Man,Woman and Child. 
13th July,1980 : It was way past midnight,but the premises of St.John Trauma center at Charlotte Bay Island seemed anything but quiet.Within a matter of minutes, three ambulances had arrived in rapid succession,breaking the silence of the usually calm and serene island,in the dead of the night. The downpour had been relentless for over three days,now,and there was no signs of it stopping anytime soon.The ominous clouds over the little island, made its presence felt, every now and then, with the subdued rumbling,as if threatening to submerge the whole island in its fury.
Indeed,the gloom had seeped into every face,living on the island,in varied shades of gray. There was something creepy about this monsoon.Never had the island witnessed the fury of the rain like this before.The meteorological department of the island was working overtime,and often through the night, guiding the travelers ,stuck on their way in or out of the island. The only roadway connecting the island with the mainland was being battered by the storm for days, and storm warnings were given out, almost every single day,making it hard for the travelers to reach the safety of the mainland.And yet, those who would dare to brave the storm, would come to the island everyday,often ending up in the only hospital on the island.Many would be injured in freak accidents on the road leading to the island. Landslides were a common occurrence in this part of the country during the rainy season,making it only worse for the travelers,often injuring them grievously.
That night too,the unfortunate had happened. The downpour had caused a large section of a tunnel on the way,leading to the island, to cave in.News of the landslide spread across the island in no time, as the travelers stuck on the road called the Charlotte Bay emergency department. The rescue team from the mainland could only reach in an hour, as the island was inaccessible from the other side.After hours of search and rescue operation, a remains of a vehicle,what seemed like a stationwagon surfaced from under the rubble.Fearing the worst, the rescue team made a frantic search for survivors in the vehicle. Luckily enough, the only two passengers traveling in the van, were alive,though seriously injured. To make matters worse, one of the passengers, a pregnant woman, had sustained injuries on the head and stomach,and lay unconscious.The man driving the car was still in his senses,but seriously hurt. It seemed,the vehicle had rammed into a rocks inside the tunnel,before it caved in.The bonnet of the vehicle was badly crushed,and all that remained was a heap of crippled metallic junk.
It took three hours more for the tunnel to be cleared of the debris and normal passage to the island to be restored.By that time, the ambulances from the St,John Trauma Center had arrived at the scene of the accident. They rushed the injured to the hospital in a hurry,battling through the heavy downpour.
The Hospital:
The St.John Trauma center was a scene of utter chaos that night. As the ambulances reached the premises, the stretchers were drawn out and the injured taken to the emergency ward in a hurry. The man seemed to have been in a shock,and though not unconscious, he could hardly speak. The woman,on the other hand, was unconscious and lay in the emergency ward.The doctors were more concerned about the injury that the unborn may have sustained in the accident. A series of routine checkups confirmed their fear.Panic gripped the faces of the doctors as an emergency operation was called for. The internal bleeding, as a result of the injuries sustained during the accident had led to life endangering complications, and the 8 month old fetus had to be removed to save the woman.There were no chances of the baby surviving, as a severe blow to the stomach had caused a life threatening injury to its skull.
The man,who seemed to be her husband was not in a condition to make a decision and hence, the doctors had to take the decision on their own. Saving a life was of prime concern, and hence they decided to operate and save the woman.
That night, while the doctors were battling to save the woman, piercing through the dead of the night came the sound of another ambulance and, as ominous as it sounded, the doctors stared at each other’s faces,fearing a long drawn night and more work. Seemed,the killer roads leading to the island had claimed another victim. Word spread through the hospital of another accident that had taken place that night,not too far away from the earlier one.A large truck had turned over,and lay there, dangling in air,halfway into the valley on one side of the road..There were no survivors,this time. But what was bizarre, was,after the cranes lifted the large vehicle, what emerged from below the vehicle,sent a shiver down their spines.A woman lay there,buried under the truck.She was almost crushed to death. No one had a clue, how she ended up there,on a cold and stormy night.The roadway which was infamous for the freak accidents that used to take place on it,almost every day,was never a place to wander around in the dead of the night.It was suicide according to most of the island inhabitants.
When the woman was brought to the hospital,she was declared dead. Her eyes had popped out if its sockets as if she had witnessed something ghastly seconds before her demise. Whether it was a bizarre coincidence or something unexplainable, this woman was bearing a child like the earlier one.The doctors were almost certain that the child couldn’t have survived, and hence,the body was taken for post mortem analysis. While the doctors were reviewing the survivors and casualties of the night, they heard the shrill cry of a junior doctor from the post-mortem ward,as she came running out in a state of shock.
“Doctor, you wont believe what I just saw..”said she,her heart pounding..
“Get a grip on yourself,and tell us,what happened?”said the chief surgeon.
“The child…it is not dead. I was checking the readings, and all of a sudden,heard the beeps on the monitor. I was shocked,so I did an ultrasonography test, and I coudnt believe what I saw.The child was alive and making movements. But minutes before that, there was no movement at all. I have never seen anything like this before.”
“Are you out of your minds?Thats impossible!!”said the doctor.
“Believe me,Sir! Please come and see for yourself!”
The doctors rushed to the postmortem ward,where they were shocked to witness what they saw.Indeed the readings on the monitor proved her right.The child was alive.
“Quick,get the operation theater ready” said the chief surgeon.
It was a bizarre night for the doctors.They had never experienced anything like this in their whole career. Operating on a dead mother to save an living baby! The window period for saving the child was running out and they knew, they had to operate on her soon, if they had any chances of saving the child. There was no identity on the body of the woman.Nothing to help the doctors know, who she was.The look on her face was of absolute horror. Since the mother was not alive, the doctors did not waste any time in operating on her and saving the baby. It was a girl. A premature born,baby girl. She was still not out of danger,and the doctors had to move her to a ventilator to keep her alive.
That night,in two separate wards, two lives had perished.A mother and a child. And two lives had survived.A mother and a child.
Dylan and Anna Smith
Anna Smith was 8 months pregnant,and Dylan had always been a very caring and loving husband. Working at the ATC on the mainland airport, he had been saving since his wife broke out the news of her pregnancy to him. Anna,for some reasons wasn’t fond of the life on the mainland.She always longed to live among the woods, in a calm and serene surrounding. Charlotte Bay Island was always her favorite destination,during the vacations. Anna never got used to the life on the mainland.But her husband’s job forced her to linger on with the city life. But slowly her discomfort had started to show in her countenance. She had become a recluse. It was hard for Dylan to see his wife this way,especially when the baby was due. It could affect the child.
Even though Dylan was always around with her,Anna was lonely. She loved her husband a lot.But she was desperately looking forward to having a baby. She felt,the baby could distract her from this uneasiness she felt in this claustrophobic city. But,of late, Dylan had noticed a strange behavioral change on part of his wife. Often he would hear her speaking to someone,even when she was alone. She would murmur in her sleep,in the dead of the night.Often she would keep telling him,that Emma was asking,how Dad is. Dylan would laugh it off,and tell her..”Emma,Dad is just fine! I love you,dear!!” But,inside, he knew,this obsession with the child was slowly driving his wife insane. He had to act fast,before matters got any worse.
Even though travelling from Charlotte Bay Island to the mainland for work meant, Dylan had to spend 2 hours on the road commuting, he was ready to sacrifice the proximity of his current residence from the airport. Anna meant a lot to him, and watching her happy was all he cared for.
It was May,that year, when Dylan booked a nice and cozy little cottage in the Charlotte Bay Island,and wished to surprise her on her birthday,that happened to be 14th of July. He kept it a secret, while he would sneak out to the island,on weekends,to prepare the house for his wife’s arrival.
Time flew by so fast and it was already July. Dylan told Anna that he would want to spend her birthday with her,at her favorite destination. Anna’s face beamed with joy at the thought of the island. The local weather reports on the television were abuzz with storm warnings for the coming month,especially concerning travelling to the island.But all that didn’t seem to bother her at all.She just wanted to get away from the city.Even if for a day. On the morning of 13th,she was busy preparing for her journey.The joy on her face was unmistakable.She had waited for this day all through the year.
Anna’s obsession with her baby was another reason why Dylan didn’t want to take any chances. Even though he was worried about the weather warnings, he knew, how much Anna longed to be there.
She never knew,the island would change her life forever.
14th July : The Hospital
Dylan felt a sharp and crushing pain around his jaw. A metal rod had pierced through the side of his neck. He kept staring at the ceiling for sometime,trying to figure out,where he was.Why this place seemed so unfamiliar. And then,like a story unfolding part by part, the horror of the night before played in front of his eyes.
The first thing that came to his mind was,his wife.Anna.
Where was she? Why don’t I see her around? Is she alright? Is she alive? OH GOD! IS MY WIFE ALIVE??
He gathered all the strength he could and cried out,”Help! Is anybody there? Somebody!”
The doctors came rushing to his ward, and tried to sooth him.
“Calm down,Mr.Smith! You are in a hospital.Everything is fine.”
“Doctor, where is my wife? Where is Anna? Is she alive? Oh please..”
“Mr.Smith,calm down,please. She is fine.She is alright. Don’t you worry. She is taking rest. I would suggest you to please calm down. Everything will be alright.”
One of the doctors gave him a mild sedative,and he slipped into deep slumber.
That evening, when Dylan woke up, the senior doctor,who talked to him earlier,was sitting by his bed side.As calm and composed he seemed, Dylan was in a better state of mind too.The doctor sensed the change in his behavior and greeted him.
“Good evening,Mr.Smith! Feeling better? “
“You could say so,doctor. Please don’t bother about me. Just tell me, how is my wife?”
“Oh! She is fine and out of danger,now.Dont worry, she will be alright in a matter of days.”
“Doctor,what about our…..baby? “
There was a brief silence, as the doctor looked for words to break the sad news to him.
Finally,he said, ”Mr.Smith,you have been through a lot in the last 24 hours. I know its hard,but sometimes,things are just not in our hands.”
“Please,if you don’t mind, will you come to the point?”
“Mr.Smith,I am sorry,we couldn’t save the baby.”
It struck Dylan like a thunderbolt. He was unable to say a word.The horror of what he had just heard was carved across his face.
The doctor continued,”The condition in which your wife was brought here, we had to operate on her immediately to save her life.There was a ten percent chance of saving the baby.But it could’ve risked the life of your wife. So we had to make a decision,and make it fast.Time was running out. You should be happy, your wife is alive.”
“Oh,I am! Doctor, thank you so much. I wish I could see her.”said Dylan.
“Not now.Let her take rest.Any kind of trauma now could prove to be dangerous for her.”
“Doctor, you don’t know what the baby meant to my wife.If she comes to know about it, she will not survive.”
“I can understand,Mr.Smith.But…”
“Doctor,I don’t know what to do.I brought her here. Its all because of me.She was so happy.Now I have ruined it all.I have ruined her life.She will never forgive me.Neither will God.”said Dylan.
“Please,calm down.”
“Doctor,will we be able to have a baby again?”
The doctor sighed and then after a long gap said,”I am sorry,Mr.Smith. Your wife will not be able to conceive again.”
“Oh God…why me? Why my baby? WHY? “
“Please,I request you to calm down,Mr.Smith.”
The ventilator :
Just as the doctor was about to leave,Dylan held his hand, and asked him,if he could do something.If he could give them their baby back. The doctor thought that Dylan was going insane, so he asked the nurse to give him an intravenous sedative again. But Dylan kept holding onto him relentlessly.
“Please doctor, give us our baby back,please!”
The doctor freed himself from his clutches,and left in a haste. While he was walking by the corridor, his eyes fell on the baby in the ventilator,in the adjacent ward. He felt pity for the motherless child.And strangely enough, no one had come to enquire for the woman.On a small island like this, where every single person knows the other inhabitants, it was indeed,strange! No one knew who she was.Where she came from.Who was the father of the child.
That was when in happened to the doctor.He rushed back to the ward where Dylan was admitted.
“Mr.Smith, I know this may sound inappropriate, but I have something for you.”
And then he told him everything about the baby girl, and what happened to her mother.
“By rule, we send such babies to the adoption center,if no one comes to claim them.Since no one has turned up till now to claim the body of the mother, we might send the baby to the adoption cell. But then, I was thinking,if having a baby means so much to your wife, why not…..”
“I get the point, doctor. Oh!I cant tell you, how big a favor you have done to me. Yes, to see her happy, I will go to any extent. I will fill up all the formalities.We will adopt the child.”
“Okay,Mr.smith.I am glad you will give the girl a home.”
“Just one more thing.You have to promise me, this secret will stay between us. That you will take it to your grave. I don’t want my wife to know that we lost our child.God has given me a second chance.I will not let it slip away.”said Dylan,lying in his bed.
After thinking for a brief period,the doctor replied,”Alright,Mr.Smith.You have my word. Oh!And welcome to Charlotte Bay island.Hope to see you often, now that you plan to stay here.”
Emma : 
Anna was out of danger within a few days.And Dylan was right by her side in the hospital. The first thing that Anna asked,after regaining consciousness was,where is Emma?
“Relax,sweetheart.Emma is just fine.She is sleeping.You should see her,she looks like an angel.”said Dylan
“I want to see her.Please bring my Emma to me.”said Anna, with tears in her eyes.
Dylan knew that he had lied to Anna.There was something about the little girl that seemed to unsettle him everytime he looked at her. The first time she had opened her eyes, Dylan felt a chill down his spine. For a baby, her cold piercing gaze was something Dylan had never ever witnessed in his life. Those dark eyes,the darkest of all eyes he had ever seen, seemed to be riveted on his eyes,everytime he would look at her, and it would make him quiver. There was something dark and ominous about her eyes.The eyes of the evil.But Dylan would shrug off any such notions, a minute later as a mere figment of his imagination.
The time came when Anna was discharged from the hospital and Dylan gave her the surprise which he had planned to give on that fateful night. Anna couldn’t be happier.This was the life she had dreamed for always.
The cottage was a beautiful wooden house,surrounded by the pine trees,with the view of the valley,and the sea stretching beyond it. It had a living room and a bedroom in the lower floor,for Dylan and Anna,and a room for Emma on the upper floor.It was neatly styled by Anna for her beloved daughter,with toys all around.But for some reason, Emma would shriek and cry even entering the room upstairs,so Anna would always make Emma sleep with her.
Something that would annoy Dylan.
Time passed by and for Anna,however, there was nothing strange about Emma.She loved her with all her motherly heart,and Emma seemed to be always around her. But there was something about Dylan that she didn’t like. She would keep staring at Dylan if he got any close to Anna. And it would unsettle Dylan. Initially, she would make her objections be felt by her outbursts,but as the years passed by and she grew older, her outbursts became more violent. Dylan, was accommodative for a few years,initially, but slowly,her strange behaviour and her obvious dislike for him, being close to her mother,had made him an embittered man. And since he knew all about the little girl, he was never able to love her like his own daughter. Even though he wanted to, her strange,possessive behavior for her mother was something he couldn’t tolerate.
Emma was different.Different from the other kids of her age.She would make her presence felt by loud and shrill cries,whenever she was in need of something.But most of the time, she would stay quiet and in her own world. She hadn’t spoken a word,even after she had turned 4. Dylan was getting impatient with the child. But Anna couldn’t bear Dylan shout at Emma. Because of the child, the love between the two had started to diminish. Anna couldn’t tolerate Dylan humiliating the girl for her obvious lack of intelligence,and Dylan couldn’t tolerate Anna protecting Emma,even when she was at fault over something. The little girl just wouldn’t tolerate her Dad getting any close to her Mom.Dylan tried a few times to pacify Anna and make her understand, but everytime, the little girl would keep lurking around,looking ominously at her father,as if she wanted to kill him. Her cold dead eyes would haunt him in the night,even in his sleep.
Dylan had become a morose, cynical man,as time passed by.Nothing had seemed to go right since that fateful night they landed on this island. Dylan had to cover a lot of distance to reach the airport,and often he would get late. He hardly had time to spend with Anna,and when he would be at home, Anna would be busy with Emma all the time.And watching her dad in a bad mood,seemed to give the little girl some kind of strange satisfaction.It was noticeable in her wicked smile,and that would only make her dad get mad.
Dylan knew something was amiss with the girl.By her 5th birthday, they decided to admit her to a school,thinking that the atmosphere of the school may change her.But no school on the island would admit the girl. She, according to them,exhibited very very poor learning skills,and didn’t have even had the basic sense of knowledge that the other kids of her age did.All the time, she would keep staring the teacher with her cold,unsettling gaze. Most of the psychiatrist living on the island had suggested to get her admitted to a special institution meant for kids of her type,on the mainland. There was something wrong with the girl,they would say,but no one could answer satisfactorily,what was wrong. Physically she seemed to be alright, and they never found a reason,why she never spoke.
The 8th Birthday.
It was her 8th birthday, and still Emma had not spoken a word.And to make matters worse, she had started to suffer from convulsions, and would at times, sound like she was possessed by demonic spirits.Many a times, in the dead of the night,Dylan would wake up,hearing the haunted moanings of Emma,from the floor above. And she hardly sounded like a little girl,then.It was the moaning of an old,dying woman,writhing in pain.The sound would send a chill down his spine and he wouldn’t dare to go anywhere near the attic.
Dylan had started to believe that the girl was possessed. So he would keep her locked in the attic most of the times,against the wishes of Anna. He was convinced that the girl was the reason for all the ill luck coming their way.
Life was hardly a bliss in this small creepy island.He seemed isolated and lonely even when he was with Anna. That was when Dylan started working long hours in the Airport, trying to get some solace,and away from the evil influence that had taken over the little heaven he had created for his wife and his child. But what was living with them in their house was hardly a child.It was evil.
Often at night,he would hear scratching sounds coming from the attic above where he kept her.And what followed was a ghoulish cry,and loud bangs on the door. Even her appearance had transformed.Her long tresses,unkept would dangle over her face, and only her eyes,those piercing eyes would be visible through the thick mesh of black hair.Her gait hardly seemed like that of a human being.
Emma never seemed to sleep.She kept awake all night,mouning painfully,scratching the door,walking across the room,and her foot steps sounded ominous.
One night,Dylan woke up to the sound of the loud thuds on the door of the attic.He had locked it well.After sometime, the loud noises stopped and there was silence all around.Deafening silence, creepier than the noise coming earlier. And then,slowly, the door of his room slid open.Against the wall by the window,he saw a shadow crawl into the room…he could hardly see her, but her shadow was distinct against the wall.She was walking like a dead corpse, slowly towards him.Dylan,for the first time, was afraid for his life.This wasn’t human.She couldn’t have come out of the attic.How did she get out? She was right there,standing in front of the mirror,her hair all over her face shrouded in darkness,and before Dylan could blink his eyes, she was right by the side of his bed.Crawling up,her teeth shattering like she was dead.Through the dim light coming through the window, Dylan could see her ghoulish eyes.The sockets were empty.Her eyes were hollow.She was possessed. Before Dylan could move any further, she grabbed him by his throat.Dylan tried to free himself from her grip,but it was too strong, too overpowering for him, and her fingers seemed to pierce into his throat.
The next moment, Dylan woke up,sweating profusely.Was it a dream? Was he himself going insane over this little girl? Anna was fast asleep by his side. He kissed her,and tried hard to sleep.But he couldn’t,for the rest of the night.The thought of the shadow crawling by his bed side, didn’t let him close his eyes. That morning, when he woke up,he walked up to the mirror, in the bath.Tired as he was,after a freakish night,he looked at himself through blurry eyes.The next moment, his sleep had vanished from his eyes,and his face grew pale like every single drop of blood was drained from his body. There he was standing in front of the mirror,rubbing his eyes, but what he saw,was real. There were finger marks on his neck.Distinct finger marks of a little girl.The next moment, he almost fell,as he saw in the mirror, Emma standing behind him in the bath. Her face covered with her hair. When he regained his posture,he turned around to see,no one was there.
“Am I going insane?”
“That little devil is not going to kill me.I will kill her.”
Emma had started to haunt Dylan almost everywhere in the house. He would open the closet to take out his clothes, and in there, from among the clothes, suddenly he would feel her hands gripping his,crushing his bones. Her eyes glowing through the darkness of the closet.
Going to work,he would many a times see her ghouslish eyes,in the back seat,through the rear view mirror.And when he would turn around, there would be no one. One night, while returning back,his car suffered a flat tyre. When he opened the trunk to take out the tyre,there she was,lying like a corpse in the dickey,pale dead,her eyes popping out of her sockets,her mouth wide open,and her hair all over her face.Dylan was in a state of shock.He left the car and ran as fast as he could, much to the astonishment of the passersby.
She was having a bad influence on his psych.And yet, he didn’t know if it was all real,or a figment of his imagination.
Dylan was unsure how to deal with this curse that had taken over his once happy and peaceful married life. He wanted to run away, leaving the evil far behind,but his wife would threaten to kill herself, if he ever though of taking her daughter away from her.To keep her from haunting him, Dylan started keeping Emma in shackles in the attic,so that she could not crawl down in the dead of the night.
Anna,watching this ill treatment feted out to her daughter by her husband had started to remain depressed and physically ill,most of the time. Anna was dying.She had turned into an insomniac, and was living on pills to survive. And Dylan knew that. But there was no way out of the island.As if the curse of the island had trapped them forever.Anna wouldn’t want to leave the island ever.And Dylan knew, it was all because of the little girl.
The last straw:
One night, while working at the ATC,Dylan was busy guiding a plane hovering above the airport,to land,when he received a call over the intercom.Thinking of the call from a senior official,he picked up, and that was when he froze in his place..It was Emma’s distinct voice.
“Daddy,you will die.”
And the phone disconnected. Dylan coudnt believe what he had just heard.Was it Emma?
She never spoke a word.How did she say that? And how did she get to the intercom? She was at the airport? Did she get into my car? She couldn’t. I had locked her in the attic.A thousand questions were running through his mind,and occupied in the questions, he had completely forgotten about the job at hand.
He got hold of the phone again and called Anna.
“Where is she ? “
“She is where you left her to die,why?” said Anna.
“How the hell did she call me then? Don’t lie to me,Anna.Dont you two play games with me.”
“What are you talking about?She is in the attic, tied to those chains,you sick man.”
And then the phone disconnected.Leaving Dylan is a fit of fury. That was when he realized his mistake.He had forgotten about the plane completely.When he went back to his desk,the little triangle on the screen had gone missing. Fear gripped Dylan as he checked the radar display again.But there was nothing.
“Where did it vanish?”
“F***..where the hell did it vanish?”
Dylan was now shouting at the top of his voice. The storm had battered the island for days, and now,headed towards the mainland. If something had happened to the cargo plane,it would mean the end of his career.
There was no trace of the plane.It was a cold dead night and he was alone at the ATC.And every minute,Emma’s voice kept haunting him…”Daddy,you will die..”
That was when he received the call from the airport officials.The plane had indeed gone missing over the sea.Fearing the worst,Dylan took off in a hurry,for his home.He knew, he was in grave trouble.It was the end of his career.
He drove as fast as he could, in a rage of fury.He wanted to kill the little devil. Reaching home, he slammed open the door,and the house was dark.Anna was nowhere to be found,and there was no sign of Emma in the room either.The whole house was engulfed in pitch darkness.Dylan’s rage had vanished completely,and it was replaced by a sudden sense of panic.Something seemed terribly wrong with the place.He was worried for his wife.That was when he heard the scratching noise in the attic.It was followed by the familiar ghoulish moan,that had always sent a shiver down his spine.Gathering all courage,he headed straight upstairs, wanting to take out the girl,once and for all.
He opened the lock and entered the room in pitch darkness. There was no sign of Emma in the room. Through the faint light coming through the chimney, he could see the silhouette of the bed.Her ghostly apparition was not on the bed.Fear gripped Dylan,as he was unsure, where she would be.He went to the bath,and she was not there either.Then he heard the familiar and grim sound of the teeth shattering. She was somewhere in the roo,but Dylan couldn’t see her.As he looked towards the window,through the corner of his eye,he saw her silhouette on top of the closet.How did she get up there? And then he saw,what drained the last drop of life from his veins…Emma was crawling up the wall,to the ceiling,her teeth shattering ominously.Before he could run for his life, Emma was right behind him,upside down,dangling from the ceiling,her long hair falling towards the ground, and for the first time in years, Dylan saw her ghastly face.Her eye were empty,and dark,as if her eyeballs had popped out of its sockets,and all that remained was hollowness...her mouth wide open,as she crawled upside down towards him. Before she could get hold of Dylan, he ran towards the door in a flash,and locked it from outside.
It was the last straw.There was no doubt left that the girl was undead and possessed. He ran towards the closet in his room and got hold of the gun he always kept with him,after the night she took an attempt on his life. Today,he came close to dying,and he knew, this curse had to be ended,or it would haunt him forever.
Gathering every single ounce of courage,he shot up to the attic with the gun in his hand.As he opened the door, there in the bed,sat Emma with Anna lying in the bed like a dead corpse.
Baffled by what was going on, Dylan screamed at Anna.
“Get away from that devil,Anna. I am going to kill her.”
But Anna didnt move. A chill went down his spine.Did she kill Anna?
“ANNA.DONT YOU HEAR ME? Just get away from her.She is dead.”
Anna didnt reply.Emma looked at Anna and gave an evil smile. Completely taken aback by what was happening in front of his eyes,Dylan ran towards Anna,got hold of her by her hands and tried to pull her towards him. As he got to her,Emma grabbed him throat,and looking at him through those ghoulish eyes,she said in a creepy voice, “Daddy,you will die.”
Then Dylan had the shock of his life.Anna looked pale,like dead,as she lay in the bed.Her eyes were wide open as if she had seen something ghastly.She looked like the little evil sitting by her side. Emma flicked him and threw him across the room.Dylan hit against a wall and fell to the ground.Completely in shock over what had just happened in front of his eyes, he felt himself losing his self.
"What did you do to her,you sick b****!!What the hell did you do to her?"
That was when he saw Anna raise herself from the bed, as if she was possessed by the evil sitting beside her.Anna crawled down the bed.Her face was ghastly.As he tried to get a grip over himself,he saw the two undead souls crawling towards him,their eyes turning dark and hollow.Dylan was convinced,Anna was dead.It wasnt her.It couldnt be.Anna would never hurt her husband.But there she was,crawling towards him, death had replaced her once beautiful eyes.Dylan couldnt believe his eyes,when he saw,her mouth was hollow and dark,as she got closer.She was crawling like an undead corpse.
Gathering every single drop of courage left in him, he took the gun out of his pocket and fired at both of them. Emma and Anna lay still,in a pool of blood.Like black ink spread across the floor in the darkness of the night.
Dylan,watching Anna not moving,realized what he did.He grabbed her,close to his heart,her face was just as sweet,as beautiful as it always was.But it was pale.
“Anna..Anna,say something.You are not dead.Anna please,say something. Oh please,Anna.Forgive me.I didn’t want to kill you,my love. Oh,please come back,my sweetheart. We will leave this place,forever,Anna.Please say something..!!PLEASE SAY SOMETHING..”
And he burst into tears,holding her close to his heart. Dylan kept sitting there for sometime.Trying to recall,what all happened. He desperately wanted to wake up.
“Is this a dream?Oh please God,tell me this is a dream.Please wake me up.”
“I cannot live without her.Please give me my Anna back.”
But there was no movement.Anna was dead cold. Realizing what he had done,
Dylan got up on his feet,holding Anna in his arms.He went downstairs, and lay her in the bed, beside him. Darkness engulfed him all around.He couldn’t imagine his life without Anna.
Taking out a paper,he wrote his last words…
“I killed my wife and my girl. I am responsible for their death. But I cant take this life anymore.I cant live without my Anna.So I am going with her.
-Dylan”
Dylan kissed Anna for the last time, and closing his eyes, pointed the gun to his forehead. The sound of the shot,echoed through the dead of the night,across the whole island.
The investigation:The bizarre incident of the Charlotte Bay Island.
Two days later, the Smith Cottage was covered in a cobweb of yellow strips all across the house. A few cops stood guard to avoid the reporters from breaching the scene of the crime.It was a bizarre incident,happening for the first time in the history of the calm and serene little island. When the investigation team finally came out of the cottage, they were carrying the gun that Dylan used to shoot the three rounds.
The sheriff was surrounded by the reporters as soon as he surfaces from among the crowd.
“Sir, how many casualties? “
“ 1 Male,Caucasian named, Dylan Smith.”replied the sheriff.
“We were told by the neighbours that a total of 3 gunshots were heard? “asked another reporter.
“Yes, but the remaining two went in the attic.But there were no casualties.”
“Sir, but the suicide note left by Dylan Smith mentions him killing his wife and his daughter.Arent their bodies recovered from the scene of the crime?”
“We have searched the entire area, and done our investigation.According to the neighbours,
Dylan Smith lived alone.
They never saw his wife or his daughter. On an island where everyone knows everyone else, it would not be possible that no one ever saw his wife and daughter if they actually existed.”
“So you mean to say, Dylan Smith was suffering from hallucinations?”
“Maybe,but we cannot confirm the details right now,until the investigations are complete.Thanks,gentlemen.”
Smith cottage: That night,at the dinner table:
“I miss Daddy,mom.”
“I miss him too,honey. I miss him since that night he killed us both,in that tunnel.It was 13th July,1980.”
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-Ryan
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Man,Woman and Child ( Winner of Horror Story Contest ) 
Re: Man,Woman and Child. 
story..PR!!!! 
need to reread
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), Medpal Saar and Honeybee.
