Avoiding the Truth

Tap tap tap tap…

Chris was tapping his fingers on the library table while reading a book about rare parasites. He got bored and put the book back. Well he probably put it back in the wrong spot but still. He looked at the clock.

Tick tock tick tock…

Chris sighed. He really didn’t want to be here but he had to avoid his serial killer brother. His brother has never actually been guilty but Chris knew he was. Alec (Chris’s brother) was trying to find Chris for God knows why. Chris limped over to the computers and sat down on one.

River looked around the library, her arms laden with books she had already skimmed through, though none had the information she was looking for, the woman sighing as she made her way over to the computers, her fingers quick on the keyboard as she typed the name of the parasite she was after into the search engine, growling quietly to herself as she saw that the book was indeed somewhere in the library.

She sighed, pushing herself to her feet once more as she resigned to searching around the library for the book once more, hoping that whoever was reading it would no be opposed to sharing or was susceptible to hallucinogenic lipstick.

She started to make her way towards the tables before her eyes fell on the book she had been searching for, smiling ever so slightly as she made her way over to the man. She didn't imagine this would be too difficult as she adjusted her dress to ensure it was showing off her assets.

"Excuse me, I was wondering if I would be able to borrow that book you have there?" she requested politely.

Chris looked up. "Hm? Oh sure here." Chris pushed the book over to the woman. He looked at her for a second. Chris wondered who she was. He'd never seen her around here before. Chris looked at his pile of other medical related books that he may or may not get around to reading. He already knew all the things  in most of the books he just liked to see what the writers got wrong which happened a lot. In fact in the book about rare parasites he was reading they mixed up two of the parasites. "They mixed up the treatments of the Toxoplasmosis with the Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis just so you know" Chris shrugged.

River opened the book to the copyright page, grinning as she saw the editor was a man who would not be born for another fifty years. Yes, this was the book. And it was going to have what she was looking for.

River looked over at the man's words, having to admit that she was surprised he was talking to her, that wasn't normally something that happened. She listened to what he had to say and smiled politely, though it wasn't long until her smile was genuine.

"Do you know roughly what page the mistake is on?" she asked, in the hope that she would be able to find the time and space co-ordinates that she was after on the mistake riddled page the man spoke of. That clever husband of hers, thinking he could outsmart her. He underestimated her people skills. She would have to tell him that someone had noticed his message before her, maybe then she would avoid lectures about her noticeable messages throughout history.

Mind you, she wasn't quiet sure how a mistake noticed in a textbook was equivalent to her message on the oldest cliff face in history. She would have to distract him before they got that far into the conversation.

Chris opened up a book about Malaria. He was looking for more mistakes. It was actually pretty entertaining for him. "Page 234 to page 239." Chris flipped though the book about Malaria. He wasn't finding any mistakes. Chris's phone vibrated. He took it out to read the text.

Sent at 7:32 from Alec Murphy,

You know I'll find you soon Chris.

AM

Chris face turned pale. He really didn't want his brother to find him again.