Silver Sight (Completed)

Chapter 9

They arrive to a scene straight out of a horror movie.

Dark cabin in the woods.

Abandoned car.

One car, the car that belongs to the man Carol is trying to win back, is riddled with bullets. The windshield has been shot out. There's no blood though so she's pretty certain he's still alive. Somewhere.

It looks like the forest has reclaimed the cabin. It lies empty, except for the tree that has come through the windows and back door and the pine that has come through the roof. And in the middle, on display for all to see, is a trapdoor propped open that leads to a dank hole of despair.

There is, no doubt, years of proof that Sherriff Booth is the man they're looking for, but that isn't what Carol is worried about. She knows Cooper was here, she knows something has happened, and he's in trouble.

She just doesn't know where he could have possibly gone.

The cops that work under Booth are shocked by this. That his cabin is the epicenter of the evil they've been hunting. That their glorious leader had been making fools of them all.

But she doesn't have time to comfort them.

She's going to do what Ruelle couldn't. She's going to save Cooper Booth, but to do that she needs to find him, before his father kills him for what he knows. Before his father finishes what he started all those years ago.

Chief Alo is brought to her. He looks to the cabin, to the shot-out car and then to her.

He no doubt doesn't want to help her. She being the one who had made sure that Ruelle was taken from this town. But he was going to have to help if they wanted to find Cooper and because where Cooper is, she'd bet Ruelle would be.

"Cooper and Harvey are in the wind..."

"Well I doubt Cooper's in on it..." he says cutting her off before she can finish.

She obviously knows that Cooper is in on it. Or does she know that. Maybe Cooper was, but then Harvey killed Ruelle, and the two of them got into a fight over it. Maybe he didn't remember that part. Maybe he had kept quiet about what his dad had done not realizing his dad had also done it to Ruelle.

"We need to find them both, before something happens. We can't figure out what's going on until we question them both."

He stands there staring at her like he doesn't understand what she means.

"I need you to track them," she says plainly and he still just stares at her.

His thousand-yard stare is unnerving and, luckily for her, he turns his eyes to the sky.

"The Forest is going to decide his fate," he says. "It chose her for a reason. She will be the one to end this. Not you."

Carol stares at him. He underestimates her. She will be the one to end this.

She is going to save Cooper's life. Save him from Ruelle. And if she has to, she'll arrest them both to get her way.

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Gunshots had kept Cooper from getting into his car.

Gunshots had been following him as he ran.

He watched branches blow up into splinters, dirt being thrown up into the air. None of the gunshots have hit him though, but there have been some pretty close calls.

The forest is moving again. The sky is dark even for the night sky. Clouds are moving, thunder rumbles, the wind is waging a war against all that stand before it.