The Incubus Of Indiana

ENDING: THE LAST BATTLE

CHAPTER 7: THE LAST BATTLE

As he drove me along this steep trail, all I saw was fog. I was concerned that the poison I hooked up on him hadn't actually kicked in yet since it was immortal, but eventually it should. "Alan, where are you taking me?" I asked timidly. He then replies "I'm taking you with me, to a little thing called death...so you & I can be together, FOREVER." His last word faded into my brain. I started to pant in hyperventilation & started to try & open my car seat door. He grabbed a knife from his jacket & stabbed me in my upper stomach. He then slowly tried to dig the knife upwards. I assumed he was trying to aim for my chest & promised that he would do so a while ago...eat my heart out. I gasped with wide eyes. I thought I wouldn't live. I then coughed up a bit of blood, almost losing all of my strength.

He then whispers into my ear "Well I guess I just won our political battle, give it up Madonna." He says as I close my eyes to shiver & whimper silently, thankfully…

As he grew, his sharp fangs nearly sinking into where he made me bleed, he froze & noticed a drip of black blood running from his mouth as he looked confused, wiping it off with his glove. I then saw him having a coughing fit. He pulled the knife out of me to cover his mouth with his arm. He then quickly opens the car but then looks back at me in confusion. "Cindy, why'd you hurt me? Didn't know you had it in you. I don't wanna go, I wanna stay with you. Please, I'm begging you." I then cried and told him "I'm sorry ….I had to. You or I I won't have to suffer heartache more ...." He then looks at me as he lays his body on me and rests his head on my chest.

Eventually, his eyes start to widen in reaction to the poison & his eyes roll up to the sky as his heart slowly stops beating in silence. It worked. I was finally free. I looked at him with revengeful & emotionless eyes as I saw his whole body turn to black dust which blended into the mist. My head then turned in front of me as I sobbed a bit, I started to light my cigarette & get out of his car.

Even though I limped walking back, gasping for air & holding my bleeding stomach. I heard a hiss from the side of my eye, it was, of course…Timmy, one sneaky beetle. With the help of my little Thomas the cat, he scratched his eyes out violently in order to protect the likes of me. The beetle was also gone with those red gleaming eyeballs hanging out of his bloody socket, just like his papa. I smirked with a crooked smile, picking him up. Looks like he'd be the only living male I would trust from then on. I then heard police sirens as they saw I was wounded. I, of course, had to lie & just say I got into an accident & was approached by a violent hitchhiker. They believed me enough, and hooked me to those tubes & escorted me to the emergency. They also placed Thomas in a cage with a bit of cat food.

It was weeks later when my friend Brenda came to visit me. I told her "I did it...I won the deal with Alan. He's gone now for good." She then cried in happiness, hugging me "The bravery you always had, really shocked me, Cindy. I can see it when you are so independent. Hey, the lawyer wants to talk to you."

...That's when, to my own shock, I woke up but in the same hospital. I was confused but still saw the same bruises & stab wounds on my stomach as well as that tattoo Alan gave me, as well as my head still shaved into his submission. The nurse explained everything to me as well as Brenda. When Brendaa held that same book she brought for me sometime ago & looked over the book, it said that an entity such as the incubi cannot step foot physically into this world but found out that he had trapped me into a parallel world similar to my hometown using this book as a portal tool which is actually what happened so that he could make me feel him, & feel such pain n' torture. Also, because any new encounters that weren't dead had then existed here, Brenda told my cat Thomas was safe & sound at home. I thought all of this was strange & was quite a plot twist, but the most beautiful thing that my heart told me was that...it was over, that he couldn't hurt me any more. Even though that's the case, he can still watch me...even while I sleep.

I then said "I guess I have to go to another court case." We both chuckled. She then explained how she found out who the cat really was and why it tried to help me all of this time. Brenda had asked Thomas to point to the high school prom picture of me and my ex-partner if the guy next to me was actually him. The cat. This pointed to the picture that said a lot.

Normal cats don’t usually do such things. I should’ve known all along that my childhood lover’s soul went into that homeless stray cat. I no longer felt alone after hearing that. Thomas, as a human, had a strange appeal but not like Alan. Thomas was just the typical goth kid in school. He had dark eyeliner, dark long spiky hair, was a German immigrant and a bit shy but long, was always mature and father-like and could’ve been a good father figure. He always told me how much he wanted kids with me. He still looked like that even as an adult, which made me attracted to him anyway, but he sadly passed away after he caught a fatal fever. I noticed the cat always seemed to hang by that same creek by the hospital. One thing I learned from all of this is that he still loved me after all these years.

Thomas's human body until that day, was never to be seen again. I moved out and took another home in a small town in Indiana, since my hometown was turned into a ghost town and had been demolished. I’ve seen so many precious things, so many bad things too. I now live alone in peace, often sitting by the fireplace with no one but my little Thomas. I am certain that even though Alan can no longer show himself physically, he still watches me until this day, whispering in my ear at night, looking outside my windows but then fades away whenever I catch him staring at me. Good thing I haven’t invited him inside my new house and never will. I’ve also witnessed that he’s also been lurking at other women within the hoosier state nearby me, called Indiana…more like eerie Indiana. One thing I learned from this whole mess,

NEVER EVER ALLOW SOMEONE LIKE THAT INTO YOUR HOUSE OR HE’LL WANT YOU FOR ETERNITY AND IF NOT GET HIS WAY, HE’D STILL WATCH YOU…FOREVER.