Tuesday 27th April 2010
10:02
She is having trouble maintaining control of the way that she is feeling.
It has been over an hour since her last attempt to get in touch with Ingrid Sanderson and she is informed that her subordinate has returned to the building now, but is currently in the boardroom with one of the Directors.
Karen asks which Director.
The identity of the Director is unknown.
Without a thank you, she slams the phone back down onto its cradle. She does not like this one little bit. Something is wrong with this picture.
But what can she do about it? Despite the fact that the Anderson family has been linked with Orson Industries for quite some time, she knows that means nothing. If Ingrid has a new friend on the board then she can kiss her job goodbye. That fucking bitch is going to take everything from her - she can just sense it.
She doesn't even feel any pain but is surprised when her own fist slams down on the table. She knows that any moment someone could come in and escort her from the office. And nobody really leaves the company in one piece.
2.
Tuesday 27th April 2010
10:03
Who knows why such things happen at this time but Belinda instantly remembers that she really has to go to a petrol station on the way home tonight because her car is riding on fumes.
The next few moments seem to move very slowly. Belinda always finds this strange and can't help but think it is just something that happens in movies – slow enough for you to see everything that is happening around you, but too fast for you to do anything about it. When things go slow-mo everyone is affected.
She watches the events unfold from the comfort of the hard floor that the latest addition to the room has thrown her to seconds before. Isabelle stalks forward to Kevin Reilly, the person that Belinda has come to think of as the other villain of the piece.
"Just who the hell are you?" He starts to ask, getting as far as hell before he stops. A tremble appears in his upper lip as the answer comes to him. "You've been tainted. The Brethren owns you."
Isabelle neither confirms nor denies this, though everybody in the room knows the truth. "What is the meaning of this? Why did you kidnap this girl, Nemesis?"
Alice finds that she is struggling to get out of her handcuffs but it isn't going to happen. This doesn't stop her from trying some more. She is unaware that the metal digging into her skin has cut into her and blood is starting to flow.
One of the men in grey suits is getting up from the ground and is pulling out a gun, bringing it up to aim at the back of Isabelle's head.
Belinda has no doubt that this will just make the Brethren Member angry, unless the bullets are blessed in the way that David had fooled the creature inside Isabelle just a few short hours before. If that is the case then Isabelle is about to die. Belinda can't let that happen.
She screams, "No!"
But events are already in motion. The finger has pulled the trigger and it is already leaving the gun. Isabelle, who has been unaware of events behind her, too caught up in her anger, is only alerted at the last moment by the scream. She darts quickly out of the way.
The bullet does not deviate from its flight plan. It is not a magic bullet capable of following its target, although such things are available. It continues in the direction it has been fired in and eventually strikes its target – the first thing in its way. Kevin falls to the ground, his hands flying unconsciously up to his throat, to quench the flow of blood.
David Oswald chooses that moment to burst into the room. He does not notice anything else around him, running over to a man that he had once considered his friend and ignoring that laugher that is coming from Isabelle's vocal chords, controlled by the creature inside her.
"Well David, there's another friend gone. It really is quite dangerous knowing you."
Isabelle shoots over to Alice, snapping the chair that she is handcuffed to and letting the prisoner fall to the ground among the pieces. She stalks out of the room, pausing only to throw the man who tried to kill her to the ground. She proceeds to kick him in the face so hard that his skull caves in, before leaving.
Alice gets up and stumbles over to David, her hands still handcuffed and blood dripping from her wrists. She looks down and sees him cradling the dying Kevin Reilly in his arms.
Suddenly the man in the Black suit is beside Kevin and David, bent down beside the two of them, much in the same way that David is. He is smiling, despite the pain in his eyes. "It's over Kevin."
Kevin tries to say something but can't. David looks to the man in the black suit. "This is what you tried to warn me about, isn't it?"
The man nods. "In part."
"Where is he going?"
"Where he belongs."
And, at that moment, Kevin dies. Alice looks at Belinda. "Who the fuck's he talking to?"
Belinda shrugs. As far as she can tell, David had gone mad. He is crouched beside Kevin's dead body talking to mid-air.
Robert and Belinda finally get up from the ground, just as more Nemesis men come running in. They stop in their tracks when they see the mess in the room, and David sitting with Kevin. He stands up and looks at them, their leader's blood splashed over his charcoal suit.
"I want you to make sure that he is given the proper burial."
"He was our leader. We had to obey him," one of the members feels that he has to justify.
"In his heart he thought he was doing the right thing", David finally finds that he can admit. "But if any of you try such a thing as what he did today, I will bring Nemesis to its knees. That is a promise."
He looks down once more at the dead man, a tear starting to form in his left eye. "I'll see you on the other side, my friend."
And, with that, David decides that it is time to leave. He pushes past the man, with Belinda, Robert and a still handcuffed Alice in tow. They move out of the way for him, and Belinda thinks it looks like they do so almost in reverence.
But things aren't quite over yet. As they approach the car, Alice finally decides to ask the thing that is bugging her most about this. "Is it true what Kevin told me?"
David looks at her, surprised. "We have to get you out of those cuffs."
"David? Are you an angel?"
The others stop dead in their tracks. Belinda looks at Alice as if she is insane, and Robert gives a single grunting laugh at the madness of the question. He mutters an apology but nobody hears him or, for that matter, has even paid the slightest bit attention to his outburst.
David looks at the woman that he considers, to be not just an employee, but also his friend. "Alice, I lost a close friend of mine today…"
"Answer me!" She looks hurt, but more than anything else, she is angry.
The silence is almost deafening and you can cut the atmosphere with a knife. Belinda thinks that David is going to explode into flames, before he says…
"Yes!"
3.
Tuesday 27th April 2010
10:06
Walter is sitting in his living room, feeling a little bit more comfortable now than he did earlier with his altercation with his son. When he is working on his project the rest of the world cannot get him down.
He looks down at the components of a small machine that he is building. The pieces are all lying on his coffee table. He fits a couple of things together before sitting back.
"It won't be long, darling. I promise you."
A sound like soft laugher seems to come from the hall. But Walter doesn't seem to notice, caught up in his own thoughts. Before he can react, the living door is flung open and the voice makes itself known
"Hello… Walter"
Walter turns round to see who the voice belongs to, but before he can react a fist comes out of nowhere and smacks him hard in the face and he stumbles over the small coffee table. He uneasily gets up and is covered in blood and he looks at the person who hit him.
"Just thought I'd pop by, and see how you were…Walter"
Walter slowly recognizes who had hit him so violently
"Isabelle… you look… different."
Isabelle stands there smirking. "Yes, I have my dear Walter… but not the way you think"
Walter stands up slowly and hazily sits in a nearby chair, trying to stop the flow of blood gushing from his nose which after several seconds it stops. "As I was saying, I have changed… but for the better. My mind is so much clearer now" Walter looks at her confusingly trying to figure out why, is she talking like this, so coldly.
"I know, that you have heard about me" She says scowling at him through narrow eyes
"I don't know what you're talking about"
"Please, don't make me laugh" She says ironically "If you don't tell me the truth then, I'll have to beat it out you."
Walter just stares at her thinking why she is acting like this.
"Isabelle… what's wrong with you? Why are you being so aggressive to me, I haven't done anything, or do I know what your on about" He stares at Isabelle, and her eyes glaze over.
"Walter… Help… help me" But the glimmer of hope that he witnessed is quashed as her face returns to the uneasy smirk that scares him.
"Nice try, but it wont work" Before he can speak she moves so quick that he doesn't notice. He tries to move but he's tied to the chair.
"Now, let us continue our… conversation, I want you to tell me everything, if you hold back, the result won't be pleasant". Walter struggles to break his bonds, but they hold tight.
"Tell me, where is your son and the people he works with"
Walter hesitates before answering and is hit in the face hard. He winces in pain and builds up the blood which is gathering in this mouth and spits it at her in defiance " Your not Isabelle, she wouldn't act in this way, I wont tell you where he is, because I don't know, and who he works for" Isabelle paced around him slowly, eyeing up and down in contempt
"You're starting to piss me off"
She walks up to him and grabs him by the throat and squeezes hard.
"TELL ME"
Walter gasps desperately for air and Isabelle lets him go. "Now you will tell me, where your son is, and the people he works for. Walter looks her in the eye
"N… No, and you know why I wont tell you. It's because you're not the Isabelle he fell in love with. Look at the way you're dressed, and your acting like a psycho bitch".
The anger grew in Isabelle and she screamed aloud and started punching Walter hard in the face again and again. After several moments she relented, exhausted. Walter just sat there bloodied; he raised his weakened head slowly and looked her through his remaining good eye. He looked at her with contempt and signaled her to come close to her and spat blood in her face.
"You'll never…. Know where my…. My son is…
Tuesday 27th April 2010
10:10
Gary and David are standing outside Haunt 18. David is on his phone while Gary peers nervously inside. David finishes his phone call and walks over to Gary "You sure you'll get some information here?
"I'm positive" David says confidently.
They both walk inside, Gary follows a little behind and keeping his hand on his gun inside his jacket. They both walk to the bar. David ignores the glares that he and Gary are getting, but Gary is a little uneasy. The barman walks up to them, glaring at them through blood red eyes.
"Your kind isn't welcome here, turn round and walk back out while you still got your legs"
David suddenly grabs him and pulls him down hard onto the bar in an arm lock. "You have information and I want it… now!
"I'm not telling you shit! "
The barman says defiantly. The other figures in the bar slowly stand up. Gary starts to get frightened.
"I…I think, we best get out of here David"
David turns and glances at Gary then turns back to the barman. "You're going to tell me what you know or I'll break your fucking arm" He says calmly.
The barman relents and signals David to let him go. The figures in the bar sit back down and the barman winces, and reflexively rubs his shoulder
"All I know is that she was in here, looking for some old man" "Give me the name" David says calmly
The barman thinks for a moment
"It's… Wally… Yeah that's it, Wally!" Gary looks at the barman confused, and then in realization.
"Shit, shit, shit, shit!" David looks at him with a puzzled look on his face. "What's the matter?!
" I know who Isabelle was looking for!" David just stares at him for a moment then realizes what Gary is saying.
"Fuck"
David says angrily. They both rush out the bar while David takes out his gun and Gary does the same.
4.
Tuesday 27th April 2010
10:15
Alice wakes up to find that she is still being captive; she looks around to see if her captors are still around. She can't see them but she knows there hiding in the shadows.
"Your finally awake I see" An eerily whispering voice said.
Alice looks around her to see who the voice belongs to, but gives up
"What…. What do you want from me?" She says nervously
"All in due time, all in due time, I suggest you get…. comfortable. You will be here for some time"
Alice looks ahead of her and her eyes are drawn to a pair of eerie bright red eyes staring back at her. She gulps nervously. They seem to look into her very soul. They eyes suddenly disappeared and Alice shuddered involuntary.
"Man, those eyes scared the shit out me"
She said laughing nervously. She looked down at her bonds which were still wrapped tight around her. She tried to wriggle them loose, to no avail.
"Looks like, I'm not going anywhere" she said slightly admitting some defeat.
5
Tuesday 27th April
10:17
Gary and David were both sitting in silence as the car sped fast into the night. It started to rain heavily. After what seemed like an eternity Gary finally spoke.
"I hope were not too late"
David said nothing. He just stared at the road ahead. "Are you going to at least, answer me." Gary said a little annoyed"
David slammed on the brakes hard and almost made Gary smack his head on the dashboard. He turns and looks at him.
"There is the possibility, that we might be too late"
Gary looked at him annoyed. "Then why the hell did you stop the car.
David turned back to the road and just stared into space.
" I don't want anyone seriously hurt in what, we are trying to achieve" He slammed is foot on the accelerator and the car sped off