A few weeks had passed since my first encounter with Jason he had let me have a little more freedom than usual as I was no longer chained to the bed downstairs every night. Our trust bond was starting to grow a little stronger with each passing day and the wound on my leg had also completely healed but left some scarring behind. During that time, I had asked him a few times to let me go with him on his rounds so I can get a chance to actually see the lake to which he had always replied with "soon" or "maybe one day" and I was starting to get impatient with him. Finally, the day came where I had enough of waiting on him and decided to go discover it for myself. He's usually gone for a few hours at a time, checking if everything was in order or has been tampered with. I snuck out the front door and pulled a map out of my pocket that showed where the lake was that I had taken with me in my backpack when I first came here. 'This shouldn't take me too long; I'll be back long before he notices that I was gone.' I thought to myself, grinning happily and started heading in that direction.

It only took me about 10 minutes or so of hiking to eventually come across it, it was the most beautiful lake I had ever seen in my entire life. The greenery that had surrounded it and the way the sunlight glistened off the top of the water was mesmerizing! I saw a little boat dock with a small boat tied at one of end of the lake, and then immediately ran to the dock itself. I only wanted to sit on the edge and stick my feet in for a little bit. I took my shoes and socks off and plopped down on the edge and soak my feet in the water about ankle deep. The water felt so warm and soothing on my feet, the bright sunlight beamed down on me. It all felt so good to me that I had begun to lose track of time.

JASON'S POV:

I just gotten finished with checking the eastern part of camp, so I went back to check on her to make sure she was still there and if she had possibly needed anything. I walked into the room in my lair, but to my shock had discovered she was gone! 'I told her to stay put until I got back!' I thought angrily to myself and unsheathed my machete. and I stormed out of the front door, slamming it open 'where did she go?!...the lake!' I thought and immediately stormed off in that direction.

ME:

I sat there moving my feet slowly back and forth in the water, leaning backwards a bit with my arms supporting me, closing my eyes and letting the sun shine down on me. It wasn't long before I felt something grab a hold of both of my legs, which made me scream loudly, and suddenly pulled me under the lake water. Water shot up my nose and into my lungs. I panicked, thinking I was going to die when I felt something wrap around me, holding me tightly. I struggled to break free from its grip. Once I finally did, I broke the surface of the water choking and gasping for air as I tried to swim desperately to the bank, knowing I wasn't a good swimmer to begin with. I managed to turn around for a moment to see Jason's head finally break the surface of the water. "NOOOO!!" I screamed and choked as I tried to get my footing on ground when he grabbed my right foot forcing me to fall. "please?" I whimpered and began to cry from fear as he straddled me. He held both of my arms down at my sides so that I wouldn't struggle with him anymore. I looked at him with begging and pleading eyes "please don't kill me!" I cried as I spit up water and tears streamed down my face. During our struggle I must have accidentally bumped his mask, because the whole left side of his of face was showing while his mask still covered the right side. I could see the look of anger and disappointment on his face.

But he soon realized he had made a huge mistake trying to kill me. I could see the look on his face go from extremely angry to immediate guilt. He did make a promise to his mother to never let me escape, but he also never really said he'd try to kill me if I did. Inside he felt horrible for what he had done to me.

"I'm sorry" he said to me with guilt in his voice.

He stood up and grabbed me by both arms and helped me stand up in front of him, he wrapped his soaking wet arms around me and held me tightly to his body as I still cried a bit laying my head against his chest.

Our little moment was suddenly interrupted the sound of a snapping twig and what sounded like laughter. It caused us to look in the direction it was coming from. "Go back to the house and wait for me." Jason whispered in my ear. I looked up at him and nodded yes. I ran quickly back to the house as fast as I could.

JASON'S POV:

I followed the sounds of this man and woman's voices, slowly closing in on them to seal their doom. This was my home, and I was to protect everything inside of it including Rachel. I wasn't about to let anyone come in, discover her and take her or my mother away from me! I slowly stalked their trail all the way up to cabin 4, where they seemed to taking refuge. They seemed rather young, late teens to adults. Either way old enough for their lives to be taken soon. The girl with the long blonde hair and blue jeans looked at her boyfriend and said "I'm going to hop in the shower while you get the rest of our things set up, see you soon!" she winked at him, kissed his cheek and ran off into the cabin. She left him all alone, perfect for me to secure a kill. I stayed hidden for a few minutes and watched his every move from afar. He grabbed his camping gear from a bag in the back of his truck and picked a spot about 100ft or so from the cabin to set up their tent. Stupid boy had no idea what he was getting himself into. I snuck around the truck and grabbed a hammer that he had left behind in the bed of his truck and followed him.

"Oh, you finally decided to sneak up on me huh, babe?" The young man giggled, thinking he had heard his girlfriend approach him from behind not bothering to look behind himself. I swung the hammer, bashing his skull in with the clawed end killing him instantly. I ripped it out, spraying his brain matter and blood all over the place, then I drug his body off to dispose of it. Next in line would be his little girlfriend, I didn't want her to find his body and cause a much bigger problem for me. She left the door to the cabin unlocked, that allowed me to sneak in quietly. I could hear the shower running from the bathroom. I stood next the door, which if she opens, would conceal me from her sight.

"Brian?!" she called out, but got no response.

"Hey!" Again she got no response.

"Ugh, I swear that man only hears what he wants to." She groaned in frustration, shut off the water, quickly got out and got dressed. She slowly opened the door and came out hand drying her hair with a towel. "Hey mister, are you back yet?!" she called out again, still no response. She sighed in disappointment. "Well, I guess I'll have to go find you." She wouldn't have to go anywhere. I grabbed her from behind slitting her throat wide open with my field knife and blood oozed from her neck as she hit the floor. I disposed of her body so it wouldn't draw anymore unwanted attention. Since my home was no longer under a threat at the moment, I went back to check on Rachel.

MEANWHILE...

MY POV:

I had to do some serious thinking about what was going on in my life at the moment. I was frightened that he had nearly killed me just moments ago. This time I actually wanted to try and leave because I was scared for my life, all I kept thinking was 'what if I disobey him the next time? He might not snap out of it and actually kill me!' and started to cry again. One of the other major problems was he had killed all of friends, they were literally all I had left when my parents had died and that hurts me badly. I didn't bother to tell him that yet, because I didn't want him to know that I was potentially weak, and another big issue that I never told him was that I was starting to fall in love with him during these past few weeks, but I didn't want to make it too obvious that I had feelings for him. It was literally breaking my heart that I had to make the drastic decision to either stay or go. All I could do was cry as I started gathering what little bit of things I had to try and escape him for good. I didn't want to leave him, but because of his deep-rooted anger issues I was terribly afraid. Especially after today that he could one day kill me and not realize it until its too late. I had tears streaming down my face as I zipped up my backpack, threw it on my back and headed towards the front door. Only to my sudden surprise, Jason returned a little earlier than usual and greeted me at the front door. He saw the look of distain and the tears streaming down my cheeks.

His look went from hardened, to immediately confused and concerned. "Where do you think you're going?" He asked me.

I looked at him nervously. So I swallowed my guilt and said as I started to sob almost uncontrollably, "I'm leaving you Jason, you just tried to kill me." I said sniffling a bit.

"If you hadn't deliberately disobeyed me and stayed behind like I told you to, this wouldn't have happened!" Jason snapped at me, standing in the doorway crossing his arms. "You shouldn't have been anywhere near that lake!" He added aggressively.

"Well, you should learn to control your temper!" I snapped back at him and slightly shook my head. I started to cry again. "Just get out of my way!" I said angrily and pushed him out of my way, I stormed outside into the now cold, wet and stormy weather.

Jason was in shock at this moment. He could feel his heart rip into pieces as he turned grabbing my arm and I flung it away from him "Get off me leave me alone!" I scoffed.

"It doesn't have to end this way! Please?!" I could hear him beg from behind me. I stopped myself and turned around and said "why are you doing this to me?! Why are you forcing me to stay if you're just going to possibly hurt me more...you know...I-I I love you Jason and I have from the moment we first met and were an absolute dick to me and you just don't hurt the ones that love you damn it!!" I cried out in frustration with more tears streaming down my face. "And I loved you so much after we got to know each other...why would you hurt me so much like this?!" I added and continued to cry.

"I'M SORRY! RACHEL, STOP I HAVE SOMETHING I NEED TO TELL YOU PLEASE?!" he yelled loudly at me in distress as I continued walking away from him.

In the pouring rain I stopped and turned around and he came up to me and placed his hands on my arms and said "This morning I woke up with this feeling, I didn't know how to deal with it so I just decided to myself that I'd hide to myself and not ever talk about it and I didn't go and shout it when ever you would walk into a room or even got around me...The truth is" and raised his hand to his mask and slowly revealed himself in front of me "I-I think I love you!" he added and pulled me in wrapping his arms around me and placed his lips on mine in a deep kiss. All of the pent-up fear and anger I felt immediately diminished as sparks flew within my body and mind and my heartbeat increased and my tears began to dry up. 'I'll give this man another chance. Nobody else besides me and his mother know how much love he truly deserves' I thought to myself and then broke the kiss, looking up at him lovingly and said, "It's ok" and laid my head on his chest wrapping my arms around his waist hugging him tightly "Jason?" I said again to which he replied "hmm?" "It's ok" I said softly reassuring him that everything would work out between us if we stuck together.

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