Fic: Curtain Call (10/18)
The commotion started to settle, emotions were high more and more people were coming up dead.
“Anything yet,” Margo asked entering the bedroom.
“Nothing, we may have to travel further out to get a signal.”
“I don’t know. The storm is getting pretty bad out there, but we are running out of options. Keep trying and I’ll check for some shovels.”
Margo left the room while Chris and Noah looked around for something to bust the window open with.
Margo returned a few minutes later with two shovels.
Noah took one of the shovels and banged it up against the window shattering most of the glass.
The men quickly started to dig through the snow.
“Hey how is it going” Katie asked.
“They are trying to shelve through the snow to see if we can get some kind of reception.”
Noah stopped shoveling snow out the window and smelled something awful.
“Does anyone smell that?” He asked everyone in the room.
Chris, Katie, Tom and Margo took a few sniff of the room and did smell a horrible stench.
“Oh my gosh, what is that?” Katie said covering up her nose.
Noah sniffed around the room. “I think it’s coming from the vents.” Noah looked up at the vents and noticed that something dangling from it.
Noah grabbed a chair and stood on it to look closer to the vent.
“What the…..” Noah whispered to him when he noticed a piece of hair.
Noah started to unscrew the bolts to open the vents. After the screws were removed, Noah pulled as hard as he could to open the vent. The force of the pull finally broke the vent opened. Blood and limbs started to fall out of vents splashing all over Noah.
“Ahhhh” Katie screamed watching the scene.
Noah hopped out of the chair and fell to the ground pushing him as far away from the bloody limbs as possible.
Most of the guest covered their nose because the stench was so bad they almost felt sick.
“What is it?” Maddie and the rest of the guest ran to the room.
He say saw the limbs on the ground and fell to the floor when he noticed Barbara head.
“NOOOOOOOOOOO” Henry cried. Maddie quickly hugged henry to console him.
“Noah!” Luke raced over to Noah who was scared into a corner like a little child.
“I was…..just…..opening.” Noah was so freaked out by the incident that he was hyperventilating.
“I know bubby. It’s okay.” Luke encircled Noah in his arms preying to the heavens for someone to save them.
Luke helped Noah back to their room to shower and find some clean clothes.
“Are you sure you’re okay?”
“Yeah it just shook me that all.” Noah said honestly.
“Okay, I’m going to check on Casey okay?”
“Okay” Noah watched as Luke walked out the door. “Luke?”
“Yes.” Luke walked back over to Noah.
Noah nervously looked up at Luke. “I know I don’t say the enough but….I love you.”
Luke kissed Noah passionately and pressed their foreheads together. “Hey, I’m the doubtful on in this relationship.” Luke and Noah shared a slight laugh. “We are going to get out of here okay.” Luke need to Noah to say those words to reassure him that they were. “Say it.” Luke politely urged.
“We are going to get out of here.” Noah replied holding Luke’s hand in his tightly.
“Okay, I’m going to check on Casey.” Noah cleared his throat feeling slightly better.
Luke gave Noah a kiss on the lips before he let “I love you, bubby.” Luke whispered in his ear before he let go of Noah and walked out of the room.
After Luke went to check on Casey, Luke and Lily decided to check on Lucinda.
“How is Casey” Lily asked.
“He’s still not talking. He just lies in bed hugging Alison’s pillow.”
Lily opened the door and looked at her mother wondering how much longer Lucida can battle her illness without medical attention.
Luke saw the look of despair on his mother’s face.
“Mom,” Luke called for his mother. “Everything is going to be alright.”
Lily simply looked at her son and fear sunk in more. Not one could she lose her mother, she could also lose one of the men next in line to carry on the family name.
Lucinda started to wake up and startled Lily out of her worry.
“Hey Mom”
“Lily…..How is everything?” Lucinda said weakly.
Lucinda saw the look and knew something was wrong. “What going on?” Lucinda said fearing the worst.
“Mom, there have been more people found dead. The weather is not improving and we still not gotten a signal for help.”
Lucinda sat up to cough. “I don’t understand. Why would someone do this?”
“I don’t know. We had the avalanche and then people are horrendously being murder. It’s almost as if someone planned everything so perfectly.” Luke said.
Lily and Lucinda thought about what Luke said. “Luke you’re right, but who?”
“Maybe it was Lucy?” Lucinda whispered.
“Why her?” Luke asked curiously.
“Well, she was in charge of sending out those invitations and she also had access to my accounts. Beside me, Lucy was the only one who could approve to send for Ameera, Maddie, Casey, and Alison to come out here.”
“Yeah but that still does not explain why she would do this?”
“Well, bring her to me? I want to get to the bottom of this.”
Luke and Lily leave the room in search of Lucy.
“Hey, Jack, Dad” Luke whispered down the hall. The two men approach Luke and Lily.
“What is it Luke?” Holden asked.
“We need to find Lucy. We think this was all a trap from the beginning and Lucinda thinks she is the one behind all of this.” Lily whispered so only that only Luke, Holden and Jack could hear.
“I think she is in her room.” Jack mentioned “I’ll go look.”
“That’s a good idea. If she is not there, check her room to see if you could find anything to prove she did this.”
“Okay.”
“And let’s just keep this between us for now.” Luke suggested. Luke, Lily and Holden returned to the room with the other guest.
Jack went into Lucy dark room and search around her belongings. Besides a few photos Lucy appeared to be clean.
“Looking for something?” The stranger dress in black yelled and closed the door.
Jack looked at the masked person with the gun.
“Why are you doing this?”
“Because I love all of you so much.”
“Is that a fact?”
“SHUT UP! I’m the one with the gun so it’s my way or the highway to heaven got it.”
“Now drop your gun and don’t do anything stupid or I’ll blow this whole place up.” The killer showed Jake the bomb strapped to the killer’s chest.
FUCK! Jake knew he could not shoot because the killer had enough explosives to destroy this whole building. Jake pulled out his gun and threw it on the ground.
“Now put your hands up.”
“Lucy let’s talk about this. We…”
“Ha Ha Ha…” The killer let out a soft laugh. “You think that BITCH is capable of something like this.”
“Then who are you?”
“It’s Death!” The killer let out three shots that sounded throughout the lodge one to jacks chest, one pierced his heart and the last one shot right between his legs.
The killer took delight that another victim was gone and the others are still helpless. The killer dropped the gun on the floor and escaped out of the Lucy and Lance’s secret door.
Chapter 11