Free Hope Falls Season 2 - Eagle Valley by Jamieson Wolf Page B

new levels. She had no idea where she was, her head hurt, her mother was unsafe, Erin would go with her questions unanswered and that bitch Sophie was in the house with her Derrick.
    Except that he was never his. She shook her head again, trying to clear it. She needed to focus. FOCUS Susan, she thought. Gotta stay on top of things here.
    "Pick up the page." A Voice said from the darkness around her.
    The voice had an electronic quality to it, as if it were being distorted. It didn't sound real to Susan.
    "Please," She tried again. "I'll do anything you want, anything."
    "Pick up the page." The voice said again.
    Clearly, she had no other choice. Slowly, Susan reached forward and plucked the page from the cage floor.

     

     

     

Chapter Twenty Five

     
    INT: THE DARK CAGE
    Susan picked up the sheet of paper. It was a blue color and it sent a shiver down her spine. She tried again.
    "Please, whoever you are, please don't do this."
    "I won't tell you again, Susan." The voice said. "Read the page."
    With shaking hands, Susan put the page into the small amount of light that was filtering into her cage and read:

     
    INT: CAGE
    [SUSAN LOOKS AT THE PAGE PLACED ON THE GROUND IN FRONT OF HER. SHE PICKS IT UP AND GLANCES AT IT AND THEN BACK INTO THE SHADOWS. SHE CALLS OUT TO HER CAPTOR WITH A SHAKING VOICE]
    SUSAN: Please! Please let me go, I'll do anything you want, anything you ask.
    VOICE: You must pay for your sins of the past.
    [THE VOICE ANSWERS HER FROM THE DARKNESS. THE VOICE IS MUDDLED, ELECTRIC SOUNDING. THERE IS NO HINT TO HER CAPTORS GENDER]
    SUSAN: What sins? What are you talking about?
    VOICE: They want to hurt you. I wish to keep you safe.
    SUSAN: Who wants to hurt me? Who? What are you talking about?
    VOICE: They wish to kill you for your sins. I want to keep you safe from them.
    SUSAN: Are you talking about Howard?
    [THE VOICE DOESN'T RESPOND, EXCEPT TO LAUGH SOFTLY, THE LAUGHTER SOUNDING LIKE BROKEN GLASS]

     

     
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    Susan looked up from the page. The blue color of it frightened her. Her captor was writing his own soap opera! Where he was the star. The other script page from a few nights before flashed back in her head.
    FLASH!
    Susan scanned the page quickly once, then a second time. She felt her breath growing shallow in her chest; She felt as if the world was closing in around her. There was only one page, but it seemed as if it would take forever for the words to sink in. With a shaking breath, she read the pages a third time

     

     
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    INT: HALLIWELL KITCHEN, EAGLE VALLEY NEW MEXICO
    [SUSAN reaches toward the blue pages with a shaking hand. She clutches them to her chest, quickly, as if they might burn her. She looks around the kitchen, it's walls feeling as if they were moving slowly inward.]
    SUSAN: Who left these here?
    [Silence greets her. SUSAN tires speaking again]
    SUSAN: Hello?
    [She puts a hand to her throat, her nightgown low cut, revealing the shadow of cleavage]
    SUSAN: Won't someone answer me?
    [Dark laughter comes from the shadows around her]
    SUSAN: Please, is someone there?
    YOU ARE BEING WATCHED

     
    FLASH!
    She knew in her heart that whoever wrote the first note had written the second. That that person had taken her. For what purpose, she didn't know. The second page had said that he wanted to keep her safe from her sins. What sins did she have? What sins had she committed?
    The pat three years had been hell for her, for Derrick, for her mother. All because of sins made against them. She thought briefly of Miriam and felt her chest tighten. She would not crumble now. She would not break down.
    "Hello?" She said out loud.
    All that answered her was silence.
    Susan made a noise deep in her throat that sounded like a growl. Whoever this guy was, he had pissed her off and she would make him regret it. Howard couldn't send his goons after her and not expect a fight.
    She looked around her prison. She had to think of a way out of here.

     

     

     

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