Part One: Section Two: Chapters 8 - 9 Summary

Marty reaches the door of Charlotte and Emily's bedroom, still following the bloody footprints, and at the last moment his brain registers a difference. The foot had turned. He spins around to find the Other behind him. Marty fires a shot reflexively, but it goes into the ceiling as his doppelganger hits him in the kidneys so hard that he drops the weapon. It falls over the balustrade and the Other grabs him by the throat, choking the life out of him and telling him repeatedly that Paige and the girls are his. Marty feels the life seeping out of him, his vision going, when the balustrade gives and they tumble more than twelve feet to the ground.

Luckily, momentum takes the Other over him and he lands on top instead of under...