The Dark Ones

Part 12

Chapter 20 - Answers

Connor looked around at the others who were blank in the face, it was like they knew that this was what could happen if Shane was pushed to his limits. Once the courage was built up, he strode into the office to question the mad man. Across the floor, careful not to step on the debris and into the office. He pushed open the door..

"I was partly expectin' this, so Connor, what do you wanna know?" Shane turned his chair around and looked at Connor with the kind of look that you see in a heavily suicidal 35 year old man, he was wiping the blood from his face and he had already stored Lukes arm in a glass box and it was already on his shelf.. he was keeping it as a trophy for some reason.

"I.. uh.. What the fuck was that back there?!" He was completely confused and slightly angry.. mostly disgusted, but aside from that he looked at the man sat in the chair, soaked with blood, and looking like he's ready to take the plunge.

"Luke has been one of my most formidable enemies, but today.. he crossed a line, if anyone wishes to see tomorrow, if they want to live out their pathetic lives without any other problems than their bodies slowly dying, then there is one thing you need to do.." By this point, Shane had got up from his desk and was staring Connor in the face like the mad man he was. Connor answered with a shaky voice "What?" then Shane leaned back, grabbed Connors shoulders and whispered.. "..you don't insult my family.. got that?.." Connor nodded with fear in his eyes, he was shaky, but Shane let go and sat back down at his desk. "..Run along now, join the others, I'll be out later." With a snap of his fingers the door was open and Conner was with the others.. like that conversation never happened, but it very clearly did.. didn't it?

Chapter 21 - The Scars

By the time the dust settled, everyone was doing their own things, Ray was reading, Mitch and Christine were in the gym, Shane was changing out of his blood-soaked clothes.. and Conner was spying on him.. No, No!.. before you assume that, he wasn't perving on Shane, he was getting a closer look at the nut case to see what really makes him tick.. get your mind out of the gutter you detty pig.. anyway..

Shane was stepping out of the shower, he had a towel around his waist and a toothbrush in his mouth. Connor managed to sneak in a glance through the bathroom door to see what he would do, but what he saw made every little piece come together on why he was so bat-shit crazy.. in a glance everything made sense..

'Oh.. My.. God.. He's absolutely shredded.. God damn.. I can see why Ray takes a liking to him.. at least I think.. but DAYUM!!' He was about to turn and leave until he decided to take a closer look '.. Oh.. My.. God.. He's completely coated in scars, but why are they so deep and why are there so many? Is it self-harm? Is this why he wears long sleeves most of the time? How long have they been there? Do the rest of the team know? Just how many are the-' He was cut off from his train of thought by the sound of an electric toothbrush and an unlocking of the door.. Connor quickly ran off and hid.

Shane poked his head out of the door, looked around and then went back in. Now Connors head was racing with thoughts and feelings he had never felt before..

'Is he ok? Will he tell the others? I want some ribs. Dunno about you, but Christine be lookin' thicc. But will Shane be ok?' With that, Connor took off to the bar to try and make sense of it all.

Hello again, I know it's been a while, but you try having several people come to your profile and make sexual comments and spamming your page, top that with mental health issues and cabin fever and you have yourself the situation I'm in. But I'm not here to get angry, I'm just here to inform you that I'm going to do my best to get this book finished, then I'll have the second book out for ASAP after the fact. That'll be all

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- Sh4ne