Welp. I decided to write another niff fic. Sue me. This was also posted on Tumblr. You can find it in the "niff" tag. This idea just happened. Okay, well, it didn't just happen. It was inspired by an assignment I had to do for Literature class. We were supposed to write a story about the "Macbeth legend." I killed Jeff in that story, but I wanted to put it one step further. So here it is...the prologue to Lost Soul.
May 1, 1957 Westerville, Ohio
The Newton Revival Theatre burned down at approximately three o' clock in the morning on April 29, 1957, for reasons unknown. The burning of the building happened two days ago, but investigators are still searching the scene.
No one knows for sure what - or probably, who - started the fire, but all the investigators know is that someone was in the building when it was burned down. It is possible that this person started the fire - accident or no accident.
This person suffered from third-degree burns due to being a close proximity to the fire. The investigators believe that the person died within a thirty-minute to sixty-minute time period after the first inhalation of smoke. It is still a mystery on why this person was in the building in the first place.
Our investigators have given us a vague description of the fire victim. Reported, the victim was male, blond, and had a height of about six feet. His clothes, which HQ has made out to be a blue plaid shirt and a pair of blue jeans, and the skin under were badly charred due to the fire.
With further investigation, they have found the source of the fire under all of the ash and rubble. Investigators had found an oil lamp, precariously lying on the floor. The area around the lamp looked the most destroyed. But the destruction of the whole building was still terrible. Charred curtains, blackened seats, soot-covered floors. No one believes that this theatre will live again.
May 8, 1957
A week after the burning of the Newton Revival Theatre, our investigators are still finding the identity of the fire's victim. No signs of any identification could be found on the person.
Besides the fire, there has also been a reported missing person in this area. The missing person has been reported to be gone for at least nine days from today, May 8, 1957. The missing person's family has described him as male, blond, six feet and one inch, brown/hazel-eyed, and was last seen wearing a blue plaid shirt and blue jeans. The parents of the missing boy have said that their son just turned eighteen two weeks prior the incident.
The missing person's description matches exactly to the one of the Newton Revival Theatre fire victim. HQ finds this detail to be quite bizarre.
May 10, 1957
Putting two and two together, the answer was indeed quite obvious. We do not know how we could have overlooked this now very important detail.
Investigators have now found the identity of the victim of the Newton Revival Theatre fire.
His name: Jeffrey Sterling, also known as Jeff by his friends and family.
The Sterling family will be holding a service on May 12. Friends of Jeff and his family are welcome.
Jeff Sterling will be dearly missed.
Don't know when I'll update this. Hopefully, soon. But first, tell me what you think. Give me some feedback and/or ideas to help me with this thing.