"Why did you kill him?"

Brendan's expression suddenly turns cold. He quickly gets up from his seat causing the chair to tip over.

"You think I killed him!"

"Sit back down Brendan."

"Don't tell me what the fuck to do! You just called me a fucking murderer!"

"See now you're just overreacting. It was a simple question. Calm down." Ste just stares at Brendan nonchalantly and sees the vein in Brendan's neck look like it's about to explode. Ste keeps his composure and doesn't dare show that at this very second he is frightened that he may have pushed it too far.

"Calm down? You calm the hell down!" Brendan slams his hands on the desk causing it to move and make Ste stand up from his spot.

"Brendan! Stop!" Ste tries to move back but before he gets a chance Brendan has grabbed Ste by the collar and drags him over the desk till they are face to face.

"Ask me again Steven?"

Ste looks into the eyes of Brendan and instead of the piercing blue eyes staring back at him he sees pure black eyes instead. Ste tries to remove himself from Brendan's grasp but the more he moves the tighter the grip gets.

"Get your hands off me freak!"

Brendan pushes Ste back as he lets him go. He picks up his chair from the floor and sits back down. Brendan just keeps his focus on the ground and doesn't look up. It's quiet in the interview room for minutes as Ste stands there frozen. Brendan clears his throat and Ste jumps and moves to exit the room.

"Aww Steven are we done here?" Brendan is mocking him and clearly it's amusing him. Ste doesn't answer him back as he rushes out and slams the door behind him. Ste dashes to the restroom and bumps into DI Walker on his way.

"Slow down Ste you alright?"

"Just a little lightheaded. Can you actually finish up on the suspect in interview 1. Anne must have filled you in on it."

"About Brendan? Yeah she mentioned the basics. No problem I'll do it. I know he's a bit of a loon."

"That's an understatement. Thanks Simon." Ste gets into the restroom and splashes water on his face. He stares at his neck and right below it he notices a red mark. Apparently in that little shuffle Brendan must have applied to much pressure on his neck. Ste starts thinking back to a few minutes ago and instead of fear running through his veins he now feels infuriated. He goes flying through the restroom door and heads straight into the interview room. Walker is leaning on the wall while Brendan is still sitting down with his legs on the table. Ste walks over and pushes Brendan's legs off the table.

"Look who's back. I was starting to miss you." Brendan quietly laughs to himself and stands up. "Can I help you?"

"Yeah I'm arresting you for assault on a police officer."

"No you're not."

"Yes I am. You left a huge red mark on me when you tried chocking me."

Walker suddenly looks interested as he moves over to them.

"Wait what. You didn't say he did anything Ste?"

"Yeah he pulled me across this table and wouldn't let go."

"I let you go immediately!"

"After you grabbed me! You're not even supposed to touch me! I asked you one question and you explode and you want to know why I may have thought you had something to do with that murder. You're insane!"

"I didn't have anything to do with that! You have nothing on me. If I called you a murderer you wouldn't get slightly mad?"

"I wouldn't attack anyone!"

"Whatever just get on with it then. Read me the damn rights." Brendan sits back down as Ste walks out. "And I want my lawyer Steven. Good boy."

After hours of paperwork and getting statements from everyone, Brendan ends up getting released with a basically a slap on the hand. Ste goes outside as he sees Brendan walking out of the station. His lawyer hands him his suit jacket and he notices Brendan laughs at something he says. Ste can't help but think to himself that he has an amazing laugh. Ste shakes his head to get that thought out of his head. Brendan and his lawyer walk over to a parked black car and get in. The car speeds away with tires burning through the pavement.

Ste was technically off on Sunday but he sits at home going over the recent cases. Anne and Walker come over a little bit after he started. He has the hit and run and murder in the flat memorized like the back of his hand. But he decides to go through the murder of the woman in the park. It happened about 2 weeks prior to the hit and run. He reads over the case and the only thing that he keeps repeating is that the body was posed after her death. She was killed in the park and dragged to a nearby bench. One person could easily have done it. Her throat was cut right down the center and her fingers were chopped off as well.

"You think that maybe these 2 girls were connected to each other Ste?

"Maybe. Remember that picture of the girls diary? Do we have that?"

Walker goes through a couple pictures and finds the one Ste was looking for. "Here ya go."

"Thanks. Doesn't this diary seem similar to the one we found in the home of the hit and run victim."

"Yeah kinda but I don't think hot pink diaries are uncommon to girls around their ages."

"True Anne but it's strange that both of these girls end up with basically the same exact diaries. Maybe they are friends and they both went together and bought matching sets."

Walker stares at him and raises his eyebrow. "I don't get it."

"Well if we can connect these two then maybe we can figure out why people wanted them both dead. It may lead us into what a motive someone could have."

"Omg Ste Ste. Station now."

"Something click in your head Anne?" Ste says as Walker then mumbles "that would be a first."

"I hate you two. But no really come on guys I remember something that the girl wrote in the diary."

"Oh come on it's my day off."

"You weren't even enjoying it. Let's go."

Ste reluctantly gets up and follows Anne and Walker to the station.

"Ok so start."

Anne smiles brightly at them and opens the hit and run victim's diary and flips through a couple pages.

"Here we go. Look. So she writes that her friend who spends most of the nights at her flat was acting a bit paranoid a couple weeks before her death. She goes on to say that she was acting suspicious and taking random calls at night and would actually leave the flat and take the calls outside."

"So?"

"Follow along. So a couple days later she writes that she was supposed to go out and that her friend was gonna spend the night. But she got sick and ended up staying home. She fell asleep and heard the door open couple hours later and knew it was her friend so she just stayed in bed. Later she hears a knock on the door and the friend runs to the door and opens it. She hears a bit of a confrontation so she moves closer to her bedroom door and tries to make out what's happening. She hears bits and pieces but she hears quite clearly that it is a man. That man asks her where his money is and that she better not be trying to cross him. The friend apologizes and mumbles something that she can't hear. Then the man yells at her that she better have his money within the coming weeks or she is gonna regret getting involved with him. She finally writes that as she hears the guy moving away he tells the friend that she better figure something out or her and anyone she knows weren't safe. Then the door slams closed."

Ste looks over at Walker who clearly looked lost from the start and decides he should speak first.

"So I'm assuming that you're thinking the girl in the park was the friend who would spend most nights at the hit and runs flat?"

"Precisely. And I think its drug related. I mean what else could it be. The man clearly wanted the money for the drugs that he most likely gave her."

"Right, but how would he know they were friends. And why even kill her."

"He probably just saw them together and maybe thought that she would talk and tell her everything so he decided to get rid of them both."

"So a drug dealer that is also a murderer?"

"Yeah and the recent murder with the guy we are assuming that's drug related as well right? It all has to be connected. We just gotta get deep into this drug scene and find the main source."

"And how do you exactly think we do that. Send an undercover. There not stupid."

"Not the main guys but the runts, the bottom of the barrel ones, they will probably talk."

"Alright well I'll get Doug to work on that tomorrow. But for now my head is pounding I'm gonna go back home and try to get some sleep."

"Alright mate have a good one I think me and Anne are gonna stay here a little while longer see if we can put anything else together."

Ste grabs his jacket and leaves the station. He doesn't know how he ended up spending hours there talking about a diary because now it's dark outside. He speeds up a little as he doesn't really want to be outside right now. As he is walking he realizes he has to pass Chez Chez and internally he wishes that he won't see Brendan. He can't be that unlucky that Brendan will outside. Of course Ste is known to be very unlucky and as he approaches the club he sees him. But for once he catches a break because he sees Cheryl is out there with him. He can make out they are arguing with each other. Cheryl is pacing back and forth and calling him an idiot as she yells at him over and over. Ste decides to slow down a bit so he can watch some more. The side door comes flying open and Warren comes out and starts telling them to shut up and that he will fix it. Cheryl glances at both of them and pushes past Warren as she enters the club and slams the door shut. Warren walks over to Brendan and they begin to talk. Ste suddenly realizes he is in the middle of the road not even trying to hide the fact he is staring straight at them. Brendan finally looks over at him and smiles at him. It sends a cold chill down Stes spine. Brendan nods to Warren and they both walk back inside. Ste releases the breath he didn't know he was holding and begins walking again. He makes it to his flat and collapses onto his sofa. He turns on the tv and flips through a couple channels. Nothing to watch really so he ends up leaving it on a murder show. Obviously. He relaxes and slowly starts slipping into sleep. Beep. Beep. His phone blinks and he reaches over to read his text message. He smiles to himself as he reads it and places the phone back down. "Good boy" Ste quietly says as he drifts off to sleep.

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