GEMINI CURSE
Emily and her friends are typical junior college aged adults who work, love to party on the weekends, enjoy volunteering for events, hang at the bars, and love being with her boyfriend, Sean. It seems she has the perfect life, even though she’s adopted.
Sean’s car pulled up to the curb, and he hopped out. He strolled up to the door and knocked on it. Emily, his girlfriend, answered the door with a look of having a heavy heart. Sean placed his hand on her chin and raised her face to meet his until they were eye to eye.
“Babe, what’s the matter? You look like something bad happened,” he asked as she stared at him.
“Do you remember when I told you my parents confessed I’m adopted?” she responded.
“Yeah, you said that you were trying to get the money together to hire an investigator to locate your parents,” he replied.
Emily handed him a letter, and as he unfolded it, he glanced at her.
“Read the letter,” she told him.
“Dear Ms. Danes, I am an attorney handling your family’s estate. I am contacting you, as records show that you are the last surviving member of your family. I request your presence at the property in the town of Rosewater to sign papers and to take possession of the family estate in two days’ time. Sincerely, Mr. Graves.” Sean read the letter out loud.
He looked up at Jessica, then back to the letter and then back to her. She grabbed his hand and led him inside the house, where they sat on the couch in silence as he continued to glance between them.
“Um, well, that is terrible news. I am sorry baby, I know how much you wanted to find them,” he said.
“I know, I really wished I did before, well this,” she replied.
“Well, let’s make it a road trip, then. Let’s get the gang together and go check this place out while you sign papers,” he told her.
She finally nodded with approval and he jumped up, pulled his phone out, and began calling his friends.
Two days later, Emily was relaxing in the passenger seat of the SUV while Sean was driving. Their friends were all playing on their phones, tablets and conversing on the four-hour journey to see where Emily comes from. A while later, they finally passed a sign.
“Welcome to Rosewater, huh? I heard of this town,” their friend said.
“Yeah, Michael, we know most of us have heard the rumors surrounding this place,” Sean told him.
They finally crossed into town and drove through as they glanced around for a sign to the hotel. Finally, a short drive later, Sean noticed a silver car in front of the abandoned building. He pulled up and everyone climbed out of the truck. The man climbed out of his car and approached the group with a folder in his hands.
“Hello, I am Mr. Graves and you must be Emily,” he introduced himself.
“Yes, sir, and these are my friends and boyfriend, Michael, Dina, Sean, Jason, Mina, Tina, and Jared Tina’s boyfriend,” she said as she introduced herself and her friends.
Mr. Graves and Emily stepped over to his car. He pulled papers out of the briefcase and went over it with her.
“Okay, so it is easy. The paperwork states that you are legally the sole surviving heir to this estate and that under penalty of law you are legally Emily Sanders, aka Emily Danes. Please sign the line and date below, then initial the next four pages. After that, I will give you the key and it is officially your property,” he told her.
Emily signed and initialed all the paperwork and received the keys, but in the meantime, Sean, Dina, and Tina wandered off and were walking around the grounds. While Mina and Jason hung out on the porch waiting. Michael and Jared wandered off before the rest of them explored the place. She turned around after and found everyone except Jason and Mina gone.
“Seriously, what the heck? Where did everyone go?” she asked.
“Well, they wandered. They were excited and went exploring,” she replied.
“Okay then, let’s explore,” she said.
Mina and Jason smiled and Emily thanked Mr. Graves as he climbed into his car and drove off. She ascended the stairs, placed the key and unlocked the door, then opened it. They all turned away as the foul air hit their noses.
“Wow, that is rank, let’s let it air for a few minutes,” he told them.
They all agreed, and after a few minutes, they entered the hotel to explore it. Mina headed to the stairs and Jason stayed on the floor level. Emily had wandered her own way as well and ended up in the kitchen where she found blood stains, rotting food, and flies buzzing everywhere. Jason looked around as he wandered the floor and discovered a door down the hall from the dining room. He checked it and it wouldn’t budge, so he kicked the door and busted it open. A foul smell flooded out of the room. He retreated from the doorway and back down the hall, where he threw up in the vase close by. After a moment, he covered his nose and mouth with his shirt and returned to the room. He entered and found a severed, decomposing goat’s head with a knife through its skull on an altar. He also discovered a mirror with a burnt black frame that had carvings in the frame.
“What the hell? What kind of place is this? I am out of here. Hell no, I am done with this room,” he blurted out.
Jason rushed out of the room and bumped into Emily, and he glanced at her with apologetic eyes.
“I’m sorry, Emily,” he told her.
“It’s okay, Jason, but why were you running out of that room?” she asked as she glanced over his shoulder.
“It’s disgusting. There is a goat’s head in the room decomposing on an altar and a weird-looking mirror. I am not going back there,” he told her.
“It’s okay, I will check it out, go find the basement and maybe you can find the power box, please,” she said.
Jason wandered through the dining-room door and disappeared into another section of the house. Emily stood at the opening to the room, she stared into it almost like it drew her to it. Ensnared by the sight.
“Emily,” a voice called out from the room.
Emily stood there, still in a trance, and then entered the room, almost like she couldn’t help it. She wandered to the mirror, where she saw her reflection. The carvings lit up in flames. Her reflection changed and now, standing before her, was Mr. Graves.
“Emily, you are the twin I have been waiting for. Ever since Jessica died, I needed you to be here. I brought you here to understand, place your hand to the mirror, and I will show you who they were,” he told her.
She raised her hand and while in her trance; she placed her hand on the mirror. It rippled, and the carvings grew brighter.
Upstairs, Mina was wandering down the hall, checking the doors to see if she could get into them, but no such luck. She continued on and rounded the corner and, just as she passed the third suite, she stopped. As she heard a noise. She turned to see what it was, and the door had cracked open, so she strolled up to it and opened it. The room was empty, except for the furniture and a blood-covered chair. She entered to search around to see what she could find. As he crossed into the center of the room, the door slammed shut. She ran to it and furiously tried to open it, but it wouldn’t budge. No one could hear her as she yelled for help. She spun around to a strange noise and saw a headless body sitting in the chair. The body twitched and jumped to its feet and started rushing toward her. She screamed and fled to the bathroom and locked herself in. It banged on the door, trying to get in, and she panicked and searched for a way out.
“Stop it, please, stop,” she screamed out.
The banging stopped, and she walked up to the door and cracked it. There was no one there, so she made a break for it. This time, as she reached the door and jerked on it, it opened. She turned and found Omar, headless, holding it in one hand.
“You will never make it out alive,” he said.
She screamed and ran for her life out of the room, and didn’t look back.
Downstairs, Jason was searching for the power box when suddenly the lights turned on. As he found himself toward the back of the room, a cage appeared with his little brother inside, his upper torso chained to the top of the cage and his guts all over the floor, dripping blood. Scared and confused, he stepped closer to the cage. His brother suddenly thrashed about in the cage, then suddenly stopped staring at him.
“You’re next, big brother,” he said.
Jason turned and ran. He reached the stairs and stopped as he heard his brother’s voice calling out to him.
“Brother, don’t leave me, you were supposed to save me, Brother,” he yelled out.
Jason ran as he suddenly saw his brother dragging his torso over the floor, yelling. He turned and fled the basement. He headed straight through the kitchen and dining into the foyer, where he ran into Mina. They both glanced at each other and ran out of the hotel and jumped into the SUV as both their hearts raced in fear.
Outside in the back of the property, Sean, Tina, and Dina wandered into the rose garden and as they looked around, a nearby dried and blackened rose bush burst into flames and set the garden on fire. They tried to run, but it blocked the entrance with a wall of fire. As They panicked, they searched through the flames to find another exit, but couldn’t. They tried to call out for help and as they screamed, a woman on fire came bursting out of the greenhouse, screaming and running toward them. Sean stood in front of the girls to shield them from what they were witnessing. The lady got very close and just before reaching them, burst into flames and vanished. The fire wall burned out and the gate opened. On the way, they ran for it. They ran into Michael and Jared, who tore out of the shed. They all quickly ran off and jumped into the SUV.
“Sean, go, let’s get the hell out of here now, come on,” they all screamed.
“Shut up. Where is Emily? We can’t leave without her.” he blurted out.
Emily came running out of the house and jumped into the SUV and glanced around as they hit the gas and drove off like a bat out of hell through the town and out of it.
“Stop the car, look everyone,” she yelled.
Sean slammed on the brakes and, just past the town limits line, they stopped. Emily and Sean jumped out and stared, while the rest watched from the vehicles’ back seats. The town suddenly vanished. They jumped back into the vehicle and sped off with haste, and during the trip back home, they didn’t say a word. Michael, however, didn’t remain quiet.
“What the hell was that? Me and Jared were exploring the shed when we heard a noise. I opened the freezer to find body parts trying to climb out and Jared found glass jars with organs and eyes moving around while the bodies on the tables were twitching. I mean, there was nothing in there at first, so what the hell,” he bellowed.
“Michael, just stop, please, we are all freaked out, as is,” Jared snapped.
He went to say something else and Jared cut him off and turned back around and complete silence fell over the car finally as they headed back home to Dawson. Maine.
Back at home, Emily and her friends have tried to place the incident behind them and move forward as if it had never happened. It hasn’t been easy, since they have been having recurring nightmares for the last several days since the horrors they found in the hotel.
Emily was laying in bed when her phone rang. She rolled over and answered her cell.
“Hello,” she answered.
“Hello ma’am, I am Dr. Kendo. I was told to place a call to you by Sean Jergens’ parents. They wanted you to be informed a car struck him last night and is currently here at Dawson General,” the doctor told her over the phone.
Emily dropped the phone, jumped out of bed, got dressed, and ran downstairs, searching for her car keys. Finally finding them, she rushed out the door.
After arriving at the hospital, Emily found Jason waiting in the lobby with Sean’s parents.
“Emily, dear, thank you for coming. I don’t know what happened. We were out of town and got the call that a car had hit Sean, so we drove back as quick as we could,” she told her through tears.
After Jason and Emily approached the front desk, security asked them the name of the patient they would like to see and asked them to sign in for security reasons. As the security officer was looking up the name, she asked them to wait in the waiting room for a moment and called for her supervisor and the doctor. The supervisor arrived at the desk and then the supervisor escorted them into a conference room along with Sean’s parents. In the room, a detective was waiting, along with doctor Kendo.
“Hello everyone, I am Detective Shannon Adler. I have asked you here to answer a few questions about last night and the incident. Sean’s alcohol level was high, and it appeared as though he stepped out in front of the car, and with an impaired sense, got hit,” she told them.
Jason sighed. He asked the detective to clear the room. She ordered Emily, Sean’s parents, the supervisor, and the doctor out of the room.
“Okay, what do you have to tell me?” she asked as she turned on the recorder.
“Jason had been drinking, he had a few beers, and I refused to let him drive that night, so he walked home,” he explained as she took down his statement.
“Is there anything else I need to know about before we proceed?” she asked.
“No, I know nothing else about what happened. Wait, he said he had been having nightmares about a woman on fire and that is why he came to my house to drink.” he said.
“Okay then, you can go, but if you remember anything else that could help, please call me.” she told him as she handed him her card.
Doctor Kendo waited with Sean’s parents, and Emily as the supervisor returned to his office. Jason exited the room and doctor Kendo explained to them all about Sean’s condition.
“He is in the ICU and in a coma and has had severe trauma to the left side of his body. He has several broken ribs, a broken arm, and a fractured knee,” he told them as he turned and walked away.
After the doctor explained the situation, Emily walked out of the hospital crying, and Jason finished talking with Sean’s parents. He explained what he told the detective and Sean’s father punched him in the mouth and left out the door, angry with his wife in tow. Jason picked himself up and rushed out the door to find her sitting on the bench with her face buried in her palms.
“Don’t worry Em, he will be okay,” Jason told her as he approached the bench while nursing a busted lip.
Emily looked up at Jason and smiled as she wiped her tears away. She saw his busted lip and raised her hand to it and stroked her finger over it.
“What happened?” she asked as he winced in pain.
“I told his parents about Sean coming to my house and drinking and his dad hit me for it,” he told her.
After consoling her, he smiled, stood up, and headed to his car while Emily did the same. She sat there, getting ready to leave, when a text appeared across the screen.
It read, “Call you later, and we need to talk about the night Sean got hit by the car and also the other things.”
“Okay, I will be by your house later,” she messaged back in response as she tossed the phone on the passenger seat before driving off.
After arriving home, Emily tells her mom who she would go to visit, and that she is going to lie down for a bit, and that’s when Emily went upstairs to rest a bit.
A few hours after heading upstairs, she headed over to Jason’s for a bit. Just as she pulled up to Jason’s house, she received a phone call from the hospital.
“Hello,” she answered.
“Miss Emily Sanders, I am nurse Low. I am calling to inform you at the doctor’s request that Sean Jergens passed away a few minutes ago,” the nurse explained before hanging up.
Jason saw her car outside and wandered out to the car to Emily crying and her phone in her lap. He knocked on the window. She glanced up and quickly tried to wipe the tears from her eyes.
“Em, what is wrong?” he asked with a concerned tone.
“It’s Sean. He passed, the hospital just called,” she responded as she wiped tears from her eyes.
Jason opened the door, grabbed her out of the car and hugged her tight as his eyes watered. They both composed themselves and went into the house and explained to the rest of their friends who were also there what happened. Everyone sat there quietly, taken aback by the loss of their friend. After a moment, Jason went to the kitchen and grabbed a bottle and six shot glasses and poured shots for all his friends and himself.
“To Sean, a good friend and wonderful man,” he toasted after picking up a shot and downing it.
The rest followed right behind him, shooting down their shots. They got up and said their goodbyes as they left Jason’s house.
“Would you mind if I stay over for the evening? I don’t want to be alone tonight,” she asked as she glanced at him.
“Sure you can Emily, you can take my room, and I will sleep on the couch,” he responded as he picked up the bottle and poured another shot.
“Thank you,” she replied.
Jason sat in the living room for a bit, drinking shot after shot to deal with his grief and as he cried and drank over Sean’s death. Jason didn’t notice Emily on the stairs listening to him as he talked to himself. She entered the room half naked in her panties and a shirt.
“How about you give me one of those?” she told him as she sat next to him on the couch.
The two drank. Pretty soon, she was drunk enough to stop thinking about what happened to Sean and his passing. A drunk Jason stared at Emily, eyeing her up and down as she was almost naked. He continued to stare. She glanced over and noticed as she took a swing from the bottle and then passed it to him. He took a large swing and then he leaned over and kissed her. She sat there for a moment and then returned the affection. They continued to kiss, and she straddled his lap. He continued to kiss her with passion, then he picked her up and headed upstairs.
The next morning, Emily climbed out of bed and wondered where her panties were, so she rummaged through his drawers and pulled out a pair of shorts, then headed downstairs to find a shirtless Jason in the kitchen drinking coffee and poured herself a cup.
“Would you like something to eat?” Jason asked.
“No thank you,” she responded as she took a sip of her coffee.
“Hey, last night was fun. Maybe we could do it again sometime,” he told her.
“Last night was a blur. I remember drinking a lot and then nothing. I woke up in your bed with no panties on,” she told him.
She left him standing there confused as she walked out of the room and went to take a shower. She didn’t have any clothes, so she borrowed a shirt from Jason. Afterward, Jason walked her to her car. Emily kissed him on the cheek.
“I will call you later and maybe we can go out with friends and do something,” she told him as she climbed into her car and started it.
“That would be nice. We all could use something to bond us together and take our minds off of this tragedy.” he replied.
After Emily left, Jason went out to the garage and started cleaning the car off and then he took the car to Dina’s shop to have the front end and windshield replaced. Since the car sustained extensive damage.
It’s Friday, the day of the funeral and Emily went to see Jason and see if he needed a ride. She sat out front and called Jason from the car.
“Hello,” his voice said through the phone.
“Hey, I am out front and was letting you know I am heading over to the funeral early,” she said.
“Hold up, I need a ride. My car is in the shop and I don’t have a way to get there,” he told her.
“Okay, I will wait,” she told him as she hung up.
Emily and Jason arrived two hours before the funeral service. She went to go find Sean’s parents. A short while later, just before the funeral was about to start, Jason met the rest of their friends at the door and walked in with them into the building, then returned to the doors to meet up with Sean’s parents and give his condolences. Emily sat with Mr. and Mrs. Jergens for the funeral. She and Sean’s mother cried and held each other’s hands in the comfort of their loss. After the service and burial, Detective Staxs approached Emily.
“Hello ma’am, I am Detective Staxs. I am Detective Adler’s replacement,” he said as he pulled out a card and handed it to her.
“Is Adler in trouble or something?” she asked curiously.
“No ma’am, I am taking over the case. She sustained injuries in another case, but she is okay. I am here on her behalf to ask if you could come to the station to talk about what happened to Sean.” he told her.
Detective Staxs walked away after Emily confirmed she would be there. She made her rounds and said her goodbyes to Sean’s parents, then left.
A short drive later and they arrived at the police station, Emily went in alone, while Jason stayed outside and smoked a cigarette.
“Emily, thank you for coming. I just didn’t want to talk at the funeral about Sean,” he told her.
“What about Sean, Detective?” she asked.
“I have ruled his death a homicide. I am sorry, but we are going to need a statement from you and all your friends about the last time you all saw him,” he responded as he escorted her to his office.
A while later, Emily came out and as they were leaving, she explained to Jason everything that it wasn’t an accident but a homicide. In the car on the drive back to Jason’s house, he stared at Emily.
“Em, I need to know if you told them about the night Sean left my house?” he asked.
“I told him we were all having a gathering. Sean got drunk, and you refused to let him leave in his car, so he got angry and took off walking home. That is what I saw and remember from that night,” she responded.
He nodded with understanding and remained quiet for the rest of the drive back to his house.
After driving back to Jason’s place, he got out and Emily headed home to grieve in solace after losing Sean. Emily spent her time looking at pictures, drinking, and watching videos of them together.
At Jason’s house, he walked into the kitchen and grabbed a bottle and cracked it open, drinking heavily. He walked into the living room and sat down, holding a picture of Sean, Emily, and him hanging out together.
“I am so sorry Sean, please forgive me. I never meant to hurt you like I did,” he said through tears.
Jason set down the picture and, as tears streamed down his face, he took the bottle and chugged it down. After it was empty, he stumbled back into the kitchen and grabbed a few more bottles. He drank and texted Emily and then passed out. Around 3 o’clock in the morning, a noise roused him from sleep. He glanced over toward the kitchen and saw Emily standing there.
“Emily, what are you doing here? Are you okay?” he asked in his drunken state.
After hearing a noise behind him, he turned around and saw nothing. He turned back around toward the kitchen and she was gone. Now he figured maybe he was dreaming and then he stumbled upstairs toward his room. He entered and found Emily passed out in his bed. Confused, he stumbled back downstairs, sat on the couch, and then passed out again.
The next morning, Emily woke up and met Jason in the kitchen, where he was pouring coffee with a terrible hangover.
“Um, when did you come over last night?” he asked as he glanced up at her.
“I showed up after you texted me you didn’t want to be alone. We talked while you were drunk and then you passed out, so I went to your room and fell asleep.” she responded as she poured herself a cup.
“Okay, did you come out into the kitchen last night?” Jason asked.
Emily shook her head no, that she had not come down to the kitchen last night, sipped her coffee and stared at him with a bit of confusion.
Jason finished his coffee and served her breakfast. He sat down at the table before saying anything else.
“Hey, do you think you could give me a ride to Dina’s shop to pick up my car?” he asked.
“Sure, let me finish here and I will get dressed, then we can head out,” she replied.
Forty-five minutes later, Emily and Jason arrived at the shop and found the police and ambulance everywhere. They both jumped out of the car, and a police officer stopped them just outside the building.
“Excuse me, but this is a crime scene. Do either of you know the victim, Dina Scranton?” he asked as he talked to them outside.
“Yes,” he replied.
“She was our friend and our mechanic officer. Please tell us what happened to her?” she asked pleadingly.
The officer advised them he couldn’t say anything about what had occurred.
After speaking with the officer, he took their statements and went to the lead detective to give him the report. After reviewing the scene and the report, the detective took the report and left. Jason left, walking down the street, and Emily chased after him and grabbed him by the arm.
“What’s wrong?” she asked.
“Her body lay dead in my car. I saw it and the detective thinks I am involved. I know that is why he was looking at me before he took off,” he responded with concern in his voice.
Taken aback by what Jason said, Emily returned to the car and waited for him to return. Then, after several minutes, he entered the car, and they both headed back to the house. After arriving back at the house, Jason called all their friends and let them know the terrible news about Dina, while Emily talked to Dina’s parents. Emily spent the night at Jason’s place again, which she has been on and off since Sean’s death.
The next morning Jason called and spoke to Michael, “they found her dead in her shop in the back seat of my car.”
“Do nothing that would make you look suspicious to the cops. They will figure out the truth and they will clear you. Just don’t give them any reason to believe you’re guilty of something you didn’t do,” he replied.
“you’re right, I should just go about my day and give them no reason to think I would do anything,” he responded as he hung up the phone.
Jason headed into work while Emily was sleeping. That afternoon, Emily waited for Jason to return to the house so she could talk to him about Sean and Dina’s deaths. Around eleven o’clock pm Jason finally returned home, and after walking through the door, he thought he saw Dina in the kitchen. That’s when he stumbled over to the kitchen doorway and turned on the light. And no one was there. He shook it off and figured he wasn’t over the trauma. He headed into the living room and Jason passed out on the couch, drunk. A few hours later, he awoke to the early morning sun and to Emily watching a news report about a detective’s murder. And realized it was the same detective who was looking into Sean and Dina’s cases. After the news was over, Emily went upstairs and took a shower, while Jason nursed a hangover in the kitchen. After getting dressed, Emily headed downstairs to speak with Jason.
“Hey, I need to know why you think the detective might suspect you’re a killer?” she asked.
“Well, it was my car she died in and I figured when the officer was speaking with the detective, they kept staring at me,” he told her.
“Listen, things have been troublesome, and with everything of three people being murdered, we will not assume or worry until there is something to worry about,” she said with a firm demeanor.
“Okay, you are right. I need to relax and not get worked up, but we need to talk about the two of us,” he responded.
“Jason, what are you talking about, the two of us? There is no us, we are friends and you know that. I have been telling you for years that there won’t be us. I love you as a friend. Why do you think there’s us?” she told him.
Jason took a step back from Emily, turned and headed out the door with a hurt expression on his face. He walked down the street to clear his head. She had sex with him. She has been spending time with him, but won’t date him. After his walk, he returned and found she had left. He tried to call her, but got no answer. He had a fear he pushed her away and hoped she would call him, eventually. Jason decided he was going to forget about what he said to her and focus on his problems and decided it was time to move on from the love he has for Emily and to a new future.
Four months have passed since Dina’s funeral, and that day was the last time he saw Emily. They didn’t say a word to each other. They both spoke with their family and friends and nothing more. No other deaths occurred after Dina and the detective, who were looking into the case of Sean’s death, still had no viable leads. Jason continued to go to work, hang with friends, and even threw his weekend gatherings to let off steam. The cases were closed as unsolved and it still rattled the city of Dawson about the string of deaths that occurred.
Jason and Michael had been hanging out more since he and Emily were not speaking, and went to meet up with the twins, Mina and Tina, for lunch. During lunch, Jason made plans to meet everyone at the house that night. After lunch, Michael got a ride from the twins’ home, while Jason went to get supplies for tonight’s gathering of friends.
Emily went with her mother to the store while out looking for the perfect fitting dress for Joanna. Emily’s mom noticed Emily was acting funny. She was looking at clothes she normally wouldn’t buy. Then, a few moments later, Emily fainted.
A few hours later, Emily had awoken, glancing around in confusion. She noticed she was in the hospital.
“What happened?” she asked.
“Well sweetheart, you fainted while we were out shopping and when I couldn’t get you to respond, I called for an ambulance and they brought you to the hospital,” she responded.
The doctor came to the room and explained the situation. The results showed Emily was exhausted, so they were going to keep her there overnight and make sure it wasn’t something more severe. That evening, the sound of a monitor beeping in the next room startled Emily and thought she saw Sean standing in the hallway.
“Sean,” Emily called out.
The person walked away. She got out of bed and rushed out into the hall, but no one was there. Emily returned to her room confused by seeing Sean and figured she missed him so much that she was seeing him. Alternatively, that she was so tired she was hallucinating, Emily returned to sleep.
The next morning, all of her friends came to see her at the hospital, even Jason. After the visit to check on her, all of her friends left.
“Please stay, Jason?” she asked him.
“Is everything okay?” he asked.
“I don’t know. I saw Sean standing in the hallway last night and when I ran out into the hall, he wasn’t there. Don’t know how to explain it exactly, but it felt real,” she replied.
“it’s natural to see someone after they pass, especially those you cared about,” he replied.
Emily couldn’t help but feel like Sean’s accident and death were her fault. She turned over and cried into her pillow as Jason didn’t say another word and left her alone. Jason left the hospital and called Michael to inform him that Emily was seeing Sean too and that he was coming over.
Twenty minutes later, Jason arrived at the house to find Tina, Mina, Michael, and the twins’ boyfriends, Jared and Chase, waiting.
“Hey, everyone,” he greeted them.
“Hey, does Emily remember the night of the party, the one you had after we got back from Rosewater?” Michael asked.
“No,” he replied.
Michael reminded everyone of the oaths they took, never to speak of the hotel or that night of the party again. They all nodded their heads in acknowledgment and left Michael’s house.
Later that day, Jason got a call from Tina that Emily was home, so he drove straight to the house. After arriving at her home, Jason knocked and entered to greet the girls, where he and Emily, along with Tina, spoke about what happened between them that forced them to stop talking after Dina’s funeral. To clear the air and regain their friendship. As the day wore on, he realized it was getting late and he jumped up and thanked Tina for helping with Emily and headed out to get his party for the night ready.
Tina and Emily arrived at Jason’s house around ten-thirty post maritime and the party was in full swing. They entered the house and found all their friends and others from the college drinking, smoking, and living it up as they were drunk. Tina headed to the kitchen to find the alcohol and grab a couple of beers for her and Emily. She returned a few minutes later and handed her the drink, which she chugged down.
“Well, that was fast,” she told her.
“It has been one of those days, but it is a party, so I am going to get lost in the crowd. Check you later,” she replied.
Emily wandered off to have a great time. Tina wandered into the living room with some others. As the party wore on, everyone was high, smoking and/or drunk. The guests were having a great time. Emily was talking to Chase, Jason, Mina, and a few others while drinking in the kitchen. Tina searched around the house and noticed in her drunken state that she couldn’t find Jared anywhere, so she searched upstairs, walking in on a few people getting it on in spare bedrooms, and apologized. Continuing to search around the house in the bathrooms, she did another round and couldn’t find him. Tina even went outside to the washroom, and the shed, but no luck. She got worried since he was nowhere in sight, then it hit her to check the basement, the one place she forgot to check. She wandered into the house on a mission and stumbled past everyone and shoved others out of her way. Emily noticed her and then glanced at the others as Tina opened the basement door just off the kitchen and stumbled downstairs.
“Oh my god,” she blurted out as she wandered halfway down the stairs.
“Oh shit,” they both blurted out simultaneously as Michael turned around and Jared lifted his head from the pool table.
Tina turned and fled from the room disgusted by sight and headed back upstairs, through the house and out the front door. Everyone noticed she was crying when she left the basement and they all rushed to the basement to find Jared and Michael both putting their clothes back on. Emily had an angry expression on her face and rushed out of the room to reach Tina before she left. Emily reached the front as Tina was getting off the phone from calling an Uber to pick her up.
“Tina, I am so sorry, hun,” Emily told her as she hugged her.
“Four years, and this is how it ends,” she said as she cried in Emily’s arms.
“Tina, wait, please let me explain,” he blurted out as he came out the front door with Michael and the others.
“Four years Jared, four years,” she responded as she broke from her hug with Emily..
“I know baby, please,” he said.
“Don’t baby me, you son of a bitch, fuck you,” she yelled out.
Tina had the look of fire in her eyes with how angry she was and when Jared went to say something else, Tina wrenched back her fist and punched him right in the mouth, busting his lip and causing him to stumble backward. The Uber pulled up and Tina glared at them both, before storming off and climbing into the Uber and driving off.
After the incident, Jason returned inside and wrapped up the party and Emily wandered back inside, shaking her head in disappointment at Michael and Jared, who left.
Jason headed to bed and woke up a while later to find Emily asleep, laying next to him on the bed with her arm over him, so Jason, without thinking, moved in closer to Emily and went back to sleep.
The next morning, Emily woke up cuddled up next to Jason with his arm around her, so she slipped out of bed while he slept and went downstairs. After a while, Jason woke up a while later and saw Emily crying downstairs on the couch.
“Are you okay?” he asked her.
“Yes, I will be fine. I just feel like I hurt Sean by sleeping in the bed with you and after everything that happened between us,” she replied.
He hugged her and comforted her to let her know it was okay, and then Jason stared into her eyes as she glanced up at him and he kissed her. Emily pulled back moments later and moved back away from him in a trance and then snapped out of it after a few moments.
“I remember everything from the night of the party,” she told him.
Jason jumped up from the couch in a panic and worried look on his face. His mind raced as he thought she would hate him.
“Jason, I love you, I guess I kind of always did, you know, love you in that way,” she told him as tears streamed down her face.
Jason stood there in shock to hear that she loved him. She stood up and stepped up to him and gave him a kiss on his lips before heading back upstairs to get dressed while he went into the kitchen to grab coffee as the shock wore off.
Over at Tina’s place, she had tossed, turned, and cried most of the night. As she climbed out of bed, she grabbed her phone and called Jared and, of course, got no answer, so she left a message on his phone hoping he would drop dead for cheating with a friend instead of calling it quits. A short time after calling Jared, Michael called Tina in a panic, almost hyperventilating.
“Tina, I, I, I, need you to come over, please, get the others now,” he got out, and the line went dead.
Tina pulled the phone away from her face and stared in confusion, so she called Emily and told her what had happened. Emily, Jason, and the twins climbed into their cars and rushed over to Michael’s house. When they arrived, it covered him in blood, sitting on the curb in shock. They jumped out and ran up to him to find out what had happened. About that time, the coroner’s assistant wheeled Jared’s body out of the house, loaded it up in the van and took off.
“Mr. Fitzpatrick, we’re done inside and have collected all the evidence we need,” the detective told him.
“Ms. Tina Crane, you, however, need to come with us and answer a few questions regarding your voice message and about the fight you and Mr. Carlson had last night,” he told her.
The officer took her to the car, and the detective handed Michael a card and asked him to come to the station later in the day to discuss what happened.
Later in the day, Michael received a call from Detective Samuelson saying they were moving forward with the interviews and would determine if they would charge him and Tina with Jared’s death. Two hours later, Michael arrived at the station and met with Detective Samuelson, who took him into the same private room where Tina was at.
“So, multiple witnesses saw Tina and Emily outside talking about you, Michael, and about you and Jared’s secret relationship. How she caught you two in the basement of your friend’s house,” she said as Michael interrupted,
“First, yes, he and I had a relationship and Tina found out last night when she caught us in the basement of Jason’s house. Second, yes, they fought in the house’s front and she punched him in the face, but it was our fault. Third, both of us loved him and would never harm him,” he told her.
He turned to Tina, who was now staring at him, and grabbed her hands in his.
“Tina, I know what happened with Jared and I was wrong. I should have told you. He came to my house a few weeks ago, and he had been drinking. He and I started talking about how strained your relationship had become and that he couldn’t do it anymore, because he was gay and tired of trying to hide it. After that, he kissed me and revealed to me he has been in love with me since high school. Tina, I am so very sorry,” he explained to her.
Detective Samuelson cleared her throat, and they both glanced over at her.
“Thank you for that, Michael, so can we get back to the interview after that heart-warming admission?” she told them.
“Yes, sorry,” they both said simultaneously.
After six hours of interrogation, Michael and Tina left the station and went their separate ways without saying a word.
Two days later, they buried the body of Jared Michael and Tina’s love and former love. After the funeral, Jason invited everyone over, but Michael didn’t say a word. He placed his sunglasses on, walked to his car, and climbed in. He glanced over at them as he drove away.
Days went by since the funeral and Michael has contacted none of his friends. Tina and Mina have been trying to get a hold of him over the last few days and no answer. Over the coming days, Jason would go to check on the twins and Chase. Emily stopped by the house to see Michael, since he wasn’t responding to anyone’s calls and got no reply at the door, so Emily called Detective Samuelson because she was concerned. After Detective Samuelson arrived, she knocked several times on the door. Michael never responded. Detective Samuelson pulled her gun.
“Emily, you need to stay here while I check it out. Do not enter until I tell you it is okay, understood,” she told her.
“Yes, I understand,” she replied.
Detective Samuelson went around back through the side gate and found the sliding back door smashed open. She entered the house surveying to make sure no one was inside. Michael was drunk when she found him laying on the floor passed out. She checked the rest of the house and found no one else. She holstered her weapon and opened the door for Emily, who stared at the shattered glass of the back door. Samuelson, who was standing over him, Michael roused from his drunken sleep and stared up at them.
“What happened here Mr. Fitzpatrick?” she asked.
“I got drunk and threw the bottle through it, because I am hurting after the death of the man I love and I don’t want to talk to anyone right now, so I want you both out of my house now,” he demanded.
Emily and the detective left Michael’s, and he sat there and cried, holding his phone, staring at a picture of Jared. Emily called Jason and the twins.
“He is alive and heartbroken over Jared’s death and that he didn’t want to talk to no one for a while,” she told them as she hung up the phone.
Things have been rough for Michael and Tina since Jared, but Mina, Jason, and Emily didn’t give up hope they would recover from their grief soon. They let them have the time they needed to grieve.
A few days passed and a patrol officer found a car on a back road, just sitting there on the side of the road. Janet Fowler was the registered owner, but nobody was present, so the officer called to have it towed back to the station for examination. After CSU checked out the car, they passed the information to Detective Samuelson, who has been trying to figure out who Janet Fowler was, since her car is one of a few that was fixed, three days before Dina’s death and called Jared five days before his death, but no one seems to know who she is. They gave the case to detective Samuelson, who had very little to go on.
One week has passed since Detective Samuelson received the case of Janet Fowler, who’s wanted for questioning in the hit-and-run case that killed Sean Jensen and the murder cases of Dina Scranton and Jared Carlson. During the press conference, Detective Samuelson explained that the examination of the evidence of all four victims, from all the cases mentioned, was present inside the vehicle. After the news conference, the detective went with her partner, Detective Knolls, to check in on the friends of the victims. The detective met up with the twins, Michael, Emily, Chase, and Jason, to let them know the progress of the investigation. Then, after their meeting, Samuelson and Knolls left and everyone stood around talking about the facts and evidence and that there were no leads on who Janet Fowler was.
“Whoever that woman is, is not our problem, as long as she doesn’t bother us or kill us,” Jason blurted out.
“Michael, I am glad you are finally speaking with us,” the twins said at the same time.
“We need to be careful,” he told them all
“True, but I will not deal with it unless I have to,” Jason told them.
Emily tried to say something, but everyone kept cutting her off or talking over her, so she went to the car and waited for Jason. Emily sat in the car and couldn’t help but wonder what could happen with Janet on the loose. And whether the killings would stop or would she be next?
It’s been a few days more and now the case has gone cold. There isn’t any sign of Janet, and no one else has died.
The next morning, Jason turned on the TV, and a special news report was on.
“This is Channel Two news, and we are reporting from the residence of Detective Samuelson, who’s brutally murdered in her home late last night. Detective Samuelson marks the third officer killed in the last six months. Today a community lost a hero, and the police still have no leads to the deaths of three of their own or to recent deaths that took the lives of three young adults. More news as this story develops. This is Brenda Quill signing off.” The reporter said through the TV.
Just after the news report, Jason heard Emily stirring upstairs and turned off the TV. Emily came downstairs and greeted Jason. They both got dressed, and they both left the house, saying nothing to each other about what the detectives said, and Jason never mentioned the news report. Jason went to Michael’s house to hang out, since he didn’t have work and Emily spent the day setting up a party for a wedding reception since she became an event planner’s assistant. On her way home, Emily stopped at a store and purchased a paper for potential special event jobs when she saw the news report about Detective Samuelson. Emily called Jason and the others and told them about the detective. Jason explained to her he heard it on the news and that he and the others didn’t think something related it to them. That night, Jason stayed at Michael’s House, Emily and the twins stayed at her house. Jason and Michael got drunk and tried to forget about the problems they were having and just intended to have an enjoyable time. Emily worried about the deaths and if it would continue. That night, after everyone fell asleep, Mina went to the kitchen to get a drink of water when she heard something in the living room, so she went to see what it was. After entering the living room, Mina saw a shadowy figure and turned on the light, and the figure was gone, so she turned off the light and finished what she was doing.
The next morning Tina woke up and went down the stairs and then walked back upstairs and saw Mina’s cell phone on the night table, but her sister wasn’t anywhere in the house. Tina ran and woke Emily up and told her that Mina was missing. They both searched the house, and the shed and didn’t find any sign of her. Tina called the cops, and an officer arrived to take a missing person report. Tina explained to the officer that all her stuff was still there at the house and she wouldn’t leave without it. The officer took the report and put out an alert on her with everything that has been going on recently. Emily called Jason and Michael to let them know about Mina’s disappearance and that there were no signs of a break-in at the house. Mina was just gone without a trace.
Four days have gone by and no sign of Mina has surfaced, and the police hold little hope of finding her. Tina goes out every day and hopes to find any sign of her sister. One day while out driving around, Tina turned down Gardener RD where the old Henderson farm and meat plant were located to see if anyone has seen her sister. As Tina arrived, she saw the old farmhouse, but no sign of life and began leaving the property, until she saw a Jeep parked behind the meat plant. Tina drove up to where the vehicle was sitting and realized it was her sister’s car, so she climbed out of the car to check it out. After Tina searched her sister’s car, she called Emily and told her everything and called the cops to notify them and report it. When sheriffs arrived at the location, they found both Mina and Tina’s cars and no sign of the twins. The two deputies searched around the building and after clearing the outside entered the side door, they found the body of Janet Fowler tied to a chair with her throat slit and a knife in her heart stabbed through a bolo picture of her nailed to her chest. Horrified by this site, both deputies pulled their guns and continued the search through the building and after a few minutes, they found Mina Myers stuck on a hook hanging from the stomach in the freezer. The deputies turned and made for the door to the building, and that’s when they ran into the body of Brenda Quill, the news anchor hanging from the doorway of the plant. After both deputies exited the building, they made it to their car and called for backup. Fifteen minutes later, ten sheriff’s deputies and the coroner’s office arrived and found three dead girls, and the two sheriff’s deputies were dead, shot to death in their patrol car. Emily tried all day to get a hold of Tina, who was now missing and has heard nothing. After they cleared the scene and taped it off, the sheriff’s office contacted Emily and the others to inform them of Mina and the other victims. They also explained that there was no sign of Tina, but that her car was on the scene. After a few days, Michael, Jason, and Emily, along with others from the town, went to the vigil at the meat plant where all those poor souls and their friend had died. Emily invited Michael over for a drink and offered him to stay at her place. Micheal met and hooked up with a boy at the vigil. He thanked them, caught a ride with the guy he met and headed home. Late that night, Michael woke up and went to grab a drink from the kitchen. As he entered, he saw something laying there on the counter. He flipped on the light and it was Sean, broken and bloody. He ran from the room screaming and the guy jarred awake and came running out of the room. He found Michael in the hall practically paralyzed in fear.
“Hey man, are you okay?” he asked.
Michael pointed to the kitchen, and the guy crept toward the kitchen slowly and when he entered the room, nobody was there.
“Hey, there is nothing here,” the guy blurted out as he returned to Michael.
He helped him to his feet and back to his room and then helped him into bed, where they fell back asleep. Around three o’clock a.m, he found the guy cuddling up next to him, so he moved in closer, which made him feel safe, and fell back asleep.
The next morning Michael woke up and found his hook up had left, he lay there thinking about seeing Sean laying there on his counter dead, bloody, and broken, when suddenly his notification went off and he received a video and a bunch of pictures of a tortured and scared Tina. Michael jumped out of bed and called Emily to tell her what had happened. Emily advised him to meet her at the police station so the detective could get all the evidence of what happened and see if it leads to the location of Tina. Later, Michael arrived to speak with Detective Knolls, who took him into his office, and that’s when Michael handed him his phone. After reviewing the pictures and the video, he took the phone down to tech support to pull the video and pictures off Michael’s phone so they could determine where she was being held. As Michael sat in the detective’s office, Michael started going through his case files and found that the killings connected to people who knew the first victim and people who were getting too close to figuring out who did it. Detective knolls startled Michael as he opened the door, causing him to jump.
“It’s okay, I would be curious as well, for the next two hours while tech support tried to bring up a location for Tina,” he told him.
Michael and Detective Knolls went over the cases, and the detective explained his theory of the victim’s connections. Emily arrived just as detective Knolls and Michael finished up. Michael caught a ride with Emily, who headed to see Jason so Michael could fill them in. Michael explained the detective’s theory about the connections. Jason couldn’t deal with everything and walked out.
“I am sorry Michael, I will be right back,” she apologized to him.
She headed outside to find him sitting on the porch smoking and stressed.
“Sorry, Emily, I can’t do this anymore. When is it going to stop?” Jason told her.
Emily just smiled and hugged him. He finished his cigarette and then they returned inside. Just as Michael was about to speak to them, his phone rang, and Detective Knolls informed Michael of the location of Tina. Michael, Emily, and Jason loaded up and headed to the old shut down movie theater in town, and when they arrived, cops surrounded the place. As they got out of the car, Detective Knolls and EMS were bringing Tina out of the building alive. Shocked that she wasn’t dead, Emily and the guys climbed back into the car and headed to the hospital, where they waited with the detective to see Tina. The doctor came out a while later and handed the detective a letter Tina had from the killer, which read.
“Dear Emily, You have lost so much because of the way you hurt your boyfriend that night at the party. If you didn’t want to be with him, then you should have broken up with him instead of breaking his heart. You will pay for hurting others, and you still have others to burn, so try as you can to protect your friends and lover. I will come for them and you soon enough. Tell the detective if he keeps digging, he might bury himself, just like his partner did.”
After reading the letter, the detective left the group at the hospital and returned to the station to see if he could get prints from the message. Knolls tried everything he could to get fingerprints and found nothing. Feeling like he was back to square one, Detective Knolls placed cops at the hospital and the residents of the others for safekeeping. Later that night, Emily stared out the window at the squad car sitting out front, while across town Michael was consistently hitting on the two officers who stayed at his place. Both officers ignored his advances and continued to do their job, while Detective Knolls went back to the scene to see if they missed anything. While searching the scene, Knolls noticed a back room with pictures of all Emily’s friends and Emily from all the crime scenes. Detective Knolls also saw that there were pictures of the station, and that’s when he found the plans for the building. Detective Knolls ran out and jumped into his car. He sped off towards the station, sirens wailing, and arrived minutes later. Knolls slammed his vehicle into park and jumped out of his vehicle and ran towards the building; then just before he reached the front, a massive explosion threw him back into the ground and debris from the building hit nearby parked cars and businesses. While lying on the asphalt dazed by the blast, the killer walked up to Detective Knolls. He glanced up and then blacked out.
Over at Jason’s place, he grabbed a bottle and started drinking, except this time something felt off. He started getting dizzy and then he stared at the bottle. Something was floating in it and he could see someone had laced the bottle around the rim. He stood up and fell to the ground. He glanced up from the floor.
“You, bu-,” he said as he passed out.
The hospital nurse got on the speaker and called an alert code yellow, missing person. The officers returned to the room to find Tina gone. After a few hours of searching, they put out an alert for her, but held no hope that they would find her.
Over at Michael’s house, he heard a noise from the horn of the police car, so he ran outside to find one officer dead in the street with a knife in his throat and the other with his throat cut. He ran back inside; he grabbed his phone, and from behind someone grabbed him and a needle plunged into his neck, drugging him.
A few hours later, everyone had awakened in the Rose Garden Hotel, In the town of Rosewater. Emily found herself locked in the ritual room with the mirror that had the carvings on it. Tina had a chain wrapped around her and laying on the floor and the killer chained detective Knolls to the rafters assisted by a wench near the wall in the shed. Michael and Jason awoke to find themselves handcuffed and trapped in the kitchen. Tina struggled to break free, but couldn’t. Finally, Chase was in the basement, locked in the cage.
Tina tried to struggle and couldn’t get free and as hard as she tried, she couldn’t, then the killer walked in and her and the detective’s eyes went wide as the killer flipped a switch and the wench pulled and jerked Tina backward, she struggled to fight, as she began screaming. The detective, notice who it was killing everyone, and then he turned away to see Tina being slammed into an ancient torture device with spikes and the door of it slammed shut as she screamed for her life.
“No,” he yelled out.
He glanced down as he heard a noise and thrashed about as a machine started up. The chain snapped, and it plunged him into an old rust covered wood chipper, which began tearing and grinding his legs and lower body up, he screamed and spit up blood as the chipper ground him up and spit his blood and pieces out the back; the killer turned and strolled out the door and closed up the shed..
In the kitchen Michael and Jason were struggling to find a way out of the handcuffs, they couldn’t escape, if they couldn’t get free they thought, so Michael glanced around and finally found a meat cleaver, a blood stained old thing, he picked it up and as he was about to chop his hand off when; someone snatched it out of his hand.
“Oh my god, Emily, it is so good to see you. We need to get out of here before the killer gets us,” he told her.
Emily glanced at him and then at Jason. She raised the cleaver and plunged it into Jason’s shoulder. He screamed in severe pain as the blade remained in it.
“Emily, what the fuck are you doing? Why?” he screamed.
“Stupid Jason, I am not Emily, I never was, I am Jessica, her twin sister,” she revealed.
“No, you’re lying,” Michael blurted out.
“Am I, you all have been running around with me the whole time, Emily’s locked away here in the hotel, trapped in the ritual room, where she has been since you first came here, come I will show you Michael,” she said.
She pulled the blade from Jason’s shoulder and waved her hand at Michael’s cuffs unlocking them. She grabbed him and pulled him up to his feet and escorted him to the ritual room. Jessica opened the door and shoved him in and he saw Emily on the ritual table, unconscious, with a weird rune on her head that represented the Gemini zodiac sign.
“What have you done to her?” he demanded to know.
“Well, let’s see, I trapped her with a rune of our Gemini sign. The curse only works on twins born in June. I used her to create a new body for me and as she lay unconscious forever, I will exist on this plain,” she told him.
“Why kill all of us?” he asked.
“Well, I will show you, place your hand on the mirror and I will show you,” she hissed.
Michael placed his hand as she ordered him to do so and as his hand touched the glass, the symbols burst into flames and a hand gripped his wrist and pulled him through it, into a hell dimension. Michael scrambled to his feet and spun around, glancing at everything in fear as he saw a giant black shadowy figure on a black rock looking throne. Jessica reached through the mirror and pulled him back through.
“Place your hand on the frame,” she ordered.
He hesitated and Jessica raised the cleaver toward him with an obvious threat in mind, so he did just that. This time, the symbol he touched made his eyes go black and threw him into the past to observe what had happened to everyone.
Sean was at the party that night after the trip to Rosewater and as he wandered the house drunk looking for Emily, he wandered upstairs and found Emily and Jason having sex. He grew angry, Jason jumped up from the bed and Sean punched him in the face. Emily went to say something and Sean flipped out on her. Jason tackled Sean and tried to calm him, but Sean threw him off and stormed downstairs and out of the house, where he ran off down the street. Little did anyone know it was Jessica who hooked up with Jason, so she snuck out of the party and stole Jason’s car. She drove around trying to find Sean and a few blocks away she did, so she punched the gas and slammed into him, sending him flying into the street, where he lay until someone found him and had taken to the hospital.
He flashed over and was now standing in the meat plant and it showed Jessica dragging Mina, Brenda Quill, and Janet Fowler into the plant. He witnessed her tie Janet up to a chair and then took a hammer and nails and nailed the picture to her and as she cried out in pain, Jessica took the knife, placed it to her throat and slit it, then stabbed the knife into her chest. After she took a rusty bar and as Brenda came out of her drugged haze, she stabbed her in the leg, wrenching it around and then pulled it out. Brenda pleaded with Jessica, who laughed maniacally and then stabbed it through her head. Afterward, she took her body as it twitched and strung it up, hanging above the plant’s main door. It forced Michael to watch as Jessica dragged Mina to the freezer and took the hook and stabbed her through the back, then hoisted her body into the air and left her screaming to death in the freezer as she shut the door. She showed him how she killed the sheriff’s deputies and the detectives as well.
In a snap, Michael was now in Dina’s garage watching as she worked on Jason’s car, Jessica wandered in and as Dina raised up from the car, she hit her in the face with a wrench, a few times and then dragged her to the back seat where she’s strangled by the seat belt and left in the car with the bloody wrench.
Finally, Michael’s brought to the visions of his friends here on the property in Rosewater where he had to watch Tina, Chad, and detective knolls all die horrible deaths, especially Chad who’s chained in the basement to a device with hooks in his belly and as it started raising him out of his seat, it tore his torso in half, leaving the top half dangling, while his lower half remained in the chair.
Michael snapped back to the present and glanced over at Jessica and struck her in the face with a forceful punch. She stumbled backward, and he tackled her and began pounding away on her.
“Michael, why are you hurting me?” she said in Emily’s voice.
“Emily, no this is a trick has to be,” he responded as he held off punching her.
“Michael, please, don’t hurt me anymore. What happened to me?” she said in response.
Michael glanced back and saw Emily still on the table and as he glanced back toward her, Jason swung a board and hit him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Jason helped her up as Michael glanced at them and he kissed her.
“Would you like to kill him, Sean, or should I?” she asked.
“I will enjoy killing him,” he said in Sean’s voice.
“Jason, what the hell is going on?” he asked.
“Well, since you asked nicely, I killed Jason over a week ago and brought Sean back and now you are the last to bring hell on earth. After you, the gateway opens and the real fun begins,” she told him.
Michael scrambled backward away from them, and as they approached, his hand slipped on the cleaver. They drew closer, and he quickly grabbed it and jumped to his feet. They both laughed at him as he waved the cleaver at them.
“Stay back or I will kill you,” he blurted out.
“No, you won’t,” they replied simultaneously.
“You’re wrong, sorry Emily,” he blurted out as he glanced at her.
Michael raised the cleaver and plunged it into his friend’s chest, through her chest plate and into her heart. The runes on the gateway burst into flames.
“No,” they screamed.
Jessica lunged at Michael, but through the mirror, razor wire shot out and wrapped around her arm and then more shot out and wrapped around her and tightened. She began bleeding out as the razors pierced the skin and then it ripped away from the body, shredding her apart, killing her. He continued to watch as it wrapped Sean with razor wire and dragged over to the Mirror and glowing red eyes appeared from the shadowy figure.
“Leave while you can or die,” a demonic voice told him.
Michael got to his feet and fled the room. The mirror shattered and flames burst out of it, scorching Sean’s flesh and incinerating both him and Emily as the doors slammed shut. He ran through the hotel and outside; he jumped into his car, which was out front. After starting the car, he tore out of the driveway and shot it out of town. Michael stopped the car and watched as the town disappeared once again.
He climbed in the car and drove off, never to look back as he lost everyone he ever loved and he grew teary-eyed as he thought about how his friends’ souls are forever trapped in that hell dimension.
Three months have passed since Michael lost his friends in Dawson and the hellish town of Rosewater, he was never the same afterward. He was finishing boxing up his belongings late into the night to get ready for the move and as he headed off to bed; he heard a noise from the bedroom and as he entered his Astoria Grand Bardwell Mirror had flames emanating from it.
“No, no, no, this can’t be happening,” he blurted out.
“Hello, Michael,” Jessica’s voice said.
Michael stepped all the way in and saw a demonic-looking Jessica standing before him. He screamed as she lunged from the mirror and the bedroom door slammed shut and dead silence fell upon the house.
The End