Devin Seade
Chapter 28
Chapter 28 Timmy felt a very deep disgust within himself every time he looked down at his bloody hands. He never in his life had ever acted so violently and he feared that he had done irreversible damage to his girlfriend. Then Timmy immediately shifted the blame of his actions on the demon inside her trying to convince himself that he wouldn’t of done anything like that on his own free will. Preacher quickly return with the first aid kit to find Timmy blocking the doorway to Cory. Preacher could tell right away that the boy was sorry for his actions but he decided to tell Timmy to wash the blood from his hands and go home for the night. Timmy at first tried to protest but Preacher insisted that it was the right thing to do. “ok” said Timmy with grief in his voice. “I be back in the morning” “no” said Preacher immediately. “don’t return here till I call and ask you to come back” Preacher could tell that his words had upset Timmy and the boy look for a moment like he was going to attack him next. “fine” said Timmy not hiding the anger in his voice. Then Timmy storms away cursing under his breath. Preacher felt a overwhelming pity for the blonde girl as he cleaned the blood off her face to get a better look at her wounds. One of the blonde girl’s eyeballs was ruptured with no hope of saving it and there wasn’t much of a chance that she would ever see out the other eye again also. Cory’s nose looked to be badly broken to the point where the blonde girl was forced to breathe out her mouth. Both her upper and lower lip we’re bleeding. Preacher had to be very careful cleaning the girl’s forehead and left cheek. Her cheek was broken and by the indents and swelling around Cory’s forehead he guessed that she had a fractured skull. Preacher slowly took out his lock blade knife, the same one that he earlier killed Agent Jones with and contemplated on giving the blonde teenage girl a quick and painless death. “go head and kill me” mumbled Cory finally breaking her painful silence and a large part of her wanted to die then to reliving inside her mind the act of her boyfriend damn near beating her to death that seem to be on continual replay in her head. Preacher could hear the intense pain that was in the blonde girl’s words. “he didn’t mean what he did” said Preacher. “he just wants his old girlfriend back nothing personal” Preacher believed that it would take a miracle for the blonde girl to live through the night with her serious injuries. “I was the one that Jason Grey attacked that night” said Cory understanding what Preacher was driving at with Timmy. “not him” “that night not only changed you my dear” said Preacher. “it also changed him” Cory wasn’t sure if it was her head injury or Preacher’s reasoning but his words seem to make sense. Preacher decides to pocket his lock blade knife and drops to his knees for prayer instead. “dear Lord” prayed Preacher out loud. “you had used me as your instrument of destruction for so long and then you had trusted me with a true mission to save this girl, but I have only failed you” Preacher takes Cory’s hand into his and holds them tightly. “her life is in your hands Lord” said Preacher ending his prayer. “why are you do this” ask Cory. “because I want to save you” said Preacher with a similarity in his voice. That night Cory’s body begins to sweat all over as she runs a very high fever. Cory found herself hallucinating about the night she was attacked and raped by Jason Grey then later she is reminded in a fever dream of the monster she become the night the Grey family came to her small town looking for revenge. The next morning Preacher checks in on Cory half expecting to find the blonde teenage girl dead and even preparing himself that morning to give Timmy a speech about how her death wasn’t the teenage boy fault only to get the surprise of his life. While Cory dreamed of her attack at the hands of Jason Grey and about her transformation into becoming a monster to survive the Grey family, Timmy dreamed that night about the old wholesome Cory Potts he use to know and the way things use to be. At the end of Timmy’s dream it quickly turned into a horrible nightmare as the once innocent Cory Potts that he longed for begin turning into a pale corpse that cried out and begged for Timmy to save her. Then Timmy heard a strange loud laughter coming from all around them that Timmy had somehow knew was Jason Grey. Jason Grey laughing at him and remind Timmy that he had fucked out and tortured away everything that was once good about Timmy’s girlfriend and this dried up corpse was all that was left of Timmy’s girlfriend. Timmy woke up screaming and for the rest of that morning he fell into depressed and slowly as the morning moved on it turned to closure as a part of him seem to accept that his girlfriend Cory Potts was probably dead after the severe beating she suffered at his hands during his mental breakdown last night. That was when Preacher called and demand for Timmy get to the warehouse house as soon as possible. Cory felted heartbroken when she saw Timmy’s disappointing reaction over her still being alive and the news that she seem to have this miracle healing factor. She wished deep inside that his reaction would have been more like Preacher’s that seemed of joy. Preacher sing praises to God and called it a miracle But one memory kept popping up in Cory’s head to haunt her. The memory of Jason Grey taking possession of her on the night he killed the MS-13 gang member Ryan. Jason Grey took Ryan’s knife that night and cut several marks into Cory’s forearm in a contest of which killer has the most kills and all the marks were gone by the following morning. Cory wished that she could make better sense out of this new discovery of this healing Factor but her thoughts was overridden by her stomach growling from not being feed in the last few days as the hunger was getting the best of her. Preacher explained to Timmy how he found her completely healed this morning and that drove him into doing some serious research of ancient exorcism books on very old exorcism lore. “and what did you find out” ask Timmy wanting Preacher to hurry up and make his point. Cory remained silent herself wanting to hear what Preacher had to say. “it will be easier to just show you” said Preacher and he removes his lock blade knife from his pocket. “I haven’t used any holy water on her this morning or last night” said Preacher as he runs the blade of the knife down Cory’s forearm cutting deep. “mother fucker” screamed Cory in agony of feeling the blade bite into her forearm. “would you be so kind and duct tape the demon’s foul mouth” ask Preacher. Timmy picks up the duct tape off the floor by the far wall, Cory did manage to call him every curse word she could think of till her mouth was taped shut. After several minutes Cory’s forearm quickly heals without leaving any kind of marks or scars. “how can a demon be able to do something like that” ask Timmy feeling suddenly shocked. “technically a demon is an angel that’s fallen from God’s grace” said Preacher. “and there are many stories in the bible of angels healing people and doing all kinds of miracles” “or maybe I’m Casper, your bloodthirsty ghost” said Jason Grey who’s now standing by the wall behind Preacher and Timmy. Preacher takes out a vial of holy water and throws it on Cory’s forearm causing her to scream through her duct tape gag and Preacher then quickly take his lock blade knife and cuts another line down the girl’s forearm once more but this time the arm doesn’t heal. “this demon is in her bloodstream” said Preacher sounding very confident. “then how do we get rid of it” ask Timmy not sure now that he wanted to hear the answer as he looked over at his girlfriend’s bloody forearm. “do you trust me” ask Preacher as he slowly reaches into his pocket and pulls out the keys to the handcuffs that bound Cory to the chair and dangle them in front of Timmy. “yes” said Timmy feeling glad that Preacher was willing to give him a second chance after he almost beat Cory to death yesterday. “we bleed it out of her” said Preacher tossing Timmy the keys to the handcuffs. “fuck you Cage and fuck you Jables” screamed Jason Grey with uncontrollable anger. Cory noticed that Jason Grey seemed just as disturbed by the idea of them being cut open and left to bleed to death as her. Jason stood over by the wall taking turn at give both Timmy and Preacher the middle finger. Cory couldn’t help herself from wondering if she was going to die here.