Chapter 4

Everyone except Delilah and Julius were surprised by what Al said. This news was very alarming. Everyone knew that any one of them could be next.

"We have to figure out who is doing this." Delilah whispered to Julius.

"Where do we start?"

"Down there." She said, pointing to the window. They headed down to where the body was and searched it. After a few minutes of no results, Julius seemed to have discovered a clue.

"Dee, I think I found something." He lifted up Ursula's closed fist, in it several blonde hairs.

"That doesn't really narrow it down. Sure there aren't too many Academy agents with blonde hair, but it could be her own hair, or someone from the outside. We should keep looking." Unfortunately, they couldn't find anything else.

"Let's go inside." Julius finally said

"We can't go inside yet, we still have to find something."

"We're not going to find anything, Dee, we've been out here all day, it's starting to get cold."

"You're right, I- I just don't want anyone else to die, I want to find the killer before he strikes again."

Sadly, the killer wasn't found before he struck again, or after that, or after that. One by one, agents were snuffed off. Everyone at the Academy was scared and paranoid. Delilah and Julius continued to search for something to tell them who the killer was, but every search came up as empty as the Academy was becoming.

One night, out of fear and worry, Delilah couldn't sleep. She started heading to Julius' room, when she walked into him in the hall.

"Hey."

"Hey."

"I was just going to see you."

"Me too."

There was a long silence while they were thinking of what to say, Delilah spoke first.

"Do you ever dream of, you know, running away? Away from the Academy, away from missions, away from this constantly stressful life?"

"Of course I do, I'm sure everyone does once in a while. But I could never leave you. I mean the Academy." He quickly corrected.

"I could never leave you either Julius."

"Look, Delilah, if we are going to die, there's something I want to tell you before that happens."

"What is it?" She asked, already knowing what his answer was.

"I-I-I love you." They then kissed, but it was cut short by a scream coming from the kitchen.

"Oh my God! She's dead!"

"We'd better go check it out before the scene gets trampled." Delilah reluctantly said.

Even through all the misery, deep inside they were both happy that they finally let their feelings out.