House Party

[Ashton]

Liam rushed through the crowd. As he ascended the stairs, he turned to see Nox with the woman who'd saved them. He looked less scarey in the light, but Liam turned and rushed back up to his sisters. He'd bought what Ava wanted, and he had a warning for them.

As he reached the third floor the music stopped thumping as loudly and he could hear screams of pain coming from their room upstairs. Liam raced up. He thought about getting Ashton, but there wasn't much any of them other than Liv could do. The room they were staying in was a chaotic mess. Emma was bring towels from the nearby bathroom. Sophia had a bucket of warm water. Isabel sat next to Ava and held her hand as she Ava screamed in pain.

Ava's hands scrambled for Liams once she saw him. "Where is it?"

Liam gave her the pill bag he'd obtained and watched as she clutched it to her stomach as another contraction over took her body. Isabel took the baggie from here and split the pills handing five to Ava and took the remainer herself in one dry gulp. Ava followed suit.

Liv shouted. "Ava you gotta push." She tried to push the pills from Ava's mouth, but the laboring girl didn't budge and swallowed her share just as quickly as Isabel had. Neither wanted to give birth again to monsters. Neither wanted the pain of their memories. But the baby was already coming.

Liv closed her eyes and reached for the source. Liam watched as he'd done many times before as their sister and friend reached to her gift and then she began to cut the child out of Ava's now relaxed body. Isabel's body lay beside her as the drugs they took overwhelmed their senses. It wasn't instantaneous death, but they felt good. Felt the high but it wasn't enough as Ava screamed with new found horror as Liv aved the child with in. It's what she would have been ordered to do whether it was a girl or a boy. The Blackthorns would want the child even if they lost the mother.

And Ava was already determined to leave this mortal coil. It was sad. And if Liam were in the same place as the girls and Ethan he'd have choosen the same fate. That was no way to live. He at least still had life to live. And he intended to do it. The others all stood with him curled under his arms protectively as they watched live pull the baby from the womb. Isabel and Ava were beyond reach lying in a pool of blood and soon they wouldn't even care about that.

The baby cried and Liv wrapped it in a clean towel handing it to Emma. "I don't think our savior is going to ba happy about this he wanted to save them."

Liam chuckled. "He can have the baby then. Make up for his failure."

Liv looked at Liam as she made her way to the bathroom to clean the child. "You think he'd take her. You really think he cares what happens to any of us?"

Liam shook his head. "I don't know. He could have killed us all. He had every reason to kill Ashton yet, he let him live. It's not like we choose this life. Our foster parents made us do it or we'd be food too."

Noah whispered. "But you saw what he did to Ambrose and Octavius."

Jackson laughed. "They killed themselves. They ran in with Uncle Max. They knew they deserved to die just the same as Eddie and Master Cedric. They ate people. Killed Taylor too."

Noah whined. "But he killed Ethan. Ashton said to save him too."

"Ethan didn't want to live anymore than Iz and Ava." Liv said from the bathroom. "Just don't expect to stay here. He'll throw us out. We cut on him. We feed him to the Blackthorns."