Recovery

Diagnosis Murder

Steve Sloan/Mark Sloan

Family/Hurt Comfort

Spoilers: Retribution Parts One and Two

The inmate who tormented Mark will be revealed and is up to no good.

Disclaimer: I don't own Diagnosis Murder.

A/N: This is my first Diagnosis Murder fanfiction story, please go easy on me!

Methods of a Menace

Mark was sitting on the bed in his death row cell. His conversation with his daughter temporarily lifted up his spirits, but now either she went back to visit Steve in the hospital or she's at the beach house. He was in deep thought about how to prove his innocence while his detective son was medical leave. Sure, Steve had his colleagues that could vouch for Mark, but it was one officer who had him dead to rights. Why the fuck was he even here in the first place? Planted evidence, forged rent check for a murdered girl's apartment and the binary poison that killed Ganza were all used to frame him.

"Oh Mark, I noticed you had your daughter visit," a creepy looking and sounding man said viciously.

"You leave her out this!" Mark snapped. "You probably were behind my son getting shot, but don't you dare touch my daughter!"

"Why do you think I had anything to do with Steve getting shot? I had spent the last seven years languishing here for allegedly killing my wife."

"Allegedly killed her? Malcolm, you poisoned her so you and your greedy brother could claim her family's accounting firm all to yourselves."

"Her death was an accident!"

"You had given her one drug and she took her insulin. The two drugs interacted and caused her to slip into a coma. She eventually died and you allowed that slimy Ian to take over her family business."

"Don't you dare refer to my brother as slimy!"

"Just shut the fuck up and leave me alone! Haven't you caused more than enough problems for yourself and others, and that includes my family?!"

Malcolm decided that enough tormenting of his nemesis for the moment. He had to come up with other ways to taunt the older man. The man who was set up to take the fall for two murders that someone else did. The man whose police officer son was shot, had major surgery, spent a few days in a coma and is now awake and recuperating (though a long road at it). He thought of contacting someone from the outside to torment the daughter of the poor man, but he decided against it. Instead, he thought it would be more fun to target Lieutenant Steve Sloan once he is well enough to leave the hospital. He needed Ian to plot something for the near future once the younger Sloan returned home.

The methods of a menace were churning in the mind of Malcolm Trainor. He sat in his cell and smirked. In his mind, Dr. Mark Sloan was worth the framing. He gave himself the satisfaction that he's making the Sloans pay for his punishment.

In the cell across from Malcolm's, Mark sat on the bed and was in deep thought. He wondered if Carol could also be in danger, not just Steve. Maybe Malcolm was messing with him and she is safe. Mark knew that his daughter could hold her own, especially when she delivered a right hook to Andrea's face when she (Andrea) was about to be arrested. He knew Steve had taught her that while they were growing up. He also knew that she could always call the cops for protection or hope Steve makes a full and very rapid recovery for her sake.

TBC