Lexie was trying to get Angel to focus. He did not move a muscle. Angel was thinking to himself, "It smells like gasoline, beer, and... Chlorine?" Grieve counted down to one. "ALL RIGHT, YOU PRICK! LET'S TEST YOUR BRAIN! OOPS!"
Grieve says throwing some kind of powder and turning on a lighter. "What the hell did he just throw!?" Lexie asks. Angel still did not respond to anyone. Lexie stops and thinks, "Oh! He's not doing anything, because one wrong move and we'll all die. I just need to find a way to distract him."
Lexie starts running towards him and mocking him. "YOU'RE GOING TO DIE LEXIE!" Grieve says. He gets two knives and throws it towards Lexie. The knives stuck to both her legs. Within four seconds, Lexie expresses brutal pain and falls to the ground. "Damn...it..." she says.
It was to much pain to handle. No more strength from her legs. Angel quickly ran to Lucy, but before he could make it close to her, Grieve threw the lighter causing it to make a circle flame around Lucy. The fire was so high up, no one could get through. Angel takes out his blade, but so does Grieve.
Grieve is inside the circle of flame. Angel is left outside the circle. "YOU CAN'T HELP EVERYONE! GET THAT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL!!!" Grieve shouts in anger while pointing the blade towards Angel. Angel's eyes were now blue.
He says "YOU CAN'T EVEN HELP YOURSELF! CALLING YOURSELF GRIEVE! YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A STUPID BOY IN A HOOD!!!" Grieve was now pissed than ever. He gets a taser and shocks Lucy. Angel looked scared and thinks to himself, "I...I gave Lucy that taser to protect herself."
Grieve was shocking Lucy more and more. He then rips off the duct tape that was covering Lucy's mouth. He shocked her again. Lucy was screaming in pain. "ANGEL! PLEASE! MAKE IT STOP!" She was now crying, shivering, suffering, vomiting, and grieving.
Angel was furious. His eyes turned red. "YOU'RE TESTING MY PATIENCE!!! and for that... I'M GOING TO-" Grieve interrupts him, "You're going to what? Murder me? Isn't that what you did to your parents? Right, I just remembered. You're a murderer. Angel, the boy that murdered his parents. Come on you stupid prick, why don't you murder my ass? Are you too soft? Kill me, murder me, hang me. Why don't you slide that blade across my neck? It's going to feel good."
Angel was going mad, but his past was coming back to him. The nightmares he had at night. Angel was breathing heavily. So much pain, so much screaming. "NO! NOOO! NOOOOOO! MAKE IT STOP! Momma! Poppa!" Instead of his past, now he hears something different in his head.
He heard: "You're dead to me son. Never call me father. The day you do is the day in which I'll throw you in the sewer to rot!" Angel says out loud: "Please! Poppa! Don't leave me here!" As tears ran down his face.
"What the hell did you do to HIM!?" Lexie said to Grieve. Grieve ignored the question and said, "Hey, Lexie Duane! What if I told you... I know where your little brother is." "My b... bro... brother? Where is he!?" "He's right here." "Impossible!"
Lexie looked at someone coming. It was her... No, it can't be... It... Was her little brother. "I missed you, little brother," Lexie said. Her brother said, "Well I never missed you!" "Why not?" Lexie asked.
Her brother ignored her and said, "Come with me and you'll be safe big sister." "Are you sure? Does that mean no one will hurt us anymore?" "Yes, I swear. Come, trust me, big sister." "But? But?"
"I SAID TRUST ME! I mean... please come. We'll be happy together. Mom and pop are waiting for us." "My mom and dad!?" Lucy then shouts from afar, "LEXIE!" Lexie turns around to look at Lucy. She then quickly turns back on her brother. He is now gone.
Grieve says to Lexie, "Do you want to see your brother again?" "Where did he go? Is he all right? He's not hurt, is he?" "Not yet!" Grieve responds. "You little son of a-".
Grieve interrupts, "Ah, ah, ah, one wrong move... oh, wait! You can't move! Well, I'll just burn Lucy. I only need to throw all these matches at her and you'll watch her burn down to hell!"
He continues, "Oh, hey, look. Is that your brother!?" "Where?" "Turn around," Grieve says. Lexie turns around to look at her brother. He had a gun pointed towards the side of his head.
His words were: "I want to play a game big sister. You want to play? I'm a count to five and then you cry. ready? Go!" Her brother was counting while Lexie was trying to get close to him.
She just heard him count to four, then three, then two, then one. A loud gunshot was heard. Blood was now all over the floor. After a few seconds, his head raises a little, "Wasn't that fun sis?"
Lexie then switched to another image. The image showed another her, cutting herself. It showed that she was cutting her whole face and body.
Lexie hears the words: "CUT YOURSELF! CUT YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU CAN'T HANDLE PAIN! THEN HANG YOURSELF! HANG YOURSELF! YOU NEED TO DIE! If you don't do this, you'll grieve for the rest of your life. You'll see your brother get tortured, again and again. No matter where you go. There's no escape of this!"
Lucy tried telling Lexie something important. Lexie could not hear her. Lucy said, "LEXIE! Don't pay attention to him... He's trying too-".
Grieve pauses Lucy's last words. "Shh... Lucy Daly. Not one word. By the way, I found your parents. Well, one of them at least." Grieve laughs maliciously and walks out of Lucy's peripheral vision.
Lucy was screaming, "No! Not you! No!" She heard her dad's voice: "You took off, now you are hanging out with a boy. That means you just disobeyed me. How many times did I say I was going to beat you with a belt? Oh, that's right, twenty-four times!"
"No dad, please don't-". Her dad belt whooped her mouth. "SHUT THE HELL UP, YOU BITCH! YOU DESERVE THIS!" He used his belt to whoop her ass three times. Lucy wanted to cry.
Her dad said, "What was that? I'm a make you cry for real!" He then belt whoops her back four times. The more he beat her, the more painful it was. Once more on her back, this time even harder.
"It's okay bitch! Only 15 more to go!" (Five more times on one leg, five on the other leg. Two hard ones on the left arm. Another two on the right arm). "Now for the last one!" He slaps her face so hard again, she fell face forward. (Still tied up to a chair).
Her father continues, "You know, this reminds me of when I use to beat your sister. You loved her so much, so you took the beatings for her. But, do you remember that certain day? The day I found out she was getting into trouble. I beat her, till she turned from red to purple bruises. Little did I know, I almost killed her! Actually, I believe I did kill her. I'm going to make you watch all that horror all over again!"
Lucy was going back to her past. Her sister had a very soft voice. She was sweet, kind, everyone loved her. She wasn't as tough as Lucy. Lucy heard her little soft voice again: "My dad thinks I was going out with a boy, then he thought I kissed him. He also thought other things as well. I was just tutoring him. He needs help with math."
Lucy's sister hears her dad running up the stairs. "Okay, you good for nothing bitch, where's the other little bitch?" "I...I don't know," Lucy said. Lucy's dad just ignored her, looked in the closet, and there was Lucy's little sister.
Lucy tried to stop her dad, but her dad pushed her. He told her not to come near him. She saw her dad belt whoop her. Then he left and came back with a broom. Then, came back with a wooden bat.
As he was hitting her, he said a lot of offensive words. "YOU STUPID SELFISH LITTLE BRAT! DON'T EVER DISOBEY ME! YOU LITTLE... YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU'RE NOT MY DAUGHTER. UNDERSTAND THAT! I DON'T GIVE A BULL'S ASS IF YOU DO GOOD IN SCHOOL! I WILL CONTROL YOU."
Lucy's little sister was getting hit against the back of the wall. There were a ton of supplies and heavy weight on top of her. The little piece of wood could not handle it anymore.
It broke with tons of glass, books, luggage's, and boxes filled with 500 glass plates falling down on her little sister. Blood spread. Broken glass everywhere. A broken picture frame of her little sister was the last thing she remembered.
Lucy comes back to the present and starts to cry. "No! Little Sis, I miss you so much. Please come back. Please!" she grieves and grieves, "If I die! I hope to see you in heaven little sis. It'll be much safer up there. I wish to see you again. You're really special!"
Grieve confronts Lucy, "Oh isn't that sweet? Well too bad, because where you're going is hell! If I'm there, you'll suffer even more for the rest of your life! You got that?" Lucy looked at Grieve with a sad face. "You think that's going to change my mind about letting you go? All right, I'll untie you."
He grabs his blade and pretends that he's about too cut the rope. Then, he deep cuts her right arm. He started close to her wrist and went all the way up to her shoulder. "Please stop! Why do you do this?" Lucy asked.
Grieve responded in seriousness, "Because it's fun for me to watch people Grieve. It satisfies me! Almost all of you are grieving. I just need to see one more person shed tears across her face!" "WHO!?" Lucy asked. Grieve responded, "You're beloved Joyce, and I know exactly how to do it!"
Angel stopped thinking and said, "Screw this, I'm just going to run through!" Angel runs through the circle of fire and once inside, he tucks and rolls quickly. He cuts almost all pieces of the rope. Lucy was tied in. He just needed one piece left.
That was until Grieve kicked his face. Angel gets up quickly and points the blade at Grieve. He says, "NOW I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU SUFFER FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! YOU'RE GOING TO FEAR ME! I WILL HAUNT YOU AT NIGHT! FOR ALL ETERNITY!!!"
Angel's eyes were burning flames of red fire. They were bloody red this time. Grieve thinks to himself, "Finally I did it! This boy is a work in progress!"
Grieve grabs Angel's head and smacks it on his knee. Then, he grabs his own blade and cuts a line starting from the top of his wrist all the way to Angel's shoulder. Angel's shoulder is numb now.
Angel tries to cut him with his blade, pointing towards Grieve's heart. Grieve dogged it and punches Angel's back. The punch came with a massive blow. So massive, Angel broke the hardwood as he fell.
Grieve than picks up Angel. The blade is still in Angel's hand. Grieve grabs Angel's hand and points Angel's blade towards Lucy.
Grieve says to him, "Slice her neck clean, or I will do it." His tone was rough. Angel ends up dropping the blade, eyes blue. "I WILL NEVER KILL A FRIEND!" Grieve throws Angel out of the circle of fire. Angel got up slowly. His legs are weak.
"Time to make your last friend grieve!" "WHO!?" Angel asked in anger. "Wouldn't you like to know?" He says as he throws 50 matches close to Lucy. The gun powder that he threw was in a line, headed towards an explosive that was underneath Lucy's chair the whole time.
Grieve actually had 14 lighters hidden. He threw them all at once. "LEXIE! Come on!" Angel says. "What... ehat about Lucy?" Angel picks up Lexie and runs outside far away from the building.
He sets Lexie down and runs back to go try and save Lucy. "Back for more?" Grieve says to Angel from the shadows. He continues, "Too bad, I'll see you in hell!" Angel says to Lucy, "Let's get you out of here!"
Lucy said, "STOP! It's over Angel." "No! no! It can't be! I will get you out of here. I... I just need to..." There were only 14 seconds left. "Goodbye Angel. Thank you for everything." "No Lucy—"
"Run Angel! Bye. Take good care of Joyce." Angel looked at Lucy with a down face. "It was nice meeting you!" Angel gets through the circle and it seemed as if he was hugging Lucy. Lucy hugged him back.
It turns out Angel cut the last piece and covered her from the flames. He was on fire. They were running towards the exit. Grieve tripped Angel on to a wire that triggered a bomb instantly. The house was burning down. Explosives were exploding all it over the place.
Angel gets up with little strength. Lucy sees that a bomb was near Angel. She pushes him so hard he went flying out of the house. Lucy soar walks as fast as she could. Finally, She's outside. Only a few more steps and she's free.
Grieve suddenly appears in front of her. He's carrying a gasoline bucket. He grabs her by the hair and smashes her in front of the wood. Lucy laid there, unable to get up. He threw the gasoline all over her body. He had six extra lighters hidden.
He throws one on Lucy's face, the second one on Lucy's left arm, the third one on her right arm. Fourth and fifth on Lucy's left and right leg. Finally the last match on top of her heart. Lucy was now on fire.
The sound of pain, screams, and torture could be heard. Her skin melting. It was turning pink. Joyce witnessed it all. Joyce tried to scream. The duct tape she had was covering her screams for Lucy. Joyce was crying.
She was seeing Lucy burn. She could not look away. Through Joyce's eyes, the flames will now be a memory. An image that will haunt her life. The image of her friend burning will cause her to grieve forever.
The shadow that had Joyce hostage said to Joyce, "You will watch all your friends in pain and you won't be able to support it! You'll never support it! You need to enjoy this. Let it go. She's not your beloved friend anymore. Enjoy when people suffer. It feels good Joyce. It really does!"
Joyce couldn't stop grieving for Lucy. Suddenly she remembered that Lucy was always there for her. The good times and the bad times. She regretted all arguments with her. Now there's nothing she can do about it because she's dead.
Angel raised his head up, looked at the building, Lucy was nowhere in sight. "Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!" Angel said. He continued quietly in a low voice: "I?... I?... failed... to save... Lucy? No! I will not fail!"
Angel says running towards the building. The bomb that got triggered was going off in Four... Three... Two... One... Angel's words: "Ah Sh-!"
The explosives were so strong it caused Angel to go out flying out from the building. Smoke was now on Angel's face. He had a worried face. He can't believe... he... he... failed! "Indeed this time you did fail and with me, you will always fail. Never being able to succeed!" Grieve said.
He continued, "All you had to do was join us. How hard is that? You have 10 chances left. If I were you, I suggest you choose wisely. Unless you want another one of your friends to die! Which it'll make it more fun for me!"
Angel's eyes are bloody red. "TRY ANYTHING ELSE AND I WILL RIP ONE OF YOUR EYES WITH MY BARE HANDS! THEN CUT YOUR INSIDES! ONCE CUT, I'LL PUT YOUR EYE IN THERE AND THEN STEP ON YOUR INSIDES. I WANT TO SEE YOU FEAR ME! YOU LOVE BLOOD SO MUCH!? THEN THE ONLY BLOOD YOU'LL SEE IS THE BLOOD COMING OUT OF YOUR HEART. THEN I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU CHOKE ON YOUR OWN HEART AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, TIL YOU GET SICK OF THE SMELL OF YOUR OWN BLOOD! GRUESOME TORTURE IS THE LAST THING YOU'LL EVER REMEMBER BEFORE YOU DIE!!!".
Grieve was scared and disgusted by what Angel had said. Grieve asks Angel, "What... What are you!?" Angel responds, "I'M YOUR MOST WORST, DISGUSTING, CREEPIEST NIGHTMARE! I AM ANGEL I AM THE DEMON THAT WILL HAUNT YOU EVERY NIGHT. YOU WILL NEVER SLEEP! YOU WILL NEVER REST. I'LL BE AT YOUR SIDE. I'LL BE IN THE MIRRORS. THE WINDOWS! AT YOUR FRONT DOOR! AND IN YOUR HEAD!"
Grieve was horrified of what Angel had said. Grieve is coming to a brief past. In his head, he heard himself: "No! What are you doing!?" All he heard was a voice say, "This'll be very quick, young man."
Grieve heard himself yell in pain. Then he had an image in his head. He was locked up in a metal chair. All he could see were white bright lights. No one in sight. There were many torture devices everywhere.
Some to pull his teeth right out! Some to widen his mouth. Needles pointing directly at his eyes. Every time he tried resisting the torture, he would get shocked with 50 bolts of electricity. There was one TV.
The words it would play every day was: Kill everyone in your way. Make them grieve! You'll watch people suffer in pain. You'll enjoy it when they cry. They'll be afraid of you! It'll feel good to kill them all. You'll love to see blood spilled all over you. You'll enjoy cutting every human every day and night. At night is where you'll strike! You need to see all of them cry! See them cry... cry! Hear them cry!
Grieve goes back to the present. He says to himself in his mind, "I love to see them cry, I love to hear them cry, I love it when they all grieve." Grieve says to Angel, "Then do it! Kill me, you damn murderer! Do it You little F-"
Angel pauses his last words and says, "No! I'm not going to kill you. Not yet!" Angel picks up Lexie and walks away from Grieve. Grieve was angry and furious. He had all kinds of rage. He was insanely mad.
He says to Angel, "Come back! Kill me! You can't even kill your worst enemy!?" Angel ignored him and put Lexie on the back of the motorcycle. He tied her to his back, so she would not fall off. She didn't have enough strength. She was tired and sleepy.
Before Angel steps on the gas, Grieve said to him, "Try to find your beloved Joyce!" Angel looked at Grieve with bloody red eyes and stepped hard on the gas pedal.
The shadow that had Joyce hostage asked Grieve, "What do we do with her sir?" Grieve responded, "Keep her, we're going to have fun with this boy!" I ruined his eleventh chance and now his tenth chance. He has nine chances left! I will make him get to one! He should learn not to play with fire!"
They both laugh maliciously and left the area. Angel makes it back to the hospital at 9:00 A.M. He leaves Lexie outside. Inside, he saw that Joyce was not on her bed. He finds Doug's room and you won't believe what Angel does to him...
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