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Chapter 3 - Slain

Suffering, tragedy and pain this was the life I knew my soul has been slain I was oblivious to what was true my desire is to be set free cries always heard lie were spoken to me decieved was I to think they, a gentle word recieved I abuse of the world in turn my soul is lost, forever it will burn the malice of men, children's perverse lips women's dresses tatterted and torn with rips eyes close only to open with bloodshed ears slashed as I watched, they bled agony in their voices consequence of their choices living in a poverty of evil no mercy offered here discomfort seize all guilty consciences do appear hurt camouflaged by anger is this something you'd like to hear? this will be shared as you have before snared pain trenches in spoiled minds and destroyed by rotten hearts this strength as unappreciated arts

- Yvette Ortiz

Set at a police precinct...

They enetered the busy police station and were told to have a seat for a moment. Rob looked at Jade and noticed that she looked normal for once. She was wearing a wrinkled baggy tee-shirt and jeans. No makeup, and her hair was loose. He never saw her long hair loose before and found her attractive, just like Claire. He admitted to himself that he tried to get a date with Claire and had a crush on her until he saw Jade. Then like waking from a nightmare he heard that familiar voice coming from the entrence of the building. "Hey Rob." He turned to see Raven's slick smile and he sneered at her, her hands were bound in cuffs as an officer guided her into the station followed by his friend Jay who was also in cuffs. They were being taken down to the cells in the basement. (Shit, now what happened. Oh well I got more important things to deal with, sorry buddy you're on your own this time.) "Can I help you?" An officer in uniform asked, catching Jade and Rob's attention. "We need to file a missing persons report, she disappeared two days ago." Jade replied anxiously. "Ok, come with me." The officer led them to his office and told them to have a seat. He took out what looked like a job application and a red pen. Rob noticed the red pen had a strange logo on it he had seen before. The officer started filling out the date, time and other numbers at the top. He then proceeded with interrogating questions. "Ok before I start I need to know if this person has been missing for more than 24 hours." He looked at Rob sizing him up. It made Rob feel like he was a criminal being convicted. "She's been gone for over 2 days now, she hasn't called or shown up. It's not like her at all." Rob jumped to answer so that Jade wouldn't unless she had to. He didn't trust this cop and the tension was rising. Jade looked at them and wanted to get in a word but decided to let Rob do the talking since he knew more about Claire's whereabouts. "Ok then, I'm going to need an address and phone number, just so that we can reach you if anything turns up." Just as Jade was going to answer Robe spoke up. "I'll give you mine." The officer looked at him suspiciously. "Sure ok. Just fill out your first and last name here, then your address and telephone number here." He pointed to the blank spaces on the sheet and began questioning Jade directly. "Tell me what she looks like and give me her name, address, phone number and tell me when you last saw her." "Claire lives with me, she's my roommate. This is my friend, she just came along to file the report with me." Rob looked up from the form and jumped in. Jade looked at him and played along. "Is that true hun?" He eyed Jade lustily. In fact Rob noticed that he kept looking at her without modesty. "Yes. I knew her but rarely spoke to her." "Ok, well then I guess I'll be asking you all the questions." He faced Rob. "Claire Redfield is the missing person, she has brown medium length hair, usually in a ponytail. Gray eyes. She went to Raccoon City to visit her brother. I haven't seen her since..." The officer was scribbling away at his pad. "Raccoon City?" The officers eyes widened. "Are you sure she's there now, have you been there lately?" "I've never been there, and I'm not sure if she got there ok, she would have called and let her friends know." "I see. Well I'll be sure to start an investigation, if anything turns up I'll let you know." The officer stood and opened the door to let them out. Rob let Jade walk out first as the officer watched them leave intently.



"What was that about?" Jade asked confused. "There's something wrong about that cop. He was acting weird. I don't trust him." "He was making me feel uncomfortable, thanks for distaracting his attention. But you gave him your information." Jade looked at Rob concerned. "I wrote a fake name and address that way I can't be traced." "Oh, what are we gonna do now, what about Claire." "Look, we gotta find out what's going on in Raccoon City. That cop looked a little uneasy when I mentioned it." "You think something may have happened?" Jade was really worried. "I'm not jumping the gun just yet, I'm gonna do a little research on Raccoon City and see if anyone knows anything." "Why don't we just go there and find her." "NO. Not until we find out what's going on, look I'm really worried about her too, but if we go there without a plan or something..." Rob saw Jade get teary eyed and gave her a hug as if they'd been friends for years. Jade accepted the hug and almost felt guilty for having done so. "I just have a really bad feeling about this." At that moment he thought of something and stopped hugging Jade. "Hey, I'll take you back home now if you want, you look like you need sleep." Rob looked into her eyes and didn't care anymore if she saw it as being crude, he knew in his heart he was being sincere. "I can't sleep, I have insomnia." "I promise by tomorrow I'll find out all I need to know and then we can go to Raccoon City to look for her there. Maybe we'll find someone who knows her or Chris." He said reassuringly. "I'll try to get some sleep." They both walk to his car and he unlocks her door. "Are you ok if I went inside the police station for a minute?" "Sure, I'll wait for you, but please don't take too long." "I'll be back soon." She watched as he disapeared through the precinct doors.



In the station Rob approached the main desk of the lobby and asked if he could visit his friend. She sternly told him that visiting hours are over. But as luck would have it he noticed the officer who led Jay downstairs in handcuffs and walked over to him. "Excuse me officer, I wanted to know what happened with a friend of mine. I waiting to file a missing persons report and I saw you bring him into the building in handcuffs." Rob tried to be as polite and respectful as possible in his manner. "Oh yeah, what's it to you?" "I wanted to see him." "Well, you can come back tomorrow like everyone else. Visiting hours are over." "I understand. What was he charged with?" "I'm not allowed to give out that information, unless your his father, which I can see you're not. If you do not leave I will have you escorted outside." The officer caught a nasty tone with a touch of annoyance. Rob made haste for the door and made his way to his car where Jade waited. She breathed a sigh of relief as soon as she saw him walking down the steps of the precinct. She remembered the girl who greeted Rob as she was led away in handcuffs and recognized her as the campus slut. (Why would he know her? Maybe he went in to try to help her out.) The car door opened and Rob fitted himself in the driver seat and didn't bother to wear his seatbelt. Jade wasn't wearing one either. Rob turned on the car and asked Jade, "So did anyone bother you?" "No, I'm fine." "Good. Home?" He asked. She smiled nodding her head and they drove off. When they reached Jade's house she almost asked him to stay but stopped herself. After he saw that she was inside and safe Rob drove off to the university where he resided. After about 10 minutes on his way he noticed a car behind him had in fact been following him the whole time. He couldn't see who was in the car but had a sneaking suspicion it was a cop, though it was an unmarked car. He came to a red light and stopped acting as casual as he could. He did not want to start a chase. (Damn, I gotta lose this guy, he's right on my ass.) Rob made a right turn and increased speed a little. The car behind followed. Traffic seemed busier on this street, so Rob cuts the 2 cars in front of him right before 3 were coming down the opposite lane which kept the car from pursuing him. Rob drove a little pushed down on the accelerator pedal and made a right turn onto an empty street. Just as he thought he was home free the car came speeding at him and the next thing Rob knew he was stuck in his car, now turned upside down. The driver of the other car stepped out and walked towards Rob who was knocked unconscience and bleeding perfusely. He looked like a pretzel. The driver suddenly jumped back at the sight of the sparks and immediately ran into his car and drove away. Sirens pierced the street with its shrieks. An explosion of sparks and fire broke out.