Playing in the Dark
Chapter 3 Digging into the Past
Greg went back to the victim's house as he can now look at the victim's laptop. Regan really seems to be secretive about her life. That he doesn't even know who she really is. It's like nothing about her is real. The only thing right now that seems real is that she adopted the twins.
He went and entered the office as he knows it's going to hold the answers. The answers he needs to find. The answers he needs for the case. It's the answers that are going to answer the unanswered. It may sound confusing but it's not actually confusing.
He grabbed things down from the shelves two at a time. By the time he was done there was a pile about a foot high. He has a lot of things to go through. The twins did tell him they were adopted. But there were still things that weren't adding up to him.
He then opened up an album right there and saw pictures of Regan with her son Dominic when he was three. They are so cute to him. He kept on rummaging through the pictures then swapped albums.
He went through it and saw pictures of Dominic when he was four. He then went through another one after that then another on and another. It kept on going until Dominic was fifteen. He found it a little odd how there wasn't one for when Dominic was a baby, a year old and two years old. If Regan did one for each year of Dominic there would be three more.
He put the albums off to the side and then opened a light green and white album. He saw that it was for the twins Adalynn and Amara at age three. He rummaged through it and smiled. They were so, adorable as toddlers. He saw that they used to have blonde hair before it was honey brown. He kept going through pictures of them at a park, the zoo and everywhere he could think of.
He smiled at the pictures. They really loved each other. He could tell that Regan really loved her kids. But there is always something wrong with each family. He has learned that over the years working as a CSI.
He opened up a new album of the twins at age four. They were older but still looked the same from when they were three years old. They were still as cute as ever. Oddly the two looked somewhat familiar to him yet he wasn't sure from where.
He then went through the rest of the years up to age ten. He saw how excited they were and how happy they are with their mother and older brother. The years must have gone pretty quick. Well he thought they did anyway.
Why did he think something was wrong with Regan? There was something that didn't seem right when he looked at her in person, on the slab and in the pictures. It's like she is hiding something that makes her devious or that he doesn't know. It's just a hunch and a feeling that he can't surpass. It's like he has to know the whole truth.
He found pictures of the victim Regan with her husband Dennis Elder on their wedding day. He saw how young she was with curly red hair going to her shoulders and soft-light brown eyes. Then there was Dennis a man with very dark brown hair going to the scalp and shocking brown eyes. But he seemed to be a little tough but still very nice at the same time.
When he first saw Regan dead on the floors of the house he saw that she has mahogany-brown hair going a couple inches past the breast bone. It looked to be totally straight and he even saw that her eyes were not brown but instead they were green. She looks like a totally different person now as if she's trying to hide herself from someone.
"Who are you?" whispered Greg to himself so confused by this woman now more than ever
He traced his hand on the picture of the woman and then took it out of the album and put it with evidence. He thinks it might actually help him out. Like he said the more he knows the better. He then kept looking at the pictures of Regan and Dennis together. They looked so happy yet so corny at the same time. They seemed like the perfect picturesque couple. He hates those type of people he has his whole life. He doesn't understand it because there is no reason to be perfect or even picturesque.
He then turned to another page and something fell out of the book going straight to the floor. He went out to grab it right there and just starting looking at it hoping it was going to speak to him. He wants it to speak to him and to give him more answers not more clues or dead ends. He hates reaching dead ends in a case. Sometimes that's all it is in some cases just dead ends and you never get answers. He just hopes that it isn't the case here with him and his own case that he's working on. He opened up the paper to find out it was a strange letter from someone he couldn't make out who to a friend that was smudged. This is what he could make out
Dear . . . . . . . . . ,
Hey I know that sometimes in life when it brings lemons that you make lemonade but in this case I'm throwing it back and demanding vodka. Do you want to know why because you got cheated in life? Just like I did, I know that sometimes you just have to make the best of it but this time you just can't. I don't know if you are ever going to know this or even remember it. But being trapped is where I am right now and I feel you might also feel trapped.
The best advice that I can give you right now is that don't take anything for granted or that you should stand your ground. It's the best and also for the best even if it isn't. I know that I don't give good advice usually but I know this time I'm giving good advice and that you are going to get it. This is all you're going to have because being trapped in the past is not good, it's not healthy. That's why you should look at the future to see what it holds. Those cards haven't been dealt yet and that's good because that means you won't know the outcome. Sometimes that outcome is irrelevant, unplanned, planned or even an accident. But I know that this is not an accident. It's was true evil. I know that you might feel it in the future because I feel it now. Don't get caught up in all that drama because all of it is going to consume you.
I might be writing this now but the thing is you will probably be reading this in the future when you're probably about sixteen years old or even might be in your twenties, thirties, forties even. I don't know how old you will be when you read this all I know is that even though this might consume you don't let it get to you that you feel an immense rage to go out there and seek revenge. It's not healthy and not right. Just hold back everything and think of those possible outcomes that happened to you and that can happen to you.
I will see you in the future. I'm always going to be there for you. I will constantly be by your side. But the thing is I know that you will not know who I am but I will know who you are. Don't go look for trouble or to go looking for me because you will never find me.
From . . . . . .
Greg read the letter he couldn't believe this at all. That letter he read is definitely important and pertinent to the case. He just doesn't know how yet. He needs to figure out who this letter was made for and who wrote it because if he finds that out then he can find out more about this woman. This is making everything even more complicated as he needs to find a ghost, a ghost that could be anywhere and anyone.
He got up and grabbed the stuff so he can bring it back to the lab so he can continue his search into the victim's past. Once he got everything in the Denali he left the house and back to the lab. He brought everything in but then on his last trip in the lab with the stuff he saw Russell, Nick and Morgan in the AV Lab aging a picture. Greg stopped right there.