V2S6- Love Bug...

Chapter 2: The Things We Do For Love...

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"Okay guys- I'm not gonna lie, this is a weird one. In the last two days the amount of hospital admittance, citations and outright arrests for reckless behavior has skyrocketed. My phone's been ringing off the hook. And I know there are idiots- I've been in law enforcement for nearly twenty years this is not news. But even factoring in the usual level of idiocy we deal with this is just so far beyond the norm. The people involved are largely normal, law abiding citizens...not just 'normal', verging on boring!

And it's not just that they're going a little crazy, blowing off a bit of steam, trying to shake things up or they just hit some weird mid-life crises; they are flat out going off the deep end. A nursing student climbed the water tower next to the hospital and spray painted a giant heart with the name of their Attending doctor in ten foot letters. A crossing guard was arrested for doing one hundred and four in a school zone...that THEY monitored! Up to that point the only tickets they've ever gotten are for going too slow and impeding traffic.

We had a five foot two computer programmer that ended up getting cited for attacking a six foot six bouncer they thought disrespected their boyfriend- Not the computer programmer's boyfriend mind you, the bouncer's boyfriend. Apparently he rolled his eyes. Then we had a librarian who's never got so much as a parking ticket jump into the lion pit at the Bronx Zoo trying to steal one of the cubs because her neighbor really wanted a new kitten!"

Alec couldn't help a bit of a disbelieving chuckle, eyebrow raising, shaking his head.

"Wow that is pretty out there."

Luke scoffed, waving exasperatedly.

"That's barely even scratching the surface! I have dozens of others reports just as baffling. And like I said I know there are people out there that this would be totally normal for. There are plenty of calls about stupid, reckless people doing stupid reckless things every day- again that is not news- but the people involved in these cases are NOT those people. Every report says their actions went right against everything everybody knew about the person.

We had a guy who has a pretty well documented phobia of heights commandeer a window washer platform to climb up and write a note on the window asking an executive in the office on the top floor on a date. The nursing student who climbed the water tower had a pretty bad fear of heights as well- yet that didn't even seem to register to them.

I have no clue what to make of it. It's so out of character for the people involved most of the family members, hospital staff and arresting officers we're convinced they had to of been slipped something but the labs all came back clear. Even so everyone who interacted with the perpetrators all agreed they seemed not all there. Lots of sighing, eyes slightly dilated, dramatic mood swings from giddy to near depressed and back again, kind of at the same time oddly spacey and bizarrely focused.

Quite frankly going by the statements from witnesses and the like they really do sound like they're either drunk or high and yet every test ran on them came back clean. Even though it's nothing we know of or have a test for most of the trained professionals who dealt with them seem pretty convinced theyre on something. I'm inclined to believe them.