I am sitting in a file, and it is nighttime. It is quite strange, because I'd never seen this particular field before, and have no memory of coming here. The file is filled with long blades of grass that brush gently against my legs, which seem to be bare. In fact, I'm not wearing any clothes whatsoever, and it is disconcerting because I do not think there was ever a circumstance in my life where I would step out into the open buck naked, much less wind up in a field without a stitch of clothing! I look around frantically, searching for my clothes in the grass, but the only ones I find are pebbles and dirt in between the blades. I stand up, feeling the chill of the night biting against me. I notice while I'm searching for my clothes that there the dark blue sky is blank. That stops my search in the spot. There are no stars in there, there is no moon. There aren’t even clouds. Something is amiss here because I can clearly see what was surrounding me as if there was light, but I did k

I call Erikkson and Gerald, but Gerald is in a super important meeting in another city, so he can’t make it. But Erikkson doesn’t have any appointments in the morning, so as soon as I tell him what we have discovered, he tells me that he would come by my place in a few minutes.“I’m the guy in the chair,” Mal says as Lemon and I run around to get supplies for a stakeout, “so I’m going to wait here. Unless you got a fully equipped vehicle with all the devices, I could get my hands on stashed around here somewhere, I’m going to have to stay here and steer you all from the distance. I suppose you all got some Air Pods available.”“Yep,” I tell him, “If not we’ll just buy’em.”“No need to spend your money on me, Mr. My-father-is-a-billionaire, I mooch from you enough,” joked Lemon as he breezes past me, “by the way, what car are we taking? It gotta be something nondescript right?”“I’m not taking that Honda Gerald found from God knows where. Just one of the black ones that don't look too

“Move!” I immediately shove at the man bending over my side and opening the car door so I could get out. The guy looks stunned at my audacity until I manage to get out of the car. But the moment he recovers from it, he is furious.“Who the fuck do you think you are?!” he tries to grab me by the shirt collar, but I expertly dodge him, “You want to fight me? Is that what you want? Are you going to fucking fight me for this?”“No, but you need to get out of my way right now!”“Jace, what’s going on?” Erikkson and Lemon are both getting out of the car, and I point in the direction of the internet café where the black-clad figure wearing a pair of large wire-trimmed glasses, a black beanie, and a black mask.“That’s him!” I yell. Even the man who had been trying to get rid of us turns to look at what this fuss is about. “The kidnapper!”The guy’s eyes widen, “wait what?”The kidnapper suddenly freezes on the spot and turns right at us. What little we can make out of his eyes narrows and th

Erikkson and Lemon are waiting in the parking lot when I walk out of the police station, feeling like a man who could just watch the world burn and want to laugh at the moment. The note that Detective Reverend gave me before is clutched tightly in my hand, and I feel like I’m going to have difficulty breathing soon because of the emotions that I am desperately trying to take control of but failing. There is just so much anger and fear in me that I feel like would end me if I just let it.And damned if I don’t want to let go.As soon as they see me, the two men rush towards me. Lemon reaches me first and tackles me in a hug which surprises me out of the rage stupor I had been building. As my arms automatically go around him, I can see that he is actually shaking.He isn’t crying or anything, in fact, I’m pretty sure that his face was inched in what looked like anger before he hugged me, but he is shaking.From fear or anger? I do not know. But as soon as I feel it, the most bizarre thi

The tears that I have been hiding make an appearance when I see Coraline, and I feel like I’ve been stabbed. I hear everyone around me suck in a breath, and Lemon lets out a broken sound. Mal curses under his breath. Gerald comes forward to put a hand on my shoulder which he thinks is comforting, but it makes everything worse because I realize that I’m here in safety while she's under some psycho’s mercy, looking like that.All her fingers are red and swollen, and fucking flies are flitting around them. Dark brown blood is crusted around them, and it looks like they are beyond repair. Her arm is bent in an impossible manner, and the same could be said for her legs. She's been stripped to her underwear which barely covers her, and despite the psychopath saying that he hadn’t touched her in that way, I can’t be too sure of that. But then again, considering everything else that had been done to her, I don’t think Coraline would’ve even felt what he was doing because of the sheer pain tha