Their Light In The Darknesses

Chapter Two

Zane Tomas:

I am sitting on the porch looking out at the mountains. There is a storm coming in and it could be bad. This is our down time of the yrs. after all the summer hikers and before the fall hunters. It has been 5 yrs. now that we have come back from different branches of the military and war zones. We all have our dreams and nightmares to deal with, but we have been by each other’s side from the time we could walk for the most part. I had been in the Marines from the time I got out of Hight School. I’m 38 now and just getting back on with my life. It wasn’t easy for any of us. Then we all decided that we just couldn't deal with the busy cities and people all the time, so we pulled together and got into the cabin and started our own guiding camp that we are running now. For the first yrs., it was hit or miss. These yrs. were more for use to get our minds back to some kind of real life and move on from it.

The door opened behind me, and Duke walked out with a cup of coffee for me and one for him. He looks at the sky and then takes a deep breath of fresh air and lets it out slowly. Duke didn’t have as much hell to deal with himself in his head. He was the one playing with all of our heads lol. He says “looks like that storm is going to hit us after all. Do we have all we will need if we are going to be shut in for a bit?” “Yeah, but we should go and get some more wood and get it chopped just for back up, you never know how long the storm could last this time of the year.” Duke just laughs “yeah, I will tell the guys and we can get headed out and load up the wagon. Let’s use the horse this time. They need to time out too, with the slow times started“. I nod, and he goes inside, and I head to the barn to get the boy set to go out. I had to run into town to get some last minute things, but I would get the guys all set to go when they came outside to the barn.

Duke:

As I walked back into the house and yelled for the guys to get ready to head out. They come out of their rooms asking "what now?"

"Zane wants us to go and get a load of firewood before this storm comes in." They all grown but go their own ways to get what they need to head outside in the cold. I walked to my room to get my winter coat and some gloves. As I stretch to my full size of 5'9", not as big as some of the other guys, but not short either. I had a nice lean muscular body from my time working out in the gym. The guys like to give me hell about my looks. I had light green eyes and red hair that I kept short on the sides and a crop on the top..

I was in the Army Military Intelligence, right out of school like all the others. I didn't see some of the hell they had all seen on the front line but I had to read all about it and even send them out there. Knowing they were my friends and hating how I felt doing it. As i made my way back out of my room, I saw the guys all set to head out. They walked out of the house to the barn where Zane had the horses all set to go. We thanked him and told him to be safe on his way to and from town and we would all see him when we got back. We mounted up and took off to the woods to fill the wagon and be back to get settled in for the long storm.

Baron:

It has been over a month now since we had Avalon in the cabin, and it has been fun to say the least. When we first got her here and the others had shown up. As soon as she came to, she was all ready to go at it with us all. That first night, we all f****d her hard and slowly over and over again till she was begging us to stop because it hurt. We had her in every way there was and all her holes in one time. I wouldn't lie it was hot f*****g her mouth when Tyler had her p***y and Vincent was f*****g her ass like there was nothing better in his life. After 12 hr. straight of us f*****g her over and over, she had passed out. We had been doing this every day from then on. I stayed in the room when the others walked out. We had just finished another road of hell for her, then tied her up again. I looked at her. She was lying in a puddle of c*m and some blood from how hard we had been taking her. She had cuts all down her body from Vincent. The only place that was not too black and blue now was her very pregnant belly, but even that had taken some hits, most from Vincent. Me and Tyler try not to hurt that baby, but he just doesn’t care.

I walked out of the room and went to the porch and just looked out over the ground. The snow was just starting to fall to the ground but not doing much yet. We had told Bishop that we had a job to do out in Washington for two months and then we would be back. He was already looking for Avalon when she wasn’t home after he got off. We made her call and tell him that she needed some time to think by herself. We had her call from her phone two days after we had taken her. Yeah, she had a gun to her baby, but she did what we told her to anyway. It hurt Bishop badly but it had to be done.I just hope he doesn't do anything to hurt himself till we get back.

I don't like how hard Vincent seemed to be trying to hurt the baby more than the mom. Was he hoping that if she lost the baby, we could keep her longer and keep playing with her? That losing the baby would break her more than we are doing now. It might, but we don’t know. There is not much he hasn’t done to her yet, and I worry if this is right or could we have done it differently. A part of me wants to just take her bleeding body deep in the woods and let life take care of itself, but I don’t know if the guys will be OK with it or not. I will have to think about this a bit and talk to Tyler about that.

There was a storm coming in and we needed some stuff from town. I was just standing there watching as Tyler came out the door with a drink in hand. I know this was not going well with him either, but we had come this fear. There is no way back now and we can't undo what we have done here. But we didn’t think that Vincent would take this fear this fast. I looked at him then said “ What should we do about this man? Vince is getting out of hand with what he is doing to her. Hell, she is still with child, and I don’t know how much more she can take of him and not lose the baby.” He looks down. “Yeah, I know this is not what we had planned to do and, like I told you before, I was hoping to take the child back to Bishop but, at this rate, she will lose it before it can be born”

We had been getting calls from Bishop every day asking if we had found out anything yet. We have all told him not yet, but we will help him look when we get back next month. I just hope to god he does not do anything to himself till we get back. I don't think I can deal with losing him. Bishop has always been the back bone to us, keeping us all walking in a line and moving on. I don't think we could make it if he was not with us any more. It will be hard when he finds out she is not coming back to him. But if all goes well, he will have her baby in his arms and he can remember her. We owe him that much after what we have taken from him.

We just kept standing there lost in our own thoughts till there was a blood-curdling scream from inside the cabin. We turned and ran right to the room where Ava was. What I saw was something right out of a horror film. I didn’t know what to think. Vince had put his whole hand up in her p***y and looked like he was pulling something hard. Saying over and over "the child will be out soon and then she will be all his from now one”. Was he trying to pull the baby out of her body like that? It would kill them both. What the f**k is he thinking? I ran up to the bed and pulled him away from her body. There was blood all over now and it was running fast down her legs to the bed. There were tears running down her face and she was getting paler by the second.

I look back at Vincent. He was on his ass by the door laughing. “Hell, yeah, now with that f*****g child in there gone, I can do anything I want to her. This is going to be f*****g fun” he says. I feel like I am going to be sick. He needs f*****g help. This is not right on any level. I looked over at Tyler’ “get him cleaned up, take him to town to get the stuff we need before the storm comes in. I will deal with this now, go.” Tyler doesn’t want to be in the same room as Vincent, but does what I ask him to and pulls him out of the room.

Tyler:

This is not what I f*****g wanted. What the f**k is wrong with Vince? How the hell could he do that to her and know that the baby was Bishop? Hell, this must stop. I am hoping she doesn’t make it after this, just so the pain will stop for her and the baby. It doesn’t matter what she has seen or not, this has gone to fair and needs to stop. I don’t say a world to Vince as we drive to town. I close my eyes and pray that God takes her now. I can’t see this anymore. How could any of us let it get to this? We had all been saying this whole time how much we cared for her and wanted her. But this is not how we should be showing it.

As we get to town, I am keeping an eye out for anyone that is watching us more then they should. As I am getting the food and some cleaning stuff to clean up after all this and head to the front, I hear f*****g Vincent ask if they had any heavy rope to hold a person from moving at all. As I ran over to him, grabbing him to pull him a way a very big man steps up. He looks pissed and looks Vincent right in the eye, "That's something we don't do in this part, Boy. You had better rethink how you talk if you are going to be staying here more than just time to time." Vincent is pissed about being called "Boy". He went to get in the big man's face but I stopped him. "look here you dumb ass, we have other things to take care of right now, let's go'" He is still pissed but fallows me to the front where we pay for our stuff and head out the door. As soon as we get outside, he opens his big f*****g mouth again. "What the f**k did you stop me for? I'm a cop. I can do whatever the f**k I want to and no mother fucker can stop me." I just looked at him. He has lost his s**t, then he goes on "After I am done showing my girl her place I am going to come back here and put that big fucker in his place too." As we get in my car, I look over to the door and see the big guy standing there looking at us. Did he hear anything? God, I hope that he doesn't f**k us in so many ways if he did and is from this part. We headed back up to the cabin.

Baron:

As I looked over her body still hanging from the rope we had her tied to. I am thinking what the f**k do we do now.There is so much blood at this point, I know that the baby will not make it. That means we can not give Bishop that much of her back. I can’t sit back and let more happen to her this way. If it is the Gods wish her to live, then it will happen, but if it is her time, I will take her out to the woods to help her go. I took her body down and wrapped her in a bloody sheet. She lets out a small sound of pain that hits me hard in the heart. We let this happen to her. How could we do this and still look our best friend in the face and smile? I know I will be able to look him in the eyes and not see her body covered in blood right now. I picked her up and walked out to the living room. As I lay her down on the floor for a bit, blood started to puddle between her legs. I put my coat on and headed out the back door. I must have walked for an hr. deep in the woods. I can see blood still running down her legs leaving a trail as I go. This was too much. It should not have come to this.

The snow was falling hard now and covering the ground. I stopped on the side of the hill and lay her down on her side in the snow. Her red hair flows down her body as the wind is picking up more and more. “I’m so sorry it came to this. It should not have got this bad. Please go in peace, Ava, and love that child in the heaves as long as you can till Bishop is by your side again.” I ran my hand in her hair one last time, as a tear ran down my face. This is the last I will see of her. This memory will be burned in my mind for the rest of my life. Then I turned and walked back to the house.

It had been over three hrs. and the guys were just pulling up out front. I walked up to Vincent and hit him flat in the mouth, “I hope you are f*****g happy now she is dead. I took her body deep in the woods. I’m sure the coyotes are having a good meal out of her. I hope you can look Bishop in the eyes now, knowing you killed his child and his soon-to-be wife.” Vincent's face fell a bit at what I said. He just walked past me. Tyler looks at me, I think he knows what I did but is not going to say anything about it. “ Let’s get packed up. We need to clean all this up so no one knows she is here.Then get hell out of here before something happens that could get pinned on us and Dum s**t" I pointed to Vincent "had better keep your head down till I say otherwise.” “Did anything happen in town?” I ask Tyler looks at me “I will talk to you about it back at home let’s just get going.” we pick up all of our stuff and I see Tyler get all of Avas stuff and put it in his car.We all head back to Rapid City. As we are driving, I see Tyler throwing stuff out of his window. "Is it Avas stuff?" Maybe he just doesn't want any of it with us when we get back. Because if anything of hers was found with us by Bishop it would be the end of us all. As we are driving, we pass a big black truck with a very big man driving it. He slows down and looks at all of our cars as we pass. As I watched in the mirror I wondered what had happened in the town that had this man looking that way at us. This could be f*****g bad and I have a feeling this will not end like we had hoped.

Zane:

As I was driving back up the hill to the cabin I passed a big all-black van with no windows and the same car that the two guys had got in to back at the store. Has i watch then drive down the hill, I see some stuff on the side of the road. Had they thrown it out as they had gone down or had someone lost it? I stopped and picked up the light coat and found a lady's handbag wrapped up in it. As I was walking back to the truck to head home, I was thinking about the call I had gotten from the cabin. Did they have something to do with what was going on back home now or was it just a chance? I get back in my truck and head up the hill still thinking over all that has happened today. This day has not been what I had thought it would be when I got up this morning.