The Return

Chapter Four

He pushes Janet and Lin into the corner with the others, looking over them. "Theres three of you missing...don't worry, I'll kill you all soon enough." He says with a smirk, eyeing up everyone. He sees Jamie and Sam, tilting his head. "Well well well, who are these pretty faces?" He says and approaches them, Jamie clinging to Janet and Sam gulping, moving back slowly. Bill grabs a lamp and goes for a head smash, but the burnt face animatronic shoots out his knee with shotgun. Bill falls to ground with a scream, Jamie and Janet kneeling at his side.

"Don't you DARE touch them..." Lin says and He smirks, coming up to her. "Or what? Jacob is dead, and I have you all in a corner, cowering, fearing for your lives." He says and Dr. McCain slowly approaches. "Now you don't know me, but I've heard about you. Maybe we can work something out?" He says with a very nervous tone, and to which the only reaction He has is firing the shotgun into the Doctors chest. Lin screams out and goes to punch Him, but He blocks her punch and hits her in the face with the butt of the shotgun, knocking her to the floor. Sam falls to her side and helps her sit up, He points the shotgun at Lin.

Lin sits up, getting up enough to press her forehead to the barrel. There was a long, intense silence as Sam watches in horror. Just as He begins to squeeze the trigger, the animatronic from the basement bursts through the door and tackles Him. The shotgun goes off, just barely missing Lin. The two robots wrestle each other, throwing the other through furniture. He gets the upper hand though and pins the animatronic down, picking up the shotgun and aims it at its head. There was a loud bang, and He yells out and drops the shotgun. His arm was barely attached, hanging by a single wire. He quickly jumps out the window and disappears into the dark of the night.

Sam helps Lin up and they hug tightly, then look to see where the bang came from. A woman steps into the room, holding Lins hand cannon with a smoking barrel. Lin looks closely and discovers who it is. "Alice! Thank god you got here just in time." She says and Alice smiled, they hug tightly. "Somebody call an ambulance!" Jamie yells out and they look at her. Bill was looking pale, Janet and Jamie applying pressure on his knee wound. Sam calls the police and shortly after, the police and ambulances arrive.

They put Bill in an ambulance and Janet goes to climb in. "Mom...I don't want to go to prom with dad in the hospital..." Jamie says hugs herself and Janet comes over and hugs her. "You only get to go to prom once, and I want you to experience how much fun it is." She says and Jamie looks at her, sniffling a little. "I-I  don't even have a date..." Jamie says and Janet sighs and looks down. "I-I could go with you." Sam says, her mouth moving faster than her brain. Jamie looks at her in surprise, taking a step closer. "Really? But we just met." Jamie says and Sam blushes, rubbing the back of her head. "Yeah, but this trip is making me miss my prom, so I figured why not?" Sam says and Lin groans and rubs her temples. "Oh god Sam, I'm so sorry..." she says and Sam hugs her. "Its okay mom, I'll go with Jamie, if she wants-" Sam begins to say, only to be interrupted by an impressively strong bear hug from Jamie. "Thank you thank you thank you!" She says and Sam blushes, smiling and patting Jamies head.

Janet goes in the ambulance with Bill, Jamie going inside to pack stuff to stay with Alice along with Sam and Lin. Alice takes them to her apartment, Lin looking up at the apartment building she had once called home. They go up and into the apartment, Lin looking around. It hadn't changed much, from a physical perspective. There was a man in the kitchen a baby boy in a highchair. "Hun, I'm home!" Alice says and the man comes over and they kiss. Lin watches and smiles, sitting her bag down with Sams. "Lin, this is John, my fiance and that baby boy in the kitchen is Jason." Alice says and Lin shakes Johns hand. "I've heard quite a bit about you Lin, sorry about Jacob." He says and Lin sighs, shrugging a little. Alice and John go into the kitchen and Jamie sits on the couch, Sam turning to Lin. "Mom, I need a new dress." She says and Lin smiles, nodding. "We'll go dress shopping first thing tomorrow morning." Lin smiles and they hug, Sam going and sitting next to Jamie.

Sam and Jamie get to talking as Lin approaches her old bedroom door. With a deep breath, she grabs the doorknob and turns it. The door opens into the room and shows it looks almost exactly the same, just with some boxes stacked in the corner. Lin walks along the edge of the room, running her hand along the dry and paint peeling wall. Lin hadn't realized it till now, but the living room was a nice blue color compared to the dull gray it once was. Alice enters and leans on the doorway, Lin looking at her. "We tried to leave it as untouched as possible. I have some clean sheets for the bed." Alice says and pulls sheets out of the closet and Lin smiles. Together they fix up the bed and puts her clothes into the dresser. To her surprise, Jacobs clothes from twenty years ago remain there. "I didn't feel like it was my right to get rid of them." Alice says and Lin just stares at them, fighting back tears.

Later that night Lin had changed into pajamas and was laying in bed. Against her better judgment and what Dr. McCain would have said, she had pulled out one of Jacobs old shirts. She sat on her bed, laying the old shirt out infront of her. She started to tear up and cry, putting her face in her hands. Despite being untouched for years and covered in dust, it still smelled like him. Lin finally gathers the strength to put the shirt back in the drawer and calms herself down. She peeks out the door to ask if Sam was coming to bed, only to find her and Jamie cuddling on the couch. Jamie had fallen asleep and was nuzzling into Sam as she turned off the tv put an arm around Jamie. She pulled a blanket over them and closed her eyes, Lin smiles and silently goes back to her bed. She climbs under the covers and closes her eyes, eventually drifting off to sleep.