Chapter 4: Back To Square One
After Gwen got a search warrant Adam and Tyler headed for Oliver's apartment and the place was a dump.
"When I was a kid I wanted to be a bus driver like Ralph Kramden. Even The Honeymooners looked better than this." Tyler commented as he looked through the draws in the bedroom.
"You don't live much better than this now." Adam replied.
"Whoa! Look what I found." Tyler said. He then pulled out a locket from one of the draws in the bedroom. It was a silver heart and when he opened it they saw a picture of Leo's father and younger brothers inside of it.
"Bastard didn't even try to hide it, when these perps gonna get an imagination?" The mutant bear asked...
"Come on! Move!" Oliver Smith growled to the disabled people in his bus.
He was a 55 year old mutant zebra. "Oliver Smith?" A voice asked behind him. Oliver turned around as saw Mary and Ivan standing there. It had been Mary that spoke to him.
"Yeah that's me." He said.
The mutant wolf pulled out her badge. "Police. Turn around and put your hands on the bus." She said firmly. "Why should I?" Oliver glared and took a threatening step forward.
Ivan suddenly pinned him against the side of the bus.
"This is brutality!" The mutant zebra cried. "Oliver, when a cop tells ya to do something you should just do it." Ivan hissed as he cuffed him and Mary read him his rights...
"The bus company's gonna fire me for leaving that bus on the street." Oliver glared.
He was now trapped in an interrogation room with Mary West and Ivan Peterson. "Well they're gonna fire you any way for stealing from their passengers." Mary West said.
"Which one of the retards told you that?" Oliver smirked.
His smirk suddenly dropped however when Ivan got in his face, looking pissed. "You don't wanna use that word around me again." He snarled before walking away to stand in a corner and watched.
"I didn't steal from anybody." He said again.
"Really? " Mary asked and pulled out Leo's locket." Then what was Leonardo's locket doing in your apartment?" Mary asked and showed Oliver Smith the small sliver locket.
"It was a gift." Oliver shrugged.
"You mean just like all those gifts you got from those old people in the nursing home?" The mutant wolf asked. "That's right." He replied. "Yeah, you're just such a nice person everyone wants to give you gifts." Ivan commented sarcasticly.
"Look, in my work I get some morons."
Ivan glared at the bus driver. "Slipped out." The zebra said and went to sit down. Ivan quickly kicked the chair right out from under the zebra and Oliver fell to the floor hard.
"You can't do that to me! This is harassment." He snarled at the mutant lion.
"It just slipped out." He said casually. "The jury isn't gonna have a lot of sympathy for a pervert who likes to take advantage of mentally challenged teenagers like Leonardo." Mary said.
"Who you calling a pervert?" Oliver said as he stood up.
"Leo said to us that you touched his ass." Mary replied. "Maybe helping him get in and out of the bus, but I never went near any of them." Oliver defended. "Then how'd you get him pregnant?" Ivan asked.
Oliver paused for a small moment before suddenly bursting out into fits of laughter.
"You think rapes funny?" Ivan growled. "If he has got a butt in the oven it sure as hell ain't mine." He chuckled. "Just gives a DNA sample and we can compare it to the baby's." Mary suggested.
"Don't need to, after I got my ex-wife pregnant twice a got a vasectomy."...
"Oliver released his medical records." Ivan growled.
"The guy may be a rotten scum-bag but he's telling the truth. The operation was almost 2 years ago." Adam glared. "I'm charging him theft any way." Gwen said with a shrug.
"That still gives us no leads on finding Leo's rapist." Paul sighed.
Tyler suddenly slammed a phone down. He had been trying to find out more about the day centre. "There was an investigation at Leonardo's day centre about a year ago." The human said.
"Why?" Mary asked.
"A tip off from an ominous person claiming something bad was going down, but they couldn't find anything and the before the investigation started a guy called Victor Johnson switched jobs."
"Alright, West and Peterson will go down to the day centre. Miles and Greg will go and talk to Victor Johnson."...
Soon Tyler and Adam arrived where Victor Johnson worked.
In a nursery. He was a 26 year old mutant fox with reddish/orange fur and blue eyes. "I worked in the day centre for 5 years before coming to this place a year ago." He said to the detectives.
"Then I take it you know about the investigation?" Adam asked.
"Yeah, I heard about it. Don't know why there was one though." He shrugged. "And you just happen to leave right before the investigation starts." Tyler commented suspiciously.
"I had to start here right away. Listen, I got nothing but good things to say about the day centre." The mutant fox replied.
"Then why did YOU call the state Victor?" Tyler asked. "What? I didn't call anybody." Victor glared. "Yeah you did Victor. Listen to this." Adam said and pulled out a recorder and pressed play.
"Yeah it's the truth. Somebody is abusing clients at the day centre."
It was in Victor's voice. Victor Johnson shifted nervously before looking the two detectives straight into the eyes. "Fine, I made the call OK, and that's all I'm saying." He glared and started to walk away.
"If your covering something up-"
"There the ones covering up!" Victor exclaimed before sighing in defeat. "I quit because of Jackson Drew." He finally said. "The director of the day centre? Why?" Adam Greg asked.
"He got one of the clients pregnant."...