Author's Note: Rosemary and Annabeth will be in the next chapter. Thanks for the reviews and enjoy!
Adie looked at the food in her plate and smiled. She had been expecting to go to one of those high-end over-priced restaurants but instead they were at Denny's. And that was perfectly all right with her.
"I'm sorry if this isn't the best restaurant in town." Micah apologized.
"It's fine really. The cheeseburgers here are really great. I'm sorry if I'm not exactly the funnest person to be with. It's just that I haven't been out on an actual date in over a year. My last boyfriend Kris died a while back…" Adie admitted.
Micah took this opportunity to pounce. "How did he die?" he asked innocently.
"It was senior prom day and the school had sprung for the prom to be on a cruise ship, S.S McKinley. I know this is going to sound weird but I kinda…foresaw a huge accident on board. I told everyone but no one really believed me. I ended up getting kicked off the cruise ship for causing a fight but Kris stayed on board and it happened, the accident. He died and I lived." Adie looked like she was on the verge of tears but sucked them up and looked down at her cheeseburger.
Micah felt bad for bringing up the subject but if he wanted to write his story he needed the information. He had to think like a writer and act like a writer.
"What did you mean when you said that you foresaw something?"
"It's not really something I like to talk about and I doubt you'll believe me-"
"I'm willing to listen." Micah persisted.
Adie eyed him suspiciously. "Why so eager to know?"
"I want to get to know you and this seems to be a pretty important part of your life."
Adie still had her suspicions but she took a deep breath and began.
"I guess you could say I had a premonition. I saw the accident before it happened. A speaker blew up and a couple of wires snapped, causing a huge fire that killed everyone onboard. No one could get off because the plank broke off and whoever tried to jump overboard was killed by the motors. Then afterwards…everyone who got off the cruise ship before it caught on fire began dying in mysterious accidents."
Micah had the urge to reach for his notebook and write all this information that he was absorbing down but that probably wouldn't give him the best results.
Adie took a sip of her Coke and ran a hand through her red hair. "I know this all sounds like crap which is why I really don't want to talk about it. In fact, the only people I've ever talked about it with are the ones who have gone through a similar experience."
"Like who?"
"Wendy Christensen and Kevin Fischer. They were involved in the Devil's Flight Derailment and survived. Freddy also knows but lately it's been hard to talk to him about anything."
"Freddy who?"
"Uh Freddy Goodrich. Why do you ca-"
"What accident was he involved in?"
"The Club Martini Fire. Can we-"
"Was that also another 'premonition' accident? Who had the premonition?" Micah cut in, he was on a roll.
At this Adie jumped to her feet, angrily. "Why do you care so much? Don't you understand that I just don't want to talk about it?!" she shouted.
Several diners began looking her way and Micah flushed.
"Adie-"
"No now it's my time to interrupt. Did you just ask me out to get information out of me? Is that why you were so surprised when you saw my name on the I.D card?" she seethed.
"Well technically-"
"Technically?"
"Ok fine. Yes, that's the reason I asked you out. I'm writing a book on the events that happened on Flight 180 and everything afterwards. After some research I discovered that you were a survivor of a Death-related accident so when I saw you at the bookstore I had to get you alone and ask you some questions."
"God, you make me sick!" Adie screeched. She waved her arm in his direction and the Coke in his glass erupted in his face.
She stormed out leaving a dripping Micah behind. He knew he deserved it but what he didn't know was why he felt so bad about it all. He had been expecting it and he had done this sort of thing before to get information so why did he feel a pang at his heart?
*** "Don't worry I'll talk to him about it. See you at dinner, Wen." Kevin hung up the phone and walked over to Ryan's desk.
"I heard we've got another murder case on our hands." He said lightly.
Ryan nodded as he continued typing in some police results. "The chief told you?"
"Actually Wendy did."
Ryan abruptly stopped typing. "Kevin, I need to talk to you about her. She told me some interesting things today."
"I know I heard it from her. So are we going to check up on this Creightonne guy or what?"
"Wendy got to you. Look dude we can't just go around accusing people without evidence." Ryan reasoned.
"But he's a suspect isn't he? Wendy told me that after the murders he hasn't been seen anywhere in the hospital and the contact number he left behind is disconnected. And he just happened to be at the scene of the crime when Preston Monteith was stabbed by the exact same knife he and Kataniya Drake were killed by. Don't you find that a bit suspicious?"
"Suspicion doesn't make for an arrest warrant." Ryan pointed out.
"But it does make for an interrogation." Kevin argued.
"The guy doesn't have a record! He's clean. And your delusional wife's assumptions aren't going to help us. What we need is evidence!" Ryan cried.
Kevin's face darkened at Ryan's words. "Wendy is not delusional. She is the smartest, most level-headed, and logical woman I have ever met. And besides that, she knows things. I know being a cop we're trained to ignore anything that has to do with the supernatural and hand it over to the paranormal investigators. But as your friend, I'm telling you that Wendy has enhanced abilities that we don't. She can see things we don't. This is why I'm asking you to find Creightonne Black and seriously consider him a suspect. Because if you don't, he's going to kill again."
Kevin left the police station without looking back.
*** The next morning Angela was up bright and early making coffee. Adie came out of their room quietly grabbed a cup of coffee. Many thoughts kept running through her head. How come she couldn't have figured Micah out by reading his mind? Had she momentarily become of those love-sick puppies and been distracted? She gulped down her coffee distastefully.
"Someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." Angela commented.
Adie rolled her eyes and went to go get her sweater.
"I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that the date went badly."
"Correct. Now you receive the grand prize of one grumpy roommate for an entire week." Adie said sarcastically.
"Aw cheer up. What do you say we go and see a movie tonight?"
Adie looked her over with a scowl. "What's with you today? You're so…happy."
Angela shrugged. "I don't know I just am." She took her purse from the counter.
"Where are you going?"
"To visit Freddy at his new 'home'."
"Why?"
"I helped him pay for it so it's only fair that I get a good look at the place."
Adie smirked.
"What?"
"Oh nothing. Nothing at all." she chirped.
Angela smacked her in the back as they left the dorm room.
*** After her usual morning routine Wendy walked out of her bedroom and gaped when she saw Corra massaging Kevin!
"Uh what are you doing?"
Corra and Kevin looked up. Kevin gave her a sheepish smile and shrugged off Corra's hands from his shoulders.
"I was just giving Kevin a massage. He came in tired last night and I'm just helping relieve some of his stress." Corra answered with a sparkling smile.
"I don't recall that being in your job description." Wendy snapped.
"Relax Wen," Kevin intervened. "I came in last night wanting to talk and you were asleep. Corra came in this morning and we just started to talk that's all."
Wendy's eyes narrowed in suspicion. "Jason needs some more diapers; the money is on the counter. Can you get on that?" she ordered.
Corra obliged and left the apartment.
Kevin sighed. "Nothing happened Wen."
"I know that I trust you."
"Then what's with the third-degree?"
"I trust you not her." She replied.
Kevin stood up and kissed her. "You have nothing to worry about."
Wendy smiled slightly. "So what did you want to talk about last night?"
"Ryan doesn't believe us at all about Creightonne. He's not even willing to consider him a suspect. The only way that we can maybe get him to agree to check Creightonne out is by proving that you can actually see things." Kevin told her.
Wendy thought this over. "What about an anonymous email with a newspaper article about the Devil's Flight Derailment attached?"
Kevin laughed. "You have a strangely diabolical mind you know that?"
Wendy shrugged. "It's just one of the many perks of being me."
The couple laughed and kissed before being interrupted by Jason's crying.
*** "Not bad." Adie told Freddy when she and Angela left his motel room. She had decided to tag along and they were now outside, talking.
"Ah I have Angela to thank for that." Freddy said with a smile.
Angela smiled back and Adie had to suppress the urge to vomit.
"Well I have to get going so-"
"Adie!" a voice called from behind them.
Adie whirled around to see Micah racing towards her.
She scoffed and began walking to her car, Freddy and Angela in tow.
"How the hell did you know where I was? Are you stalking me now?"
"No I just… look it doesn't matter can you please talk to me?" he pleaded.
"Why, you got your story didn't you? What do you want now the exclusive?"
"No I think I might love you."
Adie stopped. She stared at Micah. He was serious. Then she burst out laughing. "You love me? Ha! What a joke!"
"I do…" he trailed off turning bright red.
"Well guess what you ass? I don't!" To prove her point Adie spun around and kissed Freddy much to his, Angela's, and Micah's surprise. Adie tore away from him and began opening her car door. When she didn't see Angela come forward she looked at her. "Well? Are you coming?"
Angela shook her head a cold expression on her face. "No thanks I'll find my own way home." She said icily.
Adie started up the car and revved away. Angela glared at Freddy with disdain and stomped away. That left Micah and Freddy in a very awkward situation.
"So what you're dating Adie now?" Micah inquired.
"No, no way. We're just friends." Freddy insisted.
Micah chuckled spitefully. "Right." He walked away leaving Freddy by himself.
"Girls." He muttered to himself.
Author's Note: No Creightonne in this chapter, sorry! But rest assured that he will be in the next chapter along with some more Adie/Micah and Freddy/Angela and Wendy/Kevin/Corra drama, a suicide attempt, and some major fights. Thanks for reading and please review!
