The Irishman's Woman: Murder in Llanview
by LUVINGJOVAN
The Pleasure Palace
Rex stopped in the middle of the bar, his mouth agape as he stood watching his sister swinging from one of the exposed water pipes. Her blood was dripping down her body and there was a pool of it around her feet. He looked up from the pool and saw a man with a baseball cap smiling at him holding a knife in his hand. The knife was covered in blood and so was the man.
Taking a few steps backwards he stepped on the glass that Natalie had shattered. He looked down as the glass crunched under his shoes. Looking back up Rex saw the man charging at him with the knife by his side.
Rex raised the umbrella up to defend himself from the man charging him. Taking a swing at Hayes, the umbrella came crashing down on Hayes's arm that he was protecting his face with. Grabbing the umbrella with his arm he yanked Rex towards him and smiled, "Time for a little more fun Rexy…" he whined.
"Fuck you!" he screamed and let go of the umbrella. Rex punched Hayes and watched him fall to the ground. He stood froze for a few seconds before running back to the bar and picking up the phone behind the bar. Hitting the button trying to get a dial tone he cursed the storm. It must have knocked the phone lines out. He turned around in time to have Hayes lunge at him knocking him to the ground.
Rex hit his head hard on the concrete floor he knocked himself out. Hayes rose up and straddled Rex smiling at his new victim. It wasn't on the plan, but oh well he was always one to go with the flow. Standing up he put the knife in his mouth and bent over pulling at Rex's legs. He found a chair nearby and threw him in it.
Hayes saw some exposed wires out of the corner of his eye and used one of his knives to cut it. Tying Rex's hands behind his back and his feet to the chair he sat on his lap and slapped his face numerous times before Rex came too.
Rex fought the wires behind his back and
around his ankles and glared at Hayes who sat on his lap, "Get off
me you freak!" He hissed.
"Ahh, no, no, no Rexy boy. You
interrupted my funny with the pretty Jennifer, you're going to have
to pay for that."
"Jennifer! Who the fuck is Jennifer!" he
screamed.
Hayes nodded to the swinging Natalie and smiled, "That's
Jennifer isn't she pretty?" He whispered into his ear.
Rex
felt his blood run cold at the way Hayes relished in his sisters
death, "What did you do? You sick freak!"
"We had a little
fun. Now you and I are going to have the same fun."
Rex turned
his head away from the stench of Hayes' breath. He saw Natalie
swinging back and forth from the water pipe and shut his eyes tight.
"Now let's see, what should we do to the intruder? What do you
think Jennifer my love?" he asked staring at the swinging
corpse.
"What's that leave a message for McBain? Ahh
perfect!"
"McBain! Who the hell is McBain?"
"Someone
you are going to send a message to for me!" he snapped.
"Whatever
dude. Just tell me what to say, and I'll say it. Tell me where to
go and how to find this McBain."
"You don't need to worry
about that. McBain will find you…" Hayes turns and smiled at Rex
who sat there struggling with the wires around his arms and
feet.
The Palace
"Start over there. That's where I found the first camera," John said pointing to the corner of the room, "Get someone down stairs to check my car. Scan my lab top and rework the firewalls on it. That son of a bitch hacked into my system. I want it traced now!" he yelled at the officers that had been rushed to the Palace.
Evangeline sat on the bed watching everyone coming in and out of the room. She watched John bark orders to the guys and a sense of security came over her. He was there to protect her, "John?" she asked softly.
John spun around and saw his Angel's tear stained face with a weak smile. Walking over to her he knelt down in front of her, "I'm sorry I yelled at you." He said placing a hand on her face.
She
pushed her face into his hand, "What do I have to do. I want to
help, I can't sit around here and do nothing."
"I know you
want to help. But Hayes is dangerous and when I mean dangerous I am
serious. He hunts his victims like they are prey and makes a game out
of killing them. I can't lose you to him."
"I'm not going
anywhere John."
John closed his eyes and stood up, "I want you
to go to the Police Station and stay there."
"What!" She
yelled calling attention to her self as she shot up from the
bed.
"Evangeline please." John said, inches from her
face.
"John!"
"Evangeline damn it listen to me." He
grabbed her arm pulling her into the bathroom. Slamming the door he
pinned her against it, "I know you're an independent person I get
that I honestly do, but this isn't going to work. Hayes knows who
you are and how you are connected to me!"
"What!"
"I
looked your information up on my lab top after we meet at Mike and
Marcie's wedding shower. I had to know how you were connected to
that thug."
"Jason's not a thug." She hissed.
"Okay,
fine." He said placating her need to believe that Jason was a good
man, "Hayes will get you to get to me. You can't leave my sight
or an officer's sight."
Evangeline crossed her arms over her
chest and glared at John, "Fine can I at least go home and change?"
she asked looking down at her clothes.
John blew out a deep
breath and looked at her. He leaned in and laid his forehead against
hers, "Do you trust me?" he whispered.
Evangeline closed her
eyes and put her arms around his neck pulling him into a kiss.
Pulling back she looked at him, "I do, but I just want to help."
"I
know you do Angel, and I want to keep you safe. Go home and change
and meet me at the station okay, can you do that for me?"
"Yes."
Evangeline kissed him again and then ran her hands over his chest,
"Be safe."
"With an Angel looking out for me I'll be
okay." He said opening the door.
"Officer, take Ms.
Williamson home. Let her change clothes and bring her directly to the
station. Don't let her out of your sight. You do and I find out
about it, your ass is mine!" he hissed.
John turned and waved
Evangeline over. She grabbed his hand and squeezed it tightly before
handing her over to the Officer he assigned to her, "Stay with him
please." He said with pleading eyes.
The Pleasure Palace
Strolling back and forth running his knife through his
fingers he smiled at Rex. "So, bet you're pissed you came here
tonight?"
"What's the message!" Rex screamed and tried to
struggle with the wires.
Hayes scowled at Rex and walked back
over to him. Shoving him backwards into the bar Rex's head slammed
into the brass railing on the bar. "Shut up! You come here and fuck
up my whole plan! And now you have the nerve to ask me
questions?"
Hayes placed his hand over Rex's throat and
squeezed it hard like he had done Natalie's. He watched as Rex
struggled to say something and wheezed out, "No…." before his
eyes bugged and Hayes felt his larynx collapse under his grip.
"Damn it!" Hayes yelled realizing that he had killed Rex with out having any real fun. He stood up and pulled Justice from behind his back, smiling at the bloody knife he looked down at Rex's limp body and pushed his head down and drew his knife across his throat.
Police Station
Evangeline came into the
police station and stopped in the middle of the bullpen. Looking
around for John she saw Nora instead. "Nora." She said rushing
over to her.
"What are you doing her so late?" Nora asked
hugging Evangeline.
"Can we go somewhere and talk?"
"Sure,
we can use Bo's office."
Evangeline looked back at the officer
and pointed to Bo's office. Walking into the office she closed the
door as the officer stood outside of it. "What's going on?"
Nora said seeing the nervousness in her friend.
"Tell me
everything you know about the Slasher!" she said staring at her
with intense eyes.
"The Slasher, Van where is this coming
from?"
Evangeline paced the office back and forth and looked at
Nora, "Please just tell me what you know!" she snapped.
"Fine,
not much. Only what I've read in the papers really. Just that he is
some sick guy named Hayes something or other. He has killed all over
the country and slits his victim's throat after they are dead. Why
do you want to know these things?"
"John."
" John,
you're Irishman?"
"Yeah." She said sitting on the edge of
Bo's desk wringing her hands.
"What about him Van, what the
hell is going on. You're scaring me."
Evangeline cleared
her throat and looked down at the ground, "We were together
tonight."
"You were what?"
"Together Nora, don't make
me spell it out for you!"
"What about Jason."
"Can we
please not talk about Jason now! I can't handle him too."
"Him
too, what have you gotten your self into Van?"
She stood up from
the desk and looked at Nora. "I don't know Nora! We were lying in
bed, he was asleep next to me when I saw it."
"Seriously stop
with the vagueness. If there was ever a time for you to be blunt and
get to the point this is it! So spit it out." She hissed.
"Fine!
We were being video recorded. At first I thought it was John and he
was setting me up to get at Sonny and Jason. But he swears he
wasn't!"
"And you believe him?" she asked worried.
"I
think I do?"
"What do you mean you think you do? Either
you do or you don't which is it?"
"I do Nora, I do! I know
he wouldn't betray what we have together. John isn't that type of
man."
"You haven't even known him that long! How could you
think that?"
"Nora, please I need your support right now, not
your condemnation." She spat.
"Fine, what is this about
the video recorder."
"This Slasher guy, Hayes right?" she
asked looking over for confirmation. Nora nodded, "He bugged John's
room. He thinks that he has been hunting him!"
"Oh god!"
Nora said throwing a hand over her mouth.
"That's what I'm
talking about. John thinks that now because Hayes knows of our
relationship that I could be in danger."
"Well from what I've
read about him. I could understand why John is worried. Hayes killed
his fiancé in front of him."
"What! He did what!"
"He
didn't tell you, that was big news Evangeline. Apparently John
walked in on it as Hayes shot her."
Evangeline fell back on the
desk hugging herself, "Oh god, God! That explains it." She
mumbled.
Nora walked over to her and took her hands, "Explains
what? What is going on?" she asked pleading
"He's….
He's…... I don't know. He sent me here to keep me safe." She
said holding back tears.
"Obviously he did it for a reason,
where is he?"
"If he isn't here, I guess he is still at the
Palace." She said looking up at Nora with tears in her eyes.
"What
are you going to do hun?"
"He told me to stay put and I
understand why now…."
The Palace
"What did
you guys find?" John asked coming back into the room.
"These
cameras are all over the room sir. Even in the bathroom."
John
ran a hand through his hair and over his face, "Did you trace where
the signal was going?"
"Some place in the hotel Sir. We are
hooking the cameras up now to see if we can get a picture and trace
the signal."
"Good do it." John walked over to the officer
working on his computer, "What do you got?"
"You're right
sir, he tapped into your network. He had an echo placed on your
terminal so that what ever you saw it bounced to his terminal so that
he could see it too. Sir…"
"What?"
"Where you working
on any classified cases?"
John looked at the man annoyed, "No,
just some personal business."
"Okay. Well I reworked the fire
walls and right now the system is checking for any other spy ware on
the hard drive. I suggest until we find this guy you use a different
terminal."
"Right." John said nodding.
"Agent McBain!"
One of the officers called.
"Yes?" John spun around to a
smiling Police Officer.
"We might have a location on the
suspect!"
Hayes
Hayes stepped back and admired his handiwork. Two kills in one night was something new for him, but he enjoyed it immensely. He cleaned his knife and looked at the mirror where he left John a message. "Come and get me McBain, come and get me." He whispered. He picked up the rest of his knives and smiled as the pool of blood around Rex and Natalie grew and collided. That was a beautiful sight.
He stripped out of his clothes and stuffed them into the duffle back. Pulling on another dark jacket Hayes headed towards the door. He walked out of the bar and ran to his car in the rain. Starting the car he headed back to Palace to see what his lovely couple was up to. Driving through the rain he maneuvered the car through the dark streets and back into the city. He pulled into the parking lot of The Palace and saw all of the black town cars and police cars out front. He looked out of the tinted windows of his car and saw two police officers talking.
Putting the car in park he stepped out and pulled his hat down over his head. He watched as the officers came in and out of the Hotel and leaned against the car in the rain. He looked down at his hands and remembered squeezing the life out of Jennifer and Rex. He had enjoyed these kills almost as his first one. McBain was close and he had eyes on him and the vixen he had taken up with. Sooner or later he would use her to get at McBain. That is who he really wanted and the girl was going to get him close.
Hayes walked over to the officers to find out what was going on, "Excuse me can you tell me what happened here tonight?" Hayes asked one of the officers disguising his voice and pulling his hat down over his face.
