1. Gunter
It was a Tuesday. Any Tuesday, not like there was anything about it. A bright and placid morning, full of normal things. No drug dealers or gangsters to trick, no body cooling under a sheet, no crime scene and not even any magic. But there it was, further away with each new week yet still bright, still placid, staring at them from the past. No matter how many Tuesdays came and went since, that one remained. Like everything had just…stopped there.
He reached up to swipe a drop of sweat from his cheek and then hunched back over the soldering iron. Molten alloy flowed between the clamped workpieces. He straightened and blinked. Done. And at once the itch came back, flowing into his joints like melted metal. He needed something to do, something to do…he'd clean up and put away the tools and maybe polish the hinges on that old chest to take away the creak…. Or he'd done that already, time to find something else-
Turning, he spied the old poster. There was a ladder in front of it, a stack of boxes hiding part of the face. Dina had wanted to take it down, then snapped at him when he tried, and now it was just back there on the wall behind newer and newer things. Its eyes, frozen in a moment, looked out at him.
He snarled and threw the soldering iron against the near wall. "I'm sorry," he whispered. "Ah, Cam, I wish we could've found you."
To be continued
Note: When I started watching Deception I knew it was a breath of fresh air in a largely stale TV wasteland. ABC's habit of cutting fledgling shows before they find an audience is disappointing! So I've signed the petition and emailed ABC. I've also emailed and written snail mail to NBC, which had the foresight to pick up Brooklyn 99 and may recognize the potential in this gem of a show. There is a cast of actors all ready to go, and they've literally learned magic to make it work. Deception has more potential than most of stuff that's out there, so I'm not giving up on it!