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Chapter 14

Chapter 14. Cory wake up from the bloody nightmare to find that she was still sleeping in Timmy’s arms, there also was apart of her that felt like she had regained back control. Cory slowly and carefully works her way out of bed trying not to wake Timmy and makes her way into the bathroom. In the bathroom that’s when Cory notices in the mirror over the sink that the front of her black tank top shirt is ripped wide open turning it into a low v neck just like in her dream. Panic quickly begins to set in and Cory falls into a sitting position on the toilet seat. Cory tries to tell herself that it was only a dream to keep from freaking out. Cory then notices that there was no cut marks on her forearms and she remembered in the dream that she had twisted the end of a knife blade into her forearm seven times. Cory now laugh at herself in relief and guessed that she probably tear open her shirt when she was dreaming about it. Cory quietly sneaks back into the spare bedroom and gently curls up in Timmy’s arms. Cory found herself to scared to fall back asleep so she just lays there till later when Aunt Meg comes in to wake the two up later that morning. Meg orders breakfast to be delivered from a local diner from down the street. Timmy and Meg are quiet at first neither one of them trying to bring up Cory’s mental breakdown last night in the lobby of the movie theater. Things begin to lighten up after breakfast arrives and it seems that Meg ordered a variety of different types of cooked eggs, Bagels, and pancakes. The three joked around about how Cory had no idea what a crape was? After they were half way through there meal Aunt Meg decided to turned on the TV to catch the weather. Channel 13 biggest news story of the morning was that the God’s will killer last night had stuck again. “that’s too close to home” said Meg after hearing the address of the latest God’s will murder. “that’s only one street over” Cory was in the middle of chewing a big bite of pancakes when the image of the MS-13 gang member hanging on a cross suspended by crane came on the TV screen and she begin to choke. Timmy quickly takes the palm of his hand and strike her a few times on her back, between her shoulder blades. Timmy told himself that Cory was too deeply into her argument with a imaginary Jason Grey last night in the movie theater lobby to even notices the MS-13 gang member. He even reminded himself that Cory was a sleep in his arms all during the night. “flip through some of the other news channels” requested Timmy. Meg checked out all the other local TV news channels and they only seem to confirmed what channel 13 believed that the God’s will killer was responsible for taken another victim, but Jill Roberts seemed very disappointed that the God’s will killer didn’t contact her about this killing like he did with the abortion clinic doctor. Timmy felt like the news should have made him feel a little more reassuring but something in his gut kept saying other wise as he catches himself a few times during the morning looking over at Cory. On the opposite side of town the man called Preacher woke up feeling very tired and groggy. He immediately turns on the motel room television set and begins brewing a pot of coffee. He had been up most of the night racking with his brain on the appropriate manner to deal with Miss Dean. Then God hit him with a some inspiration straight out of the Bible from the book of Numbers. Moses was the first God Used to enforce his laws on the people. Preacher now had a plan he just needed to workout a few minor details. He pours himself a cup of coffee and lays back on the bed. Apart of him was tempted to turn the TV back off and catch a couple extra hours of sleep. The bottom header ribbon read that the God’s will killer has killed another victim. Then suddenly the image of a MS-13 street gang member hanging on a suspended cross appeared on the television. Immediately Preacher finds himself filled with a disgust for the obvious love letter wondering how dare someone be so blasphemous towards his work for God. Preacher then decides it’s best to push away any thought about having a fan that copy cat’s his killings and focus on the task at hand, The plans for kidnapping Miss Dean. FBI agent Jones walks onto the construction site and immediately begins looking up at the dead body nailed on a wooden cross hanging from a tall crane system. It appeared that the God’s will killer has struck again. There was a religious significance in the way the killer took his victim’s life’s and after running a criminal background check on the victim it come up that he was a Guatemalan criminal with a violent history that showed him belonged to the local MS-13 street gang making the victim a sinner just like the rest of the God’s will killer victims but still there was something off that Jones couldn’t fully put his fingers on. “lower the crane” yelled Jones up to the police officer they assigned to running the crane. All the evidence seem to points at the God’s will killer and he didn’t believe in coincidences. FBI Agent Edwin Storm parked his car across the street from the construction site where the murder took place. Edwin felted a little under the weather today wondering if it was from a lack of sleep or the long drive from upstate New York. Edwin fought a snooze coming on as he flash his badge at the polices officers that was guarding the construction site gate from on lookers and news reporters. Edwin question if maybe he was coming down with a cold when he saw his partner special Agent Jones and made his way to him. Edwin felted a little surprise that he could walk up to Agent Jones unnoticed. Agent Jones studied the body intensely look for any kind of clue. “this looks like the work of a copy cat type killer” said a familiar male voice coming from behind Agent Jones. “thought you was working a case in New York” ask Jones look back at the tall man that’s his oldest friend and almost remarked about how Agent Storm looked like shit. “the crime scene fits the killer’s profile” said Agent Jones but he could hearing the doubt in his partner’s vocal right away. “according to the reports the first two crime scenes we’re a little on the messy side” said FBI agent Edwin Storm. “maybe our killer has leaned how to be a little more neat and clean up after himself” said Agent Jones. The two Agents study’s the gang member’s body for a moment after it been lowered enough for them to inspected. “the first two victims we’re killed in a quick manner before there bodies we’re set up in a public display” said Edwin Storm pointing out all visible wounds. “This victim had bleed out After he was hang up on that cross” “maybe our killer is evolving” said Jones. “you know trying something new” Edwin Storm didn’t buy into Agent Jones theory but there we’re things about this crime scene display that had Edwin puzzled. Like how the killer manage to stab the gang member in all the different arteries of his body perfectly at the same time with the points of the barbed wire and How did the killer manage to get the cross with the gang member’s body nailed to it up there on the crane. The killer didn’t have a set of keys to the crane and there was no signs that the crane had been hot wired. The more Edwin study the scene the more he believed this wasn’t the work of the God’s will killer and had to be a copy cat. 

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