Hellraiser: Rapture.

Rapture part 18 Twelve steps to Babylon.

Reality played like a dream,electrical charge scalded the air still as it stung their senses,tasting the voltage,as they picked their leaden bodies off the floor,'Oh i feel sick,Dannii,you ok?'

Stacie leaning against the wall still dazed by the dispatching of the fantastical cenobite stumbled over to her kneeling friend.

'What's the matter?',she asked as she looked past the rooms confines,shaking her head,'She was,she was so...',Stacie taking control of the situation insisted,'Come on we have to go,those two might come back or our ginger angel.'

Dannii still holding the box got to her feet still in an almost trance like state,'Oh god your face is bleeding.' ,Dannii felt her own face,a barely visible cut an inch long wept a trickle of blood.

As they were approaching the front door some one pushed the ajar door open,They almost died as they both recognized who it was,'it's her it's her!',Dannii cried.

In the doorway stood Emily,'Whoa,steady there,i just saw my brother and some girl run out of here in a right state,what's going on?'Just then she noticed the box,'You have the box,where?,how?',she astounded at the fact these two young women were in the house that she had bearly escaped from a day previously with the box.

That was my brother Jamie,he had a box,that box,i took it from him,how the hell did you two get hold of it?'

She then noticed they had a look of fear in their eyes,as they were bloodied and bruised,'It's ok,what happened here?,i'm here to help i won't hurt you.,i'm Emily Jamie's big sister.'

Dannii feeling a liitle more composed gripped the box tight,'No you were her,that she devil,you gave us this,then,then..' 

'I don't know what went on,i'm sorry about  my brother and what ever he did,,there's something bigger and darker than my brother and his antics going on here.'

Stacie looked at her for a moment,then reached out to her,Dannii held back pulling on her as she advanced,their hands touched as their eyes met,'Dannii,she's not that thing,her eyes don't have that cruel darkness in them,it's ok.'

'Im sorry for what he did,i lost him to that damned thing,i need your help to stop him,you know now what this thing is about,i don't know where else to go,no one would believe me'.

Stacie hugged her as Dannii confused slid down the wall as she held the box in her hands,tears filled her eyes.

Well i'm Stacie and this is Dannii we go back quite a way together,sorry we didn't trust you,but we've been through a lot today.'

They both then came to her as she sat,Emily sat beside her,'I don't know what that thing is,all i know is it did something to my brother and it's still doing evil some how,i'm here if you need me,you can trust me,i don't want the box,but i think it's a key to hell and a weapon of some kind,without it i don't think i can stop him or what ever is behind all this,i must stop Jamie,i need you both i can't do this alone,i've seen such unspeakable things,things that no one should ever see,like you two have,the only thing i know is that the longer you have the box the more people die and the closer the evil that is behind it comes calling.'

Dannii handed the box to her, as she refused,'No i don't want it,you keep it.' ,they hugged as Dannii wept,'I'm sorry,i don't know who to trust,we had a bad experience,some horrible thing,it looked like you,it's real deep stuff.'

Emily nodded her head,'I know,all smoke and mirrors,well we need to get away from here,avoid Jamie and that girl,who was she?'

Stacie sighed as she looked into a small mirror on the wall at her bruised cheek,'Leah a real whore,she must have been like Jamie,it's disgusting..'