-AARON LIVESY - WHAT DO I DO NOW? -
"INTERROGATION"
-This fanfic follows on immediately after The Unseen Scene
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Aaron left the now lifeless body of his boyfriend with Hazel, he couldn't take being there any longer, and he felt like his heart had been ripped out. He sprinted as fast as he could up the village.
Paddy and Chas were stood talking outside of Smithy; she noticed her son first, he looked distraught. "AARON?" she shouted but Aaron carried on running, till he came to the entrance to a field and he ran and he intended on running till he was as far away as possible.
"I'll go..." Paddy told her.
Chas shook her head. "No. I'll catch him up...we need to have words, I'm sick of this there's always something with those lads and I wanna know what the hell's going on, he can never just be happy can he?"
Paddy raised his eyebrows. "Well I'll go see Hazel, see what's going on" he replied with a sigh.
Chas nodded before she started to follow the direction Aaron had ran in.
...
Paddy knocked on the door of Dale Head, completely unaware of what had happened moments before. Hazel was numb, her mind withdrawn and lost in her own grief. She answered the door and Paddy walked in. "I'm sorry Hazel but I need to see Jackson, I've just seen Aaron running off upset, this has got to stop"
Hazel nodded ever so slightly. "Er...er..." she turned her head to Jackson.
"Oh..." Paddy realised. "Sorry...I'll come back when he's awake..." he told her then began to turn back to the door.
Hazel reached out to him. "No..."
Paddy turned back to her.
"He's not going to" she told him, her voice shaky.
Paddy frowned. "What you mean Hazel?"
Hazel cleared her throat. "He's not going too, he's dead Paddy" she began to sob. "We tried everything, we did...we really really did!" she broke down in front of him.
"You what?" Paddy didn't understand but yet it was dawning on him what was going on. He placed his hands on her shoulders.
"W-We..." she sighed. "He wanted us to help him..." she nodded frantically. "And we did...he's free now" she smiled. "I have to call the police, like he told me"
"No...No...Hazel..." Paddy told her calmly, trying to get to grips with what she was saying. "Just hang on" he added. He can't be dead Paddy thought as he stepped closer to the bed and as he did he saw the empty powder stained glass on the side; he stopped beside Jackson and held two fingers against his neck, there was no pulse and he wasn't breathing.
Paddy closed his eyes and let out a long drawn out sigh. "Oh Jackson..." he whispered. And then his thoughts fell to Aaron, it explained why he was so weird earlier that day when they talked in Smithy. But this – this was something Aaron couldn't get away from.
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Chas was out of breath by the time she found him sitting on the grass leaning up against a fence, what she didn't notice until she was closer was that he was being sick. When she did she ran until she was knelt down in front of him. "Aaron? Aaron love?" she asked, her tone soft, she'd never seen him like this before. He didn't respond, his eyes were fixed to the ground.
"Aaron? It's me...mum...what's wrong?"
"I-It's Jackson" his face scrunched as more tears fell.
"What about him love?" she rubbed his leg to try and soothe him.
Aaron swallowed hard. "I-I-I killed him"
Chas sat upright, she frowned quickly. "Ya what?"
"I p-put the glass to his mouth, a-an he drank it" he lowered his head and shook it from side to side slowly, his shoulders jerked up and down. "We tried" he said in a drawn out upsetting sob.
Chas had to clear her throat and wipe away her own tears. "You tried?" she asked.
Aaron nodded. "To make him see life was good" he looked up at her.
The sight of her son like that made her cry properly now. "Y-You mean...he wanted this?"
Aaron nodded. "What have I done mum?" he cried and she reached out and pulled him into the tightest hug possible and rubbed his back.
"We have to go back and you have to tell the police everything"
Aaron shook his head. "I-I can't go back there"
"You don't have to love...come back to Gennie's with me...the police will have to talk to you though" she told him, now frightened for him.
Aaron lifted his head up from his mums shoulder and rested it back against the fence; tears seemed to constantly flow he had no control over them. "I left it too late, I should have told him I loved him sooner" he looked up to the light blue sky as he spoke.
"No...No...Aaron you can't think like that..."
Aaron sighed and nodded. "But I do...I really do, I guess I always did..." he sighed loudly. "The night of the crash" the emotion took him over and he cried again uncontrollably. "Why couldn't I just say it back?" he raised his voice, angry with himself.
Chas reached out and shook him. "You have to pull yourself together son because nobody can help you, only you can help yourself, this is bad son, and it's probably going to get worse..." she sighed, regretting being harsh with him. "That night of the crash...I don't know what was said, what went on...but you would had your reasons for not saying it back to him...but the crash was NOT your fault...yes he was angry at you afterwards, but he LOVED you Aaron, you did this because he asked you too...he wanted it." she told him quickly.
...
Chas walked back with Aaron but he could hardly walk so she supported him. On sight of the police cars and ambulance outside of Dale head Aaron stopped and attempted to turn back but Chas tightened her hold around him. "This isn't going to go away Aaron..."
"I'm scared mum" he said blankly.
"I know love, but you have to tell them the facts..." she told him.
Aaron nodded and they continued down to the house.
Once there a detective walked out of Dale Head, he looked at the state the young lad was in, who was stood outside. "Are you Aaron Livesy?"
Aaron nodded, tears threatening to fall. "Yeah" he replied in a whispery tone.
The detective nodded. "I'm Detective Sergeant Norton...I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to come down the station, I'm arresting you on suspicion of murder..."
Aaron nodded. "Okay"
Chas let go of her son. "It'll be okay" she told him as the detective placed his arm behind Aaron and led him to the police car.
"You do not have to say anything..." Norton continued
Chas put her hands over her face and she sobbed. How could this be happening? That was the only thought that ran around her mind. The officers voice seemed to be blocked out by her own emotions. Seconds later she lowered her hands and took in some fresh air and calmed down then walked back up the village. She stopped when she saw Hazel coming out of Smithy accompanied by another detective she suspected. She watched her get into the police car.
"What's happening?" she asked as Paddy approached.
"They just asked Hazel some questions but they have to go down the station, get it all on record I expect...where's Aaron?"
"Oh Paddy" she cried. "I've never seen him like that before...he's been arrested...they're gunna lock him up I just know it..."
Paddy shook his head. "It might not come to that Chas...I was with Hazel when they questioned her; apparently Jackson has it all covered, recordings of him on the laptop, telling them it was his idea, his choice..."
Chas scoffed as she wiped her eyes. "That doesn't make me feel any better...why make Aaron give him the drink?"
Paddy knew this might come up and he was certain of how Chas would react. "Jackson didn't make him Chas...Hazel couldn't do it...so Aaron took over..."
Chas looked at him, her eyes widened. "You what?"
...
"Interview at Hotten police station with Aaron Livesy, officers present, DS Norton..."
"DC Price" the female detective added to the recording.
"Also present Mr Livesy's solicitor..." Norton continued.
"Mark James" came the addition of the solicitor's voice to be recorded on tape.
"Time is..." Norton checked his watch. "Fifteen forty five hours, sixth of June two thousand and eleven...I must remind you your still under caution and that you're here because you've been arrested on suspicion of murder"
Aaron nodded as he was sat with his arms folded against the plain dark table, the interview room was decorated quite dark too, it fitted his mood.
DC Price leaned forward slightly. "I was beginning to think we wouldn't get to chat..."
"I couldn't stay there..." Aaron replied.
"Can you tell us your relationship to the deceased?" Norton asked.
Aaron looked up at him. "Boyfriend"
Norton nodded.
"How's Hazel?" he asked.
Price's blank expression angered Aaron, he was being looked down on and he hated it, nobody could understand what he had been through, they were judging him or so it felt like. He sighed when the officers didn't reply.
"I just wanna know if she's alright, how hard of a question is it?" he sighed in frustration.
Price nodded. "She's alright, and co-operating" she told him.
"So will I" Aaron told them both.
"Good" Norton replied. "So you're here to admit to your part in the killing of Jackson Walsh..." he continued.
Aaron looked away, it was not like that. Just tell them the facts he remembered his mums words. "Assisted suicide" he corrected him.
"Alright, let's begin at the point when you realised Mr. Walsh wanted to end his life..." Price told him.
"I-I knew he kept a diary on the laptop...but all of a sudden he started to get really protective over it...I couldn't even put it away without him biting at me...so..." Aaron sighed. "He had to go to hospital for his routine checks...I went to the house and I looked at the diaries...they just got worse the more I watched...I sat there listening to him saying he wanted to die..." tears strolled down Aaron's face as he explained.
"So you broke into a house that is not yours?" Price asked.
Aaron frowned at her. "I had a key...and I told them afterwards...well Hazel anyway..."
"From our interview with Ms. Rhodes, the time you entered the house was March...there abouts..." Norton told him.
Aaron nodded.
"After you watched this diary, I imagine that's when you began to think of a plan..." Price commented.
"No..." Aaron shook his head. "I didn't think of anything, I was upset! My boyfriend wanted to die and you think I suddenly jumped and said okay Jackson its fine?"
"Please calm down Mr Livesy" Norton interrupted.
"Well she's suggesting stupid stuff how am I meant to react?" he breathed and calmed down.
"I understand you're frustrations but we're simply trying to get a picture of what happened to lead up to his death today" Price told him.
"So what happened after you watched the diaries?" Norton asked after seeing he'd calmed down.
"I told Hazel...she didn't want to believe me...but she came back to the house and watched it...I went back to the pub to see Jackson and by the time we got back, she'd seen it...then-then we tried to ignore it, hoping it would go away and it was just him venting...but his moods showed us otherwise."
"How were his moods?"
"Depressed, angry...lashing out..."
"And at one point he realised you saw the diary?" Price asked.
Aaron nodded. "Yeah, the day of Josh...h-his step brothers christening, Jackson said he was going to go then he changed his mind...I got angry and it came out...he was upset, it calmed down eventually and he told us he wanted out...I couldn't believe what I was hearing...but then me and Hazel realised we had to try"
"Try to do what?" Norton asked.
"To make him see how good life could be if he let it" Aaron answered as he wiped away his tears.
"And what did you do?"
...
"How long is this going to take?" Chas asked as she rested her head on the wall behind her. She remembered the first time she saw Aaron again, inside that same police station.
"As long has it has too sis" Cain replied.
A few seconds later Hazel came walking into the reception area, Chas immediately stood up, a nasty expression on her face. "You! You did this!"
Hazel looked away.
"What's happening Hazel?" Paddy asked.
"Bail...but I expect they'll charge us..." she told them miserably.
"Oh yeah, just what I always hoped for my son!" she told her angrily. "Actually what i wanted was for him to be happy but he never ever can be! Jackson couldn't see how good life was? If I was him all I'd have had to do was look at Aaron!"
Hazel reached out and slapped her hard. "You have no idea what we've both been through, keep your mouth shut..." she told her and walked over to where Cain was stood, when she turned around Aaron walked out too.
Chas looked up removed her hand from her cheek and hugged him. "What's going on son?"
"Bail" he told her as he pulled away. "I'll be charged though..."
"Well I know someone else who should be charged! It wasn't your place to give him that drink!"
Aaron sighed and stormed past his mother, Paddy, Cain and Hazel and left the station, he didn't know where he was going, he didn't particularly care either.
...
A while later Aaron walked up to Butler's farm, he saw Adam in the distance and Adam saw him too. When Adam reached him he didn't speak but simply hugged his best mate. "Paddy told me..."
Aaron noticed he'd been crying. "I'm sorry" then his emotions erupted and he cried.
"Why you saying sorry?" Adam wiped his eyes.
"Because he was your friend" his words were full of emotion and sharp to the point of what he was saying.
Adam nodded. "You did what was right for Jackson"
"Did I?" he questioned that.
Adam sighed. "Come on...let's go inside..."
"For a brew?" Aaron asked a disgusted look on his face.
"Yeah...I know it's not gunna change anything but...I'm your mate Aaron, that's not gunna change, we can sit have a brew and you can talk if you want too" Adam told him and Aaron nodded and they both began to walk to the house.
TBC...
