It was probably at the end of the funeral that Derek sneaked over to Grande. Zach and Louise had to interrupt the ongoing 'blood exchange' again to receive this person, which made Zach don't know what emotions to use. The right 'guest' (the real Grande master, at least that's what old Hank thought). Vertex 23S. Fastest update
"For a surgeon, you are surprisingly free." Zach wanted to mock Derek for always running around. Don't surgeons have the impression that they are too busy and have no private life
"I'm asking for leave." Derek looked around randomly at Grande, "Will the family members come to the funeral home after the funeral?"
"No." Zach could probably guess the reason why Derek came, "The burial ceremony should be held now." Usually, only relatives and friends participate in the burial ceremony. Zach feels that the media should not Show up, "If you want to go, I can tell you where."
Zach is not going to stop Derek from doing anything stupid. I can tell Derek all he wants. If he still doesn't understand, it's not anyone else's problem.
Fortunately, Derek did not let his unnecessary guilt continue to control his behavior. He shook his head silently, "I just wanted to ask about the funeral." He glanced at Zach and said, "If I knew she was buried in peace, Make me feel better..."
Unable to rate. Human emotions are really wonderful things.
"Old Hank shouldn't be back for a while, so just..." The logic behind Zach's words is that Zach didn't expect Derek to come over. Grande's favorite is Old Hank, so Zach Naturally, I thought that if anyone needed to host Derek, it was not Zach himself, but old Hank.
Then, the follow-up of these words was to let Derek be free in Grande, but he was stuck and didn't know whether to let Derek be free in the staff living area or in Grande.
Derek was 'conscious', "Can I just kill time at your place? I don't want to go home." He looked a little depressed, "If Hank comes back, don't tell him that I'm here. Sometimes I really I don’t understand what he, uh, wants from me..." He waved his hands, as if he didn’t want to talk about this topic.
Zach didn't know how to make a decision, so he nodded speechlessly and let him go. Just a reminder, "We have another guest, Miss Miley Lister is here."
"Miley? Lister? That advertising star?!" Oh my god, Derek actually looked excited.
Zach didn't want to pay attention and pulled Louise out of Grande.
"What's wrong?"
"The last time Derek came, I saw a car at the intersection." Zach had already set foot on the dirt road in Grande. "Let's go see if it will show up again."
Actually, Zach was just looking for something to do. But what he said was true. He didn't care much at the time and brushed it off. Now, he actually doesn't care much either... He just really doesn't want to stay in Grandry.
There is a bus stop here at the junction of Route 27 and the dirt road. Zach and Louise hid behind the seats on the platform. Quite a boring move.
The two waited quietly for a while, but nothing happened.
Louise brought up a topic to pass the time, "I forgot to tell you what happened when Derek's ex-wife left Barton after you went to the west."
"Oh. What's the matter?" Zach really wasn't interested. We didn't even mention that woman's name. The whole time we were in Grande, she had an attitude of 'I don't want my children to stay in Grande for one more second.' .
"She gave me money." Louise raised an eyebrow. "She said that Grande must have spent some money to find a group of people to prepare for the game (Dungeons and Dragons, Fizz) in order to receive her children. , this is considered a reward.”
Zach glanced at Louise and said, "Really? That woman is so..." He curled his lips and said, "Hateful?" Thanks to Zach's hard work in planning to receive Derek's child, did he get this kind of attitude? Tsk.
"Yeah. She said that if Derek wasn't the father of her child, she didn't want to have anything to do with Derek anymore." She shrugged, "Let alone Derek's relatives." Referring to Zach and herself, "We . She doesn’t want to owe us.”
"Okay." Zach tilted his head, "Take back the 'hate', it's reasonable for her to do so."
Louise's lips moved, as if she had something to say and was hesitating.
Zach noticed, "Say it."
"She..." Louise's expression was strange, "She gave me a piece of advice..." Louise was still hesitating, her eyes wandering slightly.
"Advice? What advice?" Zach blinked, now it was just pure gossip.
"She said that an apple from a tree cannot fall too far." Louise said a common saying, "Brothers of Grande are like birds of a feather. Let me pay attention."
Zach was confused for a moment, but it quickly disappeared, "Oh, she thought Derek and I were real brothers." Although it meant that Louise could ignore that 'advice', she could not suppress her curiosity. His heart caused Zach to say expectantly, "What did Derek do? To make his ex-wife hate him so much~"
"Derek, you cheated." Louise blinked.
"Really?" Zach was even more curious, mainly because from the time he met Derek until now, Derek didn't give anyone any impression in this regard, right? Uh, no, Derek didn't give us a chance to understand this aspect of him at all.
"Really." Louise nodded, "His ex-wife said that Derek was the worst kind, and it happened where he worked. I still remember when Derek came to Barton for the first time, he was at work. Throw it away, too, do you know why? Because one of his interns reported him for, well, 'style issues'." Louise shrugged.
"Style issue?" Zach became more and more curious.
"It seems that Derek is very partial to a certain female intern. Various surgeries should be opportunities to teach other interns, but he only teaches that one intern, and the other interns see it. In the end, he can't stand it. Unfair treatment, report him.”
There was a smile on Zach's lips, "Really? Ha! This is really... a life-like bloody plot~"
"I think so too." Louise raised an eyebrow, "But unfortunately Derek is not the protagonist of some soap opera that Mo likes, so he was divorced, lost his job, and came to Barton to find his father in misery." Louise Si tilted her head, "It changed from a soap opera to a thriller."
Need we review the four surgeries we know Derek performed at Patton
An operation to bring a patient back to life was cursed by Maya as human beings interfering with God's arrogant duties (making the liver think of its own pancreatic islets); once a vampire (Zach) broke into the operating room and resurrected the heart; twice,... Organ donors harvest only the dregs...
Horror.
Zach tilted his head and thought for a moment, "Huh, it seems to be true~" But of course there were some things he had to say, so he pulled Louise and said, "You can rest assured, I'm not Derek." Yes, that kind of thing A clear message to look directly into the eyes.
"I know you're not~" Louise smiled, and then the two of them looked at the empty Route 27 again.
To be honest, if this conversation ended like this, it would be too complete. As I said before, Patton is a thriller.
"I remember you said you were married twice. What happened to them?" Louise asked, looking at the empty road.
Zach also looked at the empty road and replied, "Dead."
"They, well, didn't they become your descendants?" He continued to look at the road.
"No. We are human at weddings, and we are human at funerals." Zach continued to look at the road.
Louise was quiet for a while, "Both ceremonies happened within 20 years?"
Meaning, it is the duration of a vampire's identity rotation.
"Number one, yes." Zach could actually just tell a lie and end the topic, but Zach probably felt the need to answer seriously. Although both parties in the conversation were staring at the ground and had no intention of looking at each other, "The second one, if I think about it, there was about a 50-year gap. I left, and then I went back and attended the funeral."
Louise seemed to hesitate, "What happened?"
"The first one is actually the need for identity. When that identity is no longer needed by the Secret Alliance..." Zach felt that there was no need to finish, so he really put it there. The next one was, "The second one, I proposed it." , she could live forever with me. But, she refused."
"Why?" Louise didn't seem to understand. It shouldn't be, she doesn't become a vampire like 'I think, I want, I am!' 'This kind of thing.
"I..." Zach frowned, "I actually don't remember, it was just for some boring reason. I only remember that we had a lot of quarrels in the later period." Finally, he stopped looking at the road and looked at Louise. Yo! There was a tacit understanding. Louise also looked at Zach, "The not-so-pretty kind. She will smash my food reserves, burn my clothes, and drive wooden stakes into my bed. I will use her relatives and friends to eat." , the kind that fills the social gatherings she holds with mirrors and brings living creatures to the table..."
Louise's eyes began to widen.
Zach also had a strange look on his face, "Basically... uh, I don't know, a very, very bad marriage."
"I..." Louise opened her mouth, "I sincerely, can't imagine who you, uh, are so sincerely angry with..."
"Me too." Zach curled his lips, "Not only was I angry, I also remember that I continued to be in a frustrated mood. I wanted to kill her, but I couldn't." Zach shook his head, "Even In the end, I left. I was absent-minded for about ten years, and it wasn’t until I attended her funeral that I calmed down. If you want me to evaluate, it was a very failed life experience for me.”
"You loved her." Louise winked and added. There's probably no psychological burden. I don't know how long ago it happened, so there's nothing to worry about.
Zach didn't respond, and couldn't respond. Louise could mind making this footnote, but Zach couldn't.
"Did you do anything at... the funeral?" Louise continued to ask.
"Me? No, I just put a flower in the coffin." One corner of Zach's mouth twitched, "Honestly, I don't even recognize the woman lying in the coffin. She is almost the same as Mrs. Quinn." Ke frowned and clutched his waist, "Ouch!" Louise pinched her, "What are you doing? I'm telling the truth."
"There's no need to ruin my fantasy if you tell the truth." Louise rolled her eyes, "At least tell me she used to be beautiful."
"Well, I suggested that she become Toledo. Of course she was once beautiful." Zach pursed his lips, "Wait a minute. Why are you fantasizing about this?"
"You are not a woman." Louise rolled her eyes and returned her gaze to the road, "Is she the only woman you... uh, besides me, propose to spend eternity with you?"
"Uh..." Today's question is difficult to answer, "No."
Louise slowly looked back at Zach, then turned away, her face not very friendly, "So I guess marriage is just a need for your stage of human identity life. In addition to your two marriages, you also have, tsk , other feelings happen!”
Sometimes, Zach feels that Louise is too smart. An 'old' vampire like Zach will soon have nothing to teach the 'new' people. "Toledo loves living among humans, Louise Silk, this is inevitable.”
"Just like Derek. Well, Grande's brother, the same guy."
"Hey, it's not like that. The life of an adult human is only family and work, not that of a vampire. Louise, you should understand that the life of a vampire is chosen by the vampire himself. We are not human beings. We can choose to live in a world of our own. Of course, you can also choose what kind of people you deal with in any environment. I have you, and I don’t need to know other women.” The last sentence is the key point.
"I'm not that easy to convince." Louise turned her profile towards Zach, "You just admitted that among the descendants of Toledo, there were women who were invited by you to become immortals. I'm not so naive to think that this is the case. There is only one woman." Louise frowned, knowing that what she said next would not be very 'nice', "If the Toledo clan hadn't been destroyed, I guess those women would still be there."
This is a topic that Zach can't wrap his head around, "What can I say, the function of time is to consume everything. Including feelings. But believe me, Louise, when you just want to be a descendant of Toledo (no We will all know when the moment when I miss my relationship with Zach happens. At that time, we will know how to..." Zach frowned, "Face it gracefully."
Louise was quiet for a while, turned around, and smiled, relaxed, satisfied, and sincerely, "We might quarrel~"
Zach also laughed, "Probably even uglier than my second wife~" After all, it was a conversation between the two Toledo, and the conclusion they reached together was so harmonious.
"I might poison you~"
"Then I might use your food to treat myself~"
"I will sew silver thread into your clothes~"
"I'll put something under the bed on the side you sleep on~"
…
This discussion about how to hurt each other went on for... ten minutes.
"Here we come." Zach motioned to Louise, "I have an impression of this car. I seem to have seen it somewhere."
"Me too, I should have been in the Grand Car... Who is the driver? I haven't seen him. He's not a client of the funeral." Louise saw the other person's face clearly.
Zach also saw clearly, "Uh, I know who it is."
"who is it?"
"Director Cologne's brother-in-law. Derek's colleague." Zach thought it would be more convenient for Louise to tell all the 'actions' this guy had in this story. "The clown in Mr. Pixar's anonymous group, their group After the soul of the person inside expanded and exploded, when he was 'interrogated' by me, he told me that he found that Derek's surgical records had 'disappeared' and the operating staff had 'lost their memory'."
"He's stalking Derek??"
"It seems so."
"Uh, are we going to do something?"
"Forget it, let him be."