It Lives No More

Fight or Flight

Dinner with Parker's family went not so well with Parker giving Isaac annoyed expression that Issac clearly knows what's going to happen. Arriving to the police station, Parker and Isaac entered his office and Issac spoke up, "Well? You have to something to say, go ahead and say it. Say what's on your mind with what happened at dinner. With a question that was politely answered."

"That's one way in saying it, I explained it to Shelby that you two aren't interested in having kids and aren't planning on it."

"For her we just don't know the beauty. We're going to change our minds which we aren't. It's cool with other people want kids but not everyone wants that. We just want to be child free, nothing tying us down, can we drop this and do what we came here to do? Please?"

"Fine. Hope you can keep up and stay here real late."

"I'm insomniac so it's fine. So what's you got?"

"Well what you saw back at the forest, the name you got, Peter Merle. I got information on the man, and it seems the man have been in and out of prison for years. However the records are tricky with the files I tried to get was all gone."

"What do you mean?"

"The police department burned down and destroyed all records but managed to save a few. However I don't know anything else from that name nor anyone. It was a dead end figuring out who he really was before he became the mayor. It's a mystery."

"Damn it. I thought we would know something about him."

"I know I even spent alot of time trying to find more information but for some reason it's not letting me nor giving me the information, you can't let this take you down. I know the clock is ticking and we have very little time to save us all but nothing. What do you think we should do?"
Parker didn't like how worn out Isaac looked, the lack of sleep, knowing he's insomniac, he sighed, "I can get you some medicine to sleep better. Not sleeping is bad for you, I don't like how worn out you looked. How is it with you and Zinnia? How's your sleep?"

"I don't know. It started with Zinnia having trouble sleeping due to having nightmares about her being back in the wooden coffin. And I've been having trouble sleeping with Noah trying to tell me something and being back with the cult trying to kill us. We don't sleep, we just stay up and talk and try to each other out sleep but it's hard. Really hard."

"Have you seen the doctors?"

"For some medication, but we don't want to see them in case if they think we're going crazy, going crazy won't be great."

"I can get you something for your insomnia, hey we can do this, remember what you said, we can't give up."

"Yeah."

"Go home and I'll go get the medicine."

Leaving the station, Isaac felt he was being watched, he ignored it but kept his guard up, making it home and finding a note on the fridge, Arthur isn't home at the moment, he decided to go to the docks and see the water.

It brought so many memories, goosebumps around his body, it was actually a beautiful night. Even though it's night, the lake looked really nice and ominous, pulling out his phone to some messages from Zinnia.

-Text Message-

Zinnia - I love you, babe.
I know what happened, Tom told me everything and you being away is hard but I understand why.
Please be safe and strong, whatever you do, don't piss off Arthur too much.
I know we can't call but it's not stopping me in texting you and leaving voicemails and photos.
We got this.
I love you.

-End Message-

"I love you too. Damn I can't stand this." Isaac felt he was still being watched, felt someone was behind him, he didn't want to turn and let them know, he stayed calm and was ready, looking at the lake, sounds of birds chirping along with crickets, he was sweating and before he knew it, he quickly dodged a machete almost slashing his whole arm!