In The Valley XIV

Jodie answered the door; it was Rob.
"Where the hell have you been? I've been alone all day thanks to you."
Jodie looked at Rob; it was not Rob.
The man she did not know looked her squarely in the eye. She gasped; she did know this man.
"Hello, Jodie." The man looked insatiably irritated. His eyes rolled in their sockets as he pressed in closer to her. As she retreated from him, it allowed the man to enter the house and calmly close the door behind himself. Jodie backed against the wall, her hands clutching at the wall, her eyes wide with terror. The man turned towards her, his pristine smile glinting in the gathering dusk.
"Weren't you expect-t-t-t-ting me?" His crazed laughter echoed off the walls of the house, "I t-t-t-t-told you I was coming."
He began lurching towards her, and she saw that he had but one leg. His right was a prosthetic, and it shuddered across the floor as he dragged the foot sideways towards her.
"You shouldn't-t-t-t-t have run away, Jodie. My feelings were very hurt-t-t-t-t-t-t."
Jodie bolted for the door, but found the man's arm clasped around her waist. He drew her in, their faces almost touched.
"You know what-t-t-t-t's going t-t-t-t-to happen now, don't-t-t-t you." It was not a question, and Jodie couldn't have answered anyways. She was terrified speechless.
The man clicked his teeth together and closed his left eye, peering at her from his deeply sunken right. "I hope that-t-t-t-t you remember what-t-t-t happened to the last-t-t-t-t-t-t runaway." She did.
Suddenly, the man's arm went limp. Jodie buckled, heaving for air as the pressure from the crushing grasp lifted from her ribcage. She heard the man gasp, and the quick shuck of a knife piercing flesh. She looked up. It was Rob. He had the man in a chokehold, and she saw the gleam of a knife in the center of a rapidly growing red stain on the man's shirt. Rob let the man from his grasp, and clutched his shoulder, whirling him around. "I think you owe the lady an apology, my good man." The man looked perplexed. Rob leaned in.
They kiss.