Martha was stunned.  How was she going to tell Teegan about this?  She got out her phone and called Jasper.  No answer.  She called Marc instead.  Someone had to know.  She hid the bars from Teegan so he wouldn't find out.  She was doing good about telling him what's been going on lately, but this would have to wait.  Anne was someone they both trusted, and she had betrayed them.  She had betrayed her whole family, plus Richard. 

"I have a lead suspect to your investigation.  Can you come back over ASAP?"  Martha was in the bathroom talking to Marc so Teegan wouldn't hear.  "This is something I don't want to discuss with you over the phone."

"I will be over within the hour."  Marc hung up and Martha went back to helping Teegan clean his room.  She tried calling Jasper again, but this time it went straight to voicemail.  Martha got worried.  The last time that happened it was with Richard, and he ended up being murdered.  If only she knew which hotel he was at, she could find him and make sure he was safe. 

"Teegan I will be right back.  I am going to see if Anne is home,"  Martha said to Teegan.

She walked downstairs and knocked on the door to her apartment.  No answer.  Martha didn't mean to, but she tried the door knob.  The door opened. 

"Anne?"  She peaked her head inside the door and almost vomited by the mess that she saw.  There was flour spilled all over the kitchen, brown paper bags from the hardware store laying all over the couch, a bag of razors spilled on the kitchen counter, and more of those wooden stakes piled on the recliner.  Martha wasn't expecting this, but she walked in farther.  The smell in the air made her stomach turn.  I mixture of rotting eggs and decaying blood.  She couldn't remember the last time she had been in Anne's apartment, but she was sure that it didn't look like this. 

Martha walked down the hall into Anne's bedroom.  Anne's bedroom was suprisingly clean.  It was tidy, no clutter, and her bed was even made.  She was about to leave when she noticed the wall on the opposite side of the room.  There were pictures of what looked like Anne's friends and family, but there were also pictures of Carter, Brick, and Richard.  All had a red X written over their smiling faces.  Next to their pictures was a picture of Jasper, on it was a yellow post it.  'Next target.'

The smell all of a sudden got thicker. Martha started shaking uncontrollably.  Her stomach couldn't handle it anymore.  She ran out of the bedroom and dove into Anne's bathroom and vomited into the toilet.  The smell was worse in the bathroom. 

When Martha was done, she looked up and almost fainted.  The bathroom was also surprisingly squeaky clean, except for the shower.  With the shower door being clear glass, Martha could see right in it.  It was like seeing Richard all over again.  A man had been hung by his neck, wooden stakes in his thighs and another one in his chest.  The blood was creating a puddle in the shower and down the drain.  The puddle had started drying up and the splotches of blood on the shower door were starting to peel.  It looked like thick red paint that was chipping off of an old wall.  The note on the back wall of the shower, spelled out in blood, said 'RIP BROTHER.'

Martha had no idea how long Robert had been in there, but by the smell, he was already decaying.  Martha had to leave.  Anne was after Jasper and she had to find him and save him.  She now knew that Anne was the one stalking her.  She was the one in the white truck, she was the one standing across the street watching them, she had dropped the photos off in her mailbox so easily since they lived in the same building.  Martha had to call Marc and let him know.

"Martha!  How nice of you to stop by!"  Martha stopped dead in her tracks.  Anne had come home as soon as Martha came out of the hallway.  The evil look on her face described danger.  She had a Milton's bag in her hand. 

"Anne!"  Martha didn't know what to do.  This was her best friend, and she turned into a psyco. "You are home so soon.  I was looking for you."  Martha tried to act like she didn't just find out that her best friend was a murderer. 

"I was out looking for Jasper.  I thought I could talk some sense into him.  He had no right to leave you and Teegan."

"How did you know that Jasper left?  I haven't talked to you since before it happened."  Martha felt unsafe.  She knew that Anne had been watching her.  She knew that she was dangerous. 

Anne giggled.  It was a witch cackle that Martha heard.  "Haven't you figured out by now Martha?  I know everything.  I know everything about you.  I know everything about your family.  I know how you swooped in and stole Richard from me.  I know how you convinced him that he was falling in love with you when he was suppose to be falling in love with me, but you stole him from me.  I know that I scared you enough that you would have to go to great lengths to break the law and break into my apartment and deface my home in order to blackmail me."

"I blackmailed you?"  Martha snuck her phone out of her pocket and dialed Jasper's number, hiding her phone behind her back so Anne wouldn't see.  "I didn't blackmail you Anne.  I came here to find you, but your door was unlocked and this is what I walked into.  You killed my son, you killed Richard, and you killed my dog.  Where is Jasper since he is your 'next target?'"  Martha heard the familiar voicemail recording on Jasper's phone.  She didn't hang up, she kept the phone hidden.

"You betrayed me Martha.  You took my lover away from me.  Of course I killed your son, for revenge.  You take away someone I love, I take away someone you love.  But that's not what I am going to tell the police when they get here.  You killed Carter out of your own insanity.  You killed Richard because he told you that he didn't love you, and you killed your dog because you just couldn't control yourself.  Jasper will agree with me and be on my side.  You are psychotic and you deserve to be locked up for your wrong doing.  You kicked him out of your life." Anne walked over to the recliner and grabbed one of her homemade wooden stakes.  She held it in front of her like a sword.

"Where is Jasper?"  Martha also thought about Teegan, but Anne had just gotten home.  She could not have gotten to Teegan yet, her hands looked clean.

"When he finds out that you've been taken away, he will come running for Teegan.  Don't worry Martha, he is safe, for now."

Martha was relieved.  Jasper wasn't hurt, but she wished she knew where he was.  Anne's confession was on Jasper's voicemail, but his phone was shut off.  Now Martha was trapped in Anne's apartment.  She could run, but Anne would come after her.  She had to keep talking until Marc showed up.  He said within an hour.  How long has it been?  Fifteen minutes?  Twenty?  Martha didn't know, but she had to stall.

"Please don't hurt Jasper."  Martha didn't know what to say, so she started begging.  "Please stop this Anne.  I didn't know that you were in love with Richard.  If I would have known that, I would have left him alone."

"You didn't need Richard, you already have a husband.  What were you doing fucking around with the principal?"  Anne was getting furious.

"That's kind of personal don't you think?"  Martha chuckled a little, trying to lighten the mood, but it seemed to make Anne more angry.

"He was supposed to be mine!"  Anne was screaming now.  "And you took him away from me!"

"Anne please calm down.  I didn't know..."

"Don't tell me to calm down!  You knew!  You knew and you didn't care!  I hope you hurt over Carter for the rest of your life!"  Anne started fidgeting.  She dropped the stake, then picked it up again.  She started drawing pictures with it on the counter, then stopped and pointed it back at Martha.  "It felt good when I asked him to come eat lunch with me.  I sprinkled wheat flour onto his school lunch when he wasn't looking.  You should have felt the pride that I felt knowing I was getting my revenge on you.  You deserve to feel the pain and suffering that I felt when you took Richard from me."  She poked Martha in the shoulder with the stake, but then stepped back. 

"If you loved Richard, then why did you kill him?"  Martha let Anne play with her like a doll.  Marc was going to be here soon, but when?  The pokes in the shoulder were starting to bruise and Anne was getting more aggressive. 

"Like the old saying goes, Martha my dear.  'If I can't have him, then no one can.'"  She cackled more loudly now and started charging at Martha with the stake.  Martha started to run.  She ran out into the hallway and headed for the stairs.  She had to go and protect Teegan, and lock themselves in their apartment.  Martha started feeling dizzy when she got to the bottom of the stairs.  No, she couldn't faint.  Anne was after her and if she fainted she would get her.  The hallway was spinning.  Martha couldn't move.  The last thing she saw was Teegan running down the stairs toward her.

"Mom! Are you OK? Mom!"  Teegan grabbed his mom and tried to bring her up the stairs away from Anne.

Marc showed up just as Teegan was trying to drag his mother up the stairs.  Anne was charging at them both with a wooden stake and was caught right when she stabbed Teegan in the arm.  She was arrested right on the spot.  Martha and Teegan were rushed to the hospital.  Jasper still had no idea what was happening at his home. 

Jasper was still upset with Martha.  How could she have done all of this and cause such an uproar.  He had shut his phone off to disappear from the world for a few days.  Was he weak because he couldn't handle the stress?  Was he weak because he left his family in a time of need? He paced the hotel room.  What was he going to do?  How was he going to make it up to her?  She was going to leave him, he just knew it.  If he was in a relationship with himself, he would leave him too. 

Jasper finally sat down and turned on the TV.  There was nothing on.  Cartoons, talk shows, news.  He flipped through two or three times.  He didn't know, he lost count.  He finally just stopped on the news.  Maybe some other person's pathetic life would make him feel better about his own. 

"Anne Flicket was arrested today for the murder of four victims and the attempted murder of two more," the newscaster announced, showing Anne being escorted out of his apartment building. 

Without hearing the rest of the story, Jasper got up from the hotel bed and rushed out the door.  His wife needed him and he was done being weak.