The Story of Madeleine, Epilogue.

Madeleine, as she predicted, didn’t feel any more in control as she went through rehab. Juvenile hall was vicious, and she very nearly found herself convicted of further charges as circumstances demanded her to fight, to defend.

‘Nearly’, for she didn’t wind up remaining behind bars.

They found her hanging on the end of a noose, and assumed that the lack of a pulse made her harmless. They thought she was dead.

When they went to cut her down, she used that makeshift rope to strangle them to death, one by one, and didn’t apologize for what the strings under her skin were having her do. She was under control; she no longer cared.

And that is how Madeleine’s story began.