The Cursed and the Wicked

The Reaper and the Outcast pt. 3

Bahati didn't set an alarm this time, so instead, she was awakened by the bright sunlight beaming through her window. For some reason the curtain was open. She certainly didn't do it for the fact that the sun gives her headaches and she prefers her room to be dark. She sighed as she sat herself up and rubbed the crust from her eyes, before yawning and stretching out her arms and legs. She just stared at nothing in front of her as she tried to remember everything that happened. Everything started replaying in her head, scene by scene, making her gasp and push the covers off of her.

"Jae", she called out before jumping out of her bed and walked out into the hall into the living room, where she saw him laying sprawled out on her couch.

She sighed in relief, thinking that everything that had happened so far was a dream. She was glad that it wasn't, except for witnessing that poor woman die in her place.

Bahati walked over to Jae's sleeping form and stared down at him. She didn't know they slept as well. She reached down and touched his face lightly and gently, making sure he was real and he was. That made her form a small smile on her lips.

As soon as he felt Bahati's hand on his face, Jae instantly woke up and stared at her, making her snatch her hand away.

"Sorry", she apologized. "I just wanted to make sure you were real". She explained.

Jae sat up, rubbing his temples as he yawned and stretched out his arms. "I'm real. Everything that happened last night was real. It wasn't a dream". He told her.

"Thank goodness", she sighed again.

"Now don't forget to hold up your end of our contract". Jae reminded her.

"I know, I know and I will". She said, searching for her phone and checking her emails. "These are my clients, who claim that they are haunted by ghosts. You can choose, which of them we visit today, okay?" She said, handing him the phone and walking to her bathroom to relieve herself.

Jae looked through Bahati's phone, scrolling through each of her clients to see which case interests him the most. Of course they will do all of them. He needs at least one thousand souls to get his promotion.

Jae stopped scrolling when he found the case that was most interesting to him. It was of a young Korean woman, about early thirties, long black hair, quite beautiful. Her name was Yi Ha Yoon. She works as a real estate agent. She claims that the haunting started 6 months ago. It started off with childish pranks like flickering lights and standing over her and watching her just to scare her, but now it has gotten worse. Ha Yoon would wake up with scratches on her arms and legs that wasn't present the night before. She would hear disembodied voices in her room at night, keeping her up. She was officially scared for her life now that the ghost was causing her physical harm. Who knew what else it do to her?

"A vengeful ghost perhaps?" Jae thought as he continued to read her report. He has been doing his job for centuries. He knows that spirits don't just harm random people for no reason. They would play mischievous pranks on strangers just for fun, but would never harm anyone, unless there was a reason for it. Why would this spirit want to cause physical harm to Miss Yi Ha Yoon?

Bahati finally came out of her bathroom in her work clothes. Jae frowned at her.

"It took you long enough". He told her, making her scoff at him.

"What's it to you? Got somewhere else you gotta be?" She asked him, placing a hand on her hips.

"Whatever, let's get going, okay? Don't want to keep Miss Yi Ha Hoon waiting". He said, scoffing at her. "Tch, Human women", he thought.

Bahati grabbed everything she needed and stuffed it inside her satchel. Jae followed closely behind her and she closed her door and locked it before rushing to the bus stop.