Glass

Price to pay

Dennis took stock of the situation, he had about seven guards all armed and ready to shoot if he made a bad move, standing between him and Emma who was barely conscious, unsurprisingly considering the wounds that were visible.

Emma looked like a walking corpse, she had deep red cuts everywhere and anywhere else had large black and blue bruises, she looked like she'd given up, that spark of light that was there when they had first seen her at the asylum was gone replaced with a hollow, empty sadness.

"She's snapped" The Beast whispered in his head

"Don't be too certain, she may surprise us yet" Patricia whispered back

Dennis blocked out the conversation going on in his head in order to focus, Stevens was the priority. He started walking slowly over to him his hands held up in surrender, as Stevens slowly marched up to face him.

"I'm here now Stevens, let Emma go" Dennis said as confidently as he could

"Aww why should I?, we've been having so much fun" Stevens growled, grabbing Emma's hair and throwing her violently onto the floor. Emma didn't even make an effort to stop herself falling, she just collapsed like a rag doll making a small groaning sound in the process. Dennis's eyes followed her as she fell and it gave him a new spark of rage, his eyes snapped back up to face Stevens again.

"It was part of the deal, I show up you let her go, I've upheld my part of the deal now you keep to yours" Dennis whispered in a cold voice.

"Well your right you definitely have lived up to expectations Mister Crumb, you know for someone who goes around kidnapping girls and eating them your actually extremely soft" Stevens taunted "But my dilemma is now that I have both of you, should I let one of you go or do I take you both in? it's a tricky one wouldn't you agree?" Stevens pondered.

"We had a deal" Dennis growled

"Yes but you see plans change" Stevens replied

Dennis grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him closer so that his face was only inches from his, he heard men shouting and the sound of guns be made ready to fire and aimed at him. Stevens threw a hand up in the air, turning to face his men.

"Hold your fire men, hold your fire" he ordered, making sure all the weapons were lowered before turning back to Dennis "We really don't need to settle matters like this" Stevens mocked.

"Listen here you little shit, let her go right now or I can promise you, you will see a side to me that you really won't want to, you got what you wanted now let her go" Dennis threatened.

"Was that supposed to be a threat?" Stevens grinned clearly unimpressed, Dennis let out a low chuckle as he shook his head before replying

"No that's a promise" 

Stevens hummed before turning to face Emma "Alright Emma, your free to go now, after of course your friend puts me down of course" Stevens yelled. 

Dennis, slightly taken aback by how easy that was put Stevens down slowly still suspecting a trap, before letting go of him, granting him access to walk away. Emma got on her feet unsteadily, before staggering towards Dennis, on the way she walked past Stevens who put his arm out to halt her.

"You know he did the right thing, turning himself in like that, now all we gotta do is make sure he stays there" Stevens whispered, before revealing a switchblade and stabbing it through Emma's abdomen, the blade piercing through the skin as Emma screamed in pain Stevens turned her head and whispered "Tell Laura I said hello" before pushing Emma on the floor watching her bleed out.

"NOO" Dennis screamed, falling on the floor next to Emma, watching her gulp as the blood covered more of her shirt. Dennis urged a little bit before tearing off his shirt and applying pressure to the wound.