Someone's Watching Over Me

"You!" Derek stood from his chair, his entire body filled with anger. "How come you didn't tell me about this?!"

"Derek...you need to calm down before I explain everything to you."

"Why would calm down Elvin?" he took a step closer and gave Elvin a light, but threatening shove. "You knew what had really happened to me! And you didn't say a thing!" he gave him another shove. "How...and ...WHY do you expect me to be calm?"

"Because"Elvin began. But first he gave Derek a hard shove sending him to fall into his chair. Derek was in shock which might have explained why he didn't put up a struggle when Elvin pushed him down into the chair and held him there.

"I can help you change this." He said, looking Derek directly in the eye.

In that moment, with those six words it was a sensation that Derek had never felt before. It was like all the anger boiling inside his body...just...vanished...

"How?" Derek questioned "How do I change this."

"Okay" Elvin began "Listen closely Derek 'cause I'm not going to say this again. This is going to be tricky." He began to pace back and forth "Of course it wouldn't be half as complicated if you hadn't of been mur- murd- well y'know.-"

"Just say it Elvin" Derek mumbled.

"Forget it, ok so there's a few things I need to explain to you" He looked at Derek and saw he wasn't paying attention. He sighed and snapped his fingers. "Listen up Derek 'cause I'm not going to explain this to you again."

Derek nodded his head. He was now fully prepared to give Elvin his full attention.

"Ok. What would you say if I told you I can give you your life back?" Elvin smiled

Derek bolted up right in his chair "YOU CAN DO THAT?!?" A bright smile plastered to his lips.

"Yesss...buut..."

"But...But what??" Derek asked

"There's a few...ummm I'd call them...tasks ...yeah tasks that you need to accomplish first."

"Well okay... well what are they??"

"Okay, there's two of them. First one. Since you're a murder victim you were obviously killed by someone who doesn't love you. In order to come back to life you must find one person who truly loves you, and can't live without you."

"Oh that's easy, Kendra..."Derek smiled

"Yeah...ok anyways" Elvin shrugged "The second task is a bit more challenging. Derek, you have to solve your own death."

"What?!"

"Derek, you have to find your killer and let justice be served."

Derek rolled his eyes "Elvin, that's like impossible. Elvin! I CAN'T DO THAT!"

"Well then I guess you don't want your life back as much as I thought you did." Elvin shrugged again "Too bad" He began to walk out the door

"wait wait wait! I can do this! I-I know I can.."

Elvin smiled "Good, now if you excuse me I have some paper work I have to fill out" His eyes looked towards the stairs "And if my assumptions are correct, I believe there's a young lady upstairs that you might wanna talk to?"

"Huh?"

"Bye Derek, We'll be in touch." Elvin concluded and smiled as he walked out the door.

"...Who?" Derek asked the empty room.

Suddenly he heard familiar music coming from upstairs.

"Casey!" Derek shouted excitedly and bolted up the stairs.