Hello People that are awesome, so I know I've been gone a while but you all know how crafty that nasty thing called writers block can be. If you were waiting anxiously to find out what she realized sorry you will have to wait a tad longer love, because...

I do not owe Halloween or its likeness, ya wasn't fast enough to beat john carpenter. FYI: Just a side note did you know that the original Halloween was in fact a low budget movie... ya I know right? look at it now, yup.

Chapter 7

(this is going on at the same time as chapter 6)

I brushed my fingers through my dark brown hair, frustrated because time didn't seem to be on my side. Three Days had gone by and there was still no sign of Kasey Moore. I didn't want to face the fact that she might be dead, but I also didn't want to get my hopes up only to find her lifeless body, and trust me there had been plenty occasions where I thought that would be the case. Any time a call came in because somebody had found the unidentified body of a woman my stomach was in knots. I hadn't been a deputy long, but never had it felt so personal, never had I looked at a case as anything more than an outsider, but this woman had consumed my every thought since the moment I saw her in that Gothic queen outfit. Sure it hadn't been long but I felt a connection to her as if I had known her all our lives. Like she had always been there, and when I'd gotten the call for the house party, I had taken it even though my shift was almost over. Then I'd found her looking so crumbled and lost on that bed room floor and I knew I wanted to protect her, but even after telling her that, I had failed.

The death count was high, especially since it was now November, Michael Myers usually was done after Halloween, but this time it looked as if the town would be severely depleted of people if he was not caught soon. His murders were more random than usual, misdirected, almost as if Michael Myers had a personal vendetta against the world. How could any one man be so difficult to catch as if the world swallowed him whole until it was time to kill again.

The sparse police force had been divided into patrolling and looking out for the citizens of Haddonfield, and searching abandoned houses and barns and anywhere they believed Michael Myers would be. One of the first places they had checked had been the former home of Michael Myers, and the current home of Kasey Moore, but to no avail, and I was so sick of this shit I felt like a failure, like I was letting Kasey down. I shuddered to think that time when running out and that soon the call for an unidentified body would turn out to be that of Kasey Moore.

I could not fathom why he had taken her, it didn't make sense that a heartless killer would take a hostage, but when the trail of bodies led up to her hotel room, and none of the bodies had been hers, it had been plenty obvious that he had taken her. He was a killer, what could he possibly gain from taking her? My mind had revisited that fact countless times and was once again going over it when I felt someone hand on my shoulder.

"Hey Steve, how you holding up? You look like shit that ain't slept in days."

"I can recall a time when you looked like this too." I snapped only to regret it instantly, I was such a prick. The loss of his only daughter had been hell on Sheriff Lee Brackett, and it was also a sore subject. "I'm sorry Sheriff, I didn't mea..."

"No its fine, I understand. I know you didn't mean it. This is hard for me too. Kasey Moore was like a daughter to me since the first time I met her, a kind smile always on even when it was plainly obvious in her eyes that something was bothering her, a kindness unmatched. I can't imagine the kind of torture shes going through. But we'll find her, we will." He was such a kind guy and the best damn boss you could ever have, but it worried me that he would not be able to handle the job much longer. If his age wasn't bad enough, it was doubled by the fact that Michael Myers loved to hunt in this town. So his soul and body were older.

"So any luck?"I wished that I had a better answer to that question, but I didn't

"No not yet." I replied discouraged, and though I was discourage I was not giving up hope, many times my searched came up dry, but I wanted to find her and I would.

"Well chin up I..." he was cut off by the static crackling in his walkie talkie, he turned up the volume and listened

"...female body found dead near the lake, need a bus" as the words traveled from the device and to my ears I felt my heart drop, as it did every time a female body was discovered.

"I'm coming with you," I said grabbing my jacket and following the sheriff from the room...

Da da DAAAA!, so this is my chapter 7 It may look like a filler but the truth is I wanted to give you a little of Deputy Steve Tanners side of the story, so I hope you enjoy and await my next chapter... La La Love Ya