A/N: To those who didn't recognize the name, Jarda was the German Treadstone operative killed in Supremacy. These next ones -- hopefully -- should be relatively easy to recognize. Desh is Ultimatum, the Professor and Castel are waaaay back in Identity.
Enjoy. :)
If Rachid Sanjari was to be completely honest with you, he would've told you that the man who rented from him was an asshole.
Rachid never liked him – he was too spooky, too rude and when Rachid came to pick up rent at the end of the month, the man's eyes staring out from behind the door bothered him too much. He never laughed, never smiled; children would dare one another to run by his flat and see if the monster came out to glare at them and (to the most extreme) maybe speak in his monster-voice.
He glared. He peeked out from behind his door.
But he never spoke.
Nonetheless...there is some part of Rachid that breaks when he is asked to identify the body in the morgue. He goes down those steps, finds himself alongside a young woman who introduces herself as Desh Bouksani's sister.
The mortician pulls back the sheet.
And then Rachid Sanjari is holding a screaming, sobbing woman in his arms.
...Bouksani was an asshole.
But even then, Rachid feels something in him crack when this woman keens, barely able to hold herself up.