2003-09-06

On Saturday, Madison woke up with renewed desire to get a futon. She noticed a monstrous hand print on her living room window, but cleaned it off without mentioning it to anyone.

Madison asked Autumn to take her to IKEA to pick out the futon she wanted, but Autumn had to go get her test results from Krin first. So the two of them met Krin as his father’s clinic, where Krin said that the drug tests were mostly inconclusive but that Autumn had a UTI. Madison was relieved to find out that Autumn was not pregnant.

On their way back the girls went to IKEA and got a futon and a large number of tea light candles for a bargain price. Jasmine called, and offered to meet them at Madison’s house to help set up the new couch. They also invited Krin over, but after seeing his general ineptitude with tools suggested that he could best help them by keeping them company.

When Autumn had left the house she noticed more damage to the hood of her car, the windshield, and the roof of it. The paint had begun oxidizing in an odd spiderweb pattern. Troubled by this she called back her father to prioritize getting it repaired as soon as possible. Autumn’s dad was willing to pay for repairs but asked her to get quotes from three different places first.

That evening, while hanging out in the living room, Krin caught a glimpse of the monster outside Madison’s kitchen window. They found another monstrous hand print there. Autumn called the police and waited on the phone for the officer to arrive.

The police officer who came took the threat very seriously once he saw the hand print. He seemed “off” to the group, who realized he seemed to have some kind of beheading scar. Jasmine and Krin did not trust him and wanted him gone as soon as possible, but Autumn felt that that he was truly there to protect them. Jasmine wanted to get some of her occult books out of her library, and Madison asked the officer to wait and make sure things were safe while they escorted her. He left when they were back home safely.

Jasmine found a creature called an ‘unborn’ in her books that she thought might fit the description of Frankencop. Autumn looked him up online and found out that he’d been shot in the line of duty protecting others six times in his 12 years on the force. She also hacked into medical records and determined one of the times he actually woke up in the morgue because they thought he had died from his wounds; the ME’s notes mentioned that his bullet proof vest must have saved him.

So that nobody would be left alone or have to walk around in the dark with a monster on the loose, Autumn drove Krin and Jasmine home and Madison went along for the ride.