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SPOOKYOQ DAY FOUR- BANG!

Trigger warning for gun violence and sexual violence

Regina

The meeting had been a dull one, completely filled with whiny citizens and their mundane complaints. I sighed and nodded absently as I scribbled their woes down, looking up at the filled rows of the council room.

My smartwatch buzzed and I looked down to see dozens of unread text messages from Robin who was tasked with picking up the boys since I would be running late. However, a loud sound caused the room to jump, the doors flying open from the forceful kick.

"Where's that bitch!" A gruff voice shouted, causing the room to shriek then fall eerily silent. I looked up from my notes to find Dr. Whale in the doorway, his pupils enlarged for me to notice from where I was sitting, a glock pistol in his right hand.

"Nobody move a muscle." He ordered, cocking the gun as a loud threat of what he would do to anyone who disobeyed.

"What do you want, Whale?" I asked, trying to remain calm as I stared death in the eye. Ashley's baby shrieked and I watched him go rigid at the sound. The young mother was anxiously trying to silence her in the car seat, but the doctor's hand was already reaching towards the princess' chest, the gun firing into her torso, the young boy beside her screaming until a woman clamped her hand over his mouth, shielding his eyes.

"I want you to shut your fucking mouth." He whispered slyly, his tone completely insane as he began to walk up and down the aisle of the court room. His gun fired once more and I heard a woman scream, followed by a thump of dead weight on the wooden pew. The deranged doctor sauntered over to the door and slid the flagpole through the handlebars so nobody could get in or out, making a lump form in my throat.

My hands shook and I swiftly reached over and hit the call button on my watch, muting the other line so somebody could hear what was going on.

"Mayor Mills, or should I say Mrs. Mills?" He asked with a maniac smile, tapping the gun on his leg as he made his way towards my desk. I swallowed thickly and watched as a familiar silhouette formed by the glass doors, my husband appearing with a horrified expression on his face.

"That's me." I answered, making him loop around my desk and grab my arm painfully, dragging me out of my seat and onto the hard marble floor, forcing the leather cuff on my arm. "Why did you have to get married! You knew I wanted you- you knew that everything I did was for you! I brought back your dead lover, I saved your son!" He argued, looking up at the cowering citizens who were trying to hide behind pews.

"I WANT YOU TO LOOK!" He screamed, the gun going off once more, another scream filling the air as whimpers became more prominent in the room.

"And you still married him!" He screamed, grabbing my chin painfully to face him.

"Look, this is clearly about me, let them go." I began to bargain, but he sneered at me and released my face, slamming the butt of the gun into my temple. Splitting pain filled my vision as I watched blood trickle onto the white marble. I gasped and caught myself, carefully pulling myself back into the sitting position.

"All I wanted was you! You refused to bring my brother back- so it is only fair I get you instead!" He screamed like a maniac, the gun firing into Granny, making her scream and slump into the pew.

"Listen! Okay, I'll be yours, but you let these people go, now!" I shrieked, pulling my wedding band and engagement ring off, showing him as proof. He grinned and I watched as he began to toss people out of the room, slamming them into the locked door. Someone slid the spear out and burst the doors open.