"What do you think Cyrus?" Angel said, taking in her surroundings. She noticed the only things around were a baseball field, some worn out bleachers, and an empty highway nearby. She felt a quick tap on her shoulder and turned around to see Cyrus with a baseball trophy in his hands.
"Want to take a look at our fifth ghost past?" he said, with a sneer on his face.
"No. I actually I don't." she replied back, slipping on her ghost viewers. When put them on, she heard Dennis cry out in pain. She turned around and saw him lying on the ground, with one hand on his head and the other firmly grasping the baseball trophy.
~*Local baseball hero, local greaser, group of teenagers cheering, a drag race, baseball hero in lead, car going out of control, yells for help, car on fire, teenagers looked on, baseball hero dies*~
Angel noticed the pain getting worse as Dennis still had a hold of the small baseball trophy. She kneeled next him and tried to take it out his hand. He kept groaning in pain, as the force from the trophy kept getting stronger. Angel managed to take it out his hands and threw far away from him. He rolled over onto his back and looked up into her face. He gave her a quick smile before getting poked by a cane.
"I am not paying you to just lie around! Now get the hell up and go find my damn ghost!" Cyrus yelled directly at Dennis.
"If you for once stop being a fucking dick maybe we would find your fucking ghost! Stop giving us stuff from their past just to see us writhe in pain!" Angel yelled back.
Dennis slowly got up from the ground and slipped on his ghost viewer. He watched Angel and Cyrus yell back and forth at each other until he saw Cyrus slap Angel across the face. He got into Cyrus face and was inches away from punching him until his cane tripped him. Cyrus began to hit him in the face with the cane until his lip started to bleed. Angel was about to beat Cyrus until she heard Dennis tell her no.
Dennis got up from the ground and wipes the blood off his mouth. Cyrus gave Angel an evil look before directing his attention to Dennis.
"I suggest you control your girlfriend next time Mr. Rafkin or this will be the last time you two will ever see each other." He said to him sternly. Dennis sighed and walked over to Angel.
"You okay?" he asked her, noticing the red hand imprint on her cheek.
"Yeah I'm fine. What about you?" she asked him, lightly touching his bloody lip.
"I'm fine. Let's just find the ghost and pray everything else goes smoothly." The both of them started walking a baseball field for a while before walking around the highway road. Dennis started to jerk his head around before grabbing the back of it.
"This is not good," he said, looking at Angel. "Let's hope he's a nice guy." The both of them felt another presence around them and looked around. Dennis turned around and saw a teenager clutching a baseball bat with the right side of his body horribly disfigured due to road rash. Before he could warn Angel, the ghost swung the bat and nailed Dennis on the side of his head.
Angel turned and saw Dennis fly backwards on the ground, with his head bleeding profusely. She looked and saw the ghost too. She started to run while Dennis struggled to get up. Instead of coming after her, he swung at the other side of Dennis head knocking him back down and leaving him to bleed again. Angel stopped running and started to run back towards Dennis prone body and the ghost.
"Why is the ghost not coming after me?" she thought as she ran back. When she reached the both of them, the ghost turned to look at her. They stared at each other while Dennis groaned in agony and watched what was going on. Even Cyrus and his men were wondering what going on between the ghost and Angel.
The ghost used his left hand and gently touched her face and whispered 'Alicia'. Angel eyes widened when she heard the name. Alicia was Angel's grandmother before she passed away 3 years ago. But she didn't know much about her grandmother's past until she jerked her head back as past memories flashed before her eyes.
*~*~* Alicia and Royce hanging, Royce asking out Alicia, dating, fun, laughter, emotions, pain, Alicia watching Royce die, Alicia meeting Dennis, Dennis ask Alicia out, fun *~*~*
Angel's breathing began to shorten as Royce began to lean in towards her. "My grandmother dated him and now he thinks I'm her," she thought. "But who the hell is that Dennis guy?"
Dennis got up slowly from the ground and walked towards Royce and Angel. He didn't care about being hit again by a baseball bat; he just wanted Angel to be safe. When he reached them, Royce quickly turned around and faced him. His eyes grew wide as the ghost stared at him. Angel quickly jumped in between Dennis and Royce while Cyrus had his men set up the audio equipment. Royce quickly focused his attention onto Angel and snarled at her.
"Dennis, start running," she whispered. "And don't even argue with me."
Dennis did as she said; slowly backing up first then started to run. He turned around and saw Angel running towards him and the cube. But he also saw Royce right behind her with his baseball bat ready to hit her. He stopped running when he saw Angel get hit in the side by the bat. She grabbed her side and fell to the ground. She tried to get back up but the baseball swung down on her back, causing a scream to emit from her.
Angel carefully rolled onto her back and groaned in agony. She coughed up some blood and thought her ribs were broken. She looked up and saw Royce standing above her body, grinning at her as he raised the bat again. She quickly rolled out the way before he could possibly crush her skull. She managed to get back up and tried to run towards Dennis again until she was hit on the side of her head.
Dennis was completely scared of what was going on. He started to run towards Angel's fallen and non-moving body as he heard the Latin chants play. When he reached her body, Royce was gone and had been trapped into the cube. He knelt beside her body and carefully rolled her on her back.
"Angel? Sweetie? Please wake up." He sobbed as he looked down at her. But she didn't move at all, still in a blacked out state. He slowly went to touch her neck to see if she was even alive. He sighed relief when he felt a pulse. Before he could do anything else to make her possibly wake up, Cyrus quickly pulled him away.
"Well is she alive Dennis?" Cyrus asked, not caring about what happen to her.
"Yes she is. What the fuck took your men so long start the damn chants?" Dennis asked him.
"On my command they start the chants. I decided to delay the chants until Angel here understood the downfall of so-called true love."
"You sick son of a bitch! You know about the ghost past relationship with her family, didn't you? Didn't you?"
"What I know is none of your concern. Men, take Ms. Aria to a nearby hospital. You can go along too Dennis." With that, Cyrus headed back to the 1920 style car as the men and Dennis got in a van with Angel's body.
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Dennis had taken off the spectral viewers and placed his regular glasses back on. He was sitting in a chair next to Angel's hospital bed. She had two broken ribs and a mild concussion while he only had a mild concussion. He wanted to there when she woke up and hold her. Deep down, he felt it was part of his fault that he let Angel get hurt. If he had ran away the first time he saw the ghost, she wouldn't had to step in between him and the ghost.
He began to fiddle with his ring that he gotten earlier that day. It reminded him of how wild and fun loving Angel was. The more he fiddled with it, the more he wanted to cry. When he finally began to cry, he felt a hand on his head. He looked up and saw Angel looking back at him.
He didn't say anything to her but instead he went to hug her and she hugged him back.
"It's not your fault," she said. "So don't blame yourself for it."
"How did you know I was thinking that?" he asked.
"It's common for people to blame themselves for another misfortune."
"I thought you were dead."
"Dennis, I'm too strong for dead itself."
"You probably are." He kissed her forehead and told her he was going to see her tomorrow, when she got out the hospital. He quickly assumed that Cyrus was up to something that involve him and Angel and promised that he would figure out what it was.
*~Author's Note: Sorry for taking forever to get this chapter but school has been hard on me for a while. Hopefully I can work on some chapters soon. So read and review as always.