The Watcher
^{A Story}
Chapter 2 - Connections
by Saless
 

Marvin dropped the camcorder off with a tech he knew to have it checked out. Afterwards he spent the rest of the day finding out everything there was to know about the late John Green. He wasn't remarkable, other than being universally disliked by just about everyone who ever knew him. He was the kind of guy who you might expect to die from multiple stab rooms in a room full of people without anyone seeing anything.

Other than that, the only thing of note was the fact he'd been fired for threatening a co-worker. A transgendered woman whom he later tried to rape. It was during the attempt he'd received the wound which killed him. The only person who seemed to have a particular gripe against him was the co-worker, but he couldn't see any way she could have done it. Even so, he decided to take a closer look at her. He started in the hospital by asking Mark. After some asking around Mark told him that her name was Sarah Kinsley, although her legal name was Sean, and she'd confused the doctors because she appeared completely female.

Further research revealed that she'd only been living as a woman for a few weeks and had started work as Sarah suddenly and without warning. How does one go from an apparently normal looking guy to a normal looking woman overnight, complete with a sex change? he wondered. He couldn't find any record of her going anywhere for surgery and there certainly wasn't any indication she'd had it done locally.

He decided to watch her while he waited to get word on the recording. He went to the hospital first thing in the morning and found she was being visited by three other people about the same age. He waited until she was released and then followed them out. Once he'd identified which car belonged to her friends he got in his own car and followed them home. He drove past once they'd parked and so didn't see Sarah disappear through her portal. He parked his car as far from where they'd parked as he could and still see them, and then used his binoculars. They were already inside the apartment at this point so he settled down to wait.

Shortly after he got settled the only male of the group came out and walked to a different apartment. A few minutes later the two female friends ran out in the same direction. He was in luck, in that he could see both apartments from where he was parked. They ran inside the apartment and didn't come back out for some time. When they did come out it was all four of them. He was just about to go when he noticed the door open again and a shadowy figure come out and lock the door before hurrying away. He quickly lost site of them and went to check on the license plate numbers on the car they'd arrived in and the car they'd left in.

He was looking over that information when he got a call from the tech who was checking out the recording. "Marvin, where did you get this?" the tech, James, asked excitedly.

"You know I'm not going to tell you that." Marvin replied.

James chuckled and said, "Okay, but wherever you got it from, it hasn't been tampered with. It's real!"

Marvin frowned and said, "You mean it's a real recording of a trick, right?"

"Maybe, or maybe not. Weirder stuff has happened lately." James replied.

"What do you mean?" Marvin asked.

"Oh come on, you must have heard?! There was that weird explosion or whatever that was on TV the other day. You know, melted, blasted hills? But that's just the most obvious thing. There's been all kinds of weird rumors lately, and I've heard that some psychics have suddenly gotten a whole lot more accurate! Some even got arrested, because the police thought they were involved in the crimes they were helping them with, but they were later proven to be innocent." James said.

"What does that have to do with some faked recording of someone turning to ash?" Marvin said.

"I'm just saying, it might not be faked!" James replied.

"Sure, James, and Bigfoot is real!" Marvin said with a laugh.

"Go ahead and laugh, but there's some weird stuff going on." James said.

"Whatever. You're sure the tape wasn't altered?" Marvin said.

"Yeah, I'm sure." James said.

"Okay, thanks James." Marvin said.

"Sure, Marvin." James said grumpily, and hung up. Marvin then called up for someone to retrieve the ashes of John Green for analysis. I don't believe in psychics, but there is something going on, and I'm going to get to the bottom of it! he thought.

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