Well here it is, you asked for it so I have written it. This is an alternate ending to Hide and Seek. Please note that everything in the original chapter is the same up until Beth goes to the boat. We pick up from there and see what happens next. I warn you now this end has a completely different feel to the last one.

I did eventually go to look of the boat, I walked out of the front door for the first time and followed a well-trodden path down a small hill. The beach was in fact only about a quarter of a mile from the house but totally invisible from the surrounding forest. As I came out into the open I saw the beach, it was small more like cove but it was beautiful. I saw the boat about half way down the hill as I descended towards the beach. The smile that appeared on my face was the first true smile I had had in days and I practically ran to the small boat. It had a single deck and a cab, there was a trap door in the floor which led to a hold, the hold was empty. Moving on to the cab I looked around but found nothing. If Billy had leys for it they were probably as well hidden as the keys for the cages. My heart sank, I was back to square one again. It wasn't even like I was going in circles it was more like an endless straight line. One step forward two steps back.

I headed back for the house, approaching the garden from the forest no one spotted my approach as I wondered through the trees, not knowing whether I was bring with me good news or not. I walked up to Randy's cage and noted that his nose was buried in the book I had given him only a few days ago. He must have sensed my presence as he looked up all of a sudden and offered me a smile.

It faltered though as he registered the look on my face and I tried to cheer up for him. I didn't want Randy worrying about me and my emotions right now he had enough to deal with as it was.

"I found a boat." I said it just came out, it wasn't like I could really not tell them about it and Randy did smile.

"That's great, at least we know we can get off the island." He said but I could hear the hesitation in his voice.

"Yeah if I can find the keys for it. I swear I have been though every room in that house and I still haven't found a single key." I said sitting heavily down on the grass as Randy stepped towards me and sat down on his side of the bars.

"Then you only have one option left, well two I suppose but one is dangerous." He said and I looked at him. Waiting for him to continue I noted that Maryse and Ted had been talking quietly with one another far from us and I wondered what they were talking about.

"You either get the information out of Billy any way you can. Or you kill him and keep on looking, obviously if you never find the keys we will be in trouble." Randy said simply and I had a feeling that was what Ted and Maryse were discussing the possibility of spending the rest of their lives in a cage.

I nodded my head knowing that I had to get Billy to talk no matter what.

I went back into the house pondering what I could do to make Billy talk, I was in no hurry to start cutting bits off him however and then a plan started to form in my mind. I had heard a few things about how torture victims and prisoners of war were made to talk. One of the methods was drowning them repeatedly, causing them to panic but without permanent injury. I would use the bath tub, keep his hands locked behind his back and dunk him under until he almost lost consciousness. I could do it for hours, and he would need no time to recover. I knew this would be the way to get him to talk, the human body could only go through so much before it gave in, and I knew Billy wanted to live more than anything.

I am going to try it now, we have to have those keys, both to the boat and to the cages, but right now I will settled for the keys to the cages, I have a feeling they are both in the same place any way. Maybe while I am at it I will ask him why, why he does this, but in the end I won't risk losing the information on the keys to satisfy my own curiosity.

DAY ONE- AND THE WINNER IS

Curiosity killed the cat but for a while I was a suspect. Hello my name is William O'Conner but you can call me Billy, welcome to my island, and by the way I didn't kill the cat I just locked her back up where she belonged. Needless to say her plan of dunking me didn't work out quite how she planned, I don't think a broken nose was in the schematics, but I did warn her that I never lost. Anyway this is my diary now and I would like to tell you all about my favourite game. I call it Hide and Seek.

Well did I chose the right one or was this the true ending? Let me know as I am dying to know what you think. Thank you for reading XxX