2019-07-13 - Bathed In Blood

Derrick Henderson played third string for the Seattle Seahawks. He'd left this god forsaken town as soon as he could. Leaving family and friends behind. He was getting older and his prime was far behind him. In preparation for his return, he'd come to visit his sister Penelope. Who was up to her eyeballs in work and dead bodies. There were so many dead people coming in that she was afraid that she was going to have to call in to get some moved, but doubted that the locals would like that.

The winds have completely disheveled the woman who steps into the dark hallway of the home. It wasn't the four seasons, but it wasn't a dump either. Derrick tried to tell her it was fine, she thought he needed a better place to stay. "Derrick?" she calls as she doesn't hear anything. She wasn't sure if he was out or if he was just sleeping. The rain starts to come pouring down outside and there is a flash of lightning before the rolling thunder.

A noise is heard upstairs and that makes Penny look up to the ceiling before she heads for the stairs. She picks the bat up from the corner on the way up them as well. "I promise if you broke in and want to leave without getting the police called, come out now." she calls out. The noise grows and that's when she senses...something. It's off and it makes her heart start to race. Her adrenaline starting to spike.

She approaches the door to the room her brother has been sleeping in and the noise is most assuredly coming from there. She turns the door knob and then kicks the door open. She's greeted with the smell of cooper filling the air and the sight of bright red blood covering the bed. The white sheets stained a deep crimson around the body of her brother. He was so pale. A shaky hand reaches out to see if she can find a pulse and there is nothing. He's gone. Tears start down to roll down her cheeks as she just stands there. She shakes herself as a noise is heard downstairs, like the door closing.

Penny takes off running, slipping in the pool of blood that belongs to her brother, but she manages to catch the door and stay up. "Oh no you son of a bitch, COME BACK HERE!" the redhead screams. Her face turning red and the flames coming to her hands. The bat is dropped in exchange for the Spirit powered weapon. Because something was going to burn for this. Maybe it was something that she could actually see and choke the life out of. It's a bit disturbing how someone can go from calm to completely nuts in a few seconds.

Down the stairs, the front door is indeed shut and Penny stalks across the floor towards it. Her vision blurred by the tears. She reaches for the door and jerks it open, the storm blowing it into the wall as it rages outside. Penny notices all too late that there were no footsteps ringing out. No wet tracks. No smell of blood. It was a critical error on her part. Because that's when she feels pain from behind, something stabbing into her kidneys, both of them, at the same time.

A strangled cry is let out as she staggers, but something drags her back. A few seconds later a wound opens up across her throat and the blood spills down her front due to her heart pumping so hard. "I missed it." she gasps out. Then the world is starting to go black as she drops forward onto the porch. Her hands going to her phone and hitting speed dial.

The last voice she hears is: 911 What is your emergency?