I come back to consciousness. I'm in Rick's office. At least I think ? Everything is the opposite of what it should be. I feel like I am in a mirror room.
-Finally awake Ray ? You sure took some time.
I was hoping to never hear that voice again.
-Doctor Danny... You know that I'm not glad to see you right ?
-Me neither to be honest. But since the reverend told me to keep an eye on you, I can't deceive him.
The reverend? Is he talking about Gray? This mad man is a reverend?
-And what will you do to me while we wait? You must be impatient to make behave as you pleased ? Like the good old days.
He bursts out of laughter.
-No no, certainly not. The reverend wants you alive and well. I can't deceive him.
-You already said that.
-I know. Yet I also know that I need to repeat things several times before they enter your head.
I get up slowly from the ground. I'm not hurt but my head is spinning.
-Don't get up. You'll lose too much blood.
-What ?
-Keep your head against the wall. You're hurt.
He helps me to make me sit down and go look for some hemostatic gauze to put behind my head.
-Dumb idea to collapse on the pavement... Look at all this blood. They'll think we slaughtered you or something?
-It's your goal anyways right ?
He laughs again.
-Our goal right ? No no... My goal is you Rachel. In fact it's your eyes. Those beautiful eyes. But they're shining now. I need to put them back to their original state. Empty and calm. Dead yet alive.
He draws his hand closer to my cheek and strokes it gently.
-I can help you if you want. I'm sure you'll manage to do it alone though.
-What time is it ?
-6:30pm. The reverend shouldn't take long now.
Speaking of the devil... Gray steps in the room.
-Ray ! I am glad to see you again.
-I'm not... Can I go back home ? I have a rendez-vous in 15 minutes and I don't want to make my friend worried.
-You will be fine, don't worry. I will let you go in a minute. Just let me fix your head wound.
He gets a large bandahe and make me bend my head over. When the gauze gets off, it is red and sticky.
-It is not very pretty.
The smell which made me collapse comes from him.
-Here! Much better! You may go now.
I get up, stretch a bit and go away. Why keeping me here all day for nothing though?
Franck waits at the entrance, staring at the pavements.
-Do you know what happened and why is there so much blood here? It seems like someone has been beaten up...
-A girl fell.
-And what happened to your head?
-A girl fell.
-And you caught her.
He sighs. I don't know if it's because he knows I'm lying or because my "heroism" is tiring for him.
-Come, let's go to the lake.
-Shouldn't we go to your office or something like that?
-No, since it's not counseling, we can go anywhere we want. But if you want we can go to the office.
-Nah the lake is fine.
He makes me enter his car and drive to the lake. Zack is sitting beside it,watching the water without saying anything.
-I broughht your girl back, says Franck happily.
Zack stays still and silent. He keeps on watching the surface. I sit beside him and start staring at the water.
-You smell like blood. You're hurt,he states without giving me a glance.
-But I didn't come to complain.
-I can't let you alone for more than two minutes cause you're gonna get in trouble...
-You left me alone for more than nine years though...
Franck sits next to me. Nobody talks and only the soft water sound can be heard. Zack is the first to get up and lean on the car.
-Are you both gonna seat and wait for eternity or decide to get up? It's so fucking cold here...
I laugh. Franck gets up too.
-It's true that it's cold. Let's go home.
I decide to follow them. I can't stay here forever anyways. We get in the car and go back home. Arthur is not here. (but nobody cares :3)
-At a god damn party again...
-I gotta go Ray. See you !
Franck goes away and Zack sits on the floor.
-What happened today ?
-Nothing for you to worry about.
He gets on his feet in a split second, grab my shoulders and pins me against the door.
-Tell me !
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The Girl and The Murderer
Fanfiction⚠️Sex content, bad language and violence ! You've been warned ! Have fun !⚠️ Rachel is a young and lively girl. At least, that's what she looks like to her friends. She has grown up in an orphanage where the law of the strongest was everything. Isaa...
