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call an ambulance. Please, let me help you.”
                  “Help yourself, Maria,” he said. “Stay away from Charlie.”
                  “What? From Charlie? What about Charlie?”
                  “He’s not what you think. He is dangerous. Run away from him. Save yourself.” The man walked toward her, reaching out his hand. The coppery smell of the dried blood on his uniform made her eyes water. She backed up against the door, not sure what he was about to do. He came within a foot of her and she stepped to the side. He opened the door without looking at her and stepped out into the foyer. She walked out behind him, but when she reached the foyer he was gone.
                  What the hell was that? Maria thought as she crossed herself and shook her head, trying to clear her mind. Looking around, she could see no blood on the floor, no footprints of any kind. Even the coppery smell of death and decay were gone.  Looking at her hands, Maria noticed they were visibly trembling. She tried to hold back the nausea that started to sink in, or else lose her lunch in her office trashcan. Seeing dead bodies in a funeral home was not an unusual event. Seeing one walking around and talking was odd, for any location. Shock must have been setting in, causing her to feel that way. She took a few minutes to ponder the warning. It concerned her that it mentioned Charlie. Charlie had never hurt a fly, so she had no clue what this thing was talking about. That is, if she wasn’t completely crazy.
                  She grabbed her cell phone from her pocket and called Charlie as soon as she caught her breath.
                  “Hey Charlie,” she said as he answered. For the first time, she noticed how calming the sound of his voice was.
                  “What’s up? Everything okay?” He asked. She hoped he couldn’t sense the stress in her voice.
                  “Yeah. Yeah I’m fine. Just wondered what you were doing.”
                  “Oh, I was just catching up on some personal errands. Didn’t think you’d mind.”
                  “Oh no, not at all. Just making sure everything was okay.” She hung up and sat the phone down.  What was going on?
                  Save yourself Maria.

Chapter 6
     
                  I hung up the phone and placed it back into my pocket. It was odd for Maria to call me like that to check on me. Something had to be wrong. As badly as I wanted to go check on her, it would have to wait until I was through. I put the thought aside as I walked over to Officer Medina. He was easier to catch than I had expected. I found an old warehouse on the west side of town in his patrol zone.
                  I put in a call to the cops when I was a few blocks away, complaining of a suspicious person looking into people’s windows. I wanted the call to have enough priority that he’d come out in decent time, but not enough to send out multiple units. Medina got out of his car, saw me walking around, and asked what I was doing. I had changed into my hoodie, so I kept my hood up and head down as I kept walking, pretending I didn’t hear him. He finally ran up and grabbed me by the arm. I spun around and hit him on the side of the neck with a brachial stun. He stumbled back toward his car as I grabbed him from the front. I wrapped my arm around his neck in a guillotine hold and squeezed until he stopped moving. The whole thing only took a few seconds. Once he was out, I placed him into the passenger side of his car and drove to the warehouse.
                  Once I had him tied up, I took his car to the other side of town, ditched it in an abandoned lot and took a cab back to the warehouse. Police cars had GPS in them, so I didn’t want to lead the cops right back to the warehouse, though they’d find it eventually. I would be long