PETRICHOR

.08.

It's been around one week since we received the horrible news. The body was found in the same place I was attacked in. It brought me chills.

She was only 24, a college student in the medical field. She had a long life to live but it was taken away ruthlessly and maliciously.

I couldn't digest the news after Silas told me that day. I just felt guilty and restless. Maybe if we had caught scorpi0n that day at the cafe nothing would have happened. Maybe we wouldn't have found another dead body. 

It was just scary, and I was horrified. I could not sleep for days and still can't.  I would get disturbing nightmares that would keep me up all night.

And on the very same day the body was discovered, I received a chilling email from no one but scorpi0n himself. It said: You maybe be next.

I remember crying myself to sleep that day and Silas comforting words. He told me he won't allow any harm near me and that he and John will work to catch that bastard scorpi0n.

As much as Silas tried to act strong and as if everything was fine, as much as he was worried. He wasn't okay and so was I. He looked very troubled most of the time. The police couldn't catch scorpi0n nor find a lead either. Silas said that the last email was suspicious and couldn't point out exactly why. He couldn't get why would he suddenly change how he types.

Something was troubling me even more, Silas would disappear few hours at night when I was asleep- or so he thought. It happened twice the past week and I never asked him where he was or what was he doing. It was bugging me so much, it was as if he was hiding something. However, I tried to put all my bad thoughts away.

Silas was good to me and very kind in fact, I may have developed a crush on him. I trusted him too, he was the only person I had now. He was the first person who believed me and gave me a hand. I just owed this man a lot.

Silas kept an eye on the email pattern and how frequent they were. The truth is, the emails were a lot fewer now and there haven't been any pictures so far. I didn't leave the house the past week so no wonder there wasn't new pictures.

"Did you sleep well ?" I looked at Silas who had just asked. "Yeah." I lied.

"Liar." Silas narrowed his eyes then ruffled my already messy hair. I huffed and fixed my hair up in a messy bun.

"Should I maybe get you something to help you sleep at night?" He seemed worried about me, he was most of the time.

"I don't know ... maybe we should?" I raised my shoulders and gave him a weak smile.

"I'll see what I can get. Now, what do you want to have for breakfast?" He opened the fridge and fumbled around with some ingredients in his hands.

I thought about it for a second, " Hmm anything will do."

He started cooking some bacon and scrambled eggs. He also toasted some toast and grilled some mushrooms too. He placed my plate in front of me and then his then took a seat next to me.

We sat down and had breakfast together quietly before both our phones buzzed. We immediately exchanged worried looks and held our phones.

With a trembling hand, I looked at Silas a horrified expression dominated my face. I knew from how he was looking at me that we had received the same email.

It was scorpi0n, and this time Silas had received the email too. There were many pictures of me on the college campus, in the library, in lectures and halls.

"This sick bastard." Silas seethed through gritted teeth. He clenched his jaw and fist. 

I just broke down, I couldn't even hold it together anymore. This meant that he was stalking me for a while. God knows what this man can do.

I felt two strong hands wrap around my shaking frame protectively. I just let it all go and cried in his hands as I clutched his shirt in my hands. He was quiet not saying anything, just standing there for me.

I could hear his calm heartbeat, which eventually made me get calmer. He held my face in his hands, his thumbs gently brushed over my cheeks wiping away any stray tears.

" I promise you, we will catch him by the end of this week. I'll make sure we do that sky, I promise." His thumbs continued to brush my skin and we just sat there quietly. 

Unconsciously I found myself looking at his lips, we were close and I just wanted to kiss him so bad. His eyes were on my lips for a few seconds before he broke his contract. "You are so strong sky." He held my hands tightly.

"I'll go to the police station now to report, okay?" 

I lowered my gaze and my head as I held his shirt. "Please don't go." 

He bent down to my level where his eyes could meet mine. After a few moments of silence and a pleading look from me "Okay, I will not. What do you want to do ?"

I hated myself for being a crybaby,  for depending so much on him, but the truth is I was really scared. So scared. I was never the weak type or a crybaby, but around him-I was. I felt like I needed to throw some of the heavyweights on someone, and selfishly that person was Silas.

" movie perhaps? " I replied after a while.

Silas turned on a random movie he had, I didn't care, I just wanted to get my mind off things. I wrapped a blanket around me and rested my head on his shoulders lightly. A while after he rested his head on mine. We just stayed there silently watching the movie. It was just him and I, and the movie.