When I come to, we're alone. They got away, thank goodness. The smell of pine trees find their way into my nose. I let out a sneeze because it's tickling my throat. I get control for just a moment.
"Wow, thanks for that. Could have warned me." Becky snaps, pulling a tissue out of our pocket to wipe her nose and hand that's covered in snot. "I almost caught it, but I wasn't fast enough."
How close am I?
I ask, feeling like I'm in control, but I'm not for some reason. Just very, very close to what it's like when I am.
"I don't care how close you are, but I'm not letting you have control." She hisses and pushes open the door of her red ute, pulling the keys out of the ignition.
Where are we?
I ask and once the keys are in our pocket, she turns around, allowing me to see.
They woods? We're near a cabin.
"Yep, but do you know where in 'they woods'?" She asks.
N-no...
"I know you felt that memory. That was your first memory when you came into existence, you gave a damn about me, but you forgot after we got out of there because Aiden started screwing with me... he steals from his Mum and the Hospital. You know that."
Do you want to tell me more?
"Nope and I'll leave remembering more up to you if you can. I won't influence you or make your mind up for you."
So, Becky. You have a gun-
"Shut up."
...Why are really out here, Becky?
"In the woods?"
Yeah...
"We may be in the woods outside Ender Falls, Biscuit, but we're actually up at: 'The Falls'"
Thinking about it, I feel some of the memories hit me. The car ride into town with Mitchell and Veronica, we passed the falls which are waterfalls outside Ender Falls, only about one mile outside town.
It's so serene out here, quiet.
"It is. It's pretty easy to forgot our busy, modern day lives once you're out here.
You become one with nature and then this silent peaceful serenity is all that exists. Troubles melt away...
You won't know someone in town dropped something from a two story balcony much like if you we:re in town, you wouldn't know a tree fell out in the woods."
I agree... Becky, can you tell me why were out here? Why you fooled me and our friends into believing you were gone at first? You never made your presence known to me.
Finding out how I did... was traumatic.
"If they knew I was awake and still here, they would have been watching us more intently like a fucking hawk.
Around you, they relax and are less on guard."
Are you dangerous?
"Am I a monster?"
No!
"I'm no more dangerous than anyone else alive today. No one's perfect, all people have the potential to commit unspeakable acts."
Becky-
"Can you shut up for a second?" She demands and I feel her pull out a folded up map from our back pocket.
Where did you get that from?
"Was in the glove-box. Always has been, I'd explore the woods regularly. I know it better than anyone else. Well, almost everyone.
The only other person who was really good at navigating it was Aiden, but he's dead so I guess, I reign supreme then."
Why are we out here?
"All right, look." She snaps. "You're friends are fugitives and so are we I guess."
Yes...
"I'm out here to finish what I started.
They won't know where to go, they're to stupid to stay steps ahead of anyone and they know don't how to navigate the woods. They'll get lost trying to find the main road out. After I deal with them, we leave. I am not getting locked up.
Why do you think crime is the answer?
"Murder?"
Not just that, drug-dealing, drug taking, running away-
"Don't bring up the character I am, bitch! It's not any of your business my past, no one is perfect!"
Becky, you've had a tough life. A Dad who was going to hurt you, killed your mum, you fell in with a few wrong crowds, but you've got some good things to reflect on as well such as having been student council president before-
"I don't care about anything anymore! My whole life is a mess, Libby, I can't take it anymore." She cries, falling to our knees.
I know, I know, I'm hearing what your saying. Come on, why don't we go back to town? We'll get help for you and counselling for both of us so we can learn how to live together equally.
Us being out here is a waste of time. It's night-time, it's cold.
I tell her.
"I hated him."
Aiden?
"No, not just him, and a few other people. My Dad was cruel towards me, not just my Mum. I was so scared I'd end up pregnant cause of the countless times he..."
Becky... You're still so young, you aren't supposed to know how to cope with or proccess trauma. Let's go home.
"Libby, I want to kill Mitchell and Veronica. This one thing and then it's over."
And I'll be an accessory to murder if you do this.
"They can't jail both of us when you're innocent."
But we share the same body!
"And they know we can steal control from eachother and lock the other one out. They're not stupid, pretty sure they know that."
You do this, hunt down my friends and hurt them-
"They aren't your friends!"
But a part of me still loves them, Becky. And if you do this, you're right, we may avoid Jail-time, but we'll end up in a mental instution for sure and it won't be a short setence!
That would be unberable for me!
"No, my mind's made up. Killing Mitchell and Veronica is what I need to do."
You can't!
"And then..."
Then?
"I'll take my own life too. I don't want to live like this anymore, I don't want to live at all! That's better than running away actually."
What about me?!
"What about you?"
I exist too! What about my feelings?!
"You might keep existing, as long as I don't put the bullet through our head."
Your understanding is flawed! We don't know anything about how were even like this. And what if it does kill me?! Or I succumb to our injuries later? You may not feel the heart-attack I had, but this body does physically. You felt the weakness, mild pain that was present even though you weren't feeling the severity of it.
If you die, will I become the primary host and feel all of it?!
"Shut up, Biscuit-face! My mind is made up!"
And then I feel her force us to start walking and I sink into the unknown darkness for a while.
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"Don't hurt us, please!"
"I'm scared, Becky!"
"Just shut up, just shut up, let me think!"
I hear arguing and I come slipping right back in up close, but not in control.
Becky's got us seated at an old wooden table, she's playing with a loaded gun in our hand.
I feel weird, tingly. Looking around, but not able to move our head, I can see something in the corner of my eye's vision. I ask Becky to turn around for me and she does surprisingly.
I see it, two etheral tails made up of light is bobbing around. I have a feeling, one is hers and the other mine.
One is coming from the sky, connected to this body and the hers is too, but it looks cracked.
Why?
Do you see that?
I ask.
No, see what?
She responds inside. You hullucinating or some shit?
Maybe...
Not my problem, Biscuit-face.
She hisses and then I see Mitchel and Veronica. They're tied up to two chairs in the centre of the room.
I'll let you talk to them, but you're not moving our muscles.
And she turns to face them, keeping her hand on the gun. The fact she stole it from the police station...
"G-Guys..." I choke out. They look up, clearly weak and exhausted.
"What, bitch?" Veronica snaps. "Go to hell." Mitchell hisses.
"Are you exhausted because you escaped the Police station?"
"It took a-lot out of us, yeah." Veronica answers. "Why are you asking dumb questions you already know the answers too? You're so dumb." Mitchell adds on.
What do they think insulting Becky who is clearly dangerous a good idea? They need to stop...
"Can we have water? I need water." Veronica begs and I feel Becky shake our head.
"Sorry, she doesn't want to give you any..." I appolgize and I see they're eyes widen.
"Libby? Y-You're still in there?! We thought you vanished into oblivion! She said you were gone!" Veronica cries, starting to pull on her binds, crying.
"Stop, you'll hurt yourself!." Mitchell warns her.
"He's right." I tell her. "Now, can I ask where we are?"
Becky doesn't like this, and she keeps Becky trying to shove me away and down. We're finally fighting internally.
"Libby, you need to take Becky home! She's really, really unwell. I can not begin to stress this enough-" Veronica begins.
"Shut the fuck up!" Becky growls.
"I know..." I murmur afterwards. "Wow, this is confusing..." Mitchell whispers.
"Ditto." Veronica answers.
"The truth, please?" I beg, feeling tears form, but Becky hastily wipes them away.
"Umm... How much do you know about what we and Aiden did to Becky? What the plan and then winged plan was." Veronica questions.
You lured Becky away from a backyard party, premesis to buy drugs sometimes and Aiden hit her over the head, she was out cold. Then you kidnapped her and ditched her Ute."
Everything, except for the actual hell you all put her through when she was missing. It was re-counted to me what happened before she went missing and I know a little about Aiden somehow drugged her into submission I think?
And then my memory starts of us in you guys car, driving us into Ender Falls... I was in and out at times, asleep.
And I see a sky through a hole with waterfalls running into it, but little context. There was three people with shovels, wearing rain-coats at night. It was raining..."
"It rains out here at the Falls sometimes, yeah." Mitchell shrugs.
"So, this place?" I press.
"Our hideout. We we're goanna stay here for the night and then try and find the main road. Just... Move on.
It means we'd spend our life hiding, but we'd... Get fake I.D's, change our appearences, something.
Make a life with what we have. We're going to be setenced to Juvie and then we'll be transferred to adult prison not longer after. Were 17, Libby
We'd get out once were 25 as we're on lesser charges, but we can't go through that!" Veronica cries, the rope chafing her wrists.
"Should have thought it through, about what you did back then." Becky snaps.
"We didn't have a choice! Aiden had dirt on everyone!" Mitchell butts in.
"We never meant to hurt you, Becky! Yes, we didn't get along, but hurting you was the last thing we ever wanted to do." Veronica protests. "And when Libby came along, our guilt increased.
She's such a sweet girl-"
"I don't care that you love her!" Becky yells. "Do you hate her?" Mitchell probes.
"Yes." Becky says confidentaly.
"You monster. You don't deserve the pleasure of knowing her. Libby, listen to me. Don't listen to anything this cow ever says, we both love you very much-"
And Becky stands us up angrily, holding the gun at Veronica. "I am not letting you both live past sunrise."
"You caught up to us quickly..." Mitchell says under his breath and she aims the gun on him instead.
"I know these woods like the back of my hand." Becky tells them. "Yeah, we know. Aiden did too. You and him out of our entire year were the only ones who excelled in Orienteering." Veronica states.
"If you want to go ahead and kill us, fine, but you'll be traumatising, Libby for life. It might even be enough to stress her out that she vanishes for good." Mitchell adds on.
"I wouldn't care, I'd be just me again." Becky responds.
Can you tell us where we are? I plead.
Alright, alright! Becky snarls. This Cabin we're in was the place they and Aiden kept me locked up for weeks and then they ditched me out in the woods, leaving me for dead and when you came along, you we're brought back here, in my place. They're hideout as they said.
"Guys..." I whisper. "Yeah, buddy? What's wrong?" Mitchell asks.
"I feel sick, nauseous..." And then I feel us hit the floor, a memory taking over.
I can see the night sky with twinkling stars and two mooms in allignment and a strong earthy smell reaches my sense of smell. It's stopped raining, but the ground has turned to mud and I'm stuck fast. I'm also soaked though, my hair and clothes sticking to my skin.
I cough, feeling water seep into my mouth a few times to clear it and then I realize the underground hole I'm in, is a cave connected to tunnels that are linked to the Falls. I'm going to drown because I can't get up.
"Someone help, please!" I cry over and over again, my voice quickly becomes hoarse and I feel my eyes threatening to droop closed.
"Arp, arp!"
I hear barking and two sets of weak flashlights appear. "I feel bad about this."
"Me too... Let's just check on her quickly..."
"What do we do it she's already dead?"
"Leave her here? She's dead, she won't be found likely... and the dead don't walk thankfully."
"And if she's alive?"
"She won't be alive, Veronica. She fell metres cause Aiden pushed her. Her spine would be broken, or if not, plenty of other stuff would've killed her."
"But if she is?"
"Ugh, I don't know! Aiden would flip his lid, no, blow a gasket if we brought an alive Becky Winters back to him."
"Arp, arp!"
"We hear you, Zekey. Come on, let's check quickly and then bail, Veronica.
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It's the season of rain here after-all."
"Arp, arp!"
"Why's he barking repeatedly, Mitchell?"
"I don't know-"
"You don't think..."
And then I hear feat run up to me and hands start pulling mud off me and away from me even though it keeps sleeping back in between my limbs.
"Becky?"
"Becky?!"
"Arp, arp!"
I open my eyes and then I see a weird setence off to the side of my vision.
Bone breaking protection: On
It vanishes from my sight and I briefly move my head to look. It's Veronica and Mitchell with Zekey in yellow and pale green rain-coats. Zekey's on a lead, lead wrapped around Veronica's hand.
"You're awake?" Veronica asks.
"Help... Me, us. She doesn't want die and neither do I." I beg.
"What?" Mitchell asks confused.
"Who am I?" I add on. They look to eachother and both bite their lip will Zekey nudges me and licks my nose.
"Doggy..." I giggle, barely able to lift my arm off the ground, wet mud oozing off of it to stroke his fur and then it falls limp.
Zekey starts barky wildly at them.
"Veronica, this isn't Becky... I know she was drugged with a cock-tail before Aiden brought her out here, but what is going on?"
"Mitchell, let's get her out of here. I don't care what Aiden says about her or how much he hates her!"
"Okay... Let's... But what if we killed her accidentally cause she's got a fracture or multiple somewhere?!"
"And she'll die if we leave her here!"
I feel Mitchell lift me up in his arms while Veronica holds his flashlight for him and they start walking out of this cave system with me, the night sky with two moons leaving my vision, but glowing as brightly as ever, Zekey beside them, yapping happily.
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