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You didn’t stay there alone for long, as you saw Julie coming back to the attic right after Joey left. She was all apologetically asking if the slap didn’t hurt you or if you’re too scared. And even after that she even started talking with you to hel-
“Hello? You have been looking at me for a while now”
Julie says while leaning on the chair Frank was on before; she took of her hood and let her hair fall down her shoulders so she could be more approachable. (but for some reason the mask stayed on)
“I know hearing about my tomato farm isn’t that exciting, well, it’s not like you have said anything, either way, but its fine”
she gets up and offers you a hand
“I’m gonna show you around our house, you will like it, its quite cosy with all the decorations Joey put around”
“And downstairs we have a TV and some movies that we can watch later. But you will have to put them on, we still haven’t figured out how to use that thing”
She says scratching her eye under the mask, looking at you while letting out a sigh
“look, I’m sorry for earlier, Frank decided some roles we should play around you, and he is an ass when we don’t follow his instructions. He is a weirdo with these things. Even if this is the third time I’m the only one speaking in this conversation, I’m happy being allowed to interact with your without a knife on hand ”
She takes off her mask and gives you a smile, clearly forced but she didn’t appear to be planning anything, so you tried returning the same smile to her
“I was scared you would hate me for earlier, I tried to make it a weak slap but... It’s hard getting used to this super strength stuff”
“Super strength?”
You ask at her, saying it calmly as to not get hit again by her. You trusted her enough to speak again, but not enough to be spontaneous.
She smiles as she finally hears your voice again
“Yeah, we weren’t always super human killing machines, Susie, Joey and I used to be normal students way back. I would say that Frank wasn’t always an ass, but I don’t wanna lie to you. But personality problems aside, we were all normal”
She says looking behind herself as you two heard the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs
“Speak of the devil”
Frank reached the last step and jumped onto the floor, bowing in a exaggerate manner
“and he shall appear!”
He tools a second to look at you, even with his mask on you knew he was undressing you with his eyes, but when Julie faked a cough, he looked at her and tilted his head
“What did I say about taking off the mask in front of our pet?”
“yeah, about that, that was totally ridiculous, and that was even the reason Susie didn’t want to see her when she woke up”
Frank took off his mask as well, showing his wide smile to you and Julie; seeing his face made you flinch, he looked unhinged even when he was talking to a friend of his
“Susie wouldn’t have come either way, and there was a time where you used to love fulfilling my fantasies~”
He growls as he puts his hand on Julie’s hip, coming closer to her and kissing her neck; two actions that you didn’t expect Julie to accept without retaliation after all she said about Frank before
“Are you jealous, princess?”
Frank asks as he and Julie were looking at you; being in deep thought you didn’t realise you were staring at their exchange
“N-no, no I’m good, thank you...”
You quickly deny, but that doesn’t stop him from reading you further
“Oh, no need to thank me; yet...”
He says while coming closer and closer to you, a mischievous grin adorning his lips; but before he can even touch you Julie pulls him back by his shoulder
“the first turn is Susie’s, and she will gut you and me if we don’t let her have it”
“Oooh, I’m so scared~! Is the big bad Susie gonna stab me with her pointy ruler?”
He mimics the motions you remember him doing with his knife on trials before letting out a loud laugh as he went down the stairs to the basement. Even if he mocked Susie, for some reason he didn’t want to cross her
“alright, now that the tour is done, and Frank is done making his little show”
She opens the door to the room behind her, revealing a bathroom.
Differently from the rest of these killer’s house, it didn’t look abandoned at all, it was extremely clean and it even had a fresh smell to it
“Joey cleaned it himself, he said you deserved a shower fit for his queen”
She motioned for you to enter there, a naturally smile forming on her face
“You can use the Tub, it’s all yours”
You go inside the bathroom and tears start forming in your eyes, it has been so long since you had taken a shower, so long you had actually been in a place where the smell of blood and rot wasn’t the only thing you could pick up from the air.
You feel Julie’s hands firmly grab your shoulders as she massages them
“Hey, relax, no need to cry again, it’s okay.”
She said in a low whispery tone before swiping away your tears
“take your time, you deserve it. You’re a survivor, a warrior, and you deserve to leave all that grime behind you”
She says before leaving you alone.
You could barely believe it, but you were actually feeling happy about getting kidnapped by these murderers. Could it be that they aren’t so bad after all? If Julie could act normal, and talk minutes on end about how she likes to plant tomatoes, could they all be redeemed?