24School was depressing as all hell. Most of the people were still stunned about the professers sudden demise. Apparently he was well loved among most of the students who had had him previously. I just wanted to ignore it all. About the only thing good that came out of going to class was that the homework was pretty lax. Except for projects that had due dates. Some of those due dates were getting closer and closer much to my own chagrin.
But then again I now had no classes for a good three days. Time enough to finish my english paper my business plan was a different story all together though. It was nearing the half way point. I brushed my bangs out of my face and tried to concentrate on my calculation. Making up and accounting sheet out of an imaginary business was hard. Even while working with Excel. I breath out an aggravated moan and saved my work turning the computer off after I saved it both to disk, my e-mail and to the computer. Too many times have I had to rewrite a paper because of computers mysterious affinity for eating my writings.
I pushed away from the desk, stretching my arms above my head. No nightmares last night another thing to count myself lucky for. I was pretty out of it the almost the whole of yesterday though. I left the confines of my room heading for the fridge. Though the selection in there was pretty desolate to begin with. "Hey Tim!" My voice carried through the apartment. I heard a mumbled reply coming from his room. I cocked my head and yelled his name again. His door opened and he came out rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
"Wha.." I rolled my eyes.
"Don't you have class tonight?" His eyes widened when he looked at the clock. I saw the full panic set in for a moment while he blinked then it fled from his face.
"No, they uhh cancelled it." He blinked owlishly at me. "Something about your professor being killed. The police think the killer is still around. My professor knew guy that died. So no class." He sat at the table still sleepy eyed. "Did you want something?"
"I was wondering where Allan hid the pepsi?" I reached above the fridge in the nook that you couldn't see. My eyes widened and I pulled my hand back with a box of graham crackers. "Ohh I was looking for these."
Tim Yawned "I think he had some stashed in his room, but uhh.. im pretty sure he polished those off a couple days ago."
Sighing for the umpteenth time I grabbed my jacket off the back of one of the kitchen chairs. Time for some soul food. "Do you want anything from the store?"
He waved me off yawning again. Poor guy he's been pretty run down lately with his courses. "Na, but don't forget we have a curfew for the next week." I looked at him blankly.
Tim swallowed loudly "You didn't hear?" My blank stare must have been enough to convince him that no I hadn't heard anything. "The college is working with the police. Cause ya know he was murdered on campus."
Well that was News to me. Though I haven't really been paying attention since I found out about it death. Damned I was blocking out a little too much info. I wonder if I've missed anything during my classes. It was a like a bit of black hole in my memory. Shit.
"So what time dose the curfew start?" I was berating myself in my head. How the hell could I have missed all of this.
"Around nine if you don't have classes. If you do have classes they have a security guard standing by to walk you home."
"Damn!" I couldn't keep the surprise off of my face. "It seems like there doing a lot for just one kill."
"Yeah that's what a lot of the other students are saying. There's also been a rumor that the police and the campus are hiding something." He paused thinking about something. "Remember that kid from campus who went missing about a month ago. Well they never found him. Some are saying that he was another of the kills."
"That's most likely right." I thought aloud. Something in me told me that the kid that went missing was definitely dead. It made me sort of nervous to think that there was a killer out in the campus area. I shrugged it off. I've been fighting a major murderer since I was a kid. Dragoneous. I shrugged again. "I'll be back in a little." Thinking about my past fighting made me feel a little more strong less afraid.
Because of winters approach it gets pretty dark fast. Only being around 7:30 and the sun was already down, but it was still dark the campus lights were belatedly scheduled to turn on. I shrugged my way down into my coat. It was cold too. The store was around the corner I watched the ground as I came up to the street. I heard the sound of feet slamming on concrete and turned to look just in time for a large man to run full tilt into me. I grunted landing hard on my shoulder and side.
"Shit, Sorry, sorry." He looked at my face and his eyes widened a little, he quickly untangled himself from me standing and taking off in the same direction that I had come from. I sat dazed on the ground the lights buzzing to life above me. Something shined on the ground next to me. I reached out and picked up a small trinket hooked to a chain. It was a crucifix.
Pulling myself to a standing position I shoved the necklace into my coat pocket. I continued my trek to the store. My hip was and cold from landing on the hard cement. What a world.
Carting my groceries home wasn't nearly as interesting. I was used to the door being unlocked but apparently Tim got a little anxious and locked the doors on me. I shrugged the bag into my other arm and bent to put the twelve pack of pepsi on the ground. I heard the sound of someone banging up the stairs and looked over my shoulders to see Allan come up. He had weird look on his face. "Aren't you supposed to be on your way to your next class?" It had to be around 8:30.
"There was another murder." My eyes widened. He scooped up the pepsi. "Tim lock you out?"
I nodded as I finished unlocking the door. "When?"
"Actually they found the body about an hour ago." We entered together. "It was near my next class so word went around that they canceled the class. "I heard from one of the kids who was near the place that the kill is fresh."
"Kill?" My tone was dry. He sounded excited, or intrigued. "Allan maybe you should change your major." He laughed at me.
"Na, im just kinda freaked." Tim came out from the living room.
"What's up?" He grabbed the bag of chips out of the bag.
"Another murder apparently. If our source of information is to be believed." Allan threw me a glance. Tim looked white well whiter than usual. The phone rang we all jumped. I chuckled while Tim looked like he was about to start hyperventilating.
Allan answered the phone. "Yeah hang on." He lifted his chin up in sort of pointing fashon at me. "Dive." I took it from him.
"Hello?"
"Hey bro!" I smiled and grabbed the chips from Tim heading for my room.
"Wing. What's up?" I was actually mildly surprised to here from him. It had been about three weeks since we'd talked last. No particular reason why it went so long, I've been busy he's been busy. Probably fighting Dragoneous, playing hockey. Hanging out with the rest of the team. Avoiding Phil. My chest felt tight for a second and I realized belatedly that I was mad. I was mad at my brother for not calling earlier. It came as a surprise to me.
"Nothing much I was just wondering how you were doing?" He paused. "I heard about the murder. Wasn't that one of your professors." Was that worry I heard in his voice?
"Yeah, he was my professor. Nice guy too. Its a shame." I couldn't understand my voice. It was kind of soft. Damnit! I could do better than this. That mans death was not NOT bothering me! Yes it dose.
"We'll. Im just calling to see how your doing with everything. Did they catch the person responsible?"
"No, they haven't." I was going to stop there. I really was but it came out of my mouth faster than I could stop it. "There was another murder tonight, actually I think it was about two hours ago." Why the hell did I just tell him that. What did I want my big brother to come down to the rescue! Sheesh. Wait a second. Two hours ago. My hand went for my pocket I still hadn't taken off my coat. I pulled out the crucifix. Could it have been? Could that man have been the killer.
"DIVE!"
"Uhh what?" Wildwing was still talking.
"I said are you ok?" Wildwing sounded alarmed.
"Yeah im fine, classes are royally screwed up because of it." I sounded tired. "Look I gotta get going," I paused wondering what my excuse would be. My mind blanked out. Damnit.
"Hey Dive, why don't you find out what's up with your class schedule and come home for a visit?" My eyebrows rose to my hairline. He wanted me to come home because of some human killer. It was tempting. Highly tempting. I could get some time on the rink. Maybe even figure how to calm myself down.
"Maybe." My voice was tentative. "I'll give you a call when I figure something out." I was being overly vague.
"I'll be waiting." We started to say our goodbyes when Wildwing broke from the usual goodbye. "Stay safe baby brother." I was surprised. He hadn't called me Baby brother for a long long time. I managed to say yeah and then I was listening to the phone dial. I put the phone down and noticed my hands were shaking. Maybe it would be good to stake out Anaheim for a little while. It was warmer out that way.
I kind of stood there for a few minutes trying to blank my mind out. What hit me then was almost physical. I jerked forward with a groan. It felt like someone had punched me in the gut. I was hit with memory overload. Hands, clawed hands. Gripping, touching, scratching. Pain flashed through my abdomen. Ripping pain. Glowing eyes of the devil himself pounding into me.
A/N: There is no way I can even start to say how sorry I am that this chapter has taken me this long to get out to you. I have had the worst writers block! It got to the point when I put this on hold that I thought I'd never continue Days go By. But here I am with a fresh outlook on life and some new ideas to add to the old ones. I hope that there are people out there that still remember this fic. It may take a while but I do plan on finishing this one day. Im looking in new directions for it to go and some important self realization for Dive to come to in the next chapters!
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