Kristen
1:02 am
This is insane. Just sitting here. All of us should be in the truck speeding away. Send the cops back to do all the saving. I'm sure they'll find the others tied up somewhere. If Xavier is behind this he needs to die. Too many people are gone. And to blame it on some old witch tale is nonsense. If this is what a little pills does to him, then college is not for him.
I hear something and freeze. When I don't hear anything else I growl. Staying here isn't an option anymore never should have been. I check to make sure I have the keys and go to the door.
Quietly I crack open the door. Only enough so I can peek my face out. All I see is the truck, its lights still blinking. Nothing seems strange, no smell, no snow.
"The hell these kids do to the door!" A raspy voice yells.
I slammed the door too hard. I know he heard it. Rick the building man is the last person I want to see. A real creep is a better than accurate description. The short bald man with the scruffy beard. We call them the pervy dwarf. If it isn't Xavier doing the killing I wouldn't put it past Rick.
I hear his footsteps coming to the door. He shakes the doorknob and curses. He has the keys. I leap up and grab the nearest chair.
"Open the door I can hear you in there" Rick yells
I wedge the chair just as he is turning the knob. I'm not going to let him inside.
"Go away we don't need any help" I yell
Rick hits the door "listen young lady. The generator is going to die in less than an hour. You guys will freeze to death."
"We don't believe you, besides we'll just leave if it comes to that"
"What happened with this truck anybody hurt I found some clothes near the furnace you guys high" he yells
"Just leave us alone" I'm hiding behind one of the couches.
He shoves the door "I'm coming in" He hits it with something and the chair falls.
Rick bursts into the room and stops.
"The hell you hiding at I know you alone" He yells
A freezing cold breeze blows into the room. I smell pine in it. THats what they said they smelt. It was Rick he
S the killer. I have to get out of here. The truck is my only way.
I stand up from behind the couch. Rick is only a few free away and I throw the folding chair at him. He ducks and I'm sprinting towards the door. A step away I feel an arm around my waist. I'm kicking my feet to get free.
"Oh no you don't" Rick yells throwing me on the couch
"Let me go!" I scream
He slaps me across the face. I lash out kicking and punching. Rick grunts as the blows hit him. The flights through them and pins my hands.
"No please stop" I'm yelling even louder praying the others hear me "help somebody help me."
"Shut up" Rick slaps me again "You little spoiled brats always tearing shit up. Leaving it for ol'Rick to clean it up while you laugh" he grabs my face " Now it's time to teach you a lesson."
He tears my shirt open and is shoving his hand up my skirt. The feel of his rough unwanted hands is turning my stomach. He leans down kissing my neck. I turn and bite his cheek. He grunts then headbutts me. The pain is searing and I black out.
A black hand bursts through Rick's chest. He spits out a glob of blood onto my face. His eyes are wide as he looks down touching the foreign hand.
"I despise rape, worse, the men who commit it" a woman says
Rick is lifted off the floor. His body is slack, still he is thrown away like a tow. His body shatters the door. I can't look over at him, my hands gently touching the blood dripping from my face.
A small thin woman is standing over me. Her entire body is jet black with a shine to it. She smiles at me showing a mouthful of the whitest teeth. Only her blue eyes are brighter.
"I'm too sympathetic to kill you like this" She turns "but my child doesn't share my empathy"
It's her, the woman from Sanniyas story. But she can't be here, can't still be alive can she. The woman melts into the floor. I leap up and watch a shadow sliding out of the room. The instant it leaves the room begins to change. The walls become ice and it's snowing. A deep demonic growl starts filling the room.
I look at the door realizing the dreamcatcher is gone. Black feathers are floating from the ceiling. But when I look up there is no ceiling, only an empathy black sky.
Run, I run through the room finding the bathroom. I slam the door and fall on my butt. My mind is racing. I don't want to die. I'd rather it had been Rick. Not some creature. Then I remember Dreamcatcher. It will stop the curse. The cabinet. I crawl over and open the doors. I'm throwing things searching for something to use. But there is nothing. I look up feeling snow. The ceiling is gone again. A large full moon looms above me. It's beautiful and I have to stare at it.
Thousands of black feathers are falling like daggers. I don't try to move. There is no point. I scream as they stab into my body. It hurts like no pain I know. Each with a burning cold.
For some reason I stand up. A large paw is reaching out of the mirror. I see my friends in the mirror. All of them with somber faces. The claw wraps around me. I don't want to go where they are. Panic overwhelms the numbness and I'm trying to get free. But the claw tightens, crushing my bones. I let out only the last yelp as I was pulled into the mirror.
"Kristen" they call out
It's the last thing I hear…...