Lady Luck: Hoodie x Reader

Chapter 24

      Towards the very end of Marble Hornets, Tim and Jay got their hands on an address that led them to a college. Only one video actually showing the college was published online, Entry 79. The next entry—Entry 80—was Tim's little speech about how everyone died, meaning Jay almost definitely died there.

 

       And now Tim and I were on our way there ourselves in search of our next clue.

       "Where's Alex? Where're you keeping him?"

   

       I frowned slightly as I watched the video of Jay running up a set of stairs, his voice audible off screen. To help refresh my memory about the college I'd decided to watch Entry 79 with headphones during the car ride, having directly downloaded the video to my laptop before setting out. I did feel a little queasy watching it while the car was moving, but I ignored the feeling and focused on the video.

       Reaching the top of the stairs, Jay began slowly walking down the hallway, peeking into each door until coughing became audible. Following it to its source, he found Hoody in one of the rooms bent over near the far wall, pressing a hand against it to keep his balance as he coughed violently. Jay approached Hoody at a rather leisurely pace, calling out a small, almost casual, "Hey."

       Glancing back at him, Hoody quickly grabbed a large wrench from the table next to him. "Hey—wait, wait, wait, wait!" Jay's words grew increasingly rapid and panicked as Hoody turned and swung the wrench at him, the swings missing as Jay fell to the floor. The camera caught Hoody swinging it a bit more at Jay as he moved towards the door, finally dropping the wrench and running away.

       A shudder ran down my spine as I watched the Jay attempt to pursue Hoody, Tim's voice faintly audible as he ran down some stairs. After a moment I then realized that Tim's voice wasn't part of the video, and quickly paused it and lowered my headphones. "You say something?" I asked, glancing at Tim in the driver's seat. He smirked slightly, shaking his head as he kept his eyes on the road.

       "I was asking what you think of that place," he replied. Ah. Considering it thoughtfully, I glanced at the screen, the video paused on a frame of Jay turning the camera to look outside.

       "Well, so far I don't know enough to really have much of an opinion," I said, and he nodded.

       "Figured as much. Well, there's not much footage of the room that matters, though."

       "Yeah..." I made a mental note of my current place in the video and skipped ahead to about the eleven-minute mark, where Jay had entered a basement area while following Tim. Photos of Alex covered one of the walls, and there was a metal folding chair with a note on it. I didn't pay much attention to those though, instead focusing on the metal object in the far corner, something like a boiler or furnace, and a series of dirty-looking white pipes on the floor.

       My mind flashed back to the video of Tim sleeping that had spawned this trip. Unlike all the other videos where we were in hotels, this one was set in a dark, dank room with barely any lighting, Tim sleeping atop a blue sleeping bag covered by a thin blanket. Pipes ran along the floor in the corner of the image, making it pretty obvious it was some kind of basement—just like the basement from Entry 79.