Flowers RE

Chapter two: Black dahlia

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Hillard stepped in the room and closed the door behind him, he slowly closed his umbrella and placed it right next to the door. "I hope I didn't take too long" Hillard said as he gazed at Howard, before Howard spoke he walk towards Hillard and Jessy quickly moved out the way, Howard engulfed him in a tight hug "better late than sorry". Howard tried his best to hold in his tears, he needed to show Jessy and Rachel that he isn't soft or sentimental. Then a memory fazed in Howard's mind.

Do you think you'll find him, the killer I mean.
Don't you worry Howard, I'll find that bastard and prove to this town that we're just people.
But did grandpa really do those things.
Listen, you only worry about how you're gonna take care of Jessy and Rachel, ok.
Will you take long.
We'll see.
* don't take long, Hillard *

"Hey, I need to...... breath you know" Hillard says as Howard continues to squeeze him. Howard regains his reasoning and quickly releases Hillard from the hug. "Don't tell me your still a cry baby Howard" "I'll let you know I took care of this family while you went off on a ghost chase", Hillard sits on the chair right across the dinner table and looks at his siblings, he smiles at them and the main point of he's visit rushes into his head. " I'm really hungry, isn't there leftover stew anywhere" he says as he moves his back against the chair causing it to stand on its two back legs. "um, Jessy and Rachel will whip something up, while we make up for lost time" Howard looks at Rachel and she gives off a "are you serious?" Look. "I'll make the best stew the world's ever tasted" says Jessy as she runs to the kitchen, "Hey! the kitchen is no place for a little girl" Rachel quickly runs to the kitchen to prevent Jessy from doing anything stupid.

As Jessy and Rachel make their way to the kitchen, Howard sits on a chair north east from Hillard. "I'm guessing you're not going to stay long" Hillards eyes stare at the ceiling and his hands swing on the sides of the chair. "You know, it isn't easy to hunt down someone you've never known or seen" Hillard still looking at the ceiling tells Howard. When they we're kids the town never actually accepted them, they were the outcasts of Renchard, it was because their grandfather was one of the 3 midnight butchers, these were men who gutted anyone they came across at night. In the morning the residents would wake up to another body sliced open to reveal the tangled remains of their intestines.

After police found out who the killers were, the 3 got sentence to death after the killings of 40 victims, it is still unknown why they committed such a thing, but one thing was clear to the residents, the families of these killers must be the same. The names of the killers were James Orchid, Robert Jones and Gill Sanders, all of which had families. The stigma from the towns folk got so sewer that the entire Jones family got killed by the victims families.
The Orchids however moved to Manhattan, and the Sanders family remain unheard-of till this day. But for some reason the parents of Hillard decided to move back to Renchard after years, they thought the hatred towards them might have faded. They made a family in Renchard but old stories never die, residents now treat them as if their are an infectious disease. Few months later the killings started again and many started pointing fingers, "Its the damn Orchids, they came back to kill our kids as payback for their James" the anger of the residents brew up once more, and it seemed it wouldn't stop. One night as the sky had no trace of clouds only the moon as its center piece, the Orchid family layed at rest, till they're peace was destroyed by a break in, Hillard was told to get his siblings and to hide in his room. His parents rushed to the noise to witness a man with a joker mask, dressed in a midnight black robe and a knife on his right hand, he rushed and stabed the mother, she grabed onto the man as the knife slowly made its way inside her stomach, " Get the... the kids, get them and leave"
Her voice was distorted by an outburst of blood from her mouth. But love and hatred forced her husband to violently push the man down the stairs.

The knife slid out of her stomach as she faints to the ground,as her blood splattered onto the floors, and it tainted it as if it was a canvas, her husband held onto her head as he sobed right on top of her face, she uttered her last words before meeting the end we are all destined to reach. "Many told me I was a monster.....but Jake, ..you stayed beside me,.. I'm sorry my families curse.. fell on you, please don't leave the kids ok". Light left her eyes as she layed on the floor next to the one who believed that her family wasn't a curse. His face pressed against her's and his breath fell on her face, he screamed in devastation as the one he loves lays dead in his arms. The joker rises in a comical way and laughs maniacly, he begins to charge towards Jake, and Jake gently drops his wife's body as he runs towards the joker. The joker does something unexpected, he pulls out a hand gun and aims it right at the left leg of Jake, * BANG* Jake hurls to the floor and his blood flows onto it, he looks at the joker as his body shakes of pain and agony, his eyes don't lose focus until the joker speaks in a distorted voice"How can dirt wish to be a flower" * BANG* * BANG* * BANG*

Hillard, Howard and Rachel lay quietly in the room until " WAH, WAHH"
baby Jessy breaks the silence as she bursts into tears, the joker then follows the sound of the cries. His shadow lays right below the door as he stands in front of it. " seedlings, I'll pick the flowers once they bloom". The joker's foot steps slowly fades away as the kids try hard to prevent a simple sound from escaping their mouths while baby Jessy ignores such a task. Hillard moves forward to open the door. He sees his mom's lifeless body and his dad's motionless corpse, his teeth griped each other as he bursts into a sob. How will 4 kids survive in a town where people hate their blood line, how will people believe the offspring of the ones who killed theirs. And in all that chaos Renchard still found a way to make them seem like the victim.

Hillard as the oldest was left with the task of taking care of his siblings, cause Howard was a cry baby, Rachel was naive and Jessy's just a baby. He wiped off his tears as the rest remain in a wail. His eyes twist from dumbfounded to vengeful,

" I'll kill him"

Those words stuck to Hillard since then. Once Hillard turned 20 he left his siblings to find out why all this happened and it has been 5 years since his departure, now he's come back to the very town that caused nothing but misery.

Howard looks at Hillard and says "Well then, care to share on your findings", Hillard slowly positions his body towards Howard, " I've got nothing "