Short chapter. I'm tired and I feel like i'm getting sick.
Chapter 9 -
"The teacher!?" Ramirez said, shocked. "Who would've thought him?"
"Actually, Lexi had a suspicious feeling it was him." Jones says. "Let's go get him!"
About 10 minutes later, they had arrested him and taken him down to the interrogation room.
"So Mr. Brone, why did you do it?" Jones asked once they were in the room.
"Did what?" Brone asked, innocently.
"You know what you did! Now why did you do it!?" Jones said, already sounding frustrated.
"You have no evidence to claim I did anything." Brone replied.
"Oh yeah?" Jones smiled and raised a eyebrow. "How about finding your hair and fibers at the crime scene?"
"Which confirmed to us that the killer has black hair and wears a tie." Ramirez added.
"Or DNA on the girl's glasses that we were able to use to confirm the killer has brown eyes." Jones continued. "OR measuring the bruise on her cheek and confirming that it was done by a large hand, possibly a 6 ft tall person."
"Finally, we were also told by another suspect that a male 'monster' did the crime, telling us our killer was a male." Ramirez finished.
"OKAY! Fine! You got me!" Brone rolled his eyes. "it was only a matter of time. I guess I should've killed your partner myself."
"That's another thing, WHY did you do that!?" Jones glared. "Why did you try and kill my partner!? And threaten another teenager for that matter?"
"I knew that I was your number one suspect. I also knew that with her out of the way, you'll be too busy grieving to focus on the case. And I couldn't make myself any more of a suspect so I had someone else bring that cookie in for your partner." Brone replied.
"When did you get that time to even make it?" Jones asks. "Or pick the girl up and force her to bring it."
"I had plenty of time once the students were sent home for the day. And that girl was back at the school for some other reason. Sports? Hell if I know or care. I just took my gun and made sure she knew what would happen if she didn't listen to me." Brone said.
"You threatened another teenager and framed her for attempted murder of a officer just to get us off of your back!?" Jones said, disgusted. "That's just low, man!"
"So why kill the girl?" Ramirez asked, getting back on the main subject.
"I was just so annoyed with her constantly asking for help and failing my class. I guess I had enough of dealing with her stupid ass and finally pushed her into those desks." Brone said. "I left and returned at the beginning of the following period to look less suspicious. Guess it didn't work, huh?"
"No, it didn't." Jones replied. "If anything, it made you even MORE suspicious. Which reminds me, what the Hell did you poison Lexi with? Where is the antidote?"
"Right here." Brone handed him a bottle.
Jones looked at it for a moment in his hand. He wanted to rush it to me but knew he had to make sure it was safe.
"Ramirez, take this to Grace and have her check it." Jones said, handing it to him so it can be confirmed to be safe.
"Okay." Ramirez said, taking it and heading out the door.
"Let's go." Jones said, getting him up. "You're going into a holding cell. We're done… for now."
"Whatever." Brone shrugged.
About a half a hour later, Jones and Ramirez headed inside Grace's lab to find out the results.
"Grace, please tell me that was the antidote." Jones says as they walk in.
Grace turns to them and frowns.
"What's wrong?" Ramirez asks.
"I'm afraid that 'antidote' you gave me is actually more poison. If you had given it to Lexi without getting it checked first she would've been dead within minutes." Grace said, sadly.
"What!?" Jones said shocked then angry. "That son of a bitch gave us more poison!? I'm going to kill him!"
As Jones was about to head out the door, Ramirez stopped him.
"I have a better idea." He said, stopping Jones from walking out the door.
"What?" Jones asked, irritated.
"Let's go see Lexi. The guy has been caught and Judge Hall will take care of him later. Let's go see her for now." Ramirez suggested.
"I agree. She needs you with her not getting into trouble. Nathan and I will keep on working to figure out the poison in the meantime." Grace agreed.
"Okay." Jones said after a moment. "Let's head to the hospital."
"I'll call if we find out anything." Grace says.
"Thanks, Grace!" Jones nodded before they left the lab.
Trial chapter will be later on. I also plan on making a additional investigation chapter too.