SAW VIII: Chapter 12

SAW VIII


Chapter 12

With a loud bang the door falls back into the lock. Startled Daniel, Brad, Ryan, Adam, and also to Korey turn around to take a look who entered. It is Gordon, which limps  -a little bit charged or nervous- back to his place.
"Larry, what's going on?" Asks the one -and only- girl intimidated. His hands are covered with blood.
No response, at first. For about half a minute. But then he responses, "Tobias' limbs haven't stopped bleeding. The guillotines don't glow enough. They don't burn the artery, so that he still loses a lot of blood. He would've bled to death in the next half hour, if I wouldn't have disconnect the arteries."
"How so?" She is -obviously- confused.
"We haven't considered, the space which lies between the ceiling and the 'target'. It's about five meters. It cools the blades -during this time- again." He explains.
"Oh ... Then I'll clamp off the veins from this game."
"You?" He asks. The tone sounds simultaneously surprised and sarcastic.
"Yes, me. Larry, if Tobias is still conscious, and -even if you're wearing the pig mask- takes a look at you, and survives the games of his mother, he'll tell the police that a man with a pig mask and cane has 'saves' him.", she returns ," Your disability is very striking. Therefore, I'll do that. I have no physical signs of distress. At least not in my Jigsaw clothes. My black wool coat hides the scars ... "
"But not your syncopes. What if you're fainting, suddenly? This is also a very distinctive character, in your hand.", A look in his eyes shows that he knows something that Korey wants to hide.
"What do ya mean?", Her heart starts racing. She gets dizzy again, but does not show it. Fear is spreading in her. Fear, Gordon is suspicious of the accumulation of her so-called seizures.
"You've been in the team showers, right?"
"Why'ld I be so wet?"
"Then tell me, please, from where the bloody ground comes from."
"What?" She is confused, "What bloody ground. There's none."
"There was indeed one. Just in front of the door. You nearly fall into the puddle. Something has fallen to a few tiles, they are shattered and the shards around is a huge pool of blood. But when I had cleaned my hands and prothesisthis this  morning in the shower, there was nothing like that. The ground was completely intact. "
"Then maybe a bucket of pig's blood -or anything like that- had fallen on the floor." Korey's environment is blurred again, blurs into a vortex. And she gets hot and cold, in exchange.
"Yes ... just pig blood isn't that thin." Lawrence scrutinizes her suspiciously with his navy blue eyes. He suspects something.
"What do ya mean?"
"I've never seen a pig which blood is so thin. And the only person I know, which has to take the blood thinner on the advice of her doctor, is you. Don't forget. I AM your doctor."
Ashamed, she averts her gaze.
"They are piling up, right?"
A hesitant nod.
"Why did you say anything?"
"B. .. because I was afraid that I wasn't allowed to continue with you. Larry, these games are the only way I can show the world how beautiful life is. No one takes my opinion seriously in school. They think I am still suffering under my game. ... And besides ... I'm worried about you ... "
"What do you mean? You refer back to the thing with Hoffman?"
"Yes ... John knew you will leave Hoffman without a proper 'chance' in the bathroom, in the case Jill dies. That's the reason, why he had ordered Mika to save him. How do ya think he'ld escape otherwise? Sawed off with one foot! From where did he get the saw? She must have brought it!"
"Why are you so sure that John has asked her, what would have been his argument?"
"Perhaps John said, Hoffman knew anything about her parents. She's an illegitimate child. She could have been told, that he knows something about her mother ..."
"She wouldn't jump on something. Korey, if you weren't there, I had worked with her. She didn't seem to depend on her family. In general, she seemed even calmer than you. John thought pretty highly of her. Although she was sometimes a little angry ... but she always made her work conscientious. No matter what happened. "
Angrily, she jumps up, "Mika is a little bitch, you know, with the knowledge how she has to act like! That's the reason she seems like that, what you think she is! But she's different! I know it best! My apartment's under her surveillance for days,  because she thinks I'll lead her to you! She's just like Hoffman! That's why I'm afraid. ... You -and he- are planning both their games for the other! If you don't stop immediately planning an unfair game, you BOTH will die! "
"I won't die." Gives Gordon back, totally calm, "I know where Hoffman is. He doesn't, however, know my whereabouts. Korey, I see only one problem: If Kathrin wins these games she'll lead the police here. Then they put the whole swimming pool on the head. Therefore, they'll also find a trail of your blood, if you don't stop immediately. This one in the bathroom, I removed it with acid, but it's only a matter of time, until they find one. "
"I'll do so long, until either I die or get caught. I don't stop. And the police won't suspect me, because I am a 'poor, helpless, little, psychologically unstable victim'."
"Mika has contacts to the police. She can lead 'em to you."
"With which pretext? Then she has to admit, that she joined John."
Silence. The doctor does not answer.
"Larry ... Please ... I beg you ... Stop ... We'll find another way ... This isn't a solution ... You two will kill each other ... This isn't you ...", Tears run down her cheeks. She is really worried about her 'father substitute' or 'master', "You are NOT a murderer. Not even when the lives of your family is at stake. You couldn't shoot Adam. You value the lives of everyone."
"This situation is different." He is reloaded. Both he, and she, have forgotten that the other apprentices are still in the room. None of those even dares to move a millimeter.
"So your family isn't worth that much to you as your own life?!? " Korey starts to scream. She is beside herself, "Then I'm not wondering any longer, why Alison has left you with Diana! If you take MORE care on your OWN skin, than for your wife's and child's! You haven't succeeded killing Adam, what John's condition was, but now you want to kill Hoffman?!? " she closes her eyes briefly. Her eyeliner smeared by the tears of rage. She breathes in deeply. Then again, "John has been wrong about you ..."
"How do you know something like that feels? If your loved ones are in danger, you can't save them, but when you come back home, you live together with another partner? And then, after all what you've made for him, he leaves you? You don't know these feelings. You don't even know the word 'love'. You had to kill your father and you never had a friend. John knew it will come to that. He would've wanted you to help me. "
"That I'll help YOU? Then I'm also a murderer!", Denying she shakes her head, "I'm sorry. I can't help you. John thought murderers are distasteful. John was my one and only master." Without leaving another word she leaves the room, followed by a slamming door.