I Have Never Been to Minneapolis
Chapter 14 Right as Rain
"Aah." groaned Greg right there gripping onto his stomach but his heart felt a lot worse
"Are you okay?" asked Juliet as she looked to the side and at him as she continued on driving
"No, something's terribly wrong. I think it's Morgan." said Greg right there
They ended up stopping at the city hall. They got out of Juliet's car and went into city hall. They then went into the crime lab where they found Seth, Gage, Brad, Nicholas and Carina. They had stopped talking once they came in.
"You didn't leave Greg." said Seth
"No not when I was drugged and pass out on the ground. I'm staying here to win this fight." replied Greg
"We're all with you." said Carina as the others got up and stood there
Greg stood there as something came to him. He felt as if someone was saying Occam's razor. He was wondering if that was Morgan. It was so faint that it was too hard to tell. But it felt like her. But she's now weaker than ever or she was out but still trying to fight. He knows she would fight to stay alive and also to die trying. But he's going to find her he has to find her.
Morgan means everything to him probably more. He never expected to love and care for her as much. But she does, he can't help himself by loving her. He doesn't care about all of the bad things it's the good things that has happened. Plus he sees all the good in her that's all that matters. It's the good you see in people. It's the good that he sees in her and all the good she's done. Honestly he doesn't care that Ecklie is her father.
Sometimes he feels like he calls his name and others also call his name. He never falls apart or feels like he goes through an endless sorrow. He tries to go through the day strong or as strong as possible. There are days where he feels weak and has scars that he can't erase. The visible and invisible scars or the real and unreal scars. But he's still able to get through the day. Or what he means to say. There are times when he feels misunderstood.
Is he starting to believe that finally this is the start of something good? But that something good is starting to come undone. This has never crossed his mind until now. He has always wanted to say what he means to say. And what he means to say is something to Morgan. She is his start of something good.
But he also knows he has always tried walking away, walking away from everything. He thought his world was in jumbles. That he thought he's has enough. He's been alone for so long with no one holding him. That he's always had a problem letting go and also letting them in. He always wondered why.
Now all that matters to him is Morgan. Getting her back and that she's safe. Then he can finally tell her how he feels about her. Maybe they can actually start a relationship. But first he needs to know how Morgan feels about him before they get there. He's finally figured this out even if it did take a long time.
"Greg." said Seth
"Yeah." replied Greg
"Did you hear us?" asked Brad
"About what?" responded Greg
"And he didn't." said Carina
"He was lost in his thoughts." said Juliet as she looked "What are you thinking?"
"Wait a minute." said Greg as he got an idea
"Wait where are you going?" asked Nicholas getting up
"What are you thinking Greg?" asked Juliet
"On what you told me." said Greg as he came back with a laptop and started tying and got to it "There our victims they were all police."
"What?" said everyone in unison and came over to him to look at the laptop
"In Vegas eighteen years ago the team disbanded as they either quit, got fired or got replaced." said Greg to them while looking at the screen "It was because, they couldn't catch the Fleur de lis Killer."
Greg turned to look at Juliet as she stood there immobile right there in shock. These victims were the guys who couldn't catch her parent's killer. Juliet looked at Greg right there in shock. He looked at her as she looked at her co-workers.
"The Fleur de lis killer killed my parents." Said Juliet
"What? You never said-." Started Seth
"It hurt too much my mother's brother took it harder than anyone." Juliet explained
"Maybe he's doing this in revenge." replied Greg
"My Uncle Bill would never do this." said Juliet right there
"Juliet sometimes people think they know someone when in fact they don't." Seth explained
"But my Uncle Bill-." Juliet started exasperated then stopped "He couldn't."
Greg sat there looking at her knowing that she must feel bad, frazzled and in shock. He would be in denial himself if a close relative was killing people one by one. He wouldn't want it to be true even if it was the truth. It would be crazy.
Her co-workers were looking at her somewhat sympathetic, understanding and shocked at the same time. Seth put his hand to Juliet's shoulder to soothe her and help. Juliet seems to be taking this kind of hard as it seems like her uncle is involved in all the Red Rose killings as it seems he's the Red Rose Killer.
"I'm so sorry Juliet." said Greg
"Wait a minute there was one more officer working the case." said Carina clicking on the screen
"What's the name?" asked Seth
"Uh . . . Officer Flynn Darling." said Carina
"Wait as in Detective Darling." responded Gage
"I think we should put officers to him and catch him up to speed." said Carina
"I'm on it." said Seth to them "You guys figure out where Uncle Bill is hiding and could have taken Morgan." he was walking and turned around "Do you think you can handle this Juliet?"
"I can try." muttered Juliet
"I want Brad, Gage, Nicholas and Juliet on finding a location on . . . Uncle Hill on where he's hiding and where Morgan could be. Greg, Carina keep searching the net about the Fleur de lis killer and do a background check on Bill." said Seth
"Got it." said Greg and Carina
"His name is Bill Heinrich Gallows." said Juliet as she went to them
"Thanks Juliet." said Carina
Juliet kind of sauntered off as she doesn't want this to be true. Having known someone to find how psychotic they are by killing can be pretty rough. It's going to take a while for Juliet to dig out of the hole. She really is taking this hard as she has known her uncle her whole life.
"You do the background check I'll keep searching the net." said Greg
Carina went off to go do the background check while Greg turned around back to the laptop. He ended up typing the Fleur de lis killer. A lot of articles came up. He ended up going in a few different articles but they all said the same thing. He then went into another and saw it was the first ever news clipping on the killer.
Killer at Large in Vegas Area
By: Kaylie Ecklie
In Las Vegas a killer known as the Fleur de lis killer has risen. When I talked to the police they said they couldn't go into any gruesome details but did give me some information on this killer. Apparently this killer is attacking and killing couples, married and unmarried. For reasons unknown as of now. The reason this killer though has risen is apparently he wants attention. The reason they call him this name is because he paints a Fleur de lis on each couples back. Officer Darling told me "The Fleur de lis killer is one of the sadistic killers I have come across in my life and probably will end up being one of the most notorious and well known killers in Nevada." With the Fleur de lis reputation everyone would agree on that statement. The farther the investigation goes the more baffled the detective and police become. Even with all the evidence they have they still can't identify even a person of interest. I'm not one to voice an opinion but this guy crazy, catch him soon.
Greg read the article but what caught his eye was the name. It was Kaylie Ecklie. He knows there has to be some relation to Morgan. There's the same last name spelled the exact same way. So how are, they even are related. He sighed and typed in the name Kaylie Ecklie.
He saw the relation with Morgan is that Kaylie is her older sister. Greg was surprised. Morgan never mentioned an older sister to him. He saw that Kaylie is alive but now in a mental ward in a mental institution. Apparently she survived a brutal attack from the Fleur de lis killer. It says that she went insane a week after the article was published.
Greg sighed as he feels bad for Morgan, her mother and Ecklie. He now knows why they never even mentioned Kaylie. He feels bad now knowing this as the same thing is almost repeating in the Ecklie family. Now he knows there's a lot more pressure to get Morgan back, safe and out of harm's way.
"What did you find?" asked Carina coming back and over to him
"Well I found the first ever newspaper article on the internet. Morgan's older sister wrote it and got brutally attacked a week later." told Greg but left out the biggest detail about her being in a mental ward in a mental institution
"Wow that must have been hard on her and her parents." said Carina
"Morgan and her father never mentioned anything about her. I can see why." said Greg
"Because she was brutally attacked." said Carina
"Yeah." muttered Greg
He closed his eyes right knowing the Ecklie family doesn't deserve this. Even though he seems calm and collected his nothing but. He's frazzled, mad, angry, bitter and sad. Morgan is still out there somewhere with the killer. He's so concerned and worried about her.
"Well I did a background check on Uncle Bill." said Carina as she stood there "He has no rap sheet but there was a disturbance at his house multiple times in the last 2 months."
"Did someone check that out?" asked Greg
"Yeah a couple police went there." replied Carina
"Where's his house?" Greg wondered
"Eagan." answered Carina while looking at the sheet
"Get a warrant so we can search the premise and inside of the house. We need definitive proof that he's the killer." said Greg
"On it." said Carina as she got on the phone
Seth, Brad, Gage, Nicholas and Juliet came over to him as he sat there clicking on the screen. They saw how he looked sad and depressed. Morgan is missing and they need to find her. It's the only way to get Greg back to normal.
"Greg." said Seth
"Huh." muttered Greg as he snapped out of it
"I got Detective Darling up to speed and put officers to watch him." said Seth
"We got potential places that Uncle Bill . . . could be could've taken Morgan to." said Juliet there still trying to hold it together "We have a couple abandoned warehouses. I got back from the state there were no foreign substances in any of our victims. But they did get a certain apple fragrance. I crossed check the two and found three places in St. Paul."
"Sounds good we're all going to go." said Seth
"Where's Carina?" asked Gage
"She's on the phone getting a warrant to Bill's house." Greg informed them filling them in "There have been multiple disturbances in the last 2 months."
"Okay when she gets it go with her there." said Seth
"Got it." replied Greg
Seth, Gage, Brad, Nicholas and Juliet went off leaving Greg there. He took in a big sigh and looked at the lap top screen in front of him. He knows that he's going to find Morgan. He doesn't know where, he doesn't know when and he doesn't know why but he's going to find her.