More Evil Than Before

Chapter 17: The Other Side

Rays of sunshine peak over the valley, leaving soft rays of sunlight to rest down on the charcoal rubble of their house. The rubble underneath Jasmine's foot crunches, as she walks through the rubble with the heavy box pressed to her chest. Lilly walked beside her mother, through their crisp house to the very corner where their bathroom once stood. Only the frame of the first floor to their house remains, but they are fragile, any sudden movement could send them falling.

When they reached the bathroom area, Jasmine tells Lilly to sit down. Lilly obeys her mother's orders by sitting down in the middle of the charcoal floor. Jasmine places the box just outside of where she planned to make the pentagram. She pulls out the red chalk and brings it to the ground. As she writes, the chalk falls off the edge with ease she creates the pentagram around her daughter. Next, she pulls the red and black candles out of the box, and places them in the same places as before. After she finishes, the instructions change. Jasmine squints at the paper as she struggles to read Annabelle's chicken scratch handwriting. She bites her lip before she reaches into the box, her hands move the objects around in the box, to reach a small vile, hidden inside the bottom of the box. It doesn't take her hands long to feel the cold glass vile, it's the only thing made of glass in the entire box. She lifts the glass vile out of the box, and examines it closely. The vile read "cure" in Annabelle's handwriting on a small white ribbon that was wrapped around the neck of the vile. Jasmine grasped the vile in her hand, before placing the vile in Lilly's hand.

"You have to drink it, but -" before Jasmine could finish her sentence, Lilly drinks the entire vile in one swallow. 

Jasmine's eyes bulges out of her sockets, as she sees her daughter start to shake violently. Lilly's mouth spills yellow foam as her eyes roll back into her head.

Quickly, Jasmine pulls herself together to shout the spell.

"Separate thy evil from they good, sep-" Jasmine shouted, before Lilly fell to the ground, her entire body going limp.

Darkness enveloped Lilly's vision, but seconds after her vision became clear. She saw a bathtub in front of her, it was perfectly white. She looked to her left and saw four gallons of bleach sitting closely to the tub. All of the bottles sitting there had their caps taken off, so Lilly peered into the bathtub, and saw it. The bathtub was filled with bleach. The smell started to burn her nose hairs, so she pulled away. Lilly wondered if this was her own memory, but as she looked around the bathroom, nothing seemed familiar. The towel rack was hung up on the wall, instead of the basket Lilly and Jasmine used, and the bathroom in this memory didn't have any mirrors.

Suddenly, a low gruffy voice shouted a name, but it wasn't Lilly's. He shouted the name again, as he burst into the bathroom.

"Ethan!" The man shouted, as he stared into Lilly's eyes.

The man had a brown beared that stretched to the beginning of his neck. With a brown mustache that flowed into his beared. The man also had muscles that popped out of this red flannel. The sleeve cuffs had spots of white on them, that was unnatural for the shirt. He wore purple medical gloves that held tight to his hairy hands. 

The man's eyes narrowed as he stared at her.

"Get in" the man spoke.

"Daddy no!" Lilly's mouth moved, as a young boy's voice spoke.  

"You don't deserve pity after what you did to your mom!" The man shouted, as he inched closer. 

"I didn't mean to kill her, I was just a baby!" The boy's voice cried.

"Shut up, you dirty little killer!" The man shouted, before launching at Lilly. 

"No!" The boy shouted, as tears fled Lilly's eyes. 

The man grabbed Lilly, both hands around her chest. His grip is strong as he dumped her into the bleach. He back hit the tub hard, but that pain was nothing compared to the burning of her skin. The man grabbed a sponge from behind one of the bleach bottles and dipped it into the bleach. He then pulled the sponge out, before scrubbing hard into Lilly's skin. Lilly couldn't control her movements, they were all Ethan's. He squirmed in the tub, trying desperately to get out. He pushed his wet hand into his father's chest, but all that did was stain his shirt.

"Stop it!" Ethan yelled through Lilly's mouth. 

"Not until you are clean," His father replied, clenching his teeth together strongly as he said clean. 

His father scrubbed him down until every inch of him was considered clean. When he was finished, he pulled Lilly out by her sides again, and placed her on the bathroom floor. 

"I hate you," His father said before leaving the bathroom. 

Lilly  looked at his arms and his legs, they were slimy and pale. His little leg hair was no longer brown, it was blonde. 

Suddenly, Lilly fell into darkness. She was back inside her mind. Ethan stood there his eyes full of tears, and for once in Lilly's life her heart ached seeing him, knowing that was his memory, but the pain only lasted a second.

"You weren't supposed to see that," Ethan muttered softly.  

"Just because your father treated you like that doesn't mean you are forgivable for what you did to me!" Lilly shouted through tears. 

"He made me believe kids were mother killers, and that I was a murderer" Ethan said, as tears fell down his cheek. 

"I don't care!" Lilly shouted, "You are your own person in charge of your own decisions!" 

He wiped his tears away, as his eyes focused in on Lilly. 

"You're right," Ethan said in a normal tone, "and I don't regret a thing" 

"Get out of my head!" Lilly screamed

"I can't control that, it's all up to your mother's ability to perform the spell," Ethan said with a grin on his face.  

Suddenly light burst into Lilly's eyes, she was back in the real world. Her mother wasn't saying the spell anymore, she sat in front of Lilly outside the pentagram. 

"Get him out," Lilly told her mother in a stern voice. 

Her mother nodded, and started the spell again, hoping that the cure was still active inside Lilly's body.