Chapter 2 - The Mission

The two of them then got back into the car and Jake said:- “All right, let’s drive back to the other police car. I hope those guys are still alive.”- “Sounds like a plan. Let’s go and help them.” Kenny agreed, still finding it hard to throw the girl in white out of his head.The two of them then reversed around and drove back the route they came from. Jake couldn’t quite remember the way they came from so well, so Kenny was helping him navigate and finally they saw the turned over police car with a crowd of people around it. Jake pulled the car to a stop quickly and ran out of the car. Kenny also came out and began walking to the crashed police car and the crowd of people. Suddenly he heard someone call him:- “Kenny!”Kenny looked around but couldn’t understand where it came from.- “Over here.” The voice came again.Kenny looked the other way and saw that same girl in white. She was very beautiful and looked about 20 of age. He got astonished and began walking towards her fast.- “You? You’re alive?” he couldn’t believe his eyes; he thought he was dreaming.- “Yes, listen to what I’ve got to say.” She said.- “Why did you stop us? And why didn’t Jake see you?”- “I stopped you because I had to. I know you were doing your job, but you can’t always fight fire with fire…” she was saying.- “Who are you?” Kenny got curious.- “You might think I’m crazy, but I’m a virtue. I came down from Heaven so I could improve humanity. I have a special codename when up there. But you can call me Angelika.” She said.- “What?”- “Believe it. I’m on a mission and I have chosen you as my Earthly companion because you have a good soul.” Angelika said.- “Thanks. You still haven’t told me why Jake couldn’t see you. Am I the only one who can see you?” Kenny said.- “Not really. Everyone sees me. They just see me differently. Some see me as a different looking person, others don’t see me as a person at all, but like an animal of some sort.”- “I get it. So what do you want me to do? The robbers have gotten away. Is this really for the greater good?”- “Believe me it is. You might think otherwise, but trust me – you’ll still hear from them again. And we will change even them.” Angelika said optimistically.- “I hope I can trust you.”- “I don’t blame you if you don’t. Just go and relax now. I’ll be visiting you again and then perhaps we can think of things to do. But for now you need to unwind.”- “All right, well it was nice meeting you and I hope you’re who you say you are.” Kenny said and then turned away and resumed going towards the crashed police car. Ambulance was now there too. When Kenny turned his head back round, Angelika was gone already. He didn’t think much and then just carried on walking to the crowd of people. He got there and saw 3 of the policemen being taken into the hospital. Jake then came up to him:- “Where have you been, Kenny?”- “I thought I just saw someone.” Kenny lied.- “All right. Well good news is that all of them are alive. Bad news is that all of them except Ray will have to spend the next week or two in the hospital and won’t be able to join us in this investigation.” Jake said sadly.- “I hope they get better.” Kenny said.They decided to call it a day there and Kenny returned home. On the next day he’ll have to write tonnes of paperwork describing what went wrong. He didn’t know how to say that he saw a virtue and that she stopped them on purpose. Everyone will think he’s mental. He decided for it not to ruin the rest of his day and so cooked himself something to eat and then watched TV.


Messages from this chapter:

-You can’t always fight fire with fire
-We all see the same things differently, so for example Kenny could see Angelika as a beautiful person, whereas many other people didn’t