29 Chapter 29

The door leading to the detention centre within the south precinct was opened and a serious looking Nick and Sean entered the scene. Wu and Hank followed them along with detectives Pogue and Meecham. It was safe to say all the main detectives and officers of the precinct were present.

Franco, another main officer within the south precinct was given an important order to make sure no one other than authorised personnel entered the detention facility.

"What happened here?" Sean asked after looking at the scene with 7 dead criminals, all waiting to be processed and all were shot dead with a hole on their head. 

Wu showed a plastic box inside which a blood soaked 9mm bullet was present.

"Know the kind of weapon used".

"Beretta 92fs" Pogue piped in on their conversation.

Suddenly all the detectives quieted down and Sean took a step back to let his best man do his job. 

Nick calmly observed the scene and in his mind several scenarios played and with the scene that was present before his eyes, Nick tried to match them and whenever the scenario and the outcome did not match, he eliminated them. 

"Wu, where were the officers at that time. Two officers were supposed to be posted at the entrance and one was supposed to be inside the room to keep a watch on the room" Sean asked the obvious.

"They said that they got orders through their coms' asking them to come to the captain's room saying that he was waiting to give them instructions".

"What!Who gave such orders?" Sean was exasperated. He wasn't in the precinct and his name was used as a tool to commit murder inside his precinct. Let's say that he wasn't exactly happy. He knew that this would be a black mark in his career and once it's known to higher ups and the media, he is fucked. He might even get stripped off his position.

"Officer Kurt's Comms were used. We just found him knocked out and tied up in the trunk of his patrol car. As for officer Fred who was responsible for guarding inside this place, he was shot in his shoulder and is currently on his way to the hospital. We checked the footage inside our precinct and found absolutely nothing despite working normally". Wu spoke what he knew but did not complete his words but Sean understood that they got a big fat nothing.

At this point Nick walked out of the cell after his investigation and got a solid idea of what had happened there.

"Donovan had help. I don't think he killed the other 5 prisoners. They were killed by his helper but these two prisoners were strangled to death by Donovan after getting beaten up by him. Wu, take me to the security room, I wanna have a look".

" How do you know that these two were killed by Donovan?" asked Sean. 

"I don't know what made these two get on the wrong side with Donovan, but these two were beaten and then strangled to death. My guess is that these two tried to bully Donovan but this alone will not lead to their death, something else happened between them leading to them getting strangled to death".

Though it was a forced logic, to Nick it was a bold deduction which he would soon work on trying to collect evidence to back this deduction. 

The group walked towards the security room and soon the footage was played. 

Silence descended in the security room. "Like I said, we found nothing. I don't know what the perp did but nothing was on the footage. We don't even know when the murders took place but could only guess that it was around 8.00 to 8.15 judging by the fact that it was during that time the guards in the front were called out".

Nick focused on the footage during that period and it was during this time that his photographic memory helped out. After watching the scenes which were disjointed, especially the shadows near the glass windows close to the interrogation room which did not match with the time of crime, it was easier to guess that the scenes were looped. 

'Did someone break in the room or did they hack our security system? No, breaking into the room had many risks and if I was the culprit, I would choose the more elaborate yet safe method of hacking, especially when my objective had not been achieved. As far as the Mystery man X who had helped Donovan escape, I already have an idea of who it might be. If I am not wrong, that person should have started making his next move while 

Meanwhile in St.Joseph's hospital, nurses and doctors walked up and down the hall as if it was the peak hour. It was one of the busier nights in the hospital with two emergency operations containing accident victims and there were a few fractures and patients having heart attacks. On a day like this the ones who had it the worst were these nurses who sometimes had to support multiple patients and assist in multiple operations. 

Just as one such nurse ran into the store room where the refrigerators containing blood bags were present he suddenly blacked out and out came an entirely different person. He had long black hair with a rough and chiselled physique which could be seen even over the coat he had borrowed from the nurse. Keeping his head low in order to avoid being seen, Donovan went towards the front desk to get the patient's catalogue to find the room Monroe was admitted in. While this was happening Monroe had an unusual visitor, a person whom he did not want anything to do with. 

Monroe watched the man with disgust in his face and spat the word "August" with so much hatred that his body ached just from the fury he felt watching. His heart burnt in fury as flashbacks of the fall of his crew crept inside his mind. The scenes which he, in absolute desperation tried to remove flooded his mind and Monroe bit his lips so hard that it bled. 

"Hey bro, how are ya, heard that you were in an accident and decided to pay you a visit" said August as he brought a bouquet of black roses. It was difficult to find, but it was quite perfect for this situation. He did not try to hide the darkness in his heart when he brought the black rose which symbolised 'death' to his supposed friend.

"How did you know?" Monroe asked while falling to his bed. His body could not take the intense emotions that he felt towards the man before him.

He was the one who patiently spat all the venomous ideas to him and Conrad like the snake in the Eden gardens to create the man eaters and was also the person who took things way too far just to satisfy his sick pleasures. He got a kick out of killing women in front of their husbands and mothers in front of their sons and sometimes did the opposite. 

No one could stop him until Monroe decided that enough was enough and leaked all their safehouses to the media in secret and fled the country. He knew August hated him for that but he did not care at that point. He had watched too many sick scenes that he felt himself die piece by piece from the actions of his former associates. If he had stayed there he might have been swept into that frenzy.

"Get out, I don't need your condolences. Just looking at you makes me sick" Monroe spat his words without hiding the disgust in his tone. 

As if seeking pleasure from the words that came out of Monroe, August let out a laugh filled with excitement before walking towards Monroe and said "Well what can you do if I don't leave?".

August woged as a Blutbad and showed his face near Monroe and Monroe himself woged in response. As if being led by impulse August suddenly took one of the pillows in the bed and started to smother Monroe's face, making him struggle to breathe.