Mist Falls

Chapter 14: Hearing the Night

"Its just a new house, stop freacking out," I mutter to myself as I slolwly start to open the door.

"Get away from there!" A mans angry voice spits down my ear, "Get away, they are not yours anymore."

I jump back and back slams into wall as I look around, I suck in a breath and the smell, oh god it smells like dead leaves and stale water, I look around for the sourse of the voice the door I was just standing in front of seems to vibrate.

"You are next," the voice whispers down my ear, "You are mine."

I fall trying to get away from the mans voice and the cold breath, I can feel on my face, my eyes searching everywhere my heart feels like its going to beat out of my chest at any givin moment.

"You can not run from me," It\he whispers, thats it I out, I jump to my feet and run into my bedroom before slamming the door and jumping into bed, pulling the covers over my head.

What was that, have I really lost my mind there going to thick I'm crazy hearing voices in the middle of the night, smelling things that are not even there, yep there going to thick you are nuts.

I hear footsteps come toward the door as I hold my breath and close my eyes, they reach my door and stop dead before I hear the click of the light in the hallway, the footsteps walk away from door and over the hall I hear the creak of a door and then a bang as I let the breath I've been holding out.

I strain to listen evey little noise in the darkness waiting for the footsteps or the voice to find me affrid to come out from under the covers, affrid of the darkness and the moster in the night like I was when I was a little girl but now there is no Daddy to chase the monsters away.

I reach out a shaky hand from under the covers and find the teddy bear dad gave, I pull it into my chest and with a shaky sigh that I still have my hand, there nothing out there you have just lost it after everything that happened to you, no one could come out of the other side normal, I rub the teddys ear it old and has been stiched together so many time, I still remember the night Dad gave it to me.

"Daddy, Daddy there are monsters in my room," I scream at the top of my little lungs as the wind rattles my bedroom windows my five year old self shakes in the bed.

"It's ok princess, it ok," my Dad says as he opens the door and rushes to my side, his hair a little long, he always lets it get a little longer in winter says it keeps his head warm.

"Daddy there are monsters in my room," I whimper as he pulls me into his gaint arms, like a safty blanket my body relaxes.

"Winter there are no monsters Daddy wouldn't let the monster get you, but just in case I'm not here I brought a friend to meet you," he whispers as I look up to find a little brown scruffy teddy bear staring at me, "This was mine when I was a little boy and he cashed away all of the monsters under my bed."

" What's his name?" I ask as I reach out for the little bear pulling it, in to my chest, it smells like my dads aftershave.

"Benny and he has a special power, when ever you are afraid hold onto him and your fears disappear," my dad whispers as he brushes away the hair from my tired face as my eyes begin to close as my Daddy rocks me softly, "When Benny is here no one can ever hurt you."

I am snapped out of the memory, with a painful thought that my dad was wrong the monster got us anyway the found us and killed them, they should have killed me to, Mike should have let me die.

I let the world around me go dark pulling me away from my thoughts and into a fitful sleep.

"Winter, Winter come with me," A girls voice whispers on the wind, but its not scary it soft and beautiful like soft music.

"Who are you?" I ask as I stand and follow the sound of the voice a pale hand covers wraps around my own but its so bright I don't see a girl just blinding white light, "Where are we going."

"You must leave this place, its not safe for you he has found you, you must get out before he marks you," she whispers answering none of my questions, as she drags me along, her voice sounds funny like she from a different time another place, "Its not to late yet, I can save you from him."

"From who, who are you, where are we going?" I ask as she drags me along like a puppy.

"I am Rose and I have to get you away from my father," she whispers as she speeds up, I turn and see a darkness following us, its thick, like black smoke, I can see a tall, thin, figure walking thought it.

"Who is that Rose," I say my voice shaking as I watch the darkness come closer.

"My father," she cries as she picks up the pass and so do I, some how I can feel her fear, her pain." Run."

I do as she says afraid to stop and look again but I can't help looking back as we run, I see the darkness getting closer and closer.

"Rose stop this now, it will only hurt more," the dark man shouts the same voice I heard before.

She runs faster, I feel ice cold air hit me before I suck in a breath as the darkness surrounds us and Rose screams a blood curling scream.

"Who, what are you taking about," I scream as everything seems to go black.