It's 7am and Mitch's Bar & Grill doesn’t open until
9am, Clayton drives over in the hopes to have a chat with Mitchell the bar
owner. Mitchell also rents out houses in Bon Temps for the neighborhood.
Clayton had heard that he doesn’t charge much, which was surprising to him
because he had also herd he was quite an ass hole. He pulls his truck up to the
entrance, the sun had just risen, he squints in the window to see if Mitchell
was in. There is a woman standing at the bar washing the counter, after Clayton
knocks the woman uses hand gestures to point at the door trying to get him to
understand that they are closed. The woman looks aggravated but she stomps
toward the door, unlocks it and opens it up a crack. "Were closed!"
yelled the woman! Clayton insisted "I know I just need to speak to
Mitchell about rooms for rent?" the woman let him in "take a seat, he
won’t be in for about an hour, can I get you some coffee?" "I would
love some coffee, thank you very much uhhh" Clayton squints to read her
nametag "Dayna! Thanks Dayna" Dayna nods her head and struts back
into the back room to brew a pot. Clayton finally has time to think, he begins
to recall the conversation he had with Lauren last night.
He was very confused about what Lauren said and didn’t really understand.
She was so upset about what supposedly happened to Kelly. She came to Bon Temps
and was looking for houses, she got a job at Mitch's Bar & Grill to pay the
bills, and she was currently staying at a motel around the corner from the bar.
She worked with Lauren so that's how they knew each other but Lauren said she
had been hanging around the wrong crowd for a while; she had made friends with
a few girls who had a bad rep with the town. Apparently their ancestors
practiced black magic and they were burned at the stake or something like that.
Kelly being the nice girl she was did what any stranger to the town would have
done, assumed it was a legend and moved on with her life. Months went by and
then Kelly began to seem frightened. Lauren said she had called in sick a week
straight so she went over to the motel she was working at and wanted to make
sure she was okay because she knew Kelly was all alone. Lauren looked in the
window of a cab that was waiting out front, and saw Warren. He was really sweaty
and nervous Lauren asked him if everything was okay and he drove off in a
hurry. Kelly heard the cab leave she then opened the door and started yelling
at Lauren for scaring away the cab. Lauren tried to calm her down, but she was
very upset, there was no helping this girl. Lauren got back in her car and
drove away, she figured that she had to come back to work eventually and that
she would talk to her there. Kelly clearly needed time to calm down. The police
showed up at the bar the next day to speak with Lauren because she was the last
person to see Kelly alive. Kelly had gone missing and the cops were involved
because before Kelly had disappeared, the owners of the Motel complained of
loud noises and violence involving her room.
Clayton was obviously upset, and after his talk with Lauren he
went straight to the police station, Officer Stackhouse informed him that the
search is over because it's been three years now and no one knew anything about
her. He filed a missing persons report and gave Kelly the proper identity.
Clayton swore that he would never leave Bon Temps until Kelly is found.
Clayton’s breath was taken away by how handsome the officer was but there was
no time to think about this, he had to find Kelly. So many questions he had but
no one to ask. Where could she be? Why wouldn’t she ask me for help? Is Lauren
even Human? Clayton wasn’t one to believe in the existence of supernatural
entities but he couldn’t ignore what happened between him and Lauren. She shot
a burst of energy out of the palm of her hand that made Clayton pass out. He
planned on confronting her again sometime soon. In the mean time he would focus
on finding Kelly
After Mitchell agreed to allow Clayton rent out a small house on
Fillmore Street, he ran into town to get keys made for Clayton. Clayton walked
up to thank Dayna for the coffee he walked into the back room and could not
find her, he saw that the tray she was holding had been sat down beside the
back door. Clayton assumed she went outside for a smoke or something. He walked
outside and he heard Dayna’s voice mumbling something from the bush. He walked
up to the edge of the forest and he saw Dayna standing in the woods, many trees
and bushes blocked her so he yelled her name "DAYNA?" no answer.
Clayton walked further in the bush tripping over branches and
swatting away flies and bugs on his way in, he peeked through the trees and to
his amazement he saw Dayna standing over top of Jordan. The man from before who
tried to hurt Lena and Warren. Dayna was chanting something to Jordan and his
eyes were rolled back to the back of his head. The chanting came to a sudden
halt, she put her nose in the air and sniffed around. She turned her head and
looked right at him, it startled him so he took a step back and tripped, then
he got up and ran as fast as he could back to Mitch's. Clayton ran into Mitch
on his way around the bar and he dropped his key on the grass, "oh!
whoops! well, this is your key to your new place, I’ll be by to pick up rent at
the end of the month" "thanks" said Clayton he grabbed the key
off the ground and took off not saying a word about what he saw in the forest.
A 20 minute drive and he rolls up to his new place. It is very
small but cute and livable. There is a grocery store not 15 minutes up the road
and an appliance store right beside it. He didn’t pack much so depending on how
long he's staying he will have to go shopping soon. He opens his front door and
walks in. The stairs are immediately to the right and to the left is a small
living space the kitchen is off of the living room with small appliances.
Clayton see's a hand written note sitting on the kitchen counter, he assumes
it's from Mitch but then realizes he would have no time to leave it there. He
picks it up and reads, Dear Clayton, please leave town immediately do not come
looking for me. I'm okay but you cannot stay here it's too dangerous. Please
forget that I ever existed. –Kelly.
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