Hook and Tinkerbell: A Wish Realm/Hyperion Heights Love Story

Chapter 34: Another Attack

Meanwhile, in a parking garage across town, a young blonde homeless girl named Lily was looking for a place to sleep for the night. The door from the stairwell creaks a bit as she opens it and it closes behind her. She sighs as she looks around for a safe spot to sleep out of sight of the cameras. She begins walking to a far corner hugging the wall, staying in the shadows as much as possible. She hears a noise behind her. She stops and turns around but sees nothing and no one. She continues making her way to the far corner. She hears the noise again and turns around again.

She calls out, "Hello? Who's there?" She spies another door and runs to it. She grabs on the doorknob and tugs at it to no avail - the door was locked. She is grabbed from behind by a masked man.

She shouts, "Please don't hurt me!" She fights back kicking at his legs and clawing at her attacker's face and arms. He pulls a knife and stabs her with it in her abdomen. She claws at his face again - this time knocking his mask free and she scratches his face, drawing blood - and gets a good look at her attacker, committing his face to memory.

He screams, "Aah!," when she scratches his face and runs away leaving the knife stuck in Lily.

Lily manages to drag herself to the guard station at the entrance of the parking garage, leaving a trail of blood from where she was attacked to the guard station. The guard on duty calls for an ambulance and police as she passes out from blood loss.

Colin and Jade are awakened from a deep sleep by a ringing phone. Colin reaches for his cell phone on the nightstand.

"Hello?" he says, sleepily.

"Sorry to wake you up but there's been another attack and our victim is in the hospital in surgery. Wake up Wilde and figure out which one of you is gonna go to the hospital to wait for the girl to wake up and who's meeting me at the parking garage where the attack happened," Weaver says on the other end of the line.

"Yeah okay. What's the address of the parking garage?" Colin asks.

"Parking garage at Belfrey Towers," Weaver says and hangs up before Colin can respond.

"Hey sweetheart, you gotta wake up. There's been another attack," Colin said gently.

"I know. I heard," Jade said sleepily, stretching her arms above her head.

"So you want to go to the hospital or the parking garage?" Colin asked.

"Hospital. Weaver said it was a girl who was attacked. She's probably gonna be freaked out if a male cop is there to question her when she wakes up," she said, deciding quickly.

"Okay. I'll go meet Weaver," he says.

They get up and Jade gathers her clothes to get dressed to go back to her apartment to shower and change to go to the hospital. Suddenly she remembers something she's supposed to do today.

"Shit! I have to take Tilly to work in a few hours and I have no clue how long I'm gonna be at the hospital waiting on our latest victim to wake up," she exclaims.

"I can take her when I'm done with Ru- uh - Weaver," he says, stumbling over the name.

She looks at him confused. "What did you almost call Weaver?" she asks him, swearing to herself that she heard him almost say Rumplestiltskin. Then she recalls what she heard him whisper in her ear last night - he called her Tinkerbell. "Ummm so probably a weird question but did you whisper something in my ear last night before falling asleep, perhaps calling me by another name?"

"Depends on what you think I said?" he says.

"You called me Tinkerbell, Kil-Colin," she stumbled over his name.