Carrie 10

Chapter 10

It was about 4:30 in the morning. And two sinister shadows could be seen scaling the side of the hospital building. They were on their way to Sue Snell's room on the 10th floor. Finally, after several minutes of almost noiseless climbing they reached the window.

"Really nice of the window cleaners to leave these cables here for us to use," he snickered

"Oh, stopped cackling," hissed his friend, "We've got a job to do!"

Using a glass cutter, he cut a hole in the window big enough from him to reach through an unlock it. Sliding the window open, they climbed inside and sneered at the form lying under the covers in the bed.

"This is the easiest hundred grand we ever made," sneered the Cackler from earlier. He pulled out his silenced pistol and aimed it at the prone figure. As he squeezed the trigger they were suddenly lifted off the ground and thrown against the wall.

The prone figure sat up revealing herself to be Carrie lying in Sue's bed. Her eyes were dilated. The door opened and Jace stood silhouetted in the light from the hallway.

"Remember us," said Carrie threateningly. The two would-be Assassins went wide-eyed. They aimed their guns at Carrie but the guns twisted sideways sharply. There was a sickening crack as the bones in their trigger fingers snapped.

The two men cried out in pain and tried to flee, but just as they jumped up the glass topped table in the over by the chairs in the room shattered long thin glass shards shot across the room the room and pinned impaled the Assassins shoulders and pinned them to the wall!

As the men groaned and grunted in pain. Their guns floated up in front of their faces and rounds chambered.

"Now," said Jace walking toward them, "We can charge both of you with another count of attempted Murder and conspiracy to commit murder, and don't try that we don't know who hired us jazz because we won't by it a second time!"

"What do you want," said the first man through gritted teeth and the pain he was in.

"What I want is for you guys to be smart," said Jace, "With the charges we have against you, you're looking at 20 years, maybe more. However, if you turn states evidence against Avano maybe the judge will go easier on you."

"Think it over," said Carrie cocking her head to make herself look crazier

"All right, all right," they said, "Almost in unison, we'll do it!"

The glass shards pulled out of the wall and the men dropped to the ground. Then Jace called the cops in, and they took the two would-be killers away, first to the doctor then to jail.

Carrie climbed out of the bed and they walked down the hall to the room they had moved Sue to an hour earlier.

"How'd it gone," said Sue she, with the help of her mom had cleaned herself up and even styled her hair into its usual pony tail, "well," she pressed, "did it go alright I heard trouble!"

"Nothing we couldn't handle," said Carrie with a grin

"Yeah," said Jace, "Gulf shore Boys are finished! Now we go after Avano!"

Jace looked and Sue and then at Carrie. He smiled as an idea began to form in his mind.

"Carrie," he said, "Can you copy Sue's hairstyle?"

"I think so," she said, "Why?"

"Because I'm going to make a Mask from a mold of Sue's face," he said, "By the meeting tonight Avano is going to think that Sue's dead and that he's home free. We're going to make him think that Sue has come back from the dead to get him!

Carrie began to grin wickedly.

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Avano was in rare form at his meeting that night. He was feeling like the cock of the walk sure that he was free of any threat of exposure now that Sue Snell was dead. Just as he was in the middle of a flashy Illusion the doors of the Auditorium began to rattle. Everyone looked around wondering what was happening! Suddenly the doors were thrown open and what appeared to be an undead, Pale as a ghost Sue Snell came walking slowly into the room. Her blouse was torn and bloody

"I have come back from the nether world to get you Avano," said the 'undead' girl, in an Eerie voice, "You have angered the spirit world with your fraud and they won't let me cross the river Styx without you!"

The normally cocky Avano was now shaking, pale and terrified!

"No, No," he said, trying to run, "You're Dead I had them kill you!" he looked and his henchmen, "Get her stop her!" the men pulled out guns and started shooting. Avano's followers scattered to the corners of the room. The bullets were vaporizing before the they reached her. Courtesy of Jace who had climbed in the skylight and was hiding in the shadows of the rafters. The chairs, tables, and other things in the room began to fly around and knock into the guards until they were all out of action.

"You can't kill me, Avano," she said, "I'm already dead!" Avano's remain two guards were blown backwards.

Avano ran for the doors to the auditorium. He pushed and banged on them but he couldn't get them opened. His followers slowly began to forget their fear of the apparent undead girl in their midst and wonder about the cowardly reaction of their once fearless leader.

Avano was pulled backwards to land in the middle of the room.

"If you want a chance to save your soul before it's too late Avano, speak the truth," She said

"W-What T-truth?" stammered the terrified con artist.

"Don't Play Games!" she thundered, Avano's throne shattered and the jagged fragments began slamming into the floor making a trail that was edging closer to him "You're a fraud! You're a Con Artist! And you're a would-be Murderer!"

Each sentence was emphasized by a shard of the throne jamming into the floor coming closer and closer. Suddenly the shards that were made of wood burst into flames!

"I'm a Fraud, I'm and Fraud, and everything else," he whimpered Covering his head, "I couldn't let you tell anyone about the dossiers that I had on all my followers. I couldn't let them find out that I was milking them out of their money until I got everything I could from them! And I had try and get rid of those private eyes but the gulf shore boys failed!"

Suddenly everything stopped.

"Steve, did you get all that?!" said another voice that belonged to Jace

"Loud and Clear." Came the reply. The doors opened and the cops came in and arrested the still whimpering Avano. As they were cuffing him. Carrie reached up and pulled off the latex mask she was wearing.

"What?!" screeched Avano, "she's one of those private detectives!"

"You're not the only the only one who can Con people," said Carrie

"I guess it's true what they say," said Jace, hopping down from the rafters, "the easiest person to con is a con artist."

"Well he won't be Conning anyone for a long time where he's going," snapped Steve.

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An hour later Jace and Carrie Sat in Jace's office as they dictated their first report together.

The Snell Case has been Resolved in the Very best way possible, Sue Snell was found alive. In another 24 hours she'll be out of the hospital and back with her family and daughter. Carrie White my brand-new partner is now a god mother! And Avano his cronies and what's left of the Gulf shore boys are going away for a long, long, time for the Con game and the attempted Murders of Sue, Carrie and Myself.

Jace finished the report and took his headset off. He and Carrie walked out on the penthouse balcony. It was a beautiful evening with a full moon in the sky. Carrie was Silent for several seconds before she spoke.

"Jace," she said, "I've made a decision."

"and that is?" asked Jace

"I've decided on a vow. I vow that I am going to help someone for every innocent person who died at the black prom, I can't undo what happened their but maybe in doing this I can in someway atone for the innocent lives I ended that night!"

Carrie looked up at Jace a little apprehensively,

"Will you help me?" she asked in a small voice.

Jace smiled, lifted her delicate hand in his and kissed the back of it lightly.

"I'll be with you every step of the way!" he replied

The Moon that night looked down on two embracing figures. One a telekinetic private eye who had found the perfect partner and the other, a girl with a painful past who had found her path to Atonement.

The End

For now….

Well there it is. the grand finale of my story, thanks to everyone for the reviews and the follows and favs.

Should I write a sequel? Let me know.