Secrets of an outcast

He was a monster

I was awoken by a piercing scream, it was such a frightening sound it chilled me to my core. I felt Stacey thrashing in my arms in the darkness.

"Stacey! Stacey? Wake up!" I pleaded to her and made a futile attempt to keep her still.

She gasped loudly as she escaped her nightmareand dug her nails into my arms, I winced as I felt them pierce my skin.

"What...what just...happened" She exclaimed.

"Shhhhhhh, calm down. I'm here, you just had a nightmare, your alright I'm here. I won't let anyone hurt you anymore." I kissed her forehead and she snuggled closer to me.

I held her in my arms, simply comforting her, if I could take away her pain I would jump at the chance.

It wounded me to see her in so much pain because of what he did to her. I would make him pay for this, even if I have to tear him apart piece by piece, there was no way I was going to allow him to get away with this.

If he was allowed to stay in public, what's to stop him from doing this to another helpless, innocent young woman? He was a monster and the only place for him was 6 feet under the ground, even prison was to good for him.

I allowed my thoughts to disperse so I could drift back down to the present, Stacey was still shaking slightly and I cooed softly into her ear to let her know that I was here for her, even if she didn't need me to be. There was no way I could live without her now.

"Justin?" she asked timidly.

"Yes baby?"

"what's going to happen to Marcus?" her voice wasn't concerned, just curious.

"I don't know, but he's not going to get away with what he did to you. that's one thing I know for certain." I hugged her tighter to me, I could feel the heat of her body on my bare chest.

"I can't even begin to say how grateful I am to you, I owe my life to you. If you hadn't of showed up, I was pretty sure he was going to kill me." She shuddered and I felt her tears on my chest.

"Shhhh, angel. You never have to live like that again. And You certainly don't have to be grateful, if anyone here does, it's me. I'm grateful you came into my life, because in all honesty I was at rock bottom. All of my problems were beginning to catch up with me and when you showed up in my life you made everything better. Your smile, it could push away a storm."

I heard a crash downstairs

I felt Stacey jump like she had been electrocuted.

"Stay here." I said in a none negotiable voice.

"Justin, be careful." she swiftly kissed my forehead.

"I will, because I have you to come back to"

I grabbed some jeans and a top that was next to me and slid them on. I tiptoed through the hall and down the stairs.

"I know your here Justin, I'll burn the house to rubble if that's what it takes to find you!" Marcus roared.

Racing down the stairs, my heart was in my throat. I wasn't sure what I would do to him if I saw him.

"Shut you vulgar mouth, what the hell do you think your doing in my house you worthless scumbag?!" I saw him in my lounge with his bare and filthy feet on the coffee table. There was a bottle of beer in his left hand.

Drunk.

Great, as if this wasn't going to be hard enough without it.

I could see the damage I had done to him though, his jaw jutted at an unnatural angle and with the way his eyes were swollen I was shocked that he could even see at all. I was surprised that he wasn't at the police station, or the hospital

"Oh he's alive. But what about my girl?" he slurred and stumbled onto his feet.

"She isn't your girl, she never has been. And she sure as hell isn't ever going to be as long as I'm alive." I said in my most menacing voice.

His eyes flared with anger, he took 2 steps towards me haphazardly.

"Well, looks like we will have to fix that last part." he began searching his pockets before adding " no one else alive in your family to take your place as CEO? Oh that's right, you don't have any family." he sneered and his hand emerged from his pocket, holding a knife.

"Get out of my house. Now." I threatened.

"What and miss this opportunity? Not a chance Cooper." he came face to face with me, our noses almost touching.

"What do you want from me." I whispered in an attempt to reign in my anger.

"you have something of mine. Something very precious to me. Something that isn't yours and it's something that you certainly don't want to mess around with." he pushed me against the wall,held my hands above my head and pressed the blade to the skin on my cheek.

"now you have 5 seconds to tell me where she is before my little friend looses his temper and bites your sorry little face." He shouted.

"I'll never tell you where she is! Go ahead, cut me, but if you kill me she definatly won't talk to you anymore" I said bravely

And then everything happened very quickly.

I registered a sharp pain on my check followed by a swift kick to the groin. I cried out in agony and fell to the floor.

"Now are you sure you don't want to rethink?" he crouched over me.

"Definatly not." I said bravely, I was more than willing to sacrifice my life for Stacey.

He kicked me in the groin once more and my cry of pain got louder.

"Justin!!?!" I heard Stacey shout from the top of the stairs, I gestured with my hand for her to go upstairs, but she was having none of it.

"Go back...Upstairs...right now." I staggered to my feet and used the wall to support me.

"Justin, your face!" she exclaimed.

"It will be yours next if you don't come with me, Stacey." he carelessly dropped the knife to the floor and held his arms out to her "come back to me baby"

She stared at the floor she came to a stop at the bottom of the stairs.

"I'm not your baby, so dont call me that. I was nothing more than an asset to you, you never loved me and you never will. Your incapable of remorse or passion or another emotion apart from anger and hatred."

He collected his knife of the floor and charged for her.

I jumped onto him and threw him to the floor, despite the immense pain I was in, and he whacked his head against the brown wood cupboard and became unconscious.

I stumbled back and exhaled deeply, then sunk to the floor.

I heard Stacey come towards me and she took my face in her hands.

"Justin! Im so, so, sorry. This is all my fault! I need to call an ambulance!"

I looked her in the eyes and said

"Darling, none of this is your fault! now what I need you to do is get me the phone so I can get this...thing...out my house." I kissed her tearstained cheek.