fire watch - episode 003 - The Delilah fire mystery

part 35 It's way past the pricesses' bedtime

Delilah then remembered something.
She reached into her pocket removing a note. Oswin frowned "what's that?" "I found it in the cave next to Ivy" she unfolded it beginning to read aloud "This game is getting so very, very boring come to the South mountain to get your answers please bring Delilah I really need to see her, please" Oswin said "okay, I don't mean to be like protective or anything, but I think Delilah should stay here, and you know protect herself and the tower, and also she's too young to do any of this!" Delilah nodded "yeah no shit he literally wants me to go here, I'll stay here because I'm actually really scared!" and so Tom grabbed the axe and his bag, Oswin grabbed hers, and they set off towards the mountain. While Delilah sat watching them through the telescope, just in case anything happened she wasn't sure what she would do if something did happen however she just couldn't really help it. Tom said "Well, this has been one hell of a day, and it's not even fucking over yet" "tell me about it, I feel like everything we've done today has been done over like 4 days... what happened at the start of today? Jesus, I don't even remember" Tom thought for a moment "I think, we went through the box, no, that was yesterday... no, it wasn't it was today, then we went into the cave then we went up the hill then we did your tower then we went home and I read the note, that's a lot in one day" Oswin nodded "yeah, never thought this would happen when I signed to come back, I never expected any of this to happen, none of this should ever happen" "yeah I imagined that it can't always be like this"
Meanwhile back in the tower.
Delilah had been watching them through the telescope then she got a little bored, and decided to do some crosswords to get ahead of Oswin and win the 5 bucks Oswin said she would totally give the winner, having no idea that she was lying to her however she was still having fun with it. As she was doing the crosswords, and listening to her loud music she had no idea how much of a mistake it was because she suddenly saw a shadow go over the paper having not been able to hear anyone come up the stairs of the tower. Delilah quickly tore the headphones off her turning round going face to face with Mark himself, he grabbed her round the shoulders grabbing at her breasts, she attempted to fight him off but couldn't, he was much stronger than her. He pushed her to the ground trying to grab her behind, she knew what he was about to do, however what she didn't know was he was about to do something so much worse that would change her life forever.
Meanwhile, back at the mountain.
As they walked, Oswin said "I hate that it's like 10 at night. We are open to the elements out here" Tom looked around "yes, yes we are, but we're always open to the elements" "fair point, but we can usually see them" they got to the mountain but here was nothing that at all, apart from the fact someone had carved something in the edge of a large rock "fooled you" they were both horrified because why bring them out for no reason. Tom turned "really 'fooled you' that's weird!" Oswin radioed Delilah "hey, Delilah?" there was no reply just a static sound "damn it Delilah, pick up the radio, Delilah! " Tom took the radio "what the fuck is going on over there?!" still nothing. Oswin decided to call the tower with her phone and she picked up, but it was silent "Delilah! Delilah! Are you there?! Are you okay?! Delilah! Please respond! Delilah!" for a few seconds there was no reply just heavy breathing which immediately got Oswin's attention because that definately wasn't Delilah's breathing. She paused then asked "okay who is this? it clearly isn't Delilah" Suddenly they heard Mark's low raspy voice, "no, not Delilah sorry about that!" Oswin put him on loudspeaker terrified "no not Delilah, but I have her" Tom yelled "you son of a bitch! You complete son of a bitch!" "Well, no one is denying that!" "If you hurt her or even touch her I will kill you" "oh calm down, I haven't touched a hair on your pretty daughters head... oh wait a minute that was a lie, you'll see when you get here" "Well I guess I'm going to have to kill you then you son of a bitch!" yelled Tom in anger "It would appear so, can't wait for that, if you want to kill me then come to the tower, I want to talk face to face, however you will not kill me, one day you will kill me... just not today you can only kill me when the time is right. Be here in an hour, or she won't be able to hold a pencil any more, and won't that be sad for the future she wanted so very badly" They heard Delilah's muffled scream in the background like she was tied up "shut up, or I'll bash your fucking head in!!" Oswin yelled "Don't fucking touch her!!" "Already have. Now get here in an hour, or I will cut her hands and feet off then throw her into the river to drown slowly, but when you do get here I may do something worse so please hurry, I am getting so very bored" he then hung up they both turned running towards the tower in a hurry.
When they finally arrived,
They could see a horrible sight. Delilah was being hung by a rope around her chest over the edge of the tower trying desperately to escape, the rope went up over the top of the roof all the way down to the inside of the tower. Delilah was still wearing her underwear, with her arms over her head because of the rope making it impossible for her to get off. She was crying, with a ball-gag in her mouth, she was shaking like she was trying to get out however if she did, she would fall almost 50 feet to the ground. Tom and Oswin ran up as fast as possible terrified. They saw Mark standing on top holding the rope. He was looking at her, a horrible hungry expression of his face. He was tall, he had short grey hair and a long beard, he was wearing a dirty army jacket and old ripped jeans, his eyes looked horribly bloodshot, and he constantly looked like he was completely insane his eyes darting around and he kept licking his lips for no reason. Mark was holding the rope with one hand. In the other was his gun which he was tapping against his leg smiling at them. When he noticed them he smiled a toothless grin slowly walking forward the rope wrapped around his fingers "Well, well the fire is blooming, and it's way past the princesses' bedtime!" he gave a horrible crackle "I remember being here in this tower a couple of years ago before moving to the other it hasn't changed much!" as he was talking Tom and Oswin had made it on the platform, and were getting closer. He looked at them "that's far enough, stay back, stay the fuck back!" he pointed the gun at them.
Mark looked up at Delilah.
"You know you must have good genes, I wonder how do her tits look even bigger when they're out of the tank top, that is quite amazing, also I love how she shaves, it's very nice I like a girl who looks after herself, I'm sure you wouldn't want to see that, so I covered her up a little" Tom looked disgusted with him "listen to me please... please just let her go!" he smiled "sorry what was that?" "Come on, Mark she's my daughter, she's all I have, please just let her go, no funny business" he smiled, "Oh of course because I'm such a comedian" he cackled "please let her go" said Tom trying to stay calm "I like it when you beg... Do it again" Tom raised his arms "please!" he smiled "you know when I imagine someone begging I've never thought of them being on their feet before, but you know that's just me" Tom kneeled down "please, just let her go" Mark smiled "very poor choice of words!" he cackled letting go of the rope. He grabbed it again, so she only went down by about 3 feet, but still made Tom and Oswin's hearts almost jump out their chests. Mark cackled "oh, what a rush that was... really makes the heart run!" he shot the ground at their feet making them jump back in fear "get back, okay... stay, back!" Tom nodded "okay, okay, okay, just chill out!" Oswin said "you know what it's like to have a daughter! What if someone did this to your daughter? What would you do?" "My daughter is dead!" "Why did you do it Mark? Why did you do it?" he looked angry "I didn't do anything to her, I swear on it, it was an accident! Same as my wife! They got me annoyed! They pushed me to the very limit... so I pushed my wife down the stairs... not to kill her just to hurt her, but she died. I told Ivy that it was an accident, and that she had fallen down the stairs because that's what it was... an accident. I told her I wasn't even in the house at the time, then I said we were going out to the woods, and she was coming, I knew the police would be looking for me. One day we were in the cave, and she found out what I had done... she pushed me, so I pushed her back, and she fell down breaking both her legs, I went down to see if she was okay, but she was saying she would get the police here and arrest me... I couldn't have that happen!" Oswin looked angry "so what did you do?!" Mark paused "I crushed her head with a stone killing her slowly as she screamed, and then I was free like I had to be, I needed to be free"!