chapter 10
Live and Die Alone
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Chapter 10
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“What do we say when this gets into the media?” Gerard said to Ian They were in the hotel room looking at each other in silence for what seemed forever until Gerard broke the silence.
“It will never be in any papers or magazines. We’ll make sure of that. Who knows what would happen If people knew about this.” Ian said shrugging as if there was nothing more to discuss.
“But there were people there, they saw it. How can you keep this quiet?” Ray said he was still trembling from the thought of what had happened. He had looked into ‘his’ eyes. Chills creped down his spine. Those had been his own eyes and they were filled with sorrow, he had looked into them and saw sadness. It was hard to keep thinking of them as monsters. He was relieved that he didn’t have to be the one to get rid of any of the rest of them, he just wasn’t sure he could do it. Not again.
“It’s not a hard thing to do, don’t worry about that, that’s the least of out worries.” Ian shrugged again. Mikey was looking at the man’s grey hair. He was playing with a piece of paper that he had torn from a receipt from some forgotten thing.
“Are you ok?” Mikey asked Ray.
“Not really, its hard to explain.” Ray said and then looked at Ian.
“If they are monsters, then why do I feel like shit for touching him?”
“It’s because he was just like you. It’s hard to say why, really, but almost everyone that has had this experience has said the same thing.”
“Well what if the person is dead?” Bob said.
“Oh, well then the person doesn’t die till he has a natural death.” Ian said. Ray blinked with a confused look on his face.
“Natural death, How could they have a natural death, they are monsters. Right?”
“Well technically they shouldn’t be here, but most of them aren’t bad at all. There’s a case in Main that I cant go into to much detail but she was a young woman that lost her boyfriend of 5 years when he was in a car crash on the way to their wedding. Well it wasn’t even a week later that he came home. They are still together and he will grow old with her. The only way he’ll die is of old age. But he’s not a threat.”
“What are you saying? That this guy in main isn’t a threat, why? And our doubles are?” Frank said looking at Ian intently.
“Guys look, these creatures are dangerous, they have killed people, they have kidnapped a child and are doing god knows what to her as we speak, and the people that see this will think its you. We can keep this from the masses, but the people that see what they do and are around them will think it was you guys that are doing all of this crazy shit.”
“Well, then tell me what the girl meant when she said that he had saved her?” Gerard said.
“I really don’t know what that was about. But we did find a man behind the building that had a broken neck. I think that we just missed another murder before you got rid of him, we were too late.” Ian looked at the singer and quickly went into something else, anything but that. They had found out that the man was engaged in intercourse with the young girl. It was obvious that their doppelganger had saved the girl from what the man had been doing but he did not need them to think that they could let these creatures live. They aren’t human and shouldn’t be aloud to exist. It was just the way it should be. He would kill all of them that were in existence if he could.
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Audra was sound asleep on Mikey’s bunk. Gerard had carried her and placed her into the bunk after she had finally cried herself to sleep. The bus had stopped and they were parked in the back of a truck stop, hidden behind other trucks and RVs, hopefully good enough that no one would notice. All of them were sitting around the little table. Angel was as close to Gerard as she could get. She just needed to feel him next to her. Her hand was resting in his and she couldn’t make herself let him go even when he tried to release her to light a cigarette. She just took the lighter from the table and lit it for him never letting go of the comfort of his hand.
Stephen sat next to Mikey.
“Will someone please tell me what happened to Ray?” Stephen said. Gerard sighed and took a long drag from the cigarette clutched between his fingers.
“This is going to be hard to explain, Stephen. So please bare with me.” He said Stephen nodded but didn’t say a word.
“When we met you, we had just appeared there. We were not born to this world like you. I am Gerard, but I am not the one that was born and started the band. He is trying to find us with the rest of his band to get rid of us. We were created because Angel…” He looked at angel and gave her a half smile as he squeezed her hand gently.
“Angel had so much loneliness and sadness deep inside of her. She was drowning in it. She loves the band. She doesn’t just think of them as a band, they are more than that to her and her love coupled with her sadness and loneliness created us. Not everyone can do that, even with the same feelings as she had. I don’t know everything to know about how we were created but I know that. It had to do with the way the earth was positioned and the exact place on it she was. Everything was in the right place and we were created for her. She had always felt a deep connection with me, well, Gerard. So I could feel when I met her that I was supposed to be with her. I knew that we would love each other. I just knew it. We aren’t bad people. But we are not them. The real Ray touched Ray. We cannot exist if we are touched by the person who we were made from.” He looked up to see Stephen looking at him with wide eyes.
“You have to be shittin me. This is just to out there! You are trying to freak me out so you can get a laugh. You guys are the craziest guys, I swear!” Stephen said and then he started to laugh.
“No, Stephen, its true. Audra saw it when the real Ray touched him. I’m telling you, this is real.” He looked at angel.
“How can this be real? Oh my god. How do I process this? You’re serious?” He said looking at Angel again. She slowly nodded.
“You have to let us know now, are you going to stay with us or are you leaving us?” Gerard said.
“Well you seem like ok guys, I mean Angel is staying right?” He looked at Gerard trying not to let anyone know that whatever she did is what he would do. He knew that she was in love with Gerard. It just didn’t seem to make any difference what he knew. He couldn’t stop how he loved her smile. She looked into his eyes and he felt himself blush.
“Of course I’m staying.” She said as if it could be no other way.
“Well, then so am I.” Stephen said as he tore his eyes from her lips. They involuntarily would rest on her lips at the most inappropriate times. He looked at Gerard instead and smiled.
“Good then. We all must get some sleep.” Gerard said
“Are we safe? Will they come back?” Stephen said.
“Yea we are safe, we’ll know if they are coming.” Bob said as if Stephen should have known that bit of information.
“He’s really gone.” Angel said. Tears in her voice were threatening to erupt. Lying in the bed, running her fingers through his hair as she let it slide through them over and over.
“Yea, he’s gone.” Gerard said. He traced her lips with his finger and let it slide down her chin and to her neck. He could feel her heart begin to speed up through his fingertips. He leaned into her and pressed his lips firmly against hers. The kiss deepened and they let go of the sorrows that were encircling them. Entangled together they let pleasure replace the fear that had taken over both of their minds. Stephen had begun to dose when the moans flooded his ear. They were at it again. He rolled his eyes. He hated that He was touching her. He turned his little radio up so he didn’t have to hear it. He closed his eyes and begged sleep to take him.
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*Link to other pages at the bottom
Chapter 10
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“What do we say when this gets into the media?” Gerard said to Ian They were in the hotel room looking at each other in silence for what seemed forever until Gerard broke the silence.
“It will never be in any papers or magazines. We’ll make sure of that. Who knows what would happen If people knew about this.” Ian said shrugging as if there was nothing more to discuss.
“But there were people there, they saw it. How can you keep this quiet?” Ray said he was still trembling from the thought of what had happened. He had looked into ‘his’ eyes. Chills creped down his spine. Those had been his own eyes and they were filled with sorrow, he had looked into them and saw sadness. It was hard to keep thinking of them as monsters. He was relieved that he didn’t have to be the one to get rid of any of the rest of them, he just wasn’t sure he could do it. Not again.
“It’s not a hard thing to do, don’t worry about that, that’s the least of out worries.” Ian shrugged again. Mikey was looking at the man’s grey hair. He was playing with a piece of paper that he had torn from a receipt from some forgotten thing.
“Are you ok?” Mikey asked Ray.
“Not really, its hard to explain.” Ray said and then looked at Ian.
“If they are monsters, then why do I feel like shit for touching him?”
“It’s because he was just like you. It’s hard to say why, really, but almost everyone that has had this experience has said the same thing.”
“Well what if the person is dead?” Bob said.
“Oh, well then the person doesn’t die till he has a natural death.” Ian said. Ray blinked with a confused look on his face.
“Natural death, How could they have a natural death, they are monsters. Right?”
“Well technically they shouldn’t be here, but most of them aren’t bad at all. There’s a case in Main that I cant go into to much detail but she was a young woman that lost her boyfriend of 5 years when he was in a car crash on the way to their wedding. Well it wasn’t even a week later that he came home. They are still together and he will grow old with her. The only way he’ll die is of old age. But he’s not a threat.”
“What are you saying? That this guy in main isn’t a threat, why? And our doubles are?” Frank said looking at Ian intently.
“Guys look, these creatures are dangerous, they have killed people, they have kidnapped a child and are doing god knows what to her as we speak, and the people that see this will think its you. We can keep this from the masses, but the people that see what they do and are around them will think it was you guys that are doing all of this crazy shit.”
“Well, then tell me what the girl meant when she said that he had saved her?” Gerard said.
“I really don’t know what that was about. But we did find a man behind the building that had a broken neck. I think that we just missed another murder before you got rid of him, we were too late.” Ian looked at the singer and quickly went into something else, anything but that. They had found out that the man was engaged in intercourse with the young girl. It was obvious that their doppelganger had saved the girl from what the man had been doing but he did not need them to think that they could let these creatures live. They aren’t human and shouldn’t be aloud to exist. It was just the way it should be. He would kill all of them that were in existence if he could.
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Audra was sound asleep on Mikey’s bunk. Gerard had carried her and placed her into the bunk after she had finally cried herself to sleep. The bus had stopped and they were parked in the back of a truck stop, hidden behind other trucks and RVs, hopefully good enough that no one would notice. All of them were sitting around the little table. Angel was as close to Gerard as she could get. She just needed to feel him next to her. Her hand was resting in his and she couldn’t make herself let him go even when he tried to release her to light a cigarette. She just took the lighter from the table and lit it for him never letting go of the comfort of his hand.
Stephen sat next to Mikey.
“Will someone please tell me what happened to Ray?” Stephen said. Gerard sighed and took a long drag from the cigarette clutched between his fingers.
“This is going to be hard to explain, Stephen. So please bare with me.” He said Stephen nodded but didn’t say a word.
“When we met you, we had just appeared there. We were not born to this world like you. I am Gerard, but I am not the one that was born and started the band. He is trying to find us with the rest of his band to get rid of us. We were created because Angel…” He looked at angel and gave her a half smile as he squeezed her hand gently.
“Angel had so much loneliness and sadness deep inside of her. She was drowning in it. She loves the band. She doesn’t just think of them as a band, they are more than that to her and her love coupled with her sadness and loneliness created us. Not everyone can do that, even with the same feelings as she had. I don’t know everything to know about how we were created but I know that. It had to do with the way the earth was positioned and the exact place on it she was. Everything was in the right place and we were created for her. She had always felt a deep connection with me, well, Gerard. So I could feel when I met her that I was supposed to be with her. I knew that we would love each other. I just knew it. We aren’t bad people. But we are not them. The real Ray touched Ray. We cannot exist if we are touched by the person who we were made from.” He looked up to see Stephen looking at him with wide eyes.
“You have to be shittin me. This is just to out there! You are trying to freak me out so you can get a laugh. You guys are the craziest guys, I swear!” Stephen said and then he started to laugh.
“No, Stephen, its true. Audra saw it when the real Ray touched him. I’m telling you, this is real.” He looked at angel.
“How can this be real? Oh my god. How do I process this? You’re serious?” He said looking at Angel again. She slowly nodded.
“You have to let us know now, are you going to stay with us or are you leaving us?” Gerard said.
“Well you seem like ok guys, I mean Angel is staying right?” He looked at Gerard trying not to let anyone know that whatever she did is what he would do. He knew that she was in love with Gerard. It just didn’t seem to make any difference what he knew. He couldn’t stop how he loved her smile. She looked into his eyes and he felt himself blush.
“Of course I’m staying.” She said as if it could be no other way.
“Well, then so am I.” Stephen said as he tore his eyes from her lips. They involuntarily would rest on her lips at the most inappropriate times. He looked at Gerard instead and smiled.
“Good then. We all must get some sleep.” Gerard said
“Are we safe? Will they come back?” Stephen said.
“Yea we are safe, we’ll know if they are coming.” Bob said as if Stephen should have known that bit of information.
“He’s really gone.” Angel said. Tears in her voice were threatening to erupt. Lying in the bed, running her fingers through his hair as she let it slide through them over and over.
“Yea, he’s gone.” Gerard said. He traced her lips with his finger and let it slide down her chin and to her neck. He could feel her heart begin to speed up through his fingertips. He leaned into her and pressed his lips firmly against hers. The kiss deepened and they let go of the sorrows that were encircling them. Entangled together they let pleasure replace the fear that had taken over both of their minds. Stephen had begun to dose when the moans flooded his ear. They were at it again. He rolled his eyes. He hated that He was touching her. He turned his little radio up so he didn’t have to hear it. He closed his eyes and begged sleep to take him.
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