Unexpected Anchor

Chapter Fifteen

"This is nuts. We're in High school, we should be worrying about midterms. Not dragging the friendly neighborhood ice cream man to Hell." Harvey says as he sits in the driver's seat of his truck. Sabrina is in the passenger, while Roz and Theo sit in the back.

"Let's just stick to the plan. We can freak out later. Now, when you see me walking away, you probably won't see his soul, but his body should slump dead, which is when you guys rush out and—" Sabrina starts to open her door making her way out as Roz speaks up.

"Steal the corpse."

"Yeah, steal the corpse." Sabrina nods as she exits the vehicle closing the door. Harvey sighs while Roz watches her walk to the ice cream truck. Theo shakes his head and then looks over to Harvey.

"Harvey, you okay?" Theo asks as Harvey continues to rub his head groaning a little.

"Yeah. It's this massive headache I can't get rid of." He massages his temples as he continues. "I think it might be Hallie. She was really upset earlier and I wasn't able to talk to her about it."

"Yeah, what was up with that? She had some really bad reaction to Jimmy." Roz turned to look at Harvey. "Did something happen? I have never seen her like that before."

"I'm not sure. Once we settle this, I'm going to ask her. Who knows, maybe she knows something about him and why Hell wants him." Harvey says.

Sabrina storms back to the truck fuming, slamming the door closed behind her. Theo looks at her, "What happened?"

"I don't know," Sabrina tells them with confusion covering her face. "But he tried to offer me a child. In exchange for an extension to his contract. AS if my horrible father made that sort of deal before. I can't drag him to Hell, because he's keeping a little girl trapped somewhere in Greendale."

Roz's eyes widen as Harvey speaks up, "We– we have to find her."

"Oh, we're going to," Sabrina states, slowly letting her anger take over. "And then I will personally burn Jimmy Platt's pitch-black soul in Hell myself." Sabrina turns to look out and sighs. "We need to do a couple of things first. I gotta talk to the old boss." She turns her head to Harvey, "And we need to talk to Hallie."

Harvey's eyes widen, "Why do we need to get my sister involved? Do you not remember her reaction to just hearing his name?"

"Harvey. I think that's her Jimmy." Sabrina tells him. Harvey slowly falls back into his seat as he keeps his gaze on Sabrina. "It makes sense. That has to be him. She might know where the little girl is."

Roz and Theo follow Harvey's actions, slumping into their seats. Roz shakes her head whispering, "This won't end well."

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Theo and Harvey walk into the classroom where Sabrina and Roz are standing waiting for them. "Harvey and I went to the police station. We found a bulletin board of all the missing persons." Theo tells them as Harvey lays a flyer in front of Sabrina.

"This girl disappeared from a playground three days ago." Harvey sits at the desk in front of her. "Also, I tried to find Hallie but she wasn't at the house."

"That's okay," Sabrina says as she continues to stare at the picture of the missing girl. "Maybe we won't need her help at all. Roz, can you see where she is with your cunning?"

"Not off a flyer, but if I had something of hers, something she touched if I could hold it in my hands, I could—" Roz gets cut off as Lizzie and a group of cheerleaders stop in the doorway.

"Hey, Sabrina. Hey, Roz. We're going to the mall to get our nails and hair done before the pep rally. It's a cheer tradition." Lizzie tells them. Harvey looks around her from his spot to see if his sister is with them, but isn't able to spot her.

"Oh man, Roz and I can't." Sabrina sighs "We've, um—"

"Sabrina's taking me to the doctor for a check-up," Roz tells them. She opens her mouth to continue but is cut off by Lizzie.

"Oh no! Hopefully, it's not the same thing Hallie has! We are already super depressed she can't make it for the pep rally after putting so much work into it." Lizzie says as the cheerleaders chorus around her.

"You talked to Hallie?" Harvey sits up a little at the mention of his sister.

"Yeah, I saw her only a few minutes ago. She had to give me the flash drive for the music. She was really pale and mumbling her words. I might swing by after the pep rally to give her some chicken noodle soup." Lizzie tells him as Harvey nods his head at her. "But we'll see you at the rally, right?"

Sabrina and Roz nod eagerly as Roz speaks. "We will totes be there." The cheerleaders smile and walk away. Roz whispered after the girls left. "I can't believe we're ditching the cool kids to play cat and mouse with a serial killer."

"Well, what choice do we have?" Sabrina asks her.

"None." Harvey grabs their attention. "So what's the plan? Are we gonna find this guy and kidnap him?"

"Well, actually I appreciate the gusto, Harvey. But I think for this next step, it might be a little less suspicious if it's just me and Roz. Besides, I think you and Theo should find Hallie. If what Lizzie said was true, I think we need to find Hallie as soon as we can."