Lifeless Lucy

## Lifeless Lucy by NightmareQueenKasei

It was March 29, 1997, a fine spring day as a young girl named Lucy Jones sat on the lawn playing with her two friends, Eliza and Judy.

Judy was a young 10 year old girl with long curly red hair, emerald eyes and very fair skin with freckles. She wore a floral red and white dress with red shoes.

Eliza was also a 10 year old girl with short straight black hair in two low ponytails, light brown eyes, and milk chocolate skin. She was wearing blue denim overalls, white shirt and sneakers.

Then, there was Lucy. A 9 year old Caucasian girl with long light blonde hair and big blue ocean eyes. She wore a pink shirt with some white shorts and cute little white flats.

It was about 3pm in the afternoon as Lucy was playing with her jump rope.

"So Lucy!" Eliza started. "Your birthday is coming up, what's your parents planning now?"

Lucy looked over at her and smiled, still playing with her jump rope. "Well my parents aren't taking me far! They wanted to stay here and have a big party at the house!

Judy looked up with a surprised look. "Oh really? That's new!"

Her parents always had a lot of money being the fact that her mother used to be a model and her father was running his own industry. So she always went on semi vacations to have fun on her birthday. Suddenly a 13 year old boy with semi short blonde hair and light brown eyes, wearing a white short sleeve shirt and black pants showed up and pat Lucy's head.

"You're home? Did you have a half day at school?" The boy asked

Lucy looked behind to see her older brother Dilam. "Ah Dilam! You're home! How was school?" Lucy hugged her brother with the biggest smile.
Dilam hugged back and pat her head. "Yeah I'm home. School was normal, like always. But I have something for you."
Dilam then reaches into his backpack and pulls out a white stuffed bunny with blue eyes and a blue ribbon.
"Here is one early birthday gift for you. I have another one that you're going to love, but that one you have to wait for your birthday in a week."

Lucy's eyes widened as she took the bunny with happiness. "Ahhh! I love it Dilam, thank you!!"
As Dilam smiled a lady with semi long light brown hair and blue eyes who was their mother called to him. "Dilam sweetie, welcome home! do you have any homework to do before you start playing?"
Dilam looked over and nodded. "Yes mother. I'm going inside to do it right now." After he said that he went straight inside. Lucy held her early gift close to her, very happily. She stood outside playing with her two friends. As it turned 5pm both girls said bye and went home.

The next day as Lucy was picked up from school by Dilam they made their way home not knowing today was going to change everything for the family, especially Lucy...
As they got home, both of the children went to the dinner table to start on their homework. Their mother then went to them with a fruit bowl consisting of grapes, cut bananas, and apples slices. She then sat down next to Lucy.
"Ok Lucy." She started. "So in an hour Alex is going to come over and take you to go get your party dress. I want you to be on your best behavior alright?" Lucy looked at her mother and nodded. "Alright, good to hear." She then gave Lucy a kiss on her head and walked off, continuing the chore list.
As Lucy worked on her homework Dilam looked over at her. "If Alex starts bossing you around tell me, I'll boss him around for you!"

Lucy let out a giggle and looked at him. "Don't worry Dilam, Alex is a nice person! But if anything happens I'll tell you!" As Lucy said that Dilam smiled.
As time went on a car pulled up in front of the house. Out came a pale man in his early 20's with short auburn hair, brown eyes, wearing a suit. The man, also known as Alex looked over at the house and under his breath he voice said with a irked tone. "God, I hate these kids." Alex then straightened himself and walked up to the house and knocked on the door.
A man with short blonde, swept back hair and light brown eyes opened the door. "Ah, Alex you're here." The man said.

Alex gave a gentle smile. "Hello Mr.Jones. How is your day going so far?"
Mr. Jones sighed. "Stressed from work but nothing that my family can help me through." He said with a smile.
Alex looked at him. "So sorry to hear that sir. Um, I'm here to pick up Lucy and take her to get her dress-" before he could finish the sentence he felt a small hug. As he looked down he saw Lucy. "Good evening Lucy. How's everything?" He said with a smile.

"Hello Alex! Everything is awesome!" Lucy said with her normal energetic voice
Alex kept the smile on his face and picked her up. "That's good to know. You ready to get your dress?" As he asked that Lucy nodded in a quick manner. "Alright let's go then. I'll be right back with her Mr. Jones."
"Alright Alex." He said and kissed Lucy's head. "Behave alright?" Lucy giggled and nodded as she said ok.
As time went on, Alex took her to a few places first to play, and get things to eat. As they were in the car, Lucy looked over at Alex as she yawned. "Alex, you're like an older cousin to me!" She stated.

"Oh really?" He let out a quiet scoff, not amused by what she said.
"Yeah! The best one yet! You're always nice and you help me out a lot!" She smiled brightly.
Alex stood silent and kept on driving to the tailor as the tired little girl looked out the window. As they arrived Lucy got out the car and went inside with Alex for the dress fitting. After a while Lucy came out in a cotton light blue knee length dress with a blue silk ribbon around her waist and in her hair in a semi updo, with blue flats. Lucy stood in front of the mirror as she twirled a bit in her dress. She was very happy but was too tired to jump up and down. Instead the tired child turned to Alex and hugged him.

"This dress is so pretty and I really love it. Don't you agree Alex?" The girl looked up at him. Alex nodded as he looked at his watch. He gritted his teeth after realizing the time. He then picked Lucy up. "Well Lucy we have to go. I need to see someone before I take you home!" He took the dress cover and decided to quickly leave without Lucy changing. He then seated her in the back seat and buckled her in, as he closed the car door Lucy lay her head back and fell asleep.

"God, I can't wait to get rid of you" Alex's face turned into a scowl.
When Lucy had awoken she looked out the window to see Alex driving through some type of woods. She was confused at the site, being the fact she didn't remember ever driving through woods. She then turned her head to Alex who was focusing on the road.
"Alex, where are we going?" Lucy asked but didn't get any response. Lucy kept quiet thinking it was nothing. After 10 minutes she went to ask again and then suddenly the car stopped. Lucy questioned as to why since they were still in the woods. Alex then got out of the car and walked up to someone, talking.

Lucy sadly couldn't make out who the man was. She felt a bad feeling in her stomach and no longer wanted to be there anymore. She wanted to go home. As she looked out the window she spotted a figure of a disembodied child with blood falling down from their face and body just beyond the trees. This frightened her, forcing her to get out of the car and run to Alex. She gripped his suit tightly.
"A-Alex, can we go home, t-there's something over there-" Lucy was cut off by the site of the man in front of her.
She stared at him, he was an oversized man who seemed to be in his late 40's with short messy dark brown hair, brown eyes and a light caramel skin tone. He had a messy goatee and he was wearing a white tank top, with some dark blue jeans and some worn out but still in contact black timberlands. It all made him look like he hasn't washed his clothing in ages.
The man stared at Lucy with displeasure.

"Look at you. Living the life with luxury....." he bent down to Lucy's level. "Well...

I think it's about time you live the life of a slave instead." As he said that Lucy's stomach turned as the man gave an evil grin. She went behind Alex.

"A-Alex can we go? I'm scared." Lucy said as she pulled his sleeve.

Alex pulled his arm away from Lucy and started to talk. "Lucy, this is Christopher Anderson. He is a good friend of mine and he will be taking you away and saving me from your annoyance." Alex started to count the money he was given. It was a lot surprising, being the fact that Christopher didn't even look like the type to have it.

"What d-do you mean...?" Lucy asked. "I don't want to go with him Alex!!" She yelled

"Oh my lord, can you shut your mouth for once!?" Lucy flinched at the slight yell. "I've been forced to listen to you for 2 years with your whining and now I don't have to worry." Alex pushed Lucy off him and started to walk to the car. As Lucy tried to follow, she was grabbed by the arm and dragged the opposite way.

Lucy yelled, kicked and even bit him but his grip tightened. "LET GO OF ME!! HELP!!" She yelled with tears in her eyes.

She was then thrown into the back of a van where she witnessed an awful smell but it wasn't strong, just something that would get her to cover her nose instead of vomiting. When Lucy looked up, seeing the van doors get closed she witnessed 3 children who looked like they were in an accident, standing behind Christopher, staring at Lucy. She then got a big chill down her spine cause I gotta her to be in shock with the looks of the children. She sat there not knowing what to do as the van drove, tears still streaming down her face......
As time went on she could feel the van stopped after it felt like the longest time. She would hear the man grunt after getting out the van and walking to the back. Lucy gently stood up and when he opened the door she attempted to try and run out, only to get grabbed by the color.

"Where do you think you're going??" He pulled on her collar, as she yelled at him to let her go, his face scowled as he lifted up his hand and slapped her across the face. As Lucy fell to the floor crying from the pain of the slap Christopher dragged her from the hair to his small house. There was no road in site or any other house, only trees where Lucy would see little figures as she was forced to go inside the house by Christopher.
As the weekend passed to Tuesday Lucy was treated as a slave. Cleaning the house, washing any dishes and even heating up commercial food for him to eat. The house would get messy every 3 hours, with beer bottles and trash everywhere. Being the fact that Lucy was new to the sudden slavery she would occasionally mess up causing her to get yelled at, hit, and forced to go inside a dark basement for a few hours. The little girl was exhausted not being able to sleep or even eat right. Lucy stood there in a daze but broke out of it when she heard Christopher upset.

"God fucking damn it- there's no more beer!?" He complained.
Lucy gripped the broom, pleading in her head that she wouldn't get hit by him for this. Christopher then put on his coat and went to the door.
"I'll be back, this house better be spotless when I come back!" He yelled as he slammed the door shut with the sound of a lock on the other side.
Luckily Lucy was already done with her chores and decided to look around. She examined a lot of places where she found a book. She looked at it in a questionable manner since there were no other books lying around. She took it and placed it down as she continued to walk and search. She came across a room that always made her want to cry. Christopher always went inside where she could hear him yell for no reason. Lucy turned back and sat on the floor.

She pulled the book close to her and opened it, only to gasp at the site of what she saw. Inside the book were photos of dead children. They were tied down, chest cut open with no organ inside. Somewhere missing arms, legs or all limbs, even their teeth, tongue, and eyes were taken out. Lucy sat back just staring at the book in disbelief.
"A-all the kids....." she mumbled. "I- I need to go back home...." with trembling hands Lucy placed the book back terrified of what will happen to her.
As Thursday came along Christopher was drinking more than usual.
"Hey brat, make me dinner, NOW!" he yelled.
Lucy went to the fridge, took out a commercial dinner and put it inside the oven to cook. As it finished she carefully took it out and looked over on the counter to see a bottle of pills, pills that she always sees Christopher take to go to bed. He had always passed out while taking it.

Lucy reached over and took one pill out. She noticed that she was able to pull the capsules apart to take out the medication that was inside. She put the medicine inside the apple dessert, mixed it in and handed the food to Christopher. As 30 minutes went by Christopher dozed off with an open beer in his hand.
Lucy looked at him as he snored and suddenly heard a small noise. When she looked over she had noticed that the top lock on the door came undone and the door creaked open a bit. Lucy stared at the door and quietly walked over to it. She looked back as she got closer just to make sure Christopher was still asleep.

She started to move a little faster, opening the door, she got excited as she stepped out of the house. She looked where she could go until the noise of the beer bottle hitting the floor woke Christopher up.
"HEY!! HOW DID YOU OPEN THAT??" Lucy turned to see Christopher get off his chair.
At that moment she could feel her legs move on their own, running through the woods without thinking.
She ran and ran, feeling her heart beat faster. She hid behind a tree, trying to catch her breath. Lucy looked around hearing nothing and then at her feet. It was bloody and dirty. She sat there, shaking in fear, she took one deep breath and stood up preparing to run again. She looked up and saw a child-like figure walking. Lucy's eyes widened and she felt the need to follow the figure. She started to run and try following the child, within only 3 minutes Lucy lost the sight of the figure.

She looked around a bit then suddenly tripped over a tree root, causing her to fall forward down a steep hill. As she hit the ground she let out an agony scream. She looked back, cover in dirt, bruises and scratches to see her right leg broken, the bone sticking out with blood oozing out.
She kept sobbing as she looked forward to seeing loads of dead bodies, some fresh, some bones and some still decaying. There, she could see mutilated and dark figures of children. They stared at her, some of them with blood dripping down calling her name, saying "help us". Lucy screamed in fear as she started to try and get away, only to stop at the pain of her broken leg.

"No, please,I don't wanna die! I wanna see mommy and daddy again!!" She cried out as she curled up into a ball.
As she kept mumbling how she didn't want to die while crying in pain she felt the collar of her dress being pulled back. She looked up to see Christopher, angered at what she did. Her eyes widened as her face turned pale.
"I'm sick and tired of your shit." Christopher dragged the crying child back to the house and threw her against the wall. She yelped in pain as she hit the floor, trying to wipe the tears away from her eyes so she could see what she's doing. She suddenly felt her left arm being tugged and when she looked up she saw Christopher holding a small sharp axe.

"NO!" Lucy screeched trying to get her arm loose from Christopher's grip. Christopher slammed down the axe, cutting her forearm off. Lucy screamed in agony as she crawled backwards into the corner. Christopher grabbed the axe and headed towards her.
"Guess what brat, it's already 12:20 am.... isn't April 5 your birthday?" Christopher said in a mocking tone.
"P-please, I'm sorry, I-I'll be a good girl, I'll do as you say!!" Lucy pleaded with tears in her eyes.
".....I'm happy to be the first one to give you your birthday gift." He lifted up the axe into the air and slammed it right into her head, Causing her body to fall to the floor twitching as her eyes turned cold and lifeless.

As the day went by Christopher was cleaning his house.

"Another kid gone, time to call Alex and tell him to find another one."

Christopher sat down and started to eat a bag of chips. He suddenly started to hear noises, ones he had never heard before, small whispers. He got up and searched around to find nothing at all. Suddenly the television turned on. Christopher looked back, questioning how it happened and his eyes widened to see the news.

"We are here at Gillian Street where the police have found one of the people in Lucy Jones kidnapping. After searching the house they have found the location of a man named Christopher Anderson who might be the one who has Lucy." The moment the lady stopped talking the television flew straight towards Christopher. Christopher moved out of the way before it collided with him.

As he fell to the floor and stood there in fear he started to hear the laughter of children. Suddenly he heard the voice of Lucy in his ear.

"Can you hear them laugh?"

Christopher jumped up screaming in fear and backed into the wall. He stared in disbelief of the little girl, blood dripping down her lower leg, her neck and brain exposed head. "W-what the hell is this shit??" Christopher screamed.

Lucy tilted her head slightly as her teeth grew sharp, her eyes disappearing into her sockets, making her face look like it was just a skull.
"You're not going to get away with what you did." Lucy's voice turned raspy as the laughter of children grew louder.

Christopher ran out the house as there were things being thrown at him. He got into his car and started to drive, but not even 3 minutes in his car stopped functioning. He got out of the car and started to run. He could still hear the laughter in his head along with death threats.
He then fell to the floor with a sharp pain in his lower back. As he got up he noticed that a stick had impelled him. Before he could stand up on his feet to continue running the police cars pulled up and the policeman came out. They ordered him to stay on the ground. As they handcuffed him and put him into the back of the car he was able to see all the children just laughing along with Lucy who stood in the front. Christopher closed his eyes shut as the car drove off.

After the car drove off the search party found where Lucy's body was, along with all the other dead children. Lucy's mother walked up to her daughter's dead body. Crying after seeing the state of her daughter. Lucy's spirit stood behind her, emotionless. "We're sorry baby, we're so sorry we couldn't save you in time." She sobbed more as her husband held her close. Lucy gently patted both of their heads as she disappeared.
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A month has passed since that awful day. Christopher was sent into a mental Asylum for hearing voices and giggles everyday. He sat there in a straight jacket, calmly after being sedated. He sat in the corner just humming to himself.
The room suddenly got cold, cold to the point he could see his breath. He sat up, confused until he heard the giggles and laughter. His face turned paled and he started screaming for help.
The guard from the surveillance cameras turned on the PA and told Christopher to settle down and shut up.
Christopher stared at the locked door as he saw Lucy and black figure children enter.
"GET OUT, LEAVE ME ALONE!!" he shouted.

With the same look Lucy tilted her head and started to laugh. The ghost wrapped around him and as he screamed for help his body flew up into the air and slammed him against ever side of the wall, even the ceiling and the floor. Every time he was slammed you could hear a bone crack, Lucy laughter grew more and more demonic. Christopher stood against the wall, coughing out blood, his bones broken and having trouble to catch his breath. Lucy gilded forward, stopping right in front of him.

"S-stop...." Lucy smiled at Christopher as the whole front of his body was teared open and his insides were being forced out. Christopher's breath stopped and he laid on the floor in a pool of his own blood.
Lucy laughed hysterically and said simple words "can you hear them laugh....?"