"W...w...what have you done with Maxwell..." asks Mrs Fairfax.

The door then opens and Max walks in.

"Speaking of the devil.." he says he quickly steps forward, shoving the boy away as, again, he closes the door. This time slamming it.

"Mum?" the boy cries out. "What's going on?"

"Looks like this is turning into a little party." The intruder says he quickly pulls out a pistol and aiming at the pair of them.

"You, kid, go and sit with your mother. NOW!"

The bark sends the boy scurrying around the couch and into his mother's arms.

The man then, with slow measured steps, walks round to a chair that is facing the pair on the couch. He sits down.

Turning on the table lamp besides him, he directs the beam at his prisoners, away from him knowing that all they will be able to see is a shadow. He, on the other hand, can see them very clearly.

"Well. What am I going to do with you two?". He pulls something out of his jacket pocket and starts to screw onto the barrel of his pistol.

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