▎. . . In which Klaus Hargreeves saves Jamie Kennedy's life, and they inadvertently cause the end of the world.
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The sun had set on a deep navy night, the streets full of damp motels and dingy diners illuminated by shades of neon pink and tangerine. This edge of the city was still and sterile; crickets cried sharply into the darkness; and the air held the tense, uncomfortable weight of oncoming rain.
At the Quick Stop Motel, where the door to Room 18 stood ajar, fuzzy reflections of late-night television cascaded through the crack and pooled onto the second-floor balcony. If Detective Eudora Patch had been here even an hour prior, entering this place would have been a far trickier task: where an armchair was previously forced against the door, blocking entry inside or out, it had now been shoved onto its side, collapsed against a desk. Somebody had put up quite the fight.
With her pistol keenly positioned at her hip, she advanced cautiously into the room, keeping her movements swift and purposeful. What struck her first and foremost was the scent ── metallic and tangy, so strong she could almost taste it. Trinkets were scattered across the floor, leaving little glass trails by her feet, which could have explained away the blood if there hadn't been so much of it. It ran in rivers, seeping into the tan carpet, creating patterns like crimson brush strokes as if someone had been dragged across the floor. An occasional desperate, messy handprint caused her to grimace.
It wasn't too long after that she found the source. The body had given into the ground, their wrists and ankles still bound by rope, their face bludgeoned in a way that they were almost unidentifiable. Unluckily, Detective Patch knew all too well who it was.
Jamie Kennedy was dead, and Klaus Hargreeves was nowhere to be found.
