Monsters and mundanes 5

5.10 The beast Pt.2

Nellie pushes a dresser in front of the door to Leo's room. She stands still and leans against the dresser. Inside the room Leo is sitting on the floor leaning his shoulder and head against the door.
"I'll let you out in the morning for school" Nellie says.
"If I'm still alive" Leo says darksome.
"You will be. But I won't let you out before that" Nellie places her hand on the door for a while before she walks away.

Elliot is sitting on the floor in Amanda's room with her in his arms as she's crying.
"I don't want to go back to rehab" she cries.
"You're not gonna go back there. Me and V won't let them take you" he assures her.
"He sickened me" she cries again.
"It's okay. I killed Famine. Hazel can no longer starve you. You can recover now, I will help you" he tells her.
"You killed him?" she asks and looks up at him.
"When your dad didn't find you in the room he locked he understood, Hazel might have taken you already. He knew he himself could get harmed by Hazel so he called me and I got there as fast as I could" Elliot explains. "He put you in the hospital. I couldn't let him live after that"

Alvin says goodbye to André outside his house and then he runs away and turns into a wolf. He runs on the road by the forest and soon someone is running alongside him inside the forest. The seemingly now black fenrir runs out on the road in front of him and Alvin stops and looks up at the fenrir. As he jumps at him the fenrir hits him with his paw and Alvin flies into a tree. Fenrir walks up to him and places his paw on Alvin's ribs. Alvin starts howling a little and with a bark fenrir bites his head off. He then looks up toward the village where Alvin came from. He starts walking on the road toward the village and slowly turns into a human body form.

Elvis, Nellie and Aiden are looking at Alvin's corpse a while later.
"Definetely the fenrir. Question is was it the usual, or was it Leo?" Aiden asks. Elvis looks closer at the tree above Alvin.
"It was Murphy" he says and walks closer to the tree.
"Who the hell is Murphy?" Nellie asks. Elvis points at the tree. It says Murphy and below his name is an S.
"My sister's command. She's the one who's been telling the fenrir to kill all these people.
"But why?" Aiden asks.
"That we have yet to find out" Elvis says and steps away from the tree to look down at Alvin again. "I think she gave her name now because she knew Nellie would see it. She's the only one I know Sarah wants dead" Elvis explains. Nellie turns to Aiden.
"Can you stay with me tonight? I don't know what Leo is going to turn into and with Sarah out there I don't want to be alone" Aiden looks at her worriedly.
"Yeah of course" he says and kisses her head as he puts his arm around her. Elvis looks at Nellie with a proud look.

In the middle of the forest, Sarah has found Harper's old cave.
"I want you to kill Harper" she says while holding his old shirt.
"I don't want to kill Harper" a male voice is heard from above the cave. Sarah walks out of the cave and looks up at a man who's sitting on top of a rock on the cave.
"You obey me, Murphy. You want a long life don't you?" she says convincing.
"I want a long life but I don't want to take innocent sould to have it. Before you came back from your grave I didn't kill anyone." he says and stands up.
"I know that's a lie"
"It was one deer" he says and walks down to her. "You called for me because you wanted help to get back. Help to defend yourself because you were scared of coming back from the dead" he explains.
"You are defending me. We only have Nellie left" she looks out toward the road.
"If you use me like this I'm not gonna live a long life. You're overestimating me"
"You're a fenrir"
"Exactly- I'm a fenrir, not YOU. I know how it works not YOU. I may be stronger than all of them but they are many"
"Why do you think I've been telling you to kill some of them" she laughs a little bit as if he was dumb.
"Eliasz and Trixie would never have helped them either way. I'm pretty sure Trixie doesn't even know what a monster is. Or didn't." Murphy says before he walks away.
"You've gone soft, you know that, Murphy?!" Sarah calls after him. "You will do as I say! I can give you a much shorter life than any of them can!" she calls but he ignores her and keeps walking deeper into the forest.

The next morning Nellie and Aiden walks up to Leo's door. Aiden pushes the dresser aside, that Nellie had placed in front of his door. They open the door to find Leo sleeping on the bed. Aiden satys bu the door as Nellie walks up to him and sits down on the floor in front of his face. She touches his shoulder a little bit.
"Leo, it's time to wake up" she says softly and he groans and scrunches his face before he slowly opens his eyes.
"Did you sleep well?" she asks him.
"Mhm" he sighs not wanting to talk yet. He looks over at the door to see Aiden. "Who's he?" Leo asks.
"Aiden. He's my boyfriend" Nellie explains. Leo sits up carefully and stretches a little bit.
"How do you feel?" Aiden asks him.
"Good. I've had no nightmares, I didn't wake up once. Nothing has happened, I feel different than I did when I went to bed but not in a bad way" he says with a smile. Both Nellie and Aiden look around the room and nothing seem to have changed.
"Let me look at your eyes" Nellie says and Leo turns his face to her. She pulls down his cheeks a little bit to see his eyes more and they seem normal. She places her hand on his forehead and it feels like a normal temperature.
"You think you can go to school today?" Aiden asks crossing his arms over his chest.
"Yeah of course" Leo says and Aiden turns to look at Nellie. Nellie sighs and turns to Aiden.
"I'll take him to Elvis after school. If anything happens in school we'll drive there right away" she says and he nods.