Fear In Great Justice.
Opening Thoughts- This will be a little longer than the other chapters, and it's more dialogue! Enjoy, and Review...pretty please!
"honey,"Faith began as she quickly went towards the little boy.Only to have him fight her away at first, but suddenly turn to her and Jackson before colapsing into Faith's arms.
"why doesn't she love me anymore?" Daniel managed to word out through his sobs, too scared, angry and confused to turn back to his mother.
Faith sniffled slightly, grasping the poor boy as tightly as she could.Knowing that this would happen if Daniel came and saw his mother this way.'What in the hell was he thinking?' Faith's mind raced as she glared over at Jackson slightly, wanting to say something anything to voice her thoughts on his ignorance towards his sons fragile being, yet, instead she pulled Daniel from her embrace and stared him straight into his eyes.
"you listen to me,"she began felling her heart sink looking into the boy's eyes, they were blood shot from his crying."your mother loved you more than anything..."
"then why isn't she here!?" Daniel retorted, in a roar.
"because, she isn't feeling too well, but she's going to get better...Danny, and she's going," she started with a slight smile"love you and take care of you, just like before."her voice was shaky as she realized she just might have been giving Daniel false hopes, but she didn't have the heart to tell Daniel anything else when she looked into his eyes.
He couldn't stand this, and he swore if he stayed any longer in this room he was going to loose it.With tears streaming down his eyes and falling down into the sides of his shirt Jackson managed to slip out un-noticed.He rushed down the halls vigorously brushing past some people, he left Daniel with Charity's mother Jackson knew he shouldn't of done that with a proper explanation after what he had just pulled, but he'd be back for him and that would be the lest time Daniel or he would be heard of or seen in Harmony.
Betty's voice trailled behind him, as he began to pick up his pace down the hall, turning sharply down a corner;But the damn voice resounded, and Jackson hesitatingly stopped and turned towards the woman.
"Mr. Monroe you've left before taking a blood test." she stated breathlessly.
"what?" Jackson hissed as his eyebrows forrowed.
"a blood test," she continued" for Charity's blood transfusion, Dr. Russle has gotten everyone member of your wife's familly and some of her close friends to take them."
"oh."Jackson sighed, regaining his concerned husband front"yes, I will do that but I have some things to tend to for myself and my son.Is it possible for me to do that tomorow?"
"yes, is tomorow mourning good for you?"
Jackson nodded,"yes"
"great." she responed turning to leave.
"oh, and thank you...it truly is great to here that my wife will be alright."he responded with a slight smile, hoping the nurse would go away with that and leave him the hell alone.
Betty said nothing only returning the smile and walking away Jackson had left before she had made her turn around a corner.
After Jessica had stated that she had someting important to tell Miguel, she had then went into a hysterical state colapsing to the floor and rambling things neither of the men have heard of while claiming that this was all her fault, and that Charity just might die because of her.Marcus and Miguel tried deperately to calm her but it was no avail, and what ever she knew about Charity and her attempted murder was surely important to have her in this state.Marcus rushed her into his office and sat her down, as he began to coax her trying to get her calm down so he and Miguel could find out what she knew, and if it could actually help Charity and this case.
Miguel stood pensively at the other end of the room observing Jessica, seeing the same fear he saw in Daniel's eyes moments earlier.Her tears fell fiercely down the sides of her cheeks, as she went back and forth in her seat slowly calming under Marcus' care she stopped suddenly as if hypnotized as her eyes went from Marcus and Miguel and back again for sevral moments.
"now Jessica," Marcus began softly, in somewhat of a lulling tone"before all of this you said there was something Miguel had to know, was it about Charity?"
She clasped her arms around herself, as she sniffeled nodding slowly.
Marcus looked back at Miguel quickly, as he pushed his chair more inwards towards Jessica as she sat still rocking herself back and forth, and single tears escaping her ever so often.
"do you know who did this? Do you know, who tried to kill your cousin?"
She nodded once more, her eyes searching the room wildly before she finally spoke."it all started a few months after they were married, they were fighting---about his drinking problem," she paused taking a slight breath"and then out of nowhere he hit her."
"Jackson."Marcus responded
"and it wasn't---it wasn't the firs time, the more it happened the worse it was.I told her she had to tell someone, this wasn't the way it was supposed to be...he wasn't supposed to treat her this way, he wasn't supposed to treat their familly this way!"
"did he abuse Daniel as well?"
"no, he never touched him...Charity wouldn't let him."
The room stood silent, Marcus watched onto Jessica agasht of what he she had just revealed to him.'This is awful,' his mind spoke aloud, as Jessica went further into all the occasions Jackson had touched her her herself swearing each time Jackson had come closer to truly killing Charity.
Miguel listened still standing in the same spot, watching Jessica's every moove anger growing, rising with every tale Jessica told.He didn't even think it was real, but it was...Jackson had been abusing Charity for all the years she had been away, and he just might of been the one who tried to kill her, he kept his foccus on Jessica.Remembering his promise that he would keep, he was going to kill that sick bastard Jackson for ever laying a hand on Charity, no matter what how the costs would turn for him.
"Miguel," Jessica's fearfull voice spoke cutting into Miguel's thoughts " I have no proof to it...but I know Jackson did this to Charity, he is the only one who could be this vengefull."
"we were talking about, how strange Daniel was acting around him."
"oh my God you two don't think...?"Jessica gasped
"what other reason is there Jessica?" Miguel began as he walked closer into the conversation, pausing at the edge of Marcus' desk."Daniel knows, what happened to Charity that afternoon.He's probably the only one who can tell us who did this."
With that statement fresh in the minds of all in that room, Miguel called Hank informing him of the receant information he had just optained while Jessica, managed to tell Faith about what Jackson had done to Charity before she was accosted.The intervention was made as they all filed into Marcus' office, and awaited Daniel.
As the boy entered, he felt apprehensive watching everyone's eyes onto him.His grand-mother told him these people were going to ask him a few questions about his mother, and father that they were hoping he could answer.Faith reud this, for she knew Daniel shouldn't have to have this all on him, having a three- year old child being the final key to her daughter's attack but fear in her mind as she imagined the little boy watching her mother being hurt.
The room stood still once more, as Marcus sat across from Daniel.
"hey Danny," Marcus began with a faint smile.
Daniel didn't respond, he only searched the room filled with people as his eyes met with the floor.
"I think I'm going to ask some of you to leave, I him to be as calm as posibble right now and this environment isn't going to do that."
Some did as he said, leaving only Hank, Miguel and Jessica in the room.
Marcus let out a deep sigh, as he looked onto Daniel and began"so how old are you now?" he questioned him, with a smile.
"three,"Daniel responded timidly, as he kicked his feet up and down hitting the stand of the chair he observed the room before looking towards the ground once more.
"your Mommy told me you really don't like it here,"
The boy nodded in agreement"it's creepy." he blurted out qucikcly pursing his lips, the adults in the room let out a slight wry chuckle at Daniel's honesty before hushing.
"I know, that exactlly what I thought when I first came here."
Daniel gave Marcus a questionable, look as he listened.
"yeah,"Marcus nodded" I was a little bit younger than you when my mother and sister and I came to Harmony" he leaned inwards towards the boy"I hated here, I remeber plotting to go back home so I could be with my Dad again."
Daniel remained quiet, as Marcus notted that he came too close to home and if he was ever going to get the truth out of Daniel he would have to be as cautious as possible.
With the slight clear of his throat Marcus began once more"I was just as scared as you were, but as it turned out Harmony wasn't all that 'creepy' after awhile...you know, infact I started to acctually like the place.I bet you will too,"
"but I'm not staying here,"Daniel retorted"when my mommy gets better her and my daddy are gonna get back together, and we'll be a familly again."
The tension rose, as Hank, Miguel and Jessica past glances from left to right.While their eyes managed to fall back on Marcus and Daniel's conversation.
"of course," he repplied with a re-assuring nod."I bet you're really scared about your Mommy huh?"
The boy nodded once more, letting Marcus know that he was getting a little more comfortable with their conversation.
"Daniel,"he began shakily"do you remember what happened, that day when your Daddy came to visit ?"
He was hesitant at first, as his eyes searched everyone nervously.Why would they want to know something like that? what was going on? He remembered talks with his father regarding if this situation ever , Daniel was unsure about all of this but just like before Jackson asked him if he wanted to loose his Daddy, and Daniel couldn't bear to it so he agreed to say what his father told him to...even thought it was the worst lie he could have kept.
"it's alright, sweetie...none of this is going to get you in trouble,"Jessica reassured kneeling to him."we just want to know what happened that day so we can help your Mommy."
"Daniel,"Marcus sighed softly feeling bad he had to be blatant with Daniel yet somewhere knowing the boy was sick of everyone sugar coating things for him and that he wantded someone, anymone to be straight forward with him"we have a feeling you know who did this to your Mother, are we right?"
His heart felt like it would beat out of his chest as his eyes met with Marcus'.His small fingertips dug themselves into his seat as he stopped kicking."yes."he replied as a silent gasp filled the room, everyone stood aghast at Daniel's words they had their speculations that maybe he had seen something in benifit to the case but it was never a certainty.
They listened to the boy recap the day, as he went into the part where his father told him to go upstairs while he and his mother talked.He never mentioned it, but he took one last look at his mother before he left her eyes met with is slighty as she gave him a smile, but it wasn't the one he'd been accostumed to...the one his mother always gave him days before, this one was strange it almost looked as if she was scared.Just as scared as he was right now...
" I know I shouldn't of listened, but I did." he began his expressions somber and still.
"listened? To your parents talking."he stated
"they were angry, they wouldn't stop yelling at each other." his mind went back to that day, he stood quietly inone of the corners of the kitchen opening watching his parents agrument."I heard some loud crashing noises, and then I heard my mommy."
"you didn't see anything."
Silence was his answer, he stood closely in the kitchen's opening close enough to hear...but not to see, the sound of everything put so much far into his heart that he really didn't dare go in.As he heard more crashing and yelling, he felt his heart rise to his throat as he ran rapidly down the hall almost tripping over himself to get up the stairs.What he had heard, what he had seen had scared him beyound his own beliefs.
"he told me, that if I didn't want him to get in trouble." he finally ended."I would lie."he spoke once more, somewhere feeling relieved that he got everything off of his concience.
The words of the small boy where all Miguel and Hank needed to take action, as soon as they made sure Daniel was settle and alright.They headed out towards the dragged down motel where they found our Jackson had been staying through his apb files the drive over was quiet as both men didn't really know what to say about what they have seen and heard in the past few days the things that Daniel had described where to them to unbearable to fathom, which made them thirst to catch Jackson even more than when they first suspected him.
The smooth noises, and flashing lights of serval police cars could be seen on the driveway opening to the motel all of them parking in an un-ordelly fashion, causing some of its partime residents to peak through the creaks of their windows.Miguel recklessly parked the police car in the nearest slot he found barely fitting the vehicle into it's confinments, and almost running it into one of the poles that stood infront of them.
"would you calm down!"Hank hissed, as he watched Miguel take the keys out of the ignition.Feeling a little unsettled as this was the very first time he saw Miguel act this way.
Miguel's eyes turned to Hank"I can't calm down!" he snapped amazed of what the man had just told him to do after all they've heard."I can't believe we were so stupid!" he roared his fist balled up as he striked the steering wheel in shear disgust of himself and the whole police bregade." all this fucking time, all the evidence pointed towards him Hank! You saw what he did to Charity, Imagine what he could of done to Daniel."the young man ended his words falling as a loud thunder in the summer's night air, he bolted out of the car while intensely slamming the car door leaving a jarred Hank in the passenger's seat.
He let out a deep breath, as he grabbed his gun and also made his way out of the car.At the corner of his eyes he noticed Luis quickly making his way to his little brother fearing his little brother might do what he always did, and act on his impulse an action of which might get him killed, or even might kill Jackson in the process.Luis' gruff voice was heard hailling offf the many cars of backup they've requested, until his further notice.
"come on you worthless sack of shit!" Miguel hissed into the night as his footsteps, kicked the durt ground as they mdae their way closer and closer to Jackson's room.
"hey!" a stubby man's southern accent screeched into the night, as he quickly placed himself infront of the fuming yound man."what in the hell is the meaning of this?"
"who the hell are you?"Miguel roared, as his murderous glare made the poor man cringe.
"I'm the owner of this here hotel," the man snapped regaining his manhood with the clearing of his throat."the real question son, is who the hell are you."
Miguel without the slightest air of taking anything the man had once said seriously, he spoke"do you not notice, the police cars parked infront of your parking lot?" he snapped" we here to arrest someone, now if you don't mind..."
"pesonally I do mind, look son why don't you take a little look around.You see the people in all of those rooms!? See the look in all their faces, take a little guess pretty boy how do you think they're feeling right now!?" he asked rhetoriclly, as he so obnoxiously continued"there not too peachy right now and if they aren't too happy I don't get paid, so you can take you pety case and..."
He listened potently for the first few seconds before his anger and frustration subsided, and he swiftly punched the man and watched him plumet towards the floor cursing him off, and clenching his jaw.As he shrugged everything off, he brushed his hands into his pocket taking out his badge and thrusting it towards the man so it remained in his eye view, and walked of leaving Hank and Luis to tend to the wretched fool and his precious run-down hotel.
After rationly cleaning up Miguel's mess, the ran towards where he was heading to support him with back up.All of them paused infront of the door after a series of vigorous, knocks on the door.Yet the severity of the men's knocks and their yells was for naught as no one opened the door.
"I don't care how we do it, were getting in there." Miguel asserted.
With the condition of the door, and the stregth of the men and went against it. It took nothing for the door to un-hinge itself, and smak open making a loud slapping noise towards the cracking wall.Barely noticable footsteps were made through the rowdy musky room smelling of cigarette smoke.One behind the other, Miguel, Hank and Luis threaded through the room looking for any apparent sign of Jackson being their, as they went further and further into the still and lonely room...they noticed, that there wasn't one.
"Shit!"Miguel hissed in defeat as he knocked over a nearby night table.
"oh that is it!" Luis thundered"go home."
"I'm not going anywhere Luis, right now Jackson could be anywhere...we just can't let him go."
"and were not,"Hank assured him as they headed out of the hotel room"but you are in no condition to handle this case properlly, so you're going home."
Miguel watched the two awkwardly, how the hell was he supposed to act! Did they not notice the severity of this situation? He remained silent, standing his ground in the hotel room's doorway.
"don't make us tell you again, Miguel," Luis began in a warning tone."we want to find Jackson just as much as you do,"
"I strongly doubt that." Miguel hissed as he began to thunder away, heading towarsd the police car.
"you go in that car, and go after Jackson and I swear I'll have your badge."
Miguel's hand clasped, with the car door as he stoped his back facing Luis and Hank.
"look, if you go after him you'll only make things worse and what good would that do Charity or Daniel."
Miguel huffed slightly as he jumped into his car and sped away, leaving Hank and Luis to wonder whether or not he would do as they asked, or defy them possiblly risking his own life to make sure Charity's and Daniel's would be salvaged.
The sound of his footsteps could be heard creaking themselves through the wood floor.He was restless, like every night that stood before it...for the first time in a long time, he didn't want to be here.He knew he wasn't supposed to be home, he was supposed to be out there killing Jackson, however as he recollected he might of ruined things for everyone if he had went of on his own to destroy Jackson.He stepped out of the bathroom, walking slowly down the hall trying to figure out what he would do as he waited for any word from Hank and Luis.
'There he is,' his mind snickered, as his pressence appeared from the darkness.The glimmer of his gun shinning through a porch window in Miguel's appartment, he made sure to step steps away from Miguel so he could be protected by the darkness.He did worry when he heard Miguel walk in, he really wasn't expecting him to be home so soon and that had really put a damper into his origional plan as he just slithered into his house a few minutes before he walked in.
Finally, he would be rid of him and all of his too close conspictions.He had to kill Miguel now, if he didn't he would surely catch on to him murdering Olivia Borrows and getting away with it, and it would only take him mear seconds to relay Charity and Oliva's cases together; And then there always the part where he slept with his wife, althought he couldn't blame the man for his wife being a slut yet either way Miguel had to die.
Jackson etched each and every one of his mooves clenching the jet black gun in his hands, this was the final piece of the puzzle.Miguel would die, as would all the information of Olivia Borrows and every suspiction towars him being Charity's killer.
Miguel shivered slightly, feeling a slight wind burst through his upstais as he ran his hands through his hair and continued to walk.The shiver remained, as he began to feel more and more uncomfortable with it he turned slightly into his dark hallway searching it aimlessly.
Meanwhile, Betty and an other nurse were gathering together some the blood tests before they put an end to their night.Betty rose one of the folders raising her brow with a touch of anger towards the nurse that stood beside her.
"what is this?" she questioned
"well, Betty that's a blood test.Remember the ones, Dr. Russle has requested from all of Mrs Monroe's loved ones."
"I realize that Rose," Betty sighed."I was talking about Daniel Monroe's test, Dr. Russle specificlly told us that we weren't supposed to test him as a possible match."
Rose dimissed it, as she took a slight look at Daniel's stats from his blood tes and looking down at another entry.She eyed the one tha liad on the table as her deep blue eyes foccused back on the one Betty was holding, she quickly snatched Daniel's out of Betty's hands as she took a closer look.
Eve slightly slid herself in the labrotory door, as she gave a faint smile to the nurses."everything ready to go,"
"I'm afraid not, Eve, Rose took Daniel's blood."Betty stated, with an ashamed sigh for the young girls incompadance.
"what? Rose, didn't I tell you that Daniel wasn't to be tested...He's too young to be a blood donor" she chastized, only greeting Rose's silence and somewhat bewilderment.
"oh my God," she finally spoke as if gasping for air.
"what's the matter now, Rose?" Eve asked wearilly.
"this can't be."she began once more with a slight smile on her face.
"what is it girl! C'mon spit it out?" Betty demanded.
Rose looked from Eve to Betty as she finally began to speak taking her eyes off of the two test results."Daniel and Miguel's blood test's---they match."
"let me see that," Eve began breathlessly as she eyed both tests.
"every other test we ran was inconclusive, no one's blood matched with Charity's."
"what about Faith's? Jessica's?" Eve questioned flipping through the charts.
"Charity's an A positive, both Faith and Jessica were AB's.However on the other hand, Miguel and Daniel were both O positives.With all that said this could mean..."Rose began in a slight squeal as Eve abruptly ceased her.
"we can't jump to conclusions like that ,Rose, remember O positive is the most common blood type."she contimplated, as she rested the papers to her side."have you gotten Jackson Monroe's test yet?"
"no,"Betty answered"we weren't able to,"
"then what we need to do is take his blood test---"
"what for? We've already found Charity two perfectlly suitable donor's, and there's only a firty percent chance that Jackson could do the same."
" I know," Eve replied." but we can't always be too sure." she ended sagely, the results of those blood tests still fresh in her mind.
The dark street of which his house rested on was quiet, and still as the lound and abrupt noises of rampid gunshots running thorugh the house.
Opening Thoughts- This will be a little longer than the other chapters, and it's more dialogue! Enjoy, and Review...pretty please!
"honey,"Faith began as she quickly went towards the little boy.Only to have him fight her away at first, but suddenly turn to her and Jackson before colapsing into Faith's arms.
"why doesn't she love me anymore?" Daniel managed to word out through his sobs, too scared, angry and confused to turn back to his mother.
Faith sniffled slightly, grasping the poor boy as tightly as she could.Knowing that this would happen if Daniel came and saw his mother this way.'What in the hell was he thinking?' Faith's mind raced as she glared over at Jackson slightly, wanting to say something anything to voice her thoughts on his ignorance towards his sons fragile being, yet, instead she pulled Daniel from her embrace and stared him straight into his eyes.
"you listen to me,"she began felling her heart sink looking into the boy's eyes, they were blood shot from his crying."your mother loved you more than anything..."
"then why isn't she here!?" Daniel retorted, in a roar.
"because, she isn't feeling too well, but she's going to get better...Danny, and she's going," she started with a slight smile"love you and take care of you, just like before."her voice was shaky as she realized she just might have been giving Daniel false hopes, but she didn't have the heart to tell Daniel anything else when she looked into his eyes.
He couldn't stand this, and he swore if he stayed any longer in this room he was going to loose it.With tears streaming down his eyes and falling down into the sides of his shirt Jackson managed to slip out un-noticed.He rushed down the halls vigorously brushing past some people, he left Daniel with Charity's mother Jackson knew he shouldn't of done that with a proper explanation after what he had just pulled, but he'd be back for him and that would be the lest time Daniel or he would be heard of or seen in Harmony.
Betty's voice trailled behind him, as he began to pick up his pace down the hall, turning sharply down a corner;But the damn voice resounded, and Jackson hesitatingly stopped and turned towards the woman.
"Mr. Monroe you've left before taking a blood test." she stated breathlessly.
"what?" Jackson hissed as his eyebrows forrowed.
"a blood test," she continued" for Charity's blood transfusion, Dr. Russle has gotten everyone member of your wife's familly and some of her close friends to take them."
"oh."Jackson sighed, regaining his concerned husband front"yes, I will do that but I have some things to tend to for myself and my son.Is it possible for me to do that tomorow?"
"yes, is tomorow mourning good for you?"
Jackson nodded,"yes"
"great." she responed turning to leave.
"oh, and thank you...it truly is great to here that my wife will be alright."he responded with a slight smile, hoping the nurse would go away with that and leave him the hell alone.
Betty said nothing only returning the smile and walking away Jackson had left before she had made her turn around a corner.
After Jessica had stated that she had someting important to tell Miguel, she had then went into a hysterical state colapsing to the floor and rambling things neither of the men have heard of while claiming that this was all her fault, and that Charity just might die because of her.Marcus and Miguel tried deperately to calm her but it was no avail, and what ever she knew about Charity and her attempted murder was surely important to have her in this state.Marcus rushed her into his office and sat her down, as he began to coax her trying to get her calm down so he and Miguel could find out what she knew, and if it could actually help Charity and this case.
Miguel stood pensively at the other end of the room observing Jessica, seeing the same fear he saw in Daniel's eyes moments earlier.Her tears fell fiercely down the sides of her cheeks, as she went back and forth in her seat slowly calming under Marcus' care she stopped suddenly as if hypnotized as her eyes went from Marcus and Miguel and back again for sevral moments.
"now Jessica," Marcus began softly, in somewhat of a lulling tone"before all of this you said there was something Miguel had to know, was it about Charity?"
She clasped her arms around herself, as she sniffeled nodding slowly.
Marcus looked back at Miguel quickly, as he pushed his chair more inwards towards Jessica as she sat still rocking herself back and forth, and single tears escaping her ever so often.
"do you know who did this? Do you know, who tried to kill your cousin?"
She nodded once more, her eyes searching the room wildly before she finally spoke."it all started a few months after they were married, they were fighting---about his drinking problem," she paused taking a slight breath"and then out of nowhere he hit her."
"Jackson."Marcus responded
"and it wasn't---it wasn't the firs time, the more it happened the worse it was.I told her she had to tell someone, this wasn't the way it was supposed to be...he wasn't supposed to treat her this way, he wasn't supposed to treat their familly this way!"
"did he abuse Daniel as well?"
"no, he never touched him...Charity wouldn't let him."
The room stood silent, Marcus watched onto Jessica agasht of what he she had just revealed to him.'This is awful,' his mind spoke aloud, as Jessica went further into all the occasions Jackson had touched her her herself swearing each time Jackson had come closer to truly killing Charity.
Miguel listened still standing in the same spot, watching Jessica's every moove anger growing, rising with every tale Jessica told.He didn't even think it was real, but it was...Jackson had been abusing Charity for all the years she had been away, and he just might of been the one who tried to kill her, he kept his foccus on Jessica.Remembering his promise that he would keep, he was going to kill that sick bastard Jackson for ever laying a hand on Charity, no matter what how the costs would turn for him.
"Miguel," Jessica's fearfull voice spoke cutting into Miguel's thoughts " I have no proof to it...but I know Jackson did this to Charity, he is the only one who could be this vengefull."
"we were talking about, how strange Daniel was acting around him."
"oh my God you two don't think...?"Jessica gasped
"what other reason is there Jessica?" Miguel began as he walked closer into the conversation, pausing at the edge of Marcus' desk."Daniel knows, what happened to Charity that afternoon.He's probably the only one who can tell us who did this."
With that statement fresh in the minds of all in that room, Miguel called Hank informing him of the receant information he had just optained while Jessica, managed to tell Faith about what Jackson had done to Charity before she was accosted.The intervention was made as they all filed into Marcus' office, and awaited Daniel.
As the boy entered, he felt apprehensive watching everyone's eyes onto him.His grand-mother told him these people were going to ask him a few questions about his mother, and father that they were hoping he could answer.Faith reud this, for she knew Daniel shouldn't have to have this all on him, having a three- year old child being the final key to her daughter's attack but fear in her mind as she imagined the little boy watching her mother being hurt.
The room stood still once more, as Marcus sat across from Daniel.
"hey Danny," Marcus began with a faint smile.
Daniel didn't respond, he only searched the room filled with people as his eyes met with the floor.
"I think I'm going to ask some of you to leave, I him to be as calm as posibble right now and this environment isn't going to do that."
Some did as he said, leaving only Hank, Miguel and Jessica in the room.
Marcus let out a deep sigh, as he looked onto Daniel and began"so how old are you now?" he questioned him, with a smile.
"three,"Daniel responded timidly, as he kicked his feet up and down hitting the stand of the chair he observed the room before looking towards the ground once more.
"your Mommy told me you really don't like it here,"
The boy nodded in agreement"it's creepy." he blurted out qucikcly pursing his lips, the adults in the room let out a slight wry chuckle at Daniel's honesty before hushing.
"I know, that exactlly what I thought when I first came here."
Daniel gave Marcus a questionable, look as he listened.
"yeah,"Marcus nodded" I was a little bit younger than you when my mother and sister and I came to Harmony" he leaned inwards towards the boy"I hated here, I remeber plotting to go back home so I could be with my Dad again."
Daniel remained quiet, as Marcus notted that he came too close to home and if he was ever going to get the truth out of Daniel he would have to be as cautious as possible.
With the slight clear of his throat Marcus began once more"I was just as scared as you were, but as it turned out Harmony wasn't all that 'creepy' after awhile...you know, infact I started to acctually like the place.I bet you will too,"
"but I'm not staying here,"Daniel retorted"when my mommy gets better her and my daddy are gonna get back together, and we'll be a familly again."
The tension rose, as Hank, Miguel and Jessica past glances from left to right.While their eyes managed to fall back on Marcus and Daniel's conversation.
"of course," he repplied with a re-assuring nod."I bet you're really scared about your Mommy huh?"
The boy nodded once more, letting Marcus know that he was getting a little more comfortable with their conversation.
"Daniel,"he began shakily"do you remember what happened, that day when your Daddy came to visit ?"
He was hesitant at first, as his eyes searched everyone nervously.Why would they want to know something like that? what was going on? He remembered talks with his father regarding if this situation ever , Daniel was unsure about all of this but just like before Jackson asked him if he wanted to loose his Daddy, and Daniel couldn't bear to it so he agreed to say what his father told him to...even thought it was the worst lie he could have kept.
"it's alright, sweetie...none of this is going to get you in trouble,"Jessica reassured kneeling to him."we just want to know what happened that day so we can help your Mommy."
"Daniel,"Marcus sighed softly feeling bad he had to be blatant with Daniel yet somewhere knowing the boy was sick of everyone sugar coating things for him and that he wantded someone, anymone to be straight forward with him"we have a feeling you know who did this to your Mother, are we right?"
His heart felt like it would beat out of his chest as his eyes met with Marcus'.His small fingertips dug themselves into his seat as he stopped kicking."yes."he replied as a silent gasp filled the room, everyone stood aghast at Daniel's words they had their speculations that maybe he had seen something in benifit to the case but it was never a certainty.
They listened to the boy recap the day, as he went into the part where his father told him to go upstairs while he and his mother talked.He never mentioned it, but he took one last look at his mother before he left her eyes met with is slighty as she gave him a smile, but it wasn't the one he'd been accostumed to...the one his mother always gave him days before, this one was strange it almost looked as if she was scared.Just as scared as he was right now...
" I know I shouldn't of listened, but I did." he began his expressions somber and still.
"listened? To your parents talking."he stated
"they were angry, they wouldn't stop yelling at each other." his mind went back to that day, he stood quietly inone of the corners of the kitchen opening watching his parents agrument."I heard some loud crashing noises, and then I heard my mommy."
"you didn't see anything."
Silence was his answer, he stood closely in the kitchen's opening close enough to hear...but not to see, the sound of everything put so much far into his heart that he really didn't dare go in.As he heard more crashing and yelling, he felt his heart rise to his throat as he ran rapidly down the hall almost tripping over himself to get up the stairs.What he had heard, what he had seen had scared him beyound his own beliefs.
"he told me, that if I didn't want him to get in trouble." he finally ended."I would lie."he spoke once more, somewhere feeling relieved that he got everything off of his concience.
The words of the small boy where all Miguel and Hank needed to take action, as soon as they made sure Daniel was settle and alright.They headed out towards the dragged down motel where they found our Jackson had been staying through his apb files the drive over was quiet as both men didn't really know what to say about what they have seen and heard in the past few days the things that Daniel had described where to them to unbearable to fathom, which made them thirst to catch Jackson even more than when they first suspected him.
The smooth noises, and flashing lights of serval police cars could be seen on the driveway opening to the motel all of them parking in an un-ordelly fashion, causing some of its partime residents to peak through the creaks of their windows.Miguel recklessly parked the police car in the nearest slot he found barely fitting the vehicle into it's confinments, and almost running it into one of the poles that stood infront of them.
"would you calm down!"Hank hissed, as he watched Miguel take the keys out of the ignition.Feeling a little unsettled as this was the very first time he saw Miguel act this way.
Miguel's eyes turned to Hank"I can't calm down!" he snapped amazed of what the man had just told him to do after all they've heard."I can't believe we were so stupid!" he roared his fist balled up as he striked the steering wheel in shear disgust of himself and the whole police bregade." all this fucking time, all the evidence pointed towards him Hank! You saw what he did to Charity, Imagine what he could of done to Daniel."the young man ended his words falling as a loud thunder in the summer's night air, he bolted out of the car while intensely slamming the car door leaving a jarred Hank in the passenger's seat.
He let out a deep breath, as he grabbed his gun and also made his way out of the car.At the corner of his eyes he noticed Luis quickly making his way to his little brother fearing his little brother might do what he always did, and act on his impulse an action of which might get him killed, or even might kill Jackson in the process.Luis' gruff voice was heard hailling offf the many cars of backup they've requested, until his further notice.
"come on you worthless sack of shit!" Miguel hissed into the night as his footsteps, kicked the durt ground as they mdae their way closer and closer to Jackson's room.
"hey!" a stubby man's southern accent screeched into the night, as he quickly placed himself infront of the fuming yound man."what in the hell is the meaning of this?"
"who the hell are you?"Miguel roared, as his murderous glare made the poor man cringe.
"I'm the owner of this here hotel," the man snapped regaining his manhood with the clearing of his throat."the real question son, is who the hell are you."
Miguel without the slightest air of taking anything the man had once said seriously, he spoke"do you not notice, the police cars parked infront of your parking lot?" he snapped" we here to arrest someone, now if you don't mind..."
"pesonally I do mind, look son why don't you take a little look around.You see the people in all of those rooms!? See the look in all their faces, take a little guess pretty boy how do you think they're feeling right now!?" he asked rhetoriclly, as he so obnoxiously continued"there not too peachy right now and if they aren't too happy I don't get paid, so you can take you pety case and..."
He listened potently for the first few seconds before his anger and frustration subsided, and he swiftly punched the man and watched him plumet towards the floor cursing him off, and clenching his jaw.As he shrugged everything off, he brushed his hands into his pocket taking out his badge and thrusting it towards the man so it remained in his eye view, and walked of leaving Hank and Luis to tend to the wretched fool and his precious run-down hotel.
After rationly cleaning up Miguel's mess, the ran towards where he was heading to support him with back up.All of them paused infront of the door after a series of vigorous, knocks on the door.Yet the severity of the men's knocks and their yells was for naught as no one opened the door.
"I don't care how we do it, were getting in there." Miguel asserted.
With the condition of the door, and the stregth of the men and went against it. It took nothing for the door to un-hinge itself, and smak open making a loud slapping noise towards the cracking wall.Barely noticable footsteps were made through the rowdy musky room smelling of cigarette smoke.One behind the other, Miguel, Hank and Luis threaded through the room looking for any apparent sign of Jackson being their, as they went further and further into the still and lonely room...they noticed, that there wasn't one.
"Shit!"Miguel hissed in defeat as he knocked over a nearby night table.
"oh that is it!" Luis thundered"go home."
"I'm not going anywhere Luis, right now Jackson could be anywhere...we just can't let him go."
"and were not,"Hank assured him as they headed out of the hotel room"but you are in no condition to handle this case properlly, so you're going home."
Miguel watched the two awkwardly, how the hell was he supposed to act! Did they not notice the severity of this situation? He remained silent, standing his ground in the hotel room's doorway.
"don't make us tell you again, Miguel," Luis began in a warning tone."we want to find Jackson just as much as you do,"
"I strongly doubt that." Miguel hissed as he began to thunder away, heading towarsd the police car.
"you go in that car, and go after Jackson and I swear I'll have your badge."
Miguel's hand clasped, with the car door as he stoped his back facing Luis and Hank.
"look, if you go after him you'll only make things worse and what good would that do Charity or Daniel."
Miguel huffed slightly as he jumped into his car and sped away, leaving Hank and Luis to wonder whether or not he would do as they asked, or defy them possiblly risking his own life to make sure Charity's and Daniel's would be salvaged.
The sound of his footsteps could be heard creaking themselves through the wood floor.He was restless, like every night that stood before it...for the first time in a long time, he didn't want to be here.He knew he wasn't supposed to be home, he was supposed to be out there killing Jackson, however as he recollected he might of ruined things for everyone if he had went of on his own to destroy Jackson.He stepped out of the bathroom, walking slowly down the hall trying to figure out what he would do as he waited for any word from Hank and Luis.
'There he is,' his mind snickered, as his pressence appeared from the darkness.The glimmer of his gun shinning through a porch window in Miguel's appartment, he made sure to step steps away from Miguel so he could be protected by the darkness.He did worry when he heard Miguel walk in, he really wasn't expecting him to be home so soon and that had really put a damper into his origional plan as he just slithered into his house a few minutes before he walked in.
Finally, he would be rid of him and all of his too close conspictions.He had to kill Miguel now, if he didn't he would surely catch on to him murdering Olivia Borrows and getting away with it, and it would only take him mear seconds to relay Charity and Oliva's cases together; And then there always the part where he slept with his wife, althought he couldn't blame the man for his wife being a slut yet either way Miguel had to die.
Jackson etched each and every one of his mooves clenching the jet black gun in his hands, this was the final piece of the puzzle.Miguel would die, as would all the information of Olivia Borrows and every suspiction towars him being Charity's killer.
Miguel shivered slightly, feeling a slight wind burst through his upstais as he ran his hands through his hair and continued to walk.The shiver remained, as he began to feel more and more uncomfortable with it he turned slightly into his dark hallway searching it aimlessly.
Meanwhile, Betty and an other nurse were gathering together some the blood tests before they put an end to their night.Betty rose one of the folders raising her brow with a touch of anger towards the nurse that stood beside her.
"what is this?" she questioned
"well, Betty that's a blood test.Remember the ones, Dr. Russle has requested from all of Mrs Monroe's loved ones."
"I realize that Rose," Betty sighed."I was talking about Daniel Monroe's test, Dr. Russle specificlly told us that we weren't supposed to test him as a possible match."
Rose dimissed it, as she took a slight look at Daniel's stats from his blood tes and looking down at another entry.She eyed the one tha liad on the table as her deep blue eyes foccused back on the one Betty was holding, she quickly snatched Daniel's out of Betty's hands as she took a closer look.
Eve slightly slid herself in the labrotory door, as she gave a faint smile to the nurses."everything ready to go,"
"I'm afraid not, Eve, Rose took Daniel's blood."Betty stated, with an ashamed sigh for the young girls incompadance.
"what? Rose, didn't I tell you that Daniel wasn't to be tested...He's too young to be a blood donor" she chastized, only greeting Rose's silence and somewhat bewilderment.
"oh my God," she finally spoke as if gasping for air.
"what's the matter now, Rose?" Eve asked wearilly.
"this can't be."she began once more with a slight smile on her face.
"what is it girl! C'mon spit it out?" Betty demanded.
Rose looked from Eve to Betty as she finally began to speak taking her eyes off of the two test results."Daniel and Miguel's blood test's---they match."
"let me see that," Eve began breathlessly as she eyed both tests.
"every other test we ran was inconclusive, no one's blood matched with Charity's."
"what about Faith's? Jessica's?" Eve questioned flipping through the charts.
"Charity's an A positive, both Faith and Jessica were AB's.However on the other hand, Miguel and Daniel were both O positives.With all that said this could mean..."Rose began in a slight squeal as Eve abruptly ceased her.
"we can't jump to conclusions like that ,Rose, remember O positive is the most common blood type."she contimplated, as she rested the papers to her side."have you gotten Jackson Monroe's test yet?"
"no,"Betty answered"we weren't able to,"
"then what we need to do is take his blood test---"
"what for? We've already found Charity two perfectlly suitable donor's, and there's only a firty percent chance that Jackson could do the same."
" I know," Eve replied." but we can't always be too sure." she ended sagely, the results of those blood tests still fresh in her mind.
The dark street of which his house rested on was quiet, and still as the lound and abrupt noises of rampid gunshots running thorugh the house.