July 7, 2014, 7 p.m.
Leaving Behind Ghost: Chapter 1
E - Words: 336 - Last Updated: Jul 07, 2014 Story: Complete - Chapters: 19/? - Created: Apr 28, 2014 - Updated: Apr 28, 2014 164 0 0 0 0
AN: Hello everyone! I am so excited to start posting my sequel to The Ghost of You! I have at least half of it written and plan up keeping up a steady pace, meaning that hopefully I will be able to post new chapters once or twice a week.
A few trigger warning for this story as a whole: Violence, death and general scary situations.
Ill try to warn at the beginning of individual chapters of TWs so you are prepared. Also, as in The Ghost of You, since I started writing this verse before we lost Cory and the Glee world lost Finn, Finn is alive and well in this story. I hope that isnt triggering to anyone.
This fist bit is short, but there is more to come soon!
A sleek black car pulls up in front of the old apartment building in downtown Los Angeles. The car is one of those indistinguishable models that you cant really pick out from any other car on the road. A man steps out, medium height, wearing dark clothes, he is just as indistinguishable as his vehicle.
He walks up to the building and looks at the apartment numbers on the side.
C. Shaw apartment #11.
He doesnt bother ringing the number. He knows she isnt home. Instead he methodically pushes the button for every other apartment until someone buzzes him in without even looking to see whos there.
The man walks up to the second floor and stops outside of number 11. It only takes him moments to pick the lock and slip inside like he belongs there.
The apartment is decorated in bright solids and bold shapes, everything has a little bit of a retro vibe to it, like the owner has an affinity for the 1950s. No one is home and the place looks a little unkempt. Clothes on the floor, drawers open. Either someone got here before him or the resident left in a hurry.
The man walks around the small apartment, trailing his fingers over furniture, and items left behind. He reaches the closet, brushes finger tips over abandoned clothes, before he turns to the bed, sweeping a hand over it. He then stops and looks around thinking.
The man is silent as he takes in the space that use to be someones home. Something catches his eyes and he moves to the corner.
A metal wastebasket sits there. Inside is empty except for the ashes left behind from something someone must have burnt there. He kneels down, poking around in the ash, until he finds a bit of paper not completely burnt through. He holds the paper up to the light and tries to make out part of a name.
A K maybe?
The last name is clear though. Hummel.
The man stands and smiles. This going to be easier than he thought.