The Black Dahlia Haunting Page #2

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Say? What?

Whatever you thought

I wanted to hear.

I don't want to talk to you

anymore. Please leave.

I'm sorry.

Sure you are.

I just have a question.

What?

Why are you so damned defensive?

I bet you already know.

I don't know.

What?

You've been questioning my

motive since pretty much the

second I got off the plane.

What is it?

Come with me.

You're suspicious of me.

Why do you think that?

It's very simple. You questioned

my motive for being here.

As far as I know, you have not

spoken to your family or Tyler

for a number of years.

No, I haven't.

Have you been to

your parents' graves?

You mean my father's grave?

Sarah wasn't my mother.

Okay, have you been to

your father's grave?

No, I haven't.

Do you plan on visiting it?

I haven't decided yet.

Your father left you

out of the will.

Yeah, I'm well aware.

He also specified that

if Tyler was a minor

and in the event that

he and your Stepmother passed,

you would not have

any legal rights to him.

Yeah, I am not surprised.

Are you done?

Because this is masochistic.

Tyler is my only living

relative. I flew out here to

make sure he was okay.

Why is that so hard

to understand?

I suppose I should learn how.

Look if you're curious as to

why I'm not visiting

my fathers grave,

maybe you should try to

understand that I'm not ready

to make peace with him yet,

especially after he essentially

brainwashed Tyler

into feeling

the way he does about me.

Don't suppose I could see those?

That wasn't a question.

Interesting...

It's all the same woman.

You know, I've, umm,

I've seen this woman.

I'm not surprised. A lot of

people would recognize her if

they saw these.

No I mean, like, I've "seen

her", seen her. In person.

That's impossible.

Why is that impossible?

Because she's been

dead since 1947.

Whatever, I seen her plain as

day. She was kind of a b*tch.

You really don't know

who this is?

No.

Elizabeth Short?

Is that supposed to ring a bell?

The Black Dahlia?

Dahlia's aren't black.

The Black Dahlia was a nickname

that the Los Angeles press

gave to a woman, Elizabeth

Short, after she was killed.

Mm-hmm.

You've really never

heard of this?

I don't know. Oh, wait,

wasn't it a movie?

Elizabeth Short was

an aspiring actress

from Massachusetts.

She had a reputation about her,

of messing with men,

essentially sleeping her way

to the top.

She started to run with the

wrong crowd, got herself killed.

Great...

So why would Tyler

be drawing her?

I don't know.

He's a kid I can't imagine he

knows anything about what you

just told me.

Maybe he saw a special about

her on TV and it left some sort

of subliminal impression on him?

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