Mulberry Killers

As the large man carried her, Adalyn did not stop struggling seeing a soft glow in the distance calmed her struggling slightly. Before she knew it, the man dropped her roughly onto the dirty tiled floor. Rubbing her back slightly, she sat up and looked around the room. Adalyn saw she was in the swimming pool room, instead of crystal blue water. The water in the pool was dirty and filled with dead leaves, drawing her attention away from the grimy pool and the hole in the ceiling.

Adalyn saw the face of the man who broke into her home, becoming bold Adalyn stood up. She watched as the man gracefully stalked up too her, she had nothing on him. As he towered over her, she knew she had seen him somewhere before. Then it dawned on her, “you came into my store a few days ago. Then you broke into my home,” smirking down at the woman he knew, that he would enjoy this. “Well aren’t you a clever woman, and by any chance may I know your name.” He asked her, shaking her head Adalyn would not give into him. Getting a little irritated at her lack of cooperation, Liam quickly grabbed her by the throat. Gasping for air Adalyn tried to claw his hand off her throat, feeling weaker every second his hand was on her throat. Then out of nowhere he threw her against the wall, hitting it roughly head first. Adalyn became faint placing a hand on her forehead; she felt warm liquid streaming down from her hairline.

“You see I don’t want to hurt you, you are quite an exquisite beauty.” Liam said bending down and running a hand through her hair, “but if you don’t listen, I will kill you.” he finished by slapping her hard across the face. He watched as the woman below him spat out blood, from her busted lip. Looking over at Barton Liam signaled for him to, to tie Adalyn up. Suddenly the three of them heard footsteps, with no hesitation Adalyn began to scream. Barton roughly stuffed a dirty rag into her mouth, but that did not stop her from making noise. He immediately kicked her across the face, instantly knocking her out. Teena stopped when she heard a cry for help, looking at Jared and Dean the three ran in the direction of the scream. “I can’t believe this is happening, she must hate us.” Teena said sadly, as she looked into an empty classroom, “we were wrong in how we treated her.” Jared thought aloud, Dean was the only one not to say anything.

Given that his mind was going over, what she had said. “I can’t believe she would hurt herself,” he thought. None the less, they kept on searching, hoping that their friend would be behind one of the doors. Finally, coming to Adalyn tried to sit up, but felt the ropes binding her. Making moaning noises alerted Liam and Barton, smiling again Liam walked over to her. Lifting her up to her feet by her hair, his once smooth attractive face contorted into a sinister gaze. “Did I tell you to scream, didn’t think so.” Sighing he dragged Adalyn by her hair towards the edge if the pool, kissing her forcefully Liam pushed her roughly into the cold water. It was a massive shock, when she hit the water. Adalyn watched as the glow of the surface got further away from her, trying to scream the rag slipped out so did all of the air that was behind it.

Struggling to stay afloat, but all her struggling was futile because all it did was make her sink all the way to the bottom of the pool. Reaching the bottom, she felt all of the debris floating around her and little by little, the air bubbles slowed down until there was none left. Unable to keep her eyes open, Adalyn closed her eyes. “Wait did you guys hear that, it sounded like a splash.” Dean said running towards the sound, bursting through the door he saw two men running out the back door. “Stop police,” he replied. Liam turned around to look at him, “you’re too late, and she’s already at the bottom of that pool. Oh and tell that beauty I will be seeing her later,” Smirked Liam when he saw the look on their faces, as he left. “Holy shit we have to get her,” Teena said going to the edge of the water. Before she could jump into the water, Dean already hit the water.

Once he entered the water, it took him awhile to get use to the temperature. Swimming to the bottom, he felt around for Adalyn’s body, but he could not feel it. Coming back up for another breath, Dean ignored the cries from Teena. Diving back down he searched the other side, then out of nowhere, he felt strands of hair. He let his hand wonder down to her face, then down to her arm. Grabbing her arm, he swam back to the surface, placing her on the floor he jumped out and undid the ropes that bound her. As soon as the rope was gone, he began to do CPR. Teena could not hold herself up much longer when Adalyn came out of the water, her lips were almost blue and she looked so pale. “Dean say she’s not dead, she can’t die.” She screamed while Jared held her, taking a break from the CPR. He felt her pulse faintly. Without thinking, he scooped her up and ran out the way they had entered, passing the main office and out the door with Teena and Jared hot on his heels. Sam jumped at the sudden sound of them running past the room, following them she tried to ask questions. No one answered and she got mad, while in the school the rain had stopped.

Running to the Hummer, Dean jumped into the back while Jared took the driver seat. “Drive to the hospital, the rain has died down so now it will be easier to get there.” Yelled Dean as he continued to do CPR on Adalyn, Sam saw how lifeless Adalyn was. “What the hell happened to her?” She asked, “she was pushed into the swimming pool.” Dean said sounding as if he was about to give up, but as if on cue Adalyn spat water out and started to gasp for air uncontrollably. Once all of the water was out of her lungs, she began to shake violently due to being so cold. “Jared floor it, I think she may be getting hypothermia.” Dean all but screamed.

On the drive to the hospital Dean, searched through the first aid kit he had in the back of the car. Finding a blanket, he wrapped it around her and held her tight. Every now and then, he would shake her to keep her eyes open. “Addy come on keep your eyes on me, don’t close them.” He replied, “I’m so...so...so cold...D...Dean, I...I’m just going to take a small nap.” Adalyn stuttered closing her eyes. Dean began to scream at her, but she did not open her eyes this time. As Jared began to slow down Dean wasted no time and hopped out of the car, rushing through the emergency room’s sliding door. He began to yell, “I need a doctor.” Hearing the yelling a young nurse came up to him, “what seems to be the problem sir,” She asked looking at the woman in his arms, “I’m Police Chief Henderson and this woman was bounded up by those two convicts. They threw her into freezing cold water, I did CPR on the way but she’s not coming too.” Dean explained, following the nurse and a few doctors to a light yellow room.

“Okay I need two heating pads, and lots of blankets.” Ordered a doctor taking his telescope and listening to her chest, his face grew grave, “okay people let’s pick it up she’s not breathing, and I feel no pulse Doris I need you to start doing CPR while Leona I need you to get an .I.V drip started.” One of the extra nurses softly pushed Dean out of the room, “Chief please stay out here, and we will help her.” Seeing the helplessness look on his face she gave him a reassuring smile, “if you had not have started doing CPR on her, she probably would have died. You saved her life, also we have an out of county doctor and he is one of the best.” She said going back into the room, the other three people ran over when they saw him standing there. They watched in silence as all the doctors and nurses worked on Adalyn, the group watched as another doctor walked into the room. Though something was wrong the doctor paused and looked hesitant, then he turned to look out into the hallway. No one was expecting to see Cameron, walking out his look was saddened.

“Cameron why are you here,” Asked Jared, “a few doctors from other counties were called here since a lot of people got injured during the storm.” He replied. “Whatever how’s Addy?” Dean asked looking over his shoulder, shaking his head Cameron looked skeptical. “I don’t know I mean there is trauma to her head and hands, as well as since the weather is colder now it doesn’t take much to get hypothermia. It took only five minutes, to get her temperature so low.” Looking at his friends, he brought them over to the family room, “look I know that she’s our friend, but stay here trust me I will take good care of her. I will come back and tell you how; it went once we are done okay.” He continued and left. Sitting in silence Teena just prayed that Adalyn would make it out alive, “she is going to make it, Dean you did all you could.” comforted Jared placing a hand on his shoulder, “I know but still there’s always that what if.” Dean said in a distant voice, rolling her eyes Sam just sat there.

“Yeah sure this is sad and everything but if she want to kill herself she, should have just slit her wrists. Instead of creating all of this drama,” She said a little too loudly. Earning her glares from the others, “you think she tried to kill herself?” seethed Teena, “well she did say she use to hurt herself, and I mean come on people....” Sam tried to say, “you weren’t there when we found her. The two escaped convicts were the ones who did this to her, now don’t you feel pretty stupid you heartless bitch.” Jared said walking out of the room with Teena, Sam just sat there biting her tongue. Dean sat deep in thought, only to be broken from when he felt Sam’s hand on his leg.

Looking up he looked into her eyes seeing not an ounce of sympathy, “what is your deal? Like really do you not care that she may die?” he asked her sitting up straight in his chair, “in all honesty not really. I do not wish death on her, but at the same time, she means nothing to me.” She said thoughtfully, “besides you have been acting extremely weird as of late, we don’t do anything together anymore.” She finished. “Weird how,” Asked Dean a little perturbed by her answer, “you don’t touch me anymore, we always hanging out with your friends. Or we just stay in and watch television,” She said looking crossly at him.

“Are you serious? Sex is all you want. What if I just want to be around my friends or stay in, not everything has to be about sex. Back in high school, they were your friends to, plus we would always go out or we would fuck like jackrabbits. I am just tired of all that shit, I am older now and I just want to have an easygoing life. You know what Sam I do not know about you and I anymore. ” He said standing up, “are you fucking kidding me? You’re giving me that lame ass speech you gave Adalyn all those years ago,” Sam said looking shocked. “Now I see that I gave it to the wrong girl, Sam we are done.”He said walking out of the room. Out in the hall he saw Cameron talking to Teena and Jared, “they brought her to a room upstairs. She is fine but she just needs to rest, so we are only allowing one person in at a time. She is in room 302; I’ll be in there in a little while.” Cameron said walking to help the other patients; the friends went up to the third floor. Jared was the first to go in there; he was not all that great with hospitals since his mother passed away a year ago.

Leaving the room Teena was next to go in, it broke her heart to see her dear friend like that. Holding her hand Teena winced at how cold her skin was to the touch, “Addy if you can hear me you will be fine and you can’t leave us now.” Teena said giving her a hug, walking out of the room Jared took her to the cafeteria to grab some coffee. Walking into the room he focused his eyes on the woman laying there, as he reached her, Dean stroked her hair a bit.

“I’m sorry I let this happen to you, I mean everything that happened to you in your life. I’m the cause of everything.” Squeezing her hand softly, “frankly I have no clue, why I broke up with you. I think it was because I was falling for you, and I did not know how to handle it. Therefore I ruined a perfectly good chance to have a life with you, please Addy if you get out of this okay I will make things good again.” Dean pleaded, as he was about to let go of her hand. Adalyn squeezed his hand, looking into her face he saw her eyes half open staring at him.