Short chappy.
Well…I'm sorry to say that this little ride of ours is drawing to an end. I suppose the next chapter (or so) should do it. I really hope you guys have enjoyed reading this as much as I have writing it.
This was probably the second most difficult chapter I ever had to write (you'll see why) so if nothing else, PLEASE review this chapter. I don't care if it's the only thing of mine you ever review, just please tell me what you think about this chapter…. it would mean the world to me. (Tearjerker. lol)
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The newly found couple sat there for a while. No matter the pass time, whether it be talking, laughing, or just sitting there, their hands always stayed joined. After a while, Monk forgot that he had been holding her hand and slowly rubbing her fingers with the tip of his thumb. He, however, was reminded of his gesture when Natalie broke the grasp to answer her ringing cell phone.
"Hello?" said Natalie.
Pause
"You're kidding!"
Pause"That FAST!"
Pause"All right, we'll be right there." She hung up the phone and looked at the man across the table. "Come on. The Captain says they got him!"
"Really? That was fast."
"I know! Come on, they said to get Julie and come for one of those line ups."
Monk and Natalie quickly headed for the car. At the hospital, the doctors were reluctant to let Julie go. In the end, Stottlemeyer had to come down and explain how this was a police matter and that Julie would only be gone for a short time. Stottlemeyer had to promise to have Julie back within an hour's time, he did so and the four of them soon met back up with Randy at the precinct
"What took you so long?" Asked Randy.
Stottlemeyer looked pretty ticked off as he said, "Julie has a tree stump for a doctor is all! The guy couldn't take the fact that this was a police matter of the utmost importance and that Julie would be back soon!" He took a deep breath and ran his fingers through his blond hair before continuing. "You know what? Lets just get to it."
"Right," started Randy, "Julie, the way this is going to work is we're going to bring in a group of six guys. This is special glass so you will be able to see them but they cant see you, ok? Then I'm going to have them each take a step forward and turn a little, that way you can get a good look at each of them. THEN I want you to tell me who out of these six guys is…Bob. Ok?"
The girl nodded, "Ok," she said.
Randy pressed a button and leaned in near the microphone. "Ok, bring 'em in," he let go of the button, then remembering, he pressed the button again and added, "please."
The door opened and slowly six different men all walked in, one at a time. Julie leaned in to her mom, "I see him," she said, "he's in there."
"Good," was Natalie's response. She could see the anger that filled Monk's eyes as he stared down the six men before him. She watched as his eyes settled on number three who scratched his head, revealing six fingers on his right hand. If looks could kill, that man would surely be on the floor at that very moment. Natalie reached out her hand and grabbed Monk's clenched fist in an effort to calm his rising hate for the man in the next room. It worked, to some extent. Adrian relaxed his hand and took Natalie's in his own. He looked at her offered hand, then in Natalie's eyes. Even in the dim lit room, Natalie's eyes seemed to sparkle. It soothed him. He gave her a weak smile before squeezing her hand lightly and then releasing it. He walked over to stand next to Randy at the front of the room.
"Now number three, would you please step forward." Randy said into the microphone.
As he did, Monk placed himself where he was directly in front of him. It was at that moment that Adrian Monk stared strait into the eyes of his family's killer. He felt as though he could dive strait through the glass in front of him and grasp his hands around that monster's neck. And none of his friends in the room with him would be at all surprised if he did do just that. But he didn't. Instead, he closed his eyes and turned away from the glass.
"And turn to your left please." Randy continued.
When Monk turned away from the wall his best friend was soon at his side. Stottlemeyer placed a hand on Adrian's shoulder. "You ok?"
Monk turned and looked hard at Leland, "Would you be?"
Stottlemeyer pinched his lips together and looked at the ground. He slowly shook his head no.
Monk sighed painfully and barely whispered "yeah." He then slowly walked over to stand next to Natalie again, and was pleased to find that her hand was soon joined with his…again.
"When do I get to tell them who did it?" Julie asked as Mr. Monk approached her and her mother.
"In just a minute." Monk replied in the young girl's ear.
It didn't take much longer before Randy was through calling on each of the six men. He turned to the girl, "For the record Ms. Teeger, Do you see the man that kidnapped you in the next room?"
"Yes I do." She replied in her best 'serious adult' voice.
"And for the record, which man is it?"
"Number three."
Randy wrote something down on a piece of paper and then pressed the button again. "All right boys, that will be all."
The six men then began to vacate the room the same way they came.
"Mom, can we go back to the hospital? I didn't get much sleep before and now I want to try again." Julie pleaded.
Natalie stroked her daughter's hair with a smile. "Sure," she said.
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"Come on Monk, we've got Ryan Walters ready in the interrogation room." Stottlemeyer said as he greeted Adrian and Natalie at the door. They had just returned from taking Julie back to the hospital.
Monk tilted his head to the left and shook it lightly. "I don't think so."
"You don't think so?" Leland repeated. "Monk, you've been waiting years upon years to catch this guy! Now we've got him in the interrogation room and you don't want to talk to him! Adrian that man-!"
"I know what that man did, Leland!" Adrian said roughly before calming himself to continue. "Leland…if you put me in a room with that man………I'll kill him…I swear I will."
Stottlemeyer stared at his friend before nodding slowly, "Yeah…I know."
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Stottlemeyer and Randy stepped into room with Ryan Walters. "Evening, Ryan." Randy greeted.
Ryan gave him a glare, "Hey."
Natalie was once again holding Adrian's hand as they together watched the interrogation take place in the next room.
There was silence for a while before Stottlemeyer just came out with it. "Ryan, we know that you kidnapped Julie Teeger. Why don't you just give it up?"
"I don't know who you're talking about man. I don't know no Julie Teeger!"
Monk flinched slightly in annoyance with the man's use of a double negative, but chose to ignore it to the best of his ability.
"Oh that's right. No, you probably wouldn't know her by that name. We're told that you knew her by the names Rachel and or…Abraham Lincoln." Randy said.
The man stared at the table for a long time.
"Ryan," said Stottlemeyer, "we know you did it. Why don't you just confess?"
Ryan sighed a long defenseless sigh, "Alright! You win! Yeah, I kidnapped the girl."
"Why did you do it?"
"………I was paid to."
"Why?" Asked Randy.
Ryan sighed again, "If you're gonna know that you might as well know da rest too. He paid me to do it to cover up a job he had me do a couple years back."
"Which was?"
"He hired me do some woman in, a cop's wife, I think."
"Did he tell you why?"
"Na, man. He just told me when, where, who, and how much. So I made sure it was done. I paid a guy to make a bomb and I went by and planted it later. A couple years went past and I pretty much forgot about it,"
Tears streamed down Adrian's face as he listened to the confession. Natalie couldn't stop the few tears that also fell down her cheek as she also watched.
"then a couple of months ago, he called me up. Said that he had another job for me. I was up for it, he paid pretty good and I was in need of some cash so I told him I would do it. He said that he wanted me to kidnap some kid. When I asked him why he said that the feds were getting too close for comfort and he wanted to get them to back off. I was told to take this girl, hold her for a while, then call the police head honcho and demand that he call off the case."
"Who hired you?" Stottlemeyer asked.
There was a long pause. The kind of pause you think could last a lifetime. And to Monk, it nearly did. He stood there, as still as a statue. Not breathing…not blinking. Just…standing there. He waited and waited……..finally….
"His name is…"
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