The Acid Shower Trap and The Tightrope Trap (I made up my own traps because I’m weird as hell)
JUST AN FYI, THESE AREN’T ACTUAL TRAPS! I JUST CAME UP WITH THEM (THESE SHOULD BE IN SAW XI)
This fic takes place in the events after Saw X but before Saw III
Long ass backstory but it’ll be worth it
Content warnings: Mentions of drug use, mentions of death, torture, cursing (lots of it), mentions of reckless endangerment, usage of a weapon, threatening hostages, prank gone wrong, mentions of psychiatric help, mentions of suicide, mentions of vomiting (emetophobia)
Characters included: Amanda Young, Adam Stanheight (obviously, who else is going to take the pictures?) Mark Hoffman, Lawrence Gordon, Kelsey Marrow (my own character) Noel Marrow (my own character) Leo (my own character) Detective Nelson Danson (my own character) Noel’s friends (my own characters, Nicholas, Edwin, Joey and Toby)
Yes I made Kelsey and Noel siblings. We don’t ever see siblings in the saw franchise, and plus I cannot come up with my own names
Soft Amanda because why not. She’s also 21 years old
Synopsis: Two siblings: one man, one woman, two different traps, one a criminal, the other a reckless prankster. One escapable trap, the other rigged (I can imagine it being rigged, need another or more opinions on it)
Kelsey Marrow ran down the street clutching a duffel bag. The bag scraped against her as she ran into a deserted alleyway and jumped over a tall fence. The sound of police sirens rang in the street as multiple cars drove at once.
Her black heeled boots clicked on the cement as she ran farther away from the cops and into a bank. She put a bandana over her face and stormed in. She held a gun up and shouted.
“Nobody fucking move!” She then turned to the panicked tellers at the desk in front of her. “Give me the damn money or you’ll all have this place painted with your fucking brains! And I will not hesitate!” She shouted as she held the gun up to each of the bank tellers’ heads. The tellers panicked and shoved the money onto the counter and into her duffel. “I know you have more! Give it to me!” Kelsey shouted as she paced around the bank aiming her gun at random people in the building.
The alarm went off. She cursed, snatched the money, zipped up the bag and started to run.
“Damn it!” The police sirens became louder. She shot the gun up into the air and disappeared down a dark alley. She stopped and leaned over gasping for breath. Kelsey opened the bag and saw the multiple bundles of cash laying before her. “Oh baby, you’re going to be rich.” She muttered to herself.
She walked into a building where a tall man leaned against a table. He looked up at Kelsey. “Hey, Kelsey.” The man greeted.
“Hey, Leo. Guess who went big tonight.” She opened the bag and poured it onto the table. Leo picked up the bundles and his eyes widened.
“Holy shit Kelsey!” He exclaimed. “You got all of this just from the bank?”
“Nope, I stole from the jewelry store, and that strange bookshop where my mother goes.” Kelsey pawed through the wads of cash excitement in her eyes. “I even stole a little souvenir for you.” She fished out a ring and threw it in Leo’s direction. She then pulled a diamond necklace out of the bag and placed it on her neck.
“Oh, wow. It’s even in my style palette.” Leo fawned over the ring. He held his hand up under the fluorescent lights.
“See. I practically know everything about you.” Kelsey walked to the window and peeked out of it. “Sooner or later the cops will find us. One of us will be far out of town and the other will be rotting in a prison cell.”
Leo turned on the tv and the channel was set to the news. A male reporter was talking to the screen.
“We have a latest update on the Jigsaw murders. It seems although three bodies were found at a desolate warehouse in Mexico City, we have found four survivors, although one is in very critical condition.”
“Jesus.” Leo muttered. “Jigsaw back at it again?”
“Can’t be. Jigsaw’s dead.” Kelsey rotated and cracked her neck as she looked at the tv. On the screen to the left was a picture of John, a woman and a little boy. The boy and John was covered in blood while the woman, who had a bowlcut stood in between them, her arms wrapped around their shoulders.
Suddenly, the doors to the warehouse opened and multiple cops walked in holding their guns.
“Put your hands up where we can see them!” One of the male officers ordered.
Kelsey and Leo turned to face the officers with confident smirks on their faces. Their hands rose up high. A man wearing a black suit with a badge near his heart walked over.
“Holy hell, Kelsey Marrow.”
“Detective Assface Danson.” Kelsey twitted.
Meanwhile, in the interrogation room, Kelsey kept her arms crossed and her eyes low but maintaining eye contact with Detective Danson.
“Well, well. Never thought I’d see Kelsey Marrow in here yet again.” Detective Nelson Danson set a file down on the table and leaned against the wall. He threw his hands up in defeat. “So, Kelsey, why are you back here?”
“I think you damn well why I’m back here Assface!” Kelsey snarled.
“How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that?” Officer Danson asked. “Especially since I’m an officer of the law.”
“Whatever.” Kelsey sighed before slouching down in the chair. Her eyes rolled to the ceiling. “And you’re a detective. That’s a downgrade if you ask me.”
“Look, I don’t ever see Noel in here, just you. What the hell is just going on?” Nelson asked as he sat down in front of Kelsey.
“Yeah, Noel changed! I haven’t!” Kelsey slammed her fists down on the long white table. “Besides, he only does pranks now.”
“Yeah, pranks that have killed people.” Detective Danson reached into a cupboard and pulled out another file. He opened it on the table. “See? Your brother is not innocent but he knows how to play the game.”
“Oh please.” She said. “I’m better at him for sure.”
Detective Danson leaned closer. His eyes narrowed as he spoke.
“Then why are you here for the third time this week Kelsey?” He then backed away taking the files and putting them back in their designated spots on the cupboard. “Teens and even adults with wild criminal records like yours wind up in prison, juvie or hell, even receive the death sentence, punishable by law.”
“Oh please. You wouldn’t kill me.” Kelsey crossed her arms and leaned back. “You wouldn’t be able to live with yourself.”
“Well lucky for you.” Detective Danson let out a tsk sound. “If it comes to it, I wouldn’t be performing the deed. That would be up to the prison warden.”
Suddenly an officer ran in. His face reflected panic and sheer fear. “Danson.” He shouted.
“There’s multiple bodies down at Erie University.” The officer then ran out of the room.
“Son of a bitch.” Danson muttered. “Alright, I’m on my way.”
As Danson leaves, another officer; Officer Leroy walks into the interrogation room and shuts the door.
As Detective Danson and other officers arrive at the Erie University campus, multiple police cars surrounded one of the many frat houses.
Parts of the house were burnt and crumbled. Coroners loaded many bodies out of the house, bodies that were severely burnt.
“Well, things have changed since I’ve been here.” Danson muttered.
“You used to go here boss?” Officer Leroy asked.
“Yes. I was known as the Ted Danson of the university.” Danson flicked open a notepad and walked towards the scene.
“Because you were oh so handsome?”
“No, well yeah, but because I looked exactly like him.” Danson smirked. “Oh man, the girls in the Phi Gamma sorority house were in love with me.”
Another detective lifted up the crime scene tape for Danson and Leroy to walk through.
“James! What the fuck is going on?” Danson asked.
“Multiple bodies, severely burnt, and obviously dead.” Detective James stated as more bodies continued being wheeled out in body bags.
“We did manage to see security camera footage. Multiple teenage boys holding fireworks, firecrackers, you name it.” James held a tape and placed it in Danson’s hands.
“Excellent! Excellent work James!” Danson praised as he and Leroy walked into the sorority house.
“Oh yeah, the Phi Gamma sorority house. This was where the love of my life pledged.” Danson walked around the burnt house.
“You had a girlfriend boss?” Leroy followed behind him.
“She was more of a crush, but we did go out a few times.”
“Jane Horditch. Man, she was beautiful.” Danson saw a picture frame of multiple women posing in front of the house wearing bunny costumes.
“What happened to her?” Leroy asked as he looked at the picture as well.
“She was killed. A majority of the girls in this house were killed in a slashing.” Danson explained. “And those who did survive were either in a facility, or couldn’t take it and ended their lives.”
“Like, killed themselves?”
“Yep.” Danson continued looking at the picture.
“Was Jane in this picture?”
“Yes. She was right there.” He pointed a blonde girl in the middle of the group.
“Wow, she was gorgeous.” Leroy fawned.
“Well she’s dead. And the killer was eventually caught and given the death sentence so that gave me some closure at least.” Danson out the picture down on the burnt table and walked out of the house. “I think we have everything we need for this case.”
Noel Marrow and his friends were running on the road laughing and throwing firecrackers everywhere.
“Dude, I could get used to this. Hanging out, fucking around.” Noel laughed.
“Definitely.” One of his best friends, and frat house member, Nicholas said as he threw a firecracker directly over Noel’s head while laughing.
The group of five stopped in front of the Phi Gamma sorority house crime scene. Their faces paled.
“Shit, look what we did.” Another frat member, and friend, Joey said as a piece of the house tumbled down onto the cement with an echoing thump.
“Joe, man, relax. No one knows we did it.” Noel flaunted as he continued throwing firecrackers.
“Guys, I don’t like this.” Toby, another one of the boys said as he ran a hand up and down his arm nervously.
“Toby, man, relax, breathe.” Nicholas placed his hand on Tony’s arm. “You’re okay, besides you’re not holding firecrackers so you’re okay.”
“Oh shit, there’s a cop coming out way.” Another of the boys, Edwin, said as Detective Danson walked over.
“Well, well, if it isn’t Nolan Marrow.” Danson crossed his arms.
“Well, well, if it isn’t knockoff Ted Danson.” Noel gave back the same attitude and crossed his arms as well.
“I would like to ask you some boys some questions, if that’s alright.” Danson observed the firecrackers in the boys’ arms.
Toby let out a quiet whimper earning a dirty look from Noel. Noel then cleared his throat. “All jokes aside, what can we do for you Detective Danson?”
“I have reason to believe that you boys were involved in the murders of multiple sorority girls at the Phi Gamma house tonight.”
“Sir, I-I would like to say t-that, I wasn’t even there.” Toby stuttered. “I was in my dorm working on my English project.” Toby bit his nails nervously.
Danson glanced at the very nervous Toby. “What’s your name son?”
“T-Toby sir.” Toby replied.
“Well, Toby, perhaps I can speak to you first?”
“S-sure Sir.” Toby followed Danson to a tree. He looked up at the detective nervously.
“Look, son, I know how college works, especially frat boys. They like to manipulate innocent people into doing sorority and frat pranks, and hurt others.” Danson began. “I just want to know if they’re doing the same to you.”
“W-will I be in trouble?” Toby stuttered.
“You won’t, but if you’re hiding something, or you’re involved in the death of those multiple sorority girls, then you could.” Danson tapped his pen against the notepad.
“I used to be a straight A student before I met them. They said I can be popular and respected.” Toby pushed up his falling glasses. “But now, I can never do my work because Noel and his friends are always dragging me to frat parties and making me into a bad boy.”
“Toby, have they ever physically harmed you, or threatened to harm you if you didn’t comply by their rules?” Danson asked.
Toby glanced at the others before nodding quickly. His cheeks turned red and tears welled in his eyes. Danson noticed right away.
“Hey, hey Toby.” Danson placed a hand on his shoulder. “Look, you’re not in trouble. I just want you to answer this one question and I can send an escort with you back to your dorm okay?”
“Did you know any of the girls personally?”
“No. But I did see a few in my classes.”
“And you never talked to any of them?”
“No. I’m too shy to talk to anyone.”
“Okay. Thank you Toby.” Danson held his wallow talkie to his mouth.
Meanwhile, the other boys were watching.
“Shit, I wonder what’s going to happen to little Toby.” Joey commented as another officer walked over.
“Probably cracking as we speak.” Edwin shook his head. “I knew he’s too weak.”
“Hey! You don’t talk about my damn brother like that!” Nicholas whacked Edwin on the shoulder.
“Dude chill.” Edwin held up his hands. Nicholas took a deep breath and saw an officer place their hands on Toby. He ran over to the cop.
“Hey! What are you doing with my brother?” Nicholas asked.
“Just taking him back to his dorm. Danson’s orders.” The officer replied as he and Toby walked away.
Nicholas exhaled a sigh and walked back to his friends.
“So, what’s happening?” Noel asked.
“He’s going back to his dorm. Poor fella.” Nicholas ran his hand through his hair. Danson walked over.
“Let’s go to the station so I can interview you each individually.” Danson led to the group to two different squad cars and drove to the station.
Kelsey sat in the interrogation room bored. Her feet were up on the table.
“When can I leave?” She shouted at the cop who was watching her across the table.
“As soon as Danson gives me the heads up.” The officer replied. Kelsey groaned and leaned back on her chair.
She looked around the white nearly empty room dwindling her fingers on the desk.
The door opened and Danson walked in. “We have four boys here who might’ve been involved in the Phi Gamma homicide.”
“Bring them in.” The officer then turned to Kelsey. “You and Mr. Smith can leave.” He was referring to Leo.
“Great.” Kelsey walked down the hall until she spotted Leo walking out of another interrogation room.
“They let you go too?” She asked.
“Yeah. They said I was only aiding and abetting which wasn’t as bad as committing the crime itself.”
“Well, Danson found the suspects for a homicide at the Erie University Phi Gamma sorority house.”
Leo let out a whistle through his lips. “Shit, that’s crazy.”
“Yeah. Apparently multiple bodies were found, severely burnt and dead.”
As Kelsey and Leo were talking, the power suddenly goes out all over the station.
“What the hell?” Kelsey asked. Suddenly she and Leo felt pricks in their necks and fell unconscious.
Nicholas, Edwin, Noel and Joey felt pricks in their necks and also fell unconscious onto the interrogation room floor.
At the dorm, Toby was doing homework until the room grew pitch black.
“Hello?” Toby asked nervously as he walked around the dark room with his hands out. He felt plastic in front of him.
“Hello?” Toby asked again before falling unconscious.
A few minutes later, Noel woke up in a minuscule glass shower with multiple spouts. He laid on the uncomfortable shower floor.
“Mm?” He groaned as he opened his eyes. He saw the shower and panicked. In front of him, he saw Nicholas, Edwin, Joey, and even Toby tied in chairs in front of him.
“What the fuck is this?” Noel shouted.
“Why is Toby here?” Nicholas asked. “He didn’t do anything!”
As the group shouted in panic, a door opened and a woman with brown hair, wearing a red shirt, cargo pants, and black boots walked over to the group.
“Hello gentlemen.” The woman, Amanda, greeted.
“Who the fuck are you?” Noel shouted from the open shower. He noticed a monitor inside the shower. Kelsey and Leo were on it unconscious still. “What is my sister doing there?”
“Well, I’m Amanda.” She adjusted her hair. “And this is your punishment.” Her tone turned dark. “I knew you were responsible for the Phi Gamma homicide. My associate and close friend Adam caught you all.” She then turned to Noel. “Your sister’s also facing her own test. A punishment for her actions.”
Adam Stanheight walked in holding his camera and pointed to the photos surrounding the walls of the room.
Amanda walked over to Toby and crouched in front of him. Toby whimpered in fear. “Don’t be afraid.” She whispered. “I know you’re too much of an innocent boy to do this. That’s why you’re not in the pictures.” Amanda then stood up and faced the boys.
“Do we all die?” Joey asked.
“Not all of you.” Amanda smirked. “But let’s find out.” She flipped a switch and she and Adam left the room. The tape recorder on the wall beside Toby activated.
“Hello gentlemen.” The unsettling voice of John Kramer, The Jigsaw Killer, echoed through the recorder. “The reason why you’re here is because you have used your reckless personalities and took them too far, resulting in the deaths of innocent people, especially the Phi Gamma homicide at Erie University where you all attend. As well as the deaths of your reputations. However I do know that one of you is innocent, and we all know who it is.” Everyone glared at Toby. “But, let’s just say, Noel, you would be cleansed of your sins, but have constant reminders. If you can manage to confess to your sins before the timer is up, then you and your friends can be free. If you don’t, well, sin will catch up and you will be no more. Live or die, make your choice.”
The shower spouts activated one at a time and water splashed down on Noel. “What the hell?” He asked.
Suddenly the water changed and his skin started to burn. “Oh fuck!” He shouted.
“It’s acid!” Toby shouted. “Hydrochloric acid! That stuff eats through human flesh in seconds!”
“Fuck!” Noel shouted. His skin started showing red splotches.
“Confess! You have to confess!” Edwin shouted.
Kelsey woke up in a dark room on top of a high platform. She groaned as she regained consciousness “What the fuck is this?” She shouted in the dark space.
“Kelsey? Is that you?” Leo shouted.
“Yeah! It’s dark in here! I can’t see or move!” Leo whimpered as the lights suddenly turned on.
Kelsey had a collar on her head with a wire that connected around her head. In front of her was a thin tightrope.
Leo sat on the other side of the tightrope tied to a chair with multiple bits of barbed wire around him.
A recording turned on, once again John Kramer’s voice echoing.
“Hello, Kelsey. In front of you is a tightrope. Like all circus performers, you must cross it under the time limit or else your associate will perish. If you fall, the rope around your neck will tighten. The rope is incredibly thin, so this challenge will be harder. But back to to the subject, you’re here because of your history of breaking the law. Your associate has never committed any crimes himself, except help you, which by definition of law, is called aiding and abetting. You’re guilty of many things Kelsey Marrow.” The recording paused. “If you look at the monitor to your right, you will see your brother Noel Marrow and his friends in a challenge of their own. Noel’s history of pranks and negligence has led him here, you two are not innocent as people has perceived you to be. Now, Kelsey, you will have sixty seconds to cross this long tightrope or else you and your associate will be left here to rot. Live or die, make your choice.”
The recording ended and a timer ticked down.
“This is insane.” Kelsey stepped onto the rope and her body started tipping to the left.
“Even out your body weight Kelsey!” Leo shouted.
“That’s what I’m fucking doing!” Kelsey shouted as she leaned forward, with her arms out wide to her sides.
The timer ticks echoed through the room increasing the tension.
“Leo, oh my God!” Kelsey walked a bit more down the rope. The rope creaked and bounced under her weight. “I can’t do this!”
“Kelsey, yes you can. You used to pretend to do this all the time!” Leo wriggled in the chair. The barbed wire pierced deeper into his skin. “Don’t go fast, but also hurry!”
As Kelsey walked faster on the tightrope, her feet slipped and she fell. Her hands gripped onto the rope and her body was suspended above the floor.
“Use your muscles to hold yourself up!” Leo shouted. “Come on Kelsey! Use your damn muscles!” The timer then ticked down to 30 seconds.
“Oh fuck!” Kelsey finally made it onto the rope and took a deep breath. “Fuck this!” She started to run.
Her feet slipped and she fell off the rope. Her hands didn’t grip the rope in time, and the rope around her neck tightened snapping it.
The timer ticked down and her body limped.
“Oh my God, Kelsey!” Leo sobbed as the timer ended and an alarm echoed. The wire twisted around his body crumbling the skin and bones.
In the shower room, Noel screamed as bits of his flesh peeled off and onto the shower floor. He also heard the sound of a neck snapping on the monitor. “Oh God, Kelsey!” He shouted and sobbed. His sister was dead, as well as Leo.
“Fuck, Noel! Confess damnit!” Joey shouted.
“I did it. My friends and I, minus Toby, killed the girls of the Phi Gamma sorority house! It was us!” Noel shouted as he started to sob. “We also did stupid shit! I killed an innocent guy in a recent hit and run. I was drunk, please! Turn the shower off!”
The spouts turned off. Noel looked down at his body and sank down to the shower floor. His intenstines were all over the floor and blood was everywhere.
“Fuck! Noel’s dead!” Nicholas shouted.
Toby started sobbing and covered his eyes.
Edwin and Joey cursed and screamed. The doors opened and Amanda walked back in with two men. “Congratulations. You’ve confessed, but unfortunately Noel wasn’t so lucky. Kelsey and Leo weren’t either.”
The men, and Amanda, walked over to the boys and untied them. “Have you learned your lesson?” The brunette man, Mark, asked.
“Good.” Mark said in a Greek accent. “If you ever do anything like this again, you won’t like the outcome.”
The blonde, Lawrence, walked over to Toby and wiped his soaked tear-stained glasses.
Toby stood and shakily walked to a wall and leaned against it. He leaned down and vomited onto the floor as he sobbed.
“Toby!” Nicholas shouted as he ran to his brother.
Amanda ran over and held Toby up. “Hey. Here, I’ll handle him okay?” She faced Nicholas and then to Toby. “I got you.” She whispered in his ear.
She led Toby to a private room and sat him down on a bench. Toby’s head hung down as his glasses swooped off his nose.
“Hey, Toby.” Amanda placed her hand on his shoulder.
“Yeah, Amanda?” Toby muttered.
“No.” Toby started sobbing. “I witnessed a man die and I snitched on my brother and friends to a cop!” He started blubbering and stuttering. “I-I’m the w-worst brother ever!”
Amanda crouched down and held a wipe to Toby’s mouth and wiped him clean. “You’re okay Toby. You’re okay.” Amanda kissed his head and held him tightly.
“I-I cracked under the pressure.” Toby’s shaky hands reached up to his glasses.
“It’s okay, Toby.” Amanda hugged him again. “I’ll take you back to your dorm, okay? You’ll just have to show me where it is.”
The detectives ran into the warehouse and entered the tightrope room first. They saw Kelsey’s hanging body and Leo’s bloodied body on the chair.
“Jesus.” Danson muttered as the detectives took pictures around the room.
As he paced around, Leroy ran in. “Danson, there’s another body in the next room.”
“Son of a bitch!” Danson cursed under his breath as he walked into the other room where the acid shower was. He walked over to the open shower and took pictures of Noel’s body. “Shit.”
Other detectives walked in and observed the scene. “This has to be a jigsaw crime, Danson.”
“Jigsaw is dead!” Danson slapped his sides. “This has to be something else!”
Nicholas, Edwin and Joey were sitting in an interrogation room. “Do you think Toby’s okay?” Nicholas asked.
“Yeah. Besides, that hottie Amanda is taking care of him.” Joey smirked.
“You guys are fucking weird.” Nicholas snarled as the door opened revealing three cops.
“You guys are under arrest for the murders of Cassie, Ashley, Constance, Alesia’s and Layla Malone.” The cop said as they tied handcuffs around each of the boys’ wrists.
