Second Chance, Second Choice.

Chapter 15 - Leviathan

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Second Chance, Second Choice

Chapter 15 – Leviathan

No One's POV

Up to the moment Jade saw Ray Howe pull that gun, she hoped this was all just some elaborate prank. After all she was no stranger to elaborate pranks herself; especially when it involved getting back at people.

But it wasn't a prank. Ray Howe was going to try and kill his wife. He was going to accidently kill a 7-year-old Jeremy Ryerson and be killed by police after a car chase.

But Jade stopped it, resulting in a furious Ray being handcuffed by mall security. Jeremy Ryerson was last seen heading home with his mother for a taco dinner. Neither Jeremy nor his mother would ever know just how close death had come.

As she ran up to stop Ray, before he could unleash his bloodbath, Jade could only think of one thing. It was Tori.

She knew perfectly well what would happen. Tori would have presumably stabbed him from behind. Jade also knew from research, for one of her stories that stabbings, unless the right spot is hit, are seldom instantly fatal. She guessed that Tori not being very strong would have stabbed him and even if it was a fatal wound, he would have just enough time to turn round and shoot her in the head. That on the other hand, would have killed her almost instantly.

The rest went by in a quick blur, as security arrived and the situation was brought under control. Jade, not wanting any adulation, quietly slipped into the growing crowd.

Now Tori's crazy story about time travel and her future-self taking over her body wasn't crazy at all. The thought of her future already being plotted out, scared Jade immensely. What made it worse, was the knowledge that she would end up in adult films and eventually take her own life.

She could have tried to approach it rationally. That didn't happen. Jade, a person who prided herself on doing what she wanted, suddenly felt caged, like an animal at a slaughterhouse, waiting for her turn. Unable to deal with the feelings, the knowledge, Jade grabbed her bag and fled.

She turned off her phone and went straight home, taking refuge in behind the crimson velvet curtains in her room. Jade loved her curtains, not simply because they were crimson, but they did an effective job of blocking nearly all the light from outside. But it was more than light she was trying to hide from.

Still half in shock, Jade lay in her bed staring at the ceiling for several hours. She just kept thinking about her destiny, adult films, followed by a suicide. The only other choice was to be with Tori and end up her wife. Despite what feelings she may have had for Tori she simply felt trapped. A person whose life and death was already mapped out.

When she finally roused herself from her bed, she turned on the TV in her room. By then it was 9:00 and the nightly news was just coming on.

The lead story of course was hers. Jade watched as the anchor said how a attempted shooting at a mall was thwarted by a mysterious young woman. There was some footage from someone's cell phone, but it was from behind, so her face wasn't visible. Of course, the anchor said that the woman who brought down the shooter, Ray Howe, vanished shortly after.

What Jade heard next, stunned her.

"In a bizarre turn, the suspect, Ray Howe after being questioned by police was placed in a holding cell, where after picking a fight with a fellow prisoner, was beaten to death. Police tried to intervene, but arrived too late. The one witness we were able to talk to said, that Mr. Howe, made some disparaging remarks about one of his fellow prisoners ancestry and as result was immediately attacked. He was rushed to a hospital, but died in route."