Chapter 10

Abel hid the notebook in his coat. He pressed a button on his phone and contacted Caterina.

"Hello?"

"Caterina, I'd like a few days off."

"What the hell are you thinking!? You aren't going to get any days off!"

"This is for personal inverstigation. I'll still work on Rina's case, but I'd like some time to go over everything on my own without any orders or some sort of duedate." He said. He heard her sigh.

"Very well. But I do expect some results from this!" She ended the transmission. Abel walked towards the broken door and stopped. He saw the bear Rina always held. He bent down and picked it up.

"I'll return this to her when I see her again..." He whispered. Abel held it in his hand and walked out the door.

He flipped through the pages of the pad again. Ethans drawings were similar to Rina's. The only difference was that they were mostly light pictures. Most had the man holding Rina in his arms or him holding out his hands towards her. In all of them, she had white wings. From the front to the back, it looked like Rina was getting older. First she was an infant, then at the back, she was the age she was at now. He used a lot of detail as Rina did. Abel couldn't figure out who he was though. He saw his facial description, but it didn't really match Ethan's current face. He flipped to one of the few darker pictures. It showed Ethan badly wounded and Rina holding his head in his lap, crying. She was barely covered with a ragged dress and she had a chain attached to a collar on her neck. Her wings were crumpled and torn up. She was crying and covered in dirt. Ethan wasn't wearing a shirt and his pants were torn and bloodied. He had the head of a spear stuck in his shoulder and wounds all over his body.

"That must be where the scar came from... this picture must be a memory from a battle or something," He muttered. Abel flipped through Rina's pad. He stopped on a picture that was somewhat similar to Ethan's. Rina was facing the sky, crying. She didn't have wings, a faceless man was laying in her lap, blood covered his body. Rina was covered with a cloth and was beaten and bruised up. Abel compared the two pictures.

"It seems to me that Ethan finds it to be sad yet happy because he's being held by Rina. While Rina finds it to be horrible, painful and miserable. She holding a man who is dying while she is still alive makes her feel horrible. She said whatever she dreamt, she drew... she must have thought she hurt him and killed him or something. That has to be Ethan. The spearhead is in the exact same place, so is the pose. How do they know each other!" He slammed his hands down on the table.

"Rina doesn't remember anything like this at all! She only remembers that he saved her a few times and taught her a lot of things! She never said anything about her being in some sort of relationship like this with him! How do they dream of these things?!" He yelled. A piece of paper fell out of Rina's pad. He picked it up and read it.

Hello, Rina.
I'm your teacher. I left this note in here on purpose just so I can leave a scrap of evidence with you that I actually do exsist. It's been so long since we last held hands. It's been so long since we've walked outside next to each other. Do you remember the time we jumped off the cliff and landed in the sea? I'm sure you can only dream of it now. You sealed away you memories, right? You probably think I'm crazy writing this note to you. But it all happened. Everything you dreamed happened. The other things, the things of the future; I'm not sure what they are. When we meet again, it'll probably like a baby bird meets a fox. You'll probably scream and be scared, but I won't try to hurt you. I never want to. I want to be with you again, just like we were before you sealed away all your memories! You promised me my wishes, and I just want you to be with me. Unseal all those memories, remember us!

Abel gaped at the note. It fell out of his hand. Now the pictures made sense to him. Whenever it was, Rina and Ethan were close. He didn't know how close though. That's the reason why. Abel knew Ethan's reason why he took her. But he still didn't know why he tormented her. Was it some way he was trying to force her to remember the memories he wrote about? He was a vampire, and Rina was something else. From all the pictures, Rina was different. She wasn't human. She wasn't vampire, either. Abel knew she wasn't a Crusnik. She was something different. He picked up the note and looked over it again and again.

"But how could it fit in? Rina still ages like every other human. Maybe this all happened in between the times she described on the recording. Maybe that's why Ethan and his 'gang' followed Rina around. Maybe they were just keeping an eye on her to protect her. But then what's with them being mean? That doesn't make sense... Heh... I bet he was just telling his goons to tease her because he was mad at her and didn't want his vampire powers to affect her in any way. He didn't want to hurt her. That makes enough sense..." Abel muttered. He set the note on the table and looked out the window of his apartment. He wondered what Ethan was doing with Rina.