Just Another Halloween [Spooky Month Fanfic] [UNFINISHED]

Chapter 3: Not A Real Vampire

Patty walked into the Mayor's office. "What do you want sir?" She asks, walking over to the desk. In front of her was the Mayor, he spun around in his chair to face her rather than the windows behind him, he seemed rather unimpressed.

"Patty, please explain to me why you're late... again." He says putting his hands together and staring at her keeping his unimpressed expression.

"It's nothing you should worry about, I just haven't been sleeping much." She replies.

"Listen, you need to get more sleep, you have an important job you know, and you don't want to get fired, do you?"

"No sir... I don't want to get fired." She sighs.

"You left at 4AM last night, why? Why were you up so late?"

"Doing my 'important job'." She pauses. "Listen, I've been testing the bodies for a while now, and I've been getting zero reactions, there is something weird going on and you know it, so why can't you cut me some slack?"

The Mayor falls silent. "Hmm..."

"You know what I'm talking about, John never shuts up about the weird things going on around here. You know what happened with Bob, you know what happened to Dexter."

"Yes. I know. I get it. I'll let you off for now, but if you keep showing up late I'll have to do something about it. Now get out of my office." He points to the door. Patty turns away and starts walking. "Could you also get me a coffee while you're at it?"

Patty groans and leaves the room. She heads to the staff room to grab the Mayor his coffee when she walks in John was there, he had filled the community cork board with his 'clues' and 'leads' on cases, specifically anything to do with the weird house on the hill, for some reason he thinks it's the source of all the weird things that've happened around town.

John was looking up at his mess of an investigation, mug in hand. Patty walked over and didn't say anything, she started to make the coffee as she was told to.

"How's the investigation going?" Patty asks.

"Nothing new... We're kind of stuck. But I know something's wrong with that house."

"Here we go again with the house thing-" Patty sighs.

"But it's true! There's something wrong with that place! First time we went there, there was a group of people with red robes, and a clown, you can't tell me that isn't out of the ordinary!"

"Mhm... and a cult burned down your house? Sure-" She says sarcastically.

"But they did! A house doesn't just catch on fire!"

"Right- Well you do you I guess, I gotta take this to the boss." Patty picks up the coffee she made and leaves. John watches then turns his attention back to the cork board.

Patty drops the coffee off to the Mayor then heads back to her workplace. She walks in, puts her gloves, face mask and hair net on. She walks towards what she was working on the previous night. But what she saw left her speechless, her eyes widened.

The body was gone.

Lila rushed down the street. "SKID!? SKID!?" She yelled, hoping her son would hear her and come back to her. But she couldn't find him anywhere. 

Lila started freaking out even more. But then, Susie, Skid and Pump walked out of Pumps house together laughing, talking about what happened. Lila ran over as fast as she could and hugged Skid tightly "You're okay!" she yelled happily.

Skid was confused for a second, but hugged back anyway. "Yeah, I'm okay mom!"

"What happened?" Lila asked.