SAW: Broken Heart

SAW: Broken Heart

A Short Story By

Travis Robinson aka MichaelVoorhees

Screen is black.

We open in a small and dirty room that looks very much like that from SAW. Sitting against the right side of the room is a man, who looks to be in his late twenties, very good looking. He is wearing very nice clothes that look like he had been somewhere important before ending up here. His right leg has a metal bracelet around it which is hooked to a chain which is around a pole against the wall.

To his right is a body that is tied to a chair, the hands behind the back of the seat. The person has a bag over their head, keeping their identity hidden. Against the wall opposite of the man is four more sitting on the ground with their hands behind their back and a bag over their head. Their clothes are also filled with what seems like stuffing, which keeps us from knowing whether they are male or female. Also, on each one is a heart that is drawn on their clothing exactly where their real heart is. Each heart is a different color.

The man continues to lie on his face, his hands out in front of him. Finally, his eyes open and he looks around the room, his vision a little blurry. He looks around seeing all of the bodies that are in the room with him. He slowly pushes himself up, but his eyes are now wide as he looks around, a million questions going through his mind. Next, he looks down to where he was laying and sees two objects.

One of the objects is a tape player. The second is a gun. The man picked up the gun, flipping open the chamber. Inside the chamber are five bullets. On the back of each bullet there is a heart drawn on by what looks to be a black marker. The man closes the gun, sets it back down on the ground and picks up the tape player. He looks close, seeing that a tape is already inside. He holds it close to his head as he pushes play. A moment later, a familiar voice comes out.

JIGSAW

Mr. Duncan, I guess that you are now awake and I do

not mean from sleeping. You are probably wondering

what you are doing in this room. Who are those that are

in there with you? You know all of those in that room with

you and you are the reason why they are here. I have been

following you for some time Mr. Duncan. Three years ago

you married you high school sweet heart. One year later

you became bored with her. Did she not excite you anymore,

Mr. Duncan? What ever the case, you took that ring from

your finger when ever you went out alone. This lead to the

first affair, followed by the next. With each passing day

and each girl you made a secret, your love for your wife

dwindled. Today we are going to see if you wish to save your

wife as well as yourself. The rules of the game are simple.

The others in the room are just a few of the women that you have

have had intimate encounters with. One of them is your wife, Shelly, the other four are those you cheated on her with. All forms of identification

have been concealed, but I’m sure you are aware of the heart that has

been placed on each one. With the gun that I have given you, you

must shoot those that you don’t believe to be your wife in the heart,

causing it to break, for that is what happened to your wife when I

told her what you had been up to. You have broken her heart, but

that is only metaphorically. Today it may be for real.

Duncan became angry as he looked down at the gun. He reached down and picked it up with his left hand as he continued to listen to the tape.

JIGSAW

However, I am sure that you noticed that there are five bullets

in the gun and you only need to kill four. This is where your

options come in. Shoot all five of the girls and you go home

alive. Or you can take the gun and shoot yourself through the

mouth. The same mouth that you used to tell hundreds of lies

to Shelly. Do this, and I will set Shelly free, but the others

will be left with you in this room until they die. If you are so

lucky to shoot the other four, I will release you and Shelly to

where you will be more great full for what you have. Once you

shoot one of them, a tape will drop into the tray next to you,

which you must play to see who is no longer with us. You have

your options and the tool to carry it out. You have ten minutes

to complete your task. Fail to do this and I will leave you in this

room forever. Let the game begin.

Duncan then looked up at the wall just above the person in the chair and sees that the time is six. He stops the tape recorder and sets it down where he picked it up. Next he picks up the gun, looking it over. His hand is trembling with fear as his face changes from anger to that of being scared as he knows what he has to do. He looks away from the gun at the girl that sits across from him.

There is no way he can tell which one it is, even their clothes are all the same. Looking around the room, he stops at the one that is sitting in the chair. Next, he looks back at the chain that is connecting his foot to the pole. He aims the gun at the chain, gently pulling the trigger.

BZZZZZZZ!

His body shakes uncontrollably as electricity goes through it. He does manage to hang on to the gun for the few seconds that this goes on. Once it finally stops, he is breathing heavily and still shaking. After a few seconds he slowly pushed himself up into a sitting position. He looked at the girls in front of him, raised the gun so that it was aiming at the second one. He lined it up with the black heart that was drawn on her chest. His body becomes still as he begins to pull back on the trigger.

BAM!

The bullet tears through the black heart, causing the body to jerk. The girl falls back against the wall, where there is a button. The body hits the button, and then becomes motionless. A tear goes down Duncan’s face as he lowers the gun. Next, he turns to look at the tray, waiting for the tape. His facial expression showing that he is being very impatient. He can’t wait much longer as his anxiety level goes up with each second.

Finally, the tape comes out of the shoot, lands in the tray, where he quickly picks it up, setting the gun down and grabbing the tape recorder. He opens the case, pulls out the first tape and slaps in the new one. Closing it, he pushes play and holds it close so he can hear everything clearly. First there is only static, but soon, Jigsaw’s voice can be heard.

JIGSAW

Congratulations, Mr. Duncan. You have just killed Betty

Freeman, which means that there is one less person to play

in the game.

Duncan showed a sign of relief as he listened to the tape. Once it was done, he stopped it, opened the recorder and took the tape out, setting it on the ground, next to the first one.

Duncan then seemed to daze off as he looked at the now dead body that had blood going down the chest and onto the stomach.

FLASHBACK: Betty Freeman stands in front of a restaurant, wearing a fancy dress that looks dark in the lack of light as she was leaning against the wall, just by the door during the middle of the night. She looks like she is in her early twenties and very good looking. A smile spreads on her face as she looks left seeing Duncan walking towards her, a smile on his face as well. He walks up to her pulling something out from behind his back. It is a jewelry box, which he holds out in front of him as he now stands in front of Betty. She smiles with glee, as Duncan opens the box revealing a diamond necklace. She looks up from the necklace at Duncan, her facial expression showing that she is completely surprised. She then quickly wraps her arms around him holding him tight, a small tear in her right eye.

BACK TO PRESENT: Duncan looks away from the dead body up at the clock on the wall. Two minutes has passed. He looks around the room once more, studying each of the remaining women, trying to decide which one to choose. He finally stops on one of them, picking the first girl, who has a green heart painted on her clothes. Duncan looks back down at the objects in front of him, staring at the gun.

He reaches out with a shaky right hand, grabbing the gun, now causing the gun to shake as well. He raised it so that it was aiming at the heart, but his hand was getting to be too shaky. The clock continued to tick away as he stabled his hand. Finally, his hand was under control, his trigger finger wrapping its self around the tiny lever of the gun. Slowly he pulled it back. The clock ticks to 6:03. Duncan jumps when Jigsaw’s voice comes from hidden speakers in the room.

JIGSAW

Time is running out Mr. Duncan. Moving at this speed will only

make the end of the game much more difficult.

Duncan gritted his teeth as if to say, shut the hell up. However, once the voice was gone, he took aim once again, steady and breathing very slowly.

BAM!

The bullet ripped through the clothing, taking off the top part of the green heart. Blood shot out almost as quickly going onto the clothes and a little on the floor. Duncan lowered the gun, breathing heavily, staring at the dead body as its head tilted to the right as it leaned against the wall. The tape could be heard coming down the shoot and landing in the tray. Duncan finally looked away, leaving the gun on the floor to grab the tape. He put it in the player, hitting play as he held it close.

JIGSAW

Well, looks like Shelly has a few more moments to continue

her life, as she does not have a bullet pierced in her heart.

Duncan stopped the tape, slowly setting the player back on the ground. Next, he looked back up at the two dead girls, whose faces he could only imagine in his head. That tear was still on his face, so he wiped it away with the back of his right arm. Next, he looked away from the two girls and up at the clock, the time now 6:05.

He slowly looked back over at the gun, which continued to lie on the cold, damp floor. With his left hand, he reached over, grabbed the gun and pulled it closer to him. He looked at the final three, stopping on the girl in the chair. He then looked at the ground, seeing that he might be able to reach her. He made his way towards that direction, followed by laying flat on his stomach. Then with his right hand he reached out, trying to grab the left leg of the girl.

SWOOSH!

All of the sudden large metal spikes came shooting out of the ground just in front of the chair, one of them cutting Duncan’s right hand. He pulled it away, giving small cries of pain as he held the bloody hand against his stomach. The spikes then slowly lowered back into the ground. Jigsaw’s voice came through the speakers again.

JIGSAW

I forgot to mention a few censor traps are set up in the room.

You might just want to stay put.

Duncan looked down at his hand, seeing that he was now missing his trigger finger. He quickly looked away, stuffing the hand deeper into his stomach, wrapping it up in his shirt. The clock continued to tick as he looked around the room, just trying to avoid looking at his hand. He finally looked back over at the girls against the wall, going back and forth between the two. He lifted the gun, which was shaky in his left hand, wobbling all around.

He went from the third to the fourth and back. He finally stopped on one of the girls. The fourth girl is where he stopped. She had a sky blue heart pasted on her clothing. He couldn’t keep his hand still as he tried to take aim. Sweat ran down his face as he continued to blink trying to focus on the target. Finally his hand became still as he closed his right eye, looking down the barrel of the gun with his left.

BAM!

The bullet tore through the bottom corner of the heart, entering the body of the person beyond the clothing. A moment later, blood came out of the wound. The body shook when the bullet entered, but went back to its normal sitting position, a split second later. Duncan lowered the gun, bowing his head as he began breathing normally. The small tape made its way down the shoot, landing safely in the tray.

With his right hand still held against his stomach, he used his left to pull himself back around with the help of his legs. He set the gun down in front of him, reached over, grabbing the tape out of the tray, setting it down next to the player. Next, he opened the player, pulled out the tape, replacing it with the new one. Slamming it shut, he pushed play, waiting for the voice.

JIGSAW

I’m sorry Mr. Duncan……

Duncan’s eyes went wide at the thought of what he had just done.

JIGSAW

But Jill Lyons is no longer with us. Then again, maybe it is

for the best, as she was the one who started pulling you away

from your wife. She was the first temptation. Your first

downfall.

Duncan stopped the player, once Jigsaw was done talking.

FLASHBACK: Duncan walks through a busy office building, looking at some papers. He finally gets to his office, where he closes the door, moves around the desk and sits in his comfortable chair. He continues to read the papers, even when the door opens, in walking Jill, a very good looking redhead in a bright blue suit. She shut the door behind her, with a smile on her face that she had something planned. In her hands are a few folders, which she sets down on the desk as she speaks.

JILL

Here are the plans you asked for Mr. Duncan. Is there anything

else I can get you?

She smiled and winked at him as he looked away from the papers he was reading. He smiled as well. A moment later she made her way around the desk, unbuttoning the top of her suit as she did.

BACK TO PRESENT: Duncan had that look on his face again that he was day dreaming. The clock ticked to 6:08 and Jigsaw’s voice came through the speakers once again.