The Lone Musician
Chapter Five – Discoveries
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Fire extinguishing fluid flew everywhere as Lazul chased her cat around to room, finally tackling him to the ground. She already knew she'd have a hell of a cleaning job to do now. Once standing up again, she took a rag from her back pocket and began to slowly clean things off. Dante still stood in the doorway, but before the cat could make it past him, he closed the door quickly. He guessed Benny was something of a house cat. He kneeled down to the floor and Benny leapt at him, clawing at his shirt. Dante quickly stood up with the cat still dangling from it claws to his chest. He felt like a 15 pound weight now hung from his body, then it loosened as he noticed Lazul pulling him off.
"You goddamn cat! I told you to leave the house guests alone, BUT NOOOOOO!!! YOU GO AND TRY TO HANG OF THEIR BODIES!!!" Lazul ranted, heaving the cat off, and putting him gently on the ground. She pointed into the kitchen and the cat, with it's head slightly hung, walked into the room.
"Sorry about that, Dante. Benny is a little, how should I put this... High-strung." she muttered, gnawing on her lip. Dante understood. Animals usually took a strong disliking to him very early in their relationship. Lazul walked over, quietly closing the kitchen door and turned back to Dante, curious why he was still hanging around.
"Is their any reason why you're still here?" she asked quietly, walking to the couch and sitting down, first pushing everything off onto the floor. He walked over to the couch and sat down next to her, startling her.
"No idea. I kind of need someone to-" he was cut off.
"Talk to? If you need to talk, I suggest a closer friend. I'm not the type of person to give good advice..." she said, trying to lighten the mood. Dante shook his head.
"I just need someone to listen... Lucia would probably go off about politics before I even got started and Mundus. Well, Mundus doesn't need an explanation."
"So you came to me?"
"I feel like you would listen."
"Why would I listen?"
"I don't know."
Lazul nodded. He was just confused right now.
"My thoughts have been spinning since 5pm last night. Give me a friggin' break, Lazul! So much is going on that I can't help myself but be confused beyond all recognition! My life has become F.U.B.A.R. within a matter of hours!" Dante ranted to no one in particular. Lazul nodded.
"Well, you should stop complaining and concentrate on getting it off your mind. I mean, if you need to do something BESIDES attempt suicide, do it! Get it off your chest now!" Lazul said in an expressive tone, her eyes noting the crack in the wall and ceiling. Dante sighed heavily and stood.
"What's the point of living when you have nothing to live for?" Dante inquired,
turning back to look at her. Lazul took a moment to think about this. She
nodded.
"You have to live for, hmmm... Where should I start? The band, Mundus, Lucia,
your guitar, for your friends and what little family you have. You have your
motorcycle - Are you writing this down?" Lazul asked, raising an eyebrow and
counting off on her fingers. Dante smirked.
"You're persistent, aren't you?"
Lazul laughed quickly.
"You can't BEGIN to imagine! But really... Before you do something that would
change everyone's life around you, think about! Dying will just make it
worse..."
"Make it worse...?"
"You're really are clueless, aren't you? If you died, everyone who knew you would
probably do the same. Or they'd drop into depression. The only reason I'm still
around is because I want to make people happy. But it didn't seem that way in-"
She stopped herself.
"In what?"
"I-It's nothing..."
Sarcasm laced his tone.
"It sure sounds like nothing..."
"I've been-"
"You've been...?"
Lazul glared at him.
"Stop interrogating me! You butthead!"
"Butthead? Oh! I'm so offended!"
Lazul kicked him in the shin.
"OW! Okay! That hurt!"
He winced in pain, cradling his wounded shin. Lazul's glare continued and she
laughed maniacally. Dante sat down again and pushed her over. Lazul screeched as
she fell over and quickly got up so she wasn't crushed under Dante.
"You're sure friendly!" she said, dusting off her jeans. Dante was lying
horizontally on the couch, Ben suddenly leaping on to his belly and making him
shoot upright. Lazul sat back down, petting the cat.
"Good boy..." she said, petting the cat head. The cat jumped away again and ran into the kitchen. Dante, shaking out of his surprised faze, finally took the time to notice the decor. The walls of the apartment were covered in black paint with many random designs displayed in varying colors. The curtains, also dark to cover from the outside world's light.
"You were saying...?" he started. Lazul heaved a sighed, gnawing on her lip slightly. She seemed unsure.
"Alright... I'll talk... You better not tell anyone, or I will have to hurt you!" she threatened. Dante made a motion of putting his hand over his mouth and "zipped" it shut. He wouldn't say a word. His shin was already bruised.
"Well, I've been having this really bizarre dreams for a while. Not like "the pink elephant dances with the upset sphinx", but REALLY bizarre. They've been more light nightmares... At least the more recent dreams. That was last night. It involved murder. Not like the kind "stab-stab, you're dead" but the slow torturous kind."
"And you can see it?"
"Not see it. I've been doing it."
"You think it's a precognitory dream?"
Lazul shook her head vigorously, meaning a definite no.
"Why would I kill someone?"
"Revenge, angry, hatred... There are many reasons, but we don't know most of them."
Lazul was glad that he was at least taking the situation seriously. Dante folded his leg and turned to Lazul, his facial expression grim. Lazul looked up, then down again shaking her head.
"I'm just really confused about it. What exactly does it mean?" she asked to no one in particular.
"I'm not sure if it has a meaning, but could try and solve it. It's a mystery and we're the Nancy Drew and pals caught up in it. You should maybe ask Lucia about it."
Lazul hesitated.
"C'mon, Lazul! You know you want to..." he said, almost seductively. He waggled his eyebrows at her and she laughed, throwing pillows from the couch at him.
"Hey! HEY!" Dante said, deflecting pillow after pillow. "I was being serious! Though it may not have SEEMED that way, I was."
"I'm sure you were, Mr. Use-A-Seductive-Voice-To-Prove-!"
"Really! Let's call her up RIGHT now. I'm sure she's home..."
Dante reached for the phone and dialed in the number. Soon, after 2 minutes of ringing, the phone was answered.
"I LOVE YYOOOUUUU!!!" the faint voice on the other line said. Mundus. There were sounds of struggle, then a muffled 'BUT SHE AND I HAVE PLEDGED OUR HEARTS TO EACH OTHER, LUCIA!!!!'. Finally a familiar, non-drugged up voice was heard.
"Dante?" Lucia inquired.
"No, Lazul. Dante is at my place."
"I knew he-"
"No!"
"Okay, what's up?"
Lazul took a deep breathe, then began to explain it. Everything that there was to tell. Everything and more than what she had told Dante. Lucia, on the other line was listening as she typing in password after password, looking under the name 'Lazul'. She tried to find out what it meant. No psychiatric studies. No meaning of the dreams. Not except one.
"It says here that dreams about the person in question murdering someone is maybe reflection of a past experience." Lucia announced, about as freaked as Lazul had become.
"W-What?!?! But, I've never killed anyone! And if I have, I never knew about it!" Lazul yelled, trying to calm herself down, but success was far from close. Lucia became curious, looking under 'Deaths Caused By Lazul', trying to find something humorous. She laughed slight at the thought of it. But, her laughter soon halted.
"Oh my god..."
"What? What did you-Oh god..." Lazul quickly stopped herself and rested her forehead between her thumb and forefinger.
"What?" Dante seemed thoroughly confused by all of this, so he stole the phone from Lazul and put it to his ear.
"-File after file, government files too. Three Ukraine terrorists found dead at base? English spy found dead at American military base? The list goes on-"
"What's going on, Lucia? I need an explanation now!" Dante yelled to the other line. The line quickly went dead. Dante threw the phone across the room, then looked at Lazul. Her faced as screwed up in a way of confusion, pain, and disbelief.
"I-I-I re-really don't k-k-know what's g-going on..." she said, still looking down. Her voice was insanely shaking. She was shaking. She looked scared.
"What's going on?" he asked, his voice calming.
"The Government's been using me! No wonder I live here and have what I do! They gave it to me in exchange for my life! I'll ki-" she stopped herself. The word 'kill' seemed to be filled with more meaning than it had at any other point in her life. She killed those people. No. It wasn't completely proven. It couldn't be proven. Then, the phone rang. She immediately ran across the room and groped for it, hitting the talk button and putting it to her ears.
"Lazul! The word Lazul was corrected by the computer.The deaths were by someone named Agent Lapis Lazuli. That's not your name, right? It's Lazul?" Lucia said quickly. Lazul absorbed the words.
"Look for a profile of Agent Lapis Lazuli." Lazul spat out. He words were followed by rapid tick-ticka-tick-ticka sound.
"Name:Caitlin Lazul. Oh my g-" The line went dead.
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