Discomfort. That was definitely a word to describe the situation I found myself in right now. I felt sluggish, heavy and... comfortable?
I was in a bed. My bed... I think.
Feels like I was drugged. Maybe a sedative.
I could almost feel another person in the room with me. The air was thick with a kind of tension, an energy only produced by feeling like you're not alone.
Hands touched my jaw. If I was able to move at all, I would have flinched. I tried so hard to open my eyes, but they felt like they were glued shut.
"Open wide," a male voice commanded as he forced my mouth open.
He put something in my mouth and I felt a pinch. Then a yank, and nothing...
I fell into a deeper sleep.
It felt like minutes later, I was stretching and getting out of bed. I yawned and was shocked to feel a dull ache in my jaw.
Huh, weird. I went into the bathroom to see if I could see any swelling.
There was a little bit. I opened my mouth and was shocked to see, I had a tooth missing that hadn't been missing last night.
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"The fuck?" I jumped successfully pulling myself and Ezriah off my couch.
We landed on the floor with a thud. "'The fuck,' is right. What was that all about," Ezi asked sounding a little sore to be woken up so abruptly.
"I had a vision," I stated with a shrug.
"While you were sleeping?"
I nodded. I thought it was weird too.
"Are you sure it wasn't a dream?" Ezriah questioned.
That was a fair question. "No, I can just... I don't know, feel it. It was definitely a vision. I bet any minute now Moira's gonna ring me about it."
Derp decided that he was being left out of this little love pile and plopped himself down on top of us.
Ezriah poked him and Derp sneezed. "I've always wanted to ask this," he started. "What is wrong with this cat?"
"Ummm," there was definitely something wrong with Derp, I just always went with him being quirky, "He's... quirky?"
A disbelieving eyebrow was raised in my general direction.
"Okay... maybe he was dropped on his head before I got him, or fell down a large flight of stairs," those sounded plausible.
"So, you don't know," Ezi stated.
"Nope," I smiled, popping the P.
Ezriah's phone rang and he answered it. There was a super sarcastic eye roll and he passed the phone to me, "It's for you."
I took the phone gingerly and held it up to my ear, "Hello?"
"Hey," Moira greeted, "You're not answering your phone." Huh, wonder where my phone was...
Well, I could guess what this phone call was about, "Let me guess, you're calling to tell me a person came in because he found he was missing a tooth?"
"That voodoo stuff you do is weird," Moira stated, "but it wasn't one person, it was three. Three today. There were two yesterday."
"So, we have a tooth snatcher?"
"We have a tooth snatcher," Moira confirmed.
Moira invited me to sit in on some interviews of the victims that they were running down at the station.
I stretched from my position still on the floor and groaned before pecking Ezriah on the cheek and getting up to get ready for the interview. I looked back to see Ezi touching his cheek with a small smile on his face. Was that the first time I really showed open affection like that? Probably.
"You'll be sitting in on some victim interviews then?"
"Yeah," I agreed. "It's gonna be super dull."
He got off the floor and plopped Derp on the couch. The fluffy cat rolled onto his back and laid with all his paws straight out. Weird.
"I'll see you later," Ezi said with some deeper feeling in his voice. I didn't know exactly what those feelings were, but I knew they were intense and directed at me. Probably some sort of affection. Like the kind of affection that makes you peck his cheek for no reason...
"Yeah," I replied a little breathy, "yeah, I'll see you later."
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That was shit.
I sat through hours of interviews just to determine that the dentist they all shared was the culprit. He decided to pick up some extra cash by pulling out people's gold fillings. Was that even something legit that he could do? I didn't know, but he thought it was.
I pulled my phone out of my pocket. My intent was to call Ezi. I wanted to see him, or at least hear his voice. I dialed his number.
"Hey Dom," Ezi greeted with his smokey voice.
"Ooh, Dom, I like that," I practically purred into the phone. "I wanted to know if you'd like to come over?"
"Oh baby," Ezi started and I already knew he wasn't coming over, "I got an urgent business call, I'm going to be going out of town to help them fix their problems."
Pouting I whined, "But, but," I didn't quite know where I was going with this, "I need you."
"You don't know how hard you're making it to leave right now," he growled into the phone, lust clear in his voice.
"Then don't go," okay, where had this needy Dominick come from and how did I get rid of him? Did I want to get rid of him?
"I have to," he seemed sad to be leaving me, at least.
"How long will you be gone?"
"A week," Ezriah admitted like he did something wrong.
