Unbelievable part 5
By
Soul71
Before you read this tale, be forewarned you will cry. So don't let it be said that I didn't warn you.
Thanks to WAA01 for the edits.
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Black Sabbath's 'Changes' sang by Charles Bradley blared through the speakers of the Alexa base unit as John Masters stood in the sun room after he had his shower. Julia's face filled his mind as he swayed to the beat. Tears rimmed his eyes as he thought about the last day he ever saw her. His mind took him back just after his fourteen birthday. His feet pounded on the floor as he raced through the halls to escape the orderly that was the main one that liked his torture. His heart raced as he peered over his shoulder as those hateful, cold eyes burned into him as the orderly chased him. John didn't know how Julia got out of her cell as his back pressed against the back wall of the room the orderly had cornered him in. He knew they liked to keep them locked up so when they wanted to inflict their wicked pleasure upon the patients they wouldn't be mobbed when they dragged whoever was their victim for the day into whichever room to delve into the delights of their cruelty. John watched Julia jump onto the man's back. Her hand reached over the man's shoulder taking the pen that was clipped to his front shirt pocket and jammed it into the left side of the man's neck. John saw the shock and fear in the man's eyes as Julia ripped the back half off the pen. Causing the man's blood to jet out in a torrent, splattering the right side of Julia's face.
Staring, unmoving, at the now dead man at Julia's feet, or that's what he thought when he came out of his shocked state. He saw how Julia was biting on her nails, something she only did when she knew she was in trouble and unable to figure out how to get out of it as her eyes held the realization of what she had just done. John didn't see why she was like this, the man got what he deserved, at least to John's mind. He remembered how his arms trembled as he tried to lift the man off the floor to hide the body. He wasn't about to allow her to get into trouble because of it. They all deserved to die! Screaming as the man's hand grabbed hold of his wrist as John dragged his body over to the vent. His feet beat rapidly on the man's face causing his ID bracelet to be ripped from his wrist before his hand fell away and laid lifelessly on the floor. John's chest heaved in fear, shaking it off, he knew he had to hide the body. He wasn't about to let Julia get into trouble for this. Remembering the sound of his grunt and the way his fingers were sore and throbbed in pain as he replaced the vent cover. Honestly, he couldn't remember how he had stuffed that man's body in there. John was just glad it was big enough. The man deserved to rot there for eternity for his crimes.
When he looked up Julia was gone. He raced around the ward looking for her yet found no trace of her. That was when he saw something falling. His scream filled his mind as he gazed upon Julia's broken, bloody body. Then he felt something as someone embraced him from behind.
"Its okay Johnny," Annie cooed sweetly as she rocked her brother. "Grief is just love with nowhere to go," she said, lightly pressing her cheek against his back. "I'm sure if Julia was still alive she'd be so happy to know that you still care for her," Annie said, trying to keep her jealousy from her voice. She hoped that someday John would care about her like he did for Julia. And so, as those warm rays bathed them Annie held her grief-stricken brother in her arms. "It will get better in time, I promise," she whispered lovingly as she held his face in her hands. Her was heart breaking as she saw the sorrow in his green eyes. "You must have really loved her?" Annie asked, as her thumb brushed away her brother's tears.
"Y-yes," Johnny said, between sniffles.
"When you two were together what did the two of you do?" Annie asked softly, as she gently caressed his face. Seeing her mother, Ruth, and Wanda peeking from around the wall that led to the living room from the corner of her eye.
"We... danced," Johnny said bashfully, dropping his chin.
Gently lifting up his chin, "Then dance with me, let me take Julia's place for today. So that I can pay homage to the one that was able to protect my li'l brother when I couldn't," Annie said, her lip trembling as she watched as a tear ran down John's right cheek. Bringing his head down, resting it on her shoulder as her hands slowly rubbed his back as she held him tightly. "Shh. It's going to be okay Johnny. As long as you remember her in your heart Julia isn't really dead." She couldn't stop her own tears as they glistened in her own eyes as her right hand gently brushed along the back of John's head. She could see how her mother wanted to rush into the sun room as her hand gripped the wall, and the way her lip trembled, like hers, as she looked at Johnny. Placing a lingering, sweet kiss on his right cheek, his hands ran along her hips as he pulled away. "Now, how about that dance?" Annie asked, casting her brother a loving smile as her thumb brushed along his lower lip.
"Alexa, play playlist J," Johnny said, with a trembling voice.
Annie arched an eyebrow as Nathaniel Rateliff's 'What A Drag' started to play. Shaking it off, if this was the type of music he listened to, she wasn't going to make him change. Her eyes went wide in shock as her brother spun perfectly on his heels before coming to a stop in front of her. Her eyes watched as his fingers snapped along with the song, slowly dancing before her. Her smile lifted the corners of her lips as her hand slid into his. Her raven hair whipped through the air; the hem of her blue sundress, giving those that were spying on them a view of her matching lace panties, lifted as John spun her into him. Swaying her body against his, resting her hand over his as it laid on her. Rolling her hips in time with his, feeling her chest becoming flushed with heat as the pads of his fingers of his left hand ran down her left arm before taking hold of her hand. Feeling her cheeks heat as John sent her spinning. Her heart raced as John led her around the room. Mouthing the words 'Oh my God' to the three that stood spying on them. She had no idea her brother could dance. Smiling coyly at him when she moved his hand to her ass.
Their movements sped up as Marvin Gaye's 'Heard it through the grapevine' started after the last song faded out. She hoped she was doing it right yet she didn't know any of the moves he was using. That was until she felt a tap on her shoulder.
"Mind if I cut in," Katherine said, smiling at her children.
Backing away gracefully, Annie would let her mother have this victory. The moment they were alone she was going to get her brother to teach her those dance moves. She wasn't about to be left out again as she watched her mother keeping up with John's moves.
"Damn," Wanda whispered once Annie joined her and Ruth. Her hazel eyes watched the way John's body moved wondering if he was thinking about Julia.
"I know, who would've thought he could dance," Ruth said, twirling a strand of her blonde hair around her left index finger.
Annie could only nod in agreement, she was totally taken by surprise. Sensuously biting her lower lip, as her eyes watched as John's ass shook. Noting how his eyes might be dry and his face might not hold the sorrow that once marred it, yet she could see it in his eyes. Resting her head on Wanda's shoulder, wondering if Julia would always hold some part of his heart that she wanted for herself.
"I'm going to have to sit the next one out," Katherine said, her chest rising in quick succession. She hadn't danced like that in a long time.
"We'll fill in for you," Ruth and Wanda said in unison as Stevie Wonder's 'Superstition' took over for Marvin Gaye.
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Brandan pulled his son's car up behind his. His mind dwelling on what they had found while they were exploring the place that had turned his son's life into a living Hell. His thumb rubbed along the ID bracelet Bill had plucked from the mummified remains of a man they had found in a vent. It was the smell that drew them to it. He didn't know what to do. Had his son killed the man and hidden his body? If so, he was going to have to put him away again, this time for good, as much as that would hurt him. He had to protect the rest of his family given what happened the other day. Brandan knew if he did that it would break his son. Looking over at his oldest son as Bill placed a hand on his shoulder. They both knew they had to know the answer.
Walking into the house, arching an eyebrow when he was greeted by the sound of music filling their lake house. Brandan stood frozen as he watched his daughter slow dancing with John before Wanda cut in. How he hated to interrupt this yet he had to do it.
"Alexa off!" Brandan said, raising his voice cutting off Disturbed's 'Hold on to Memories' that they had been dancing to. "Get away from Johnny," he said, darkly. Noticing the perplexed look on his son's face.
"Honey?!" Katherine was confused by the sound of his stern voice and the look in her husband's eyes.
"Mom, Wanda, get away from Johnny right now!" Ray said, worryingly.
"What's wrong?! Why are the two of you like this!" Annie huffed as her father pulled her behind him.
"John Daniels, you care to explain why we found this on a dead man, stuffed into a vent," Brandan said, holding out his hand in it his son's ID bracelet laid. Listening to the gasps behind him, praying that his son wasn't a killer.