Notes:
Hello again!
Thank you for continuing to read, it really means a lot.
In these next few chapters, there are a few things that warrant an explanation.
Okay, so in true blood, Nan Flanagan was meant to have had a human partner in the early 20s who was involved in the Woman's Rights Movement and asked Nan to change her (drunk) before disappearing the next night, never to be seen again, after Nan refused. Since Esme's transformation in twilight was around the same time, I though it would fit quite nicely.
Also, the part about Nan's 'memory' is an idea of my own - that every day a vampire re-lives a time from their past instead of dreaming, based on Pam's flashbacks while unconscious in the series, so what Nan sees isn't a dream, it really happened.
Oh, and worth a mention, there is some Charles action in the coming chapters (though his behaviour is down to his own insecurity, which I have tried to convey). There's nothing too graphic or horrible, but do read it with the knowledge that he gets his comeuppance in the end, as demonstrated…
Chapter 11
Seattle, January 1922
"The, er, butchery seems to have been very…selective, carried out by somebody with detailed anatomical knowledge," said the physician called in to examine the body.
Despite his years treating wounded soldiers in the war, he'd thrown up.
"I-it also seems that Platt was alive while most of the…damage took place," he continued, begging the image to retreat.
"Yet nobody in the building heard a thing," murmured Peters as the doctor gratefully handed in his report and retreated to some nice living patients.
"Curious, yes," muttered Brice thoughtfully. "But the landlord and his wife, I believe, are beyond suspicion - they can barely climb the stairs, let alone…"
He tailed off. If there was a verb to describe what had happened to this man, Brice had never heard it.
Peters turned to him, shaking his head.
"No man could have borne this silently," he said. "So how did the killer do it?"
Detective Brice thought for a moment.
"How indeed?"