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Chapter Seven
Landon crouched down against the cold wet grass and peeked in through the window. He could tell that Kate and Tony were talking about something important. Suddenly, Kate looked worried and then Tony cheered her up. He put his arms around her and threw his hand up in the air like he got a trophy. He did get a trophy. He got Kate. Then, they kissed. A jealous rage glowed in Landon's mind. A rage that could cause harm to anyone who got in his path. He killed once, and he was not afraid to do it again. The baseball bat that lay on the ground next to him, was in his shaking hands now. The wood against his skin, his wrist which clenched hard on the bat. Kate and Tony hugged. The bat flew and hit the window. Shards of glass blew inwards toward Kate and Tony, attacking them both. Kinda like they had a mind of their own to hurt anyone they could. That was Landon. He could see, Tony pulling the sweet innocent woman down with him, shielding her from the true horrors that were Landon himself. He cautiously got up before Tony and Kate did and ran into the glowing sun towards his house discarding the bat in the woods on his way.
"KATE!" Tony pulled her slender figure down with him. Pieces of glass pricked them none the less. Just as sudden that they dropped to the floor, they each got up as fast their guns pointed at the window. Slowly, Tony worked his way to the window and looked out. He could see a figure running into the distance. An unrecognizable person, sure but the two lovebirds still knew who it was. Kate let out a heavy sigh. "Great! This is great!" "Actually it might be.!" Tony replied. "HUH?" Kate said sitting on the bed. "Alright Hon. Listen up cuz I know this is hard for you to do." Saying that earned him an ugly glare from the woman in the room. "We both know that Landon killed those people, but that's not gonna hold up in court. We need concrete proof. The window didn't just blow up out of the blue. It was hit by something. We just need to find that something, get prints. Where we find the something might lead us to other clues that will prove Landon is the guilty one." Tony finished explaining. "So what are we gonna do at twelve o'clock in the afternoon?" "We are gonna go outside and investigate!" "Tony that could be dangerous for us! Rick is crazy!" Kate shivered at the mere thought of the potential killer. "Yeah. But if we don't do anything then he might get away." "GRRR! YOUR IMPOSSIBLE! Fine Let's just go!" Kate ran to the bathroom and rushed into a pair of jeans and a long sweatshirt, but first she checked her gun and reupholstered it to her leg. Together, arm in arm they walked out the door acting like a couple of newly wedded honeymooners.
The woods. The smell of pine trees. Nature's elegance. Yet something seemed off. Kate swamped through an area of the forest, unearthing everything she could that might give her a lead. Tony was in another part sweeping through looking for anything. Kate was just about to walk off to check another place when she tripped. Cautiously she looked around. The gun was now in her soft hand, waiting to make contact with another human flesh. She stared down at what she had fallen over. "TONY!" She shrieked. He came running over, gun in positioned in front of his face. "You okay?" He inquired seeing her sprawled across the leaves. "Yeah fine. I found something that mig…" He voice silenced uneasily. "What?" Tony whispered. "Something is wrong. I can feel it in my gut." "Great everyone has a gut instinct but me." "Tony I'm serious." "Yeah. How bout you head back and I'll finish up here?" Kate nodded her head vigorously. Tony gave her a stubborn look and glance on the ground to see what she tripped over. The bat!" Pulling on rubber gloves, he picked it up by the base. Then, together they headed back to the rented accommodation.
At the one story shack like lodge, they did experiments prior to Abby's instructions. The sticky glue residue resided on the bat. The hung it on a string and let it give a fingerprint. The heat from the shower gassed up the bathroom which helped the procedure for finding prints. A few minutes later, Tony pulled it off and ran a fraction of heavy duty tape over the newly found fingerprint. Tony then, processed the fingerprint on the computer. A series of beeps followed that procedure. "Yes! We got a hit to Landon." "Tony we need more information. I mean how many people have baseball bats." Suddenly a knock came on the door. Kate hid behind the door with her gun at the ready. With a nod, Tony opened the door. McGee screamed when he saw the guns. "What the hell?" "Probie. What are you doing here?" "Came here to check on you guys and see if you guys are wired." This part he murmured. They nodded in agreement. Scanning his device, McGee found that the room had no wires at all. "Great all that pretending for nothing." Tony gave an innocent wink to McGee and got a smack on the head from Kate. "I was talking about the names thing." "Well I better get going. See you around." "Tony? I think we need to go back to the forest." Tony glared at her. "What? Why?" "We might have missed a bit of evidence." "NO YOU DIDN"T!" The computer spoke up. "Abby!" Kate shrieked like a school girl. "I got everything to tie him down except we can't go get him." Kate gave Abby a look that could kill. "WHY IS THAT?" "Madam Director Sheppard, the honorary queen bitch, says we can't. Got to go, something's going on. Laters." The computer bleeped and went blank.
Kate pulled Tony by the sleeve. "Let's go!" She moaned. "NO! I'm not going and you can't make me!" The innocence in Tony's voice becoming even clearer. "TONY! WE need to." She stood on her tip toes and gave him an extremely affectionate kiss on the lips that could make anyone's toes curl in their shoes. "Okay!" And they left to find more information once again.
Two hours later, Kate found a body under the dirt. "TONY!" Yet for some reason, Tony did not appear. The mangled body was much like the first one they found. The poor girl's ring finger was cut off and the ring by her side. And the rose carved in her forehead. "Oh Jeez." "Now you know why I put the rose there Katie?" Landon materialized by the big pine tree. Flashbacks keyed in to Kate's mind. Rick giving her a single red rose each day they met. The vase by her bedside becoming over flown with the romantic gestures. Then, they seemed like romantic gestures symbolizing love. Now they were nothing but a gruesome inscription that symbolized fear. Automatically, Kate pulled her gun up to his face. Tony came running and stopped dead in his tracks, gun the same position as Kate's. Landon reached in his back pocket and pulled out a gun too. This one pointed at Tony! Time stood still eclipsing all that is lost to the world. Kate could see the strains in Landon's face. Her muscles gripped the butt of the gun hard, her hand near the trigger. Landon's finger reached for the trigger to let it go. To set of the bullet that would go speeding through Tony's head, spiraling at an immense speed. This is it. Kate thought. I quit the government to go for this and now I'm gonna die doing it. Why do I always go for the danger stuff? Tony flickered his eyes towards the two, trying so hard to sense their next moves. Landon on the other hand, seemed a nervous wreck. He'd killed numerous people, so why was he having such a hard time with this? Out of no where, the heart pounding blast of a gun releasing it's bullet to kill, boomed. A gun dropped to the ground and a body flew towards the earth-stricken ground with a thump. The silence resumed it's original form. The body slowly turned to ice and the muscles went limp against the roots of the tree. The sky seemed to darken quickly now, and the two remaining figures stood at a stand still, not daring to move. The gun that had marked it's victim so cruelly fell to the ground, it's owner turning pale white with fear.
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