Henry's Monsters

Bodies and doors

Chapter 5: Chloe P.O.V

I laid down next to Aidan my eyes became droopy and I fell asleep and his arms went around me. I leaned up against his chest. The cold air surrounded me, but his warmth kept me comfortable. Then I felt eyes fall onto me.

I felt a feeling of being watched. I peeked out my tired eyes and saw no one. My eyes became heavy and I could no longer open them. I was so tired. Aidan held me close to him. I felt his safety. He wouldn't let me get hurt.

A few hours past and I was in a deep sleep.

Then a loud noise woke me up and I sat up very quickly. The small alarm clock next to the bed read 11:30 pm. It's not even midnight yet. What the hell was that?

I ran down stairs and saw a vase shattered on the floor. The fire place roaring and the heat beaming off the flames. Henry was no where to be seen. Then it seemed to be the hallway with doors each of them were opened a small bit and each had a sound coming from them.

A voice spoke and then it would stop and repeat. Then I saw the library door open a jar. The stench I smelled earlier leaked from the open door and I covers my nose. I walked closer and saw bodies hanging from the ceiling and heads stabbed onto wooden stakes that were placed around the room.

I stepped back and screamed by held my mouth and it was muffled. Then I stepped back into something. I turned around to see Henry.

"I told you the library was off limits!" He said and I screamed out loud and he grabbed the back of my shirt and dragged me into the library. I saw how the bodies were hanging and the marks and burns across their arms and chest. A woman's face was totally destroyed and burned. Women had dove and bat wings stitched to their backs looking like angels and devils. My heart stopped when he chained me to a shelf surrounded by severed heads of men and they all looked at me. Their blank lifeless eyes looked at me like they were calling for help.

Scared half to death I screamed my heart out.

"CHLOE!" Aidan said and I could hear him running down the stairs. Henry reached over to the side of him and grabbed a long sword covered in blood and he held it in his hand. Aidan came bursting in the room and stopped when he saw the dead bodies.

He looked over at me.

"Let her go!" He yelled and Henry held up the sword pointing it at Aidan.

"I'll let her live if you take her place" Henry said in a sick disgusting way. Aidan stood scared half to death.

"Aidan just go! Run!" I told him. He ignored my plea and ran at Henry. In a quick motion Henry simply moved his wrist and the sword turned and made contact with Aidan's neck. Then the sword swiftly severed Aidan's head from his shoulders.

I screamed as Aidan's head fell to the floor and blood flowed from the open cavity of his body. Screaming my lungs out and my head became light and I fainted from lack of air.