Lost

[Steel Tiger]

The police of course were rather quickly out of the way as the chief officer or the leading officer had claimed would occur. It would only be a few minutes that Freya entered the house in order to get some things that pretty much all of them would take off. Most were just hanging around and looking outside the building instead of inside at the point before the departure. The police would get in their various vehicles and slowly drive away, it was a neighborhood after all and there was not a particular emergency occurring elsewhere. If Freya looked it was probably safe to assume that not much would seem particularly out of place or missing from the home at the moment.The bed sheets in one the bedrooms would look like they had been, shredded with claws or something of the like. The gift from the kid at the grocery store the other day would also be no where to be seen but that probably was not particularly a noticeable object.


Hector might have seemed rather weird and perhaps just overly worried. As he may have been noticed looking outside of the kitchen window just for a brief time as Freya re-entered the house. This could be quickly overlooked however as he began scanning through the fridge and its various selection of food items. A low buzz could be heard sounding from it if one listened close enough to it.

 

[Matreania]

Freya loaded up her car and sighed when she looked back at the house. She had managed to get changed but she had no time to shower. She was glad that she worked at a hardwood store, or she would probably feel a lot worse than she did. She sighed, looking back at Hector’s. she was happy that she was able to stay there but she would be happier when she was able to return back to her own home. She had gotten changed before she left the house with her stuff and now she was going to get started with getting to work. She hoped when she was getting back that she would be able to go home, but she texted her family to let them know what was going on. Her brother planned to visit in a day or two to see if anything was missing since she had no idea. But they were worried about her, so it took her a few minutes to let them know she didn’t want him to stay and that she had a friend. When she told them who, it was something that felt weird, almost as if they were more worried about Hector then the robbers/murder that was just in the house. She sighed again as she took off to work.

 

[Steel Tiger]

The policeman that had been around Freya's house investigating the night before would have been long gone by the point Freya had brought herself together to leave. Most of them again simply returned back tot he station with whatever investigative materials and photographs that had been captured. Not many were off to some other site of interest, as there was not many emergency calls going in at the moment. At least barely any emergency calls that were not already being covered by some other officer of one sort or another.


Hector noticed Freya leave off to work through the window. He had mostly been watching the weather channel from the kitchen. The report so far mentioned something about a high chance of rain fall tomorrow evening but he doubted it. From the ways things smelled int he air, and from some distant informants he could very much assumed that it was going to lightly snow instead. He took a few moments to gather himself after Freya left, before exiting the house himself. The neighbors rarely bothered, and didn't seem to notice the break in the night, so why would they worry about him sneaking around now? He would attempt to run his own little investigation, and perhaps some repairs while Freya was gone. First looking for the point of entry, and seeing if anything could be done to protect against such among a few other things.


Most of the work taking place while Freya was gone. He rather hoped to fix things up and be out of the way without being noticed before she returned.

 

[Matreania]

Freya was amused to find that a lot more people came just to say hey. Her grandparents were very popular in this town apparently and so was she. It was strange that when she mentioned Hector they shied away from the topic, but it was nice to learn a few more things about when she was little. It was good for her to be able hear about what people thought about her time with her grandparents and how much she loved to visit. It was nice to know that she was living in the house that she thought of as home, according to how many times that she had spent so many breaks there. She was really happy to find out that she was in a town where she had and now did, feel like she belonged.


It was already going to be dark when she was in her car, ready to go home. She was tired for the work of the day and excited to get back to work when the time came. But for now, she just wanted to be able to sleep at home and think of a way to thank Hector for allowing her to stay with him. Even if it was just one night; she was also wondering what they could have wanted from her home that they had to come and take. They had to have thought that her grandparents had something of value. She also wanted to know why they waited until now? Her grandparents had died months ago, why wait until she was there?

 

[Steel Tiger]

Hector continued on his investigation for a while and noticed that the one particular object that had worried him was gone. That weird lava lamp orb that had produced a horrifying aura from within was missing from the house entirely. There was not a trace of the cursed object that could be noticed and that alone was a great cause of worry. Hector would have spent more hours trying to figure its whereabouts from looking through nearby sources and possible clues if it didn't already seem pointless. Seeing as the original task that he had came for to begin with was done, he immediately climbed right back out of the house. He sprinkled a powder in the sil of the broken window, and added an unnoticeable protection of sorts or at least he hoped there was one. He left back to his house to simply rest.


Hector had made it back to his house before it had become dark. Seeing as the couch was recently cleared off, Hector decided to use it and flop down upon it. It had been a while since it had seen much use, though it didn't feel particularly uncomfortable to him. He tried staring out the window for a bit, before he soon drifted off into a nap. The porch light of the house was turned on soon afterward.

 

[Matreania]

Freya sighed when she finally got home, she was happy to find that her home was hers again. But she didn’t get anything out of her car just in case, before she got out to go inside. She bite her like that how her mind wondered about everything until she recalled the box that was still in the living room. She smirked, that was one good thing, no one had touched it and she would finally get a chance to look through it. She moved it to the couch and sat down, to look through it. She hoped this would be enough to get her mind off of all the terrible things that had happened so far and the fact that her house was now a place where someone was murdered. She sighed, shaking the feeling away before she started to go through the box, smiling at the hope of something coming back to her about her past live here with her grandparents.

 

[Steel Tiger]

Hector would continue to sleep for the  most part undisturbed in his nap and without dream or nightmare for the time being. Simply floating in a state of unconsciousness but yet still a high level of awareness surrounding him.


The box or at least the first few things in the box would be packaging peanuts! Also some various documented papers would be in the box as well but, they would seem to mostly be some nonsense jargon that didn't really say anything besides its various long and lengthy diction that was scattered about as if to simply distract, be filler or some other useless purpose. Looking further into the box would lead to finding various objects and mementos, most of which were wrapped up pottery or older looking art projects. Along with large various leather binders and scrap books that had photos, and papers of all sorts inside. This wasn't even all of the box's contents.

 

[Matreania]

Freya looked at the boxes and was confused, none of this made sense to her. She made it through half of the box before she stopped. She had no idea what any of the papers that she had, had to do with her. She sighed as she stopped, getting up to go to the stairs and get changed. She wanted to get some rest, maybe get a chance to ask Hector what any of this meant and what it had to do with their childhood.


She sighed as she got to her room and looked around, everything looked normal, buts he had a feeling. She bite her lip as she went back down the hall after getting some clothes, to shower in the bathroom, in the hall. She just wanted some pieces to fit, but she didn’t want to be in a place that seemed to make her feel like trouble. She sighed as she got ready and thought about what she would do next, tonight she was going to sleep in her old room, the bed was a little small, but she was sure that she would find some way to sleep.

 

[Steel Tiger]

Hector continued to sleep on top of the couch quite soundly for the time being. The thing had felt oddly comfortable even to some extremes, or perhaps it was just the fact he was exhausted and wanted some place to lie down. A constant buzzing alarm was going off at the back of his head, especially at this specific hour but he had chosen to ignore it or suppress it for the time being. All things were fine, nothing was going particularly wrong and almost everything was locked down or already protected so there was not a particular reason to worry. Instead, he would roll onto his left side and face inwardly toward the couch, feeling blissful.


A person on a bike is pedaling down the neighborhood road. They were looking about at the various houses that were surrounding the area for any lights that remained on or any signs that anyone was at home. They planned to make, a bit of a late night visit through this area as part of their job. A light jingling of a bell might sound throughout the street's corners and the like.

 

[Matreania]

Freya sighed as she got out of the shower and laid on the small bed, which wasn’t that much smaller than her. She smirked as she thought about how small she had to have been to be on this bed, how little she had grown, and the irony of the fact that this bed was slightly bigger than a little kid alone would need. She looked up at the ceiling as she thought of how much she had changed in size and what she would have been like. It took her a few moments to realize that her eyes were locked onto two initials, one she knew were hers, but the others, she wasn’t so sure. The second initials were a lot easier to read, she knew they had to be from someone taller than her and they started with an H, which made her think of who they could be from. Her brother’s name didn’t start with an H. Then Hector came to mind, she bite her lip and wondered if he had been the one that wrote his initials with hers. She sighed, as she looked out the window at the tree, a figure flashed in her head of a boy as he climbed before it was gone. It was a faint memory, nothing was clear in it, but she knew that that boy had to be the other initial. She would have to ask Hector tomorrow, for now, she was in bed and she was going to sleep for the time being.

 

[Steel Tiger]

A person would continued to bike around the neighborhood a while before trying to stop in front of Freya's door. They would push a paper or a small letter inside the mailbox before aiming to continue their route in the night. It did not seem that many in particular were up at this time of night or at least anyone in this particular neighborhood. It felt very chill to them but it probably was not all that bad to begin with.


Hector remained asleep on the couch for the night although a slight chiming in the back of his head would go off in his dreams. It would be ignored, seeing as it the chiming was rather quiet and in low intensity rather than of a high intensity which would have been an actual problem that would need to be dealt with immediately.


Time would continue to stride on by for the night and soon the night would disappear all together over the horizon. The next day would dawn and shine through open windows or window shades, some of which brought into Hector's living room and upon himself. The feeling of warmth would itch along his back and he would slowly roll onto his back instead of his in order to awake on the couch. Staring up at the ceiling. "Time to get ready for the day, huh.."

 

[Matreania]

Freya sighed when she woke up and started to the bathroom. She had slept in the bed thinking about the initials that she had found. She hadn’t really wanted to ask Hector his name, his full name to see if the initials matched. Maybe he knew about the markings and had forgotten about them. If so, then she would feel somewhat better knowing that someone that’s he had been friends with, was now a part of her life again. She sighed as she got out of the shower and started to dry off, going to get changed for work and wondering if she would have a chance to talk with Hector today at any point in time. She was sure that they both had their ow lives, with her work and his….she wasn’t really sure what he did. But she was sure that he had to do something to be able to pay for his him and with everything in there.

 

[Steel Tiger]

Hector had rolled himself off the couch and onto the floor with a thud. He needed the motivation to make himself stand upright but it took a moment to arise from the ground level. In a similiar manner Hector had to make his way off of the ground, or rather the floor below and would slowly stand upright and stretch his arms toward the ceiling. He should perhaps, occupy his time a bit more to appear as if there was lot more to do around here beyond dawdling around the house in its simplicity. He dragged himself toward the kitchen and tried to make something more complex for once! Something else besides just cake, although he was not exactly sure what and was simply slapping together various ingredients that were in the fridge of which there was not many! Putting together this and that was fine enough..but figuring out how it fits together would be the hard part.

He flicked on the small television in the kitchen to check on the weather and astronomy forecast in the mean time.

 

[Matreania]

Freya sighed as she got ready and was ready to leave for work, she had been debating going to see Hector. She wasn’t sure if she should, but she decided that she wouldn’t, so she got to the front of the door and looked around to make sure that she wasn’t forgetting anything. Then she was out of the door and went to her car, as she looked at her watch to make sure that she wasn’t going to be late. She was glad to still have some time, but she had already been ready to go and decided that she would just go to work and hope that she would be able to at least do something. She got in her car and started the engine before she looked around to make sure that she was clear to get on the road. She thought of getting something to eat, but she had already eaten before she was out the door. She got on the road and thought about anything else that could help her waste some time. But she couldn’t think of anything, so when she got to work she was happy to know that she could start work early.

 

[Steel Tiger]

(Remind me about the letter later, if Freya should ever open her mailbox)


Hector spent the next few hours trying to slap together whatever he could from the random ingredients from the fridge. It was not particularly looking well at the moment. At least he had not thought so really. He tried slipping a large chunk of ham into the oven and hoped that it would not burn. While trying to wash off and get some vegetables ready, or at least that's how he thought it was supposed to be done. He was using some old cabbage and zucchini. Which was odd, since he wasn't sure if he liked that particular vegetable which was probably why it was cold in the first place.


According to the news or rather weather and astronomy reports that were playing on the old television in the kitchen. There was going to be a red super moon in the following week along with some kind of a comet passing by. Hector hadn't caught the name of it. Apparently there would be some kind of get together to look at the comet in town on some of hills out to the east. Which sounded like a good picnicking opportunity as long as he could learn to cook somewhat. Hell, he could start preparing or buying somethings this afternoon! Probably a cookbook to start or something.


A handful of young customers would walk into the hardware looking around the area. Specifically looking for ply wood, screws, drills, measuring tapes and even tile. One of them would look around for an assistant to help get information from for a personal home project between them and a bunch of roommates.

 

[Matreania]

(Yeah, she will when she gets home)


Freya smiled as she moved through her day. It was going to be a long day, every time she looked out the window. There was something in the back of her mind that kept itching to get to the surface but she couldn’t think of it. She sighed, as she tried to focus on work. There was always going to be something in the back of her mind that she just had no idea what it is. But she couldn’t help the way that she kept thinking about it. Instead she waited for her breath to call her brother and let him know how she was doing. She was sure that he was worried, but it seemed like her parents were the ones that were second guessing the idea for her to be there. She spent half the conversation trying to get her brother to convenes them that she was fine. Of course, the challenged that, especially since they were called about the suspected robbery and the actual murder in the house. She sighed, offering to have them in town after a little time, when she had a chance to settle the house a bit more. They unfortunately gave her a week to get everything settled before they came to make sure that she was okay to stay there.

 

[Steel Tiger]

Hector would continue to slam things together and pretty much just make an overall mess in the kitchen since he needed to experiment. He was still trying to mix together any ingredients he could as long as they made general sense to him, which was probably not a good idea since they were turning out pretty bad or missing. Once in a while when he turned around after tasting the few plates he had made, a cake would have appeared in place of the food. Someone was playing a prank on him again but his cooking was not fairing any better. The cake was still delicious though, he couldn't help munching on it for a while before getting out of the house.

"I'm going to get a cook book along with some grocery shopping again. Make sure to lock up the house and keep a watch on the neighbors! Clean up a bit if you can." He'd call back as he walked away from the house and began walking down the street to the bookstore. He literally walked everywhere that he needed to go which was good to avoid the expenses of a car. It was probably bad seeing as most mordern people stuck to that form of transportation due to bad city planning, but he was patient enough to not rush across roads or something ridicolous like that.


The group of youngsters had started to split up in the hardware store on their own. Trying to think of anything that would possibly be useful for their so called projects. Didn't seem like anyone wanted to help them out with that current mission.

 

[Matreania]

Freya stayed by the register as she watched the youngsters coming in and wondered what they were there for. She wasn’t sure if she would be able to help them but she wanted to at least tire. But she didn’t know if she could, she had been reading up on hardware tools and how they were used. She even was working on getting to know how to use them herself, but only at work when the owner was there to help her. So for now she just watched them and wondered what they were up to. She had been wondering when she would be able to try and help more costumers, but the owner usually wanted her to stay in the register unless asked for help.

 

[Steel Tiger]

Most of the youngsters went about their way as they wished and wanted. Most of them tried using their cellphones to try and find out all the material they needed but it was kind of difficult to look things up on a flip phone screen and when things are mostly being made up as they went along. It was going to be a crazy home project that was to be sure!

Perhaps a bit unlucky for Freya, a customer would walk right up to her in a weird costume. They seemed to be in a leather vest with a pocket watch in one of the pockets, wearing a pair of odd goggles that looked like gears and walked around with a cane of sorts. They would take a deep breath before walking up toward Freya. "Where, would you happen to find sledge hammers and water proof paints?"

 

[Matreania]

Freya looked at him and smirked, nodding, “I can show you.” She told him as she moved to go beside him. She motioned him to the paints, “I will show you the paints first. There are a few shades that are better against water than others. But I’m sure whichever color you were thinking of will do just fine.” She told him, trying to explain as much as she learned about it. Hammers she had no clue, but she knew where to find them, so first she showed him the paints and sighed, motioning to the back of the aisle, “These are the kind you are looking for, I think. Warm colors are best when it comes to water. But darks are easier to deal with.” She offered, knowing they were generally the same to a point that it would take a while to notice either way.

 

[Steel Tiger]

The goggled man followed Freya along as she walked by his side. The two went toward the paints and it seemed that he would immediately be staring at the various shades of oranges, yellows and browns but was also debating the use of a bright blue or something like that. As he would constantly being to compare the different color swatch cards (Sorry if I’m assuming a bit too much here, if so just stop be). “I’m looking for something that fits for a rusted metal kind of thing, and maybe a color added on to make a really cool gun or sledge hammer pop!” He chuckled rather excitedly at the time. “What would you recommend? Heck, maybe what’s your favorite color?”

 

[Matreania]

Freya was surprised by the question, she wasn’t sure what would go good with what he wanted, but she could answer his question. “Maroon.” She told him, “My favorite is maroon. Although, I am not sure how that is going to be able to help you.” She looked at him with a curious smile, “But I am sure modifying the color, pretty much any color of the hammer or gun, would make it pop.” She wasn’t sure how to imagine the items the way he thought of them. “Maybe if they were your favorite color they would stand out more?” she suggested, thinking that maybe he wanted them to pop enough to make them easy to spot or just easy to notice.

 

[Steel Tiger]

He would reach out to grab the red color listings and find the color swatch for maroon. “Looks nice enough. I mean, it would blend in with the rusted orange like colors perhaps while standing out of only a little so that’s pretty nice.” He reasoned aloud. “It does help a lot actually. My favorite color happens to be black so that would be rather bland to for use to be honest.” He looked at the color swatch again before looking through the paint aisle to find the color and the supposed ‘water proof version of it or something similar to it. The water proof part may have been unnecessary but it sounded like it would be helpful.

“Would you happen to have any.. turf, the fake grass stuff.. or maybe some plants and a white cardboard or something to paint on..?” The goggled person asked.

 

[Matreania]

Freya nodded, “I think we have some in the back, the artificial turf is really sensitive so it is best there.” She motioned him to follow her. “There is some cardboard but we only have the seeds for planting, not actual plants. Other than the one of the register counter top.” She explained as she led him towards the back of the last aisle and to the turf. “Is this what you wanted? There are a few different kinds, depending on the look that you want.” She wasn't really familiar with them all, but she was sure that she should probably be. She made a mental note to herself to learn about them, figuring that she would probably be asked about them again.

 

[Steel Tiger]

He would enthusiastically follow after Freya to look at the artificial turf in the back. Although he was wondering exactly how much he would need to begin with, maybe fifteen by fifteen feet wide or maybe he should just buy enough to try and fill up a whole room if possible. It would be decided on later or now really as he examined the turf in the last aisle. "Alright, um, would you mind showing me a couple different examples if the turf then?" He wanted to visually know the differences and perhaps more recommendations and that kind of thing. He wasn't all too sure what look he was going for yet at this very moment...