Love Conquers All
There are eight people standing in the graveyard of St. Mary’s church. The weather is damp and dreary, it is coming up to twelve o’clock noon and you can just make out the small furry outline of a red squirrel running toward the trees. It is very quiet. The vicar is coming to the end of his speech and Mr Nicholas Tems is saying goodbye to his three brothers Jack, Daniel and Jake. All of a sudden the peaceful silence is broken by a loud squeaking noise. Nobody knows what it is but Nicholas knows it’s the sound of a car swerving in the road and quickly coming to finish the job. Louise shouted at me.
“Come on, we better go now Nick as you and I both know the consequences if we don’t!” she was panicking because she knew if we didn’t leave then, then we would die trying to.
“Look Louise I can’t go, you know we need to finish this!”
“No Nick we don’t, you know that if you stay you might die and I couldn’t bear to lose you again. Do you remember when they took you away and nearly killed you? You were lucky to survive, even to escape. Now please come on!”
“Louise I told you, as much as I love you you’ll never be safe with me until I finish this!”
She was so upset she just got into the car and with the tyres screeching she drove off, but as she did she didn’t notice the Stevenson brothers in their car-heading straight for her. When she did it was already too late. The Stevenson brother’s car smashed right into Louise’s as they quickly jumped out. Louise’s head was forced forward and smashed against the steering wheel, you could actually hear the crack of the skull fracturing and the rose red blood spouting out of her head. I reached out and shouted.
“NO LOUISE... PLEASE BE OK!”
I started running frustrated and ready to kill the Stevenson brothers if they got in my way but the Stevenson brothers unexpectedly came up to the sides of me, grabbed my arms roughly and pulled me back towards a mausoleum where they shoved me in and slammed the door shut behind them. Inside there was about 3 or 4 coffins and Cole (the oldest of the Stevenson brothers) showed me a piece of long and sharp wood with nails sticking out of the one end. I was so frustrated I started lashing out but Jamie held me down whilst Cole started hitting me with the piece of wood, I felt a sharp pain explode in my right side but then my whole world went black.
About half an hour later I awoke to find that I was completely covered and surrounded in my own dry dark red blood. My whole body ached from head to toe as though every muscle in my body had cramped up and so far there was nothing I could do about it. After a lot of pain and determination I was finally able to stand up and walk out towards where Louise’s car was left. My legs began to throb again and I could feel my heart stop when I noticed Louise was still in the car. So I hobbled over toward her, praying to God that she was still alive and hadn’t lost too much blood, I calmly checked for a pulse, which I found still beating, but was much slower and weaker. I snatched up the mobile that was on the dashboard (she kept it in the car at all times for emergences). An ambulance arrived 5 minutes later and we were off toward the city hospital. The paramedics were fussing over my bruises and a slit in my skin while Louise was still unconscious. Much later when I was resting in a hospital bed a youngish doctor came up to me and introduced himself to me
“Hello I’m doctor Sandue and I’ve been watching over the treatment of yourself and Mrs Louise have been having-” I quickly cut him off by asking
“Is she OK? I umm really need to know!”
“Well she’s doing fine actually, she has only just woken up but we found an abnormality with her baby’s heart beat earlier but she has had a scan and both mother and baby are doing just fine. She just needs her rest that’s all”
I thought to myself did he just say Louise is pregnant? But then if she was she would have told me wouldn’t she? I waited until I was told I could go and see her and I walked over to the bed. She was wide-awake and looked fine apart from the 4 stitches on her head. We talked for a while and then finally we breached the subject of her being pregnant. She told me that she was sorry for not telling me that she was pregnant but she was a little scared of what my thoughts may have been as when we first started our relationship we had both agreed that our lives were not safe enough for us to have children...
See we were in this damned situation because I started work as a person who delivers money to drug gangsters and take huge quantities of the drugs from them, and then I met the Stevenson brothers who offered to pay me £15,000 to kill two people. The first was a man called Danny who was easy to kill as he was so old, the other was a young and beautiful woman called Louise Goldentra, but when I first laid eyes on her I knew then that it would be impossible to slaughter her. I was in love. I had told her that I loved her and said of how I was meant to kill her.
It was then her idea to fake her murder and then once I collected my reward we were to go into hiding and lay low for a few years before resurfacing. We were married in the spring of 2005 and have been happily so ever since our first meeting. But of course the inevitable would come, the Stevenson brothers found out about my little deception and wanted me to either finish the job properly or Louise and I were the next on their hit list. I told the Stevenson brothers that it was impossible for me to do that and so they decided that Louise and I would suffer more than a slow death, we would watch as gradually all our friends and family would be brutally killed with a slow and immensely painful death.
I awoke at about half-past-twelve the next night and since the blinds had been left open I was able to see that someone was in Louise’s cubical using the moonlight. I slowly and quietly crept over to investigate. It was Jerry Stevenson; he had injected Louise with something that had made her start to violently fit. The monitor that took her heartbeat was all over the place so I quickly pushed the panic button and Jerry pounced on me. Something hard smacked against my head and I began to feel myself slowly slip into unconsciousness yet I was able to notice that I was bleeding again. Just before I passed out I noticed Jerry being held by the security guard and several doctors and nurses rushing toward Louise and myself.
From what I can gather it was a week later when I awoke to find Louise sitting next to me on the floor crying, it was then that I noticed that we were not in the hospital any more but in a dark, damp and dreary room which I gather to be the Stevenson brothers hideout. I asked Louise what was happening but she just looked into my eyes with her own which were wide with fear but red and puffy from I guess her sorrow and then started to cry again. The door to the room opened with a creek and who should walk in? No one but Cole. He said that he had tried to finish this without me getting hurt but I kept getting in the way and so we were both going to be murdered and no one would know how we were killed or where our lifeless bodies would be secretly and well hidden. I turned to Louise and then back to Cole and tried to reason with him
“Look” I said calmly “Why do you want Louise dead? Is it because she loves me and not you? What did she do that was so bad? Because I need to know before you kill my wife, my one true love and my unborn child!”
Cole then quickly explained that Louise’s father General Goldentra had killed his parents in a so called "Act off God" because they were dying of a deathly illness which could be passed on through the air. So ever since that day Cole and his brothers had vowed he would not sleep until he slaughtered the General’s whole family, apart from the General himself, to make him pay. All of a sudden though he stopped mid-sentence and said “Did you say she was pregnant?”
I looked at him dumb-founded and then said “Yes why?”
“She’s pregnant . . . She’s . . .”
As he said this he backed up against a wall and slumped to the floor. His lips were quivering and then he began to shudder and cry like a young child would when lost in a big supermarket. A few minutes passed in complete silence then Cole came over to us and untied Louise and me then he fell backwards and sank to the floor with his back against the wall.
“Sorry . . .” he said “I’m really sorry . . . I won’t come after you again!”
“No” I said “you don’t have to, whenever you want to you can talk to us OK”
“And if you would like to when our babies born you can be its Godfather?” Louise said lightly,
“OK... Louise I will if you’re sure and that you can forgive me?”
“Of course we can Cole; this was just a bit of getting our wires crossed” both Louise and I said. So Cole, Louise and I made our way back to the hospital because we all had injuries. Some deeper than others.
Four years later...
Standing in the back yard on a bright mid-afternoon day with a light warm breeze and the sun shining brightly I watch Louise chase our four-year-old daughter Susie around the garden, while holding our two-year-old son George I realize how lush and good my life has been. Louise and Susie come running up to me, my heart swells with pride and joy when Louise plants a soft kiss on my check, puts our son in my arms and whispers in my ear,
“I’m just going to put Louise down to sleep and then ill check on Nico and Jessie OK honey?” she smiled at me and I at her then walked off to hunt down our daughter.
“Come on then champ. Let’s get you upstairs for a bath and then put you down for a nap” I said to George. He scowled at me then giggled as I tickled his tummy.
After the kids were asleep Louise and I cuddled up on the sofa watching the chick-flick that I promised we could watch. Halfway through the film Louise drifted off to sleep laying her head on my shoulder hugging me closely to her. And I thought to myself how very lucky I am to have such a wonderfully beautiful wife, four brilliant kids with the possibility of one or two more on the way soon. Later when lying in bed, after a long night of passionate love making, Louise asleep using my chest as a pillow, my thoughts travelled to Cole, he was now married to a tall and beautiful brunette, called Jane, and with any luck would soon be joining us with the many children. A warm smile spread across my lips as my unborn child that grew within Louise moved and I guess a small foot swiped against my hand that was splayed across Louise’s stomach I always found it amazing that Louise could sleep through all the movements of our child.
“Hey little one,” I whispered “It’s night time so let your mummy and daddy sleep OK?” I bent my head to lightly press a kiss to Louise’s forehead and she rolled onto her side so I slipped my arm around her waist, my hand still splayed over her stomach and placed my head on her shoulder as I gradually drifted off to sleep.
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Tansi
Commented 17 months ago - 4th December 2010 - 20:43pm
aw this is so sweet. a long story, simple yet with a great depth of information and description. its nice to see everything worked out well. however i was looking forward to an explanation as to why cole was crying so suddenly after finding out louise was pregnant. good story though :D
DeadAngelLover22
Commented 17 months ago - 23rd December 2010 - 11:14am
Glad to hear you liked this one, tbh i think it was more because he was so worried about anything else :)