The Blue Lotus
Auror
“Tiffany who was that?” Trinity called
from the patio.
Tiffany held the receiver in her hand her face drained
of all color as tears threatened to fall from her eyes. “That was David, come in
here a sec I need to talk to you.”
Trinity got up from her lounge chair
her bikini bottoms just barely covering her rear as she walked. “Hey what’s
wrong?” Trinity took note of her friend's pallor.
Tiffany hung up the phone and took a seat at the bar. “Greeta’s dead.” she paused to collect
herself. “There was an attack, and a fire broke out. She never stood a chance.”
She started sobbing. Sadness washed over her in great crashing waves. Trinity
wrapped her arms around her allowing her to cry as she thought.
Greeta was dead, an attack and a fire. Just like in her dream, but how was that
possible? There had to be some type of mistake, things like that don’t happen.
Not in real life and most certainly not to me. She continued her nonverbal
disbelief of what was happening even as Tiffany sobbed in her arms.
"Can you drive me to David’s please?" Tiffany sniffled
"Yeah sure, grab your purse, let me put on some clothes. Two minuets OK."
"Tiffany blew her nose on a Kleenex. That's fine. Thank you Trin."
"Don’t even think about it Tiff, I’m here for you. Anything I can do just let me know ok."
Trinity said as she hurried off to Tiffany’s room and pulled her jeans and tee shirt
over her swim suit. She grabbed her car keys and purse off the dresser and pulled on
her shoes as she stumbled down the hallway. "Come on let’s go." She took Tiffany’s
hand and gave it a slight squeeze. "Want me to leave a note for your Nan?"
"If you don’t mind, that would be nice. Thanks."
"Sure here get in the car I’ll be out in a moment. Tiffany took the keys from her outstretched
hand and went outside. Trinity found a paper, and a pen left the note attached
to the refrigerator’s door by a “life is good” magnet and locked the front door.
Tiffany had started the car already Trinity put the car in reverse and was entering the address on her GPS as she backed down the driveway. "Do you want to stop and get anything before you go there? "
"No, I just need to get there Trin. I can’t believe she’s gone. What could have happened? And why? I
just don’t understand she was so young." She started sniffling again. Trinity handed her a tissue from the center console.
"Hey, let's take it one step at a time ok? Let’s just get there then I’m sure David will fill you in."
They drove in silence for the hour that it took to make the trip acrosstown. She pulled into a parking space and Tiffany got out. "Want me to come with you?"
"No, let me see David first I’ll call you ok?"
"No problem, Tiff call me if you need anything even if it’s just a hug
‘k?"
Tiffany nodded her head. Closed the car's door and walked down the path to the beach house. Knocking on the door David opened his blue eyes blood shot and rimed with tears.
He hugged Tiffany without saying a word, hard as if she were his only life line.
He released her after a long moment, "Come in."
Tiffany entered the house, and David sat on the sofa motioning for her to join him.
"When?" Tiffany began
"Last night I guess. I got a call just before I called you."
"David, what happened?"
"I’m not sure. She went to Turks for dinner and never came home. I just assumed…" he trailed off before a fresh bout of tears started to flow. His blond hair shaggy and tangled as if he had just woken up. "I assumed she had, had too much to drink to drive." He finished between sobs.
"Turks?" She knew Turk, as a member of her coven. She knew him better than she wanted to. To say
she was not his biggest fan was putting it mildly.
"David I know this is hard, but I need to know exactly what happened." A terrifying thought was
forming in her mind.
"All I know is that they, the police rather found her in a warehouse downtown, burned as they put it 'nearly beyond recognition.' I still have to go down and ID her remains." He let out another sob as he spoke.
"I don’t know what happened. They said it looked like she put up a fight. I tried to call Turk, but no one is answering at his place." She put an arm around his shoulders as fresh weeping escaped from him.
"Want us to drive you to the coroners?"
"Us?"
"Trinity drove me here." She took a deep breath to calm herself. She needed to think there was something about Turk, that she simply could not recall.
"I can call a cab. I don’t want to botherher with all this." He gestured around him with his hands.
"No trouble give me a moment ok." She fished around in her purse for a tissue, when she
remembered the business card.
"David, I’ll be right back ok." She sprung from her seat and bolted out the door. She took her cell phone and called Trinity first, bringing her up to speed on the situation. Trinity offered to drive them to ID the remains. Tiffany then dug to the bottom of her bag until she found the card Anna had given her. She punched the numbers written on the card into her phone and waited.
“Hello.” The soft voice on the other end spoke.
“Anna look this is Tiffany, I need to speak with Turk.” She blurted out
“I’m sorry you missed me. Please leave a message after the tone, and I will return your call as soon as possible.” There was an electronic beeping sound after the last word.
“Damn it all!” She yelled into the phone. “Anna This is Tiffany, I need to speak with Turk immediately. Please call me back as soon as you get this. Something terrible has happened.” Frustrated she hung up the phone and dialed the number for the Wiccan Shoppe.
A male voice answered the phone. "Wiccan Shoppe, Fred here how may I assist you?”
“Can I speak with Anna please?”
“I’m sorry whom?”
"Anna short red hair kind of looks like she stepped straight out of an Irish fairy
tale."
“I’m sorry I’m new here give me a moment to check the employee
files ok Miss?”
"Fine, just hurry up please." Time seemed to stand still as she clutched the phone.
"Ma’am Anna resigned about three weeks ago. I’m sorry, but I cannot give out any other information."
"No that’s fine thank you." She hung up the phone, something stinks about this. I can feel it.
She thought to herself as Trinity came running up the path.
"Let me get David, be right back." She called as she opened the door to the house again.
"Dave, Trin’s here we should get going." Trinity made a motion with her hand indicating that she would meet them in the car.
Trinity called the police station and got the address of the coroners' office punching the
information into the GPS as the man on the line spoke.
"Ok, thank you Sir." She said as she hung up.
"Buckle up guys." She directed herpassengers as they got into the car.
She drove as fast as she dared through the heavy traffic. I hate Fudgeies she thought she as she cut drivers
off to make her way down the express way. Shortly there after she entered the municipal complex. She parked and unlocked the doors for them as she asked, "Do you want me to come with you?"
"If you don’t mind.” Tiffany said, as David sat silent in the back seat.
“I can't do this.” He said after a few seconds of silence.
“Your not alone David, we are here for you.” Tiffany reached her hand out to him, and he smacked it away.
“I can’t do this!” He shouted at Tiffany his face contorted in rage and pain.
Tiffany recoiled from him, shedding quiet tears at his outburst.
It was Trinity,who spoke, “David, Look I know this is hard so listen to me carefully, first
off, you are going to apologize to Tiff. Secondly you can and will do this because you have to. Look at me." she demanded him, “no look at me David.” He turned to her but could not meet her steady gaze.
“I’m sorry.” He looked to the floorboard of the car as he spoke.
“Don’t tell me tell Tiffany, she’s about the only person who knows how you feel at this moment, and David I
don’t give a flying f**k what is going on you ever hit her again I will kill you. Do I make myself clear?” The anger she felt threatened to spill over she felt it building within her like a pressure kettle about to explode except this time her head was the vessel.
“Please don’t talk to me like that.” David’s own anger started to take over.
“David get your sorry ass out of my car right this instant, and tell Tiffany you're sorry before I come in there
and drag it out.” Her neck muscles twitched with the tension that was building her vision narrowed to a pin pick that was focused on him alone.
David glared at her, hatred apparent in his eyes, his hand moved the slightest bit in
her direction. She had seen it, Tiffany did to. She tried to pull Trinity away before things got ugly, but she was far too slow. Trinty reached into the car and grabbed hold of David's over grown hair and pulled him out of the backseat roughly depositing him on the blacktop face down. She grabbed his arm and drove
a knee into his spine while twisting his arm and pulling it up the wrong way
over his head. He started calling out in pain.
“You want to hit a woman? Do you?“ She screamed at him totally unaware of what she was doing. Tiffany kept pulling on Trinity trying desperately to pull her off him before she broke his arm... or worse.
"Get the F off me B*tch!" David screamed back.
Tiffany watched in horror as things went from bad to worse in that instant.
from the patio.
Tiffany held the receiver in her hand her face drained
of all color as tears threatened to fall from her eyes. “That was David, come in
here a sec I need to talk to you.”
Trinity got up from her lounge chair
her bikini bottoms just barely covering her rear as she walked. “Hey what’s
wrong?” Trinity took note of her friend's pallor.
Tiffany hung up the phone and took a seat at the bar. “Greeta’s dead.” she paused to collect
herself. “There was an attack, and a fire broke out. She never stood a chance.”
She started sobbing. Sadness washed over her in great crashing waves. Trinity
wrapped her arms around her allowing her to cry as she thought.
Greeta was dead, an attack and a fire. Just like in her dream, but how was that
possible? There had to be some type of mistake, things like that don’t happen.
Not in real life and most certainly not to me. She continued her nonverbal
disbelief of what was happening even as Tiffany sobbed in her arms.
"Can you drive me to David’s please?" Tiffany sniffled
"Yeah sure, grab your purse, let me put on some clothes. Two minuets OK."
"Tiffany blew her nose on a Kleenex. That's fine. Thank you Trin."
"Don’t even think about it Tiff, I’m here for you. Anything I can do just let me know ok."
Trinity said as she hurried off to Tiffany’s room and pulled her jeans and tee shirt
over her swim suit. She grabbed her car keys and purse off the dresser and pulled on
her shoes as she stumbled down the hallway. "Come on let’s go." She took Tiffany’s
hand and gave it a slight squeeze. "Want me to leave a note for your Nan?"
"If you don’t mind, that would be nice. Thanks."
"Sure here get in the car I’ll be out in a moment. Tiffany took the keys from her outstretched
hand and went outside. Trinity found a paper, and a pen left the note attached
to the refrigerator’s door by a “life is good” magnet and locked the front door.
Tiffany had started the car already Trinity put the car in reverse and was entering the address on her GPS as she backed down the driveway. "Do you want to stop and get anything before you go there? "
"No, I just need to get there Trin. I can’t believe she’s gone. What could have happened? And why? I
just don’t understand she was so young." She started sniffling again. Trinity handed her a tissue from the center console.
"Hey, let's take it one step at a time ok? Let’s just get there then I’m sure David will fill you in."
They drove in silence for the hour that it took to make the trip acrosstown. She pulled into a parking space and Tiffany got out. "Want me to come with you?"
"No, let me see David first I’ll call you ok?"
"No problem, Tiff call me if you need anything even if it’s just a hug
‘k?"
Tiffany nodded her head. Closed the car's door and walked down the path to the beach house. Knocking on the door David opened his blue eyes blood shot and rimed with tears.
He hugged Tiffany without saying a word, hard as if she were his only life line.
He released her after a long moment, "Come in."
Tiffany entered the house, and David sat on the sofa motioning for her to join him.
"When?" Tiffany began
"Last night I guess. I got a call just before I called you."
"David, what happened?"
"I’m not sure. She went to Turks for dinner and never came home. I just assumed…" he trailed off before a fresh bout of tears started to flow. His blond hair shaggy and tangled as if he had just woken up. "I assumed she had, had too much to drink to drive." He finished between sobs.
"Turks?" She knew Turk, as a member of her coven. She knew him better than she wanted to. To say
she was not his biggest fan was putting it mildly.
"David I know this is hard, but I need to know exactly what happened." A terrifying thought was
forming in her mind.
"All I know is that they, the police rather found her in a warehouse downtown, burned as they put it 'nearly beyond recognition.' I still have to go down and ID her remains." He let out another sob as he spoke.
"I don’t know what happened. They said it looked like she put up a fight. I tried to call Turk, but no one is answering at his place." She put an arm around his shoulders as fresh weeping escaped from him.
"Want us to drive you to the coroners?"
"Us?"
"Trinity drove me here." She took a deep breath to calm herself. She needed to think there was something about Turk, that she simply could not recall.
"I can call a cab. I don’t want to botherher with all this." He gestured around him with his hands.
"No trouble give me a moment ok." She fished around in her purse for a tissue, when she
remembered the business card.
"David, I’ll be right back ok." She sprung from her seat and bolted out the door. She took her cell phone and called Trinity first, bringing her up to speed on the situation. Trinity offered to drive them to ID the remains. Tiffany then dug to the bottom of her bag until she found the card Anna had given her. She punched the numbers written on the card into her phone and waited.
“Hello.” The soft voice on the other end spoke.
“Anna look this is Tiffany, I need to speak with Turk.” She blurted out
“I’m sorry you missed me. Please leave a message after the tone, and I will return your call as soon as possible.” There was an electronic beeping sound after the last word.
“Damn it all!” She yelled into the phone. “Anna This is Tiffany, I need to speak with Turk immediately. Please call me back as soon as you get this. Something terrible has happened.” Frustrated she hung up the phone and dialed the number for the Wiccan Shoppe.
A male voice answered the phone. "Wiccan Shoppe, Fred here how may I assist you?”
“Can I speak with Anna please?”
“I’m sorry whom?”
"Anna short red hair kind of looks like she stepped straight out of an Irish fairy
tale."
“I’m sorry I’m new here give me a moment to check the employee
files ok Miss?”
"Fine, just hurry up please." Time seemed to stand still as she clutched the phone.
"Ma’am Anna resigned about three weeks ago. I’m sorry, but I cannot give out any other information."
"No that’s fine thank you." She hung up the phone, something stinks about this. I can feel it.
She thought to herself as Trinity came running up the path.
"Let me get David, be right back." She called as she opened the door to the house again.
"Dave, Trin’s here we should get going." Trinity made a motion with her hand indicating that she would meet them in the car.
Trinity called the police station and got the address of the coroners' office punching the
information into the GPS as the man on the line spoke.
"Ok, thank you Sir." She said as she hung up.
"Buckle up guys." She directed herpassengers as they got into the car.
She drove as fast as she dared through the heavy traffic. I hate Fudgeies she thought she as she cut drivers
off to make her way down the express way. Shortly there after she entered the municipal complex. She parked and unlocked the doors for them as she asked, "Do you want me to come with you?"
"If you don’t mind.” Tiffany said, as David sat silent in the back seat.
“I can't do this.” He said after a few seconds of silence.
“Your not alone David, we are here for you.” Tiffany reached her hand out to him, and he smacked it away.
“I can’t do this!” He shouted at Tiffany his face contorted in rage and pain.
Tiffany recoiled from him, shedding quiet tears at his outburst.
It was Trinity,who spoke, “David, Look I know this is hard so listen to me carefully, first
off, you are going to apologize to Tiff. Secondly you can and will do this because you have to. Look at me." she demanded him, “no look at me David.” He turned to her but could not meet her steady gaze.
“I’m sorry.” He looked to the floorboard of the car as he spoke.
“Don’t tell me tell Tiffany, she’s about the only person who knows how you feel at this moment, and David I
don’t give a flying f**k what is going on you ever hit her again I will kill you. Do I make myself clear?” The anger she felt threatened to spill over she felt it building within her like a pressure kettle about to explode except this time her head was the vessel.
“Please don’t talk to me like that.” David’s own anger started to take over.
“David get your sorry ass out of my car right this instant, and tell Tiffany you're sorry before I come in there
and drag it out.” Her neck muscles twitched with the tension that was building her vision narrowed to a pin pick that was focused on him alone.
David glared at her, hatred apparent in his eyes, his hand moved the slightest bit in
her direction. She had seen it, Tiffany did to. She tried to pull Trinity away before things got ugly, but she was far too slow. Trinty reached into the car and grabbed hold of David's over grown hair and pulled him out of the backseat roughly depositing him on the blacktop face down. She grabbed his arm and drove
a knee into his spine while twisting his arm and pulling it up the wrong way
over his head. He started calling out in pain.
“You want to hit a woman? Do you?“ She screamed at him totally unaware of what she was doing. Tiffany kept pulling on Trinity trying desperately to pull her off him before she broke his arm... or worse.
"Get the F off me B*tch!" David screamed back.
Tiffany watched in horror as things went from bad to worse in that instant.
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