In a room littered with people, green carpeting, and the smell of plastic, Walter Sherman was one of those people. In a craft fair amongst the crowd but he was in search of not something but someone. Willa Monday was the girl he was looking for. The girl just up and left, leaving a note for Leo, while Walter himself was in jail for trying to find his mother for his father as his last wish. Willa was more of a personal project. She had made her way into the finder's heart and had stayed there, along with the giant Leo, the petite former-US Marshal Isabelle, and the man who sent Walter out, the young gypsy Timo Proud, whose heart broke the day she left and was kicked out of the family. The deal was if Walter could find Willa both Leo and Timo would get off his back and let him be for at least 2 months all to himself. And in Walters mind that was a great deal.
He had tracked Willa out of looking glass key and then eventually out of Florida traveling an astounding number of miles to Denver, Colorado. She was wandering up and down the aisles looking at things that interested her gypsy boho style. So far she had gotten a necklace, a pair of earrings, 25 wallets, and 20 phones. As she continued to meander through the space. She seemed to know that she had picked up a tail and started to weave in and out through the crowds, only pausing to bump into people. It was clear to Walter that she was trying to lose him without him noticing, but it was clear that she was out of practice. She tried to slip out the side door but Walter followed her out.
The next thing he saw was a very pissed Willa shoving him against the wall with a knife to his throat.
"What the hell Walter?" Willa said still pissed, still had him backed up to the wall but the knife was no longer at his throat.
" Well hello to you too, evil note-leaving-family- kicking-out-pain-in-the- butt- abandoner aka Willa." Walter said his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"What?" Willa replied annoyed
"You heard me, you left a note for Leo who was heartbroken at you leaving, and since you left Timo he was kicked out of the family and his lady love Magdalena was betrothed to Cosmo, and you were always just a pain in the butt to me, and the abandoner part was because you left all of us." Walter stated
"I can't come back," Willa stated as she let Walter take a step away from the wall, and tucked the knife back into her boot.
"Well I don't care I was hired to find you not bring you back" Walter stated.
"Good tell them that I love them and miss them, please." Willa asked.
"Ok, but Leo is now a big blubbering baby, Isabelle is no longer a US-Marshall she got fired for helping me, Timo now spends his time sitting in your trailer waiting for you, last night he was crying and he is not a quiet crier, he sounds like his old dog just died and then he fell off a 20 story building and is severely brain damaged" Walter said as Willa's face softened feeling sadness for him.
"I can't come back" she stated her voice holding back the sadness
"Mrs. Farrell threatened," Walter started to say but was then cut off by Willa.
" I don't care I can't come back" Willa snapped, her voice full of anger. She stalked off. Walter pulled out his phone and dialed
" Who is this?" Timo said as he picked up the phone in the bar.
"It's Walter, who is this?"
"It's Timo, did you find her?"
"Yes"
"Thank god" a distorted Leo's voice came through
"'But" Walter said letting the but echo for a few seconds
"But what, you found her"
"But she's not coming back"
" What do you mean she's not coming back?" Leo's voice yelled as he approached the phone.
"She is not coming back with me at this time." Walter said as if he was bored. As Timo's phone went off in his pocket blaring In My Blood by Black Stone Cherry or known to the rest of the group Willa's ringtone. Timo raced to grab his phone out of the back pocket.
"Willa?" Timo asked breathless
"Hey" Her voice crackled through the phone, Timo placed it on the counter and turned the speakerphone on.
"Let me guess you just put me on speaker phone didn't you?" Willa asked her voice slightly angry. Dead silence from the side in the bar
"Yeah he did" Isabelle's voice cutting through the silence
"Willa are you ok," Leo said
"Yeah just don't come looking for me to get me back, I'm not coming back today or tomorrow, get that?" She said her voice angry then hung up.
"Walter where is she?" Timo asked
"Denver" Walter said as Timo put his phone back in his pocket and grabbed the overnight bag he had stashed under the counter of the bar.
" I'll be there tonight," Timo stated, clicking the phone off.