Hole

Calum continues to chase Faith across the long and open field. She is close to the woods that separate this farmhouse and the next.

Faith yells as loud as she can with what little breath she has left, hoping someone, anyone, will hear her.

Calum suddenly remembers he has his gun tucked in to his belt. He is unsure of how he could have forgotten about it until now.

He was so worried about catching her that he forgot he could just shoot her to stop her brave escape.

He stops running and quickly gets the gun ready to shoot.

He fires three quick shots, all somehow missing Faith. He groans with anger and aims again, needing to hit her or she will escape.

He misses the next two shots as well. Calum takes a deep breath and fires several more times.

This round, a bullet lands in Faith's left calf. She falls forward on to her hands and almost immediately pushes herself back on to her feet and continues running.

Calum screams and continues running after her. He is too far away to shoot her now. He is frustrated that one bullet actually hit her and it wasn't even enough to stop her from running.

He is amazed at how she is still going.

The adrenaline pumping through Faith's body keeps her running despite the intense pain the bullet is causing her. With every step, the pain grows increasingly worse. The bullet is lodged deep within the muscle of her leg.

But Faith knows she has to keep going. She knows that if she stops, she will die.

Calum lifts his gun again, taking a chance to shoot while running. He is not sure how well it will work but he has to give it a chance. He has seen it done on tv so many times. He figures it isn't that hard to do.

He shoots twice, one bullet slices through the skin on Faith's upper arm, cutting right through a bone.

She stops running and collapses to the ground, screaming violently. She is in an indescribable amount of pain.

She can't fight the two bullet wounds. She was able to push through the pain of one but this second one has shattered her bone.

She tries to lift herself back up and continue running but she is in way too much pain to even move.

With Faith unable to move, Calum catches up to her finally and kneels on her chest, making it impossible for her to breathe.

He then takes the next twenty two and a half minutes to beat on her body with his fists. He takes out his rage in the form of his fists on her face.

By the end, Faith's face is nothing but a giant bruise covered in blood from a broken nose and a few broken teeth. He has broken both of her eye sockets and her jaw.

She has a few broken fingers from him stepping on her hands while adjusting his position.

Several of her ribs are broken from the blows Calum has given her in this specific fit of rage.

Faith is unrecognizable.

"I told you to obey me. You didn't listen. Now I need to punish you Faith. This is not how a wife is supposed to react to her husband."

Faith is confused. She would argue with him but she is physically and mentally unable.

Calum lifts faith up by her hair, dragging her to the location where he will punish her. He stands her up and holds her upright as he shows her a hole he prepared days ago in the ground just inside the woods.

"This is yours." He says as he pushes her forward into the makeshift grave.

Calum lifts the shovel out of the pillow of displaced dirt and begins shoveling it back inside while Faith lays motionless six feet below him.