Be Still

Chapter Five: Be Still!

Pugsley squeezed his eyes shut, a single tear escaping and rolling down his cheek, as he continued to shake terrified under Jason.

"Be still!" Jason shouted down at Pugsley causing him to snap open his eyes and stare with pure terror up at his to-be-murderer. "I want this to be clean..."

Pugsley shut his eyes again, only to get hit in the face, "I want you to look at me when I kill you!"

"So do I..." A voice snarled. A voice so dark Pugsley couldn't believe it came out of his 8-year-old sister's throat.

Jason turned around confused and the second he saw Wednesday he was shot in the face, the bullet ripping through his left eye and burying itself in his brain. He clutched his gushing eye with a shriek of pain as he fell to his back and before he could do much else Wednesday walked over to him and shot him two more times in the head. He never moved again.

"Wednesday!" Pugsely shouted as he ran up to his sister and hugged her tightly.

She just stood motionless, looking down at Jason's body, watching all the blood, completely oblivious to Pugsley squeezing the breath out of her. "Wednesday?" Pugsley called to her.

She heard him this time and looked back at Pugsley. He sighed in relief when he saw she was unhurt and back to the innocent looking little sister he knew. Not...he made a mental note not to anger his sister to the point of seeing the kind of darkness that could take over her.

"Pugsley," Wednesday smiled at her brother as she hugged him back before pulling away to look at Rocky. Running over to him she asked, "He's not dead is he?"

"No, just knocked out," Pugsley answered as he watched her kneel on the ground and brush back his bangs.

A sudden moan sounded from Rocky's lips as he slowly opened his eyes and sat up, clenching his teeth. As he rubbed his head he suddenly remembered what happened and shouted, "Thank God you two are alive!" As he hugged them and slowly rose to his feet he said, "God, I thought I was a gonner there... Are you two okay?"

Wednesday nodded as Pugsley answered, "Yup."