BAILEY PETERSON
CHAPTER 7
-PART ONE-
-INTERROGATION 1: BAILEY PETERSON-
The room is tasteful in a corporate way, nothing interesting enough to cause offence not matter what a person's preferences might be. It was the so-called replica of Lego house for the identical workers in clean cut suits. After a few years thinking inside the box and fearful of the open road. Before knowing its standard "inoculations" are on blood and the questioning begins, hearing the soft clicks of heels hitting the luxurious marble floor as she walks through the door. The walls were covered with ivory gray and with a touch of maroon wallpapers and fireplace with silver frames. There were two small sections sort of offices across from each other and between a small cubicle where the Tres Diablos stood up greeting their first man. Based on its face a wave of anxiety hit him.
"Good morning, welcome to the Sol y Luna underground Interrogation spot. I know you know me that well but let me introduce myself again, Angelycko Louise Williams" She was a woman with an Amazonian figure sat well on her wafer-thin body. Having a solferino-red hair, spools of it plunged around her photogenic face and hid a swan's neck, having a nebulous, Eden-green sort of gray eyes which were a-sparkle with the 'joie de vivre'. She extended her hand toward the man.
"Why don't you show some manners?" the man from the left side utter, he has an Achilles-gold and coiffed to perfection. His eyes had the same startling clarity as a mountain stream and the lineaments of his face were in perfect proportion to each other.
Lock Lopez known to be Knight-Lock Chase
"Bailey Peterson" the man shook his hand as gracefully as he could.
It's like a prison cell. A bare bulb hangs from the ceiling and the plastic chair underneath could have been stolen from an inner-town. Tracing the face of the man seems wondering if it's all some psychological test to see if he's freaked out. Then two man taller than five feet enters the room and sits, apparently, they're here to stand for the interview. Apparently minutes pass, they get a dossier out of the case and begins the mission briefing. These jobs are always interview by panel, questions fired too quickly to answer with too much thought. They want to see what's under the veneer of each persona. And always the cameras are trained on face, the computer giving analysis on micro-expressions. Not this time apparently. A guy is swinging round and round in a big comfy swivel chair. With one more swing he's back around with a coffee for each of them.
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"The clock is ticking; we should begin" Knight-lock coldly stared at the eyes of Peterson
"Seems like your different person now, Lock Lopez"
As he heard those lines, Lock threw his hands across the table that makes a loud banging sound.
"So tell me, how did you know Copper Richardson?" Knight-drain utters
"You're fucking alive?" he shouts out of disbelief
"Alive and kicking" Price mumbled
"the criminal was still alive" he teasingly hissed
At that very moment Knight-drain grab his neck and pinned him against the wall, it creates a chaotic sound as the table and chair moves together as the man was being pinned.
"answer my damn question" he angrily hissed as he clenched his fist reason for Peterson to struggle
"fuck! Get off!" he utters as he was struggling to breath
The great Pendelton remove his hand and walks back to his old position "What do you know about Copper's case?" he asks again
"I lost my eye the same day I lost a friend." Without breaking his stared through the eyes of the great Pendelton
"Based on the evidences I gathered from the Richardson's, you and the other accused may help either may know about the case" looks like their having a staring contests while uttering those words.
Hearing the words makes him anxious, he jerked upright, panicked, but his wrists refused to move. Something sharp and cold dug into his skin. He looked down and saw there were handcuffs holding his hands to the table. He tries to bit it, feeling an odd coldness on his tongue.
"TELL ME." He repeated sternly. The man felt coldness envelope him, but no darkness came.
"what do you know about the murder of Copper Richardson?" cutting the dramas to avoid any cliché
"Drain" a convincing voice slips on his mouth
"Tell me what you know" He was uttering before sipping on coffee. "this will help the investigation, Bailey" He quickly gaze upon as the great Pendelton called out his name for the first time.
"October 01 1901 was the last time I saw him" he stated, staring on the eyes of the people in front of him attentively
It is like manipulating the sequence
"Tell us more" a sweet voice come out from the lips of Lycko Louise that surely gives him chills.
"October 01 1901 Cooper and I go to a bar for some celebration because he got his first pistol."
"Who gave him the pistol?" Lock ask him as he heard the statements
"Mr. and Mrs. Richardson give it as a gift"
"What bar did you go?" Price murmur while staring at Peterson
"Le Club de Minuit, Drain's Property to be precise" the man arcs a smirk on his lips
"And then what happen?" Gray spoke up from the corner
"At first I suggested to try his gun but he resist it, he say that he feels a strange energy going inside his head, then he suggest to head down for a couple of sweet honey rum at Le Club de Minuit" he sigh and drink the bottled water on his left side. "That was the most expensive night club in town, who am I to refuse his kind gestures that time? I just want to taste the most expensive rum with honey based on it."
"and then what?" Lock sat on the edge of the table calculating his expressions
"as we arrive to that place, I notice that he's movements was anxious. It was like he's not the Copper I know from our Varsity team."
"what do you mean by his movements?" Pendelton raise an eyebrow as he asks the question.
"it was like he was mad, he's too aggressive on everything. I can describe it as; he wants to taste blood that time. Not literally manner but his actions seems spoking that he wants to kill someone" he stated as a tiny bits of sweat starting to fall down on his forehead
"Do you know any reason why he was too aggressive?" Price curiously utter
"nah! he only states that he's not feeling well, for reasons I don't know" he answered
"and who could that be?" the only Lady on the room asks
"maybe it was Chase" He answer while taking a glance to Knight-drain
"do you know any particular reason?" Lock looks like he was fishing for an answer.
"that day was the moment when he left your group" looking at the face of the man, he looks nervous and scared
A moment of silence mediates on each side. It took a minute for someone to continue what they've started.
"continue thy statement of yours, can you?" Pendelton requested while attentively looking at him. Observing the guy in front of him seems like he was looking on a bloodless sweaty criminal that doesn't want to be caught.
"Pendelton, I don't want to put behind bars." Those words accidentally slip out of his mouth
"No one is going behind bars" Price speak without looking at him because he's just listening on every single detail that Peterson mouthed.
"unless you killed the poor kid?" Gray added and flash a teasing smile
"Of course not! I'm innocent!" he's automatically sweats after hearing those intriguing lines of the twins
"Shall we continue your story?" Lock seriously ask
"after drinking, he decided to go home and he left me there wasted because of the effect of alcohol" he murmur while he was looking at his hands
"why'd he decided to come home?" the young Lady quickly asks after she heard the statement
"I don't know his reasons for a sudden change of heart" he unconfidently utter while playing his hand cuffs.
"Oh! I see" the young lady flashes a sweet smile
"Continue" Price utter impatiently
"day have passed, no messages from Copper. I'm worried so I decided to call him yet a message-after-the-tone was there so I just leave a message saying he should meet me at the Pier that morning" he continuously utter
"and why did you want to see him at the exact location where his body was found" Gray murmurs
"because you're trying to change plans and wanted to kill the kid?" Lock stated as if he's killing the poor Peterson on his mind
"hell no! you dirty minded one!"
"then why?" Pendelton squeeze into the conversation
"as I've said, I notice that he's way too different that before so I decided to meet him and comfort him that's all!" he exclaimed like he was cleaning his name
"does he meet you?" Price ask
Impatient as always
"no, but-"
"but what?" Knight-drain asks
"but Mr. Richardson appeared instead of Cooper himself" he added towards his statements
"why did he met you? Is there any particulars?" Lycko Louise curiously asked quickly after hearing the statement from him
"He uhmm—"
"He what?" Price asks again
"Why do Copper's old man arrived instead of his son?" Lock immediately asks
"What is the purpose of that old man?" Gray mumbles
"They give me a pocket knife" he simply answered
"like a dagger one that I used to stab you?" the lady innocently asks
"no, it was just a simple pocket knife" he stated
"for what reason?" Price asks
"He wanted me to be his ally, a sort of negotiation because the mere fact that I have the Ravens it's a win" he utters quickly
"ally for what?" Pendelton asked, seems there's a hurricane of idea going through his mind
"I don't know either. When he handed the knife to me he just said that he wanted me to be his ally together with the Ravens" He discussed
"how mysterious" Gray mumbled
"no it isn't" Pendelton opposes Gray's idea
"did you accept?" Lock asks while playing his face
"at first I accept the knife but as I got home I decided to send it back to Richardson" he stated
"and then that bloody incident happened" Lock whispers out of disbelief
"is this your knife?" Knight-drain handed down the one of the knife he got on the house
"yes"
"So you stab Copper?" Price interrogates the culprit
"no I didn't"
"but based on our ballistic examinations that the blood was day fresh and it was confirmed that the blood was from Copper. Did you stab him?" Gray explained everything and throw another intriguing question
"no, like I said, I send it back an hour after he gave it to me"
"and what do you simply mean when you talk to someone on that particular place that you want to kill me?" Pendelton ask, remembering the incident where he hides and heard everything
"because just like any other, I believe you killed him" He angrily hissed
As quick double punch comes towards on his face from Knight-Lock. They all look pissed off as they hear those lines
"Do you have any proof you bastard?" Lock angrily shout in front of his face
"no I don't have" he simply answered.
Silence occupied the place
"Who's that Supremo?" Lycko intensely questioned the man with a dead glare that breaks the silence occupying each one
"Do you know Supremo too?" as Lock hear what his Hermana uttered he quickly asked her.
"yep! I Caught him talking to the man" she basically answered
"Like you guys, I don't know who he was, I don't know his identity… I don't know what he looks like either"
"What do you mean you don't know?" Lock interestingly utter
"I only talked to him twice, on the 1720 house Pendelton was and to the abandoned doll factory where Lycko saw me" he explained
"on what purpose?" Drain murmur
"first, he wanted me to stalk each one of you but as the time goes by he wanted to kill you all and Lycko was the first one to suffer on his list" he explained
A silence makes the tension rise further. Only the ticking sound of the clock was echoing to the specific areas. As everyone was silently thinking throughout their minds.
"this isn't the case we should working on" Peterson breaks the silence
"what do you mean?" Lock asks
"Copper's case wasn't the case you suppose to handle Knight-drain" as he utters those lines it gives chills to everyone specially to their great Pendelton
"This was just an alarm for us to be awake for they were back and being summoned by you, Tres Diablos"