Reaper- "Dead Like Me"
Chapter Three- Some people just don't change, even when they're dead.
George watched curiously as Sam, Ben and Sock headed into the city hall building.
"So, what do you think they're doing in there?" Mason asked. He glanced at his watch.
George shrugged.
"No idea." She mumbled. "There's something weird about this reap."
"The guy you reaped?"
George shook her head.
"No. I think it's his friend. The blonde one…there's something off about him."
"And we care why?" Mason grinned.
George sighed.
"Maybe I shouldn't have come here so early in the day."
"And maybe you shouldn't try to get to know your reap. You've always been kind of bad about that you know."
"Hey."
"You have. Remember the dog?"
"I made sure that dog got a really good home."
"Sure, okay, but if you hadn't gotten to know the woman who owned him before she died, you probably wouldn't have cared right?"
George rolled her eyes.
"I'm not like you Mason. I can't go around just not caring."
Mason shook his head.
Josie nervously walked around her office and looked over Sock's shoulder while he sat on her computer.
"If you ask me this guy was a totally whack job." She said. She threw a file at Sam. Sam browsed through it.
"What was his deal?" Sock asked.
Josie shook her head.
"From what I can remember, he was just a normal professor at UW, and then he went crazy."
"What did he teach?" Sam asked.
"Um, psychological anthropology I think. He has a couple of books published too." Josie brushed her fingers through the file and pulled out a list of titles. She pointed to it.
"Hmm. Let's see, 'Voodun in American Society, 'Magic and The Occult', 'Shamanism in America'. Sounds more like this guy was into his occult than psychology."
Josie smiled.
"That was his specialty. You know guys really don't know anything about anthropology do you?"
"The study of humans?" Sock asked. "What's to know." He turned back to the computer and brought up some random porn website. Josie dropped her mouth and whacked him on the back of his head. "Ouch."
"On a government computer! Are you nuts!" She hissed.
"Look, it won't even go any further than the main page, stupid government web browsing blocker things." Sock mumbled. He growled and slammed the mouse on the desk.
"All right." Josie said. "That's it. You guys need to leave."
Sock turned and stared at her. He sighed and got up. He headed out the door. Sam and Ben trailed after him. Sam turned back to Josie.
"Thanks Josie." He said.
She gave a nod. "You're welcome." She waved.
Sam's attention directly pulled toward George and Mason's car. George saw that he was watching them. She started the car and rolled out of the parking lot. It bothered Sam that they were still around. It bothered him even more that Sock was on their list. He was going to have to do something about that.