Killers Can't Love (A Jeff The Killer Romance)

Chapter Fourteen: The Talk

Tess

I heard two people running up the stairs and towards my room. I had no doubt that one of them was Jeff. Sally must've told Slenderman what happened. It didn't surprise me. She's eight, she doesn't know how to lie yet. I didn't want them to find me like this. Sitting in a bathtub, covered in my own blood, bawling my eyes out. Someone burst through my door. "Tess?" I heard Jeff call. "Tess, where are you? Answer me!" He sounded upset. I didn't say a word. I didn't want him to come in here and see what i had done to myself. My own mother hated me, I didn't need my new family to. Jeff burst through the bathroom door and looked around a bit until his eyes landed on me. I couldn't bring myself to look at him. I didn't want to see the hurt in his eyes. He walked up to me and enveloped me in a hug. "Tess, what were you thinking?" he whispered in my ear, "You had me scared to death." He pulled away and held out his hand. "Let me see your arm." he said. I sat there silently. "Let. Me. See. Your. Arm." When I did nothing, he grabbed my left arm and turned it over. I heard a gasp escape his lips. "BEN, get in here!" he yelled. BEN ran in. "What happened," he asked, "Is she ok?" Jeff looked at him. "Define ok." BEN walked over and looked at my arm, then at me. "What the fuck is wrong with you!?" he yelled at me, "Why the hell would you do this to yourself?" I couldn't take it anymore. I was sick of the yelling, and all the awful things I felt inside. I yanked my arm back from Jeff, got out of the tub, and ignited. "How dare you yell at me! You have no idea what I'm feeling inside! You don't know anything about my problems, or why I did what I did to myself. I have no other escape from my reality! This is the only way I can feel better about myself, to make my physical pain worse than my emotional pain. It gives me relief and assurance to know that this isn't the worst I can feel. I'm so sick of all the crying, and the pain, and the yelling. All I've ever heard my entire life is yelling! I'm so fucking sick of it!" I felt hot tears run down my face and I extinguished, falling to my knees as I did so. I started sobbing again and Jeff was immediately at my side. I felt his arms around me. "Shh," he said, "It's ok, it's ok angel. You're gonna be ok." BEN walked over to me, dropped to his knee, and hugged me. "I'm so sorry, Tess," he said, "I didn't mean to-if I had known-" I wrapped my arms around him. "Shut up, BEN." He laughed. Our group hug disbanded. Jeff picked me up bridal-style and carried me to the living room.

Everyone sat waiting for me. Jeff carried me over to the arm chair, put me down, and took a seat next to EJ on the couch. I didn't look at any one, I was too afraid of what I was going to see. Disappointment, hurt, anger, all of the above. I couldn't live with knowing I had hurt my family. I felt their eyes on me. Slenderman walked over to me and kneeled down so he was closer to my face. He was silent for a minute or two, but soon spoke. "Tess," he said in a calm, relaxing voice, "I don't know why you would feel the need to hurt yourself so seriously, but I assume you have a good reason, and I would like to hear it." I hesitated. I was ashamed of what my mother had said to me, and I was afraid that she was serious when she said it. "It's-it's too hard to talk about." I said. I started crying again. Slenderman used one of his tendons to wipe away my tears and he wrapped his arms around me and held me for a while, as if I was Sally after she had a bad nightmare. "Sweetie, I realize it's hard, but if you don't tell us what's wrong, then we can't fix it." Slenderman stroked my hair. I felt like I was with my dad again, which made me cry even more. I cleared my throat, and told them about the texts my mom had sent me earlier that day. I finally had the courage to look at everyone and see their take on the situation. I saw gaping mouths and concern in their faces. BEN seemed concerned, but not shocked like the others. It was as if he already knew about it. BEN got up and walked over to me. "Tess," he said, "I have to tell you something. While we were waiting for breakfast and you were checking your phone, I noticed how upset you looked. My curiosity got the best of me and I hacked into your phone to see what you were looking at. I saw what your mom sent and I felt bad for you, but if I had known it would lead to all of this, I would have said something sooner. I'm really sorry." I looked at him, then down at my feet. I didn't know what I was feeling. Was it betrayal...or relief. BEN was a good friend. I'm glad that he cared enough to try and help me, but he still had no right to go through my phone. I looked back up at him, smiled, and pulled him into a giant hug. He hugged back for a little while and then pulled away. He smiled at me and went back to the couch. Slendy cleared his throat. "Tess," he said. "I need you to promise me-promise us-that if you ever feel like this again, you'll talk to to someone instead of hurting yourself." I looked at him. He was holding my scarred up arm gently in his hand and looking at me with concern that only I could tell was there. I nodded. "I promise." He "smiled" and gestured for masky to bring the first-aid kit to him. He then proceded to wrap my arm in gauze. When he finished, we all shared a sort of awkward group hug. Jeff took my arm and pulled me out of the room.

Jeff

I was relieved that this was over, but there was this feeling in the pit of my stomach that told me it wasn't. Tess might not be in danger of herself anymore, but Jane's still out there, waiting to take her away from me and do terrible things to my precious angel. I stopped walking when we got to my room. There was something I needed to tell her about myself. I knew she was curious about my past and my family, so I felt it was time I told her...told her about the monster that I was.

_______________________________________________________________________________

Hello my little monsters! So I finally finished chapter 14 WOOHOO!!!! I hope you like it, sorry it was late. There's been a lot going on in my life. Any way I hope you like the chapter and I PROMISE another Jane part will be coming soon. Stay strange!