Sobbing as she ran blindly down hall, one arm wrapped protectively around her swollen abdomen, she ran into the guest bedroom, fumbling with the lock, before she finally managed to lock it. Leaning against the door as ragged sobs escaped her trembling form, she slid down to the floor, screaming when she felt someone kick at the door.

Never in her entire life would she expect she person she loved the most and the father of her child to try and murder her. It just didn't seem possible. Pressing her back up against the door, she cried, tears blurring her vision as her husband screamed obscenities from the other side of the door, shoving his full weight against it.

She knew it wouldn't be long before the door gave in. It was an old house and even with her full weight pressed against it, there was no way she could keep shut for very long. Pushing herself up onto shaking legs, she stumbled over towards the desk, which was practically right next to the door and managed to shove at least half of it in front of the door, but even with that little big of extra weight, she knew it /still/ wouldn't work.

Darwin had seemed like such a nice man when she had first met him. He had seemed like a perfectly nice guy, because how frightening could a man with the name Darwin really be? She had just finished working with the wonderful six graders she taught five days a week, when she bumped into some on the street.

Almost knocking her over, Darwin apologized over and over again, while offering to buy her some coffee to make up for bumping into like that. She agreed and after finding out this thirty year old college professor was single, she was quick to ask him out on a date.

They dated for two years and during those two years, Darwin was the perfect boyfriend. Sure, he had a temper but who didn't? Besides, it wasn't like he had ever raised his hand to her. If he ever had, Alicia would of broke it off immediately. She and Darwin married soon after he purposed on her birthday and three years into their marriage, she discovered she was pregnant after they had been trying for nearly two years.

Like before and after they got married, everything remained perfect, until about a month ago, when she went into the basement, somewhere she was forbidden to go because according to Darwin it was his private space where he worked on his novel and it needed to remain untouched for artistic purposes. She had listened to him until one day when their pet cat Cocoa wandered into the basement and she had no choice but to go down there -while seven months pregnant mind you- and go and fetch her.

She found Cocoa sleeping on some shirt in the corner and when she lifted up the shirt -thinking it was needing to be washed- she saw a deep red stain on it. Keeping it to herself and obviously startled and frightened by what she had found, she started to pay more attention to her husband and at least two or three more times during that month, he vanished during the night and didn't come home until the next night, retreating to his basement as soon as he arrived home.

Last night was when she had questioned him about it. He had gone crazy at the question and had /actually/ struck her, forbidding her to bring up the subject again. She did as he said, but decided it was time to leave, because something was obviously not right with the situation.

He caught her in the middle of packing and after telling him he was sick and she was going to go to the police, he snapped and started choking her. She managed to knee him in the groin, and quickly fled the room, but it was hard to run when you were eight months pregnant. He regained composure quicker then she had expected and took off after her, Alicia managing to close and lock the door to the guest bedroom right before he got to the door.

Crying out when the door was suddenly forced open, she bolted over towards the other side of the room, pressing herself up against the wall as she gazed fearfully at the person she had thought she knew. The person who had claimed to love her and to never, ever cause her any sort of harm.

"You've been a bad girl, Alicia." Darwin whispered, his head cocked to the side as he smiled mock sweetly at his lovely pregnant wife, now slowly stalking towards the shivering, sobbing mess of a woman he had once claimed to love. "I told you to mind your own business didn't I?" he taunted as he inched closer and closer towards her.

"Darwin.. please don't do this." she whimpered when she soon found him standing in front of her. "I-I promise I won't tell anyone. Please just let me and our baby go." Alicia added, flinching when she found herself pinned to the wall, her husband's hands gripping her shoulders tightly.

"Now why would I do that?" he teased, tightening his grip even more. "If I let you go, then you'll tell on me and if you do that I won't be able to kill anymore!" Darwin added, a slight whine in his voice.

Turning her head away in disgust, she cried when one of his hands flew up and grabbed her chin, jerking her head back to where it first was, her eyes staring straight into his. "I've been killing for years my dear Alicia and I've never had a problem until now." he whispered as he leaned closer to her. "...and I can't very well let this little problem -no matter who it might be- get away, now can I? If I did that you would ruin everything."

How long had her husband been killing and how could she not of known about it? Stifling a sob, she gasped when his hand wrapped around her neck and as corny as it sounds, her life did indeed flash before her eyes.

Nice. She had thought he was such a nice guy, that he would never hurt her. She was such a moron and should of known he was too good to be true. He stopped at the last moment, and just as she took a deep breath, he pulled away and grabbed her by the hair, dragging her into the hall and down the stairs.

Shoving her to the floor once they were in the living room, he giggled in delight when she screamed, her arms automatically flying towards her stomach where his baby lay. It would be a pity to kill the child along with his wife, but it was something that needed to be done. If he let the baby live, then Alicia, the love of his life would live and ruin all his fun.

That simply couldn't happen!

"Wait right there, darling! I'll be back in a minute" Darwin called from the kitchen as he retrieved a knife, shaking his head when he saw his wife hobbling over towards the front door. "Baby, why must you make things so difficult for yourself?" he asked, shaking his head as he stalked towards her once again. "If you had just done as I said, then you would be giving our baby a quick, painless death instead of a slow one."

Grabbing her hair, he yanked her backwards, stabbing her in the leg and letting her fall to the floor, relishing in her scream of pain. "I do still love you and our baby you know." Darwin mused, talking as if his wife wasn't laying sprawled out on the floor, sobbing hysterically. "It is my offspring and you are my wife, but sometimes we must all make sacrifices for something we love."

Lifting the knife up again, he brought it down again, stopping when Alicia started to speak. "D-Don't kill the baby, please Darwin! Go ahead and kill me, but don't kill my baby!" she pleaded pathetically.

"I'm no doctor, Alicia. There's just no way around it." he whispered, jabbing the knife in her stomach. ".. but I will grant your wish by giving our baby a quick death, so this way only you have to suffer." Darwin whispered as he leaned down next to his wife and smoothed her hair back as she continued to sob, gasp, and whimper pathetically. "See, Alicia? I can be merciful."

Darwin kept this up for a few more minutes, talking softly to his wife who lay bleeding on their living room floor. "I'm going to go upstairs and taking a relaxing bath okay dear? Don't die until I come back down!" he giggled as he headed upstairs, leaving his wife, who bleeding and slowly dying on their living room floor, to wonder how she couldn't of known her husband's true personality.

She could ask herself this question over and over again, but in the end she would never truly get an answer.