Chapter 9
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Rossi went with the Sheriff, Deputy, and Dr. Loomis to where they found Annie's body. They watched as they rolled out her body and the Sheriff cried over her body. There was nothing they could say to make him feel better. "I have to tell my wife before someone else does." The Sheriff looked over at the Deputy and he said, "Go on home, Sheriff. I'll handle everything." After he said that, the Sheriff looked over at Dr. Loomis and said, "Damn you, what have you done?" "I', sorry." Dr. Loomis told him. "You let him out." the Sheriff spat. Before Rossi could say anything, the Sheriff walked away. "Anything else we can do for you?" the Deputy asked. "If that wasn't Michael Myers burning up in that car, there will be more children slaughtered tonight." Dr. Loomis told him. "He's dead. I saw him." "You saw someone with a mask." "It was him." "I want it to be. But I can't stop until I know that for certain. Until I know he's dead." "You're talking about him like he's some kind of animal." "He was my patient for fifteen years. He became an obsession with me because I discovered that, in fact, there is nothing about him, not conscience nor reason, nothing that is remotely human. An hour ago I stood and fired six shots into him and he got up and walked away. I'm talking about the real possibility that he's still out there." The Deputy just stared at him. "Where are you taking the body?" Rossi asked. "Coroner's office." The Deputy told him. "Have a dentist meet us there in half an hour." Rossi told him before leaving with Dr. Loomis and calling JJ to meet up with them.
Spencer was back in the waiting room, waiting for another report from Rossi, when he saw Rossi and JJ come in with Dr. Loomis and the Deputy. He got up and ran over to them and asked, "What's going on?" "We're going to the autopsy room." JJ answered. "For what?" "We think we may have found Michael Myers." Rossi answered for her, then they continued down the halls to the autopsy room. When they walked into the room, they saw a sheet was put over the body. They all surrounded the table and waited for the coroner to come in. He finally arrived and went to work. When he pulled the sheet off, everyone saw a charred body. Some had to look away for a moment before getting the guts to look back at the body. The coroner was picking at the teeth and then looked up and said, "It's difficult." the Coroner told them. "What do you mean?" the Rossi asked. "Even the gums are charred." He used one of his tools and pointing at a part in the teeth, "Look here. You see, no filings." All the people in the room leaned forward more to see where he was pointing. The coroner put his stuff and looked at everyone, "He's young, maybe seventeen, maybe eighteen." Rossi, JJ, and Reid looked at Dr. Loomis who said, "Michael Myers is twenty-one." "A positive ID means we check x-rays or dental records." "And they're in Smith's Grove." the Deputy said. "That'll take hours." JJ piped up. "There's no other way to know for sure, I'm sorry." "We don't have hours, listen to me we got to assume that Michael Myers is still alive." Dr. Loomis shot back. After he said that, another police officer came in and the Deputy looked over and said, "Everybody goes back out." "We just closed up." the officer told him. "I want a sweep from Chestnut South to the bypass, I want every street, every house, every backyard." the Deputy finished. "Okay, you've got it." "Thank you." Dr. Loomis told the Deputy. "I knew Annie Brackett. The other kids too. And now there may be another boy lying on that slab in there who died because of you. So don't thank me, doctor. Just help me find him. And stop him." "All right." "Any ideas?" "Well, if he was wounded, he might have tried to get home." While the Deputy was busy talking to Dr. Loomis, Rossi pulled Reid to the side and told him, "I'm going with the Deputy again to go look for Michael." "What do you want me to do?" "I want you to stay here and keep me posted on everyones health and to make sure Michael doesn't come here. I need you to protect Laurie, Michael may know where she is." Reid nodded and then walked off to go find Laurie's room. Rossi went over to JJ and told her to go back to the station and for any potential phone calls that may help them. Then Rossi went with the Deputy and Dr. Loomis to the Myers house, because there was a report of a riot going on. When they arrived, they saw a huge group of people in front of the Myers house, they were all shouting and throwing things at the house. They stopped the car and the Deputy said into the walkie talkie, "This is Hunt, get another vehicle at the old Myer's house.45 Lampkin Lane." Dr. Loomis looked at the crowd and said, "The tribe. Three of their own were butchered. This is the wake." Both Rossi and the Deputy looked over at Dr. Loomis and saw that he had pulled out a gun and was loading it. "Heightens my sense of security." Dr. Loomis told the two. The three got out of the car and walked through the crowd to go talk to the police officers already there. The Deputy kept yelling to the people to 'go home' and to 'knock it off' but the people were having none of that. Once one of the police officers came up to them, he told them, "Empty. Plus, we covered the whole east end of town, Gary. Nothing." "Cover it again." the Deputy told him. "He just ain't there." "Cover it again." Once the officer walked away. The three turned to watch the other officers struggling against the yelling, angry crowd. "Haddonfield was a pretty quiet town until tonight. The only shots fired around here were to start the track meet at the high school." the Deputy told Rossi and Dr. Loomis. Dr. Loomis turned and looked at the Myers house. He pulled a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket. Tapped one out of the pack. Then felt his trench coat for matches. "But there was one night in 1963. The night Michael Myers murdered his sister. In that upstairs bedroom. With a large butcher's knife." Dr. Loomis added. "I remember. I was sixteen years old." the Deputy told them. The Deputy then reached into his pocket and took out a BIC lighter and handed it to Loomis. Loomis lighted his cigarette and then offered the lighter back to the Deputy. "Keep it." the Deputy told him. "It was on Halloween night. It's his anniversary, Mister Hunt. He's come back." Dr. Loomis told him. "After fifteen years?" "He waited with extraordinary patience. There was a force inside him biding its time. The staff grew accustomed to his immobility and silence. To them he was the perfect patient. He never spoke, he never cried, he never moved. He just waited. The staff was unprepared. They didn't know what he was." "Did you?" Rossi asked him. "I knew." Loomis answered. While they were talking, two teenage boys, manage to slip past the restraining officers and hurried up to the Deputy, Loomis, and Rossi. "Mister Hunt." one of the kids said. "What is it, Craig?" "I'm worried about Bennett Tramer." "He's not home yet." the other teenager said. "He left the party at ten." Craig continued. The Deputy looked at his watch and said, "Just a little after eleven." "He was real drunk." "How old was he?" Rossi asked. "Seventeen." Craig told him. "He had this stupid mask on." Rossi and Dr. Loomis looked at each other. "We're scared something happened to him." "All right, boys." The Deputy told them. "Mister Hunt… we'd appreciate it if you wouldn't tell our dads we were at a party tonight." "Go on home now." The Deputy told them. After he said that the boys ran off. "Seventeen. Wearing a mask." Dr. Loomis said out loud. "Oh god." The Deputy said. "We better get his dental records." Rossi said before calling Garcia for help.