Available Darkness Season 1

tracking. He wondered if somehow, the killer had broken in, killed his wife, and slipped out making Caleb think he’d murdered his own wife.
    While that would’ve been easier to believe, the truth of the matter proved more confusing, and less palatable.
    I did this.
    I…somehow…did this.

    **

    John

    John and Adam stood outside the room where the scent of the card had dead-ended. John ordered Adam to stay back. He was from Otherworld, but not a feeder, and was vulnerable to Caleb.
    John would have to secure his brother first, no easy feat.
    Adam moved towards the door of the room across the hall from Caleb, listened against it, heard nothing, then waved his hand over the card reader, causing the door to buzz open. “I’ll be in here,” Adam whispered, slipping into the room, carrying his worn leather backpack full of magickal gear.
    John moved his hand over Caleb’s door, unlocking it with a buzz.

    **

    Caleb

    Caleb heard the door buzz, and scrambled from the bathroom, grabbed his gun from the nightstand and aimed it at the intruder.
    It was the suspicious man he’d interviewed earlier—John.
    “What the fuck are you doing here?!” Caleb demanded, rising to his feet, gun on John.
    John stared at the corpse on the bed, “You did this?”
    Caleb screamed, “Get the fuck on your knees! Now!”
    “I’m here to help you, Caleb. I know what happened.”
    Caleb closed the distance between them, aiming straight at the man’s head. “Close the door.”
    John did.
    “On your knees.”
    John did so, but looked up, “It’s not your fault,” he said. “You’ve been awoken.”
    Caleb reached for his handcuffs, also on the nightstand, but then thought twice, realizing his touch could kill the suspicious man in his room. He backed away, gun still trained on its target.
    “Talk,” Caleb said.
    “When you came to my house earlier, you recognized me, didn’t you? You weren’t sure from where, but you know that you knew me.”
    “Yeah, I told you that, already. Get to the point,” Caleb said, annoyed.
    “We’re brothers, Caleb. Only, you’ve forgotten. They erased your memories. Until earlier today, when our meeting triggered … this. ”
    “What the hell are you talking about?” Caleb asked, inching closer to John, gun in his face, wanting someone else to blame for what happened. Someone he could take his rage out on.
    “I’m saying that you are…” John’s voice trailed off, causing Caleb to lean closer and ask him to repeat what he said.
    John used the moment to reach up and seize Caleb’s neck, causing a blue spark to shoot out and send them each sprawling in opposite directions. Caleb’s gun fell to the floor.
    Caleb leaped up, and jumped at John, trying to grab him, and unleash whatever destructive power resided in his hands.
    John rolled sideways, swept a leg into Caleb’s, and knocked him to the ground. Caleb spun, trying to recover, but John was already moving toward him.

    **

    John

    John reached for Caleb’s neck again, this time closing in on the back of it with a pulsing wave which knocked his brother out cold.
    John leaped up and raced across the hall, knocking three times sharply. Adam appeared with his bag of tricks.
    “I need you to wipe his memory for the past 24 hours, and plant a new one—he came home to his hotel room and found his wife’s body. There was a stranger in the room, who knocked him out before he could respond. He didn’t get a good look at him, and when he wakes up, he needs to call the agency. He cannot know he did this. Do you understand?”
    Adam nodded, completely ignoring the dead woman on the bed as he looked through his bag for the right spell book. John was always impressed at the wiry young man’s no-nonsense approach to his craft. Many of the Others were careless, sloppy, and self indulgent—using magick only to pursue their own nefarious ends. Adam seemed almost scholarly in his attention to detail, almost sage-like when they’d worked together.
    “Will this subdue The Darkness? Can he go back to being human?” John asked. “This was his first turning, I believe.”
    “In theory, it should. When I wipe his mind, I wipe the parasite’s as well, restoring some balance of power in Caleb. I’ll also use the confinement spell I used on you.”
    “You said my remission might not be permanent. I need his to be.”
    Adam looked grim as he met John’s eyes, “I’ll do what I can, but it’s not like there’s a proven spell with a