Ghosts of the Past
Chapter 3 letters, deals and profiles
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The Bus
As Jack slept he had the same dream he had been having on and off for the past five years ever since the murder of Agent Mike Robertson.
He entered the house and heard the crying and pleading from the 3 young children upstairs between the ages of 3 to 6 for their dad to wake up.
When he went upstairs and entered the father's room. Jack saw the children huddled around their father crying and when they turned around the children were covered in blood from hugging their father and trying to get him to wake up.
With that Jack woke up in fright and took several deep breaths when he realised he where he was.
He immediately got up out of bed and headed to the cockpit.
Along the way there he ran into Ward.
Ward asked "You alright?"
Jack said "I'm ok just had trouble sleeping. So are you going to insult me some more? Do so I think Melinda will kick you off the plane literally, that is if Phil doesn't do it first."
Ward said "No. I'm sorry I insulted you. I'm still dealing with some effects from alien tech awhile that brought my rage to the surface."
Jack smiled and "Sounds like quite a mission agent Ward." With that he extended his hand to Ward who shook it before Jack continued onto the cockpit.
Once he entered he sat in the co-pilot's seat and asked Melinda "How long till we get to London?"
Melinda answered "An hour." She looked at Jack and curious asked "Dreamed about one of the murders?"
Jack nodded and replied "The Robertson murder. I start by entering the house and hearing Robertson's 3 children crying for their dad to wake up. I keep waking up when I see the children turn to face me covered in blood when I enter the bedroom. If we don't find the Katana Killer. I might keep having this nightmare for the rest of my life."
Melinda said "Don't worry Jack We'll find him, and make him pay for every one of the good agent's he has killed."
Jack said "Once the Katana Killer is dealt with I'll help you, Phil and your team take down Centipede and this Clairvoyant as well. Doing what they did to Phil. They made it personal."
Melinda suddenly said "If we didn't find Coulson in 48 hours, I was going to find you and bring you in to help. Regardless of what Director Fury or anyone else said about it."
Jack smiled and asked "Are you still having dreams about Bahrain?"
Melinda nodded and Jack said "If you to talk I'll be ready to listen. Now tell me, how are things with you and Phil?"
Melinda answered "Their good. Why?"
Jack said "I saw the way you were looking at him. You still love him, after all this time?"
After a few minutes Melinda nodded once and Jack said "Tell him. You deserve some happiness in your life."
Melinda didn't say a word after that and the two of them sat in silence until they arrived at the SHIELD base in London.
The senior agent in charge of the base Agent Tom Ferdinand met with the team and gave Jack the letter from Maxwell Colin.
Once he opened it he starts to read it.
Jack
It's been several years since the Katana Killer struck, I feel now you should know the truth. The real reason why he stopped killing.
I made a deal with him, he called me saying if I stopped hunting him, he would stop hunting SHIELD agents, as long as we both lived. We both honoured it, but now as I am dying of the heart condition Angina. The contract is about to expire, he's been waiting for this. I've felt him watching me.
Now you have to pay for my sins, tell the victims' families I'm sorry. I only took this deal over the alternative, more people dying maybe another hundred before we caught the killer. Would all those lives have been worth it Jack, all those people? We were never going to catch him.
I'm sorry Jack.
- Maxwell Colin
Once Jack was done reading the letter he dropped it as his shock and anger at what Maxwell did started to take hold.
He immediately headed to the cargo hold to take his aggression on the punching bag as Phil and Melinda read the letter from Maxwell.
Phil said "I'll go talk to him."
Melinda said "No let Jack work out, you can talk to him in an hour."
Phil nodded and went to his office to inform Director Fury of this latest development.
Melinda looked towards the cargo bay and hoped Jack could work through this.
Jack immediately started to take out his anger on the punching bag, landing punch after punch.' Maxwell shouldn't have took the deal. We don't make deals with murderers. He was Interpol and knew that better than most and still did it anyway' he thought angrily.
After an hour Jack calmed down and stopped punching, he took a few deep breaths before looking at Phil who was standing nearby and asked "Jack. It's not your fault, what Maxwell did isn't your fault."
Jack angrily said "How could I have seen what happened. I knew it was odd Maxwell gave up the investigation 3 weeks after Agent Robertson was killed, we knew then the Katana Killer had a cooling off period between kills but I didn't follow up on that. I was too wrapped up in finding the killer and dealing with the rest of SHIELD breathing down my neck for results."
Phil said "Maxwell did what he thought was right."
Jack said "No wonder the Katana Killer stopped killing for over 5 years. This deal gave him power. He practically got Interpol and SHIELD to surrender to him."
Phil said "Now that Maxwell died he's killing once again and we have to stop him. Now are you going to stay here and take your anger out on the punching bag, or find the Katana Killer?"
Jack stepped back from the punching bag and said "It's time to deliver the profile on him, have the team assembled in the command centre in 15 minutes."
Phil nodded and before he left Jack said "Melinda told me about what Centipede did to you. Once we find the Katana Killer. I'm going to help you get them and personally put my dagger through the head of this Clairvoyant."
Phil smiled as he and Jack headed upstairs.
Unknown Location
The man sharpened his Katana blade and looked at the list of SHIELD agents. He smiled as he looked over the list of the dead and looked at the next name of the list.
He only said one word as he sharpened the blade some more "Revenge."
The Bus
Once the team was assembled Jack said "We are looking for a male in his late 20 to early 40's. He has access to advanced tech, money and obviously has some military training due his skills in stealth. He is highly organized, mission orientated and he has a lot of rage. We need to look at people who fit this profile and have a grudge against SHIELD. That's who we are looking for."
Skye said "I'll start looking for anyone who fits the profile. I'll let you when I have a list of suspects."
Suddenly a ping sound was heard from her tablet, as she looked at she said with a smile "I found agent Ricardo. A picture was taken of a café 2 days ago and he was in the photo. It was taken in Madrid."
Jack said "Good work, now let's go talk to him."
Hong Kong
SHIELD agents secured the area as the clean-up teams collected the alien tech that was there, the local gangs decided to hold an auction of advanced alien tech to the highest bidder to make a killing in profits. Sadly for them it ended badly.
So far 42 bodies had been found in the wreckage of the burned down building and most of the victims died on gunshot wounds.
Agent Victoria Hand looked on as the agents done their jobs and as one of the agents came up to her, she asked "What is it?"
The agent answered "The alien tech we found. It's fake. Just pieces of metal painted on and made to look like the real deal."
Agent Hand asked "What is the status of the survivor."
The agent answered "He woke up a few minutes ago and keep's repeating the same words in Italian. Translated it means, the Shadow, the Shadow. He was there with his foot soldiers killing many men."
Agent Hand in shock said "He saw the Shadow?"
The agent replied "No ma'am but the men who attacked and burned down the building dropped his name, saying the Shadow had come personally to send them to hell."
Agent Hand said "The Shadow hasn't been on our radar for the past two decades why is he now leaving a massacre in his wake?"
The agent honestly said "I have no idea. Who knows how that man thinks?"
With that Agent Hand headed off back to the base while the others continued with the task at hand.
The Bus
As the plane headed to Madrid Jack was in the cargo hold doing push-ups and thinking of what the Katana Killer was doing right now, 'Is he looking for his next victim? Is he making another blasted Rubix Cube? Or is he having a cooling off period?'
Jack stopped doing push-ups when he heard footsteps and looking up to see agent Ward coming down the stairs.
Ward didn't say a word as he went over to the punching bag and started to hit it.
Jack simply resumed his push-ups and thought of what he would do to the Katana Killer when he was found. That's one thing Jack hadn't told anyone. He wasn't planning on bringing the Katana Killer in alive.
He was going to kill him.
Melinda's voice was then heard over the intercom "We're landing in 5 minutes."
Unknown Location
The Katana Killer finished his next Rubix Cube and added the photo to it. This was one thing that would make Jack Williams break. Then he'd prove his superiority to SHIELD and make them all pay for what was taken away from him all those years ago.
With that the killer got into his car as it flew into the air and headed to his next target.
Authors notes well that's chapter 3 completed let me know what you think of it read and review no flames though ok.