21 Foreshadow?

Zach spends a few hours studying french, Spanish and Arabic before he limps to bed, he looks to say good night to Zoey but finds her asleep on the couch.

He lays down in bed, his body still aching and healing but he is excited to finally have a good nights rest.

Somewhere dark and cramped Grace sits in a rotten chair, in front of her is a table and a Muslim man dressed in a tuxedo sitting in the opposite seat. He asks her in a gravelly voice,

"What happened to Qawiun? We found him dead not far from where that kid ran."

"I don't know, i only paid your men to cripple him..."

He furiously slams the rotten wooden desk breaking it in half,

"HE IS A 15 YEAROLD KID AND YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE HE CAN BEAT AN EXPERT?"

"I didn't know he was strong! Please let me go!"

"Unless you got a million stashed in those panties your not going anywhere! Men take her to the Shack"

"NO NO NO!"

She screams and sobs as she is dragged away. The man sits in contemplation before deciding,

"Zach is it, I will hunt you down like a dog!"

Zach wakes up to the smell of frying bacon and eggs,

.I must be dreaming, is this what it feels like to be married?.

"I can hear you from here you know"

Zach sits up while keeping his mouth shut,

"Your lucky i don't work weekends, otherwise who would take care of you?"

.I do have parents you know...

She grins and sarcastically asks,

"Really? I thought you were the more roguish type"

.I'm this fat and you think i'm a rogue?.

"Fat? you look pretty normal to me."

Zach looks down and realises he might have gotten taller again.

.I was fat yesterday... must have been a growth spurt.

"Yeah, nothing like a good beating to get you growing."

She chuckles at both of their misfortune,

.You got any plans today?.

"Sorry to stop your momentum but i need to study"

.It's ok, ill be out of your hair after breakfast.

She seems surprised at his response but nods.

As Zoey gets back to making breakfast Zach checks the state of his body, he rubs his shoulder, arm and bruises. His arm and shoulder are still a bit sore but the bruises are completely gone.

.I should be able to go play hero again soon.

Zach thinks to himself,

.System is there an item that could tell me when and where crimes will be taking place?.

After he asks this a weird startup sound surprises him,

[Cloth of judgement = 10 souls

Tattoo of the wise = 60000 souls

Clairvoyance skill book = 10000 souls

Dark fairy = 500 souls]

Zach groans and asks again,

.Anything i can use now?.

[Universal police radio = 1 soul]

.What does it do?.

[Universal police radio] = Can tap into the frequency any police radio.

.Well, i guess i will take that.

An old looking radio instantly appears and drops onto his lap,

.What happened to the cool flashy entrance!?!.

Confused by the lack of sparkly lights and sound effects he starts to question the quality of the radio. He presses a button to test it.

The radio sparks up and starts changing frequency on its own,

"Bravo Charlie 5.0 suspect on foot approaching Francis avenue requesting cu-...."

Zach turns it off before he hears anything he will want to move for, he gets up and eats breakfast with Zoey before she leaves for class.

Saying bye to Zoey he takes off the sling and packs his stuff,

.Hope i have an excuse to come back here... Ill give her my phone number... Just in case.

He writes a note with his full name and number and leaves it on her night stand.

.Is this how you are supposed to leave a note to a girl?... Probably.

He stops talking to himself after realising how creepy it is and leaves the flat.

Looking around for any "wouldbe gangmembers" while trying to look as inconspicuous as possible. Zach gets his phone out and tries to find out his location, getting google maps up and recognising the area he decides to drop by Kev's place to make a couple bucks.

After a couple minutes of walking while still wearing his school attire he makes it to Kev's shop, he enters but nobody is here.

The only thing Zach finds indicating someone is here is the trash can filled with bloody tissues, he picks it up and takes it out the back to clean.

[Absorbed Human+ blood +5]

Half an hour of cleaning later Zach emerges from the back room, still nobody here. He decides to better to get back home to study and rest than to wait for Kev for a couple hours.

Zach calls his dad while walking home telling him that he will be back soon and continues walking through the depressing streets of London.

Pat Pat Pat,

Rain starts to fall causing Zach to question whether he raised his luck or not. He starts running to avoid getting too soaked, he only just healed his wounds and he doesn't think poultices work for viruses.

He gets back without any mishaps and enters the dark house, with his mother being a shut in drunk doing bare minimum Zach has to do her work for her. Chores, cleaning and sometimes cooking.

He ignores her loud snoring as he continues to clean the house of bottles of alcohol and other crude things she leaves lying around.

He hopes that ones day she will attempt to fix herself up... One day.

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