THE HOMECOMING!

CHAPTER III

Just as Daniel begins to blister the left cheek on Toby's face, he hears what sounds like a car pull up. Putting the torch down, Daniel walks towards the front door and sees Franklin and another officer get out. Ducking behind the door, Daniel hides as Franklin runs to Toby and the other officer pulls his gun. Daniel hits him in the back of the head! As Franklin sits a weakened Toby in a chair, Daniel steps out to introduce himself.
"Well, well. Lookie here, my youngest brother! How you doing, Franklin? I'm the eldest bastard child of that son of a bitch in the chair! Name's Daniel. And I am something that nobody but the devil himself would dare claim as his! Now, take a seat."
"No thanks, Danny ol' boy. See I've been reading up on your exploits all over the Nation. Seems you are quite the sought after guy, wanted for at least forty seven death's, linking to your serial killer modus operandi. And I know that you escaped from that asylum on the east coast, too. So, if I were to capture you, it'd more than make my career!" And Franklin pulls his gun and points it at Daniel.
"I don't like guns being pointed at me, young brother."

Nell comes down the stairs and stops about two thirds the way down, and sees her son's pointing guns at each other!
"See the trouble with having a partner is that you are responsible for the well being of that person, right?" And Daniel lowers shotgun to the head unconscious partner of Franklin!
Disgusted with himself, Franklin puts his gun back in the holster, and sits next to Toby.

"Well, what's your play now, little wussy boy?" Toby says sarcastically.
"My play is to do just as you've done to me! I'm going to burn your life to the ground! You'll beg me for the sweet freedom of death before I'm through! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

Nell, now sitting near the window in her sewing chair, watches in utter bewilderment at the way they talk to each other, the amount of violence and death each says to the other. But she is upset more when Toby and Franklin begin teaming up on Daniel. She wrings her hands, tears falling from her wrinkled face.

"I'm telling you, Danny boy, I'm going to get you and then I'll be the biggest hero cop in history! My face will be on TV more than anyone's!"
"Yeah! And Frankie here is a crack shot! He can blow your head off at 100 yards!'

Daniel points the shotgun at Franklin and then Toby...back and forth, until...
CHAA-BOOOOM!!

Nell screams! She jumps up and runs to Toby...he's okay! And Franklin... okay also. But the table leg between them is shattered.

"Daniel, stop all this. Just go, let things be!"
"Momma, I told you about the reason I'm here. And that rat bastard you're married to is going to die...in the most gruesome display of blood and guts! Then...well, I got some other business to attend to then."
"What...other business, Daniel? Franklin here... your younger brother?"
"Yeah, dear old brother. See he revealed how he felt about me earlier, before getting to know me! See, there's a gnawing in my soul...a compulsive drive! So, instead of us possibly bonding with time, now it's going to be blood in, blood out!"
"But why? What are you going to get out of them being dead at your hands? It just leads to more killing! Put an end to this, now!"

Franklin interrupts "You know, I'm curious. How many women have you killed, Daniel? Don't the psychologist always say it's the mother's fault? Your going to kill her too aren't you?"
Daniels eyes glint in a way that causes Nell to gasp. He chucks the shotgun away, grabs the still out cold Officer gun, and calmly walks up to Franklin. With a slight smile, Daniel cocks the hammer and puts between Franklins eyes, and tells him in a low key voice "You...do..NOT KNOW ME!! I'm not here to harm her....but you...well, yeah!"
With that, Daniel puts the gun on Franklins knee and KABLAMM!!

Nell runs to the bathroom and returns with towels and tape! Toby just laughs, until Daniel puts the barrel of the .357 magnum in his mouth, and asks Toby "By the way, when you sold your soul  to the devil...has it...been worth it?"
Daniel removes it from his mouth and grabs a long 👂 pulling it aways from the head and blows it totally off!
Just then the other officer wakes up and leaps on Daniel back! They struggle with each other and Daniel slams him on to the floor! He then fires two slugs in Franklins partner!

"For now I must take leave, but worry not. I shall return! Until then, a reminder...I am the things that go bump in."

Daniel then dances out the door and is gone!