Mute. {reed900}

Chapter 2

I shouldn't be surprised. I didn't even captured nor did I slow him down. 

No one but me was bad. Furious even. Nines 'said' that at least he had gotten a good look at his face.

It wasn't a fucking android! It was just a fucking clown!

God FUCKING DAMNIT.

"Hey Reed, you're making everyone nervous." Tina spoke as she pointed over to my partner. "He's worried about you."

I looked over at Nines who was just in the medbay getting a check up.

"We fucking lost the damn suspect."

"I get it, relax. Geez you're worse then my mom on her period."

"Haha. Touché."I replied dryly.

"C'mon, Nines said you could cool off anywhere so let's get out of here and go eat."Tina forced me up, or well I wasn't going to fight her.

We knew each other to the extreme. And we did go back since even more than High School.

"Fine whatever." I replied and followed her.

---

We decided on some decent fast food. And well, it did cool me off. We got carried away with talking about  some people we knew back in highschool. 

"Remember Josh? The 'class clown'? I heard he became a licensed clown." Tina told me. "Wait. Wait. Josh, the chubby guy?" I asked, and she nodded.

"Fuck! That could be him." I told her. "You know how he looked like? Or how he looks now?"

"Yeah, hold on, let me find the picture."

She whipped out her phone and began to look as I drank my lemonade. She turned around her phone to show me. I spit all my lemonade on the table. "Gavin! My phone! You're disgusting!"

"That's him! That's who left! I was wondering why the victims were part of our school. He must be going on revenge."

"But, he attacked the Android first?"

"Because, the android could've called the police before hand."

I wiped all my spitted lemonade of the table. I'm an asshole but I'm not gonna let anyone clean up my mess.

"What you doing?"

"Texting the android. I'm going to let him know I know this criminal and who might be the next in line."

---

Some days after monitoring the houses of those who used to bully Josh back in school, we realized, he probably either stopped or hasn't found a routine.


Nines tapped me and displayed his message. 

[ Are you sure you aren't part of his list? What if he wants you? ]

"I'm sure, I never did anything to him after all."

[ What if he knows you're onto him? ]

"Then,  we lay a trap."

[ That sounds too dangerous. You seen what he did to Veronica Gomez. ]

"And that's because she made the most fun of him. Man, poor guy. I wonder why his parents never did something."

[ When I looked up his relatives, it said his parents died probably back when he was still in high school. ]

I sighed as I took a sip from my coffee. "Nothing else? You didn't find anything else?"

He shook his head."Well fuck."

"Let's assume you're right on his target being me. What do you think we should do to get him?"

[ Give him a sign that you're going to be alone. ]

"Then what? Just have him come to me and then have others ambush him?"

[ It could work. We could have a decoy for him to follow. Maybe use his previous dumping ground. ]

I sighed, thinking about the idea. It did seem better, dammed Androids. I guess the Cyberlife people did a correct thing.

"Okay, tell me what you plan, let's go scoop the area before we set it to trap him, yeah?

---

It only took about three days to have everything set. We had made sure it was either of the bullies or me, his target. Nines was currently hidden near me, I didn't know where exactly because he took anything that could direct the attention on him. His arm light bandaged up and hidden under darker and thicker clothes. His LED discarded for the time being. And surprisingly, I also learnt that his eyes glow in the dark, yet I couldn't even see those grey blue eyes.

"Fuck me." I left out, lighting my damn cigarette. It took a bit of attempts to light it though.

I was supposed to be looking around, but I already looked hard enough waiting for this clown.

I seriously needed more than a good paycheck. 

The wind blew a side of my jacket, possibly also attempting to stop me from smoking too.

Shit, this was like a god damn scary movie. Yet no sight on Josh Williams. 

I took out my phone.

{  You might want to start acting, back up says he was seen coming directly here. }

Great.

I kept my cigarette, I wasn't going to litter. I moved toward the inscripted, shining my flashlight on the words, looking over at it numerous amount of time to get it over with. I heard the footsteps that didn't match Nines or any other cop for sure. It had to be our subject. Just address him as if it was Nines. 

.

Just do it.

..

FOR GOD'S SAKE.

"Hey, Android. You it wasn't written by another Android?" 

Of all things I could've said, why did I said that?