"Cat?"
I turned and saw Jon laying on the floor, his eyes open, his hand held out to me.
"Jon? But I thought…"
He moved slowly, opening up his shirt to show the safety vest he wore. "I knew it would be dangerous. I came prepared. It's over now, Cat. It's over. We can be together."
He sat up and reached for me, and I crawled toward him. "Oh Jon, there's so much I wish I could tell you."
"We'll have our whole lives for that," he said, a smile on his face.
"Jon, I know the truth. About everything."
His smile faltered. "The truth?"
I nodded. "I know you were there that night. With Cavin. I know you participated. I was young. I thought there was only one man there, but there were two."
He fell back, fear in his eyes. "Cat, he made me go. I didn't want to, but he made me, said I had to become a real man if I ever wanted to be a member of Alpha Pi Omega."
"You raped and helped murder my mother."
He shook his head. "Cat, please, it's over now. Let's just forget it and move on."
"You killed my father."
"Cat, they would have ruined everything."
"You destroyed her life even when she tried to help you." I held the gun up to his face. "I knew the whole time, Jon, I just needed to make sure. But I knew, and so did my mother. She knew you were a psychopath. She found the dead animals you tortured and buried. She studied you and saw the signs. Much of her research had been destroyed, but not the page where she named you. She knew what you were capable of and she was going to stop you, but you stopped her first. And now, I'm going to stop you. You were always a part of my plan."
"No, Cat! I love you."
"And I love Ash."
I pulled the trigger and watched him die.
"Goodbye, Jon."
***
The papers continued to burn. Words my mother had written that had spelled the end of her life.
Jon Davenport exhibits all the tendencies of a highly functioning and very dangerous psychopath. It is my belief that he is being groomed to take over, to become the monster the group needs to continue killing anyone who gets in their way. If something happens to me, look to him first. He won't stop until he is dead.
None of them will.
THE END