Chapter 1: LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS
Today, I'm beginning a new chapter of my life. New doesn't always mean better, but in my case it does. My name is Evelyn Slater. I'm 27 and in front of a whole new world. Most of the people hear my name and say: "Nepotism really worked for her". And the sad thing is I wish it was anything like that. I've never hid the fact that my family was powerful. It's always been hard to me to talk about my family, since it was just me and my father. Life was a stepmother to me from an early age. Mother left us in grief when I was just 7. She didn't make it after being sick for a while. At least that's what I've been told.
From that moment on I've dedicated myself to saving other people's lives, other kids' mothers… Dad never remarried again, he was the best father a daughter can imagine. I went to the best medicine schools across Europe, and studied really hard until I got my MD-PhD. Alongside that , I've always loved studying human psychology and behavior, so reading about this was helping me release from the stress. And than it happened, a day after my mother's 20 years memorial, the revelation.
That autumn afternoon, while I was watching the leaves falling in the garden of our family house in London, a doorbell ring distracted me. The man at the door introduced himself as David Rossi and wanted us to have a talk about mother. The following hour was the longest and most painful hour I remember. He explained me how a mass murder happened the previous day. Thirteen people were stabbed to death at the same hospital where my mother passed away. He got me puzzled with that because I couldn't realize what does it have to do with my mom. Rossi saw that and without further questions got to the point. 20 years from that day another 13 people died at the hospital. All of them strangled with pillows. This man told me that it wasn't the disease that killed my mother, but a human hand, a human heart. Naturally I didn't believe him, until my father confirmed the same. My face was numb of pain and I couldn't say a word. It turned out Rossi and my father knew each other for 15 years, since mother's murder. They stayed in contact ever since that investigation started, because the murderer never got caught. After Rossi called about the repeated slaughter my dear father told him that I might help them.
I can't describe what I felt than but I know I couldn't help myself from accepting that proposal. Rossi told me that we don't have any time for losing so I packed some clothes and we headed to Los Angeles, the city where we lived until mother died. I couldn't wait to meet the team and start the investigation. And just like that I started a new journey to the unknown, on my way to the city of angels.
So this is how it feels, having the first chapter of the first fanfiction done :) In this chapter I just wanted to introduce you to Evelyn and her background which is going to be kind of important in the following chapters. I'm open for suggestions and every critique is welcome so please review. I hope you liked it and have a nice day :D