"What the fuck is going on?!"I screamed and rounded on Gerard who had come into the room properly and shut the door.
"Frank shush we dont want him to come find us do we?"Gerard whispered as he locked the door from the inside.

"But Gerard. This fucking psychopath is- is-"
"Shh I know but just- keep quiet."Gerard put his hand on my shoulder gently.

We were in a study. All along the wall with the door on it was a book case filled with books. Across from that was a window looking out onto the back garden. On the third wall was a desk with a laptop on it, a phone, some papers, the usual shit you would expect to see in an office. But on the last wall was what made me fucking shit my pants.

It was pretty much a giant cork board filled with newspaper clippings of girls. Some young, some teenagers and some old. Almost all of the headlines read things like 'bodies of girls 16 and 5 found'

"Jesus christ."I rubbed my hands over my face and sat down on the chair at the desk.
"Frank look at this."Gerard said from the book case. I got up and looked at what he was looking at.

There was two shelves filled with journals, not books. Gerard had pulled one out and was staring at one of the pages. I looked at it too. There was a picture of a girl aged about 6. She looked adorable. It said her name was Whitney. Gerard turned the paige to reveal a picture of a girl of about 18. Her name was Melissa. Gerard turned another page. This time there were pictures of them both together outside a massive house. There was a sign saying Mrs McMullens Orphanage for girls.

"Gerard..."I whispered and turned back to the other journals. The spine of them all had dates. Different years all in order. I moved along til I found our year.

I opened it and came face to face with Claire. I stared at it in horror. The long slanty writing next to it had her name, age and a fucking lock of her hair. I growled and turned the page. Fucking Lily with some of her hair as well.

My fingers were fucking shaking as I turned the next page. There was a collage of pictures of Claire and Lily doing things in the fucking house. Jesus fucking christ. I turned the page again and was presented with scribbles completely covering the page. Not scribbles. I stared at it long and hard until I made out some words.

They didn't make sense at all. Just random words like 'kill' or 'blood' jotted everywhere.
"Oh fuck."Gerard said behind me. I turned around to see him sitting on the floor with another journal in front of him.

"Gerard what's wrong?"I asked urgently and crouched down in front of him. He didn't reply just stared. At nothing. I picked up the discarded journal and looked through it. It was just newspaper clippings of suicidal woman being found dead different forests...

I stared at the very last page. The newspaper had a coloured picture of a woman trying to look happy but failing. She had striking green eyes and long black hair. Oh my fucking god.

"Gerard is that- is that your-"
"Yes!"Gerard suddenly burst into tears. Fuck.

"Gerard I-"I had no idea what to say. I had never been in a situation like this. It was extremely scary and no one in the world would ever be able to prepare for it.

"No. Come on. We are just gonna have to deal with feelings like this after we find Lily. Its gonna be okay."He sniffed and wiped away the tears before getting up and taking my hand. He led me out the door, flicked the light off and closed it behind us.

Once outside we moved across the hall to the next door. Inside it was pitch black so we turned the light on to see it was just a plain bedroom. A simple double bed and a set of drawers. The window looked out onto the front garden. I rushed over to it and peered out. I couldn't see the car. I couldn't see the fucking car.

"Jesus fuck Gerard the cars gone."I spun around to face him.
"What?!"Gerard joined me at the window and looked out,"No its there, its further along."
"Oh... Thank fucking christ for that."I breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed my face. I couldn't take much more of this.

The disappearance of Dean was worrying me, the fact that Claire was stuck in that car alone at night was worrying me and Lily was worrying me.
"Come on. Lets find them."I mumbled and left the room.

Gerard followed me down the hallway and round a corner to reveal more rooms. Fucking hell this place was huge.
"Wait did you hear that?'Gerard grabbed my arm, looking around for the source of whatever he heard.

"No I didnt hear anythi-"
"Shh there it was again, just listen..."Gerard looked down at the floor. Then I heard it. A small yelp.

"Fuck. Its downstairs they're downstairs!"I cried out and rushed back down the hallway to the stairs. I started running down them and fucking tripped on my shoelace.

"Fuck!"I coughed out, winded as fuck. I whooped for breath as Gerard helped me up. Fuck that hurt my fucking ribs.
"Are you okay? Can you walk?"He asked me urgently. I looked up at his face and could see the terror in his eyes. I shouldn't have dragged him into this.

"Uh yeah I'm fine lets just go get them.'I mumbled and shook his hand off my arm. I started listening again. The noise came from down another floor, louder this time.

"Fuck there is a basement."Gerard grumbled and tried to open the door that led to under teh stairs. It was locked.
"Come on, we should be able to get into it from the back garden."I said and lead him into the kitchen and out the back door.

The garden was shit loads bigger now that we were in it. I marched around the side of the house until I spotted the double doors leading down into the basement.
"How strong are you?"I asked Gerard as we reached it.

"Uhhh..."
"We might have to break them."I said as I reached down and tugged on the doors. They opened easily, revealing a dark hole down to the basement with just a small square of light from the moon.

"Jesus... I dont like the dark much."Gerard mumbled as he peered into the darkness.
"Its okay. I'll go first."I said as I took his hand and started leading the way down the steps.

"Lily?"I called quietly as we ventured further into the basement.
"Frank?"She called back.
"Yeah, we're here to get you its okay."I smiled gratefully. I looked back at Gerard. I couldn't see his face but I could see his outline against the moonlit sky outside.

Suddenly a strong gust blew outside and slammed the doors shut. Fuck. Gerards hand tightened around mine.
"Its okay."I whispered to him. He came down to the step I was on and practically stuck to me like fucking glue.

"Frank you need to hurry I dont know where he went but he could be ba-"Lily was cut off. She was struggling, I could tell.
"Lily?"I let go of Gerard and stumbled blindly down the last steps.

"Stay right where you are."Dean said out of the darkness,"Make one more move and she dies."
"Frank stay."Lily said, her voice was shaking. I felt Gerard come up behind me, almost walking into me, and grabbing my hand.

"Why are you doing this?"I asked weakly.
"Its fun. It brings me pleasure."He said maliciously. I glared at where his voice was coming from.

"When did you start?"Gerard asked, making me jump. I heard Dean laugh before taking a deep breath. I dont know how he could fucking see us but it was completely unnerving.

"When I was 19 I married the woman of my dreams. Three weeks into the marriage I found her in bed with another man. So I killed them both and left. It felt good inflicting pain on them. So I kept doing it."He said simply as if it was the most understandable thing in the world.

"9 years ago... What were you doing?"Gerard asked quietly.
"Oh let me see... I was targeting women in their 20's and 30's. I would send them threatening letters for a week then I would rape and kill them. Good fun."He laughed.

This guy was completely fucking nuts.
"What was the name of the last woman you killed?"Gerard asked, that same dead and unfeeling tone in his voice.
"Umm goodness I cant remember that far I think it was Diane? Donna? Yes, Donna Way."He sounded so formal and nice despite what he was talking about.

"Yeah. That was my fucking mum."Gerard growled. He let go of my hand and lunged forward. There was yelling and punching noises. Lily was yelling and rattling something. She must have been tied to a chair or something.

There was a crash and a scream from lily. My eyes could just make out her lying topple on the ground trying to see what was happening.

I couldn't hear anything. My ears were ringing from the loudness of the gunshot being confined to this one small space. When it seemed I could hear again I looked around pointlessly.

"Lily?"I asked worriedly.
"Frank?"She replied.
"I'm okay."I assured her. Gerard and Dean were no longer struggling.
"Gerard?"I shoved my hands out in front of me to try and find him.
"Gerard are you okay?"I asked again when he didn't reply.

"I-yeah I think I'm okay..."He said in a strangled tone. I walked into a wall and started feeling my way along. I came around a bend and felt a door. The light had to be here somewhere. I felt for it and triumphed as the light came on, blinding us all for a moment.

"Oh my god..."Lily said quietly. I squinted down at Gerard. He was kneeling next to Dean, a small pistol in his hands. Dean had a bullethole clean through his forehead. Underneath his head, blood was leaking out, spreading everywhere.

"Oh fuck. I'm gonna- I'm gonna go to jail fuck!"Gerard dropped the gun and fell back onto his bum.
"No Gerard thats not gonna happen-"I started to say.
"I killed him in fucking cold blood!"He gasped and put his head in his hands, shaking his head from side to side.

"Gerard. We wont let that happen. We will say it was self defence. That he attacked you first. You saved my fucking life. I'm not gonna let you go to prison for it."Lily said quietly.

He looked up at her then at me.
"Gerard its gonna be okay. Think what we've done. Once the cops get here, they're gonna find everything. Think of all the families. They are finally gonna know what happened to their loved ones."I smiled down at him, holding my hand out for him to take.

He looked at my hand for a second before getting up himself. I let my hand drop to my side.
"Lily where is Victoria?"I asked, realising she wasn't down here.

"Um in one of the rooms. He- he um. Slit her throat though so..."Lily coughed out. She was crying again.
"What about Claire? Where is she?"She asked me urgently.

"She's okay she is hiding in the car."I replied. We needed to get back to her.
"What is that?"Gerard asked quietly. We all listened until we heard them too. Sirens.
"The cops are coming."Gerard said slowly.

"Guys could you maybe get me up now?"Lily said as she started struggling against the ropes again.
"Oh shit sorry."I mumbled and pulled the chair up onto its legs again. I started untying the ropes but stopped as footsteps started coming down the basement.

We all turned to see who was coming. There was some rattling on the doorknob before it opened slowly.
"Fuck Claire what are you doing here?"I rushed over to him.
"I called the police and decided to come find you all. You were taking too long."She said simply. I smiled and grabbed her under the arms.

"Lily are you okay?"She whispered over my shoulder.
"I'm okay. Thanks."Lily said. She appeared in front of me, rubbing her wrists.

The sirens were getting louder and louder until it seemed they were right outside.
"Claire how did you call the police?"I asked her as we started making our way out of the basement.

"There was a cellphone in the car and it kept going off so I answered it and someone called Way is angwy with someone called Geward so I told them that I was hiding in the car and that Fwankie was inside saving Lily. Then I called the police."She smiled at me and started okaying with my lip ring that had miraculously not come out during everything.

I put her down and held her hand instead, my ribs really starting to fucking hurt.
"This is going to be a very hard and long time."I sighed as we walked out the front door. There were about 6 cop cars and 2 ambulances. Claire really knew how to do it.

"Well, we're all gonna stick together for it right?"Gerard grabbed my other hand and Lily took Claires other hand. We all took a deep breath in before marching across the lawn to what seemed like hundreds of police men.