Chapter 21: How Does It Feel?
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The drive to the precinct was silent. It seemed to take hours when it really took only minutes. Elliot stared straight ahead, not taking his eyes off the road. Olivia's comment kept shooting through his mind. 'Who knows what's happened since you left.'
She couldn't possibly be blaming him, could she? He had, after all, left the precinct because she was hurt. Elliot shook his head. He was reading too much into this. Olivia meant everything to him and he would have gone to the ends of the Earth to make sure she was okay. He wanted to ask her what she had meant by it, but, as he pulled up to the precinct, he knew now was not the time.
"Elliot? You okay?" Olivia laid a hand on his arm, while simultaneously opening her car door.
Elliot looked into her eyes for a moment and pushing all doubt from is mind he smiled at her. "Absolutely."
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"Thanks, Casey." Munch said as he hung up. He had been on the phone with her since Elliot left half an hour ago.
"What'd she find?" Fin asked, glancing up from his papers briefly.
"Well, after calling in a few favors she got access to some files that were being kept in a "secret" government outpost. Could that be anymore cliché?" Munch shook his head.
"I dunno know." Fin said, losing patience.
"Anyway," Munch continued, glancing reprovingly at his partner. "This whole Urban-Legends-Coming-to-Life thing has happened before."
Fin looked up when his partner stopped talking. He raised his eyebrows. Munch raised them right back.
"Well?" Fin threw his hands up in exasperation.
"Do you really care?" Munch folded his hands in front of him and cocked his head, an expectant expression on his face.
"You know I care! Now tell me, what happened, dammit!" Fin dropped the papers onto is desk and mimicked Munch's expression.
"Okay." Munch cleared his throat. "1925, the height of the roaring 20's." Munch recited like a television reporter. Fin rolled his eyes. "Strange things began to occur at a sleepy police station in Revive, Tennessee. It seemed as though Urban Legends were recreating themselves in their happy hollow of a town."
"Munch, cut it out. Bottom line?"
Munch sighed. "Bottom line…is that the sheriff figured out what was going on and tried to call in reinforcements."
"Tried?"
"Yeah, the call was never finished. Dispatch recorded the call and…"
"And?" Fin prompted.
"And that was the last anyone ever heard from Revive, Tennessee." Munch finished, his tone muted, almost hollow.
"What do you mean? The last? The town isn't there anymore?"
"No, its there, but its deserted. No one has lived there in over 80 years. It's a ghost town."
Fin felt a sense of what he knew was irrational fear. He sensed the underlying dread in Munch's tone. If they didn't figure out what was going on, and fast, they might just end up like "no-man's-land," Tennessee.
"John…what if--," Fin started, but was interrupted by a commotion behind him. They turned just in time to see something small and round roll into the squadroom.
"Shit, it's a--!" Munch started, but it was too late. The world around him seemed to rip and tear and bleed. Sound rushed into his ears, but seemed to disperse and seep right out of them. Munch tried to call out to Fin, but his words were ripped from his mouth in the hot, suffocating air.
Munch saw Fin get thrown backwards and out of sight.
This isn't happening.
This isn't happening.
And the world went black.
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Fin heard Munch shout, but he knew that it was too late. No stopping what was about to happen.
The blast was deafening, but it barely registered to Fin. The room seemed subdued. The colors of the walls and desks were muted and runny, like someone had splashed water on a painting. Sounds were grainy, like they were being sifted through an old gramophone.
"John!" he tried to call to his partner, but his throat constricted. The air was so hot. So heavy. He couldn't breathe, couldn't think. Couldn't feel.
Is this what dying feels like?
TBC
A/N: Sorry, it's a short chapter. R&R please! Hope you enjoyed!