Chapter 1
Gerard started laughing again. Lindsay leaned her head out of the kitchen to see what he laughed at. She smiled when she saw Gerard play with two children. The children were about 4 and 6 years old. There was a boy with blue jeans and a black t-shirt with skulls on it, and a girl with a black ponytail and the cutest little red dress. Both looked like Gerard, except the eyes, they were Lindsay’s.
“Mom can I have cookie?” the girl asked while she walked over to Lindsay with a big smile and Bambi eyes.
“After dinner Nikki”, Lindsay answered the girl with a smile before she went back to prepare the dinner. Suddenly she collapsed.
“Mom? Mom?!” Nikki screamed.
Gerard pushed his son gently away from his stomach and ran into the kitchen where his wife was lying on the floor. He whined and fell to the floor next to her.
“Honey? Honey, can you hear me? Talk to me Lindsay!” he screamed when she didn’t response. Her black hair was getting stained red from the blood from her forehead.
“Nikki, honey, give me the phone!” he yelled at his daughter, who stood with tears pushing on in her eyes. She nodded and ran out to get the phone. She ran back in and reached him the phone. He noticed that she already had dialled 911. Nikki spotted nervous at her mother again before she ran into the living room to get her little brother to stop crying.
“Come here Christian, Mom will be okay”, she said while escorting him into his bedroom.
“Nikki, can you put your brother to sleep?” Gerard asked in a hurry when she came into the kitchen again.
“He’s already sleeping dad”, she answered nervous.
“Good. Now call Angela and tell her to get over here. Uncle and Auntie are out now, and I don’t want to interrupt them.”
“Courtney too?” she asked while grabbing the phone, still staring at her mother.
“Courtney is at Frank and Jamia’s house, I think”, he answered calm. He was surprised that his voice was so calm when he felt like a mess inside.
Nikki nodded and called Angela.
“Hi it’s Angie”, a happy girl voice said.
“Angie, it is Nikki! You have to come over here. Mom has fainted!”
“What?! Okay, just stay calm. I’m coming as fast as I can.” Angela said in a rush before hanging up.
Gerard told Nikki to behave, and then ran out till the ambulance outside their house.
Two minutes later, a 14 year old girl entered the room. She had large green eyes, curly and long brown hair. She was also, if I must say so, really pretty. Her red dress matched her nail polish perfect. The girl stroked her hair behind her ear and smiled against Nikki. Nikki smiled and ran up to hug her.
“Oh Angie, I was so scared! Suddenly a shadow danced in front of my eyes, and then mom just... fell...” she cried into Angela’s thin stomach.
“Don’t worry Nikki. Your mom and dad have been through worse.”
Angela smiled encouraging and followed Nikki back to her room.
When she closed the door behind her, she heard a voice from inside her head. A voice she hadn’t heard for 7 years.
“Hi Angie, do you remember me?” the voice sang
“He-Helena?” she whispered nervous. She walked fast away from Nikki and Christian’s room.
“Yes! Yes, you remember!” Helena said with a voice who sounded like the way you talk to a baby.
“What do you want?!” Angela hissed
“Oh such a temperament. You’re almost grown. Let me see you, my love”, Helena said, still with the same voice. Angela refused to walk forward into the light.
“Oh you refuse, do you? Well, I’ll come to you then”, Helena said soft. Angela looked uncomfortable as a dark shadow materialized in front of her. The shadow reached out a hand and lifted Angela’s face up in the light.
“Such a pretty face. Oh, it’s a great shame it won’t last for long...” Helena continued pleasant.
Angela waived the hand away and glared up into her dead cousin eyes. They were still blue.
“What do you mean?” Angela asked curious.
“Oh nothing, just that... You’re about to die” Helena hissed while grabbing Angela up in the air. Angela struggled to get out of Helena’s grip, but she was just too strong.
A little maniac laughter escaped from Helena’s lips before she stroked Angela over the face. Angela fell dead to the floor, and Helena was free to possess the empty shell that was left.
Chapter 2
“Who the hell is this little rat?”
“Rat?! You’re the one to talk!”
Angela (Helena) sneered against the little girl in front of her.
“Be nice to your sister Angela. You too Courtney”, Mikey said without looking up from the newspaper.
Alicia was singing at the intro of The Simpsons, and didn’t mind her daughters calling each other rats.
“Mikey, put away the newspaper please, your food is getting cold”, she sang into the melody.
Mikey sighed, but put the newspaper away.
Helena just ate the food. She hadn’t eaten for about 8 years!
“Look, bunnies!” she whined and pointed out the window. Courtney turned her head against the window automatically, and Helena hurried switching their plates.
“There are no bunnies out there. Angie, I think you’re loosing it”, Courtney said disappointed. She turned over to her plate again, but it was empty.
“Hey! Give me my food back!”
Helena just smirked and continued eating Courtney’s toast.
“Mo-m! Angela took my food!” she screamed. Helena grabbed a toast from the plate and laid it on her own, before switching the plates again. Alicia stared at Courtney for a moment. Courtney’s eyes were swimming in anger.
“Stop it” Mikey murmured from his cup of coffee. Alicia nodded. “Yes, stop it, both of you!”
Both girls scowled at each other.
*
“I hear you have a new girlfriend?”
“Not girlfriend, best friend”
Nikki pushed her brother gently on his shoulder.
“Chris has a girlfriend, Chris has a girlfriiiieeeeeend!” she sang.
“NOT girlfriend!”
Just when he said that, the door opened.
“Chriiiiiiiiiiiiis!” a girl, who was about the same age as Christian, whined and ran over to him. She gave him a huge kiss right on the mouth, and made everyone go “aaw”.
Christian pushed her away and yelled “Tascha get off me!”
The girl just grinned and kissed him again. Helena (Angela) stood off in one corner and watched them. A shade of red was dazzling in her eyes. She suddenly stared at Lindsay who lay smiling in the hospital bed. She suddenly fell into a coma, and two nurses came running in the room. Gerard squeaked and stole a look at his wife before one of the nurses pushed him out of the room.
Mikey held around Alicia and Courtney when they all stood outside the door. Gerard was sitting on a chair with Christian on his lap and Nikki standing next to him patting his shoulder. Bob was sitting next to him with Tascha on his lap, who again waved against Chris.
“Hang on. Where’s Angela?” Mikey suddenly thought out loud.
Helena was standing next to her mom. The nurses were sprawled on the floor. Dead. Lindsay’s eyes flew open when Helena stabbed her in the head with a knife. The machine next to her was leaving a loud and clean tone. Saying Lindsay had no heartbeats. Helena laughed and hurried out of the room. She wiped away her smirk, and ran into Mikey’s arms.
“She died! Auntie died!” she cried into his shoulders.
Mikey stared over at Gerard, who now was hyperventilating.
Alicia grabbed Christian of his lap, as she could see Gerard was about to stand up. Courtney, Nikki and Tascha was all crying and hugging each other. Bob was resting his head in his hands, and Helena was still acting, crying at Mikey’s shoulder.
*
“Gerard? Will she be okay?”
Alicia put Chris down and walked over to her brother in law.
“She actually... and now she’s... and I’ll never...” he muttered. Gerard’s head dropped loose at his shoulders, and the sobbing made his body shiver. Alicia hurried over to him, trying to comfort him.
“She died!” Gerard screamed.
Nikki stared scared at her father, and Bob covered Christian’s ears as good as he could.
“She actually died!” Gerard screamed again. He felt like his heart was going to stop.
Courtney and Tascha both stared up at him. They were both so young that they didn’t understand what ‘die’ meant, but they did see that everyone else was crying. Bob dropped Chris again and let him run over to Alicia.
He spotted nervously around. Everyone was crying. Except Angela. Angela...
...smirked...
Chapter 3
Helena smirked as Nikki fell like a lonely marionette to the ground. Blood was streaming from her neck and her eyes were staring limp up in the ceiling. Angela tried to protect Courtney, Tascha and Christian by holding her arms out. Helena dragged the knife out of Nikki’s neck and threw it against Courtney. It staked her heart and just like her cousin, Courtney fell. Angela sneered against Helena, in anger she threw herself at her. Helena just laughed and threw Angela into a wall. Angela went limp, and blood was streaking her hair. Tascha screamed and covered her ears with her hands when Helena used the same knife to peel the skin on Christian’s face away. The piercing screams was still to be heard hours later...
Gerard screamed and ran up from his bed and into Nikki’s room.
“Kids?!”
“What? Dad, it’s four in the morning and I have to go to school tomorrow!”
Gerard started breathing again and walked back to his own bed room. As he lied back on the bed, he thought about his nightmare. All of the children had been in it, but Tascha was the only one unharmed...
He sighed and shuffled to a comfortable position before he fell asleep again.
*
Alicia fell dead to the floor. Mikey screamed and fell to his knees next to her.
“Alicia?!”
Helena laughed as she stroke her fingertips over Mikey’s face. He closed his eyes and fell dead over Alicia.
Courtney entered the room to find both her parents dead on the floor. She stared scared from the blood that was dripping from her mother’s mouth till Angela.
“Angela...? What happe-”
Helena reached her hand out and grabbed Courtney by her neck. Helena harshly threw her into a wall. Courtney fell unconscious next to her parents. Helena smirked and shot her self in the head before leaving the body dead on the floor. It would look like Angela had gone mad and killed her family, and then committed suicide. She laughed again, and while she believed Courtney was dead, she moved on to Frank and Jamia’s house.
Jamia couldn’t sleep, so she had decided to get some milk. As she stood leaning on the kitchen bench sipping her milk, a shadow danced in the corner of her eyes. She turned around and froze for a second, but finally settled with thinking it was only her imagination. The shadow appeared again, right in front of Jamia’s face. Two blue, dead eyes gazed into Jamia’s hazel. She tried to scream out, but before she could, she felt an ice cold hand grab her by the neck and lift her up.
“Hi Jamia, remember me?” Helena hissed
“He-Helena?” Jamia managed to whisper
Helena smirked
“Yo-you killed Lind-Lindsay, didn’t y-you?!”
“You’re smart. I like that” Helena laughed before she strangled Jamia to death. She dropped her and once again, Helena could posses someone near her next victim...
Chapter 4
Frank fell down on the floor.
“This was almost too easy” Helena laughed. She hadn’t expected to kill him so quick, but she wasn’t complaining. This made it so much easier. She quickly moved out of Jamia and gazed into the mirror in front of her.
It would be nice to have my own body for a while she thought. She looked over her shoulder and down at Frank and Jamia’s limp bodies. She smirked and put her hand, if you could call it a hand, on Jamia’s head. Helena closed her blue eyes and was only concentrated about what she was about to do. Jamia’s body began changing. It became taller, slimmer, younger... Helena opened her eyes again and looked at what she’d created. She smiled, and then laid her hand at Frank’s head. He changed as well. Helena opened her eyes again and smirked evilly. She then dragged the two bodies next to each other. Again she closed her eyes. Cold, blue lights were dancing between the dead bodies. Helena screamed. After a few minutes of shivering, she opened her eyes. There was now only one body in front of her, and it was an exact clone to her own.
*
Gerard fell out of his bed. He slammed his head into the chair with his clothes on. As he lay puzzled in pain on the floor, he saw a shadow walk into the room.
“Nikki, is that you honey?”
“Hi dad... You remember me?”
*
“Dad?!”
Nikki ran towards her father. Christian stood curious in the door.
“Chris, find the phone! Now!” she yelled against her brother. He nodded and ran to get the phone. Nikki looked down at her dad again. It looked like he was sleeping.
Christian came back into the room and handed her the phone. His eyes stared at Gerard. He looked back at Nikki again. Nikki was busy talking to the lady at the hospital to notice what he did.
“Okay, Chris in about one minute, there’s going to be lots of people around here. They are going to take dad to the hospital, so don’t be in their way. Okay?” she said as she turned off the phone. Chris just stood there, staring from Gerard to Nikki to Gerard again.
“Okay?!” Nikki yelled at him.
He nodded.
“Good.”
As Nikki had said, one minute later, three men came running into the room. They checked his heartbeats and if he was breathing. They then looked sat at each other.
“Honey, do you have any place to live? Any relatives or something?” one of the men asked Nikki.
“We have an uncle, why?”
“Pack your bags and get in the car, I’ll drive you to your uncle”
“Why?”
“Tell her Tom, she deserve to know”, another of the men said.
There was silent for a moment, but then the man, Tom, sighed.
“Your father is dead. I am truly sorry.”
Nikki froze, but swallowed her tears. She grabbed Chris and started to pack their bags.
When they stood in Mikey and Alicia’s living room, Nikki couldn’t help it anymore. She cried. There, on the floor, Mikey, Alicia and Angela lay dead. Courtney was also lying on the floor. Her eyes were open and stared scared at the people in front of her. Nikki dropped the bag to the floor and Chris grabbed her by the waist, not willing to let go of her. Tom ran over to Courtney, lifted her up and carried her out and into the car.
*
That night Nikki couldn’t sleep at all. Both her parents were dead, her uncle, aunt and cousin was dead. And Courtney wouldn’t be able to move again.
From the living room she could hear Ray and Christine talk. She slowly opened the door, so she could hear what they were saying.
“First Lindsay and Gerard. Then Mikey, Alicia and Angela. Courtney is paralytic. And now Frank and Jamia are missing?”
Ray sighed loudly.
“Ray, you don’t think its her again, do you?” Christine cried.
He sighed again.
“Whatever or whoever it is, it’s after us all, and none of us are safe...”
Nikki shut the door. She didn’t want to listen anymore. Now she just felt like crying.
Chapter 5
Nikki stared down at the ground. The wind was rushing through her hair. And with the wind came the voice. The beautiful voice who had tricked her down here, the same voice she’d been hearing every day since Gerard died. She sighed and started walking against the waterfall. The water was frozen, and in the ice, she could spot a young girl’s face.
“Tascha...?” Nikki whispered.
“Don’t worry Nikki. She was never your friend. She would never help you when you asked for it. This is for the best...” the voice whispered into her ear.
“No, you’re wrong! Tascha is my best friend! Let her go!” she screamed into the air.
“It is only for the best...” the voice whispered again.
“Let her go!” Nikki screamed again.
The voice hissed and made her shiver.
“Nikki! Wake up!” Ray gently slapped her face so she woke up.
“What?” she yawned.
“Tascha is missing”
”You know where she is, don’t you Nicole?” another voice in the room whispered.
Nikki’s eyes flew open as she suddenly stared straight into Helena’s face.
She tried to scream, but her older sister held a cold hand over her mouth.
“Nikki, I’m not going to hurt you. You’re my younger sister. We are family...” Helena said while giving her a hug.
“No” Nikki cried while trying to get out of Helena’s hug.
“We are not sisters. You were adopted!” she sneered.
Helena looked hurt, and then she ran out of the room.
Chapter 6
“Chris... Wake up.”
“Tascha?”
Chris sat up in his bed and looked around in the room. No one was there.
“Tascha?” he asked again. Suddenly he felt someone grab his hand and drag him out of bed.
“Let go of me” he whispered.
“No, I have to show you something...!”
The person turned on the light so he could see who it was. He was right, it was Tascha.
“Tascha! What are you doing here?” he asked happy and gave her a hug.
“Dad got killed, and you know mom ran off years ago” she answered cold. It
didn’t seem like she was sad that Bob was dead.
“But... This means its only Ray and Christine left!”
“No, we have her” Tascha answered. This girl wasn’t Tascha. This was someone else. Tascha was never so cold.
Chapter 7
The wind was rushing trough the long black hair. Helena smirked, she had won
everything. Gerard and Lindsey were dead. So was everyone else, except the kids. They were young enough to be raised as they should be. To hate everyone who lied to their children. To everyone who forgot about the people they loved, or worse; they who forgot to love anyone.
She smirked and stared at her students.
Chris and Tascha were holding hands. Nikki was squishing Courtney’s hand. They
were all crying and scared. Not because Helena had won, like she thought she had, but because they knew they had to kill or die. Maybe even both.
Helena stopped in front of Courtney.
“Fuck you” she whispered before digging her fingernails into her neck.
Courtney gasped after air, but failed. Helena smirked as Courtney closed her
eyes and died. Nikki stared at her brother and Tascha, both nodded.
“Fuck you too” Tascha screamed and pulled a knife out from her jacket. She
stabbed Helena in the eye, and made her scream. Nikki laughed and pulled out her knife. They had been planning this since Bob died. They all had knifes, and was ready to kill. Helena killed their family, now they had to kill her.
Blind and in great pain, Helen threw herself after Chris. She smirked as she ripped off his fingers. Nikki gasped when she saw her little brother’s hand without fingers. She already hated Helena for killing her family, but now she really hated her! No one, no one, harmed her brother!
Full of hate, she threw the knife after Helena. The black hair got stained dark red of the blood. Helena turned around, slowly walked against Nikki, but fell dead on the ground before she could harm her.
Tascha sneaked over at her and poked her with a stick.
“Is she...?” Nikki asked.
Tascha nodded and smiled.
“She is.”
Thirteen years later
Tascha ran trough the hallway. She’d just spotted Chris and Nikki.
She was now 16, but still the same Tascha she was when she was 4. Her long,
dark hair was dancing behind her, and floating down her shoulders as she ran.
“Chris! Nikki!” she yelled. “I’ve got an A!”
Chris smiled and lifted her off the ground.
“Tascha, that’s wonderful!” he grinned before he kissed her heavily on the
mouth. She fought her way out of his grip and laughed.
“Congrats,” Nikki smiled and patted her on the shoulder. “but I got to go, I
have a meeting.”
“She has a date” Chris nodded and winked to his sister, who blushed. Tascha
looked asking over at her and smirked.
“A date? With who?”
Nikki blushed even more while she answered.
“Josh?! The guy who play in that band?”
Nikki nodded and ran smiling over to a tall, handsome boy.
Who could have believed that three children, none of them over seven, could have defeated Helena? Who know what would have happened if they didn’t? And who would ever know, this three children would grow up to have normal lives?
The End
Samuelish
