Darkness Chapter 34: part 2

**Aaron**

Suddenly, the curtains part, and a flood of sunlight streams into the room. I am initially disoriented until I feel the intense heat of the sun on my skin, causing me to recoil towards the cell door in alarm. Are they going to let me burn? The thought is sickening, yet strangely impressive. "Please, don't...please!" I plead.

Tara's voice cuts through the tension, her tone filled with urgency. "Are you going to let him burn? You can't do that!" She makes a move towards the cell, but her brother quickly intervenes, grabbing her and holding her back. Tara turns away, burying her face in his chest, overcome with emotion.

“Nelly. Please. Don't do this.”

Nelly snarls, “You were fine with people being experimented on, and now that you are the lab rat, you suddenly find compassion? Where was it when you allowed Tara to stab me and leave me for dead? Where was your compassion when you used her to get to me? Where was your compassion when you turned people I cared about against me?”

“Nelly, please…” I feel the need to vomit. I don't know if it is from all of the shit they pumped into me or my nerves. I was prepared to die, but now I want to live. I curl up against the cell door, hiding from the sun.

Vincent laughs darkly, “If the sun doesn't kill you, the poison will. I hope you enjoy your short trip to hell.”

Tara begs, “Nelly, you can't let them do this.”

Nelly laughs, “Oh, I can, will, and have done. Sorry not sorry, babes. You guys made your beds when you tried to kill me. Now you can burn in them.” She walks over to where I'm huddled. She leans down near the cell. “So how does it feel to know you are going to die?”

“Fuck you! You bitch!”

She scoffs, “Now I know that I made the right decision to have you killed.” She looks at Vincent. “You were right. Some people are jealous and won't ever change.” She looks at me. “I would never have been yours. I even warned Tara. You are a snake and  I don't fuck snakes.” An evil grin dawns her lips, “And you keep thinking that calling me a bitch will upset me. Well, it doesn't. It is quite the compliment.” She grabs a pole with a sharp edge on it and shoves it into the cell, making me jump into the sun. I feel my entire body burn and can hear it sizzle. I crawl back to the corner away from the sun. I am bleeding from where she poked me. She stands there calmly, and her eyes show her hatred for me.

Tara yells, “Nelly, stop!”

Vincent glares at her, “You want to be next?  I don't give a shit whether you are pregnant or not. You tried to take her from me. Don't think I won't kill you and remove the fetus and implant it in one of our pets.”

I feel lightheaded. My feet are starting to burn as the sun moves to fill the cell. Nelly looks at me, “It sucks to know your death is imminent, doesn't it? I know it does. If Vincent hadn't fed me his blood, I would have felt the pain of death like you, but I did die. My heart stopped. I will never be human again. You and Tara robbed me of that, and now I will rob you of yours. The only person you should blame for being in this position is you.”

I am so pissed. I scream, “Bitch, I would do it again!”

“An ass till the very end. I want you to know before you die…” She pauses to glare at me. “You created me. You did this. I hope you are happy with yourself.” The sun peeks into the room as it fills with sunlight. I scream from the pain, and then everything turns.

**Tara**

I can't believe that they murdered him most horrifically. Nelly was a cold-hearted killer. I knew that, but she was never this cold. She only killed those abominations. “You...you...bítch!”

“Guards take her back to her cell. I have nothing to say to you,” she says. As the guards take me from Brandon, I see a pile of ash on the cell floor where Aaron once was. I will make her pay. I will get her back for this. She will die!