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Paige slowly opened the door, and carefully got out, so as not to disturb the body. When she looked at the motionless body of Jeff, she gulped, and then walked over to Tanzi, who was kneeling down. She put an arm around her shoulders.
"Hey. Are you okay? You're not hurt, are you?" Paige tried her best not to look at the body, and focused on Tanzi instead. Tanzi raised her tear-streaked face.
"M-me? No, I'm fine, just a bit shaken u-up." stuttered Tanzi, shivering in the cold weather.
Paige decided not to pursue the subject, and helped Tanzi up from the floor, carefully avoiding the vomit.
"Do you have a car?" asked Paige.
Tanzi gulped and sniffed. "Y-yes, it's up t-there." She pointed to her pick-up, which was parked on the hill.
"Come on, tell me where you live, and I'll drive you there, as I can't use my jeep." The two women walked over to the pick-up, and entered it, Paige driving with Tanzi in the passenger seat, still shocked.
The homeless shelter was quite large, but quite old. A lot of the wood was rotting, and only the bottom floor was accessible. It was here where homeless people were permitted to sleep for free. It was also where they were fed, and Lacey was working as a helper in her free time. After the Stadium incident, she had gone straight home, thanking her lucky stars that she had survived. When she slept, she had nightmares. Repeatedly, her nightmares involved her unable to move as some sort of vehicle came towards her. It came closer and closer, until it was about to hit her, and then she always woke up, sweaty and scared.
Lacey was working in the shelter for the reason that she wanted some human companionship, even if it was only giving people food and water. She had just arrived, and donned a faint white apron to work with. Lacey walked over to a table, where many homeless people lined up, most of them old and ragged. She switched places with another woman, and started to serve the men and women.
"So, you're saying that 'death' is after us, the survivors, and is going to kill us off one by one in bizarre freak 'accidents'?" asked Paige, sitting next to Tanzi on a sofa. After Tanzi had calmed down, she had told Paige of what William Bludworth and Fred had told her about death.
"Yes." confirmed Tanzi.
"I've heard of this."
This caught Tanzi of guard. "W-what?"
"I know about these accidents and premonitions."
"You know about them? Have you had one?"
"No. My ex-boyfriend, Kevin Fisher, and an old friend, Ian McKinley was on that rollercoaster accident. I found out that they survived it, but soon after, I found out they died in freak accidents afterwards. I knew that Wendy was the only survivor, and I confronted her about a month after her sister, Julie and Kevin died in the Subway crash. I pressured her about what happened, and she told me about everything, from the premonition she had to the clues all around that signify what the next death is, and how to save people. I started to research these 'premonitions', and I found out about the other two incidents before, and I started to realise that if I knew death, I would be able to defeat death. I moved to England soon after, and I heard of the Speedway accident, which I was gutted about. Then, I was on vacation when the Orbis theatre collapsed, and again I was feeling bad. I only wanted to help, but I never thought I would be involved in the lists myself."
"Well, I guess I do not need to explain more, then." Said Tanzi, relieved that she didn't have to explain again.
"First things first, from what I learned, who's next?"
Tanzi painfully thought back to the stadium explosion, and saw the man getting electrocuted, and then a man being incinerated by an explosion, trapped in the generator room.
"That man who was lying with us after the explosion!" exclaimed Tanzi.
"Do we know anything about him?"
"I only know that he was homeless, I saw his makeshift house when I helped him get away from the explosion. He seemed a bit jittery though."
Paige didn't reply, but clutched her head, she gasped in pain as images flitted across her mind. A black man with spiked brown hair, a building of some sort, the words 'Shelter' across the top, and a collection of steel chairs, their legs pointing up in the air.
Tanzi watched as a trickle of blood crept from Paige's nose. "Hey! Are you all right?" She asked quickly.
"Yeah..." Paige rubbed her nose, and the blood with it. 'This was just like when I saw that builder, the scaffold and the pole... this is a vision! We need to find that man!'
"Where is the nearest homeless shelter, it's quite large, with the words 'shelter' near the top of its front.
Without questioning Paige, Tanzi thought back to her walks around the city when she moved there. "I think there's only one like that, the other shelters are small."
"Where is it?"
"It's about a 5 minute drive, I think. What happened?" She asked.
"I just had a vision" Paige said grimly. "We need to save that man before something bad happens."
The man in question, Daniel Gecko, twitched as he walked, his sleeves rolled down to cover the marks from the various drugs he had taken. He looked up to the building with the words 'Shelter' across the top of its front.
He was annoyed that his 'home' was destroyed when the stadium exploded, and had been wandering the streets in a steady trot, sleeping by dumpsters. It was by pure luck that he had come across this shelter. He was more than hungry, as he hadn't eaten for the last day.
As Paige and Tanzi drove carefully, with Paige constantly checking if the brakes were blocked by any sort of obstruction.
The silence was broken as the ringtone of Paige's mobile phone rang out through the car. Paige took her eyes of the road for a moment as she answered her phone.
"Paige Callaway" she said as she drove with one hand.
Tanzi watched as Paige's eyes narrowed, then widened slightly, then a scowl crossed her face. She thanked the caller, and hung up. "It was the police" she said, answering the unspoken question by Tanzi.
"The police? Why were they calling you?"
"They want to talk to me about why my car was left at the scene with a dead man on top of it, and why I was not there. I think they think I did it on purpose." Paige parked the car by the street, and got out. "I'll walk to the station, it's not far away. You need to find that man! After you have, pick me up in a few hours, I'll wait for you if necessary." With that, Paige walked off, leaving Tanzi to drive her car to the homeless shelter.
(Wooo! I would like to say now, even though the story isn't finished, that there WILL be another story following from this one, so i will have a trilogy of Final Destination Stories, The Director's Cut, The Elimination Game, And... This is where ya'll come in. I am going to put up a poll for you to choose your favourite title for the third and final story! Till next time folks and thanks!)