Legacy of Evil

Obviously after Dana left the hospital, there was a certain amount of talk about her carrying twins, especially twins of a serial killer. What if the twins were from two serial killers? After all she had been repeatedly raped by both John Lee Harris and Roy Wade Boone. When Dana and her Mom reached home, Dana fell to her knees and cried openly holding her belly. She cried out “why me, why me, why me, Mom?” Her Mom tried to console her but she was crying uncontrollably. As Evelyn was hugging Dana, her little brother Matthew walked through the front door, having just gotten off the school bus. Evelyn went to Matthew and told him that Dana had just had some news that she had to work out. Matthew was curious “is this about the baby that she’s carrying?” Matthew was sixteen and knew what was going on in the house and what had happened to Dana. He had been constantly taunted at school about his sister and what had happened to her. He blurted out “you’ve brought nothing but shame and trouble to our house since you had this happen to you.” Dana stopped crying and snapped “you obviously don’t know what I’ve been through?” Matthew answered “you don’t know what we’ve all been through because of you. I lost my friends because this happened to you. Everyone thinks you’re a freak because you were raped by two serial killers. Mom and Dad fight all the time since this happened.” Dana’s Mom, Evelyn pleaded with Matthew to shut up but he just couldn’t anymore. All this resentment had been brewing in Matthew since Dana found out that she was pregnant and he had been forced to keep the big secret and not talk about it to anyone. He snapped “since you found out you were pregnant, my life has been hell, and none of you even noticed. I’m a victim here too.” Matthew continued “you have ruined all of our lives and I resent all of this being about you. It’s not just about you it’s about all of us. You refuse to realize the impact of this on all of our lives.” Dana shot back “do you really think I knew this was going to happen to me?” She sobbed uncontrollably! “Matthew it’s worse than we thought. I’m not having one baby, I’m having two babies. I don’t think that I can go on anymore. I think that I should just end it all now and then no one will have to deal with me and any of this horror and shame that I’ve brought to us as a family. My life is not worth living now. I’m sorry, so sorry for having lived at all. I should have died on that cold basement floor!” Matthew ran to his sister and hugged her and hugged her. With tears streaming from his eyes he uttered with remorse “I didn’t mean it, I didn’t mean any of it. I love you. Please don’t think like this. I’m so, so sorry for what I said. I was being selfish about what it has been like for me and not thinking about what all this has done to you.” Dana continued to cry uncontrollably and Matthew admitted “I need you, Mom and Dad need you. We’ll have to deal with these two babies and whatever their births bring us all.” Dana’s Mom sobbed and sobbed as she watched Matthew hug Dana for dear life. Dana’s Dad, Daniel walked through the door to find them all huddled in a pile in the living room, all of them crying uncontrollably. He knew that he needed to be the rock of their lives right now. He went to them and declared “we’ll get through this; we just need to be strong and stay together. We need to stick together, be tough and trust in God! We will be fine if we trust each other.” He believed this, but in his heart he also knew that it would be a long and difficult traveled road together!