The Descent Chapter 14: Thy Will Be Done Part 2

Full Novel Synopsis: Sequel to 'The Spiralling', itself a sequel to the Kick-Ass (2010) movie. However, this novel can be read on its own. After Big Daddy died, Mindy was driven mad, subdued by Dave, and locked away in an Institute after killing all who she deemed responsible but Dave. Will she recover? What will happen next to a New York without her nor the Motherfucker? Elements of the Kick-Ass 2 (2013) movie and comic series will be taken in.

The Descent

Chapter 14: Thy Will Be Done Part 2

28 June 2011, Tuesday

Dr Paul came to visit me again. He asked a lot of questions. I had to lie to him a few times. I didn’t know if I should tell him about Demoness – he asked if I’ve been seeing anyone who was a ‘bad influence’ – but I feel that I shouldn’t. Demoness was helping me to find out the truth about everything, about why I can’t remember anything except for what Dave and Dad were telling me, about my name. Then there were the nightmares and dreams I had. I couldn’t tell Dr Paul about everything. He gave me a lollipop before he left.

Dave said yesterday that he’d take me to the movies today. But just now, he said he couldn’t. He said he needed to help in the ‘Good Samaritan Hotline’ place again. When I asked about that place, he said that it was where depressed people would call in for help. I want to be a good sister to him, to understand what he needs to do. But at the same time, I can’t help but to… suspect him after everything Demoness told me.

I planned to follow him tomorrow, but I did it today instead.

…

Dave told me what time he was leaving. I lied again that I was going to Pete’s place. I left the house a little earlier than Dave. I followed Demoness’ plan. I went the same way I followed Dave over the last time and it took me some time to get there. When I did I didn’t know where to hide when I got there. I saw the alleys alongside the road, but they were smelly! I did it anyway. I hid in the alley and pinched my nose, but I could still almost smell it through my mouth.

I was there for ten minutes. The smell was HORRIBLE, and I couldn’t help but to feel that I wasn’t alone, as if Demoness was looking at me in the alley. I could hear all kinds of movement and sounds in the alley. I thought I could hear rats. Then Dave went by. I was happy to get out of the alley, so I got on my bicycle quickly and cycled out of the alley to follow Dave.

I pedalled harder and faster. I was sweating through my dress. I didn’t want to lose him again. I needed to find out the truth, about what everything Dave had been telling me. Inside, I was praying to God that everything he said was the truth, that I was just being a silly little girl, so life could just go back to normal…

There was a moment when he turned around a corner, and I thought I would lose him because I was getting so tired, but when I turned a corner, he’d finally stopped at this huge, old building. I had to stop suddenly, and I fell off my bicycle. It hurts so much, but I ran behind a corner to hide. Before this, I didn’t think that I could hide so fast. It was like Hide and Seek, but a lot scarier. What would Dave think when he saw that I was following him? What would Daddy do if he found out that I was lying to him and going out like this?

When I was hiding in a corner, I saw that I was bleeding from my knee. I wanted to give up, but I knew I couldn’t. Dave was so important to me – even if he was lying to me, I knew that I would forgive him. I just needed to know the truth, to get him back. What if Dave was in trouble? What if, like me, he was forced to come to the old building by bullies? Dave said that the city was a dangerous place. And what if he was lying to me? He’d broken his promise before, and it hurts inside, more than my knee. How much would it hurt this time if he was lying to me?

I waited for him to get into the building before I followed him. I no longer knew what I was doing – it was all new to me, yet… it felt familiar in a way. When I got into the building, I saw him enter an elevator, and it was then that I lost him. I went up to the elevator doors, unsure of what to do. Which was when my phone rang, and I saw that I had a message – only Pete, Dave and Dad ever messages me, but this time, it wasn’t them.

‘Look up, girlie.’ The message said. I knew who it was even when the phone number was new. I looked up, and I saw a number above the elevator. It was the floor the elevator was on. It was the floor Dave was going to, and it stopped on the top floor. I took the other elevator, and when I was inside, another message was sent to me. ‘Stop on the floor below him, go up the stairs and don’t let him see you.’

I did as Demoness told me. I was tired, but I didn’t want Dave to see me. When I could see the floor Dave was on, I saw him going into an apartment. I wanted to go into the apartment, but I remembered that the door would have been locked.

Then I remembered something else. Fumbling around in my pocket, I took out the Hello Kitty hairclip I pulled apart because of Demoness. ‘You know how to pick a lock, right?’ Demoness asked yesterday. After I was done crying yesterday night, I had time to check the dictionary what ‘picking a lock’ meant. It was to open a lock using anything else other than a key. But I had no idea how to do that! I didn’t even know what it meant yesterday!

At first, I wanted to just give it a try, but Demoness sent another message, ‘Wait for him to leave first before you try anything, girlie. Wait for the elevator bell.’ And so I waited, and waited, and waited…

Meanwhile…

It was finally special operations day – the day I had been waiting for. The Colonel’d called up all founding members to meet on the field. If only he didn’t do it at the last minute – but I’m sure he had his reasons, and I’m sure it had something to do with me telling him about mafia plants and double-agents. The timing was horrible, though, as I promised Mindy that I would take her to the cinema to watch Cars 2. I could only be thankful that she’d never watched the original.

I went through the usual routines. All of them were unavoidable. I sat down on Mindy’s desk, looked at their badass family photo. Big Daddy in his dark modern armour while Mindy in her purple outfit as Hit-Girl. She had her twin pistols – no chance of that anymore, now that Dr Paul had made sure she was even more girly than a normal girl, too afraid of even a subconscious thought of violence to even hold it without shaking. Still, I couldn’t hold anything against him, no matter how much I wanted to sometimes. I opened Big Daddy and Hit-Girl’s lockers, took out Hit-Girl’s stuff, wondering at the what-ifs. I’d long given up on locking them after I was done. It wasn’t as if Big Daddy or Hit-Girl would ever come back and give me a good talking down to, no matter how much I dreamed or fantasied that it would happen.

It was only after then that I went into the storeroom to get changed into my Kick-Ass gear, all the while wondering if I should even continue down this line after looking at Big Daddy and Hit-Girl’s costumes again, costumes that hadn’t been worn for a year. It was the same every time. A habit of self-destruction that I couldn’t help, along the lines of smoking and drinking and opium smoking. In the end, I would still be in my Kick-Ass costume, going out there as Kick-Ass.

After taking a good look through the pinhole at the front door, I switched off the lights and took my leave, making sure that I lock the door behind me.

…

At first, I was beginning to disbelieve Demoness’ advice. If Dave was in the Good Samaritan Hotline place, I knew that he would be in there for hours. So if Dave was not lying, I would have to wait for hours at the stairs. Looking at my Spongebob watch again, I saw that 20 minutes had passed.

I was no longer as tired, but I could still hear my heart beating. I was afraid of finding out the truth – if Dave was lying, I knew the pain would hurt so much, and if Dave was telling the truth… I wouldn’t forgive myself for all the lies I had told to follow Dave, for succumbing to Demoness, for even doubting Dave, who had taken care of me all along, even when I was hard to take care of.

I thought about walking away, to just go home. But I knew I couldn’t, because I needed to know the truth. So I sat there, and cried. I didn’t want to – I knew the words even the girls in my class would use to call me: crybaby, crybaby. But I was so scared of what comes next. It was either Dave would betray me, or I would betray Dave.

Then my phone kept ringing. Looking at it, I saw messages popping up one after the next, fast. ‘STOP CRYING GIRLIE’, ‘DON’T BE A LITTLE GIRL’, ‘OR HE WILL FIND YOU’, ‘SHUT IT FOR YOUR DADDY’, I could see as the messages kept popping up one after the next. I had to silence the phone to stop the noise – the noise was hurting my ears. It was then that the apartment door opened, and I clapped a hand over my mouth. I was still sniffling and crying, and I was trying to stop. I went a flight of steps lower to hide better. I waited for the elevator bell.

When Dave came my way, his steps were heavier, slower. The elevator bell came after that. Going back up the stairs again, I came to the same door Dave was at. While I was still sniffling, I had to ‘pick a lock’. Fumbling around with my ruined Hello Kitty hairclip, I inserted it into the keyhole and pulled it out – maybe it works like a key? I tried the knob after that. It didn’t work. I twisted it around, trying to get it right, putting it into whatever shape that came into mind. I tried it again, inserting it like a key, but the knob was still stuck.

Fishing – the word came into my mind. I didn’t know how to take it, but I tried moving the hairclip around in the keyhole. There were things inside. Things to push. Play the piano, child – more words coming into my head. I started pushing them. I forgot that I was ever crying. I tried the knob again, but it wouldn’t budge. Feel them and push them, baby doll, you can do it – the words continued saying. Time flew as I kept trying. I was mesmerized by it.

I pushed the cylinders inside for another round before pulling my Hello Kitty hairclip out. I was sweating but I wiped them away. I tried the knob again. This time, the door opened. Good job. That’s my little miss sunshine.