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Click here"I don't know," he told her honestly. It was a question that had haunted him since the details of the Merchant massacre, the FBI's name for it, came out.
The FBI's interest had been focused on a body count of Merchant victims when the first non-family body had been found. The death of an FBI agent and a Senator's oldest daughter at the hands of the Merchants had also made its way to the public realm.
The FBI Director had insisted the investigation of the Merchant family deaths had to take a backseat to identifying as many of their victims as possible. The Senator had made a statement that families around the country had a right to know if this was the hole that had taken their children. Individual FBI agents when cornered had admitted that the Merchants had been professionally executed. As a group, they believed someone had followed a missing family member to the Merchants; the best way to find that person was to identify the victims, they explained to the media.
"How many people did they kill?" she asked leaning down and taking a flower from the well-cared gravesite. The women in town had told her they did it as a tribute to their savior. She was as sure that they did not mean Catherine's brother, as she was that hers had been the only ears that would ever hear them say it. Their words had been unnecessary; her father had told her his version of the Merchant massacre.
"We've identified 55 remains," he told her.
"Only fifty-five?" she asked surprised. He thought about lying, but she had seen enough truth in the death of her older sister.
"Those are the ones we're almost sure we'll have names for eventually," he whispered. "Families with missing members around the country are taking DNA tests."
She nodded and looked at the grave.
"I'd like to meet him," she told her father with strength in her voice.
"That's not a good idea," he said to her but could not make it more than a suggestion. The Senator had read all the reports and had no interest in seeing his daughter and someone who could kill like that in the same room.
She turned her face towards Conception and listened for something out of her days of terror. She turned her back to the town and looked at her father.
"I'd rather be afraid of him."
- COMMENTS
Anonymousover 6 years agoThe author explained everything pretty clearly.
Jason found the most efficient way to kill a family of killers and cannibals.
1) First kill was silent to be unexpected and to cause misdirection. Kills him west, and come to town from east to make sure he's found by the 3rd.
2) Second kill the deputy was bait used to lure the 3rd to the cafe.
3) Third was crucial he beat the shit out of him to show the townspeople fear.
4) Killing the third man in the cell was also misdirection, and to lure the 4th the kid.
5) Fourth kill to finish all the killers in town and to send a message to their family.
6) Shoots the most dangerous one in the knee to and captures the other two.
7) The Last 3 were killed brutally starvation, ravens, fire. Because they probably are the ones that killed and ate Catherine Stewart's face why she got to watch them die slowly.
IronDragonabout 11 years agoIf you've ever read "Nick Carter: Agent of AXE" from Jove Publishing, that's who Jason Stewart seems to be. A cold-blooded killer with a thing for the ladies. Outstanding story. :)
CatHeathover 12 years agoLoved this story. It left me breathless in the way that the best action movies do. Too horrifying to be a sexual story in the obvious ways but very, very compelling.
cowboy109over 13 years agoExpertly crafted paragraphs that were gripping and painted a beautiful attitude Wild West like. I loved the phrases about the razor, bullet exit hole larger than the entrance, and many more.
For half of the story, I expected that the town was haunted by some kind of supernatural monster that either preyed on the town or demanded sacrifice. The mood was so dark and the hero so over the top that it suggested that.
The Merchant family didn't seem near menacing enough for the whole setup, because we did not learn about their tales, except for the one mention of the chewed on head and the nondescript number 55.
The willingness of the women came over very natural. Well done! It seemed like throwing themselves at strangers is just what they do in that little town.
andrewlondonover 13 years agoIt only became clear what was happening at about the end of page two, and from then on it was a well-executed story of some kind of man-distillate. The writing was pleasantly flat and gritty, slightly cynical, although watch out for unclear phrasing like (from memory) "they had the satisfaction of being the pleasure of the only thing they feared", which I had to read three times to grok. Some little throw-away details, like his mental note that he had to be careful when old Mr Merchant had gone down but he couldn't see the body, gave a great deal of solidity to the bad-assedness of our ambiguous hero. It's like he had been professionally trained.
Phineasover 13 years agoA lot of confusion to be found herein as well. The scene jumps, while properly done, often left me guessing. Not the suspenseful guessing either. The original meeting between the three power players (senator and others) still has me baffled as to who was who and what was what.
Fuzzy on the daughter thing too, if she was held captive, how did she get away? Likewise Jason mentioned something about having to save one of them, but then no more was said.
Finally, is this influenced by House of 1000 Corpses of Devil's Rejects?
