Chapter 25 Cory woke up with a terrible headache that felt like her head was being ripped in two. She opened her eyes to find she was seating in a chair that rest in the center of a semi dark room. She tried to lift her hands to rub her aching head only to realizes that she was handcuffed to a short but very thick chain that was secured to the concrete floor in the middle of the room. “I’m not sorry about all this” said Timmy as he steps out of the dark shadows to face her with the same face that he called her a murdering bitch with. Cory remains silent and gives Timmy a cold stare as the memories of how she got here suddenly come flooding back to her. Preacher lured her into the back ally and tried to shoot her with a tranquilizer gun and that’s when the fight broke out between her and Preacher then the last thing she could remember was Timmy coming out of nowhere giving her a false sense of hope. Then suddenly came a painful electric shock rendering her into a unconsciousness. “that’s because your boyfriend turned into a betraying little bitch and zapped us with a stun gun” said Jason Grey shouting into Cory’s ear. “your probably mad at me and want to hurt me” said Timmy with a coldness in his voice. “if I get out of these handcuffs, you will find out how bad I want to hurt the fucking both of you” said Cory not trying to hold back or hide any of her angry toward them. Preacher turns on the overhead lights and the room becomes very well lite. Preacher walks over to Cory with his bible firmly gripped in one hand and a vial of water in the other. He begin reading out loud from the book of mark. Cory right away recognizes from her early church going days the story of Jesus casting out a large group of demons that called there self Legion and Jesus gave the demons permission to take possession of a group of pigs. Cory admitted to herself that she had considered the ideal a few times that Jason Grey could be a demon after the man called Preacher had first made the claim the other day at the church. But now the man called Preacher circled around Cory while reading scripture and the fact that they had even handcuffed her to a chair. This mess seem to scream that there intentions is to perform some kind of exorcism on her. Cory wasn’t sure if it was Jason Grey taking a degree of control from her or just her suddenly finding a degree of humor in this fucked up situation as she begins too laugh uncontrollably like a person in one of them possession movies. Preacher used his thumb to popped open the cap to the vial of water as he begin to feel enraged watching the demon control the blonde girl like a ventriloquist does a puppet. Preacher quickly splashes a few drop of the water onto Cory’s face. Suddenly Cory’s hysterical laughter is suddenly replaced by horrible cries of agony like someone that got a face full of battery acid. Cory finds herself back in control as Jason Grey seems to suddenly take a backseat. Preacher only allowed Cory a breath or two break then he once again throws more holy water at Cory’s face. “motherfucker” screamed Cory Potts in horrible pain. Even though the water appeared to do no visible damage to Cory’s face, it felt like her face had been set on fire and the pain seem to follow each water drop as they rolled down Cory’s face. “no more” begged Cory hating herself for being so weak and giving in to this torture. “it’s only holy water” said Preacher showing Cory the vial of water he’s holding in his hand. Preacher then takes the vial of water and holds it a little above her leg. Cory watches in dread as Preacher pours a few drops on her leg. Cory Once again goes into a screaming fit of both pain and rage till finally Timmy couldn’t take hearing Cory’s cries of pain anymore. He moves over to Preacher and takes the vial of holy water from Preacher’s hand. “I can’t do this” said Timmy begin to wonder if he was wrong about this and fear if this process would kill his girlfriend. “it may look like your girlfriend there suffering son” said Preacher. “but that’s the demon suffering” Preacher could tell by the look on Timmy’s face that the boy was now having second thoughts. “tell me one word that would of describe your girlfriend before this demon took it’s hold on her” ask Preacher. Timmy takes a couple of long seconds to think deeply on the question before answering. “she was very wholesome” said Timmy as his mind drafts back to a time before Cory was attacked and raped by Jason Grey. A time when she uses to dress more conservative in blue jean pants and long-sleeve flannel shirts instead of skimpy mini skirts and revealing tank tops. Timmy’s Cory had always when to church services every Sunday and she uses to argue with him about how God was real. “does she look very wholesome now” said Preacher then he quickly points out how Cory had murdered a whole parking garage full of people. “these animals that he’s calling people had kidnapped you and raped your aunt” screamed Cory. Preacher noticed that the demon’s words was slowly winning the boy over and he need to turn this back around. “she lure a couple of them animals into a van wearing her slutty little outfit before she killed them” said Preacher. Timmy understood right away what Preacher was trying to do with his hurtful words but Timmy was starting to see signs of his old Cory every time he looked into her beautiful blue eyes. “you said earlier that she fought with the demon most of the day about saving me” said Timmy trying to defend his girlfriend’s actions. Cory looks up at Timmy and she could tell that he still loved her deep inside and she even felt a small thread of hope. “true” said Preacher seeing a way into manipulating the boy back on his side. “but there was a time yesterday when the demon had taken full control over her and it tried very hard to seduces me” Preacher knew what he was saying was a half lie but he desperately needed Timmy on his side to win this fight against the demon. Cory remembered the moment between herself and Preacher the other day as mutual flirting as it played back inside her memory but now her feelings of hope begin turning into feelings of shame as she finds herself unable to look Timmy in the eyes. Timmy sensing Cory shame finds himself overwhelmed with a combination of hurt and angry. Preacher moves over to Timmy and places a understanding hand on the teen boy’s shoulder. “go home” said Preacher in a sympathetic voice. “gather your strength because the next few days are going to be very taxing” A hurt Timmy nods his head at Preacher and hand’s back over the vial of holy water before moving over to the door. “is it possible to bring the old Cory back” ask Timmy in a voice that deeply was begging Preacher for hope. “yes, I believe we can” said Preacher trying to sound very reassuring. Tears begin rolling down Timmy’s face the moment after he stepped outside of the room. The only thing he found himself caring about was getting back his old Cory and he realized that he was more then willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen, Timmy only hoped that when he did get her back to her old self that he would be able to forget that she was once this monster. “you’re a real bastard” said Cory addressing Preacher. She felted like killing Preacher for the way that he just lied to and hurt Timmy. Preacher ignores the remark and started back with reading Bible verses about how Jesus and his disciples casting out demons and Preacher started back with the throwing of holy water on Cory. Preacher continued the exorcism ritual for the remainder of the day. Cory closed her mouth and grinded her teeth as the holy water burned her and hurt like hell. Cory knew Preacher was trying to drive out the spirit of Jason Grey from her but mentally she accepted the ritual as a form of punishment for the part she played in hurting Timmy. By the time night came both Preacher and Cory were very tired. Agent Jones sit quietly in his car at a distance watching the abandon warehouse on the waterfront for most of the day. He earlier witness Preacher Smith and the teenage boy Timmy Winters kidnap the blonde girl this afternoon in the back alley behind some church and they then brought her out here. Watching Preacher Smith fight with the blonde girl was way better then watching anything on Pay Per view and the blonde teen girl had mad fighting skills. But the teen boy’s trickery had gotten the best of her in the end. Agent Jones watched now as Timmy walked out of the warehouse and he question himself on if he should follow the teenage boy then Agent Jones realized that as long as the God’s will killer has the blonde girl he was going nowhere. Jones kind of felted like he was backed into a corner because this could be his chance to catch the God’s will killer red handed but he promised his partner Storm that he let him deal with the blonde girl how ever he saw fit. Agent Jones understood to some degree why Edwin felted so sorry for the blonde teenage girl because after all she also was a victim. Jones patiently waited for the night to get darker than around 2 am in the morning he got out of his car and slowly made his way over to the warehouse hoping the dark sky would make him invincible. He patrolled around the deck area look for any way to sneak into the warehouse. After finding a back door surprisingly unlocked he pulls his hand gun and grabs it tightly as he enters the building. Agent Jones curses himself at first for not bringing a flashlight and continue on by using the light from the moon that shined through the big warehouse windows. Jones come to a door and slowly opens it. A beam of moon light come down through a sky light window in the ceiling lite the middle of the room where the blonde girl was sitting and Jones could see that the blonde girl was chained to the floor. Cory tried right away to warn the Agent but her words were muffled from three layers of duct tape that was wrapped around the blonde girl’s head tightly binding her mouth. Agent Jones takes ahold of the tape and quickly rips it off the blonde girl. “he’s behind you” said Cory and it was more of the hopelessness in her voice that disturbed him more then her actual words. Cory was defenseless to do anything other than watch as Preacher painfully strikes the black man in the back of the head with a large lead pipe. When Jones fell unconsciously to floor Preacher feared at first that he may have killed the nosey FBI Agent. 

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