after what only seemed to be a few minutes I made it to an old wood and concrete building that was grey and brown in colour. the building had a lopsided sign that said ' Joel's pub' indicating that I was in the right place. I reached for the door handle only for it to harshly push into me. knocking me on my ass yet again. damn twice in one day new record. I'm definitely gonna have a bruise. I struggle to get up and dust myself off and look in the direction of the culprit that hit me with the door.
struggling to stand up straight was a very attractive man that looked to be mid twenty's in age. I couldn't get a clear look of his face as it was covered in his light brown semi long hair. he seemed tallish but was hard to tell since he was stumbling and slumping all over the place. he was wearing a fairly worn brown leather jacket with a deep dark grey v neck t-shirt, he had light blue jeans that had holes in the knees and to tie it together he was wearing old work boots and a silver chained necklace with some kind of moon-shaped pendant.
the man seemed to regain his balance and looked up in the direction of where I fell. he wiped a hand over his hair trying to move it out of his face. once his face was clear and intensely looking at my figure from head to toe, I got to see his angel-like face complete with a sharp jawline yet slightly round around the cheeks, he had heart-shaped lips yet small, a chiselled nose and gorgeous light green eyes. he seemed overall rugged yet comforting in style. with the muscles to beat someone up if the situation arose.
I noticed that I was staring at this man but again so was he. I tried to read his thoughts and came up empty, this rugged man is not human and it kinda frightened me to know that I didn't know what he was. I gulped and averted my eyes as I hurriedly tried to once again reach for the door handle only to have my wrist grasped by the man's rough hands. his grip was surprisingly gentle yet it caught me off guard so in instinct I ripped my hand away and held it to my chest and backed away. a flash of what seemed to be hurt flashed across the man's eyes as he slowly brought his hands up in the air in a surrender motion. " my apologies miss, I did not mean to startle you. I only intended to open the door for you. also forgive me for hitting you with the door only moments before. I did not realize someone was on the other side of it."
his voice was like silk, calming and smooth. I couldn't help but smile a little. " that's alright it's my fault for not being more observant of my surroundings." he gave me a one sided smile in return then said" I'm Seth conners" he outstretched his hand and hesitantly I shook it. this made his smile grow a little bit" I'm Riley. it's a pleasure to meet you." I say slowly retracting my hand from his" the pleasures mine, also are you alright. I forgot to ask, you had quite the fall there." his voice was layered with concern. which made my heart flutter slightly" yes I'm alright. it's not the first time I've been knocked on my ass, I'll live." I let out a light chuckle and he joined in" it was so very nice to meet you Seth but I'm afraid I need to talk to someone who's inside. so if it's alright I'd like to continue this conversation at a later date if possible?" I say slightly nervous and professionally. Seth's smile falters slightly " oh yes of course. I must also be going, I need to get back to work. it was nice to meet you, Riley. if you have the opportunity please feel free to stop by the firehouse I work there Sunday to Thursday." he says as he opens the door for me" I'll try my best"
" good can't wait to see you there at some point. bye, Riley. have a good rest of your day" my cheeks redden " ya bye Seth. also you too"
walking inside I was immediately thrown off by the wonderful smell of fried food and alcoholic drinks. the inside wasn't anything special it looked like a normal bar with booths and stools. there was a shotgun on display on the wall. I walked into the middle of the bar room and scanned my surroundings for Silas who surprisingly wasn't hard to find. he was settled in a booth alone eating what looked like the typical burger and fries. I approached and elegantly slid into the opposite side of the booth. Silas at first ignored my presence seemingly deep in thought all the while intensely staring down his burger.
" I heard that if you stare long enough it'll grow legs and walk off your plate" I say sarcastically. this seemed to attract his attention as he broke his stare from the burger and looked at me and started laughing in the most angle like way. " if I tried hard enough I could probably make that happen" he said still lightly laughing. I leaned back further in the cushioned booth and just smiled at him. " riley always a pleasure. what brings you here on this fine evening" silas mirrors my movements and awaits my response" I was looking for you actually. I went to the station and found that you were out for lunch so I asked where and well here I am." I smirked " ah clever. well what brings a beautiful lady like you on a hunt for little old me" he crosses his arms over his chest still smiling" well I wanted to talk more about that job you want me to do. I'm curious for more details about it"
"ah I see so this is a business call, what a shame" he fakes a frown, but returns a smile after I say " well that's part of it I have other things I'd like to talk about but I figured that business should go first" I sneakily steal one of his fries. Silas doesn't seem to care much so I continue to pick and choose the fries. " good idea. so what more do you want to know about it other than it's basically right up your alley in the case of you special gifts." I huff " you say gifts I say a curse and a life time of therapy." I force a weak laugh and continue " well I would like to know exactly what id be doing, all you've told me it that we'd be solving unexplained deaths and stuff. all I want is more detail maybe even some examples of what clark did." Silas was about to answer when a waitress interrupted him" hiya there, is there anything I could get you darling?" the waitress was probably mid forties and had a beautiful yet aged complexion. she also have a full head of red hair that shaped her face perfectly. I smiled and answered " um yea please I'd like an iced tea and some fries." she wrote down my order and said she'd be back in a few. Silas took this opportunity to start talking before she came back. " ah yes alright. well so clark was sort of just a go to person for if I got stuck on something. what I'd like is for you to be my part time partner in crime. we'd normally be called out to crime seems of deaths or murders and occasionally just overall accidents or missing persons, and we'd hopefully just solve them and save the day." he say with a childish grin " yes I guessed as much but Silas I'm not a detective I can just see dead people so I'm still a little lost as to what my part will be in all this."
Silas leans forward and lowers his voice " all I need you to do is talk to the dead people and watch my back if need be, plus I can already tell I'm gonna like you company." he puts on a cheeky smirk " ya alright I could do that, one question though is your caption alright with this arrangement?" the waitress comes back with my fries and drink, which I immediately start to dig into " ya he his. I talked to him before I went to lunch, and he stated that he'd want to meet you at some point. he looks forward to meeting our first outsider that decided to stay."
" ok great, weird but great. wait does he know about what I can do?" I take a sip of my drink and wait for Silas answer " yes he does, not to your full extent though. all I told him was that your like clark but better, he laughed and told me to leave for my break." Silas steals one of my fries " hey you do know that you have your own right ? also, that's good I guess that he's alright with the arrangement. ok so since all that's out of the way, I have some questions that may be personal."
Silas chuckles and motions for me to continue as he keeps stealing my fucking fries, it pisses me off as I don't like sharing food yet it makes me smile as it's kind of cute.