"Forgive me, I feel it again...the pull to the light. Supreme leader senses it. Show me again, the power of the darkness and I will let nothing stand in our way. Show me, grandfather, and I will finish what you started." Kylo Ren, December 18, 2015
Chapter Synopsis: Lola presents her theory on how this crime happened, while police start to uncover the truth
We head back to the present time, where Lola is still talking to the detective.
"So, have you understood the story so far, detective?"
"Oh, yeah. You married your childhood friend and had 2 kids together. One of them is evil, and you are trying to protect your husband from him. Finally, he said you were domineering, so you went to an experimental treatment facility to deal with your insecurities, suppress your narcissistic personality disorder and become a more caring person?"
"Yes, but now, here's my theory on what happened today."
Meanwhile, while Lola tells her theory to the detective, the police has already started canvassing the area to deduce what had transpired earlier today.
A policeman heads over to the kitchen, and sees that there are still dishes in the kitchen sink.
"Well, it all started when we had breakfast today, once everyone left, Lyle approached me with some…interesting suggestions."
The same policeman uses his Sherlock scan-esque power (all policemen are taught this skill at the academy, as a part of their detection training) and sees faint smudges. Undoubtedly, these are fingerprints! Upon closer examination, they appear to belong to a woman.
"Come on, mom! It will be so much fun!"
"I'm not abetting you to rob a bank, Lyle."
"We don't have to do that! We can find some niggers and kill them."
"That's illegal, and racist. I didn't raise you to be this way…"
"Ok, fine. We'll just beat them up."
"Can't, that's still illegal. And besides, they'd win."
"Fine, we'll just con people out of their money."
"No, Lyle. I won't do any criminal activities with you!"
"Come on, it will be just like old times! Remember when you extorted and blackmailed your own family to get favors and attention from them. The way you manipulated those pawns so easily. Man, I want to be just like you!"
Lola presses her hands on the table, leaving those fingerprints.
"That was my greatest folly. I still feel guilt and remorse over it, even though the incident happened 30 years ago. Blackmailing my family for attention was the cruelest thing I ever done. I can only hope that they would forgive me."
It IS the cruelest thing you've ever done. That's why it's so awesome! Besides, the only person you need is yourself. Friends will just drag you down. They'll take advantage of you and stab you in the back once they're done with you! That's why we need to stick together. It will be you and me against the world! What do you say?"
"We are done here, Lyle! I want you to get along with your father."
"He's a rapist, and you're too moonstruck to see it!"
"Lyle, enough!"
Flashback Lola leaves.
"What happened to you, mom? You used to be so cool! What happened? Did you become…nicer? Why would you change a core aspect of your personality? Oh, it's because of HIM, isn't it? You want to be a better wife for HIM. He has gone too far this time. I WILL kill that bastard here and now. For you, mom."
"I think I got something over here, sarge!"
The lead officer runs toward his brother's call and enters the crime scene, Leif's room. There, they find two bullet riddled bodies, with one of them having significantly more holes than the other one. The lead officer looks through Leif's nightstand, there's nothing in there.
"He must have taken Leif's key while he was away…"
"Up here, boss! I think I found something!"
He follows the third policeman's call and arrives at the bathroom.
"What is it?"
"The bathtub is still wet, sir. I also felt the showerhead, and it was wet, too!"
"Waited for me to take a shower…"
The entire 3-man squad regroups at the crime scene, where the second officer looks closely at the floor. Thanks to his Sherlock detection training, he spots something.
"Look at the floor next to the closet. There are scuff marks on it, like someone was dragging something on the floor."
"Got a chair to reach the shelf where I put our handguns (don't worry, I have a conceal and carry permit) and unlocked the box, taking one of the guns and a few boxes of ammo. He then put the chair back in the kitchen and waited for his quarry to arrive."
"So, do you have an idea on how exactly this crime was carried out, sir?"
"Yes, I believe the perpetrator was in an adjacent room, waiting for the victim to arrive. Once his target entered his room, the assailant snuck up and shot him, but didn't kill him, as you can see from the bloodstained fingerprints on the floor."
The other two officers look and see a trail of bloodstained fingerprints.
"He knew he was going to be killed, and so he crawled toward this broken picture frame to get a last look at his family. He was then summarily executed."
"But then why are there 18 bullets to the victim's body if it only took 2 to kill him?"
"Simple, this was a rage killing, no doubt about that. This leads me to conclude that the attacker knew his victim. This was a personal vendetta against the victim, too. But what could he have done to warrant this? It's overkill, that's for sure."
BANG!
"Wha…? Lyle, why are you doing this?"
"Squirm all you want, it won't save you, you scumbag!"
"What do you want?"
"I want you to die."
Flashback Leif tries to crawl to a picture he knocked off when reacting to the first shot. He eventually grabs it, leaving 3 bloody fingerprints on it. The fingerprints land on the faces of Lola, Alexa and Leif.
"Lola…"
"You don't deserve her."
BANG!
Flashback Lyle executes him with a single shot to the back of the head.
"And 4 more for good measure."
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
He reloads.
"And 6 to the heart."
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
He reloads again.
"And these 6 are to humiliate you."
He aims at Leif's crotch.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
"Ok, but what about the girl?"
"She walked in on the murder scene and was killed because she knew too much."
"Dad! Where are you! We have to escape! There's a hostile intruder in the house!"
Flashback Alexa goes into her dad's room and finds her brother emptying entire clips into their dad's body. He eventually takes notice of her presence.
"Oh…hey sis."
"What are you doing?!"
"Executing this piece of filth. He raped our mother, so I murdered him in cold blood in return."
"But he didn't do anything!"
"Stop trying to convince me. He's guilty and you know it."
Flashback Lyle starts to cry.
"You couldn't save yourself. You just had to save your dad, didn't you?"
"Of course, I'd save him!"
"I would have let you escape, but you foolishly headed toward your own destruction."
"What are you talking about?"
"Don't you know, dear sis? That kindness is a weakness. After all, our mom wasn't kind originally. How else did you think she survive in this world? But because of THIS degenerate here, she became soft. And now that you know the truth, I'm going to have to kill you."
"What?!"
"I can't risk you telling mom about this, and I know you will."
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…
…
"I'm sorry."
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Flashback Lyle puts 3 shots into Flashback Alexa's heart.
"Lyle… we loved you… why?"
Flashback Lyle rushes over and catches her body before it falls. He lays it gingerly on the floor. He kisses her on the cheek.
"Goodbye, Alexa. You deserve better than us."
The police notice one of the doors is locked.
"Get the battering ram."
"Yes, sir!"
The policeman leaves the house and returns with a battering ram. The 3 of them break the door down and find a third victim, as well as a handgun.
"Looks like we found our murder weapon."
One of the policemen puts it in an evidence bag.
"Judging by the blood splatter, it appears the person here died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound."
"So, it's not a triple homicide?"
"Nope, it looks to me that it's a double murder-suicide."
Let's look in his room.
In Lyle's room, they find a small safe with an alphanumeric lock.
"What do you think the password is?"
"Try "Lola"."
He does so, and to their surprise, it opens, revealing a note.
The lead policeman reads it.
"Mom, if you found this note, it means that you are finally free from the tyrant's grasp. You were too in love with him to see it, but he raped you twice, that's how we were conceived. I just wanted to look out for you and make sure nothing happens to someone as amazing as you. I did it, I killed him and I felt no remorse. Only happiness at the thought that I helped you escape from his grasp. Unfortunately, I cannot go along with you. I am tainted by his DNA. I must kill myself to stop the virus from spreading. Take Alexa and go somewhere safe. I love you, mom." -Lyle
"Well, we know his motive."
The police return to the station, and report to their boss, who just so happens to be the very detective Lola is talking to.
"And that's my theory on what happened, chief Rosato."
The police interrupt the conversation.
"Oh, did you boys find anything?"
"Yes, we recovered the murder weapon, and a MRN."
"MRN?" Lola asked confusedly
"It stands for motive rant note, they're uncommon to find, because most of the notes we find are SN's, or suicide notes, for short."
They hand the MRN to chief Rosato.
"Well, Lola, you are free to go."
"Why is that?"
"Because Lyle implicated himself in the murders. Unfortunately, we can't prosecute a dead man. But at least we know what happened. We'll call some "professionals" to clean up the grisly crime scene for you."
"Uhh…thanks…"
Lola leaves the police station, where 20 faces meet her…
Preview
Lola is surrounded on all sides by her siblings and in-laws. No doubt that they arrived after hearing about the LOL murders. It seems that they're ready to give her a brand of swift justice after hearing that she was a suspect in a triple homicide! The worst part is that even though Lola has been guilty of some pretty horrible things in the past, she's completely innocent in this crime!
"Lola…"
Lola prepares for the inevitable beatdown they're going to inflict on her…
Author's Note: Lola took special offense to Lyle's clamoring for them to commit black genocide. After all, the Loud family is friends with Clyde. He's best friends with her brother and close friends with her twin sister. Lyle appears to have what I dub "the Kylo effect". Like Kylo Ren, Lyle also idolizes a family member that has committed horrible atrocities and loves that facet of them while completely ignoring any good things they may have done. Even if Lola tried to punish him, Lyle would just redirect the blame to Leif and believe that Leif manipulated her into punishing him, even if that isn't the case. It will only strengthen his delusions. While Kylo Ren killed his father to prove he's as badass as Darth Vader, Lyle murdered Leif because he truly believed he was protecting Lola. The straw that broke the camel's back was when Lola became kinder after the NPD treatment.
Lola took it to be a better person for her and her family.
Lyle believes that she took it to appease Leif.
Since this changes a core aspect of Lola's personality, he believes this is #NotMyLola and wants the old Lola back, the one we all know and love to hate to love!
Lyle is so devoted to Lola that if Lola said "sometimes I wish I could kill Lincoln" in a moment of anger fueled weakness, Lyle will actually try to track down Lincoln to personally assassinate him for upsetting Lola. Mercifully, no matter how evil you think Lola is, she would NEVER want to kill any of her siblings. It just shows how powerful his obstinate obedience is. He will protect Lola from anything that he perceives to be a threat to her, even against things that she considers a threat. I mean, we all know Lola is more than capable of protecting herself! Lyle predicting and dealing with a perceived imminent threat is similar to Don Quixote attacking a windmill, normal people would think they are crazy.
When police tested the murder weapon for fingerprints, there were none. Lyle has adermatoglyphia, which means he doesn't have fingerprints. It was a pain for him in school as the locks were locked with biometric scanners since 2040. No one knows how he has this extremely rare anomaly, as both Lola and Lyle have fingerprints. Not that this tidbit matters, because with the blood splatter pattern indicating a suicide and not a homicide, as well as the MRN telling the police that he was the one who committed the crime, they have all the evidence they need.
Also, no matter the outcome, both Leif and Lyle would have ended up dead. Leif by being murdered by Lyle, and Lyle by suicide.
And this is the end of the first act of the story. Starting next chapter, we dive into act 2, where we'll see the aftermath of this crime and what impact it will have on everyone.
Lola is innocent...but will her family see it that way, and more importantly, his family?
