Koauthara, Arigato for reviewing the last chappie of Like Father, Like Daughter!

Chapter Ten~A Restless Night

Wednesday

Day Two

9:01 pm

Cross Roads Motel

"Come on, Dad," Harumi groaned.

Ethan was carrying Harumi in his arms as the emo teenager was unable to move and she was half lazy to move on her own. Once he turned the knob to their motel room, he slowly stood in the middle of the room until his arms felt weak before dropping his daughter onto the ground. Harumi screamed as the back of her head hit against the hardwood floor. Ethan fallen on top of his daughter as was slowly going into his unconscious stage just like his daughter.

Harumi suddenly felt her body being moved from the icy cold floor to the softness of the bed. She slowly opened her eyes as she saw a person in front of her. Her voice was soft as a angel. She wanted to say something to her, but she decided to rest it off, hoping that it was just only a dream.

"Hey,"

"Mmm," Harumi moaned loudly like she didn't want to wake up, until she shifted towards her left and felt someone's back hand slapped against her right left facing cheek and broken nose.

She opened one of her icy blue eyes to see her father sleeping but he was shaking in his sleep His left arm was wrapped in bandages and so as his upper chest. She widened her blue eyes before she shifted her body to see the same woman from earlier in the afternoon.

"Oh, hey,"

She raised her body upright.

"Be careful," Madison said cautious. "I have just put those bandages on,"

Harumi looked confused at first before she looked at her body for a minute. Madison removed her black leggings to place more bandages around her legs. Her left forearm was in bandages as well since she put more anti burn cream on it. Her nose was a small band-aid on it as she felt the burning pain from which blood came out. Her head was wrapped around with bandages as well.

Her body was wrapped like a mummy in toilet paper as she tried to stand up from the bed.

"How do you feel?"

"I feel like hell still," Harumi respond tiredly. "How long were you here?"

"About a hour,"

Harumi turned to face the short haired woman without looking at her in the eyes. "Umm, is there a reason why you are here? Did my Dad tried to talk to you?"

Madison smiled as she shook her head. "I was outside my room when I found the door open. You and your father looked so... injured. So, it didn't really leave me any choice. I couldn't leave you and father like that,"

"Oh," Harumi finally looked up at Madison as she small smile was placed on her face. "Thanks, uhh… I'm sorry. I forgot about your name,"

Madison gave out a small laugh. "It's Madison, Harumi,"

"You remember my name?" Harumi asked. "Well, sometimes when I'm at school, the teachers keep saying my name wrong. So I let them call me Haru or Mimi,"

"Is that right?"

"Yeah,"

Harumi walked towards the shoebox as she opened the lid and pulled out the next origami figure. She left it out before turning back to Madison who was standing behind, scaring the emo teenager.

"I can tell by your uniform that you go to Seiko High School," Madison just said that out of the blue. "You must be a really smart kid to be in that school,"

"Well, yeah," Harumi hid the origami figure behind her back as it was still in her hand. "I'm actually talented,"

"Really," Madison asked. "You must be like your Dad. Can you draw like him?"

"Almost," Harumi replied. "I'm good at playing music and also sing a little. I played the cello and the guitar,"

"If we ever see you again, I would like to hear you play once again," Madison said.

"Well, that's a promise," Harumi said before laughing awkwardly in front of her.

Harumi and Madison waited for Ethan to wake up from his sleep, hoping that he hasn't went into a deep sleep. For the past two hours, Madison has been talking to Harumi just to keep herself busy from her insomnia. She even went downstairs to the vending machine to grabbed sodas and snacks. Harumi even explained about her deep depression when Madison once noticed that she wasn't drinking and eating much. Of course she understands that it was nightmare for her to suffer. But the emo teenager kept a few things to herself in order not scare Madison off. She liked having Madison as an acquaintance just for her to forget about herself.

Harumi doze off once she finally ate through two bags of chips. She was leaning against the chair Madison was sleeping on, until she heard her father's voice. She decided to ignore it, until she lose her balance to her head as it hit against the floor once again.

"Damn it!" Harumi complained as she rubbed the back of her head. She winched at the pain before she opened her eyes slowly as she noticed a pair of beige looking pants in front of her with tears on it. She looked up slowly to see her father dressed up to leave once again.

"Hey, what's up?" Harumi asked she removed her hand before fixing the bottom of the navy skirt while sitting indian style in front of him. "Are we leaving again?"

"Yes, we are,"

Harumi stood up as she fixed her clothing. "Well, how about you leave and I'll stay here,"

"No, we're in this situation together, Harumi," Ethan retorted. "We have to do this for Shaun,"

"Maybe the killer was asking for you to it. Not me, Dad." Harumi said with her arms crossed. "The killer probably doesn't want a girl like me following me around their father, who can also be a witness to a kidnapping/torture crime. Remember how we saw Jeremy Bowles's father in the last trial?"

Harumi pulled out her iPhone as went into the photos application and showed the picture of eight victims father to her father. Then suddenly her phone started to ring as there was three text messages over in the past hours.

Harumi sighed before tapping her mother's text message box. "Mom's getting worried about me,"

"What did she say?"

"She's asking me where am I." Harumi read the text out loud to Ethan. "The school called her and was wondering why I didn't show up to my morning classes. She went over to your house and we weren't there,"

She exited out of her mother text message box before seeing James Izumi's name in bold as she tapped it see the message he sent to her.

"H, where r u? You weren't at school today or even in chemistry. I waited 4 u at Kramer's party. I didn't smoke or drink yet. I came by your old man's house, no one was there. Is my dad onto u again? If he is, please let me know. -James Izumi Blake

Harumi read James' text message carefully before she covered her eyes. That was her first date with James that she missed. She wanted to go to that party and be with him and maybe received a kiss from him. But now she was with her Dad and miss it.

"What's the matter?"

"I hate you," Harumi sobbed. "I miss my chance to have fun with James and now I can't,"

"Well, no daughter of mine is not going to have fun with a boy like him," Ethan retorted. "He looks like a dangerous boy to me,"

Harumi looked at her father once more before she ran towards the bathroom, closed it and locked herself in it. Ethan walked towards the bathroom door as he can hear his daughter crying in there. He knocked on the door before speaking to her.

"Harumi, I didn't mean that," Ethan replied. "I was just looking out for you. You know I miss six months of my life and you have changed. I want to make things right again, once Shaun is saved,"

Harumi didn't say anything but listened. She looked down at the message from James once more, before exiting out of his text message box. The last message was from an unknown number, so she tapped the message box before reading the message. She scanned the message before she placed a hand over her mouth in shocked.

"Harumi,"

Harumi unlocked the door before she sat down onto bathroom sink counter. Ethan opened the door to see her looking down on her iPhone before looking back up. Her eyes were still red and puffy from the crying, until she started speaking.

"He knows,"

"Who knows?" Ethan walked towards her before placing his hands on her arms.

"The killer." Harumi replied before looking up at his icy blue eyes. "He's knows that I was in the trials as well."

Harumi showed her father the text message that the Origami Killer sent her over a hour ago.

"Working alone can be challenging sometimes. But having a daughter like you can be more challenging. It's best that you quit while you can. If you don't want to quit. I can't wait to see you suffer even more."

"Oh, Harumi, sweetie," Ethan hugged his daughter tightly as she dropped her iPhone on the cold bathroom floor which was protected with a blue and purple OtterBox. "We can do this together. If you stay by my side,"

"I will, Dad," Harumi finally wrapped her arms around her father's body as she rested her chin on his shoulder. "I will,"

Day Three

12:51 am

"It's best that we head to sleep now," Ethan suggested as he was in the bathroom removing his clothes until he was stripped down to his black boxer briefs. "We might have a better chance of healing overnight,"

Once Ethan came out the bathroom, he noticed her daughter was already in bedroom with the brown comforter covering her body. Her night time wear consist of a black v neck short sleeve shirt and black and red plaid pajamas bottom shorts. She had on her expensive headphones over her ears as she was listening to loud rock music.

Ethan smiled at his sleeping daughter after she and him a long and rough day. He hopes that the day will get better, but now it will be worse than ever before.

More pain. More blood. And more tears.

He grabbed her iPhone from off of the right nightstand that was next to the motel's phone. He turned the music down halfway as she shifted in her sleep. He placed the iPhone back on the nightstand before placing a kiss on her forehead.

"Good night, Harumi,"

He stood up from her side of the bed as he walked over to the left side of the bed. He got under the covers slowly as he felt his body hurting on the inside before covering himself and closed his eyes.

Once Harumi heard her music switching to the next track and also her father's light snoring, she opened her eyes and grabbed her iPhone as she texted the unknown number.

"What do u want from me?"

She waited for ten seconds until she felt it vibrate.

"Nothing. I just wanted to play a game."

"Who r u?"

She texted the number back and wait for the next message to pop up on her screen.

"OK," That means Origami Killer.

"U will not get away with this! Don't u dare harm my brother!"

She sent that message before she felt her phone vibrate once more.

"We shall see, Harumi Mars."

To end the text message off, she sent the Origami Killer a middle finger emoji with you at the end of it.

So, Harumi flip off the Origami Killer and she missed Kramer's party with James Izumi Blake.

To let you know, do you think that James and Harumi are going to be together at the end? Just like Ethan and Madison?

This chappie was the whole nurse chappie, but I added another scene right after Madison left, instead of Ethan opening the next trial. They should have added more to that scene, instead of us seeing Blake, Ash, Norman, and Grace.

The next chappie will be the lizard trial and fugitive chapter. So, I have to think hard on about this chapter. And I think James will be in next chapter along with his father and Norman.