《Shatterd》


 1 Chapter One: Heavyweigh

    I laid down on an empty bed that used to have two every night. My head ached from yelling at the kids I was left with to take care of. But that never got me down by the fact that they were better off with me than him. He was a broken and nobody wanted to help him because of his past.


    Sara came running to me in fright. She placed her hands on my thigh and shook me awake from my thoughts.


    "What is it hun?" I say in a low tired voice.


    "A strange man is at our door." She looks down scared for what might happen. But I did not know who would be coming on a late night like this.


    I got out of bed and rubbed my eyes. Once I got to the front door, Sara was hiding behind me. I open the door and the man looked up.


    He had his face hidden under the rags he was wearing. Shy, he lifted his head and said, "He is coming. For all of you. You have to get out of here. There is no time to wast."


    His face was threaded togetherClosed shut , he could barely speak. One eye was dug out and missing, but it looked like it has been that way for a while.


    Sara covered her mouth in fright, and she ran away crying.


    "What the hell are you talking about?"


    The man looked up. He mumbled to himself. And I could only make out a few words of what he was saying.


    "You have to leave. He is coming and he is not happy. Take your two daughters and yourself out or you will wish you have. Hurry. Your lives are on stake here." He twitched his fingers and he spoke wearily and fast.


    I looked down. "I''m not up for crazy shit. You better get off my property or we are gonna have some problems."


    He nodded and walked away. It was only then I noticed he had a hunched back and scary walking style,were he wobbled, almost like he was not human. It gave me the shivers, so I closed the door.


    I walk back to Sara, which was almost scared to death, and I took her hand. She shivered with fear, and she was crying for her sister.


    "Come on. You need to go back to bed."


    She nodded and followed me to her bed room. She jumped in her bed and covered her self up with the covers.


    "Sleep well."


    I leave the light on as I left the room. I hope my baby girl was ok. But she did not seem like it. I went to my own bed, said good night to myself, and went to bed.

 2 Chapter Two: Wake

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    Sara woke up first. To day was the day when she was gonna turn 6. And so was her twin sister Victoria.


    Sara was happy and seemed to forget about the night before. She turned on the TV and watched Peppa Pig, and she sang along with her. Victoria soon joined in on her favorite part and song.


    I was tired from the night before, and clearly still frightened about it. But I kept my head high. Soon, I made eggs and bacon, with the last touch of toast.


    I am glad Victoria has no idea what happened last night. She does not even know that Sara knows about what happened. And that makes the weight on my chest sort of go away. I was still wondering about his warning. Who is ''he''? That man always said that this guy was coming and he was not happy. That made me scared for a little until Sara comes up to me and asks for a plate of food.


    I bend down and hand it to her, she says thanks, then runs off back to Peppa Pig.


    Sooner or later, A knock on the door knocked me out of my pondering state, and sends me up to go answer it.


    I warn the girls to go to their rooms just in case it was that man again.


    I open the door to find no one. Just a piece of paper.


    I bend down and pick it up. It had a message on it.


    He is already here.


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 3 Chapter Three: Last Normal Nights

    Sara waited for me after she got off the bus from Kindergarten. She loved school and she always wanted to go back.


    She always told me that she had nightmaresthe night before she goes back to school from the weekend. Telling me the worst bits and pieces that makes my stomach turn. But worst off all, she says she sees the thing from her dreams standing at the end of her bed when she wakes up. She says it twitches while it says her name. The dark figure, tall and skinny, has a long face. Big white teeth is the part of it that scares her the most. And she stayed in my room because of it. But just a week ago she was telling me it followed her in there. And I have to be honest, sometime I wake up and feel something watching me.


    Victoria hugs me and Sara, sending me back into what was real.


    "You have to stop doing that mommy."Sara sighed.


    Victoria nodded. "Sara''s right. You are always thinking about something, you don''t even know what''s real any more. You''re losing it."


    I shook my head "Victoria and Sara, mommy has a lot on her mind, and when you say that, mommy is getting hurt."


    Victoria nodded, and Sara followed me and Victoria back home from the bus stop.


    Walking was hard for me since I was always having fear on my mind, I was to tired to even step out on the deck or lawn. Sara and Victoria are all I have left, and when they are put on danger, I can never get those things off my mind.


    Sara did not mind it at all. She has never feared anything except that man, and that shadow cowering over her bed at night. I shook the thought off of me and continued into my room.


    The next nights had nothing bad happen. Sara never had a bad dream or that figure over her bed, and everything was how it used to be.


    Today we all went out to Disney world and went on almost all the rides my girl were able to get on. Sara had the most fun, but Victoria was not. She had feel down a scraped her knee because some guy was not watching were he was going. But Sara had the most luck of the day. She won all the prizes and had fun on the rides, and most of all, she enjoyed the time with me and her sister. It was their lateBirth day, but I had to get my paycheck before we went out, because I did not have the money at first.


    When we got home, Sara set all her prizes down and she went to go use the bathroom.


    While I waiting, I saw Victoria crying in the corner.


    I walked over to her, scared of why she was not happy. But I kinda already knew the answer to that.


    She looked up and sniffles a bit, then she looked back down again.


    I rubbed her arm and comforted her. "Why are you sad Vicky?"


    "I just did not have a good day" She sniffed again then looked up. "Sara had all the fun and I did not have any. She got all the luck when I had none, and she had all the rides to herself because of my knee."


    I looked down. I would have felt the same if I were her. But I did not want her to know that.


    All of a sudden Sara screams, I come running to the bathroom then I see her.....

 4 Chapter Four: The Shawdow Man

    I walk in the bathroom and see Sara in the corner, scared for her life.


    "What happened?"


    "Its here. I saw it. He''s back. But he is more bad than his really was. Hr said it himself. I dont like him. I want to go back home mommy."


    I sit next to Sara and look at her. "What have I told you?"


    She looked down. "That shadow man isn''t real."


    "Yes. Then why are scared of he is not real?"


    "He us real I saw him with my two little eyes, he is tall and he has white long sharp teeth, and he know my name! He calls for me and sometimes he makes say things and do things that I would never want to do! He controls me! He even talks to-"


    "That''s enough Sara! Go to your room!"


    "But-"


    "No buts. You are gonna do what I say when I say it."


    Sara started crying. "I don''t want to be alone with the shadow man. He says he lives in my closet."


    "Fine. Then go out in the time out corner."


    Sara ran into the corner and started crying even louder. Victoria came into the room to see what happened with me and Sara, but mainly what happened with Sara.


    I sighed. Sara was honestly scaring me. She did and said things that sometimes I felt happened to. But I never saw the shadow man before. I just heard her stories and made a picture in my head of what he would have looked like.


    I just needed a break for a long while.


    By time it was time for bed, Sara and Victoria already got comfy in mine. I was fine with it, for now.


    In the middle of the night I wake up to scratching noises. I look at my clock which says 3 AM.I hear a bang here and there, then I hear foot steps. Scared, I try to go back to bed, in which failed. Finally, the noises stop, an I feel asleep.


    When I wake up, Sara was scared for her life, again. She pointed to nothing, but I ease her back to reality, and she seems fine now, but that does mean what happened last night was not real.

 5 Chapter Five: Whispers

    Later that day Victoria goes to her friends house for a sleep over. That left me and Sara alone.


    I sit on the couch, and Saracame to sit next to me.


    She huffed and finally looked up at me. "I want to know why you don''t believe me."


    I shook my head. "You don''t get it do you? I tried to tell you that the shadow man is not real. You just tell yourself to believe it."


    Sara shook her head this time. "I know what I saw. And I know what I hear." She looked down. "Last night I heard scraping noises, and foot steps. I thought he was coming to get me. But then it stopped, and I was able to sleep."


    "There was no noises last night. Your mind was playing tricks on you."


    "Well those tricks seemed pretty real to me."


    I sighed.


    Sara looked back up at me, then yawned. "Maybe if you stop acting like it is not real and do something about it. If you don''t do anything the problem with never get solved."


    I replayed the words Sara said in my head. Maybe she was right. I shifted in my seat. "I heard the noises last night too."


    Sara looked up. She did not say anything. Maybe she was wowed by the fact that I knew the whole time.


    Sara started shifting in her seat to. "I heard it say something last night as well. It said it did not like you, and that he did not want you hear.I think we need to do what that one man said and get out of here."


    I shook my head. "We don''t have the money Sara."


    Sara huffed.


    I looked at Sara sitting on the couch just breathless. Only if she knew that I wanted to leave this place too. It''s just that money is always a problem.


    "Can''t we ask our family for help."


    "We don''t really have any."


    "Oh."


    I looked down at the coffee table, and realized scratch marks on them. I got up, now scared.


    Once Sara saw it, she got up too. Scared, she shivered in the corner.


    "We have to get Victoria home mommy. She won''t be safe at her friends house. It will follow us where ever we go."


    I nodded.


    Once we got Victoria home, I assured them that everything was ok. But of course, Sara thought other wise.


    "Sara why do have to be so negative?"


    Sara shrugged her shoulders. "I don''t know."


    "Maybe if you would be positive once in a while you wouldn''t be so sad all the time!"


    Sara shook her head. "Ok."


    Once night time came, Sara and Victoria was in my bed like always. I got comfy once more, and feel asleep.


    I wake up at 3 AM again, and hear whispering. I brush it off, but it became louder. I was not able to under stand it at first, but now I knew what it was saying.


    ''Get out of here. You should leave before he gets to you. He is already here. You are running out of time.''


    I tried to brush it off again, but it would not let me sleep. It got louder by the second.


    Sara wakes up in a panic. She screams at the top of lungs, then falls back.


    I quickly shake Sara awake, and she rubs her eyes. "What happened?"


    "You just screamed. What happened to you?"


    "I don''t remember screaming."


    I lay back. "Don''t worry about it Sara. Just go back to bed." I fall asleep along with Sara, and don''t wake up until morning.

 6 Chapter Six: Him

    When Sara woke up, she shook me awake. I was wide eyed and confused because she was crying. I tear feel down her cheek and she shiverd with fear.


    "What''s the problem Sara?"


    She gulped, looked away, then looked back at me as if she felt like she was being watched. "The Shawdow Man came into the room and whispered in my ear, I''m here already, and it made me scream awake, and then you asked me what was wrong, I brushed it off because I did not want to bother you, or make you worry. But this dream I had, I was in a dark room and this little girl came up to me and opened her mouth and the Shawdow Man came out and came to me, he said run and so I did, but he was faster than me, he grabbed me up and squeezed me, I could feel the pain. I did not want to wake you up, but I guess my body said i should." Sara sighed.


    I hugged Sara. "Everything is going to be ok."


    Sara shook her head.


    When Victoria came out, we all ate breakfast. Sara was still historical and Victoria was doing just fine. But it seemed to me that I was the problem in the first place. Was I the one that brought the Shawdow Man home with me? Or is it really just following Sara and Victoria? It has to have come from some where. I bet it came from me first and then was passed on to Sara and Victoria.


    We all had a whole day ahead of us, and when we went out to a restaurant called Hong Kong, we ate out and then came home after that, then it was bed time. The part of the day I feared.And the worst part of the day that Sara feared.


    I walked them both to my bedroom and tucked them in. I kissed their fore heads as to saying good night. I said good night in the end but... you know.... Sara was on the left, I was in the middle, and Victoria was on the right.


    Hugging Sara the most, Sara was shivering with fear.


    I hugged her again letting her know that she is safe. She nods and finally goes to sleep.


    I was left alone at night. For some reason I could not go to bed. I was not sleepy or tierd. I was wide awake for some odd reason. To lazy to think about why I was so tired, I close my eyes and attempt it once more.


    Thirty minutes of trying to sleep, I open my eyes.


    Wide eyed, I stared at it. The Shadow Man was right in front of me. I hug Sara tightly. She shiverd with fear even though she was asleep. It was like she saw what was going on inside her dream.


    I hugged Sara even tighter once the Shawdow Man took one step. Sara woke up screaming, then she saw it too. She screamed even longer, and that woke up Victoria. Victoria started screaming, and then Shadow Man ran away. He ran away like the screaming scared him away, or it hurt his ears. But now I know his weakness, and me, Sara, and Victoria can all use it against him.

 7 Chapter Seven: Stollen

    I wake up the next morning to Sara singing Peppa Pig once more. She seemed to completely forget about the night before. But that seemed to give me less stress.


    Victoria comes running out and crying out for help.


    "What''s wrong Victoria?"


    "I saw him! The Shadow Man! He was running after me and he was calling my name, he was really scary and tall with a long face!"


    "Would you stop talking about the Shawdow Man! He is the only thing you two can not understand how to stop talking about! Its driving me crazy! You wake up scared all the damn time about this bitch ass Shawdow Man! Its like I am living inhell! I don''t want to hear either of you talking shit of the Shawdow Man!"


    They both stare at me.


    My face was red with rage and I was going to punch something if I could, but I did not want to scare the girls.


    Sara looked off and powered down the TV. It made the roommore awkward. Not that I did not mind it, it just made things better.


    By time it was night, I fell asleep way easier than the last time.


    Sara fell asleep first, then Victoria, then me. I wonder why I am was always the onse to fall asleep last. Not that it was big problem.


    I had a dream where cats and dogs were the only living thing left on earth, then the Shawdow Man ate them all. It made me shiver, and I woke up to screaming.


    Sara was gone.


    I went looking for her by following her screams, but soon they went away, and i lost her.


    I collapsed to the ground, and I started crying. I was balling my eyes out.


    Victoria came walking sleepily to me, then sat next to me. "What happened? Wheres Sara?"


    "He took her."


    Victoria looked at me like I was bluffing. "He can''t take her out the house. She has to be in here somewhere."


    "How do you know that?"


    "Sara told me the Shawdow Man told her that."


    "I should have done something about it before it was too late. It was all my fault. I''m a mother who sits on her ass and let''s bad things happen. It was me who caused all of this."


    Victoria sighed. "Its not always your fault you know."


    "Yes it is Vicky. Who''s els is it?"


    "The Shawdow Man''s fault."


    I sighed. "Ok. Maybe your right. But that does not speak for all the other things that have had happened. What about that?"


    Victoria sat there. She walked off, leaving me alone.

 8 Chapter Eight: Broken Glass

    When it was morning, I was still in my same little spot where I had been last night. I looked out the window and saw that the sun had already risen. My heart was just added to the collection of broken things.


    My hands clenched into fists. In and out. Butthe feeling, I just lost my pride and joy. I will never know how to get her back. But I have to try.


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    Victoria walks out sleepily from my bed room as she rubes her eyes. She yawned, looks at me, then plops down to the floor. "I thought you would be there in bed with me when I woke up."


    I look at her. " Last night you said Sara could still be in the house. Do you have more comment on that?"


    "He said that if either of us said anything about him again, he would take one of us. He never said where."


    "Oh God. Why me?" I rub my eyes. The burning pain in them ached, and my head throbbed with weakness. How could I go on?


    Victoria shifted her body the way she felt fit, and then she looked out the window. "It''s day, which means there is light, and that means it might be easier to find Sara."


    "Where do you think the Shadow Man took Sara?"


    "He gave us a hint, he said he would take us to the col-" Victoria was interrupted by a loud clash.


    "What the hell was that?" I get up and follow the sound of where the noise was, and in the family room, the picture of my now broken picture of Sara and Victoria. And beside it lay a message.


    "Dear Sara and Victoria,


    If your reading this, I''m going to try and meet you two this weekend. Don''t tell your mother. I want it to be a, surprise. Do you like surprise? I do. And I want to surprise you two with gifts of your own. But again, don''t tell mommy, because I have a surprise for her too.


    Love,


    Dad"


    I look at the message in shock. My Ex-husband was going to meet my daughter''s in secret.


    Victoria comes running in the room. She stood there at the corner, one hand on the outstretched corner of the wall, body leaning out, just standing there. She went pale, like she was in trouble. "You weren''t supposed to find that." She runs up and takes the note out of my hands.


    "Your father is coming to my house, and you did not tell me anything about it? How could you do that. You know that that he was never a good example for you or me. Never again. You shall stay in your room until I can find Sara. You understand me?"


    "But I can''t. I don''t want to. I want to see him. And I''m not letting you find Sara with our me!" She sobbed. Which that made me feel guilty. Why would I do that?


    "I''m sorry baby." I give Victoria a big hug.


    She rejected, and then just walked off.


    After that, I decided to clean up all this broken glass.


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 9 Chapter Nine: Screams

    I empty the glass into the trash bin and settle for corn dogs in the fridge. After I eat lunch, I set out on my journey to find Sara. I get my backpack and filled it with food, water, flash light, rope, knife, gun, and batteries. I was going to search until I found her. I was planning for a long trip. Lots of batteries and food and water. Lots of it.


    Without another word, I left the house, forgetting about Victoria.


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    The woods seem like a scary place. But when you are trying to find the daughter the Shadow Man stole makes it even scarier. A building comes to my eye. Ragged, tore apart, dirty. It was abandoned. But if I was the Shawdow man, I would take someone here.


    The sun was setting, the sky was purple, but it was becoming hard to see.


    Click. My flashlight was on. I go in side the door less building, and to my surprise, there was no graffiti inside. This place must have never been found by those vandalizers.


    It was dark, but then I kept going. Then there was a wall. Was this all there was? I look down. A hole. A kneel. I crawl to the other side.


    A light shaped like a rectangle, size of a fist, but it was barred up. It produced a egg color. But it was so dim you could hardly see anything. And the lights were spread out, leaving patches of black. But it was enough light for me to stop using my flash light. And stop wasting the batteries. I walk down the hall. Then there was a fork in the road. Should I go left or right? But then I stop thinking. Footsteps. I stiffen. But then I see him. To the left hall stands the Shawdow man. I run to the right. the halls concrete walls turn into wooden panels. Doors fill the hall,and so I turn and enter on of the rooms. Inside was a bedroom. Nice and cozy. But he only problem with it was the lamps on the bed sides were knocked down, and the bulb inside them was broken. Blood on the floors, and the beds were not made. A note lay in the side of one of the beds, so I pick it up and read it.


    "If you are reading this, I am dead. This place, you don''t want to be here. Trust me. They take people that have no life, and they do things to us. They make us forget our past, they make us insane.But I''m not like that. They can''t get me to be. Whatever they do, they can''t make me the, the abomination they want me to be. It''s like I''m immune. But, John had been taken out of the room one day, and he never cam back. They had made him one of those things. And he had escaped. And he is killing every one that comes in his way. And when your reading this, and I''m not here, then John might have forgotten of me, and thought I was one of those men who turned him into to that thing, and killed me. He is pounding on the door know. And I don''t have enough time to live. He is in here right now and I don''t have much time lef"


    The note ended there. By time I was done reading, I have forgotten I was being chased by the Shawdow man.


    But then all of a sudden, I hear a scream.


    Sara.


    I get out of the room to follow her screams. And I run down the left hall. The Shawdow man must have gone out of the room Sara was in, and that''s maybe why he was such in a hurry to get me out of there. I run, getting my gun into my hands.


    I walk down the long hall way. But then the hall ended. Another crawl space lay beside my feet. So I crawl again. On the other side is another giant hall so I walk down it. The lights flickered. And every step I made, the sounds were louder than it should have been. My breath grew louder. I was getting tired of carrying around this heavy ass bag. But I had to do it. I had to do it for Sara.


    Creeping along, I loose count for how many minutes I have been walking down this hall way. Blood was on the walls and floors, and the place smells like expired eggs and dead bodies. There was scream after scream, and I wish I was there for Sara. To take her out of this hell hole.


    I get out a water bottle and take a drink, I have been in this place for almost 30 minutes.So I took a drink. The screams has stopped 10 minutes ago. And since then, I began to loose hope. But then a door comes close to my eye, so I go inside. The giant, heavy, metal door opened with a squeak. To my surprise, I find a bloody kitchen. Another scream echoes, but the person seemed to be closer than ever. And person did not sound like a little girl.


    It sounded like a man in pain.


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 10 Chapter 10: The Man

    The kitchen was dark, and the lights flickered. The simplest things can get me scared, but the screams got more unsettling. The kitchen was filled with metal tables, and on the tables was blood. Medical scissors lay gently on the table. It was freezing, and when I breathed in and out, my hot breath made a fog. On the other side of the room was another giant metal door. And behind it was maybe the source of the screams.


    My hands were not still and my eyes began to burn. My hands touch the freezing cold door knob. It felt like ice that has been frozen for years. Completely opaque. But I grip on, and the cold made the door harder to open. But I managed. And inside was a table, and on the table was a strapped man. He was strapped to a metal table, and he looked like he has seen better days. One eye was gone, but the skin heals it''s way back, some fingers were gone, and his mouth sown shut. The room looked the same as the last. And another door awaited on the other side of the room. He shook and struggled to get out of the straps from the table. And then he saw me.


    "You. You there. You have to help me. I-I-I have a family back home. Yeah Yeah. Just get me away from this place. He is coming back. He always does. Please you got to help me. You have to help me-"


    There was banging on the door.


    Scared, I looked panicked.


    "Its him. YOU HAVE TO HELP ME, PLEASE, I DON''T WANT TO DIE." He began shaking in panic.


    I stepped away and shook my head. I did not want to wait till "he" came through the door. I hid under the guys table when he was not looking. And I was quiet. But he seemed not to like that, seemed to think I ran away and hid. But I kinda did do that.


    "FUCK YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, YOU CAN GO TO HELL" He screamed.


    The door came open, and a very giant, abomination came through. He laughed, he was human, but he looked like the guy on the table. But he was bigger, not fatter, but more masculine. And yes, he was a fright.


    The man panicked. "No. No. Please. Y-You got the wrong person. I did not murder your wife. She killed her self. I swear. Please."


    But the big guy did not care what the dude did. Or should I say, didn''t do. But he yanked him away from the straps. Leaving the torn straps to whiplash down to me.


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    "Please. You can''t do this. please."


    The big guy grunts. The man yells as the big guy tears of the guys limbs. Tearing it away piece by piece. His screams fill my head. Haunting me. The big guy walks out. So I get from under the table to see blood every where. His pieces on the ground. I threw up my last meal, and threw up some more. I walk out through the door on the other side of the room. And carried along. And then I hear grunts.


    The big guy was coming back.


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 11 Chapter 11: Dead Ends

    His grunts were getting louder. His feet scraping the ground.


    I put my hands on my stomach, I still needed to vomit. But my body was teasing me.


    I had to hid. Or else I would be dead. I got to the closest room. But it led to nowhere. A brick wall lay behind. I had to find another way.


    My heart pounded. My body shakes. My teeth chatted. And my sweat came about quickly. Step after step. I make it to another room.


    I make it in. There were so many hiding places. Under a bed, in a closet, in a cupboard. I pick in the closet. It had the most space.


    I open the closet door, and two dead bodies fall out. I scream to my self, and I look in the cupboard. But a dead body was also shoved in there. So I go under the bed, it was empty. But it was not the cleanest. But it was my only choice.


    The big guy comes in the room. His laugh played in my head. But i soon found out that those laughs were from real time.


    There was not a lot of wiggle room. So if I moved, I could be easily spotted.


    I feel like he could feel and hear my heart beat.


    I just wanted this hell to end. But then I thought to myself. There must be more people here then just those two guys. Well, only the big guy now.


    The big guy bends down, and he stares into my eyes. He laughed that same evil laughter and grabbed me by the arm.


    I was yanked out, and he huffed his scorching breath on me.


    Fuck.


    I try to wiggle out, but I was stiff from the shock. I screamed for my life, and I immediately thought of that one man''s screams. I cried. I could have saved him. He would''ve been able to help the both of us find my daughter and escape.


    He dragged me through the building. But my daughters screams got louder. And louder. And louder. Until they stopped.


    The big guy opened a door, and shoved me in the room. He closed the door behind him, and walked away. Leaving those laughs to haunt me.


    I look around, the room was pitch black. But I heard breathing. I scared me.


    "Hello? Is anybody there?" I feel around.


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    "Mommy?"


    "Victoria?" I sobbed out her name, like I never seen her in years.


    "Mommy! The Shadow Man trapped me in here!" I heard bulky chains move around.


    "Don''t worry. Mommy''s gonna get you out of here." I feel around on the walls. "Do you know of there is a light switch in here?"


    "Yeah, it''s near the door."


    The door was slightly above the ground, and the light from the halls slipped through. I feel around the door and I find the switch. The noise it made when it flipped calmed me.


    The bright lights, brighter than the rest blinded me. The room was empty. But just a firm brick lay. But then I saw her timey face. Her pale skin, but the terrifying look on her face. Her eyes were red from crying and screaming so much. And the blue and purple bruises on her skin made my soul shatter.


    "What did they do to you?"


    Her hands behind her back, she was chained to the wall. And the chains were big and thick. She looked away. "They beat me."


    "Vick, got to get you home."


    I heard foot steps. The big guy was coming back. I turned off the light. I played like I was passed out on the floor.


    "Don''t make any noise." I shaked.


    The big guy did his great laugh. "No....More....Survivors."

 12 Chapter 12: Loose Chains

    I thought quick. We are gonna die if he comes Ithis room. But then I remembered that brick I saw. I felt around for it. It was cold, until I touched it, and my hands froze. I grabbed it and felt for the chain. Once I felt it, I smash the brick again it. Since everything was frozen, the chains were easier to break. I broken the part were I was connected to the wall.Then I broken the shackles, and she shiverd in the corner.


    "Its time to go." I took her hand and led her out the room. We ran and ran. We did not stop. Until we saw the big guy himself.


    Victoria screamed. And we ran some more. But she was slowing me down. I picked her up and I ran even faster.


    I saw the spot where I came in, and I ran out side. The big guys screams, were gone. I looked behind me, out of breath, and the tunnel was gone. Like it was never there.


    I set Victoria down. She feel down in the warm grass. There were so many bruises on her body it made me cry.


    "We have to go home." I look at the sun. I squint, but I was never more happy to see its light.


    She did not respond. So I picked her up and walked her home. She squirmed. I looked back at her.


    Frightened at what I saw. I dropped her.


    Her eyes glowed yellow, but the skin surrounding was black. Her grey skin with black veins. Her mouth was sown together. Her hair In short black pigtails, her grey dress, and her hair made a very dark shadow on her face.


    She tilted her head. "What''s wrong mommy? I thought we were going home." Her voice was deep and died with base. She was talking to me like a baby. Like you were talking to a very cute pet, in that tone that''s supposed to make them love you. Make them convinced on something that I could not grip my hands on.


    But I starting to rethink reality. I knew it was to easy. To good to be true.


    She stares at me, then charges. But I sank in the earth, being pulled, dragged, like I was being forced into hell. And I was in that dark room.


    A dream. More like a nightmare. It wasn''treal. That son of a bitch. I lay down. What if she''s dead? And her screams where my imagination?


    But then he door opened. The lights blinded me. A dark hand came out. They wanted me to take it.


    "I will help you live." The voice called. "You have to hurry, he''s coming."


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    I take this man''s hand, not know what will happen. But I hope for the best.

 13 Chapter 13: Found

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    He pulled me up. A short man. An eye missing. I recognized him.


    I thought back to that night. That insane man who warned me he was coming. The man with the hunched back.


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    He turned around and started leading me around. "I know where your daughter is. Just don''t make any noises when you see her."


    I nodded. A tear slipped down my red cheek. I have been through so much already.And if I had to go through another day in hell, then I will try even harder. I want me and my daughter to have a good life.


    I worried about Victoria. She was left alone at the house. Was she seeing the Shadow Man? Has she been eating? Is she still alive? But My main focus was Sara.


    I asked my self the same questions for Sara. Was she seeing the Shadow Man? Has she been eating? Is she still alive? All I know is I need to find her, for whatever it takes.


    The hunched back man strated to lead through the halls and took me through doors. We were quiet and at times we were still. Listening for the Shadow Man. As we walled through i heard cries and screams for help. The thoughts of what happened to them. Or what was happening. Shivers crawled slowly down my back and through my spine.


    But I brushed the thoughts away from my mind and kept walking. Faster than ever. I followed the hunched back man along the halls. But he was walking in a running pace.


    I hurried after him, but he was too fast. I had to run along. Finally I caught up to him.


    And then he stopped at door and started to shiver. As he pointed to the door he said, "She''s in there."


    The door handle startled to rattle.@@

 14 Chapter 14: The Rescue

    I reach out the open the door. But when the handle shakes harder as my hand gets closer, I feel anxious and back my hand away.


    "You need to get her out of there before he eats her soul. After that there is no way you can get your real daughter back." The Hunchback back man opens the door quickly, and what was behind the door made me scream.


    I stand there looking at the room. Chalk walls and dirty white wall paper, cement floor. There was roaches crawling every where.


    And there standing in the room was The Shadow man holding my dear Sara in his nasty arms.


    The Hunched back man started backing away and leaving the room. He knew what was finna happen.


    The Shadow Man was getting ready to eat Sara''s soul.


    He opened his mouth farther out than any other human can. His teeth was sharp, with rows and rows of them. His eyes seeped down and disappeared. And skin cover the spaces where his eyes used to be.


    And then he started at her head. Slowly fitting it in his mouth. Going deeper and deeper.


    I stood there in shock. Not knowing what to do. Just watching him slowly devour her.


    He was now at her shoulders.


    But then it hit me. I packed a few guns with me just in case I needed it. I took it out thanking myself for always being prepared.


    I pull out a shot gun. This will definitely do the job.


    By now he was at her shoulders. And he was going so fast that i had to act quickly. Or Els I would loose my little Sara forever.


    Boom!! I shot at his head. Nearly making it, the bullet just skimmed the top. Leaving some skin to be ripped up.


    But then I shoot again. But I was even farther. But I had to be careful for where i shot because i did not want to hit Sara. Or Els my whole rescue plan would Have been a waste, and I would loose her forever.


    But I shoot again, hopefully not missing it this time. But again, third times the charm.


    Boom!! Right in the side of his head.


    He stopped eating Sara, but when he stopped he was at her ankles. But good thing I got him before it was too late.


    He fell over. And I run towards him. Now I needed to get Sara out.


    Pulling and ripping of his skin. But Who said this would be the last of him.


    When Sara was half way out, The hunch back man came peeping around the corner. Hiding at first, but when he saw the Shawdow man down with his blown out brains, he finally came inside the room.


    "I didn''t think you were able to do it."


    "Well, that little shit head was getting on my last nerve." I kept on pulling and tugging.


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    "Do you need any help?"


    "What does it look like? I can get her out on my own. I mean, you didn''t want to stay around when I got him down. Or when I even shot him the first time."


    "Oh, I just wanted to know."


    "Dont be all nice. You don''t give a fuck about me or Sarah. So why are you still here?" Sara was almost out. But her head was still in. But of she stayed in there any longer she would suffocate. Because she was getting no air in there.


    "But you don''t know that for sure."


    I laughed. "There is no way in hell that someone can be this nice in a situation like this. I''m not a dumb ass."


    Sara was finally out. She had cuts and blood and mucus all over her body.


    The hunched back man came over next to me. "If you want I can help you carry her back to your house."


    I look at him. "I don''t need your help." I squint my eyes and stand up. I hold her in my arms. She lay in my arms.


    "You know other can help other people. But if you don''t want to take it that''s fine."


    He looks down. "But she looks badly hurt. If you would let me help I can heal her."


    "If you are finna do some Disney shit on my daughter, that''s not happening."


    "Its the only way you can get her back. He was too far down on her soul that her soul was almost taken away. She is in a coma right now. And she is badly wounded. But if you let me heal her, she will be a wake, and grow up like the little she is. Its the only thing, and the least I could do."


    I looked at him, tears on my face. "Ok"


    He nodded his head. "You have made the right choice."


    I nodded to him too. "Please, be quick."


    "Yes. This will only take a few minutes. But my power os like a pill. Its needs some time to actually react. But it only take a few seconds to get the pill''s antidote inside her."


    "How long will it take to react?"


    "A month." He looked back up at me. "At the least."


    "And the most is?"


    "Never. It might not even work. But the only thing we can do is hope and pray."


    I cried, While holding Sara in my arms. I might never be able to see Sara ever again. And my heart just may be Shatteredforever.

 15 Chapter 15: Beginning of the Pill

    The Hunch back man tookbig breaths. "It will be better if we go back to your house first. It is more safe. And I am pretty sure Victoria wants to see you."


    I nodded. "Yes. I have been so worried about these two. But I''m glade I found Sara. And thank you, I guess."


    The Hunch Back Man smiled. "Your welcome." But then his smile faded away. "But unfortunately, this is a time to be serious. We need to get her back home quickly. She might heal faster in a place with clean oxygen and surroundings. This air is filthy, no one can even live here with out being infected by it''s disgusting order and massive amounts of death."


    "That''s enough warning for me. And yes, we do need to get her out of here."


    The Hunch back man stood up. "You sure you don''t want help to help carry her?"


    "I''m sure." I stand up with Sara in my arms. Her arms feel back and swung bellow her body.


    But now my thoughts raided my brain. And I felt worse about my thoughts. Thinking that we can never find a way out of here.


    But I had to keep trying. For Sara. For Victoria. For me. And for the future that these two amazing children.


    And plus. I have come so far. I can''t quit now.


    I just needed to find way back home. And who know what would happen to me, or Sara, or even Victoria, If I don''t find my way out of here.


    The Hunch back starts leading me around th e building. I wonder how he knows this place so well. And how he knows the Shadow man, and everything else he knew so much about.


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    "Just follow me and you will be out in a few minutes." He keeps walking.


    But then I find it the perfect moment to ask. "Do you have a name?"


    He stopped and looked at me. "Yeah, why?"


    "Because I feel like I should know. What is it?"


    "Dale."


    "Oh, well, Dale, we should probably get going again. She needs that pill faster than lightning can strike."


    He nodded his head and then kept on leading me through the building.


    When we were back at the old kitchen, I knew we were almost out. I just couldn''t wait to be home.


    We went through the door, and soon the final hall way. And then there it was, the out side world. The sun made me squint my eyes just so I could see.


    I felt relieved. I would never take any thing as simple as the Sun for granted, knowing that''s its a gift that I am so glade to have back.


    But this might not be the end of nightmare of the reality that I was loving right now.


    But then I thought back to me amd Sara''s last moment''s together. I was yelling at her. Cursing, with rage and a red face.


    But I need this. I need her to wake up. For everything.


    I just have to hope and pray.


    When we made it back to the house, Victoria came running to me for a hug. But once she saw Sara in my arms, she hugged my legs, and then showed me what she jas done with the house.


    She cleaned up the broken glass. And she did all the chores that she could reach and do.


    But then it was time to get this pill started.


    I lay Sara on the couch, and even then, I prayed for her.


    Dale came around, and he looked down at her lifeless body. "It''s time"


    I nodded.


    "But I have to be in the room alone."


    I looked at Victoria. She knew what that meant, and she Immediately followed me out the room.


    We waited for a while, until the whole house started shaking. The cracks of the door started to spill out this light blue color of light.


    The the door started cracking. And Victoria ran behind my legs for cover.


    And then all of a sudden, everything stopped. My heart sank in.


    Dale starts wobbling out of the room after he opened the door. "It''s done. Now you have to wait the given time. It could be a few months or just one. But you have to be with her at all times. Because she might stop breathing, and you need to put on this thing, to help her breathe, but you can''t have it on her the whole time you have to wait, because it will put to much air in her if she is breathing already, and her lungs-"


    "That''s all i need to hear. Thank you." I looked away.


    "But you need to be very cautious."


    "I will."


    "You promise?"


    "Yes. Now let me go see me daughter."


    "Ok. Well, it looks like you dont need me amy more. So I will go, back to my house."


    "Ok, well you can visit any time you want. But you just got to know. When you are around my daughter, there is no fuckin'' around."


    "Got it." Dale was on his way to leave. He opened my front door, and left.


    I ran in the room to be with my dear Sara. I just hope she would recover quickly. But I just want to say sorry for all the troubles I put her her through.


    Victoria comes in the room and sits next to me. "Just watch out mommy. You don''t want her to die."


    "She''s not going to die."


    But I spoke to soon. Sara stoppedbreathing.

 16 Chapter 16: Breath Taking

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    I grab the breather and place it on her mouth. I placed my hand on her stomach and waited to feel when she started breathing again.


    Fingers crossed, I waited. A few minutes went by, when I noticed that her body was not wanting to breathe on its own. It was letting the breather do all the work. But All I could do was wait and see if it does decide that it wants to be independent and do things on its own.


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    After an hour, Victoria goes to the kitchen to make us some dinner.


    I still can''t believe that I have been in that old place for so many hours when it felt like so many days.


    When Victoria came back, We both ate. I only ate with only one hand. Still focusing on Sara. But I did not want to miss when started breathing again.


    And then I felt it. Her stomach lifted as she took a breath. And I was safe to take the breather off. But I''m thankful that she stopped breathing for the rest of the time she has to be like this.


    But was jump scared by the ringing of the phone in the very room we were in.


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 17 Chapter 17: He Comes Home

    "Hey Vicky, can you watch your sister while I answer the phone. If she stops breathing just put the breather on until she starts breathing again."


    Victoria nods and she heads over there and quickly does as I told her.


    I go over to the ringing phone, Maybe it''s Dale. I pick it up. "Hello?"


    "I know its been a few years, but I''m sorry I left. I''m better now."


    The voice sounded familiar, but different at the same time. "Who is this?"


    "Do you not remember me? Its me, Josh. Your Ex-husband. The father of Sara and Victoria."


    I was in shock. Of course. But why does he decide to call now? "What the hell do you want?"


    "I want to come back home."


    "You leave me for another woman, and after all these years, you just think you can come back? You must have a very good reason. If not then hell no."


    He sighed. "I want to be the dad the girls never had. I want to be the loving husband you always dreamed for. I want us to be a complete family."


    The thought of it made me weak, but I held in my tears. "Why the sudden change?"


    "Because I know what I did was wrong and I want to fix it."


    "Only on one condition."


    "Yes?"


    "If you promise you never leave, and love both me and our daughters."


    "Of course."


    Rejecting to stay on the agreement I think of a new topic. "Where are you now."


    "I''m on my way."


    "Your coming now?" He was moving too fast.


    "Yeah."


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    But then I decided to let him do him. "Ok."


    "See you soon. Love you."


    "Love you too." I hang up the phone. The tears were now safe to slip out.


    When I got cleaned up I hear a knock on the door. Assuming it was Josh, I open it with no question. But no one was there.


    Later I hear another knock. Victoria was still left with Sara. I open it, and this time, it was Josh.


    He pick me up and hugs me tightly. I haven''t has this love in 6 years. He left when I was pregnant with my pieces of hope, love, and joy.


    He sets me down and kisses my cheek. "I hoped for this day for years. I''m just so glade you said yes."


    "Come inside. We need to talk." My face turned serious, just not hearing what he just said.


    He enters the room with Sara and Vicky.


    "What happened."


    "You won''t believe me if I told you."


    "Just tell me. I need to know."


    "Well, it all started when someoneknocked on our door."

 18 Chapter 18: Another Knock

    As I was telling my very long story, I could tell by Josh''s face that he was in shock. But I couldn''t tell if he believed me or not. Or if his facial expressions were not real.


    "Dale said he would come over any time he was worried about me or Sara. But sometimes things can get on the dark side. He likes to talk about the Shadow Man, and the place that I was about just in."


    "Wait, Im still confused on the parts of Sara and the breather, the Shadow man. " Josh looked at Sara. His eyes went sad, he frowned then looked at Victoria. "Their all grown up."


    "I know. Their birthdays was just a few days ago."


    "How old are they?"


    "6 years old."


    Josh nodded.


    I tried to avoid his two other questions, until there was 3 knocks on the front door.


    Dale.


    My face sparked, but Josh was dazed. I walk swiftly to the door, keeping quiet to not alarm Victoria. As I got closer to the door the temperature got colder from the outside air seeping into the house. Then I lock eyes with the open window beside me.


    111a binCBC 11qqwcc7v0inI open the door, great Dale in, and he thanks me for letting lm . mm l lhim in. And then he noticed.


    Josh shifted the way he stood, Dale wobbled to a chair and sat down. "Is this your husband?"


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    I look at Josh. I nodded my head, "The father of Sara and Victoria."


    Dale just sat there and looked at Josh. His thoughts unknown but onlyknown to him. Only if he spoke his mind his thoughts wouldn''t be so hidden. So deep under the sand, while water washes away, and his thoughts get deeper.


    "Well, Josh," I look at Josh. "this is Dale, and Dale," I look at Dale, who which was still in his thoughts until I took him out of that state. "this is Josh."


    He looked at Josh again. I don''t think Dale is very fond of him, something was off about it thought. It was not type of looks and actions Dale made that made me think of how they were supposed to mean. It was not just an "I dont like you" look, it was more than that. But I just could not figure out what that look is.


    I look at Victoria and see her trying to keep awake. And I realized I forgot about them both. I told Victoria to just watch while I was on the phone. Not to watch her for 3 hours!


    I walk over. "Thanks Victoria. But I think I should take you to bed. Im sorry baby that I left you there for that long." I pick her up and take her to her room. I tuck her, and before I leave the room, I kiss her good night. And by then, she was already asleep.


    I come back out, and Dale was already back in the sand. "Dale."


    He looks at me slowly. "Yes?"


    "Are you ok? Is something wrong?"


    "No" He slowly looks down at the floor.


    "Are you sure? You have been acting weird lately." I go and sit by Sara. Only if she was awake right now. What would she do? What would she say?


    "I think I am gonna go back to my house." He gets up and starts walking away.


    "Dale, there is something wrong and I know it. But if you want to go back home, that is fine with me. See you around sometime later."


    Dale doesn''t look back, he just walks out and leaves. I wonder what got him in that


    mood.

 19 Chapter 19: In Her Dreams

    With Dale just leaving me, Josh, and my daughters alone, I felt bad. I feel like he was jealous, in a way, of Josh. But right now I cant be worrying about Dale. I have to focuse on Josh.


    "Dont worry about Dale." I say, In a way to start a conversation.


    "Its fine. But I want to clear up why I''m really here.''


    "I just find it so weird you want to come back 6 years later after leaving me for a girl." I get upset by my own reply to him. I''m getting upset when I shouldn''t be.


    "I know what I did was wrong. I love you, I shouldn''t have left for someone that wasnt any better."


    "You need to show me I need you. We cant just start things off like this. Especially not now."


    "I can show you you need me, I promise."


    "How can I trust you?"


    "Because I know you need help with these two. Especially right now. I can show you you need me. That you can trust me. I just need you to allow me to."


    "How are you going to make up 6 years without you for me?"


    "Please stop saying it like that."


    "But it is like that! How do you not see it?!"


    "You are not making easy for me. I still love you. I want you. I want you back."


    "I dont know yet."


    "Its now or never."


    "I need some time. It''s such a big decision."


    He looks up at me. "If." He paused. "If you say no, Dont think about it too much, I dont mind driving 6 hours back to my place."


    I look up at him. Was that supposed to make me feel bad? It kinda worked. "I guess I can take a chance on you, but you have to be nothing but good or els I will leave you this time instead."


    He smiled. "Fair enough."


    I need my head as I walk back over to Sara. She was breathing fine, but the bruises all over her body is painful to look at. I was supposed to be the one to look over her and protect her at all times. And she slipped away from my arms.


    I need her to wake up. She has to. I need Dale to tell me more information. What is happening in her coma? Is she ok? Is she very going to wake up?


    I call Dale to come over.


    Dale comes inside and wobbles over to sit down. I look down at him and Immediately start asking him questions.


    "Is she dreaming in her coma?"


    Dale looks at me. "Yes. Any person is a come will be in a dreaming state. But I have no idea what Sara could be dreaming about."


    "Is there any way you can find out?"


    Dale leaves my house, then come back with some kind of machine. It was big enough to have wheels on the bottom of it There was also some needles at the end of wires that he staring sticking into her face. The wires leed back to the matching, and a screen that lit up with an image showed up.


    "The video on the screen is what Sara is dreaming in real time." Dale said as he wobbled over to take a look at it himself.


    On the screen was a scene of the place I rescued her from. She was in the chains and shackles, and my eyes started to water at the sight. She was still in that hell hole. But I cant save her this time. Only time, and the pill will.

 20 Chapter 20: In The Hell Hole

    Dale looked at the screen in horror.


    "I-Wha-do."


    Dale''s eyes got bigger by the secound. "This is not good at all."


    "What is that supposed to mean? Is Sara in dnager?:


    He nodded his head. "Very much so."


    "What the fuck is that supposed to mean?"


    "I dont think you want to know."


    "I want to know dammit this is my daughter were talking about!"


    His eyes got big at my sudden change of tone. "Well her come is different from the average coma that you know. This coma, well, if she dies in her coma, that''s how we know she wont wake up. But what determines when she wakes up is when she finds her way out of that place and returns to her body.


    "Is there a way I can help her through her coma?"


    "I dont know. I have never tried."


    "So if I cant help, all I can do is watch her die if she doesn''t make it? This just doesn''t seem right. And how the hell do you know all this shit?"


    "Do you really think this is the Shadow Mans first time to the rodeo? No. I know all this because I have been through all of his little games before. I was a normal looking person too. He did this to me during my coma. But I though, ''Hey, let me help other people through the same things that happened to me.'' But sometimes you come off to me like you dont want me here. So why the fuck am I."


    I was shocked. I haven''t heard him curse. Not even once. I guess he was really mad at me. But I still had more questions. "Wait, so what your telling me is, what is happening to Sara had happened to you before? And the Shadow Man did THAT to you?"


    "Yes. I didn''t always look like this. I used to have a normal life like you. But he ruined it. He has killed so many people by now. But I''m the only person that cam save your daughter. And Josh will be no help what so ever."


    "And how do you know that?"


    "I just do. He knows nothing about what has happened. So there for he will be no help."


    "You dont know that for sure. He can be very helpful but you just assume that he wont be. Come on. The best he can do is help."


    "You just care for him too much that you dont see how weak he really is."


    This whole time we are having a conversation Josh has been with Victoria. So he has no idea what is going down right now. But only if he knew how much shit he was talking on him. I mean, I care for Dale, and I need Dale more than anything. But right now he is not being mature in this situation.


    "Hey, I brought you over here to tell me what the fuck is going on in her coma, not to talk shit about Josh."


    "Oh yeah I forgot, I''m just some guy with answers and nothing els. I have feelings too. But I guess I can go now, now that you got what you needed."


    " I didn''t mean to come off that way."


    He looked at me. "It sure did seem like it."


    I watched him as he walked out my door. Josh walks out of Victoria''s room and was surprised to see the machine Dale brought in.


    "What''s that?" He questioned as he sat down next me.


    "Its here so I can see what she is dreaming during her coma. If she dies in her dream, she dies in real life."


    "I-" He was at a loss of words. The same questions were going through my head when Dale told me this might be going through his.


    "I know what your thinking but I need you to stay here and watch Sara with me."


    He nodded his head, and for the rest of the night Sara was in good care. I wont let anything happen to her, even if it kills me.