 
MY

LITTLE

ANGEL

### BY J.P. ROCHE

### My Little Angel

J. P. Roche

Copyright 2011 by J.P. Roche

Smashwords Edition

### CHAPTER 1

### EXETER, CONNECTICUT

NOVEMBER 23RD, 2005

### A family of three is driving through a quiet town, heading for a long awaited second honeymoon. Joe, a thirty eight year old theologist, his wife JoAnne and their daughter Tabitha were heading for their first real vacation together ever. They would not be leaving the resort until January of 2006.

### Unexpectedly, out of no where, a deer jumps out of the woods in front of the car. Joe slams on the breaks and' swerves to avoid hitting the magnificent animal.

### "Jesus fucking Christ", he yells as he swerves back into the right lane.

### Out of the back seat comes a little voice," Dad, Jesus wouldn't like that very much, it makes Him sad."

### Joe glanced into the rear view mirror after hearing the deep sorrow in his daughter's voice just in time to see the expression of sadness on her face. "Your right my little angel," he began, "I'm sorry."

### They pulled onto the road that led up to the resort. "Starview Drive", JoAnne said out loud, "I wonder what the view is really like." She continued not waiting for an answer, "They say this use to be a state school where they did terrible experiments on their clients."

### "Yeah," Joe responded, "then I understand it became a prison and now, go figure, it's an upscale resort."

### "Dad does it have a pool?" Tabitha asked.

### "If it does I hope its inside and heated!" Joe answered, "It's in the forties right now, a bit to cold to swim outside"

### As they drove up to the main office the wind started to pick up. "I'll be right back," Joe said as he parked the car. "I'm going to go register and get the room key." Turning off the car he jumps out and quickly heads for the office door.

### He opened the office door and a blast of hot air hit him,"Nice and warm in here!" The two at the desk turned simultaneously to greet him.

### "Good morning sir, do you have a reservation?" the woman asked.

### "Yes it is under DeLaRoche, party of three."

### "Here it is," the gentleman exclaimed as he rustled through the reservation book," two adults and one child, correct?"

### "Yes sir that's correct"

### "We have you booked into the Shepherd Building. Our names are Timothy and Denise Hampshire" the woman said," We will be your host, anything you need please let us know. Dial extension 300 day or night."

### "Thank you, and how do we get to the building?"

### "You go straight up this hill, make a right at the recreation building, at the stop sign go left, make your first right and it's the building on your left. All the buildings are marked very well, and there are signs to direct you as well." Tim answered him. "Do you want to charge this to the credit card that you gave us over the phone?"

### "Yes please. Put all charges on that card if you would." He turned with the room key in hand and headed for the door.

### Joe had decided to take his loving family on this trip while he was in prison in Iraq. He had been arrested for taking a picture of the ancient site of the Tower of Babel, without a permit. Away from his family for three years he knew there was no way to make up for lost time. While in Iraq his wife had even threatened divorce and had an affair!

### They had talked and worked things out between them; Joe forgave her for her affair, always keeping in mind the story of the prostitute in the Bible. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Joe could cast no stones. Now they would spend six weeks by themselves at a large resort, a family together, Joe hoped forever.

### Soon, little did they know, evil would rear its evil head turning their world upside down again. An evil out of the depths of hell itself.

### CHAPTER TWO

### They Arrived at the Shepherd Lodge and found their room. It consisted of two rooms, both bedrooms, one with a single bed and the other with a king size bed. "Mum, I got this whole room to myself?!" Tabitha asked Jo.

### "I guess so; it looks like your father spared no expense on this trip"

### "Hey my family is worth it!" Joe exclaimed.

### Jo blushed, and as a tear ran down her face she said to Joe," How could I have ever thought of kicking you to the curb?!" She approached him and embraced him for what seemed like an eternity.

### "Hey you two, go on the internet and get a room would ya," Tabitha said. They all laughed and headed out of the room to meet the other guests at the lodge.

### There were nine other guests at the Shepherd Lodge. Scott and Clair Deavers who were on their honeymoon; Dani and Peter Cruz, Hollywood's top action film stars as well as being brother and sister; James Dupont, a Buddhist practitioner on a personal retreat from himself; Thomas Thompson, a man who was doubtful in everything that he did; Jan Cranmore, a partying, foul mouthed, sorority girl on the rebound; Holly Homes, a shy girl who kept to herself; and finally John O'Reily, the tough guy body builder.

### They all got to know each other a bit before heading out to the dining hall for lunch. It was now 11:30A.M. and most of them had been traveling all morning. Outside it was beginning to snow, and the dining hall was a good quarter mile down the road.

### They arrived at the dining hall a few minutes later. As they entered they saw that it was set up like a cafeteria with a couple vending machines. They all instinctively lined up and grabbed a tray awaiting the line server to come out with the food.

### Denise Hampshire came out from the kitchen, the menu was set, and no choices were available. On to each tray she scooped out orange mac and cheese, with pieces of ham mixed in.

### "We're paying three hundred dollars a day and this is what we get?!" Scott Deavers exclaimed in disgust. "I've never even seen orange mac and cheese!"

### "I wouldn't serve this to prison inmates," John O'Reily commented, "Where's the protein in this shit?"

### "I heard that this was a prison at one time," Dani Cruz interjected, "and a violent state school before that. Maybe it's left over food from that time period"

### "Is that true?" Thomas Thompson inquired of Denise.

### "Well," she paused for a moment to choose her words carefully," yes; it was a state school from the late 1800's till around 1985. It was closed down for a short period of time till the state reopened it as a minimum security prison. That was shut down in 1999 and remained closed until we bought the property in 2002. We had to spend millions to repair the buildings, take down the security fences..."

### Out of no where came an eerie cry followed by an evil sounding laugh. It seemed to be coming from below the floor.

### "What was that?" Jan Cranmore asked.

### "Creaky floor boards," Denise answered quickly. She smiled and headed back into the kitchen.

### "Floor boards?" Peter Cruz questioned," This floor is tiled and is cement underneath! That sure didn't sound like wood creaking to me!"

### It was left at that and everyone found themselves a seat and began to eat. They all agreed that the food was ok, but that the next days Thanksgiving dinner had better be up to expectations.

### "Excuse me, I have to use the ladies room," Clair Deavers said as she got up from the table and headed for the red door marked restrooms.

### Another sound from below, "I don't care what the innkeeper says, that's not the floor boards!" Jo stated, "Sounds like a child crying. The owners probably have children that they don't want us to know about."

### The others nodded in agreement. Suddenly a loud shriek came from the direction of the restrooms. Everyone got up and ran towards the door. "Tabitha, you wait right here and don't move." Jo instructed as she ran after the others.

### "Okay mum," Tabitha replied.

### As Jo ran thru the door Mr. Deavers had a look of terror and shock on his face. The others hurried him away from the bathroom door. "That's not my Clair," he was saying over and over, "THAT'S NOT MY CLAIR!!!"

### "Someone call 911," one of the guests yelled in midst's of the panic.

### Jo started towards the bathroom door, "Don't come any closer honey, you don't want to see this." Joe told her.

### "Why, what's going on?" she asked.

### "It's Mrs. Deavers, or at least it was." Joe answered. He looked down at the victim, Mrs. Clair Deavers, who they had just been eating lunch with a few minutes before; her stomach was ripped open and her rib cage exposed. The walls were dripping blood from all sides.

### Her intestines were strewn over the stalls like Christmas garland around a tree. Her eyes still opened reflecting the look of terror on her face. The remainder of her internal organs lay in a pool of blood around her. Whoever or whatever had done this was one sick brutal sick'o, Joe thought to himself.

### "Who could have done this?" he wondered out loud, "This is more brutal than anything I've ever seen oversees, and I've seen some pretty brutal things."

### "MUM MUM!!!" came a shriek from the dining hall. A frightened scream, both Joe and Jo ran back into the dining hall, Tabitha was no where in sight! A bracelet that Joe had brought back from India for her was laying on the floor where she had last been.

### "Where is she," Jo screamed, "Where is she!!" She headed outside yelling for her daughter over and over again. Joe was right behind her yelling for his little angel.....there was no answer.

### CHAPTER 3

### The sirens were getting louder and louder, the squealing of breaks could be heard outside the dining hall. There were two police cars, three police officers. The first to arrive came alone; his name was Max Freedman, a twenty five year veteran of the force and homicide detective.

### The other two, both sergeants, both detectives with the homicide division. Dennis Compton and Jennifer Electra, they had been partners since their academy days.

### Jennifer yelled over to her partner," You grab the AFIS kit and I'll grab the evidence bags and COC tags."

### "You got it." Dennis answered.

### The AFIS system was new to the department, it was a wireless computer system to identify, scan, and store fingerprints. The COC tags were attached to the evidence bags to show a chain of custody of who handled the evidence.

### The two rushed up the stairs and into the dining hall, Detective Freedman was already exiting the restroom area. He had a handkerchief over his mouth and looked extremely pale. "The victim is all over the women's rest room," he said to detective Compton and Electra. He pointed behind himself, "The perp is no where in sight."

### The two rushed past him, the door shutting behind them. In the dining room they could be heard," What kind of sick fuck could do something like this!?!?" The voice was distinctively Detective Electra's.

### "Oh god!" Detective Compton exclaimed in disgust. "I'll get the digital and video cameras out." He first pulled out his camera phone, snapped off a couple photos, and sent the pictures back to headquarters.

### Detective Freedman was speaking to the DeLaRoche's in the dining room, taking down a description of six year old Tabitha. Jo was very excitable about the whole situation. Joe tried to calm her while speaking with the detective, but it was of no use.

### Suddenly there was a shrieking cry coming from below where they stood. Detective Freedman turned to Denise Hampshire and inquired, "Is there a basement here?"

### "No", she responded, "There are old access tunnels from when this was a state school, but they where all sealed off years ago."

### "Can you show me the nearest entrance, or what was an entrance to these tunnels; the closest to the restrooms if you would?"

### "Why yes, there's a door under the stairs, but the stairs leading down to the tunnels are a dead end. It was sealed off."

### "Show me please," He motioned toward the door which lead back into the crime scene area.

### Instead of going right toward the rest rooms, the two of them headed off to the left, away from where detectives Compton and Electra were gathering evidence. A narrow hallway down the right side of the stairwell led to a metal door with a small window at eye level.

### Denise took out her keys to unlock the door. "That's strange the lock has been broken off," she exclaimed as she reached out to the padlock.

### "Let me take a look miss," Freedman said as he pushed by her. "Are there any lights down here?"

### "No," she replied, "the power was cut off to the tunnels many years ago. There was no use keeping power on to an area that was sealed off."

### Freedman grimaced and reached for his flashlight, shining it down the stairs. He could barely make out the bottom step and the wall at the end. "I've got to take a closer look. Please tell the other detectives where I have gone," with that he headed down the stairs.

### Denise quietly closed the door behind him and headed back to the kitchen to find Tim, her husband, to fill him in on what was going on.

### "Not again," Tim said in disgust when he heard the news, "I thought for sure that the seal would hold this time." He shook his head, "I'm going back to the office. Make sure you are vague about anything you tell them. I want to make sure everyone has paid in full for the full six week stay here." He headed for the office and Denise headed back to the guests in the dining room.

### "I'm not sticking around here," O'Reily said sternly, "the gym had better be opened; I need to work off this crazy lunch. Mrs. Hampshire how bout it, is the gym open?!"

### Yes, the recreation building should be open for use. When you walk in the gym is at the opposite corner on the other side." Denise replied with an obvious disgust in her voice at his demanding request.

### "Mrs. Hampshire, we are done collecting evidence from the restroom area," Detective Compton told her, "the coroner should be here shortly to recover the deceased. Once that is completed we will release the area back to you." Then turning to Mr. Deavers he asked," Would you like to accompany us to the morgue latter sir?"

### "Okay," he answered softly, still in shock over the days events.

### The coroner walked in the front door, Detective Electra pointed them the way, "Its all yours boys." Just then their radios crackled.

### "Freedman to Detective Compton or Detective Electra, over"

### "Go ahead sir, "Compton replied.

### "Locate Denise Hampshire and have her show you the door leading to the old tunnel system. I found part of the walled off area has been chiseled away from inside the tunnels. Also ask the DeLaRoche's what type of shoes their daughter is wearing."

### Compton turned to them, "Do you know?"

### "Yes, "Joe answered, "I bought them for her last night. They're pink and white running shoes."'

### Compton relayed the message. "Well bring them along with you," Freedman replied, "I'm in the tunnels holding a sneaker as they described."

### "Mrs. Hampshire where is this access door?" Electra demanded.

### "This way, quickly." She responded.

### They grabbed a couple extra flashlights on their way for the DeLaRoche's. As they headed down the stairs they heard a terrifying shriek, it was Detective Freedman.

### "Freedman!" Compton said into his radio, "Respond, respond, what's going on!!"

### There was no answer.....just silence!!

### CHAPTER FOUR

### The remaining Shepherd Lodge guests headed back to their rooms, all but Jan Cranmore, who headed to the gym to check out Mr. O'Reily. Denise Hampshire told the guests she would deliver that evening's meal to the lodge around six. Mr. Deavers, on the other hand, left the resort with the coroner so that he could be with his wife's remains and make the arrangements for her burial. He wondered what, and how, he would break the news to his in-laws, as they were married less than twenty-four hours prior to her brutal murder.

### The two detectives, as well as the DeLaRoche's, made their way down the stairs toward the old tunnel system. They squeezed thru the hole in the wall, "Freedman", Electra yelled out into the darkness of the tunnels. There was no response. She glanced over at Compton, nodding at each other, they both drew their guns.

### "Oh god, Tabitha," Jo exclaimed. She ran down the tunnel spotting one of Tabitha's running shoes, Joe and the two detective's right behind her.

### Jo fell to the ground where the shoe lay, picked it up holding it close to herself and screamed at the top of her lungs, "TABITHA", Then she began to sob uncontrollably Joe knelt next to her and tried to comfort her; she looked him in the eyes and exclaimed," Why did I trust you to bring us here, this whole thing was your idea!! Now my Tabitha is gone, this is your fault, "she pushed him away and continued sobbing bitterly.

### "Look, "Electra said pointing down one of the tunnels, "there's a light flickering up ahead. Let's all head there, we should stick together, we don't want to loose anyone else."

### Jo composed herself the best she could under the circumstances. She got up, still gripping the shoe tight, and headed with the others toward the light.

### As they came closer to the lighted area they could see that it was a chamber of some sort. They also noticed two legs protruding from the opening. They were those of Detective Freedman.

### They entered the chamber to see that it was a large room, on one side it looked like something out of the Spanish Inquisition , the other side of the room was set up as some sort of ancient pagan ritual alter.

### Detective Freedman was lying in the center of a pentagram, with candles placed and lit at each point of the star. A metal bar had pierced Freedman's head through the ear and exited the other ear. A gray matter mixed with blood was pooling around his head, dripping from the bar.

### Jo let out a shriek at the sight of the deceased detective and started to sob wildly again. She wondered where her daughter was, was she safe, or worse, would she end up like Detective Freedman. Her sobbing became uncontrollable; Joe put his arm around her and pulled her close, this time she did not resist. With her face buried in his chest, she eked out," What has happened to our Tabby?!"

### "I'm not sure." He responded, "But if I know my little angel, she has God right there with her."

### Hovering over Detective Freedman's body, Compton radioed headquarters, "Officer down, deceased. Requesting backup." There was no answer, only static, "Shit!!! The tunnels must be blocking the signal," he glanced over at Detective Electra, "Guess we're on our own."

### "Great," she responded with disgust in her voice. "Well let's see what we might be able to find here and then move on."

### On the wall of the sanctuary something was written. They moved closer and shined their lights on the writing, reading the phrase out loud together.

### "Here is the circle of rebirth....Seed becomes fruit....Fruit becomes seed....In birth we die....On death we feed. The circle is ever turning.

### Time of hag....Time of crone....Time of blood....Time of bone. This night the veil is very thin. Life goes out and death comes in. Open wide to all the fear. Know that from the darkness here. Life and light will rise again. As death goes out and life comes in."

### "What does it mean?" Electra asked.

### Joe spoke up," I've seen something like this before. I believe it's a ritual prayer of some sort, and a strong warning for us. I bet it's written in Freedman's blood as well. Look at the letters on the wall; they're dripping toward the floor, stretching out the letters."

### On top of the alter was a book, Compton started flipping through it, stopping to read a page here and there. "Fuck me!" He exclaimed as he read part of the book, "This is some sick shit," he slammed the book shut. "Let's get moving, this place is giving me the creeps, and our focus should be on finding Tabitha."

### "Right behind you," Jo and Joe said in unison. As they headed out, Joe glanced down at the book Compton was reading from, it was the Book of the Black Mass. Joe hurried after the others, wondering what all this might mean.

### They all stopped suddenly, as they could hear a creepy laugh coming from somewhere down the tunnel. Just as quickly as they had stopped they took off running toward the creepy sounds coming from the darkness ahead.

### As they entered the next cavern area Jo again let out a call, "Tabitha," she yelled at the top of her lungs.

### At that moment they heard a noise coming from directly above. Together they all shined their flashlights straight up, and it seemed as if a million eyes were staring right back at them. All four of them hit the floor and covered their heads as a swarm of bats flew at their lights with a loud shriek.

### As the shrieking and the sound of wings flapping let up, the sound of what seemed to be a child's voice could be heard. It was a chant that they heard, "Hoof and Horn....Hoof and Horn....All that Dies Will Be Reborn. Corn and Grain...Corn and Grain...All That Falls Shall Rise Again." Then the voice paused and as if speaking to the four still on the floor of the tunnels, "She's my pet now!!! You can never have her back!!!"

### Then, another voice, "If you keep her she had better behave, she's your problem." It was the voice of an older man, and much sterner he continued, "If you can't control your new pet, I'll take it away, skin it alive, and have it for dinner!"

### "You bastards, that's my daughter," Jo cried out, "She's mine, mine! If you harm her I'll track you down to the ends of the....," Jo's voice became inaudible as she once again began to sob uncontrollably.

### The older man answered saying, "Round the wheel of life we go....twisting....turning...quick and slow. Wending, winding....to and fro....reeling in to endings flow!"

### A laugh followed that was so evil that it could have come from the dark lord himself, Satan! Then as quickly as it started it faded off into the darkness of the tunnels. Then a shout, "Mum, Mum, Daddy," Tabitha was alive!!

### "Keep your pet quiet Andrew, or she'll become dinner!" The older man exclaimed from out of the darkness.

### "NO!!!," Jo shouted back at them.

### CHAPTER FIVE

### Jan Cranmore made her way through the gym to the weight room. She could hear the clanging of the weights before she had even reached the room. She rounded the corner and there was John O'Reily, shirt off, lying on a bench pressing up an amount of weight she could not add up in her head.

### "Hey there, are you coming back to the lodge for dinner tonight?" She asked in a very sensual tone of voice.

### "I'm kind of hungry right now," he answered her in a cocky tone, and looking her up and down.

### "Well," she said," I'm gonna go into the locker room, the men's locker room, and fresh' in up a bit. The men's locker room is closer after all, I hope you don't mind."

### "Don't mind at all. After a few more reps I'm headed in there for a shower, hope you don't mind."

### "Oh not at all," she winked as she slowly turned and walked away. She knew he was watching her and she was using it to her full advantage.

### John continued to lift weights as Jan walked off. Entering the men's locker room she removed her blouse, shoes and sweat pants. Standing in front of the mirror she admired her small breasts, and slender figure. She splashed water in her face and ran her fingers through her hair, then adjusted her bra, she was ready. She sprawled out on the locker room benches and awaited John's entrance. "He's gonna get the fuck of his life," she said to herself putting her finger in her mouth and smiling.

### Back in the gym, John continued with his workout. He paused and sat up on the bench, "Who's there? Jan is that you?" Glancing around he saw no one, one more set he thought to himself. He lay back on the bench, and looking toward the ceiling, noticed someone standing over him, "Who the fu...." John was unable to finish his sentence. The tall stalky man dressed in all blue stood over him with a seventy five pound dumbbell raised above his head.

### As John had begun to speak, the man brought the dumbbell down, smashing it into the center of John's face. The impact so intense that it instantly shattered his skull, his face being pushed to the back of his skull. His arms and legs quivered for a moment, and then his body went limp.

### The man exclaimed in an authoritative voice, "You're out of place inmate! I'm willing to bet this will be the last time you violate any of my rules!" The man grunted being proud of himself, turned and walked through a door in the weight room. The door led to a boiler room for the building.

### It was now five thirty in the afternoon, Jan was waiting in the locker room. "What the fuck," she exclaimed out loud, "is this asshole coming in here to fuck me or not!?" She paused a moment and shook her head. Getting up from the bench, still only in her panties and bra, she headed back to the weight room, "I hope he's not a genuine cocksucker; wouldn't that be my luck, a gay weight lifter."

### As she rounded the corner she unclasped the front of her bra, she then jumped into the gym doorway exposing her breasts, "Do ya like...." Her words turning into a terrifying shriek as she took in the horror that was perpetrated. Turning away from the gym entrance, she began to vomit uncontrollably all over the bleachers.

### She had just witnessed the dumbbell sitting in the middle of what was John's skull. Blood spatter was everywhere, and brain matter was stuck to and dripping from the walls and other equipment. The blow being so powerful that teeth and pieces of his jawbone had flown around the room and bits and pieces of the skull itself were hanging from the ceiling.

### Jan, severely shaken from what she had just seen, ran out the back door heading for the Shepherd Lodge to find help. There was now a good four inches of snow on the ground, Jan still only in her undergarments and bra unclasped, the wind at a brutal speed, Jan collapsed on the ground. Passing out, not only from the brutal cold, but also from the shock of what she had seen.

### CHAPTER SIX

### The two detectives and the DeLaRoche's continued through the tunnel system, moving quickly, yet very cautiously, toward the area they had last heard the two voices.

### "It would seem that we now have two UNSUBS," Compton said breaking the silence.

### "Either that or this psycho is one person with multiple personalities," Electra said in response.

### "Well the one who has my little angel is named, Andrew was it?!" Joe said.

### 'Andrew, yeah that was the name," Compton confirmed.

### As they continued down the tunnel system, they found animal carcasses strewn about. Rats, ground hogs, cats and even a few dogs here and there. "Is this what this sick'o is eating?" Jo wondered out loud in disgust.

### "Looks possible," Electra commented, "try not to look or think about it, keep your mind on your daughter." She advised.

### They came upon another cave like opening, it was about forty feet by forty feet, and again there was an alter. On the wall was painted a mans severed head on a silver platter. He had straggly hair and a full beard. Veins were pained coming out of the severed head and extending off the platter.

### Holding the platter with both hands was a young girl walking toward a group of people, an older woman had her hands extended out as if expecting to receive the platter from the young girl.

### Above the painting were painted words that read, "O Zakariya! We give you good news of a son; his name shall be Yahya; on none by that name We have conferred distinction before." 19:7

### "Now what is the meaning of this?" Electra wondered out loud.

### Joe came forward and took a closer look at the painting, re reading the writing above the depiction again. He had a look of shock and recognition on his face.

### "What is it honey," Jo asked quietly.

### "If I'm correct, "Joe began to explain, "The painting depicts the beheaded John the Baptist. The young girl would depict Herodias' daughter carrying the head to her mother. This is described in the Gospel of Matthew chapter fourteen," he paused for a moment and read the words above the painting once again.

### "The wording above seems to be, no it is, the announcement of John's coming birth. The only difference here is the name Yahya! While this does refer to John, it is only found in the Qur'an."

### "The Qur'an?" Compton wondered out loud.

### "The Islamic Holy Book, this must have been set up as a mosque for worship to Allah. I'm guessing that it was used by the old state school."

### "Hun, there's a pile of books over here in the corner," Jo announced from a corner of the room.

### Joe walked over to the pile and picked up one of the books," They are all in Arabic, and they are all Qur'an's!" He opened one of the books and then in amazement exclaimed, "It also looks as though they are all hand written!"

### "Interesting," Compton said, "but let's get the hell outta here."

### Elsewhere in the maze of tunnels, a little girl sat quietly in an old cell. She was kneeling in the corner with her hands together in front of her, whispering prayers of protection for herself and the others there. Tears were streaming down her face as she prayed.

### Outside the cell there was a fire burning, "What do you mean we have nothing to eat!?" a gruff voice said angrily. A shadow passed in front of the old cell, a tall, stocky man stood looking into the cell at the little girl.

### "No food, I think I've found our dinner," the man said in a sadistic tone of voice.

### The little girl looked up, Tabitha, looked straight into the eyes of the tall man in blue clothes and said calmly, "You can't come and get me, Jesus will protect me!" With that she bowed her head and continued to pray.

### The tall man in blue unlocked the cell door and thru open the door. He started into the cell to obtain his prey.

### CHAPTER SEVEN

### The four headed further into the tunnel system, a strong stench of urine and human waste became overpowering. All of them covered their nose and mouth with whatever piece of clothing seemed appropriate at that time and place.

### "Repulsive," Electra stated.

### "Look a set of stairs," Jo pointed out, motioning further down the tunnel. All four ran for the stairs and headed up them, detectives Compton and Electra leading the way, guns drawn. The door at the top was ajar; they pushed open the door and made a sweep of the room before allowing the De La Roche's to join them in the room.

### "Clear," Compton announced aloud.

### "Clear hear as well," Electra answered and then added, "Mr. and Mrs. De La Roche you can come in. We seem to be in a boiler room, no one else is here" As they looked around they noticed another door.

### "What is that coming out from under the door?" Jo asked pointing at the floor.

### Electra stepped closer and squatted down for a closer look. She put her finger into the liquid substance and announced, "Blood, "as she looked up at the others.

### "Shit, what this time," Compton wondered aloud as he once again drew his gun. He signaled to Electra to open the door. As she opened it he entered quickly sweeping the room.

### It was the weight room and just as fast as he had entered he spun around and vomited uncontrollably; on his partners shoes and pant legs. "Fuck'in A!" Electra shouted as she moved away as quickly as possible, "What the hell is in there?"

### "I think," Compton answered between gags, "it was Mr. O'Reily. It's kinda hard to tell as there are bits and pieces of him all over the room.

### Electra went to the door and peered in, "Oh god," she exclaimed with her hand over her mouth. She dry heaved a few times and then said to the De La Roche's, "Let's see if there is another door, you don't need to see that."

### They eventually found another door behind some ladders and plywood. Electra and Compton opened the door and again made a quick sweep of the area; they were now in the gym itself.

### "Let's head up to the lodge to make sure no one else is missing," Compton suggested.

### "What about our daughter?!" Joe said angrily, "I'm not leaving her down there with that sick'o!"

### "We just want to make sure everyone else is safe," Compton responded with little concern for the problem at hand.

### "Well I'm heading back down there to find my daughter," Joe said as he turned to leave with his wife, heading for the door to the boiler room.

### "Wait I'll go with you," Electra said quickly, "Compton, you head to the lodging area and get a count of the guests; I'll go with them back down into the tunnels and help look for their daughter."

### "Alright, I'll call the morgue to come for Mr. O'Reily's body. We should all meet back here in the gym. I think we should try and keep everyone together in one area." Compton turned and headed out the doors next to the weight room.

### He reached the top of the stairwell and attempted to open the back door to the rec hall and found it very difficult as snow had drifted up against the door. Once he got the door opened the strong winds and cold hit him hard. "Christ, there must be two feet of snow on the ground." He said to himself as he sunk up to his knees, "This ought to be fun," he added as he trudged through the snow toward the lodge.

### Back inside the gym the De La Roche's and Detective Electra headed together back toward the boiler room. "Hey, "someone yelled from across the gym, "who's there?" The three turned quickly to see Dani and Pete Cruz running toward them.

### "Where did you two come from?" Electra inquired.

### "The phone lines went down so we headed out in the storm to the office. It's all locked up and dark and the Hampshire's cars are missing as well," Pete informed them.

### "It looks like they packed up in a hurry and left," Dani added, "Did you find your daughter yet? What did you call her, your little angel, right?"

### "No we haven't found Tabitha as of yet," Joe answered, "and yes she is my little angel." His voice cracking as he finished his sentence.

### "Well we'll join you in the search," Pete offered, "Where do we start?"

### "Down," Electra said, "into the pits of hell." She motioned toward the boiler room, "I saw a couple of flashlights inside, let's hope they work."

### They found the flashlights and tested them finding them in good working order. They headed for the door leading down into the tunnels, Dani asked, "What ever happened to that body builder and the sorority girl? What were their names, John and Jan was it?"

### "Mr. O'Reily had his face smashed in; he won't be joining us for the rest of our lives." Electra informed them, "As for Ms. Cranmore I have no idea, we have not run into her. She wasn't at the lodge?"

### "No, "Pete answered, "We haven't seen her since lunch."

### "Well let's hope and pray she is alright," Jo said in an obviously depressed voice.

### "Have you run into anyone else?" Dani asked.

### "Detective Freedman has a permanent headache," Electra added quickly, "Let's get moving, we need to find Tabitha." Opening the door they headed down the stairs back into the tunnels.

### CHAPTER EIGHT

### It was dark by the time Detective Compton reached the lodge. Mr. Dupont greeted him as he quickly entered through the front doors. "Detective, you look terrible, can I get you a cup of coffee?" he asked.

### "Yes please, cream one sugar if you have it, "Compton responded.

### "Coffee pots broken," Mr. Dupont began, "but don't worry we came up with a way to make it."

### Compton watched in bewilderment as Mr. Dupont took, what looked like the toe of a sock, and stretched it over the top of the cup. He proceeded to put two small scoops of coffee grounds on the top of the sock. "At least we still have hot water," he exclaimed as he took the pot off the stove and slowly poured it over the grounds and it seeped through he make shift filter.

### "Ingenious," Compton said as Mr. Dupont handed him the cup.

### "Cream and sugar are over by the fridge, help yourself," Dupont motioned to the other side of the kitchenette.

### "Is anyone else here?" Compton asked as he stirred his coffee.

### "Only Tom Thompson, Holly Holmes and myself," he answered, "the Cruze's headed for the office about two hours ago now; haven't heard from them sense then. The only other thing is that the phone lines are down.

### "My radio isn't transmitting in this weather either," Compton said," has anyone heard anything as to when this storm will let up?"

"We've gotten about a third of what we're expecting," a voice said from behind them. It was Holly Holmes, Tom was right behind her and added," Their saying that it will be worse than the blizzard of '78."

### Compton shook his head as he starred out the window, "Great, "he said allowed, "Just great."

### CHAPTER NINE

### The tall man in blue entered the cell to get his hands on his dinner. With his tongue hanging out like a thirsty dog, he reached out to grab hold of Tabitha.

### Tabitha remained kneeling and silently praying until, "Son of a bitch! That hurt!" The tall man had not watched where he was going and hit his head on a rock protruding from the ceiling of the tiny cell.

### At the very second that the tall man screamed and looked up to see what he had hit his head on, Tabitha dashed out of the cell, going right between his legs. She headed straight down the dark tunnels until she no longer felt comfortable going any further at that time. She sat down and began praying again, this time thanking God for delivering her out of the hands of the evil man.

"Damn it Andrew, where did she go?"

"You let my pet out," Andrew cried," She was my pet, I caught her, mine, mine, mine!" He stomped away searching the general area. "Here my little pet, come back, come on home my pet." He started sobbing as his newly found pet was now gone.

### Tabitha sat quietly; she could hear the man calling for her, at times only what seemed like a few feet away. She closed her eyes and thought of her mum and dad, hoping that they would find her soon, or that she would find them. Tears began to roll down her cheeks.

### As the group of five made their way into the tunnel system Dani was the first to speak, "This is creepy," she stated.

"Think of how a six year old feels being alone in this place!" Jo shot back.

"Sorry," Dani apologized, "I didn't think of that."

"It's okay; I know you didn't mean anything personal by it." Jo said in response. "I'm just under a lot of pressure not knowing if my little girl is okay."

### There was silence for a few minutes as they continued through the tunnels. Electra broke the silence, "I think I see a flicker of light up ahead. Maybe another room of some sort."

"Another room?" Pete inquired.

"Already been through three, and don't ask, you really don't want to know any more about them," Jo answered, "I just hope that this one is not as weird as the others." Pete gave her a strange look and then shrugged it off.

### As they approached, the light became more and more visible and they could see that they were coming to another opening in the tunnel system. They entered the area a couple minutes later. Flowers were painted all around the walls and ceiling, and lotus petals covered the floor. There, like the other areas they had been in, was an alter. Yet this time there were two deities within the alter.

### There were also two paintings on the walls. The one on the left was a picture of what looked like a prince. His skin was blue and he was playing flute, sitting with his legs crossed. He wore yellowish golden pants with flowers decorating them. He wore no shirt and beads hung from around his neck.

### On the right was a beautiful girl with a long flowing robe. She also wore beads around her neck which extended almost the entire length of her body. Both paintings where very peaceful in nature.

### Between the two paintings were written sixteen words:

### Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna

### Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare

### Hare Rama, Hare Rama

### Rama Rama, Hare Hare

### Joe spoke up right away," The Maha Mantra," He exclaimed. "The boy on the left depicts Lord Krishna and the girl on the right is believed to be Krishna's most recent incarnation; her name is Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu."

### "Okay," Electra said looking at Joe as if he were nuts, "Let's keep moving." She motioned for them all to head down the tunnel. "Any more alters or anything of this sort and I'm gonna scream!" she added sarcastically as they all headed back into the darkness of the tunnels.

### After a few minutes Electra put up her hand for them all to stop, "Listen, "she whispered. As they carefully listened they could hear a little ways off someone else breathing. Electra drew her weapon as a precaution; they all shined their lights in the same area at the same time. Further down the tunnel they could make out the shadow of a young child.

### "Tabitha," Jo gasped. She began to run toward the shadow of the child.

### As they all drew closer they could now see that the child was kneeling and praying, "Tabby," Jo yelled.

### "Mum," Tabitha stood up with a smile on her face that stretched from ear to ear. As she stood a hand came from behind her and reached around covering Tabitha's mouth and yanked her backwards.

### "My pet! I found her! Finders keepers." The strange child like voice yelled out.

### As he turned to flee Electra yelled out, "Stop or I swear I'll shoot you dead you sick fucker." He didn't stop; as he rounded the corner with Tabitha, Electra fired her weapon, there was a scream.

### "It wasn't me; it wasn't me; she's my pet, you hurt me....." The voice trailed off until it could no longer be heard.

### CHAPTER TEN

### Dani and Peter sprinted off after the kidnapper. "Get back here you sick son-of-a-bitch, "Peter yelled.

### "Get back here you two," Electra yelled after them, "This isn't Hollywood, you could both get seriously hurt or even killed!" Her words went unheeded as Dani and Peter rounded the corner after the child like man.

### Jo had collapsed to the floor, pale, shaking and crying once again. "What does this sick'o want with my Tabby?" she said allowed, then looking over at Joe, her husband, said, "This is your fault, your fault!" she exclaimed as she pounded her fists against his chest.

### "This is no ones fault Mrs. De La Roche," Electra interjected.

### "Don't you stick up for this shit head!" Jo shot back, "He left me for three years, alone, no money, no home, nothing! All he had to do was buy a permit for taking pictures, but no, he had to do it his way, the shady way. Ends up in prison for three years in Iraq."

### "Okay, okay, I did not want to get in the middle of a family squabble." Electra said, sorry that she had said anything at all. "Let's just go find your daughter; she should be the most important thing for you to be thinking about right now!"

### Jo agreed, still in tears, she got up and walked next to Electra, as if her husband was not even there. Joe felt ashamed, degraded, and very hurt by her words. He took a couple of deep breaths and followed behind them, pushing his emotions deep within himself. It was a bad habit of his, he showed very little emotion, especially in the open with others around.

### There was a loud crash off in the distance; the three of them ran toward the noise. A ways down the tunnel, Dani and Pete had run into the tall man in the blue uniform.

### "Prisoners, trying to escape!" The tall man exclaimed in a gruff tone. "Death, you know. I could kill both of you right now." He paused for a moment and then continued, "They won't miss you anyway and both of you are outta place!" The tall man charged directly at them, he growled loudly.

### Pete dropped down and with both feet he connected with the mans knee caps. At the same time Dani swung off the beam from the ceiling connecting firmly with the mans face. The man fell to the ground like a ton of bricks, hitting his head against a pile of rubble.

### "I think he's knocked out," Dani observed out loud.

### "Or better yet, dead," Pete added. He walked over to the tall man, "It's a prison guards uniform. What's this?" He reached for a bracelet the man was wearing on his wrist. As Pete grabbed hold of the bracelet and began to turn it so he could read the inscription, the tall man lurched at him and stabbed Pete thru the forearm with a rusty spike.

### Pete screamed, as he instinctively moved quickly away from the man. As he moved away the bracelet on the mans wrist broke off into Pete's other hand. Pete scrambled to his feet, grabbed hold of his sisters arm, and they both ran further down through the tunnels.

### Another flicker of light was spotted up ahead; Pete and Dani did not stop running until they reached the opening. This time they found themselves in a Christian style chapel. There was a candle on either side of the alter and books on both the alter and the lectern.

### They sat on the steps that led up to the alter. Pete ripped off his t-shirt and outer shirt and laid them off to the side. Looking to Dani he asked, "Pull the spike out, fast. Don't tell me when, just do it!" He looked away.

### Dani took a deep breath, her eyes squinted, grabbed hold of the spike with both hands, then looking away pulled. Pete let out a loud scream, grabbing his t-shirt with his other hand, bit down on it, his eyes watering from the pain.

### Dani took his other shirt, ripped it into several pieces, and used it to bandage her brother's arm. At that moment Electra and Jo came running into the room. Joe followed a few moments later.

### "Did you get that sick fuck?" Pete asked the anger in his voice very apparent.

### "Who," Electra asked.

### "That guy in the prison uniform, he was dressed as a guard, about six four, stocky; how could you miss him?" Dani asked bewildered.

### "There was no one out there, unless they went down some other hidden tunnel or something," Joe said. He glanced down at his watch, 23:45 hours. "Maybe we should all rest here for the night, it's almost midnight and we've been chasing these guys for hours now. I'm quite sure they will have to sleep to. We can sleep in shifts, while others keep watch." Joe suggested.

### "Okay, but we should stay awake in two's." Electra suggested. "I'll take the first watch, shall we say ninety minutes per shift?"

### "I'll join you on the first watch," Jo offered, "I'll have a hard time sleeping anyway knowing my baby girl is out there somewhere."

### "Okay, you three, off to sleep. The pews may not be comfortable, but, it's what we got." Electra said to Joe, Pete and Dani pointing to the pews.

### Jo and Electra sat quietly on the steps, watching and listening; both obviously exhausted. The sound of three people snoring away soon filled the room.

### CHAPTER ELEVEN

### Joe sat up abruptly and looked around after hearing a loud explosion. Buildings were collapsing all around him, "What's going on?!" he yelled out loud, directing it at no one in particular.

### Someone suddenly came running up behind him, Joe spun around, "Stay away from me!" Joe yelled at the unidentified person, "I have a monkey on my back."

### Out of the sky, a Filigree Orthodox Cross came crashing down, imbedding itself upright in the pavement. It looked to be at least a hundred stories high! Was the second coming of Christ now at hand Joe wondered to himself?!

### Joe ran for an elevator, trying to assist others, yet no one would listen to him. People were being slaughtered in the streets by the thousands by men riding on black horses. Only the eyes of these men could be seen and they were as red as the blood they were spilling in the streets.

### The elevator had only two buttons, stop and go. Joe pushed the go button, and just as he did one of the horsemen looked directly at him. Joe knew at that moment that an unimaginable terror had come to the earth, and there could be no escape.

### The elevator lifted off the ground and hovered above the destruction below. The elevators were made to bring each family to their own sanctuary of sorts. The elevator stopped for a moment and Joe could see his sister and little angel, Tabitha, playing together in a toy room of sorts.

### One of the dark horsemen managed to somehow break into the safety of the sanctuary. He went straight for Tabitha!

### Joe quickly pushed the stop button and sprinted toward his daughter to save her life. Just as Joe got between his little angel and the horsemen, a sword appeared in his hand. As the horsemen rode closer he lifted his sword to take the soul of Joe's little girl.

### The horsemen was paying no attention to Joe, who jumped up, and with one mighty swing of the sword took the head of the horsemen clean off. The horse and the rest of the body vanished as the severed head hit the floor.

### Joe ran over to the severed head and ripped off the cloth that was covering its face, as he did he fell backwards, the face under the cloth was his own face!

### "Holy shit!" Joe shouted, sitting straight up on the pew, sweat pouring from his brow. It took him a couple of minutes to realize that it was just a dream he had had. He lay back down, hoping to fall back asleep, yet not wanting to experience another dream like that.

### Wake-up," Dani said as she shook Joe. He opened one eye and looked at her, "It's your watch, last one of the night." Dani told him grinning ear to ear.

### "I'm up, I'm up," Joe responded. It was him and Pete now until morning. "Hey Pete, "Joe said as he sat next to him on the steps, "What a night."

### "Why do you say that?" Pete asked," It's been pretty quiet all night from what I know."

### Joe shook his head, "I'll tell you some other time, let's just get through the rest of the night with no problems."

### CHAPTER TWELVE

### She awoke suddenly, not knowing where she was. It was damp and cool; with just a flicker of light now and then off in the distance. Her hands were bound behind her as were her feet.

### As her head cleared she thought she could hear others talking off in the distance; yet she could not make out what they were saying. One voice was deep and gruff, the other, high pitched, possibly that of a child.

### Her nose had been bleeding at some point as she could taste blood on her upper lip. "Fuck'in sick," she whispered out loud, "and what's that fucking smell?"

### Jan suddenly remembered what had happened, remembering Mr. O'Reily, she vomited again. Still only in her panties and bra, although her bra was now fallen down around her stomach, still tied in the back.

### The voices stopped. Sitting in complete silence, Jan was bound hand and foot, cold, damp, and topless. She let out a whimper; the ropes were cutting into her wrists. As she tried to free herself the situation was worsened as the ropes cut deeper.

### "Well it's awake," the tall stocky man in the blue uniform stepped suddenly in front of the cell that Jan was in. He carried a torch in one hand and keys in the other. He began to unlock the cell door.

### Jan screamed," What the fuck do you want with me you sick cock sucking freak?!" She looked up at him as he entered the cell, most of his teeth were missing, and he smelled as if he had not showered in years. The man reached out and grabbed her from behind.

### "Your lucky Andrew, I'm not going to have your pet for dinner tonight, I have a pet of my own." The man yelled out, almost as if he were talking to himself.

### Jan was helpless to do anything as the man was picking her up by the arm, practically lifting her off the ground. He dragged her toward the flicker of light that she had seen earlier. As they entered the strange room, he sat her down in a wooden chair that had cuffs both on the arms of the chair as well as on the legs.

### He cuffed up one leg to the chair, and then cut the rope holding her feet together. She tried to struggle but it was to no avail, he then cuffed the other leg securely to the chair.

### Next came the hard part for the man; he cut the rope holding her arms bound together. As he placed one wrist into the cuff on the arm rest, Jan came around with the other fist, connecting hard with the ear of the man.

### "Bitch," the man screamed out loud. He turned and smacked her so hard that he knocked her out cold. The man them proceeded to bind Jan's other wrist in the cuff on the other arm rest.

### The man stepped back, standing tall, He tilted his head slightly to the side, admiring his prize. He would have to gag her he thought to himself. "The last one made one hell of a ruckus." The man said out loud to himself as he grabbed a filthy rag in which to gag her with.

### Jan started to come to; as she did she tried to scream but realized quickly that she was now gagged. As she struggled, trying to free herself, she watched in terror as the man walked to the far end of the room to an old control panel of sorts. It was at that same moment that she noticed wires coming from the panel right to the base of the chair.

### "A low setting is best," the man said allowed," not much pain, and they cook evenly." The man still seemed to be speaking to himself.

### He adjusted a few knobs on the panel, and then pulled down a lever in order to make a connection between the panel and the chair. Jan could feel an instant tingling feeling running through her body. It reminded her of when she was much younger and she had tested a nine volt battery with her tongue.

### The man gathered up some tools off the floor by the control panel, he placed them on a cart in what seemed to be a very particular order. He then wheeled the cart over next to where Jan was seated and bound

### Jan glanced over at the cart; she saw a knife, a scalpel, a cheese grater, a hooked piece of metal and other strange looking types of tools. They were all rusted and dirty, Jan began sobbing uncontrollably. The man walked around behind her, where she could hear a low strange buzzing noise.

### "No, no" Jan tried to yell through the gag. The man brought the devise to the top of her head; he was about to shave.

### "Don't cook to well with hair, smells bad!" He said allowed as he began to shave her head. Terrified, Jan once again passed out.

### When he finished shaving her head bald, he realized that the gag was in the way of the next part of his meal preparation. While she was still unconscious he removed the gag, picked up a pair of clamps from the cart, opened her mouth and attached the clamps to her tongue.

### He reached over to the cart and grabbed hold of a rusty scalpel. Turning back to his meal he pulled out her tongue as far as he could with the clamps and sliced out her tongue with one swift cut.

### The man then took the bloody tongue out of the clamp, and then placed the clamps and scalpel back on the cart. Looking at her tongue in his hands, admiring it, tilted his head back, opened his mouth and dropped her tongue straight down his throat.

### He swallowed hard," Delicious," he said out exclaimed, "I hope the rest of you is just as tender." He said as he stroked the side of her face with the back of his hand.

### CHAPTTER THIRTEEN

### As the group began to stir, and awaken, they saw Joe up at the lectern reading out of one of the old books. "Fascinating," he exclaimed.

### "What ya find?" Dani asked as she headed up to the alter.

### "These books, their hand written like the Qur'an's were; the only difference here is that these writings were not discovered until nineteen forty five in Egypt." He then continued by stating, "The dates on the tops of these pages begin with the year eighteen seventy eight!"

### "What are you talking about?" Electra wondered out loud as she headed toward Dani and Joe.

### Joe glanced around the room at the paintings on the wall. The behind him was a replica of DaVinci's Last Supper, the left hand side was a replica of Tintoretto's The Wedding in Cana. This painting showed the bride and groom at the head of the table, the man at the head of the table appeared to be Christ!

### Under the painting it read, "Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them to the brim. And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bear it." John 2:7,8.

### On the right side was a painting that he was not so familiar with. It was that of a child being held by, as it appeared, Christ Himself. The same woman that was sitting next to Him in the Wedding of Cana painting was once again sitting with Him, was this his wife? Then it hit him, the paintings he was looking at depicted the legend of the Holy Grail and that of the Last Zion! The Gnostic writings about Christ's supposed life and marriage to Mary Magdalene.

### "What we are looking at," Joe began to explain in answer to Electra's question, "are the ancient stories of Jesus Christ. These particular paintings depict His alleged marriage to Mary Magdalene and the birth of their son named Gebiya."

### "Jesus was married?" Pete asked.

### "There is no real proof of these events." Joe answered.

### "I always thought that it was said that they had a daughter?" Dani stated looking confused.

### "Well the most ancient legends say that they had a son, and later, while in France adopted a daughter who they named Sarah." Joe began explaining.

### "But you can all ask more about it later," Jo interrupted, "Tabitha is still missing!" She walked over to the opening of the tunnels, "Shall we?" she said gesturing toward the opening then folding her arms in front of her.

### Everyone silently nodded to one another and headed down the tunnels. As he was leaving Joe took one last look around the room. He noticed a phrase on the wall which read, "Great is the mystery of marriage! For without it, the world would not exist." Then on another wall it read, "and there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen." John 21:25.

### As Joe turned he realized that everyone had already left. He ran down the tunnel in order to catch up with the others, when he did it seemed that they had not even realized that he was not with them.

### They all continued in silence down the tunnels, till Pete finally broke the silence. "Look up ahead, is that a ladder?!" He exclaimed pointing down the tunnel.

### "I don't know," Jo replied quickly as they hurried toward it.

### As they came closer they realized that it was indeed a ladder, an old wooden ladder leading up along the wall of the tunnel. The group followed it upward with their flashlights and found that it lead to a hatch, or trap door of sorts.

### "I'm going up," Joe stated, "Everyone else stay down here till I check it out and make sure wherever it leads to is safe for us."

### "Who voted you leader?" Jo asked challenging him.

### "This is not open for discussion honey!" Joe replied firmly.

### "Don't you call me honey!" Jo shot back obviously still pissed off at him.

### Joe just shook his head as he began to ascend up the ladder. As he reached the top he carefully pushed open the trap door. Peering through a crack it appeared to be an abandoned hallway, obviously above ground because there was light coming from the adjoining rooms. He pushed the door open the rest of the way and pulled himself up until he was sitting on the hallway floor.

### "I'll check it out and let you all know if it's safe," he yelled back down to the others.

### "Hurry," Electra yelled up to Joe. At that same moment Jo gave Electra a quick back hand to the gut. Electra grimaced but said nothing.

### Joe shut the trap door; he was now alone in a strange building. "Time to check this place out." He said allowed to himself.

### CHAPTER FOURTEEN

### As Joe started walking down the hall, he discovered that he was in one of the other lodges, one that was still yet to be renovated. It was the Jack Murray Lodge; it was one long hallway, with rooms on either side.

### The first room he came to was completely empty. Through the windows he could see that the storm had still not let up. As he looked out the window he realized that he could still not see more than a few feet. The wind could be felt through the window as some of the panes were broken out and only some ripped garbage bags were being used to try and keep out the elements.

### As a chill went up his back from the cold, he turned and headed toward the room across the hall. This room was filled with old rusty, metal bunk beds. He noticed rat droppings filled the floor as well as a couple of deceased rats.

### Disgusted by the sight he made his way down to the next room. As he entered this room he noticed it was much smaller, and the horrors of the old state school were much more evident. Rodents scattered as he entered the room. There were chains hanging from the ceiling as well as two connected to the floor.

### What looked like the remains of human bodies were scattered around the room on the floor. Bones of two hands and arms were still attached to the chains that hung from the ceiling. Joe, sickened by the sight, also noticed that the floor was still red with dried blood; the blood that had not gone down the drain that was in the center of the room. Putrid was the strong smell of death in the room.

### Exiting the room and closing the door behind him, Joe headed for the next room. As he opened the door of that room even more horrors from the past were evident. This room was the same size as the last, the same blood stains on the floor with the drain in the center of the floor. Only this time there were spikes coming out of the walls and the remains of human beings impaled on them.

### Skeletal remains were piled up on the floor. Rodents climbing over the remains in search of rotting flesh. Joe fought back the flies and the vomit that was climbing into his esophagus. He exited the room up chucking on the hallway floor. He leaned up against the wall, catching his breath and trying to compose himself.

### He was now only half way down the hallway, not all that sure that he really wanted to continue, he wandered back over to the trap door and lifted it up. "Hey guys," he yelled down the shaft. Only silence answered him.

### "Hello?' He yelled down again, "Is anyone th...." His words cut short as a blunt object was smashed into the back of his head. Everything went silent and dark as he lost all awareness.

### Electra and the others ran around a dark corner and stopped to catch their breath. "Do you see him?" Dani asked.

### "I think we lost him." Jo replied.

### "Who the hell was that psycho?" Electra wondered out loud.

### "I think I know," Pete said as he reached into his jeans pocket, "Before he impaled me with the spike I ripped this off his wrist." He pulled from his pocket a white bracelet.

### "Let me see that," Electra said holding out her hand. "MacLeod, Brian," she paused for a moment, then a look of terror came over her, "Oh no, it can't be." She said allowed.

### Above Captain Brian MacLeod dragged Joe's limp body down the hallway of the Murray Lodge, through a door and down a sloped hall. When they reached the bottom he took Joe through a set of doors, made a quick right and went through another set of doors and down another hallway to an elevator on their left. Captain MacLeod tossed Joe's body into the elevator like a ragdoll, and then he entered the elevator himself and pushed SB3, three floors down.

### Joe found himself walking on an ocean beach; Jo and a few others were with him. A large number of sheep and doe's were running into the water drowning themselves. Up on the beach was a lamb shrieking in horror as it watched the sheep and doe's take their own lives.

### Joe ran into the frigid water and started to gather up the sheep and doe's, attempting to rescue them from a horrible death. He was fully clothed and picking them up one by one, ran them back to the shore and safety. Joe yelled out to the others he was walking with as well as anyone who would listen to him, "Help me! Help, they will all die if we don't help them!"

### The others went along their way, Joe's pleas for help falling on deaf ears. Joe picked up one of the doe's. It kicked and kicked, not wanting to be saved from the watery grave.

### As he continued to run the sheep up to dry ground, he glanced up and saw the lamb, it appeared to be smiling at him and nodding it's head in approval.

### Joe suddenly felt groggy and had a splitting head ache. As his vision cleared he realized what he had just experienced was only a dream, as his vision cleared further he realized also that he was in a cave, with prison bars sealing the entrance.

### His head was bleeding, "Where the hell am I," he wondered out loud.

### "Daddy?!" Came the voice of a child, "Daddy!" Joe recognized the voice; it was the voice of his little angel!!

### CHAPTER FIFTEEN

### Captain MacLeod whistled as he walked down a hall that led to the entrance of the tunnels. He headed back to the strange room where his dinner, Jan, was slowly cooking. He approached the chair and reached for an item off the cart.

### "I think a full blown mastectomy is in order here," Captain MacLeod said out loud to himself. He picked up the cheese grater; put a bowl beneath her breasts. He used the bowl to catch the shavings as he slowly, yet firmly ran the grater over her breasts.

### Her blood ran thick everywhere, once the left breast was completely gone, Captain MacLeod started on the right one. When he had finished he once again picked up the rusty scalpel and carefully cut the skin away from her face. He then put the skin over his own face as if it were a mask

### With Jan's face covering his, MacLeod walked over to the control panel. "I can't wait any longer to eat," he mumbled to himself as he turned the switch up all the way. Jan's eyes opened, and for a split second she saw MacLeod wearing her face over his. She tried to let out a scream, but before she could her eyes exploded out of her body and she went limp.

### "Chow time," MacLeod yelled out, "Time for chow!" He sat down at the cart, picked up a spork and knife, and started carving up Jan's limp, naked body.

### "Perfect," he said as he gnawed on a finger, ripping the flesh and meat from the bone with his teeth; as if it was a piece of chicken.

### When he had had his fill he made up three more plates. He brought one to Joe and slid it under the bars," Bone appetite," he said looking directly at Joe. He did the same for Andrew's pet and left the third plate on a nearby rock.

### "What do you want with us you sick fuck?" Joe yelled out at MacLeod.

### "Dad!" Tabitha yelled at him because of his language.

### "Hang on angel, I'll get us outta here," he replied, not having the foggiest idea how he would accomplish this at the moment.

### "Dad," Tabitha said again in a lower tone of voice, "You know what Jesus would say..."

### Joe cut her off," I know, I'm sorry honey, but this guy deserved to be called a sick fu..."

### "DADDY!" Tabitha yelled scolding him, as well as interrupting him. "You know Jesus made him to."

### "Okay angel, your right," he said, although still thinking of MacLeod much differently.

### Captain MacLeod was out of sight, but they could still hear two voices. Joe wondered, was he talking to himself, or was there really someone else? He strained his neck as far as he could to see out of the bars. The flickering light he could see, but not those from which the voices were coming from.

### "Daddy," Tabitha asked, "will we really get out of here? Should we keep praying?"

### "Pray my little angel, pray. We will get outta here if it is the last thing I do!"

### "Okay daddy, I'll keep on praying." Tabitha said as she knelt back down in the corner with her hands folded in front of her. Silently she once again began to pray.

### Joe sat on the ground and put his face in his hands, "Lord," he said allowed," Please, do what you want with me, but save my little angel from any harm, as she once saved me." He then joined Tabitha in silent prayer for their safe release.

### Back in the tunnels Electra, Dani, Pete and Jo continued searching for Tabitha. They were now using only one flashlight at a time in order to conserve batteries. Along the walls of the tunnels they could see the remains of what appeared to be young children, along with a few adults. Rodents scattered as they made their way down through the maze.

### "I need my Tabitha," Jo started to sob once again, "she was right there in front of us, and that thing ripped her from me again." She continued by blaming her husband by saying, "I should have divorced him while he was in prison, I knew I should have, but he does have a way with words."

### "Tell us," Dani said as they pressed forward, "anything is better that silence; maybe we can help some how? You know, put a fresh perspective on things."

### You don't want to hear my problems, I'm sure you have enough of your own," Jo replied.

### "No, no," Pete added, "go ahead, let it all out."

### "Are you sure you want to hear this?" She asked again.

### "Of course," Electra piped in,"Let's take a break up ahead, I can see a flicker of light, and we've been out searching all day."

### "Well alright," Jo agreed.

### They walked a little further and upon arriving in the next open, cave like area, sat down on rocks that were in a circle on the ground. Jo sat and took a few deep breaths, "Well the problems started when Joe went over to Iraq to do a story on ancient Babylon. He was only supposed to be gone for three or four days." She paused; obviously this was a bit hard for her.

### "The day he was supposed to be back I received a call from him. Honey, he said to me, I'm in jail. They are going to be taking me to a holding prison to await trial. I thought he was joking and said, yeah right, not funny."

### "Then he said to me, I wish I were kidding; call Bill and he'll get you over here for the hearing, my car is parked just outside of the U.S. Army base, pick that up first. You're serious? I asked him. All he said then was to just call Bill and meet me at the court house tomorrow."

### "I promised him that I would be there and we hung up. My nerves were shot, there was no heat in the house, and some of the pipes had already froze and burst," she paused for a moment, looking as though she were reliving the entire event all over again.

### "It's okay Jo," Electra said, "take your time; we're all here for you." She finished by putting her hand on Jo's knee to comfort and reassure her.

### Jo took a deep breath and continued," Well, Bill was an airforce major and he was able to get emergency clearance for an F-117A stealth fighter to be deployed to Iraq. He would personally deliver it to the base in Iraq. He would also be delivering me to the court house; I was considered "classified" cargo, as he put it."

### "When we landed in Iraq I had only an hour and a half to get to the hearing. I made it with little time to spare. Bill and I sat in the middle of the court room. The judge called out for my husband to be brought forward and the guards escorted him out in handcuffs and shackles. The prosecutor read off the charges; taking photographs of a restricted area without the proper permits; unauthorized taking of holy relics from the site; and openly gambling."

### "My husband shot a look at the prosecutor a look that could have killed. I could tell that he was shocked at the charges being levied against him. He had no attorney to defend him. The prosecutor asked for a bond in the amount of what was equal to twenty thousand dollars, and it had to be cash! The judge ordered ten thousand cash. Tears started to roll down my cheeks; I knew I couldn't afford that kind of money. He looked back at me as they took him from the room, I signaled for him to call me. I just hoped he would remember what hotel it was that we always stayed in."

### "Did he remember?" Dani asked, "What happened?"

### Jo took another deep breath before continuing, "He called me later that day, saying to wait till his next hearing the following week; he was hoping for a bond reduction. I told him that I was still going to try and raise the funds anyway. He called me the next day and told me that his bond had been changed. Now he was being held on a detainer, he could not be released on bail. He told me they were investigating further charges."

### "I was crushed, but I told him I would stay put until the next hearing to see if they lowered his bail." Jo slowly shook her head back and forth; a tear trickled down her face. After a moment of silence she continued, "It was the longest weekend of my life, Joe called me twice daily, I did the best I could to hold back the tears when he called. We had only been married for ten months, and together for just under two years."

### "I can't even imagine how tough it was on you." Pete said with noticeable concern in his voice.

### "Well that is not the worst of it," Jo continued, "His hearing came and went, this time I did not go, I just sat and waited at the hotel. Around eleven o'clock I called the court house and found out that his bail had been dropped to ten thousand American dollars; this time cash or surety bond. I was able to convince my step mother to lend me the money and she wired it to me in Iraq. I got him released, but they would not allow him to leave the city and he had to call into the bond holder daily.

### "How long did you stay in Iraq?" Electra inquired.

### "It was January twenty second, two thousand and two, the day Joe went to court for the final time. We already more or less knew what was going to happen; but we could only hope for a better outcome. My mom flew over with Tabitha so that Joe could see her since it would by a long time before he got to see his little angel again," She was choked up, tears running down her face. No one dared to ask if it was because of Tabitha in the current situation, or because of Joe having to be away from his family for so long.

### She composed herself and one again continued," I drove him to the courthouse that afternoon, we didn't say much to each other on the way there. Once we arrived, we both sat and lit cigarettes; Joe broke down, tears streaming from his eyes. He told me later it was because he was hurt that he would be away from the family he loved for an extended period of time."

### "He told me to go home and that he would call me as soon as he could. I objected, I wanted to go in and be there for him. His eyes teared up again saying it would make it harder for him to see me as he was led away in cuffs. Reluctantly I agreed. He stepped out of the car, tears still running down his face; why can't we just go to Mexico, I asked him. He grinned and then kissed me deeply, a kiss that seemed to last an eternity. When the kiss ended a tear ran down my cheek. As I drove away I could see him watching me till I was outta sight. I wish I knew what he was thinking at that moment."

### "Did you head back to the states after that?" Dani inquired.

### "No, after he was sentenced I hung around and visited him once a week for about a month. Then they moved him to a different prison in northern Iraq. I flew home on St. Patrick's Day, crying all the way. When I got back home to our house in Torrington, New Hampshire, I found that every pipe in the house had froze and burst. I could no longer live there so I went to the nearest shelter. It was thirty miles away in Thomaston, New Hampshire."

### "I wrote and told Joe my situation, I could tell he was disappointed about the house, but he said it was up to as to what happened with it." She yawned, it was getting late.

### "Let's make camp here for the night," Pete suggested," It's already eleven fifty eight p.m., I'll take the first watch," he offered.

### "Okay," Electra agreed, "I'll take the second watch, two hour shifts sound good to everyone?" They all shook their heads in agreement accept Jo, who was already asleep.

### CHAPTER SIXTEEN

### Jo started down the tunnels alone. She had heard a voice that sounded like Tabitha's, "Tabby?" she called out.

### "Mum," A little voice called back.

### "Where are you honey, mum's coming"

### "Down here mum, he's got me, I can't move!" She yelled back to Jo.

### "Who has you hun?"

### "Andrew mum, he has me I can't move."

### "I'm coming Tab's, hold on mum's coming." Jo exclaimed as she ran down the tunnel which seemed to go on and on without end; Tears running down her face as she hurried to save her daughter and possibly her life.

### She ran in what seemed to be slow motion, rounding a corner she came upon a large, hot, fiery pit. A man was standing there holding her precious daughter with a dagger to her throat. Make up seemed to be melting off the mans face.

### As Jo opened her mouth to scream, nothing would come out, the man holding her daughter let out a deep sinister laugh. Tabitha's eyes opened wide and her mouth hung open as the man slit her throat by sliding a dull knife across her throat repeatedly, holding her up by her hair.

### In what seemed to be an eternity her body slowly fell away from her head. The man, grinning ear to ear, took the decapitated head of her daughter and threw it at Jo.

### Jo caught Tabitha's head and fell to her knees sobbing. The man, laughing, disappeared into the flames. Holding her only child's head in her hands, she looked down at Tabitha's face; her eyes were closed, blood soaking every part of Jo's body.

### Tabitha's eyes suddenly opened, and looking right at her mother said," Mum, you didn't get here in time, now you will burn in the fire when you die, you'll be with me in HELL!" Her voice changed to a deep sinister voice and her head disappeared into ashes in Jo's hands.

### Back at the Shepherd lodge Compton and the others could not sleep, "We have to find a way outta here, or at least find a way to contact someone outside of the lodge." Compton exclaimed. The lights flickered and finally went out, "great, now we have no electricity," he continued, "What next?!"

### There was a loud bang, like a gun shot, "What was that," James Dupont asked.

### Compton drew his gun, "I'll go investigate, you all stay here."

### "Don't bother," Holly said coming around the corner, "A pipe burst in the other room." The others looked at her as she came closer, she was soaked, and blood ran down the side of her head from a gash.

### "Yeah right," Thomas interrupted, "It sounded like a gun shot to us, and where did that gash in your head come from?"

### "Doubtful as usual," James shot back, "Why don't you go and try and find some bandages with Detective Compton, I'll escort Holly back to her room so she can change and dry off. I think we should stay together, at least in two's from now on."

### "Good plan James," Compton said in agreement, "let's go," he said to Thomas motioning down the hall toward the security office, "I hope there's a first aid kit in the office."

### "It's probably locked," Thomas said sarcastically.

### "If that's the case I have a gun," Compton answered maneuvering him toward the office, "the lock won't stand up, trust me."

### "With my luck the bullet will ricochet and hit me," Thomas cracked back.

### Compton just ignored him, when they reached the office they found that the door was not locked, and they entered. After about half an hour they found a first aid kit and headed back in the direction of Holly's room.

### In Holly's room it was dark; James found a couple of candles and lit them so that Holly could see what she was doing. The gash in her head had stopped bleeding; it was only a small wound. James sat at one end of the room, not wanting to look like a pervert as Holly dried off and changed. Then again it was kind of hard not to notice her as she was only ten feet away.

### She had her back to him; she stripped off her shirt and took off her jeans. James glanced up; he had thought that the clothes were just tight fitting, holding her in perfect form. Boy was he wrong, she didn't need tight clothes to hold her shape, he thought to himself.

### "Shit," Holly said quietly, "James would you mind grabbing a pair of jeans outta the closet for me?"

### "Huh, what, a sure," James answered clumsily not wanting to look like, or sound like; he was paying any attention to her. "Any particular ones you want?" he asked as he opened the walk in closet doors.

### He glanced back to see her removing her lace, fire red, panties; she had already removed her sports bra. "There should be a black pair in the back of the closet, get those for me, would you Jamesy." She said very seductively.

### James went to the back of the closet and found the jeans he thought she was talking about. As he turned around and went to exit the closet, Holly was standing directly in front of him. He almost collided with her thin, well built, and succulent body. Holly was completely nude accept for a pair of red high heals.

### "Like what you see?" she asked coyly.

### James was speechless; it was chilly so her nipples were erect and pointed right at him. He dropped the jeans on the floor, still unable to move. Holly grabbed him by the back of the head and thrust her lips to his. He responded in kind, their tongues intertwined.

### Holly spun him around and ripped open his shirt, as she pushed him backwards; he landed on his back on her bed. She slinked her way up his legs till she came to the top of his jeans, she unbuttoned them and slid them off.

### James slid off his shirt as Holly slowly started up his now naked body. He could feel her erect nipples brush against his body as she moved up him. She stopped at his stomach, giving it a quick peck with her full, red lips.

### "I hope your ready for some fun!" she said to him and then took him into her mouth.

### CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

### Jo sat straight up screaming, "TABITHA!" She was drenched in a cold sweat, frantic not knowing where she was right away. Pete, Dani, and Electra ran over to her.

### "It's okay," Pete said to Jo, "It's okay; it was only a bad dream."

### "Breath," Dani suggested, "Deep, slow breaths."

### Jo still trying to shake the cobwebs from her dream, started to calm down little by little. After about ten minutes she exclaimed,"I'm okay, your right, it was just a dream." She looked around at the other three who were all nodding their heads in agreement.

### "Must have been some nightmare." Dani interjected.

### "It seemed so real," she started saying and then added quickly, "and I don't want to talk about it, ever!"

### 'Hey everyone," Electra said, "I found a few boxes of snack cakes. They only expired last month, there really not bad, and we haven't eaten...." She couldn't finish her sentence, everyone's hands were in the boxes and they were stuffing their faces with cup cakes.

### "Hey, while were eating, Jo, you feel up to telling us more about what happened to your husband in Iraq?" Dani asked curiously.

### "Yeah, maybe it will get the dream out of my head," she responded, "Where did I leave off?"

### "You had just gotten rid of the house, and wrote to tell Joe about it," Electra responded, interested in what happened next.

### "Right, let's see," she began by taking a couple of deep breaths, "We corresponded back and forth for awhile, Joe wrote to me just about every day telling me what was going on with him, I wrote back to him a couple of times a week in the beginning; as I got more and more depressed, I wrote less and less. I started to confide in a guy I hardly knew at the shelter. I decided not to spend the whole summer in the shelter and that I would camp outside. Going to the shelter only when it rained."

### "My mom had Tabitha, so I didn't worry too much about her. I wrote and told Joe that I would be camping out for the summer with some friends and not to worry. I rented a post office box so that he could still write to me."

### "So how many of you went camping for the summer?" Dani asked.

### "Well, "Jo started to say, her face turning many shades of red, "It really wasn't friends, just friend. The guy at the shelter, his name was Jayson; it was just him and I out camping." She started to get teary eyed.

### "What did Joe say?" Pete wondered aloud.

### "I didn't tell him," she responded, "it wasn't till Tabitha, Jayson, and I went to the zoo together that Joe questioned me about who he was. He was tactful about it, but I knew what he was getting at. I mentioned the trip to the zoo and I guess that was what made him suspicious. As well as what I had written at the bottom of the letter; I had wrote in small writing 'I don't know how much longer I can keep up this charade'. That had to be what tipped him off. I was caught and I knew it."

### "So what did you do?" Dani asked.

### "Well I was furious and confused; I directed my anger at him in a letter, even though I was angrier with myself for what I had done." She answered.

### "What did you tell him?" Dani inquired.

### "Well, first let me say it wasn't very nice, and I'm not proud of myself for writing it, but I told him, and I remember it word for word, I said; Every night I lay thinking of you trying to remember why I fell in love with you. Was it the trust we had for each other? I hope not cause that's been broken, still trying to remember, oh was it that you'd be with me forever by my side? Nope that can't be it either cause when I look to my side where you should be 'surprise' your not there."

### "Help me here because I'm having a really hard time remembering why I fell in love with you."

### "You promised me the security I so craved, but the security is not there. Back to where I was, before I met you, apart longer that we've been together, back to the way things were? Is that what you think is really going to happen? If so your more a foolish man than I thought. Things change, people change, nothing ever stays the same, not me, not you, or the world in which your living. Everything in me, I'm not the loving, doting wife I once was, how can I be with no husband at home. You wish to be the father of my child? You got her to trust you, and love you, look to you a way a daughter looks at her dad. I trusted you to be there for me, us, her and your not. You crushed that little girl's heart when you left."

### "She trusted you damn it its not fair to her, its not fair to me. And you question me?! My actions?! You have no right!! You hear me man, you lost that when you left me! Lied to me! You have no right, none! If you were any kind of husband you'd be here with us, not there, but here with me. Why now, Why?! I trusted you. Now I'm alone again, just when I started to feel safe it's all gone, all gone, just like before."

### "Nothing ever stay's the same, nothing, not me, not you. You have no right to question my actions! Remember that." She finished and tears welled up in her eyes again.

### No one said anything, they were all too afraid to speak at this point. With what she had just told them they could not even see how they were still married! It must have devastated her husband, they all thought.

### Dani walked over and put her arm around Jo. "What happened when he read that?" Dani asked breaking the silence after several minutes.

### "He wrote me, telling me that he would forgive me as Christ forgave the women in the Gospel of John, chapter eight. I had to search for one, but when I found a Bible I read what he had referenced. An adulterous woman had been brought to Christ to be stoned to death as the law had provided for in those days." She took another deep breath and continued, "Joe told me he was not without sin, and would not cast stones. In that passage Christ had indeed asked that anyone who was without sin to cast the first stone. Well none of them could cast a stone. Christ forgave the women's sins, and Joe had forgiven mine, and like Christ said to the women, Joe also asked me to sin no more."

### "Wow," Pete interrupted, "That's one hell of a forgiving man. If that was me you would have gotten divorce papers in the mail and a boot to the curb. No way could I ever forgive something like that."

### "Maybe that's why you're not married," his sister, Dani, said taking a cheap jab.

### "Well I don't see a ring on your finger either sis." He shot right back.

### "Well when I do get married, if ever, I hope it's to a forgiving man like that. Not that I would ever have an affair on him or anything like that," Dani stopped realizing she wasn't making things easy on Jo right now. "Sorry," she said softly looking over at Jo.

### "It's okay," Jo assured her, "maybe we can continue this tonight when I'm feeling a bit better. What time is it anyway?"

### "Six thirty in the morning," Electra announced. "I think we should continue our search for your little girl."

### "Yeah, let's get going," Jo said standing up quickly, "But today I'm going to stay behind you all, that dream really got to me."

### They all started off into the tunnel system once again. It was now Saturday, three days of searching through a maze of underground tunnels. Silently they all wondered what would be in store for them this day.

### CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

### Captain MacLeod came back to where Joe could see him from the cell he was locked in. As he came closer he noticed that there was blood on the mans face. "What the..." he started to say. He suddenly felt sick as he realized that the man was wearing the skin from Jan's face.

### Joe turned his face in disgust, hoping that his little angel would not make the connection to Jan, who was now obviously no longer among the living, and this sick, grotesque freak.

### "You'll be next," MacLeod said looking directly at Joe, "I have special plans for you." He laughed allowed and headed down a tunnel directly across from Joe's cell. Then the man added, "When in Rome do as the Romans did."

### It really made no sense to Joe what he had just heard. After all they were the rant and ravings of a crazy psychotic man, so who could know what he really ment. Joe sat down in the dark, back corner of the cell, folded up his knees and put his head down on them. He knew he had to come up with a plan to get both himself and Tabitha out of there alive.

### Back at the Shepherd Lodge there was still no electricity or heat, but in Holly's room, James and Holly were making plenty of sweaty heat themselves.

### As Holly took him out of his mouth, she stroked him a few times, licking the tip, teasing. She moved further up on him and they locked lips for a long passionate kiss.

### Holly lifted up her head in pleasure as James kissed her exposed neck. She moaned wildly as he came to her ear and sucked on each of her earlobes while his hands grabbed her tight small buttocks.

### James sat up with Holly still sitting on his lap. He ran his tongue around her hard nipples, and then took them one by one into his mouth. They were the perfect size for him, not to big, and not to small, they were perfect.

### He then flipped her onto her back, slowly planting small, gentle kisses down her chest to her stomach. Then teasing, he started to kiss the inside of her thighs. "Stop teasing," Holly whispered, "Give her kisses like I gave him," She said quietly yet demanding.

### He went down gently, using his tongue to massage her. She suddenly grasped the sides of his head and thrust his face hard into her. Her body quivered and her hot juices flowed onto his tongue.

### She picked up his head and exclaimed to him eagerly, "I want you inside of me now!" She flipped him onto his back and straddled him, taking all of him deep inside of her. Ten minutes later his hot juice filled her and she collapsed on top of him.

### At that very moment Thomas and Detective Compton entered the room. "Wow," Compton proclaimed turning his back to them quickly, "are we interrupting?"

### "No," Holly said as if nothing spectacular was going on, "We just finished. If you don't mind I'm going to get dressed now." She grabbed her clothes and ran into the bathroom.

### James lay there, covered with a blanket, hands behind his head, with a big grin on his face. He said nothing; Compton smiled back at him and nodded his head. Compton and Thomas exited the room. On his way out Compton said, "We'll be outside, yell when your ready. In fact, here's the first aid kit," he turned back around and placed it on the dresser, "we'll meet you down the hall when you're ready."

### As Thomas and Compton headed down the hall, Thomas said out loud, "Lucky son-of-a-bitch, the only girl here at this point in time and he gets her!"

### "Yeah," Compton replied, "You'd think she was queen kong on dick island right now." He chuckled at his own joke, shook his head and continued down the hallway, back to the office.

### Thomas followed and sat at the desk across from Compton, "How are we going to get outta here?" He asked.

### "I've been trying to figure out the same thing," Compton replied, "I was thinking that we should all head over to the rec hall. I don't know if there will be power over there, but if not I know there's a generator."

### "So what's going on," James said as he stepped through the door with Holly. "Figure out a way to get us all outta here yet?"

### "We were just discussing that," Compton explained, "we figured that maybe we should all head over to the rec hall, at least there is a generator over there.'

### "Well when do we head out?" Holly asked clasping James' hand with hers.

### "Lets all get bundled up with whatever we can find, and meet back here in say half an hour?" Compton suggested.

### "Sounds like a plan," They all agreed.

### "Let's do this!" Thomas interjected, not doubting the plan for once.

### CHAPTER NINTEEN

### About forty five minutes passed and all four assembled inside the front door of the lodge. "We all ready?" James asked.

### "Ready as we'll ever be," Thomas answered.

### "All right let's stick together then." Compton said as he pulled the door open and stepped out into the knee high snow once again. The others followed; it would be about forty minutes before they made it to the back door of the rec building.

### Freezing, they entered into the building and stood there in silence trying to warm up. "Fuck, I can't feel my face," Holly blurted out.

### James walked over to her and held her, "We can warm each other up," he said to her with a smile.

### "You just got some!" Holly said smacking him playfully on the arm.

### "That's not what ment," James answered, "Later; maybe later I'll put my meat across your grill again." When he finished she playfully slapped him again, blushing as she did.

### "Alright, alright, let's head down to the gym," Thomas interrupted. He headed for the stairs and started down, the other three followed

### Down in the tunnels, the others continued their search for Tabitha. "I wonder what happened with Joe?" Dani said out loud.

### "Maybe he's dead," Jo piped up still pissed at her husband.

### "You don't really mean that, do you?" Dani asked

### "Let's sit for a minute, I'm tired . I'll tell you more about what happened over those three years." Jo suggested.

### They all sat on the dirt floor and took a break together. Jo picked up her story where she left off, "After I sent that letter I began to regret ever sending it. I wrote him another letter telling Joe the whole truth about Jayson and myself. By then I had already broke it off with Jayson and was back living at the shelter. I had also gotten arrested, and was charged with conspiracy to commit conspiracy."

### "Say that again?" Electra interrupted, "Did you say conspiracy to commit conspiracy?"

### "You want to explain how you conspire to conspire?" Pete asked Electra.

### "That's what I'm wondering myself." Electra piped in, "That's a bullshit charge if I ever heard one, there is no such thing"

### "Anyway," Jo continued, "It was dropped in court, and the judge asked those same questions to the arresting officer. As I was saying I wrote to Joe and told him everything, not giving him the intimate details as I figured he didn't need to hear all that. Jayson was also getting me into drugs. Weed only at first, then that led to coke, the next thing I know the crack pipe is coming out. I swore never to get involved with a person like that, now I had to hope that my husband wouldn't dump me to, even though I deserved it."

### "Well he already said that he had forgiven you," Pete added.

### "He did, I even flew over to visit him a few times," Jo continued, "but that became hard, just seeing him was like having my heart broken all over again." She paused for a moment fighting back tears. "I stopped going over, but he called me at my mothers every couple of weeks. That way he got to talk to Tabitha as well. She is so fond of him, and she's his little angel."

### "Why does he call her that anyway?" Electra inquired.

### "It's a long story, maybe I'll tell you later, right now I think we should continue our search for them." Jo suggested.

### They all got up and started heading down the tunnels again, Dani had picked up on the look for 'them' and smiled. Dani knew that she didn't hate her husband as much as she portrayed outwardly, it was just a tough image that she wanted everyone else to see.

### There was a flicker of light up ahead, Electra turned and signaled for the others to keep quiet and move slowly. She drew her gun, and they all approached with great caution. They could smell burnt hair and flesh as they came closer to the room with the light.

### CHAPTER TWENTY

### Joe sat in the darkness of his cold, damp cell. He was exhausted and still had a horrible headache. As he sat there he thought about his life, the little trouble maker that he was growing up.

### His mother had passed on almost six years earlier. She never got to know any of her grandchildren, and Joe never got to say goodbye while she was still living. He remembered a dream that he had about a month after the funeral. He was at his parents house, as he walked up the stairs his sister greeted him saying, "Mom is here to say goodbye to you."

### He walked into the dining room, with tears rolling down his cheeks, he hugged his mother, "I love you mom," Joe said to her. She smiled and disappeared. He woke up, and as he remembered the dream, thanked God for allowing him the chance to say goodbye.

### Another horrible day then came to mind, one where his mother had actually scolded his father. His father had whipped him with a belt so severely that his back bled; he had been hit with the buckle. He had taken his stripes that day; it was a day he would soon not forget. He had forgiven his father for what he had done that day, yet he had not spoken to him now for years.

### As a young teen he had written many bad checks, a hundred and forty plus, at least that he could remember. At one point when he was seventeen he was arrested for serving alcohol to a minor. He was bailed out of the county jail by the parents of one of the girls that were there. Ultimately, because of his age at the time the charges were dropped.

### At this point in his life he was introduced to his first true love. The girl whose family he was now living with introduced them, her name was Wendy. He had asked her out a few times, but her answer was always that she was the matchmaker, not the one matched up.

### One afternoon he had gone to her house and her parents shooed them out the door. They walked and talked for quite a while, finally climbing a secluded hill where Joe had been camping several times with friends.

### They sat together on the edge of a cliff and talked for a long while. Joe asked her once again, "You sure you don't want to go out with me?"

### "I don't know maybe," she responded with a smile.

### "Maybe?" He asked as they got nose to nose with each other.

### She smiled again and repeated, "Yup, maybe"

### Before she could say anything else their lips brushed together, and that was all it took. They kissed there for the first time on 'T' Rock, making out for a time. Then he asked her once more, "Maybe you say?"

### "Oh yeah, I will!" Wendy answered.

### From there his mind jumped to the downfall of his five year relationship with Wendy, his longest to date. Once again he was at what he considered one of the worst times of his life, as well as one of the most heartbreaking. Wendy's father had come out of her house drunk, yelling and cursing at him. He had gotten right up into his face, shoving him back, not once, not twice, but three times. Finally he had had enough; he shoved back, knocking his longtime girlfriends' father square on his ass.

### Wendy came running out and pulled Joe away, walking him down the street yelling back at her father to go into the house and stay there. Joe told her that he had had it; he could not take her father's shit anymore. Out of pure anger he took the necklace that each of them wore half of and threw it to her, then stormed off. He had always regretted that day; his first love was now gone from his life. It would be almost a decade before he would date again.

### The girl that had introduced them, Wendy, and Joe all met up in a bar years later, the girl that originally had introduced them had hoped that the old sparks between them would light up again. Unfortunately they did not; Wendy moved away to Vermont and he would not see her again. She would always have a special place in his heart for the remainder of his life. His hope was that maybe one day he might run into her again, but he knew that was unlikely.

### Joe dwelt on that for awhile, till another major event in his life came to mind; this time he was the best man at a friends wedding. He was the godfather of their first child. Then came a second child for his friend and his wife. They now had both a girl and a boy.

### Joe took them everywhere, movies, amusement parks, lunch, dinner, the beach, anywhere they could think of. Sometimes he took just the kids, other times it was the kids and his friend's wife, and on the rare occasion his friend would tag along with them all.

### Years later they would divorce, Joe remained friends with both, and refused to get in the middle of their problems; he refused to take sides. Shortly after this he moved away from the city he had grown up in, and this is where he would end up meeting his wife a few years later.

### Married on May twenty forth, already having Tabitha, they had gone on a honeymoon of sorts. Joe was working a lot of the time and had not been at his daughter's birth nor had he been there for most of the first year of her life. At that point he began to focus in on another part of his life, an event that would be a life saver for him; and the reason he called her his little angel.

### It was a hot day in August, he had returned from Ethiopia on an expedition for the Ark of the Covenant. At that point in his life he did not believe much of what the Bible said and had set out to disprove it. Flying into the local airport he called Jo and told her he would pick up Tabitha from the day care center and surprise her. Jo told him that that would be great and that she would see them both home for dinner.

### Joe arrived at the day care center to pick up Tabitha, still in his expedition gear. He walked up to one of the staff members and asked for his daughter.

### "She just left with her uncle," the staff member replied.

### "Uncle?" he asked with concern, "what uncle?"

### "Well," the staff member said pointing, "there they go now."

### Joe turned around to look in the direction that the staff member was pointing. His daughter was walking with a strange man, "That's not her uncle!!" He yelled out as he ran straight at the man, saying nothing else as not to alert him. Just as Joe was closing in on the man, the man spun around, hearing someone running up behind him.

### Joe jumped into the air and tackled the man at his mid section. They went hard onto the ground and Joe got the upper hand in the situation. He drew out his hunting knife, raised it above his head, looking right into the eyes of the man who had tried to take his daughter. He was now well past his boiling point.

### "Daddy," came the voice of a little three year old. Joe turned to see his daughter on her knees, hands together in front of her, "Please don't hurt him daddy, Jesus made him too. I'm sure he will be sorry for what he did."

### Joe stopped, looked down at the man who now had a sick smirk on his face, sirens were blaring in the background. Joe could hear others running up behind him, he looked over at his three year old daughter once again, "No daddy," she said to him.

### He dropped the knife from his hands and it fell, narrowly missing the mans head. He was then pulled off the man by police officers, and the man was taken into custody.

### "You should have killed him," a female rookie cop said to Joe. "This sick fucker escaped from the states secure psychiatric unit, he's kidnapped, raped, and killed young children in the past."

### "He was going to take my only daughter," Joe said quietly, looking at Tabitha.

### Tabitha smiled and ran over to him, "its okay daddy, God will take care of that man." She put her arms around him and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

### "I hope so," the rookie cop said allowed, "It's a good thing you didn't harm him sir, my boss just informed me that had you killed the man he would have brought you up on murder charges, punishable by the death penalty. I know it sounds ridiculous, I hope they change that law." The rookie said as she walked away.

### Joe looked down at Tabitha again, she had just saved his life, she had become his little angel watching over him at that moment in time. "Thank you Tabby, I think I want to learn more about this Jesus. Can daddy go with you to Bible classes?" Tabitha just smiled and gave him a big hug.

### Another rookie approached Joe and took a brief statement from both him and Tabitha. "Call me if you think of anything else, okay sir." Joe nodded his head as the officer handed him his card, Officer Dennis Compton, Exeter, Connecticut Police Department.

### The man in the police car started yelling wildly as they drove off, "She's mine, mine! I found her!" The cars pulled away and out of sight.

### CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

### Detective Compton and the others arrived in the gym of the recreation building. He had told to stay out of the weight room as there was nothing in there that they really wanted to see. They all shed layers of clothing and put them in separate piles on the bleachers.

### There was some light coming in through the windows near the roof of the gym; so at this time there was not yet a need for the generator. Compton walked into the boiler room, Thomas, Holly and James followed, he opened the door that led to the tunnels. He saw no light and heard nothing, although he really did not expect to.

### "Where does that lead to?" Holly asked.

### "Down into the tunnel system," Compton answered, "It's like a maze down there. I'm guessing that that is where the others went looking for the De La Roche's little girl."

### "Well then shouldn't we go down there and help them as well?" James piped in...

### "Let's check out the rest of this building first, maybe we can find ourselves some food and something useful like a few flashlights and batteries." Compton said in return. "Then we'll discuss whether we should or shouldn't go down there."

### They all agreed and headed back into the hallway they had entered the gym from. "Holly and I will take the down stairs if you and Thomas want to take the upper level." James suggested to Compton.

### "Sounds okay to me," Thomas interjected. He looked at Compton who nodded and led the way back up the stairs that they had just come down from outside. They went through a set of doors at the top of the stairs and found themselves in a long hallway. There were doors on both sides of the hall and a long ramp which seemed to lead back down to the first floor.

### Holly and James walked to the other side of the first floor hallway; there were only rooms on one side, "Shall we?" James asked pointing to the first door they came to.

### "After you kind sir," Holly said flirtatiously. They entered the first room, as they did they noticed that it was a class room of sorts. There were shackles attached to the legs of the desks, and the desks themselves were bolted to the floor.

### A TV/VCR combo sat in the corner, a video tape was ejected and sitting in the machine. Holly walked over and pulled out the tape reading the label, "Sick!" she proclaimed, "James, look at the title of this tape."

### "Prisoner torcher," he read out loud, "step one in disciplinary action, for inmate intimidation viewing." James looked more carefully at the label; the word 'only' seemed to have been scraped off.

### "What do you think," Holly asked.

### "I think they used this tape as a 'this is what is going too happed to you'. It says on the tape that it is the property of the Wolf Pack Team." James replied, "I hate to ask who they were."

### "What's in here?" Holly said allowed as she reached for the doorknob. As she opened the door she let out a horrid shriek and stepped away from the now opened door. All she could do was point as she trembled with fear.

### "What is it?" James asked as he walked over to the door. He looked in the room and saw a human body in a green prison inmate uniform; the person had been tied to the chair. The smell coming from the room was putrid and the site of the decomposed body was just as bad. There were still maggots slithering in and out of the body. Going through the eye sockets and any other entrance they could find, still searching for a meal.

### James slammed the door shut and took Holly by the hand, escorting her from the room. "Let's hope we don't run into anything else like that," James said as they reentered the hallway.

### The next door they came to had a sign on it which read, "This is the only room that residents are allowed to hang around in!" Holly read it allowed. She looked at James with a worried look and stepped away from the door. "You go ahead and check it out first and let me know if it's okay."

### She said to James as the color drained from her face.

### James nodded his head, opened the door and stepped in, letting the door close behind him. The smell of rotting corpses filled the room, it was a large room, and from the exposed steel beams in the ceiling, were what seemed to be hundreds of corpses hung by the neck.

### They were those of the young and old, male and female, all of which were in different stages of decomposition. James closed his eyes not wanting to believe what he was seeing. He turned his head and put his hands against the wall to steady himself as he vomited on the floor.

### He looked down to see that he had just vomited on a pile of bones, human bones! After loosing his cookies again, he reached for the door handle and exited the room quickly.

### Holly ran over to him and steadied him as she wiped his mouth off with a cloth she pulled from her pocket. "What's in there?" she asked.

### "Nothing you want to see. Just a bunch of dead beats hanging around like the sign says." James answered trying to make light of the situation and make himself feel a bit better. It really didn't help too much and he vomited once again on the floor.

### The next rooms were empty accept for a few tools and other things lying around. Nothing out of the ordinary, in the last room they found some vending machines, which they broke open, and helped themselves to the snacks and sodas.

### They sat down at the tables in the room to take a break. Sitting across from each other, Holly began to massage James' leg with her foot, until she reached his crotch.

### "Hey," James blurted out with a smile on his face, "not now."

### "Well it better be soon," Holly shot back, "or are your performance levels down to far?" She continued teasing him as he smiled saying nothing in return.

### CHAPTER TWENTY TWO

### Electra rounded the corner into a strange room that had flickering lights, she stopped quickly, in front of her was the butchered remains of the sorority girl, Jan. "This isn't pleasant guys, but it's the only way threw that I can see." Electra said to the others. "I don't see anyone except for bits and pieces of what I assume was Jan."

### As the group rounded the corner, joining Electra, they could see the blackened remains of Jan still strapped to the chair. The group covered their nose and mouth, trying to keep out the stench of burnt flesh, as well as to try and avoid vomiting. Rodents scattered about their feet, carrying pieces of flesh that they would soon dine on. They hurried through the room and exited the other side, back into the tunnels.

### As they exited the room, Dani asked, "Who was this sick son-of-a-bitch?" She paused and directed her next remarks to, "Electra, you looked as if you recognized the name on that bracelet, you wanna fill us in!?" she asked in an almost demanding tone.

### "Alright I'll tell you what I know about Captain Brian MacLeod as soon as we find a place to sit down for a few minutes." She replied as she continued through the tunnel.

### In another part of the tunnels, Captain MacLeod was back at the holding cells, as he unlocked Tabitha's cell he stopped quickly and turned around, "What was that?" He strained to listen again, "Sounds like others want to join the party," he stated as he stormed down one of the tunnels.

### "Hey, we can sit right here," Pete suggested to the group, "I could use a quick break, and then you can fill us in on Captain Psycho, Electra."

### "Okay, lets sit for a couple of minutes," Electra agreed.

### "So who is this sick'o?" Jo asked eagerly.

### "Captain Brian MacLeod," Electra began, "he was one of the most violent abusers of prisoners during the few years that this property was used as a minimum security prison."

### "What did he do to them?" Pete asked, "If this was a minimum security prison I can't imagine there were murderers or rapists and the like up here." He added.

### "No, the prisoners they had up here were people sentenced for driving without a license, DUI, drug users, smaller, non-violent crimes for the most part," Electra said in reply.

### "Sounds like a waste of the states money," Dani added, "especially when they have a hard time even paying for the public school system. What was the state motto, don't educate just incarcerate?"

### "That's one of the reasons the state finally shut down this facility. They realized that these people need help not prison time. They also realized that the courts 'motto' if you will was becoming the lesser the crime, the more the time!"

### "Anyway, Captain MacLeod was the ring leader of the now infamous Wolf Pack. They would attempt to pry new crimes out of the inmates, get them to admit to something they didn't do, in places that they had never been in. Then they would go before the judges and get the inmate sentenced to more time; job security they called it."

### "When an inmate would not confess to anything, the Wolf Pack would roll up on them and torcher them until they died a violent death. The other members of the Wolf Pack are all doing life sentences in federal prisons around the country. Captain MacLeod was found incompetent to stand trial and sent to a state nut house."

### "After repeated escapes, where he would try and lure young children to go with him, he was finally locked up in the state psychiatric unit, or as its known the SPU Hospital. It was supposed to be inescapable."

### "He escaped, didn't he?" Dani asked.

### "Yes he did, a little over three years ago. A man who had just gotten back from a trip overseas went to surprise his daughter and pick her up from a day care center," Electra continued, "We received a call from one of the staff members saying a man. claiming to be the uncle of one of the children had just walked off with her, and the father had just gone after the man."

### "Well once we arrived, Compton and I were only a block away, in about three minutes, we saw the father and Captain MacLeod struggling on the ground. The father finally got the best of him and pulled out a large hunting knife from his side and raised it above his head ready to kill MacLeod."

### "And he dropped the knife and barely missed the mans head," Jo piped in, "his little girl near by praying."

### "Yeah, how did you know that?" Electra asked curiously.

### "My husband told me about it when he got home with Tabitha, I didn't believe him," Jo added, "He said Tabitha had saved his life that day. He started to go to Bible studies and then attended Bible College."

### "Good lord!" Electra gasped, "He's come back to finish the work that he began all those years ago. We never did get him back to the hospital. He became violent in the back of the cruiser, kicking out the back window and running off. We hunted for weeks for him, but he was gone, no where to be found."

### "Well BITCH, you found me know!" came a gruff deep voice from behind them. MacLeod clubbed Pete over the head, knocking him out cold.

### Electra went for her gun, but MacLeod was ready for that. He pulled a whip off his side and snapped the gun outta her hand before she could get a round off.

### Captain Brian MacLeod now had Electra's gun, and it was pointed right at the group, "This way," MacLeod motioned down one of the tunnels with the gun, "Lets go, no time to waste, your all outta place, to the hole you all go!" He concluded with an evil snicker.

### Grabbing Pete by the hair and dragging him as he walked behind the rest of the group, they all headed for the Wolf Pack's holding cell area. It was a cold, dark, and damp part of the tunnel system.

### CHAPTER TWENTY THREE

### Holly and James ate until they could not eat any more. They left the room and headed for the doors at the end of the hallway. They made their way threw the doors and found themselves in another hallway, this one laid out in the opposite direction of the one they had just come out of.

### They went to the doors on their left and entered them. They found themselves in a library, a pretty good sized library at that. "Check this out," Holly exclaimed, "let's check it out, you take the left side I'll take the right." She said as she disappeared through one of the doors.

### James went to the doors on the other side of the library; he looked through the window of the door and realized that it was the computer back up system, and that the library had its own generator. He flipped the switch, beeps, wines, and lights flickered to life. A couple of the computers that had beeped were now booting up, "cool," James said allowed as he walked back away from the room.

### He continued around the library looking at the different sections as he came to them. There was self help, reference, Spanish, religion, western, poetry, action, and as he rounded the next corner he came to romance. "Hey stud," Holly said to him. She was standing right in the middle of the romance section. She had on only her fiery red garter belt and panties and high heels. She had run back to the gym and got them while James was looking through the library's rooms.

### She stood there in front of him, topless, slender, James just licked his lips. "Don't lick your own lips; I have two pair here for you to lick!" She said looking down at her own crotch area, "That is if your up to it," she added even though she could see he was.

### "You naughty librarian," he said with a smile.

### "Shhh, this is a library. Only six inch voices allowed in here you stud." She responded playing the part that he had now suggested.

### "I guess I'll have to submit to the librarians wishes," James said quietly.

### "Yes you should!" she answered. Then she ordered, "get down on your knees and crawl to me, I want you to kiss these two lips first." She said as she pulled her hot red panties to one side, exposing her bald mound of wet love.

### He played along and got down on his knees and crawled over to her. As he came closer she stood there and parted her legs wider, squatting over his upturned face. James brought his lips right up to hers and kissed then ever so gently.

### "Oh come on now," she pleaded, "a French kiss would be nice, use that talented tongue of yours." She added almost demanding it.

### He complied, using his tongue to penetrate deep within her. He loved the taste, and his face was now glazed over with her juices. After a couple of minutes of him probing her with his tongue she suddenly pushed him away.

### "Strip, I need to search you!" she said as he fell backwards on his ass. "I have to make sure you have no contraband on you."

### She grinned as he slowly stood and began to remove his clothes in front of her, teasing the best he could. "Turn around and put your hands against the wall," she ordered, "and spread your legs apart."

### Holly walked over and acted as though she was patting him down. She reached around the front of his chest and ran her fingers across his nipples, pinching each one as she passes over them. She slowly moved her hand down his stomach; he could feel her erect nipples brushing against his back. She brought her hands out from the front of him and ran them slowly across his ass, slapping each cheek gently as she did. Holly then ran her hands up and down his inner thighs, stopping just short of his privates.

### She stood up and took a step back, "Hum, I missed one spot," she announced. Holly got right back behind him and reached around him once again, her hands landing just below his belly button. She then, ever so slowly, ran her hands down until she came to his thick, hard, throbbing gun.

### "I believe this might be contraband." She said as she gripped him tightly in her hand. She let him go and said, "Turn around, and keep your hands where I can see them. I'm going to have to inspect this a little closer."

### James spun around with all his glory pointing right at her. Holly took one step back and said, "Keep your hands were I can see them, I'm going to get a closer look at this." She said as she kicked off her heels and dropped down in front of him on her knees.

### "Is this cocked and ready to fire?" She asked and then added, "It better not fire prematurely!" She then grabbed hold of him and ran her sleek fingers up and down the shaft, very slowly, and very gently.

### He could felt the hot breath coming from her mouth, and he closed his eyes as she took him deep into her mouth, slowly sucking the hard shaft. He could felt the tip hitting the back of her throat, yet there was not even the hint of a gag.

### She continued slowly, he could feel her tongue rounding the shaft as she took him in. His legs started to tremble, his breathing becoming heavy, and both of his hands were now on the back of her head. Then suddenly she stopped and pulled him out of her mouth. He was about to explode!

### "No, no," she said, "not yet." She said as she pinched the top of his shaft with her fingers. She could feel it throbbing between her fingers, she was not going to let him shoot yet, she wasn't done with him.

### Holly turned and rolled over a chair, "Sit," she commanded of him. Playing along he sat as he was told. "And don't even think about touching yourself, that's mine and mine alone!" she added.

### "Really," James answered sarcastically.

### "You had better believe it buddy boy," she responded.

### She reached over to a nearby shelf and grabbed some pieces of nylon rope. "Okay," she began again, "hands behind the chair." He obliged her and she tied him off, not only binding his wrists together but also tying them to the chair itself.

### "Now spread apart your legs and put your ankles next to the back legs of the chair." Again he complied and she tied each ankle to the back legs of the chair. She checked all the ropes again to insure that they were secure.

### "I like you this way," she said and walked away from him. He could hear her footsteps moving further and further away.

### "Hey where are you going?" He yelled out.

### "Be quiet my pet," she ordered. She then disappeared from his sight, and everything went completely dark. James heard a door open and then close. There was then nothing but silence, he was alone and tied up.

### CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR

### Captain MacLeod herded his captives to the holding cells, still dragging Pete by the hair; he was still also unconscious.

### "Mum," Tabitha yelled.

### "Jo?" Joe said right behind her.

### MacLeod shot the gun straight up into the air, "Silence maggots!" He yelled, "There will be no talking in prison!"

### "This isn't a prison anymore you sick bastard," Electra shot back

### "I said silence," he screamed again and shoved Electra into one of the cells. She fell face first on the ground, as she went to arise she found that both her lip and nose were bleeding. MacLeod locked her cell, "one more word outta any one of ya and you will be like your friend, lunch!"

### Joe suddenly realized that what he had been eating for lunch and threw up out the bars; right on MacLeod's shoes. MacLeod looked directly into Joe's eyes, no longer wearing Jan's face over his. Joe's eyes widened, "You," he said in disbelief, "you sick perverted pedophile," Joe yelled at him.

### "Shut the fuck up prisoner, there will be no heroics this time; you have entered into my turf! As for my shoe," he put his foot just inside the cell through the bars, "lick it clean scum bag!"

### "Not on your life, you'll have to come right on in here and make me," Joe fired back with rage in his voice.

### Brian MacLeod looked down at his shoe, "So you won't clean it off, well then, You dirtied up my foot," he said as he brought Electra's gun forward, "then I'll fuck yours up too prisoner!" He fired the gun into Joe's cell. Everyone screamed, there was a yell out of Joe's cell and then nothing else from his cell but silence.

### "You killed him you fucker," Dani yelled and then started to sob.

### Jo was speechless and also sobbing, but inside Joe's cell the bullet had only pierced the top of his foot, shattering his ankle. Joe wasn't dead, he had just passed out from the sever pain.

### "Anyone else want a piece of me?" MacLeod yelled out, "Just say the word, and stop your crying! There will be no crying, this is prison." He laughed wildly and walked away from the cells.

### Back on the second floor of the recreation building, Compton and Thomas were checking out the rooms, most of which seemed to be used only for storage. The first room, on the left side of the hall, that they came to had only tables and chairs piled on top of one another. The next room was full of computer parts and terminals. The next room, however, had a sign on the door which read 'Wolf Pack Members Only'.

### "This room might prove interesting," Compton said as they walked into the room. The room was full of unbelievable sayings and strange items. In the center of every wall hung a large Nazi Germany Flag; On what appeared to be the head of the room, was painted above the chalk board, U.S.S.A., which as they found from other documents in the room ment 'United Socialist States of Amerika".

### The chalk board was full of rules and regulations as to how the Wolf Pack was to conduct themselves with those who were the degenerates of this country. First and foremost on the board was number one which read; "The prisoners are the scum of this country, and their lives are worthless, meaningless, and not worth the bodies they inhabit. They are just animals of this world."

### There were books strewn around the room on torcher and dismemberment while keeping the animal or sub human alive. Video tapes and DVD's lay strewn around containing visual instruction on how to implement such things.

### "Let's get outta here," Thomas suggested, "this is just sick." Compton agreed and they exited the room. They continued down the hallway to the next room. This time the door was locked.

### Compton took out his flashlight and smashed out the window, the stench from inside hit them like a brick. The smell was vulgar, Compton reached inside and opened the door and opened it. "I'll wait out here," Thomas stated.

### As Detective Compton walked into the room, he saw nothing but dead and decomposing animals all around the room. All types of animals were in there, from cows and horses, to rats and cats and dogs. Compton covered his nose and mouth and headed back out of the room. "Pretty sickening," he said to Thomas as he left the room. With that they headed further down the hall.

### As they went from room to room there was nothing of any value or use to them. They came to the end of the hallway and the final room; it was an old office that overlooked a good part of the resort. On the desk inside they found a cell phone, it was on, with twenty five percent power, and best of all, it was getting a signal!!

### CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE

### In the darkness of the library, James sat still, hands and feet bound. He tried to listen for any sound he could. He felt someone breathing on the back of his neck. Then something wet touched the back of his neck, he remained perfectly still, refusing to even move.

### The next thing he felt was a pair of lips on his neck as the hairs on his neck stood on end, tingling and running thru his body. He breathed in deep and quickly, a sign of extreme pleasure and excitement. Then suddenly the kisses stopped, James, still unable to see anything, tried to hear where she was going to go next, yet all he could hear was silence.

### The breath of her mouth he felt next on his left nipple, and then a flick of her tongue, teasing. Then came the right nipple, yet this time after she gave it a flick with her tongue she followed up with a quick love bite.

### As she teased him she wrapped her hand around is hard shaft and began stroking slowly and gently. She then straddled him and took him deep inside of her, slowly grinding her hips to his. She reached around the back of the chair and untied his hands, bringing them around and placing them firmly over her breasts.

### "Squeeze, hard!" She demanded of him.

### He willingly complied as his body began to quiver and he climaxed deep inside of her. She collapsed on top of him in sheer exhaustion. After they kissed deeply for a few moments she dismounted him and loosened the ropes binding his ankles.

### "Let's get dressed and catch up with the others," she suggested.

### James sat there for a moment before finally feeling around and finding his clothes. As he was putting on his shirt there was a loud crash of a computer being thrown to the ground. "Holly? You okay?" James yelled out into the darkness. He paused for a moment and then yelled out again, "Holly," There was only dead silence.

### Down in the Wolf Pack holding cell area, Jo was deep in thought about the events that took place while her husband was in a prison in Iraq. She remembered how lonely she was in their small home; she had tried to stay there, but eventually gave up and left the home. She had missed her husband terribly and now she would be right back where she started before meeting her husband; alone and in a homeless shelter.

### It still irritated her that her father-in-law had promised to call her and yet never did. She read the letters that Joe had sent to her over and over again, responding to them when she could. They had even started to share fantasy letters with each other, one of them would start the story and the other would continue it. This would go back and forth for several letters at times.

### She began to blame Joe for any and everything that happened to her or Tabitha, weather it was his fault or not. If Tabitha fell and skinned her knee, it was Joe's fault, even though he was thousands of miles away in Iraq.

### Jo found herself getting into her wedding gown; it was the happiest day of her life. The vows that they were to take were straight out of a television show that they had enjoyed watching together.

### As she walked, the others in her family dropped flower petals in front of her. Comically her two year old step sister followed behind then picking up the petals from the floor. She walked up to her soon to be husband and reached out her hands to take hold of his.

### He reached out to her, his hands together, bound with handcuffs. Jo awoke, startled at the images she had just experienced. She had had dreams like this for the last three years now. Even medication to suppress her dreams had not worked all the time. She didn't have that medication with her, it was above in the resort.

### Jo began sobbing again, wondering still if her marriage was even worth trying to save. Her daughter was taken from her and now she sat in a cell, alone, like Joe once had, afraid to speak. She still did not know if she was now a widow or if Joe was still alive, her emotions were tearing her apart.

### Joe was once again conscience and in a lot of pain. Yet his first thoughts were of the others that were now down in the dark with him, yet in their own cells of terror. Electra was sitting alone in her cell thinking about her past, and if she would have a future at this point. MacLeod now had her gun, and he was the one in control.

### She thought of her partner, Detective Dennis Compton, he had asked her out on a date several times, yet she had always found a polite way to turn him down. She could not work with someone that she was involved with, especially not someone who was her partner.

### Her thoughts kept turning back to Joe, was he hurt, and was he okay? She hoped that he was okay, there was something about him that excited her, she then remembered the day she first laid eyes on him three years prior, when she was still a rookie. A man ready to kill another in order to save his precious daughter, yet it was the daughter that ultimately saved her loving father. Electra felt a strange sensation flow thru her body, blushing she realized it was because she wanted him for herself; but he was still married she told herself.

### Boyfriends of any kind never seemed to work out for her; married to the police force, they would say to her, your job is more important than us. She'd been dumped by letter, e-mail, voice mail, and even had one guy text her to break up. There was something different about Joe, but she couldn't put her finger on it, yet it excited her! If his marriage failed, she wouldn't let him fall, she would be there to catch him.

### Dani was I her cell having a fantasy of her own, she was only twenty two and a well built girl, five foot nine, and short black hair; yet still to this day a virgin! No one knew that, not even her brother, she had dated in the past, but nothing special had ever come of them.

### Now she was in her cell, alone like the others, thinking to herself the things that she wanted to do to the only man there, other than her brother. She had always been attracted to older men, this one was married, yet she could still use her imagination to strip off his clothing and have his stand in front of her naked.

### She imagined their two bodies intertwined as she slipped her hand down the front of her jeans. Massaging herself she began to moan and breath heavily, bringing herself to a mind numbing climax. She blushed, even though no one could see her, she was embarrassed non the less, chills still running up and down her spine.

### Being an action star in major Hollywood films had taken the normal day to day things that most people enjoy out of her life. She made up her mind that if she got out of this alive, she would have to experience the worlds pleasures, and not by herself.

### CHAPTER TWENTY SIX

### Compton and Thomas headed down the ramp to the first floor of the recreation building. They went side by side thru the doors at the bottom of the ramp. On their left was the dark library and on the floor in front of them were blood droplets leading out another set of doors from the library.

### "What the?" Compton started saying.

### "Holly!" came a loud cry from inside the library. The two ran to doors of the library and opened the two door simultaneously. Turning on their flashlights they aimed them straight into James' face.

### "What's going on in here?" Thomas asked, "James are you okay?"

### "I'm fine, have you seen Holly?" James answered franticly.

### "No we haven't," Compton answered from the generator room, flipping the switch and having the library come to life once again with flickers of light and beeps from equipment and computers.

### "What the hell happened here?" Thomas asked as he looked around the library seeing smashed computers and more drops of blood on the carpet. James explained what he had heard and knew and Compton told him about the blood droplets on the floor outside the library.

### "We have to go after them," James exclaimed as he ran out the door.

### "Here we go again," Compton said as he followed after James.

### "What do you mean again?" Thomas wondered allowed as he ran out behind Compton and James.

### "Don't ask," Compton replied, "Trust me you don't want to know!"

### "Yeah right, like I trust anyone right now," Thomas shot back sarcastically.

### They followed the blood drops through another set of doors and up a couple flights of stairs. As the exited the stairwell thru another set of doors, they found themselves back at the office that overlooked the resort, and where they had found the cell phone.

### "The cell," Compton said allowed as he reached into his pocket and started to dial 911 once again.

### "911 operator, what is your emergen..." The phone went dead again.

### "Fuck," Compton yelled as he put the phone back in his pocket. He decided to try text messaging the station when they were stopped again for a moment and they had a signal. Then he would only need a few seconds to hit send and the message would be on its way.

### The blood droplets continued thru another set of doors at the end of the hall, then down the stairs that led to the back door where they had originally come into the building. The three of them followed the blood trail, which was becoming less and less visible, back into the gym. At half court in the gym the blood drops suddenly stopped.

### "Great, they could have went anywhere from here," Compton exclaimed.

### James started yelling for Holly at the top of his lungs. The other two ran into the boiler room and looked down the stairs that led to the tunnel system. No one was in sight nor could they hear anything. Then came an ear piercing laugh and a loud splash, silence followed.

### All three looked at each other and ran toward the sound that came from the back side of the basketball court. They noticed a door closing, and then heard another loud splash of water. James had run ahead of the others and disappeared thru the door still yelling for Holly.

### As Compton and Thomas entered the swimming pool area the spotted James pulling Holly from the water. There was also another body floating face down in the water. Compton ran to retrieve the other victim as Thomas ran to help James with Holly. When they pulled Holly from the water they laid her flat on her back and James started CPR.

### "Come on Holly," James shouted, "Don't you die on me! Come on breath."

### On the other side of the pool Compton had pulled the other woman out of the pool, he checked for signs of life, yet found none. "How's Holly?" he asked yelling across the pool room.

### Holly started gasping and spitting up water. "I think she's going too alright," James yelled back as Holly sat up and embraced him.

### "How about the other one?" Thomas asked Compton.

### "I'm afraid she has gone to a better place," Compton answered.

### "Do we know who it was?" Holly asked.

### "Yep," Compton replied as he started walking toward the others, "It's Denise Hampshire, one of the owners who..." He was cut off by a loud rumbling and a loud whistle.

### Metal sounded like it was hitting metal, and then a loud crash and a mighty explosion. It was powerful enough to shake the entire recreation building. Compton took off running toward the outside door. Once outside he ran to the end of the covered walkway and saw a large fire burning in the snow. It seemed that one of the newer buildings of the resort had exploded; it was the Kingdom Lodge.

### There was a series of explosions that came from within the building. Debris flew in all directions, some of the larger pieces in the direction of Compton, who ducked to avoid being struck. Compton turned and ran back inside avoiding bricks and glass that were flying through the air.

### Once he was back inside of the gym there was another earth shattering explosion; the upper windows in the gym shattered, raining glass down on the gym floor.

### "Head for the tunnels," Compton yelled across the gym to the others as they all ran from the falling pieces of glass. As they approached the door leading to the boiler room, a large steel girder crashed down in front of them blocking their way.

### "Is there another way down?" Thomas yelled out.

### "Unfortunately," Compton yelled back, "follow me and try not to look around the room to much." He led the others into and thru the weight room.

### CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN

### Deep inside the tunnel system, in the Wolf Packs holding cell area, those in the cells felt the trembling above. "What was that?" Dani asked

### "Don't know sis, but something big happened up there," Pete answered.

### "Well let's be glad for once we are not the ones that are up there," Electra exclaimed.

### "Mum, you okay?" Tabitha asked.

### "I'm okay sweetie, how about you," Jo asked.

### "I'm good mum." Tabitha responded.

### "Can anyone reach the set of keys over on the wall?" Joe asked.

### "Oh my god," Electra said, "Your alive!"

### "Wow, I thought you were dead too." Dani said following Electra.

### "Oh well," was all Jo said.

### "What do you mean oh well!?" Joe shot back.

### "I was just getting use to being a widow," Jo answered being completely serious.

### From the front of their cells came the voice of an angel, "Will you two just kiss and make up already." Tabitha said looking at both of them.

### "Tabitha your," Jo started.

### "Not locked in," Joe finished. He then added, "Angel grab those keys over there on the wall, you see them?"

### "I see um daddy," she replied.

### "What the fuck is all this racket down here!" Tabitha stopped short of the keys, MacLeod was on his way back into holding area. She thought of running back into her cell but realized there was no time, MacLeod was rounding the corner. Tabitha darted down one of the tunnels to hide from the approaching monster.

### "Run Tabby," Jo shouted out, "run!"

### "Run?!" MacLeod yelled as ran into the cell where Tabitha had been, "Where is she! ANDREW!" he yelled out again, "Your pet has escaped again, this time when we catch her she will be dinner."

### "Fuck-you asshole!" Electra yelled out at MacLeod, "leave that little girl alone you sick twisted bastard." MacLeod let out a growl and backhanded Electra through the cells bars.

### "Leave her alone you sick twisted freak," Joe yelled out.

### "WHAT?!" Jo yelled at her husband, obviously jealous.

### Joe ignored his wife as if he didn't even hear her, "Yeah you, you fat, outta shape, sick fucker." Joe continued taunting MacLeod.

### "Prisoner, you will be punished for disrespecting an officer," MacLeod shot back as he went for his keys.

### "That's it you freak," Joe kept it up, "I should have killed you when I had the chance three years ago."

### "You had your chance, trust me," MacLeod responded, "You will not get a second chance!" With that he pulled out a stun gun and shot it at Joe. Joe went down and lay motionless. MacLeod opened his cell and dragged Joe out by the hair, heading back the way he had just come from.

### He dragged Joe back to the elevator that he originally brought him down in. He took him back to the first floor, but instead of heading back the way he originally brought Joe, he went further down the hallway, around a corner, and through a door.

### They were now in the Murry Lodge chapel; Macleod took out his hand cuffs and hooked Joe onto one of the radiators. "I'll be back for you later, tuff guy."

### CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT

### Holly screamed at the sight of John O'Rielly's smashed in head, Thomas covered his mouth as if he was about to puke. They hurried thru the door and into the boiler room. Compton led them all to the door leading down to the tunnels, and they all hurried down into them.

### They all ran down one of the tunnels until they were all out of breath and could go no further. All four of them practically collapsed on the floor in order to catch their breath. "Why do I always end up in wet clothes," Holly wondered allowed, "Why me?"

### "Maybe so that one of us can help you outta them," Thomas said as if offering himself to assist her.

### "Only one of you will be helping me in that area, and Thomas, it ain't you!" she remarked.

### "What, you too good for me?" Thomas asked sarcastically.

### "Hey, watch your mouth asshole," James said as he stood and approached Thomas.

### "Okay boys enough! James I can handle myself in this area, trust me," She said reassuring James. Holly then turned back to Tom and pulled off her wet shirt and threw it at him. It was cold and wet, and Tom could see her nipples clearly thru her wet bra.

### "Is this what you want Tommy?" She teased, "Or is this?" she added as she pulled off her wet jeans.

### "Oh yeah, now that's what I'm talk' in bout," Tom said as he rubbed his hands together.

### James and Compton sat watch' in, wondering what would happen next, Holly was sure not the shy timid girl she originally portrayed herself to be. "Crawl to me," Holly demanded of Tom. Tom complied, "A little closer," she continued and then said abruptly, "Stop!" She pulled her panties to one side and asked, "Is this what you want?"

### "God yeah," Tom replied and started to move quickly toward her.

### "In your dreams," she said kicking him under the chin and knocking him square on his ass. "James is my man, not you, don't forget it." She said as she turned to James who handed her his coat to wear.

### "Let's all head up to that opening up ahead. We can stay the night there and continue to search for the others after we get some sleep." Compton suggested. The four of them headed together toward the room, Tom still rubbing his jaw in pain. That kick had knocked his confidence down a few pegs, and Holly was obviously quite proud of herself.

### They entered the room, and like some of the others that Compton had encountered, it was a chapel, or as it seemed this time, a temple. There were pews and cushions, no one needed to tell Compton what this room was used for. In the center of the room was a golden statue of a man sitting in a lotus position; it was a statue of Prince Siddhartha, The Buddha!

### On the wall behind the statue it read:

"THE GARDIANS OF THE WORLD"

### MORAL SHAME

### MORAL FEAR

### ONES OWN MORAL UPRIGHTIOUSNESS

### Around the dimly lit room were other words painted on the walls such as: Joy; Pain; Suffering; Nirvana; Enlightenment; Envy; Sloth; Torpor; Doubt; Pride; Egoism; Conceit; Faith; Mindfulness; Tranquility; Elasticity; Adaptability; among other words, both of a positive and negative nature.

### "Well this is it for the night," Holly said looking around, "come on James, let's pick a spot, cuddle up, and go to sleep.

### "I'll grab a few of these cushions," he said as he followed her to the far end of the temple. They set up in the far corner by the wall in order to have some sort of privacy, although it really didn't matter because as soon as they cuddled up to each other, Holly was fast asleep in James' arms.

### Compton and Tom found themselves some more cushions and laid them out on the pews. The pews were not attached to the floor so they were able to put two together to make a more comfortable sleeping area; each to his own area.

### They all fell asleep fairly quickly, there was only one small detail that they all forgot; they were all asleep, and footsteps were slowly approaching. The footsteps came closer and closer, no one awoke, and a shadow from out of the dark climbed into one of the pews and waited.

### CHAPTER TWENTY NINE

### "I hope Joe is okay," Dani innocently said allowed.

### "Leave my husband alone, both of you," Jo shot back including Electra in her comment.

### "Hey," Electra spoke up, "You're the one who keeps hoping that he's dead, so what do you care what we say!?" she ended angrily.

### "He's still my husband," Jo shot back quickly.

### "Look here Missy," Dani started in again, "You cheated on him so many times while he was in Iraq that you probably don't even remember how many times you did."

### "Fuck you bitch, keep away from him," Jo angrily responded.

### "Hey you're the one who got a little extra on the side while he was away," Electra added, "maybe he should get a little extra as well."

### "I think not! Stay outta my affairs," Jo said obviously shaken by the cracking of her voice.

### "It's your affairs that got you in trouble in the first place," Dani proclaimed.

### "Isn't that the truth," Electra said agreeing with Dani. "Just give me an hour with him..." she teased.

### "What do you mean with you?!" Dani said now confronting Electra.

### "Look little miss superstar, don't you think your just a bit to young for him?" Electra answered.

### "Hey, hey, hey girls," Pete interrupted, "He's still a married man," stating the obvious.

### "Shit Pete's right," Electra agreed

### "Yeah your right bro," Dani said, "but I don't think I'm too young!" she added taking one last swipe at Electra.

### "Thank you Pete," Jo said with her voice cracking, fighting back tears. "Can we drop this whole thing now?"

### Dani and Electra responded in unison, "sure, sorry."

### There was a rattling in the distance, someone was on there way to their location, whistling as they came closer. "I think it's time for a house meeting," it was Captain MacLeod, "We shall all adjourn to the Murry Chapel, I'll escort you all up one at a time. This way there will be no trouble from any of you." He continued to say as he walked over to the cells.

### "I think I'll take you up first," he said as he stepped in front of Pete's cell. "With your arm and that love tap I gave you yesterday your ears should be still ringing." MacLeod took out his keys and prepared to open Pete's cell door.

### "Leave my brother alone," Dani demanded.

### "Well, well, a feisty little one aren't we." MacLeod said stopping and redirecting his path to Dani's cell. "what are you going to do about it," he asked her as he approached.

### Dani had to think quickly, and said the first thing that came to mind, "Captain, sir, would you be willing to rub a young woman's feet for her?"

### MacLeod was shocked, and yet amused, "Sure," he said, "let me get a chair." He grabbed hold of a stool nearby and continued, "I didn't realize that you knew I had a thing for small smooth feet," he exclaimed licking his lips in anticipation.

### He sat in front of her cell and pleaded, "Come on, take off your shoes and stockings, and put them up here in the Captains lap." Dani took off her shoes and socks, sat down on a small bench inside the cell and extended her legs and feet into the lap of MacLeod. MacLeod grabbed onto one of size five feet and started to massage it while her other foot massaged his crotch.

### He kissed her foot and then went on to the other. In the mean time as Dani groaned, not with pleasure, but in disgust, Jo noticed that she could reach the keys that MacLeod had. Dani picked up on this and continued to distract him. She decided to remove her shirt while MacLeod massaged her feet.

### MacLeod stopped for a moment, starring at Dani as she remover her bra, exposing her succulent breasts. She then teasingly licked her own nipple and said to MacLeod, "You want to taste these little things too?" With that MacLeod stood up quickly, just as Jo unhooked the keys from his belt.

### "Oh yes, come to your Captain you tender little thing, you." Captain MacLeod said as he moved right up to the bars of the cell. "Let me have a little taste," he exclaimed wagging his tongue at her.

### Out of the corner of her eye she noticed Jo stepping out of her cell and picking up a rather large rock. "Yeah right Captain Perv, like I'd really let you touch these! As for your lame little foot massage..."

### MacLeod cut her off mid sentence, "Why you little bitch, I'm going to open this door and take all of you!" he said wildly as he reached for his keys. He suddenly realized his keys were missing, "What the fu..." He couldn't finish, Jo smashed him over the head with the rock and he instantly crumbled to the ground.

### "Good work Dani," Jo said, "And sorry about the foot thing, I'm not sure I could have done that." Jo unlocked Dani's cell and then Electra's. As she put the key into Pete's cell door and unlocked it, Pete yelled out, "RUN!"

### The three girls took off quickly down the same tunnel Tabitha had headed down. Pete tried to follow but MacLeod grabbed him by the throat and slammed his head into the wall, his body went limp in MacLeod's hand.

### MacLeod dropped him like a rag doll, then took him by the hair and dragged him to the elevator. "Andrew," he yelled out, "our prisoners have escaped!"

### CHAPTER THIRTY

### The Three girls made it to the temple where the others were asleep. With all the commotion Compton and the others awoke, startled.

### "Electra," Compton announced, "Jo, Dani, are you all okay? Where are the others?"

### "MacLeod got hold of them," Electra answered, "you know him, the guy who tried kidnapping the three year old? The father wielding a knife over his head, the one who kicked out the rear window of our cruiser?!"

### "No shit, he's the sick'o that's doing this?" Compton replied, "We've got to stop him this time."

### "He's still holding Joe and now Pete," Dani added.

### "And my little girl is still missing as well," Jo added quickly.

### "Well let's go find em." Holly said as she awoke and perked up.

### "Do we know where he has taken them?" Compton asked.

### "No," Electra answered, "but we do know what way they headed, it's a start anyway."

### "Well let's get going then," Thomas interjected into the conversation.

### The group headed out of the temple and down through the tunnel back toward the Wolf Pack's holding cell area. Compton had his gun drawn and ready to fire, Electra had told him how MacLeod had gotten hold of her sidearm and had shot Joe in the foot.

### As they entered the holding cell area, they noticed nothing different from an hour or so ago from when they left, accept for the fact that Pete was now gone as well as Joe. They could see where Pete was dragged off by the marks in the dirt.

### "I hope Pete is okay," Jo said.

### "What about your husband?" James interjected, "This nut case has him as well doesn't he?"

### "Yep," was all she said in response.

### "Well, well, well, the gangs all here!" came a gruff voice from out of the tunnels; it was MacLeod.

### They spun around just in time to witness MacLeod putting on a gas mask and pulling out the pins in gas grenades, which he threw into the room. Within minutes the entire room was engulfed with gas and the group was rendered unconscious. Captain MacLeod took them all and bound them all, hand and foot, then one by one dragged them up to the Murry Lodge Chapel.

### As MacLeod came down to get his final victim, Jo, he picked her up and yelled out, "Only your pet is out there now, Andrew, the rest are mine, all mine." Find your pet and meet us in the Murry Chapel!" He finished as the elevator door shut.

### As MacLeod dragged Jo into the chapel, he prepared himself for what would come next. H bound Jo, Dani, Compton, Electra, James and Holly to the pews themselves, all of them facing the alter. At the prayer rail in front of the alter were tied Joe, Pete, and Thomas, their wrists were bound above their heads and attached to the ceiling, their feet tied together and bound to a looped hook on the floor.

### On the alter itself two candles where lit and on either side, in the center was a scroll along with makeshift whips, with chards of glass fastened to the ends. "Let the services begin," MacLeod announced as his captive audience began to awaken from the effects of the gas. The others were gagged and could say nothing nor move at all.

### "First we shall read the charges against these three here," MacLeod said referring to the three men at the alter rail, "All share the same charges and are as follows, One, out of place; Two, disobeying an officer; Three, introduction of contraband; Four, speaking without permission from an officer. These among other charges are crimes against this facility and you have all been found guilty!"

### "Your punishment shall be as follows, flogging, one hundred lashes or until ye are dead!" MacLeod continued, "There shall be no reprieves, no appeals, and no part of this sentence shall be or can be suspended in whole or in part."

### Shock began to set in and the group that were still in the pews tried to yell threw their gags to no avail. "This sentence shall be carried out immediately and without delay," MacLeod announced from the alter as he picked up the glass laden whip.

### CHAPTER THIRTY ONE

### In the Buddhist temple a young child stirred, Tabitha woke after much needed sleep, "Mum?" she called out. No one answered so she stood up on the pew and looked around, "Oh great, their all lost again!" she said allowed in disgust.

### She jumped down off the bench and looked down at the footprints in the dirt. Tabitha followed them back through the tunnel and found herself back in the holding cell area. "Hello, mum, dad Electra?" she yelled running from cell to cell finding them all empty. She looked around and spotted the drag marks in the dirt leading down another tunnel. She once again began to follow the trail, but stopped suddenly as an object caught her eye.

### "I better take this back to Electra," she said allowed, "she must have forgot it and now she is lost to like everyone else." Tabitha picked up the object and continued to follow the trail in the dirt.

### She headed down the tunnel until she came to the elevator, finding a stool, she pushed the button and the elevator started heading down to her. Tabitha looked up and noticed that the elevator had been on the first floor. When the door opened, she dragged the stool in with her and stood on it so she could reach and push the 'one' button. The doors closed and the elevator started up.

### As the doors opened, Tabitha could hear MacLeod's voice coming from down the hallway. She followed his voice as he was handing down the sentence. She opened the door to the chapel and walked into the back room. She could hear the crack of a whip, and a muffled scream.

### Tabitha rounded the corner and came out of the back room, she stopped and starred in horror as her daddy was being whipped and bloodied by the crazy Captain Brian MacLeod. She screamed, "Leave my daddy alone!"

### MacLeod stopped and looked around the room until he spotted Andrew's little pet standing in the back corner of the chapel. "We seem to have another guest," MacLeod said as he stepped down from the alter and headed toward Tabitha.

### "You leave my daddy alone!" Tabitha repeated giving MacLeod a stern look.

### "And what is a little pet like you gonna do about it?" MacLeod said sarcastically. "You'll be my lunch you little shit!" He reached out to grab hold of her, but stopped suddenly, and backed up a few steps. He was shaking and had a look of both surprise and worry on his face.

### "Oh no you won't, you're a bad, bad man," she said as she pulled the trigger of Electra's gun, blowing off the kneecap of MacLeod, who fell in severe pain. The kick from the gun knocked Tabitha back against the wall, she hit her head hard and was knocked unconscious.

### "You little fuck," MacLeod said standing back up on one foot, "I'll kill you where you lay for that."

### "Brian!" Someone shouted from the back of the chapel, "I told you never to come back here!"

### "Fuck you old man, your nothing to me," MacLeod shot back.

### "Your still my son!" The man yelled back, "as sick and twisted as you are, your still my son."

### "Go ask ma what she thinks of me," MacLeod responded, "When she told me, she got a big drink of water."

### "So you did kill your mother!?" the man said as he walked down the center isle of the chapel.

### "No, it was Andrew!" he yelled back, "not me."

### "Andrew?!" the man shot back, "is he another one of your imaginary friends?" As he reached the front of the chapel those there gasped, it was Timothy Hampshire, one of the resort owners.

### "NO! NO!" Brian MacLeod yelled as he hobbled over closer to where Tabitha lay, "She's mine!"

### "No, she 's not son," Tim Hampshire answered as he drew a hand gun and shot his only son six times, twice in the head. Brian's brains were splattered on the wall, and his body flopped around on the floor.

### Exeter police ran into the chapel, guns drawn, they also started to attend to those who were bound and gagged. "Folks," Timothy started, "I can't begin to apologize for what you have been through, there are vans outside to assist you in getting back to the lodge. I will also be refunding all the money each of you has paid to this resort. I you want you may all stay as long as you want, if you need anything, I'll be in the main office."

### CHAPTER THIRTY TWO

### The next morning as the guests woke up and showered, and sat around together drinking their morning coffee, Detectives Electra and Compton came into the lodge to insure everyone was okay and to answer any questions that they might have.

### "So was that the owner's son?" Joe asked

### "Yes," Compton answered, "it seems that he had changed his last name to get the prison job. He had had some problems in the past as you know."

### "Who was this Andrew person?" Pete asked, "He always seemed to talking to him?"

### "We asked the state hospital to look into it," Electra explained, "They found an old file on a n Andrew Warrnier, the file is stamped presumed dead."

### "What do you mean presumed?" Holly asked.

### "I'm not really sure," Electra continued, "He disappeared when they moved from this location to their new one. A fire had broken out in one of the buildings and human remains were found, presumed to those of Andrew. They said his file said he liked to play with fire as a child. His face was burnt pretty badly in a fire and as a teen he wore makeup to hide the burns."

### After the question and answer session, Joe returned to his room to pack and prepare to leave. When he entered the room he noticed that both Jo's and Tabitha's luggage was already gone from the room. He glanced out the window and noticed that their car was also missing. He turned back to his suitcases and noticed a note on the bed; he picked it up to read it:

### "I'm sorry to write the one letter I promised never to write to you.

### I'm sorry that I don't think this marriage was ment to be.

### I'm sorry I can no longer be married to someone I no longer trust.

### I'm sorry that I don't want to be married to someone who has been gone longer that he has been around.

### I'm sorry I don't want any more contact with you.

### I'm sorry I don't want to talk to you anymore.

### I'm sorry I have to break your heart this way.

### I'm sorry that my life, my life has gone on while yours has remained the same.

### I'm sorry that this is not open for discussion.

### I'm sorry I'm no longer in love with you.

### I'm sorry.

### JoAnne

### Joe sat down on the bed, reading the letter over and over, not understanding. What went wrong? She was mad at him sure, but she had been mad before.

### "Hey, you okay?" Electra said standing in the doorway.

### "Yeah, I guess, just really confused," he answered.

### "If you ever need to talk, or need anything, you know where to reach me." She said.

### "I know where," Joe said and then added, "How about dinner tonight? We can talk?"

### "Okay, sure. Come on let me get ya outta here, there's a lot of bad memories here." Electra answered.

### As Jo and Tabitha pulled out onto the main road, Tabitha spotted a dark figure coming out from a small door in the middle of a small hill by the lake. The figure ran into the woods, Tabitha froze in fear and watched as the figure seemed to dance out of sight.

### THE END??

Coming soon the devil returns in "Day of the Clown: My Little Angel Part 2"

