Infinity Chapter 100 - Little Mama

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Chapter 100 – Little Mama
POV:  Emily/Zac
Word count: 3186


 November 1, 2014

I had been woken up about 5:30 by Isabella whining some, I’d finally gotten her on a somewhat normal schedule and she was sleeping a little bit better at night now. I fed her downstairs and then began to fix breakfast.

Zac and I had taken Ezra and Penny the morning before, picking them up at the studio about 10, Ezra was OK with spending the day with what I was conceited enough to believe were his favorite Aunt and Uncle. We took them Halloween costume shopping, Ezra and Alexander both went as Ninja’s, Penny chose Cinderella and she wanted Isabella to be her magic pumpkin. Natalie and Taylor had been invited to a Halloween party in Oklahoma City so we told them not to bother to pick them up until after noon. We had even taken them trick or treating, with Eliza dressing up as Cinderella’s fairy god mother who was armed and very dangerous. Zac and I had gotten a small cake for Ezra, but his official birthday party was next weekend.

We had visited Maddi again, this time to celebrate her birthday. Cody had to work and so did Max, so we did hers a bit early, sometime simple and without alcohol because her doctor confirmed, she was indeed pregnant. She and Cody were excited to be parents and Maddi was hoping for a son this time.

I fixed breakfast while I waited and by the time Ezra made his way down the steps declaring he was starving I had it ready. He fixed his plate and I got orange juice and he sat down, before long everyone was up and eating. After breakfast was completed Zac got Alexander changed and Ezra and Penny went to change from their pajamas. Isabella’s sleeper was totally fine and still clean and she was kicking wildly in her bouncer.

“Someone is happy this morning.”

She actually smiled at him and cooed more and kicked wildly.

“She’s been quite happy since she woke up. She did nurse a bit faster this morning.”

Ezra came down first and hopped over the gate and went to play with Alexander who was already digging through the many toys from the box. Penny joined them as well for a little while but about 10 Ezra asked to play video games and Zac let him, joined him actually. Isabella was laying in the floor and Penny was playing with her, she really was a little mama. She helped with diaper changes, would get anything I needed and at her 9 am feeding she had “fed” her doll as well, who was laying beside Isabella. She kept her awake really, playing and giggling but when she got whiney she looked at me.

“It’s nearing lunch time for her, would you like to help Uncle Zac prep lunch for you and them?”

“But then I can’t feed Sarah.” She pouted.

It took me a few moments to realize that Sarah was her doll. Zac took the hint and let Alexander play, even if that was a guaranteed death sentence for his character and I watched as he was blown up. Ouch. Zac fixed them all lunch, I assured Penny Sarah could eat after she had her lunch, Zac made sure they ate, I fed Isabella in the living room, covering up because Ezra and Penny were here. By the time Isabella was done eating Penny was too and I sat there while she fed Sarah.

“You want me to lay Alexander down for a nap?” Zac asked.

“I’ll take him up, I think I’m going to put Isabella in her crib and maybe lay down too.”

“Ok.” He said.

He sat Alexander over the gate for me and he sat Penny with Sarah over as well, we went up-stairs and I laid Isabella down first so I could get Alexander in his crib, he was easy to lay down when Ezra was around because he was always worn out.

“Aunt Emily, where can Sarah nap?”

I smiled. “How about I lay Sarah down with Isabella? The crib is plenty big enough.”

She smiled and I took the doll from her as if she was real and laid her down, to be proper I covered her as well.

“Are you going back downstairs with Uncle Zac?”

“No. Can I lay down too?”

“Of course.”

She and I laid down in the bed and I did let her fall asleep first, yet it was Isabella that woke me up around 2:45. I noticed Penny was not in the bed and when I started down, Alexander was also not in his crib, but I heard him downstairs. I glanced around when I came into the room.

“Where are Penny and Ezra?”

“Tay just left with them; she didn’t even wake up until he got here. He was going to stay a bit but Natalie apparently over drank and is not doing so well this morning.”

“You could have woken me up.”

“Taylor said not too because he wasn’t going to be here long.”

Alexander was playing so I sat down to feed the little one and we went on with the afternoon, Zac played video games for most the day but he took the 6 pm feeding so I could fix dinner. Alexander decided he needed to be in Daddy’s way for that but Zac was cool with him being there. We had dinner about 6:45, Isabella cooed in her bouncer while we ate. After dinner Alexander played, Zac and I took turns entertaining them both and about 8:30 we went up-stairs to bathe them both and get them ready for bed. I went to straighten out Isabella’s crib and noticed Sarah was still there.

“We go in Monday right?” I asked.

“Yep.”

“Remind me to bring Penny’s doll with us so she can get her back.”

He giggled. “Ok.”

He laid Alexander down at 9:40; I was feeding Isabella and afterwards laid her down as well. By 10:30 they were both asleep and we lay down as well. Yet, about 11:30 I felt someone climb into the bed and found Alexander was climbing into our bed. How the hell had he gotten out of his crib?! I started to put him back in his crib but he curled up beside me and I just couldn’t, so I left him alone.

-Zac-

I woke up at 1:20 because my bladder was complaining, I noticed Alexander was lying in the bed and I wondered when she got him or when he woke up. I hadn’t heard him or her cry. I went to the bathroom, using my phone as a light so I didn’t wake them up. A quick glance at Isabella’s crib revealed her to be laying there asleep, so I headed down to the kitchen for some water. I saw an agent outside and after drinking the glass I went back up-stairs. Isabella was still asleep and so were the other two, I was about to get back in bed when I heard something, it sounded almost like Alexander’s bass drum had been hit. I paused and listened, Alexander was still lying in the bed asleep, so I knew it wasn’t him. Emily was also laying there asleep. I heard the same noise and moved to my dresser where I kept the handgun at, I got it and eased into the hallway. I closed our bedroom door so if Alexander did wake up he couldn’t get out of the room. I checked his room and everything was fine, I then eased down the hallway checking Isabella’s room, which was fine and the guest room was last. I eased into the recreation room and turned the light on, the room was untouched and his drum set was fine. I walked around the room quietly and then headed back up to the bedroom, I just came in view when the door closed and someone began to head down the steps.

“Hey, what are you doing in here?”

The person paused, didn’t speak but I could see a white blanket hanging from their arms. It shouldn’t be an FBI agent they were not suppose to come inside the house unless absolutely required. They were definitely not supposed to touch our children at all.

“What are you doing?” I repeated.

The person began to go downstairs and I went after them, the gate at the foot of the steps was down and the person was headed out back but I was hot on the heels, they had no right to be inside and messing with our children’s things.

“STOP!” I yelled.

The person stopped at the end of the porch, just before the steps and I raised the gun to them.

“Who are you?”

“You should know who I am Zachary.”

That could not be right; there was no way he could have gotten past the agents plus our alarm system!

“Ian? How did you get in?”

He laughed. “I have my ways Zachary.”

He slowly turned around and my heart sank, he was holding Isabella in his arms and there was a knife laying there on the blanket, pointing at her neck.

“Put your gun down Zachary, you don’t want to do anything stupid.”

“Just give her back to me Ian, you don’t want her. You wanted a son, you want me.”

“Ahh, I was planning on you having a son yes. But, a little girl is still ok. It sucks that she looks like your bitch of a wife though, I am sure I can
teach her how to not be like her mother.”

I hated the sound of that, how he would teach her and I was sure his methods would be equal to or worse than he’d done to teach me.

“Just hand me my daughter, I’ll take her inside and I’ll come with you.”

It was an irrational idea, but I couldn’t let him take her. I knew if he left with her now we would never find her and especially if he maintained his plan to leave the country.

“Months Zachary. That’s how long you have ignored my calls, texts, and e-mails. You just stopped. Did you not think there would be a consequence to your actions? Simple rules. Simple requests. Yet you had your little anniversary dinner with your bitch of a wife and suddenly you no longer care.”

“I tried to reach you all weekend! You can blame Emily all you want, I stopped calling back because I saw you with Glen. I wouldn’t have come over if you had replied to one of the many messages I sent over that weekend. I wanted to believe you Ian, I wanted to believe what you said but she was there and you weren’t. She found me and not you.”

“I shouldn’t have needed too!” He yelled.

The gun wavered in my hand; I could very well shot him but what if he moved? I could live with killing Adam but I couldn’t live with myself if I shot her instead of him or if he did anything that hurt her.

“Just let her go Ian, you don’t want her.” I could feel the prickle of tears in my eyes.

He took a step back and I reacted too quickly and he moved the knife closer to her neck.

“Stay back; it won’t take much to kill her Zachary, such a tiny little baby.”

“Please Ian.” I begged.

He lowered his head. “Hearing you beg me shouldn’t be such a turn on right now. Why don’t you drop the gun and just come with us. I have an extra ticket now.”

“You don’t need her. Ian I’m begging you to just let her go. You can take the gun and walk me inside and out. I won’t fight you I’ll come with you. Just let me take my daughter inside. It’s too cold out here for her.”

He moved the knife some and I was deathly afraid he was going to walk away. I’d have to shot if he turned to leave, I couldn’t let him just walk away with her.

“Lay the gun down on the deck, slowly and kick it to me.”

I did exactly what he said and he leaned down and picked it up, putting it in his waist band, Isabella must have been sound asleep she didn’t make a peep the whole time. Yet he didn’t make any movement to come toward me.

“Please, Ian.”

For a moment I thought he was going to give in, he looked pleased but then the slight smile faded from his lips and he looked at me.

“Why do you want to take her inside Zachary? Who will care for her?”

“Emily is here Ian, please. I’m coming with you, just let me take her inside. I’ll do anything you want.”

“Of course you would, but it wouldn’t be because you really want too. It is obvious Zachary that your heart doesn’t belong to me and it never will. Not even killing your wife would make you love me.”

He looked down briefly. “I would be there and I would love you Ian, I did in May. I was ready to leave.”

I was praying that the lies that fell from my lips were convincing enough to him. I really would do anything for my family. I took a tentative step forward.

“Please, Ian. Let me prove it to you. Come with me to lay her down in the basinet downstairs, I’ll come with you. Croatia right? We can go there and we can be together.”

“What about your wife, family, and career?”

“They’ll move on, we don’t have to hide there. There are already rumors about problems it wouldn’t be a far stretch.  My brother’s can replace me, they have Mac. Just please, let’s take her inside.”

“Emily cannot care for her Zachary, she’s dead. She and Alexander are lying in pools of their own blood. There is no one here to care for her.”

“What?” I asked astonished.

“Did you really think I would let them slide? No. She is the reason you left and she had to pay for that. She had to know. I would have preferred if she was awake when Alexander died but I knew she would scream. Glen will just have to use you as her replacement as well.”

He’d killed them? That couldn’t be true. He moved the knife away from Isabella but it happened so quickly, before I could say anything he’d brought the knife down hard into her chest. It felt like the knife had plunged into my own chest instead.

Time seemed to slow down to a slow creep, the coldness of the air nipped painfully at my arms. The silence of the night seemed to enclose around me. Isabella had not cried or screamed or made any noise at all, I could only hope that meant instant death. Ian looked so pleased with himself but I felt so weak. My entire world had just exploded. He’d killed them all. My wife, my son, and now my daughter.

“Actions have consequences Zachary; did you really believe I wanted some bastard ass child that belonged to your bitch of a wife? No. They were never going to live Zachary, I would have killed the baby as soon as she delivered and then let Glen whisk her off. Alexander was supposed to already be dead, sadly Logan disappointed me.”

He slung Isabella away from us, just the cruelty of the move seem to make me lightheaded. I could feel the hot tears sliding my face; he had killed my family, everyone I held close to me. My wife was dead. My son and daughter, innocent children were now dead.

The pain in my chest made me wonder if I was about to have a stroke. This level of pain was far worse than any threat he had ever made me feel. He had done it. He had killed them.

“Come on Zachary. It’s time we leave.”

“You killed them.”

“Yes, because you failed to follow rules. If you do not come on, I will keep on. How many family members would it take? Your niece, Penny maybe, how would your brother feel if I took his only little girl. Maybe I’ll just take them all, would your brothers forgive you for that? The loss of their children? You’ve already caused your own wife and children to be killed.”

Taylor and Isaac loved me, but if I were the cause of their children being murdered then they’d surely never want to see me again. I took a tentative step toward him and realized what his plan for me was. He’d lock me away for sure, no more trips home. Emily’s sister and brothers would be responsible for burying my family. I hadn’t even gotten to say goodbye.

I paused because the numbness I was feeling was different. He had nothing over me; he had killed the very people I’d do anything for to save. Therefore, the odds are he would eventually come after the rest of my family.

I was not aware of what happen after that moment, I remembered spearing him off the porch, shocking both of us. I remember only wanting him to feel what I did, which was pain and sorrow. I know I broke his nose, I heard the bones breaking and I could hear the grunts and groans of pain. I felt him hit me, but I didn’t feel any of it, it didn’t hurt.

When he managed to gain enough leverage to flip me off him, I was caught off guard but as he pressed my hands into the cold ground, I felt the erection against my abdomen. How could he could kill three people and be turned on?! What kind of sick bastard was he?

“Wrong move Zachary, you should know better!”

“Fuck you!” I screamed.

His hands tightened on my wrist. “Oh, they’ll be a lot of fucking when we get there. There won’t be any reason for you to even get dressed.”

He’d growled it at me, clearly pissed but I didn’t care. The handle of the gun glinted in what little light there was and I went for it. I couldn’t let him kill them and not do anything. If he left, he’d keep coming after me and he would keep killing people close to me. People that didn’t deserve it.

He would always terrorize me. He had for almost two years now. He has stalked me, harassed me, raped me, and he had finally killed me by killing my family.

I went for the gun and he must have realized it because he tried to stop me. We kept fighting this time for possession of the gun and I could feel it right against my rib cage, which did hurt some. I just knew I had to stop him he could not walk away.  He couldn’t kill them and not pay for it.

One of us was going to die tonight.

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