Chapter 4: Haunted Memories

Two days have pasted and today was the funeral of Katherine Elizabeth Bishop, held by her father. Everyone who knew her was there as Kate or Hawkeye. The face on Derek was priceless after seeing many unknown faces at the funeral. His first thought was that all those people where people Kate helped at charity things. They all said they were sorry for the Bishop family losing another member of the family. Derek barely knew anyone there other than his oldest daughter, his son-in-law, Tommy Shepard (They only met once.), and a couple of business 'friends' he invited. He wasn't the life of the party here or at any place. He was more of the man to sat down looking at the coffin which was closed due to Derek not wanting to see his daughter lifeless.

In the back of the funeral room. The was a teenage girl around the age of eighteen or nineteen. She had black hair pulled into a pigtail, her eyes were a light color blue though she was wearing a pair of black sunglasses over her eyes, her skin was a light tan color, and she was wearing a black dress with a pair of purple converses underneath. No one noticed the girl in the room. No one knew who she was also. She kept her distance away from the people in the room. She was leaning against the back wall keeping her eyes towards Derek watching him leave the room. He walked past her, he quickly glanced at the girl thinking that she looked like his daughter. He shook his head and headed out of the building. He couldn't take it anymore.

The girl decided to follow the man out of the funeral home. She kept her distance away from the man as she followed him. Derek didn't know he was getting followed when he got into his car. He sat there for ten minutes trying to clear his mind. It was hard on the man who his daughter died. He turned on the car and drove to go home. The girl knew she couldn't follow him anymore by foot, so she sat down on a bench on the sidewalk. She watched the man drive away from the funeral home to his house. She sighed as she noticed the man look at her but turn away.

As the funeral was ending everyone slowly came out of the building and headed to their cars. There was barely any talking between anyone as they shuffled out of the building. There was one teenage boy walking towards the girl's way. He noticed the girl in the building and watched her leave the room as well. He sat down next to the girl keeping his eyes wandering away from her body. He thought she looked like one of his friends, but that would be impossible since she did die. He turned his head to the girl and spoke. "Hi."

The girl was spooked from the boy's voice. She looked towards the boy and replied. "Hi." Her voice was soft and calm. The girl's voice brought back memories of his best friend. Her voice sounded just like Kate's but it was more rough than Kate's.

"I'm Tommy...Tommy Shepard." He smiled and held out his hand.

The girl took his hand and shook it. "I'm...Ka..Kassidy."She said smiling back. "Kassidy.. Cane."

"Nice to meet you. You..You must be a friend of Kate's from school? I saw you inside the building."

The girl nodded. "I was..." She looked down at her feet. "I feel really bad for her family. I didn't see her mother anywhere.. I saw her father drive away."

Tommy looked down away from the girl. "Her mother died." He got up from the bench when he saw a teenager with bright white hair come out of the building. He had to leave. "Well, Kassidy, I have to go." He smiled, held the girl's hand and kissed it. "See you around then?"

The teen nodded. "We should." She blushed as his lips met her skin. "Bye Tommy."

Tommy stood up and walked over to Noh-Varr. He stopped half way between the girl and Noh-Varr. He smelt it. It was surrounding himself in a bubble. The scent of lilacs where all around him as he walked away from the girl. He turned around to look at Kassidy, but noticed she disappeared with the crowd of people who were walking on the sidewalk. 'Kate. Are you here?' He thought looking around.

He felt a tap on his shoulder as he was looking around for Kate. He knew she was around, but where was she? He turned around and saw Noh-Varr was tapping on his shoulder. "Kate! She's..." He looked around grabbed Noh-Varr's arm and pulled him into an alley. "Kate...She's still alive. Lilacs. I could smell them off that girl I was talking to. She sounded just like Katie. I'm not crazy, Noh-Varr, you got to believe me! You have no proof that she was in the coffin!"

Noh-Varr sighed. "Tommy, calm down. Maybe, you saw a ghost of her. Happens all the time. We still have to figure about the book we found the other day. Maybe you are correct, but I'm not sure." He walked out of the alley with Tommy following him behind. "I just don't think it is possible to bring someone back from the dead. We saw her die remember? The doctors took her off... off of life support."

Tommy ran off from Noh-Varr. "Shut up!" He yelled as he ran from the alley heading to the direction of the girl he was talking to ealier. By now it to find the girl will be harder than it seems. His mind was thinking of all the memories he and Kate made in the past. The nights where they would stay up all night and patrol, all the text messages and phones that were made. He sighed slowly down to a walking speed when he got close to town. He couldn't run at his top speed, because he wasn't wearing his Speed costume. As he slowed down he saw the girl he was talking to before. She was walking with her hands in her pocket. Her head was looking down at her shoes.

He saw the girl look around the block to make sure no one was following her. She held on tightly to a black leather bag on her shoulder as she headed down eighth street picking up her pace as she walks. She could tell someone was following her, but she didn't want her stalker to tell she knew. The teen took a right down a road. It seemed a bit shady for a girl to be heading down at this time of night. Pasting abandon graffiti buildings and a gang fight that seemed it was about to break out. She walked up to an apartment building she knew well.

The front door to the apartment building opened up and the girl stepped in. She kept the front door opened just a crack showing she wanted him to follow her in. Tommy, being impulsive and doing things without thinking, took the invite and headed inside the apartment building. He closed the door behind him as he saw the teen head up the stairs. She smirked as she saw the boy out of the corner of her eyes. She headed up to the third floor. She stopped. Tommy was behind her slowly walking up the stairs. Now he could tell she knew he was following her. He looked around remembering this apartment, but he couldn't remember how he seen this place before. It was going to bug him until he could remember. The girl slipped a key into the doorknob and pushed the door into the room. The room was filled with complete darkness. No lights were on nor the shades were opened. The girl walked in, getting swallowed by the black.

Tommy took out his phone, using the dim light from the screen as a flash light as he walked in to the apartment. He looked around the dark apartment looking for the light switch on the wall. His hands hit the switch but nothing happen. The power company must have turned it off. "K-Kassidy?" He said looking around the room for the girl. His phone wasn't doing a very good job as he couldn't find the girl he was following. He was hoping it wasn't a trap or anything like that.

He felt a cold hand cover his mouth and felt a warm breath near his ear. "Hush." Kassidy voice sent chills down his spine. He shivered as she removed her hand. "Tommy, why?"

"Katie?" Tommy whispered back. He didn't answer the girl's question only having Kate on his mind all day. The girl kissed his cheek, sliding her hand up his shirt. Her hands were freezing as it roamed around Tommy's back. She knew what she was doing and she wanted to do this since they met. She mumbled into his lips, "I love you Speed." She continued rubbing his back and pulled off his shirt. His skin was hot to her touch, his chest was almost sweating. She kissed down his neck to his chest. He had to be nervous or just really hot. He tried to pull away but she just kept on getting closer. 'Screw this.' He thought as he kissed Kassidy's lips.

It went from passionate kissing to throwing clothes off the two teens. He was on top of her as they were laying on the bed in the apartment. Every piece of clothing was off and they curled up under the sheets in the bed. Tommy was on top of Kassidy having his fun for the night. Every thought escaped the speedster. The bedroom door was closed for privacy. There were moans of pleasure, screams of enjoyment and just more sounds from teasing and everything. Their names were both being moaned out of each other's mouth. Which the girl slipped up saying something unexpected.

Writer's note: Super sorry I haven't posted like last time. I have been busy and I will be posting every week or every other week due to classes coming up. I just hope you guys still read and Comment! I love reading your replies on how it is. :) Not sorry about the cliffhanger? But that's what you get! muhaha~! Next week YA issue #9! Reminder