Phone flashlight in hand, he runs after Nadia

They get upstairs

She opens the door and enters the room

She screams

Oliver enters the room

He drops his phone, the light pointing upwards, it faintly illuminates the room

He sees two things

Simon, on the floor, clutching his stomach

There’s blood around him

And Nadia

Being stabbed in the back by her father

At the sound of the phone dropping, said father turns around

For a second, they make eye contact

He knows those eyes

The eyes of a man who wants to kill you

Without warning, the man throws himself at Oliver, toppling them over

He squeezes Oliver’s throat

Happily

Oliver feels the oxygen failing to reach his lungs

He desperately grabs the man’s arms

He’s scared

Is he going to die here?

“No”

“No! fuck this”

“I didn’t survive getting eaten by *two* nightmare houses just to die to a divorced man”

He puts his arms in between the man’s arms, separating them

And goes for the eyes

“You motherfucker

I promised!

I promised I would live

And I will!

I will, Goddammit! I’m gonna get out of here!”

The mans grip loosens up a little. He tries to shake Oliver’s hands away from his face

He bites, drawing blood

Oliver scratches his eye

Also drawing blood

Both refuse to give up

In between their movements, Oliver hears things.

Something dropping

And something moving

He starts to loose energy

But he’s not giving up

“I’m going to blind this bastard if it’s the last thing I do

And after I’m done, I’m punching him in the face”

He is quickly loosing energy

He feels blood in his fingers

He doesn’t know who it belongs to

“We are going to go sightseeing!! I’m going to show him the chickens and he will be so happy!”

“We’ll be so happy!!”

The hold on his throat gets tighter

“You are not taking that future away from me, you bastard!”

His vision darkens

But he’s not giving up

There is something he’s counting on

Perhaps foolishly, but he believes

Eugene Coli is forgetting something

Something he always forgets

Maybe, if he didn’t forget it all these years, this wouldn’t have happened

Eugene has the eyes of a person who’s ready to kill

But he forgets, he always forgets

That someone else has his eyes

Eugene Coli is stabbed in the back by his daughter