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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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what she sees as she weaves her way past them,
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crisp dollar bills coming up from Michael Kor's bags at
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the bar aunt, Diane is mixing a drink, but even
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so seems to just know that Joan is nearby, like
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she has a sixth sense for disappointment. You're late, she tells,
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her voice raised, either so she can be heard over
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the music, or because she wants to yell above the
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liquor shelves. The TV shows some game of some sport.
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I'm always late, Joan responds as she rounds the counter,
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dropping into a crouch so she can dig her apron
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out from under it. You're always late, Diana agrees. Exasperated.
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Standing back up, Joan pulls the apron overhead begins nodding
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at her back. What are you making? I'll finish it up.
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You can head out, she says, don't worry about this.
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Get me six shots of vodka. What brand didn't specify?
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Dealer's choice. The shelves behind the bar are filled to
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bursting with liquor, mostly organized tequila's with tequilas, whiskeys with whiskeys,
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Vodkas with vodkas. They have Smirnoffin's Vedka and Crystal Lake
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and Kettle One. Given it's her decision, Joan settles on
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gray goose, nabs the bottle by the neck, and then
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turns to the counter to work. Grab a tray, set
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it down, arrange six shot glasses on it. Begin to pour.
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That's too much, Diane chastises her from the side. It's
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a shot as long as it fits in the glass.
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It isn't too much. It's too much. Do you want
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me to pour it back in and try again? The
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woman goes quiet after that. Lips pursed, Joan can hear
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the groaning of the scales as she weighs the option
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of firing her on the spot. She never voices her decision.
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Joan picks up the tray and asks which table. By
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stage two, the three women with the bad die jobs
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you see him? Yeah, I see them? Good. Diane pushes
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the drink forward. A woman takes it with a polite smile,
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and call your mom when you get a chance. I will,
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Joan lies, all right, I'm heading out. If you burn
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the place down, I know, I know, make it look
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like an accident. Drive safe. Chapter three, the GPS takes
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her down Carnegie Avenue has her turning up Ontario Street
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on the other side of Progressive Field. Amy might have
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lived in Cleveland all her life, but that doesn't mean
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she knows the flats very well. Certainly not enough to
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find a small strip club. Last thing she wants to
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do is get lost this time of night. How'd you
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even hear about this place? Megan asks from the passenger seat.
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She has a red bull in her hand, chemically inducing
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a second wind. Friend at work, the redhead explains. She
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veers gently to the left onto West Huron. On the right,
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the Landmark Office towers looms, an imposing structure of concrete
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and glass. Twenty two stories done with an art deco flare.
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The side of the building is dominated by a massive
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billboard for the Cavaliers for the Love for the Land.
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Is it full sausage or banana? Hammocks, Jessica inquires from behind.
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I don't think it's legal for it to be full sausage,
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Zoe offers. Amy's eyes flick up catch the brunettes in
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the rearview mirror. She's quick to return them to the road. Besides,
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she continues, if it was, they'd have to be byob
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that's how other strip clubs work. You go to a
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lot of strip clubs. I date a lot of strippers.
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Amy takes a right after the post Office Plaza building,
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turns right onto West Sixth, quickly turns left onto West Prospect.
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Once it ends, veer's right back on to West Sixth,51300:35:44.679 --> 00:35:47.880
her GPS yelling at her all the while giving orders51400:35:47.920 --> 00:35:51.079
as quickly as it can, she turns left down a51500:35:51.119 --> 00:35:57.159
one way Frankfort Avenue. Well this is spooky, Megan says,51600:35:57.599 --> 00:35:59.920
leaning forward to get a better view of the shadow51700:36:00.079 --> 00:36:04.119
we rode they've ended up on. Halfway down the avenue,51800:36:04.239 --> 00:36:08.800
the GPS announces your destination is on the right It's51900:36:08.840 --> 00:36:12.039
a squat, little red brick building that at first glance52000:36:12.159 --> 00:36:16.880
looks abandoned. It isn't until Amy sees the name Wings52100:36:16.920 --> 00:36:20.760
and Dings plastered over the door that she's confident she's52200:36:20.800 --> 00:36:24.679
in the right place. There's two parking lots beyond it,52300:36:25.199 --> 00:36:28.599
one on either side of the avenue. Amy chooses the52400:36:28.639 --> 00:36:31.400
one on the left. Sees the little booth where the52500:36:31.440 --> 00:36:36.280
attendant should be reflected in the moonlight. This is sketch,52600:36:36.960 --> 00:36:40.480
Jessica observes, what you want the club to be in52700:36:40.559 --> 00:36:45.039
Hunting Valley, Amy asks. She glances back at the blonde,52800:36:45.159 --> 00:36:48.719
then returns her gaze to the road. She begins to52900:36:48.800 --> 00:36:52.320
turn into the parking lot, but immediately has to stomp53000:36:52.360 --> 00:36:55.280
on the break, causing the toyota to jerk as it53100:36:55.320 --> 00:36:59.599
comes to a sudden stop. She comes this close to53200:36:59.679 --> 00:37:04.119
hitting a group of people occupying the entrance. Amy hadn't53300:37:04.159 --> 00:37:07.679
even seen them until her headlights lit them up from53400:37:07.679 --> 00:37:11.440
one of her friends, and oh shit rings out. Megan's53500:37:11.480 --> 00:37:14.960
hand extends forward in a flash, pressing against the dash,53600:37:15.000 --> 00:37:19.679
bracing for an impact that doesn't come. Her heart skips53700:37:19.679 --> 00:37:24.119
several beats, beating in her ears like a drum. Clenching53800:37:24.159 --> 00:37:27.519
the steering wheels so tightly that her knuckles turn pale.53900:37:27.960 --> 00:37:31.239
Amy stares at the person closest to her front bumper,54000:37:31.960 --> 00:37:34.880
a man with short, dark hair wearing a pair of54100:37:34.920 --> 00:37:39.239
sunglasses and a leather jacket. He's flanked on his left54200:37:39.280 --> 00:37:43.000
and right by girls with messily cut, colorfully dyed hair,54300:37:43.599 --> 00:37:48.599
studs in their ears and faces. They're pale too, in fact,54400:37:48.639 --> 00:37:53.000
intensified by the light of her high beams. Despite their54500:37:53.079 --> 00:37:57.639
near brush with vehicular homicide, the three don't move. They54600:37:57.639 --> 00:38:00.760
don't even seem bothered. The man when the center just54700:38:00.920 --> 00:38:04.199
keeps on smoking his cigarette as if nothing is a miss.54800:38:05.800 --> 00:38:10.320
What's this dude's deal? Megan asks, honk your horn, Amy,54900:38:10.800 --> 00:38:15.280
Jessica suggests she really doesn't want to do that. Then55000:38:15.440 --> 00:38:19.159
Jessica repeats herself, and despite the anxiety welling up in55100:38:19.199 --> 00:38:23.039
her chest like a balloon, Amy presses the horn, issuing55200:38:23.079 --> 00:38:27.519
a loud beep. The man smiles. One of the women55300:38:27.559 --> 00:38:31.360
he's with laughs. Then he plucks the cigarette from his mouth,55400:38:31.840 --> 00:38:35.039
gives it a flick, sends it flying towards the car.55500:38:35.760 --> 00:38:39.000
It hits the windshield, leaving a mark of burnt ash,55600:38:39.239 --> 00:38:43.679
before rolling down to get stuck on her wipers. What55700:38:43.719 --> 00:38:47.920
the fuck, Zoe says from the back seat. Amy isn't55800:38:47.960 --> 00:38:50.760
sure if she's still recovering from the jolt of having55900:38:50.800 --> 00:38:53.960
almost hit someone with her car, or if she's just56000:38:54.440 --> 00:38:58.159
pissed now that he threw his cigarette at her. Either way,56100:38:58.360 --> 00:39:02.239
she honks the horn again, holding it longer this time.56200:39:03.400 --> 00:39:08.360
Now both women laugh. Then they finally move, stepping to56300:39:08.440 --> 00:39:13.239
the side and then walking parallel with the car, seemingly56400:39:13.320 --> 00:39:17.960
heading across the road. She sincerely hopes they aren't going56500:39:18.000 --> 00:39:20.960
to the strip club too, or else this girl's night56600:39:21.400 --> 00:39:25.639
is going to come to a swift end. What a56700:39:25.679 --> 00:39:29.960
fucking dick, Megan murmurs, craning her head to look after56800:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.280
the punks. Amy, swallowing hard, moves her foot back to56900:39:34.320 --> 00:39:37.679
the gas and steps on it, Pulling up into the57000:39:37.760 --> 00:39:41.079
darkness of the lot. She casts a glance at the57100:39:41.119 --> 00:39:45.719
booth where the attendant should be, but it's empty. Maybe57200:39:45.719 --> 00:39:50.039
they're in another lot, she thinks, she just doesn't want57300:39:50.039 --> 00:39:54.199
to get a ticket. Amy finds a spot and pulls in,57400:39:54.320 --> 00:39:57.800
then puts the car in park. After taking a moment57500:39:57.840 --> 00:40:00.960
to get her bearings, she twists the key, he pulls57600:40:01.000 --> 00:40:04.039
it out of the ignition and steps into the muggy57700:40:04.079 --> 00:40:08.000
embrace of the night. Her friends follow suit, and soon57800:40:08.119 --> 00:40:12.480
enough they're walking across the lot toward the avenue, huddled57900:40:12.519 --> 00:40:17.599
close together. Again, they pass the booth again. Amy looks58000:40:18.559 --> 00:40:24.800
it's definitely empty, probably out of business. Zoe suggests, just58100:40:24.920 --> 00:40:29.679
left all the signage up free parking in Cleveland. Don't58200:40:29.719 --> 00:40:33.440
look a gift horse in the mouth, Jessica says. They58300:40:33.480 --> 00:40:37.920
crossed the road, the punks nowhere in sight. Either they58400:40:37.920 --> 00:40:40.719
went into wings Endings or they slipped off to some58500:40:40.880 --> 00:40:44.880
other dark corner of the city. Amy's hoping for the latter,58600:40:45.000 --> 00:40:50.480
but as with all things, she's expecting the worst. Hold up,58700:40:50.800 --> 00:40:54.519
I'm gonna smoke before we head in. Amy stand with me,58800:40:55.360 --> 00:40:58.519
Zoe asks her, and the redhead really wants to make58900:40:58.599 --> 00:41:01.719
up an excuse she has to go to the restroom59000:41:01.840 --> 00:41:05.840
or something, but can't think of one quick enough resigns.59100:41:05.880 --> 00:41:10.840
She says, Yeah, I can do that, Oh, Megan, hold on.59200:41:11.480 --> 00:41:14.800
She reaches into her purse, digs around, then pulls out59300:41:14.800 --> 00:41:19.039
a wad of bills, all singles. Both blondes are only59400:41:19.119 --> 00:41:21.960
too eager to accept the gift, and then, with the59500:41:22.000 --> 00:41:26.920
cash in tow, head inside. Amy posts up next to59600:41:26.960 --> 00:41:30.719
the door, leaning her back against the bricks, finds herself59700:41:30.760 --> 00:41:35.320
staring at her feet, at the sidewalk, at anything except59800:41:35.920 --> 00:41:41.039
the brunette. You've been avoiding me all night, Zoe says,59900:41:41.119 --> 00:41:44.079
as she uses a cheap gas station bick to light60000:41:44.159 --> 00:41:50.360
her smoke. I've been corralling our friends all night. Amy reasons, yeah,60100:41:50.360 --> 00:41:55.199
but I mean you never return my texts either. Amy's60200:41:55.280 --> 00:41:58.599
throat feels suddenly tight. The heat of the night must60300:41:58.639 --> 00:42:03.480
be intense. That or she's about to spontaneously combust. Her60400:42:03.519 --> 00:42:08.960
face feels hot, Yeah, she answers after a moment, not60500:42:09.000 --> 00:42:13.679
sure what else to say, Zoe doesn't speak again, not60600:42:13.840 --> 00:42:17.400
right away. She takes a moment to enjoy your cigarette60700:42:17.719 --> 00:42:23.159
and reassess her approach, change her game plan. If you like,60800:42:24.280 --> 00:42:27.599
regret it, you can just tell me no hard feelings.60900:42:28.360 --> 00:42:33.280
Judging by her voice, there would in fact be hard feelings.61000:42:33.920 --> 00:42:37.920
It's not that, Amy says, which she isn't entirely sure61100:42:38.000 --> 00:42:41.000
is the truth. It's not the whole truth at least,61200:42:41.960 --> 00:42:46.159
then what is it? Can we not? She asks, her61300:42:46.199 --> 00:42:49.519
words a bit too quick, her tone a bit too harsh.61400:42:50.159 --> 00:42:52.800
She looks at Zoe and knows. Her expression is the61500:42:52.840 --> 00:42:57.000
same one she gives unruly customers at the bank, a61600:42:57.079 --> 00:43:02.199
strict parent scolding a child. Let's just be here for61700:43:02.320 --> 00:43:06.199
Megan tonight, all right. We can talk about us later,61800:43:07.480 --> 00:43:12.159
all right. The brunette turns her attention away. Amy does61900:43:12.239 --> 00:43:15.320
the same. She can vaguely hear the music from the club,62000:43:16.000 --> 00:43:19.599
can feel it in the bricks. When Zoe is done62100:43:19.639 --> 00:43:22.039
with her cigarette and says she's ready to head in,62200:43:22.599 --> 00:43:25.719
she tells her to go ahead, that she'll be along shortly.62300:43:26.599 --> 00:43:30.800
She needs to make a quick phone call. That's a lie.62400:43:30.880 --> 00:43:35.440
She just needs a moment to herself to breathe. After62500:43:35.480 --> 00:43:38.800
the brunette disappears through the door, she finally feels like62600:43:38.880 --> 00:43:43.360
she can. Amy digs back through her purse. She's been62700:43:43.360 --> 00:43:45.639
trying to quit, but there's still a pack of pall62800:43:45.719 --> 00:43:49.639
Malls there at the bottom, along with a book of matches.62900:43:50.400 --> 00:43:54.039
She puts the cancer stick between her lips, strikes a match,63000:43:54.039 --> 00:43:58.119
and lights up. The initial rush of nicotine is just63100:43:58.199 --> 00:44:01.599
the relief she's been looking for since picking Zoe up63200:44:01.639 --> 00:44:06.239
earlier that day. A good idea on paper, not so63300:44:06.400 --> 00:44:09.599
good in practice. It isn't like she doesn't want to63400:44:09.679 --> 00:44:14.000
be friends with the brunette anymore, No, God, No, far63500:44:14.039 --> 00:44:16.400
from it. They've known each other for so long that63600:44:16.480 --> 00:44:19.800
Amy can't rightfully picture a life without Zoe in it.63700:44:20.559 --> 00:44:24.280
But it's complicated right now, getting more so with each63800:44:24.400 --> 00:44:29.679
text message. She ignores her parents wouldn't approve, but they're Baptist.63900:44:30.079 --> 00:44:33.360
They wouldn't approve of much. Got another one of those.64000:44:34.559 --> 00:44:37.440
The voice comes from her right, and Amy looks to64100:44:37.480 --> 00:44:41.000
see who it is. Her blood runs cold when she64200:44:41.119 --> 00:44:44.440
spots the man she almost hit with her car, sauntering64300:44:44.519 --> 00:44:49.199
up those two women still flanking him. She tries to64400:44:49.239 --> 00:44:52.400
say something, finds her throat has all but decided to64500:44:52.440 --> 00:44:56.119
squeeze entirely shut. It can barely fit a breath of64600:44:56.159 --> 00:45:01.480
air through it, let alone a sentence. What's wrong? Cat,64700:45:01.519 --> 00:45:05.679
got your tongue, he asks, giving her a big, close64800:45:05.840 --> 00:45:10.599
lipped grin. Come on, no hard feelings about earlier, right,64900:45:11.400 --> 00:45:14.159
He holds up his hands and mocks surrender. But it65000:45:14.199 --> 00:45:18.400
doesn't make Amy feel any better. There's a fear only65100:45:18.440 --> 00:45:22.480
a woman will truly understand being confronted by a strange65200:45:22.519 --> 00:45:25.360
man in the dead of night, even if he does65300:45:25.480 --> 00:45:29.320
have a couple of women with him. Statistics of rape65400:45:29.320 --> 00:45:32.199
and murder start pouring into her head like a faucet's65500:45:32.199 --> 00:45:36.280
been turned. She goes on autopilot, reaching back into her65600:45:36.320 --> 00:45:40.679
purse and retrieving the pack of cigarettes. Her fingers dig65700:45:40.800 --> 00:45:42.880
one out, and she offers it up to the man.65800:45:43.800 --> 00:45:48.000
Amy's hand shakes, and for a moment the man just65900:45:48.159 --> 00:45:53.360
looks at it, letting it do so. Finally he accepts66000:45:53.400 --> 00:45:57.719
the smoke, but doesn't ask for a light. Out comes66100:45:57.800 --> 00:46:02.159
a zippo. It gleams, so does he. In fact, up66200:46:02.199 --> 00:46:05.960
close and personal, Amy is taken aback by just how66300:46:06.000 --> 00:46:09.559
pale the man is, so pale, in fact, that the66400:46:09.679 --> 00:46:14.480
veins beneath his skin shine through, looking like black forks66500:46:14.519 --> 00:46:19.440
of lightning. Maybe he's sick, she thinks. If he is,66600:46:19.559 --> 00:46:23.639
though it's contagious. The women to either side of him66700:46:24.039 --> 00:46:28.599
have the same quality about them, a sickly paler. They're66800:46:28.599 --> 00:46:33.119
wearing sunglasses too, Whatever kind of disease they have must66900:46:33.119 --> 00:46:36.760
make them sensitive to light. The woman on the left67000:46:36.800 --> 00:46:39.639
has a bright purple mohawk. The one on the right67100:46:39.719 --> 00:46:42.320
has a chain connecting her nose ring to a loop67200:46:42.360 --> 00:46:45.440
in her ear. When the man lights his cigarette, it67300:46:45.480 --> 00:46:49.159
gleams brightly. He takes a drag and then passes it67400:46:49.199 --> 00:46:52.360
off to Mohawk, turning his whole body to do so67500:46:53.960 --> 00:46:58.800
much appreciated, he says, twisting back. Amy, still not able67600:46:58.840 --> 00:47:01.239
to find words that will fit through the pinhole that67700:47:01.400 --> 00:47:06.440
is her throat, nods. She even attempts a smile, though67800:47:06.519 --> 00:47:10.159
she can't say how successful she is. None of them67900:47:10.199 --> 00:47:12.360
try and back off of her. Now that they have68000:47:12.480 --> 00:47:16.800
the cigarette nose ring even comes closer, leaning against the68100:47:16.840 --> 00:47:20.559
wall to Amy's right, blocking her path to the club's door.68200:47:21.639 --> 00:47:27.760
She feels suddenly claustrophobic. The woman grins, Ain't you a68300:47:27.800 --> 00:47:33.679
pretty thing? She says, I've always loved redheads. The man68400:47:33.800 --> 00:47:37.480
reaches up and removes his sunglasses, looks down at them68500:47:37.519 --> 00:47:40.679
while he folds the arms, and then tucks them into68600:47:40.679 --> 00:47:46.239
his jacket pocket. When he glances up, Amy audibly gasps.68700:47:47.159 --> 00:47:51.480
Can't help it. His eyes are black, from the pupils68800:47:51.519 --> 00:47:55.440
to the sclaras like a night sky with no stars,68900:47:55.639 --> 00:47:59.079
just two abyssle pits that under the right light, she69000:47:59.159 --> 00:48:02.880
has no doubt she could see herself reflected in. She69100:48:03.039 --> 00:48:08.199
thinks of the movie Jaws. She thinks of Sharks. He69200:48:08.280 --> 00:48:12.760
steps forward, now just barely a foot separating them. He69300:48:12.880 --> 00:48:16.360
extends an arm, presses his hand against the wall beside69400:48:16.360 --> 00:48:20.679
Amy's head, and leans in. Let's see if we can't69500:48:20.679 --> 00:48:25.199
get your tongue back from that pesky cat. Huh. He69600:48:25.280 --> 00:48:30.159
grins again, this time spreading his lips. His teeth are69700:48:30.280 --> 00:48:35.000
like needles, like some deep sea fish. Amy stares at69800:48:35.039 --> 00:48:39.320
them and begins to breathe so hard that she's borderline hyperventilating.69900:48:40.079 --> 00:48:44.280
Without warning, a scream rips up through her throat and70000:48:44.400 --> 00:48:58.199
out into the night. Chapter four. Harvey Kowalcik didn't use70100:48:58.320 --> 00:49:01.199
to do stuff like this, But then he used to70200:49:01.280 --> 00:49:06.159
be a married man, a happily married man. Then his70300:49:06.320 --> 00:49:11.039
lovely wife of thirty two years passed away, taken from70400:49:11.119 --> 00:49:15.320
him by the big sea. His kids were already moved70500:49:15.320 --> 00:49:17.280
out on their own by then, and he had been70600:49:17.400 --> 00:49:21.199
a few years retired from the police force. This left70700:49:21.239 --> 00:49:24.199
him with a lot of time to sit and come70800:49:24.239 --> 00:49:27.440
to terms with things he had otherwise been putting off70900:49:28.079 --> 00:49:31.679
for most of his life, things such as the fact that,71000:49:31.800 --> 00:49:36.400
despite his happy marriage and his two sons, his wonderful daughter,71100:49:37.239 --> 00:49:44.880
and his stereotypically machismo career, Harvey Kowalchek is a gay man. Sure,71200:49:45.000 --> 00:49:48.199
he hides it well, he was raised Catholic, and that's71300:49:48.239 --> 00:49:53.599
what Catholics do. Hide things, bury them deep down until71400:49:53.599 --> 00:49:57.880
they become ulcers. Sure some things come out during confession,71500:49:58.519 --> 00:50:03.880
but not everything. With nothing to distract himself from himself,71600:50:04.360 --> 00:50:09.280
hiding it began to make less and less sense. It71700:50:09.320 --> 00:50:12.920
isn't even really much of a revelation. He's more or71800:50:13.000 --> 00:50:17.039
less known he's gay since his late teens, maybe earlier,71900:50:17.599 --> 00:50:20.000
just never had the gumption to do anything about it72000:50:20.039 --> 00:50:25.320
outside of the occasional dirty magazine or porno flick. Now, though,72100:50:26.159 --> 00:50:31.199
he's been dipping his toes into the scene. He starts72200:50:31.239 --> 00:50:34.960
with the bars. Those are easy enough. If he gets72300:50:34.960 --> 00:50:37.440
cold feet, he can claim he didn't know what kind72400:50:37.480 --> 00:50:40.920
of establishment he'd walked into and beat a quick retreat72500:50:40.960 --> 00:50:47.239
back to his car. No harm, no foul. Next the clubs,72600:50:48.199 --> 00:50:51.719
he's finding he has a real passion for dancing. It's72700:50:51.880 --> 00:50:54.719
just a matter of learning these crazy new dances they72800:50:54.800 --> 00:50:59.920
have nowadays. Every Friday. For the past few months, like clockwork,72900:51:00.320 --> 00:51:03.800
he's been coming to Wings and Dings. He's a frequent73000:51:03.920 --> 00:51:06.960
enough flier by this point that most people know him,73100:51:06.960 --> 00:51:09.920
and he, in turn knows most of the dancers by73200:51:10.039 --> 00:51:14.239
name and has a few favorites. None of them are73300:51:14.280 --> 00:51:17.519
working tonight, though, so he just sits in his booth73400:51:17.599 --> 00:51:21.280
by the entrance, enjoys the energy of the room, and73500:51:21.400 --> 00:51:26.760
indulges in a favorite hobby of his, people watching. It's73600:51:26.800 --> 00:51:29.440
a habit from being a cop, same as the reason73700:51:29.480 --> 00:51:32.199
why he candied at a restaurant. Unless his back is73800:51:32.239 --> 00:51:34.840
to the wall and he has a clear line of73900:51:34.920 --> 00:51:39.119
sight toward the door, his eyes flick to the stage74000:51:39.159 --> 00:51:43.079
closest to him. Almost sixty in his prescription for viagra74100:51:43.199 --> 00:51:46.719
is suddenly no longer needed. Not when he's watching the74200:51:46.760 --> 00:51:49.840
fit young guy on the pole spin and spin and74300:51:49.960 --> 00:51:54.320
spin around the metal bar like he's a top, looks74400:51:54.360 --> 00:51:56.880
like he's smuggling a squirrel in all its nuts and74500:51:56.960 --> 00:52:01.119
his lime green speedow. His game moves to the women74600:52:01.280 --> 00:52:04.960
surrounding the stage, most are half his age. At least74700:52:05.719 --> 00:52:08.920
routinely a few will look his way, giving him the74800:52:09.039 --> 00:52:12.119
side eye, before turning back to their friends to whisper74900:52:12.480 --> 00:52:17.599
amongst one another. Maybe they call him creepy, probably call75000:52:17.679 --> 00:52:22.400
him much worse. He doesn't care, not anymore. Used to be,75100:52:22.519 --> 00:52:26.719
he would just the slightest hint of scrutiny would have75200:52:26.840 --> 00:52:31.159
him running for the hills. Nowadays, though, he just takes75300:52:31.199 --> 00:52:35.000
it with a grain of salt. They chose wings endings75400:52:35.039 --> 00:52:38.960
for the same reason he did. It's out of the way, obscure,75500:52:39.639 --> 00:52:44.320
not super popular, less likely to get recognized all the75600:52:44.440 --> 00:52:49.679
darkness interrupted by neon lights, but still offering substantial shadows.75700:52:49.679 --> 00:52:52.960
Offers a kind of anonymity. If they want to add75800:52:53.000 --> 00:52:55.559
a bit of bigotry onto their night out before heading75900:52:55.599 --> 00:53:00.159
home to their unhappy marriages, so be it. He looks76000:53:00.159 --> 00:53:03.920
deeper into the club, toward the other stage. The heavy76100:53:03.960 --> 00:53:06.480
set blonde that had come in is now getting a76200:53:06.559 --> 00:53:10.639
lap dance, arms flailing in the air, laughing so loudly76300:53:10.719 --> 00:53:13.719
that she can be heard over the music. Harvey doesn't76400:53:13.760 --> 00:53:16.440
know the musician, but he knows the track well enough,76500:53:17.239 --> 00:53:20.880
having heard it played over the speakers a few times.76600:53:21.440 --> 00:53:24.360
Some woman singing to someone else about how they need76700:53:24.400 --> 00:53:27.039
to shut their mouth and run her like a river76800:53:28.000 --> 00:53:32.360
sounds hot, he has to admit. The bartender is weaving76900:53:32.400 --> 00:53:36.039
through the club, coming his way just in time too.77000:53:36.599 --> 00:53:40.079
He's down to just ice cubes in his glass. Another77100:53:40.159 --> 00:53:43.360
gin and tonic Harve Joan asks him when she comes77200:53:43.400 --> 00:53:47.840
to a stop by his table. I'd appreciate it, tanker Ey.77300:53:48.840 --> 00:53:51.880
You know me so well, know you well enough to77400:53:51.880 --> 00:53:54.960
take this bad boy, she says, reaching out to grab77500:53:55.000 --> 00:53:57.800
the menu off the table and tuck it under her arm.77600:53:58.519 --> 00:54:01.880
Sixty nine flavors of wings and not a one worth77700:54:01.920 --> 00:54:05.159
writing home about. He's gotten into the habit of eating77800:54:05.199 --> 00:54:09.280
before he comes or right after. The drinks are fine, though,77900:54:09.719 --> 00:54:13.679
and Joan pours them heavy. She'd tell your aunt to78000:54:13.719 --> 00:54:17.760
cut the menu down, maybe make it a bit more edible,78100:54:18.320 --> 00:54:22.800
Joan offers, smiling. Harvey smiles back, Well, I was going78200:54:22.880 --> 00:54:27.679
to say, refined. That's because you're nicer than me. Okay,78300:54:28.000 --> 00:54:31.840
one tanga, age gin and tonic coming up. She takes78400:54:31.840 --> 00:54:34.760
his empty glass and marches back off into the fray.78500:54:35.639 --> 00:54:38.960
He watches her go, thinking what he has after most78600:54:38.960 --> 00:54:42.400
conversations with the bartender. What he would look like with78700:54:42.480 --> 00:54:45.400
that many piercings. Used to be a time he had78800:54:45.480 --> 00:54:48.920
seriously considered getting his ears done, but it never came78900:54:48.960 --> 00:54:53.320
to pass. Too old, Now, he thinks, would probably look silly.79000:54:54.119 --> 00:54:56.320
He still has a full head of hair, but it's79100:54:56.360 --> 00:55:00.639
gone entirely gray. Now his face is a map of wrinkles,79200:55:00.679 --> 00:55:04.199
and stress lines, deep fissures that threaten to cut even79300:55:04.320 --> 00:55:08.119
deeper with every passing year. His stomach used to be79400:55:08.199 --> 00:55:10.639
flat as a board, but it's starting to round out79500:55:10.679 --> 00:55:14.280
the front of his polo. Makes him look vaguely pregnant79600:55:15.119 --> 00:55:19.360
early on in the pregnancy. Sure, but the point remains pregnant.79700:55:20.559 --> 00:55:23.480
It sucks coming into a new lifestyle when you're already79800:55:23.519 --> 00:55:27.639
past your prime. It is what it is, though Harvey79900:55:27.679 --> 00:55:32.599
supposes it's just nice to be himself whatever age he's at.80000:55:33.199 --> 00:55:36.480
He leans back in his booth, eases his sore back80100:55:36.559 --> 00:55:41.639
against the uncomfortable padding. Sure, Wings and Dings isn't fancy,80200:55:42.199 --> 00:55:50.519
but Harvey has yet to have a bad time here.80300:55:51.960 --> 00:55:57.519
Chapter five. Scottie is the cook at Wings and Dings,80400:55:57.920 --> 00:56:01.480
which means he's most likely the janet because hardly anyone80500:56:01.599 --> 00:56:06.119
ever actually orders any food. He sweeps the floors, cleans80600:56:06.159 --> 00:56:08.960
the restrooms, and when the piles of frozen wings go80700:56:09.079 --> 00:56:11.920
bad in the walk in, he throws them out just80800:56:12.000 --> 00:56:14.880
in time for the weekly delivery of fresh ones to80900:56:14.960 --> 00:56:19.599
take their place. He gets how Sissyphus must feel. They're81000:56:19.639 --> 00:56:23.239
doing Greek mythology in school right now. Scott he's nineteen,81100:56:23.360 --> 00:56:25.840
but he didn't have enough credits to graduate last year,81200:56:25.960 --> 00:56:30.280
so here he is doing it all over again, trying81300:56:30.320 --> 00:56:34.320
to actually commit himself. This time, it's either commit himself81400:56:34.440 --> 00:56:37.880
or commit suicide. At this point, he is not going81500:56:37.920 --> 00:56:40.280
to be twenty and sitting in a high school classroom,81600:56:41.119 --> 00:56:43.280
he pushes the broom from one end of the corner81700:56:43.320 --> 00:56:46.599
to the next. The kitchen spans the entire backside of81800:56:46.599 --> 00:56:49.519
the club. Between the employee bathroom and the walk in81900:56:49.719 --> 00:56:52.719
is a stretch of the standard food service fair, a82000:56:52.760 --> 00:56:56.039
three compartment sink, a flat top that he's never used82100:56:56.360 --> 00:56:59.360
and he's pretty sure isn't even plugged in. Then a82200:56:59.440 --> 00:57:03.400
row of four deep friars. The oil basically cooking itself82300:57:03.480 --> 00:57:07.000
because it doesn't have the opportunity to cook anything else.82400:57:07.880 --> 00:57:10.079
How often does he need to switch out the oil?82500:57:10.880 --> 00:57:13.159
Scotty keeps meaning to look it up on his phone,82600:57:13.239 --> 00:57:17.679
but keeps forgetting. Speaking of his phone, that's what he's82700:57:17.719 --> 00:57:21.079
playing with at present. Sitting on top of the prep table,82800:57:21.480 --> 00:57:25.360
he has headphones and music blaring. His social media feed82900:57:25.480 --> 00:57:28.840
is a depressing reminder that life isn't going how he83000:57:28.920 --> 00:57:33.719
wants it to. Friends, going on vacation, going to college,83100:57:34.360 --> 00:57:38.440
going out he hasn't updated his status in six months,83200:57:39.119 --> 00:57:44.039
isn't sure what he even updated with Ugh missus Becker's83300:57:44.119 --> 00:57:48.239
class is such a drag. He doesn't do anything outside83400:57:48.239 --> 00:57:51.440
of work and school. He doesn't hang out with people83500:57:51.480 --> 00:57:55.360
anymore because they're off being adults and he's stuck being83600:57:56.400 --> 00:58:01.599
Thunk thunk thunk. Scotty only barely hears noise. He isn't83700:58:01.639 --> 00:58:04.639
sure what it is either. He looks up and around83800:58:04.679 --> 00:58:08.039
the kitchen, finds himself as alone as he always is.83900:58:09.000 --> 00:58:12.000
After a few moments long enough for him to think84000:58:12.039 --> 00:58:17.639
he's just hearing things, it comes again. Thunk thunk thunk.84100:58:18.920 --> 00:58:22.880
He reaches up, pulling out an earbud. Dave Grohl blares84200:58:22.920 --> 00:58:26.119
from it, singing about how he's got another confession to make.84300:58:26.880 --> 00:58:30.119
He waits again for the sound to come, and when84400:58:30.119 --> 00:58:36.960
it does, he actually recognizes what it is. Knock, knock, knock.84500:58:38.079 --> 00:58:41.199
Someone's knocking at the back door, the one that lets84600:58:41.199 --> 00:58:44.840
out behind the building. He's basically the only one who84700:58:44.960 --> 00:58:48.400
uses it, him and the delivery driver, and it isn't84800:58:48.400 --> 00:58:52.559
a delivery day, so the list of people who could84900:58:52.559 --> 00:58:57.679
be wanting in is exactly none. It's probably a homeless85000:58:57.679 --> 00:59:04.519
person looking for a handout. That's what Scottie reasons. Anyway, knock, knock, knock,85100:59:05.840 --> 00:59:09.000
whoever it is, they aren't going away, so he pulls85200:59:09.039 --> 00:59:12.599
the other earbud out, sets his phone aside, and slides85300:59:12.639 --> 00:59:15.800
off the prep table. It's a short walk to cross85400:59:15.840 --> 00:59:19.719
the narrow kitchen. When he reaches the back door, there's85500:59:19.760 --> 00:59:23.599
a moment of hesitation before he grabs the handle, gives85600:59:23.639 --> 00:59:26.880
it a twist, and pushes it open. He isn't sure85700:59:26.920 --> 00:59:29.079
what he expects to find waiting for him on the85800:59:29.119 --> 00:59:34.159
other side, so he opens it slowly. There in the85900:59:34.239 --> 00:59:36.760
darkness of the alley between the club and the building86000:59:36.840 --> 00:59:41.559
behind it is a woman. She's shorter than him, with86100:59:41.639 --> 00:59:44.960
bright blue hair and a chain connecting the loop in86200:59:45.000 --> 00:59:49.000
her right nostril to a piercing in her ear. She86300:59:49.159 --> 00:59:52.880
has on big, chunky sunglasses, despite the fact that it's86400:59:52.920 --> 00:59:56.760
the middle of the night and she's incredibly pale, so86500:59:56.920 --> 00:59:59.679
much so that she practically glows in the light pouring86600:59:59.679 --> 01:00:03.039
out it the kitchen. Scotty doesn't know what to say.86701:00:03.519 --> 01:00:06.159
The hypothetical situation he had cooked up in his brain86801:00:06.280 --> 01:00:11.719
didn't prepare him for this. She breaks the silence. This86901:00:11.880 --> 01:00:15.519
is wings endings right. She offers him a close lipped87001:00:15.559 --> 01:00:20.719
smile after asking, uh, Scotty should tell her that the87101:00:20.920 --> 01:00:25.119
entrance is around in front. Instead, he just says, yeah,87201:00:25.239 --> 01:00:29.440
it is perfect. She walks right on in and brushes87301:00:29.480 --> 01:00:34.000
past him into the kitchen. Scotty should definitely tell her87401:00:34.039 --> 01:00:36.719
that she can't be back here, but all he's thinking87501:00:36.800 --> 01:00:41.440
is that she is very pale. She's kind of pretty87601:00:41.480 --> 01:00:44.760
from what he can see around her sunglasses. It's his87701:00:44.840 --> 01:00:48.960
responsibility as an employee of the club versus his being87801:00:49.000 --> 01:00:52.440
a man. He releases the door and it swings shut.87901:00:53.679 --> 01:00:58.280
Oh wow, this dump serves food. She's over by the88001:00:58.280 --> 01:01:02.519
friar baskets, lifts one by the handle, lets it splash88101:01:02.599 --> 01:01:07.119
back down into the hot oil. He just watches, not88201:01:07.280 --> 01:01:12.639
sure how to react. Yeah, hence the uh wings in88301:01:12.719 --> 01:01:17.360
the name. So it seems she turns on him. His88401:01:17.480 --> 01:01:20.559
eyes go to the split in her leather jacket. She88501:01:20.719 --> 01:01:24.440
has a crop top on. A crucifix dangles from her88601:01:24.440 --> 01:01:29.119
belly button. Scotty swallows, not exactly sure what sort of88701:01:29.159 --> 01:01:33.119
situation he's found himself in. Is it too early to88801:01:33.119 --> 01:01:39.559
be writing deer penthouse? You're staring? Huh what you're staring,88901:01:39.679 --> 01:01:43.679
you perve, the woman says. She flashes him a close89001:01:43.760 --> 01:01:49.639
lipped smile. Probably has bad teeth. Scottie thinks, oh, sorry,89101:01:50.559 --> 01:01:54.280
don't apologize. She steps over to the prep table where89201:01:54.280 --> 01:01:57.719
he'd been sat previously and pulls herself up on it89301:01:58.440 --> 01:02:01.559
without asking. She picks up one of the earbuds and89401:02:01.679 --> 01:02:05.480
sticks it in her fingers, then go to his phone,89501:02:06.039 --> 01:02:11.400
tapping at the music app, probably changing the tunes. So89601:02:12.159 --> 01:02:18.360
want to fuck? Record scratch? Scotty blinks, staring at the woman. Finally,89701:02:18.400 --> 01:02:24.880
after a few moments of silence, he manages what I asked,89801:02:24.960 --> 01:02:29.079
if you want to fuck? Scotty isn't a virgin, but89901:02:29.159 --> 01:02:32.119
he feels like it in that moment. Nerves are getting90001:02:32.119 --> 01:02:36.119
the better of him. Well. She peers at him over90101:02:36.159 --> 01:02:38.960
the top of her sunglasses, but he's too anxious to90201:02:38.960 --> 01:02:46.239
make eye contact. He stares at her knees instead. Sure, Sure,90301:02:47.039 --> 01:02:50.599
he feels like the biggest loser on the planet. Then90401:02:50.639 --> 01:02:55.960
come here. Awkwardly, Scotty shuffles forward. Once he's close enough,90501:02:55.960 --> 01:02:59.039
the woman snatches him by his waist, jerks him forward90601:02:59.199 --> 01:03:03.719
and inserts him between her legs. They're close now he90701:03:03.800 --> 01:03:09.840
can smell her something like perfume and copper. It fills90801:03:09.880 --> 01:03:15.480
his nostrils, makes his head swim Kiss me. She doesn't90901:03:15.480 --> 01:03:19.119
frame it as a request. Scotty looks up, sees his91001:03:19.159 --> 01:03:23.199
face reflected back at him in her sunglasses. He swallows,91101:03:23.599 --> 01:03:28.079
steals his nerves, then does as he's bid, leaning in91201:03:28.760 --> 01:03:33.880
his eyes, drifting closed. She meets him halfway. Her lips91301:03:33.880 --> 01:03:39.079
are cold clammy. The kiss escalates quickly when her tongue91401:03:39.079 --> 01:03:43.599
comes into play, bridging the gap between their mouths. He91501:03:43.679 --> 01:03:46.599
has to race to keep up with how fast she's moving.91601:03:47.199 --> 01:03:50.280
When his tongue slips past her own and into her mouth,91701:03:50.360 --> 01:03:56.000
though he brushes up against her strange teeth, his immediate91801:03:56.079 --> 01:04:00.559
thought is to pull away. He can't help it him91901:04:00.559 --> 01:04:03.480
from doing that, though, is the woman's hands on his head,92001:04:04.159 --> 01:04:07.920
holding him close and pulling him in. She opens her92101:04:07.920 --> 01:04:12.679
mouth up wider it covers his own. Now, Scotty feels92201:04:12.679 --> 01:04:16.519
something like needles pricking the perimeter of his lips. He92301:04:16.639 --> 01:04:20.119
tries to pull away in earnest now, but his struggling92401:04:20.159 --> 01:04:22.920
is in vain. She has a vice grip on him.92501:04:23.639 --> 01:04:28.079
That stabbing sensation only becomes worse. Pain irrupts just as92601:04:28.119 --> 01:04:32.960
the taste of blood hits his tongue. He screams. Her92701:04:33.000 --> 01:04:37.360
mouth catches it. He tries to push her away. It's92801:04:37.480 --> 01:04:41.920
like shoving a brick wall. Panic sets in. Scotty begins92901:04:41.960 --> 01:04:44.760
to hit her, to no avail. She bites clean through93001:04:44.760 --> 01:04:49.000
his lips, and only then does she release him, the93101:04:49.159 --> 01:04:53.599
cook flailing backward and hitting the opposite wall. He can't93201:04:53.639 --> 01:04:56.400
see the damage done to his face, but he can93301:04:56.440 --> 01:05:00.440
see his lower lip hanging from the woman's own. She93401:05:00.599 --> 01:05:03.079
spits it out onto the floor, where it makes a93501:05:03.119 --> 01:05:07.639
wet slap against the tile. Her cheeks and chin are93601:05:07.679 --> 01:05:14.199
painted red. What's wrong, baby? Don't you like foreplay? When93701:05:14.199 --> 01:05:18.159
he screams, blood and saliva fly forward. It's a short93801:05:18.199 --> 01:05:22.320
lived expression, though. The woman launches forward off the prep table,93901:05:22.519 --> 01:05:25.599
earbud ripping from her head as she closes the distance94001:05:25.639 --> 01:05:28.480
between them and the blink of an eye. Scotty's scream94101:05:28.599 --> 01:05:32.400
gets cut off when her hand seizes his throat, squeezing94201:05:32.440 --> 01:05:37.719
it so hard as to shut him up completely. That's okay,94301:05:38.280 --> 01:05:41.599
we can move on to the real fun. She smiles94401:05:41.639 --> 01:05:46.159
at him, exposing thin needlelike teeth the length of a finger.94501:05:47.400 --> 01:05:52.199
When she opens her mouth, it's far too wide it94601:05:52.320 --> 01:05:55.719
makes Scotty think of a snake. She dives into the94701:05:55.760 --> 01:05:58.840
crook of his neck and clamps her jaw down. He94801:05:58.920 --> 01:06:02.719
feels her teeth hair through his skin, then feels her94901:06:02.760 --> 01:06:08.159
begin to suck. All he can do is weakly try95001:06:08.199 --> 01:06:11.119
and fight her off, a battle he lost before he95101:06:11.199 --> 01:06:15.480
even started. When that fails, he can't find the strength95201:06:15.559 --> 01:06:18.239
to keep at it. Scotty just stares up at the95301:06:18.320 --> 01:06:23.880
kitchen's dirty ceiling while darkness creeps in to the edges95401:06:24.639 --> 01:06:38.639
of his vision. Chapter six, Megan is getting married. She's95501:06:38.679 --> 01:06:42.760
going to be missus Brett McKay. The future is awesome95601:06:42.800 --> 01:06:45.440
and bright and full of so much promise that it95701:06:45.480 --> 01:06:49.599
makes her feel like she's going to explode. Megan also95801:06:49.719 --> 01:06:53.559
has a face full of ass. She's courting sensory overload,95901:06:53.920 --> 01:06:58.000
hot pink speedo, shrink wrapping, jiggling flesh, the smell of96001:06:58.079 --> 01:07:02.400
body lotion and sweat, the toeve low remix reverberating in96101:07:02.440 --> 01:07:06.519
her chest. This makes her feel like she's going to explode, too,96201:07:07.199 --> 01:07:10.920
but in a different way. Heat burns between her thighs.96301:07:11.480 --> 01:07:14.519
She hopes Bread isn't too tired when she gets home96401:07:15.559 --> 01:07:18.559
to her right, Jessica is the best hype woman she96501:07:18.599 --> 01:07:23.320
could ask for, cheering, laughing, feeding her drinks to Jessica's right,96601:07:23.559 --> 01:07:28.039
Zoe is quiet, keeps looking toward the door, making comments96701:07:28.039 --> 01:07:31.920
about what's taking Amy so long. She doesn't know what's96801:07:31.960 --> 01:07:34.960
going on with her friends, but she can guess. Zoe96901:07:35.039 --> 01:07:37.159
never did know how to keep it in her pants.97001:07:37.880 --> 01:07:41.760
Dollar bills get stuffed into the dancer's waistband. She isn't97101:07:41.800 --> 01:07:45.039
sure how many the shots of tequila have gone straight97201:07:45.079 --> 01:07:48.480
to her head. Jessica is pushing another into her hand.97301:07:48.960 --> 01:07:52.039
She spills most of it down her shirt, cackles like97401:07:52.079 --> 01:07:56.599
it's the funniest thing in the world. Then all hell97501:07:57.360 --> 01:08:02.840
breaks loose. Harvey can see the bartender working her way97601:08:02.880 --> 01:08:07.000
back toward him, zigzagging through the crowd, drink in her hand.97701:08:07.719 --> 01:08:10.880
She's about ten feet from his booth when the entrance97801:08:10.960 --> 01:08:14.920
doors swing open, so hard that they bang noisily against97901:08:15.000 --> 01:08:17.680
the wall, loud enough to be heard over the drone98001:08:17.720 --> 01:08:21.960
of the music. Harvey's attention immediately snaps to his left.98101:08:22.720 --> 01:08:26.720
There's a gun in his boot, has been since twenty sixteen.98201:08:27.399 --> 01:08:30.800
Can't be too careful nowadays. It's the second thing that98301:08:30.840 --> 01:08:35.560
pops into his head. The first being what the hell98401:08:36.479 --> 01:08:39.359
the bouncer He's pretty sure his name is Brian or something,98501:08:39.800 --> 01:08:43.399
is soaring sideways and backwards through the air like he's98601:08:43.399 --> 01:08:48.119
been thrown almost, which seems preposterous. The guy is huge,98701:08:48.560 --> 01:08:52.239
built like a linebacker. He keeps on flying too, for98801:08:52.359 --> 01:08:55.600
several feet, before eventually hitting the floor and finally skidding98901:08:55.640 --> 01:08:58.439
to a halt at the foot of the stage. The99001:08:58.520 --> 01:09:02.199
man dancing there, startled, stumbles back from the pole, takes99101:09:02.239 --> 01:09:05.520
one step too many, and walks right off the edge.99201:09:06.159 --> 01:09:08.960
He lands on a woman, who shrieks and responds before99301:09:09.000 --> 01:09:11.159
shoving him the rest of the way to the floor.99401:09:12.199 --> 01:09:16.039
Brian's limp. Harvey can't tell if he's dead or not.99501:09:16.720 --> 01:09:18.880
He would make his way over to check, but his99601:09:19.000 --> 01:09:22.479
eyes are darting back to the door while he simultaneously99701:09:22.520 --> 01:09:26.520
pushes himself to his feet. The doors swing outward, then99801:09:26.960 --> 01:09:32.800
in outward, then in. On the final repetition, they stop99901:09:32.880 --> 01:09:36.159
short of closing all the way, like something's blocking them.100001:09:36.880 --> 01:09:39.399
Harvey leans down, hikes up the right pant leg of100101:09:39.439 --> 01:09:42.520
his slacks, and pulls the glock from his boot. He100201:09:42.640 --> 01:09:45.039
rights himself in time for the doors to get another100301:09:45.119 --> 01:09:50.520
shove gentler than Brian's impromptu entrance. A man enters between them,100401:09:50.920 --> 01:09:54.000
casually strolling into the club without a care in the world.100501:09:54.600 --> 01:09:59.199
A woman with a purple mohawk follows closely behind safety100601:09:59.199 --> 01:10:03.199
off bullet in the chamber both hands. He must be100701:10:03.239 --> 01:10:06.800
outside of the man's periphery. That or he just plane100801:10:06.840 --> 01:10:10.840
doesn't notice him in his lonely corner. It gives Harvey time,100901:10:11.479 --> 01:10:14.840
which he needs. He hasn't done this in a while.101001:10:15.399 --> 01:10:19.920
The muscle memory is still there guiding him. Harvey raises101101:10:19.960 --> 01:10:22.319
the gun, aims at right at the man in the101201:10:22.399 --> 01:10:26.079
leather jacket, and is about to start reciting lines he's101301:10:26.119 --> 01:10:30.720
said a thousand times before. When the stranger turns and101401:10:30.800 --> 01:10:34.319
looks right at him. It must be the darkness of101501:10:34.359 --> 01:10:37.319
the club making his eyes so dark. The retired cop101601:10:37.359 --> 01:10:40.880
thinks like pits in his face. It isn't like the101701:10:40.960 --> 01:10:45.239
lights are flattering. There's something off about him though. His101801:10:45.399 --> 01:10:49.239
skin has an unhealthy paler to it, like he's sick101901:10:49.319 --> 01:10:53.640
with a terminal disease. Fear reaches a gnarled hand up102001:10:53.680 --> 01:10:57.119
and seizes Harvey by the bowels. He forgets his training102101:10:57.159 --> 01:11:03.119
and instead just squeezes the trip. A loud bang rings102201:11:03.119 --> 01:11:06.239
out in the club, which is followed swiftly by a102301:11:06.319 --> 01:11:10.560
chorus of screams. His shot connects with the man's right shoulder,102401:11:11.000 --> 01:11:15.600
sends him jerking back, but he doesn't fall over. Instead,102501:11:15.640 --> 01:11:18.960
he stares at the newfound wound in his person as102601:11:19.000 --> 01:11:21.600
calmly as one might observe the hole in their sweater.102701:11:22.560 --> 01:11:25.880
In for a penny, in for a pound, Harvey fires again,102801:11:25.960 --> 01:11:29.000
and this time his bullet lands center mass bores a102901:11:29.000 --> 01:11:31.960
hole through the man's white shirt and into his stomach.103001:11:32.560 --> 01:11:36.079
Blood immediately starts to color the fabric. The light of103101:11:36.119 --> 01:11:38.720
the club is what makes it look black. Has to103201:11:38.760 --> 01:11:45.600
be still, the guy hasn't gone down yet, drugs, Harvey surmises, PCP,103301:11:45.840 --> 01:11:51.199
probably meth. Maybe. The man extends his arms to either side,103401:11:51.359 --> 01:11:56.119
the universal gesture of really, there's a smile on his face,103501:11:56.640 --> 01:12:00.680
a horrible, awful smile. Even at this distance, Harvey can103601:12:00.720 --> 01:12:04.560
see there's something terribly wrong with the guy's teeth. Then103701:12:05.039 --> 01:12:08.079
the woman with the mohawk lunges forward, and despite him103801:12:08.079 --> 01:12:12.039
squeezing the trigger again and again and emptying the magazine103901:12:12.039 --> 01:12:27.840
into her, she keeps on coming. Chapter seven. It all104001:12:27.920 --> 01:12:31.000
happens so fast that Joan's brain has to sprint to104101:12:31.079 --> 01:12:34.920
keep up. Here comes Brian, flying through the door like104201:12:35.000 --> 01:12:38.439
he's weightless six' eight but tossed around like a rag.104301:12:38.520 --> 01:12:41.640
Doll she drops the glass she's carrying when she sees.104401:12:41.720 --> 01:12:44.479
Him hears it explode on the floor by her. Feet104501:12:45.119 --> 01:12:49.000
gin And tonic shower her. Legs troy dancing on the104601:12:49.000 --> 01:12:53.239
stage That brian slams, into stumbles, backward ends up falling104701:12:53.279 --> 01:12:57.000
onto a. Customer the woman screams and, flails pushing the104801:12:57.000 --> 01:12:59.039
poor stripper the rest of the way to the. Floor104901:13:00.079 --> 01:13:04.439
her a pair of. Strangers she feels like she knows105001:13:04.479 --> 01:13:07.680
who they, are, though even if she's only ever saw their,105101:13:07.720 --> 01:13:12.239
silhouettes because the way they stare at the club feels105201:13:12.239 --> 01:13:16.880
familiar to the eyes that dug into her. Outside her105301:13:16.880 --> 01:13:20.000
gut tells her as much, anyway and it's seldom been.105401:13:20.000 --> 01:13:23.399
Wrong the hairs on the back of her neck stand on.105501:13:23.600 --> 01:13:26.720
End she Sees harvey get up and pull a. Gun105601:13:27.279 --> 01:13:31.640
he looks like he's about to say, something but instead just.105701:13:31.760 --> 01:13:35.920
Fires panic begins clawing its insidious way up Through joan's,105801:13:35.960 --> 01:13:39.800
body even before the man That harvey shoots first seems105901:13:39.840 --> 01:13:42.079
to just brush off the two new holes in his.106001:13:42.199 --> 01:13:46.079
Body the female stranger starts rushing the old, man takes106101:13:46.079 --> 01:13:48.960
several shots and, counting but doesn't slow down for a.106201:13:49.039 --> 01:13:53.399
Second she leaps lands hard Against harvey and sends him106301:13:53.439 --> 01:13:56.239
reeling backward into his booth with her on top of.106401:13:56.319 --> 01:13:59.800
Him she raises her left hand and maybe it's a106501:13:59.800 --> 01:14:03.680
true of the, light but her fingers look unnaturally. Long106601:14:04.520 --> 01:14:07.359
joan isn't so sure it is a, trick though not106701:14:07.479 --> 01:14:10.600
when those fingers slash down and a splash of blood comes,106801:14:10.640 --> 01:14:14.039
out painting the wall behind the booth with a visceral.106901:14:14.119 --> 01:14:19.880
Spray in the, dark it looks black liquid. Night joan's107001:14:19.880 --> 01:14:23.640
body switches to. Autopilot she, turns sees a flurry of107101:14:23.680 --> 01:14:26.359
movement in her periphery and looks in time to see107201:14:26.399 --> 01:14:29.199
the man diving into the crowd by the. Stage then107301:14:29.319 --> 01:14:32.680
hears an eruption of panicked cries that drowns out the blaring.107401:14:32.800 --> 01:14:36.399
Music she can't help but look sees in the flashing107501:14:36.439 --> 01:14:40.239
neon lights a middle aged woman clutching her, stomach nodded107601:14:40.279 --> 01:14:45.840
intestines spilling out around her. Hands her face is surprisingly,107701:14:45.920 --> 01:14:50.960
serene shock numbing the. Pain the assailant is atop another107801:14:51.079 --> 01:14:54.960
victim already face buried in her. Throat all she can107901:14:55.000 --> 01:14:58.720
do is jerk. Hopelessly troy is backpedaling away from it,108001:14:58.760 --> 01:15:01.439
all and the bartender to help him to his. Feet108101:15:02.319 --> 01:15:05.039
neither one knows quite what to, do but what they108201:15:05.079 --> 01:15:09.560
do know is they need to. Move people have begun108301:15:09.680 --> 01:15:13.520
running for the, Entrance others stand stock, still frozen with.108401:15:13.600 --> 01:15:16.920
Fear joan opts to move as quickly as she can108501:15:17.039 --> 01:15:20.279
for the, bar With troy close, behind heart pounding in her.108601:15:20.279 --> 01:15:23.720
Ears she uses a stool as a step, ladder goes108701:15:23.760 --> 01:15:25.800
from it to the bar and then to the floor108801:15:25.840 --> 01:15:28.640
on the other, side falling hard onto her ass and108901:15:28.680 --> 01:15:32.560
out of. View the dancer follows right after, her landing109001:15:32.560 --> 01:15:37.000
on her. Left she's, trembling despite trying to will them109101:15:37.039 --> 01:15:41.319
to do, so her hands will not remain. Still troy109201:15:41.399 --> 01:15:45.960
is faring no. Better he's gasping for, breath practically. Hyperventilating109301:15:46.479 --> 01:15:52.439
wait until he finds out there's blood in his bleached. Hair, fuck, fuck, fuck,109401:15:52.680 --> 01:15:56.439
Fuck she chants like a. Mantra with the loud, music109501:15:56.520 --> 01:15:59.279
she can barely hear herself. Think not that she's having109601:15:59.319 --> 01:16:04.680
any particularly brilliant, thoughts just pure primal fear rushing through109701:16:04.680 --> 01:16:07.800
her mind like a freight. Train after a moment of,109801:16:07.840 --> 01:16:11.640
sitting she shakily twists around and onto her, knees raises109901:16:11.640 --> 01:16:15.199
herself up just high enough to peer over the top110001:16:15.239 --> 01:16:15.479
of the.110101:16:15.520 --> 01:16:15.640
Bar.110201:16:15.880 --> 01:16:21.119
Counter high pitched screaming mixes with the chorus Of Motley, Cruz, Girls, Girls.110301:16:21.199 --> 01:16:26.359
Girls spilled liquor stings her. Nostrils another, smell, too has110401:16:26.399 --> 01:16:31.760
begun to permeate the, club something like. Rust what she110501:16:31.880 --> 01:16:34.760
sees makes her feel sick to her. Stomach the woman110601:16:34.800 --> 01:16:38.520
who had Attacked harvey is now indiscriminately slashing at anyone110701:16:38.600 --> 01:16:42.000
unwise enough to get. Close those that do can only110801:16:42.039 --> 01:16:45.479
cry out as arcs of blood erupt from newfound gashes110901:16:45.520 --> 01:16:48.800
in their. Person she's fairly certain no one's made it111001:16:48.800 --> 01:16:52.119
to the. Entrance the man is leaning against the stage111101:16:52.119 --> 01:16:56.720
Where troy fell, off licking his. Fingers joan can't hear111201:16:56.760 --> 01:16:59.800
it for the, music but it looks like he's. Laughing111301:17:00.720 --> 01:17:03.600
at this, point she's seen. Enough she drops back down111401:17:03.640 --> 01:17:06.840
behind the, bar a nauseous feeling rolling in her, stomach111501:17:07.079 --> 01:17:09.560
the taste of bile creeping up in the back of her.111601:17:09.600 --> 01:17:15.279
Throat troy is saying something what she asks him voice.111701:17:15.319 --> 01:17:21.520
TREMBLING i, said we gotta, go, man he, repeats go, Go,111801:17:23.039 --> 01:17:26.399
yeah they. Do she nods at. Him first things, first,111901:17:26.479 --> 01:17:29.199
Though she digs her phone out of her. Pocket we112001:17:29.279 --> 01:17:31.680
got to call the, police she tells, him having to112101:17:31.800 --> 01:17:34.319
use both hands to keep her phone steady while her112201:17:34.359 --> 01:17:39.159
thumb punches in nine one. One just make it. Quick oh,112301:17:39.279 --> 01:17:42.600
fuck oh. Shit she raises the phone to her. Ear112401:17:43.159 --> 01:17:46.159
here's the dial. Sound it can't take any more than112501:17:46.199 --> 01:17:48.840
a couple of, seconds but it feels like hours before112601:17:48.840 --> 01:17:52.760
she hears nine one. One what's your? Emergency joan is112701:17:52.800 --> 01:17:54.840
about to tell the operator on the other end what's,112801:17:54.880 --> 01:17:58.960
happening not that she's really all that sure. Herself when112901:17:59.000 --> 01:18:01.279
a body flies over the top of the bar and113001:18:01.359 --> 01:18:04.840
smashes into the shells behind, it glass and liquor rained113101:18:04.920 --> 01:18:08.119
down on her And, troy and the thrown woman falls113201:18:08.159 --> 01:18:13.079
dead at their. Feet troy, Screams she does, too feels113301:18:13.119 --> 01:18:15.359
it rip up and out of her. Throat in the,113401:18:15.439 --> 01:18:18.880
Chaos she throws her. Phone doesn't mean, to it just113501:18:18.960 --> 01:18:21.479
flies out of her. Hand she's about to go for113601:18:21.520 --> 01:18:25.119
it when the kitchen door swings. Open out walks a113701:18:25.159 --> 01:18:29.439
woman she's never seen. Before definitely isn't a new. Cook113801:18:30.239 --> 01:18:33.760
when she turns her dark eyes On, joan though the113901:18:33.840 --> 01:18:39.560
bartender knows she's one of. Them the horrible toothy smile114001:18:39.640 --> 01:18:44.199
the woman gives her is just. Confirmation on the, phone114101:18:44.239 --> 01:18:47.319
the operator is asking, hello are you?114201:18:47.359 --> 01:18:47.600
There.114301:18:47.760 --> 01:18:50.960
Hello it's a short walk from the kitchen door to114401:18:51.000 --> 01:18:53.880
the bar. Space the woman makes it with a confident,114501:18:53.920 --> 01:18:56.960
stride the chain connecting her nose ring to her ear114601:18:57.119 --> 01:19:01.039
bouncing with each. Step she's saying, something But joan can't114701:19:01.039 --> 01:19:03.319
make sense of. It not over the sound of her114801:19:03.359 --> 01:19:06.960
own heartbeat doesn't. Matter as soon as the woman reaches,114901:19:07.000 --> 01:19:09.960
her stepping Over troy like he's not even, there she115001:19:10.119 --> 01:19:12.239
dips and grabs her by the front of her tank,115101:19:12.279 --> 01:19:16.359
top hauls her up and to her. Feet she thrusts115201:19:16.399 --> 01:19:19.520
her back and against the. Bar it, hurts But joan115301:19:19.600 --> 01:19:22.319
has more to worry about than some lower back. Pain115401:19:23.279 --> 01:19:27.359
she's going to. Die she knows. It doesn't like, it115501:19:27.720 --> 01:19:31.239
but it's just a. Fact joan, figures, though that if115601:19:31.279 --> 01:19:33.880
she has to, die at the very, least she can115701:19:33.880 --> 01:19:37.680
fight like hell before it. Happens pour me something, Strong,115801:19:37.840 --> 01:19:42.600
Sweetie nosring is. Saying joan's response is to reach up115901:19:42.880 --> 01:19:45.479
snatch the chain in her fist and rip it down116001:19:45.600 --> 01:19:48.279
as hard as she. Can it tears from the, ear116101:19:48.560 --> 01:19:51.840
taking the piercing it's attached to with. It the woman,116201:19:51.960 --> 01:19:56.640
screams then she Slashes joan across the, chest leaving in116301:19:56.680 --> 01:20:00.800
the wake of her claws four angry red. Lines she's116401:20:00.880 --> 01:20:04.239
readying up for a second swipe When troy tackles her116501:20:04.319 --> 01:20:08.039
from the, left knocking her. Sideways it's a short lived.116601:20:08.119 --> 01:20:12.039
Victory Nose ring catches, herself shoves the dancer off her116701:20:12.039 --> 01:20:15.319
with such force that he's thrown back several feet and116801:20:15.439 --> 01:20:19.399
lands on his. Ass it Gives joan, time though her116901:20:19.439 --> 01:20:23.239
hands blindly search the bar behind. Her she finds a117001:20:23.279 --> 01:20:26.960
bottle the, tanga a gin she used For harvey's. Drink117101:20:27.880 --> 01:20:30.680
she seizes it by the neck just in time, too117201:20:30.920 --> 01:20:34.279
as Nose ring lunges back at her murderous intent in117301:20:34.399 --> 01:20:38.239
those abyssal. Eyes joan swings the, bottle connects it with117401:20:38.279 --> 01:20:41.840
the woman's, head an audible thunk that she can feel117501:20:41.880 --> 01:20:44.560
the whole way. Up her arm rings, out and she117601:20:44.720 --> 01:20:48.960
falls to the, side clutching the bar counter for. Support117701:20:49.079 --> 01:20:53.640
dazed but not, Dead joan drops the bottle and turns117801:20:54.000 --> 01:20:57.199
begins to run. Away she makes it maybe two feet117901:20:57.239 --> 01:21:00.319
before Nose rings slams into, her knocking her down to the.118001:21:00.359 --> 01:21:04.279
Floor Nose ring follows her down, too and lands right118101:21:04.319 --> 01:21:07.880
on top of. Her the bartender, rolls a move she118201:21:07.920 --> 01:21:11.079
immediately regrets as she stares up into the woman's hellish.118301:21:11.119 --> 01:21:16.159
Mouth drool drips from around her needlelike, teeth painted red118401:21:16.239 --> 01:21:19.760
already from a prior, Meal it hits her in the.118501:21:19.800 --> 01:21:23.560
Face despite her best efforts to shove the woman, off118601:21:23.840 --> 01:21:27.000
she can't manage to even make her. Budge all she118701:21:27.039 --> 01:21:30.239
can do is amuse. Her it seems as Nose ring.118801:21:30.439 --> 01:21:34.279
Laughs starving on the streets Of la doesn't seem like118901:21:34.319 --> 01:21:36.159
such a bad way to. Go all of a, sudden119001:21:36.960 --> 01:21:41.079
she glances up And joan follows her gaze Sees troy,119101:21:41.119 --> 01:21:44.560
again this time armed with the chef knife she uses119201:21:44.600 --> 01:21:48.760
to cut. Limes he shouts Something joan can't quite make it,119301:21:48.800 --> 01:21:52.000
out before plunging the knife down into the woman's. Back119401:21:52.479 --> 01:21:56.640
she cries out a, terrible high pitched, noise then slashes119501:21:56.680 --> 01:22:00.760
at the, dancer knocking him backward, again this time into119601:22:00.760 --> 01:22:04.359
where the counter wraps around toward the. Wall she rises119701:22:04.479 --> 01:22:08.239
up off the bartender rushes toward him and pins him119801:22:08.239 --> 01:22:12.079
to the wooden. Surface from her, back the knife glimmers119901:22:12.239 --> 01:22:15.439
like a singular beacon of. Hope it's All joan can120001:22:15.520 --> 01:22:18.079
do to struggle to her, feet the front of her120101:22:18.119 --> 01:22:21.680
tank top a mess of red and shredded. Fabric she120201:22:21.800 --> 01:22:24.520
takes the few steps forward she needs, to and then120301:22:24.600 --> 01:22:27.680
grabs hold of the knife's, handle yanking it from the woman's,120401:22:27.720 --> 01:22:31.079
flesh only to plunge it right back. In she manages120501:22:31.119 --> 01:22:34.399
to do this a second, time foul smelling black blood120601:22:34.439 --> 01:22:37.479
pouring from the holes in the woman's leather, jacket before120701:22:37.600 --> 01:22:42.279
Nose ring throws herself, backward Knocking joan back with. Her she,120801:22:42.359 --> 01:22:45.840
turns seizes the, bartender and throws her to the, side120901:22:46.039 --> 01:22:50.319
directly into the liquor. Shelves bottles. Fall joan feels a121001:22:50.359 --> 01:22:54.319
cut on her. Forehead stars dance in her vision before121101:22:54.439 --> 01:22:57.560
Nose ring can attack her, Again Though troy comes up from,121201:22:57.560 --> 01:23:01.439
behind smashing a glass over her. Head it does nothing121301:23:01.479 --> 01:23:04.560
but piss her off and distract, her which is All joan.121401:23:04.720 --> 01:23:07.880
Needs as the woman, turns the bartender pushes through the,121501:23:07.960 --> 01:23:11.680
pain she launches, forward seizes the knife once, again and121601:23:11.800 --> 01:23:16.760
returns to doing her. Best Norman bates, impression just fucking.121701:23:17.399 --> 01:23:21.319
Die her words are, desperate but they seem to do the.121801:23:21.359 --> 01:23:24.359
Trick she drives the knife in at an, angle feels121901:23:24.359 --> 01:23:26.800
it sink in all the way up to the. Handle122001:23:27.560 --> 01:23:31.000
Nose ring cries out, again but doesn't throw her off122101:23:31.079 --> 01:23:35.680
like last. Time, instead she slumps forward Against, troy then122201:23:35.840 --> 01:23:40.079
slips slowly to the. Side, finally she begins the short122301:23:40.159 --> 01:23:45.119
journey to the. Floor joan follows her, down breathing heavy122401:23:45.399 --> 01:23:48.720
tears stinging her, eyes and her hands still clutching the122501:23:48.760 --> 01:23:52.479
handle of the. Knife her right arm burns from. Exertion122601:23:53.640 --> 01:23:57.479
she might stay there forever on her. Knees troy grabs122701:23:57.479 --> 01:24:00.119
her by the, shoulder, though and hauls her to her.122801:24:00.119 --> 01:24:05.560
Feet she looks down at the woman the. Monster then122901:24:05.680 --> 01:24:08.039
she casts her eyes out at the club to see123001:24:08.079 --> 01:24:12.720
the unfettered violence unfolding from the other. Two it all123101:24:12.760 --> 01:24:18.520
seems simultaneously like a, dream yet it's painfully. Real come,123201:24:18.560 --> 01:24:21.760
on the dancer is, yelling even as she looks on123301:24:21.840 --> 01:24:24.119
at the. Slaughter joan is being pulled away from the123401:24:24.159 --> 01:24:28.279
bar and toward the kitchen. Door she doesn't, blink not,123501:24:28.520 --> 01:24:43.960
once until she's pulled through the. Door chapter, Eight dominic123601:24:44.079 --> 01:24:48.960
just needs. Money he's in COLLEGE. Csu dancing on the123701:24:48.960 --> 01:24:52.119
weekends is an, ideal but it makes him enough to pay,123801:24:52.119 --> 01:24:54.800
rent and at this point he has to accept that123901:24:54.880 --> 01:24:57.600
the five year plan he made in high school is124001:24:57.640 --> 01:25:01.159
going to have a few bumps along the, Way, okay124101:25:02.039 --> 01:25:06.319
a lot of, bumps such as not getting the job124201:25:06.399 --> 01:25:10.479
he wanted and having to settle for wings, endings and124301:25:11.039 --> 01:25:14.239
his girlfriend leaving him because she's going to go to124401:25:14.319 --> 01:25:16.800
college out of state and doesn't want to do the124501:25:16.880 --> 01:25:23.640
long distance, thing and people trying to kill. Him the124601:25:23.720 --> 01:25:26.720
last part comes as a. Surprise he has to admit124701:25:27.520 --> 01:25:30.439
he watches the chaos unfold and isn't sure what to.124801:25:30.520 --> 01:25:34.840
Do in just an electric blue, speedo he's not exactly124901:25:34.960 --> 01:25:38.680
dressed for a, fight all the, same the fight comes to.125001:25:38.800 --> 01:25:44.680
Him after killing that ex cop what's his, Name Harry Howard,125101:25:45.439 --> 01:25:49.479
harvey the mohawked woman cuts into the screaming crowd with125201:25:49.560 --> 01:25:54.399
abandon the man, too though he's further, away not the125301:25:54.439 --> 01:25:58.640
one that Reaches dominic. First he stands between himself and125401:25:58.680 --> 01:26:02.279
the bachelorette party's been entertaining for the past however, long125501:26:03.079 --> 01:26:06.960
it isn't his intention to protect. Them not, really he125601:26:07.079 --> 01:26:10.760
just hasn't had the chance to move. Yet now it's too.125701:26:10.840 --> 01:26:17.720
Late fear, true, fear pulse, pounding hair, raising, pants, Shitting125801:26:17.880 --> 01:26:23.159
fear floods every corner Of dominic's. Being he's about to start.125901:26:23.199 --> 01:26:25.960
Pleading it's about the only thing he can think to,126001:26:26.039 --> 01:26:29.000
do having Seen mohawk move a mile a minute without.126101:26:29.039 --> 01:26:33.239
Trouble when her hand reaches out at speed and grabs126201:26:33.239 --> 01:26:40.039
hold of, him his, balls, Specifically dominic, yelps high, pitched.126301:26:40.560 --> 01:26:44.680
Pained there's an intense pressure as the woman retracts her126401:26:44.720 --> 01:26:49.199
hand a tug and a. Pull his speedo is torn,126501:26:49.239 --> 01:26:53.560
away but it isn't. Alone he feels a, tearing a,126601:26:53.600 --> 01:26:57.399
SNAPPING a sound like a wounded animal rises up in his,126701:26:57.479 --> 01:27:00.840
throat but he can't manage to make more than a.126801:27:00.880 --> 01:27:07.000
Peep feeling, lightheaded his legs, shaking the dancer looks down126901:27:07.039 --> 01:27:13.439
at his now nude. Body there's his, cock, shrunken fear below,127001:27:13.520 --> 01:27:18.199
it a mess of. Red it paints his thighs and127101:27:18.239 --> 01:27:22.640
the floor at his. Feet he looks up slowly to127201:27:22.720 --> 01:27:25.880
Where mohawk is leering at him with a nightmarish grin127301:27:26.840 --> 01:27:30.800
in her right. Hand she rolls his testicles between her127401:27:30.800 --> 01:27:35.760
two long fingers like a coin. Trick he's fairly certain127501:27:35.800 --> 01:27:39.319
he's going to. Vomit dominic can feel his cheap lunch127601:27:39.359 --> 01:27:42.840
from McDonald's racing up from his stomach and flooding his127701:27:43.039 --> 01:27:48.880
esophagus before he, spews, though the hand holding his gonads127801:27:49.119 --> 01:27:53.640
strikes forward and clenches his, face contracting his jaw and127901:27:53.720 --> 01:27:58.680
holding his mouth. Shut dominic feels his testicles squish against his.128001:27:58.800 --> 01:28:03.439
Cheek one, pops not unlike a, grape spraying his skin128101:28:03.560 --> 01:28:06.760
with fluids he would rather not think. About he isn't128201:28:06.800 --> 01:28:12.319
sure how he's still. Conscious, Frankly dominic isn't wholly sure he.128301:28:12.520 --> 01:28:16.119
Is maybe this is all a, dream he tells, himself128401:28:16.359 --> 01:28:19.199
and he'll wake up in a cold sweat late for. Work,128501:28:20.119 --> 01:28:25.720
yeah that's. It mohawk's left hand plunges. Forward he thinks128601:28:25.760 --> 01:28:28.720
she just hit him in the, stomach but it's more than.128701:28:28.720 --> 01:28:33.279
That the pull of skin feels far more. Intense he128801:28:33.359 --> 01:28:36.640
can't move his head to, look, though so he's left128901:28:36.720 --> 01:28:40.920
blissfully unaware of the whole that's just been punched through his.129001:28:40.960 --> 01:28:46.359
Midsection his vision is fading any minute. Now he's going129101:28:46.399 --> 01:28:52.560
to wake. Up this isn't, real can't be any minute.129201:28:52.600 --> 01:29:05.880
Now chapter, Nine megan's bachelorette party is. Ruined, no that129301:29:06.000 --> 01:29:08.800
isn't the most pressing thing right, now but it's what129401:29:08.880 --> 01:29:12.359
she can't help but. Think her awesome and bright future129501:29:12.399 --> 01:29:17.199
had seemed so, close and now it's infinitely far. Away129601:29:18.159 --> 01:29:20.520
she doesn't even know if she's going to be alive much,129701:29:20.520 --> 01:29:25.239
longer let alone get married and have. Kids the blood129801:29:25.279 --> 01:29:27.199
of the stripper who had been giving her a lap129901:29:27.279 --> 01:29:29.760
dance soaks her front from the hole that had been130001:29:29.800 --> 01:29:33.800
punched through his chest and out his. Back at first,130101:29:33.840 --> 01:29:39.479
warm now it's cold and. Sticky eyeliner draws dark streaks130201:29:39.520 --> 01:29:42.560
down her face from the tears that refuse to stop.130301:29:42.640 --> 01:29:46.680
Falling the heavy set huddles behind the, stage closest to the.130401:29:46.720 --> 01:29:50.079
Bar jessica is right behind, her a hand on her.130501:29:50.119 --> 01:29:53.960
Back next in line Is. Zoe all three peer out130601:29:54.000 --> 01:29:57.039
at the, club at the living nightmare playing itself out130701:29:57.119 --> 01:30:00.560
before their very. Eyes she doesn't know what to. Do130801:30:01.199 --> 01:30:03.479
in the absence of a, plan all she does is130901:30:03.560 --> 01:30:07.479
sit there and. Watch not ten feet in front of,131001:30:07.479 --> 01:30:11.760
her there's mohawk all over a. Woman megan guesses she131101:30:11.800 --> 01:30:14.920
should count herself, lucky having not been chosen as the131201:30:14.960 --> 01:30:19.000
next victim in the woman's murder. Spree mohawk has her131301:30:19.039 --> 01:30:22.720
head thrust into the crook of the lady's, neck needlelike131401:30:22.880 --> 01:30:27.439
teeth digging into the, flesh throat flexing as she sucks down.131501:30:27.520 --> 01:30:32.760
Blood the victim is dead. Already her unseeing eyes stare131601:30:32.800 --> 01:30:37.199
blankly At, megan face frozen in a twisted expression of131701:30:37.319 --> 01:30:42.760
pain and. Horror her fate isn't. Unique there's bodies everywhere now.131801:30:43.479 --> 01:30:47.039
More by the minute people are, running they're. Screaming some131901:30:47.199 --> 01:30:50.520
slip on the gore that paints the ground land, sprawling132001:30:50.880 --> 01:30:53.399
get attacked before they can manage to get back to their.132101:30:53.399 --> 01:30:57.199
Feet others almost make it to the, door but end132201:30:57.279 --> 01:31:02.800
up stopped short by the man lingering. There others may132301:31:02.800 --> 01:31:05.600
be also wanting for a, plan do like she and132401:31:05.640 --> 01:31:09.079
her friends do and shelter in, place wait for their132501:31:09.159 --> 01:31:14.079
turn to. Die megan now knows how the cows at132601:31:14.119 --> 01:31:17.960
the slaughter house must, feel standing in, line listening to132701:31:18.000 --> 01:31:21.239
their fellows up ahead getting. Killed and what do they?132801:31:21.279 --> 01:31:27.319
Do the only thing they can do shuffle forward when132901:31:27.319 --> 01:31:32.840
it's their. TURN i called the police Comes jessica's trembling.133001:31:32.920 --> 01:31:37.479
Voice what are the police going to? Do zoe, asks133101:31:37.479 --> 01:31:42.600
in response her, words a wet croak, Die megan, thinks133201:31:43.279 --> 01:31:46.800
but she doesn't say. That she didn't Think RIHANNA'S s133301:31:46.840 --> 01:31:49.760
AND m would be the soundtrack to her. Death but then,133401:31:49.840 --> 01:31:53.119
again she also didn't think she would die in a strip,133501:31:53.159 --> 01:31:56.239
club or that the thing that would kill her would be.133601:31:57.159 --> 01:32:03.680
Monsters heart disease, maybe but not these pale. Horrors monsters133701:32:04.039 --> 01:32:07.359
the stuff Of hollywood movie magic And Stephen king. Novels133801:32:07.920 --> 01:32:11.000
But megan can't think of another word for these. Things133901:32:11.680 --> 01:32:16.640
they have fangs and claws and a hunger for. Blood they're.134001:32:16.680 --> 01:32:21.960
Monsters it isn't the scream that gets her, attention not134101:32:22.119 --> 01:32:25.680
with the chorus of them filling the. Club, no it's134201:32:25.720 --> 01:32:29.119
the reaction that both the attackers have to the. Scream134301:32:30.439 --> 01:32:35.039
they look, up puzzlement on their. Faces megan dares a134401:32:35.079 --> 01:32:38.840
look to the, bar sees the source of, it a134501:32:38.880 --> 01:32:43.720
woman being mercilessly stabbed by the. Bartender it doesn't take134601:32:43.760 --> 01:32:45.840
her having a front row seat to see that the134701:32:45.880 --> 01:32:49.560
woman is one of. Them her nasty teeth glimmer as she.134801:32:49.680 --> 01:32:55.359
Screams she looks, back sees the man mouthing. Something can't134901:32:55.399 --> 01:33:00.680
hear it for the. Music they're, distracted, though their chance135001:33:01.840 --> 01:33:05.960
come on while they're. Busy she finds herself saying shocked135101:33:06.039 --> 01:33:09.039
she has the ability to even plan something so, bold135201:33:09.359 --> 01:33:13.000
let alone. Enacted as her body begins to, move she135301:33:13.039 --> 01:33:16.640
doesn't get, up but rather begins to crawl on hands135401:33:16.680 --> 01:33:19.920
and knees to the. Left the floor is sticky with135501:33:20.000 --> 01:33:23.199
spilled beer and spilled, blood but that's the least of135601:33:23.239 --> 01:33:26.680
her concerns right. Now there's a bathroom on this side135701:33:26.720 --> 01:33:30.199
of the, club between a set of. Booths she doesn't135801:33:30.239 --> 01:33:32.279
know if they'll have a window or, what but it's135901:33:32.279 --> 01:33:35.000
closer to the front door at, least and gets them136001:33:35.039 --> 01:33:39.199
out of sight for a moment or. Two megan glances136101:33:39.239 --> 01:33:42.760
over her shoulder to make sure her friends are. Following they,136201:33:42.800 --> 01:33:46.760
are she's relieved to. Find she directs her eyes forward136301:33:46.760 --> 01:33:51.079
again continues on her. Way she can barely hear the music,136401:33:51.159 --> 01:33:54.000
now her heart pounding in her ears like a snare.136501:33:54.079 --> 01:33:57.239
Drum she doesn't know if the monsters can see. Her136601:33:57.880 --> 01:34:02.239
she can only hope that they can hand and if they, can,136701:34:03.399 --> 01:34:07.520
well she's sure they'll let her. Know she reaches the,136801:34:07.560 --> 01:34:13.680
booths twists right and continues crawling not far. Now her136901:34:13.680 --> 01:34:18.079
breath comes and shutterers snot runs down her. Chin Maybe137001:34:18.199 --> 01:34:21.239
zoe's earlier concern for Where amy had gotten off to137101:34:21.800 --> 01:34:27.359
hadn't been just her worrying over. Nothing Oh, God, amy137201:34:28.520 --> 01:34:32.920
they left her out, front the same front these things entered. From,137301:34:34.039 --> 01:34:38.359
no she can't dwell on. That, now there's time to mourn.137401:34:38.479 --> 01:34:43.000
Later the booth ends And megan follows it around to137501:34:43.039 --> 01:34:46.399
the sticky leather. Back the archway for the bathrooms is137601:34:46.439 --> 01:34:49.199
in front of, her but she doesn't come up off her. Knees,137701:34:49.840 --> 01:34:53.479
instead she keeps crawling right on right for the, women137801:34:53.720 --> 01:34:57.520
left for the. Men even though the circumstances maybe allowed137901:34:57.600 --> 01:35:00.640
that she can choose whichever she wants May meagan still138001:35:00.640 --> 01:35:03.960
ops for the door on the. Right she almost makes138101:35:04.000 --> 01:35:07.079
it there when there's a loud thud not far behind,138201:35:07.119 --> 01:35:11.960
her too close for. Comfort megan wouldn't even look dead138301:35:12.039 --> 01:35:15.079
set on making it to the bathroom if it weren't138401:35:15.079 --> 01:35:18.640
for the sound Of zoe. Screaming she turns, around feels138501:35:18.640 --> 01:35:21.439
all the breath and her lungs. Vacate the woman with138601:35:21.520 --> 01:35:24.359
the mohawk has the brunette pinned to the wall has138701:35:24.479 --> 01:35:27.359
ripped her right off the floor so that her feet are.138801:35:27.439 --> 01:35:31.560
Dangling zoe stares at, her and she in turn stares At.138901:35:31.640 --> 01:35:36.119
Zoe if she And jessica both Rushed, mohawk then maybe139001:35:36.319 --> 01:35:38.840
they could knock her, back grab the, brunette and make139101:35:38.880 --> 01:35:41.239
it into the bathroom in time to barricade the. Door139201:35:42.159 --> 01:35:45.840
it's a big. Maybe more likely they'll all three of139301:35:45.880 --> 01:35:51.239
them die in quick. Succession zoe mouths, something it looks like.139401:35:52.199 --> 01:35:59.279
Help megan mouths something, Back i'm. Sorry she turns quickly139501:35:59.319 --> 01:36:01.800
and grabs the door handle for the, bathroom uses it139601:36:01.800 --> 01:36:04.239
to hoist herself up to her, feet then shoves it139701:36:04.319 --> 01:36:09.439
open and clamors. Inside jessica follows close, behind almost tripping139801:36:09.439 --> 01:36:12.479
on her heels as she. Does she manages to push139901:36:12.479 --> 01:36:15.119
the door shut and twist the lock just in time140001:36:15.479 --> 01:36:18.079
For mohawk to crash into it from the other, side140101:36:18.319 --> 01:36:23.199
denting the metal inward toward. Them both blonde scream then.140201:36:24.880 --> 01:36:29.119
Silence it's almost as deafening as the music and screaming140301:36:29.119 --> 01:36:32.239
had been with a locked. Door megan feels the promise140401:36:32.319 --> 01:36:39.720
of relative safety we Left. Zoe jessica says that safety140501:36:39.760 --> 01:36:45.000
seems to vanish with her friend's, words, Yeah megan, stammers140601:36:45.920 --> 01:36:50.960
what else can she? Say we left? Her. Yeah When140701:36:51.039 --> 01:36:54.479
megan repeats, herself the word. Cracks the tears are falling.140801:36:54.520 --> 01:36:59.960
Again did they ever actually? Stop something slams into the door.140901:37:00.119 --> 01:37:03.960
Again both women. Jump she thinks it's mohawk at, first141001:37:04.000 --> 01:37:08.439
but then she hears the loud, groan the, whimper the141101:37:08.520 --> 01:37:13.000
pleading from the other. Side the woman is using zoe141201:37:13.279 --> 01:37:17.399
as a battering. Ram the second hit comes and it sounds.141301:37:18.000 --> 01:37:22.960
Wetter maybe that's Just megan's, imagination but it. Does both141401:37:23.000 --> 01:37:26.159
her And jessica cry out in, desperation but their words141501:37:26.159 --> 01:37:30.000
aren't going to help. Here there just isn't a lot141601:37:30.039 --> 01:37:35.439
to do otherwise except try and. Escape it's a small.141701:37:35.439 --> 01:37:38.680
Bathroom one quick turn And megan has taken stock of141801:37:38.720 --> 01:37:41.159
all she needs to a row of sinks on the141901:37:41.199 --> 01:37:44.840
wall by the, door four stalls opposite. Them the strip142001:37:44.880 --> 01:37:47.119
of floor in the middle leads to a small window142101:37:47.199 --> 01:37:49.760
up near the, ceiling and that's where the heavy set142201:37:49.800 --> 01:37:52.760
blonde runs, to looking up at it with a foolish142301:37:52.840 --> 01:37:57.239
expression of hope briefly crossing her face before reality comes crashing.142401:37:57.279 --> 01:38:02.359
In she won't. Fit it isn't even worth. Experimenting she142501:38:02.439 --> 01:38:06.600
can tell from where she's. Standing help me, Up jessica,142601:38:06.680 --> 01:38:12.319
says as she sidesteps her. Friend JESS i won't, fit she,142701:38:12.479 --> 01:38:17.399
responds tears choking her. WORDS i. Will the other blonde,142801:38:17.439 --> 01:38:20.600
answers and AND i can run and get us. Help142901:38:21.000 --> 01:38:24.920
the door should hold until. THEN i won't, Fit, jessica143001:38:25.520 --> 01:38:28.960
help me. Up trying to hold back her sobs as143101:38:29.000 --> 01:38:32.760
best she, can but failing, Miserably megan kneels down and143201:38:32.840 --> 01:38:36.760
clasps her hands together For jessica to step. Into once she,143301:38:36.920 --> 01:38:39.760
does the heavy set blonde uses the wall for support143401:38:40.119 --> 01:38:43.079
and gives her a. LIFT a third bang rings out143501:38:43.079 --> 01:38:46.640
from the. Door there's no more groaning that follows. It143601:38:47.399 --> 01:38:51.439
jessica opens the window and thrusts her head. Out all,143701:38:51.560 --> 01:38:55.159
right just lift a bit, more she, instructs voice slightly.143801:38:55.239 --> 01:38:58.920
Muffled megan, does even as the fear of being alone143901:38:59.039 --> 01:39:03.680
starts to creep. In this is, it she, thinks the.144001:39:03.880 --> 01:39:09.640
End no, wedding no, honeymoon no big, house no. Kids144101:39:10.640 --> 01:39:13.520
she pushes her would be made of. Honor further, up144201:39:13.960 --> 01:39:17.479
hears her loudly complain as her tits make squeezing through144301:39:17.479 --> 01:39:21.920
the narrow slot. Difficult once they're, through, though it's smooth.144401:39:22.000 --> 01:39:25.920
Sailing at a, point gravity takes, over And jessica just144501:39:25.960 --> 01:39:29.399
slips From megan's. Hands as she topples through the. Window144601:39:30.479 --> 01:39:32.920
she hears the other blonde let out a loud yell144701:39:33.039 --> 01:39:35.800
from the other side of the wall as she tumbles144801:39:35.880 --> 01:39:39.000
to the. Ground the next bang that comes from the144901:39:39.000 --> 01:39:43.800
bathroom door is rougher. Louder it Isn't zoe this, time145001:39:44.399 --> 01:39:48.560
But mohawk. Herself megan is sure of. It are you,145101:39:48.600 --> 01:39:54.720
okay she calls toward the. Window, Yeah jessica, answers sounding145201:39:54.760 --> 01:39:57.880
like she's in. Pain, Okay i'm going to get, help145301:39:58.039 --> 01:40:02.439
just hang on if she announces her, intentions the bathroom145401:40:02.479 --> 01:40:06.279
door finally gives up the fight and slams, open bent and,145501:40:06.439 --> 01:40:09.880
ugly but not so much as the woman who stands145601:40:09.920 --> 01:40:23.479
in the opening and Flashes megan her awful. Smile chapter, Ten.145701:40:25.399 --> 01:40:25.520
Car.145801:40:25.680 --> 01:40:30.439
Thirteen Respond Officer Chase perry's cruiser is parked on the145901:40:30.479 --> 01:40:33.239
side of the road at the intersection Of detroit In146001:40:33.319 --> 01:40:36.960
west twenty eighth Between Linda's market And North High. Brewing146101:40:37.560 --> 01:40:39.920
he's got the rear view mirror adjusted so he can146201:40:39.960 --> 01:40:43.560
see his. Face his fingers aggressively working at a ZiT146301:40:43.640 --> 01:40:46.800
on his. Chin when the call comes over the, motorola146401:40:47.760 --> 01:40:50.760
his left hand drops to the remote microphone clip to his,146501:40:50.880 --> 01:40:54.600
chest squeezing the button on. It his right stays with146601:40:54.680 --> 01:40:59.399
the angry red. Bump this Is car, thirteen he, Says, Hey,146701:40:59.520 --> 01:41:02.920
chase the voice of Dispatcher Tim moore is a welcome146801:41:02.960 --> 01:41:07.279
one to interrupt the otherwise boring. Night only kind of Night, chase,146901:41:07.319 --> 01:41:11.199
ever seems to get keep him busy out. There, no he.147001:41:11.319 --> 01:41:13.920
Isn't it's his third month on the job and he's147101:41:14.000 --> 01:41:17.199
yet to see any real. Action part of him supposes147201:41:17.199 --> 01:41:20.119
he would count himself lucky for, that but His Clint147301:41:20.119 --> 01:41:24.279
eastwood fantasies are going woefully. Unfulfilled brought up on the147401:41:24.319 --> 01:41:27.840
stories his father would bring. Home the Senior, perry also a,147501:41:27.920 --> 01:41:31.279
cop he's been itchin to kick ass and take names147601:41:31.279 --> 01:41:36.920
since he graduated the. Academy hasn't happened, Yet, NonStop you147701:41:37.039 --> 01:41:39.840
actually just caught me on the heel of thwarting a bank, Robbery,147801:41:39.880 --> 01:41:43.199
tim he, says it's like an action movie out. HERE147901:41:43.199 --> 01:41:45.760
i tell, you, WELL i hope you can fit this148001:41:45.840 --> 01:41:49.920
into your. Schedule then got uh two calls both from148101:41:49.920 --> 01:41:53.239
that place On Frankfort, Avenue Wings. Endings you know the148201:41:53.279 --> 01:41:56.880
place Mail strip. Club, yeah don't you go? There a148301:41:56.880 --> 01:42:00.840
lot hor, horror funny. Guy first caller didn't say, anything148401:42:00.880 --> 01:42:03.640
but the second said she was being attacked By let148501:42:03.640 --> 01:42:06.760
me check, here SO i get this, Right, yeah right,148601:42:06.800 --> 01:42:11.159
HERE i jotted it down. Monsters sounds like you're getting148701:42:11.159 --> 01:42:15.079
crank called my. Dude sounds like, that don't. IT i148801:42:15.119 --> 01:42:17.920
figure it's either that or a possible ten to. Nine148901:42:18.079 --> 01:42:22.239
you got, Narcan, yeah somewhere in here might need. THAT149001:42:22.399 --> 01:42:24.479
i don't. Know check it out in radio, back will?149101:42:24.520 --> 01:42:28.600
You only because you asked so? Nicely what's the? Address149201:42:29.239 --> 01:42:31.800
tim feeds it to him And chase punches it into THE,149301:42:31.840 --> 01:42:36.439
gps then releases the microphone and sighs. Loudly he twists149401:42:36.479 --> 01:42:39.319
the mirror back into, place puts the cruiser into, drive149501:42:39.800 --> 01:42:43.199
and pulls away from the. Curb this fucking zid is149601:42:43.239 --> 01:42:46.520
going to drive him, insane that, is if the boredom149701:42:46.560 --> 01:42:49.399
doesn't do the job. First he takes the right up,149801:42:49.479 --> 01:42:53.079
ahead veering onto the ramp for The Cleveland Memorial. Shoreway149901:42:53.560 --> 01:42:55.680
it connects the west bank to the east bank of the.150001:42:55.720 --> 01:43:00.359
Flats he punches. It no siren doesn't see why he need.150101:43:00.399 --> 01:43:05.920
It the speedometer climbs fifty sixty, seventy keeps. Going he150201:43:06.000 --> 01:43:09.520
switches lanes to pass a slower, car moves back without.150301:43:09.560 --> 01:43:12.800
Signaling the city passes by him on the, right a150401:43:12.840 --> 01:43:16.520
blur of brick and concrete and, steel but mostly. Decay150501:43:17.279 --> 01:43:21.319
Lake erie on the, left unbothered and, unmoved just sitting there.150601:43:22.000 --> 01:43:25.640
Stinking it isn't like he thought he would be kicking150701:43:25.680 --> 01:43:27.720
down the door of drug dens and cleaning up the150801:43:27.760 --> 01:43:31.720
streets with good old fashioned. Steel, okay maybe that is150901:43:31.760 --> 01:43:35.439
what he. Thought chase's FAVORITE tv show Is The. Shield151001:43:35.760 --> 01:43:39.439
he could be a, younger more Handsome Michael. Chicklis he's151101:43:39.479 --> 01:43:42.880
still holding out hope. Anyway it's early in his. Career151201:43:43.359 --> 01:43:45.680
he's got the smell of the academy on, him that's.151301:43:45.720 --> 01:43:48.800
All once he's a bit more, experienced has a few151401:43:48.880 --> 01:43:51.039
notches in his, belt the brass will be putting him151501:43:51.039 --> 01:43:54.279
on all the big dick. Jobs the local gangbangers will151601:43:54.279 --> 01:43:57.720
find out that he's one bad ombre be nice if151701:43:57.720 --> 01:44:01.239
his complexion could clear up before. Then chase can't think151801:44:01.279 --> 01:44:04.960
of a single badass with. Acne he goes from the151901:44:05.000 --> 01:44:07.680
passing lane to the exit ramp and one fell, swoop152001:44:08.079 --> 01:44:11.760
cresting down Toward Lakeside avenue before turning left Onto west.152101:44:11.840 --> 01:44:15.479
Sixth he blows through the intersection With Saint Clair, avenue152201:44:15.800 --> 01:44:17.880
and then it's just a little bit further before HIS152301:44:17.960 --> 01:44:21.079
gps is telling him to turn right on To. Frankfort152401:44:22.079 --> 01:44:24.199
maybe when he's done with this bogus, call he'll pick152501:44:24.279 --> 01:44:27.279
up a late lunch and a tube of clearasil for152601:44:27.319 --> 01:44:30.960
this goddamn. ZiT he's still squeezing it with his right152701:44:31.000 --> 01:44:33.399
hand when he spots the blonde running out from the152801:44:33.439 --> 01:44:37.560
side of wings endings and directly into the. Avenue chase152901:44:37.600 --> 01:44:40.720
doesn't have time to, stop but he tries. Anyway he153001:44:40.840 --> 01:44:43.199
slams on the brakes a lot of good it does.153101:44:43.279 --> 01:44:47.840
Him he's going fifty and the cruiser. Skids all he153201:44:47.960 --> 01:44:50.680
sees is her hair lit up in the, beams her153301:44:50.760 --> 01:44:55.319
wide dough eyed. Expression then he feels the sudden jolt153401:44:55.760 --> 01:44:59.439
as the front end connects with her body and he's thrust,153501:44:59.479 --> 01:45:15.279
forward headbutting the steering. Wheel everything goes. Black chapter. Eleven153601:45:17.279 --> 01:45:20.399
Both joan And troy cry out in horror when they153701:45:20.479 --> 01:45:24.000
see the state of the Cook, scottie strewn across the153801:45:24.039 --> 01:45:27.840
prep table like so much meat and clearly. Dead his153901:45:27.960 --> 01:45:31.119
throat is torn open and blood soaks his apron not154001:45:31.239 --> 01:45:34.840
to mention the clothes beneath, it realizing that they might154101:45:34.920 --> 01:45:37.960
share his fate soon enough if the. Idle, though both154201:45:38.000 --> 01:45:40.520
the bartender and the dancer managed to get over their154301:45:40.560 --> 01:45:44.520
shock and press on, wordlessly assuring one another that the154401:45:44.560 --> 01:45:47.000
only thing they can think about right now is getting154501:45:47.000 --> 01:45:50.479
the hell out of wings and. Dings they push the154601:45:50.479 --> 01:45:53.319
freezer in front of the kitchen, door both needing to154701:45:53.359 --> 01:45:55.640
work together to move the thing despite it being on.154801:45:55.720 --> 01:45:58.920
Wheels it probably won't help them in the long, run154901:45:58.920 --> 01:46:01.479
but it might buy them so, time and that's a155001:46:01.520 --> 01:46:05.760
precious commodity right. Now, afterward taking a moment to, Breathe155101:46:06.119 --> 01:46:10.159
troy Inspects joan's. Wounds normally she might take a fence155201:46:10.199 --> 01:46:13.680
to a guy oggling her, chest but this one time155301:46:13.840 --> 01:46:16.600
she isn't going to raise a stink over. It he155401:46:16.640 --> 01:46:20.800
reaches out and peels shredded fabric. Away every little touch.155501:46:20.920 --> 01:46:25.119
Stings there are exactly four gashes that have been drawn155601:46:25.159 --> 01:46:28.039
into her, flesh stretching from the top left of her155701:46:28.079 --> 01:46:32.239
rib cage up over her right, tit stopping just short155801:46:32.279 --> 01:46:35.560
of her. Shoulder they don't seem to be bleeding anymore at,155901:46:35.640 --> 01:46:40.279
least but they're going to leave wicked. Scars that's. Okay156001:46:40.840 --> 01:46:46.359
she can live with. Scars do you feel? Okay do?156101:46:46.479 --> 01:46:49.880
You joan manages a bark of laughter that turns into156201:46:49.960 --> 01:46:53.159
a half. Sob she has to keep reminding herself not156301:46:53.319 --> 01:46:58.039
to break down into. Tears, No jesus, Fucked. Joan what156401:46:58.079 --> 01:47:01.239
the fuck is wrong with their? TEETH i don't, KNOW156501:47:01.640 --> 01:47:05.399
i don't. Know and their fucking. Eyes Man harry shot.156601:47:05.439 --> 01:47:08.279
THEM i saw him shoot. Them he shot that lady156701:47:08.439 --> 01:47:13.920
like six fucking. Times joan's hands physically grasp its straws156801:47:13.920 --> 01:47:17.520
while she, speaks trying desperately to find any sense in156901:47:17.600 --> 01:47:22.079
what's going on. Here it seems. Impossible they've left the157001:47:22.119 --> 01:47:24.720
realm of real and accepted fact in the rear. View157101:47:25.640 --> 01:47:29.239
they are in the land of. Nightmares now we gotta get,157201:47:29.279 --> 01:47:34.520
out get, Help, yes they. Do, nodding snorting snot back157301:47:34.560 --> 01:47:37.600
into her, Nose joan pushes herself up from where she's157401:47:37.640 --> 01:47:40.920
been leaning against the wall as the adrenaline of the157501:47:40.960 --> 01:47:44.079
previous fight With nosring begins the pain in her chest157601:47:44.159 --> 01:47:47.800
becomes more and more. Apparent she tries to push it157701:47:47.800 --> 01:47:50.319
out of her mind for, now but the throbbing ache157801:47:50.359 --> 01:47:53.560
isn't making it. Easy the back door of the bar157901:47:53.760 --> 01:47:56.279
is located in the far right corner by the walk158001:47:56.279 --> 01:47:59.439
In their path takes them past where they've moved the.158101:47:59.479 --> 01:48:03.359
Freezer As troy passes in front of, it it launches,158201:48:03.439 --> 01:48:06.960
forward clipping the dancer and sending him. Sprawling he tries158301:48:07.000 --> 01:48:09.840
to catch himself on a, table but, fails ends up158401:48:09.920 --> 01:48:12.560
hitting his knees with the air knocked out of. Him158501:48:12.800 --> 01:48:15.640
the freezer connects with the opposite wall so hard That158601:48:15.720 --> 01:48:18.920
joan is. Shocked it doesn't go right through. It it bounces,158701:48:18.960 --> 01:48:21.840
back rolling a foot or so before coming to a.158801:48:21.880 --> 01:48:26.760
Stop it's the. Man he holds the kitchen door, open158901:48:27.119 --> 01:48:29.800
letting the noise of the club behind spill in for159001:48:29.880 --> 01:48:33.600
a moment before he steps forward and it swings. Closed159101:48:34.319 --> 01:48:38.840
she sees, him but more, pressing he sees. Her there's159201:48:38.960 --> 01:48:41.479
rage in those black voids he has in place of.159301:48:41.560 --> 01:48:45.960
Eyes it's etched into his face. Too he, moves and in,159401:48:46.000 --> 01:48:52.039
turn so does she cat meat. Mouse his stride brings159501:48:52.119 --> 01:48:55.720
him forward at an impossible speed And joan only narrowly159601:48:55.760 --> 01:48:59.199
avoids him by diving to the. Left the freezer's in159701:48:59.239 --> 01:49:01.920
the middle of the floor or blocking any easy, escape159801:49:01.960 --> 01:49:05.760
so thinking, fast she clambers up and onto the flat top,159901:49:05.840 --> 01:49:09.439
grill thankful the club never uses the, thing and crawls.160001:49:09.479 --> 01:49:12.840
Forward she makes it to the end before he snatches160101:49:12.880 --> 01:49:16.000
her by the ankle one quick, tug causing her to160201:49:16.079 --> 01:49:18.680
land flat on her gut and her head to dangle160301:49:18.720 --> 01:49:22.199
over the deep. Frier the sizzle pop of three hundred160401:49:22.199 --> 01:49:26.439
and fifty degree oil just feet below her. Face the160501:49:26.439 --> 01:49:29.880
metal guard that lines the, flattop meant to keep grease160601:49:29.880 --> 01:49:33.399
from splashing, out cuts into her neck causes her to.160701:49:33.520 --> 01:49:36.479
Choke she grabs hold of it as she's, pulled but160801:49:36.560 --> 01:49:39.840
it doesn't. Help it bends as she holds on for dear.160901:49:39.920 --> 01:49:43.960
Life then her fingers begins slipping the side of the161001:49:44.000 --> 01:49:47.199
guard that faces the deep friar slick with residual. Grease161101:49:47.960 --> 01:49:51.760
she Curses scottie and his shoddy cleanup job right before161201:49:51.800 --> 01:49:57.079
she loses her grip. Entirely she Hears troy yell call161301:49:57.159 --> 01:50:00.720
the man a. Motherfucker the hand on her ankle lets161401:50:00.800 --> 01:50:04.720
up with the almost simultaneous sound of a. Scuffle joan161501:50:04.760 --> 01:50:07.000
doesn't look back to see what the dancer is done161601:50:07.039 --> 01:50:09.960
to earn her her. Freedom she just claws her way161701:50:10.000 --> 01:50:12.479
forward and then off the grill and on to her,161801:50:12.520 --> 01:50:16.479
Feet thinking, fast her heart beating a mile a, minute161901:50:16.560 --> 01:50:19.199
she grabs a pot from a shelf and thrusts it162001:50:19.239 --> 01:50:23.439
into the deep fryer just in time. Too troy flies162101:50:23.479 --> 01:50:26.640
by behind her. Throne as she. Turns the man is,162201:50:26.720 --> 01:50:31.319
there barely a few feet separating. Them joan swings the162301:50:31.359 --> 01:50:33.520
pot up and out of the deep, fryer filled with,162401:50:33.560 --> 01:50:36.359
oil and douses the left side of the man's face with.162501:50:36.399 --> 01:50:43.039
It he doesn't, scream he, roars stumbling back with both162601:50:43.079 --> 01:50:45.880
hands reaching for where his pale skin is now turning162701:50:46.000 --> 01:50:50.560
pink and. Red ugly blisters already begin to. Form the162801:50:50.600 --> 01:50:54.279
bartender could press her, luck but chooses not. To the162901:50:54.359 --> 01:50:57.239
pot clatters to the, floor and she turns and sprints163001:50:57.279 --> 01:51:01.399
toward the back, door ripping it. Open only then does163101:51:01.439 --> 01:51:04.760
she look For troy and finds him struggling to his163201:51:04.840 --> 01:51:08.560
feet by the walk. In come on that seems to163301:51:08.600 --> 01:51:11.520
do the. Trick he pushes himself off the, wall practically163401:51:11.560 --> 01:51:15.319
throwing himself toward the. Door he isn't fast. Enough. Though163501:51:16.079 --> 01:51:18.720
something hits the other side of the. Door joan can163601:51:18.760 --> 01:51:22.600
only assume it's the. Man whatever it, is it's heavy163701:51:23.279 --> 01:51:25.840
enough to throw the bartender out and into the. Alley163801:51:26.640 --> 01:51:30.720
the door slams loudly shut behind. Her she stumbles over163901:51:30.760 --> 01:51:33.560
her own feet ends up landing flat on her Ass.164001:51:34.680 --> 01:51:39.920
Troy she screams it voice. Horse it's too, Late though164101:51:40.359 --> 01:51:42.720
the rational part of her brain knows that for a,164201:51:42.800 --> 01:51:46.119
fact even if she went back in, there it only164301:51:46.159 --> 01:51:49.520
served to get them both. Killed there's still a piece164401:51:49.560 --> 01:51:51.840
of her that wants to try and save the, dancer164501:51:51.920 --> 01:51:56.760
though there just wouldn't be anything left to. Save back164601:51:56.800 --> 01:51:59.760
on her, Feet joan begins to. Run it's all she164701:51:59.800 --> 01:52:03.600
can do at this. Point chunky boots thud heavily against164801:52:03.640 --> 01:52:05.920
the ground as she rounds the side of the club164901:52:06.119 --> 01:52:09.159
and makes her way toward the. Street there's a car,165001:52:09.199 --> 01:52:12.920
there she, sees parked in the middle of the. Avenue165101:52:12.920 --> 01:52:15.399
only as she draws a little closer does she see165201:52:15.399 --> 01:52:18.079
that it's a police. Cruiser the light bar on the,165301:52:18.119 --> 01:52:22.079
top not on the front, end is dented. Inward a165401:52:22.159 --> 01:52:25.239
blonde crumpled on the ground in front of. It the165501:52:25.319 --> 01:52:28.199
presumed owner of the. CAR a cop is sat on the.165601:52:28.279 --> 01:52:31.920
Curb joan doesn't stop running until she's in front of.165701:52:31.960 --> 01:52:37.000
Him he's, younger younger than, her even there are tears165801:52:37.119 --> 01:52:40.079
running down his cheeks and a deep cut across his.165901:52:40.159 --> 01:52:45.119
FOREHEAD i didn't see, her he, says voice a wet.166001:52:45.199 --> 01:52:49.479
Mumble he gestures. Hopelessly it isn't my.166101:52:49.640 --> 01:52:50.640
FAULT i didn't see.166201:52:50.680 --> 01:52:54.720
Her we need to, go she. Says the scene is166301:52:54.760 --> 01:52:58.479
shockingly normal compared to what's coming for. Them it barely166401:52:58.560 --> 01:53:01.640
even catches her off guard the way she sees. It166501:53:01.680 --> 01:53:05.600
they can worry about vehicular, homicide accidental or not later166601:53:05.960 --> 01:53:09.600
when there aren't monsters around trying to kill. THEM i166701:53:09.720 --> 01:53:13.640
didn't see, her the cop, repeats wiping his nose on166801:53:13.680 --> 01:53:17.439
the back of his, arm leaving a streak of snot shut,166901:53:17.520 --> 01:53:21.399
up shut. Up we have to go. Now he isn't.167001:53:21.439 --> 01:53:25.720
Moving something is. Though she catches it in her vision167101:53:25.760 --> 01:53:29.840
and looks up the. Man he's strolling down the side167201:53:29.840 --> 01:53:34.439
of the, building now coming right toward. Them there's nothing167301:53:34.479 --> 01:53:37.479
to do for the, cop she. Decides she leaves him167401:53:37.520 --> 01:53:39.960
to sit on the curb and half, walks half runs167501:53:40.119 --> 01:53:43.600
to the open driver's side door of his. Cruiser the167601:53:43.720 --> 01:53:47.239
keys in the ignition the engine still. On the air167701:53:47.279 --> 01:53:50.600
bag isn't, deployed and for that she's at least. Grateful167801:53:51.319 --> 01:53:54.520
despite all the computers and radios and, shit she's fairly167901:53:54.560 --> 01:53:58.039
certain it drives just like a normal. Car she slams168001:53:58.079 --> 01:54:00.520
the door shut just in time to cut out the168101:54:00.520 --> 01:54:03.600
surprise scream of the cop as he's jerked in one168201:54:03.640 --> 01:54:06.039
fluid motion from where he'd been sat on the curb168301:54:06.319 --> 01:54:10.479
and into the, air feet dangling off the, ground foot168401:54:10.479 --> 01:54:12.800
on the. Brake joan throws it out of park and into,168501:54:12.840 --> 01:54:16.039
reverse slams on the gas once she, has and begins168601:54:16.079 --> 01:54:19.399
flying backward from the. Scene she backs right up into168701:54:19.399 --> 01:54:21.479
a car parked on the other side of the, avenue168801:54:21.760 --> 01:54:24.520
gives herself a, jolt but is no worse for, wear168901:54:24.920 --> 01:54:28.119
at least she doesn't think. So in the beams of the,169001:54:28.159 --> 01:54:32.560
headlights she sees the dead blonde curled up on the,169101:54:32.600 --> 01:54:39.159
asphalt the cop feet kicking, hopelessly the man face buried169201:54:39.199 --> 01:54:42.760
in his. Throat the thought to hit the attacker with169301:54:42.840 --> 01:54:45.920
the car crosses her, mind but she isn't confident it169401:54:45.920 --> 01:54:48.319
would do anything other than leave her without an escape,169501:54:48.399 --> 01:54:52.319
vehicle so when she puts the cruiser in, drive she169601:54:52.439 --> 01:54:55.720
turns the, wheel avoiding the scene entirely as she guns169701:54:55.760 --> 01:54:58.239
it for the end of the. Avenue she doesn't know169801:54:58.279 --> 01:55:03.119
where she'll, go knows that anywhere is better than. Here169901:55:04.399 --> 01:55:07.359
she barely slows down as she veers right Onto west,170001:55:07.439 --> 01:55:12.000
ninth the tires squealing. Loudly joan almost loses control of the,170101:55:12.119 --> 01:55:15.720
vehicle but manages to keep it in. Check she's done.170201:55:15.720 --> 01:55:19.800
It she thinks she's made it. Out excitement explodes up170301:55:19.840 --> 01:55:22.640
from deep inside, her and she begins slamming her hand170401:55:22.640 --> 01:55:27.279
against the steering wheel while screaming. Expletives That's, joan a.170501:55:27.399 --> 01:55:30.680
Survivor she makes it as far as the intersection With170601:55:30.720 --> 01:55:33.560
Saint clair when there's a heavy thud on the roof170701:55:33.600 --> 01:55:36.239
of the, vehicle like the car has been struck with a.170801:55:36.319 --> 01:55:40.079
Meteor the surprise catches her to, panic and she twists the,170901:55:40.079 --> 01:55:44.239
wheel almost hits another park, car but manages to straighten171001:55:44.279 --> 01:55:48.000
out her trajectory in time to avoid the. Collision she's171101:55:48.039 --> 01:55:52.399
heading Down Saint, clair now Toward west. Tenth denial sets171201:55:52.439 --> 01:55:56.199
in tries to, anyway it quickly makes itself scarce when171301:55:56.239 --> 01:55:59.319
a fist comes from nowhere and smacks into the. Windshield171401:56:00.119 --> 01:56:03.159
the first hit doesn't, shatter it just makes a round171501:56:03.199 --> 01:56:05.600
break in the center of her, vision from which a171601:56:05.720 --> 01:56:09.640
hundred little cracks spiderweb out From the second, hit, though171701:56:10.159 --> 01:56:15.159
comes right through fingers topped with thick. Nails no claws171801:56:15.359 --> 01:56:17.560
reach for, her and she has to lean all the171901:56:17.600 --> 01:56:21.680
way back to avoid their. Grasp, Screaming joan does the172001:56:21.720 --> 01:56:24.800
only thing she can think to, do which is step on.172101:56:24.920 --> 01:56:28.319
It the speedometer climbs as she makes short work of the.172201:56:28.359 --> 01:56:31.560
Avenue at the bend Where Saint clair Becomes Old River,172301:56:31.680 --> 01:56:35.359
road she slams on the, brakes tires squealing loudly as172401:56:35.359 --> 01:56:38.640
they're forced to come to an unexpected. Halt the man172501:56:38.680 --> 01:56:41.760
on the roof goes flying, forward hits the pole with172601:56:41.840 --> 01:56:44.880
a loud snapping sound That joan can not only hear172701:56:45.000 --> 01:56:49.119
but feel deep in her. Skeleton he lands in a172801:56:49.159 --> 01:56:54.319
heap on the, ground. Motionless she's breathing. Hard tears are172901:56:54.359 --> 01:56:59.760
streaming down her. Face come, on she, says do it fuck?173001:56:59.800 --> 01:57:03.439
Her as if on. Cue the man begins to. Stir173101:57:04.079 --> 01:57:07.840
it's a, slow sluggish. Movement he stumbles to his, feet173201:57:08.239 --> 01:57:11.039
one arm bent completely. Backward at the elbow so that173301:57:11.079 --> 01:57:14.920
it points in the opposite. Direction one leg is violently173401:57:14.960 --> 01:57:18.640
turned inward toward the. Other joan takes her foot off173501:57:18.680 --> 01:57:22.680
the brake and floors the gas. Pedal before the man can,173601:57:22.720 --> 01:57:26.399
react she's plowing into, him narrowly avoiding pinning him to173701:57:26.439 --> 01:57:29.640
the pole and instead driving him down the incline toward173801:57:29.680 --> 01:57:32.840
The Cioga. River he stares at her through the, windshield173901:57:32.880 --> 01:57:36.239
pitch black, eyes spelling out all the awful things he174001:57:36.279 --> 01:57:42.199
wants to do to, her but she doesn't. Relent you fucking,174101:57:42.920 --> 01:57:46.680
bitch she hears him scream, it then drives her foot174201:57:46.720 --> 01:57:49.640
down hard on the brake for the last. Time there's174301:57:49.680 --> 01:57:52.560
a wrought iron fence lining the walkway that straddles The174401:57:52.640 --> 01:57:56.319
kyoga to keep people from falling, in and beyond that174501:57:56.760 --> 01:58:00.520
a muddy embankment toward the murky. Water as she, stops174601:58:00.560 --> 01:58:03.800
the man again is launched, forward this time hitting the174701:58:03.880 --> 01:58:07.680
fence and tearing it clean from the. Ground she doesn't174801:58:07.720 --> 01:58:10.479
know if the decorative spikes that top it stab, him174901:58:10.520 --> 01:58:13.960
but she only hopes they. Do he keeps flying until175001:58:13.960 --> 01:58:18.159
he hits the, water landing with a. Splash she doesn't175101:58:18.239 --> 01:58:20.640
know how. Long she just sits there and looks on175201:58:21.119 --> 01:58:23.960
foot on the, brake waiting for him to come crawling175301:58:24.039 --> 01:58:27.960
out of the water like the monster he. Is she175401:58:28.079 --> 01:58:32.119
isn't sure she breathed the entire time she. Does the175501:58:32.199 --> 01:58:34.279
crackle of the radio is what brings her out of,175601:58:34.319 --> 01:58:40.319
it giving her a. Start cart thirteen Respond joan doesn't175701:58:40.359 --> 01:58:42.560
know what she's doing with all the bits and bobs175801:58:42.600 --> 01:58:45.840
at the. Console she presses button after button to no,175901:58:45.920 --> 01:58:50.920
avail each time saying hello but getting nothing, back her176001:58:51.000 --> 01:58:55.319
voice steadily becoming more and more cracked and broken as she. Proceeds,176101:58:56.199 --> 01:59:00.720
finally after much trial and, error her hello is. Answered176201:59:01.720 --> 01:59:06.159
who is? This i'm the bartender for Wings, Endings she176301:59:06.359 --> 01:59:22.399
manages to, SAY i we need. Help. Epilogue three months176401:59:22.439 --> 01:59:26.840
on from the, Incident joanes still has trouble. Sleeping who.176501:59:26.840 --> 01:59:30.479
Wouldn't every time she closes her, eyes those people are,176601:59:30.520 --> 01:59:35.279
there waiting like they've carved their likeness into the back176701:59:35.319 --> 01:59:41.359
of her. Eyelids, no not, people. Monsters people don't have176801:59:41.479 --> 01:59:44.479
needle like teeth and pitch black eyes and claws where176901:59:44.560 --> 01:59:48.319
fingernails should. Be she thinks of the cop who had177001:59:48.359 --> 01:59:50.720
been sat on the, curb the one who hit that177101:59:50.760 --> 01:59:55.039
poor blonde who almost almost got. Away she thinks about177201:59:55.079 --> 01:59:58.000
how when the man had, him he was tearing into his.177301:59:58.079 --> 02:00:02.680
Throat same story For. Scottie his throat had been absolutely177402:00:02.720 --> 02:00:06.520
destroyed when she And troy found. Him what does that177502:00:07.600 --> 02:00:10.199
they never found the guy she flung into The Cioga.177602:00:10.319 --> 02:00:13.760
River could be he drifted out deeper Into Lake. Erie177702:00:13.840 --> 02:00:17.319
the police say they never found the woman she, killed,177802:00:17.359 --> 02:00:21.760
either the woman with the nose. Ring joan isn't sure177902:00:21.800 --> 02:00:24.239
if the lady with the mohawks stole her away or what.178002:00:24.399 --> 02:00:30.760
Happened maybe these monsters dissolve after. Death maybe they didn't really.178102:00:30.840 --> 02:00:35.560
Die there's a scary, thought one that's occurred to her178202:00:35.640 --> 02:00:38.680
time and time. Again in the little hours of the,178302:00:38.840 --> 02:00:43.479
night the club is. Closed hard to come back from178402:00:43.520 --> 02:00:47.520
something like, This she. Figures the stack of overdue bills178502:00:47.560 --> 02:00:52.640
threatening imminent cancelation of crucial services probably didn't help. Her178602:00:52.680 --> 02:00:56.600
aunt will, survive, though like her, Niece, diane is a.178702:00:56.640 --> 02:01:00.640
Survivor joan hears she's going to franchise as a burger.178802:01:00.760 --> 02:01:05.520
King she moves quietly through her studio. Apartment the clock178902:01:05.520 --> 02:01:09.119
on the stove reads two. Am her pot of coffee179002:01:09.159 --> 02:01:12.119
is only half, drunk though and it seems like it'd179102:01:12.159 --> 02:01:15.600
be a waste to leave. It she pours herself another179202:01:15.680 --> 02:01:20.840
cup from the kitchen. Counter she crosses the, floor passes179302:01:20.880 --> 02:01:24.600
by a television Showing night of The Living, dead and179402:01:24.720 --> 02:01:28.840
stops at the window that overlooks the. Street her reflection179502:01:29.000 --> 02:01:33.279
is a stark reminder of that. Night, topless it's her179602:01:33.279 --> 02:01:37.119
apartment sewer means she can see the four scars running179702:01:37.119 --> 02:01:42.520
horizontally across her. Chest she fingers, one an unconscious action179802:01:43.079 --> 02:01:47.680
while taking a sip of the bitter. Coffee in, Therapy179902:01:48.079 --> 02:01:51.880
joan often offers up theories of maybe if she had180002:01:51.920 --> 02:01:55.279
done this or, that things could have turned out. Differently180102:01:56.279 --> 02:02:00.359
maybe not For brad or For, harvey definitely not For,180202:02:00.439 --> 02:02:04.000
scottie but certainly For. Troy she could have saved the.180302:02:04.079 --> 02:02:10.680
Dancer it isn't your, Fault joan comes the canned. Response, yeah,180402:02:10.720 --> 02:02:13.960
well she pays the person to say, that doesn't She180502:02:14.920 --> 02:02:18.520
it's a weekly visit to make herself feel. Better it isn't.180602:02:18.560 --> 02:02:23.680
Working survivor's guilt is a bitch like. That outside the,180702:02:23.720 --> 02:02:28.000
window her eyes Scan Elm. Street her apartment is located180802:02:28.039 --> 02:02:29.920
in a building that looks like it had been a,180902:02:29.920 --> 02:02:34.560
warehouse at some, point probably was across the. STREET a181002:02:34.600 --> 02:02:38.680
similar building houses the cafe she now works. At good181102:02:38.720 --> 02:02:43.359
thing about cafes they close before. Dark they seldom get181202:02:43.399 --> 02:02:47.640
attacked by monsters. Too from what she, Hears joan doesn't181302:02:47.680 --> 02:02:50.359
know what she's looking for when she inspects her little181402:02:50.399 --> 02:02:55.560
slice Of. Cleveland that isn't. True she does, Know she181502:02:55.760 --> 02:02:59.399
just wishes she. Didn't in the wake of what she's been,181602:02:59.479 --> 02:03:06.279
through every detail becomes. Suspect she doesn't recognize that, impala for,181702:03:06.319 --> 02:03:09.560
instance parked half in and half out of the beam181802:03:09.600 --> 02:03:12.520
of the street. Light she's sure she would know if181902:03:12.560 --> 02:03:16.560
she'd seen it. Before it's an older, vehicle a. Classic182002:03:17.159 --> 02:03:20.600
both in front and behind it are much, cheaper more economic,182102:03:20.720 --> 02:03:26.640
models less. Descript, rationally she knows it's probably someone visiting another,182202:03:26.680 --> 02:03:30.640
tenant or someone got a new, ride or. Whatever but182302:03:30.760 --> 02:03:33.960
that isn't how her brain decides to file things away.182402:03:34.000 --> 02:03:39.359
Anymore from her, perch she continues her watching or, Spying182502:03:39.760 --> 02:03:41.800
it depends on how one wants to look at. It182602:03:42.399 --> 02:03:50.560
when something catches her eye a Flame given the, distance it's,182702:03:50.680 --> 02:03:55.960
tiny but it still stands. Out there's someone standing near the,182802:03:56.000 --> 02:04:02.119
Impala joan realizes in the shadows a darker silhouette on182902:04:02.199 --> 02:04:06.039
a dark. Background the flame is nothing more than a.183002:04:06.119 --> 02:04:11.479
Lighter it's just someone having a, smoke she, realizes but183102:04:11.600 --> 02:04:15.479
it still sends a chill down her. Spine the person183202:04:15.600 --> 02:04:20.520
lights their cigarette and the flame goes, away replaced by183302:04:20.560 --> 02:04:24.760
a burning orange. Ember using the lit end of the183402:04:24.800 --> 02:04:28.880
cigarette as a, Guide joan can tell where the person is.183502:04:28.920 --> 02:04:42.960
Looking they're staring up at her, window at Her The183602:04:43.039 --> 02:04:49.720
Final yes By Charles. Campbell i'm two hundred and twenty183702:04:49.840 --> 02:04:54.960
seven years, old relatively young for my, kind but still old.183802:04:55.079 --> 02:04:59.479
Enough winter is my favorite time of year because the183902:04:59.560 --> 02:05:04.520
night's longer and the air outside suits the coldness of my.184002:05:04.680 --> 02:05:10.520
Flesh i've turned a few people in my. Life the184102:05:10.560 --> 02:05:13.840
catch is there are rules to turning people to, vampire184202:05:14.279 --> 02:05:17.119
and the first of which is they have to agree184302:05:17.680 --> 02:05:21.680
to be. Turned in other, words the tournee has to say.184402:05:22.760 --> 02:05:27.680
Yes let me back up for just a moment before184502:05:27.720 --> 02:05:30.720
you get to the, YES i guess the first thing184602:05:30.840 --> 02:05:35.279
is targeting the next, vampire preferably young and with no184702:05:35.479 --> 02:05:40.119
immediate family to speak. Of although this criterion isn't set in,184802:05:40.199 --> 02:05:45.359
stone there is the occasional notable. Exception my notable exception184902:05:46.239 --> 02:05:50.680
is seventy three year Old molly. McBride i can't say185002:05:50.680 --> 02:05:53.159
THAT i Found molly because the truth of the matter185102:05:53.319 --> 02:05:57.560
is that my progeny led me to. Her after learning185202:05:57.600 --> 02:06:01.119
Of molly's story and HOW i factor into, IT i185302:06:01.159 --> 02:06:04.600
am compelled to sit here on her front porch until185402:06:04.600 --> 02:06:10.600
the sun. Rises From, MOLLIE i received my final. Yes185502:06:12.239 --> 02:06:16.000
the following chronicles what happened here and what has led185602:06:16.039 --> 02:06:20.560
me to witness my first sunrise in over two, Centuries185702:06:25.560 --> 02:06:32.199
fall twenty, twelve seven point thirty two. Am, hello, sweetheart185802:06:32.239 --> 02:06:36.079
are you? Hungry Freddie rogers asked the, skinny bow legged185902:06:36.199 --> 02:06:39.720
girl sitting at the bus. Stop eight year Old Lisa.186002:06:39.800 --> 02:06:43.720
Frausto Gave freddie a cautious look and nodded her. Head,186102:06:44.239 --> 02:06:48.960
yes here you. Go freddie removed a package of cheese186202:06:49.000 --> 02:06:51.960
crackers from his jacket pocket and held it out To.186302:06:52.039 --> 02:06:56.319
Lisa her gloved hand wavered slightly as she reached out186402:06:56.359 --> 02:07:01.880
to grab the. Food LISA i saw voice. Began who186502:07:01.960 --> 02:07:05.439
is your? Friend molly asked from the screened in. Porch186602:07:06.239 --> 02:07:09.760
lisa turned in her grandmother's, direction with her eyebrows, raised186702:07:10.159 --> 02:07:13.359
giving a clear view of her light brown. Eyes she186802:07:13.479 --> 02:07:18.279
opened her mouth to speak When freddie, Interjected i'm, sorry,186902:07:18.399 --> 02:07:22.439
miss don't matter WHO i. Am, mister what are you187002:07:22.520 --> 02:07:26.439
doing talking to my? Granddaughter molly's own light brown eyes187102:07:26.479 --> 02:07:30.560
were trained on the new. Stranger, hey don't take. OFFENSE187202:07:30.920 --> 02:07:34.439
i was just walking by and she looked. Hungry freddie,187302:07:34.479 --> 02:07:39.600
ANSWERED i feed her just, fine. Stranger molly fired. BACK187402:07:40.680 --> 02:07:43.279
i asked her if she was, hungry and she said she,187502:07:43.520 --> 02:07:47.520
was didn't, you? Sweetheart freddie turned his gaze back On.187602:07:47.640 --> 02:07:52.680
Lisa GRAN i did tell HIM i was, Hungry lisa,187702:07:52.760 --> 02:07:56.039
said now standing closer to the edge of the. Sidewalk187802:07:56.560 --> 02:07:59.960
the bus would be there at any. Moment you, know187902:08:00.000 --> 02:08:02.359
oh What i've told you about talking to and worse,188002:08:02.479 --> 02:08:08.439
yet taking things from. Strangers, look, Miss freddie, started, mister188102:08:08.760 --> 02:08:12.359
this ain't none of your, affair so shush. It the188202:08:12.439 --> 02:08:15.880
bus hissed to a, stop right beside the little auburn188302:08:15.920 --> 02:08:20.760
haired girl standing in her usual morning. Spot we'll discuss188402:08:20.800 --> 02:08:24.399
this more when you get, home young. Lady, Yes, Graham188502:08:25.119 --> 02:08:29.680
lisa muttered as she stepped into the big yellow. Bus i'm,188602:08:29.720 --> 02:08:33.119
Sorry i'll be on my, Way freddie, said as he188702:08:33.199 --> 02:08:36.279
started back down the sidewalk with the bus pulling, away188802:08:36.920 --> 02:08:40.960
leaving behind a trail of black. Smoke the maintenance budget188902:08:41.039 --> 02:08:43.000
must have taken a hit for the new school. Year189002:08:44.079 --> 02:08:49.000
what's your, name? Stranger freddie stopped mid step and turned189102:08:49.000 --> 02:08:53.560
to Face molly once. Again the Name's Freddie rogers and189202:08:53.600 --> 02:08:58.560
who are? You my name Is molly. McBride, well Mister,189302:08:58.720 --> 02:09:03.039
rogers where where you? Headed i'm headed to. WORK i189402:09:03.119 --> 02:09:07.119
work at the finance company. DOWNTOWN i kind of gathered189502:09:07.159 --> 02:09:09.520
it with some type of office. Work by the way you're,189602:09:09.560 --> 02:09:14.119
Dressed molly noted the neatly pressed dress slacks and button189702:09:14.199 --> 02:09:18.159
up shirt with tie underneath his light blue. Jacket i'm189802:09:18.199 --> 02:09:21.159
sorry about that with your. Granddaughter no harm. MEANT i.189902:09:21.239 --> 02:09:25.640
PROMISE i know who you are, now Mister, rogers AND190002:09:25.720 --> 02:09:29.239
i know where you. Work molly smiled As freddy waved190102:09:29.279 --> 02:09:32.399
back at her and continued his trek to the office190202:09:32.880 --> 02:09:38.359
Of Fraser. Financial three point thirty three, pm the screen190302:09:38.399 --> 02:09:41.760
door slammed shut and the sound of little feet filled the.190402:09:41.760 --> 02:09:48.399
Hallway Gran, Mom i'm, Upstairs molly yelled through her open bedroom.190502:09:48.520 --> 02:09:52.920
Door she was working on ironing that day's. Wash her190602:09:53.039 --> 02:09:56.760
Daughter karen hadn't made it home from work. Yet she190702:09:56.920 --> 02:10:01.479
was usually home Before, lisa but not that. Day Grand190802:10:01.479 --> 02:10:04.840
Grand lisa took the steps two at a time and190902:10:04.920 --> 02:10:07.920
sported a wide ear to ear grin when she stopped191002:10:07.920 --> 02:10:11.680
in the. Doorway what is, it? Dear molly set the191102:10:11.720 --> 02:10:13.760
iron down on the back of the ironing board and191202:10:13.840 --> 02:10:18.720
moved Toward. Lisa where's mom still at? Work what's got191302:10:18.720 --> 02:10:22.119
you grinning like? That? GRIN i gotta wait on, mom.191402:10:22.199 --> 02:10:25.840
Kay lisa's freckled face had a small smudge of dirt191502:10:25.880 --> 02:10:28.840
on her right cheek and the faintest line of sweat191602:10:28.880 --> 02:10:32.560
had formed on her. Forehead that's, fine we'll still have191702:10:32.640 --> 02:10:34.960
to discuss what we do when a stranger speaks to.191802:10:35.000 --> 02:10:40.199
You i'm, Sorry, GRAN i didn't mean, To. Dear there191902:10:40.239 --> 02:10:43.279
are bad people out. There they can pretend to be,192002:10:43.399 --> 02:10:46.840
good and some of them may even be. Good but192102:10:47.479 --> 02:10:50.199
you should never speak to strangers and you should never192202:10:50.359 --> 02:10:55.479
ever take anything from. Them do you, Understand? Lisa, Yes,192302:10:55.560 --> 02:11:00.800
GRAN i Understand. Lisa sometimes when little girls or boys192402:11:00.840 --> 02:11:05.319
talk to, strangers they get taken away and they never come.192502:11:05.359 --> 02:11:10.319
Home molly's eyes locked Onto lisa's and they conveyed personal192602:11:10.399 --> 02:11:14.680
experience on this. Topic i'm, Sorry, GRAHAM i PROMISE i192702:11:14.760 --> 02:11:18.960
won't talk to. Strangers good, Girl let's go wait on your.192802:11:19.000 --> 02:11:21.600
MOTHER i have a roast in the. Oven how's that?192902:11:21.720 --> 02:11:25.359
Sound molly grabbed her wide eyed granddaughter by the. HAND193002:11:26.119 --> 02:11:28.479
i smelt it WHEN i walked. IN i could eat193102:11:28.520 --> 02:11:31.960
the whole. Thing, well according to what you, told Mister,193202:11:32.079 --> 02:11:37.039
ROGERS i don't feed. You who's Mister. Rogers he's the193302:11:37.079 --> 02:11:40.000
stranger that you talked to this. MORNING i found out193402:11:40.000 --> 02:11:43.760
who he. WAS i thought you wasn't supposed to talk to,193502:11:43.840 --> 02:11:48.439
Him lisa, said. Puzzled that's. Right but because he talked to,193602:11:48.479 --> 02:11:50.600
YOU i had to find out who he was and193702:11:50.680 --> 02:11:53.600
if he was good or, Bad molly, said as they193802:11:53.720 --> 02:11:58.600
entered the kitchen and unclasped. Hands well is he good or?193902:11:58.640 --> 02:12:02.279
Bad lee, asked as she peered through the glass on194002:12:02.319 --> 02:12:05.960
the oven. DOOR i don't know, yet but he Seems,194102:12:06.000 --> 02:12:08.920
okay reach over there and get me the mixer and194202:12:08.960 --> 02:12:11.640
the big bowl over the. Sink you can help me194302:12:11.720 --> 02:12:15.319
mash the. Potatoes we can use the gravy from the. Roast,194402:12:15.760 --> 02:12:20.159
kay gran it smells so. Good they both heard the194502:12:20.159 --> 02:12:23.680
front door close and keys hit the coffee. Table, mom194602:12:24.000 --> 02:12:26.840
come in the. KITCHEN i gotta tell you. Something the194702:12:26.960 --> 02:12:30.199
sound Of Karen frausto's high heels click clacked as she194802:12:30.319 --> 02:12:33.840
stepped into the, kitchen and Skinny lisa sprang into her.194902:12:33.960 --> 02:12:38.159
Arms tell me all about, it, Sweetie karen smiled at her.195002:12:38.239 --> 02:12:46.239
DAUGHTER a late night at work had turned into an195102:12:46.279 --> 02:12:49.640
early morning For Freddie. Rogers the end of the month195202:12:49.760 --> 02:12:52.359
was here and the books had to be reconciled before195302:12:52.399 --> 02:12:55.600
the division manager arrived at eight am later that. Morning195402:12:56.359 --> 02:12:58.640
he was on the brink of a mental collapse when195502:12:58.640 --> 02:13:02.159
he logged off his. Computer freddie was the only employee195602:13:02.239 --> 02:13:05.319
left in the. Office the other three full timers had195702:13:05.359 --> 02:13:08.279
left at eight p. M the previous evening after logging195802:13:08.279 --> 02:13:11.399
in twelve. Hours NOW i WISH i had a, car195902:13:11.840 --> 02:13:15.119
or even a, Bicycle freddy mumbled to himself as he196002:13:15.199 --> 02:13:18.279
grabbed the light blue jacket from the coat hanger beside196102:13:18.319 --> 02:13:22.399
the office. Entrance freddie stared at the illuminated keypad for196202:13:22.439 --> 02:13:25.840
a few, seconds trying to remember the correct alarm. Coat196302:13:25.920 --> 02:13:30.520
before tapping the numbers, seven, two nine, five the word196402:13:30.720 --> 02:13:34.800
armed flashed in bold. Letters freddy had twenty eight seconds196502:13:34.840 --> 02:13:37.520
to let himself out and lock the door behind. Him196602:13:38.119 --> 02:13:41.640
oh it's quite, Nippy freddy said aloud as he stepped196702:13:41.640 --> 02:13:45.399
into the colder than average fall. Night Downtown, Langley South196802:13:45.399 --> 02:13:48.680
carolina was empty save for a gimpy white and brown196902:13:48.800 --> 02:13:52.600
cat accompanied by a small black Mud they were both197002:13:52.680 --> 02:13:56.279
staring at, him hoping for a handout from. BEHIND a197102:13:56.279 --> 02:13:58.600
couple of garbage cans put out in front Of LANGLEY,197202:13:58.720 --> 02:14:02.760
rx no doubt for an early trash. PICKUP a low197302:14:02.840 --> 02:14:07.039
lying fog hovered over, downtown covering the street, lamps making197402:14:07.039 --> 02:14:10.359
them look like blurry circles of light hidden inside of a.197502:14:10.399 --> 02:14:14.119
Cloud freddie pulled up the collar of his jacket and197602:14:14.199 --> 02:14:18.159
began to walk the sidewalk back. Home his loafers felt,197702:14:18.199 --> 02:14:21.119
heavy and he kept his eyes trained on the sidewalk197802:14:21.119 --> 02:14:24.199
in front of. Him freddie was just beginning to fall197902:14:24.239 --> 02:14:28.319
into a walking version of highway hypnosis when he heard198002:14:28.359 --> 02:14:34.640
a whisper hello over. Here freddie stopped his march and198102:14:34.760 --> 02:14:37.560
stared into the fog for a good five seconds before,198202:14:37.600 --> 02:14:45.520
replying who's. There i'm, hungry. Mister the whisper, Returned are198302:14:45.560 --> 02:14:48.560
you the little GIRL i saw? Yesterday what are you198402:14:48.640 --> 02:14:51.760
doing out here at this? Hour freddie placed his right198502:14:51.760 --> 02:14:54.159
hand out in front of his forehead as if he198602:14:54.239 --> 02:14:57.399
was shielding his vision from the. Sun he was trying198702:14:57.439 --> 02:15:01.359
to make out the demure figure stand just behind the street.198802:15:01.399 --> 02:15:07.279
Lamp i'm, hungry, mister the whisper. Repeated your grandma is198902:15:07.319 --> 02:15:09.760
going to kick both our. Tails let me get you.199002:15:09.800 --> 02:15:13.159
Home freddie stepped closer to the street lamp and the199102:15:13.199 --> 02:15:18.720
figure receded into. Darkness, yepp what the? Hell the little199202:15:18.760 --> 02:15:21.640
black mutt was right Behind, freddy nipping at the backs199302:15:21.640 --> 02:15:24.399
of his ankles and pulling on his left pant. Leg199402:15:25.079 --> 02:15:28.560
the cat stayed put behind the garbage. Cans he would199502:15:28.600 --> 02:15:32.439
win no man's best friend. Award freddie turned and knelt199602:15:32.439 --> 02:15:35.520
to remove the little stray from his. Ankle he grabbed199702:15:35.560 --> 02:15:38.800
the dog with both hands by his. Midsection the little199802:15:38.800 --> 02:15:41.760
fella growled but didn't relinquish his grip on the hem199902:15:41.800 --> 02:15:46.239
Of freddy's. Slacks come on, Now freddy, started right before200002:15:46.239 --> 02:15:50.439
a sixth sense kicked. In goose pimples broke out on both,200102:15:50.600 --> 02:15:52.720
arms and the hair on the back of his neck200202:15:52.840 --> 02:15:59.199
stood at. Attention i'm, hungry. Mister from, behind sharpened nails200302:15:59.239 --> 02:16:02.319
sunk deep Through freddie's jacket into the meat of both,200402:16:02.479 --> 02:16:06.439
arms and two tiny legs rapped tightly around his. Middle,200502:16:07.159 --> 02:16:11.079
yepep the little black dog backed away From freddie and200602:16:11.199 --> 02:16:14.359
kept barking at the long haired girl attached To freddie's.200702:16:14.399 --> 02:16:17.760
Back her face buried deep into the nape of his.200802:16:17.920 --> 02:16:21.039
Neck freddie pounded on the top of her head with200902:16:21.159 --> 02:16:24.399
both fists as hard as he. Could the sounds of201002:16:24.479 --> 02:16:27.640
sucking and slurping filled the, air along with the constant201102:16:27.760 --> 02:16:31.239
yep of the. Dog the cat had seen enough and201202:16:31.359 --> 02:16:35.799
split with each. Slurp freddie, weakened and it wasn't long201302:16:35.879 --> 02:16:38.920
before he was face down on the. Sidewalk the little201402:16:39.000 --> 02:16:42.399
vampire was in a feeding frenzy and couldn't stop even201502:16:42.440 --> 02:16:46.879
if she wanted. To freddie's final thoughts before he lost201602:16:46.920 --> 02:16:52.719
consciousness for good were never talk to. STRANGERS i hope201702:16:52.719 --> 02:16:56.639
that little girl and her grandma are. Okay you look201802:16:56.719 --> 02:16:59.520
like you're about to, burst. Sweetheart tell me what it,201902:16:59.600 --> 02:17:03.639
Is karen said as she placed her finger Under lisa's.202002:17:03.680 --> 02:17:08.280
Chin lisa wriggled her nose a little and, Replied, MOM202102:17:08.600 --> 02:17:12.559
i got a special letter from Missus wilkes. Today where is?202202:17:12.600 --> 02:17:17.559
It what did it? Say molly asked Gran, Mom it's202302:17:17.600 --> 02:17:20.360
said THAT i am gifted and, talented and they want202402:17:20.360 --> 02:17:22.280
me to be a part of the gifted and talented.202502:17:22.319 --> 02:17:26.799
Program lisa pulled a neatly quarter folded piece of paper202602:17:26.840 --> 02:17:29.920
from her back jean pocket and handed it To. KAREN202702:17:31.120 --> 02:17:33.000
i don't need a piece of paper to tell me202802:17:33.079 --> 02:17:37.559
you are gifted and, Talented. Poodle i've always known. That with,202902:17:37.639 --> 02:17:41.319
That lisa wrapped her arms around her mother's. Waist karen203002:17:41.319 --> 02:17:44.920
winked at her own mother with, pride And molly smiled203102:17:44.959 --> 02:17:48.600
back at. Her there were three gifted and talented women203202:17:48.639 --> 02:17:53.760
in this household strong. Too Karen fraustow was a thirty203302:17:53.760 --> 02:17:56.559
four year old, widow which made her one of two203402:17:56.639 --> 02:18:00.719
widows in the. House her, Father, milton had passed away203502:18:00.840 --> 02:18:05.159
six years. Before her Husband, jeffrey was killed in a203602:18:05.200 --> 02:18:08.040
seven car pile up ON i twenty two years ago203702:18:08.520 --> 02:18:11.799
When lisa was just six years. Old he was on203802:18:11.799 --> 02:18:14.399
his way back from The Atlanta airport when an elderly203902:18:14.440 --> 02:18:18.360
woman driving an older Model thunderbird crossed through the median204002:18:18.600 --> 02:18:21.959
just past The Appling georgia exit and plowed head on204102:18:22.120 --> 02:18:25.000
into a Silver, jetta setting off a tragic chain of204202:18:25.079 --> 02:18:28.799
misery starting with her Husband seabring plowing into the back204302:18:28.879 --> 02:18:32.200
of the already Demolished jetta at over seventy miles an,204402:18:32.239 --> 02:18:36.200
hour and so on and so, on with the five204502:18:36.280 --> 02:18:40.360
vehicles behind. Him fast forward a couple of, years And204602:18:40.520 --> 02:18:44.680
molly was firmly entrenched as caretaker for her two. Girls204702:18:45.399 --> 02:18:48.719
karen had shown no interest in other men Since jeffrey passed.204802:18:48.760 --> 02:18:54.520
Away her focus was on providing For. Lisa karen's official204902:18:54.600 --> 02:18:59.120
title Was Advertising Sales, executive a fancy name for a205002:18:59.159 --> 02:19:03.360
salesperson working for the Local fox, affiliate and she worked205102:19:03.399 --> 02:19:06.239
late on this particular day closing a deal with The205202:19:06.319 --> 02:19:10.520
Ford Auto group renewing and up selling their current television.205302:19:10.559 --> 02:19:14.360
PACKAGE a nice commission would be coming To karen and her.205402:19:14.399 --> 02:19:18.879
Family i'm so proud of, you. Sweetie your daddy's smiling205502:19:18.879 --> 02:19:22.559
at you right. NOW i can feel. It, OH i205602:19:22.719 --> 02:19:25.280
know he, is and your grandfather is right there with,205702:19:25.440 --> 02:19:28.680
Him molly said as she moved a chair from under205802:19:28.680 --> 02:19:32.000
the kitchen, table patting the, seat Inviting lisa to PLoP205902:19:32.040 --> 02:19:37.239
down for. Supper mom that smells so, Good karen smacked her.206002:19:37.239 --> 02:19:40.559
Lips you sit down right there And i'll fix both206102:19:40.559 --> 02:19:43.719
of my girls a. Plate molly lived to take care206202:19:43.760 --> 02:19:46.760
of her. Girls if it weren't for, them she'd probably206302:19:46.799 --> 02:19:50.799
be pushing up, daisies, milkweed or something up from the.206402:19:50.840 --> 02:19:54.879
Ground the three strong women ate supper and talked about206502:19:54.879 --> 02:20:01.559
how gifted and talented Little lisa. Was FIVE A. M206602:20:02.319 --> 02:20:06.520
i know you're. Hungry please don't remind me, again the206702:20:06.600 --> 02:20:09.360
skinny man with ashy skin and no hair on his206802:20:09.440 --> 02:20:13.840
head said to his little, COMPANION i need to. EAT206902:20:14.520 --> 02:20:17.719
i have to. Eat the dark haired girl with oil207002:20:17.799 --> 02:20:22.159
black eyes. Replied the fog was beginning to settle, in207102:20:22.719 --> 02:20:25.959
and they stood outside of The frausto residence under the207202:20:26.000 --> 02:20:29.559
street lamp At lisa's bus. Stop we beat the others.207302:20:29.600 --> 02:20:32.399
Here you go down that way and find a dog207402:20:32.559 --> 02:20:35.719
or cat or something to tide you. Over the bony207502:20:35.760 --> 02:20:40.159
finger pointed down the sidewalk that headed into. Town i'll207602:20:40.159 --> 02:20:42.399
move across the way and see WHAT i can. Find207702:20:42.840 --> 02:20:44.840
i'll meet you back here in this spot in an,207802:20:44.879 --> 02:20:49.799
hour you. Understand the little vampire nodded her. Head her207902:20:49.879 --> 02:20:53.159
long black hair had no shine and no. Bounce it208002:20:53.280 --> 02:20:57.600
was the hair of the. Dead the hunger pangs knifed208102:20:57.639 --> 02:21:00.799
into her and put her in a single. Mindset would she?208202:21:00.920 --> 02:21:01.440
Die?208302:21:01.760 --> 02:21:05.079
No she was a, vampire and the hunger would gnaw208402:21:05.120 --> 02:21:08.520
at her and torture her for, relief but she would not.208502:21:08.680 --> 02:21:12.040
Die only the brief pain of a wooden steak or208602:21:12.079 --> 02:21:14.879
a burst from the yellow sun would do that. Trick208702:21:15.799 --> 02:21:18.200
the pain of hunger was so bad that she wished208802:21:18.239 --> 02:21:21.200
for either of those. Options as she shuffled down the,208902:21:21.280 --> 02:21:25.440
sidewalk listening for anything she could grab that would gush,209002:21:25.479 --> 02:21:30.920
blood giving her. Relief the hungry little vampire walked well209102:21:31.000 --> 02:21:34.680
past the hour deadline set by her companion until she209202:21:34.719 --> 02:21:39.120
heard a, yep. Yep there were two little tender morsels209302:21:39.159 --> 02:21:41.879
in the forms of a little black mut and a209402:21:41.920 --> 02:21:46.200
white and brown, cat parked behind some garbage. Cans shannon209502:21:46.319 --> 02:21:49.760
rolled her tongue across her fangs and took a thirsty209602:21:49.840 --> 02:21:52.879
gulp as she started out from under the street. Lamp209702:21:53.520 --> 02:21:57.040
she stopped her approach when she heard the jingling of209802:21:57.120 --> 02:22:02.399
keys and eased back into the. Shadows the footsteps moved steadily,209902:22:02.440 --> 02:22:05.479
closer and she could make out the man looking across210002:22:05.520 --> 02:22:08.719
the street at the yapping, dog and the you stay210102:22:08.760 --> 02:22:12.639
over there And i'll stay over, here. Kat the nails210202:22:12.639 --> 02:22:17.319
on the little Vampire shannon's fingers expanded outward into razors sharp.210302:22:17.360 --> 02:22:22.799
Points her fangs were dripping with, cold thick. Saliva as210402:22:22.799 --> 02:22:29.600
she called out hello over. Here the man, paused looked210502:22:29.639 --> 02:22:33.840
in her, direction and yelled out to, Her i'm, hungry210602:22:33.959 --> 02:22:39.440
Mister shannon licked her lips As freddie took his final.210702:22:39.520 --> 02:22:47.719
Steps karen Escorted lisa to the sidewalk in front of210802:22:47.760 --> 02:22:50.680
their home and waited with her for the smoky bus to.210902:22:50.920 --> 02:22:54.719
Arrive this was a rare treat for them both Because211002:22:54.840 --> 02:22:57.559
karen was usually, up dressed and on her way to211102:22:57.600 --> 02:23:02.000
the station by six thirty am most. Mornings she figured211202:23:02.000 --> 02:23:04.159
that she deserved a morning to make her daughter and211302:23:04.239 --> 02:23:07.879
mother breakfast and See lisa to the bus. Stop she211402:23:08.040 --> 02:23:10.879
closed a big up cell the day, before so she211502:23:11.040 --> 02:23:15.799
deserved this morning send. Off. Mom what Was dad's favorite?211602:23:15.840 --> 02:23:20.200
Color lisa. Asked her shoulder length auburn hair was pulled211702:23:20.200 --> 02:23:23.239
into tight braids on both sides of her. Head the211802:23:23.280 --> 02:23:26.040
same light brown eyes that belonged to her mom and211902:23:26.079 --> 02:23:30.159
Her graham were wide when she asked the. Question lisa212002:23:30.239 --> 02:23:33.639
remembered her father for, sure but she was only six212102:23:33.680 --> 02:23:35.959
when he, died and she didn't get to know her212202:23:36.000 --> 02:23:39.840
father very. Well in that short span of. Life his favorite,212302:23:39.840 --> 02:23:42.840
color the movies he liked to. Watch was he a212402:23:42.840 --> 02:23:47.319
football or a baseball? Dad those types of. Things his212502:23:47.399 --> 02:23:50.959
favorite color was the exact color of your. Eyes he212602:23:51.079 --> 02:23:53.600
stared into them for hours on end when you were a.212702:23:53.639 --> 02:23:59.719
Baby karen, replied trying not to well. Up these questions weren't,212802:23:59.760 --> 02:24:04.719
sad so she fought through her instinctive reaction to release the. Tears,212902:24:05.280 --> 02:24:08.879
mom what color were his eyes in the picture in my?213002:24:09.000 --> 02:24:12.840
Room they looked sort of? Green were they? Green, yes,213102:24:12.879 --> 02:24:17.840
sweetie they were emerald, green and they were. Beautiful he213202:24:17.920 --> 02:24:22.239
adored you so. Much that did, It and a single213302:24:22.280 --> 02:24:26.639
tear was released from the bottom corner Of karen's left. Eye, Oh,213402:24:26.680 --> 02:24:30.920
mom don't, Cry i'm. Sorry lisa dropped her pink tin213502:24:31.040 --> 02:24:34.120
lunch box along with Her Neon lime book bag on213602:24:34.159 --> 02:24:38.120
the sidewalk and gave her mother a tight. Hug in mid,213702:24:38.200 --> 02:24:41.200
hug the smoky yellow bus stopped right in front of213802:24:41.239 --> 02:24:44.600
them with its all too familiar squeal and smoke. Cloud213902:24:45.879 --> 02:24:49.520
you go on to school, now misgifted and. TALENTED i love.214002:24:49.559 --> 02:24:53.639
You karen Handed lisa her lunchbox and gave the back214102:24:53.639 --> 02:24:57.959
of her head a quick stroke as she turned toward the. Bus, Bye,214202:24:58.000 --> 02:25:02.719
MOM i love you, Too lisa hollered As molly watched214302:25:02.719 --> 02:25:07.040
from the front. Porch, bye, dear love. You we're having214402:25:07.159 --> 02:25:11.159
chicken and dumplings for. Supper karen watched with hands on214502:25:11.280 --> 02:25:14.399
hips as the bus pulled away in a smoky, cloud214602:25:14.879 --> 02:25:18.200
and then walked back toward the, house stopping briefly to214702:25:18.280 --> 02:25:21.760
remove the morning paper from the paper. Box in the214802:25:21.799 --> 02:25:26.079
age of iPads and, Smartphones mollie still subscribed to The Achin.214902:25:26.200 --> 02:25:29.719
Standard she was from the old school and liked getting215002:25:29.760 --> 02:25:35.440
newsprints smudged on her fingers every. Morning, MOM i miss,215102:25:35.520 --> 02:25:40.319
Him karen, SAID i know you, Do, SWEETIE i know you.215202:25:40.360 --> 02:25:45.520
Do ONE, o TWO A. M. Shannon the others are,215302:25:45.559 --> 02:25:48.639
Here victor said as he opened the back door to215402:25:48.719 --> 02:25:53.600
the up until recently vacant mobile. Home it was a215502:25:53.639 --> 02:25:56.639
double wide that had seen better, days but it was215602:25:56.680 --> 02:25:59.879
sturdy enough For victor and his progeny to take. Refuge215702:26:00.479 --> 02:26:03.840
they shared the back bedroom during the daylight. Hours the215802:26:03.879 --> 02:26:07.680
windows were covered in sun blocking film That victor kept.215902:26:07.680 --> 02:26:13.799
Handy oh the life of a, Vampire. Victor it's so216002:26:13.959 --> 02:26:18.680
good to see you and You, shannon my, dear you216102:26:18.760 --> 02:26:21.319
are more beautiful every TIME i set my eyes on.216202:26:21.479 --> 02:26:25.600
You veronica trained her black pools on the little blood216302:26:25.600 --> 02:26:31.399
sucker At victor's. Side, veronica you are too. Kind tell216402:26:31.440 --> 02:26:35.719
me Where's ivan And? Sandra are they with? You victor216502:26:35.799 --> 02:26:39.680
held out a pasty. Hand you Mean neil And. Sandra,216602:26:40.000 --> 02:26:43.959
VICTOR i know you do that on. Purpose, oh they216702:26:43.959 --> 02:26:47.559
are out hunting for hoboes or some unfortunate kitty cat216802:26:47.680 --> 02:26:52.079
or stray. Pooch they'll be here. Soon veronica was, stunning216902:26:52.520 --> 02:26:55.920
the kind of vampire that is imagined in, movies, novels217002:26:56.159 --> 02:27:00.440
and the occasional cable. Series she had waste, length cloud217102:27:00.479 --> 02:27:03.200
white hair that wisped when there was a breeze and217202:27:03.360 --> 02:27:07.239
lent itself to be touched when you got. Close Unlike217302:27:07.280 --> 02:27:11.159
shannon's black, Dresses veronica's did seem to have some sort of.217402:27:11.239 --> 02:27:16.200
Life her body hugging black dress accentuated her natural, curves217502:27:16.559 --> 02:27:20.000
and she had no problems getting. Food she drained her217602:27:20.079 --> 02:27:23.520
last meal the previous, night right after he came for217702:27:23.559 --> 02:27:29.239
the last. Time veronica was the, walking talking embodiment of217802:27:29.280 --> 02:27:33.719
a beautiful. Death the heavy cranberry lipstick set against her217902:27:33.760 --> 02:27:37.760
pale face and flawless, skin along with pearly white fangs218002:27:38.079 --> 02:27:40.319
made her one of the most beautiful creatures on the.218102:27:40.319 --> 02:27:44.879
Planet veronica was the queen of this, hive And, Langley218202:27:44.920 --> 02:27:49.639
South carolina was supposed to be a brief. Stop only218302:27:50.520 --> 02:27:58.360
it didn't quite work out that. Way, Downtown, yep, yep,218402:27:58.680 --> 02:28:03.239
Yeer neil over, HERE i got. One sandra held the218502:28:03.239 --> 02:28:06.280
little black mut out at arm's length as she kicked218602:28:06.280 --> 02:28:09.479
and wriggled in the air trying to break. Free sandra218702:28:09.520 --> 02:28:12.239
had her claws sunk into both sides of the struggling.218802:28:12.280 --> 02:28:16.840
Dog hold him. STILL i got something. Too neil stepped218902:28:16.840 --> 02:28:19.680
from behind the pharmacy building holding the hand of a,219002:28:19.719 --> 02:28:24.200
skinny run down crack. Addict Simon fargoni had lost his219102:28:24.319 --> 02:28:28.159
soul In. Vietnam what remained was a drug rattled body219202:28:28.920 --> 02:28:32.200
that operated on the most primal of. Levels feed the,219302:28:32.280 --> 02:28:35.760
hunger check out of this world for a, while rinse and.219402:28:35.879 --> 02:28:39.920
Repeat his needle ridden arms were all tracked up on both.219502:28:40.000 --> 02:28:44.840
Sides sandra shook her head in utter. Revulsion you eat219602:28:44.879 --> 02:28:47.639
that And i'll Have fido over. HERE i know we're,219702:28:47.719 --> 02:28:50.600
vampires But i'm afraid i'd catch something IF i drank from.219802:28:50.600 --> 02:28:54.799
That sandra turned her eyes back to the black. Mud219902:28:55.479 --> 02:28:58.319
he had stopped wriggling and was breathing rapidly with his220002:28:58.399 --> 02:29:01.680
tongue flopped out the left side of his. Mouth, well220102:29:02.079 --> 02:29:05.319
you drink the dog dry And i'll finish this gross220202:29:05.360 --> 02:29:09.399
looking thing. Off neil placed the black nail from his220302:29:09.479 --> 02:29:13.120
index finger on the backside Of simon's neck and flicked220402:29:13.120 --> 02:29:17.639
aside a lice filled mound of. Hair oh this is fucking,220502:29:17.760 --> 02:29:23.680
disgusting BUT i gotta. Eat neil sank his sharp canines in,220602:29:23.799 --> 02:29:27.559
deep And simon didn't make a move or a. Sound220702:29:28.239 --> 02:29:30.520
his eyes were already rolled into the back of his220802:29:30.639 --> 02:29:34.319
head Before neil even opened his. Mouth this would be220902:29:34.319 --> 02:29:42.000
a sweet release For. Simon sweet and. Oblivious. Ah the221002:29:42.079 --> 02:29:45.719
dog let out a tortured howl When sandra's fangs punctured221102:29:45.719 --> 02:29:48.719
through the black fur and released the flow of. Blood221202:29:49.399 --> 02:29:52.680
sandra didn't like the sensation of sucking the blood over221302:29:52.719 --> 02:29:55.280
the top of the heavy coat of, fur but she221402:29:55.399 --> 02:29:59.799
hated the hunger pangs even. More neil And sandra were,221502:29:59.879 --> 02:30:04.079
very very young, vampires turned just over three years. Ago221602:30:04.440 --> 02:30:08.040
both turned By veronica on a night after some heavy221702:30:08.120 --> 02:30:12.520
drinking and deviancy with The. Queen neil And sandra were221802:30:12.520 --> 02:30:16.319
a couple that had an insane obsession with vampires and221902:30:16.399 --> 02:30:20.280
the romanticized vision of their, lifestyle a vision that was222002:30:20.319 --> 02:30:24.239
certainly in question as he watched the lice scurry around222102:30:24.280 --> 02:30:27.360
in the head of his current meal and she gagged222202:30:27.399 --> 02:30:31.799
on the matted fur of. Hers neil was close to222302:30:31.840 --> 02:30:34.440
six feet tall with a crew cut and light brown.222402:30:34.520 --> 02:30:38.200
Hair sandra was almost as tall As, neil's sporting shoulder222502:30:38.280 --> 02:30:43.479
length sandy blonde. Hair they, both as all, vampires had black.222602:30:43.520 --> 02:30:48.559
Eyes sandra released the drained mud and it sounded like222702:30:48.600 --> 02:30:52.399
a wet bath towel hitting. Cement neil was finishing off222802:30:52.440 --> 02:30:57.000
the last drops From simon When sandra, Said, neil it's222902:30:57.040 --> 02:30:59.920
time to. Go veronica will be looking for us. Soon223002:31:00.840 --> 02:31:04.200
neil looked up At sandra with the Cold simon laying223102:31:04.280 --> 02:31:08.079
on his side underneath him on the. Concrete i'm satiated.223202:31:08.639 --> 02:31:13.319
You i'm still a little, hungry BUT i had. Enough come,223302:31:13.360 --> 02:31:16.600
on we must leave. Now sandra was curt in her223402:31:16.680 --> 02:31:20.280
reply and turned her back To. Neil he began to223502:31:20.319 --> 02:31:24.440
walk down the sidewalk leading out of. Downtown the fog223602:31:24.600 --> 02:31:28.120
was back and the air held some. Moisture i'm. Coming223702:31:28.760 --> 02:31:32.760
neil Dropped simon into THE rx dumpster and jogged lightly223802:31:33.079 --> 02:31:35.559
to catch up With, sandra holding his hand out to.223902:31:35.600 --> 02:31:39.639
Her she glanced down at her side, quickly but didn't224002:31:39.680 --> 02:31:43.440
take his. Hand she continued to walk at a rapid.224102:31:43.479 --> 02:31:48.479
Pace nine minutes, Later what took you to so, Long224202:31:49.120 --> 02:31:53.040
veronica asked the approaching. Pair took while to find a?224302:31:53.120 --> 02:31:58.559
Vagrant neil, replied and, You veronica, asked looking In sandra's.224402:31:58.600 --> 02:32:02.479
DIRECTION a, dog and it was, bad but not as224502:32:02.559 --> 02:32:06.479
bad as the Man neil. Drained sandra twirled the ivory224602:32:06.559 --> 02:32:10.520
bracelet around her. Wrist was he a little black? DOG224702:32:11.120 --> 02:32:15.440
a quiet voice, asked just above a Whisper, shannon that.224802:32:15.600 --> 02:32:19.479
You sandra moved Toward, victor who had been silent since224902:32:19.479 --> 02:32:23.959
they walked. Up shannon stepped from behind. Him, yes it's.225002:32:24.040 --> 02:32:27.680
Me was it a little black, dog she asked, again225102:32:27.799 --> 02:32:33.040
without looking, Up yes it, Was sandra. Answered is it a?225202:32:33.079 --> 02:32:37.520
Problem neil, asked with aggression in his. Tone, no it's225302:32:37.600 --> 02:32:41.360
not a, Problem victor interjected as he stepped back in225402:32:41.399 --> 02:32:44.440
front Of shannon and kept his full focus On. Neil225502:32:45.399 --> 02:32:48.239
let's all go inside for a talk and we'll figure225602:32:48.280 --> 02:32:52.200
out where we're. Going. Next sound like a, Plan veronica,225702:32:52.280 --> 02:32:56.920
asked trying to lighten the. Tension, victor MAY i go225802:32:57.040 --> 02:33:00.959
for a? Walk shannon. Asked victor was the only one she.225902:33:01.079 --> 02:33:06.600
Trusted he turned her and he cared for the others226002:33:06.719 --> 02:33:10.879
just frightened. Her victor gave a cursory look To, veronica226102:33:11.360 --> 02:33:14.719
and she gave him a slight head. Nod, sure my,226202:33:14.840 --> 02:33:18.239
dear just stay close by and be back in an.226302:33:18.239 --> 02:33:22.000
HOUR i don't want anything to happen to. You victor226402:33:22.079 --> 02:33:24.520
ran the back of his hand down the side Of shannon's.226502:33:24.600 --> 02:33:29.600
CHEEK i, will she, answered and walked away into the.226602:33:29.719 --> 02:33:40.360
Night lisa couldn't go back to. Sleep she was awakened226702:33:40.399 --> 02:33:43.280
by a barking, dog and her body wouldn't let her226802:33:43.360 --> 02:33:47.399
drift back To La La, land so she decided to.226902:33:47.479 --> 02:33:51.280
Draw lisa pulled the rolling chair from her art desk227002:33:51.360 --> 02:33:54.200
and flipped on the. Lamp she opened the front drawer227102:33:54.200 --> 02:33:57.479
and removed an assortment of colored pencils and placed them227202:33:57.520 --> 02:34:01.440
in a pink plastic. Cup sitting atop her, Deck lisa227302:34:01.520 --> 02:34:04.639
started with the top piece of blank, paper beginning with227402:34:04.719 --> 02:34:08.200
a light blue pencil for the. Sky lisa was working227502:34:08.200 --> 02:34:10.920
on blending in the white paper with the blue pencil227602:34:10.959 --> 02:34:15.479
to form a pretty set of. Clouds when she heard hello,227702:34:15.719 --> 02:34:20.360
there it was barely above a, whisper but it was.227802:34:20.479 --> 02:34:24.479
Distinct lisa placed the blue pencil flat on the paper227902:34:24.840 --> 02:34:27.440
and it rolled to the edge of the, desk a228002:34:27.479 --> 02:34:31.079
metal lip keeping it from hitting the. Floor her first228102:34:31.120 --> 02:34:33.520
instinct was to go wake up her mother or Gran228202:34:34.559 --> 02:34:40.120
she ignored it and, Listened hello, there the quiet voice.228302:34:40.120 --> 02:34:44.920
Repeated lisa pushed slowly away from the desk and stood.228402:34:45.000 --> 02:34:47.520
Up she leaned over the front of the desk and228502:34:47.559 --> 02:34:51.159
peered through the. Window the fog was, back but she228602:34:51.200 --> 02:34:54.479
could make out the street. Lamp just below the street228702:34:54.520 --> 02:34:57.959
lamp right where she awaits the oil belching bus every,228802:34:58.079 --> 02:35:02.399
day was a girl with very dark. Hair the strange228902:35:02.440 --> 02:35:06.040
girl raised her right hand and began a slow moving.229002:35:06.120 --> 02:35:12.120
Wave lisa smiled through the window and waved. Back she229102:35:12.319 --> 02:35:14.600
used both hands to pull on the metal lip on229202:35:14.680 --> 02:35:17.200
the front of her desk that kept her pencils from229302:35:17.280 --> 02:35:21.479
hitting the. Floor with a little, effort the desk moved229402:35:21.520 --> 02:35:24.680
a few inches away from the, window just enough For229502:35:24.799 --> 02:35:28.680
lisa to step behind. It she opened the lock on229602:35:28.719 --> 02:35:34.040
the window and raised it about a. Foot Hi lisa229702:35:34.120 --> 02:35:36.959
said in a hoarse voice that was supposed to be229802:35:37.040 --> 02:35:42.399
a loud. Whisper, Hello shannon said to the squinting. Girl229902:35:43.200 --> 02:35:46.280
lisa was trying to see her clearly through the. Fog230002:35:47.559 --> 02:35:53.399
what's your, Name lisa Asked. Shannon that's a good. NAME230102:35:53.920 --> 02:35:59.120
i like that, Name. Shannon where's your, Mom lisa. Continued230202:36:00.159 --> 02:36:03.479
she's not, Around shannon, said as she stepped through the230302:36:03.559 --> 02:36:07.159
yard and looked up at the second story, window Giving230402:36:07.239 --> 02:36:12.000
lisa a better. View CAN i come? IN i gotta230502:36:12.040 --> 02:36:15.040
get my. MOM i can't open the door for. Strangers230602:36:15.520 --> 02:36:19.079
i'll go get her. Now lisa quickly turned away from230702:36:19.120 --> 02:36:22.959
the window and ran toward her bedroom. Door she turned230802:36:22.959 --> 02:36:28.680
the knob Ha lisa, screamed what is the matter with, you young.230902:36:28.600 --> 02:36:32.239
Lady it's almost three o'clock in the. Morning mollie was231002:36:32.280 --> 02:36:35.559
coming to see what all the yelling was. About there's231102:36:35.680 --> 02:36:39.159
a little girl out, There, gran she's outside and. Alone231202:36:39.760 --> 02:36:43.120
we need to let her. In lisa pulled On molly's231302:36:43.159 --> 02:36:46.760
hand to come to the. Window, okay, dear let me231402:36:46.840 --> 02:36:50.120
get over. There molly crossed the room and Helped lisa231502:36:50.200 --> 02:36:52.239
pull the desk out a little more so she could231602:36:52.319 --> 02:36:56.600
view out the. WINDOW i don't see, Anyone, Lisa. Gran231702:36:56.959 --> 02:36:59.959
she was right under my. Window her name Is. Shannon,231802:37:00.360 --> 02:37:04.680
Shannon lisa hollered through the open. Window shush, it, child231902:37:04.959 --> 02:37:07.959
you'll wake the. Neighborhood let's go to the front. Porch232002:37:08.760 --> 02:37:13.200
lisa started to dart. Away lisa with. Me molly motioned232102:37:13.239 --> 02:37:16.479
to her with her. Hands get back, here, Yes. Gran232202:37:17.399 --> 02:37:21.239
lisa followed her grandmother down the, stairs creaking with every.232302:37:21.280 --> 02:37:24.520
Step molly flipped the wall switch and the lights in232402:37:24.559 --> 02:37:28.399
the living room came to. Life you stay right, There232502:37:28.959 --> 02:37:32.200
molly Ordered lisa as she removed the black golf umbrella232602:37:32.239 --> 02:37:35.799
from the coat rack beside the. Door her name Is.232702:37:35.840 --> 02:37:39.760
Shannon she was right under my. Window, okay shush. It232802:37:40.680 --> 02:37:43.799
molly glanced out the window before slowly opening the front.232902:37:43.799 --> 02:37:48.239
Door she was greeted by a, slow cool breeze and233002:37:48.280 --> 02:37:51.360
the haze of fog it cut through the screened in.233102:37:51.559 --> 02:37:57.680
Porch hello out, there little, Girl, shannon you out. There233202:37:58.680 --> 02:38:01.639
molly looked around and wished she had bothered to slip233302:38:01.639 --> 02:38:06.120
on her bedroom shoes because the concrete was. Cold lisa233402:38:06.159 --> 02:38:09.440
poked her head out the. Door, Gran is she out? There?233502:38:09.840 --> 02:38:14.399
Shannon you? There lisa parroted her, grandmother and they were233602:38:14.399 --> 02:38:17.600
both met with the sounds of rustling leaves and a233702:38:17.639 --> 02:38:21.959
brief whistle of. Wind there's nobody out, here at least not.233802:38:22.159 --> 02:38:26.000
Now molly pulled the flaps of her housecoat close together233902:38:26.360 --> 02:38:28.719
and motioned For lisa to go back into the. House234002:38:29.360 --> 02:38:33.000
lisa ignored the gesture and moved past her, grandmother opening234102:38:33.040 --> 02:38:36.280
the screen. Door, lisa get your butt back in, Here234202:38:36.840 --> 02:38:41.079
molly sternly, Shouted, shannon it's, okay it's just My. Graham234302:38:41.280 --> 02:38:46.680
she'll help. You CAN i come? In the voice whispered234402:38:46.959 --> 02:38:51.840
where Only lisa could. Hear, yes you can come. In lisa,234502:38:51.879 --> 02:38:56.760
replied get in here. Now molly Had lisa by her,234602:38:56.799 --> 02:39:00.319
wrist pulling her back toward the. DOOR i heard. Her234702:39:00.920 --> 02:39:04.920
she's out, There. Gran molly tugged hard on her granddaughter's.234802:39:04.959 --> 02:39:10.120
Wrist Ouch, gran, Okay i'm. Coming lisa backed into the,234902:39:10.159 --> 02:39:13.959
house looking back towards the street with every. Step, lisa235002:39:14.319 --> 02:39:16.639
go to. Bed the bust'll be here in a couple of.235102:39:16.639 --> 02:39:20.319
Hours you need to get some kind of. Sleep molly235202:39:20.399 --> 02:39:24.479
pointed the tip of the umbrella toward the. Stairs she was, There, Gran,235302:39:25.200 --> 02:39:29.399
okay she was, there but now she's, Gone so go to.235402:39:29.479 --> 02:39:33.239
Bed molly had grown tired of this argument and all235502:39:33.239 --> 02:39:37.239
her patience was. Gone lisa sensed this and finally gave In,235602:39:38.399 --> 02:39:43.600
okay gran good, night and thank you for. LOOKING i love.235702:39:43.639 --> 02:39:48.479
YOU i love you, too. Sweetheart molly replied and walked235802:39:48.520 --> 02:39:51.479
toward the kitchen to get a glass of. Water lisa235902:39:51.559 --> 02:39:55.360
marched up the, steps wondering where the mystery girl disappeared.236002:39:55.360 --> 02:39:59.360
To she walked through her open bedroom door and quickly236102:39:59.440 --> 02:40:02.639
closed it as soon as she got. Inside she didn't236202:40:02.639 --> 02:40:06.440
want anyone to. Hear Vampire shannon was sitting in the236302:40:06.440 --> 02:40:10.479
corner Of lisa's, bed with her legs crossed and her236402:40:10.520 --> 02:40:14.719
hair covering her black. Eyes index finger held to her236502:40:14.760 --> 02:40:20.120
lips to indicate. Silence once the door was, closed she236602:40:20.280 --> 02:40:24.840
lowered her hand and, Said, lisa please to meet. You236702:40:26.280 --> 02:40:30.159
how did you get in? Here victor stood in the236802:40:30.200 --> 02:40:33.799
center of the what passed for a living room in236902:40:33.840 --> 02:40:36.879
the double, wide with a hand on each, temple nails237002:40:36.920 --> 02:40:41.159
protruding digging into his cold, flesh producing a small trickle237102:40:41.200 --> 02:40:44.159
of blood on each side of his. Face veronica and237202:40:44.239 --> 02:40:49.920
her brood watched As victor whispered, Quietly, shannon it's time237302:40:49.959 --> 02:40:55.040
to return your creator commands you to come. Back victor237402:40:55.120 --> 02:40:59.159
relaxed his hands and waited by the trailer. Door the237502:40:59.239 --> 02:41:02.000
first sign of an orange hue were beginning at the237602:41:02.040 --> 02:41:06.079
base of the. Skyline dawn was upon, them and for237702:41:06.120 --> 02:41:12.200
the first time, Ever shannon didn't respond To. Victor veronica237802:41:12.319 --> 02:41:16.200
leaned close To, victor stuck out her pink, tongue and237902:41:16.319 --> 02:41:18.479
licked a line straight up the right side of his238002:41:18.559 --> 02:41:22.520
blood trailed, cheek stopping at his ear with a frosty,238102:41:22.600 --> 02:41:30.120
smile and, WHISPERED i Guess shannon found something. Better victor238202:41:30.239 --> 02:41:33.719
turned his head to meet her, gaze their noses almost.238302:41:33.760 --> 02:41:38.520
Touching dawn is, Here, veronica we must sleep back. Here238402:41:39.360 --> 02:41:41.399
he led the three of them to the sun blocked.238502:41:41.399 --> 02:41:46.200
Bedroom veronica immediately took the bed and Invited victor to238602:41:46.280 --> 02:41:49.520
lie beside. Her he took his position on the floor238702:41:49.920 --> 02:41:54.719
While sandra And neil joined their. Queen she'll be back, Tonight.238802:41:54.840 --> 02:42:00.799
Victor don't, Worry veronica. Reassured or maybe she, won't or238902:42:00.879 --> 02:42:04.959
maybe she's really dead, now who, knows Said neil as239002:42:05.000 --> 02:42:08.479
he looked down on the floor at the older. Vampire stop, It.239102:42:08.600 --> 02:42:12.360
Neil sandra Grabbed neil from behind by both shoulders and239202:42:12.440 --> 02:42:15.120
pulled him out Of victor's, sight which was just as.239302:42:15.120 --> 02:42:19.520
Well neil was one more comment away from becoming goo239402:42:19.719 --> 02:42:29.559
on the Mattress lisa's bedroom three hours earlier through the.239502:42:29.600 --> 02:42:33.440
Window you left it open AND i jumped, Up shannon,239602:42:33.479 --> 02:42:37.799
replied you can't jump that. High how did you really get?239702:42:37.799 --> 02:42:40.959
In Did grahan leave the back door? Unlocked she does that,239802:42:41.040 --> 02:42:45.479
sometimes Said. Lisa the only light in the room was239902:42:45.520 --> 02:42:48.680
from the desk, lamp And shannon's hair sheltered her face240002:42:48.959 --> 02:42:53.959
just enough to conceal her. Eyes, LISA i like, you240102:42:54.559 --> 02:42:57.280
And i'm a little, hungry BUT i PROMISE i won't hurt.240202:42:57.319 --> 02:43:00.799
YOU i can get you something to. Eat we have plenty.240302:43:00.840 --> 02:43:03.520
DOWNSTAIRS i just have to be careful not to wake.240402:43:03.920 --> 02:43:07.920
No shannon cut her off mid. SENTENCE i don't eat240502:43:07.920 --> 02:43:11.639
what's in your. KITCHEN i eat a different kind of.240602:43:11.680 --> 02:43:16.959
Food what do you, Eat lisa, asked, curiously still not240702:43:17.040 --> 02:43:21.120
getting a clear view Of shannon's. Eyes let's talk about that.240802:43:21.239 --> 02:43:25.000
Later tell me more about, You. LISA i want to240902:43:25.000 --> 02:43:28.479
be your. Friend you're much nicer than the COMPANY i usually,241002:43:28.600 --> 02:43:34.680
Keep shannon, said, purposely keeping her eyes. Obstructed, WELL i241102:43:34.760 --> 02:43:36.719
live with gran AND i know you saw her just241202:43:36.760 --> 02:43:40.200
a little while. Ago and my. Mom her Name's. Karen241302:43:40.840 --> 02:43:43.360
my dad got killed a couple years ago in a car.241402:43:43.399 --> 02:43:47.799
WRECK i remember, him BUT i don't if you can understand.241502:43:47.840 --> 02:43:50.520
That lisa twirled her hair as she tried to get241602:43:50.520 --> 02:43:54.879
a closer look At shannon's. FACE i can understand. THAT241702:43:55.520 --> 02:43:58.520
i remember my, daddy BUT i don't remember him. Too241802:44:00.079 --> 02:44:03.440
dad's gone. Too lisa crossed the room from her rolling241902:44:03.520 --> 02:44:06.440
chair to the edge of the. Bed shannon just stared242002:44:06.479 --> 02:44:11.399
down between her crossed. Legs, Yes, lisa my daddy's gone.242102:44:11.399 --> 02:44:15.559
Too it was so long, ago but sometimes it doesn't242202:44:15.600 --> 02:44:20.479
seem that long. Ago shannon lifted her head to Meet lisa's.242302:44:20.520 --> 02:44:25.159
Gaze lisa reached forward with both hands and parted the242402:44:25.280 --> 02:44:30.920
hair From shannon's. Eyes oh, My lisa reacted first to242502:44:30.959 --> 02:44:34.600
the frigid white, skin then what looked like two black242602:44:34.680 --> 02:44:39.399
marbles set against the whites of her. Eyes it's, Okay242702:44:40.239 --> 02:44:44.000
please don't. SCREAM i just need a. FRIEND i don't242802:44:44.040 --> 02:44:48.040
want to go back right, Now shannon, said her face remained.242902:44:48.079 --> 02:44:54.639
EXPRESSIONLESS i, Won't lisa, Started are you a? Vampire i've243002:44:54.639 --> 02:44:58.040
seen pictures in? Books are you like the ones ON. Tv,243102:44:59.360 --> 02:45:03.200
YES i am a, Vampire, lisa and, No i'm not243202:45:03.360 --> 02:45:05.879
anything like the pictures in your books or the ones ON.243302:45:05.959 --> 02:45:09.000
TV i don't want to be a vampire any. MORE243402:45:09.600 --> 02:45:11.799
i just want to go back to my time and243502:45:11.920 --> 02:45:17.120
live a normal life your, Time lisa, asked positioning herself243602:45:17.120 --> 02:45:19.920
on the bed right in front Of. Shannon they both243702:45:20.000 --> 02:45:23.799
Sat indian, style facing each. OTHER i was born in243802:45:23.879 --> 02:45:27.280
nineteen thirty. Nine have you ever Watched The wizard Of,243902:45:27.319 --> 02:45:33.000
Oz shannon. Asked lisa nodded her head, yes And shannon, Continued,244002:45:33.840 --> 02:45:37.600
well that was the year that movie came. OUT i244102:45:37.639 --> 02:45:40.520
remember my mother talking about it over and over as a,244202:45:40.639 --> 02:45:42.840
child and one DAY i got to see it with244302:45:42.840 --> 02:45:45.719
her at The Nickel movie On Broad. Street it was.244402:45:45.799 --> 02:45:49.680
Glorious the world was black and, White dorothy was taken244502:45:49.719 --> 02:45:54.719
to a far away land and the world burst into full. Color, Well,244602:45:54.879 --> 02:46:00.799
lisa my journey has been quite the. OPPOSITE i lived244702:46:00.799 --> 02:46:03.799
in a world vibrant and full of color UNTIL i244802:46:03.920 --> 02:46:07.000
became WHAT i am to. Day Now i'm living in244902:46:07.040 --> 02:46:13.680
a world devoid of, color devoid of. Life what happened to, You?245002:46:13.799 --> 02:46:18.719
SHANNON i want to? Know in mere, Minutes lisa's best245102:46:18.760 --> 02:46:24.840
friend was a vampire Named, shannon and vice. Versa my245202:46:24.959 --> 02:46:28.319
daddy was a. Laborer he worked jobs as they, came245302:46:28.440 --> 02:46:31.959
and he worked. HARD i was an only, child which245402:46:32.040 --> 02:46:34.600
was a blessing because of the hard times back. Then245502:46:35.520 --> 02:46:37.840
daddy had taken a shot to his privates by a245602:46:37.920 --> 02:46:40.520
mule one. Day he was hired to help one of245702:46:40.559 --> 02:46:43.840
the farmers finish plowing for the, season And daddy wasn't245802:46:43.840 --> 02:46:46.520
well versed in the finer arts of plowing a, field245902:46:47.600 --> 02:46:50.000
from WHAT i Remember mom telling me WHEN i asked246002:46:50.040 --> 02:46:52.559
WHY i was the only, one she said that he246102:46:52.680 --> 02:46:55.319
was inflicting some kind of punishment on the poor, beast246202:46:55.920 --> 02:47:00.559
and the beast exacted immediate and baby killing. Revenge that246302:47:00.760 --> 02:47:04.920
was it for brothers and. SISTERS i was eleven years246402:47:04.920 --> 02:47:07.639
old when my mom gave her permission to come. Inside246502:47:09.079 --> 02:47:12.639
that was the day my parents died AND i was246602:47:12.680 --> 02:47:21.440
Turned november, third nineteen fifty, ten forty two p. M246702:47:22.600 --> 02:47:25.719
there was a loud pounding on the front, door And246802:47:25.879 --> 02:47:29.600
Jelia crayton sat straight up in her. Bed shannon was246902:47:29.639 --> 02:47:33.000
standing in the doorway to her, bedroom casting a giant247002:47:33.040 --> 02:47:38.959
shadow against the. Wall, Mom i'm afraid some one's about247102:47:38.959 --> 02:47:42.120
to knock the door. Down shannon was trembling in her247202:47:42.120 --> 02:47:47.840
bare feet and. Nightgown but it wasn't from the cold. Air, Jeez, Louise,247302:47:47.920 --> 02:47:51.360
shannon it's your. Father three sheets to the wind, again247402:47:52.040 --> 02:47:55.600
And julia removed her robe from the bedpost and slipped247502:47:55.600 --> 02:47:59.760
her arms into the, sleeves leaving the front. Loose his247602:48:00.280 --> 02:48:04.440
are probably in his. Pocket come. On shannon followed her247702:48:04.479 --> 02:48:07.239
mother out of the bedroom and down the. Hallway as247802:48:07.280 --> 02:48:11.399
the banging. Continued angelia turned on the front porch light247902:48:12.079 --> 02:48:15.520
and peeked out the. Window gerald was, there all. Right248002:48:16.120 --> 02:48:18.920
he was hunched over with his WHITE t shirt untucked248102:48:19.120 --> 02:48:22.440
from his unbuckled work. Pants his left arm was draped248202:48:22.479 --> 02:48:25.559
over the neck of a white haired. Woman she was248302:48:25.639 --> 02:48:28.479
rapping on the door with her left, hand her right248402:48:28.559 --> 02:48:33.840
firmly Around gerald's. Hip, hello he says he lives. Here248502:48:34.520 --> 02:48:36.360
the woman from the other side of the front door,248602:48:36.440 --> 02:48:39.399
yelled And jelia stood in front of the door with248702:48:39.479 --> 02:48:42.520
her hand on the brass. Knob don't open, it, mom248802:48:43.040 --> 02:48:46.559
something's not. Right shannon stayed just in the shadow of the.248902:48:46.600 --> 02:48:50.680
Hallway it's, okay, dear it's your. Father he's passed. Out249002:48:51.280 --> 02:48:54.440
go on back to. Bed And julia smiled at her249102:48:54.520 --> 02:48:59.280
daughter and nodded her. Head, miss he says he lives.249202:48:59.319 --> 02:49:02.120
Here he was lying on the. Road are you going249302:49:02.120 --> 02:49:06.920
to open the? Door And jelia did just. That gerald's249402:49:06.959 --> 02:49:09.600
head was flopped straight, down so all she could see249502:49:09.600 --> 02:49:13.399
at first glance was the top of his. Head CAN249602:49:13.399 --> 02:49:17.680
i bring him? In Miss? Why of, Course angela. Answered249702:49:18.440 --> 02:49:22.079
veronica immediately snapped her head, up Holding gerald up only249802:49:22.120 --> 02:49:24.479
by her right. Arm she grabbed the top of his249902:49:24.600 --> 02:49:27.639
hair sprayed mop and pulled his face and the front250002:49:27.639 --> 02:49:30.559
of his blood soaked t shirt into. View the gash250102:49:30.600 --> 02:49:32.559
in the front of his neck looked like a black,250202:49:32.600 --> 02:49:36.159
hole and his face was devoid of, color devoid of.250302:49:36.239 --> 02:49:39.600
Life he crumpled to the, ground And veronica pushed through the,250402:49:39.639 --> 02:49:42.840
door Throwing angelia on the. Hardwood the back of her250502:49:42.879 --> 02:49:47.000
head bounced off the. Maple angelia was, gurgling trying to250602:49:47.040 --> 02:49:50.200
Call shannon's. Name blood was welling up in her, eyes250702:49:50.479 --> 02:49:53.879
and she felt the tickle of white hair brush against her,250802:49:53.920 --> 02:49:58.120
nose And jelia blinked rapidly as she felt the pull250902:49:58.200 --> 02:50:00.639
on the back of her dark brown hair and the251002:50:00.799 --> 02:50:04.399
arch in her neck as it was pushed. Up angelia251102:50:04.559 --> 02:50:07.319
coughed up a little, blood and she could feel it251202:50:07.399 --> 02:50:11.079
running down the corner of her, mouth immediately followed by251302:50:11.120 --> 02:50:14.200
an ice cold sensation trailing it back up to her.251402:50:14.239 --> 02:50:19.040
Lips veronica's tongue lapped the blood back up To angelia's251502:50:19.079 --> 02:50:24.799
mouth and gave her a final cold, kiss And jelia251602:50:24.879 --> 02:50:27.920
was on the edge of consciousness and she could make251702:50:27.959 --> 02:50:31.360
out Little shannon's feet standing at the corner of the,251802:50:31.399 --> 02:50:35.719
hallway just ten feet from the front. Door she was251902:50:35.760 --> 02:50:40.959
frozen in. Fear shannon couldn't look, away, speak or scream252002:50:41.319 --> 02:50:44.559
As veronica drained her mother right in front of. Her252102:50:45.440 --> 02:50:50.079
when she was, done she turned to the trembling. Girl, hey.252202:50:50.159 --> 02:50:54.959
Sweetie veronica's cranberry lips parted in a wide, grin revealing252302:50:55.159 --> 02:50:59.680
her crimson covered. Fangs you don't want to be, next do?252402:50:59.840 --> 02:51:03.559
You shannon shook her head quickly from side to. Side.252502:51:04.360 --> 02:51:08.559
GOOD i got a proposition for. YOU i got SOMEBODY252602:51:08.600 --> 02:51:11.920
i want you to. Meet he's a nice. Guy you'll like.252702:51:12.000 --> 02:51:15.719
Him he used to have a daughter about your. Age you.252802:51:15.840 --> 02:51:21.200
Interested out of, Fear shannon nodded her head up and.252902:51:21.360 --> 02:51:31.559
Down Lisa victor's calling, ME i must go, Now shannon253002:51:31.680 --> 02:51:36.000
rose from the bed and started to the. Window, no don't,253102:51:36.000 --> 02:51:39.760
go it's almost. Daylight you won't make it in. Time253202:51:40.760 --> 02:51:44.159
you can stay here UNTIL i get. Home lisa Grabbed253302:51:44.159 --> 02:51:46.799
shannon by the hand and pulled her to the walking.253402:51:46.920 --> 02:51:50.000
Closet there's a big blanket right there on the top.253502:51:50.040 --> 02:51:54.479
Shelf lisa shoved shoes and boxes from the closet, floor253602:51:55.040 --> 02:51:59.440
making room for her. GUEST i have to. Go, No,253702:51:59.600 --> 02:52:02.479
shannon and you don't have. Time you can go. Tonight253802:52:03.040 --> 02:52:06.120
just stay in here and be. Quiet don't Let graham253902:52:06.159 --> 02:52:09.799
hear you get under. Here lisa held up the peach254002:52:09.840 --> 02:52:14.040
color flower pattern full size blanket And shannon reluctantly curled254102:52:14.120 --> 02:52:17.639
up on the. Floor lisa gently placed the flower pattern254202:52:17.680 --> 02:52:22.799
blanket on top of her. Friend shannon whispered thank. You254302:52:24.319 --> 02:52:30.399
lisa closed the. Door, lisa you awaken, There molly swung254402:52:30.399 --> 02:52:33.040
the door. Open lisa was sitting on the edge of her,254502:52:33.040 --> 02:52:35.799
bed fully dressed in blue, jeans a light BLUE t,254602:52:35.959 --> 02:52:39.120
shirt and a pair of light pink. Nikes her hair254702:52:39.239 --> 02:52:42.200
was combed out and her light brown eyes were. Fresh254802:52:42.600 --> 02:52:44.920
you look all bright eyed and bushy tailed this. Morning254902:52:45.479 --> 02:52:47.840
considering how late you were up last. Night did you255002:52:47.879 --> 02:52:50.520
get up and drink a pot of. Coffee, No, GRAN255102:52:51.440 --> 02:52:54.680
i don't. Know i'm just not, Tired lisa, answered with255202:52:54.680 --> 02:52:57.680
a quick glance at her closet. Door it didn't go,255302:52:57.799 --> 02:53:01.760
unnoticed But molly didn't let. On, well come, on, now255402:53:01.799 --> 02:53:04.200
your mother's already downstairs and she's about done with her.255502:53:04.239 --> 02:53:07.639
Toast come on so you can tell her By lisa255602:53:07.680 --> 02:53:10.680
couldn't help. Herself she took one more glance at the255702:53:10.719 --> 02:53:14.079
closet door before following her grandmother out of the, room255802:53:14.680 --> 02:53:19.559
and again it didn't go. Unnoticed love, you. Mom lisa255902:53:19.639 --> 02:53:22.079
stepped in front Of karen as she exited the, kitchen256002:53:22.600 --> 02:53:27.360
laptop bag in. Hand hey, poodle you're up. Early karen256102:53:27.440 --> 02:53:29.559
leaned in and Gave lisa a quick smooch on the.256202:53:29.639 --> 02:53:33.600
Cheek i'll see you after, Work miss gifted and talented256302:53:34.280 --> 02:53:37.799
that Guy karen a kiss on the cheek in. Return come, On,256402:53:37.920 --> 02:53:40.639
lisa your eggs are, done and you don't eat cold scrambled.256502:53:40.639 --> 02:53:44.239
Eggs molly scraped the fluffy yellow goodness onto a. Plate256602:53:44.840 --> 02:53:48.360
in the, Background News channel six was beginning their early morning.256702:53:48.360 --> 02:53:52.120
Broadcast in early, news the body of a local homeless256802:53:52.120 --> 02:53:55.040
man was found in Downtown, langley this morning by The256902:53:55.120 --> 02:53:59.520
Langley Landfill. Service identification is pending notification of the next of.257002:53:59.600 --> 02:54:02.760
Ken an early report from a confidential source in the257102:54:02.760 --> 02:54:05.760
police department states the death is of a bizarre. Nature257202:54:06.200 --> 02:54:09.360
News channel six will provide updates as more information becomes257302:54:09.360 --> 02:54:12.479
available on this breaking. Story now on to today's.257402:54:12.479 --> 02:54:16.959
Weather i'll bet That's, Simon molly, Said you mean that257502:54:17.040 --> 02:54:20.559
old guy that rides his rusty bike on the. Sidewalk lisa,257602:54:20.639 --> 02:54:24.559
asked wondering if her new friend knew anything About simon's.257702:54:24.559 --> 02:54:29.319
Demise the answer would be, yes she knew What neil had.257802:54:29.360 --> 02:54:33.319
Done shannon was much more discreet in her victim's. Disposal257902:54:34.079 --> 02:54:38.000
nobody ever found a trace of Poor. Freddy his would258002:54:38.000 --> 02:54:42.600
go down as an unsolved missing person's. Case karen was258102:54:42.639 --> 02:54:45.040
at work And lisa was on her way to. School258202:54:45.799 --> 02:54:48.079
molly was In lisa's room with one hand on the258302:54:48.120 --> 02:54:52.000
knob of the closet. Door something inside of her, Said,258402:54:52.639 --> 02:54:56.159
molly don't turn that. Knob just go back downstairs and258502:54:56.159 --> 02:54:59.079
get the breakfast dishes washed. Up then go Watch Judge.258602:54:59.159 --> 02:55:03.760
Judy don't turn the. Knob it's, Nothing it's really, Nothing258702:55:04.360 --> 02:55:08.040
molly said to. Herself she released the doorknob and did258802:55:08.040 --> 02:55:12.200
an about face to Make lisa's. Bed molly started at the,258902:55:12.239 --> 02:55:16.239
base tugging on the sunshine patterned bedspread so that she259002:55:16.239 --> 02:55:18.959
could get to the bed sheets. Underneath there was a259102:55:19.040 --> 02:55:21.959
large spot in the center of the. Bedspread it was259202:55:22.079 --> 02:55:25.239
dark and, faded like something had pulled the color out259302:55:25.239 --> 02:55:28.479
of it just by sitting on. It it certainly wasn't259402:55:28.479 --> 02:55:31.239
the work of the washing, machine and there was an.259502:55:31.280 --> 02:55:35.200
Odor molly leaned in close with her nose and it259602:55:35.239 --> 02:55:40.600
was a sweet, smell with something rotten just. Underneath it259702:55:40.680 --> 02:55:45.520
was pleasant and sickening at the same. Time my, god259802:55:45.760 --> 02:55:49.239
what is that? Smell molly asked out loud as she259902:55:49.360 --> 02:55:52.520
tugged at the bedspread with both hands until it lay260002:55:52.559 --> 02:55:55.120
in a clump at the foot of the. Bed molly260102:55:55.200 --> 02:55:57.840
pushed her hair up off her forehead with the palm260202:55:57.879 --> 02:56:00.799
of her hand and stepped back to the closet. Door260302:56:02.520 --> 02:56:04.479
need a new, blanket SO i got to open, it260402:56:04.879 --> 02:56:07.520
she reasoned with the inner voice that had just talked260502:56:07.520 --> 02:56:11.079
her out of turning the knob moments. Before this time260602:56:11.200 --> 02:56:15.040
she turned the. Knob she immediately saw the peach colored260702:56:15.079 --> 02:56:20.360
blanket covering something on the closet. Floor don't pick up that, Blanket, molly,260802:56:20.440 --> 02:56:23.680
girl you ain't gonna like what you. See the inner voice.260902:56:23.719 --> 02:56:27.440
Returned molly ignored it and lifted the blanket from the.261002:56:27.479 --> 02:56:31.959
Floor shannon was lying there with her eyes, closed dreaming261102:56:32.040 --> 02:56:36.360
the same dream as. Always molly released the blanket as261202:56:36.360 --> 02:56:41.680
she gazed upon the sweet smell of. DEATH i know261302:56:41.799 --> 02:56:46.239
what you, Are molly whispered and closed the closet. Door261402:56:47.440 --> 02:56:52.200
shannon turned, over her nails extended in her. Sleep this261502:56:52.479 --> 02:56:57.959
was her, dream this was her. PAST i have someone261602:56:58.000 --> 02:57:03.239
to introduce. You tonica stepped into the master bedroom Holding shannon's. Hand,261702:57:04.280 --> 02:57:08.079
veronica please don't tell me you killed that little girl's. Family,261802:57:08.799 --> 02:57:12.680
please please don't tell me that's what you. Did victor261902:57:12.719 --> 02:57:17.239
looked At shannon with a heartbroken. Gaze, Okay, VICTOR i262002:57:17.280 --> 02:57:19.680
won't tell you THAT i killed her. FAMILY i just262102:57:19.879 --> 02:57:24.319
found her. Outside isn't that, right. Sweetie shannon was still262202:57:24.399 --> 02:57:27.440
firmly in fierce grip and would have shaken her head262302:57:27.520 --> 02:57:30.440
yes If veronica had asked her if elephants were lavender262402:57:30.760 --> 02:57:33.040
or if the moon was really a big rubber. Ball262502:57:34.079 --> 02:57:37.639
Veronica victor slammed both hands on top of the oak262602:57:37.719 --> 02:57:41.120
dresser sending splinters of wood flying as it buckled in the.262702:57:41.159 --> 02:57:47.719
Center why, vagrants vagabonds and, animals that was what you agreed.262802:57:47.760 --> 02:57:51.000
To victor wanted to fly across the room and rip262902:57:51.040 --> 02:57:53.879
her throat, out but logic quickly set in before he263002:57:53.920 --> 02:57:57.360
could act on that. Urge victor was old and, strong263102:57:57.840 --> 02:58:04.280
But veronica was, older and she was the queen you263202:58:04.360 --> 02:58:07.440
call for your little girl in your, Sleep. VICTOR i263302:58:07.440 --> 02:58:09.840
thought you'd be HAPPY i got you a new. One263402:58:10.440 --> 02:58:15.120
you are one ungrateful, Beast. Victor i'm still up for a.263502:58:15.159 --> 02:58:20.040
Snack Guess i'll empty her. Too that registered With, shannon263602:58:20.360 --> 02:58:23.159
and she tried to pull her hand From veronica's icy.263702:58:23.239 --> 02:58:26.920
Grip veronica reached with her other hand and pulled hard263802:58:26.959 --> 02:58:31.639
on the back Of shannon's long. Hair no, Please shannon263902:58:31.719 --> 02:58:35.920
screamed as she finally found her. Voice victor sprang across the,264002:58:36.000 --> 02:58:39.040
room Grabbing veronica by the top of her white, hair264102:58:39.200 --> 02:58:43.520
pulling her face back away from the screaming. Prey. Victor264202:58:44.479 --> 02:58:49.120
now we're getting, Somewhere veronica. Smiled the faint trails of264302:58:49.200 --> 02:58:52.040
dried blood looked as if they were painted down the264402:58:52.120 --> 02:58:56.040
corners of her. Lips veronica released her grip On. Shannon264502:58:56.920 --> 02:59:00.440
there was no escape from the, room absolutely no way264602:59:00.479 --> 02:59:04.360
she could make it to the. Door shannon's survival instinct kicked,264702:59:04.399 --> 02:59:07.440
in and she scrambled on her hands and knees until264802:59:07.479 --> 02:59:10.639
she was under the bigger than king sized. Bed the264902:59:10.680 --> 02:59:14.040
bed was enormous and had almost three feet of clearance265002:59:14.120 --> 02:59:20.200
underneath Well Victor veronica started as she Peeled victor's hand265102:59:20.239 --> 02:59:23.360
from around her. Neck SHOULD i go under there and get?265202:59:23.360 --> 02:59:26.840
Her or are you all three of us know she's265302:59:26.920 --> 02:59:31.479
not leaving this room. ALIVE i hate, You. VERONICA i265402:59:31.520 --> 02:59:33.559
hate you for doing this to me and to. Her265502:59:34.280 --> 02:59:38.200
what did she do to deserve, This victor, asked knowing265602:59:38.239 --> 02:59:41.239
the unfair, choice he was going to present the frightened.265702:59:41.360 --> 02:59:45.719
Child blame her drunken. Daddy he was the one that265802:59:45.760 --> 02:59:49.399
could barely walk. Home he presented the easy meal and265902:59:49.520 --> 02:59:52.399
showed me where he lived to. BOOT i didn't even266002:59:52.399 --> 02:59:56.000
know he had a. Child she was a. Bonus oh266102:59:56.040 --> 02:59:59.479
AND i know you don't hate, Me. Victor veronica moved266202:59:59.479 --> 03:00:03.399
toward the. Bed just, Stop you've done. Enough leave the.266303:00:03.479 --> 03:00:06.079
Room you KNOW i can't let her just walk, out266403:00:06.159 --> 03:00:11.120
so please. Leave victor rubbed the top of his bald.266503:00:11.159 --> 03:00:14.319
Head he was dressed in an elegant black suit with266603:00:14.399 --> 03:00:17.959
black leather shoes that were surprisingly quiet when he, stapped266703:00:19.159 --> 03:00:22.239
as you, Wish, victor just call out if you need my.266803:00:22.520 --> 03:00:26.200
Help veronica power walked out of the room with both266903:00:26.239 --> 03:00:29.319
hands on her hips and glanced back over At victor267003:00:29.879 --> 03:00:33.600
before she closed the. Door victor knelt down with his267103:00:33.680 --> 03:00:39.239
hands draped over his. Knees. Hello first THING i want267203:00:39.280 --> 03:00:42.399
to say Is i'm so sorry about your mom and.267303:00:42.479 --> 03:00:46.479
DAD i know you're very frightened, child AND i WISH267403:00:46.559 --> 03:00:49.639
i could truthfully say That i'm not going to hurt.267503:00:49.680 --> 03:00:55.040
You BUT i can't say. THAT i know you Heard267603:00:55.120 --> 03:00:59.920
veronica say, it But I'm. Victor what's your, name Dear?267703:01:01.399 --> 03:01:06.559
SHANNON a whisper came from under the. Bed, SHANNON i267803:01:06.639 --> 03:01:11.079
must ask you a, question but you must understand that either,267903:01:11.159 --> 03:01:16.600
way you will not leave this room. Alive victor lightly268003:01:16.639 --> 03:01:22.079
tapped the floor with his. Nails, MISTER i don't want to,268103:01:22.159 --> 03:01:27.079
Die please don't kill. Me shannon's voice was breaking and268203:01:27.159 --> 03:01:30.559
she cried as she. Spoke victor looked down at the,268303:01:30.600 --> 03:01:34.159
floor so ashamed of What veronica had done and of268403:01:34.200 --> 03:01:37.000
what he would have to, do but he was going268503:01:37.040 --> 03:01:40.159
to Let shannon decide which way it was going to. Be,268603:01:41.799 --> 03:01:46.920
shannon either, way you are going to die. Tonight but268703:01:47.000 --> 03:01:49.879
you can rise up and become a vampire like myself And,268803:01:50.479 --> 03:01:54.360
veronica or you can be put in the. GROUND i268903:01:54.479 --> 03:01:57.959
know this isn't an easy. Choice if you decide to rise,269003:01:58.000 --> 03:02:02.840
again you will have my. Protend if, not you may269103:02:02.920 --> 03:02:05.680
or may not go to a better, place maybe a269203:02:05.719 --> 03:02:08.159
place you heard about sitting in your church On, sunday269303:02:08.920 --> 03:02:12.040
but you won't be of this. World you have to269403:02:12.120 --> 03:02:16.520
tell me now Before veronica comes. Back If veronica comes,269503:02:16.520 --> 03:02:19.280
back she'll make the decision for, you and she's not269603:02:19.360 --> 03:02:23.159
as compassionate AS i. Am but you know that, already don't.269703:02:23.159 --> 03:02:27.639
You shannon slowly crawled from her hiding place with tears269803:02:27.719 --> 03:02:31.040
streaming down her. Face the tops of her knees were269903:02:31.079 --> 03:02:34.239
skinned up from the, floor and her nightgown had pulled270003:02:34.280 --> 03:02:38.079
free from her right. Shoulder the eleven year Old shannon,270103:02:38.159 --> 03:02:42.079
SPOKE i don't want to be put in the. Ground270203:02:43.440 --> 03:02:48.840
i'll stay with, you So i'll ask, You, shannon do270303:02:48.920 --> 03:02:53.040
you want to be turned to? Vampire victor locked eyes270403:02:53.159 --> 03:02:59.799
on to, Her, Yes shannon. Replied shannon spent the next270503:03:00.040 --> 03:03:04.479
fifty plus years regretting this. Decision if it were hers270603:03:04.520 --> 03:03:08.000
to make, again she would have a headstone right beside270703:03:08.079 --> 03:03:12.479
her mother and, father and she would be in the.270803:03:12.559 --> 03:03:16.840
Ground it was almost time for the bus And karen270903:03:16.879 --> 03:03:20.280
had just pulled into the. Driveway mollie was sitting on271003:03:20.280 --> 03:03:24.280
the front porch waiting for her. Daughter karen stepped out271103:03:24.319 --> 03:03:28.719
of her old but paid for Burgundy Ford. Taurus her271203:03:28.799 --> 03:03:32.079
dark brownish red hair was a little tussled and out of.271303:03:32.159 --> 03:03:36.319
Sorts she had her laptop bag under one arm and271403:03:36.399 --> 03:03:40.200
a huge stack of papers under the. Other mollie propped271503:03:40.200 --> 03:03:44.120
open the screen door and held out a. Hand, Here,271603:03:44.239 --> 03:03:49.440
karen give me that. Bag mollie grabbed the. Laptop, oh thank, you.271703:03:49.559 --> 03:03:53.360
Mom karen brushed By mollie and the screen door clang271803:03:53.440 --> 03:03:58.319
shut behind them. Both how was your, day, Dear molly, Asked,271903:03:59.000 --> 03:04:01.879
oh it was fair To. MIDLAND i had double booked272003:04:01.879 --> 03:04:03.920
a meeting with two clients this morning and had to272103:04:03.959 --> 03:04:06.360
move one to the afternoon and had another in the272203:04:06.360 --> 03:04:08.000
middle of the, day SO i didn't get to eat272303:04:08.040 --> 03:04:11.719
the lunch you, packed SO i am, Starving karen, said272403:04:11.760 --> 03:04:15.120
with a big. Smile the grin Took molly back to272503:04:15.200 --> 03:04:17.799
when her daughter was a little, girl back when she272603:04:17.920 --> 03:04:20.440
smiled at her that, way with her pretty brown eyes272703:04:20.520 --> 03:04:24.639
all lit. Up the simple things still excite, her like272803:04:24.680 --> 03:04:28.840
the prospect of mom's. Cooking, well, dear you are in272903:04:28.920 --> 03:04:31.719
all kinds of luck, today because there's a fresh pot273003:04:31.719 --> 03:04:34.680
of chili simmerin in the crockpot and an entire package273103:04:34.680 --> 03:04:37.639
Of Oscar meyer hot dogs in the, refrigerator just waiting273203:04:37.719 --> 03:04:41.799
to be thrown on the, Griddle molly. Said karen kissed273303:04:41.799 --> 03:04:44.760
her on the cheek in. DELIGHT i Think i'll have273403:04:44.799 --> 03:04:49.280
the chili minus the. Dogs do we have any? Saltines karen.273503:04:49.360 --> 03:04:53.760
Asked her method of choice for consuming homemade chili was273603:04:53.799 --> 03:04:56.799
to have crumbled up saltine crackers in the bottom of273703:04:56.840 --> 03:04:59.760
the bowl before drowning them in the slightly sweet and273803:04:59.799 --> 03:05:04.120
mi utterly spicy. Chili the secret to the sweetness was273903:05:04.159 --> 03:05:06.719
That mollie used baked beans for the base of the274003:05:06.719 --> 03:05:11.319
hot chili instead of your standard gray chili. Beans, Yes,274103:05:11.440 --> 03:05:14.399
karen they're in the top left cabinet above the. Stove274203:05:14.959 --> 03:05:16.840
why don't you go ahead and get your shower Before274303:05:16.879 --> 03:05:19.280
lisa gets home and we can all sit down together for,274403:05:19.360 --> 03:05:23.840
supper But i'm so, Hungry karen whined like she did274503:05:23.879 --> 03:05:26.239
when she was a little, girl trying to Get milton274603:05:26.280 --> 03:05:29.319
to Convince mollie to let her have an early. Taste274703:05:29.360 --> 03:05:32.399
molly dipped into the pot with a tablespoon and rounded274803:05:32.440 --> 03:05:34.760
her lips as she blew onto the spoonful of hot274903:05:34.840 --> 03:05:38.959
chili before shoveling it Into karen's. Mouth they both heard275003:05:39.000 --> 03:05:42.159
the hiss and squeal of the. Bus now go on275103:05:42.239 --> 03:05:45.440
and get your. Shower we'll eat. Directly mollie made a275203:05:45.479 --> 03:05:49.680
showing motion with her. Hand, yes, Ma'am karen. Said as275303:05:49.719 --> 03:05:52.520
she turned toward the. Stairs there was the noise of275403:05:52.559 --> 03:05:55.639
the screen, door a book bag hitting the, floor and275503:05:55.680 --> 03:05:58.600
the familiar footsteps running by the kitchen for the. Stairs,275603:05:59.440 --> 03:06:02.639
lisa wait a, minute young, Lady molly yelled out to her.275703:06:02.680 --> 03:06:06.920
Granddaughter dang, It lisa mumbled under her breath as she275803:06:07.040 --> 03:06:10.840
turned around and stepped into the. Kitchen we have something to,275903:06:10.920 --> 03:06:14.040
discuss and we need to talk about it. Quickly your mother's,276003:06:14.120 --> 03:06:16.239
upstairs AND i would rather not get her involved if276103:06:16.239 --> 03:06:19.200
we don't have. To you know What i'm referring, to don't.276203:06:19.239 --> 03:06:23.639
You molly's brown eyes were looking directly Into Lisa's there276303:06:23.680 --> 03:06:26.600
was no point in trying to feign. Ignorance the jig276403:06:26.760 --> 03:06:31.799
was up And lisa knew. It, yes, ma'am That's, shannon276503:06:32.239 --> 03:06:35.479
The shannon we were looking for last. Night she just276603:06:35.559 --> 03:06:39.440
needed a. Friend. Gran lisa finally broke the staring contest276703:06:39.440 --> 03:06:42.920
with her. GRANDMOTHER i know what she, Is, lisa AND276803:06:42.959 --> 03:06:45.079
i know there are others like her that'll be looking for.276903:06:45.120 --> 03:06:47.760
Her i've had a run in with their kind. Before277003:06:48.239 --> 03:06:50.079
as soon as it turns, DARK i want her out277103:06:50.079 --> 03:06:54.040
of this. House do we understand each? OTHER i Understand,277203:06:54.079 --> 03:06:58.200
gran but the people she's with aren't. Nice they're not,277303:06:58.399 --> 03:07:01.479
people And i'm not nice, Either dear not when it277403:07:01.479 --> 03:07:04.159
comes to protecting you and your. Mother i'll put a277503:07:04.159 --> 03:07:07.440
piece of woodener right. Now is that what you? Want, No,277603:07:07.600 --> 03:07:10.719
gran please don't do. That she'll leave when the sun goes.277703:07:10.760 --> 03:07:13.879
DOWN i promise she. Will lisa's voice had a twinge277803:07:13.920 --> 03:07:16.840
of panic in. It she could hear her mother walking277903:07:16.879 --> 03:07:19.959
down the. Stairs the taste of the chili induced a278003:07:19.959 --> 03:07:23.440
three minute. Shower, okay then not a word to your278103:07:23.440 --> 03:07:32.079
mother and let's be done with. It six eighteen pm.278203:07:33.000 --> 03:07:38.559
Sunset you gonna give it another Go, victor old, Boy neil,278303:07:38.639 --> 03:07:42.680
asked with a hint of perverse, delight you would be278403:07:42.680 --> 03:07:45.639
best served not to speak with me UNTIL i Find.278503:07:45.680 --> 03:07:50.399
Shannon your mere presence is an, Irritant victor, said calmly278603:07:50.680 --> 03:07:54.040
as he once again planted his nails into both sides278703:07:54.040 --> 03:07:58.559
of his. Head, neil you better let it, Be veronica.278803:07:58.639 --> 03:08:02.280
Started i've seen him ripped throats out of vampires, before278903:08:02.639 --> 03:08:04.959
and on a couple of occasions it was almost. Me,279003:08:05.840 --> 03:08:08.719
oh you'll heal, eventually but you won't be able to279103:08:08.719 --> 03:08:12.120
eat until you, do and you know there's nothing like279203:08:12.159 --> 03:08:16.840
that pain of, hunger So i'd advise you as politely279303:08:16.920 --> 03:08:20.840
AS i can to shut the fuck. Up sandra Slapped279403:08:20.879 --> 03:08:23.159
neil on his ass and grabbed him by the. Hand279503:08:23.959 --> 03:08:25.920
let's get out of here before you start something that's279603:08:25.959 --> 03:08:28.959
going to hurt us. Both neil tried to Give victor279703:08:29.000 --> 03:08:31.559
an intimidating stare as he was led out of the,279803:08:31.639 --> 03:08:36.440
room And veronica let out a. Giggle just, go, you young,279903:08:36.360 --> 03:08:40.840
Fool veronica, said and perched back on the bed as280003:08:40.879 --> 03:08:44.840
she Watched victor go through his. Incantations If shannon were,280103:08:44.879 --> 03:08:47.879
near she would not be able to resist these, commands280203:08:48.360 --> 03:08:52.760
she would have to come just outside the mobile. Home,280303:08:53.799 --> 03:08:56.520
Sandra i'm going to stake him one of these. DAYS280403:08:56.639 --> 03:08:59.639
i hate that. Guy neil pulled the fresh t shirt280503:08:59.639 --> 03:09:05.239
over his. Head just don't antagonize. Him, Okay veronica can280603:09:05.360 --> 03:09:08.959
kick his, ass but If veronica's not, around he can280703:09:09.040 --> 03:09:12.079
hurt us pretty. Bad he might hurt us bad even280803:09:12.120 --> 03:09:16.719
If veronica is. There sandra said, Calmly i'm not scared of.280903:09:16.799 --> 03:09:23.040
Him neil defiantly, replied you should. Be you really should.281003:09:23.079 --> 03:09:30.479
Be sandra Returned lisa's. Room, shannon it's time for you to.281103:09:30.520 --> 03:09:33.920
Go lisa was teary eyed as she gazed into the281203:09:33.959 --> 03:09:39.040
lifeless black eyes of her new. FRIEND i Know victor's281303:09:39.079 --> 03:09:41.920
calling me right, now and it's taking all of my281403:09:42.040 --> 03:09:46.239
focus to stay here for even another. Minute shannon held281503:09:46.280 --> 03:09:50.000
out her hand And lisa grabbed. It it was a cold,281603:09:50.040 --> 03:09:54.520
sensation and her black nails were sharply tipped but. Retracted281703:09:56.079 --> 03:09:58.760
will you come? Back you're always welcome as long As281803:09:58.760 --> 03:10:02.600
graham doesn't see. You lisa gave a little. Wink, NO281903:10:03.559 --> 03:10:06.479
i don't THINK i shall, Return. LISA i want to282003:10:06.559 --> 03:10:09.840
thank you for. Listening it's been a while since i've282103:10:09.879 --> 03:10:14.639
talked to someone like, you like. That shannon relinquished the282203:10:14.680 --> 03:10:17.879
hold On lisa's hand and pushed up the window sill282303:10:18.000 --> 03:10:21.200
that she entered the night. Before she pounced up onto282403:10:21.200 --> 03:10:24.440
the sill like a sneaky. Cat her MAROON t shirt282503:10:24.520 --> 03:10:28.479
fluttered a little in the cold. Breeze it's, Freezing, Shannon282603:10:28.879 --> 03:10:33.159
do you need a? Cup lisa stopped. HERSELF i guess you. Don't,282703:10:34.040 --> 03:10:38.159
NO i GUESS i, Don't shannon replied with a, SMILE282803:10:38.760 --> 03:10:42.479
a real smile at a real, GIRL a real smile282903:10:42.559 --> 03:10:45.639
that was all hers to. Cherish it was a memory283003:10:45.639 --> 03:10:48.959
in a mind overflowing with, them but a good memory283103:10:49.159 --> 03:10:52.719
none the. Less the bad memories still had the most,283203:10:52.760 --> 03:10:56.520
weight but this good one was now locked, in and it,283303:10:56.639 --> 03:11:00.360
helped if only for a, Moment shannon remembered who she283403:11:00.479 --> 03:11:05.920
used to be before she became this. Monster, Goodbye. Lisa283503:11:06.520 --> 03:11:09.840
shannon flipped backward out of the, window her shirt fluttering283603:11:09.840 --> 03:11:12.360
in the wind and jeans rubbing together as she brought283703:11:12.360 --> 03:11:15.079
her legs above and around her head in a backward,283803:11:15.120 --> 03:11:19.079
somersault with her white sneakers crunching the leaves underneath her283903:11:19.319 --> 03:11:25.840
as she. Landed, Goodbye, Shannon lisa's eyes released the. Tears284003:11:27.319 --> 03:11:30.479
shannon was at the edge of The frausto's lawn when284103:11:30.520 --> 03:11:33.239
she heard a voice that she had rather not. Encountered,284203:11:34.280 --> 03:11:38.319
shannon where you've, been you little? Vamp your butthole creator284303:11:38.399 --> 03:11:41.799
is looking for, You neil, said smiling with fangs on.284403:11:41.879 --> 03:11:46.520
Display i'm going to him. Now shannon glanced At neil284503:11:47.040 --> 03:11:50.879
and then back at her. Feet were you in that?284603:11:50.959 --> 03:11:56.159
House someone whispered from behind into her. Ear shannon turned284703:11:56.200 --> 03:12:01.319
And sandra was there with an, evil threatening. Grin shannon,284803:12:01.399 --> 03:12:06.440
lied So sandra started looking over At neil for. Approval284903:12:07.200 --> 03:12:09.520
you MEAN i didn't see you do a nice three285003:12:09.719 --> 03:12:13.200
sixty out that? Window you know the window that little285103:12:13.239 --> 03:12:16.799
girl is staring out of right? Now you leave her,285203:12:16.879 --> 03:12:20.840
Alone shannon. Screamed i'll Tell victor and he'll rip both285303:12:20.879 --> 03:12:24.520
of your heads. OFF i swear he. Will Easy. Now285403:12:25.120 --> 03:12:27.920
neil held out his right, hand extending and retracting his.285503:12:28.040 --> 03:12:31.840
Nails we're not gonna hurt. Her who else is in?285603:12:31.879 --> 03:12:35.280
There victor is calling AND i have to go to him.285703:12:35.319 --> 03:12:39.360
Now shannon started her march back to the. Trailer neil285803:12:39.399 --> 03:12:42.959
And sandra followed close behind the echo of their steps285903:12:43.040 --> 03:12:48.440
rang In shannon's, ears and their conversation tormented. Her so286003:12:49.319 --> 03:12:51.239
do you think we can turn the girl and have286103:12:51.360 --> 03:12:56.600
her join our little Perverted adams, Family neil, STARTED i don't.286203:12:56.639 --> 03:13:01.040
Know Maybe i'm wondering what sort of grocery are living286303:13:01.079 --> 03:13:05.559
with the young. Lass sandra, Answered, OH i don't. Know286403:13:06.120 --> 03:13:09.959
neil kept. Going they were both almost brushing Against shannon286503:13:10.000 --> 03:13:13.440
as they followed so close. BEHIND i think we need286603:13:13.479 --> 03:13:16.639
to go back and case it. Out shannon came to286703:13:16.719 --> 03:13:20.159
a hard, stop her nails on both hands fully, extended286803:13:20.520 --> 03:13:23.360
pivoted around quickly on her left, foot as if she286903:13:23.399 --> 03:13:27.000
were doing an about. FACE a very important detail that287003:13:27.040 --> 03:13:31.360
Both sandra And neil forgot was That shannon was older287103:13:31.479 --> 03:13:35.479
and stronger than both of them. Combined they mistook her287203:13:35.520 --> 03:13:40.120
size and her tendency to hide Behind victor for frailty and.287303:13:40.200 --> 03:13:44.120
Weakness shannon's fangs dripped as she ripped across both of287403:13:44.159 --> 03:13:48.920
their bellies in a crisscross. Pattern neil immediately howled in blinding.287503:13:49.000 --> 03:13:55.479
Pain A sandra's fangs dug into her lower lip as287603:13:55.520 --> 03:13:58.239
she placed her hand over the hole That shannon had just.287703:13:58.360 --> 03:14:02.399
Made she stared at in amazement As shannon turned around287803:14:02.799 --> 03:14:07.520
and continued her walk To. Victor you leave them, alone287903:14:07.680 --> 03:14:11.879
Or i'll kill both of. You shannon disappeared down the.288003:14:11.920 --> 03:14:15.479
Sidewalk When neil was certain she was out of, earshot288103:14:15.959 --> 03:14:21.440
he chirped out an unenthusiastic fuck. You oh aren't you288203:14:21.600 --> 03:14:24.920
the brave? One sandra said as she helped him to his. Feet,288303:14:26.319 --> 03:14:30.639
Oh i'm not done. Yet neil smiled and turned back288403:14:30.840 --> 03:14:32.319
toward The frausto home.288503:14:38.239 --> 03:14:38.319
The.288603:14:38.399 --> 03:14:43.000
Trailer victor was standing there with fists clenched at his,288703:14:43.120 --> 03:14:46.840
side his fangs piercing his lower gums inside of his.288803:14:46.959 --> 03:14:51.000
Lips his black dry fit shirt clung to his cold.288903:14:51.079 --> 03:14:55.559
Skin it had the look of Lycra veronica's white hair289003:14:55.719 --> 03:14:58.840
whisked in the light. Breeze she was dressed in her,289103:14:58.840 --> 03:15:02.760
classic hip hugging black, mini wearing the same crimson lip289203:15:02.799 --> 03:15:06.479
color that she always. Did they were both transfixed On289303:15:06.559 --> 03:15:10.520
shannon's steady march toward. Them something was different in her.289403:15:10.559 --> 03:15:16.079
Walk there was, Anger. SHANNON i take it you have289503:15:16.120 --> 03:15:20.559
a good, Explanation victor. Began she stopped right in front of,289603:15:20.639 --> 03:15:25.120
him slowly raising her stare to meet his. Eyes veronica289703:15:25.200 --> 03:15:30.120
snickered behind, him And shannon's eyes darted to. Her what's,289803:15:30.159 --> 03:15:35.239
wrong sweetie, cat got your? Tongue veronica licked her lips and,289903:15:35.360 --> 03:15:39.239
Continued you didn't see my fruit bats out? There did?290003:15:39.280 --> 03:15:44.239
YOU i saw? Them shannon, answered what is wrong with?290103:15:44.280 --> 03:15:44.360
You?290203:15:44.440 --> 03:15:48.600
Shannon did something? Happen victor placed both of his hands290303:15:48.600 --> 03:15:53.920
on her. Shoulders, yes something, Happened shannon, said with her290403:15:53.920 --> 03:15:59.159
eyes still trained On. Veronica, Well i'm having all sorts290503:15:59.159 --> 03:16:02.120
of fun, guesses but why don't you just go ahead290603:16:02.440 --> 03:16:07.360
and spit it. Out veronica's smile disappeared and turned just290703:16:07.559 --> 03:16:11.840
like that into a wicked, sneer an all too familiar290803:16:11.879 --> 03:16:15.559
sneer that used to Scare shannon and probably still SHOULD290903:16:16.559 --> 03:16:19.360
i left them back. THERE i hurt, them but not too.291003:16:19.399 --> 03:16:22.920
Bad shannon moved her eyes back To, victor and she291103:16:23.040 --> 03:16:28.200
hesitated slightly before she, continued it didn't really matter Because291203:16:28.280 --> 03:16:31.159
sandra And neil certainly weren't going to keep their traps291303:16:31.159 --> 03:16:34.559
shut when they got back to The Queen. BEE i291403:16:34.639 --> 03:16:37.360
met a little girl last, night that's WHERE i, Was.291503:16:37.479 --> 03:16:43.639
Victor we talked all night AND i felt. Human, ha291603:16:44.399 --> 03:16:49.200
you felt what did you? Say? Human? Really with your291703:16:49.239 --> 03:16:52.680
fangs all out and dripping all over the. Place, Please291803:16:53.479 --> 03:16:58.639
veronica burst into. Laughter shut, Up. Veronica victor raised a291903:16:58.680 --> 03:17:03.120
hand over his head with A. Cla you heard me call?292003:17:03.200 --> 03:17:08.879
You victor, ASKED i. Did shannon, returned don't do that,292103:17:08.959 --> 03:17:14.719
again Said. VICTOR i. Won't shannon, replied enough of this.292203:17:14.879 --> 03:17:19.280
Shit why did you hurt my? Babies veronica stormed Through,292303:17:19.360 --> 03:17:22.239
victor shoving him to the, ground and dug her claws292403:17:22.239 --> 03:17:26.799
Into shannon's. Shoulders shannon didn't flinch As veronica locked eyes with.292503:17:26.840 --> 03:17:30.040
Her they threatened to kill, her AND i hurt. THEM292603:17:30.399 --> 03:17:32.319
i told them if they hurt her or her, Kin292703:17:32.799 --> 03:17:36.719
i'd kill. Them AND i meant WHAT i. Said veronica292803:17:36.799 --> 03:17:41.600
felt a twinge of was it? Pride, well my Little?292903:17:41.639 --> 03:17:45.520
SHANNON a fresh grin spread Across veronica's face as she293003:17:45.600 --> 03:17:49.280
retracted her claws and Rubbed shannon's, arms painting them in.293103:17:49.319 --> 03:17:53.280
Blood i've never seen this sight of. YOU i like.293203:17:53.360 --> 03:17:57.600
It shannon stepped around the white haired vamp and Assisted293303:17:57.680 --> 03:18:02.079
victor back to his. FEET A veronica blindside wasn't easy293403:18:02.120 --> 03:18:05.079
to get up from. Quickly victor had been the victim293503:18:05.159 --> 03:18:09.159
of his. Share, well you said you didn't hurt them293603:18:09.159 --> 03:18:13.440
all that, bad so where are? They veronica? Started down the.293703:18:13.479 --> 03:18:17.280
Sidewalk If shannon's heart had a, beat it would have293803:18:17.319 --> 03:18:20.600
went into high gear with that. Question she had turned293903:18:20.600 --> 03:18:24.159
her back on. Them she should never have turned her294003:18:24.200 --> 03:18:27.799
back on. Them mollie was watching through the slightly cracked294103:18:27.840 --> 03:18:31.440
bedroom door when the little black haired vampire back flipped294203:18:31.440 --> 03:18:34.920
out Of lisa's. Window lisa was sobbing as soon as294303:18:34.920 --> 03:18:40.000
she stepped. Inside sit, Down, LISA i gotta share something with.294403:18:40.079 --> 03:18:43.639
You she grabbed her granddaughter by the hand and led294503:18:43.680 --> 03:18:45.680
her to the, bed where they both took a. Seat294603:18:46.600 --> 03:18:48.959
mollie kept a hold of her hand as she, CONTINUED294703:18:50.040 --> 03:18:52.440
i know you liked that little, girl And i'm sure294803:18:52.440 --> 03:18:57.360
she liked, you but she's not. HUMAN i, Know gran294903:18:58.200 --> 03:19:01.440
she told me. THINGS i know she, did BUT i295003:19:01.520 --> 03:19:04.639
need to tell you things. Now your mother's lying. Down295103:19:05.079 --> 03:19:07.239
the late hours are catching up to, her so it's295203:19:07.280 --> 03:19:09.680
just you and me right. Now there's something that your295303:19:09.719 --> 03:19:12.319
mother doesn't. Know and because you met up with this,295403:19:12.360 --> 03:19:16.360
GIRL i think you need to hear. This you're scaring.295503:19:16.440 --> 03:19:20.680
Me Grand, good that's what it's meant to, do And295603:19:20.799 --> 03:19:27.920
molly began her crystal clear recollection of. DEATH i was295703:19:27.959 --> 03:19:30.159
thirty nine years old when we were blessed with the295803:19:30.159 --> 03:19:33.680
birth of your. Mother back, then that was considered very295903:19:33.719 --> 03:19:37.000
old to have a, child not like. Today Missus baker296003:19:37.040 --> 03:19:40.440
had Little gerald last year and she was forty. Two296103:19:40.559 --> 03:19:44.000
there's something that your mother never, knew and its knowledge296203:19:44.040 --> 03:19:47.479
that died with Both milton and my parents years before296303:19:47.520 --> 03:19:51.920
your mother was. Born you, SEE i got pregnant shortly296403:19:51.959 --> 03:19:55.280
After milton AND i got. MARRIED i was barely seventeen296503:19:55.360 --> 03:19:58.440
and we lived two towns. Over your grandfather was a296603:19:58.479 --> 03:20:02.159
traveling salesman when we got, married not the bank manager296703:20:02.200 --> 03:20:05.120
that you knew him as he traveled up and down the,296803:20:05.200 --> 03:20:10.280
southeast selling anything from new fangled electronic toothbrushes To hoover vacuum.296903:20:10.319 --> 03:20:13.360
Cleaners he had a catalog he sold, from and his297003:20:13.440 --> 03:20:17.239
car was always loaded with demonstration. Models it was hard297103:20:17.239 --> 03:20:18.920
work and it kept him from home a lot in297203:20:18.959 --> 03:20:23.239
the beginning of our. Marriage Jason fitzgerald McBride was born297303:20:23.319 --> 03:20:26.280
in the summer of nineteen hundred and fifty, seven and297403:20:26.319 --> 03:20:28.639
by the end of winter in nineteen hundred and fifty,297503:20:28.680 --> 03:20:33.159
seven my baby was. Gone it was dead of, night297603:20:33.559 --> 03:20:35.879
AND i remember the wind howling like wolves at the,297703:20:35.920 --> 03:20:40.079
moon and it was very. Cold oh so. COLD i297803:20:40.159 --> 03:20:42.440
kept the woodburn and stove, going So jason AND i297903:20:42.520 --> 03:20:45.000
made residence in the living area close to the warmth298003:20:45.040 --> 03:20:49.120
of the. FIRE i recall everything about that night except the.298103:20:49.200 --> 03:20:52.239
TIME i don't know what time it was when the scratching.298203:20:52.280 --> 03:20:56.360
Started Little jason was wrapped securely in his basket right298303:20:56.399 --> 03:20:58.920
beside the SOFA i was sleeping, on and we were298403:20:58.959 --> 03:21:02.120
about five or six feet away from the. STOVE i298503:21:02.159 --> 03:21:04.520
remember THAT i had my hand draped over the, side298603:21:04.879 --> 03:21:07.680
and his little pink fingers were coiled around my index.298703:21:07.760 --> 03:21:12.440
Finger the noises woke. Me it came from the tall298803:21:12.479 --> 03:21:16.159
window in the living, room the sound of nails on.298903:21:16.280 --> 03:21:19.719
Glass it was a god awful noise That i'll never.299003:21:19.760 --> 03:21:23.440
FORGET i pulled my finger From jason's tiny grip and299103:21:23.479 --> 03:21:27.159
stepped across the ice cold. Floor the scratching got louder299203:21:27.159 --> 03:21:29.360
AS i approached the, curtains AND i could make out299303:21:29.360 --> 03:21:31.319
the figure of a woman BEFORE i reached up to299403:21:31.360 --> 03:21:34.559
pull the curtains. Apart she was standing there with her299503:21:34.639 --> 03:21:38.719
dark eyes scratching at my, window smiling with just her red,299603:21:38.760 --> 03:21:42.559
lips not showing as much as one. TOOTH i thought299703:21:42.600 --> 03:21:45.959
she was lost and. Disoriented she was wearing a tight299803:21:46.000 --> 03:21:48.799
black dress and a matching choker with some sort of299903:21:48.879 --> 03:21:53.120
circled symbol hanging from its. Center jason started to whimper300003:21:53.159 --> 03:21:55.600
a little AS i stared at the most beautiful Woman300103:21:55.639 --> 03:21:59.799
i'd ever. SEEN i ignored. Him, NOW i think you300203:22:00.120 --> 03:22:02.799
trying to warn me not to open the. Door there300303:22:02.840 --> 03:22:05.280
was nobody around, her and she looked as young AS i,300403:22:05.479 --> 03:22:08.879
was maybe. YOUNGER i couldn't leave her out, there AND300503:22:08.920 --> 03:22:12.520
i opened the front. Door she was standing, there just300603:22:12.559 --> 03:22:15.079
staring at, me just a couple of feet right in300703:22:15.120 --> 03:22:17.719
front of, me AND i held out my hand to300803:22:17.760 --> 03:22:20.200
her and asked her to come in from the. Cold,300903:22:21.239 --> 03:22:27.959
then Dear, lisa my world went. Dark WHEN i, awoke301003:22:28.360 --> 03:22:30.799
the front door was wide, open AND i could see301103:22:30.840 --> 03:22:33.600
the vapor from the AIR i was. BREATHING i was301203:22:33.639 --> 03:22:36.840
face down on the cold, floor staring up at the baby.301303:22:36.879 --> 03:22:41.079
Basket then there was the blood trail that started a301403:22:41.079 --> 03:22:44.319
few feet away from the. Basket there was some on301503:22:44.360 --> 03:22:47.799
the back of my night. Shirt the vampire bitch had301603:22:47.840 --> 03:22:51.559
stepped over me as she fed on Little, jason leaving301703:22:51.559 --> 03:22:54.760
a trail behind her as she walked. Out to this,301803:22:54.879 --> 03:22:57.520
DAY i don't know why she spared me and only301903:22:57.559 --> 03:23:00.920
took my. Baby she had to Know milton wasn't at.302003:23:00.959 --> 03:23:03.680
Home she must have been watching me for days leading302103:23:03.719 --> 03:23:07.799
up to killing my. Baby of, COURSE i reported it302203:23:07.840 --> 03:23:10.200
to the, authorities and with all of the, blood it302303:23:10.239 --> 03:23:12.639
went from a missing person's case to a murder, case302403:23:12.680 --> 03:23:15.440
to an unsolved cold case and a police file somewhere302503:23:15.440 --> 03:23:20.159
collecting dust in a record's. Room milton AND i, Grieved302603:23:20.840 --> 03:23:22.959
we buried our, child and it took UNTIL i was302703:23:23.000 --> 03:23:25.399
thirty eight years old to gain the courage to have.302803:23:25.440 --> 03:23:33.000
Another i'll never forget the face of that, beautiful white haired. Woman, Now,302903:23:33.079 --> 03:23:37.600
lisa you know something that nobody else, knows not even your.303003:23:37.600 --> 03:23:42.879
Mother it's our. Secret my first instinct was to kill303103:23:42.879 --> 03:23:46.200
that little creature in your, closet AND i probably should.303203:23:46.239 --> 03:23:49.920
Have if she comes, back there is no doubt THAT i.303303:23:50.000 --> 03:23:56.600
WILL i hope you now understand. Why Grand i'm so.303403:23:56.680 --> 03:24:00.719
Sorry i'm so. Sorry lisa Hugged molly type around her,303503:24:00.719 --> 03:24:05.319
neck hot tears rolling down her. Cheeks you should tell303603:24:05.360 --> 03:24:09.200
mom she had a. BROTHER i can't tell, Her. LISA303703:24:09.479 --> 03:24:11.680
i only told you because of the visitor you, Had303803:24:12.440 --> 03:24:15.319
BUT i can't tell. Her after all this, time you303903:24:15.399 --> 03:24:19.440
can tell her After i'm. Gone molly Stroked lisa's auburn.304003:24:19.520 --> 03:24:23.120
HAIR i don't want you to, Go, GRAN i love304103:24:23.159 --> 03:24:27.159
you more than. Anything lisa released her hug and Kissed304203:24:27.200 --> 03:24:31.200
molly on the. Cheek we all have to go, sometime,304303:24:31.239 --> 03:24:36.079
Dear molly. Replied the door To lisa's room creaked. Open304403:24:37.079 --> 03:24:41.479
well isn't that, Precious neil, asked while Pulling karen by304503:24:41.479 --> 03:24:43.559
the back of her hair and pushing her in front304603:24:43.559 --> 03:24:48.600
of him into the. Bedroom Mom lisa, shouted it's so, Precious.304703:24:48.680 --> 03:24:52.520
Neil sandra replied and held up her right hand to304803:24:52.559 --> 03:24:56.760
give an extended claw finger wave To. Lisa let her,304903:24:56.799 --> 03:25:02.520
go Said, Molly oh, no not, yet old. Lady playtime305003:25:02.600 --> 03:25:07.399
has just, Started neil, replied with his fangs on. Display305103:25:11.360 --> 03:25:15.079
with blinding, Speed shannon Passed veronica on the, street just305203:25:15.120 --> 03:25:18.319
off the left edge of the. Sidewalk the stars were305303:25:18.360 --> 03:25:21.200
out and the moon was. Full there would be no305403:25:21.360 --> 03:25:25.840
fog on this. Night i'm right behind, you, Sweetie veronica,305503:25:25.920 --> 03:25:29.719
said as she picked up her. Pace victor followed closely behind.305603:25:29.760 --> 03:25:34.200
Them shannon had one. Purpose she didn't care About veronica305703:25:34.319 --> 03:25:37.520
Or victor in that. Moment all she cared about was305803:25:37.559 --> 03:25:41.360
getting back To. Lisa her listless hair lay flat down305903:25:41.399 --> 03:25:44.079
the back of her neck as she pushed hard to get,306003:25:44.079 --> 03:25:47.280
there to get to that lawn and back into that,306103:25:47.360 --> 03:25:54.200
house inside the frousto. HOME i, said let her, Go306203:25:55.040 --> 03:25:59.760
molly calmly repeated, herself AND i, said, no you will306303:26:00.920 --> 03:26:05.639
wait a. MINUTE i, Said, bat get. IT i, said306403:26:05.680 --> 03:26:08.719
you old, Bat neil, said as he looked down Into306503:26:08.799 --> 03:26:13.879
karen's brown. Eyes, look just take. Me karen rasped out the.306603:26:13.879 --> 03:26:16.959
Words the sharp pain Of neil's claws had now turned306703:26:17.000 --> 03:26:21.239
into a throbbing. Numbness just moments, before While molly And306803:26:21.280 --> 03:26:24.239
lisa were having their special, Talk karen was in the306903:26:24.319 --> 03:26:27.079
kitchen getting a glass of water when she saw the307003:26:27.120 --> 03:26:29.879
injured kid hunched over on the steps of the screened in.307103:26:30.040 --> 03:26:33.399
Porch his shirt was ripped in the center and soaked dark.307203:26:33.440 --> 03:26:37.200
Red without, hesitation she let the kid and his girlfriend307303:26:37.280 --> 03:26:41.079
into the. House as soon as she, did black claws307403:26:41.079 --> 03:26:44.000
were pushing into the front of her throat enough to draw.307503:26:44.040 --> 03:26:47.440
Blood karen's head was snapped, back and she was led307603:26:47.520 --> 03:26:50.479
upstairs by another set of claws digging into her. Back307703:26:51.799 --> 03:26:54.319
on the front of her, nightgown a black trail formed307803:26:54.319 --> 03:26:56.920
from the blood running down her neck and under the,307903:26:56.959 --> 03:27:00.760
fabric there was another black trail that soaked lower, back308003:27:01.319 --> 03:27:03.559
some of it finding its way through the back of her.308103:27:03.600 --> 03:27:08.040
Panties let's just go, Okay i'll go wherever you. WANT308203:27:08.159 --> 03:27:11.760
i won't. Scream just leave them. Alone karen tried her308303:27:11.799 --> 03:27:14.760
best to, negotiate but she had nothing to barter. With,308403:27:15.799 --> 03:27:19.319
no Said, molly without a hint of. Fear you're not308503:27:19.399 --> 03:27:24.000
taking another one from, me another. One she's got that308603:27:24.079 --> 03:27:29.639
old timer's. Disease she doesn't know what she's. Saying sandra308703:27:29.719 --> 03:27:34.760
giggled like a. Psychodemon oh fuck. This neil jerked hard308803:27:34.840 --> 03:27:37.760
On karen's, neck and his stomach turning crack filled the.308903:27:37.799 --> 03:27:41.239
Air he sunk his fangs into the front of her. Neckline,309003:27:41.840 --> 03:27:45.559
No molly's seventy three year old body moved like a309103:27:45.600 --> 03:27:48.879
woman half her. Age she Released lisa's hand and sprang309203:27:48.959 --> 03:27:51.079
like a coiled rattlesnake from the edge of the, bed309303:27:51.239 --> 03:27:53.959
plowing herself into the front of her, daughter knocking her309403:27:54.040 --> 03:27:56.920
and kneel to the. Ground karen was limp when she309503:27:57.000 --> 03:27:59.920
hit the, floor blood spurting from her carotid art or309603:28:00.440 --> 03:28:03.280
in rhythm with the beat of her slowing, heart a309703:28:03.360 --> 03:28:09.040
disturbing gurgling noise emanating from her slashed. Throat blood filled her.309803:28:09.079 --> 03:28:14.799
Mouth Mom, oh my, god. Mom. No lisa scrambled on309903:28:14.799 --> 03:28:17.120
her hands and, knees grabbing a shirt she had thrown310003:28:17.159 --> 03:28:20.280
on the floor not more than an hour. Before lisa310103:28:20.319 --> 03:28:23.280
pressed the shirt on top of the blood. Fountain karen310203:28:23.360 --> 03:28:26.280
was speaking To lisa with her eyes because her mouth310303:28:26.440 --> 03:28:31.959
no longer. Worked they, said it's, okay. Sweetie we'll all310403:28:31.959 --> 03:28:35.680
be with your daddy. Soon we'll See grandpa And gran'll be.310503:28:35.799 --> 03:28:41.920
There we'll all be together. Again it'll all be. Okay, No,310603:28:42.159 --> 03:28:46.399
mom please. Don't lisa didn't get the last word out310703:28:46.719 --> 03:28:49.559
before she was sent flying through the. Air her back310803:28:49.639 --> 03:28:53.280
slammed hard against the closet, door splintering the, top caving310903:28:53.280 --> 03:28:56.200
it in. Slightly lisa hit the floor with almost as311003:28:56.280 --> 03:29:00.639
much Force sandra planted her fangs Into Karen fine her311103:29:00.680 --> 03:29:04.280
trip to. Darkness mollie was pushing herself off Of, neil311203:29:04.600 --> 03:29:09.159
trying to reach her. Daughter, No, karen my, Baby, karen311303:29:10.120 --> 03:29:13.719
not like your. Brother blood Covered molly's face and the311403:29:13.760 --> 03:29:16.239
top half of her favorite night. Shirt it was a311503:29:16.280 --> 03:29:20.319
gift From lisa On molly's last. Birthday it was her favorite,311603:29:20.360 --> 03:29:24.719
color pastel. Green neil was slow to get up because311703:29:24.760 --> 03:29:27.920
of the still fresh gash in his mid. Section courtesy Of,311803:29:27.959 --> 03:29:31.760
Shannon sandra's right hand covered her own stomach as her311903:29:31.799 --> 03:29:35.440
face buried In karen's. Neck molly was on her feet312003:29:35.680 --> 03:29:38.520
and the right one was surely. Broken she could feel312103:29:38.520 --> 03:29:41.120
the pain of a million, needles and her ankle was312203:29:41.159 --> 03:29:45.600
swelling very, rapidly but she walked on. It mollie grimaced312303:29:45.600 --> 03:29:48.159
as she held out her blood soaked, hands reaching for312403:29:48.200 --> 03:29:51.639
the back Of sandra's sandy blonde hair with the clothes312503:29:51.639 --> 03:29:54.280
of a. Fist she had clenched one handful of, hair312603:29:54.520 --> 03:29:58.040
But sandra kept. Going she was lost in her. Appetite312703:29:58.479 --> 03:30:01.719
neil struggled to his. Feet as he, rose he slipped312803:30:01.760 --> 03:30:05.680
on the large pool of blood and stumbled clumsily, forward Grabbing,312903:30:05.719 --> 03:30:10.120
molly sending them both crashing back to the. Floor mollie313003:30:10.200 --> 03:30:12.200
ripped out a chunk of hair on her way, down313103:30:12.520 --> 03:30:16.120
But sandra didn't flinch as she was ravenously devouring the313203:30:16.200 --> 03:30:21.200
rest Of karen's. Lifeblood molly was face down And neil313303:30:21.280 --> 03:30:24.680
clawed up on and straddled her. Back molly was in313403:30:24.719 --> 03:30:27.760
excruciating pain When neil leaned in close to her right,313503:30:27.799 --> 03:30:32.600
Ear i'm gonna turn your, granddaughter you old. Bitch she's313603:30:32.639 --> 03:30:36.280
gonna be one of. Us then he sank his fangs313703:30:36.680 --> 03:30:41.159
deep into the back of her. Neck shannon was the313803:30:41.200 --> 03:30:43.440
first to the, home and she barreled through the screen313903:30:43.520 --> 03:30:47.200
door and flung the front door wide. Open her invitation314003:30:47.399 --> 03:30:50.840
was standing so she could enter without. Delay she moved314103:30:50.879 --> 03:30:53.559
with the speed of a, cobra tearing up the, stairs314203:30:54.000 --> 03:30:56.920
hesitating for just a millisecond in front Of lisa's door314303:30:57.280 --> 03:31:01.280
before sending it flying back into the little Girl's lisa314403:31:01.360 --> 03:31:03.319
was lying still on the floor in front of the,314503:31:03.399 --> 03:31:08.120
closet And sandra And neil were both furiously. Feeding shannon314603:31:08.200 --> 03:31:11.639
moved with a deadly. Elegance it was so, fast but314703:31:11.760 --> 03:31:15.399
to her it was all in slow. Motion she almost314803:31:15.440 --> 03:31:18.159
glided to the right side of the. Room the pink314903:31:18.200 --> 03:31:20.920
cup was still sitting right there on the top Of lisa's,315003:31:20.959 --> 03:31:25.159
desk with freshly sharpened wooden colored pencils poking out of the.315103:31:25.200 --> 03:31:29.280
Top shannon's mouth was wide open as she, moved and the,315203:31:29.360 --> 03:31:33.920
thick cold saliva dripped heavy like a leaky. Faucet she315303:31:33.959 --> 03:31:36.159
was getting worked up into her own frenzy as she315403:31:36.200 --> 03:31:39.879
pulled four sharpened pencils from the, cup a red, one315503:31:40.159 --> 03:31:44.000
a blue, one a black, one and a green. One315603:31:44.040 --> 03:31:47.360
shannon gripped two in each hand and leaped high into the.315703:31:47.399 --> 03:31:50.959
Air As sandra Dropped karen's, cold dead body onto the,315803:31:51.000 --> 03:31:54.520
floor it was too late for. Her when she turned315903:31:54.520 --> 03:31:58.079
toward the determined little. Vampire shannon let out a cry316003:31:58.120 --> 03:32:02.600
as she came down. Hard the sharpened tips of the316103:32:02.600 --> 03:32:06.200
red and blue pencils pierced just Below sandra's left, breast316203:32:06.520 --> 03:32:09.760
and with the speed of a, Bullet shannon pressed them316303:32:10.120 --> 03:32:13.840
all the way in with her right. Palm oh, no316403:32:14.799 --> 03:32:18.799
Were sandra's last. Words she began to shake. Violently her316503:32:18.840 --> 03:32:21.719
body was trembling all, over and blood filled her eyes316603:32:21.760 --> 03:32:24.879
before they, burst sending a crimson spray all over the.316703:32:24.920 --> 03:32:28.719
Walls sandra's chest sunk in and the skin on her316803:32:28.799 --> 03:32:32.719
body started to. Boil after a few, seconds it, settled316903:32:32.719 --> 03:32:35.200
and there was nothing but a pile Of sandra's clothes317003:32:35.719 --> 03:32:39.360
and an ivory bracelet lying in a nasty black soup317103:32:39.399 --> 03:32:43.159
on the. Floor shannon was focused and didn't spend another317203:32:43.239 --> 03:32:46.399
thought on the dead. Vampire sandra had barely gotten the317303:32:46.440 --> 03:32:49.000
words oh no out When shannon Hit neil with the317403:32:49.040 --> 03:32:52.319
black and green sharpened pencils just under his left shoulder.317503:32:52.319 --> 03:32:55.680
Blade neil pulled up From molly and arched his back317603:32:55.760 --> 03:32:59.520
in pain as he screamed to the, sky ah, no,317703:33:00.040 --> 03:33:04.280
oh you. Can't neil collapsed and flailed about for a317803:33:04.319 --> 03:33:08.920
couple of seconds before he was boiled. Away the scream317903:33:09.040 --> 03:33:12.040
came from Outside, SHANNON.318003:33:11.879 --> 03:33:12.520
I know what you.318103:33:12.639 --> 03:33:18.000
Did you killed my. Babies veronica was. Furious victor was318203:33:18.040 --> 03:33:20.920
standing just behind, her but neither one of them could318303:33:20.959 --> 03:33:25.520
come in because they weren't. Invited lisa still wasn't moving318403:33:25.840 --> 03:33:31.200
And molly was bleeding. Out molly, whispered they can come,318503:33:31.239 --> 03:33:37.200
In they can come. In, No shannon, began but it318603:33:37.239 --> 03:33:40.479
was too. Late veronica was immediately in the, room With318703:33:40.559 --> 03:33:43.920
victor right. Behind shannon was already in front Of, lisa318803:33:44.079 --> 03:33:48.120
standing over. Her oh you little blood sucking. Bitch i'm318903:33:48.120 --> 03:33:50.920
going to kill that little. Girl you don't know what you.319003:33:51.079 --> 03:33:55.799
Did veronica's claws were completely extended and she started Towards.319103:33:55.840 --> 03:34:00.159
Shannon the bulrush wasn't going to work Because shannon was319203:34:00.159 --> 03:34:05.079
planted and prepared stop At veronica right. Now victor Grabbed319303:34:05.159 --> 03:34:08.239
veronica by the back of her left. Hand veronica came319403:34:08.280 --> 03:34:11.399
back across with her right and left four razor sharp319503:34:11.479 --> 03:34:14.719
lines across his right. Cheek she followed that up with319603:34:14.760 --> 03:34:17.239
a hard kick to the groin that doubled him. Over319703:34:18.040 --> 03:34:21.559
shannon reacted While veronica was, occupied and dropped to her319803:34:21.639 --> 03:34:24.280
knees and raked her own claws across the back Of319903:34:24.399 --> 03:34:29.959
veronica's left calf. Ah veronica screamed, out and with quickness320003:34:30.000 --> 03:34:33.479
faster Than shannon Or victor had ever, Witnessed veronica had320103:34:33.479 --> 03:34:37.239
her talons buried into the front Of shannon's. Throat she320203:34:37.399 --> 03:34:39.959
Rose shannon up off her feet and into the air320303:34:40.000 --> 03:34:43.200
with her hands flailing and. Clawing her feet were kicking.320403:34:43.280 --> 03:34:48.920
Violently veronica quickly Pulled shannon nose to nose and said nighty,320503:34:49.040 --> 03:34:52.840
night before launching her back across the room through the320603:34:52.840 --> 03:34:55.079
window that she had flipped out of earlier that. Evening320703:34:55.879 --> 03:34:58.479
there was the splintering of wood and the shattering of,320803:34:58.559 --> 03:35:01.440
glass followed by a f blood of cold air entering the.320903:35:01.520 --> 03:35:05.799
Room victor was still writhing on the, floor only beginning321003:35:05.799 --> 03:35:09.159
to recover When veronica was on top of the little Unconscious.321103:35:09.239 --> 03:35:13.239
Lisa veronica was briefly taken with her auburn colored hair321203:35:13.600 --> 03:35:20.239
and fair. Skin YOU i know. You mollie was. Standing321303:35:20.639 --> 03:35:22.680
blood was pouring out of the back of her, neck321403:35:22.799 --> 03:35:26.280
and her legs were shaking, severely threatening to buckle at any,321503:35:26.319 --> 03:35:31.760
moment but she was. Standing veronica slowly, turned gazed back321603:35:31.799 --> 03:35:36.440
At molly and, REPLIED i know you. Too your appearance321703:35:36.440 --> 03:35:40.040
has changed quite a, bit BUT i remember. YOU i321803:35:40.159 --> 03:35:43.239
watched you in that tender morsel for a good week321903:35:43.600 --> 03:35:47.600
BEFORE i scratched at your. Window veronica's attention was turned322003:35:47.600 --> 03:35:51.000
from Little lisa to the old lady staring her. Down322103:35:52.040 --> 03:35:56.319
his name Was, jason my baby that you. Killed his322203:35:56.520 --> 03:36:01.319
name Was. Jason molly began to. Cry her legs continued to,322303:36:01.360 --> 03:36:04.280
tremble but her hands were steady behind her back as322403:36:04.319 --> 03:36:07.559
she held the black and green pencils she lifted from the.322503:36:07.600 --> 03:36:11.959
Floor veronica stood, up now fully engaged with the Weakening.322603:36:12.000 --> 03:36:14.920
Molly she took a brief glance out of the crater322703:36:15.040 --> 03:36:17.319
in the wall that used to be a window and322803:36:17.399 --> 03:36:20.520
Saw shannon lying crumpled in a heap under the street322903:36:20.600 --> 03:36:23.719
light of the bus. Stop she could Hear victor shuffling323003:36:23.719 --> 03:36:28.840
on the, floor but didn't look. Back, Okay Jason, Mason323103:36:29.239 --> 03:36:33.079
no girl's he'll be Chasin who gives a? Fuck veronica323203:36:33.159 --> 03:36:36.360
walked Through sandra's puddled mess and stopped in front Of.323303:36:36.360 --> 03:36:40.040
Molly victor was up and slowly walking toward the. Women323403:36:40.520 --> 03:36:42.520
he made it just around the corner of the bed323503:36:42.600 --> 03:36:45.239
when he bent down and scraped something from the. Floor323603:36:46.239 --> 03:36:49.879
what are you doing back, There, Victor veronica, asked keeping323703:36:49.920 --> 03:36:54.000
her eyes fixed On. Molly i'm getting the, Girl victor.323803:36:54.040 --> 03:36:57.760
Said molly saw what was happening Behind veronica and, whispered323903:36:58.440 --> 03:37:01.520
please just finish, it make it quick for me and my.324003:37:01.639 --> 03:37:06.239
Granddaughter victor slowly stepped toward. Them molly leaned in And324103:37:06.360 --> 03:37:09.760
veronica pulled her close around her. Waist they were locked324203:37:09.760 --> 03:37:12.879
in a deadly, embrace And veronica opened up two new.324303:37:12.920 --> 03:37:16.200
Holes these were in the front Of molly's neck and324403:37:16.239 --> 03:37:19.879
she had hit the main. Pipeline molly returned the embrace324503:37:20.399 --> 03:37:22.799
with the blue and black pencils gripped in her right.324603:37:22.840 --> 03:37:26.799
Hand veronica was in her frenzy And victor was right behind.324703:37:26.840 --> 03:37:30.319
Her the life was Leaving molly's eyes and both of324803:37:30.360 --> 03:37:33.360
her hands began to. Tremble she let go of the324903:37:33.399 --> 03:37:37.200
pencils and they hit the, floor stuck in the. Blood325003:37:37.799 --> 03:37:42.479
veronica's eyes widened And molly's eyes. Closed When veronica felt the,325103:37:42.600 --> 03:37:45.840
quick sharp pain pushed through the back of her skin325203:37:45.959 --> 03:37:49.360
tight black, dress they both fell to the floor. Together325303:37:50.280 --> 03:37:53.159
victor was holding one end of the broken corner of325403:37:53.200 --> 03:37:57.840
the window. Sill the, other, sharp jagged end was buried325503:37:57.879 --> 03:38:03.040
deeply Into. Veronica he felt the slightest twinge of guilt325603:38:03.440 --> 03:38:06.719
as he let go of the other. End veronica slumped325703:38:06.760 --> 03:38:09.239
to the floor on her, back with her face, up325803:38:09.719 --> 03:38:16.360
looking At. Victor you killed, Me, Victor now you're getting.325903:38:16.399 --> 03:38:21.840
Somewhere veronica smiled one last time as her skin began to,326003:38:21.920 --> 03:38:26.760
boil and just Like neil And, sandra she was a326103:38:26.799 --> 03:38:33.559
pile of black. Goo, Goodbye. Veronica victor quickly turned his326203:38:33.600 --> 03:38:37.280
attention To. Molly she was just hanging on to. Consciousness326303:38:37.799 --> 03:38:40.639
victor was on his knees and he looked Into molly's.326403:38:40.639 --> 03:38:44.799
Eyes i'm very sorry for what happened. Here do you326503:38:44.840 --> 03:38:47.879
want me to end this for you right? Now molly326603:38:47.920 --> 03:38:53.239
shook her head and gave a tired. Whisper, No, LISA326703:38:54.200 --> 03:38:58.159
i can't Leave. Lisa victor felt her eyes upon. Him326803:38:58.680 --> 03:39:02.120
lisa was now standing and Watching victor hover over her.326903:39:02.120 --> 03:39:07.239
GRANDMOTHER i can turn her AND i can protect, Her victor, Offered,327003:39:08.120 --> 03:39:12.319
no you can turn me AND i can protect. Her327103:39:13.159 --> 03:39:17.200
molly returned her vision was coming and going. Soon it327203:39:17.239 --> 03:39:19.399
was going to be like turning off an old picture.327303:39:19.440 --> 03:39:22.840
Tube everything was turning, black and she was almost to327403:39:22.879 --> 03:39:25.399
the point where the tiny little light was going to327503:39:25.479 --> 03:39:29.799
finally go black the way they did in old. TELEVISIONS327603:39:30.120 --> 03:39:33.559
i don't. KNOW i think it's too, late Said. Victor327703:39:34.440 --> 03:39:38.879
shannon's voice, answered it's not too. Late turn, Her, Victor327803:39:39.399 --> 03:39:43.360
lisa's mother is. Dead turn her. Now victor turned his327903:39:43.440 --> 03:39:47.079
sight upon the black haired death, angel and if he was,328003:39:47.159 --> 03:39:52.079
capable he would have. Cried leave the, room Said. Victor328103:39:52.879 --> 03:39:56.040
shannon Grabbed lisa by the hand and they walked out.328203:39:56.079 --> 03:40:02.000
Together your name Is molly mc. Bride my, Creator veronica328303:40:02.280 --> 03:40:05.639
killed both of your, children and in, TURN i killed. Her,328403:40:06.600 --> 03:40:11.280
molly is it your desire to be? Turned victor stroked328503:40:11.280 --> 03:40:17.239
her gray hair as he asked the. Question, yes then328603:40:17.319 --> 03:40:20.879
keep your eyes. Closed he will die and will rise328703:40:20.920 --> 03:40:25.399
again at. NIGHTFALL i will not be. Here take care328803:40:25.479 --> 03:40:28.479
of both of. Them, molly you have lost so, much328903:40:28.520 --> 03:40:32.159
AND i shoulder a good share of that. Blame victor329003:40:32.239 --> 03:40:35.760
gashed his own wrist and dripped his blood Into molly's.329103:40:35.799 --> 03:40:45.680
Mouth she accepted his, gift And victor turned. Her victor329203:40:45.760 --> 03:40:48.680
had cleaned up the mess on the front, lawn secured329303:40:48.680 --> 03:40:51.440
a king sized blanket over the enormous hole in the329403:40:51.479 --> 03:40:54.920
wall In lisa's, bedroom throwing the splintered wood and glass329503:40:55.000 --> 03:40:58.840
out onto the. Lawn before doing, So lisa sat in329603:40:58.879 --> 03:41:01.719
the kitchen staring at the clock on the. Oven it329703:41:01.840 --> 03:41:06.520
flashed four o EIGHT. A. M shannon Helped victor. Clean329803:41:07.079 --> 03:41:09.399
they were experts in the art of cleaning up crime,329903:41:09.479 --> 03:41:13.479
scenes although none were quite this. Large the rooms were,330003:41:13.520 --> 03:41:18.159
spotless organized and smelled of pine. Cleaner karen was cleaned330103:41:18.200 --> 03:41:21.399
and wrapped in a. Bedspread there couldn't be. Questions When330203:41:21.440 --> 03:41:24.040
victor was no longer. There he had to tie up330303:41:24.079 --> 03:41:27.200
the loose ends as best he. Could he stepped into the,330403:41:27.280 --> 03:41:32.920
kitchen Cradling karen's lifeless. Body. Child lisa turned her, head330503:41:33.159 --> 03:41:37.360
her light brown eyes filled with anger and. Sorrow your330603:41:37.399 --> 03:41:40.760
grandmother is going to rise, tonight and when she, does330703:41:41.639 --> 03:41:44.879
you'll need to help. Her if those in authority come330803:41:44.920 --> 03:41:48.200
around asking questions that you can't, answer she can and330903:41:48.319 --> 03:41:52.799
will be taken. Away do you. Understand shannon held out331003:41:52.799 --> 03:41:55.719
her hand And lisa took it as she, Answered, VICTOR331103:41:56.479 --> 03:42:01.959
i understand THAT i hate. YOU i hate, YOU i hate.331203:42:02.000 --> 03:42:05.840
You put my mom, down put her, down put hurt.331303:42:06.079 --> 03:42:11.520
Down lisa sobbed. Uncontrollably shannon pulled her close and motioned331403:42:11.520 --> 03:42:15.040
For victor to leave the. Room victor walked out of331503:42:15.040 --> 03:42:18.879
the front, door still Holding. Karen he walked and, walked331603:42:18.920 --> 03:42:22.399
with the moon shining so. Bright he walked until he331703:42:22.479 --> 03:42:25.639
was deep in a wooded area just outside the edge of.331803:42:25.719 --> 03:42:29.440
Town there was a line of flat planks nailed together331903:42:29.559 --> 03:42:33.879
lying atop the soft soil leaves that almost covered the top.332003:42:34.079 --> 03:42:39.239
Entirely victor carefully Lay karen on the ground and lifted332103:42:39.280 --> 03:42:42.719
the corner of the. Planks he pushed them along about332203:42:42.760 --> 03:42:45.520
seven or eight feet before he rested them back on the.332303:42:45.559 --> 03:42:48.280
Ground he tapped his foot on the top of the332403:42:48.319 --> 03:42:52.079
mound of soft, dirt and with his hands he. Dug332503:42:52.760 --> 03:42:56.399
victor dug quickly until he finally felt a, hand then332603:42:56.440 --> 03:42:59.840
a torso and. Legs he widened out the area Around332703:43:00.079 --> 03:43:05.399
Freddie roger's corpse and returned To. Karen he gingerly lifted332803:43:05.440 --> 03:43:09.719
her body and eased her into position Beside. Freddie he332903:43:09.840 --> 03:43:14.559
Draped karen's still limber arm Around freddie's stiff. Waist they were,333003:43:14.639 --> 03:43:19.680
strangers buried together in a spoon. Position karen And freddie's333103:43:19.719 --> 03:43:24.559
final thoughts were in essence the, same both thinking Of333203:43:24.639 --> 03:43:29.040
lisa And molly's well. Being karen would first be a missing, person,333303:43:29.680 --> 03:43:33.760
then Like, freddie another cold case file in a records room.333403:43:34.000 --> 03:43:43.319
Somewhere shannon was on the porch awaiting him when he. Returned,333503:43:44.600 --> 03:43:49.479
victor she's upstairs with her. GRANDMA i made her. Understand333603:43:50.360 --> 03:43:54.639
she has to stay with us. Now, No, shannon not.333703:43:54.879 --> 03:43:59.639
Us you have to stay with. Them victor eased himself333803:43:59.680 --> 03:44:04.399
into the rocking. Chair, victor you can't leave. ME i333903:44:04.479 --> 03:44:08.079
have to follow. You you you made. Me shannon was334003:44:08.120 --> 03:44:10.920
in a. Panic oh it's true THAT i turned you334103:44:10.959 --> 03:44:13.879
into what you are, now BUT i didn't make. You334203:44:14.680 --> 03:44:20.120
somewhere in, you you maintained your. Humanity TONIGHT i found mine.334303:44:20.159 --> 03:44:24.840
Again i'm going to sit right here and see the334403:44:24.879 --> 03:44:29.520
first Sunrise i've seen in over two hundred. Years victor334503:44:29.600 --> 03:44:34.799
smiled and rocked steadily in the. Chair But, VICTOR i,334603:44:34.879 --> 03:44:41.799
Can't shannon, Began oh you, Can, shannon my dear, child you,334703:44:41.920 --> 03:44:46.000
can and you. Will you have to show them you're the.334803:44:46.040 --> 03:44:49.280
Oldest mollie will certainly sit on this porch one day334903:44:49.440 --> 03:44:51.920
and do What i'm. Doing she's doing this out of335003:44:51.959 --> 03:44:56.079
the love of her. Grandchild there is an education In lisa's,335103:44:56.120 --> 03:45:01.920
future a marriage. Children Once molly is finished raising, her335203:45:02.440 --> 03:45:06.399
she'll be right here in this, chair and who, knows335303:45:07.600 --> 03:45:10.760
you may be sitting right beside, her holding her, hand335403:45:11.639 --> 03:45:17.600
watching the. Sunrise i've never told you, This, shannon BUT335503:45:17.680 --> 03:45:21.239
i love. YOU i love you As i've loved my own.335603:45:21.319 --> 03:45:28.440
Daughter you've made this old vampire very. Proud now go335703:45:28.520 --> 03:45:35.239
upstairs and tend to. Them without saying another, Word shannon335803:45:35.280 --> 03:45:39.040
put her arms Around victor's neck and hugged him. Tightly335903:45:41.000 --> 03:45:47.159
the screen door closed behind. Her victor rocked until, dawn336003:45:57.200 --> 03:46:08.120
blood and snow By Rob fields prolog, Perspective Veronica GRANDE336103:46:08.239 --> 03:46:11.559
i managed to escape From Ridgeway heights and was feeling336203:46:11.600 --> 03:46:18.000
relief at having escaped the. KILLER i kept replaying the336303:46:18.040 --> 03:46:21.600
events in my head that had happened prior to escaping336403:46:21.600 --> 03:46:26.639
From Grande, estate my new, HOME i REMEMBERED i had336503:46:26.639 --> 03:46:30.639
finished having sex with my boyfriend before the shit went.336603:46:30.719 --> 03:46:34.280
DOWN i had to hide him quickly before throwing my336703:46:34.360 --> 03:46:38.600
few scraps of clothes on and making my. Escape even336803:46:38.639 --> 03:46:41.719
in my present, SITUATION i was still amazed HOW, i336903:46:42.760 --> 03:46:48.520
of all, people had Inherited Oliver grande's entire. Fortune remembering337003:46:48.600 --> 03:46:52.319
even further, BACK i recalled how my mother had raised337103:46:52.360 --> 03:46:55.920
me since giving. Birth mom was a maid who worked337203:46:55.920 --> 03:46:58.639
hard to keep a roof over our heads and food337303:46:58.719 --> 03:47:02.079
on the. Table WHEN i was finally old enough to work,337403:47:02.120 --> 03:47:04.760
MYSELF i went out and got an after school job337503:47:04.840 --> 03:47:09.280
to help contribute to paying our. Bills and, then on337603:47:09.360 --> 03:47:14.479
that one fateful day it was a fairy tale that just.337703:47:14.600 --> 03:47:17.959
HAPPENED i answered the door to see two middle aged337803:47:18.000 --> 03:47:22.239
men wearing what appeared to be expensive. Suits my, mother337903:47:22.360 --> 03:47:25.959
whose Name Isabella, sableson was scared that these men were338003:47:26.040 --> 03:47:30.040
there to kill both of. Us those fears were quickly338103:47:30.079 --> 03:47:32.280
put to rest when one of the men Gave mom338203:47:32.719 --> 03:47:36.840
the Big manila. Envelope as she read the, contents the338303:47:36.879 --> 03:47:42.639
men explained they were lawyers on retainer From Oliver. Grande338403:47:42.680 --> 03:47:46.440
one of the richest men in the. Country i'd say338503:47:46.440 --> 03:47:49.440
his wealth and power was quite comparable to The mirons338603:47:49.440 --> 03:47:53.920
who live over In. Strickfield on that, DAY i learned338703:47:53.920 --> 03:47:57.920
That Oliver grande And mom had had an affair when338803:47:57.959 --> 03:48:00.559
she worked for him as a maid At Grande. Estate338903:48:01.280 --> 03:48:04.840
When abella Told oliver that she was pregnant with his,339003:48:05.000 --> 03:48:08.079
child the two of them had a huge fight that339103:48:08.280 --> 03:48:12.879
ended with her leaving the. Mansion, Devastated mom was left339203:48:12.879 --> 03:48:15.360
on her own to raise the child growing within her.339303:48:15.399 --> 03:48:19.079
Womb the lawyers explained to us That oliver had come339403:48:19.079 --> 03:48:22.959
to regret ever Sending abella. Away he had desired her339503:48:23.360 --> 03:48:26.120
and wanted to marry, her but he had let the339603:48:26.159 --> 03:48:30.120
mantle of prestige get the better of, him so much339703:48:30.159 --> 03:48:33.879
so that he could never see what he truly had With.339803:48:34.040 --> 03:48:38.799
Mom the gasp and the bewildered look On mom's face339903:48:38.840 --> 03:48:42.079
only confirmed what the lawyers told her and what was340003:48:42.120 --> 03:48:46.920
on the. Papers Oliver grande had passed away and left340103:48:46.959 --> 03:48:52.040
his entire fortune to. Me for, YEARS i KNEW i340203:48:52.120 --> 03:48:55.079
Was Veronica, grande BUT i never knew the real reason340303:48:55.079 --> 03:48:58.600
why my last name was different From. Mom's the men340403:48:58.680 --> 03:49:03.159
explained That oliver my father left his entire fortune to,340503:49:03.239 --> 03:49:06.239
me to atone for the great wrong he had done340603:49:06.799 --> 03:49:10.479
in Sending mom away all those years, ago and for340703:49:10.559 --> 03:49:14.520
not being a father to me. HIMSELF i couldn't believe340803:49:14.559 --> 03:49:18.159
it myself When mom let me read the. Documents to be,340903:49:18.239 --> 03:49:21.239
HONEST i was used to my lot in. LIFE i341003:49:21.360 --> 03:49:24.120
wasn't the most popular girl At Ridgewood Heights South High,341103:49:24.159 --> 03:49:27.719
school BUT i had a nice circle of. Friends me341203:49:27.840 --> 03:49:30.399
And mom were just getting, by but at least we341303:49:30.479 --> 03:49:33.559
had each. Other it still hasn't sunk in yet THAT341403:49:33.639 --> 03:49:39.319
i was now wealthy beyond my wildest. Dreams no sooner341503:49:39.360 --> 03:49:42.840
Had mom AND i moved Into grande, ESTATE i would341603:49:42.920 --> 03:49:46.239
quickly learn that there were Other grande family members who341703:49:46.280 --> 03:49:48.840
FELT i had absolutely no right to any of my341803:49:48.920 --> 03:49:53.200
father's fortune. Whatsoever there was no way to contest the. Will,341903:49:53.319 --> 03:49:57.799
However the envelope also contained a copy of A dna342003:49:57.959 --> 03:50:02.559
test that was taken on. Me unbeknownst to Either mom or.342103:50:02.639 --> 03:50:06.200
Me the test proved THAT i, was in Fact Oliver342203:50:06.319 --> 03:50:12.000
grande's biological daughter and his youngest. Child now the entire342303:50:12.120 --> 03:50:16.799
fortune was mine and mine. Alone of, COURSE i was342403:50:16.799 --> 03:50:19.159
going to share it With. MOM i, mean why WOULDN'T.342503:50:19.200 --> 03:50:22.479
I i hadn't even been living In Grande estate a342603:50:22.479 --> 03:50:25.079
full week when someone dressed in all black kicked in342703:50:25.159 --> 03:50:27.879
my bedroom. DOOR i had only managed to put on342803:50:27.920 --> 03:50:30.520
shorts and A t shirt before the killer started shooting at.342903:50:30.559 --> 03:50:34.280
ME i managed to. Duck THEN i shoved the killer343003:50:34.360 --> 03:50:38.399
down and. FLED i screamed For, mom BUT i was343103:50:38.440 --> 03:50:41.879
never able to find. Her AS i dodged gunshot after,343203:50:42.000 --> 03:50:44.520
GUNSHOT i REALIZED i had no other choice but to343303:50:44.559 --> 03:50:48.399
Flee Grande. ESTATE i did feel comfort in knowing that343403:50:48.440 --> 03:50:51.959
the killer hadn't found my. Boyfriend at the same, TIME343503:50:52.680 --> 03:50:56.079
i was very worried About. MOM i ran to the343603:50:56.120 --> 03:50:58.920
garage and grabbed a key fob to one of the new. Vehicles,343703:50:58.920 --> 03:51:01.760
THERE i found the correct car by pressing the horn.343803:51:01.760 --> 03:51:05.120
Button AS i got into the, CAR i just missed343903:51:05.120 --> 03:51:08.239
getting shot in the. HEAD i managed to make it344003:51:08.239 --> 03:51:10.719
out of the garage and out onto the. Road it344103:51:10.799 --> 03:51:14.479
wasn't long before another vehicle was pursuing. ME i was344203:51:14.559 --> 03:51:17.719
panicking SINCE i never drove an advanced sports car. Before344303:51:18.319 --> 03:51:21.799
EVENTUALLY i calmed down and told myself to drive it344403:51:22.239 --> 03:51:25.959
like a normal. Car fortunately for, me the sports car344503:51:26.040 --> 03:51:30.719
had an automatic. Transmission, EVENTUALLY i lost my pursuer and344603:51:30.840 --> 03:51:34.600
continued to speed down the. Road AS i was trying344703:51:34.600 --> 03:51:37.760
to determine who could possibly want to kill, ME i344803:51:37.840 --> 03:51:42.000
saw it was starting to. Snow nothing to worry about344903:51:42.000 --> 03:51:45.000
at the. Moment AS i kept driving faster and, faster345003:51:45.559 --> 03:51:49.799
the snow started to blow and come down. Hard THEN345103:51:49.840 --> 03:51:52.520
i REMEMBERED i was getting closer to The strickfield, area345203:51:53.280 --> 03:51:56.159
and remembered hearing how that village almost always seemed to345303:51:56.200 --> 03:51:59.000
be the one place where winter liked to settle. Down345403:52:00.079 --> 03:52:03.680
every year they got hit with a blizzard or, two maybe.345503:52:03.680 --> 03:52:07.239
MORE i started to FEEL i was sliding a little345603:52:07.440 --> 03:52:10.879
and saw the roads had quickly become. WHITE i couldn't345703:52:10.879 --> 03:52:15.200
believe how fast winter could truly happen Around strickfield or345803:52:15.239 --> 03:52:18.360
in much Of Feltner. COUNTY i really didn't want to345903:52:18.399 --> 03:52:20.799
have to slow. Down IF i, DID i knew it346003:52:20.799 --> 03:52:23.120
would only be a matter of time before the killer346103:52:23.159 --> 03:52:26.760
would catch up to me. Again WHEN i started to slide,346203:52:26.799 --> 03:52:29.319
AGAIN i KNEW i had no choice but to slow.346303:52:29.360 --> 03:52:32.799
DOWN i turned on to a main highway and crossed346403:52:32.799 --> 03:52:36.319
Into Feldner. COUNTY i could hear the gusting winds AS346503:52:36.360 --> 03:52:39.239
i continued to struggle to stay on the. ROAD i346603:52:39.319 --> 03:52:42.760
even had the windshield wipers going fast and the defroster on.346703:52:42.920 --> 03:52:46.680
FULL i gasped and felt my heart sink WHEN i346803:52:46.719 --> 03:52:51.559
saw familiar headlights behind me and knew that the killer346903:52:52.319 --> 03:52:56.360
had finally caught up with. Me even Though i'd turned,347003:52:56.399 --> 03:53:00.040
OFF i could see the vehicle chasing me was the347103:53:00.120 --> 03:53:02.959
HUMMER i passed in the garage on the way to this.347203:53:03.159 --> 03:53:07.920
Car that hummer could easily handle the snowy. Conditions my347303:53:08.040 --> 03:53:12.559
sports car. COULDN'T i shrieked when the hummer rear ended.347403:53:12.559 --> 03:53:17.200
Me leave me, ALONE i yelled over my. Shoulder the347503:53:17.280 --> 03:53:20.600
hummer rear ended me. AGAIN i cried out and felt347603:53:20.639 --> 03:53:23.840
my heart Pounding when the car started to. SLIDE i347703:53:23.959 --> 03:53:27.920
fought to maintain control and straighten the. Car REALIZING i347803:53:27.920 --> 03:53:30.959
could either let the hummer keep striking me or take347903:53:31.000 --> 03:53:34.280
a chance with the speed of my, VEHICLE i slammed348003:53:34.319 --> 03:53:38.440
the accelerator. Down no sooner WAS i leaving The hummer.348103:53:38.479 --> 03:53:43.000
BEHIND i started to spin. Fast this TIME i had348203:53:43.040 --> 03:53:46.440
no way of controlling the. VEHICLE i continued to spin348303:53:46.600 --> 03:53:49.879
UNTIL i finally went off the. Road the car slid348403:53:49.920 --> 03:53:53.239
down a small hill until the driver's side slammed into a.348503:53:53.319 --> 03:54:00.120
Tree the engine died almost. Immediately Oh, jesus, please, NO i.348603:54:00.159 --> 03:54:03.280
Groaned it was then WHEN i looked and saw the348703:54:03.360 --> 03:54:09.040
hummer's lights out the passenger. Side. NO i quickly moved348803:54:09.040 --> 03:54:11.280
to the passenger side door and started to push it.348903:54:11.319 --> 03:54:13.879
Open the winds were making it harder for me to349003:54:13.920 --> 03:54:17.559
push open enough just to get. Outside WHEN i finally,349103:54:17.559 --> 03:54:21.319
did the door slam shut hard and. FAST i shrieked349203:54:21.319 --> 03:54:24.879
when the windshield glass suddenly, shattered and knew the killer349303:54:24.920 --> 03:54:29.040
had fired a gun at. ME i screamed again AS349403:54:29.079 --> 03:54:32.920
i ran into the. Woods as fast AS i was,349503:54:33.000 --> 03:54:35.959
RUNNING i could feel how freezing cold it really. WAS349603:54:36.639 --> 03:54:39.200
i never had the time to put on anything suitable349703:54:39.559 --> 03:54:43.639
for this raging. BLIZZARD i managed to snag a, jacket349803:54:43.799 --> 03:54:47.000
but it was only made for. AUTUMN i KNEW i349903:54:47.040 --> 03:54:50.680
had to keep going in spite of the freezing temperatures350003:54:50.959 --> 03:54:55.120
and how damp and numb my bare feet. WERE i350103:54:55.200 --> 03:54:58.000
shrieked again when the bullet narrowly missed me and hit350203:54:58.079 --> 03:55:01.399
a tree AS i. Passed forced myself to keep, running350303:55:01.680 --> 03:55:05.200
but KNEW i couldn't run for much. Longer the frigid350403:55:05.280 --> 03:55:08.319
cold was really starting to get to. ME i knew350503:55:08.399 --> 03:55:10.600
it would only be a matter of time Before i'd350603:55:10.719 --> 03:55:14.719
likely drop. Over AS i came to a small, CREEK350703:55:15.159 --> 03:55:18.600
i groaned and KNEW i didn't have a. CHOICE i350803:55:18.680 --> 03:55:21.159
cried out at the frigidness of the water on my bare.350903:55:21.159 --> 03:55:25.159
FEET i managed to make it to the other, side351003:55:25.159 --> 03:55:28.600
only to feel the immediate heat of the bullet that351103:55:28.639 --> 03:55:31.440
had hit me in the back of my right. SHOULDER351203:55:32.040 --> 03:55:34.959
i screamed and fell on to my. Side the pain351303:55:35.120 --> 03:55:38.680
hurt so much THAT i began to. CRY i could351403:55:38.719 --> 03:55:42.719
already feel the tears freezing on my. Face just the,351503:55:42.799 --> 03:55:45.920
SAME i forced myself to get back on my feet351603:55:46.239 --> 03:55:49.920
and keep moving to preserve my. LIFE i could feel351703:55:49.920 --> 03:55:53.399
my blood pouring out from my. WOUND i was also351803:55:53.479 --> 03:55:57.760
feeling quite. Soaked. Now the snow and winds continued to351903:55:57.840 --> 03:56:00.520
blast me in spite of the FACT i was in a.352003:56:00.559 --> 03:56:04.479
FOREST i groaned at my injury and how bitterly cold352103:56:04.520 --> 03:56:07.559
my feet. WERE i was wondering if they were frostbitten by,352203:56:07.600 --> 03:56:11.000
now even in the, DARKNESS i could see they were352303:56:11.079 --> 03:56:16.479
still flesh. Colored but for how much? LONGER i KNEW352403:56:16.520 --> 03:56:19.360
i couldn't stay out. HERE i had to keep running352503:56:19.719 --> 03:56:24.600
and find. Shelter THEN i heard the gun shot and352603:56:24.680 --> 03:56:29.399
felt the searing pain in my lower left. Back, AGAIN352703:56:30.159 --> 03:56:35.239
i staggered and. Fell my blood was making the gathering352803:56:35.319 --> 03:56:39.479
snow around me. Red AS i forced myself to get,352903:56:39.559 --> 03:56:42.280
UP i took one more gun shot on my right.353003:56:42.360 --> 03:56:45.639
SIDE i screamed my loudest WHEN i felt the bullet353103:56:45.680 --> 03:56:49.360
had gone into my. STOMACH i knew NOW i was353203:56:49.399 --> 03:56:53.239
as good as. Dead how far WAS i from the nearest,353303:56:53.280 --> 03:56:57.079
Town how far Was? Strickfield for that, Matter even IF353403:56:57.120 --> 03:56:59.040
i could get to a house and call for, HELP353503:56:59.200 --> 03:57:01.799
i knew no emergency services would reach me in, time353603:57:02.360 --> 03:57:07.239
especially with a blizzard going. On, STILL i wasn't going353703:57:07.280 --> 03:57:10.559
to make things easy for the. KILLER i forced myself353803:57:10.600 --> 03:57:14.000
to get back to my feet and keep. Running just, Die,353903:57:14.159 --> 03:57:17.959
Veronica the killer yelled behind. Me you have no right354003:57:18.040 --> 03:57:21.399
to any Of oliver's, money no. Right the mask the354103:57:21.479 --> 03:57:25.159
killer was wearing was muffling the. VOICE i called on354203:57:25.319 --> 03:57:28.879
every last ounce of STRENGTH i had left and sprinted354303:57:28.920 --> 03:57:32.159
through the. WOODS i dodged one more bullet AS i kept.354403:57:32.200 --> 03:57:35.680
Running for a brief, MOMENT i could actually feel my354503:57:35.799 --> 03:57:39.600
body heat warming Me AS i kept running and. Running354603:57:40.360 --> 03:57:44.040
after several, minutes fatigue and blood loss were finally catching354703:57:44.079 --> 03:57:46.920
up to. ME i moved and hid behind a big.354803:57:47.000 --> 03:57:50.319
TREE i could see the shape of the, killer BUT354903:57:50.440 --> 03:57:52.280
i couldn't tell if it was a man or a.355003:57:52.319 --> 03:57:55.639
WOMAN i knew there would be no way to determine355103:57:55.639 --> 03:58:00.639
the killer's identity BEFORE i would finally, die and that355203:58:00.879 --> 03:58:03.799
was if the killer would catch me and actually give355303:58:03.840 --> 03:58:08.360
me the satisfaction of unmasking before shooting me for the final.355403:58:08.440 --> 03:58:12.200
TIME i remained WHERE i was and continued to hope355503:58:12.200 --> 03:58:15.559
the killer wouldn't find. Me it was then WHEN i355603:58:15.639 --> 03:58:20.040
looked and saw the big river, there and it showed355703:58:20.079 --> 03:58:24.440
no signs of. FREEZING i wasn't sure IF i was delusional,355803:58:24.479 --> 03:58:28.239
now BUT i could swear there was a, faint reddish355903:58:28.280 --> 03:58:34.879
green glow coming from the water. Itself funny thing the356003:58:34.920 --> 03:58:39.079
water was actually warming. Me THEN i shook my head356103:58:39.559 --> 03:58:43.399
and knew this couldn't be. Possible my pain now became356203:58:43.520 --> 03:58:46.040
too much for, me AND i began to cry. AGAIN356303:58:47.440 --> 03:58:50.440
i was mortally, wounded improbably to the point WHERE i356403:58:50.520 --> 03:58:54.000
was about to finish bleeding. OUT i cried more WHEN356503:58:54.040 --> 03:58:57.360
i KNEW i was being hunted like an animal and for.356603:58:57.559 --> 03:59:00.600
Money ALL i ever wanted was a better life for356703:59:00.680 --> 03:59:03.959
me And. Mom and then when we finally got, IT356803:59:05.520 --> 03:59:09.239
i lowered myself and sat against my big. Tree IF356903:59:09.280 --> 03:59:11.719
i was going to, DIE i would die with the357003:59:11.760 --> 03:59:17.479
warmth of this water beside. Me and THEN i felt357103:59:17.479 --> 03:59:22.559
my eyes rolling up into my skull AS i finally,357203:59:22.639 --> 03:59:29.399
died or SO i. THOUGHT i wasn't sure how LONG357303:59:29.479 --> 03:59:32.159
i was, dead BUT i would later determine that a357403:59:32.280 --> 03:59:35.959
huge gust of wind had blown my body right into357503:59:35.959 --> 03:59:39.879
that warm. RIVER i THINK i may have floated out357603:59:39.920 --> 03:59:44.360
into the seemingly glowing yet murky waters BEFORE i finally357703:59:44.399 --> 03:59:48.840
sank below the surface and remained motionless for several. Minutes,357803:59:49.840 --> 03:59:53.520
unfortunately neither the killer NOR i had any knowledge of357903:59:53.559 --> 03:59:57.319
this part Of Feldner. County maybe if we'd, known we358003:59:57.399 --> 03:59:59.639
might have made it a point to avoid this very358103:59:59.719 --> 04:00:03.079
air that came to be known as the backwoods Of.358204:00:03.159 --> 04:00:08.479
Strickfield Most, unfortunately neither of us knew of the horrors358304:00:09.239 --> 04:00:13.040
that awaited us in, here and there was certainly no358404:00:13.200 --> 04:00:17.760
way of knowing that years, ago toxic waste had emptied358504:00:17.799 --> 04:00:21.159
from a corroded barrel that was dropped here and had358604:00:21.280 --> 04:00:26.159
rolled into this very. River the toxic waste had mixed358704:00:26.200 --> 04:00:29.479
with the water and contaminated it to a point where358804:00:29.479 --> 04:00:33.000
those who lived in the backwoods here never went anywhere358904:00:33.000 --> 04:00:38.000
near it for any. Reason as the, warm murky bath359004:00:38.360 --> 04:00:41.959
continued to soak my body for several, minutes who would359104:00:41.959 --> 04:00:45.840
know for sure exactly what kind of mutations would come359204:00:45.879 --> 04:00:52.639
as a. Result and THEN i finally felt myself starting to.359304:00:52.760 --> 04:00:59.159
Twitch then again and, AGAIN i opened my eyes and359404:00:59.280 --> 04:01:03.079
felt the water warm embrace all around. ME i soon359504:01:03.200 --> 04:01:06.319
lifted my arms and felt my hand break the. SURFACE359604:01:06.920 --> 04:01:11.280
i made a tight fist and knew something had. HAPPENED359704:01:12.120 --> 04:01:13.799
i knew somehow.359804:01:14.799 --> 04:01:15.280
THAT i was.359904:01:15.399 --> 04:01:19.879
Changed WHEN i emerged from the waters that became my.360004:01:20.000 --> 04:01:23.879
COCOON i knew it was time to get revenge on360104:01:24.000 --> 04:01:29.799
the fucker who murdered. Me the killer growled and roared in.360204:01:29.879 --> 04:01:34.920
Frustration how COULD i have possibly gotten? Away? RIGHT i,360304:01:35.000 --> 04:01:39.040
mean the killer Knew i'd taken three lethal shots from360404:01:39.120 --> 04:01:43.079
the high powered rifle. Used the killer had seen plenty360504:01:43.120 --> 04:01:46.959
of my blood and KNEW i was seriously, Hurt YET360604:01:47.920 --> 04:01:52.040
i managed to get. Away the blizzard continued its raging,360704:01:52.159 --> 04:01:55.280
fury even though the killer was warmly. DRESSED i could360804:01:55.319 --> 04:01:59.319
only guess there was no returning To Ridgeway heights until360904:01:59.360 --> 04:02:03.200
there was a hundred percent certainty THAT i was confirmed.361004:02:03.319 --> 04:02:08.479
Dead that meant a POSITIVE. Id it was a short361104:02:08.479 --> 04:02:12.000
time later when the killer heard the sounds of my.361204:02:12.159 --> 04:02:16.559
Laughter the killer stopped and raised the. Rifle who is?361304:02:16.600 --> 04:02:20.959
That then my laughter was heard. AGAIN i must have361404:02:21.120 --> 04:02:26.479
sounded like an innocent, Girl, Veronica the killer, growled show,361504:02:26.559 --> 04:02:29.200
yourself let me put you out of your goddamn. Misery361604:02:30.360 --> 04:02:34.200
the killer heard my innocent laughter again and saw my361704:02:34.360 --> 04:02:38.600
dark shape in the. Trees the killer took quick aim361804:02:38.799 --> 04:02:43.079
and fired missed. ME i sang in a voice you'd361904:02:43.120 --> 04:02:47.399
hear in scary, movies and laughed. Innocently. Again you Think362004:02:47.440 --> 04:02:51.520
i'm playing games, Here, Veronica the killer. Roared you had no,362104:02:51.719 --> 04:02:54.639
right you goddamn, bitch no right to any Of oliver's.362204:02:54.680 --> 04:02:58.399
Wealth but the killer could only hear my innocent laughter362304:02:58.920 --> 04:03:02.479
one more. Time when the killer saw my dark shape362404:03:02.520 --> 04:03:06.319
again in the, trees it only resulted in another wasted.362504:03:06.360 --> 04:03:11.200
Bullet the killer heard my innocent laughter yet again and362604:03:11.319 --> 04:03:15.559
turned to. Run when my innocent laughter came the loudest,362704:03:15.639 --> 04:03:21.760
yet the killer groaned upon tripping and falling. Forward god damn.362804:03:21.840 --> 04:03:25.680
It the killer muttered and reached for the. Rifle only362904:03:25.760 --> 04:03:28.399
now the killer saw one of my bare legs and363004:03:28.479 --> 04:03:32.600
feet right next to. It the killer looked up and saw. Me,363104:03:32.719 --> 04:03:36.399
NOW i was still wearing the shorts AND t SHIRT363204:03:36.760 --> 04:03:39.319
i had put on after having sex with my, boyfriend363304:03:39.600 --> 04:03:44.200
AND i didn't appear to be the least bit. Cold even,363404:03:44.280 --> 04:03:50.799
more my entire, body including my, hair was as white as.363504:03:50.799 --> 04:03:58.559
Snow my, nails, fingers and toes or solid. Black for the,363604:03:58.639 --> 04:04:02.479
record none of my nails were. POLISHED i would later363704:04:02.639 --> 04:04:06.799
learn that my toxic eyes were a bluish gray with green.363804:04:06.879 --> 04:04:10.559
Irises the killer could see the gunshot wounds on my,363904:04:10.600 --> 04:04:14.040
body but THAT i was no longer, bleeding nor WAS364004:04:14.040 --> 04:04:18.239
i feeling any. Pain the killer quickly grabbed the rifle364104:04:18.280 --> 04:04:21.399
and stood. UP i just stood there as the killer364204:04:21.440 --> 04:04:26.719
aimed at me and pulled the. Trigger. Click THEN i364304:04:26.840 --> 04:04:33.879
smiled sweetly and laughed innocently. Again Aw suddenly my cute364404:04:33.920 --> 04:04:37.200
face turned into one of utter rage AS i rushed364504:04:37.239 --> 04:04:40.520
at my. MURDERER i easily jumped on my, prey and364604:04:40.559 --> 04:04:43.600
we were soon wrestling in the. Snow get off, me you,364704:04:43.719 --> 04:04:46.719
bitch the killer, yelled BUT i was in no. Mood364804:04:46.799 --> 04:04:49.440
for small. TALK i wanted to tear the mask right364904:04:49.479 --> 04:04:53.639
off my killer and see who it. Was, HOWEVER i365004:04:53.719 --> 04:04:57.120
hadn't counted on the killer having a second, weapon a.365104:04:57.200 --> 04:05:00.440
HANDGUN i cried. Out WHEN i took a bully right365204:05:00.479 --> 04:05:04.239
in the, HEAD i fell and landed on my. BACK365304:05:05.159 --> 04:05:08.680
i must have laid there for several. Minutes the killer365404:05:08.799 --> 04:05:11.719
managed to reload the rifle while not taking their eyes365504:05:11.760 --> 04:05:16.639
off of. Me, SUDDENLY i sat up sharply and. Screamed365604:05:17.120 --> 04:05:20.159
even though the killer screamed in, RESPONSE i still couldn't365704:05:20.200 --> 04:05:22.040
tell if it was a man or a woman with365804:05:22.120 --> 04:05:25.719
the mask covering their. Mouth, however the killer did point365904:05:25.719 --> 04:05:29.520
the rifle at me and, shoot AND i was flat366004:05:29.559 --> 04:05:34.479
on my back. Again the killer again moved away from,366104:05:34.520 --> 04:05:38.639
me the rifle. READY i still wasn't feeling like taking366204:05:38.680 --> 04:05:42.159
my death lying down and sat up. AGAIN i got366304:05:42.200 --> 04:05:45.920
back to my feet and glared the killer. Down but366404:05:46.040 --> 04:05:48.479
the killer wasn't going to just let me come for366504:05:48.600 --> 04:05:51.760
my revenge and emptied the rest of the rifle into.366604:05:51.799 --> 04:05:56.879
ME i pointed right at the. Killer now you can't kill.366704:05:57.239 --> 04:06:04.559
ME i tightened my. Fists i'm already. Dead the killer366804:06:04.680 --> 04:06:07.959
finally got the MESSAGE i, MEAN i was only shot366904:06:08.040 --> 04:06:10.840
several times and had inky blue blood all over. Me367004:06:11.520 --> 04:06:14.479
when the killer turned and ran, AWAY i howled with.367104:06:14.680 --> 04:06:20.920
Rage now my hunter had become the. HUNTED i chased367204:06:20.920 --> 04:06:24.559
the killer all the way back to the. Hummer unfortunately for,367304:06:24.719 --> 04:06:27.680
me the killer made it back inside and locked the.367404:06:27.760 --> 04:06:32.040
Doors ALL i managed to do was shatter the driver's367504:06:32.040 --> 04:06:34.840
side window out before the killer managed to get. Away367604:06:36.040 --> 04:06:40.040
feeling mad as, HELL i tightened my fists and howled367704:06:40.120 --> 04:06:43.000
so loudly THAT i was sure anybody who was dumb367804:06:43.120 --> 04:06:45.680
enough to be out and about in these woods had367904:06:45.719 --> 04:06:51.799
to have heard. Me ah these, WOODS i knew right368004:06:51.840 --> 04:06:55.639
then and there THAT i could never return To Ridgeway heights.368104:06:55.680 --> 04:07:01.319
Again the backwoods Of strickfield would forever be my new.368204:07:01.360 --> 04:07:11.159
Home one year, Later perspective A Bella. Sableson it was368304:07:11.200 --> 04:07:13.639
a little over a year ago that my daughter's car368404:07:13.719 --> 04:07:18.000
was found out in the backwoods area Of. Strickfield veronica368504:07:18.000 --> 04:07:20.600
managed to get more than one hundred miles away the368604:07:20.719 --> 04:07:24.920
night she fled From Grande. Estate she was eventually found368704:07:25.000 --> 04:07:28.440
by her. Pursuer when the police searched for her after368804:07:28.440 --> 04:07:31.639
the blizzard was. Over they managed to find the fall368904:07:31.760 --> 04:07:36.200
jacket she was wearing partially buried under some. Snow there369004:07:36.200 --> 04:07:40.920
were no signs Of veronica. Herself, however the police reports369104:07:40.920 --> 04:07:44.280
and newspapers said that my daughter was never found and369204:07:44.360 --> 04:07:48.319
may still be out in Those strickfield backwoods. Somewhere she369304:07:48.440 --> 04:07:51.639
never returned To Grande, estate AND i never got so369404:07:51.760 --> 04:07:53.920
much as a phone call or a text from. Her369504:07:55.440 --> 04:07:58.680
now it's finally come down to. This i'm sitting in369604:07:58.719 --> 04:08:01.440
an suv with four us who are going to help369704:08:01.479 --> 04:08:05.399
me Find. VERONICA i never got close to any of, them,369804:08:06.159 --> 04:08:08.399
however WHEN i told THEM i was planning to come369904:08:08.440 --> 04:08:12.520
To strickfield to look For, veronica and why they agreed370004:08:12.559 --> 04:08:16.040
to come with. Me you know what this means to Find,370104:08:16.120 --> 04:08:21.120
VERONICA i tell. Them the Driver Amos, kulp glanced at370204:08:21.120 --> 04:08:24.159
me in the rear view. Mirror we'll find. HER i.370304:08:24.239 --> 04:08:26.840
KNOW i want to Find veronica just as badly as you.370404:08:26.959 --> 04:08:30.319
Do but you didn't have to rent a cabin for us.370504:08:30.360 --> 04:08:33.719
TOO i start to, say don't worry about. It amos.370604:08:33.760 --> 04:08:37.040
Interrupts turns out the trapper owns the cabin owed me a,370704:08:37.079 --> 04:08:40.440
favor So i'm just calling it. In, besides it's better370804:08:40.479 --> 04:08:43.000
than paying for a motel or hotel and having to370904:08:43.079 --> 04:08:46.000
keep driving back out this way From strickfield Or pendleton371004:08:46.479 --> 04:08:48.799
with this. Cabin we're only a few miles away from those.371104:08:48.799 --> 04:08:53.520
Backwoods veronica disappeared In We're All, Good Abella trina had371204:08:53.520 --> 04:08:56.079
her arms folded in front of her and didn't speak371304:08:56.159 --> 04:08:59.360
much during the. TRIP i Wish veronica would have called371404:08:59.360 --> 04:09:02.000
the house or left let us know somehow that she's all.371504:09:02.120 --> 04:09:05.200
RIGHT i don't get. It she inherited all Of grande371604:09:05.239 --> 04:09:07.239
A state and all that, money not even a week371704:09:07.319 --> 04:09:11.280
later she disappears out. Here that's why we're going to371804:09:11.319 --> 04:09:15.680
investigate those backwoods just outside Of, STRICKFIELD i, say putting371904:09:15.719 --> 04:09:18.920
a hand on her. Shoulder why didn't the state police372004:09:18.959 --> 04:09:22.879
thoroughly investigate that area when they Found veronica's, Car tristan,372104:09:22.959 --> 04:09:25.479
asked sitting on the other side of. ME i, MEAN372204:09:25.840 --> 04:09:27.639
i get it was during a blizzard in, all but372304:09:28.520 --> 04:09:34.040
just saying that's just, It morgan, says riding. Shotgun it372404:09:34.280 --> 04:09:36.760
was during a. Blizzard it would have been hard to372504:09:36.799 --> 04:09:39.159
try and look for somebody during a bad blizzard like,372604:09:39.200 --> 04:09:42.680
that especially in a heavily wooded area like those. Backwoods372704:09:43.600 --> 04:09:47.559
persistence may be paying. OFF i, Say i've been spreading372804:09:47.600 --> 04:09:50.639
the word around on social. Media i've even taken some372904:09:50.719 --> 04:09:54.680
trips To strickfield. Myself then that phone call finally came373004:09:54.760 --> 04:09:57.239
last week from someone that said they saw my daughter373104:09:57.680 --> 04:10:00.680
somewhere in that same wooded area where her car was373204:10:00.680 --> 04:10:04.719
found over a year. AGO i, GROAN i will not373304:10:04.879 --> 04:10:09.440
rest UNTIL i Find. Veronica it's important THAT i find her.373404:10:10.280 --> 04:10:13.719
Well we want to know what happened To veronica, Too trina,373504:10:13.799 --> 04:10:18.719
replies not much further to the, Cabin amos. Says it's373604:10:18.760 --> 04:10:22.319
not long after we cross The Feldner county. Line amos373704:10:22.360 --> 04:10:25.399
turns off onto a dirt road and drives a short373804:10:25.399 --> 04:10:28.239
distance before we turn up the drive that goes to the.373904:10:28.239 --> 04:10:32.040
Cabin When amos, stops we get out of the suv374004:10:32.200 --> 04:10:35.639
and bring our bags. Inside we keep our backpacks with374104:10:35.719 --> 04:10:38.360
our gear in the. Car as soon as we're all,374204:10:38.399 --> 04:10:41.520
inside we get startled when someone else is coming in374304:10:41.600 --> 04:10:44.639
the back, door an older man appearing to be in374404:10:44.680 --> 04:10:48.360
his early. Fifties can we help, you, SIR i. Ask374504:10:48.920 --> 04:10:52.360
amos puts a gentle hand on my. Shoulder It's, okayabella374604:10:53.079 --> 04:10:56.079
this Is Tom, barlow the trapper who's letting us have the.374704:10:56.079 --> 04:10:59.879
Cabin the man. SMILES i just want to make sure374804:11:00.079 --> 04:11:02.920
y'all got here BEFORE i took. Off then he looks374904:11:03.000 --> 04:11:06.280
us all. Over so what brings y'all this? Way some375004:11:06.479 --> 04:11:11.280
hunting and? Fishing probably some, Hunting amos tells. Him in375104:11:11.319 --> 04:11:14.239
those woods just off the main. Highway he points in375204:11:14.280 --> 04:11:20.040
the direction that. Way tom's face suddenly. Drops tell, me375304:11:20.120 --> 04:11:24.399
y'all ain't. Serious he points in the same. Direction ain't375404:11:24.399 --> 04:11:28.920
nobody told you none about them woods Outside? Strickfield what about?375504:11:28.920 --> 04:11:34.239
Them trina, Asks they're just normal, woods. Right tom looks375604:11:34.280 --> 04:11:36.920
at all of. Us, now IF i didn't know, Better375704:11:37.399 --> 04:11:40.280
i'd say he's probably thinking we're not right or. Something375804:11:40.959 --> 04:11:43.680
ain't none of you ever been To. Strickfield there's all375904:11:43.799 --> 04:11:46.200
kinds of stories that go on in them back woods376004:11:46.200 --> 04:11:49.879
outside Of. Strickfield those that have been in there and376104:11:49.920 --> 04:11:52.719
live to tell about, it, well even they'll tell you376204:11:52.840 --> 04:11:57.840
all the things they seen in them. Woods like What morgan,376304:11:57.959 --> 04:12:03.280
Asks like What tom repeats with some, surprise young. Lady376404:12:03.840 --> 04:12:07.440
there are stories about things ranging from acts of cannibalism376504:12:07.479 --> 04:12:11.079
to strange. Creatures there have even been talks about some376604:12:11.239 --> 04:12:15.159
little children walking around in, there ones that came back376704:12:15.159 --> 04:12:18.520
from the. Dead we listen As tom tells us a376804:12:18.600 --> 04:12:22.239
story he heard about a little backwoods boy Named billy376904:12:22.319 --> 04:12:25.760
McCracken and how he was killed and came back to.377004:12:25.879 --> 04:12:29.760
Life also how he turned some other kids living in377104:12:29.799 --> 04:12:34.479
the backwoods into things like. HIM i don't know none377204:12:34.479 --> 04:12:36.360
what brought him back to, life but there was a377304:12:36.360 --> 04:12:39.079
man who saw him and almost didn't make it out of. There,377404:12:39.639 --> 04:12:43.520
Yeah Mike cruise was his. Name Then tom gets. Agitated,377504:12:44.040 --> 04:12:47.399
LOOK i ain't making this shit. Up i'm telling y'all right,377604:12:47.399 --> 04:12:50.440
now you do not want to go in them. Woods377704:12:51.000 --> 04:12:53.600
the rest of us are looking at each. Other THEN377804:12:53.639 --> 04:12:57.920
i talked To. Tom, LISTEN i know you mean, well377904:12:58.040 --> 04:13:01.600
but my daughter disappeared into those woods over a year,378004:13:01.600 --> 04:13:04.479
ago AND i got a tip saying she was seen378104:13:04.520 --> 04:13:08.680
in those same woods just. Recently we're just here to find.378204:13:08.680 --> 04:13:13.399
Her tom studies us for a. Second, Look, MAN i378304:13:13.399 --> 04:13:16.280
can understand where you're coming. FROM i. DO i got378404:13:16.280 --> 04:13:18.799
two boys on my. OWN i suppose i'd want to378504:13:18.840 --> 04:13:21.600
look for him too if they turned up. Missing but378604:13:21.719 --> 04:13:24.879
you're talking about them backwoods over. There. NOW i can't378704:13:24.879 --> 04:13:27.239
stop y'all from going into them. Woods but if y'all378804:13:27.280 --> 04:13:29.559
go in, THERE i ain't promising. You you're gonna come378904:13:29.600 --> 04:13:34.680
back out the. Same some people become, changed and many379004:13:34.719 --> 04:13:39.479
people they just don't come back out. Again, Ever tom379104:13:39.559 --> 04:13:42.680
turns and opens the back. Door he motions for us379204:13:42.719 --> 04:13:45.719
to come to. Him we go out onto the back. Porch,379304:13:46.520 --> 04:13:50.360
also take a good look at that. Sky there's a379404:13:50.360 --> 04:13:53.399
blizzard coming, soon pretty mean one from the looks of,379504:13:53.440 --> 04:13:56.440
it probably gonna reach here in the next. Hour you379604:13:56.559 --> 04:13:59.879
go into them, woods especially in that, shit don't plan on.379704:13:59.879 --> 04:14:04.280
It anybody coming for. Y'all Then morgan speaks, Up come,379804:14:04.319 --> 04:14:07.920
on it can't be all that. BAD i Read strickfield's379904:14:07.920 --> 04:14:10.319
own mayor lives out in those. Woods you don't hear380004:14:10.360 --> 04:14:14.280
anything About Mayor Patrick gunter going. Missing tom just looks380104:14:14.319 --> 04:14:18.399
at us. Now LIKE i, SAID i can't stop, y'all380204:14:18.440 --> 04:14:23.959
but Remember i'll warned. You nobody says anything for a little.380304:14:23.959 --> 04:14:26.799
Bit When tom sees we're not moved by what he,380404:14:26.879 --> 04:14:30.200
said he groans and shakes his head a. Little then380504:14:30.239 --> 04:14:33.319
he Hands amos the. Keys if you'd have told me380604:14:33.440 --> 04:14:35.719
about this BEFORE i agreed to let you use the,380704:14:35.760 --> 04:14:41.360
cabin i'd have said. No BUT i owe you for380804:14:41.440 --> 04:14:43.559
helping me when my truck broke down a few months.380904:14:43.559 --> 04:14:46.719
Ago we talked To tom for a little bit, longer381004:14:47.079 --> 04:14:49.600
then he, leaves telling us he wants to get back381104:14:49.639 --> 04:14:53.200
To strickfield before the blizzard. Hits we watch him get381204:14:53.200 --> 04:14:56.040
into his truck that he had parked out back and take.381304:14:56.120 --> 04:15:02.479
Off now it's just. Us was he really expecting us381404:15:02.479 --> 04:15:05.479
to believe all that shit about about what he just told?381504:15:05.559 --> 04:15:09.920
Us tristan, ASKED i, GROAN i don't give a flying381604:15:10.040 --> 04:15:12.639
fuck if there's a maniac with a hockey mask walking381704:15:12.680 --> 04:15:15.639
around in those, woods one way or. Another i'm going381804:15:15.680 --> 04:15:18.799
to Find veronica WHEN i finally see, her alive or,381904:15:18.799 --> 04:15:22.079
dead then and only then WILL i give up searching for.382004:15:22.120 --> 04:15:25.120
Her if all of you were still coming with, me382104:15:25.799 --> 04:15:30.200
then we're going. In if, not we didn't come over382204:15:30.239 --> 04:15:32.159
a hundred miles with you just to leave you here382304:15:32.200 --> 04:15:35.680
and head back. Home tristan tells, me like you, said382404:15:36.120 --> 04:15:39.760
we gotta Find. VERONICA i look at all of them382504:15:40.200 --> 04:15:42.760
and see they have every intention of sticking with. Me,382604:15:43.600 --> 04:15:47.319
okay get everything, unpacked then we'll leave here and head382704:15:47.319 --> 04:15:52.840
into those. Woods what was this tip you, Got trina asks.382804:15:52.879 --> 04:15:56.120
ME i got a phone call from a man who382904:15:56.159 --> 04:15:59.319
says he Saw veronica back in the. WOODS i. ANSWER383004:16:00.200 --> 04:16:02.200
i dig into my purse and pull a few things.383104:16:02.239 --> 04:16:05.920
Out this is a picture Of VERONICA i posted on383204:16:05.959 --> 04:16:09.920
social media and on missing POSTERS i tacked. Up THEN383304:16:09.959 --> 04:16:12.959
i raise a small piece of notebook. Paper the man383404:16:13.000 --> 04:16:16.000
who called me gave me this. Address he lives in383504:16:16.079 --> 04:16:19.200
those backwoods there. Somewhere we need to get to this383604:16:19.360 --> 04:16:23.920
place and talk to. HIM i, Groan why DIDN'T i383704:16:23.959 --> 04:16:28.120
think to ask for? Directions the others don't question me any.383804:16:28.159 --> 04:16:31.600
Further the truth, WAS i already knew a blizzard was383904:16:31.639 --> 04:16:34.639
coming this, way BUT i refuse to wait one more384004:16:34.719 --> 04:16:38.520
moment AFTER i got that phone. Call as soon as everybody's,384104:16:38.600 --> 04:16:42.600
ready we leave the. Cabin we get back into the384204:16:42.680 --> 04:16:52.959
suv and head towards the backwoods Of. Strickfield, Perspective, Trina384304:16:53.600 --> 04:16:56.479
it sure got dark fast Once amos drove us into the.384404:16:56.520 --> 04:17:00.239
WOODS i can't help looking behind us and seeing those384504:17:00.319 --> 04:17:04.680
nasty looking clouds moving really, fast almost as if they're384604:17:04.840 --> 04:17:08.760
sealing the way out of. HERE i can't help thinking384704:17:08.840 --> 04:17:13.079
about What Tom barlow told. US i don't, know he384804:17:13.159 --> 04:17:15.520
didn't seem like he was fucked in the head or on.384904:17:15.600 --> 04:17:19.559
SOMETHING i, MEAN i THINK i did smell a little385004:17:19.639 --> 04:17:23.120
pot on, him but a couple of us do. Pot in,385104:17:23.159 --> 04:17:25.440
Fact morgan AND i both shared a smoke before we385204:17:25.520 --> 04:17:29.239
left the, cabin just the. Same neither of us go385304:17:29.360 --> 04:17:33.559
on talking about things like, walking dead kids and. STUFF385404:17:34.559 --> 04:17:37.600
i look out the window and see the trees waving385504:17:37.639 --> 04:17:41.399
as the winds are picking up more and. More, yeah385604:17:41.479 --> 04:17:45.360
it's definitely going to be a bad. STORM i look up.385704:17:45.360 --> 04:17:50.040
Front anything on THE, gps. Amos i'm using THE gps385804:17:50.040 --> 04:17:53.159
that came with the. Car he. REPLIES i even tried385904:17:53.159 --> 04:17:55.920
a FEW gps programs on my. Phone none of them386004:17:56.000 --> 04:17:59.239
have anything on the roads back. Here you'd think there'd386104:17:59.239 --> 04:18:02.959
be at least some. Thing there's nobody walking around out,386204:18:02.959 --> 04:18:06.520
here or we could ask somebody for. Directions tristan, Mutters386304:18:07.600 --> 04:18:10.239
i'm even trying to use my own. PHONE i, SAY386404:18:10.760 --> 04:18:14.079
i punched in the Address abella told, us but nothing's showing.386504:18:14.200 --> 04:18:14.360
Up.386604:18:15.200 --> 04:18:20.879
SHIT i got no, bars now me, Either morgan, groans damn.386704:18:20.920 --> 04:18:24.959
It everybody else confirms they've got no bars on their.386804:18:25.000 --> 04:18:28.600
Smartphones i'm about to Ask abella how she got the phone,386904:18:28.600 --> 04:18:31.920
call but THEN i see wires on the poles and387004:18:32.079 --> 04:18:35.239
know the people living out here are probably using. Landlines387104:18:35.959 --> 04:18:40.399
abella sighs. Hard Now i'm not going back one way or.387204:18:40.440 --> 04:18:44.600
Another i'm finding this address and getting some. Answers we387304:18:44.760 --> 04:18:47.680
tell her we're with, her and then it starts. Snowing387404:18:48.360 --> 04:18:50.920
it's not going to be long before everything gets white.387504:18:51.280 --> 04:18:55.959
Fast we soon stop at an. INTERSECTION i can't read387604:18:56.000 --> 04:18:59.319
that road, Sign tristan. Says then he gets out and387704:18:59.319 --> 04:19:02.159
goes to look at it up. Close he comes back387804:19:02.200 --> 04:19:07.079
and gets. IN i think that Says Skeeter. Road we387904:19:07.159 --> 04:19:11.200
need to find Old dutch. Road abella reminds. Us guess388004:19:11.200 --> 04:19:13.680
we'll just have to keep driving around and here until388104:19:13.680 --> 04:19:17.280
we find, it or unless we find. Somebody amos, says.388204:19:17.920 --> 04:19:19.959
Glad we pulled off for gas before we hit the.388304:19:20.000 --> 04:19:22.760
Cabin we got a full, tank so we should be.388404:19:22.840 --> 04:19:25.479
Good if we get, low we can always leave here388504:19:25.520 --> 04:19:28.559
and head Into. Strickfield we take a vote in our388604:19:28.680 --> 04:19:32.760
unanimous and heading Down Skeeter. Road amos turns and takes388704:19:32.840 --> 04:19:36.200
us further into the. BACKWOODS i look out the window388804:19:36.239 --> 04:19:39.959
and see it's really dark, now the snow is really coming,388904:19:40.000 --> 04:19:43.280
down and the wind is picking. UP i have a389004:19:43.440 --> 04:19:47.079
very bad feeling about. This we've been driving down one389104:19:47.239 --> 04:19:50.680
road after. Another we can read some of the road.389204:19:50.760 --> 04:19:53.000
Signs the ones we can't we have to get out389304:19:53.079 --> 04:19:56.159
and read them under the car's. Headlights this time it's389404:19:56.200 --> 04:19:58.280
my turn to get out and read the next. Sign389504:19:59.079 --> 04:20:01.360
it's hard to open my door with the wind blowing389604:20:01.399 --> 04:20:04.319
hard against. It WHEN i do get it open and get,389704:20:04.360 --> 04:20:07.479
OUT i slip and fall flat on my. ASS i389804:20:07.559 --> 04:20:09.399
get back on my feet again and look at the.389904:20:09.440 --> 04:20:13.639
Sign it's not Old dutch. ROAD i get back in390004:20:13.680 --> 04:20:16.680
the car and we continue. On we come by a390104:20:16.680 --> 04:20:20.360
few more roads and still don't find the right. One390204:20:20.399 --> 04:20:23.959
we still don't see anybody out. Here we've passed a390304:20:24.000 --> 04:20:28.159
few houses and, cabins even some, trailers but they all look.390404:20:29.000 --> 04:20:32.559
Dark you'd think there'd be somebody home in these. PLACES i,390504:20:32.639 --> 04:20:35.319
mean it's not like it's late at night or. Something390604:20:35.840 --> 04:20:38.479
with that, blizzard it almost makes it seem like it's390704:20:38.559 --> 04:20:41.280
night back. HERE i look at my watch and see390804:20:41.319 --> 04:20:46.000
it's just after four. O'clock thinking about. Slipping amos has390904:20:46.000 --> 04:20:49.360
four wheel drive on on the. SUV i can't believe391004:20:49.440 --> 04:20:52.479
how slippery it is. NOW i can hear the wind391104:20:52.520 --> 04:20:56.680
blowing fierce as the snow keeps coming. Down amos also391204:20:56.680 --> 04:20:59.959
has the windshield wipers going looking at the, roads, Though391304:21:00.520 --> 04:21:02.920
i'm thinking it's only a matter of time before they're391404:21:02.920 --> 04:21:05.920
too snow covered and we won't be able to keep391504:21:06.000 --> 04:21:09.079
driving on. Them i'd be lying IF i said these391604:21:09.120 --> 04:21:13.120
woods didn't look. SCARY i don't know how many miles391704:21:13.159 --> 04:21:15.200
these woods, are but it seems like we've been in391804:21:15.280 --> 04:21:18.920
here a long. Time as big as these woods, are391904:21:19.159 --> 04:21:21.079
we might as well be looking for a needle in a.392004:21:21.120 --> 04:21:26.200
Haystack tristan mutters when he Hears abella. Sigh he quickly392104:21:26.239 --> 04:21:30.040
looks her. Way, sorry you still want to keep, Going,392204:21:30.079 --> 04:21:34.440
Abella amos, Asks this weather's only getting worse and the392304:21:34.559 --> 04:21:39.239
roads are getting real. Bad abella clinches her. Fist veronica392404:21:39.319 --> 04:21:42.159
is my, daughter and we will find. Her god damn. It,392504:21:43.000 --> 04:21:47.079
yeah her mind's definitely made. Up guess that would explain392604:21:47.159 --> 04:21:49.959
why she packed provisions in her backpack and had us392704:21:50.000 --> 04:21:54.399
do the. Same another road coming, Up morgan, says the392804:21:54.440 --> 04:21:56.399
sign's got snow on. It i'll have to get out392904:21:56.399 --> 04:22:00.440
and brush it. Off amos slows down and. Stops Then393004:22:00.520 --> 04:22:02.760
morgan gets out and has to stand on the front393104:22:02.799 --> 04:22:06.879
bumper to reach the. Sign she brushes it. Off what's393204:22:06.920 --> 04:22:09.799
the name of that road, Again, Abella she calls, out393304:22:10.319 --> 04:22:14.719
Old dutch. Road abella calls, back this is. It we393404:22:14.760 --> 04:22:18.319
hear her cheer Old dutch. Road she gets back down393504:22:18.319 --> 04:22:21.319
and comes back. In now we just need to pick a.393604:22:21.360 --> 04:22:24.799
Direction we'll go left and see what the house numbers.393704:22:24.799 --> 04:22:28.120
Are amos, says we need to look for twenty one393804:22:28.239 --> 04:22:32.120
Old dutch. Road abella tells. Us amos turns left and393904:22:32.159 --> 04:22:35.239
starts driving. Again it takes a few minutes before we394004:22:35.280 --> 04:22:38.559
finally come up to the first house looks more like a.394104:22:38.639 --> 04:22:42.440
Hut amos, stops since it's on my. SIDE i get394204:22:42.440 --> 04:22:45.360
out and try to look at the. Mailbox there's no394304:22:45.479 --> 04:22:49.399
number on. IT i open the, box no. MAIL i394404:22:49.440 --> 04:22:51.479
walk up to the. HOUSE i have to do some,394504:22:51.600 --> 04:22:54.760
looking BUT i eventually find the rusted out numbers next394604:22:54.760 --> 04:22:57.680
to the. DOOR i turn and go back to the. Car,394704:22:58.520 --> 04:23:02.319
FIFTEEN i tell all WHEN i get back, in we'll394804:23:02.319 --> 04:23:03.680
have to go to the next place to see if394904:23:03.680 --> 04:23:06.239
we're going in the right direction for sure or not on.395004:23:06.399 --> 04:23:10.239
It amos replies and gets us going. Again we go395104:23:10.360 --> 04:23:14.120
further down the. Road that snow's just coming down so.395204:23:14.360 --> 04:23:19.600
Fast amos is even taking his. Time it's then when395304:23:19.680 --> 04:23:24.600
the headlights reveal the next house directly. Ahead what the395404:23:24.639 --> 04:23:27.920
headlights couldn't have shown us was that the road ahead was.395504:23:28.079 --> 04:23:31.120
Curved we would end up finding out the hard way395604:23:31.479 --> 04:23:35.639
when we'd suddenly feel the car dip. Fast what the?395704:23:35.680 --> 04:23:40.120
Hell amos. Scrumbles he shifts into, reverse but we're quickly395804:23:40.159 --> 04:23:45.520
finding out we're. Stuck. Shit, Morgan tristan AND i get395904:23:45.520 --> 04:23:48.879
out and take a. LOOK i quickly look back At396004:23:48.920 --> 04:23:53.239
amos when he rolls his window. DOWN i tell him small.396104:23:53.319 --> 04:23:55.920
Ditch there was so much snow we couldn't see. It396204:23:56.799 --> 04:23:59.440
we don't Hear amos, groaning but we can see the396304:23:59.479 --> 04:24:03.399
front tie spinning in the, car not moving to put it.396404:24:03.479 --> 04:24:08.200
Mildly where? Fucked When amos turns the motor, off we396504:24:08.319 --> 04:24:11.079
all get out and head to the back to get our.396604:24:11.120 --> 04:24:14.920
Backpacks there's no mailbox out here at the, road BUT396704:24:15.000 --> 04:24:17.040
i head up to the house to check the. Address396804:24:17.600 --> 04:24:19.799
WHEN i reach the front, PORCH i look for any396904:24:19.879 --> 04:24:22.760
kind of a. NUMBER i even brush off the sides397004:24:22.799 --> 04:24:26.959
at the. Door there's no mailbox here. EITHER i even397104:24:27.040 --> 04:24:29.399
try knocking on the door a few, times with no.397204:24:29.559 --> 04:24:33.399
SUCCESS i shriek when somebody puts a hand on my.397304:24:33.440 --> 04:24:38.360
Shoulder it's a. BELLA i can't find any house. NUMBER397404:24:38.639 --> 04:24:42.040
i tell, HER i don't think anybody lives. Here A397504:24:42.120 --> 04:24:45.799
bella motions for me to move. Aside then she turns397604:24:45.799 --> 04:24:49.360
the knob and opens the. Door we go inside and397704:24:49.479 --> 04:24:53.520
confirm that nobody lives. Here the furniture looks broken and.397804:24:53.600 --> 04:24:56.639
Battered the place looks like it hasn't been cleaned in.397904:24:56.760 --> 04:24:59.639
Years at least it's a good place to get in398004:24:59.639 --> 04:25:02.319
out of the snow and talk about what we're going398104:25:02.360 --> 04:25:07.319
to do. Next god damn, It amos. Growls nothing we398204:25:07.360 --> 04:25:10.440
can do about, it. Buddy tristan tells him the best398304:25:10.440 --> 04:25:12.000
we can do is walk till we get out of398404:25:12.000 --> 04:25:16.200
here and maybe make it To. Strickfield we don't even398504:25:16.360 --> 04:25:20.559
know Where strickfield, Is amos, REPLIES i point in the.398604:25:20.600 --> 04:25:24.440
DIRECTION i think it's that. WAY i saw the compass398704:25:24.440 --> 04:25:27.879
on your, Dashboard. Amos abella gets us to try looking398804:25:27.920 --> 04:25:30.600
around for anything that might have this address on. It398904:25:31.200 --> 04:25:34.360
after looking in all the, rooms there's nothing to be,399004:25:34.440 --> 04:25:39.399
found not even a. Bill tristan, mutters assuming they even399104:25:39.479 --> 04:25:43.719
get bills out, Here what are we doing? Now morgan,399204:25:43.799 --> 04:25:47.879
asks we don't have a. Choice abella, says we have399304:25:47.959 --> 04:25:51.879
to find twenty. One she looks at us now you know,399404:25:51.920 --> 04:25:55.159
what you people don't have to come with. Me just399504:25:55.200 --> 04:25:58.600
stay in here and keep out of the. Blizzard amos399604:25:58.600 --> 04:26:02.319
puts his hand On abella's. Should i'm going with, you me,399704:26:02.440 --> 04:26:06.399
TOO i, SAY i guess we're heading back. Out morgan.399804:26:06.479 --> 04:26:10.600
Mutters as a plan is being, DISCUSSED i can't help399904:26:10.639 --> 04:26:14.440
looking out at what was probably the kitchen. Window just400004:26:14.479 --> 04:26:17.719
out of, CURIOSITY i turn one of the faucet. Taps400104:26:18.239 --> 04:26:22.760
much to my, surprise water actually trickles. Out the people400204:26:22.799 --> 04:26:25.159
that live out in the country use well, water meaning400304:26:25.159 --> 04:26:27.639
they're not hooked up to the city and paying water.400404:26:27.680 --> 04:26:31.319
Bills AFTER i shut the water back, off my eyes400504:26:31.360 --> 04:26:36.719
are suddenly wide. Open something's moving behind the trees by400604:26:36.760 --> 04:26:41.479
what looks like a firewood pile. Outside when the others400704:26:41.520 --> 04:26:45.000
turn to, ME i tell them WHAT i. Discovered, yeah400804:26:45.120 --> 04:26:50.479
there is something, Moving morgan, Says is that a? Person400904:26:51.319 --> 04:26:54.319
and then the figure comes out enough for us to401004:26:54.399 --> 04:26:57.920
see that it is a. Person if we didn't know,401104:26:58.079 --> 04:27:03.879
better we'd swear was a girl wearing just shorts and401204:27:03.920 --> 04:27:06.879
A t. Shirt is that.401304:27:08.520 --> 04:27:08.639
Is?401404:27:08.680 --> 04:27:13.760
That? Veronica abella. Stammers we don't waste any time and401504:27:13.840 --> 04:27:16.120
have to exit through the front door since there's no back.401604:27:16.159 --> 04:27:18.760
One we trudge through the snow and head out. Back401704:27:19.559 --> 04:27:22.879
the person isn't there. Now when we get to where401804:27:22.959 --> 04:27:25.559
we thought we saw, Her amos quickly points to them.401904:27:26.040 --> 04:27:29.920
Footprints he quickly, says looks like whoever it is is walking.402004:27:30.719 --> 04:27:35.399
BAREFOOT i turn and. Move, well let's follow. Them as402104:27:35.440 --> 04:27:39.600
we move and follow the, Footprints abella calls, Out, Veronica,402204:27:40.319 --> 04:27:43.079
veronica it's. Mom we came out here to find. You402304:27:43.719 --> 04:27:46.319
we continue to follow the tracks through some more of the.402404:27:46.360 --> 04:27:51.719
Forest eventually we come to another. House this one makes402504:27:51.760 --> 04:27:55.440
me think of the Story console And. Gretel it's not402604:27:55.559 --> 04:27:57.920
a candy house with a witch living, inside but this402704:27:58.040 --> 04:28:02.399
place is definitely not on any path or. Road the402804:28:02.399 --> 04:28:06.479
footprints lead right to the. House when we reach, it402904:28:06.959 --> 04:28:10.079
we can see the front window is broken. Out there's403004:28:10.120 --> 04:28:13.879
no glass. Around looking, inside this place looks like the403104:28:13.959 --> 04:28:17.440
last house we were. In whoever it. Is when in,403204:28:17.479 --> 04:28:21.879
Here morgan, says we footprints. Here we all climb in403304:28:21.959 --> 04:28:24.680
through the front. Window it's then when we hear some.403404:28:24.840 --> 04:28:27.639
RUCKUS i move away from the others and head to403504:28:27.719 --> 04:28:30.239
the back of the. House the others are right behind.403604:28:30.280 --> 04:28:32.600
Me when we get, there we see that the back403704:28:32.639 --> 04:28:37.159
doors wide. Open she's back. OUTSIDE a belly yells. GO403804:28:38.280 --> 04:28:40.840
i sprint out of the house ahead of. Everybody NOW403904:28:40.879 --> 04:28:43.600
i can see the person. RUNNING i got, THIS i404004:28:43.719 --> 04:28:46.440
yell over my. SHOULDER i can see the long white,404104:28:46.440 --> 04:28:49.159
hair AND i know for sure it's a. Woman IF404204:28:49.200 --> 04:28:53.959
i didn't know, better i'd swear she's got white. SKIN404304:28:55.120 --> 04:28:58.079
i don't mean what society calls white. SKIN i mean404404:28:59.280 --> 04:29:03.200
she's just as white as the. Snow, Stop, veronica is404504:29:03.200 --> 04:29:08.079
that you? STOP i, yell whoever this is can really,404604:29:08.200 --> 04:29:11.760
run even in bare feet and in the. Snow i'm404704:29:11.760 --> 04:29:14.040
a track star at my high, school but she's making404804:29:14.079 --> 04:29:16.920
me look. Bad i'm still ahead of the, others. THOUGH404904:29:17.399 --> 04:29:20.879
i follow the girl through some thicker woods now and405004:29:20.920 --> 04:29:25.559
THEN i hear some laughing sounds like a young girl405104:29:25.600 --> 04:29:29.280
who's happy as can. BE i see the footprints again405204:29:29.319 --> 04:29:32.239
and pick up the. Trail i'm surprised this girl can405304:29:32.280 --> 04:29:35.280
walk out here, barefoot let, alone in the clothes she's.405404:29:35.280 --> 04:29:39.520
Wearing wait a, Minute abella said that was what she405504:29:39.639 --> 04:29:42.200
was wearing when she fled From Grande estate that night405604:29:42.879 --> 04:29:47.399
and ended up getting lost in. Here, veronica, PLEASE i call.405704:29:47.479 --> 04:29:50.799
Out if it's, you just. Stop your mom's been really405804:29:50.799 --> 04:29:54.520
worried about you all this. Time she hasn't given up on. You.405904:29:54.600 --> 04:29:58.680
PLEASE i hear the happy laughter again AS i keep406004:29:58.719 --> 04:30:02.920
following the. Footprints it's getting frustrating since it's really. Dark406104:30:03.319 --> 04:30:07.360
it's gotta be sunset by. Now. SHIT i quickly take406204:30:07.399 --> 04:30:10.440
off my backpack and go for the flashlight. INSIDE i406304:30:10.520 --> 04:30:14.440
turn it on and see the footprints. AGAIN i hear406404:30:14.479 --> 04:30:18.079
the happy laughter one more. Time WHEN i turn, AROUND406504:30:19.120 --> 04:30:24.159
i finally see her and. Gasp her skin and hair406604:30:24.239 --> 04:30:31.280
are snowy. White her eyes look so. Evil where her406704:30:31.319 --> 04:30:34.559
eyes should have been, white they were like a grayish.406804:30:34.559 --> 04:30:39.600
Color her eyes themselves were sickening. Green her nails are completely,406904:30:39.639 --> 04:30:46.040
black fingers and. Toes it's Definitely, veronica, Though oh my,407004:30:46.200 --> 04:30:49.559
god what happened to? You veronica just looks at. Me407104:30:49.680 --> 04:30:57.280
now Tree, now she whispers. Eerily BEFORE i can call407204:30:57.319 --> 04:31:00.559
out to the, Others veronica leaps at me and takes me,407304:31:00.639 --> 04:31:03.760
down making me drop the. FLASHLIGHT i groan and struggle407404:31:03.799 --> 04:31:06.719
to get her off of, me But veronica quickly overpowers407504:31:06.719 --> 04:31:10.479
me and pins my wrists. Down oh, fuck my wrists407604:31:10.520 --> 04:31:15.159
suddenly burn with the cold from her. HANDS i continue407704:31:15.200 --> 04:31:18.680
to struggle against, her BUT i can't believe how incredibly407804:31:18.719 --> 04:31:23.040
strong she. Is get off of, ME i, shriek help help.407904:31:23.120 --> 04:31:29.280
Me veronica looks at me. Softly, trina she whispers. Again408004:31:30.159 --> 04:31:34.440
we look at each other for several. Seconds then she looks, sad.408104:31:36.200 --> 04:31:41.200
Hungry her hands are so cold they really burn my408204:31:41.280 --> 04:31:44.760
wrists to where they feel like they're. Frostbitten and Then408304:31:44.840 --> 04:31:49.319
i'm feeling even more. Pain When veronica lowers her head408404:31:49.879 --> 04:31:54.000
and bites right into my, THROAT i can't even scream408504:31:54.639 --> 04:31:57.760
to try and call for help. Again as soon AS408604:31:57.840 --> 04:32:01.120
i feel the flesh on my throat torn, AWAY i408704:32:01.159 --> 04:32:04.760
stop struggling against whatever this thing that once Was veronica408804:32:04.959 --> 04:32:10.799
is and feel my life slipping. AWAY i lose more408904:32:10.920 --> 04:32:18.760
and more control over my, body and then everything gets409004:32:18.879 --> 04:32:28.120
dark forever perspective a miss. Culp it's really hard trying409104:32:28.120 --> 04:32:31.000
to keep up With, trina even in hiking. Boots i'm409204:32:31.040 --> 04:32:33.200
surprised she can run in the snow like she. Does409304:32:34.399 --> 04:32:36.799
guess that's what comes with being on the track. Team409404:32:36.799 --> 04:32:40.399
At Ridgewood Heights South High it's also dark to where409504:32:40.440 --> 04:32:43.920
we have to use our. Flashlights now we keep calling409604:32:43.959 --> 04:32:48.920
out For. Trina abella keeps calling out For. Veronica Now i'm,409704:32:49.000 --> 04:32:53.319
Confused if that girl we saw Was, veronica then why409804:32:53.360 --> 04:32:55.520
the hell didn't she ever try to get in touch409904:32:55.559 --> 04:33:01.799
with anyone? Instead veronica's really living here in these woods410004:33:02.280 --> 04:33:06.240
for a whole. Year if that is, her then how she's?410104:33:06.279 --> 04:33:09.360
SURVIVING i Know veronica has never been much of a.410204:33:09.439 --> 04:33:12.279
Hunter she didn't even like WHEN i talked about. Hunting410304:33:13.119 --> 04:33:16.119
we keep following the tracks made by Both trina and410404:33:16.200 --> 04:33:19.520
the barefoot. Girl we finally reach a point where there's410504:33:19.560 --> 04:33:24.639
blood in the. Snow there's also a broken. Flashlight we410604:33:24.680 --> 04:33:29.080
don't see anyone, here not a. Soul but THEN i410704:33:29.200 --> 04:33:32.880
notice something out of the. Ordinary you, guys see How410804:33:32.919 --> 04:33:37.400
trina's tracks end, HERE i point, Out but look the410904:33:37.400 --> 04:33:40.680
ones of the bare feet they're the only ones that411004:33:40.799 --> 04:33:44.400
keep going from. Here tristan gets a little. Scared, now411104:33:45.119 --> 04:33:48.720
you don't suppose whatever that girl was Got, trina do?411204:33:48.840 --> 04:33:52.599
YOU i really don't know for, SURE i tell Him.411304:33:53.639 --> 04:33:58.759
Trina tristan calls. Out morgan And abella also call out For.411404:33:58.840 --> 04:34:04.000
Trina bella continues to call out For, veronica but nobody answers.411504:34:04.040 --> 04:34:07.080
Back trina's gotta be able to hear. US i, mean411604:34:07.319 --> 04:34:11.360
she couldn't have gone that far. Away still seeing the411704:34:11.400 --> 04:34:16.319
blood and broken flashlight here makes me. Wonder after a little,411804:34:16.319 --> 04:34:20.959
bit we stop calling out For. Trina, ah she's, dead,411904:34:21.040 --> 04:34:25.279
Man tristan, says shaking his head. Quickly she's got to be.412004:34:25.360 --> 04:34:28.520
Dead she ain't calling back to. US i think that412104:34:28.560 --> 04:34:31.520
girl must have gotten. Her she shouldn't have gone off by.412204:34:31.520 --> 04:34:36.599
HERSELF i raise my, Hand, tristan don't. Okay we can't412304:34:36.599 --> 04:34:39.759
afford to be losing our, shit not out. Here we412404:34:39.880 --> 04:34:44.000
have to keep, Going abella tells, us But. Trina morgan412504:34:44.080 --> 04:34:46.360
tries to, say BUT i put my hand On morgan's.412604:34:46.360 --> 04:34:49.479
Shoulder we'll look for. Her she can't have gone. Far412704:34:50.439 --> 04:34:54.000
BUT i Think morgan was Believing. TRISTAN i don't like.412804:34:54.080 --> 04:34:57.360
THIS i think something did happen To. Trina there's no412904:34:57.439 --> 04:35:01.319
way she wouldn't answer back. Again A bella tells us413004:35:01.319 --> 04:35:03.720
we can go back and get out of the. BLIZZARD413104:35:04.319 --> 04:35:07.639
i didn't think things would happen like. This, no we413204:35:07.720 --> 04:35:11.040
gotta stick together. NOW i, say we don't know what's413304:35:11.080 --> 04:35:14.119
going on out here With trina. Missing the others are413404:35:14.200 --> 04:35:17.680
quick to agree with. Me, Still i'm beginning to Think tristan's.413504:35:17.759 --> 04:35:24.400
Right something either Attacked trina or possibly killed. Her i'm413604:35:24.439 --> 04:35:27.919
almost afraid of what we'll find. Out we move and413704:35:28.040 --> 04:35:31.639
follow the single set of. Footprints at times we do413804:35:31.840 --> 04:35:35.880
see some drops of. Blood then the trail gets. Cold413904:35:35.880 --> 04:35:38.439
when the footprints and the blood drops end at a small,414004:35:38.520 --> 04:35:42.599
river we have no idea which way to. Go it's414104:35:42.720 --> 04:35:46.680
dark and the snow and winds keep. Blowing what's more414204:35:46.840 --> 04:35:48.919
is that we're stuck in these woods with the car414304:35:49.040 --> 04:35:51.880
not being able to go, anywhere and on top of,414404:35:51.880 --> 04:35:55.479
that we Lost. Trina what do you guys want to?414504:35:55.520 --> 04:35:58.720
DO i, ask WAY i see. It we can go414604:35:58.799 --> 04:36:02.680
about this two. Ways one we can split up in414704:36:02.720 --> 04:36:06.599
two's and pick a, direction or two we stick together414804:36:07.000 --> 04:36:11.119
safety in. NUMBERS i have to know if That's. Veronica abella,414904:36:11.200 --> 04:36:15.000
Snaps i'm going this. Way i'll go with, You morgan,415004:36:15.080 --> 04:36:20.040
says following. Her Then tristan bumps my. Arm we better415104:36:20.080 --> 04:36:23.439
go the other. Way we can cover more. GROUND i415204:36:23.560 --> 04:36:28.040
groan and Follow. Tristan i'm telling, YOU i got a415304:36:28.200 --> 04:36:31.880
very bad feeling about. THIS i, SAY i think we415404:36:31.919 --> 04:36:34.880
should follow the. Women but what if we all end415504:36:35.000 --> 04:36:38.759
up going the wrong? Way tristan. Asks then it hits,415604:36:38.799 --> 04:36:44.520
me you, know what if this girl's hunting? Us if415704:36:44.520 --> 04:36:47.200
that's the, case it probably won't matter what direction we415804:36:47.279 --> 04:36:51.599
end up. Going tristan gives me a funny. Look why415904:36:51.599 --> 04:36:54.279
would that girl be hunting? Us what do we got416004:36:54.319 --> 04:36:58.759
that she? WANTS i, GROAN i don't. Know something just416104:36:58.840 --> 04:37:02.439
feels wrong about all of. This we gotta try and Find.416204:37:02.520 --> 04:37:07.799
Veronica tristan reminds me we've come this. Far once we Find,416304:37:07.880 --> 04:37:11.479
veronica a bella gets what she's been, wanting and everything416404:37:11.479 --> 04:37:15.400
will be good for. Everybody we just gotta Find. Veronica416504:37:16.119 --> 04:37:20.159
you know, THAT i. KNOW i snapped. Back you don't416604:37:20.200 --> 04:37:23.479
have to keep reminding me we should have come looking416704:37:23.520 --> 04:37:27.279
for when it's not a. Blizzard we both keep arguing416804:37:27.319 --> 04:37:30.840
about being here during the blizzard and. Waiting one thing About,416904:37:30.880 --> 04:37:36.040
tristan he's about his headstrong as a damn. Woman veronica417004:37:36.159 --> 04:37:39.040
was pretty headstrong. Too ain't no wonder she ended up417104:37:39.040 --> 04:37:42.080
getting all the way out here that. Night we keep417204:37:42.119 --> 04:37:44.959
following the river without our. Phones we don't know where417304:37:44.959 --> 04:37:48.680
the hell we. Are there's no sun or. Moon it's417404:37:48.799 --> 04:37:51.319
dark as shit out, here and the snow keeps blowing and.417504:37:51.400 --> 04:37:54.040
DRIFTING i look up at the sky and can't see417604:37:54.119 --> 04:37:58.360
jack or. Shit, OKAY i can see those dark clouds up,417704:37:58.360 --> 04:38:01.479
there that's bringing this blizzard down all Over Feltner. County417804:38:02.439 --> 04:38:05.080
why this county gets the shit end of that deal every?417904:38:05.119 --> 04:38:09.439
Winter i'll never. Know i'm gonna go across the, Water tristan.418004:38:09.520 --> 04:38:12.400
Says maybe we'll do better finding tracks if we each418104:38:12.439 --> 04:38:17.799
take a. Side, WHATEVER i. Grumble tristan quickly moves across the.418204:38:17.840 --> 04:38:20.799
Water it ain't frozen, yet BUT i can see it's418304:38:20.840 --> 04:38:23.799
freezing along the top at the. Ends tristan AND i418404:38:23.959 --> 04:38:28.119
use our flashlights to keep lighting our. Way amos over,418504:38:28.159 --> 04:38:31.720
Here tristan calls. OUT i turn and move across the418604:38:31.759 --> 04:38:34.279
water to get to. HIM i shine my light where418704:38:34.319 --> 04:38:38.840
his is and see those footprints hes found made by bare.418804:38:38.880 --> 04:38:43.040
Feet let's, GO i, say before the snow covers them.418904:38:43.080 --> 04:38:46.840
Up we move and follow the. TRACKS i shine my light.419004:38:46.880 --> 04:38:49.720
Ahead no sign of the. Girl we keep following the419104:38:49.759 --> 04:38:53.319
fresh tracks as far as they'll take. Us can't believe419204:38:53.319 --> 04:38:56.040
that girl can move so fast in the. Shit tristan.419304:38:56.119 --> 04:38:59.840
Mutters these backwoods people can probably do a lot of shit.419404:39:00.119 --> 04:39:04.200
HERE i, say, hell they're probably making their own gas419504:39:04.240 --> 04:39:07.200
to power their houses and. Trailers these are probably the419604:39:07.279 --> 04:39:09.040
kind of people that live in a world all their,419704:39:09.040 --> 04:39:13.080
own not going into civilization unless they absolutely have to419804:39:14.200 --> 04:39:18.400
like The. Amish tristan, asks kind, of except you don't419904:39:18.400 --> 04:39:20.360
want to be planned in a day around this place420004:39:20.439 --> 04:39:23.840
like you would In amish. Country we keep following the.420104:39:23.880 --> 04:39:27.400
Tracks it takes, many many, minutes but the tracks end420204:39:27.400 --> 04:39:30.959
at a, large two story. House like the house we420304:39:30.959 --> 04:39:33.119
were at, earlier this one looks like it hasn't been420404:39:33.159 --> 04:39:36.400
lived in for god knows how. Long makes me wonder420504:39:36.400 --> 04:39:38.959
how many people actually do live here in these. WOODS420604:39:39.240 --> 04:39:42.240
i say this is the third place we've been at that's.420704:39:42.279 --> 04:39:46.040
Abandoned we both know we gotta check it. Out we420804:39:46.119 --> 04:39:49.799
find the front door easily. Opens once we're, INSIDE i420904:39:49.799 --> 04:39:52.720
gotta Help tristan push the door shut since that wind421004:39:52.840 --> 04:39:56.000
keeps raging with the. Snow we finally get the door.421104:39:56.080 --> 04:39:59.040
Closed at least the windows are still good, here so421204:39:59.080 --> 04:40:02.520
we have a little shot from the. Storm i'll head.421304:40:02.560 --> 04:40:06.560
Upstairs tristan, SAYS i think we should stick. TOGETHER i421404:40:06.599 --> 04:40:10.119
Say i'll be. Okay then he picks up a. Board421504:40:10.759 --> 04:40:14.560
got this with. Me my gut tells ME i should421604:40:14.560 --> 04:40:17.040
go up with, him but he's already nearly up the.421704:40:17.040 --> 04:40:21.400
Stairs ah, SHIT i. MUTTER i grab my own two421804:40:21.400 --> 04:40:23.400
by four and keep it ready AS i look around,421904:40:23.439 --> 04:40:29.639
downstairs and THEN i see wet, footprints bare. Feet that422004:40:29.759 --> 04:40:33.159
girl's gotta be in this house. SOMEWHERE i stand just422104:40:33.200 --> 04:40:37.000
outside a door and quickly fling it, open just an empty.422204:40:37.040 --> 04:40:41.279
Closet THEN i Remember tristan being upstairs and hall ass up.422304:40:41.319 --> 04:40:43.880
THERE i quickly find him in one of the. BEDROOMS422404:40:44.360 --> 04:40:47.959
i told, You i'll be. Okay tristan snaps that girl's422504:40:47.959 --> 04:40:50.799
in this house, SOMEWHERE i. Say THEN i tell him422604:40:50.799 --> 04:40:55.560
about the wet FOOTPRINTS i. Found tristan nods once. Okay422704:40:56.159 --> 04:40:59.720
we stick. Together then we move across the upstairs and422804:40:59.799 --> 04:41:02.720
check the. Rooms they have furniture in them and enough422904:41:02.799 --> 04:41:05.159
dust on it to make you want to. Choke even423004:41:05.240 --> 04:41:08.000
the blankets on the beds have dust on. Them we423104:41:08.159 --> 04:41:11.119
check the closets, Too they're either empty or don't have423204:41:11.240 --> 04:41:14.680
much of anything in. Them we're about to leave the423304:41:14.759 --> 04:41:19.479
room When tristan gets my attention AND i turn around423404:41:19.919 --> 04:41:27.400
and See. Veronica is that? YOU i? Gasp ready to piss?423504:41:27.439 --> 04:41:31.080
MYSELF i, Say i'm ready to piss myself because she423604:41:31.159 --> 04:41:33.799
looks like something right out of one of those scary.423704:41:33.880 --> 04:41:37.240
Movies veronica's hair and skin's white enough to be. Chalk423804:41:37.720 --> 04:41:41.439
her nails are all, black and her eyes are just oh,423904:41:41.479 --> 04:41:44.560
man she's just scaring the But jesus out of me right.424004:41:44.599 --> 04:41:47.639
Now she's still wet and dripping from being out in the.424104:41:47.680 --> 04:41:50.959
Snow just the way she's looking at us right. NOW424204:41:51.799 --> 04:41:53.799
i ain't no, doctor But i'd be willing to bet424304:41:53.840 --> 04:41:58.080
my cabin back. Home she ain't herself. ANYMORE i remember424404:41:58.119 --> 04:42:00.759
her wearing that outfit she's wearing right, now from that424504:42:00.919 --> 04:42:04.720
night a year. Ago only thing that almost makes me424604:42:04.799 --> 04:42:07.959
lose control of my waterworks is seeing that blood on424704:42:08.000 --> 04:42:13.479
her face and t. Shirt aw. Man tristan drops his424804:42:13.479 --> 04:42:16.639
flashlight and raises his board to Hit, veronica but she424904:42:16.680 --> 04:42:19.639
can actually move. Fast she knocks the board out of425004:42:19.680 --> 04:42:22.560
his hands and grabs his. Wrists he shrieks and cries425104:42:22.599 --> 04:42:26.159
out like a. Girl now your hands are so, Cold he,425204:42:26.319 --> 04:42:29.840
yells let go of, me you. Bitch BEFORE i can425304:42:29.880 --> 04:42:33.360
move to Help, Tristan veronica points right at, me making425404:42:33.360 --> 04:42:37.279
me drop my. Board her voice is this raspy kind of.425504:42:37.279 --> 04:42:43.560
Whisper you stay right. There then she Slams tristan up425604:42:43.560 --> 04:42:46.599
against the wall and bites right into his. Throat he425704:42:46.720 --> 04:42:49.880
screams so loud you'd think you could actually hear him425804:42:49.880 --> 04:42:54.680
through that blizzard. Outside blood squirts, everywhere especially When veronica425904:42:54.759 --> 04:42:58.159
pulls back and has a chunk Of tristan's throat in her.426004:42:58.159 --> 04:43:03.119
Mouth oh oh, MAN i scream and quickly bolt out426104:43:03.119 --> 04:43:06.279
of the. Door Now i'm Hearing veronica screaming like a.426204:43:06.319 --> 04:43:11.360
Banshee i'm about to reach the stairs WHEN i see oh, man,426304:43:11.799 --> 04:43:16.240
NO i. Groan trina's right there on the stairway, now426404:43:17.240 --> 04:43:22.319
and she looks just Like, veronica with that white, skin white,426504:43:22.360 --> 04:43:29.520
hair black, nails and those strange, eyes and her throat's426604:43:29.560 --> 04:43:36.840
been ripped. Out veronica got her, too. Hungry trina utters426704:43:36.880 --> 04:43:42.520
in that same choked Whisper veronica has. YESS i Hear426804:43:42.639 --> 04:43:46.880
veronica groan as she's almost to. US i quickly shake426904:43:46.959 --> 04:43:48.759
my head and put my hands up in front of. Me,427004:43:49.840 --> 04:43:53.040
VERONICA i don't know what happened to, you BUT i427104:43:53.119 --> 04:43:56.799
tried to save you that. NIGHT i really. Tried you427204:43:56.919 --> 04:44:02.919
gotta believe. That veronica how at. Me Then trina grabs my,427304:44:03.080 --> 04:44:06.799
arm making me drop my. FLASHLIGHT i scream and Shove427404:44:06.840 --> 04:44:10.319
trina down the, stairs my backpack falling. Off THEN i427504:44:10.400 --> 04:44:13.200
follow behind her and eventually step over. Her AS i427604:44:13.240 --> 04:44:15.759
get to the bottom and get the hell out of that,427704:44:15.880 --> 04:44:21.599
house come back, Here. AMOS i Hear veronica shrieking behind,427804:44:21.680 --> 04:44:25.319
me right through the. WINDS i look and see she's427904:44:25.400 --> 04:44:29.040
really running after, me even through the blowing. SNOW i428004:44:29.080 --> 04:44:33.319
can hear her howling at. Me Oh Jesus, GOD i428104:44:33.360 --> 04:44:35.200
knew it would only be a matter of time Before428204:44:35.279 --> 04:44:38.639
veronica would finally catch up to. ME i ain't never428304:44:38.680 --> 04:44:42.080
been a fast. RUNNER i, MEAN i can, run BUT428404:44:42.159 --> 04:44:45.759
i just ain't. FAST i, Know i'm definitely slower with428504:44:45.840 --> 04:44:48.720
these boots, on BUT i wasn't expecting to be out428604:44:48.720 --> 04:44:50.880
here in these woods running for my life like. This428704:44:51.680 --> 04:44:55.759
you will, Stop. Amos veronica's voice sounds like a real428804:44:55.840 --> 04:45:00.479
high pitched. Shriek now you will not escape. Me and, then,428904:45:01.520 --> 04:45:04.479
okay you can call me, crazy you can even call429004:45:04.520 --> 04:45:07.520
me a. SISSY i quickly pick up some snow in my.429104:45:07.639 --> 04:45:10.560
HANDS i make a snowball AND i heave it right At.429204:45:10.639 --> 04:45:15.119
Veronica the snowball crashes right into her chest and makes her.429304:45:15.159 --> 04:45:18.919
STAGGER i make another snowball and heave it to hit429404:45:18.959 --> 04:45:20.919
her smack in the face and knock her on her,429504:45:20.959 --> 04:45:25.439
ASS i turn and start running. AGAIN i manage to429604:45:25.479 --> 04:45:31.599
lose her and hide behind a big. Tree amous.429704:45:32.040 --> 04:45:32.319
Ah.429804:45:32.360 --> 04:45:36.000
Man i've Heard veronica howl with rage before when she429904:45:36.080 --> 04:45:40.439
was really pissed, Off but now now that she's dead and,430004:45:41.560 --> 04:45:46.880
walking hearing her talk like that just oh, MAN i430104:45:47.000 --> 04:45:49.000
mutter WHEN i Feel i'm a little warmer in my.430204:45:49.080 --> 04:45:53.240
Jeans veronica really did make me lose control of my.430304:45:53.400 --> 04:45:57.560
Waterworks can't worry about that. NOW i gotta get the430404:45:57.639 --> 04:46:00.560
fuck away from here and go Find morgan And, abella430504:46:01.040 --> 04:46:05.840
Assuming veronica didn't already find them first before Finding tristan430604:46:06.599 --> 04:46:19.240
and me Perspective. Morgan after having no luck Finding, Veronica430704:46:19.319 --> 04:46:21.520
abella AND i double back to see if we could430804:46:21.520 --> 04:46:25.360
Find amos And. Tristan abella doesn't say much of, anything430904:46:25.400 --> 04:46:28.959
BUT i understand what she's. Feeling she just wants to431004:46:29.000 --> 04:46:31.400
find her daughter and make things good for everybody.431104:46:31.439 --> 04:46:31.680
Here.431204:46:32.319 --> 04:46:39.479
Veronica abella calls out, again where are You? VERONICA i431304:46:39.599 --> 04:46:46.040
call out louder Than, Abella, Amos, Tristan. Trina when we431404:46:46.080 --> 04:46:49.200
don't hear, Anything abella reaches over and takes my. Wrist431504:46:49.959 --> 04:46:52.319
are you sure it was a good idea to Bring amos?431604:46:52.319 --> 04:46:56.799
Along amos is a good hunter and, TRACKER i remind.431704:46:56.799 --> 04:47:00.959
Her abella just looks at me with. Doubt i'm telling, You,431804:47:01.000 --> 04:47:04.560
abella he should be able to find, HER i, say431904:47:04.799 --> 04:47:08.080
and pull my wrist. Away, eventually we come up to432004:47:08.119 --> 04:47:11.119
some tracks that are almost covered by the blowing. Snow432104:47:12.400 --> 04:47:14.799
if we follow, these we should catch up With tristan And.432204:47:14.840 --> 04:47:18.680
Amos the two of us use our flashlights to follow the.432304:47:18.759 --> 04:47:23.200
Tracks when they split, Up abella goes across the small432404:47:23.279 --> 04:47:26.400
river to follow that. SET i stick with my set432504:47:26.439 --> 04:47:30.000
UNTIL i see it also eventually crosses the. WATER i432604:47:30.080 --> 04:47:32.919
meet back up With abella for us to follow their.432704:47:32.959 --> 04:47:37.840
Tracks after some, minutes we come up to another. HOUSE432804:47:39.319 --> 04:47:42.720
i don't know About, abella but something about that place432904:47:43.200 --> 04:47:54.200
sure scares me just looking at. It, suddenly a huge433004:47:54.279 --> 04:47:57.040
gust of wind blows and knocks me on my. Ass433104:47:57.439 --> 04:48:01.400
abella comes to me and helps me. Up, okay she, Asks,433204:48:02.040 --> 04:48:06.880
YEAH i, REPLY i just wasn't expecting that this blizzard's433304:48:06.880 --> 04:48:10.000
getting worse and. Worse we might have to take. SHELTER433404:48:10.840 --> 04:48:14.680
i am not stopping UNTIL i Find. Veronica abella, yells433504:48:14.959 --> 04:48:17.639
she's my. Daughter i'm not stopping UNTIL i know for433604:48:17.720 --> 04:48:21.200
a fact that she's. Dead you really don't understand how433704:48:21.200 --> 04:48:24.720
important this. Is do. You i've been looking far too433804:48:24.759 --> 04:48:27.880
long for her to just give. Up you, know damn,433904:48:27.880 --> 04:48:30.919
WELL i can't afford to give this. Up, now you know.434004:48:31.040 --> 04:48:34.200
That abella AND i just look at each other for434104:48:34.240 --> 04:48:38.279
a long. Moment THEN i. Nod believe. ME i do.434204:48:38.439 --> 04:48:42.319
Know we should at least check the, house, though and434304:48:42.360 --> 04:48:45.880
we're going, to she assures. Me the two of us434404:48:45.959 --> 04:48:49.119
walk to the house and can easily go. Inside in,434504:48:49.200 --> 04:48:52.599
fact the front door is wide. OPEN i point down434604:48:52.639 --> 04:48:56.959
to the porch. Boards, abella it looks like people were here.434704:48:57.000 --> 04:49:02.080
Already then we're going the same, way she. Replies NOW434804:49:02.119 --> 04:49:04.439
i see this weird look on her face before she434904:49:04.520 --> 04:49:07.639
quickly grabs my arm and pulls me to. Her she435004:49:07.759 --> 04:49:12.720
turns me around SO i Can, TRINA i choke. Out.435104:49:13.599 --> 04:49:16.439
Yeah this thing that's standing in front of the doorway435204:49:16.520 --> 04:49:19.840
looks Like trina and is wearing her. Clothes but it's435304:49:19.880 --> 04:49:23.080
got these weird colored, eyes and its skin and hair435404:49:23.159 --> 04:49:27.240
or chalk, white and it has black. Fingernails i'm ready435504:49:27.279 --> 04:49:29.200
to throw up WHEN i see the bone that's sticking435604:49:29.240 --> 04:49:31.720
out of its. Neck it has blood all over the435704:49:31.720 --> 04:49:37.639
front of its. Jacket i'm so, Hungry trina says in435804:49:37.680 --> 04:49:42.319
this choked. Whisper, Suddenly trina reaches out and grabs my.435904:49:42.400 --> 04:49:44.840
HAND i cry out as she pulls me right to436004:49:44.880 --> 04:49:47.560
her with a STRENGTH i never even knew she, had436104:49:47.919 --> 04:49:51.200
making me drop my. FLASHLIGHT i Knew trina was a436204:49:51.240 --> 04:49:54.439
top athlete at our high. School she goes out running436304:49:54.479 --> 04:49:57.479
most every. Day she applies herself in the weight. Room436404:49:57.759 --> 04:49:59.880
she even watches her. Diet but there's no way in436504:50:00.119 --> 04:50:04.119
hell that she can be this goddamn. Strong THEN i436604:50:04.319 --> 04:50:07.520
really start screaming WHEN i feel how incredibly cold her436704:50:07.520 --> 04:50:11.799
hand is on. Mine it. Burns abella is trying to436804:50:11.840 --> 04:50:14.479
help pull me away From, trina but this fucking thing436904:50:14.560 --> 04:50:20.400
is just so incredibly strong and incredibly. Cold abella finally437004:50:20.439 --> 04:50:22.919
manages to get me. FREE i cry out WHEN i437104:50:22.959 --> 04:50:27.000
see my hand looks black and feels. Numb it's completely.437204:50:27.040 --> 04:50:32.560
Frostbitten come, On, Morgan abella, yells. RUN i turn and437304:50:32.639 --> 04:50:35.599
start running with. Her you don't get far Before i'm437404:50:35.639 --> 04:50:39.200
tackled from. Behind Now trina's right on top of. Me437504:50:40.040 --> 04:50:45.520
i'm so, Hungry, Morgan trina. Utters abella tries reaching out437604:50:45.599 --> 04:50:48.759
to Push trina off. Me when she Sees trina's bare,437704:50:48.840 --> 04:50:52.319
hands she quickly remembers how my hand got frostbitten just437804:50:52.360 --> 04:50:56.040
by her touching bare skin to. Mine trina hisses At437904:50:56.040 --> 04:50:59.720
abella and makes her back. Off you damned all of,438004:50:59.799 --> 04:51:03.880
us you. Bitch trina returns her attention to me and438104:51:03.959 --> 04:51:06.520
gives me that demented look of hunger that only a438204:51:06.599 --> 04:51:13.279
thing like her can. Show, Hungry trina rasps. AGAIN i438304:51:13.360 --> 04:51:16.200
try fighting her, off but Now i'm the one who438404:51:16.279 --> 04:51:19.919
forgot About trina's exposed. Skin she takes hold of my438504:51:20.000 --> 04:51:22.759
wrists and makes me close my eyes and scream at438604:51:22.759 --> 04:51:27.200
the top of my. Lungs trina's cold skin is so, Painful,438704:51:28.159 --> 04:51:32.040
god it. Burns WHEN i open my, EYES i can438804:51:32.040 --> 04:51:37.680
see a bellow left me here to. DIE i am438904:51:37.799 --> 04:51:43.000
so totally. Fucked trina easily slams my arm to the snowy.439004:51:43.080 --> 04:51:48.880
Ground THEN i manage out one, loud, long last. Scream439104:51:49.599 --> 04:51:53.840
When trina lowers her face and sinks her teeth right439204:51:53.880 --> 04:51:57.639
into my, neck my scream is louder WHEN i feel439304:51:57.639 --> 04:52:00.479
the skin at my neck being torn away the rest439404:52:00.479 --> 04:52:03.799
of my. BODY i can see my blood squirting. UPWARD439504:52:04.400 --> 04:52:07.279
i can also see my torn flesh In trina's. Mouth439604:52:08.279 --> 04:52:11.840
WHEN i can't scream, Anymore i'm actually a bit surprised439704:52:11.880 --> 04:52:14.240
That i'm not dead. YET i can feel the life439804:52:14.360 --> 04:52:17.560
leaving my body As trina munches on the flesh she's439904:52:17.599 --> 04:52:23.080
taken from. Me as my eyes start shaking, CLOSED i440004:52:23.200 --> 04:52:34.680
have this this FEELING i just, know just just, know440104:52:34.680 --> 04:52:46.040
know that THAT i feel myself. TWITCHING i slowly open my.440204:52:46.119 --> 04:52:50.840
Eyes it's still snowing. HARD i twitch some more and440304:52:50.959 --> 04:52:54.720
feel really wet on my upper. BODY i sit up440404:52:54.759 --> 04:52:58.840
slowly and see my jacket is, gone my shirt and440504:52:58.919 --> 04:53:03.439
braw were torn. Open my chest is fully, exposed AND440604:53:03.520 --> 04:53:07.479
i mean it's fully, exposed as IN i have no skin.440704:53:07.599 --> 04:53:11.400
Whatsoever trina is right there looking at me and eating440804:53:11.439 --> 04:53:14.599
more flesh she took off of my. Body by all,440904:53:14.720 --> 04:53:17.240
RIGHTS i should be royally pissed off at her doing441004:53:17.279 --> 04:53:21.319
this horrible thing to. ME i Know i'm exactly like her.441104:53:21.439 --> 04:53:26.439
NOW i also know That i'm getting fairy hungry and441204:53:26.560 --> 04:53:29.639
need to do to somebody What trina was doing to.441304:53:29.720 --> 04:53:34.599
Me but that's just, it isn't. IT i can't attack441404:53:34.680 --> 04:53:38.400
and feed On, trina CAN? I? SOMEHOW i know deep441504:53:38.439 --> 04:53:42.000
down that it just doesn't work like. That we can't441604:53:42.400 --> 04:53:46.840
and don't eat each. OTHER i slowly move and stand441704:53:46.880 --> 04:53:49.799
on my own. FEET i can see my hands are441804:53:49.840 --> 04:53:54.360
white with black. NAILS i feel so comfortably cold deep,441904:53:54.400 --> 04:53:57.400
inside and the frigid winds aren't bothering me at. All442004:53:58.360 --> 04:54:04.599
also feel so incredibly. Strong trina finishes eating and points442104:54:04.599 --> 04:54:08.599
in the direction we need to. Go we Get abella.442204:54:08.799 --> 04:54:11.200
NOW i nod once.442304:54:12.560 --> 04:54:12.599
A.442404:54:12.720 --> 04:54:16.880
Bella the voice comes out in the same, cold dead442504:54:17.000 --> 04:54:21.639
tone As, trina's almost like a choked. Whisper trina AND442604:54:21.680 --> 04:54:24.479
i only have to follow the footprints That abella's. Left442704:54:24.959 --> 04:54:27.319
we can see in the dark clearly now and don't need.442804:54:27.360 --> 04:54:31.360
Flashlights what's bad For abella is that we can still442904:54:31.439 --> 04:54:36.240
walk and run as normal living people. Can trina AND443004:54:36.279 --> 04:54:41.240
i only want A bella. Now one way or, another443104:54:42.200 --> 04:54:51.919
we are going to kill. Her ass perspective amus. CULP443204:54:52.799 --> 04:54:55.720
i keep moving through the. WOODS i swear this blizzard443304:54:55.840 --> 04:54:59.000
just keeps getting. Worse you'd think them damn clouds decided443404:54:59.040 --> 04:55:01.680
to stop right where they they. ARE i can stay443504:55:01.720 --> 04:55:04.439
warm in my winter. Clothes BUT i lost my backpack443604:55:04.479 --> 04:55:07.639
back at the house Where veronica And trina. Were it443704:55:07.720 --> 04:55:11.639
had my food in. It assuming it really Was veronica And,443804:55:11.680 --> 04:55:20.840
trina amu oh, Man veronica's getting closer. Now she probably443904:55:20.840 --> 04:55:23.720
found my trail and is hot after. Me you, know444004:55:24.639 --> 04:55:27.240
there was a time WHEN i was Glad Veronica grande444104:55:27.360 --> 04:55:29.439
was the kind of person who liked coming after. Me444204:55:30.319 --> 04:55:33.880
that girl. Was she was really sweet on. ME i444304:55:33.919 --> 04:55:37.080
KNOW i was sweet on her right, back maybe even444404:55:37.119 --> 04:55:40.959
a little too. Much in, fact that's where all this444504:55:41.080 --> 04:55:45.639
goddamn trouble started that. Night SUDDENLY i see something just444604:55:45.720 --> 04:55:51.119
ahead past some. Trees, yes there's a cabin just, ahead444704:55:51.720 --> 04:55:56.479
lights on. Inside that means somebody's. HOME i quickly haul.444804:55:56.560 --> 04:55:58.959
ASS i Know i'm supposed to be a, man but444904:55:59.000 --> 04:56:01.159
trust me WHEN i say say, that all that shit445004:56:01.400 --> 04:56:03.479
goes right out the window when you deal with What445104:56:03.560 --> 04:56:06.360
i'm dealing. With tell me what a real man you445204:56:06.439 --> 04:56:10.360
are when those things are eating you. ALIVE i finally445304:56:10.400 --> 04:56:13.240
make it to the door and pound on. It help,445404:56:13.319 --> 04:56:16.080
me let me, In please open. Up those things are445504:56:16.159 --> 04:56:16.680
right behind.445604:56:16.720 --> 04:56:17.200
Me oh.445704:56:17.400 --> 04:56:21.479
Man after a little more, pounding the door finally. Opens445804:56:22.159 --> 04:56:24.880
there's this man looking to be in his sixties standing.445904:56:24.919 --> 04:56:27.959
There he's got gray hair and a, beard and is446004:56:28.000 --> 04:56:31.639
wearing a dark blue shirt and bib. OVERALLS i quickly446104:56:31.680 --> 04:56:34.319
brush right past him and into the. HOUSE i slam446204:56:34.400 --> 04:56:37.720
the door shut and lock. It you mind telling me446304:56:37.799 --> 04:56:42.040
what intarnation is going on? Here the man, asks there's446404:56:42.080 --> 04:56:45.720
these things? OUTSIDE i quickly tell. Him THEN i explain446504:56:45.799 --> 04:56:49.159
to the old man what those things. Are the old446604:56:49.200 --> 04:56:52.599
man just looks at. Me didn't think them dead folks446704:56:52.639 --> 04:56:55.400
would be out here in the middle of. WINTER i446804:56:55.560 --> 04:56:59.360
just look right at. Him you know about them, things446904:57:00.119 --> 04:57:03.880
he nods. ONCE i sure, do, son all kinds of447004:57:03.919 --> 04:57:07.240
bad things in these here. Woods these. Days never used447104:57:07.240 --> 04:57:09.200
to be like, that at least not WHEN i was447204:57:09.240 --> 04:57:12.279
a young boy like. Yourself now we got all kinds447304:57:12.319 --> 04:57:16.439
of things walking, around and hear things like, ghouls, cannibals,447404:57:16.479 --> 04:57:20.479
monsters and even dead. Folks usually dead folks are down447504:57:20.560 --> 04:57:23.360
during the frigid winters we get round these. Parts he447604:57:23.479 --> 04:57:27.360
raises an. Eyelid you, done sure you saw dead folks447704:57:27.400 --> 04:57:32.240
walking around out. THERE i don't know what them fucking things.447804:57:32.319 --> 04:57:35.959
ARE i snap white, skin white, hair black, nails and447904:57:36.000 --> 04:57:39.279
they eat. PEOPLE i seen them things for. MYSELF i448004:57:39.319 --> 04:57:41.799
saw one who was my girlfriend kill and eat a448104:57:41.840 --> 04:57:45.000
man right in front of. Me she's gonna probably find448204:57:45.040 --> 04:57:48.200
me and kill my ass. Too the old man just448304:57:48.240 --> 04:57:50.959
looks at me for a, second then he moves to448404:57:51.040 --> 04:57:54.159
his fireplace and takes his shotgun down off from above.448504:57:54.159 --> 04:57:58.080
It you better help me secure this, place. Son turns448604:57:58.080 --> 04:57:59.880
out he's one of those people who keeps his house448704:58:00.040 --> 04:58:04.279
prepared against those things that walk around out. Here he448804:58:04.360 --> 04:58:06.959
shows me how to secure the windows with. Contraptions he448904:58:06.959 --> 04:58:11.279
can just slide across the windows and. Lock. MAN i449004:58:11.319 --> 04:58:13.680
still Think i'm in some kind of goddamn nightmare and449104:58:13.720 --> 04:58:17.520
waiting to wake. Up but, NO i Know i'm feeling449204:58:17.560 --> 04:58:20.159
pretty hurt deep down at seeing My veronica like. That449304:58:21.119 --> 04:58:24.680
THEN i Hear veronica is howling shrieking voice off in the.449404:58:24.720 --> 04:58:30.919
DISTANCE a. Must both the old man and me look449504:58:30.959 --> 04:58:33.599
at each. Other then he points to the front. Door449604:58:34.240 --> 04:58:36.840
we just have to fortify that. Door now help. Me449704:58:37.799 --> 04:58:40.720
we already secured the back. Door now we move to449804:58:40.759 --> 04:58:43.279
the front one and start to apply another contraption to449904:58:43.360 --> 04:58:46.639
keep the door. Solid that's when we hear someone knocking450004:58:46.799 --> 04:58:51.479
hard and, screaming help let me, in help me. Please450104:58:52.200 --> 04:58:54.560
the old man quickly opens the door and Lets abella.450204:58:54.639 --> 04:58:57.240
In she turns her flashlight off and looks at. US450304:58:57.880 --> 04:59:00.959
A bella's damn sure surprised to see me. Here she450404:59:01.080 --> 04:59:03.439
tries to come hug, me BUT i point right at450504:59:03.439 --> 04:59:06.119
her and shake my. Head come, on, son help me450604:59:06.159 --> 04:59:09.040
finish with this. Door the old man quickly tells me.450704:59:09.639 --> 04:59:12.759
YEAH i respond and help him with getting that contraption450804:59:12.880 --> 04:59:15.840
across the. Door as soon as the house is finished being,450904:59:15.880 --> 04:59:19.599
FORTIFIED i turn to the old. Man you sure know451004:59:19.680 --> 04:59:22.439
what you're doing out? Here you sure all this is451104:59:22.479 --> 04:59:26.560
gonna keep them things. Out the old man tightens his451204:59:26.639 --> 04:59:29.479
jaw a. Little you said them dead folks outside are,451304:59:29.479 --> 04:59:32.200
strong didn't? You how strong we talking?451404:59:32.279 --> 04:59:32.439
Here?451504:59:32.479 --> 04:59:36.639
Son? STRONG i, imply with a little more force in my.451604:59:36.759 --> 04:59:41.000
Voice THEN i, SIGH i honestly don't think these contraptions451704:59:41.040 --> 04:59:44.119
will keep him out for. Long THEN i Notice abella's451804:59:44.159 --> 04:59:48.479
scared as, hell just the. Same she's looking. Around then451904:59:48.520 --> 04:59:52.680
she points to the old, Man Jethrow. Carnes you're the452004:59:52.720 --> 04:59:56.000
MAN i talked to on the. Phone this is twenty452104:59:56.040 --> 04:59:59.080
One Old Dutch. Road she raises a letter envelope that452204:59:59.119 --> 05:00:04.400
has the address On Jethrow carnes nods, once, yes, ma'am452305:00:05.000 --> 05:00:07.319
you must be that WOMAN i called regarding her little452405:00:07.360 --> 05:00:10.639
girl saw the missing poster on a. Pole didn't think452505:00:10.720 --> 05:00:13.639
much of. IT i just know it was mighty cold.452605:00:13.680 --> 05:00:17.080
Outside he moves to the fireplace and throws a log452705:00:17.159 --> 05:00:21.240
onto the. Fire then he faces us. AGAIN i saw452805:00:21.319 --> 05:00:23.799
someone walking around out there WHEN i went out to452905:00:23.880 --> 05:00:27.360
bring in some more. FIREWOOD i SWEAR i saw her453005:00:27.400 --> 05:00:29.959
as plain as the nose on my, face except she453105:00:30.119 --> 05:00:33.520
looked like what you just told. Me. Son never saw453205:00:33.680 --> 05:00:37.000
snow white dead folks walking around in these woods till that.453305:00:37.200 --> 05:00:41.279
Day so what? HAPPENED a belly. YELLS i grabbed my453405:00:41.360 --> 05:00:45.639
firewood and got back in. Here jethro tells her already453505:00:45.639 --> 05:00:48.279
had the windows and doors taken care, of just had453605:00:48.279 --> 05:00:50.919
to secure the front, door had my, gun but she453705:00:51.040 --> 05:00:53.840
never tried coming in. Here he points in a. DIRECTION453805:00:54.639 --> 05:00:57.360
i remembered that missing poster and gave you a. Call453905:00:57.919 --> 05:01:00.599
figured it was the right thing to. Do he looks.454005:01:00.599 --> 05:01:07.119
Sad now had two kids, myself now they're. Gone one's454105:01:07.159 --> 05:01:10.680
a ghoul and the other ones one of them dead454205:01:10.680 --> 05:01:14.319
folks that walk around during the warmer. Weather he sighs,454305:01:15.599 --> 05:01:17.599
now we got to deal with dead folks walking in454405:01:17.639 --> 05:01:21.639
the winter. Too LIKE i, said things didn't used to454505:01:21.680 --> 05:01:23.720
be this way out here WHEN i was a. Boy454605:01:25.040 --> 05:01:29.799
Now jethrow points in another. DIRECTION i think it's all454705:01:29.880 --> 05:01:32.119
because of that. River just a few miles from. Here454805:01:32.599 --> 05:01:35.360
used to make for damn good. Fishing then some foul454905:01:35.400 --> 05:01:38.240
stuff got in that river and changed, it killed all455005:01:38.279 --> 05:01:41.080
the fish in the. Water hell wasn't too long. AGO455105:01:41.240 --> 05:01:44.479
i saw that looney silas blanket ship went back in455205:01:44.599 --> 05:01:47.799
there and dropped some dead kid in that. River saw455305:01:47.840 --> 05:01:50.799
it was Little billy. McCracken had to come back here455405:01:50.840 --> 05:01:52.799
and try and get some stuff to get him. Out455505:01:53.639 --> 05:01:56.919
problem there. Was he was gone WHEN i got. BACK455605:01:58.040 --> 05:02:00.319
i should, know BECAUSE i was a part of the455705:02:00.319 --> 05:02:02.919
posse that done killed all them dead, kids Little billy.455805:02:03.000 --> 05:02:09.439
McCracken mate never found little McCracken, himself Though jethro looked sad, again,455905:02:10.520 --> 05:02:13.959
Ma'am i'm thinking your baby girl ended up in that456005:02:14.040 --> 05:02:17.959
foul river somehow changed her into a different kind of dead,456105:02:18.000 --> 05:02:21.159
folk one that walks around in the middle of. Winter456205:02:22.799 --> 05:02:25.200
it was quiet again for a little. Bit you could456305:02:25.200 --> 05:02:28.000
hear the snow hitting the cabin and the windows. Howling456405:02:28.560 --> 05:02:36.000
and then, amos oh, MAN i, Groan veronica's almost. Here456505:02:37.000 --> 05:02:43.319
what the hell happened To? VERONICA a bella, shrieks, slam, bang, thud, crash,456605:02:43.400 --> 05:02:48.439
boom oh MAN i, Groan veronica is, here for, Sure456705:02:48.639 --> 05:02:58.840
she's right at the front. Door, AMOS i hear you in.456805:02:58.919 --> 05:03:04.680
THERE i Hear veronica rasp come. Out veronica is still456905:03:04.720 --> 05:03:07.720
pounding at the front. Door then we hear something else457005:03:07.759 --> 05:03:11.159
pounding at one of the. Windows are you in, There,457105:03:11.240 --> 05:03:16.040
abella you? Bitch ah? MAN i point in that. Direction457205:03:16.680 --> 05:03:19.680
there's another one of those things. There sounds Like. TRINA457305:03:20.319 --> 05:03:23.240
i look At. JETHRO i saw What veronica did To.457405:03:23.319 --> 05:03:26.759
Trina she can turn people into those things like. Her457505:03:27.479 --> 05:03:32.360
and then another one pounds at the other, door hungry,457605:03:32.560 --> 05:03:36.759
shit That's. Tristan one more of them starts pounding on another.457705:03:36.799 --> 05:03:42.080
Window let us, In. Amos, Oh Lord Jesus, christ Not morgan.457805:03:42.119 --> 05:03:46.639
TOO i look At abella And. Jethro looks Like veronica's457905:03:46.639 --> 05:03:52.520
made herself an. Army abella, groans my, god what happened To?458005:03:52.599 --> 05:03:56.240
VERONICA i point right at. Her why don't you tell458105:03:56.279 --> 05:03:59.799
us what happened To? Veronica abella looks at, me all pissed.458205:03:59.840 --> 05:04:03.680
Off what the hell does that? MEAN i tighten my.458305:04:03.759 --> 05:04:08.680
FISTS i was there At Grande estate that, night In veronica's.458405:04:08.720 --> 05:04:13.400
BEDROOM i know what you did a year. AGO i458505:04:13.479 --> 05:04:16.880
know it was you who came to Kill veronica that.458605:04:17.040 --> 05:04:21.720
NIGHT A bella's really pissed at. Me now you've got some,458705:04:21.919 --> 05:04:25.400
nerve amos culp, you son of a. BITCH i grin At,458805:04:25.439 --> 05:04:30.119
Abella now, YEAH i, do. DON'T i problem here is458905:04:30.200 --> 05:04:33.560
my nerve and yours are two completely different, things you.459005:04:33.639 --> 05:04:38.200
See jethro looks worried the way them dead folks are.459105:04:38.200 --> 05:04:42.520
Pounded you might be right about my, fortification. SON i,459205:04:42.599 --> 05:04:45.599
reckon they'll be in here before too. Long he nods459305:04:45.639 --> 05:04:48.720
to a closet. Door there's another gun and shells in.459405:04:48.759 --> 05:04:51.919
There better move. IT i quickly get to the closet459505:04:51.959 --> 05:04:54.200
and open the. DOOR i find the shotgun in, there459605:04:54.200 --> 05:04:56.639
in a box of ammo beside. IT i load the459705:04:56.680 --> 05:05:00.279
gun and come to stand With. Jethro jethro looks at A, Bella,459805:05:01.360 --> 05:05:03.639
SORRY i ain't got no gun for, you young. Lady459905:05:04.520 --> 05:05:08.319
Then abella shows she's full of. Surprises she unzips her460005:05:08.400 --> 05:05:12.319
jacket and pulls a handgun. Out before Either jethro or460105:05:12.479 --> 05:05:15.400
me knows what to do, Next abella shoots the old460205:05:15.400 --> 05:05:18.279
man right in the head and blows his brains. Everywhere460305:05:18.799 --> 05:05:22.080
his body falls to the floor. Fast then she quickly460405:05:22.080 --> 05:05:25.560
turns her gun on me and shoots me. TOO i460505:05:25.680 --> 05:05:29.560
spin fast and fall, over losing my. SHOTGUN i ain't dead.460605:05:29.639 --> 05:05:33.000
Yet she just got me in the. Shoulder then she460705:05:33.080 --> 05:05:35.840
comes and presses her knee right on me and points460805:05:35.840 --> 05:05:39.200
her gun in my. FACE i don't know how you found, Out.460905:05:39.200 --> 05:05:44.040
Amos abella, says you're. RIGHT i wanted my daughter killed461005:05:44.080 --> 05:05:47.400
that night a year. Ago Oliver grande's money was. Mine461105:05:48.040 --> 05:05:51.720
veronica had no right to it. Whatsoever too, bad you're461205:05:51.759 --> 05:05:55.279
not going to live long enough to tell anyone the whole. Truth.461305:06:00.880 --> 05:06:05.680
Perspective A bella. SABLESON i put my handgun In amos's.461405:06:05.680 --> 05:06:10.200
Face you say you KNOW i Killed. VERONICA i know461505:06:10.360 --> 05:06:14.080
it was, you you fucking. Bitch amos, SHOUTS i was461605:06:14.200 --> 05:06:16.639
under her bed that. Night you didn't know, it But461705:06:17.479 --> 05:06:21.159
veronica AND i were in. Love we'd just finished being461805:06:21.200 --> 05:06:23.759
real sweet on each. Other When veronica saw some people461905:06:23.759 --> 05:06:27.680
out in the yard all wearing. Black she knew those462005:06:27.680 --> 05:06:29.560
people were coming to kill her and told me to462105:06:29.560 --> 05:06:33.040
get under the. Bed wasn't long before you showed. Up462205:06:34.159 --> 05:06:36.520
Maybe veronica didn't catch, it BUT i knew it was462305:06:36.599 --> 05:06:40.040
you SINCE i could smell that same cheap perfume you're wearing.462405:06:40.119 --> 05:06:44.479
Now he shakes his head. SLOWLY i can't believe what462505:06:44.560 --> 05:06:49.360
a cold heartless. Bitch you really are a bella. Surprise462605:06:50.279 --> 05:06:53.000
what did you really? THINK i came all the way462705:06:53.000 --> 05:06:56.240
out here in this shit storm to Find veronica to462805:06:56.279 --> 05:07:00.000
bring her back home. Safely veronica had no right to olive.462905:07:00.279 --> 05:07:04.639
Fortune that fortune was mine and mine. Alone oliver promised me, that,463005:07:05.959 --> 05:07:08.080
yes you know That oliver had an affair with. Me463105:07:08.520 --> 05:07:11.000
you KNOW i was just a maid That oliver really463205:07:11.040 --> 05:07:14.240
took a liking. To Knowing oliver wanted to be with,463305:07:14.279 --> 05:07:18.119
ME i simply played his heart. Strings what was my? Motive?463405:07:19.360 --> 05:07:23.560
Money of, Course oliver had billions upon billions of. DOLLARS463505:07:24.279 --> 05:07:26.159
i was just a maid who had to work just463605:07:26.200 --> 05:07:29.759
to get thrown a few scraps to. SURVIVE i knew463705:07:29.759 --> 05:07:32.560
IF i played my cards, RIGHT i could Become oliver's463805:07:32.599 --> 05:07:36.159
new wife and have access to all that. Money of,463905:07:36.240 --> 05:07:38.799
course you already knew there was a bit of a464005:07:38.959 --> 05:07:42.720
problem with my. Plan my birth control didn't work when464105:07:42.720 --> 05:07:46.439
it needed, to which resulted in my getting. Pregnant just the,464205:07:46.479 --> 05:07:49.360
SAME i FIGURED i could use my pregnancy to my.464305:07:49.439 --> 05:07:53.560
Advantage the, problem, however was That Oliver grande came from464405:07:53.599 --> 05:07:56.479
a proper bloodline to where he would mingle with women464505:07:56.520 --> 05:07:59.840
from other proper bloodlines for the purposes of having children464605:08:00.119 --> 05:08:04.240
to carry on those proper. Bloodlines ONCE i revealed my464705:08:04.319 --> 05:08:07.799
pregnancy To, oliver showing him the hospital results and telling464805:08:07.840 --> 05:08:09.880
him that he was the only MAN i had slept,464905:08:09.880 --> 05:08:14.560
with he told me he couldn't marry. Me oliver AND465005:08:14.599 --> 05:08:17.599
i had a very heated argument about. It then he465105:08:17.680 --> 05:08:19.599
calls me, out SAYING i only wanted to be with465205:08:19.680 --> 05:08:22.919
him for his. Money, however he wasn't going to just465305:08:23.040 --> 05:08:25.400
cast me. Off he told me THAT i would have465405:08:25.439 --> 05:08:27.680
to raise our daughter and that he would provide for465505:08:27.759 --> 05:08:31.000
both of. Us, HOWEVER i could never come back To465605:08:31.080 --> 05:08:35.479
Grande estate. Again oliver's offer was. This he told me465705:08:35.520 --> 05:08:37.599
that IF i SHOWED i could love and support our,465805:08:37.720 --> 05:08:40.159
child if he saw THAT i was the best mother465905:08:40.200 --> 05:08:42.720
to our CHILD i could, be then he would leave466005:08:42.759 --> 05:08:47.759
both our child and me his entire. Fortune SO i466105:08:47.840 --> 05:08:51.599
Carried veronica to. TERM i even had to Give Veronica oliver's.466205:08:51.680 --> 05:08:57.919
Name another. Condition she was Officially Veronica, grande Not Veronica.466305:08:57.959 --> 05:09:01.479
Sableson oliver would send me money THAT i would use466405:09:01.520 --> 05:09:04.759
to care For. VERONICA i did everything in my power466505:09:04.759 --> 05:09:07.360
to make sure that little spawn from hell got everything466605:09:07.439 --> 05:09:10.880
she needed or. WANTED i had Given veronica the best466705:09:11.000 --> 05:09:14.080
years of my, life making her THINK i loved her so.466805:09:14.319 --> 05:09:18.360
Much as For oliver, himself he stayed on at grande466905:09:18.520 --> 05:09:21.840
estate with his proper wife and all his proper children467005:09:22.000 --> 05:09:24.919
that he made with, her none of which he loved467105:09:25.040 --> 05:09:28.520
in the Slightest fast forward to a little over a year,467205:09:28.560 --> 05:09:32.400
Ago oliver had finally died of old, age exactly six467305:09:32.439 --> 05:09:36.360
months after his proper wife. Died his will had already been.467405:09:36.400 --> 05:09:39.680
Made you'd Think oliver would have kept his promise to467505:09:39.720 --> 05:09:43.720
me and left his fortune all to me And. Veronica467605:09:44.119 --> 05:09:49.319
he left his entire fortune To veronica. Alone not only467705:09:49.439 --> 05:09:51.959
WAS i upset about, THIS i don't mind telling, You467805:09:52.000 --> 05:09:55.520
oliver's children from his proper marriage also flew into a.467905:09:55.639 --> 05:09:58.439
RAGE i was there at the reading of the will468005:09:58.479 --> 05:10:01.479
and saw. Them they were none too thrilled at learning468105:10:01.520 --> 05:10:04.880
That veronica was their half. Sibling as far as they were,468205:10:04.919 --> 05:10:09.560
Concerned veronica was not a pure blooded proper grande and468305:10:09.720 --> 05:10:14.479
wasn't entitled to any of their father's. Money, however there468405:10:14.720 --> 05:10:18.319
was a stipulation in the will that, stated Upon veronica's,468505:10:18.360 --> 05:10:23.880
death the entire fortune would become mine and mine. Alone at,468605:10:23.919 --> 05:10:27.319
first the children from this pure blood marriage wanted to468705:10:27.360 --> 05:10:31.400
turn on. Me, HOWEVER i made them an offer they couldn't.468805:10:31.439 --> 05:10:34.840
REFUSE i would split the fortune with them equally if468905:10:34.840 --> 05:10:39.639
they would just help me Kill. Veronica they all readily.469005:10:39.680 --> 05:10:44.560
Agreed that's. Right everybody who was here with me in the. Backwoods,469105:10:44.560 --> 05:10:49.720
now aside From, amos They're oliver's proper children from his proper.469205:10:49.759 --> 05:10:53.119
Wife we dressed up in all black on the Night469305:10:53.240 --> 05:10:56.599
veronica ran. Away oliver taught me how to hunt when469405:10:56.599 --> 05:10:58.919
we were seeing each, other SO i knew how to469505:10:58.959 --> 05:11:03.360
fire the. Rifle, Unfortunately veronica was wide awake and managed469605:11:03.400 --> 05:11:06.599
to move BEFORE i could shoot. Her amos just told me.469705:11:06.720 --> 05:11:11.000
Why thanks to that fucking, Idiot veronica ended up getting469805:11:11.000 --> 05:11:14.040
away taking a sports. CAR i grabbed the hummer and469905:11:14.080 --> 05:11:17.000
pursued my daughter to these woods outside Of. Strickfield you'd470005:11:17.000 --> 05:11:19.520
Think veronica would have just fucking died AFTER i shot470105:11:19.560 --> 05:11:24.759
her three. Times she, did, apparently but it seems she470205:11:24.840 --> 05:11:28.200
didn't stay. DEAD i even shot her again and again470305:11:28.279 --> 05:11:31.200
when she came for. ME i barely managed to get470405:11:31.200 --> 05:11:34.319
away From. Veronica WHEN i ran out of, BULLETS i470505:11:34.400 --> 05:11:37.279
KNEW i had to come back for her and finish470605:11:37.319 --> 05:11:40.560
WHAT i. Started in order for me to claim all470705:11:40.599 --> 05:11:43.680
Of oliver's, money it has to be known That veronica470805:11:44.000 --> 05:11:48.560
is quite. Dead her being whatever spawn of hell she470905:11:48.720 --> 05:11:51.919
is now won't cut. It that's WHY i Convinced oliver's471005:11:51.919 --> 05:11:54.479
pure blooded kids to come back in these woods with.471105:11:54.560 --> 05:12:00.000
Me we needed to Kill veronica to be sure she stayed.471205:12:00.360 --> 05:12:05.680
Dead only then CAN i claim what's rightfully. Mine as For,471305:12:05.759 --> 05:12:10.159
amos we needed a good. Tracker he was a handyman471405:12:10.479 --> 05:12:14.040
and groundskeeper Around Grande estate who knew how to. Hunt471505:12:14.799 --> 05:12:19.919
morgan suggested, him of, course and Now i'm going to kill, You.471605:12:20.040 --> 05:12:24.240
AMOS i growl you Let veronica get away that, night471705:12:24.919 --> 05:12:28.200
But amos roars and manages to grab my. Wrist he471805:12:28.279 --> 05:12:30.840
brings me down to the. Floor even though he's bleeding,471905:12:30.880 --> 05:12:34.159
out he's still fighting me for my. Gun let go of,472005:12:34.240 --> 05:12:37.639
me goddamn, YOU i. Yell it's then when one of472105:12:37.680 --> 05:12:42.200
the window fortifications gives. Way then the back door comes flying.472205:12:42.240 --> 05:12:47.000
Open it's not long before those those things are all.472305:12:47.040 --> 05:12:50.439
INSIDE i Punch amos in the face hard and maintain my.472405:12:50.560 --> 05:12:55.319
HANDGUN i quickly get to my. Feet oh my Fucking,472505:12:55.439 --> 05:13:00.560
christ there're so goddamn many of. Them, Veronica, Trina, Tristan.472605:13:00.680 --> 05:13:06.439
Morgan they all look so. Disgusting aside From, veronica they've472705:13:06.479 --> 05:13:10.439
all got parts of their body eaten. Off morgan really looks,472805:13:10.520 --> 05:13:14.319
disgusting with her entire rib cage fully, exposed her internal472905:13:14.439 --> 05:13:20.159
organs still. Inside veronica points right at. Me it really473005:13:20.240 --> 05:13:24.439
hurts knowing you never cared about. Me then she, screams473105:13:25.200 --> 05:13:29.560
you murdered. Me you've made me into. This veronica looks473205:13:29.599 --> 05:13:33.200
down At, AMOS i can see this thing clearly still loves.473305:13:33.240 --> 05:13:38.720
Him then she looks back at. Me, sorry, mom but473405:13:38.840 --> 05:13:43.479
you still can't have my. MONEY i Hate veronica so473505:13:43.680 --> 05:13:46.759
much THAT i raise the. Handgun i'll finish WHAT i473605:13:46.840 --> 05:13:49.639
started with you a year ago in these. Woods THEN473705:13:49.680 --> 05:13:53.720
i scream and Shoot veronica right between the eyes as473805:13:53.759 --> 05:14:02.880
those other things come right at. Me epilogue one year,473905:14:02.959 --> 05:14:09.200
later Perspective Amus. CULP i walked into this place Called Denoyer's.474005:14:09.240 --> 05:14:13.159
GRILL i was surprised it was even open during that damn. Blizzard,474105:14:13.759 --> 05:14:17.159
HELL i was SURPRISED i was still alive and smelling great.474205:14:17.200 --> 05:14:20.080
FOOD i don't mind telling, YOU i was still hurting,474305:14:20.119 --> 05:14:23.040
it having been shot by a bella like. THAT i474405:14:23.080 --> 05:14:25.279
think it's safe to, SAY i was definitely the freak474505:14:25.360 --> 05:14:28.200
in the. Room WHEN i walked into that, diner the474605:14:28.279 --> 05:14:30.560
man standing behind the counter asked me IF i was.474705:14:30.599 --> 05:14:33.840
OKAY i shook my head and told HIM i really474805:14:34.000 --> 05:14:36.880
didn't know for. Sure WHEN i told the MAN i474905:14:37.000 --> 05:14:39.799
just got out of those, backwoods him and many of475005:14:39.799 --> 05:14:44.319
the other customers just looked right at. Me the, Man David,475105:14:44.360 --> 05:14:47.400
denoyer the owner of the, place quickly got on the475205:14:47.400 --> 05:14:50.400
phone and called for an ambulance for. Me then he475305:14:50.439 --> 05:14:52.479
told me to sit down and gave me some hot.475405:14:52.479 --> 05:14:56.680
Coffee denoyer didn't even try asking me what happened out475505:14:56.680 --> 05:14:59.959
in them. Backwoods if you were out in those, backwoods475605:15:00.639 --> 05:15:02.799
then ALL i gotta say is you're damn lucky to475705:15:02.840 --> 05:15:07.639
be sitting here and. Alive denoyer tells. Me very few475805:15:07.639 --> 05:15:10.000
people go into those woods and come back out with475905:15:10.040 --> 05:15:12.840
a story to, tell unless you're a, mayor that. IS476005:15:13.959 --> 05:15:17.439
i just kept shaking my head slowly remembering what happened476105:15:17.439 --> 05:15:21.360
in those. WOODS i tried Telling denoyer and anyone else who'd.476205:15:21.360 --> 05:15:24.680
LISTEN i told them everything that happened With Veronica, grande476305:15:25.319 --> 05:15:27.599
all that happened a year. Ago As i'm telling you476405:15:27.680 --> 05:15:32.119
this even, today it still, hurts Knowing i'll never see476505:15:32.200 --> 05:15:38.959
My veronica. Again you gotta Know abella did not survive those.476605:15:39.040 --> 05:15:43.080
Things abella ended up emptying her, handgun trying to shoot.476705:15:43.119 --> 05:15:46.439
Them all she did was make them bleed this blue.476805:15:46.479 --> 05:15:52.400
Blood then they all grabbed a hold Of abella and476905:15:52.479 --> 05:15:57.919
just tore her. Apart abella's screams stopped just that. Quick477005:15:59.000 --> 05:16:01.840
not that it would have mattered, Later i'd come to477105:16:01.919 --> 05:16:05.439
learn that the one thing regarding the backwoods Of strickfield477205:16:06.360 --> 05:16:10.720
is no one will ever hear you. SCREAM i ended477305:16:10.799 --> 05:16:13.080
up watching as those things just sat on the floor477405:16:13.119 --> 05:16:15.439
and ate whatever pieces of a bella they had in their.477505:16:15.439 --> 05:16:18.919
HANDS i was so SCARED i didn't even try to.477605:16:19.000 --> 05:16:23.520
RUN i almost puked Seeing morgan's exposed belly getting. FULL477705:16:24.560 --> 05:16:27.400
i figured If veronica could find me at that old man's,477805:16:27.439 --> 05:16:30.840
cabin those things would have found me WHEREVER i tried running.477905:16:30.880 --> 05:16:34.880
To when they finished With, abella all that was left478005:16:34.880 --> 05:16:40.040
were her. Bones then those things all looked at. ME478105:16:41.880 --> 05:16:44.680
i THINK i lost control of my waterworks, again knowing478205:16:44.720 --> 05:16:48.319
they were gonna eat. Me, Tristan, trina And morgan wanted,478305:16:48.319 --> 05:16:54.159
to But veronica told them. No veronica knelt down beside,478405:16:54.200 --> 05:16:58.159
me she wanted to take my, hand but stopped when478505:16:58.240 --> 05:17:02.400
she remembered she'd freeze it right. Off go away from,478605:17:02.479 --> 05:17:08.000
here my, love she, rasped you're. FREE i know you478705:17:08.080 --> 05:17:13.439
truly loved. ME i shook my head. SLOWLY i still love, You.478805:17:13.560 --> 05:17:18.599
Veronica veronica bowed her. HEAD i think it really hurt,478905:17:18.599 --> 05:17:21.880
her saying what she felt she needed to say to.479005:17:21.959 --> 05:17:28.919
Me never return here ever. Again live your, life, amos479105:17:30.040 --> 05:17:33.439
know That i'll always love. You then she lifted her479205:17:33.479 --> 05:17:38.840
head and, pointed go that. Way then those things. LEFT479305:17:39.400 --> 05:17:41.680
i made myself get up and walked back out in that.479405:17:41.720 --> 05:17:44.840
BLIZZARD i saw the four sets of footprints where those479505:17:44.880 --> 05:17:48.360
things went off TO i Trusted veronica and walked the479605:17:48.400 --> 05:17:51.119
way she told. Me WHEN i came out of the,479705:17:51.119 --> 05:17:53.840
WOODS i only had to walk a few miles BEFORE479805:17:53.880 --> 05:17:58.360
i came To denoyer's. Grill i've since Bought Tom barlow's.479905:17:58.360 --> 05:18:02.360
Cabin some college students are. Here they just listen to480005:18:02.400 --> 05:18:04.560
me tell them why it's not a good idea to480105:18:04.599 --> 05:18:09.119
go into those. Backwoods, yeah you just know they ain't gonna.480205:18:09.119 --> 05:18:11.959
Listen much like when we were all here at this480305:18:12.080 --> 05:18:16.240
cabin last, Year, today like a year, ago has a480405:18:16.240 --> 05:18:19.680
blizzard about to come down on. Us just can't catch480505:18:19.680 --> 05:18:23.040
a break during the winter In Feltner. COUNTY i point480605:18:23.040 --> 05:18:26.279
in the direction of the. Backwoods i'm telling you people right,480705:18:26.319 --> 05:18:30.200
now you go back in, there especially during this. Blizzard480805:18:30.799 --> 05:18:33.000
all lay, odds none of you are gonna make it out.480905:18:33.000 --> 05:18:37.400
Alive those things are in. There they'll trap and eat481005:18:37.439 --> 05:18:41.599
you when you least expect. It that, is if no481105:18:41.759 --> 05:18:45.680
ghouls get a hold of you. FIRST i know they481205:18:45.680 --> 05:18:48.840
want to call me. Crazy they just say goodbye and481305:18:48.959 --> 05:18:51.959
tell me they're heading in to look for. GAME i481405:18:52.040 --> 05:18:56.520
shake my head slowly and watch them. LEAVE i try481505:18:56.560 --> 05:19:00.439
telling them one last, time but they ain't. LISTENING i481605:19:00.520 --> 05:19:02.599
watch as they pull out of my driveway and head481705:19:02.599 --> 05:19:07.360
towards the backwoods Of. STRICKFIELD i go back in the481805:19:07.400 --> 05:19:11.080
cabin and look at a picture of happier times Of481905:19:11.240 --> 05:19:15.319
Veronica grande and me. Together THEN i look towards the482005:19:15.360 --> 05:19:17.720
backwoods and know those idiots are going to run Into482105:19:17.799 --> 05:19:21.959
veronica and are half. Siblings ALL i can do is482205:19:22.000 --> 05:19:25.279
pray they make it out and live to tell the482305:19:25.319 --> 05:19:30.599
tale the same WAY i barely. DID i put the482405:19:30.639 --> 05:19:33.159
picture of me And veronica down and go put another482505:19:33.240 --> 05:19:42.880
log on the. Fire as the blizzard, starts and, that482605:19:43.200 --> 05:19:48.799
my Dear, spookies is another night sealed in, darkness three482705:19:48.919 --> 05:19:53.959
tales of, blood, love and the terrible beauty of, revenge482805:19:54.400 --> 05:20:01.240
all wrapped up in time For halloween's final. Approach this482905:20:01.439 --> 05:20:05.040
is not the, end not even, close because here At483005:20:05.040 --> 05:20:10.759
Weekly spooky we have something, haunting, chilling or downright monstrous483105:20:10.840 --> 05:20:15.840
waiting for you every single day Of, october because one483205:20:15.919 --> 05:20:19.520
night of horror is never. Enough so make sure you're483305:20:19.560 --> 05:20:24.200
subscribed on your favorite podcasting apps because there's so much483405:20:24.279 --> 05:20:28.919
more fear for your. Ears and we do this all year,483505:20:29.000 --> 05:20:32.840
long not just In spooky, Season so Keep halloween alive483605:20:33.680 --> 05:20:39.840
even Beyond october by. Subscribing so until, tomorrow keep that pumpkin,483705:20:39.959 --> 05:20:44.959
lit keep your earbuds, close and join me again when483805:20:45.000 --> 05:20:53.279
the next, scream whisper or nightmare arrives right on. Schedule until,483905:20:53.360 --> 05:21:00.000
then sleep, Light dream, dark and of course stay, spooky,484005:21:00.240 --> 05:21:00.319
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