Chapter 30 Cory remained handcuffed to the chair all day as Preacher had cut a deep line all the way down on both Cory’s forearms as him and Timmy’s plans seem to be for them to sit around and watching as Cory slowly bleed to death along with heavily splashing her in the face with holy water to make sure the blood flow doesn’t slow down any. That night Preacher didn’t seem to happy with the speed of how things was going so he removed his lock blade knife from his pocket and drop to his knees in front of Cory. Preacher then slowly lifts up the blonde girl’s short dress skirt and for a moment he admires the muscle tone of Cory’s legs and Preacher’s eyes begin to wonder up Cory’s leg before a jealous Timmy ask Preacher what he was doing. “trying to speed things up” said Preacher to Timmy as he now cuts a deep line on Cory’s inner thigh that runs down to her knee. A weak and barely conscious Cory let’s out a slight painful moan. Then Preacher does the same with her other leg. “are you sure that’s a good idea” ask Timmy after he notices a half conscious Cory barely seem to knowledge any kind of pain anymore. “she’s very strong willed” answered Preacher trying to remain strong for Timmy but deep inside Preacher question if the girl would be able to survive this form of exorcism as her skin was now a very pale white and her blood now flowed from four deep wounds. “would you keep an eye on her for a few moments so I can freshen up a little bit and get my head back into the game” ask Preacher look very tired. Cory come back into consciousness to suddenly finding herself in a strange room where she is handcuffed to a chair. Cory watches as a stranger walks out of the room and that’s when she then notices Timmy is close by. “where am I” cried out a weak and barely conscious Cory that seem surprised by her surroundings. Timmy felted at that moment something that he hasn’t been able to feel for months and that was hope as he moved over to the bloody mess that was his girlfriend. “why am I in this revealing dress and handcuffed to a chair” screamed Cory as the tears seem to streamed faster down her face. Timmy couldn’t help to feel this was something that the old Cory Potts would do was bringing up the dress that show off to much skin over the fact that she was bleeding to death. “what is the last thing you remember before waking up in this room” ask Timmy waiting there patiently for the answer to his question but the blonde teen girl fell back into unconsciousness. Timmy quickly takes his hand and slaps Cory across the face a few times to wakes her back up. “what’s the last thing you remember” ask Timmy yelling at Cory in a panic. “I remember a bad man doing horrible things to me” cried Cory as she was struggling to stay awake. “I’m going to get help” yelled Timmy. “I need you to try to stay awake for me” Timmy leaves the room where his girlfriend was now bleeding to death and he quickly searches for the man called Preacher all over the abandon warehouse till finally Timmy walked into a giant bathroom where he saw Preacher at the other end of the restroom on his hands and knees in prayer. Timmy felt like a real coward at that moment because the life of his girlfriend seem to be hanging in the balance of things and Timmy found himself unable to Disturbed Preacher during his prayer. Instead Timmy quietly walks up behind Preacher unnoticed and hoped that the man of God would be faster with his prayer. Timmy eyeballs a good size 2x4 club that sit on the floor next to Preacher. Preacher unaware of Timmy’s presence prayed out loud about how it was a mistake for him to had killed the FBI Agent the other day and now he believes God has taken away all his gifts and now he cant recognize if the demon was still inside the girl so now he’s forced to let the blonde teenage girl die to save the world from the powerful demon inside her. Timmy listening in on Preacher’s prayer filled Timmy with a blind fury as he quickly picked up the 2x4 club with both hands and holds it tight enough to turn his knuckles a pale white. “lying mother fucker” yelled Timmy as he swings the heavy boarded club with all his might hitting Preacher in the back of the head. Preacher falls face first on the bathroom tile floor unconscious. Timmy held his breath intensely watches Preacher. “please don’t die” begged Timmy. Finally relief come after Timmy notices the man called Preacher was still breathing. Timmy then quickly drops the 2x4 club from his hand like he was holding a snake and letting it fall to the floor next to Preacher’s unconscious body. Timmy felted a sudden war of emotions begin raging a war from within. He suddenly found himself fighting the urge to pick the 2x4 club back up and finish the job. Then Timmy realizes that this sudden feeling to kill the man called Preacher was more than a urge, it was more like a need and he was losing control over it. Timmy had to forcefully remind himself that his girlfriend the old Cory Potts was back now and she wouldn’t want him to do this. Timmy quickly run back to the room where Cory was held there prisoner and he quickly fish’s for the handcuff keys from his pocket along the way. Timmy wasn’t sure how long Preacher Smith was going to remain unconscious but they needed to be out of there before Preacher woke up. Timmy came back to find that Cory had pass back out during the time he was gone. Timmy belts Cory across the face a couple of times with some really hard open hand slaps to get her to wake back up. Then he works as fast as he could manage to free her from the handcuffs. Timmy wasn’t a physically strong person so carrying her out like a baby or throwing her over his shoulders wasn’t an option. Timmy just wraps one of Cory’s arms tightly around his shoulder to help support her. Timmy and Cory get no further than outside the room before Timmy had to place Cory on a table in a sitting position so he could catch his breath. Timmy knew he needed to make this rest break very brief and quickly gather his strength because he had no idea how long Preacher was going to remain unconscious. Cory looked around the table top as she fought with herself trying not to fall back asleep. That’s when she noticed there was a switchblade resting on the table top next to her. The knife had been a Mentos from the night she when to war with the Grey family in her home town of Lynn. Cory picks up the switchblade without Timmy noticing and manages to slips it into her dress pocket. Timmy regains his breath and helps Cory back to her feet. Cory knew she was very upset with Timmy over the passed three days and it seemed Agent Jones was right about what she had to do to get out of here but at less Timmy was now back on her side. As they walk out of the warehouse Cory notices a beaten up Jason Grey limping beside them. She could feel the connection between her and the ghostly figure of Jason Grey was very weak now. Cory believed Preacher may have been right about this bleeding Jason Grey out of her technique but the blood lost was slowly killing her. Timmy looked all around him till he saw an old bridge that would lead them across the river to a more populated part of town and that’s what they worked together to make there way too. The old bridge use to be the popular route to get into the city till a few years ago when the city build a bigger bridge with more lanes a few miles down the road. Timmy didn’t believe Cory would live long enough to make it to the bigger bridge. There best bet was to cross the old bridge and hope they get lucky enough for someone to pick them up. They stopped for break as soon as they reached the old bridge. Timmy leaned Cory against the railing and her body immediately begin slide down the railing till she managed stopped to sit on the bottom rail and she used the other railings as a backrest. Timmy watched as Cory’s body swayed back and forward on the rail with no sense of balance as her eyes slowly rolled in the back of her head. Cory fought with the urge to sleep and she could tell that this wasn’t a battle that she would won. She felt her willpower was slipping away each time her eyes roll back in her head but somehow she managed to pull them back and refocus. During Cory refocus she notices Preacher sneaking up behind Timmy carrying a large club in his hands. “behind you” mumbled Cory just as Preacher draw back on the club and took a big swing at Timmy’s leg. Timmy quickly turned around just in time to watch himself get blasted in the kneecap by the 2x4 club. Timmy let out a horrible scream of pain as he falls face first on the black top road on the bridge. “that looked very painful” said a cocky Preacher as he now tossed the club off the side of the bridge. “your turning out to be a big disappointment” Cory took out the switchblade knife from her dress pocket only to fumbled and dropped the knife as she tried to open it. “how do you want to die” ask Preacher now removing a lock blade from his pocket. “fast or slow” “fuck you” said Cory pushing herself off the rail and tries to put up her fists up but in her weakened state they slowly fall back down to her sides. “well slow it is then” said Preacher and he begins to laugh hysterically like somebody that had totally lost his mind. Cory curses herself under her breath for a moment over dropping her own knife but even though she seem to have all kinds of knowledge on how to be deadly with the weapon it didn’t seem to feel right in her hands. She couldn’t help to realize that almost all of Jason Grey presence was gone from inside her now but she question how much more would it take to rid herself of Jason Grey spirt and if she would of lived through process. It all didn’t matter anyway because Preacher already made his plans of killing her very clear and she felted to weak to fight this urge of falling into a deep sleep forever and now she got to stop the God’s will killer also. Timmy laid on the black top road of the bridge holding on to his hurt knee cursing Preacher at first. That’s when Timmy saw Cory pull the switchblade knife out on Preacher and Timmy believed that Preacher’s exorcism ritual had failed till he seen Cory purposely drop the knife. “your exorcism worked” screamed Timmy with the hope that Preacher saw the change in her also. “foolish boy, I can’t take a chances with this demon” said Preacher in a very belittling voice. Preacher walked over to the blonde teenage girl with a tight grip on his lock blade knife and even though Cory tries to put up a fight Preacher manages to stab the girl a total of three times in the soft flesh of her stomach before dropping his own knife. Preacher then takes both his hands and tightly begins choking the blonde girl. Even with all her injuries Cory was able to conjure up some strength to try to fight Preacher but it wasn’t enough. Preacher tightened his grip and push her against the railing. Cory felt her air ways get cut off and out the corner of her eye, she got to see the long drop from the bridge to the cold looking water below it. Cory could feel that her life was fading fast and she knew she was at Preacher’s mercy. Timmy cried out for Preacher to stop but he didn’t. He looked over for the 2x4 that Preacher hit him in the leg with earlier but Preacher toss it off the bridge. That’s when Timmy saw that the switchblade knife that Cory dropped was now at his feet. Timmy felted the pain shoot up all through his leg as he took hold of the knife and made his way to his feet. Timmy could tell that the hurt knee couldn’t bear to have any kind of weight on it. So Timmy balanced all his weight on the good leg. Timmy wanted to yell a warning for Preacher to back off or threatened him but Timmy knew that none of these techniques would save Cory’s life as he watched her eyes rolled up inside her head once more. Timmy tightly gripped the switchblade knife with both hands and drives the blade of the knife deep into the back of Preacher’s neck. Preacher immediately lets go his grip on the neck of Cory Potts and falls to his knee before the blonde teenage girl. “I’m sorry that I couldn’t save you” said Preacher to Cory. Cory nods head in understanding as Preacher fall over to his side and dies. Cory looks over at Timmy not sure how much longer she could manage to stay awake. She knew that she hasn’t been that sweet innocent girl that Timmy wanted for some time now but he was no longer the same boy that he once was. Cory’s body felt very weak as she tried to take a sit on the second rail once more only to feel herself slip through the top and second rail. Cory heard Timmy’s screams and she felt like everything was suddenly in slow motion as her body fell from the bridge. The next thing she remembered was the welcoming of the cold water before everything turned black.  

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