Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ Black Rose ❯ Chapter3: Unexpected Circumstances ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter3: Unexpected Circumstances

 

The telephone had started ringing `ring..ring…ring'

 

`Father……' Marcus just stood frozen in his place, his eyes looked like two big orbs, and he hadn't realized the letter had just fallen to the ground. In that moment he thought it was all a joke, but giving the circumstances of who had delivered the letter he thought of it twice.

 

`ring….ring…ring'

 

He was so deep in his emotions that he didn't realize tears were rolling slowly from his eyes, and his cheeks were stained with them as they had been a couple of hours before. It was just too much pain for him to register anything around him.

 

`ring…ring…' the answering machine clicked on since nobody had answer.

“Sorry I'm not present at the moment please leave a message”

“Mr. Rendel I'm calling to inform you that the Black Rose company is very sorry for your just recent lost …(silence)… we have some of your fathers things you might want to come for, it's just a couple of papers he had in his desk, but we aren't aloud to throw them away. Come tomorrow noon so we can meet and talk about this situation. Thank you ehem…So long my old friend Marcus.”

 

Marcus was no longer in a shock, that had been forgotten when he first heard the company his father used to work for. His face was now one confused and completely horrified. Something was not right with this; the man that had spoken a few moments ago had talked to him as if he knew him. `So long my friend'… that simple goodbye had made his heart skip a beat, he just realized were he had heard a familiar phrase.

 

Quickly he bent down to retrieve the small piece of paper that had fallen from his hand. His both hands were shaking with anxiety as he looked at the small hand writing at the bottom of the page. The last words he saw almost made him guess he would pay a visit to the Black Rose company in the morning.

He looked down at the 5 words that were written so naturally: “So long my old friend”.

 

 

Marcus knew this wasn't some casualty, the man that had just talked on the phone knew very well who he was, and who had killed his father. His mind kept doing funny things to him since morning; he had spent almost all night trying to figure out who was Kira. He deduced that by knowing who Kira was, he might have a chance knowing what he was meddling with. As normal people would do first, he had looked it up on the internet but at last he found nothing that chained Black Rose with Kira (Whatever that was). He just had found the news about two scientists dead, both had worked at Black Rose. Marcus, of course, knew one of them was his father.

 

It was cold out, he just had a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt to cover him, but he didn't mind at all, he needed to solve his father's secret and he wasn't stopping just because he was a little cold.

 

He stopped at a huge building with many rows of crystal windows, Marcus tried to look at the top of the building, but the immensity of the construction made it impossible. His neck hurt from the force he had to make to look at least at the half of the building. When he regained his normal posture he headed to a pair of electric doors that gave a electronic sound once they opened.

 

A man dressed in a lab robe came to Marcus with a strange look in his face, Marcus couldn't quite put his finger on what the man was feeling at the moment It seem to him he was rather nervous…

 

“Oh, Mr. Rendel! What a great surprise, I'm Dr. Eslaf Surt” the man said with a fake smile while he shook Marcus's hand.

`great surprise? !,Wha… wait… I thought they were waiting for me!' Marcus just nodded.

“We hadn't expected you earlier, we thought you were coming on Wednesday” he said while making nervous gestures with his hand.

“Well” Marcus decided to tell a small lie, he didn't like the idea of this Dr. Eslaf saying things like `great surprise' when somebody had call him to come here today! “I thought you might be busy later this week, I wanted to come earlier so you don't have to worry about me anymore” He said faking the tone of his voice so he wouldn't give away his suspicion.

 

“All right Mr. Rendel, please come with me to the back, our director will want to talk to you”

He said and gestured Marcus to follow him down a hallway.

 

Marcus felt a little nervous, `my arrival here must have made this scientist edgy, since my appearance wasn't supposed to happen… I think that they are trying to hide something from me, but no mater how hard or dangerous this is I'll get to the bottom of it!'

 

“Here Mr. Rendel… please enter” Dr. Eslaf said a bit calmer now.

 

Marcus opened the door and saw who exactly was sitting in a black leather chair , smiling brightly at him.

 

“Tiller…?” asked Marcus trembling, for he hadn't been expecting to find his uncle sitting there, after 8 years of not seeing him.

 

Tillers lips formed a long terrifying smile “Well hello Marcus, nice to see you again.”