A/N: Okay… So, I decided to give up on this story a long time ago, but guess what? I changed my mind! Let's hear it for another chapter!

Chapter 3

I held the note in my hand, and the more I looked at it, the worse I continued to shake. What the hell did he mean "All my fault"?! If I had known about this bastard, I would have killed him myself!

I dropped the note and ran back into the bathroom. I felt like I was going to throw up. . . again. Nothing was making sense. The murder, the man, and now the note? I just couldn't figure any of it out, and the whole situation was really starting to scare me.

What was I going to do?

The whole day I was out in the city looking for this mystery guy. I knew I shouldn't have been lookin' for him without backup, but I also knew that it was gunna to do me no good to sit at home and think that this was all gunna figure itself out. I knew better than that.

"Come on," I had searched practically every inch of the city at least twice, askin' around, lookin' in alleys, and doin' just about anything that could in any way help me get a lead on this guy. Of course I had no luck. No one knew anything about any murder, and trust me, I made sure they were tellin' the truth.

Before I knew it, it was night again, and I felt myself getting almost irritably tired. Nothing was going the way I needed it to go, and I hadn't had a good night's sleep in at least a week, so I figured I would just pick up where I left off in the morning. I needed to sleep.

I turned the car around and headed for home, struggling to keep my eyes open. I peered over to the clock assembled in my car, seeing that it was already quarter to midnight. I really surprised myself at how I stayed out all day and hadn't even noticed how late it had gotten. My head wasn't right. . . I just. . . I just kept tellin' myself that all I needed was to sleep. That's all.

I was in deep thought about how the hell time had slipped away from me, when from out of nowhere, I see this guy run out into the middle of the street. I impulsively slammed on the breaks, beating at the horn on my steering wheel, trying to swerve out of the way from hitting this guy. "MOVE!" Was all I had time to yell out before I took a sharp turn to my left, slamming myself into the nearest stop sign.

I was awoken by the annoying twang of the heart monitor next to my bed. At first I didn't know what the hell was goin' on, but then I suddenly remembered the note; the search; the guy in the road. . . It all came back to me as I felt a wave of terror rush over me. Had I hit the guy? Was it a setup? What the HELL was going on?

I knew that I had to get back out there; find out if I had done any damage to anyone or anything. The last thing I needed was to be stuck hostage in this stupid hospital.

I opened my eyes to see my hospital room vacant of doctors or nurses. Exactly the way I needed it to be if I wanted to slip out of there unnoticed. As I began to sit up, I felt hard restraints pulling down on my arms, keeping me from moving more than a couple inches. "What the hell?" I found myself saying as I noticed the restraints tightened on my arms and legs.

"Somebody let me out of here!" I found myself almost screaming. I pulled and tugged and used every ounce of strength I had to get out of those restraints, but nothing worked. I was stuck.

I finally gave up and just decided to lay there until a nurse came in to let me out, but instead of a nurse, I saw a tall man with dark hair walk casually into the room.

"You a doctor?" I asked, not expecting an affirmative response, seeing as he wasn't wearing a nametag or a stethoscope.

"What do you think?" The man answered in a mellow, almost creepy voice. "Sorry I had to leave so suddenly in that alley yesterday. Didn't mean to upset you."

"It's you!" I ranted, now getting jumpy. Who the hell was this guy? Had he killed my mother? Was he here to kill me too? "You better start to explain a few things before I – " Before I could finish, the man put a finger to his lip and gave me an almost inaudible "shh" to quiet my ranting.

"I'll explain." He calmly said. "No need to get testy now, Maurice. I'll explain everything... In time."

TBC