The Elementals

03 | possible brain damage

I was awoken by a nearly falling off of my chair and possible brain damage, from my head hitting the wall too.

I looked at the wooden table in front of me. Sheets of paper were sprawled across it, along with a few folders and my trusty laptop.

Still dazed I got up and stretched, hoping that the back pains from my awkward sleeping position would fade.

I slowly walked to the bathroom using the wall beside me for support.

I did the usual necessities before looking at my own reflection in the mirror. My eyes had obvious bags under them and my hair was sticking up in the most random of places.

Walking back, through to my office I sat down again and looked at the laptop screen to refresh my memory and see what I was up to last night.

Oh, right! The Vampire case. How could I forget?

After all I had been working on it for the last few days, trying and failing to pull all nighters. Evident by the dominant bags that had found home underneath my eyes.

I glanced at the screen again and my eyes found the time in a small box at the right hand corner of the screen.

15:00. So I had slept in a couple of hours, didn't matter too much, since I still haven't had the information on Casper Hartledge, off Kai, yet.

I decided to go to the earth common room to find some sort of food, to satisfy the rumblings my stomach had been giving me.

I was greeted by my earth team, which consisted of Aidan, Will and Ellie.

They had clearly already helped themselves to the food stock and were happily eating and chatting about recent events.

Little to no Elementals work solo. We are usually found in hundreds (near to thousands) in Pelaga. Then they are split by group type. And finally you are given your team consisting of four to seven Elementals.

I opened the fridge.

Fuck, the date!

I slammed the fridge door and looked at the clock on the other side of the room. 15:34.

Scrolling through my texts with Reece, I found out my date was indeed 16:00 and it takes 45 minutes to get there.

I ran to the door of the common room, which unfortunately for me was being blocked by Ellie and Will.

"Where do you think you're going?" Asked Ellie, giving me a suspicious look.

"A date, now move out of my way."

Ellie and Will looked at each other and burst out laughing.

"You've got to be joking, what division is she... or he." Will asked still giggling.

I ignore them and they both started acting like children and going "ooooo" and all that shit.

I pushed them both out the way and ran to my room.

I changed and brushed my hair back. Then proceeded to drive to the address Reece gave me, passing every red light and nearly adding a couple more people onto my body count.