A flower
A flower
Nick was a very wealthy and brilliant man living in Chicago he was 6ft 5inches tall and weighted 265lbs. he put fear in to peoples eyes and minds for what he did. Lets start from the beginning it was 1896 and Nick was 23 years old and just getting his fortune by inventing methods for construction, surgery and mining he got richer every day but he never became happier.
Two years later when he was walking out of the bank he bumped in to Rose. She was the most beautiful woman he ever saw. She was 5ft 6inches, had golden flowing heir, eyes that sparkled in the light, a smile that light up the night sky and a voice that could make a man melt. When they both looked in to each other's eyes they both fell in love and nothing could separate them. He always told her how much he loved her and all the things he would do for her. She never asked for anything except just for him to be there for her. He always felt like she deserved more so he always made sure she had everything she wanted.
She loved flowers and everything they stood for. Every day she walked in to her small apartment and wondered what new flower he filled the small apartment with. She loved how hard he tried to show her he loved her. She always told him how much she loved him and every day she would ask him why he put all those flowers in her apartment and she told him he did not have too because she knew he loved her and she loved him and that would never change. He answered the question only once and that was after a month. He said "I love you and you are the most beautiful person in the world and I'm only showing you that a room of flowers could never be even half as beautiful as you are" then he pulled a box that he hid under the table beside them. With the box in his hand he knelled on one knee and opened it inside was a beautiful probably the most beautiful flower in the world with a gorgeous diamond ring around the stem but all she saw was the flower. Nick said "I made this flower for you in my lab I did my best to make it as beautiful as you but it is impossible but with this flower and ring will you make me the luckiest guy in the world and merry me?" She stood in front of him speechless and smiling. He knew what that meant. He slid the ring on her finger and two days got married.
He did not stop showing her that she was never taken for granted. One day he took her to a beautiful mansion it was not the biggest; not even close but it was the most beautiful with the biggest garden full of flowers, trees and bushes.
She was amazed at it all "who would have made this it is so beautiful"
He smiled "you like it?"
"Yes I have never seen anything like it. Who lives here?"
He looked her in the eyes and with a huge smile on his face and said "you do"
She looked at him like he was crazy "what?"
He was still smiling "it's all yours just like me" he gave her a big kiss "I built it with my own two hands and I filled it with the best hand crafted furniture".
They both moved in that day. Everything was perfect. One day he left for a business meeting with a new coal company who wanted the best way to start mining. It was May 7/1920 10:27pm it was raining when he walked in to that silent house he only heard the rain. He walked to the kitchen and saw a book about flowers he smiled and went to the stove and poured himself a cup of home grown tea and walked to the table and looked at the book and all the things she underlined. His smile got bigger and bigger. Then he heard something fall upstairs he got up and walked to the stairs he walked right past the hand painted picture of his beautiful love on the wall and went up to the second floor. He saw that the light was on in there bedroom. He entered. What he saw was horrifying a man standing over a bloody body of a woman. The man did see him when as he stuck a knife into the woman.
Nick stood in the doorway looking at the horror in front of him. Tears rolled down his face as the image of this sunk in deeper and deeper the image of his beautiful wife was replaced with blind anger. He picked up a piece of glass from the broken mirror that was on the wall. He walked up to the monster on top of a bloody corpse the piece of glass cutting in to his hand as he skewered it from anger. He picked up his bloody hand and stuck the bloody piece of glass into the man's back. The man screamed with pain and fell off the blood covered bed where Roses bloody body was laying on. Nick walked past the injured man on the ground and walked to Rose he burst in to tears as he started remembering how she would pick flowers and smile at him how it made him feel when he saw her every day.
He kneeled beside her and said "I love you and always will. God made a beautiful angel and tried to make the world as good as you but not even could do it" the tears flowed from his eyes "I love you. Good bye my only love" his eyes full of tears he turned to the man trying to crawl away.
Nick got off his knees and walked toward the man on the ground "you killed her you killed an angel" in a harsh and angry voice. The man pulled a six shooter from his pocket ands with a smile on his face fired. Nick was hit two times in the chest and once in the arm. Nick did not even make a sound he just walked closer to the man when he got close enough he pulled the piece of glass from the man's back. The man wailed in pain Nick stood in front of him with an angry look. The man said with terrible pain and fear in his voice "please have mercy" Nick smiled and said "god gives mercy" Nick gave out a chuckle "but I don't!" and with the piece of glass held tightly in his hand sliced the man across the face. The man rolled around screaming in terrible pain.
Nick smiled more with every second the man was in pain for hours Nick tortured the man in the house after he finally killed him he went to the bathroom and cleaned the blood off and stitched himself up. When he looked in the mirror that was in the bathroom he did not see the man who he used to be a gentle, nice and forgiving man now he saw a poor man a man with nothing. His eyes were no longer bright and full of love they were dull and full of hatred for the world that took Rose from him. He took the man's body and buried it in the backyard where he built his lab. He took Roses body and cremated it he put the ashes into a 24keret earn and placed it on the table in the front of her portrait that look out of a big bay window.
Nick cleaned the house there was not one trace of what happened in it. He locked the windows and doors and never stepped a foot in to the house he built for her again. He looked out at the world the he going to terrify and destroy for what happened. For the next 12 years he had two new victims every week. Missing posters filled the streets and bodies filled Nicks backyard. The police could not ignore it anymore it was 12 years since the first person went missing they hat to act. They searched every neighborhood until they got to a big house that looked like it was not touched in years. The officers knocked on the front door but no answer they went to the back one of the officers tripped on what he thought was a rock. He yelled out for backup the other officers ran to help and in front of them a skull lying on the ground. From nowhere Nick appeared with a bloody hatchet in his hand that had 12 years of blood on the blade "what are you doing on my property?" one of the officers turned and saw the bloody hatchet. The cop reached for his side arm but Nick was to fast and stuck the blade in to the cop's neck then went after the rest of the officers.
Not one could hit Nick in no time the hatchet had a fresh coat of blood the blood from seven officers of the law. When the officers did not call in on the progress the chief of police called more officers to the last place the seven officers went to. More and more officers went to the property that belonged to Nick when they arrived they saw three police cruisers in flames and like a ghost Nick with the hatchet started attacking officers right and left but there were around 20 officers this time he could not keep up and then shouts rang out as six rounds entered this body.
Nick dropped to his knees then four more rounds entered his back and two ripping right through his body. He dropped on to the grass face first slowly the remaining six officers surrounded him and just stood there as him lay dying. With his last moments of life were passing bye he said something that he used to say every day "I love you Rose my precious love my whole world" the images of here came back in to his mind tears rolled down his face "I love you so much and I will never stop" his life fading "I promise" the last thing he saw was a flower. It was the same flower that he had and proposed with. The most beautiful flower in the world and the only one of it's kind. Just like she was. He finally closed his eyes and died in the garden were she spent all her time. In death he will always be feared for what he did.
L.S