The Monster In the Mirror [Thomas Brodie Sangster]

Part 3

When the car stopped and the men got out, I pulled the cage out and I was outside of the city. It was a large beautiful house in the country close to the sea. It was tall and dark like a haunted manor house. They forced the cage to the floor and broke open around me, one grabbed my arm and forced me to my feet, dragging me into the house.

"We got the bait boss" the man from the car smiled forcing me to my knees in front of a hauntingly tall man

"Atlast, we are wasting darkness." He says "get her undressed!"

"What! No! Please what's going on!' I yelled trying to fight that hands that came for my dress

"Have no fear my dear, you are in no danger. You're simply going to help us be the bait for the creature that lives here. We're simply going to sit you here in wait for him, and when he comes to collect you-"

"Bang! Right boss?" The man from the car smiled

"Yes, no need to worry, he'll be dead before he touches you" He smirked

I thought all I could to stop them removing my clothes but they had knives and such strong hands I had little choice, Once I was naked my hands were tied and I was forced to walk though the old creaky, dusty house, cobwebs hung from every surface, a thick layer of dust on everything, paintings hung on the walls cracked and half torn, damp across the ceiling, rats scuttering across the floor, glass broken, fabric moldy and torn, I was surprised this house even still stood at all. The only thing in this whole house that seemed untouched by the age and mistreatment of this house, was a tall antique mirror that sat against the wall on the landing of the staircase, its perfect glass seeming untouched by time itself, the metal work around it untouched by dust or cobwebs, the perfect flowers in the sculpting seemed as if they had been just finished moments before I walked though, the glass had a glow about it that all old mirrors door as if reflected the house and the flickering candles, but mostly it reflected the darkness the dark night sky seeming captured in the stone atop of mirror, and as I looked in it I could have sworn on my life something moved behind me in the mirror. They forced me into a small room, it was dusty and full of cobwebs like the rest of the house but had a window open letting in the darkness of the night and the empty sky, the bed was not moldy in fact it was made fairly nicely, the curtains from the window fluttering across the bed. The men forced me onto the bed tieing my hands to the bedposts as well as my ankles even if I often tried to fight them Until I was completely restrained with no escape. The tall man stood in front of the bed smirking down at my naked and exposed body He lit a match in his hand and began to go around the room lighting candles around the room in a circle around the bed one above the headboard in the window

"How do you know He'll come boss?" One asked

"Ohh He will" He smirked getting something from his long black coat it was a bottle or vile of a strange red liquid far too watery to be blood but I didn't want to question what is was he took a cloth pouring a little into it, and going around the room putting some of the liquid anywhere candles where, he put some around the doorframe, he put some on the door handle, he put some around the window, but mostly he used so much on the bedposts and bed frame that it turned slight red, before then pouring the rest of the bottle onto my stomach, I screamed at the cold liquids contact with my skin, it went everywhere the liquid moving all over my body most of it going on my legs and between them as well as across my breasts, I wanted to fight it trying to hard to move as the stuff began to make me feel warm, too warm in this icy cold room.

"We must go boss! He won't come if he sees us" One of the men warned him

"Of course, Goodnight my dear. We'll see you in the morning. Or as soon as he's dead" He smirked, blowing me a kiss before they left the room going somewhere else I assume to set a trap for whatever they were talking about.

I waited trying hard to escape the restraints as this liquid only made me feel warmer and warmer, left in this darkness with only these flickering candles to light me, in this horrific silence when suddenly. The candles blew out. All of them, leaving me in darkness. I heard footsteps down the corridor I had walked. I was shivering with fear as I heard the door click open.

I looked at the ceiling, his words coming back repeating them over and over in my mind I'm in no danger. He'll be dead before he touches me. I'm in no danger. I'm in no danger. I'm in no-

I heard a strange sound. Sniffing, Like an animal who could smell food. Then stunted staggered breathing. I felt tears slipping from my ears in fear of whatever now shared my room, the sniffing continued as quiet steps came closer they sounded animal, Not human. But I feared either. I glanced at the door now completely open and something was looking at me. Strange dark hands gripped the bedpost by my feet, glowing red eyes watched me, the sniffling louder and deeper. I didn't know what It was but I resisted the urge to scream, the creature looked at me and slowly grew taller or perhaps stood standing high at almost six feet, only slightly shorter than the tall man, the creature moved ghosting over the bed frame its eyes never left my own.

"W-what are you?" I whispered there was no response the shadowy creature only moved closer to me sitting at the end of my bed before beginning to crawl up my restrained body I tried to fight tried to move away as this shapeless shadow crawled over me its eyes looking at me intently there sniffling never stopped until the eyes were right above me "Please.... Please don't hurt me" I said quickly nothing moved, no sounds, just staring I went to say something but before I could open my mouth I felt the shapeless shadow suddenly Bite hard into my shoulder and neck making me scream in pain my blood curdling screams echoing through the house I heard running and the men stood in the doorway but the moment they arrived the shadow, Disappeared out the window and into the darkness.

"Well that didn't work" One sighed

"You said he'd be dead before he touched me!"

"We were working on it" the other said

"Throw her out. It didn't work we'll wait till next month" The tall man sighed so the men came untying me

"Boss look!" One said seeing my bite, it was red, bleeding, bruising already the tall man came inspecting it and he smirked

"Ohhh darling, you did better than I thought you would" He smirked "No need to get rid of her boys, she's been bitten." he smirked

"What does that mean?" I asked

"It means he likes you" He smirked "He'll be back for her, He won't leave her this way."