Chapter 9: Suspect

"Where did you go after the incident"

"what is this, are you trying to insinuate that he's a suspect?" Becky said annoyed at the question

"no mam we just want to here his side of the story, the lab results show that he was there so we want him to recount what happened"

"I thought you already interrogated him, what more do you want, do you want him. to keep remembering that awful day?"

While they went back and forth Rex on the other hand was shaken a little bit, last time he had no recollection of what happened but now was different, he could remember every minute detail as it still haunted him in his sleep some times, he still hadn't come to terms with what he did but rather played ignorant and tried to forget about the matter, but now it resurfaced again.

"Rex, we're sorry, we know it's a traumatic memory for you but your our only lead, there might be two killers out there Connor said. All the while Stacy was silent, her thoughts where on why rex was still alive when the others where dead, her mind went back to when they first met with Rex, he was covered in blood but had no injuries.(he just saw his family get murdered so there's no way he could be the killer, but if he isn't then who is, is someone protecting him from the shadows? this case doesn't make sense at all) she thought.

"I still can't remember much, rex's answer snapped Stacy out of her thoughts," but I can remember bits and peaces, I remember running into some guys, I think a gang maybe? I ran but they caught me and started attacking me, I blacked out after that and the next thing I remember was walking back home, it felt like a trance of some kind" he said.Connor and Stacy kept quiet for a moment, deep in thought.

" ok thank you for that Connor said, we'll be on our way, we'll come back if we need you help with anything" he said and they where on they're way.

"Are you alright rex" Becky asked her tone filled with concern.

"yh I'm fine, I'll be in my room" he said and left, Meanwhile outside the house.

"so what do you think, magic maybe? Connor asked Stacy

"no, they wasn't any magical energy lingering around the area of the crime scene"

"maybe it's a potion for hypnosis"

"you might be right, whoever saved rex must have given him a healing potion and hypnotized him so he wouldn't remember what happened and told him to go home then his secret guardian must be a lousy one, why not clean up the mess and the kid before leaving"

"yh, there are still peaces missing from this puzzled".

Back in the house rex was trying to calm his beating heart, he thought he could forget about what happened and moved on but now that the detectives have found out about the killing in the alley, how much longer can he pretend to not know about it. A few days went by as normal until on a Saturday morning Rex woke up to alarming message from his system.

[Your hunger grows, 88hrs left ]

Rex was shocked, he had been living his life normally, enjoying his new body but totally forgot about his deadline, he needed to kill someone again if he did he would die. The thought of dying scared him but the thought of killing someone also frightened him, he didn't want to die but also didn't have the will to harm someone else. His mind was so occupied by this thought that he was basically on autopilot, he barely listened in class and could barely focus, Helen noticed this, it was against her nature to get herself involved in other people's business since she was a very reserved person but ever since meeting Rex something changed in her. She initially saw rex as a nuisance but as time went on she noticed he was quite the odd ball, he didn't look at her with lustful eyes like the other guys and didn't fund over Rita like the rest of the class, he also didn't talk much unless he wanted to know something. He was seemingly unaware of his talent for magic and showed little to no interest for learning but was a fast learner, he was handsome and athletic, the things needed to be popular but hardly talked to anyone except her, he only talked with his team mates only during sports activities.

All these peculiar but odd qualities what was drew her close to him, she always wondered why he was so gifted but was bored with everything, maybe it was too easy for him, the thought made her annoyed but only made her interest in his growth even more, she wondered where his limit was or if he even had a limit, with someone as talented as he was it was hard to imagine something bothering him so to see him in such a state she couldn't help it.

"Rex" she calls out "rex...Rex!"

huh?he turned towards Helen, did you say something

"what's the matter with you, you've been out of it since today, what's wrong

oh uhh it's nothing I just have a head ache" "your lying"

"what? no I'm not" he said

"yes you are, when you lie you avoid looking someone in the eyes" she said giving him a glare.

"It's nothing" he said and put his head down to avoid her gaze, class was still on and aldo she was worried she cared more for her grades. When class was over rex was slowly packing his things, the thought of what happened the last time was eating him up. (Is there really no solution to this) he thought

"Rex!"

"huh?"

it was Helen again, when he looked around the class was empty, without realizing it he had been standing there for a while his mind in its own space.

"that's it, you've annoyed me for the last time" Helen said with an angry expression

"are you gonna tell me or not she said stomping her feet down, he had never seen Helen like this before, she was usually the serious type, not caring about what's going on around her and only focusing on her studies, to see her this concerned was a bit touching but now she would get mad if he said it was nothing.

"If you had a choice, to harm someone or die which would you can choose".