To Control The

Back Story of Damien Raines

         When a 10 year old boy sees a tragic accident unfold that consumes his entire world, will he too become what it is that his father became or will he try to be a better man?

      Damien had a loving father and mother. His father was in charge of a huge lumber company and his mother was a waitress at their local diner in Chicago. His father was a sweet man with ambitions for his family to be the best they could be. He would enroll little Damien in baseball, basketball, or whatever sport he most desired for him. His mother was a hardworking woman, then one day his father goes away for the weekend for a big project of lumber in New York.
     His mother sneaks a man she has met at the diner into their home and tells Damien that he shouldn't tell his father what she is doing or she will punish him and sleeps with the stranger as little Damien watched his mother from the little crack of the door and on that night Damien made his decision. Little did she know that her controlling husband had wired cameras all over the house without her knowing. That day his father came back and went to his study to calculate the numbers of lumber they had collected, as Damien walks into his father's' study to tell him, his father is already watching the tapes. Later on that day, his father is fueled by rage of his wife's infidelity and beats her in front of Damien and he begs her to tell him where the man lives, and she does. Soon after, his father brings the man who slept with his wife into their home and ties him up to a chair and tapes his lips shut to dismiss his cries and pleas of forgiveness.
     Damien watches frightened of his father's doings, but slowly watches more as his father tells Damien to grab the canister of gasoline and pour it on the strange man. The strange man then begins to murmur pleas to stop Damien, but he doesn't. Tears flow from Damien's little green eyed face as his father tells him to hand him a lighter and he does and his father sets the strange man on fire in front of his crying, screaming mother. His father then goes to his mother laughing that her lover is now dead before her eyes. He pins her down as she kicks and screams for Damien to help her as he hides behind the couch as he listens.
         His father pulls a knife out and slits her throat and she begins to choke on her own blood as she whimpers for Damien to save her. His father laughs as her body goes lifeless. He turns to Damien and says, "Never trust women. They'll be just like your slut of a mother, if you don't have a handle on them. Got it boy?" Damien watched as blue and red filled the walls and windows of the room. The police pounded on their front door aggressively and finally knocked the door down and saw the gruesome scene that had happened to his mother and the strange man. All that was heard was a laughing father and a ten year old boy silently sobbing.