Who: Ella, Shane (Tour Guide Vaughn) What: A visit to 1002 Where: 905, 1002 When: Immediately following this, day after the attack in the alley Warnings: None
Ella hadn't thought her day could possibly get any worse.
She'd been wrong.
When she'd gotten Shane's message on the forums, she hadn't hesitated, however. If Vaughn was her Vaughn, there had to be some sort of proof in 1002. Photos of their father, something about her hometown, her mother's name, something. Anything.
She didn't go so far as to consider whether she was going to tell anyone about anything she found. No, that wasn't true. She was fairly certain she would tell Daniel, but not Vlad. Not if it was her sister, not if they could get her the help she needed. Ella knew there was good in Leah and-
She forced herself to stop, to quit getting ahead of herself. She needed to get in the apartment first. She'd worry about the rest later.
She hadn't picked a lock since she'd been a child trying to get into the trailer on a cold winter night, but she was determined to remember. She grabbed a bobby pin, and she left the apartment, so intent on where she was going that she didn't notice the man behind her.