Allison Gordon picking up Zepp’s phone and calling back a trapped Adam
Saw 2004 canon divergence
More of a list of ideas than an actual fic even if it sort of looks like one but I can’t be bothered to make this into proper english… In the meantime bon appetit
It’s late in the morning when Allison Gordon goes back to her own house and finds Zepp’s phone in her living room. The police must have missed it. She doesn’t really think about it before she calls back the last number he’d been in communication with.
"I’m gonna kill your husband now, mrs Gordon."
She’s hoping Lawrence will reply.
It beeps five times. She keep listening, what else is there for her to do.
Somebody picks up.
Immediately she cries out "Lawrence! Can you hear me?"
Between the sound’s cracks, she hears the wails of a raspy voice. It isn’t her husband but a whole new problem.
Fight had never left her nervous system and in an instant adrenaline is back too.
"Where is Lawrence? Where’s my husband? Answer me, you monster!"
The man on the phone tells her he doesn’t know where Lawrence is, that he’s gone. That he shot him and that he left… Something happened to his foot but she can’t quite make it out with the way her phone distorts the scared voice of the young man who’s now pleading for help between wet sobs.
"Where are you? Is Adam with you?"
"That’s me!! That’s me!!" he shouts like hearing his own name and being recognized made him feel like a little bit more of a person again. "I’m chained, Mrs Gordon…"
Her anger dissolves into fear as he begs her again not to end the call.
He can’t tell her where he is, only that he’s chained in some disgusting bathroom just like Lawrence had said. It’s pitch black and there’s a dead guy with me, well a new dead guy. He cries telling her it smells bad, in reference to the stench of decaying flesh. She presses the palm of her hand into her eyes and holds her breath to avoid him hearing her starting to cry while he gets sick.
She tries to pacify him, shushing him, sometimes almost singing to him. Like he’s just having a nightmare and not living one.
She stays on call with him for hours but the phone doesn’t have much battery left.
It’s like she’s stuck in there with him. She doesn’t want to leave him alone. He told her they had light earlier but now he doesn’t anymore.
Adam doesn’t let her call the cops at first, too afraid of being abandoned again. Once she does call them, it feels like forever until they decide to show up.
They try to interrogate him but the boy is far from coherent. They can’t countain him and manage to freak him out further, up to the point they hear him put the phone down and start banging his fists against the floor out of frustration.
Allison put a stop to it by taking the phone back. Detective Kerry shrugs in acceptance. Let the poor guy have a break. It might not be the healthiest letting another victim handle this but all things considered…
Adam begs Allison not to leave again.
At times panic overtakes him, he starts shouting and sobbing into the receiver… others he gets so quiet it might be catatonia.
He asks her if he’s gonna die and Allison promises they will find him.
He calls her a liar, a liar like Larry.
Not long afterwards, he melts into apologies for getting angry at her and tells her to tell his mom that he’s sorry.
She doesn’t know what else to say to comfort him so she tells him over and over again that they will find him. She needs to hear herself say these words to him as much as she needs him to believe them. She has no way to know for certain but she needs them to be found, Adam and Lawrence both.
They stay on like this for a long time before Adam’s phone finally dies.
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