Forever: Eternity of Insanity

Episode 2- Lies and Bombs

Lies are like scars to the soul. They destroy you. ~Lana Winters

Henry was spending some time with his adopted son, Abe, when the door to the shop opened to momentarily let in some Saturday afternoon light. They both glanced up as Jaylyn walked past them while reading, Henry faintly wondered if she even realized they were there. She snapped it shut a moment later and he caught a glimpse of a medical book, what she was doing reading that he didn't know, but she didn't seem happy about something.

"I'm borrowing another one." Jaylyn informed him, Henry hadn't even known she'd been using his books. "I'll find it if it kills me."

"Find what?" Henry was a bit concerned by how obsessively she was looking through his bookshelf.

"Answers." The simple answer didn't explain much.

He elaborated. "Finding what answers?"

"You'll see." She pulled a dusty volume off and started to leaf through the pages before closing it. "Hopefully soon."

"A nice day off so far and you're spending it obsessing over your curse?" Abe spoke up, recognizing the similarity between her current actions and Henry's pasted ones.

Jaylyn spun around and scalded him with her emerald gaze. "Yes. After Adam's theory failed we need another one."

"Do we?" Henry asked. Sure he missed Abigail and his long dead friends, which would eventually be added to when Jo and the others died, but at the moment he was content to stay alive.

She ignored the question and mumbled under her breath as she left. "It has to be something with the weapons..."

Henry didn't answer her as she left in a similar fashion she showed up in: with an open book in her hands. It did worry him however that she was so involved now with trying to solve their immortality, what after Adam failed, Abe hadn't even bothered with it unless it was to help Henry, and he had just gotten lost in his current life in this century. He was curious to see what she'd been looking at and pulled the book she'd given back off the shelf, it was one of his older volumes with a lot of notes he'd written in about his immortality. Scanning the bookshelf a bit more he found the missing book was the one listing off people in the concentration camps... what she'd need with that he didn't know. It bothered him slightly though and he faintly wondered if he should follow her.

Abe easily read him like a book. "Something's wrong."

"She took the book that Adam brought you about the concentration camps." Henry put the book he was holding back and faced his adopted son. "I'm worried about her."

"She's a grown woman." Abe replied unconcerned. "I'm sure she's just paranoid with how Adam tried to murder you... And you're going after her."

"I'm going after her." Henry decided, saying it at the same time Abe guessed his thoughts. "If something comes up at work get me."

"Naturally." Abe waved off his command passively, already knowing what to do.

Henry walked out onto the street and easily found Jaylyn weaving through people on the sidewalk as she made her way towards Central Park, the book was now closed and resting under her arm and she seemed to be talking on her cell phone to someone. He followed her, staying a few people behind her in case she noticed him but the immortal didn't even glance back once. She disappeared a moment later after rounding a corner and he stopped to look around before seeing an alley she could've gone down. Henry hesitated a moment before going into the narrow path and listening for any sign that Jaylyn could've been leading him into a trap, a half hour later after weaving in and out of alleyways however, he was once again on a sidewalk looking at Central Park from across the street. Jaylyn was disappearing around a bend on the path there.