Chapter6 – one step too far

The sun was hot on that midsummers day, I only remember so because I was contemplating what choices I had, but more of that later. That hot summer's day held a secret, a secret that well wasn't that hard to solve. Adam and I were outside on the patio area I was sorting through invites to stupid dances when we heard a scream.

"Jessica, Adam, please help me." We came rushing over to Pierre. He was kneeling on the floor, his eyes red raw from crying, the tears streamed down his cheeks, burning his cheeks as the tears succumbed to the effects of gravity. Next to Pierre was a body, the body of his lover, the body of Alphonse, it was mangled, yet his face seemed to be in perfect condition. "Why, why did he die, why did he have to leave me on this fleeting planet, with no hope of finding anyone else."

"Pierre I am so sorry, I don't really know what to say." I replied. I am really no good with sympathy, I myself know what it is like to lose a loved one, I have lost three of them. "Pierre, tell us what can we do for you." Pierre stood up.

"Jessica," his voice was blubbery, "what you can do for me, is catch the bastard who did this to him, I don't care who the fuck it is, I just want him found, and I want him to suffer the same way that he has made me suffer." Pierre turned away and put his hand in his pocket.

"Look, what you are about to do is going to solve nothing you know." Adam looked at me; he knew what Pierre was going to do.

"I know it won't solve anything, but you see without Alphonse my life is nothing, I want to be with him, and every second since he died is like an eternity to me. I can't go on like this anymore, it's not fair."

"Pierre, listen to me," I was trying to plead with him. "You should be strong, don't stand still and be stricken down with grief; you need to rise up above it."

"Don't make me laugh Jessica; at least you still have that demon over there." He pointed to Adam, "I have nothing now. One last thing Jessica, please do what is best for you." I looked rather confused, Pierre drew his face up to mine and began to whisper in my ear, "Jessica, I see the way you look at Adam, I know how much he means to you; I looked the same way at Alphonse. Please little watch dog, please forgive me and pray that mine and Alphonse's souls reach heaven." Pierre drew a pistol from his pocket and placed the barrel against his head, in what seemed like an eternity, but in reality was a few seconds, Pierre had pulled the trigger, ending his life. Stone cold on the floor laid two lovers. I looked up at the sky wishing that this was all a dream but I saw a shadow standing on the roof.

"Adam, there is someone on the roof. Let's go check it out." I wasn't sure what to expect, I was awestruck from the whole ordeal of someone committing suicide. Adam picked me up and climbed the wall of the House, now this was by far the quickest way to get to the roof. "Adam, you could give me a little bit more warning prior to a stunt like that."

"I apologise my Lady." Adam replied, just then we heard laughter.

"You two are picture perfect. A demon and his prey, but such a pretty thing you are Jessica, really that's the truth, too bad that it won't last." I turned around to see Hector stood on the roof.

"Well I can state the obvious and assume that the real motive behind you standing on this roof is to do with those two dead bodies lying below." I sounded like a prosecutor.

"Indeed that would be correct; you see the death of Alphonse was all my doing. But my real motives are much deeper."

"Real motive, for what exactly," I replied out of curiosity.

"The intention was to get you up here, alone, but since your butlers with you, that makes my plan faulty." Hector had gone insane.

"What, were you going to throw me off the roof too," Hector raised his eyebrows at me, "what do you think that will accomplish."

"Well I would have completed my revenge."

"What revenge are you talking about Hector?"

"Well Jessica, I blame you for her death, I blame you for the death of my sister."

"Don't be such a fool Hector, I never killed your sister, both my parents were killed, I would never do that to anyone, well unless the queen orders me to but that's a different issue. I don't want to kill those who are close to my parents killer, I want to kill their killer, you killing Alphonse was unnecessary, if you wanted to kill me so badly then why not just do it, why try to make me suffer, when it is no good, suffering is what drives me towards my goal and when the time comes I will fall victim to the contract that I hold with Adam."

"Look, I can't kill you here, your butler will try and stop me, and like you just said, you have revenge to deal with."

"Hector," a voice emanated from the rooftops. "There was no need for that, but it does bring us one step closer to the fulfilment of our contract." Hector turned around. It was William.

"William, I think that it is almost time to take our leave, but first I will divulge what happened here to the Queens Watch Dog." The sun was setting on that once joyous day, Adam and I stood awestruck at the tale that Hector was telling.

"As I told you before Jessica, I blame you for the death of Jaffa; I wanted to make you suffer as I have since the day that my younger sister departed from the earth. So I came up with this plan. I knew that Pierre and Alphonse were close to each other and I knew that they had links to you. So I decided that I would slowly kill those who mattered to you, Pierre was just, what do you call it, oh yeah, collateral damage. I wrote a letter to Alphonse pretending to be Pierre; I got William here to stalk Pierre to see when would be a good time to spring the trap. I wrote that Pierre was having second thoughts about something and he wanted to talk to Alphonse about it, I put that he would be contemplating the truths on the roof. And Alphonse being the pathetic wimp he is fell for it. The next bit was easy, I walked up to Alphonse and forced him to stand on the edge of the roof, I thought that he might overpower me but in reality he is a softy. I told him what I was going to do, I said to him 'you have ties to the little bitch who killed my sister, I want to make her pay for what she did, I will make her suffer in the same way that she made me suffer.' So I then pushed him off the roof, the next thing I hear is a gunshot and Pierre is also deceased." I was silent, stricken down with the whole truth, dumbfounded at what I was hearing. "William, I think it is time we departed." And with that the two of them left the scene. By now it was dark and any attempt to arrest Hector was all but impossible, so I decided that I would leave it until tomorrow. Tomorrow I will arrest Hector.

The next day Adam and I went to Hectors house, but were we in for a shock.