"Well, I, for one, would like a shower." Kansas raised his hand and stepped back. Looking at him, covered in blood and nothing else, I remembered what we'd been through. I nodded.
"Right. Did you want to get out of here? For good?" I asked them both.
"You're just gonna leave all this here?" Eisley hopped off the table.
“Kansas actually is taking care of all of this, but yeah.” I shrugged. "Now that the ritual is done, we never need to come back. Let's go back to your place. We can shower, rest, and then see about packing you up to leave for good."
"For good?" She followed me to my makeshift room, where I tossed her a t-shirt and boxers.
"Well, yeah. You honestly thought we'd stay here after we murdered half the town?" I chuckled.
"I don't know. My house, though."
"Princess." I rolled my eyes and tugged on a pair of pants and a shirt. "Wife, love of my entire existence. Money means nothing to me. Do you want to know just how much money I have?" I pinched her chin. "Millions. The Minister buried forty gold bricks in the coffin he claimed held my mother in it."
I dropped her chin and looked around the room, gathering all belongings that would lead to me directly. I knew the police in this town wouldn't look for tiny scraps of DNA on the mattresses or anything else. Especially after Kansas did his part.
"How did you find that out?" she asked, following behind me.
"My dad wrote a lot of shit down. Before I came out of the woods and told the authorities, I looked through his office. You know how much a twenty-pound gold brick is worth now? Almost half a million dollars."
She gasped, and I grinned. I'd been holding onto that little bit and it was great to finally tell her.
"So, we'll go to your home tonight. Clean and rest and start packing. You can use the excuse about feeling unsafe and that your husband has returned to move. No one will think twice."
Kansas joined us a moment later with his belongings and clothes in tow. Still covered in blood, although now dry, the three of us looked scary. We needed to get clean as fast as possible.
“Might wanna step back.” We did as told and waited, watching the Church. A moment later, smoke rose from the windows and broken doors.
“Kansas, did you—” Eisley gasped.
“I thought it fitting. Frankenstein, fire, you get it.” He grinned wickedly.
The fire grew until flames exploded from everywhere.
"Let's just leave as quietly as we can, shall we?" Kansas said as we exited the forest.
Eisley snickered. We’d started a massive fire. Quiet was out the window.
The night was starting to fall. We couldn't be seen driving around, all three of us covered in the blood of the girl who would be called in missing in a few days.
"You got a cigarette?" Kansas asked me.
I reached into my pants pocket and pulled out a pack, offering him a stick and taking one for myself.
"You two smoke?"
We climbed into my car and headed back to her place.
"Only after sex." Kansas grinned. We reached her place with no disruption and quickly went inside. Eisley insisted on a solo shower and to be the first one in, so we waited downstairs, partaking in treats she had in her fridge while we waited.
“Put some tea on will you?” she asked as she ran up the stairs.
I put the kettle on, and looked for a pot to pour it in afterward. The only one I could find was the green one with the bats, the assassin’s pot. She didn’t have many options left after Therese had destroyed so many. I set it on the counter and started to look for jars in her cabinet.
"We'll need to get an actual house to keep all of her teapots and tea in," Kansas remarked.
"Absolutely. She'll have everything she ever dreamed of once we leave this shitty-ass town. She can have her wing if she wants. She'll truly be a princess then." I smirked.
