Possessed...

[Julia Lilith Potter]

“You’ve got a visitor…”
A silver-haired shadow hidden in a prison cell shook its head…
“At this hour?”
“It’s 11AM…”
“Really? OK, then…”
The cell door was rusty, creaking under the guard’s obviously irritated look…
“Old doors, eh? Lots of people staying behind them…” the prisoner said with a flashy smile.
“Let’s just leave the comments for later, shall we? …This way…”
The walls were whiter than the usual…So worn out…
“Hmm… sorry to disturb you once again with my insipid comments, but who screamed last night?”
“No one screamed… but I know you moaned in your sleep…”
“Oh, did I? Sorry if I bothered you; it must’ve been a bad dream…”
“Yeah, tell me about it…
Anyway, here we are…”
The guard stopped, seeing that the prisoner wouldn’t move from near the door…
“Guard, could you please leave us alone?”
A young woman stared at the prisoner’s shocked grimace…
“Yes, ma’am…remember you’ve got 10 minutes…”
The woman touched a chair nearby firmly…
“So… your name is Raven, right? I finally got to hear it when the judge pronounced it…”
“I don’t want to seem hysterical, but what are you doing here?...”
“I guess I have the right to ask you a few things…”
He gasped…
“S-sure…”
“Kind of interesting, huh? Talking to the one who took away everything you used to have…”
“I’m really not in the mood to be interrogated right now… I didn’t even get to sleep well, miss…
“At least, tell me what made you do such things...”
Raven played a bit with his hair…
“I don’t think I had a proper reason, actually; I was probably in a trance of some sort…”
“I presume you knew Luke…”
“Oh, yes, that’s a certain thing…
What I’m saying is that I never really hated him…
And I don’t think that poison was as painful as everything he went through day by day… I probably wanted to set him free ...Or not…”
“What was he going through?...”
“Jail mainly made him think about his parents… you know the story with them…”
“And how do you know that?”
“I can tell…”
Alicia kept staring…
“You’re saying that his parents are somehow related to being in jail?”
“Who knows? Maybe he felt guilty of something…”
“So that’s why he came to me that night…because he felt guilty?”
“Yeah, that doesn’t seem illogical to me…”
The door suddenly opened widely, with the guard sitting in front of it, panting …
“I’m sorry to interrupt you but… I was asked to call you… both… in court…Something happened…”
“What?” Alicia and Raven asked at the same time, looking at each other bizarrely…
“You’ve got to come…from what I heard, it’s mostly bad news…”
The accused and the witness rushed out of the room, guided by the astonished guard… finally reaching the hall in which the judge and the prosecutor seemed to be extremely worried…
“Guard…tell us… did the prisoner do anything out of the ordinary last night?”
“No, not at all, your honour…”
“Fine, then… you should know that… Halestone wasn’t found in his bed this morning…
We’ve searched everywhere around the hospital, knowing that he couldn’t have gone too far… but… we were wrong…
And… the results of the DNA tests doctors made came today… they told us they’ve never seen something similar…”
The judge showed Raven and Alicia a piece of paper… their eyes stopped upon the words: Unknown genes detected …
“What does this mean?”
“We don’t have a clue… that’s why we need to find Halestone, and quick…
Doctors fear that if he has run away, he can’t resist too much…”
The judge stopped, watching Alicia get paler…
“Damn it… they now know…”
Raven’s thoughts mixed up with raging fury, as he desperately wanted to find Luke…
But he calmed down, telling himself that the night will have to come…