The Curse of 1977 (Book 2)

Chapter 46

And the rain kept on falling:

David could hear something eerily reminiscent to pebbles pelting the window that was located just three feet to his left.His eyes slowly and achingly opened, but only his left eye appeared to be operational, the right one was completely blacked out.

With his one eye the man feebly peered around what looked to be a hospital room, complete with a television mounted on the wall in front of him, an oxygen tank hanging to his right side and a tube from the machine that was connected to his neck.

David then managed to catch a mere glimpse of his right hand which was bandaged, as well as his left one. He touched all over his face to discover that it as well was layered in what felt like bandages.

"My...my family," he tried so hard to open his mouth and speak.

"Good morning, my friend."

David all of the sudden heard a voice utter inside the room.The besieged man gawked and squirmed all around before his one eye connected with that of a man seated in a chair near the door.

"The name's O'Dea." He sat up in his seat. "The nurses said that you've been calling out for your family ever since you were brought here days ago."

David studied the man ever so diligently, from his white, buttoned down shirt, all the way to his perfectly creased grey slacks. The name was quite familiar, but the person was about as important to him as an alley cat as far as David was concerned.

it outside." O'Dea pointed at the window. "The news said it should cool down some, but it's still hotter than hell out there. I love it when the rain falls and

out of his chair and began just strolling about the room. His presence there, out of nowhere, no less, startled the man just as much

that's been rattling cages down at the station."

so badly, but for some reason or another, his mouth wouldn't or couldn't open. Even feeling his tongue seemed

"You've been sticking your bulbous nose into something that I think you shouldn't have, my friend. Now look at you, lying here with third degree burns all over your body. What

room of all places. Something was awry, and all the

to stroll around the room. "Yes, we had us a little... situation, some months earlier. And that situation nearly broke the station and everyone in it. The

moment. He remembered trying feverishly to rush his family out of the explosion, but he also recalled the scene inside his living room with vivid

he himself was foraging right into the very core as deep as he

you. And lo and behold, here you are." O'Dea stopped right in front of David's bed. "I'm quite sure you've heard of Linus Bruin and what took place back in February. Detective Bruin had some problems, and being the inspector, it was my duty to protect the force from the man's personal issues. Bottom line, Linus had no business being brought back to the force after going to that asylum. I tried over and over again to warn Brickman, but the man

The more O'Dea spoke the more David wanted to break free of both his bandages and the bed. There was just something about the man

But you, Mr. Ortega, managed to see something yourself that night inside your

only shut his eye momentarily before opening it again to only see a

something very, very ugly." O'Dea then happened to turn around to face the television above his head. "Yesterday, one of the Hollis Estates buildings went up in flames. They're saying that's where the animals that have been terrorizing our fair city were holed up. They found bodies and bones inside the building. I remember when they put those buildings up back in the forties. I was

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