A magic trick

Ring Leader

Alice closes the door and looks around her apartment seeing nothing has been touched at all. With a sigh of relief she locks her door and walks to the bathroom and takes a quick shower trying to get the fact Jerome was alive out of her mind. She exits the shower and saw her clothes were gone causing her to look around closely noticing a pile of different looking clothes and a note placed on top which she picked up feeling confused. "Suit up gorgeous. -J." She read outloud feeling rather confused. She noticed a pair of fishnet tights and slid them on carefully feeling extremely perplexed. She grabs the bottoms seeing it was very short leather shorts which caused her to sigh and shimmy into them. Alice then grabs the corset which was red and black and zipped it up silently. Grabbing the small coat which cut off at her belly button she puts that on as well. Taking a deep breath she looks at the floor and notices something small on the ground. She squats down and picks up the small object noticing it was a tooth causing her to drop it in shock.

There was a trail of teeth which she silently followed seeing it lead to her living room. She noticed a pair of black combat boots which were knee high. "I didn't know Jerome liked shopping at Hot Topic. I swear..." She finished putting the shoes on and looked at herself and thought silently. "I look like a ring leader."

"A very sexy ring leader princess." Jerome said with a loud laugh causing the girl to quickly turn around and back away from the man. He walked around her like a dog eyeing it's prey which caused her to take a deep breath and watch him carefully.

"What's this all about?" She asked feeling a bit annoyed with her situation. Feeling Jerome had the upper hand already made her seem weak and she did not enjoy that.

"I heard that little conversation between you and Brucey." He said casually plopping on the couch and kicking his feet up earning an annoyed look from the female. She felt her heart sink knowing what she said to Bruce before she left would backfire. Jerome stands up and grins deciding to leave the conversation at that. "Come on. We're leaving."

"What makes you think I would go with you?" She asked curiously seeing Jerome walk up to her and placing a cool blade under her chin. She remained still looking at him boredly earning an annoyed gasp from the male.

"God you're such a kill joy. Just come with me so I don't have to beg." He laughed and walked to the door causing her to follow quietly knowing she would regret leaving with him, but felt she had to follow.

The two end up at what seemed to be a carnival. Alice looks around seeing people whom were dressed like the thugs before play sadistic carnival games. She walked through with Jerome feeling his arm around her waist. Eyes were on her as she walked through making her feel rather shy even in the most awkward of situations. She looked at the floor not wanting to witness the horrible sights. Jerome looked at her and laughed leaning close to her ear whispering. "Don't act like you don't enjoy this."

"This is sick. Even for you." She retorted glaring at the male who placed a hand on his heart playfully acting as if he was hurt. The two kept walking until she saw a little boy standing in the dart balloon area with a balloon in his mouth. A thug purposely missed hitting the boy in the arm causing him to cry in pain. "Jerome! You have to stop them!"

"They're having fun." He answered with a grin watching the girl watch the thugs full of rage. The boy screamed once more in pain causing the girl to shake her head furiously. "I think he's nine." He walked behind her and embraced her from behind sliding a pistol into her hand. "Go on and help the poor lil guy."

She took the gun and without any thought she aimed and shot the three men in the head hearing a whistle from Jerome behind her. "You're a sick bastard." She yelled and ran towards the boy seeing him crouched down in fear. She hopped over the counter and walked towards the boy only to see him cower away in fear "Shh. Honey it's okay. I'm here to help okay? Let's get you out of here." She pulled the darts out of the young boy hearing him cry in pain. She holds her breath trying to contain her own emotions and notices the boy hasn't spat the balloon out. She opens his mouth gently and looked at his tongue in horror seeing the balloon was stapled to it. "Deep breaths. This will hurt." She slowly pulls the staple out feeling the boy squirm. Feeling his head she scoops the boy in her arms and looks over to see Jerome looking at the dead men.