I keep holding his hand. It's almost more for me than it is for him. "No one deserves to be alone. We need to stick together, all we have is each other." I can't look at him. I know this must be so strange having some woman show up like this, telling him things that are wholly unbelievable. I wonder what Suresh said to him when he came to see him? I wonder why our guys could see what he could do when Suresh couldn't.

"Gabriel. I work for a place that could really use someone like you. If you wanted to come with me and see, of course." I raise my head finally and continue. "It's called the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. We protect humanity from," How to describe it? "Well, the things they can't see. And the things they don't want to admit exist. Things that go 'bump in the night' our founder says."

"You don't have to, if you don't want. Newark's not that great but," I smile weakly. "It's a government job. You'll be set for as long as you want to be. You're human...and you're not dangerous so you wouldn't even have to stay in the complex unless you wanted too." Unlike me. I have to. I don't have a choice. "And...you'll never get bored. I can promise you that." I smile a bit. One thing this job never is. Boring.