Almost 18 years ago(Dark you have been warned)
“And then we went to see the dinosaurs,” Ryan told his mom about his day in daycare at the natural history museum where Marlene worked. Ryan was very talkative even for someone who was almost three which probably had to do with his mom and the museum’s daycare.
Marlene was getting dinner ready for the two of them with some extra in cause Marc decided to show up but something big was going down that he would not tell her about so she highly doubted he would show.
Silently a window opened in the next room behind them.
“It sounds like you certainly had a really exciting day,” Marlene said to a grinning Ryan as she turned to check the stove top for the food.
“Yeah I did Mommy,” He said he then hung his head down for a moment before raising it again to continue, “Is Daddy going to be here tonight he promised.”
Marlene rolled her eyes at Marc for making a promise like that that he couldn’t keep. “Ryan I’m sure he’ll try his hardest but…” She said but was unable to finish. At that moment Bushman charged into the kitchen slamming Marlene’s head into the wall hard before she could even think to react leaving a hole in the wall. She then crumbled to the ground unconscious.
Bushman had made the mistake of underestimating Marlene many times in the past and couldn’t afford to do so this time with the plan he had to get back at Marc. He would have killed her right then and there. It would have been so easy to just rip out her throat with his sharp metal teeth like he had done to her father but he wanted to wait till he had beaten Marc down so he could kill her and his boy he had just found out about in front of him to see that look in his eyes.
“Mommy,” Ryan screamed from his chair to afraid of the scary man to get out of it.
“Shut up kid,” Bushman said as he quickly put some restrains on Marlene and then gestured a knife at him, “Or I’ll give you something to really scream about.” He was totally fine with torturing him before marc could get there he just wasn’t going to kill him yet.
Ryan shut up he could see it in Bushman’s eye that he really should and that he should be scared.
Bushman quickly tied Ryan so he couldn’t escape or anything before going about setting up for when Marc would get there which was soon as he had planned it.
About ten minutes later Marc in full costume crashed through a window of the apartment pissed and enraged did not even began to describe how he was feeling. He found Bushman in the center of the room, Marlene still seeming unconscious tied up in a far corner, and Ryan being held squirming by Bushman with a knife near his throat.
“Let them go Raoul,” Marc said murder in his voice.
“Come now Marc this game is only just beginning,” Bushman said lightheartedly waving the knife around though still keeping the knife close to Ryan. Ryan just looked scared.
“It’s ok Ry I’m going to get you out of this,” Marc called out to him sounding a lot more like a parent. He prayed to everything he had ever believed in even for a moment that that was a lie and that he could take him out for Ice Cream at Gena’s after this was over. But he had no idea how he was going to do that right now nothing he could do would be fast enough to make sure Ryan stayed safe.
It was at that moment he notice Marlene was awake and in the briefest moment of eye contact they both had the same plan of what to do.
“Bushman I’m giving you one more chance let him go now,” Marc yelled at him, ten crescent darts in his hands ready to throw them.
“You still don’t get it do you, I hold all the cards you…” Bushman said waving the knife as he talked until he was cut off when Marlene from the floor swung her legs as Bushman to knock him off balance when the knife was at the farthest it would get away. Marc then threw the Crescent darts at Bushman strategically to make him let go the Knife and Ryan which worked before charging straight at him.
Ryan hit the ground rolling out of the way more by accident than anything into his mother.
Marc and Bushman felling into another room battling it out trying to kill each other like never before. Marc had taken this well at all and he was going to teach him a lesson he would never forget. From there they battled their way out of a window.
Marlene had broken free of her restrains and was busy trying to comfort a very scared Ryan and to stay out of the battling pairs way.
What happened after the fell out the window Ryan could get an answer on when he was little not that anyone really knew but Raoul and Marc. But what Ryan did know was it change his daddy and in a few year he would have to go away to get better for a while.
