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She wanted to run and turned to do so, but she felt the first bullet hit her in the back.Before she fell fully to the floor, two more shocking pains took her breath away.Unable to feel her legs, she tried crawling to the patio doors.They’d kill her if they caught her, and that just wasn’t in the books for her.Before she got more than a foot from the door, someone put their booted foot on her shoulders.

“Damn you, you mother fuckers.What the hell is this all about?”The man closest to her said it was about the nineteen deaths that she had been a part of.“I’m a kid.”

“Yeah?Well, it didn’t seem to matter when you and your gang were robbing homes, only to end up killing off the homeowners.We know how you got into the house by pretending to be a long-lost child and preying on their hearts.”She struggled to get away, but she wasn’t moving.“We’ve been able to catch your gang, too.They didn’t particularly like working for you.They said you were meaner than a rattlesnake when you were pissed off.Each of them is singing to the heavens about all the shit that the five of you have been doing.”

“Which one of them told on me?”she was told that once they had them in a cell, they were happy to talk about her.“I knew I couldn’t trust them.But it’s difficult to find good help when you need it.Damn it all to fuck and back.I almost had the most killed for my age.Just two more—if you didn’t count school shootings.Christ, you couldn’t just wait a few more weeks to turn me in, could you?You’re lucky that your brat isn’t counted in the dead.I hate that little fucker more than I do you two.”

She was read her rights four times before they put her in a van.Each department made sure they were able to get their piece of her, too, by frisking her over and over.The mother fuckers even took her boots off that she’d worked a week on to have a blade put into the top of them.She supposed she had the Strongs to thank for them finding it so quickly.The sides of the van were reinforced steel bars and a long bench in the back that they chained her like a dog, too.She saw Jade standing on the patio when she was finally locked in.

“I’ll be back.No one will want to convict me once I have my day in court.I’ll make sure they see me as this little kid who doesn’t understand what they’re doing to me.”Jade laughed, threw back her head, and laughed hard.“What do you find so funny now?Just so you know, as soon as I’m out, I’m coming after you and this pitiful family of yours.”

“You’re not getting a trial.”She asked her what she was talking about.“Yes, you see, I told them just what you said to me, that a jury would be a waste of time.That’s why they’re taking you to a prison where you won’t ever see another inmate or jailer but the ones that bring you your food.You won’teven get any outside time like criminals do.That way, you will never be tempting anyone for so long as you live.”

“You bitch.Everyone deserves a trial.You’ll see.”But she was beginning to worry now.None of the men were talking to her.They were…she wondered if the laughter she was hearing had to do with what the fucking bitch was saying.She asked the man who seemed to be the most in charge.He smiled at her, and she could see that he truly was enjoying whatever he had up his sleeve concerning her.

“You’ll be remanded over to a maximum security prison.There will be no trial, and thanks to us finding your books, the ones that you didn’t share with the Strongs, we’ll have a wonderful time closing some cases that I’m betting you were in charge of.The murder of the nineteen people, three bank robberies, as well as the attempted murder of Mrs.J and the Strongs.Did you notice that they never drank whatever you brought to them in the name of thanking them for keeping you safe?Yes, ma’am, you’re going to rot in jail, and there will be no one to mourn your death, nor care that you’ll spend all your time alone without a single thing to distract you.

She was still yelling at them when the door to the van closed, and someone put a ball and chain over her mouth.There were four men in the sucker with her, and she couldn’t talk to them.They’d put the gag over her mouth while each of the men had their guns pointed right at her.This was so not fair that she wanted to smack someone around.They didn’t even care when she glared at them, the mother fucking assholes.

The ride was bumpy and twice she fell over.The first time, she got herself up, but the second time, she just laid flopped over.Bumping her head several times didn’t seem to bother anyone but her and she was screaming at them around the ball.Christ, when she was set free, she was going to murder each and every one of them.

The van started to slow, and she wondered what was going on.There were no windows in front of her, so she wasn’t sure what was going happening.The front of the van, where the driver was, didn’t show her anything either, so she had to wait.Another thing that she hated to do was to wait on shit.She really was going to make each and every person suffer when she was freed.

Lavender didn’t think that she’d be put in a real prison.She really was just a kid in age, but she’d been doing crimes for as long as she could remember.The only reason that Mrs.J was still alive was because she was a good cover for her.So long as she’d been in bed before the old bat got up, she was none the wiser.Or so she had thought.Apparently, she’d been keeping tabs on her as well.There wasn’t enough trust in the world, she thought.Not even for a twelve-year-old girl who were trying to make the best out of her life.

Once the van stopped, again she fell over.She was pulled out by her chains.They never took their guns off her chest and head, and if the situation wasn’t so serious, she might have laughed.An angel.That’s all she needed was an angel that would get her out of this.Then she got a good look at the place where they’d taken her.

It was a jail, she supposed, but it looked more like concrete slabs stitched together to make the walls and roof.There were several of these…houses?Cells?She didn’t know, but if they thought that she was going to be staying out here in the middle of nowhere with just four walls of gray concrete, then they were in for a big surprise.

“From now on, you’ll be known as cellmate nine.For the rest of your life, you will be living…habiting in building number nine.There will be no contact with anyone.You’ll have three meals a day every day that you’re alive.There is no mail service out here, no internet nor will you be allowed anything other than what you need to keep you alive.If you die?You’ll be buried in the fields beyond here without a marker or anything other to mark your passing but a slash on the building you died in to know that it’s now empty and awaiting the next person who will live out their life.Do you have any questions?”She asked what she was going to get to entertain her, books or something.“Nothing.You’ll need to figure out what you need on your own to keep you entertained.No one will give two shits if you’re bored or not.”

Shoving her into the building, she heard something slapping along the sides of the door.Theman on the other side told her that he was sealing her into her dwelling so that she’d not get out.They actually concreted her into the building so that she’d not be able to get out.The only opening that she had was the opening over the far door that she knew was going to be for her food to come in.

She was never going to make it in here.Surely, they were kidding about her being stuck in this place and expected to live out the rest of her life.Christ, she realized, she might live for another seventy or so years like this.

Sliding down the wall, not hearing a thing going on around her, Lavender thought perhaps she was well and truly caught this time.Feeling the tears fall down her face, she had a thought that this was what they were all laughing about.How a twelve year old was going to be living this way forever.Christ, she just wanted to start her life over.

Chapter 2

Trevor was reading over the paperwork that they’d gotten when Debra/Lavender had been taken away.It didn’t seem so bad, only reading how she was going to be jailed, but when you had an active imagination like he did, he could see all kinds of horrors awaiting the child.No matter what she’d done, he couldn’t think of her as anything other than a small kid who had gotten herself in trouble.Jade snorted when he said as much to her.

“Do you know how she killed her victims?Any idea what she had put the family through before they finally died from their extensive wounds?”He said he’d only read what he’d seen in the paper for her.“Yes, well, they watered it down a great deal.The public outrage would have been more than anyone would have been able to stomach.”

“Because she was a child?”Jade told him that it was because she was a monster.“I’m sorry, but how does a kid know how to be a monster?I mean, she was literally a child living with a ninety-year-old woman.How did she get around that even?”

“She would, along with the two men that she had near her at the time would, sneak into the homes and do the damage then.But with a family back when she was ten, she went back there for three nights in a row to do what she did to them.”Jade asked him if he thought he could handle it.

“When you put it that way, no, I don’t know that I want to know.I’m curious, I’ll tell you that, but I’m also afraid since you’re calling her a monster.What did she do?”She asked him again if he was sure that he wanted to know.“I believe I do.So that I can get the image out of my mind on what she did as to what she actually did.”

“The Palmer family was a family of five.Three children and the parents.They were well-to-do church-going people that were well-liked in the community that they lived in.”He said that he’d read that.“What you won’t read is how she killed them.The children were let off easy, in comparison.Their ages were ten, the same age as Lavender, eight and four—two boys and the youngest a girl.She killed them by hammering a nail into their temple.Not with a nail gun, but she actually hammered the nails into their heads while what we think the others watched on.After killing them, she put them into their rooms, not even in their beds, but just tossed them inside the room and didn’t bother them again.But not the parents.”He asked if this was far worse.“The woman died last, but while the man was alive, she played with them both.The man had several nails in his body, from his head to his toes.The nails were hammered in, and he was alive during this time.While still alive, she flayed his skin off his body.It must have been something new to her, but the first slices were clumsy and too thick.As she did more to his body, starting with his back, she got better at it.Seemingly, practice makes perfect.Also, his penis was missing.That’s important.”

Trevor started to make a joke, but it froze in his throat.The thought of someone having their dick taken off made his own cock hurt.Adjusting himself, he continued to listen to Jade as she seemed to be reliving the horrors of the house.

“He was found hanging from the upper floors.As soon as the front door was breached, the police ran into him, causing several of the seasoned officers to be sick.He’d been hanging there for several days before anyone noticed that they weren’t doing their usual things like church and office.”She looked out the window, no longer looking in his direction as she continued her tale.“The Feds were called in, and that’s when I had a front-row seat to what she’d done.All I can say for sure about what I’m about to tell you is that putting her in the type of jail cell that she’s in frightens me because of my fear of her getting out and continuing on her way to perfect her ways of killing.Then there was the mother.Christ, when I think about what she had gone through, it makes me sick again.The woman did suffer.There is no doubt about that.She would nearly kill her, back off a bit, then do more toher.”She glanced at him before saying anything else.“She took a long rebar piece of metal and, again, pounded into her head.We’re assuming it was her head first because she didn’t fight her much after it was through her head.The rebar then went down along her spine, through her neck to her bottom.It came out of her rectum and then…and then she bent her feet in a way that made it so that the rebar was through her feet.All of this was in order to put her on a spit and roast her.”She looked at him.“Her arms were chained to her body like someone would do a turkey.Her knees had been sewn together with the same chain that was around her arms.The man’s penis was found during autopsy inside her vagina, then sewn shut.Christ.For four days, the woman was put on this thing and rolled—”

“Enough.I get the picture.”He stood up, pulling Jade into his arms, and held her while she sobbed.It hurt him to his very core that this had hurt someone like his sister-in-law like it did.And he would bet that this would be a part of her nightmares for the rest of her life, too.“I’m so sorry that I was flippant about Lavender.I’m truly sorry that I made you relive it again, too.I love you, Jade.”

Jade cried for twenty minutes or so.He continued to hold her even after Jenson, her husband, and his brother came into the house to find her.After he walked away, nodding once as if he understood what was going on, Jade pulled away and looked up at him.

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