𝑊𝐴𝑁𝑇 𝑇𝐻𝐼𝑆 (locke and key gabe)

9 rewritten

"You're joking."

Avery rolled her eyes. "I'm dead serious, Kinsey. Look at the picture- he's Dodge. There's no doubt about it."

"It's not that," Kinsey said, "Well, it is that- but Lucas can't be Dodge?"

"Why? Haven't you heard of transgender, Kins, Jesus?"

"Lucas can't be Dodge because Lucas is dead." Kinsey corrected her with a glare.

Scot arched a brow, "Sorry, question," He butted, "Lucas is- was your dad's friend who looks like Dodge the scary key lady- yes?"

Avery nodded.

"Right, sorry, I'm just sort of new to all the magic shit. Anyway, please continue."

Avery scoffed quietly. "How do you know Lucas is dead? How do you even know who Lucas is?"

"There's something I didn't tell you." Kinsey admitted, "But I need you to promise not to get angry at me, and to let me explain myself before you have a go."

Avery cocked a brow. More secrets. This place was full of them. Secrets seemed to be driving a wedge between the Locke's.

"Promise?" Kinsey asked.

"Fine," Her sister said, "Now tell me."

She sucked in a breath, preparing herself for what she was about to tell her sister. "When me and Ty found Uncle Dunc's memories that had been taken from him, we looked at a few of them. Most of them were of different keys, we saw some strange things in there..." Kinsey trailed, "People died, there were...demons, a weird blue door, a fa-"

"A blue door?" Avery butted; her stomach had that sudden jolting sensation of dread or shock, or perhaps of both. 

Kinsey gave her a blank stare. "You said you wouldn't interrupt."

"I saw a blue door- in the sea caves. Gabe saw it too. There was like this...this light coming from behind it, this blue light." Avery told her, "Did you see what was there- behind the door?"

Kinsey nodded, "Just more blue light." She said. "But there were these... these golden bullets that shot out of it. There was a group of people, the ones on the Keepers of the Keys photo," Kinsey said, nodding to the latter of the two pictures the trio were huddled around. "The boy- Lucas, got hit by one of the bullets." 

Kinsey took a shaky breath, holding the picture of Lucas, Rendell and Duncan between two fingers, "The next memory I remember seeing of Lucas was where he died."

Avery swallowed, her throat bobbing nervously as she drummed her fingers against her side. "How did he die?" She asked.

Kinsey bit her lower lip anxiously. "That's the thing, Ave. Dad killed him."

It felt like the world stopped. Just for a fraction of a second. But it felt like the Earth stopped spinning, her heart stopped beating, everything went quiet. Rendell Locke, the man she had admired, loved, cared for was many things. He was the most compassionate and caring man Avery had met. He wasn't a murderer. He couldn't even hurt a spider.

"I didn't want to tell you...I know how close you and dad were and..."

"What happened?" Avery cut her off. "Tell me exactly what you saw."

"The Keepers of the Keys were in the basement." Kinsey said, "All crowding around Lucas. They were all arguing, crying, yelling about something. And dad picked up a sledgehammer, and he started hitting Lucas. I...I could hear the bones breaking and someone screaming. I don't know if it was Lucas or dad or Duncan. But dad cried. The whole time he cried and so did Lucas and so did everyone else there. But only Uncle Dunc yelled for him to stop...and-"