The Cottage

Lock Down

They stood there like that until he reached for the sliding handel. Adam ran to it and locked it. "Lock the front" he mouthed, she sprinted and locked it, shutting curtains as she did. Adam locked all the windows. "Ross and barney" she mouthed, Adam simply nodded. He pulled her over beside the window. 'I'll keep you safe I promise' he signed, a tear rolled down her cheek.

The mask banged on the window (ima call him the mask for now), Adam pushed Jess slightly against the wall, telling her to stay. He looked over and say Barneys head hit the window. Jess glanced over and fell to her knees, Adam pulled Jess into his arms and stroked her head. 'What do we do?' She signed. "We live" he mouthed, he took her hand and mouthed "upstairs", she nodded and they sprinted up the stairs.

Adam shut the door and Jess sat down by the window, her eyes were bugged and breathing was staggered. "It's going to be okay" she read as he pulled her into his arms. Out the corner of her eye she saw something on the floor. She tapped Adam and pointed to the item, it was Ross' watch. Jess started to sob. Another loud bang came from downstairs. 'Noises' he signed.

Jess was ready to sit and wait for any sign of hope. Pray to God any god that they would be okay. She couldn't get the picture of Barneys head hitting the window. The blood that stayed after it fell to the porch. She shivered. To her Adam seemed to know exactly what to do. What use was she to him? She couldn't hear or speak, even if she got to a phone she couldn't ask for help, maybe if she texted it but there was no reception up here. A tear rolled down her cheek.

He tapped her. "We need to go to the car" he signed, little did he know this plan was point less. They looked out the window, the mask was staring up at them, he walked over to the two cars, parked the same way they were when they first got here. Barney and Ross never left, this was all planned. Who was behind the mask?

He popped the tires, all eight. Jess sunk further into thr floor, at this point she started to sob. In her mind jumping out the window head first seemed lovely, better then being murdered.

Before this, she had a whole life to live up to. Being a successful screen writer, she had it good, Adam aswell. They were going to break the new to Ross and Barney tonight, the news of them dating but Barney would never know. She would never have a life with Adam know...

The window shattered, Adam pulled his hand to his stomach and groaned. "He shot my hand, must have been aiming for my head" he mouthed, Jess had no clue what to do..

"It's going to be alright little one" the nurse said, she wrapped the white bandage around her hand. "Now be careful, if we don't get this bandage on you could get a infection from this deep wound" she said.

This popped into her head, not knowing where it came from. The itching in the back of her head from the memory but there was no time to figure it out. She pulled off her tank top and wrapped Adams hand. He couldn't hear him grunting but he was. Being shot in the hand was painful. "Becareful" she signed. "You could get a infection" she continued. He nodded.

"We need to put this place in lockdown" he mouthed, she took in three deep breaths and nodded.