Killer Portrait – Chapter 2 :

Thank you guys for the lovely reviews. It was a lot of fun reading them. Also some favourites! Yay! Both of you had the same reaction: OMG! Cee and Adam were killed?? Aaah, you guys are so priceless! And to Ellie's review, yes, I know this is from Supernatural. All I just borrowed were the killings and portraits. So here's my official disclaimer:

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Mediator or Supernatural. OK? No suing!

Killer Portrait – Chapter 2: Ghostly Visitors

Suze's POV:

There, in all their ghostly glory were Cee Cee and Adam.

I kid you not.

"Suze? Oh, it is soooooo good to be finally able to talk to someone!" Cee cried.

"Cee Cee! Adam!" I cried happily, rushing forward to hug them.

"Jesse! How are you, my man?" Adam yelled.

"Uh, not feeling that good this moment," Jesse said solemnly. His tone hit us. Hard. They were dead, and there was nothing we could do about it. Except to bring their killers to justice.

I stepped back. I looked at them. Cee was in a violet nightgown that brought out her eyes. Adam was wearing a baggy shirt and some shorts. They both had the same haunted-happy look. I felt bad, knowing I was alive and breathing and they were as dead as doornails.

"Who killed you? Maybe you could tell us so we could call the cops and you will be in peace, knowing your killer is behind bars!" I suddenly blurted.

They looked at each other uncertainly.

"Yeah, Suze? It's not really like that. Well, I –we didn't see him," Adam said sheepishly.

This took a second for my brain to process.

"What?" I exploded. "You didn't see who killed you?"

"It's not like that. It was really dark and he suddenly… slit our throats. We pretty much died right away," Adam said.

"OK. You didn't see him. HOW CAN THAT -" I was cut off by Jesse before I could continue shouting at them. I mean, they're my best friends, and I love them. But how can somebody not see their killer? That is impossible! What are they, blind?

"Why don't you tell us what you did that day you were… you know," Jesse cut in, shooting me a dirty look. Hmph.

"Well, we were pretty excited for that day. There was going to be an art auction at a gallery and we couldn't afford to miss it," Adam said.

I believed him when he said they couldn't miss it. They are huge art lovers. Let them see the ugliest piece of art you can find, and they will love it. Seriously.

"We spent half of the day looking for the perfect painting. Then some guy called us. Said he knew the perfect painting for us. We were so excited; we didn't even bother to ask him how he knew our taste in art. He led us to this portrait of a family. We looked at it and we fell in love with it. Well, more on me. Adam wasn't so excited on buying an extremely expensive painting," Cee told me, glaring at Adam.

"Yeah, well she kept on bugging me until I gave in. After we bought it, we went home and ate dinner. It was getting late. Then we watched a very short movie. Once it was finished we just sat on the sofa and started staring at the painting. I have gotten quite fond of it…" Adam trailed off.

OK… What a boring day, for a not art lover like me. For them, well, as they said, it was exciting.

"So that is all that you did. Mind telling me what happened when you were killed?" Jesse winced as he said killed.

"I was checking the alarms when Cee went upstairs. When I went up she was… dead. Then before I could reach the phone, I saw a… I'm not really sure what it was. But I think it was a shadow," Adam said uncertainly.

Cee continued. "While I waited for Adam, I read a book. Then I also saw this "shadow". It was very quiet, it made absolutely no noise. I thought it was Adam. It went closer to me then…" Cee Cee gestured towards her dead self.

"Do you think it was a person?" I asked suddenly.

"Come to think of it, no. I think it was something…supernatural. Or of the dead variety anyway," Cee said.

"So it was ghost?" I asked.

"I'm not sure if it was actually a ghost… Wait. Before it killed me I heard this strange clunking sound. You know, like metal-"

"Metal? What metal?" I asked frantically.

But it was too late to ask them. They were gone. Adam disappeared before he could complete his sentence. Guess that was holding him here. Cee Cee promptly disappeared after Adam. Guess he was the one holding her here.

After a few minutes, Jesse finally spoke.

"Susannah. You do know what this means, right?" Jesse gazed at me with his dark eyes.

"I- uhhh… I- We should attend their funeral?" I guessed. What happened to my brain, I hear you ask? Well, try learning your best friends are dead. Then you see them in their ghost form. Then they disappear before you can finish talking to them. All in one day. So cut me some slack.

"No. Well, yeah we are gonna attend it, but that is not what I meant," he said, smacking his head.

"Then what?" I asked him impatiently.

"We have to hunt this ghost or whatever this is and blast it back to where ever it came from."

Sure. Now you're speaking my language. Why not?

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