Chapter 6

'March 25th, 3010 @ 2:45 p.m.

        · First photo on collage (in the righthand corner) - picture of dead subject and girl, she's smiling, partial of my face is showing looks like she's standing holding ben and jerry's ice cream, name on bottom Cass 

       · Photo #2 (in the bottom left hand corner) – subject that is dead and 3 other girls, the first girl to my right in the photo has her hair in braids, wearing a white shirt with sunglasses loosely hanging on the rim of the shirt, she's slightly smiling, she has green eyes, and blonde highlights, the second girl who is right behind me is wearing a hat, a choker, nice French nails, a lip piercing, and two French braids the third girl who is slightly behind the second girl is wearing glasses, her hair is up she's smiling with her teeth and a bit of her tongue is sticking out, looks like we are all having fun, names at the bottom Bells, Kelsea and SarSar

       · Third photo (in the middle) – subject without a mask on but in a vampire costume, while other figure is wearing a mask with a light brown leather jacket, cowboy boots, light washed skinny jeans, dark blue baggy shirt, at graveyard, name on the bottom C'

       · a little note at the bottom of the collage says 'Front Door Knocker'

He takes out the other notebooks and scribbles in 'gives an idea of what 'C' is built like, the meaning of that note;

'C, you must follow out the mission, kill who must be killed and bury what must be buried' is something entirely different, might help in finding out why and how subordinate was killed and who wanted subject dead. On each photo there is a letter 'L' 'C' 'O'.'

He looks up at Carole and says, "Well I'm guessing that this little note 'Front Door Knocker' means that the last clue is behind the door knocker..." Carole looks at the fourth item with a look of dread but quickly masks it with a straight face before Cole is able to catch it. She starts walking to the front door and inspects it as Cole comes over with screwdriver and takes out the screws. Carole stands next to him anxious, as she knew there was something, she didn't like about this.

It takes Cole a little bit before he gets both screws out and takes off the door knocker carefully, and shining a flashlight inside, "Hey, can you hold this," he hands her the door knocker and screws and reaches in taking out a couple of old books. He walks over to the table to write down notes that he noticed while Carole goes through them...

'March 25th, 2010 @ 3:30 p.m.

      · both are old and dusty

     · look to be in pretty decent condition

     · one book has some pages folded over'

After he finishes making some notes, he takes one of them and flips through it noticing how there are scribbles on the pages that are folded over. He looks as carefully as he can at each scribble because he realized that he can't miss any detail especially since he wants to know who 'C' is and why Carole changed her expression so quick earlier. Carole is too busy looking at the photo of me and 'C'. "Carole, can you do me a favor and look through all the photos and see if you recognized anything in each photo that seems to come up more than once, a name, an item, anything." Carole nods and takes all the photos into the living room while Cole starts walking through the house following the first scribble that he was bale to make as 'attic', he heads up there and looks around for something that resembles the next scribble, a chair, he looks at the chair then compares it to the scribble and places the book down muttering. "Knife... knife... something sharp... to cut fabric..." he finds a pocket knife in the desk across the room, and goes back to the chair looking down at the scribble he does his best to mimic what the slice in the seat of the chair looks like. He then opens u the seat of the chair and carefully sticks his hand in feeling around, he finds a key that has a tag stuck to it. The writing and the tag have faded a lot, and is barely eligible, he heads back downstairs and checks on Carole, "Did you find anything yet?" She looks over to him and shakes her head no, "Not yet, but I'll keep looking, how about find anything either with the scribbles?" He looks at he and nods, "Yeah, I did, a key with a tag attached but the writing isn't very noticeable, so I am going to go and make it out while you keep looking through the photos for me." He smiles at her and walks back into the kitchen while she keeps looking through the photos.

As she neared the end of the second pile, she created she noticed that 3 of the photos had the word 'funeral home' on a sign in both photos, which she thought was odd and suspicious. She walks into the kitchen; "Cole, I think whatever it is we are looking for right now is at the funeral home that their funeral was held." He looks at her and nods and reaches into one of the folders pulling out a piece of paper to see where they held my funeral, "Carole... that funeral home almost burned down 5 years after their memorial... they could have moved whatever was in there... We have another book to go through, lets do that before we head to the funeral home, we can do that after teatime." Carole smiles in agreement and picks up the second book and skims through it, as she reaches the end of the book there's a scribble down in pencil instead do fink like the other ones, Carole reads it aloud, "'Some days, I feel everything at once. Other days, I feel nothing at all. I don't know what's worse, drowning beneath the waves or dying from thirst...'... I think they are talking about being a vampire, especially since that is what they were in that photo, plus they are really pale compared to anyone that they were seen with in these photos." Cole looks at her, "Vampires can't be real, you should know that..." Carole looks down and nods, "Yeah... but let's have our tea time and call Carter to give him an update..." Cole nods and walks out to call Carter as Carole, puts the book down and starts making tea.

About ten minutes later Cole comes back, "Carter is on his way to see what we have and to most likely accompany us to the funeral home," Carole nods while Cole goes and starts adding more notes;

             'In the books that just have scribbles lead me to the attic, a chair, and a key to what seems to be a funeral home, and the second book has a saying in the back written in pencil instead of ink like the others, the saying said – 'Some days, I feel everything at once. Other days, I feel nothing at all. I don't know what's worse; drowning beneath the waves or dying from thirst...' – meaning that I could have been a vampire, according to carol, not sure what it could mean but I don't think being a vampire is that...'

Cariole and Cole are enjoying their tea as Carter walks in. Cole looks up; "Carter, thank you for coming, as I said on the phone, we think that the last clue is at the funeral home where their memorial service was. We both want to clarify something as well." Carter looks between the two of them and sighs, "Alright, finish your teatime then we can head out." Carole nods putting her cup down and heading outside, while Cole sighs; "She's mad because I won't believe her about vampires. But there is this one photo that has a person named 'C' on it and their body build is exactly like Carole's. and I'm scared that she killed this person, even if it was around two thousand nine hundred and forty-six years ago. You have heard of the human that was turned immortal after killing their best friend of 30 years. What if Carole is that same person? Why would she do that? What was her motive?" Carter looks at Cole; "I know we barely know each other, and I can tell this assignment is getting to you if you ne..." Cole cuts him off, "It's not getting to me when she saw a photo of 'C' with a mas, her facial expression changed as quickly as it came, the look of dread...It's like she knows something that we don't but we should just head to the funeral home..." Carter looks at Cole with sympathy and starts walking it the front and notices that the door knocker was missing, he points to it and says; "What happened here?" Cole looked at it and chuckled; "We had to take the door knocker off to find one of the items, which is a weird spot, just like the floor board in the attic, the square hole in the bathroom by the mirror, under a root, and having to dig in the far east nook of the yard." Carter turns around and looks at Cole in shock at the fact that they found all those things in the matter of five a half hour, when it could normally take some teams days. Cole looks at Carter confused and walks past him; "Come on we don't need to keep Carole waiting any longer.

They all hope into Coles Jeep as Carter gives the directions. It takes them about minutes before they reach the funeral home, they all get out and walk over the door. Carter tries opening the door, but it wouldn't budge so Carole put the key and turned it, hearing the clicking sounded signaling that it was unlocked, Cole opened the door and walked in. They look around to see if anything looked out of place, from what a funeral home should look like, Carter notices that one of the stairs in the main hallway that leads upstairs to one of the priest's private rooms where they go and pray. He goes over to the step and lifts up the top to reveal a warn out, tattered down journal. He walks over to Cole and shows him the journal, Cole reads aloud;

"Entry 110

         Olivier, I am so sorry that I killed you but you were getting out of control and there was no other way to keep you under control, I had to drug you so many times over the past 20 years I don't know how much longer I can keep doing this.

                                                                                                                   ~ C

Entry 210

          Olivier has gotten worse and I started hearing voices... I am thinking that hanging around him is making me go insane. I can't do anything about it, I have been researching on how to control your vampire friend but there isn't anything useful out there!

                                                                                                                     ~ C

Entry 410

              Olivier... I killed you... I didn't mean to, but you killed my fiancée, just because you were a vampire doesn't mean you were allowed to go around draining the life out of anyone who you wanted to. I might be immortal and easily killed but that doesn't mean I can't kill you or anyone else for that matter

           I think I am getting better, the voices are gone, ever since I killed him. I can't believe that I am free from them.

                                                                                                               ~ C.L.O

Entry 510

           I have decided to reveal who I actually am in this journal; no one will ever find it because Olivier hid everything well, even that I can't find half of the things I know he hid, but there is this archeologist who could find them. I just need to get on his good side. I am not sure though that I will come back write in this... this is my farewell entry. it was fun writing down what I did to him over the year.

         ~ Carole Louise  O'Bowe'

Cole looked up and into the other room, seeing Carole he looked between her and the journal, a gunshot was heard throughout the funeral home as Cole collapsed to the ground, Carter running at Carole to grab the gun but another shot is heard and Carter falls to the ground bleeding out, beside Cole. Police, firetruck and ambulance sirens are heard throughout the neighborhood as Carole runs off into the distance of the trees and disappears for the second time after murdering someone, taking all the evidence with her to never be found again.