The Others

Submitted by EEA on Sat, 09/06/2014 - 22:02

Prologue:

The pool

The swimming pool, the water inside is tranquil. The kids are not inside the pool. The pool is clean, ready for when the school days open....
The white tiles are all shinning. The broken glass has been replaced. The locker rooms are empty, the showers are all clean. The sun shines on the building, the light comes from the ceiling, hitting the water. How bright it is!
The swimming pool where that event took place, were that violent act was committed, where blood was gush out into the shiny white tiles. It made the white tiles looked as if they were bleeding. Where the clean, tranquil pool water was also going to commit a murder. The murder of an innocent boy.
But all of that has passes, all of that is gone, but sometimes some of the kids, the ones who are the last leave, can feel that, that there is the presence of that angel that saved that boy, still lingering around......

What happened after the events of the Ritual Killer to those that were involved?

November 13 1989
I don't need it. I don't need that garbage. I can do this. This is my last hit.
So he threw the cigarette away. But he couldn't help it. There was the cigarette, a flicker of light, follow by....
Maybe just one more...
And he got on the ground, and greedily inhale the last remaining smoke. Until the cigarette was nothing but ashes. But he couldn't stop his addiction, and so he ate the ashes.
I can't stop myself.
He then went back to the abandoned building, one of those buildings who no one knew why they stood there in town. They were forgotten, with no history just like him. At least he had a place to sleep, a place were he could sleep, at least for a while, when the craving came, when he had to have another taste. He would do anything. And that had cost him, taken the only person that still cared for him. His mom, she had stood a lot, taken a lot, defended him, he was her only son, but after a while, she got tired, tired of helping him.
How many times did he say:
"I want help. I do." Then cry and gone to one of those clinics.
How many, many times. The same results.
Escape, gone back, escape, go back.....
Then one day when he returned his mom had left town for good. She had left his few remaining stuff with the porter. Some magazines, a jacket, a pair of shoes, and a few cd's which he finally sold to continue his habit.
Now he was sleeping in this cold building, with nothing to look forward to.
Today, today was my last day.

No more, no more, after he awakes the cravings return.
He tries, tries, tries.
"Why can't I!" He hits himself in the stomach several times.
It won't stop. He has to have a cigarette.
But where will he get it?
He checks his jacket, only some coins.
This won't be enough!
He squeezes the coins.
No, I can fight this! I have to.
So he lays down to sleep....
And thinks that it had been better if he had died just like Jonny and Jimmy.
Ever since that day, he has nightmares, sees their heads floating around. That's why he threw himself into drugs, to make those nightmares....
But there there. First he begin to drink, then to smoke then to sniff different stuff, glue, paint, anything, until finally this is what he has become.
What do they put inside them? But he knew. Prebbe had introduced him to it. It would make his troubles go away, he told him. Smoke those cravings away.
And now he was killing himself everyday, he was a drug addict.
Why had he done what they told him?
Because he was a coward. So he sold his last friend. Oskar. Made the call and led him to the pool.
So Johan continued to walk, he looked finish.
Maybe one day someone will find me dead....
As he continued to walk into the night he passed by a lamplight. There two kids were watching him.
But Johan didn't notice them, he continued to walk into the cold night, snow began to fall, and he wonder off with no direction.....

December 1, 2002

He is returning now to Blackeberg after traveling for many years. He did it, just like he said he would. He became a sailor and sailed away to new places. Now he is back. He will visit his mom who stayed living in this town. He carries a bundle with all the letters she has written to him.
The nightmares have gone away, though he can't stand to see any type of elephant. Nor does he like dark places. In the night he sleeps next to the window where the moon' slight shines at his cabin. The ship that he is staying on will leave on two days.
So Tommy took the train and went to the town that he had always wanted to leave. All those nightmares are almost gone. Maybe one day he will stay. It could be a good town to live on once here retires.

December 3, 2002

Her son had come to see her. He was away for most of the year. She leaved by herself. She did not married. She remember how back during that time she was afraid to be alone. She thought that by marrying she would not feel lonely. But after what had happened to her son, she realized how broken up her relationship with her son was. Seeing him cry that day, and how he held on to her. How things between her son and her had gotten worst. But that terrible event brought them together. Little by little their relationship with her son began to improve. Both of them started to take family therapy. Each session that they went to help them explore how badly they needed to talk. Then after a few years things got better between the two. She learned how her son wanted to leave Blackeberg. How he wanted to become a sailor.
And he did, he sailed away to new far away places. She had all the postcards he had sent her from the places he had been in.
Her son Tommy would come and visit her today. Ivonne had gotten his letter in which he told her he was going to stay for a few days. So she waited for his return.

October 12, 1985

"Do you think he likes me?"

"Of course you are the prettiest one from the whole school!"

"But I wonder when is he going to ask me to the dance?"

"Probably today in school."

"In any case I have to look my best."

So Michelle took the red lipstick and put some on her lips. She then saw herself in the mirror. Of course she was the prettiest from the whole school. Not only from the whole school but from the whole town. She didn't think about what had happened at the school a few years ago. It didn't affect her in anyway. She hand't even been there.
Anyways she had more things to worry about. So she fixed her hair and got her backpack. Her only worry today was at what time was Steve going to ask her out to the dance.

June 12, 1982

Prebbe and Roger were always seen together. Roger was skinny and his whole face was mess up. Roger's face resemble the moon with all the craters exploding from his face. Prebbe fair no better. He was a bit taller that Roger and he had bulges of fat falling from his stomach were there used to be muscles once. Both were in and out of jail for stealing in order to pay for their drugs. No one worried about them. So the day they vanish no one reported their disappearance. Their bodies were found floating in the river a few days later.

Sodervick 1987

So his son was missing. It was not his fault. He had a life to live. So he did, he continue to drink and drink. To be the werewolf during the night. To play drinking games with Janne. Just to live his life because he had a right. Didn't he?

1988 December 25

Another Christmas gone by for her. She sits in the same chair. Nights and days pass. She does what is necessary. Go to work, eat, sleep, then she goes back and sits by the same chair. Looks at the door, looks at the phone. One day she knows her son will return, and that is why she stays up every night. One day he will return....

June 12, 1999

His a business man. He owns several businesses in town. He did well. So Tomas grabs his briefcase and gets ready for another day of work.

1984

In the night he feels that he is been watched. That that girl will come and take his head off. He hears her scream
"Say that I can come on!"
Shards of glasses fall into his body. And she has come for him. And then he screams and wakes up.
His mother is there.
"It was only a nightmare honey."
Micke can only cry. He knows that if this nightmares continue his parents will send him to a clinic. He has heard them. How the neighbors complain, how if his nightmares don't stop they won't have a choice.
But the nightmares won't go away. Everyday they get worst.

November 16, 1981

As he gets out of the police station he cannot stop thinking about her. The way that they both held hands. It was special, as if it was just the two of them. Is that what Oskar Erikkson thought that night as he held that girl's hand?
Stefan wonders if she also felt like he did. If he would see her again....