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Max took out his light and shined it in the room. The shadow moved again in the corner. “My name is Max Anderson. I am a detective with the Highlands police department. I am also married to Deanna Watson. I need you to show yourself and keep your hands up.”
Max knew these people probably only the basics of things. He spoke calmly and knew someone else probably wouldn’t be able to get through to the people in the room. He had the key to most of the family’s secrets and that was his tiny wife. Her name was known to almost everyone they had found even the smaller children.
“Deanna?” One of them asked softly. The Shadow moved closer still hugging the wall. Max knew his light wouldn’t reach the corner of the room but he had said the magic words when bringing up Deanna. This was her family after all. Whatever had gone
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Max led the younger ones out of the room into the darkened room and then out into the main room. He didn’t stop though. He continued up the stairs looking in back of him to make sure all were still following him. A few other officers were there helping him herd the boys up the stairs now. He smiled at the two infants in his arms. He saw the daylight and could hear the people right by the opening.Soon he was leading everyone out of the maze. He turned to see the group he had left had moved closer to the maze and was out of everyone’s way. Deanna was the first to notice him. Her eyes went wide as she saw what was in his arms. She nearly ran over as she made her way over to him. She saw the trail of children behind him.“My god.” She said as she took one of the boys out of his arms. She was glancing over the boys. “How are they still here?”
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All of the officers helped get the boys on the bus. Max didn’t know where it was going to take them and honestly he didn’t care. He had seen that look in grown men many times when he had questioned killers. Something wasn’t right. He looked over to the people standing by his children. “You didn’t say anything about the boys.”“I didn’t see any boys.” Mitsuhide said as he looked over the other man. Mitsuhide understood the question for what it really was. Max had to question everything and now he was in the spotlight. “I only saw grown men and women, Max.”“Then what was he talking about with the chat rooms and being picked?” Max asked out loud. “What was done to them that they could go from innocent to blood thirsty lunatics?”“Max.&r
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He sighed again as he looked at the wall. The room was only seen if the light was on. It was off to the side of the hallway. It had been near where Deanna would have been if she had made it all the way down the stairs. He looked around him and motioned to the officers that were standing there. He pressed on the wall. The door popped open and he was glad he had at least figured out the way to open their secret rooms. That seemed to be the easiest part of dealing with them. The doors were almost all the same.The light was so bright in the room. He looked into it and didn’t see anyone though. He did however see the monitors that lined the walls. He walked in and could see the topside of where he was. He had to think to himself, “Of course they had cameras everywhere.”He shook his head as he could identify different places in the yard an
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The three girls were dressed exactly the same as two of them were standing in the middle of the maze. The two that were standing there were in what looked to be white robes that were stained red. One girl was wearing the same but she was laid in front of the two in a planter.The smiles on the two that were standing as they looked at the camera would normally suggest they were happy and celebrating. However the picture around them spoke to more of what it was. Deanna looked at the picture and almost fell to the ground. She couldn’t remember that day but she remembered playing in the maze before she hated it. She thought she had made it all up. The other versions of herself. She had thought they were just things she had made up in her mind. She only had flashes of the maze and them.“Go away.” Deanna said as she stumbled away from them.
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Deanna made it to the front of the house. When she felt another kick from the baby. She rested her hands there for a minute and looked down. This baby was supposed to the first in something that was better. Max had shown her more love than anyone else. She knew what he thought. She was like his brother. She had killed her own sister.He wouldn’t believe her when she told him if she ever got the chance too. He had made up his mind already. The pain was washing over her again. It was everywhere. Her family finally got the best of her. She would never be any different than them.The baby would be better off with him. She would ruin it. She felt the burning in her chest again. She found it hard to breathe. She knew everything would be better without her there. It was all because of her. Everything bad her family did was
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As soon as they got to the hospital the doctors did a quick exam. They began to rush her up to have a c-section. Max was left not knowing what was going on though he was standing right there. He walked out of the room and saw Kit there. “Where is Mitsuhide?”“Downstairs with the vans.” Kit said. “Max call your parents to come get the kids right now. This is happening right now.”Max pulled out his phone and called his father. They were on their way. He told them that Mitsuhide was with the kids and he need them to go with them for right now. Deanna was having the baby right now. He didn’t want to answer the questions his father had. He wanted to curl up and hide himself.“You didn’t do this.” Kit said.“I did. I pushed her to much.”
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Max looked at Deanna and now understood what Kit had been trying to get through to him. She was the one at the center of this entire family but she was not responsible though she might feel that way. Mitsuhide had felt guilty because of his decision to keep June alive when it would have been easier to let her go. He had tried to distance himself at the time and lost completely when everything went to hell for him.Deanna was willing to walk away from her life that she had with him because she thought she was the toxic one. He wanted to hug her and strangle her at the same time. He looked at her holding one of their twin sons. There was nothing but true love there in her eyes. She looked up to him.“They don’t look like me at all.” She said as she smiled. “That’s okay though. We have enough of those that do.”
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“Well they aren’t my favorite either.” She said as she looked up to him and he saw the pain in her eyes.“Sweetheart can you forgive me?” he asked. “I know I messed up with this. I shouldn’t have gone at you the way that I did. I had to get the question answered. It is hard to dispute a picture though and you and another version of you standing before a dead version of you while you two are covered in blood was enough to fry my brain a bit. Also if I hadn’t got the answers from you someone else would have tried if I showed them the picture that is.”“What do you mean if you showed them the picture?” Deanna looked at him with surprise as she spoke. Max was a good cop. He would never hide a piece of evidence. So the thought he could have was something she couldn’t believe he would hav
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