Hello my lovely, lovely people!

This story has been my literal baby for the past two years and it's finally ready! I am so excited!

I decided I wanted to write this story in its entirety instead of being stuck with writer's block or suffering from no imagination and letting down you lovely readers. I warn you that this story is not happy and readers who have read my other stories might be a little surprised heh heh. In my opinion this is SAW, you cannot downplay the horror or what happens to these people. It only works if it is real and I've tried to capture this in my story. But this isn't a blood fest either haha! It has its comedy, love and all the rest like every story needs.

I don't particularly want to rate this at M, but again SAW is violent and bloody and contains a lot of swearing and deadly scenarios. Ivy is far from being a mary-sue golden character (fingers crossed) and she will be in her fair share of trouble.

I really hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 1

As incessant drip, drip, dripping sound was the first noise Tess' subconscious registered. A whimper escaped her lips as a dull ache emanated from her back, making Tess desperately want to move her limbs or arch her back. Her stomach clenched and growled loudly making her randomly think of the last time she ate something, as she slowly started to become aware of where she was, through the bleak gloom in front of her. She was sitting with her back pressed against something semi-soft, sending her gut reeling with a sickening feeling of the utmost dread, as she heard screams and panicked voices surrounding her.

"Carl. Carl is that you?" Cried a voice to Tess' left.

Fear of the pure unknown forced Tess to keep her eyes firmly shut, hoping her mind might have been able to assess more of the situation before she had to face it. A shaking, jolting movement to her right made her jump, "Ava, are you...behind me?"

"Fuck!"

"Hey bitch, are you behind me?"

Before Tess could even attempt to quell her reaction the cries around her increased as shuffling directly in front of her pricked at her ears. "Stop pretending your not awake and open your fucking eyes." Spat a male voice from the right, it sounded extremely close. Tess' body betrayed her as she wondered whether or not the voice was referring to her. Tess' eyes shot open.

A rusted, slightly blurry seat blocked most of her view, though Tess could make out figures seated in front of her. Looking down, a harness imprisoned most of her body with two metal bars on each side, which Tess thought should be taken hold of. As Tess' eyes adjusted to the severe dark her right hand began to throb with a cramping pain around the long implement in her hand. It took her a few mental seconds to register the gleaming scarlet button on the end. Tess' eyes flicked in confusion to the man seated next to her; he was trapped in exactly the same way as she, with a resigned look on his face. Unable to resist the urge any longer, Tess tugged wildly at the harness, turning viciously and painfully to the left only to see two women also holding onto buttons. The four of them exactly the same. Tess' mind finally clicked into full working order as she curled her free hand familiarly around the metal bar. They were all strapped into the restraint bars of a roller coaster. A young woman on the far end of the row's mascara had seeped down her face as she chocked back tears. Tess turned back to the man who raised an eyebrow, "So Sleeping Beauty is finally awake."

"Where are we?" Tess asked helplessly, "What are we doing..."

"Been trying to figure that out too." The man answered quickly. Whimpering came from the seat in front of the man. Tess finally began to see they were situated in the ride's station. It was all around her, the queue lines and the operators box, the lights above and the track in front. The coaster looked as if it had been abandoned for years, everything was covered in layer upon layer of dirt and grime, rusted metal and a sharp metallic smell.

"We're on a roller coaster." She stated stupidly in slow disbelief.

"No shit Sherlock." Sneered the woman next to Tess' left.

"Who is that? Jack who is next to you?"

"Some woman. She was faking it, trying to make it look like she was still out cold." Replied the man, now identified as Jack. He was staring at Tess as if assessing her.

"Why are we here?" Whined the woman with mascara running down her face, she struggled against the restraint bars, trying to push them up to no avail before hanging her head in shame.

"We'll get out baby, you'll see." Came the man, Carl's voice from in front of the woman. Tess began to work out the configuration. She and her fellow riders were clearly sitting in the cars' second and final row with heads and voices in front of her proving that they were not alone. And the odds seemed that everyone knew the person behind, or in front of them.

"When? Why am I even here?"

"Shut it!" Cried Jack, apparently deciding he was going to be the leader of the group. "Is everyone awake now?"

'No, theres still the guy in front of the woman who just woke up." Replied a voice from the front row.

Tess peered closer at the little she could see of the man in front of her, finally making out the familiar messy blonde hair and polo shirt. Ice filled her system. "Does his shirt have a horse logo on the front? Ralph Lauren?" Tess was terrified of the shaky voice that issued from her own lips.

"Hang on, yeah. Think it's a horse."

The ice doused Tess till she felt numb inside and out. "It's my husband, Rory."

Jack who seemed to have already worked this out was now trying to use his free hand to pull the button device from his other hand, unfortunately there was no possible way for him to reach it.

"So we all know the person in front or behind of us in some way, in some kind of relationship." Piped up the woman who had snapped at Tess earlier.

"But what is this?" Came Carl's voice.

"Yeah why are we strapped into an ancient roller coaster?" Asked the man in front of the woman. Tess wished she could see their faces.

"Umm hello, the news?" Cried the same woman's voice. "I think we are the latest Jigsaw victims." The woman tugged at her restraint as if to emphasise her point.

The woman in front of Jack screamed, "Jack get over here you fucking whimp and get me out of here!"

"I wouldn't get you out of here even if I could." Spat Jack, Tess had never heard someone speak with such animosity in their voices.

"No no no no, this can't be happening."

"We're in one of Jigsaw's traps?"

"This is what he does!"

"Yo, I have done fuck all wrong!"

Panic erupted all around Tess with people trying to shut other people up and others just opening fearing for their lives. Tess blindly recalled the snippets of stories she had heard on the news of the infamous Jigsaw killer and his murderous series of bloody tests. Naturally Tess never paid much attention as she never figured it could ever happen to her. "Hey, hey the guy is waking up!" Tess' eyes rooted themselves to the stirring figure of her husband in front of her. Unlike herself however he awoke in a fit of hot white rage, tearing at his restraints like a rabid animal so the other people on the front row were all shouting at him to calm down, eventually he too gave up and began asking questions.

"Deja vu anyone?" Remarked Jack dryly, no one laughed. Tess zoned out of the present conversation again and began to gaze at the small space in front of her, that showed what was ahead of them, she did not like how the ride would lead them straight into a tunnel. She noticed the camera right in front of her and sneered at it darkly. Tess did not know much at that moment, only that she wanted to be the first one to know exactly when they were moving, and keeping her eyes ahead and completely quiet was how she felt the closest thing to safe at that moment.

She was irritatingly jogged into Rory's conversation as he had begun to call out to her. Like she had for most of their relationship, Tess felt the urge to be nothing but silent.

"You're not lying are you man? The bitch really is behind me?" Shouted Rory, now trying to turn around to see Tess for himself.

"Yeah she is, she's just not talking." Answered Jack, he was starting to really irritate Tess. He seemed like a rotten snitch to her.

"Little slut." Snarled Rory and Tess flinched at the harsh words.

"Oi buddy don't call your wife that." Frowned Jack disapprovingly.

"Oh brilliant, even in a Jigsaw trap you find ways to make me want to stab you." Spat Jack's wife, "Flirting with that flake."

"I am not flirting with anyone Heather." Answered Jack, a little meeker than before.

"Like the whole car wants to hear about your marital problems." Glared Carl from the opposite end of the ride.

"Tess if you're there, answer me. Now." Tess could hear the note of danger and warning in his voice. "TESS ANSWER ME."

"Answer him!" Screamed the mascara woman. Her screams were amplified as Tess felt the cart move underneath her and Tess instantly scolded herself for not having had her eyes fixed on that black space that was slowly creeping nearer and nearer. The station became a slow scrolling landscape and screams went off in every direction. All Tess knew was that she was in extreme danger.

"We're gonna die!"

"No, no." Shouted Jack as they were plunged into the darkness of the tunnel, "It's not his style to kill us for no reason. We have to be tested."

"I haven't done anything wrong!" Cried Rory, struggling against his bonds once again.

"He might have changed his tune!"

A light illuminated a small alcove and the car screeched to a halt besides a disturbed looking puppet on a tricycle. He had soulless red eyes that seemed to pierce all of them at the same time and a black tux, Tess suppressed a shiver as Billy the Puppet opened his mouth to address them.

"Hello and welcome. Right now you are probably wondering why you are here and while the back row of this roller coaster have committed no unjust crimes, the people sat in front of you are the reason and cause as to why you are here. Each of you have been domestically abused by the person sitting in front of you, yet you have continually allowed them to mistreat you. You may think of it as a marriage duty, I see it as cowardice. But now I give you the opportunity to do something about it. This car holds eight people, by the end of your ride it will only hold four. As the ride is in motion the back row will hold the ultimate choice of whether the front row will live or whether their ride will end here. You must all work together and push your buttons by the time the ride has reached the top of its vertical climb. At that point the rotating blades on the other side of the drop will pierce the front row, ending their lives. But if one of you decides to save your abuser, then as a row you will suffer the fate intended for your loved one. Will you end your deadly relationships and move past the loyalty you feel towards these people, or will your silence claim you forever. Make your choice. Live or die."

Screams deafened Tess' ears as she tried to let Jigsaw's message get through to her, the people in front of her were pleading desperately or in some cases demanding to be saved. Tess flinched as the memory of a drunk Rory slicing a knife through the air at her.

"What kind of sicko would do this!" Screamed her husband and Tess' eyes flickered to the menacing button in her hand. The car was moving once again, creaking as it turned the corner where a bright digital clock was counting down the time till they died. They had a minute left. The woman on Tess' right was laughing manically and Tess quickly deduced that Jigsaw had already made her insane, her husband or boyfriend, or whatever relationship he was, was begging her not to do anything but she seemed to be in a whole other world. She certainly did not seem as if she was being abused in her relationship, Tess felt like a mouse sitting next to her.

"It's so easy!" She cried, laughing as she looked at what was ahead of her. Two pendulums were swinging from side to side and the track looked as if it was about to send them right through it. Tess screamed along with everyone else as her finger flexed involuntarily nearer to the button, the woman kept on laughing. A loud, low sounding beep went off and Tess glanced quickly to her left. The woman had pressed her button, the first to do so, and a light that Tess hadn't noticed before lit up in front of the woman, confirming her choice. "All this time I could have ended it, but I didn't. But I am not going to let myself die for you!" She screamed insanely as her abuser let out a stream of curses. Tess marvelled at just how simple it had been for her, to kill someone she was meant to love. But that was her own problem, she loved Rory despite all his shortcomings. She couldn't kill her husband.

"Tess, Tess think of Rosie, think of little Rosie!" Shouted Rory as the pendulums got nearer and nearer. Tess was thinking of her three year old daughter, thinking of hiding her little girl under her bed so she wouldn't be in the rampaging pathway of an angry Rory.

"I am thinking, thinking of how much better of she'd be without you." Tess answered back, the pendulums were an inch away from them all now. Still only the woman had pressed her button.

"WHAT?"

"Shit no. No we had a minute left!"

"I hate roller coasters as it is!"

Tess' heart leapt into her throat as the ride suddenly plummeted down a steep drop, narrowly missing a row of bloody spikes that shot out from underneath the pendulums. The woman who had already pressed her button whooped and Rory had screamed particularly loudly. Picking up speed, the ride was still in darkness making it hard to see much of anything beside the helix the car was now completing.

"That was your final warning." Leered Jigsaw's voice from all around them.

"Hurry up and press your buttons." Ordered the woman. "We are not dying because of them."

"I can't." Cried mascara woman.

"That's it Becky, you don't want to kill your daddy. I raised you, I gave you life." Soothed Carl manipulatively.

"You're her father and you've been abusing her." Asked Jack through gritted teeth as the car entered a slow, torturous twist. Tess could see the outside ahead. "Thats disgusting."

"Jack do not press that button." Cried his wife's voice.

"I won't honey, don't worry." Assured Jack and Tess' gut twisted at his words. She wasn't sure if she could press her button, but knowing someone else wasn't going to was even worse. She was going to die.

"Oh thank god. Thank god I love you Jack. I love you so much."

"What?" Screamed the woman and Becky simultaneously, Tess' stomach curled as they exited the twist and the outside world hit them. It was dark, very dark outside. Almost midnight as the terrified test subjects stared around at the colossal roller coaster around them, there were twists, turns, loops and corkscrews. It did not look safe at all. Then Tess saw the vertical climb in front of her.

"We've only got to the top of this climb and then we're gonna die!" Shouted the woman.

"I know that." Snapped Jack. "I can't kill my wife, I love her."

"Why do you love her?" Tess asked suddenly.

"What?"

"Why do you love her? She's abused and manipulated you, just like they all have. You can't love her." Tess reasoned, it felt like a two ton weight was being lifted off of her as she spoke. "I don't love him." Her face contorted into a sneer at the back of Rory's head. It was herself or him. There was not one happy memory or reason she could recall that was strong enough to change her mind as her thumb connected with the button. The same low beep sounded off and Tess' light lit up. The woman exalted in Tess' decision.

"C'mon." She cried at the other two, as the ride slowly came to a halt in front of two TV screens suspended above the track. Billy the Puppet crackled onto the screen but this time no one screamed.

"Game over."

Fate had been sealed and Tess was going to die. The car began to make the deadly climb and everyone was flung into the back of their seats as they were forced to stare at the few stars above them. Tess found it disturbingly ironic that they were quite literally ascending to heaven before being dropped into hell. Jack seemed to be having a meltdown next to her, his eyes were flickering from his button, to his wife, and back to his button. Becky too seemed to be seriously contemplating her life now too.

"I can't do it." Roared Jack, "I want to live, my life has always been shit... I can't go like this." He turned to Tess with tearstained eyes and Tess nodded sadly as they rose higher and higher, looking at the track in front made her feel physically sick.

"It's alright." She whispered and Jack nodded, a split second later the light lit up in front of him too. A thrill ran through Tess' spine, if they could only convince Becky on the end, then they could all live through this. Go on to lead better lives.

"Come on woman, you have more reason to do this than any of us."

Becky shook her head, "He's my daddy, he's my blood."

"He'll have all our blood on his hands if you don't save yourself now." The three of them were now united while the front row pleaded for their lives. Rory was screaming bloody murder at Tess while Carl kept pleading with his daughter for his life. Jack wife appeared to still be under the illusion that her husband had not pressed his button, she was the only one who looked marginally confident. The coaster car cruised over the very top of the hill. They were incredibly high up and below them were the blades, rotating below them. Four saw blades, one for each of them.

"Becky please, don't let him win again. You're better than this." Tess too had joined in the reasoning, she knew that the woman must be in horrendous position right now, all of their lives held in her hand. It was no longer jigsaw pulling the strings but this simple woman with mascara trailing down her cheeks.

"Maybe I'm not. I let him do it, all this time. I've let him do what he's wanted to me and I've never said anything. Maybe I deserve to die like this."

"No one deserves this." Jack implored, "You were a child, you couldn't possibly have known any better."

No more was said, the ride dropped down below and in those few seconds Tess gave up. She closed her eyes and tried to brace herself for the eventual impact below as her heart once again jumped into her throat. The most bloodcurdling screams came from all around her, screams that Tess would take with her to her grave. Screams that would haunt her the rest of her pitiful life, as blood spattered her face.

I will begin by saying this chapter, while not introducing any characters we know is vital for later on in the story and just like in all SAW movies I want you to remember it.

I could not resist getting the roller coaster from thorpe park in my story. I ride it so often and know it so well I thought it was too perfect to let the opportunity slide. Plus it makes the actual ride that little bit creepier for me too!

Please keeping reading a reviewing we'll meet Adam, Ivy and Lawrence Gordon in the next chapter!

Thank you! xx