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Gavin opened the door to his home, shocked at what happened today he couldn’t get him out of his mind. “You’re here early.” Elijah said, he was reading a magazine on the couch and Richard was working on his homework on the counter top.
“Hello Gavin.” Richard said. Gavin looked at the kid and he said.
“Hey kid,” Still shocked he tried acting normal. “You-umm, after you’re done with your homework want to go walk around at a park or something?”
”Sure. Let me have uncle Elijah look at it.”
“Okay you do that, I’ll get ready.” Elijah looked at the man as he went to the bathroom. He could tell that something was wrong, Gavin wasn’t himself and he knew it.
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The gang went walking around a park, nothing special. Richard was playing on a swingset while they watched from a bench. Gavin hadn’t spoke a word all day. Elijah went ahead and spoke to him.
”Want to tell me anything?” Elijah said. Gavin looked at him. “You’ve been acting like a zombie all day. Is everything alright?” Gavin stood silent, then finally spoke.
”A kid...killed himself in front of me.”
”What?” Elijah gasped.
”He...we were questing him. He appeared normal but...he just snapped and grabbed one of our guns and..shot himself.”
”Good lord man.”
“And the strange thing is, I thought of Richard.”
”What? How?”
”I don’t know. But he was with Amanda so...I don’t know. I do not know why.” Elijah looked at his brother and felt horrible. Gavin looked at Richard as the boy played on the swingset. He looks different than when he first met him. He looked and acted like a robot but now he’s acting like any nine your old kid would. Whatever Amanda did to her victims must’ve fucked them up that they didn’t want to deal with it. He didn’t want Richard have that life or his life for that matter, his life was already fucked up. Richard is a normal kid who will have a normal life like any kid should.
The sun was setting, they went back home. Richard went to bed and Gavin was still awake. “Hey Gavin?” Elijah said. “Do you want to talk about it?”
”No, I don’t-“
”Gavin, this is serious. Something like this you never forget.”
”There’s a lot of things you never forget about. Thats just the price for working at the force.”
”Gavin!” Elijah shouted. “This is serious, I don’t want you to...” Elijah stopped midway, his eyes looked red. Gavin felt like an asshole, he sigh and looked at his brother.
“Okay fine.” Gavin said. “I’ll talk about it.”
”Please. Please do so.”