Blame: Book 2- Tick Tock (The Sequel to Book 1)

The Table Turns

Charlie's POV

"Yeah, yeah, I got it Kyle," I nodded while scribbling down the location of the last known place where Will and Alicia were.

"And you got down Agent Asada's phone number, right?"

"Of course I did," I stared at the ten numbers messily written on the piece of paper that I was given by the lovely nurses.

"Good. I gotta go now and discuss trial stuff with Orton, so I'll catch ya later," Kyle said.

"Alright," I made a small smile on my side of the phone line.

"Bye." We both said.

I pressed the bell for a nurse to come in, and once there was one, I instructed her to get me a phone of some sort so I could call this FBI agent that Kyle spoke of. I still felt that pain in my chest from the last day, but I felt well enough to dial a number to help out Dan and the others, wherever they were. They were suspected of being kidnapped by Hannah and some of her goons because the LPD and the FBI couldn't trace their cell phones. The Nightmare must have discarded them on the way to the Sea World park. It really worried me that something happened to the three of my colleagues, especially Alicia due to the fact she and I were a little partnership of two.

"Hello? Agent Riki Asada here."

"Uh, hi? This is the guy who's a friend of Dan, Detective Charlie Barnes? The one who was shot in the chest in the Chicago airport," I awkwardly described myself the best I could.

"Oh! Barnes! Glad you're doing fine!" Her voice sounded cheerful.

"I have some info, like the address of that Orlando Sea World park," I read off my page. "I've been instructed by a friend to ask you to head there."

"I'm already in my colleague's car," she announced. "I already knew where they were, but the fact that we weren't able to trace their most recent locations concerned me."

"So you're already heading there?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, about ten minutes away," she said with a nervous tone. "There's gonna be some armoured cars and SWAT guys ready to threaten the suspect to surrender."

"Then I'll let you get to it?

"That would be great," she made a single laugh.

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Dan's POV

"You fucking bitch!" I screeched, causing Hannah to flee from Will and I.

"Wait!" Will caught my arm before I could go after her. "What about-"

"You try and get outta here with Alicia! I'll handle Hannah!" I bluntly directed to Will before shaking him off and running after Hannah.

"But Dan!" His plead for me to stay behind got fainter as I ran further from him, and caught up to Hannah.

     Sorry Will, I need to do this on my own.

     I caught a quick glimpse of her golden hair before Hannah turned the corner and disappeared down one of two paths. But I knew she was hiding, and didn't actually run down one of the paths. They were straight and ran into the distance of the park, a strategic way to nearly cool some people that she merely disappeared. I knew that wasn't the case though. There was no way she could have ran that fast with a body that small. Someone like me would easily be able to sprint and catch up to Hannah, and I think she knew that, so she made it seem as if she ran down a path. I wasn't that stupid. I think the Nightmare has gotten so used to escaping and outsmarting me, that she feels she can do anything to avoid me.