Saturday Matinee - The Monster Inside

 

 

He walked away calmly even though his entire body tingled with the power...

He always walked away as calmly as possible....he was never in a panic....each one proved that his power was unstoppable and he knew the police would never catch him...

Besides running was a sign of guilt, and he felt a lot of things but he never felt any guilt for what he did!!!

He'd left this one in her car....nude as always....he couldn't leave them wearing those horrible clothes....he always arranged them to be on full display when they were found....legs and arms spread wide and mouth wide open....as if they were embracing the life he had taken from them....

He smiled when he thought of all those cops staring at her while waiting for the ambulance people to load her onto a gurney....he thought it was funny!!!

But he walked away down the road....calm, calm calm, he felt so calm after each time....the hidden monster inside him sated for now....

This one would be number 137.... or maybe 138....he wasn't sure....he really lost track after the 40th time....he would read in the papers and the FBI would let him know his total....

The power that allowed him to do this was still crackling from his fingers as he walked down the lonely road....in a mile or so he'd reach the county highway and he put out his thumb and with any luck he'd be hundreds of miles from here when the sun came up!!!

But he had to calm himself down or the driver who picked him up might suffer the same fate as the last one did....and then they'd know what direction he was traveling....and those FBI guys were pretty sharp....he didn't like the idea of their "profilers" trying to get inside his head and start predicting his actions....it was dark enough inside his head and he didn't want any company in there!!!

They didn't understand the power....none of them did....feeling it shoot through you like an electric current.....and watching their eyes as he put his hands on them....widening with fear, then pleading, then quiet, and then it was done.... 

He mused over this for the entire walk to the highway....

Sticking out his thumb he was relieved that the driver was a woman....

"How far you goin'?"

"I'm really not sure....I'm just going down the road...."

"Well I'll take you until I turn off the highway....is that OK?"

"That sounds great..."

She wasn't much of a talker and that was good....neither was he.....the power had gone to sleep again.....the urge was gone....for now...

He thought back to the girl he'd left in the car....

He tried to picture what it would be like for her when they found her....the effect of the power would keep her paralyzed for quite a while....but then she'd wake up....how could she explain what had happened to her.....how could anyone believe it if she didn't believe it herself!!!

They would check her ID in her clothing and they would know....someone would call the FBI when they realized he'd struck again....

They'd look at her naked body with a mix of lust and pity and thank god it wasn't one of them.....

The story was always the same.....only some of the details changed....sometimes it was a hitchhiker, sometimes it was just a stranger on the street....but the result was always the same....he would approach them and his hands would glow and then spark and he would touch them and they wouldn't be able to move....and when they came to, their life as men was over and they were now women in every sense of the word....completely transformed!!!!

And none of them could describe him accurately....all they remembered were his hands....and then oblivion!!!!

 

He was grateful that it was a woman who'd picked him up....the power didn't work on women.....and he needed a rest....tomorrow he'd be far away from here and it might be a little while before the power came on again.....but when it came he'd be ready!!!