24.400
Right something either Attacked trina or possibly killed. Her i'm

4136
04:35:24.439 --> 04:35:27.919
almost afraid of what we'll find. Out we move and

4137
04:35:28.040 --> 04:35:31.639
follow the single set of. Footprints at times we do

4138
04:35:31.840 --> 04:35:35.880
see some drops of. Blood then the trail gets. Cold

4139
04:35:35.880 --> 04:35:38.439
when the footprints and the blood drops end at a small,

4140
04:35:38.520 --> 04:35:42.599
river we have no idea which way to. Go it's

4141
04:35:42.720 --> 04:35:46.680
dark and the snow and winds keep. Blowing what's more

4142
04:35:46.840 --> 04:35:48.919
is that we're stuck in these woods with the car

4143
04:35:49.040 --> 04:35:51.880
not being able to go, anywhere and on top of,

4144
04:35:51.880 --> 04:35:55.479
that we Lost. Trina what do you guys want to?

4145
04:35:55.520 --> 04:35:58.720
DO i, ask WAY i see. It we can go

4146
04:35:58.799 --> 04:36:02.680
about this two. Ways one we can split up in

4147
04:36:02.720 --> 04:36:06.599
two's and pick a, direction or two we stick together

4148
04:36:07.000 --> 04:36:11.119
safety in. NUMBERS i have to know if That's. Veronica abella,

4149
04:36:11.200 --> 04:36:15.000
Snaps i'm going this. Way i'll go with, You morgan,

4150
04:36:15.080 --> 04:36:20.040
says following. Her Then tristan bumps my. Arm we better

4151
04:36:20.080 --> 04:36:23.439
go the other. Way we can cover more. GROUND i

4152
04:36:23.560 --> 04:36:28.040
groan and Follow. Tristan i'm telling, YOU i got a

4153
04:36:28.200 --> 04:36:31.880
very bad feeling about. THIS i, SAY i think we

4154
04:36:31.919 --> 04:36:34.880
should follow the. Women but what if we all end

4155
04:36:35.000 --> 04:36:38.759
up going the wrong? Way tristan. Asks then it hits,

4156
04:36:38.799 --> 04:36:44.520
me you, know what if this girl's hunting? Us if

4157
04:36:44.520 --> 04:36:47.200
that's the, case it probably won't matter what direction we

4158
04:36:47.279 --> 04:36:51.599
end up. Going tristan gives me a funny. Look why

4159
04:36:51.599 --> 04:36:54.279
would that girl be hunting? Us what do we got

4160
04:36:54.319 --> 04:36:58.759
that she? WANTS i, GROAN i don't. Know something just

4161
04:36:58.840 --> 04:37:02.439
feels wrong about all of. This we gotta try and Find.

4162
04:37:02.520 --> 04:37:07.799
Veronica tristan reminds me we've come this. Far once we Find,

4163
04:37:07.880 --> 04:37:11.479
veronica a bella gets what she's been, wanting and everything

4164
04:37:11.479 --> 04:37:15.400
will be good for. Everybody we just gotta Find. Veronica

4165
04:37:16.119 --> 04:37:20.159
you know, THAT i. KNOW i snapped. Back you don't

4166
04:37:20.200 --> 04:37:23.479
have to keep reminding me we should have come looking

4167
04:37:23.520 --> 04:37:27.279
for when it's not a. Blizzard we both keep arguing

4168
04:37:27.319 --> 04:37:30.840
about being here during the blizzard and. Waiting one thing About,

4169
04:37:30.880 --> 04:37:36.040
tristan he's about his headstrong as a damn. Woman veronica

4170
04:37:36.159 --> 04:37:39.040
was pretty headstrong. Too ain't no wonder she ended up

4171
04:37:39.040 --> 04:37:42.080
getting all the way out here that. Night we keep

4172
04:37:42.119 --> 04:37:44.959
following the river without our. Phones we don't know where

4173
04:37:44.959 --> 04:37:48.680
the hell we. Are there's no sun or. Moon it's

4174
04:37:48.799 --> 04:37:51.319
dark as shit out, here and the snow keeps blowing and.

4175
04:37:51.400 --> 04:37:54.040
DRIFTING i look up at the sky and can't see

4176
04:37:54.119 --> 04:37:58.360
jack or. Shit, OKAY i can see those dark clouds up,

4177
04:37:58.360 --> 04:38:01.479
there that's bringing this blizzard down all Over Feltner. County

4178
04:38:02.439 --> 04:38:05.080
why this county gets the shit end of that deal every?

4179
04:38:05.119 --> 04:38:09.439
Winter i'll never. Know i'm gonna go across the, Water tristan.

4180
04:38:09.520 --> 04:38:12.400
Says maybe we'll do better finding tracks if we each

4181
04:38:12.439 --> 04:38:17.799
take a. Side, WHATEVER i. Grumble tristan quickly moves across the.

4182
04:38:17.840 --> 04:38:20.799
Water it ain't frozen, yet BUT i can see it's

4183
04:38:20.840 --> 04:38:23.799
freezing along the top at the. Ends tristan AND i

4184
04:38:23.959 --> 04:38:28.119
use our flashlights to keep lighting our. Way amos over,

4185
04:38:28.159 --> 04:38:31.720
Here tristan calls. OUT i turn and move across the

4186
04:38:31.759 --> 04:38:34.279
water to get to. HIM i shine my light where

4187
04:38:34.319 --> 04:38:38.840
his is and see those footprints hes found made by bare.

4188
04:38:38.880 --> 04:38:43.040
Feet let's, GO i, say before the snow covers them.

4189
04:38:43.080 --> 04:38:46.840
Up we move and follow the. TRACKS i shine my light.

4190
04:38:46.880 --> 04:38:49.720
Ahead no sign of the. Girl we keep following the

4191
04:38:49.759 --> 04:38:53.319
fresh tracks as far as they'll take. Us can't believe

4192
04:38:53.319 --> 04:38:56.040
that girl can move so fast in the. Shit tristan.

4193
04:38:56.119 --> 04:38:59.840
Mutters these backwoods people can probably do a lot of shit.

4194
04:39:00.119 --> 04:39:04.200
HERE i, say, hell they're probably making their own gas

4195
04:39:04.240 --> 04:39:07.200
to power their houses and. Trailers these are probably the

4196
04:39:07.279 --> 04:39:09.040
kind of people that live in a world all their,

4197
04:39:09.040 --> 04:39:13.080
own not going into civilization unless they absolutely have to

4198
04:39:14.200 --> 04:39:18.400
like The. Amish tristan, asks kind, of except you don't

4199
04:39:18.400 --> 04:39:20.360
want to be planned in a day around this place

4200
04:39:20.439 --> 04:39:23.840
like you would In amish. Country we keep following the.

4201
04:39:23.880 --> 04:39:27.400
Tracks it takes, many many, minutes but the tracks end

4202
04:39:27.400 --> 04:39:30.959
at a, large two story. House like the house we

4203
04:39:30.959 --> 04:39:33.119
were at, earlier this one looks like it hasn't been

4204
04:39:33.159 --> 04:39:36.400
lived in for god knows how. Long makes me wonder

4205
04:39:36.400 --> 04:39:38.959
how many people actually do live here in these. WOODS

4206
04:39:39.240 --> 04:39:42.240
i say this is the third place we've been at that's.

4207
04:39:42.279 --> 04:39:46.040
Abandoned we both know we gotta check it. Out we

4208
04:39:46.119 --> 04:39:49.799
find the front door easily. Opens once we're, INSIDE i

4209
04:39:49.799 --> 04:39:52.720
gotta Help tristan push the door shut since that wind

4210
04:39:52.840 --> 04:39:56.000
keeps raging with the. Snow we finally get the door.

4211
04:39:56.080 --> 04:39:59.040
Closed at least the windows are still good, here so

4212
04:39:59.080 --> 04:40:02.520
we have a little shot from the. Storm i'll head.

4213
04:40:02.560 --> 04:40:06.560
Upstairs tristan, SAYS i think we should stick. TOGETHER i

4214
04:40:06.599 --> 04:40:10.119
Say i'll be. Okay then he picks up a. Board

4215
04:40:10.759 --> 04:40:14.560
got this with. Me my gut tells ME i should

4216
04:40:14.560 --> 04:40:17.040
go up with, him but he's already nearly up the.

4217
04:40:17.040 --> 04:40:21.400
Stairs ah, SHIT i. MUTTER i grab my own two

4218
04:40:21.400 --> 04:40:23.400
by four and keep it ready AS i look around,

4219
04:40:23.439 --> 04:40:29.639
downstairs and THEN i see wet, footprints bare. Feet that

4220
04:40:29.759 --> 04:40:33.159
girl's gotta be in this house. SOMEWHERE i stand just

4221
04:40:33.200 --> 04:40:37.000
outside a door and quickly fling it, open just an empty.

4222
04:40:37.040 --> 04:40:41.279
Closet THEN i Remember tristan being upstairs and hall ass up.

4223
04:40:41.319 --> 04:40:43.880
THERE i quickly find him in one of the. BEDROOMS

4224
04:40:44.360 --> 04:40:47.959
i told, You i'll be. Okay tristan snaps that girl's

4225
04:40:47.959 --> 04:40:50.799
in this house, SOMEWHERE i. Say THEN i tell him

4226
04:40:50.799 --> 04:40:55.560
about the wet FOOTPRINTS i. Found tristan nods once. Okay

4227
04:40:56.159 --> 04:40:59.720
we stick. Together then we move across the upstairs and

4228
04:40:59.799 --> 04:41:02.720
check the. Rooms they have furniture in them and enough

4229
04:41:02.799 --> 04:41:05.159
dust on it to make you want to. Choke even

4230
04:41:05.240 --> 04:41:08.000
the blankets on the beds have dust on. Them we

4231
04:41:08.159 --> 04:41:11.119
check the closets, Too they're either empty or don't have

4232
04:41:11.240 --> 04:41:14.680
much of anything in. Them we're about to leave the

4233
04:41:14.759 --> 04:41:19.479
room When tristan gets my attention AND i turn around

4234
04:41:19.919 --> 04:41:27.400
and See. Veronica is that? YOU i? Gasp ready to piss?

4235
04:41:27.439 --> 04:41:31.080
MYSELF i, Say i'm ready to piss myself because she

4236
04:41:31.159 --> 04:41:33.799
looks like something right out of one of those scary.

4237
04:41:33.880 --> 04:41:37.240
Movies veronica's hair and skin's white enough to be. Chalk

4238
04:41:37.720 --> 04:41:41.439
her nails are all, black and her eyes are just oh,

4239
04:41:41.479 --> 04:41:44.560
man she's just scaring the But jesus out of me right.

4240
04:41:44.599 --> 04:41:47.639
Now she's still wet and dripping from being out in the.

4241
04:41:47.680 --> 04:41:50.959
Snow just the way she's looking at us right. NOW

4242
04:41:51.799 --> 04:41:53.799
i ain't no, doctor But i'd be willing to bet

4243
04:41:53.840 --> 04:41:58.080
my cabin back. Home she ain't herself. ANYMORE i remember

4244
04:41:58.119 --> 04:42:00.759
her wearing that outfit she's wearing right, now from that

4245
04:42:00.919 --> 04:42:04.720
night a year. Ago only thing that almost makes me

4246
04:42:04.799 --> 04:42:07.959
lose control of my waterworks is seeing that blood on

4247
04:42:08.000 --> 04:42:13.479
her face and t. Shirt aw. Man tristan drops his

4248
04:42:13.479 --> 04:42:16.639
flashlight and raises his board to Hit, veronica but she

4249
04:42:16.680 --> 04:42:19.639
can actually move. Fast she knocks the board out of

4250
04:42:19.680 --> 04:42:22.560
his hands and grabs his. Wrists he shrieks and cries

4251
04:42:22.599 --> 04:42:26.159
out like a. Girl now your hands are so, Cold he,

4252
04:42:26.319 --> 04:42:29.840
yells let go of, me you. Bitch BEFORE i can

4253
04:42:29.880 --> 04:42:33.360
move to Help, Tristan veronica points right at, me making

4254
04:42:33.360 --> 04:42:37.279
me drop my. Board her voice is this raspy kind of.

4255
04:42:37.279 --> 04:42:43.560
Whisper you stay right. There then she Slams tristan up

4256
04:42:43.560 --> 04:42:46.599
against the wall and bites right into his. Throat he

4257
04:42:46.720 --> 04:42:49.880
screams so loud you'd think you could actually hear him

4258
04:42:49.880 --> 04:42:54.680
through that blizzard. Outside blood squirts, everywhere especially When veronica

4259
04:42:54.759 --> 04:42:58.159
pulls back and has a chunk Of tristan's throat in her.

4260
04:42:58.159 --> 04:43:03.119
Mouth oh oh, MAN i scream and quickly bolt out

4261
04:43:03.119 --> 04:43:06.279
of the. Door Now i'm Hearing veronica screaming like a.

4262
04:43:06.319 --> 04:43:11.360
Banshee i'm about to reach the stairs WHEN i see oh, man,

4263
04:43:11.799 --> 04:43:16.240
NO i. Groan trina's right there on the stairway, now

4264
04:43:17.240 --> 04:43:22.319
and she looks just Like, veronica with that white, skin white,

4265
04:43:22.360 --> 04:43:29.520
hair black, nails and those strange, eyes and her throat's

4266
04:43:29.560 --> 04:43:36.840
been ripped. Out veronica got her, too. Hungry trina utters

4267
04:43:36.880 --> 04:43:42.520
in that same choked Whisper veronica has. YESS i Hear

4268
04:43:42.639 --> 04:43:46.880
veronica groan as she's almost to. US i quickly shake

4269
04:43:46.959 --> 04:43:48.759
my head and put my hands up in front of. Me,

4270
04:43:49.840 --> 04:43:53.040
VERONICA i don't know what happened to, you BUT i

4271
04:43:53.119 --> 04:43:56.799
tried to save you that. NIGHT i really. Tried you

4272
04:43:56.919 --> 04:44:02.919
gotta believe. That veronica how at. Me Then trina grabs my,

4273
04:44:03.080 --> 04:44:06.799
arm making me drop my. FLASHLIGHT i scream and Shove

4274
04:44:06.840 --> 04:44:10.319
trina down the, stairs my backpack falling. Off THEN i

4275
04:44:10.400 --> 04:44:13.200
follow behind her and eventually step over. Her AS i

4276
04:44:13.240 --> 04:44:15.759
get to the bottom and get the hell out of that,

4277
04:44:15.880 --> 04:44:21.599
house come back, Here. AMOS i Hear veronica shrieking behind,

4278
04:44:21.680 --> 04:44:25.319
me right through the. WINDS i look and see she's

4279
04:44:25.400 --> 04:44:29.040
really running after, me even through the blowing. SNOW i

4280
04:44:29.080 --> 04:44:33.319
can hear her howling at. Me Oh Jesus, GOD i

4281
04:44:33.360 --> 04:44:35.200
knew it would only be a matter of time Before

4282
04:44:35.279 --> 04:44:38.639
veronica would finally catch up to. ME i ain't never

4283
04:44:38.680 --> 04:44:42.080
been a fast. RUNNER i, MEAN i can, run BUT

4284
04:44:42.159 --> 04:44:45.759
i just ain't. FAST i, Know i'm definitely slower with

4285
04:44:45.840 --> 04:44:48.720
these boots, on BUT i wasn't expecting to be out

4286
04:44:48.720 --> 04:44:50.880
here in these woods running for my life like. This

4287
04:44:51.680 --> 04:44:55.759
you will, Stop. Amos veronica's voice sounds like a real

4288
04:44:55.840 --> 04:45:00.479
high pitched. Shriek now you will not escape. Me and, then,

4289
04:45:01.520 --> 04:45:04.479
okay you can call me, crazy you can even call

4290
04:45:04.520 --> 04:45:07.520
me a. SISSY i quickly pick up some snow in my.

4291
04:45:07.639 --> 04:45:10.560
HANDS i make a snowball AND i heave it right At.

4292
04:45:10.639 --> 04:45:15.119
Veronica the snowball crashes right into her chest and makes her.

4293
04:45:15.159 --> 04:45:18.919
STAGGER i make another snowball and heave it to hit

4294
04:45:18.959 --> 04:45:20.919
her smack in the face and knock her on her,

4295
04:45:20.959 --> 04:45:25.439
ASS i turn and start running. AGAIN i manage to

4296
04:45:25.479 --> 04:45:31.599
lose her and hide behind a big. Tree amous.

4297
04:45:32.040 --> 04:45:32.319
Ah.

4298
04:45:32.360 --> 04:45:36.000
Man i've Heard veronica howl with rage before when she

4299
04:45:36.080 --> 04:45:40.439
was really pissed, Off but now now that she's dead and,

4300
04:45:41.560 --> 04:45:46.880
walking hearing her talk like that just oh, MAN i

4301
04:45:47.000 --> 04:45:49.000
mutter WHEN i Feel i'm a little warmer in my.

4302
04:45:49.080 --> 04:45:53.240
Jeans veronica really did make me lose control of my.

4303
04:45:53.400 --> 04:45:57.560
Waterworks can't worry about that. NOW i gotta get the

4304
04:45:57.639 --> 04:46:00.560
fuck away from here and go Find morgan And, abella

4305
04:46:01.040 --> 04:46:05.840
Assuming veronica didn't already find them first before Finding tristan

4306
04:46:06.599 --> 04:46:19.240
and me Perspective. Morgan after having no luck Finding, Veronica

4307
04:46:19.319 --> 04:46:21.520
abella AND i double back to see if we could

4308
04:46:21.520 --> 04:46:25.360
Find amos And. Tristan abella doesn't say much of, anything

4309
04:46:25.400 --> 04:46:28.959
BUT i understand what she's. Feeling she just wants to

4310
04:46:29.000 --> 04:46:31.400
find her daughter and make things good for everybody.

4311
04:46:31.439 --> 04:46:31.680
Here.

4312
04:46:32.319 --> 04:46:39.479
Veronica abella calls out, again where are You? VERONICA i

4313
04:46:39.599 --> 04:46:46.040
call out louder Than, Abella, Amos, Tristan. Trina when we

4314
04:46:46.080 --> 04:46:49.200
don't hear, Anything abella reaches over and takes my. Wrist

4315
04:46:49.959 --> 04:46:52.319
are you sure it was a good idea to Bring amos?

4316
04:46:52.319 --> 04:46:56.799
Along amos is a good hunter and, TRACKER i remind.

4317
04:46:56.799 --> 04:47:00.959
Her abella just looks at me with. Doubt i'm telling, You,

4318
04:47:01.000 --> 04:47:04.560
abella he should be able to find, HER i, say

4319
04:47:04.799 --> 04:47:08.080
and pull my wrist. Away, eventually we come up to

4320
04:47:08.119 --> 04:47:11.119
some tracks that are almost covered by the blowing. Snow

4321
04:47:12.400 --> 04:47:14.799
if we follow, these we should catch up With tristan And.

4322
04:47:14.840 --> 04:47:18.680
Amos the two of us use our flashlights to follow the.

4323
04:47:18.759 --> 04:47:23.200
Tracks when they split, Up abella goes across the small

4324
04:47:23.279 --> 04:47:26.400
river to follow that. SET i stick with my set

4325
04:47:26.439 --> 04:47:30.000
UNTIL i see it also eventually crosses the. WATER i

4326
04:47:30.080 --> 04:47:32.919
meet back up With abella for us to follow their.

4327
04:47:32.959 --> 04:47:37.840
Tracks after some, minutes we come up to another. HOUSE

4328
04:47:39.319 --> 04:47:42.720
i don't know About, abella but something about that place

4329
04:47:43.200 --> 04:47:54.200
sure scares me just looking at. It, suddenly a huge

4330
04:47:54.279 --> 04:47:57.040
gust of wind blows and knocks me on my. Ass

4331
04:47:57.439 --> 04:48:01.400
abella comes to me and helps me. Up, okay she, Asks,

4332
04:48:02.040 --> 04:48:06.880
YEAH i, REPLY i just wasn't expecting that this blizzard's

4333
04:48:06.880 --> 04:48:10.000
getting worse and. Worse we might have to take. SHELTER

4334
04:48:10.840 --> 04:48:14.680
i am not stopping UNTIL i Find. Veronica abella, yells

4335
04:48:14.959 --> 04:48:17.639
she's my. Daughter i'm not stopping UNTIL i know for

4336
04:48:17.720 --> 04:48:21.200
a fact that she's. Dead you really don't understand how

4337
04:48:21.200 --> 04:48:24.720
important this. Is do. You i've been looking far too

4338
04:48:24.759 --> 04:48:27.880
long for her to just give. Up you, know damn,

4339
04:48:27.880 --> 04:48:30.919
WELL i can't afford to give this. Up, now you know.

4340
04:48:31.040 --> 04:48:34.200
That abella AND i just look at each other for

4341
04:48:34.240 --> 04:48:38.279
a long. Moment THEN i. Nod believe. ME i do.

4342
04:48:38.439 --> 04:48:42.319
Know we should at least check the, house, though and

4343
04:48:42.360 --> 04:48:45.880
we're going, to she assures. Me the two of us

4344
04:48:45.959 --> 04:48:49.119
walk to the house and can easily go. Inside in,

4345
04:48:49.200 --> 04:48:52.599
fact the front door is wide. OPEN i point down

4346
04:48:52.639 --> 04:48:56.959
to the porch. Boards, abella it looks like people were here.

4347
04:48:57.000 --> 04:49:02.080
Already then we're going the same, way she. Replies NOW

4348
04:49:02.119 --> 04:49:04.439
i see this weird look on her face before she

4349
04:49:04.520 --> 04:49:07.639
quickly grabs my arm and pulls me to. Her she

4350
04:49:07.759 --> 04:49:12.720
turns me around SO i Can, TRINA i choke. Out.

4351
04:49:13.599 --> 04:49:16.439
Yeah this thing that's standing in front of the doorway

4352
04:49:16.520 --> 04:49:19.840
looks Like trina and is wearing her. Clothes but it's

4353
04:49:19.880 --> 04:49:23.080
got these weird colored, eyes and its skin and hair

4354
04:49:23.159 --> 04:49:27.240
or chalk, white and it has black. Fingernails i'm ready

4355
04:49:27.279 --> 04:49:29.200
to throw up WHEN i see the bone that's sticking

4356
04:49:29.240 --> 04:49:31.720
out of its. Neck it has blood all over the

4357
04:49:31.720 --> 04:49:37.639
front of its. Jacket i'm so, Hungry trina says in

4358
04:49:37.680 --> 04:49:42.319
this choked. Whisper, Suddenly trina reaches out and grabs my.

4359
04:49:42.400 --> 04:49:44.840
HAND i cry out as she pulls me right to

4360
04:49:44.880 --> 04:49:47.560
her with a STRENGTH i never even knew she, had

4361
04:49:47.919 --> 04:49:51.200
making me drop my. FLASHLIGHT i Knew trina was a

4362
04:49:51.240 --> 04:49:54.439
top athlete at our high. School she goes out running

4363
04:49:54.479 --> 04:49:57.479
most every. Day she applies herself in the weight. Room

4364
04:49:57.759 --> 04:49:59.880
she even watches her. Diet but there's no way in

4365
04:50:00.119 --> 04:50:04.119
hell that she can be this goddamn. Strong THEN i

4366
04:50:04.319 --> 04:50:07.520
really start screaming WHEN i feel how incredibly cold her

4367
04:50:07.520 --> 04:50:11.799
hand is on. Mine it. Burns abella is trying to

4368
04:50:11.840 --> 04:50:14.479
help pull me away From, trina but this fucking thing

4369
04:50:14.560 --> 04:50:20.400
is just so incredibly strong and incredibly. Cold abella finally

4370
04:50:20.439 --> 04:50:22.919
manages to get me. FREE i cry out WHEN i

4371
04:50:22.959 --> 04:50:27.000
see my hand looks black and feels. Numb it's completely.

4372
04:50:27.040 --> 04:50:32.560
Frostbitten come, On, Morgan abella, yells. RUN i turn and

4373
04:50:32.639 --> 04:50:35.599
start running with. Her you don't get far Before i'm

4374
04:50:35.639 --> 04:50:39.200
tackled from. Behind Now trina's right on top of. Me

4375
04:50:40.040 --> 04:50:45.520
i'm so, Hungry, Morgan trina. Utters abella tries reaching out

4376
04:50:45.599 --> 04:50:48.759
to Push trina off. Me when she Sees trina's bare,

4377
04:50:48.840 --> 04:50:52.319
hands she quickly remembers how my hand got frostbitten just

4378
04:50:52.360 --> 04:50:56.040
by her touching bare skin to. Mine trina hisses At

4379
04:50:56.040 --> 04:50:59.720
abella and makes her back. Off you damned all of,

4380
04:50:59.799 --> 04:51:03.880
us you. Bitch trina returns her attention to me and

4381
04:51:03.959 --> 04:51:06.520
gives me that demented look of hunger that only a

4382
04:51:06.599 --> 04:51:13.279
thing like her can. Show, Hungry trina rasps. AGAIN i

4383
04:51:13.360 --> 04:51:16.200
try fighting her, off but Now i'm the one who

4384
04:51:16.279 --> 04:51:19.919
forgot About trina's exposed. Skin she takes hold of my

4385
04:51:20.000 --> 04:51:22.759
wrists and makes me close my eyes and scream at

4386
04:51:22.759 --> 04:51:27.200
the top of my. Lungs trina's cold skin is so, Painful,

4387
04:51:28.159 --> 04:51:32.040
god it. Burns WHEN i open my, EYES i can

4388
04:51:32.040 --> 04:51:37.680
see a bellow left me here to. DIE i am

4389
04:51:37.799 --> 04:51:43.000
so totally. Fucked trina easily slams my arm to the snowy.

4390
04:51:43.080 --> 04:51:48.880
Ground THEN i manage out one, loud, long last. Scream

4391
04:51:49.599 --> 04:51:53.840
When trina lowers her face and sinks her teeth right

4392
04:51:53.880 --> 04:51:57.639
into my, neck my scream is louder WHEN i feel

4393
04:51:57.639 --> 04:52:00.479
the skin at my neck being torn away the rest

4394
04:52:00.479 --> 04:52:03.799
of my. BODY i can see my blood squirting. UPWARD

4395
04:52:04.400 --> 04:52:07.279
i can also see my torn flesh In trina's. Mouth

4396
04:52:08.279 --> 04:52:11.840
WHEN i can't scream, Anymore i'm actually a bit surprised

4397
04:52:11.880 --> 04:52:14.240
That i'm not dead. YET i can feel the life

4398
04:52:14.360 --> 04:52:17.560
leaving my body As trina munches on the flesh she's

4399
04:52:17.599 --> 04:52:23.080
taken from. Me as my eyes start shaking, CLOSED i

4400
04:52:23.200 --> 04:52:34.680
have this this FEELING i just, know just just, know

4401
04:52:34.680 --> 04:52:46.040
know that THAT i feel myself. TWITCHING i slowly open my.

4402
04:52:46.119 --> 04:52:50.840
Eyes it's still snowing. HARD i twitch some more and

4403
04:52:50.959 --> 04:52:54.720
feel really wet on my upper. BODY i sit up

4404
04:52:54.759 --> 04:52:58.840
slowly and see my jacket is, gone my shirt and

4405
04:52:58.919 --> 04:53:03.439
braw were torn. Open my chest is fully, exposed AND

4406
04:53:03.520 --> 04:53:07.479
i mean it's fully, exposed as IN i have no skin.

4407
04:53:07.599 --> 04:53:11.400
Whatsoever trina is right there looking at me and eating

4408
04:53:11.439 --> 04:53:14.599
more flesh she took off of my. Body by all,

4409
04:53:14.720 --> 04:53:17.240
RIGHTS i should be royally pissed off at her doing

4410
04:53:17.279 --> 04:53:21.319
this horrible thing to. ME i Know i'm exactly like her.

4411
04:53:21.439 --> 04:53:26.439
NOW i also know That i'm getting fairy hungry and

4412
04:53:26.560 --> 04:53:29.639
need to do to somebody What trina was doing to.

4413
04:53:29.720 --> 04:53:34.599
Me but that's just, it isn't. IT i can't attack

4414
04:53:34.680 --> 04:53:38.400
and feed On, trina CAN? I? SOMEHOW i know deep

4415
04:53:38.439 --> 04:53:42.000
down that it just doesn't work like. That we can't

4416
04:53:42.400 --> 04:53:46.840
and don't eat each. OTHER i slowly move and stand

4417
04:53:46.880 --> 04:53:49.799
on my own. FEET i can see my hands are

4418
04:53:49.840 --> 04:53:54.360
white with black. NAILS i feel so comfortably cold deep,

4419
04:53:54.400 --> 04:53:57.400
inside and the frigid winds aren't bothering me at. All

4420
04:53:58.360 --> 04:54:04.599
also feel so incredibly. Strong trina finishes eating and points

4421
04:54:04.599 --> 04:54:08.599
in the direction we need to. Go we Get abella.

4422
04:54:08.799 --> 04:54:11.200
NOW i nod once.

4423
04:54:12.560 --> 04:54:12.599
A.

4424
04:54:12.720 --> 04:54:16.880
Bella the voice comes out in the same, cold dead

4425
04:54:17.000 --> 04:54:21.639
tone As, trina's almost like a choked. Whisper trina AND

4426
04:54:21.680 --> 04:54:24.479
i only have to follow the footprints That abella's. Left

4427
04:54:24.959 --> 04:54:27.319
we can see in the dark clearly now and don't need.

4428
04:54:27.360 --> 04:54:31.360
Flashlights what's bad For abella is that we can still

4429
04:54:31.439 --> 04:54:36.240
walk and run as normal living people. Can trina AND

4430
04:54:36.279 --> 04:54:41.240
i only want A bella. Now one way or, another

4431
04:54:42.200 --> 04:54:51.919
we are going to kill. Her ass perspective amus. CULP

4432
04:54:52.799 --> 04:54:55.720
i keep moving through the. WOODS i swear this blizzard

4433
04:54:55.840 --> 04:54:59.000
just keeps getting. Worse you'd think them damn clouds decided

4434
04:54:59.040 --> 04:55:01.680
to stop right where they they. ARE i can stay

4435
04:55:01.720 --> 04:55:04.439
warm in my winter. Clothes BUT i lost my backpack

4436
04:55:04.479 --> 04:55:07.639
back at the house Where veronica And trina. Were it

4437
04:55:07.720 --> 04:55:11.639
had my food in. It assuming it really Was veronica And,

4438
04:55:11.680 --> 04:55:20.840
trina amu oh, Man veronica's getting closer. Now she probably

4439
04:55:20.840 --> 04:55:23.720
found my trail and is hot after. Me you, know

4440
04:55:24.639 --> 04:55:27.240
there was a time WHEN i was Glad Veronica grande

4441
04:55:27.360 --> 04:55:29.439
was the kind of person who liked coming after. Me

4442
04:55:30.319 --> 04:55:33.880
that girl. Was she was really sweet on. ME i

4443
04:55:33.919 --> 04:55:37.080
KNOW i was sweet on her right, back maybe even

4444
04:55:37.119 --> 04:55:40.959
a little too. Much in, fact that's where all this

4445
04:55:41.080 --> 04:55:45.639
goddamn trouble started that. Night SUDDENLY i see something just

4446
04:55:45.720 --> 04:55:51.119
ahead past some. Trees, yes there's a cabin just, ahead

4447
04:55:51.720 --> 04:55:56.479
lights on. Inside that means somebody's. HOME i quickly haul.

4448
04:55:56.560 --> 04:55:58.959
ASS i Know i'm supposed to be a, man but

4449
04:55:59.000 --> 04:56:01.159
trust me WHEN i say say, that all that shit

4450
04:56:01.400 --> 04:56:03.479
goes right out the window when you deal with What

4451
04:56:03.560 --> 04:56:06.360
i'm dealing. With tell me what a real man you

4452
04:56:06.439 --> 04:56:10.360
are when those things are eating you. ALIVE i finally

4453
04:56:10.400 --> 04:56:13.240
make it to the door and pound on. It help,

4454
04:56:13.319 --> 04:56:16.080
me let me, In please open. Up those things are

4455
04:56:16.159 --> 04:56:16.680
right behind.

4456
04:56:16.720 --> 04:56:17.200
Me oh.

4457
04:56:17.400 --> 04:56:21.479
Man after a little more, pounding the door finally. Opens

4458
04:56:22.159 --> 04:56:24.880
there's this man looking to be in his sixties standing.

4459
04:56:24.919 --> 04:56:27.959
There he's got gray hair and a, beard and is

4460
04:56:28.000 --> 04:56:31.639
wearing a dark blue shirt and bib. OVERALLS i quickly

4461
04:56:31.680 --> 04:56:34.319
brush right past him and into the. HOUSE i slam

4462
04:56:34.400 --> 04:56:37.720
the door shut and lock. It you mind telling me

4463
04:56:37.799 --> 04:56:42.040
what intarnation is going on? Here the man, asks there's

4464
04:56:42.080 --> 04:56:45.720
these things? OUTSIDE i quickly tell. Him THEN i explain

4465
04:56:45.799 --> 04:56:49.159
to the old man what those things. Are the old

4466
04:56:49.200 --> 04:56:52.599
man just looks at. Me didn't think them dead folks

4467
04:56:52.639 --> 04:56:55.400
would be out here in the middle of. WINTER i

4468
04:56:55.560 --> 04:56:59.360
just look right at. Him you know about them, things

4469
04:57:00.119 --> 04:57:03.880
he nods. ONCE i sure, do, son all kinds of

4470
04:57:03.919 --> 04:57:07.240
bad things in these here. Woods these. Days never used

4471
04:57:07.240 --> 04:57:09.200
to be like, that at least not WHEN i was

4472
04:57:09.240 --> 04:57:12.279
a young boy like. Yourself now we got all kinds

4473
04:57:12.319 --> 04:57:16.439
of things walking, around and hear things like, ghouls, cannibals,

4474
04:57:16.479 --> 04:57:20.479
monsters and even dead. Folks usually dead folks are down

4475
04:57:20.560 --> 04:57:23.360
during the frigid winters we get round these. Parts he

4476
04:57:23.479 --> 04:57:27.360
raises an. Eyelid you, done sure you saw dead folks

4477
04:57:27.400 --> 04:57:32.240
walking around out. THERE i don't know what them fucking things.

4478
04:57:32.319 --> 04:57:35.959
ARE i snap white, skin white, hair black, nails and

4479
04:57:36.000 --> 04:57:39.279
they eat. PEOPLE i seen them things for. MYSELF i

4480
04:57:39.319 --> 04:57:41.799
saw one who was my girlfriend kill and eat a

4481
04:57:41.840 --> 04:57:45.000
man right in front of. Me she's gonna probably find

4482
04:57:45.040 --> 04:57:48.200
me and kill my ass. Too the old man just

4483
04:57:48.240 --> 04:57:50.959
looks at me for a, second then he moves to

4484
04:57:51.040 --> 04:57:54.159
his fireplace and takes his shotgun down off from above.

4485
04:57:54.159 --> 04:57:58.080
It you better help me secure this, place. Son turns

4486
04:57:58.080 --> 04:57:59.880
out he's one of those people who keeps his house

4487
04:58:00.040 --> 04:58:04.279
prepared against those things that walk around out. Here he

4488
04:58:04.360 --> 04:58:06.959
shows me how to secure the windows with. Contraptions he

4489
04:58:06.959 --> 04:58:11.279
can just slide across the windows and. Lock. MAN i

4490
04:58:11.319 --> 04:58:13.680
still Think i'm in some kind of goddamn nightmare and

4491
04:58:13.720 --> 04:58:17.520
waiting to wake. Up but, NO i Know i'm feeling

4492
04:58:17.560 --> 04:58:20.159
pretty hurt deep down at seeing My veronica like. That

4493
04:58:21.119 --> 04:58:24.680
THEN i Hear veronica is howling shrieking voice off in the.

4494
04:58:24.720 --> 04:58:30.919
DISTANCE a. Must both the old man and me look

4495
04:58:30.959 --> 04:58:33.599
at each. Other then he points to the front. Door

4496
04:58:34.240 --> 04:58:36.840
we just have to fortify that. Door now help. Me

4497
04:58:37.799 --> 04:58:40.720
we already secured the back. Door now we move to

4498
04:58:40.759 --> 04:58:43.279
the front one and start to apply another contraption to

4499
04:58:43.360 --> 04:58:46.639
keep the door. Solid that's when we hear someone knocking

4500
04:58:46.799 --> 04:58:51.479
hard and, screaming help let me, in help me. Please

4501
04:58:52.200 --> 04:58:54.560
the old man quickly opens the door and Lets abella.

4502
04:58:54.639 --> 04:58:57.240
In she turns her flashlight off and looks at. US

4503
04:58:57.880 --> 04:59:00.959
A bella's damn sure surprised to see me. Here she

4504
04:59:01.080 --> 04:59:03.439
tries to come hug, me BUT i point right at

4505
04:59:03.439 --> 04:59:06.119
her and shake my. Head come, on, son help me

4506
04:59:06.159 --> 04:59:09.040
finish with this. Door the old man quickly tells me.

4507
04:59:09.639 --> 04:59:12.759
YEAH i respond and help him with getting that contraption

4508
04:59:12.880 --> 04:59:15.840
across the. Door as soon as the house is finished being,

4509
04:59:15.880 --> 04:59:19.599
FORTIFIED i turn to the old. Man you sure know

4510
04:59:19.680 --> 04:59:22.439
what you're doing out? Here you sure all this is

4511
04:59:22.479 --> 04:59:26.560
gonna keep them things. Out the old man tightens his

4512
04:59:26.639 --> 04:59:29.479
jaw a. Little you said them dead folks outside are,

4513
04:59:29.479 --> 04:59:32.200
strong didn't? You how strong we talking?

4514
04:59:32.279 --> 04:59:32.439
Here?

4515
04:59:32.479 --> 04:59:36.639
Son? STRONG i, imply with a little more force in my.

4516
04:59:36.759 --> 04:59:41.000
Voice THEN i, SIGH i honestly don't think these contraptions

4517
04:59:41.040 --> 04:59:44.119
will keep him out for. Long THEN i Notice abella's

4518
04:59:44.159 --> 04:59:48.479
scared as, hell just the. Same she's looking. Around then

4519
04:59:48.520 --> 04:59:52.680
she points to the old, Man Jethrow. Carnes you're the

4520
04:59:52.720 --> 04:59:56.000
MAN i talked to on the. Phone this is twenty

4521
04:59:56.040 --> 04:59:59.080
One Old Dutch. Road she raises a letter envelope that

4522
04:59:59.119 --> 05:00:04.400
has the address On Jethrow carnes nods, once, yes, ma'am

4523
05:00:05.000 --> 05:00:07.319
you must be that WOMAN i called regarding her little

4524
05:00:07.360 --> 05:00:10.639
girl saw the missing poster on a. Pole didn't think

4525
05:00:10.720 --> 05:00:13.639
much of. IT i just know it was mighty cold.

4526
05:00:13.680 --> 05:00:17.080
Outside he moves to the fireplace and throws a log

4527
05:00:17.159 --> 05:00:21.240
onto the. Fire then he faces us. AGAIN i saw

4528
05:00:21.319 --> 05:00:23.799
someone walking around out there WHEN i went out to

4529
05:00:23.880 --> 05:00:27.360
bring in some more. FIREWOOD i SWEAR i saw her

4530
05:00:27.400 --> 05:00:29.959
as plain as the nose on my, face except she

4531
05:00:30.119 --> 05:00:33.520
looked like what you just told. Me. Son never saw

4532
05:00:33.680 --> 05:00:37.000
snow white dead folks walking around in these woods till that.

4533
05:00:37.200 --> 05:00:41.279
Day so what? HAPPENED a belly. YELLS i grabbed my

4534
05:00:41.360 --> 05:00:45.639
firewood and got back in. Here jethro tells her already

4535
05:00:45.639 --> 05:00:48.279
had the windows and doors taken care, of just had

4536
05:00:48.279 --> 05:00:50.919
to secure the front, door had my, gun but she

4537
05:00:51.040 --> 05:00:53.840
never tried coming in. Here he points in a. DIRECTION

4538
05:00:54.639 --> 05:00:57.360
i remembered that missing poster and gave you a. Call

4539
05:00:57.919 --> 05:01:00.599
figured it was the right thing to. Do he looks.

4540
05:01:00.599 --> 05:01:07.119
Sad now had two kids, myself now they're. Gone one's

4541
05:01:07.159 --> 05:01:10.680
a ghoul and the other ones one of them dead

4542
05:01:10.680 --> 05:01:14.319
folks that walk around during the warmer. Weather he sighs,

4543
05:01:15.599 --> 05:01:17.599
now we got to deal with dead folks walking in

4544
05:01:17.639 --> 05:01:21.639
the winter. Too LIKE i, said things didn't used to

4545
05:01:21.680 --> 05:01:23.720
be this way out here WHEN i was a. Boy

4546
05:01:25.040 --> 05:01:29.799
Now jethrow points in another. DIRECTION i think it's all

4547
05:01:29.880 --> 05:01:32.119
because of that. River just a few miles from. Here

4548
05:01:32.599 --> 05:01:35.360
used to make for damn good. Fishing then some foul

4549
05:01:35.400 --> 05:01:38.240
stuff got in that river and changed, it killed all

4550
05:01:38.279 --> 05:01:41.080
the fish in the. Water hell wasn't too long. AGO

4551
05:01:41.240 --> 05:01:44.479
i saw that looney silas blanket ship went back in

4552
05:01:44.599 --> 05:01:47.799
there and dropped some dead kid in that. River saw

4553
05:01:47.840 --> 05:01:50.799
it was Little billy. McCracken had to come back here

4554
05:01:50.840 --> 05:01:52.799
and try and get some stuff to get him. Out

4555
05:01:53.639 --> 05:01:56.919
problem there. Was he was gone WHEN i got. BACK

4556
05:01:58.040 --> 05:02:00.319
i should, know BECAUSE i was a part of the

4557
05:02:00.319 --> 05:02:02.919
posse that done killed all them dead, kids Little billy.

4558
05:02:03.000 --> 05:02:09.439
McCracken mate never found little McCracken, himself Though jethro looked sad, again,

4559
05:02:10.520 --> 05:02:13.959
Ma'am i'm thinking your baby girl ended up in that

4560
05:02:14.040 --> 05:02:17.959
foul river somehow changed her into a different kind of dead,

4561
05:02:18.000 --> 05:02:21.159
folk one that walks around in the middle of. Winter

4562
05:02:22.799 --> 05:02:25.200
it was quiet again for a little. Bit you could

4563
05:02:25.200 --> 05:02:28.000
hear the snow hitting the cabin and the windows. Howling

4564
05:02:28.560 --> 05:02:36.000
and then, amos oh, MAN i, Groan veronica's almost. Here

4565
05:02:37.000 --> 05:02:43.319
what the hell happened To? VERONICA a bella, shrieks, slam, bang, thud, crash,

4566
05:02:43.400 --> 05:02:48.439
boom oh MAN i, Groan veronica is, here for, Sure

4567
05:02:48.639 --> 05:02:58.840
she's right at the front. Door, AMOS i hear you in.

4568
05:02:58.919 --> 05:03:04.680
THERE i Hear veronica rasp come. Out veronica is still

4569
05:03:04.720 --> 05:03:07.720
pounding at the front. Door then we hear something else

4570
05:03:07.759 --> 05:03:11.159
pounding at one of the. Windows are you in, There,

4571
05:03:11.240 --> 05:03:16.040
abella you? Bitch ah? MAN i point in that. Direction

4572
05:03:16.680 --> 05:03:19.680
there's another one of those things. There sounds Like. TRINA

4573
05:03:20.319 --> 05:03:23.240
i look At. JETHRO i saw What veronica did To.

4574
05:03:23.319 --> 05:03:26.759
Trina she can turn people into those things like. Her

4575
05:03:27.479 --> 05:03:32.360
and then another one pounds at the other, door hungry,

4576
05:03:32.560 --> 05:03:36.759
shit That's. Tristan one more of them starts pounding on another.

4577
05:03:36.799 --> 05:03:42.080
Window let us, In. Amos, Oh Lord Jesus, christ Not morgan.

4578
05:03:42.119 --> 05:03:46.639
TOO i look At abella And. Jethro looks Like veronica's

4579
05:03:46.639 --> 05:03:52.520
made herself an. Army abella, groans my, god what happened To?

4580
05:03:52.599 --> 05:03:56.240
VERONICA i point right at. Her why don't you tell

4581
05:03:56.279 --> 05:03:59.799
us what happened To? Veronica abella looks at, me all pissed.

4582
05:03:59.840 --> 05:04:03.680
Off what the hell does that? MEAN i tighten my.

4583
05:04:03.759 --> 05:04:08.680
FISTS i was there At Grande estate that, night In veronica's.

4584
05:04:08.720 --> 05:04:13.400
BEDROOM i know what you did a year. AGO i

4585
05:04:13.479 --> 05:04:16.880
know it was you who came to Kill veronica that.

4586
05:04:17.040 --> 05:04:21.720
NIGHT A bella's really pissed at. Me now you've got some,

4587
05:04:21.919 --> 05:04:25.400
nerve amos culp, you son of a. BITCH i grin At,

4588
05:04:25.439 --> 05:04:30.119
Abella now, YEAH i, do. DON'T i problem here is

4589
05:04:30.200 --> 05:04:33.560
my nerve and yours are two completely different, things you.

4590
05:04:33.639 --> 05:04:38.200
See jethro looks worried the way them dead folks are.

4591
05:04:38.200 --> 05:04:42.520
Pounded you might be right about my, fortification. SON i,

4592
05:04:42.599 --> 05:04:45.599
reckon they'll be in here before too. Long he nods

4593
05:04:45.639 --> 05:04:48.720
to a closet. Door there's another gun and shells in.

4594
05:04:48.759 --> 05:04:51.919
There better move. IT i quickly get to the closet

4595
05:04:51.959 --> 05:04:54.200
and open the. DOOR i find the shotgun in, there

4596
05:04:54.200 --> 05:04:56.639
in a box of ammo beside. IT i load the

4597
05:04:56.680 --> 05:05:00.279
gun and come to stand With. Jethro jethro looks at A, Bella,

4598
05:05:01.360 --> 05:05:03.639
SORRY i ain't got no gun for, you young. Lady

4599
05:05:04.520 --> 05:05:08.319
Then abella shows she's full of. Surprises she unzips her

4600
05:05:08.400 --> 05:05:12.319
jacket and pulls a handgun. Out before Either jethro or

4601
05:05:12.479 --> 05:05:15.400
me knows what to do, Next abella shoots the old

4602
05:05:15.400 --> 05:05:18.279
man right in the head and blows his brains. Everywhere

4603
05:05:18.799 --> 05:05:22.080
his body falls to the floor. Fast then she quickly

4604
05:05:22.080 --> 05:05:25.560
turns her gun on me and shoots me. TOO i

4605
05:05:25.680 --> 05:05:29.560
spin fast and fall, over losing my. SHOTGUN i ain't dead.

4606
05:05:29.639 --> 05:05:33.000
Yet she just got me in the. Shoulder then she

4607
05:05:33.080 --> 05:05:35.840
comes and presses her knee right on me and points

4608
05:05:35.840 --> 05:05:39.200
her gun in my. FACE i don't know how you found, Out.

4609
05:05:39.200 --> 05:05:44.040
Amos abella, says you're. RIGHT i wanted my daughter killed

4610
05:05:44.080 --> 05:05:47.400
that night a year. Ago Oliver grande's money was. Mine

4611
05:05:48.040 --> 05:05:51.720
veronica had no right to it. Whatsoever too, bad you're

4612
05:05:51.759 --> 05:05:55.279
not going to live long enough to tell anyone the whole. Truth.

4613
05:06:00.880 --> 05:06:05.680
Perspective A bella. SABLESON i put my handgun In amos's.

4614
05:06:05.680 --> 05:06:10.200
Face you say you KNOW i Killed. VERONICA i know

4615
05:06:10.360 --> 05:06:14.080
it was, you you fucking. Bitch amos, SHOUTS i was

4616
05:06:14.200 --> 05:06:16.639
under her bed that. Night you didn't know, it But

4617
05:06:17.479 --> 05:06:21.159
veronica AND i were in. Love we'd just finished being

4618
05:06:21.200 --> 05:06:23.759
real sweet on each. Other When veronica saw some people

4619
05:06:23.759 --> 05:06:27.680
out in the yard all wearing. Black she knew those

4620
05:06:27.680 --> 05:06:29.560
people were coming to kill her and told me to

4621
05:06:29.560 --> 05:06:33.040
get under the. Bed wasn't long before you showed. Up

4622
05:06:34.159 --> 05:06:36.520
Maybe veronica didn't catch, it BUT i knew it was

4623
05:06:36.599 --> 05:06:40.040
you SINCE i could smell that same cheap perfume you're wearing.

4624
05:06:40.119 --> 05:06:44.479
Now he shakes his head. SLOWLY i can't believe what

4625
05:06:44.560 --> 05:06:49.360
a cold heartless. Bitch you really are a bella. Surprise

4626
05:06:50.279 --> 05:06:53.000
what did you really? THINK i came all the way

4627
05:06:53.000 --> 05:06:56.240
out here in this shit storm to Find veronica to

4628
05:06:56.279 --> 05:07:00.000
bring her back home. Safely veronica had no right to olive.

4629
05:07:00.279 --> 05:07:04.639
Fortune that fortune was mine and mine. Alone oliver promised me, that,

4630
05:07:05.959 --> 05:07:08.080
yes you know That oliver had an affair with. Me

4631
05:07:08.520 --> 05:07:11.000
you KNOW i was just a maid That oliver really

4632
05:07:11.040 --> 05:07:14.240
took a liking. To Knowing oliver wanted to be with,

4633
05:07:14.279 --> 05:07:18.119
ME i simply played his heart. Strings what was my? Motive?

4634
05:07:19.360 --> 05:07:23.560
Money of, Course oliver had billions upon billions of. DOLLARS

4635
05:07:24.279 --> 05:07:26.159
i was just a maid who had to work just

4636
05:07:26.200 --> 05:07:29.759
to get thrown a few scraps to. SURVIVE i knew

4637
05:07:29.759 --> 05:07:32.560
IF i played my cards, RIGHT i could Become oliver's

4638
05:07:32.599 --> 05:07:36.159
new wife and have access to all that. Money of,

4639
05:07:36.240 --> 05:07:38.799
course you already knew there was a bit of a

4640
05:07:38.959 --> 05:07:42.720
problem with my. Plan my birth control didn't work when

4641
05:07:42.720 --> 05:07:46.439
it needed, to which resulted in my getting. Pregnant just the,

4642
05:07:46.479 --> 05:07:49.360
SAME i FIGURED i could use my pregnancy to my.

4643
05:07:49.439 --> 05:07:53.560
Advantage the, problem, however was That Oliver grande came from

4644
05:07:53.599 --> 05:07:56.479
a proper bloodline to where he would mingle with women

4645
05:07:56.520 --> 05:07:59.840
from other proper bloodlines for the purposes of having children

4646
05:08:00.119 --> 05:08:04.240
to carry on those proper. Bloodlines ONCE i revealed my

4647
05:08:04.319 --> 05:08:07.799
pregnancy To, oliver showing him the hospital results and telling

4648
05:08:07.840 --> 05:08:09.880
him that he was the only MAN i had slept,

4649
05:08:09.880 --> 05:08:14.560
with he told me he couldn't marry. Me oliver AND

4650
05:08:14.599 --> 05:08:17.599
i had a very heated argument about. It then he

4651
05:08:17.680 --> 05:08:19.599
calls me, out SAYING i only wanted to be with

4652
05:08:19.680 --> 05:08:22.919
him for his. Money, however he wasn't going to just

4653
05:08:23.040 --> 05:08:25.400
cast me. Off he told me THAT i would have

4654
05:08:25.439 --> 05:08:27.680
to raise our daughter and that he would provide for

4655
05:08:27.759 --> 05:08:31.000
both of. Us, HOWEVER i could never come back To

4656
05:08:31.080 --> 05:08:35.479
Grande estate. Again oliver's offer was. This he told me

4657
05:08:35.520 --> 05:08:37.599
that IF i SHOWED i could love and support our,

4658
05:08:37.720 --> 05:08:40.159
child if he saw THAT i was the best mother

4659
05:08:40.200 --> 05:08:42.720
to our CHILD i could, be then he would leave

4660
05:08:42.759 --> 05:08:47.759
both our child and me his entire. Fortune SO i

4661
05:08:47.840 --> 05:08:51.599
Carried veronica to. TERM i even had to Give Veronica oliver's.

4662
05:08:51.680 --> 05:08:57.919
Name another. Condition she was Officially Veronica, grande Not Veronica.

4663
05:08:57.959 --> 05:09:01.479
Sableson oliver would send me money THAT i would use

4664
05:09:01.520 --> 05:09:04.759
to care For. VERONICA i did everything in my power

4665
05:09:04.759 --> 05:09:07.360
to make sure that little spawn from hell got everything

4666
05:09:07.439 --> 05:09:10.880
she needed or. WANTED i had Given veronica the best

4667
05:09:11.000 --> 05:09:14.080
years of my, life making her THINK i loved her so.

4668
05:09:14.319 --> 05:09:18.360
Much as For oliver, himself he stayed on at grande

4669
05:09:18.520 --> 05:09:21.840
estate with his proper wife and all his proper children

4670
05:09:22.000 --> 05:09:24.919
that he made with, her none of which he loved

4671
05:09:25.040 --> 05:09:28.520
in the Slightest fast forward to a little over a year,

4672
05:09:28.560 --> 05:09:32.400
Ago oliver had finally died of old, age exactly six

4673
05:09:32.439 --> 05:09:36.360
months after his proper wife. Died his will had already been.

4674
05:09:36.400 --> 05:09:39.680
Made you'd Think oliver would have kept his promise to

4675
05:09:39.720 --> 05:09:43.720
me and left his fortune all to me And. Veronica

4676
05:09:44.119 --> 05:09:49.319
he left his entire fortune To veronica. Alone not only

4677
05:09:49.439 --> 05:09:51.959
WAS i upset about, THIS i don't mind telling, You

4678
05:09:52.000 --> 05:09:55.520
oliver's children from his proper marriage also flew into a.

4679
05:09:55.639 --> 05:09:58.439
RAGE i was there at the reading of the will

4680
05:09:58.479 --> 05:10:01.479
and saw. Them they were none too thrilled at learning

4681
05:10:01.520 --> 05:10:04.880
That veronica was their half. Sibling as far as they were,

4682
05:10:04.919 --> 05:10:09.560
Concerned veronica was not a pure blooded proper grande and

4683
05:10:09.720 --> 05:10:14.479
wasn't entitled to any of their father's. Money, however there

4684
05:10:14.720 --> 05:10:18.319
was a stipulation in the will that, stated Upon veronica's,

4685
05:10:18.360 --> 05:10:23.880
death the entire fortune would become mine and mine. Alone at,

4686
05:10:23.919 --> 05:10:27.319
first the children from this pure blood marriage wanted to

4687
05:10:27.360 --> 05:10:31.400
turn on. Me, HOWEVER i made them an offer they couldn't.

4688
05:10:31.439 --> 05:10:34.840
REFUSE i would split the fortune with them equally if

4689
05:10:34.840 --> 05:10:39.639
they would just help me Kill. Veronica they all readily.

4690
05:10:39.680 --> 05:10:44.560
Agreed that's. Right everybody who was here with me in the. Backwoods,

4691
05:10:44.560 --> 05:10:49.720
now aside From, amos They're oliver's proper children from his proper.

4692
05:10:49.759 --> 05:10:53.119
Wife we dressed up in all black on the Night

4693
05:10:53.240 --> 05:10:56.599
veronica ran. Away oliver taught me how to hunt when

4694
05:10:56.599 --> 05:10:58.919
we were seeing each, other SO i knew how to

4695
05:10:58.959 --> 05:11:03.360
fire the. Rifle, Unfortunately veronica was wide awake and managed

4696
05:11:03.400 --> 05:11:06.599
to move BEFORE i could shoot. Her amos just told me.

4697
05:11:06.720 --> 05:11:11.000
Why thanks to that fucking, Idiot veronica ended up getting

4698
05:11:11.000 --> 05:11:14.040
away taking a sports. CAR i grabbed the hummer and

4699
05:11:14.080 --> 05:11:17.000
pursued my daughter to these woods outside Of. Strickfield you'd

4700
05:11:17.000 --> 05:11:19.520
Think veronica would have just fucking died AFTER i shot

4701
05:11:19.560 --> 05:11:24.759
her three. Times she, did, apparently but it seems she

4702
05:11:24.840 --> 05:11:28.200
didn't stay. DEAD i even shot her again and again

4703
05:11:28.279 --> 05:11:31.200
when she came for. ME i barely managed to get

4704
05:11:31.200 --> 05:11:34.319
away From. Veronica WHEN i ran out of, BULLETS i

4705
05:11:34.400 --> 05:11:37.279
KNEW i had to come back for her and finish

4706
05:11:37.319 --> 05:11:40.560
WHAT i. Started in order for me to claim all

4707
05:11:40.599 --> 05:11:43.680
Of oliver's, money it has to be known That veronica

4708
05:11:44.000 --> 05:11:48.560
is quite. Dead her being whatever spawn of hell she

4709
05:11:48.720 --> 05:11:51.919
is now won't cut. It that's WHY i Convinced oliver's

4710
05:11:51.919 --> 05:11:54.479
pure blooded kids to come back in these woods with.

4711
05:11:54.560 --> 05:12:00.000
Me we needed to Kill veronica to be sure she stayed.

4712
05:12:00.360 --> 05:12:05.680
Dead only then CAN i claim what's rightfully. Mine as For,

4713
05:12:05.759 --> 05:12:10.159
amos we needed a good. Tracker he was a handyman

4714
05:12:10.479 --> 05:12:14.040
and groundskeeper Around Grande estate who knew how to. Hunt

4715
05:12:14.799 --> 05:12:19.919
morgan suggested, him of, course and Now i'm going to kill, You.

4716
05:12:20.040 --> 05:12:24.240
AMOS i growl you Let veronica get away that, night

4717
05:12:24.919 --> 05:12:28.200
But amos roars and manages to grab my. Wrist he

4718
05:12:28.279 --> 05:12:30.840
brings me down to the. Floor even though he's bleeding,

4719
05:12:30.880 --> 05:12:34.159
out he's still fighting me for my. Gun let go of,

4720
05:12:34.240 --> 05:12:37.639
me goddamn, YOU i. Yell it's then when one of

4721
05:12:37.680 --> 05:12:42.200
the window fortifications gives. Way then the back door comes flying.

4722
05:12:42.240 --> 05:12:47.000
Open it's not long before those those things are all.

4723
05:12:47.040 --> 05:12:50.439
INSIDE i Punch amos in the face hard and maintain my.

4724
05:12:50.560 --> 05:12:55.319
HANDGUN i quickly get to my. Feet oh my Fucking,

4725
05:12:55.439 --> 05:13:00.560
christ there're so goddamn many of. Them, Veronica, Trina, Tristan.

4726
05:13:00.680 --> 05:13:06.439
Morgan they all look so. Disgusting aside From, veronica they've

4727
05:13:06.479 --> 05:13:10.439
all got parts of their body eaten. Off morgan really looks,

4728
05:13:10.520 --> 05:13:14.319
disgusting with her entire rib cage fully, exposed her internal

4729
05:13:14.439 --> 05:13:20.159
organs still. Inside veronica points right at. Me it really

4730
05:13:20.240 --> 05:13:24.439
hurts knowing you never cared about. Me then she, screams

4731
05:13:25.200 --> 05:13:29.560
you murdered. Me you've made me into. This veronica looks

4732
05:13:29.599 --> 05:13:33.200
down At, AMOS i can see this thing clearly still loves.

4733
05:13:33.240 --> 05:13:38.720
Him then she looks back at. Me, sorry, mom but

4734
05:13:38.840 --> 05:13:43.479
you still can't have my. MONEY i Hate veronica so

4735
05:13:43.680 --> 05:13:46.759
much THAT i raise the. Handgun i'll finish WHAT i

4736
05:13:46.840 --> 05:13:49.639
started with you a year ago in these. Woods THEN

4737
05:13:49.680 --> 05:13:53.720
i scream and Shoot veronica right between the eyes as

4738
05:13:53.759 --> 05:14:02.880
those other things come right at. Me epilogue one year,

4739
05:14:02.959 --> 05:14:09.200
later Perspective Amus. CULP i walked into this place Called Denoyer's.

4740
05:14:09.240 --> 05:14:13.159
GRILL i was surprised it was even open during that damn. Blizzard,

4741
05:14:13.759 --> 05:14:17.159
HELL i was SURPRISED i was still alive and smelling great.

4742
05:14:17.200 --> 05:14:20.080
FOOD i don't mind telling, YOU i was still hurting,

4743
05:14:20.119 --> 05:14:23.040
it having been shot by a bella like. THAT i

4744
05:14:23.080 --> 05:14:25.279
think it's safe to, SAY i was definitely the freak

4745
05:14:25.360 --> 05:14:28.200
in the. Room WHEN i walked into that, diner the

4746
05:14:28.279 --> 05:14:30.560
man standing behind the counter asked me IF i was.

4747
05:14:30.599 --> 05:14:33.840
OKAY i shook my head and told HIM i really

4748
05:14:34.000 --> 05:14:36.880
didn't know for. Sure WHEN i told the MAN i

4749
05:14:37.000 --> 05:14:39.799
just got out of those, backwoods him and many of

4750
05:14:39.799 --> 05:14:44.319
the other customers just looked right at. Me the, Man David,

4751
05:14:44.360 --> 05:14:47.400
denoyer the owner of the, place quickly got on the

4752
05:14:47.400 --> 05:14:50.400
phone and called for an ambulance for. Me then he

4753
05:14:50.439 --> 05:14:52.479
told me to sit down and gave me some hot.

4754
05:14:52.479 --> 05:14:56.680
Coffee denoyer didn't even try asking me what happened out

4755
05:14:56.680 --> 05:14:59.959
in them. Backwoods if you were out in those, backwoods

4756
05:15:00.639 --> 05:15:02.799
then ALL i gotta say is you're damn lucky to

4757
05:15:02.840 --> 05:15:07.639
be sitting here and. Alive denoyer tells. Me very few

4758
05:15:07.639 --> 05:15:10.000
people go into those woods and come back out with

4759
05:15:10.040 --> 05:15:12.840
a story to, tell unless you're a, mayor that. IS

4760
05:15:13.959 --> 05:15:17.439
i just kept shaking my head slowly remembering what happened

4761
05:15:17.439 --> 05:15:21.360
in those. WOODS i tried Telling denoyer and anyone else who'd.

4762
05:15:21.360 --> 05:15:24.680
LISTEN i told them everything that happened With Veronica, grande

4763
05:15:25.319 --> 05:15:27.599
all that happened a year. Ago As i'm telling you

4764
05:15:27.680 --> 05:15:32.119
this even, today it still, hurts Knowing i'll never see

4765
05:15:32.200 --> 05:15:38.959
My veronica. Again you gotta Know abella did not survive those.

4766
05:15:39.040 --> 05:15:43.080
Things abella ended up emptying her, handgun trying to shoot.

4767
05:15:43.119 --> 05:15:46.439
Them all she did was make them bleed this blue.

4768
05:15:46.479 --> 05:15:52.400
Blood then they all grabbed a hold Of abella and

4769
05:15:52.479 --> 05:15:57.919
just tore her. Apart abella's screams stopped just that. Quick

4770
05:15:59.000 --> 05:16:01.840
not that it would have mattered, Later i'd come to

4771
05:16:01.919 --> 05:16:05.439
learn that the one thing regarding the backwoods Of strickfield

4772
05:16:06.360 --> 05:16:10.720
is no one will ever hear you. SCREAM i ended

4773
05:16:10.799 --> 05:16:13.080
up watching as those things just sat on the floor

4774
05:16:13.119 --> 05:16:15.439
and ate whatever pieces of a bella they had in their.

4775
05:16:15.439 --> 05:16:18.919
HANDS i was so SCARED i didn't even try to.

4776
05:16:19.000 --> 05:16:23.520
RUN i almost puked Seeing morgan's exposed belly getting. FULL

4777
05:16:24.560 --> 05:16:27.400
i figured If veronica could find me at that old man's,

4778
05:16:27.439 --> 05:16:30.840
cabin those things would have found me WHEREVER i tried running.

4779
05:16:30.880 --> 05:16:34.880
To when they finished With, abella all that was left

4780
05:16:34.880 --> 05:16:40.040
were her. Bones then those things all looked at. ME

4781
05:16:41.880 --> 05:16:44.680
i THINK i lost control of my waterworks, again knowing

4782
05:16:44.720 --> 05:16:48.319
they were gonna eat. Me, Tristan, trina And morgan wanted,

4783
05:16:48.319 --> 05:16:54.159
to But veronica told them. No veronica knelt down beside,

4784
05:16:54.200 --> 05:16:58.159
me she wanted to take my, hand but stopped when

4785
05:16:58.240 --> 05:17:02.400
she remembered she'd freeze it right. Off go away from,

4786
05:17:02.479 --> 05:17:08.000
here my, love she, rasped you're. FREE i know you

4787
05:17:08.080 --> 05:17:13.439
truly loved. ME i shook my head. SLOWLY i still love, You.

4788
05:17:13.560 --> 05:17:18.599
Veronica veronica bowed her. HEAD i think it really hurt,

4789
05:17:18.599 --> 05:17:21.880
her saying what she felt she needed to say to.

4790
05:17:21.959 --> 05:17:28.919
Me never return here ever. Again live your, life, amos

4791
05:17:30.040 --> 05:17:33.439
know That i'll always love. You then she lifted her

4792
05:17:33.479 --> 05:17:38.840
head and, pointed go that. Way then those things. LEFT

4793
05:17:39.400 --> 05:17:41.680
i made myself get up and walked back out in that.

4794
05:17:41.720 --> 05:17:44.840
BLIZZARD i saw the four sets of footprints where those

4795
05:17:44.880 --> 05:17:48.360
things went off TO i Trusted veronica and walked the

4796
05:17:48.400 --> 05:17:51.119
way she told. Me WHEN i came out of the,

4797
05:17:51.119 --> 05:17:53.840
WOODS i only had to walk a few miles BEFORE

4798
05:17:53.880 --> 05:17:58.360
i came To denoyer's. Grill i've since Bought Tom barlow's.

4799
05:17:58.360 --> 05:18:02.360
Cabin some college students are. Here they just listen to

4800
05:18:02.400 --> 05:18:04.560
me tell them why it's not a good idea to

4801
05:18:04.599 --> 05:18:09.119
go into those. Backwoods, yeah you just know they ain't gonna.

4802
05:18:09.119 --> 05:18:11.959
Listen much like when we were all here at this

4803
05:18:12.080 --> 05:18:16.240
cabin last, Year, today like a year, ago has a

4804
05:18:16.240 --> 05:18:19.680
blizzard about to come down on. Us just can't catch

4805
05:18:19.680 --> 05:18:23.040
a break during the winter In Feltner. COUNTY i point

4806
05:18:23.040 --> 05:18:26.279
in the direction of the. Backwoods i'm telling you people right,

4807
05:18:26.319 --> 05:18:30.200
now you go back in, there especially during this. Blizzard

4808
05:18:30.799 --> 05:18:33.000
all lay, odds none of you are gonna make it out.

4809
05:18:33.000 --> 05:18:37.400
Alive those things are in. There they'll trap and eat

4810
05:18:37.439 --> 05:18:41.599
you when you least expect. It that, is if no

4811
05:18:41.759 --> 05:18:45.680
ghouls get a hold of you. FIRST i know they

4812
05:18:45.680 --> 05:18:48.840
want to call me. Crazy they just say goodbye and

4813
05:18:48.959 --> 05:18:51.959
tell me they're heading in to look for. GAME i

4814
05:18:52.040 --> 05:18:56.520
shake my head slowly and watch them. LEAVE i try

4815
05:18:56.560 --> 05:19:00.439
telling them one last, time but they ain't. LISTENING i

4816
05:19:00.520 --> 05:19:02.599
watch as they pull out of my driveway and head

4817
05:19:02.599 --> 05:19:07.360
towards the backwoods Of. STRICKFIELD i go back in the

4818
05:19:07.400 --> 05:19:11.080
cabin and look at a picture of happier times Of

4819
05:19:11.240 --> 05:19:15.319
Veronica grande and me. Together THEN i look towards the

4820
05:19:15.360 --> 05:19:17.720
backwoods and know those idiots are going to run Into

4821
05:19:17.799 --> 05:19:21.959
veronica and are half. Siblings ALL i can do is

4822
05:19:22.000 --> 05:19:25.279
pray they make it out and live to tell the

4823
05:19:25.319 --> 05:19:30.599
tale the same WAY i barely. DID i put the

4824
05:19:30.639 --> 05:19:33.159
picture of me And veronica down and go put another

4825
05:19:33.240 --> 05:19:42.880
log on the. Fire as the blizzard, starts and, that

4826
05:19:43.200 --> 05:19:48.799
my Dear, spookies is another night sealed in, darkness three

4827
05:19:48.919 --> 05:19:53.959
tales of, blood, love and the terrible beauty of, revenge

4828
05:19:54.400 --> 05:20:01.240
all wrapped up in time For halloween's final. Approach this

4829
05:20:01.439 --> 05:20:05.040
is not the, end not even, close because here At

4830
05:20:05.040 --> 05:20:10.759
Weekly spooky we have something, haunting, chilling or downright monstrous

4831
05:20:10.840 --> 05:20:15.840
waiting for you every single day Of, october because one

4832
05:20:15.919 --> 05:20:19.520
night of horror is never. Enough so make sure you're

4833
05:20:19.560 --> 05:20:24.200
subscribed on your favorite podcasting apps because there's so much

4834
05:20:24.279 --> 05:20:28.919
more fear for your. Ears and we do this all year,

4835
05:20:29.000 --> 05:20:32.840
long not just In spooky, Season so Keep halloween alive

4836
05:20:33.680 --> 05:20:39.840
even Beyond october by. Subscribing so until, tomorrow keep that pumpkin,

4837
05:20:39.959 --> 05:20:44.959
lit keep your earbuds, close and join me again when

4838
05:20:45.000 --> 05:20:53.279
the next, scream whisper or nightmare arrives right on. Schedule until,

4839
05:20:53.360 --> 05:21:00.000
then sleep, Light dream, dark and of course stay, spooky,

4840
05:21:00.240 --> 05:21:00.319
hey