The Killer's Girl (Watty Awards 2013)

Chapter 12- One Beautiful Night

Iris's P.O.V.

Jeff and I walked to the meeting house. Smile was on a leash that I was holding. He barked sometimes, but it was usually at nothing. "Come on, Smile! It's fucking cold! Stop sniffing one spot and let's move!" I yelled. He still sniffed. "This is pointless... He isn't going to stop sniffing... Just drag him." I pulled hard and dragged Smile away from the rock he had been sniffing for forever. "Smile! Move your ass!" I snapped. The leash began to feel less heavy, like Smile was keeping up. I looked behind me to see Jeff holding my dog, struggling under his weight. "Is this better, Iris." he asked. "Yeah, thanks." I said.

When we got to the meeting house, it the sun had set and it was very dark. "Come on, Iris..." Jeff put Smile down and we walked in. Everything was quiet, as everyone was out back. "Leave Smile in here. We'll go outside and join everyone..." I looked at Smile. "Can we please bring him? He's my little baby..." I hugged Smile close to me. "... Fine, but his leash is being tied to a tree." I smiled and hugged Jeff. "Thanks. You're awesome." I grabbed Smile's leash and he walked with me to the back, where I tied him to a sturdy branch. I pulled a small treat out of my pocket and watched him swallow it whole.

I ran where everyone was sitting on the grass, talking. BEN smiled when he saw me. "Hi, Iris... You look pretty." I hugged him. "Thanks BEN." I saw Masky and knew he was up to something. When I walked by him, I felt something slap my ass. I turned and jumped on him, punching him in the face and knocking his mask off. I stood up, kicked him in the nuts, and turned away. "Grab me like that again, I may not be so gentle. Don't you have a girlfriend?" He laughed. "I did, but we broke it off... And she was eaten by Rake when Slendy sent her for groceries..." I traced loneliness in his voice. I would say sorry, but he grabbed my ass. Frankly, I didn't care about his girlfriend.

I sat where no one else was sitting and laid back. Jeff opened the door and walked next to me. "What were you doing?" I asked. "Nothing... This is pretty nice, huh?" I smiled and nodded. "It's pretty..." I shut my eyes and felt good memories wash over me. I realized that a lot of good memories had been made with Jeff. I looked up to see Jeff looking like a nervous wreck. "You okay?" I asked. "I'm fine..." He looked into my eyes and focused for a long time.

"Iris... I... I-" I felt myself be grabbed by my hair and pulled away from Jeff. I looked to see I was being pulled by a girl wearing a skull mask. "Let me go!" I screamed. I searched in my pocket to find a pair of scissors I'd used earlier to cut the fur around Smile's eyes. "He's mine, Iris..." she hissed. "Skully! You crazy bitch!" I stabbed her in the hand and I felt myself be released as Skully let out a screech of pain. She ripped the scissors out and threw them to the side.

"I'm here to win the game, Iris." This struck fear into me, but I stood my ground. Jeff and BEN ran in front of me. "You'll have to go through me before I'll let you hurt her!" snapped BEN. Wow, this was the angriest I'd ever seen him. He was PISSED. "I'll never love you, Skully. You need to get that through your head!" snapped Jeff. Skully didn't look to be in good shape, as she was very dirty.

Skully pulled off her mask, revealing she looked even more like a wreck. After the last time we'd met, she'd disappeared into the forest. We hadn't seen her since, though her brothers Masky and Hoody had searched for her. Her green sweater was torn and missing one sleeve entirely. The skirt she was wearing was ripped and had a twig sticking out of it. Skully's once delicate looking face was covered in sweat and dirt. The once beautiful blonde hair was now matted and uneven in some places. What happened to her?

I pushed through both of the boys protecting me. "This isn't your fight. It's mine. I want to settle it for myself." A part of me knew that I would be furious with myself if anyone was hurt protecting me. BEN's eyes clouded with worry and dread, while Jeff's were filled with respect and confidence in me. Jeff never showed anyone respect, so that surprised me. "You can get her, Iris... I believe in you." He gave me his knife. "Use this." Everyone was looking at me looked like I'd just found treasure. "Jeff screams at anyone who even looks at his knife... And he's just giving it to her... Amazing..." whispered Slender Man.

Skully had a knife as well. She had a grin on her face. "You're gonna die, and Jeff and I will be able to start our lives together... And we'll get married, have kids, and live together happily... With you out of the way." I held the knife, not knowing what to do other than stab and hope I hit something vital. "Wanna hear a secret, Iris? I'm not an immortal, yet... I will be soon, though... Heh..."

She came at me. I felt myself get a stab in the arm, making me scream. I was better off just punching her. I turned my other hand into a fist and punched her in the nose before she could lunge at me again. Blood streamed out of her nostrils. "Whore!" she screamed. I laughed. "Fuck you, little girl. I'm tired of you attacking me and telling me that you're Jeff's soul mate! He's too old for you!" Tears streamed down her face. "No he's not! We're meant for each other.

She wrapped her hand around my neck, keeping me from breathing. I coughed and used my hand that still had a knife to plunge it into her shoulder. She ripped the knife out and shoved me to the wet ground. The knife lay a few feet away from me. "Ha! I own this whore! You hear that?! It's the sound of you breathing. Let's stop that noise." A knife was plunged into my stomach. It was pulled out. I stumbled up weakly. "You're still alive? The fuck?" I had a small smile on my face. I stumbled a few feet before falling over and crawling to my knife. "I'll kill you before I die." I wheezed. She laughed. "How about I finish you off, instead?"

I felt my fingers grasp around the knife. "Oh this is just SAD!" I stood up and coughed a bit. Skully came at me with her knife, but I knew that there was only one other hope for me to take Skully down with me. I stood still, stuck the knife out to the side, and a few seconds before she was able to get to me, I yanked the knife up and held the part you hold to my chest so that the blade was sticking out. She ran right into it, getting stabbed just bellow the chest. She screamed and fell to the grass. I took the knife out of her and looked her in the eyes, both of us dying.

"... You were just a kid... Could've had everything. If I was a forgiving person, I'd let someone save you... Too bad I'm an unforgiving bitch!" I stabbed her as many times as I could before I fell to my side, dying. The side of my cheek fell where her knife rested, cutting a deep cut in the side of my cheek. I watched as blood oozed out of my cut and everything turned hazy and dark. The last thing I felt was warmth and someone picking me up.

My eyes opened up and I examined my surroundings. There was a warmth at my feet, and the room felt familiar. My vision was still shit. I began to hear weeping, as if someone was crying. "Hello...? Where am I?"

As my vision cleared, I saw that I was in Jeff's room. The weeping sound began to grow and I noticed there was person resting their head on the side of my bed. "Mmph..." I groaned. "Hey... Hello?" I nudged the person with my foot weakly. A head shot up, revealing that Jeff had been weeping. Why was he weeping?

"Iris... No... You... Oh my god!" He wrapped his arms around me. "What's going on?" I asked. "You were out cold... For two months..." My eyes went wide. "Two whole months?!" I remembered my fight with Skully. "Jack saved your life... We thought you would be in a coma for a lot longer." I looked at my feet. Smile was 0laying on me. "That dog won't leave your side and barks whenever someone other than me comes near you... And does much worse. He nearly took BEN's head off." I giggled a bit.

I remembered the knife going into my cheek. I stumbled up, causing Jeff to run and catch me as I fell. "Walk slowly. You haven't walked in two months..." Jeff helped guide me to the bathroom, where my jaw dropped. There was a deep scar on my cheek that didn't look good.

"That's right... I laid on that knife... Now I have a scar..." I stared at it, tracing it with my fingers. "Iris... I still think you're beautiful..." I turned to Jeff. He must have been caring for me while I was out cold. "Thanks... But... It looks awful." He shook his head. "You make it beautiful..." He stared at me. "Thanks..."