Audrey and Nathan showed up a couple of hours later and Audrey told me all about her very exciting day, all five times she had to repeat it. "That sounds horrible; it must be terrible to be the only person who remembers that."

"I'm glad it's just me. You were there when Duke and Nathan died; I wouldn't want you to remember that. I don't want to remember it."

"Let me get you something stronger to drink," I told her.

Duke intercepted my grab for a bottle and pushed me out from behind the bar. "I make the drinks; you are terrible at mixing things."

"I can make good coffees!"

"That is a whole other science that I don't understand." He waved me away. "Go talk to your boyfriend."

I walked around the bar and went and sat with Nathan. He was eating some mac n' cheese that I'd made. "You're right, yours isn't as good as the kind the diner makes."

"I'd be offended if I didn't know that was true."

"Audrey told you all about the trouble of the day?" He asked.

I nodded. "I can't imagine having to go through that." I shook my head. "If anything happened to you, or Duke for that matter, I don't know what I'd do."

"You died too," Nathan said quietly.

"She left that bit out," I said.

"Probably didn't think you'd want to know."

"If I was dead I wouldn't care, I guess, I mean I'd be dead. It's not as bad as knowing about you and my brother."

"I'd care."

"I don't think I'm going to be killed by a car though. Patricia told me to stay away from tattooed people, not downtown." I tried to brush it off as no big deal. In reality I was terrified, I didn't want to die and I didn't want anyone I loved to die either.

Nathan grabbed my hand across the table. "We're going to find out who those people are and they aren't going to touch you."

"Or Duke?"

"Or Duke," he assured me, though he seemed a little more reluctant.

I smiled as best I could. "Yeah, ok."

He nodded. "Ok."

"Leila, I need a burger back here!" Duke yelled across the restaurant.

I shook my head and laughed a little. "I'm surprised we don't scare customers away like this."

"Must be Duke's drinks, no one in here ever flinches," Nathan said.

"Leila!" Duke called again.

I rolled my eyes. "I'm being paged."

OoOoO

A few days later I got a call from Duke while I was sitting in my living room watching TV on my recently finished IKEA couch. "I'm busy, Duke."

"You're watching Vampire Diaries again aren't you? You realize that show is for teenagers, right?"

"Do you want something, or are you just going to pick on my life choices?"

"Could you come to the church with me and Evi today?"

"I thought you wanted to keep me away from the Rev? Taking me to the church is sort of the opposite of that."

"Well, if Evi does her job correctly, the Rev shouldn't see either of us."

"This sounds like a scheme."

"You scheme, I plan."

"Right, you keep telling yourself that. When are we going?" I asked.

"Now works, I'm outside." I glanced towards the window and saw Duke peering in.

"That's how you knew what I was doing! You know in some places that's considered stalking." I hung up and opened the door.

"You still love me," he said. He gave me a bear hug and I tried to squirm away.

"Do you want me to go with you, or are you going to keep torturing me?"

"You like hugs."

"No, not really. I don't know where you got this misinformation."

"You do." He poked me in the side and I laughed. "And your ticklish too."

"Duke, can we leave now?"

"Right, Evi will be wondering what's taking so long." I rolled my eyes. "Shut up."

"I didn't say anything," I said holding my hands up.

"You were thinking."

"Yeah, I do that a lot. You I'm not so sure about."

"That hurts!" He said pretending to be offended. He opened the back door of his car open for me and I got in. I gave Evi a not so subtle look of annoyance, but she pretended not to notice. We parked a few blocks away from the church since Duke's car wasn't the most inconspicuous. Evi went in through the front, she was supposed to be volunteering and keeping the Rev busy. Duke and I went in the back door and up the stairs to Driscoll's office.

"What are we even looking for?" I asked.

He shrugged. "He knows something. We're going to find out what."

"Great, so basically it could be anywhere or anything?"

"Pretty much, yeah."

I rolled my eyes and turned to the desk. I started pulling out drawers and flipping through papers. If I were to hide something I would have it in a hidden compartment or buried in a stack of otherwise meaningless junk. "Duke, I can't find anything." I picked up some books to see if they were hollow but they all just seemed like normal books.

"I think I found something." He opened a piece of paper and read the top line, "Citizens killed by the cursed."I looked over his shoulder and skimmed the list.

"Dad is on there," I said pointing. "Does that mean the people with the tattoos are troubled? Are they after our family or something?"

"I don't know."

"We came in here looking for answers and all we got is more questions. That seems to be how everything in this town works."

"Come on, we should get out of here." Duke and I went back down stairs and out the back. Most everyone had left to go work at the soup kitchen, including Evi. Duke and I went back to my house.

"How much longer is Evi sticking around?" I asked.

"I don't know, maybe a while. You really don't like her do you?"

"I don't know why but yeah, I don't like her. There's something off about her, Duke."

"I think I can take care of myself, Leila."

"Yeah I know, but you give me your unwanted opinions so I'm giving you mine. I don't like her. Just be careful, alright?" Duke's phone buzzed and he opened up a text from Evi. "What is it?"

"Did I tell you about the body that washed up on the beach yesterday, the one with the tattoo?"

"No, you didn't. Why, do you know how to make dead men talk?"

"Cole Glendower is the guy's father, and he has the tattoo too."

"And Evi just conveniently knows this?"

"She saw him while she was helping the Rev."

"Well, what are we waiting for? Are we going to go talk to him or not?" I stood up and we went back out to his truck. I sighed as we passed my Cube which Duke was still refusing to acknowledge as an actual car. We drove out to the middle of nowhere. It took a while to get there because it was so far out of town. There was a precession of men in floor length black capes walking through the woods and Duke and I followed them.

"Nathan and Audrey are here," I said.

"Cole is with them." Duke walked over to Cole as soon as Nathan had turned away. He noticed me and walked over in my direction.

"What are you doing here?" Nathan asked. He offered me a hand to climb down from the rock I was standing on.

"Duke wanted to talk to him, he has the tattoo," I told him. "I think my dad was killed by a troubled person."

"I thought he died in an accident."

"I did too. We don't know for sure, it was on something we found in the Rev's office, it could be wrong."

"You were in the Rev's office?" He asked. "Never mind, don't tell me. Its better I don't know."

"Sometimes I forget you're a cop. You helped me steal a goat in high school."

"Among other things."

"You have to admit, my pranks were always better than everyone else's."

"And no one figured out it was you."

"They all figured it was Duke. No one suspects the cute little sister," I said.

"I think we all know better now," Nathan said.

I shook my head. "No, you don't. But that's ok. If I was planning something, you'd be the first to know." Duke walked away from Cole and Cole started to go towards the ocean. "I'll be right back," I told Nathan. I ran down to the beach. "Excuse me," I called to Cole. He turned and saw me.

"Can I help you?"

"Maybe, I know you were talking to my brother."

"I told him I didn't know who was going to kill him," he told me.

"That's not what I wanted to ask about. Do you know anything about being gifted?"

"How did you find out about that?" He asked.

"You know what I'm talking about? What does it mean?"

He shook his head. "It's been a long time since someone like you was in Haven. I wasn't alive the last time, and from what I understand it didn't end well for her."

"Do you know anything? Anything at all?"

"Just stories, you have something to do with ending the troubles for good," he told me.

"That's all?" I asked.

"Gifted people tend to die young or get sent away." He turned back towards the ocean. "That's all I know." He walked away and left me standing on the beach feeling even more confused.

OoOoO

"You've been abnormally quiet," Duke observed. We were sitting at the bar in the Gull after closing.

"Why did you make me leave Haven?" I asked.

"What?"

"Cole said that gifted people die young or get sent away. I got sent away, I would like to know why."

He sighed. "Before dad died he made me promise that I would come back to Haven if the troubles ever started and that I would make sure you never did."

"So you sent me away because dad told you to? Since when do you listen to anything dad said?"

"I thought it was better for you, I was trying to protect you. What else did Cole tell you?"

"That I could help end the troubles, for good." At Duke's shocked expression I added, "He said they're just stories."

"Nothing is just a story in Haven."