All tagged Grace
At my helpless shouts for help, Justin comes running out of the house.
“Oh my god!” he stops in the pathway leading up to Bonny’s Revenge as soon as he sees Joy and the kids looking at weapons in the weapons cabinet. “Joy! No weapons! No one touch the weapons!”
Angela comes out running.
“Justin, what’s–Holy shit! Dad, Mom, there’s a huge ship parked outside your house!”
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Joy’s face grows red a bit. Her games, the ones famously confiscated during the lava god adventure, are not, uh, for kids. Suddenly, her face lights up. “I have a pirate ship!”
“No you don’t!” Tommy says immediately.
“Yuh-huh, she does!” Charlie helps.
“Wanna see?”
“You don’t!”
“Want to see my pirate ship, Grace?” Joy asks her.
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Justin opens the door. Joy hides behind Charlie.
Suzy looks at Walt. “It doesn’t matter. We haven’t seen her in months, so you better be excited to see her!”
Angela is in the doorway, holding 4-year-old Grace in her hands.
Suzy’s right. It doesn’t matter what happened or who Ethan is. I haven’t seen my daughter in months. In my mind, she’s still a teenager. What a woman she’d become!
“What’s up, fart-face?” Angela asks Justin.
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“I don’t want to do it!” Joy crosses her arms.
Once we’ve all gotten over the shock of who Ethan is, Justin suggests we try meeting his sister and her two sons. Again. He wouldn’t be able to summon Ethan again, because Joy made sure to turn him permanent before killing him. But at this point no one wants to see him anyway.
“It’s not up to you,” Justin tells her. “She’s my sister. She’s your aunt. She’s family. You’re going to meet Angela. And you’re going to meet your two nephews, because they’re super cute.”
“I won’t do it! I’ll kill them!”
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“Ethan can’t be evil,” Suzy says. “You got that wrong.”
“I looked into his eyes,” Joy says. “I looked into his eyes when he tried to kill me once. Then twice. And I looked into his eyes when he killed Charlie’s dad.” Charlie looks down with sadness in his eyes. “He was happy to kill. He wanted to kill everyone in his dream!”
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“What the fuck is going on!” Angela demands from Justin.
“Angela, Angela, calm down,” I tell her.
“Dad, shut up!” Angela shouts at me. “Justin, your daughter stabbed Ethan! He turned to dust like a vampire! You high fived her! Justin!”
Justin is thinking. So much has happened.
“Your husband is a killer!” Joy shouts at Angela. Joy doesn’t need time to think. “I killed him like he deserved!”
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I am so staggered by the fact that Joy, my granddaughter, just stabbed my son-in-law in the heart that I can hardly think.
Tommy is screaming. Grace is crying. Angela keeps whispering, “Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit.” And I can’t see any of the rest, since my eyes are blurry.
“Joy-what-Joy-what-Joy-what–” Justin is saying.
I try to look at Joy with the long kitchen knife, the murder weapon, as she stands there in the door to our home, framed in that door.
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“This is exciting!” Suzy says, as excited as I’ve seen her since we met Joy six months ago. “I’m so excited! Walt, aren’t you excited?”
We’re all standing in the living room in Suzy’s and my home: Suzy, me, Joy, Justin, and Charlie. Master Mind is waiting outside on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge, docked just a few meters away.
“Very excited.”
“Right,” Justin claps his hands once. “We’re going to do this the way we do it in the real…I mean, in the waking world.”
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