Author's note: More LiFS! I felt like doing more LiFS, so that's what we're doing!
Disclaimer: I don't own Life is Strange or any of the OCs except my own, I also own the plot of this story.
Roaring onto the next road over, Shaun turned to look at his new friend. She was wearing a biker helmet, leather pants, boots, and jacket, and a red shirt. "Who the Hell are you?" Shaun demanded, glancing between her and the road as he roared onto main street and past where the old Two-Whales diner had burned down a few days ago.
"My name is Shield, and while I thank you for the swift save back there, I really need to leave." She said, reaching over and pulling the lock on her door up as a means to leave.
"No you don't!" Shaun said, swerving into the parking lot of the burned building, causing the girl to fly back into her seat. Putting the car into Park and getting out, Shaun dragged her with him and dropped her unceremoniously onto the thick cement.
"I have some questions, the first being what the Hell are you wearing?" Shaun said. "And the second being a little more serious, why were you in that store?"
"I'm a super hero, this is my costume?" She answered, clearly very annoyed. "And again, hero, I kinda help people."
Shaun, satisfied with her answer, extended a hand. "Sorry, had to make sure that you weren't going to attack me, and since you were nice enough to talk, rather than fight, shows me that. My name's Shaun, and these." He gestured toward his companions. "Are my teammates."
"Teammates?" She asked. "You mean like-"
"The Avengers? Yeah." Shaun interrupted
"I was gonna say X-Men, but sure." Shield said, taking his hand and pulling herself up. "You want me to join I bet?" She asked, crossing her arms.
"Yeah but how did you-"
"I've seen enough Super-hero shows and movies to know how this goes, and yes, I could use a team." She said, pulling out a pen and paper.
"Why do you have that on you if your crime fighting?" Johnny asked, pointing at the pen and paper.
"Because I expected that I wouldn't the only one with powers." She said, handing them the paper. "That's my cell number, call me tomorrow and I'd be happy to meet up with you guys, for right now though I gotta go, see ya!" She said, turning and running down the block.
Shaun nearly tried to chase after her, but decided against it. Letting her leave may prove to be a show of good faith-a way of saying he trusted her.
Turning back to Johnny and Landon, Shaun spoke. "Well, why don't we go to Mrs. Mikaelson's?" He questioned, and walked back to his truck.
Johnny and Landon, seeing no reason to protest, followed him. It was upon getting into the car that Johnny groaned. "What?" Shaun asked him.
"I never got my food!" He whined, causing both Shaun and Landon to roll their eyes as they pulled off.
Driving for a few minutes, the threesome quickly found themselves in front of Landon thought to be Lillian's house. It was a rather large Mansion, not quite as big as the Prescott's or the one owned by the famous Historian, Mike Grey, but it was still pretty large for one person. Stepping out and motioning for the other two to stay behind, Shaun walked up to the door and rapped on it three hard times.
Upon receiving no answer, Shaun motioned for Landon and Johnny to come over to him.
Once Landon got there, Shaun pointed inside the window. "Think you can get in there?" He asked.
Landon extended his hand out, and concentrated, before suddenly warping inside the house. The lithe boy smiled at the people he considered friends, and walked over to unlock the door.
A few clicks later, and they were in. Shaun immediately noticed the cold of the house, it was as though no one had lived there for a few days and as such the heat had died down with no circulation. Landon zipped up his white jacket, hiding the dark undershirt, and spoke. "So we're in, any idea of what we're looking for?" He asked.
"Anything that has to do with Calypso Intra. Notes, emails, objects. Anything." Shaun said. "Let's fan out and search the house."
Landon agreed to take the bottom floor, meanwhile Shaun and Johnny headed upstairs.
"I'll go look for something in her room, you go check the closets." Shaun said, looking directly at Johnny.
"You got it, man!" Johnny said, walking toward large hall closet.
Shaun walked down the hall and peered into Lillian's room, there was a messy bed in the center wall with two nightstands on either side of it, a closet sat on the left side of the room, and a window on the right. There was also a TV set sitting across from the bed, it was a large wall-mounted Plasma screen.
"Jeez, what does this girl do for a living? Half this stuff looks like about six years of work for me." Shaun commented as he stepped inside and looked around harder.
He blinked his eyes, and they began to glow. Shaun glanced around, and noticed that there was something glowing a soft white, it was the left dresser. Walking over to it and pulling it open, Shaun found several tubes of various different makeup products, along with a fake ID. Shaun grabbed the ID, he'd seen enough fakes to know the difference. He held it up, and saw that, yep, it was the thing he was being led towards, setting the card in his pocket for later, Shaun looked around again.
The closet, or rather the dresser in the closet, was glowing as well.
Pulling open the closet and digging through the dresser, Shaun quickly came across what he was looking for, a picture. Blinking his eyes clear, he shined his phone light on the picture.
It was a picture of a young girl with brown hair and eyes sitting with a older woman, posing for a picture with a wide smile on both their faces. Shaun could feel that this was important, but not to his mission. The girl in the picture must have been Lillian, the woman couldn't be her mother, she was far too wide, and black. Shaun didn't feel too comfortable with taking the photo, so he quickly set it back down and covered it back up with clothes.
Stepping back outside, he looked at Johnny. "Find anything?" He asked.
Johnny shook his head. "Nothing I think you'd care about." He said. "You can check if you want."
Shaun shook his head. "Nah, it's fine. I trust you." He said, walking back downstairs.
Landon was waiting for them. "Nada. But I did find some beers in the fridge if you want them, Shaun." He said, crossing his arms and throwing his head toward the fridge.
Shaun shook his head. "Let's just get out of here, I don't think we're going to find anything without Lillian herself." Shaun said, extending a hand.
Landon grabbed it (and Johnny's) and they warped out of her house...
Caroline, the next day.
"So what are we doing?" She asked, looking intently at Saranus. It was the second day that they'd learned about Kathrine, and they had reunited at her house after school to meet and decided on what they were going to do next. And...Caroline had, uh, zoned out for a second.
"We're going after the Liberator." He sighed. "If we catch them, we'll be doing something good with our powers, and we'll be taking down the most dangerous human being in America right now." Saranus reminded.
"Now, I have compiled a list of all previous victims, including the most recent." He said, opening a powerpoint on her computer. "All of them have been tall, roughly somewhere in the 5'5-6'5 range, and they've all been male. Hair color has changed, but blonde seems to be prefered, and they've all been on the slim side." He took a breath to make sure everyone was listening, when satisfied he stepped back in front of the computer and swapped to the next slide.
"And they've all been somewhere in the 18-25 range, blood type doesn't seem to really matter." He looked at everyone, like a teacher would, to make sure that everyone had heard him. Once satisfied, Sarunas continued. "So this tells us one thing about the killer, something that I'm not sure that the police have figured out yet." He paused dramatically. "The killer is female."
Everyone looked up at him, and Robbie was the first to speak. "What make's ya say that?" He asked.
"Well, on reviewing the facts I think we can come to the conclusion that this was a person wronged by someone, a man around 6 feet tall. And upon looking over the more grisly details about the murders I noticed that nigh every time there was barely a struggle and that the victim usually showed arousal prior to death." He clicked the powerpoint onto a section with a ton of numbers laid out on a chart, no one bothered to read it. "Anyway, I, along with police, found that the knife strikes usually came from the bottom, just under the Jugular vein. Meaning that the killer usually had to lift the knife above them." He smirked, pleased with his research. "And because of that I've crossed referenced the shortest of the men, 5'5, to the average height of a woman in the similar age range, which is 5'4, and guess what?" He asked, rhetorically of course, not that Caroline got that.
"What?" She asked.
Giving a large grin, Sarunas quickly replied. "She struggled the least with him, the cut into the vein was far smoother than any of the others. Meanwhile, with Alex Michaels, the tallest of the victims, she made longer and more jagged cuts." Sarunas said, feeling pleased at himself.
"So, I've narrowed the killer down to a moderately hot, say 7-8/10, tall girl, who's probably looking for a boning buddy." He said, looking around at them.
"Dude, that describes, like, half the girls in town." Robbie said. "I don't think we're going to find her." He said, crossing his arms.
"Well we have to try, if anyone sees anything suspicious call me or Robbie on our cells and try to keep the Liberator distracted long enough for one of us to get there." He stopped to look at his watch. "Now I need to be getting to work, I've been shirking my duties for a few days and my boss is inches from firing me." He said, standing and waving bye to the group.
Kathrine was next to stand. "Anyway I need to leave too, I have to get to homework." She said, and just like that the mixed girl was gone.
Robbie stood, stretched, and started to leave when Mace caught up to him. "Can we...talk?" She asked, giving her most seductive look. Robbie, a man controlled by many of his baser emotions, had little choice but to follow her as she led him outside.
That left Caroline. Oh, and Rats, who leapt up onto her lap and snuggled. She petted her cat and grabbed the remote, deciding to watch a little TV as the day winded down. After all, what were the chances that she was going to be the one to find the Liberator? If anything it would be one of the others, who actually had things to do.
She was content to sit around and watch...wait. "JURASSIC WORLD IS ON?!" She cried, causing Rats to leap off of her. Noticing this, she quickly apologised. Rats gave an annoyed, yet forgiving mew, and leapt back onto her lap.
She clicked onto the movie, and watched with intensity...
Robbie
Once they were alone, Mace finally spoke. "So. Me. You. Movies?" She asked, twirling some hair in between her fingers seductively. "Or perhaps.." She leaned in further, and her hands dropped over her full chest. "You want to skip to the fun?" She smirked.
Robbie looked into her purple and blue eyes, and nearly found himself giving in to her. Quickly he distanced himself. "I appreciate the offer." He grinned weakly. "I really do. But I don't do relationships." He said, backing up a little more.
Mace smirked and approached him. "Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I don't really want a girlfriend-boyfriend relationship, more like friends with benefits." She put a long nailed finger on Robbie. "You give me gifts, money, attention." The finger trailed back to her chest. "I'll give you certain..favors." She smirked.
Robbie finally gave in. "So, movies?" He asked, pulling out his wallet. This caused Mace to smirk.
"Looks like you have a gift for me first.." She pointed downward. "Get into your car and I'll fix that..."
Shaun
"So, I see you decided to join too." He said, watching as the girl from the previous night walked up to his place of business, where he and the Asian girl from a few days ago were standing.
"I was curious." The dirty blonde said. "Sue me." She laughed.
"Well, I'd like to introduce you to my other new ally, Inori." Shaun said, gesturing to the Asian girl standing next to him.
The dirty blonde looked her up and down, and smirked. "Nice."
Inori felt her hands immediately go up to block her private areas. "What? Do you have some kind of X-ray vision?" She asked, causing the girl to laugh.
"No, I do force fields, but I can appreciate a hot girl when I have to..."
Shaun stepped in. "Hey, your making her a bit uncomfortable, am I going to lie and tell you she's not pretty good looking? No. But am I going to stand for it if she doesn't like your advancements? Also no." He warned.
"I was teasing." She said.
"Anyway, I'm not going to call you Shield, what's your name? I'm Shaun." He said, deciding that trying to argue with her would get him nowhere.
"Adelaide." She said, extending a hand, one Shaun accepted.
Inori glared at her for a moment longer, before focusing her breathing and forcing herself to calm down.
"Gomen to itte." She commanded, looking at Adelaide with intensity. "Say sorry." She corrected, realizing that she probably didn't speak Japanese.
Adelaide sighed. "I'm Sorry." She said with total genuity. Satisfied, Inori extended her own hand. Adelaide took and shook it. "Inori." She said.
Saranus
Running into the Pharmacy and clocking in, Sarunas couldn't believe it. His boss hadn't fired him yet!
The Arcadia Neo Pharmacy was much, much more than what it was called. There was, obviously, the Pharmacy section, but there was also the Tech section, Dollar Clothing isle, and the extra-small furniture section. The only reason the Pharmacy was like this was because, after the Tornado hit, the store became the only place to buy things left, and it just stuck that way, even after ten years.
"Thank God." He whispered as he entered the technology section, prepared to, well, do his job. He sat behind the counter and waited, hoping that someone would come along and try to buy something.
And soon enough...they did. Person after person lined up, asking about video games, tablets, Plasma TV's, all sorts of things by all sorts of people.
This goes on for a few more hours without incident, until suddenly-
"Waaagh!" A voice calls, causing Saranus to glance over to where a pretty Redhead had fallen down, trying to carry a large mattress by herself it seemed.
Moving through the store and kneeling over her, Sarunas quickly asked. "Hey, are you OK? Please don't sue." This caused the girl to look up at the African American Teen with her sparkling green eyes.
"I'm fine, and don't worry. I don't sue." She said pleasantly, lifting her hand up. "Help me up?" She asked.
Feeling quite charmed by the girl, Saranus smiled and grabbed her hand. Then, suddenly a vision leapt at him.
the pain.
Such Pain.
The Knife...His Chest.
Red.
So. Much. Red.
Eyes, Hair, Knife...Blood.
His?
Someone Else's?
He did not know.
What he did Know however, was that she was behind the knife, smiling.
His vision darkened, everything was going dark once more.
the pain...
Author's Note: So, that was a lot longer than I had planned. And I mean that in several ways. I meant to have this out before MoniTale, but that took away my focus for a bit. Then came the part where I had to decide whether or not to make this a 3-parter...yes, it is a three parter now. I wanted to do ten chapters per episode, but I guess that'll just have to be my goal for each, as counting part three, there'll be about eleven chapters. Tell me if I'm wrong about that though, I may have miscounted. But hey, look at the bright side: you guys will be getting part three sometime next week (probably)! As I have already completed most of it! Now onto reviews
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LostValkyrie:Whenever I see an update, always feel I need to re-read the entire thing. Doing so, I can definitely see consecutive improvements chapter after chapter.
Especially with this chapter. I feel you nailed the pacing here.
Me: Glad that I'm getting better in your eyes! I have noticed that I seem to get better the longer that I write inside a fandom. For example if you look at my earlier work on HOV to my later work I definitely improve.
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CassieHU: Just lurking here, have been enjoying these stories. Update faster please!
Me: You got it pal! Next week (hopefully).
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iamgoku: phew, finally able to review ( don't have internet at my home at the moment)
Loved this chapter, so many great scenes. I loved Kathrine's scene, animal rivalry between her squirrel and the cat, is hilarious XD
Andrea's scene was awesome, loved the ghostly figure and her reaction, can't wait to see more of that and it's backstory
I am fully on board with Shaun having a love interest/soul mate, I just jumped on that eagle pin XD Yeah, that would make sense, not making them too advanced.
Cannot wait to see chapter 9, this one left me on the edge of my seat :D
Me: Sorry that you don't have internet friend, hopefully it's back up when this goes up
Glad you liked Kathrine's scene.
You will find out more and more as time goes on-this is part of the changes that I've made to Andrea
Cool, I'll get Shaun a girlfriend soon enough, probably after episode two is over-he, and everyone else, will be..busy during episode two.
If you thought eight was gripping, then I bet you'll love nine.
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ZenoZen: good conversation between character and i wonder will cathrine think about what has been happening today in her home
Me: Probably not much, but thanks for the compliment.
Well, that's all for now so
Until Next Time True Readers!