When they got back to the station, it was hectic. Lucas and Sean shared a look before they stepped more into the big office.
JT walked by quickly and let them in on what was happening, "The killer called us."
People had coffee and snacks all over, trying to get a good spot. Because this was Sean and Lucas' case, they got front row seats.
Lucas grabbed a wheely chair and sat on it as the cheif crossed his arms upfront, waiting to discuss. Sean stood and crossed his arms.
"The killer has another victim." John announced and everyone spoke at once.
Sean stayed quiet and stared at the bored behind John, all the young, dead girls. They died in the worse disgusting ways possible. Some girls were even raped.
They called the killer the framing killer because he made them pose in a weird way. The first girl was killed in a park, which use to be the ravine til it was shut down, she was stabbed with one of those clean up environmental sticks. The second girl was killed in her school, she must of been dragged there at night, the killer has tortured her and put her hands in acid in the science lab and left her to die, tapped to a chair. The third girl was the one raped and shot, the killer fell off his game at this one, there was no pose, only fantasy. That's when they guessed the fourth girl they found the other day was interrupted, the neighbours heard yelling so he must of just killed her when he heard sirens and took off. Now he had a fifth girl in his hostage.
"JT doesn't think she's dead yet." John told everyone and the boy nodded.
He explained to everyone, "It's the first time he's contacted us, let us know he has someone, so he's going to play for a bit."
"Wierd thing is, there was no trace, but there was a number." Mia said, popping out of nowhere, she looked at Sean,"Sean... you were looking for this number this morning the computers say."
Mia was the tracer, that's why Sean didn't expect her to be here but now he understood and opened his mouth to be cut off.
"Sean. Why is the killer contacting you?" JT asked him.
"I didn't know it was him." Sean confirms.
John spoke up for his team member, "Sean did tell me about a unknown caller phoning him this morning. He was trying to find out who it was"
Sean couldn't help but stare off. So did... did the killer connect to her? Why else would he call, or remind him...
"Think Sean, he could know you. What does he say?" JT asked him, smothering him with questions.
Sean swallowed the lump in his throat and he couldn't breath, "He... he just reminded me."
"Reminded you of what?" Lucas asked.
"I can't." Breaths Sean, running a nervous hand through his hair and turning.
"What the hell do you mean you can't?" John called out to him but Sean raced out of the building.
His whole body was shaking.
John watched Sean go and looked at Lucas, "Find out what the fuck is up with him, Vaughn, and figure out something from his old school or... something, if he doesn't tell you? Check his office for all I care, his files." He ordered.
Lucas shook his head and said, "All do respect sir, Sean's been a good cop, he doesn't deserve his station snooping him."
"I agree." JT offered.
The boss snapped back, "Pipe it you little stick."
JT took a deep breath and spoke, "Sir, instead of being rude you could just ask me nicely to tell you about Sean. We use to go to school together, all through out... and we use to be best friends."
"You and Sean?" Lucas asked with a bit of a laugh. That was hard to see.
JT nodded, he couldn't deny it, it was wierd. "True, it was unlikely, but he was dating my old friend." Jt gulped hard in the mention of his 'old' friend.
"Girl friend huh?" John asked and took out his note book, "Any other girl friends of his? Blonde ones?"
Jt answered, "Just Emma was blonde. He wasn't the dating type, he was kinda what he is now after he and my friend broke up."
"This girl must of had a hit on him then. Can I have her address? Number?" John asked, writing down on his notepad again.
Silence.
Jt looked down and said, "She's uh... she's dead sir. Her name was Emma Nelson. Rick Murray killed her in the Degrassi School Shooting."
Lucas heard this and had a flash to the gravestone he and Sean were at earlier. What the hell was it about this girl? Lucas snuck off without being seen.
"I thought we weren't going to snoop." JT said, hours later passed midnight.
Lucas broke into the chiefs office after he went home and was now serving through the X files.
"I'm his partner, I've been for the longest time now and he hasn't said one word about this." Lucas bittered. Did Sean not trust him or something?
JT sat on the chair across from him, "It's a rough time. He was THERE when she was shot, the guy still hasn't been caught to this day."
"Was he with her, like, together when she was shot?"
"They were Degrassi's famous couple! The bad boy, and the schools angel. Didn't know her nickname would become so real. We use to be best friends when I was little. We were inseperatable... then one day, just... stopped. Anyways. Sean and Emma broke up almost a year and half since the shooting, he went through some phase and then dated some gothic freak."
"Really?" snickered Lucas, he couldn't see Sean dating an emo.
"Yeah, some crazy redhead." JT laughed.
Lucas remembered the reported from the other week, "Ellie?" he asked.
"How'd you know?" JT asked, a bit shocked.
"She was the Reporter that bugged him the other day." Lucas replied.
JT giggled a bit, "You should check up on her. Never know if she snapped and was doing the killings." As he joked, Lucas sat up from looking at the computer, like he found something.
"Found her." He announced.
"You GOT her file?" JT said in amazement, he tried once to see if he could look up where her parents were, where Snake went, so he could check up... but he got nothing!
"I am on the chiefs computer." Smirked Lucas.
"You could get fired for this you know." Jt confirms, standing up and going around the desk to see.
"I just want to know." Lucas confirms and scanned through the file, "Doesn't say anything about her dying, man. But is this creepy or what? She has the same features to all the girls who were killed."
"What?" JT was in shock, not over that but that the file didn't have her date of death in it.
Lucas nodded and pointed at the screen, "Yeah. Home schooled the last two years of school, then College in California-"
"What the hell is this?" JT had never been this confused in his whole life, this was once a situation he couldn't figure out. He scrolled down to the bottom and saw in big red writing:
WITNESS PROTECTION.
"Oh my god." JT whispered.
"What's up?" Lucas asked taking a look.
"She's alive." Jt breathed.
Lucas raised an eyebrow. Well. That was defiantly a slap to the face.
"You think the killer would be after her?" Lucas asked JT
"How would he know she was alive?"
"Who else would want to kill her?" Lucas said questionably and JT paced the floor.
"Other than Rick? I don't know. There was some old pervert from her childhood but he's in jail now. Emma was loved by everyone, I mean, she debated a lot but never hurt anyone." Jt explained and then stopped abruptly. "What if, and try to see it my way, maybe... just maybe... Rick is still out there? Still obsessed with what he did?" JT asked.
Lucas got up from his seat, "Why base it on her?" he asked.
"No one is born a killer. Maybe he's haunted by it. This is the way he takes his anger out, finding girls like her." JT suggested.
"And killing them again?"
"We haven't found his hostage yet. What if he kidnaps all the girls? And sees if their like Emma? If not, BAM, dead."
"Why would he do that?" Lucas said
JT told Lucas the story, "Rick snapped because the school poured feathers and paint on him, Emma helped him out, made him feel better... he thought she led him on and when she shoved him off of her when he kissed her, he went crazy."
"He shot her because he couldn't handle rejection?" Lucas asked in disgust.
"He was bullied a lot." JT replied and shivered, "He was a creep."
"Alright, well... lets get to the important thing." Lucas said.
"that is?"
"Telling Sean she's actually survived." Lucas raised an eyebrow and JT nodded.
The two walked out of the office and walked down a hall.
"So you know this is why Sean's so distant?" Lucas asked Jt. He always wondered why Sean was the way he was. He felt like he was punishing himself for something, holding back or something.
JT nodded and said, "I know it, and understand it. I, myself, haven't been inlove like they had. After the shooting, rumor had it Sean was sent to jail because he beat the shit out of his own friend for speaking up about Emma."
"Jesus. How did he get this job?"
"Jay dropped the charges."
"You know, someone may need to talk to this guy too." Lucas spoke up.
JT snickered opening the exit door, "Pass. That guy made my highschool years hell." With that, he left the building.