When I Hear Your Voice

Pepper's Ghost

It's finally happening! One of the big turning points of this story is now posted (this chapter)! I hope you all will enjoy it and that you won't hate me for it

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"All set?" Kurt asks Santana over the phone as he gets ready to leave the car.

"Of course it is. I was in charge of fixing it so why wouldn't it be ready?" She replies teasingly and he decides to just ignore everything she said except for that everything is prepared.

"Good. Then let's get this started. I'll send you a text when I'm in position." He says since he has to walk a few blocks to be at the spot where it should start.

"Break a leg, Hummel."

"You too, Satan. Show me that you could have made it as an actress." The man says before he ends the call and keeps walking towards the building where he set up some props earlier. He really hopes that this will work since there hasn't been time enough to try it out. He climbs up the stairs on the back of the building just to see that everything looks like when he left it.

Luckily enough it does so after polishing the big plate of glass a little he start moving to get to the right rooftop so he can get over with this. It only takes a couple of minutes to reach the building opposite to the police house and after taking a moment to make his breathing and heartbeat get back to normal he sends a text to Santana that says

"Action!" It's read the same moment as it's delivered and as Kurt waits to get started with his part he sees Santana walk into the building and he can imagine how she's demanding to get to meet Smythe to tell him that she spotted the Phantom climbing up on the building across the street. This will hopefully make him excited enough to not think it through before staring the hunt. It turns out that everything goes according to plan because just some minutes after that Santana entered the building Smythe comes running out of it with Anderson a few meters behind.

To not start to think more about the second man Kurt prepares himself to jump to the next roof so he will be a bit ahead of the police men when they reach this floor. They turn out to take the way inside the building so Kurt makes the jump a bit earlier than he think he would need to since he can't be sure when they will come out from the door to his right. It seems like he overestimated their ability to climb stairs because he almost starts to wonder if they changed their minds by the time the door flies open.

As soon as Smythe spots him the time for thinking is over as he runs as quickly as he can and pretend to try to shake the two off even if that isn't what he's actually doing. He manages to keep the distance and maybe even expand it a bit until he reaches the building where he started which is very good since he then gets the chance to jump around the corner and start the real trick of the evening.

The lamp starts without any trouble and he can just hope that the illusion works like it should. When he hear footsteps approaching and then suddenly stop he takes it as that everything is working so he straightens up a bit and smiles as if he has total control over the situation.

"This time nothing will stop me from pulling the trigger if you make a move, got it?" Smythe says in such a wild tone that it almost scares Kurt a little but he makes sure to keep the smile on his face as he nods. His whole body is ready to turn the light off as soon as he hears someone on the opposite side of the small room from which you access the roof take a step. He doesn't have to wait for long and as soon as the light is completely out he hears a gun go off so he climbs up on the small building which is between him and the two officers and then pulls the ladder with him to hide the signs off where he went.

"He vanished..." Anderson says under his breath and Kurt can't help smiling because he knows how adorable the confused look on the officer's face is.