Wraith: Another Dimension #3

Part one: Why are you doing this?

Renee awakes on the floor with a small cut on her forehead. She stumbles getting up, running into the walls. She searches the apartment for John and Mirage.

"Elliot? John? Are you guys here?"

All of a sudden she hears a faint voice coming from the secret room

"Renee!! We're down here!"

She goes down to the secret room and unlocks the door to see both John and mirage safe and unharmed. She hugs them both tightly and cries

"I thought I lost you guys!"

"Shit I thought I lost you!" John exclaims

Mirage pulls away from Renee and picks up his things and leaves. She stops him in the hallway before he can enter the elevator

"What the hell is wrong with you?!"

"You never told me you fucked the guy that wanted me dead back in the games."

"I....I never saw it as big deal."

"It's a pretty fucking big deal to me when you hide shit from me. Just leave me alone."

He enters the elevator and looks wraith in the eyes one last time before they say each other's names

"Renee..."

"Elliot..."

She goes back into the apartment and sits on the couch and cries.

"Everyone I come into contact with either leave or die."

John sits next to her and puts his arm around her shoulder

"You still have me. Been friends since we were teens. I haven't left and never will."

"John. I can't stay here. I can't risk losing another person. I'm going back. He won't kill me. But he will harm anyone I'm associated with. It's best if we kept our distance."

"You better not let this son of a bitch win."

"I will die trying."

"And that's what I'm scared of."

Renee gives John one last hug before she goes back to her apartment. She tears down the photos from her wall and throws them in the trash. When she goes to her room she sees a box with a ribbon and a note.

"Your favorite colors have always been black and purple. Here's a little something you can wear. I'll see you at home."

Her heart drops to her stomach. The only place she remembers calling home is the old home she lived in when johns family welcomed her in as a teenager.

"Guess it's time to take a trip down memory lane."