It’s raining hard now, the burning stuga crackling and sizzling.
I hold Anders, try to protect his wound from the rain. The lump in my throat almost chokes me, I can’t howl, I’ll break down. Please don’t leave me Anders.
I can’t do it. I can’t leave her. Was that a siren in the distance?
I lay Anders gently on the grass, prop his head up on my sweater. Dash back inside.
She’s awake. Only stunned momentarily, but she’s on the other side of the fire, trapped, terrified.
Back outside, skid on wet grass, scrabble to my feet, round the back.
A wood axe. It’s heavy. Can I lift it? Of course I can. Shatter the window. Tove crawls over. She’s weak. Inhaled a lot of smoke.
The siren gets closer. They’re almost here.
She reaches out, I grab her hand and lift. She screams as the burning wood singes her; the paint is boiling, bubbling.
Tove is out. She looks at me, opens her mouth to speak. I turn, run back to Anders.
She stands, dazed, on the grass, watching dully as the police car approaches, skids on the mud. Nadja Johansson runs to her.
I hold Anders, my tears mixing with the rain on his face. I don’t care about anything else. Please Anders.
He stirs.
THE END
November 1, 2013 at 5:53 pm
Big, fat AWW. Slow-clap.
Now, epilogue please.
With lots of hot Viking sex.
November 1, 2013 at 6:12 pm
I’m lost ffs. I must have missed something along the way cos I dunno who did it ffs ffs ffs lol
Anna help me out here and give it to me in eejit speak lol
November 1, 2013 at 6:46 pm
Summary:
The Original Characters are Dan and Anders. Then Anders meets Jenny at a club. They have a thing – it’s more serious for her than him. Unbestknown to everyone else, Jenny and Tove have been friends as children, and stayed in touch even tho they didnt share adult circles. Tove knew that Jenny was way into Anders but was apparently slighted by Anders’ Circle.
Incidentally, Hannah, who was friends with just Jenny, became friends with that Circle – through Jenny. Jenny died – THIS STILL SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN AN ACCIDENT – Hannah stayed within the Circle. Up to this point, the Circle and Tove hadnt crossed paths, but Jenny’s death and surrounding rumor mill that prominently featured Anders made Tove realize that she actually kind of knew Anders through work. She approached him. The original plan was to get revenge for Jenny.
Instead Tove and Anders became friends, thru him she met Dan and Hannah, became engaged to Dan, and friends with Hannah.
Then Regan appears in Anders’ life. Regan’s alienation expressed on her blog (ahem) reminds Tove of how the Circle made Jenny feel. Except now she – Tove – is part of that evil circle. This all bubbles over the night at the stuga when everyone got drunk.
[The following has been presented at Regan speculating about Tove’s motives but bc no further exposition is forthcoming, it’s the most likely sequence of events]
Hannah might or might not have hit on Anders that night, leading to Hannah storming out. Or maybe Tove just confronted Hannah about Regan while Regan was asleep and boys drunk out of their minds. Either way, Hannah goes to the jetty. Tove follows. They have a loud confrontation. Either bc of the bubbling over Jenny/Regan issues, or bc Hannah spills the beans about sleeping with Daniel [“he loves me!”], Tove kills Hannah.
Later, back in Stockholm, with everyone in mourning, Tove kills Daniel either in the jealous rage over his infidelity or bc Daniel might have started to remember details from the ‘murder at the stuga’ night, or both. It has not been revealed how she did it.
Regan goes all Sherlock, spills the beans to Tove that the police is going to question the farmer, Tove freaks out, goes out to stuga, kills the farmer.
Somehow, for whatever reason [unrevealed] Anders goes to stuga, so does Tove. They have a confrontation and Anders is incapacitated by Tove. It is not clear whether she means to kill him too.
Regan arrives [after being an idiot and lying to the police but she has some trust issues w the police so…ok] and confronts Tove. Tove confesses to things [tho we only hear her motives, not the exposition of the events], while still threatening Anders & Regan. At one point Regan launges at Tove, Tove’s fall knocks over some candles {why were there candles? is it 1800s? was Tove gonna seduce Anders?}, sets the house on fire.
Regan pulls Anders out of the house, then goes back to save Tove. The police arrive. Anders lives.
EPILOGUE:
Hot Viking sex.
November 1, 2013 at 7:14 pm
OK that’s what I thought, but the line “I’ve got it all wrong” confused me. Thank you, I thought I was going nuts lol I’m going to miss reading this. Despite the fact I felt a little cheated when I found out it was fiction, I still in some ways feel akin to and protective of Regan. It has been fun conversing with you too throughout the course of this journey Anna ๐
November 1, 2013 at 8:39 pm
โIโve got it all wrongโ is the ‘unreliable narrator’ narrative device. Reagan’s theories could be all wrong AND/OR all right.
November 3, 2013 at 9:30 pm
This is Sweden – we always have candles!!
November 1, 2013 at 7:21 pm
We need an epilogue at some stage ๐ well done! I’m so glad there are no more dead bodies!
November 1, 2013 at 8:20 pm
Now I’m reading the whole story! Thanks for sharing.
November 1, 2013 at 11:17 pm
Wow-what a journey we’ve been on. And I’m out of breath rushing to catch up on the last five posts! Anna a great summing up for The Indecisive Eejit.
I have travelled along with you, Anna, and Frida all this time-it has been great using each other as sounding boards as we tried to solve it all, I shall miss it! And it looks like I’ve now overtaken Frida and beat her to the end-she is going to bring that bus to a stop in the morning!!
Applause to Claire for reeling us all in.
Oh and that Hot Viking Sex Epilogue-any chance of a webcam?
I know! I know! They’re not real!!!!
November 2, 2013 at 9:42 am
They are TOTALLY real, and I want the URL for that video feed too, please!
November 3, 2013 at 9:28 pm
Me three!
November 3, 2013 at 9:27 pm
You did! I have never been so mad to have a busy weekend!!
I can’t believe it’s all over, I’m going to miss all of you to, it’s been so fun!!
Adding my awww to Anna’s, I’m happy my Anders survived (though it would be too terrible if he didn’t!) and happy Regan saved Tove in the end because I think she is more crazy than evil even though she did terrible things of course. Rest in peace Hanna and Daniel and Farmer and enjoy your happy ever after Anders and Regan. Especially Anders. Even though Regan wasn’t the killer I still think you need some group therapy so just upload him Regan, we’ll nurse him back to health…
What am I going to do on the bus tomorrow?