Hearts and Daggers

Chapter Sixteen

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Halloween series in anyway =(. But I DO own Katarzyna, Emmy and my other OCs.

 

Chapter Sixteen

I could feel my stomach drop and my heart skip a few beats as Loomis continued to hold my hair out of the way and stare at the large dark purple-black bruise on my neck. Mentally, I was punching myself; why didn’t I cover it up?! What possessed me to think that simply throwing my hair over my shoulder would solve everything?!

“Kat?” Loomis asked, concern edging his voice, “Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine,” I somehow managed to say. I quickly shook all thoughts from my head and pulled away from Loomis, letting my hair fall into place, “There’s nothing to tell,”

“Katarzyna,” he said in astonishment, “There is a lot to tell! You have bruises on your wrists and a huge bite mark on your neck! Something obviously happened and considering your past with Michael and what has entailed from it, I have a very good idea,”

“What are you implying?” I accused, “We kissed, that’s it! The bite was an accident; I turned my head and he hadn’t realized in time,”  

“He’s dangerous, Kat! Do you know what could have happened? You were lucky once in the asylum-,”

“I didn’t sleep with him,” I said and Loomis immediately stopped talking. I guess my bluntness was unexpected.

“I never said you did,” he said calmly, “I was just saying that you were lucky once in the asylum and again back at the diner, but if you keep playing with fire you will get burned, or in yours and Michael’s case, incinerated,”

“I appreciate your concern Loomis, I really do. But, I can handle Michael now; before I was going through a very hard, overwhelming time and lost myself, but now I’m back on top,” I reassured him. I heard him let out a frustrated sigh.

“You can’t tame him Kat,” he told me.

“I don’t intend to,”

“Your mindset with this isn’t wise-,”

“I hate to cut our conversation short, Loomis,” I cut him off, “But I need to get Emmy to school and I have to return to my classes at college. They were nice enough to give me these weeks off and let me do any work at home, but now I am needed there,”

“Katarzyna, this isn’t safe,”

“When have I been known to play it safe?”

“Think about Emelyn,” he said.

“I am thinking about her, that’s why I am going to school and haven’t killed her father yet,” I told him as we walked to the door. I heard him scoff and mutter something about how no one can even attempt to kill Michael.

“These are dangerous waters Kat,” he turned to me as he spoke gravely.

“Then I’ll try not to drown,” before I could close the door, Loomis asked one more thing of me. 

“Kat,” his voice was soft, “At least tell me you honestly had no idea about Ethan. I know you didn’t kill him, but I need to know you weren’t involved,”

I sighed, “I know you still don’t trust me whenever a body turns up, but I can honestly say that I didn’t know what he was planning for Ethan and I never intended it to happen. If I had cancelled the date maybe I could have prevented it, but I will live with never knowing”