Chapter six

-Upon our mantel our memory fades, but horror of a scene captured in photo brings out the devil in us all-

Ben froze as he looked at Albedo looking into the camera at him. He felt his body tremble slightly before he reached out and touched the face, his finger trailing down Albedo's body, before tears welled up in his eyes that he fought not to spill over. He looked questioningly at Luke who looked at the picture of Albedo.

Luke gave a soft smile as he tapped on the window to announce they finally had Albedo's picture. They finally could tell the world what that bastard looked like. Albedo had given them his end with Ben still being alive. "Come on, why don't we go back to the hospi-." Luke watched as Ben's face twisted before he stood up and looked around the room his teeth slowing showing as Ben pulled back his lips in snarl.

"He gave me my name!" Luke was taken back as he was slammed into the wall, he didn't expect that from Ben, before he was pushed to the floor his head being lifted up and slammed back onto the ground. "He gave me my name!" Luke blinked as all he could see was Ben on top of him tears spilling down his face onto Luke's.

"GET OFF HIM!" Luke knew that voice… who was it? Ben dropped his head down rubbing his cheek, longingly, against Luke's. He was still crying as he wrapped his arms over and under Luke's head before Luke realized he was being held.

"Why did give me …" Ben didn't finish as he was pulled up and off Luke before tossed to the corner a few guns on him as he shivered and pulled his legs up into a ball he soon looked to be.

"Luke?" Luke looked into Dane's face before smiling, he tasted blood… that wasn't good.

"Damn… we didn't see that… we… damn, it looks like he tried caving in your head." Luke turned his face to look at the ceiling before he winced.

"We got the picture?" he questioned as Phil came into his view nodding with his gun out.

"Good… I… I think I'm going to pass out now…" Phil's and Dane's eyes grew as they tried to keep Luke awake but they couldn't stop it.

Phil looked at Dane before at Ben's bed then to Luke's. Luke, persistence of the doctor's on Ben's case, had placed him here with Ben who was heavily sedated. They didn't like the fact that Ben became violent from just seeing Albedo's face and body. The man in the picture, dyed white hair, was around Luke's age in his mid 30's. Tall, muscular build. The man was evil and they knew for a fact he had been doing this sort of thing for fifteen years.

"Thirty years old… he was… Can you believe this? Fifteen when he did that-," Dane pointed to Ben, "to his first victim." Dane shivered as he looked downward at his hands with a shaky breath. "The only thing is… looking back at all the photos… Damn, why didn't we see the connection before, Phil?"

"We weren't looking at that, we were just looking for the corpse." Phil turned his head as he relaxed into the chair he was sitting in watching out the window. "They all look alike and from Albedo's picture… they look alike to a point."

"The key… the key to break this case." Dane looked at Ben before at Luke as the man shifted his head groggily waking up. "Hey!" Phil and Dane shot out of their seats and rushing to Luke's side as the man opened his eyes and blinked owlishly to them.

"Hey, man!" Dane smirked as he and Phil greet, with caution, when Luke woke up a slight groan coming out of his lips before sheer panic overcame the man in the bed. Dane carefully pushed Luke back onto the bed giving Phil a look that made the other nod slightly and leave to get a nurse for the downed yet waking up cop.

When a man rushed in, dark blue scrubs under his white coat, shifted to get Dane to move he looked over the cop who was blinking profusely eyes adjusting and then another groan as the doctor checked his pupil dilation and smiled, "Glad to see you awake, how do you feel? Nauseated?"

"When you shined that light, yeah." Luke shifted slightly being helped up into a sitting position where his lungs were tested and his eyes turned to Ben on the other bed beside him, "What... happened?"

"You were taken down by the kid, Luke. He pretty much cracked your skull. You've been our a whole day." Phil stated pulling one of the chairs over when the doctor said to take it easy and they'd be back in a bit for more tests.

Dane snorted knowing Luke would protest a bit to them but would relent anyways. Dane smiled at his best friend sitting down to the side opposite of Phil, "We got a warrant on that bastard. We're hoping things go well enough in the first few months to get any sort of leads." Dane leaned back looking at Ben on the other side of the room, "Kid's knocked out also. They didn't want to take any chances until they could make sure you were fine to wake him up."

Luke nodded his head before he made a small coughing sound. With a sigh he laid flat again, "So, we have any clues to why the kid flipped out on me and kept saying his name was given to him by that bastard?"

Both other cops shook their heads before sighing a bit more. It still was a mystery for the trio but they figured when Ben awoke that would question it like any interrogation with kids.