Chapter XIV - Family Annihilator
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YMOR’S MANSION - FOLEY’S BEDROOM - NIGHT
Foley watched through his window, his mother and his brothers treating ever so badly the one person he grew to love over the years, as his father stood there helplessly and let them get away with it. In his head, he is raging a storm, a storm that has been brewing for a while now. A storm that could only be tamed with exact vengeance.
YMOR’S MANSION - YMOR’S BEDROOM - THE TWINS BEDROOM - NIGHT
Family annihilator
Foley goes to the kitchen, picks up a kitchen knife, and slowly makes his way into the twins’ bedroom. Foley stands over them in bed while he awaits for them to open their eyes. Finkster finally opens his eyes.
The look on his face is marred with horror and pure shock, as Foley cuts his throat, the gasps wake up Freckster to meet a very similar fate with 13 jabs at his stomach.
Foley silently walks over to his parents’ bedroom; he watches his father sound asleep and his mother with such a disgusted look on his face.
He moves over to his mother’s side of the bed and whispers twisted words in her ears. She frantically opens her eyes as Foley slashes her throat, stabs her in the stomach over a dozen times. He proceeds to cut out her tongue and her eyeballs.
His father wakes up in pure shock and panic as he attempts to stop Foley. He is too late. Foley feels like he is possessed when he uses that same knife on his father over and over, dicing and slicing until Ymor finally gives in to death.
YMOR’S MANSION - YMOR’S BEDROOM - NIGHT
Foley calls his grandma to tell her how much he loves her and how sorry he is that his family was so cruel to her.
FOLEY
“Hey grandma, how are you?”
ELLIS
“Hey kiddo, I am so sorry I did not have a chance to wish you a happy birthday.”
FOLEY
“It’s okay grand-ma. I know you would have loved to wish me a happy birthday. I saw that you came.”
ELLIS
“Oh, you saw.”
FOLEY
“Yeah, I saw it, and I am so sorry I did not do anything at the time.”
ELLIS
“It’s okay. Some people are born evil and some are pushed to evil doings.”
FOLEY
“I know what you mean, grandma.”
ELLIS
“Well, it’s kinda late Fofo, what are you still doing?”
FOLEY
“I could not sleep. I tried. I forced my eyes to stay close but they wouldn’t.”
ELLIS
“So you thought about calling me your favorite person in the whole wide world.”
FOLEY
“Yes, grand-ma. You got it!”
ELLIS
“What about Eloise?”
FOLEY
“What about her?”
ELLIS
“Well, she is your favorite person as well, isn’t she?”
FOLEY
“Yeah she is, but she can’t understand me the way you do and my mother would not approve of her.”
ELLIS
“Kiddo, you just turned eighteen, you are a grown up now. When you go to college, you can date Eloise. You can do whatever you like while you are at it.”
FOLEY
“I do not think I will ever be able to live that dream.”
ELLIS
“Don’t be so down, Fofo. Everything will be alright.”
FOLEY
“No grandma, it won’t.”
ELLIS
“Why do you sound so sure?”
FOLEY
“Because I did it.”
ELLIS
“What? What did you do?”
FOLEY (Sobbing)
“I changed my destiny. I changed the curse. I did at 18 years old, not 30 or 31.”
ELLIS
“What did you do, Fofo? What is it?”
FOLEY
“It cannot be undone.”
ELLIS
“What exactly?”
FOLEY
“I just wanted you to know that I love you grandma. I loved daddy too, but he never stood up for what he believed in.”
ELLIS
“What have you done, Fofo?”
FOLEY
“I silenced them. They will never make fun of me again.”
ELLIS
“What do you mean? I am coming over.”
FOLEY
“Bring the police with you.”
YMOR’S MANSION - YARD - NIGHT
The police are barricading the mansion, ambulances are in a row waiting to be loaded up with the Neptenu cadavers and Foley is seated in the back of a cop car, silent, resolved, and ready to be put away.
JEAN-THOBY’S ASYLUM - FOLEY’S ROOM - NIGHT
Foley remembers the night he ended four lives, the night the inevitable became inescapable. He had had enough, that day was not foretold as the others were. He reacted out of pure hatred for his family. He remembers what his grandma had been writing to him throughout his years in the asylum and also remembers the words of Eloise in her letters that he loved so deeply.
Foley is reminiscing on everything good and bad that happened to him throughout his thirty years of existence. He remembers his father, how good he was to him yet could never fully defend him against his hateful twins and mother. It is thirteen minutes till midnight, thirteen minutes till his thirty-first birthday and he cannot go to sleep, he has to finish this diary. He has to finish this journal of his thirty years of existence.
FINK’S MANSION - FINK’S BEDROOM - NIGHT
Ymoryo traveled to Philadelphia so he could be away from his family on his thirtieth birthday, but for reasons he cannot or anyone can explain, he found his way back to Albany, Georgia in his father’s bedroom as if he was summoned.
FINK
“Ymoryo, I know what you are here to do, just do it and get it over with.”
YMORYO
“I am not myself; I have no recollection of how I made it to Albany, let alone your bedroom.”
FINK
“Son, I knew that day was coming. I was never going to fight it.”
YMORYO
“Why not?”
FINK
“Son, if it’s destiny, it’s destiny, it has to happen. If I deter it from its passage, I could mess up things for a whole lot of people.”
YMORYO
“What do you mean? Why do I feel right now that you are my worst enemy?”
FINK
“I was told this day would come. I am ready, Ymoryo.”
YMORYO
“Dad, aren’t you going to stop me?”
FINK
“Why should I?”
YMORYO
“Let’s call it survival instinct.”
FINK
“Son, look around you.”
YMORYO
“What do you mean?”
FINK
“Just take a look around you, Ymoryo.”
YMORYO
“Oh my God!”
FINK
“Yes, now you see, I watched you killing my sons and my wife.”
YMORYO (Sobbing)
“Oh my God, I feel so sick to my stomach. Why didn’t you stop me dad?”
FINK
“As a matter of fact, I did try, but you stabbed me too.”
YMORYO
“I do not remember any of this.”
FINK
“You won’t remember because you were not yourself.”
YMORYO
“You want me to finish you off but I cannot do it because it was not me killing anyone in the first place.”
FINK
“Part of you was there.”
YMORYO
“How could that be if I cannot even remember how I even got to your room, dad?”
FINK
“Just finish me off.”
YMORYO
“I am sorry, dad, but I cannot do that.”
FINK
“I cannot live on without Ymora.”
YMORYO
“Dad, I cannot kill you.”
FINK
“Son, I did all of this for your mother. I will not be able to live with myself, to go on without her.”
YMORYO
“I understand, dad, but I was not myself when I killed her.”
FINK
“I know my son, but I cannot do it myself. You cut my arms. I am bleeding profusely, but it hurts so much, son. I want the pain to go away now. I cannot wait it out, I cannot wait death out. I want to be with my Ymora now.”
YMORYO
“Okay dad, I will do it, but only because I don’t want to see you suffering any longer.”
FINK
“I know deep inside, you are not a killer, Ymoryo. I am so sorry to inflict such a burden on you.”
YMORYO
“The things we do for love.”
FINK
“You GOT it son, the things we do for love.”
YMORYO
“Okay dad, I want to give you a hug first.”
FINK
“That’s fine with me, you need one.”
YMORYO
“I don’t think I will be able to leave without you and leave with the memories of this night.”
FINK
“Son, the things life puts on our doorsteps. We just have to deal with them.”
YMORYO
“Then, I will deal with this one right now.”
FINK
“What do you mean?”
YMORYO
“I mean, dad, I am going to end this with myself.”
FINK
“You cannot end it with you.”
YMORYO
“Why not?”
FINK
“For as long as there are Neptenus, this curse will still be in effect.”
YMORYO
“I cannot kill anyone; I cannot kill my children and my wife. I love them so much.”
FINK
“You love them too much to end the curse? You love them too much to let them live with this curse?”
YMORYO
“I guess dad, you had the means to end me as well, but you never did so.”
FINK
“I love you so much son.”
YMORYO
“Same here, dad. I love my children and my wife too much to end their lives before it had even started.”
FINK
“So, you understand, their curse will go on forever until there are no more Neptenus that can reproduce.”
YMORYO
“I understand dad. But it is not my place to end them. I cannot play God. You said it yourself; I have to let the curse run its course. See you on the other side, dad.”
FINK
“See you on the other side, son.”
YMORYO
“Using the kitchen knife he already had in hand, he pierced his dad through his heart as he turned the knife onto himself and stabbed himself through the heart. They both hugged, dying in each other’s arms.”
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