I thought Maura, my own daughter, passed away when I gave birth. Now, my first time to meet Maura being alive. Everything went off point. Patrick lied to me the whole time. I mourned my daughter every year on her birth.
Elizabeth steered them to the technology room, it was on the second floor, and the tech gurus were hectic on tracking the watchers and ensured that the bases are covered for their watchers. The aegis of the watchers is unfounded for the highest coven. Elizabeth nodded toward the big screen and sent the tech guru to find a tracking on Colin.
Korsak noticed Patrick hovering over on one of the tech gurus and looking over at the big screen. Frost was in awe when he saw the tech guru fasting typed up in 0.5 seconds.
Maura and Jane were flabbergasted on the tech gurus with their work. Elizabeth yelped for some instructions they cannot catch it in the conversation. Maura wasn't sure that she heard something from the language that she can understand, but unfortunately, it was not in her fluent of languages.
The beep got their attention as the tracking of Colin was on the route back to the warehouse. The watchers sent the message that they saw him. Elizabeth nodded to the tech guru to send Colin's instructions before he came in with Constance and a body of Damien.
Patrick was in his moment of silence while watching the big screen. Korsak wondered how Patrick sacrificed his life and even his daughter to lose everything he had. He cleared his throat to get Jane's attention. The brunette detective heard him with confusion.
"Jane, I wonder if I could talk with Patrick later. You know, alone."
Jane looked at Maura's father before glancing at her old partner and gave her approval. Korsak smiled at her before observing the tech guru with his computer skills. He blurted it out to Frost, who was on his left side.
"How fast did he type?"
"I know, Korsak. I was in awe of their skills. I cannot do that like him." Frost answered before nodding toward the tech gurus. One of them smirked because he can hear the whole conversation but dissimulated quickly as Elizabeth yelled at him about tracking Colin.
"Hey, did you find Colin?"
"No. Unfortunately, his tracking just went off. I'm sorry, Eliśabeth.
"Shit. Get on it. Go!" Elizabeth snapped her fingers. Jane whistled on the advanced technology and whispered to her partner.
"Fancy that one, Frost?" The brunette detective whirled her finger at the routers and everything else on the wall, which was blinking lights.
"Oh, yes. I wanted to have that one in my place. Elizabeth, is that Hologram technology back in there? I thought it didn't exist." Frost asked when he spotted the hologram table, next door to the television screens on the wall. Elizabeth heard him before glancing at the hologram table.
"Yes, it is a hologram table. We use it as our strategy or routes. Oh, I forgot to tell you that you all can use it for your cases if necessary. It already was modified when a few of mine duplicated your cases and evidence. Someone will show you later."
"Cool." Frost nodded before looking at Korsak, who gaped open. Maura was hearing the conversation with them before looking at Jane with an awed look. Jane raised her eyebrows and blurted it out.
"It settled up everything we collected from our station and crime scenes? So, what happened to the cases and evidence?"
"We burned it out before you arrived. I don't want them to find out what we searched for." Patrick came to them and spoke up before nodding at Elizabeth to assist the tech gurus in finding Colin. Elizabeth smiled at them before departing the room.
"That's our cases. It would be best if you hadn't burnt it out without our permission. It's the official investigation." Korsak yelped at him before looking at Jane for her approval to have a serious conversation with Patrick. Jane sighed before waving him away. Maura widened her eyes at burning her reports and evidence. The honey blonde doctor cleared her throat and asked.
"What if we miss something from our evidence and cases that you destroyed it?"
"Don't worry, Maura. We made sure that we have everything ready for you. Seth was the supervisor of everything that you handled it since the first case of Nicholas Reed." Patrick answered before nodding at them. He left quickly as Elizabeth came back after assisting someone from the next door. Korsak took his chance to follow Patrick for a serious conversation with him. Jane saw him before looking at Frost and asked him.
"Are we ready to take Elizabeth for questioning without Korsak?"
"I'm good. Are you?" Frost asked before looking at her. Jane nodded at him before nudging her best friend, Maura.
"Maur, will you be ok here? Frost and I are going to talk with Elizabeth about something from the cases."
"I'm going with you. I will be quiet. If you need my help, nod." Maura voiced before sending Jane a smile. The brunette detective hesitated before nodding. Frost gestured the ladies to go first, and he went behind them. Jane hollered at Elizabeth and indicted the door to the outside of the technology room. Elizabeth nodded before whispering at the tech gurus about Colin's tracking. She finally followed them along until they reached the hallway.
Frost suggested that they could use the room for privacy. Elizabeth led them to the room, which was the break room that was opposite the kitchen. Jane was relieved that the room only has four chairs with a round table. The light was above their head. It was similar to the interrogation room.
They sat down before Jane looked at Frost and cleared her throat. Maura was sitting next to her. Elizabeth was feeling muddled at the detectives' thinking but waited for a specific answer from Jane.
"Since we got here, it got me thinking about the case files and evidence we gathered from our first day. But it got destroyed and why did you gather those files without asking us for permission? It's actually confidential and you are not a detective or investigator as we are working together."
"Jane is right. It is accountable for us to get this evidence and files. It's for our report to our brass on the top. Well, Korsak is the one that we report and he brings it up to the brass and our lieutenant. Now, it technically is gone and we have nothing that proves the evidence which leads us to no proof." Frost explained before looking at Elizabeth.
Elizabeth grimaced at herself because she didn't think of that for them. She nodded toward Frost's justification based on the wipeout of the cases and evidence that it cost Jane, Korsak, and Frost's accountability. Elizabeth sighed and disclosed her fault.
"I'm apologizing for it. But it is for the best because I assured that someone would find it within a second. I mean, the highest coven have a possibility to find the cases that you reported. Patrick requested it and I did it without the reason to cause it to be happening."
"Wait a minute? Patrick requested it to destroy them?" Maura replied before making a perplexed expression. Jane and Frost looked at each other but understood why Patrick requested it without asking them to burn them.
"Yes, Maura. He asked for it. It was not me. I don't understand why he wanted to destroy it but I just realized that he wanted it to be unfound because of you. I can't make any compromise but you need to talk with your father. I mean, I understand why you don't like him because he is your biological father. You need to know something about yourself. I can't reveal the truth but Patrick can." Elizabeth canvassed it.
"Back to the point, you did set them on the fire because Patrick requested and I'm curious if you did burn the tape recorder?" Jane asked.
"It is in the safe. I can get it with Patrick's permission. I didn't burn it because it is important for you to find out. We heard the conversation between Maura and someone else on the recorder."
"You heard it?" Maura exclaimed and went thrilled about it. She finally realized that Elizabeth can hear the conversation very clearly between Maura and someone else. But not to Jane, her best friend. The honey doctor gasped at the realization before looking at Jane.
"I remember that you only heard the static on the tape recorder when it was last time. I only can hear the conversation and you can too, Elizabeth. Why is that?"
"Only you can reveal a truth about yourself, Maura." Elizabeth smiled at her.
"Alright. I need you to tell us everything that you already knew about our cases. it's no choice." Jane said before raising her eyebrows at Elizabeth.
"Yeah, it is not my choice but I can tell you some. You already saw everything at the crime scene. Two holes on the neck. Big dent on the wall and the fall from the roof."
"Don't forget that we met someone on the roof as we just came out of the greenhouse." Frost brought it up. Elizabeth nodded as she sent him a sad smile.
"Yes, and that too. Colin and I brought you all here for the reason because of Patrick. Before I explain everything, I need to tell you about myself."
Across from the break room. Korsak followed Patrick to his office and knocked on his door. Patrick turned around to see him with his perplexed face. Korsak cleared his throat and asked.
"Can we talk?"
"Sure, come in. Have a seat." Patrick nodded toward the sofa in the office. Korsak was grateful that Patrick invited him to sit and have a serious conversation. Patrick sat on the armchair that was fronted by Korsak's position.
"Thanks. I think it is serious. Because we departed to find you in the federal prison that Janie put you for murdering on one of our cases. And, you disappeared. How?"
"Ah. I see that Lucien and the Mortenson brothers told you everything, did they?"
"Yes." Korsak nodded.
"I tell you why I escaped. I was taken by the highest coven. They held me for days as I can count my life. But for your information, you need to know about me. It's my authentic self."
"Why did they hold you there?" Korsak found out about him in the highest coven.
"They wanted me to convert into them. I refused and escaped on my own. I came here to be unfounded and established my own army. The Resistance is my first thing to come into my life since I turned in."
"You turned in what?" The senior detective was curious about the explanation of Patrick's life. Korsak knew Patrick Doyle very well since he got into the Police Academy and almost caught him on the record to arrest but Patrick disappeared on his watch.
"I turned in to be a vampire." Patrick glowed his red eyes at Korsak. Korsak gasped and realized that Patrick quickly escaped on his own when the camera didn't catch his disappearance very fast.
"The camera didn't catch you on the video."
"Yes. I vanished immediately as the gate door closed." Patrick nodded with a solemn smile.
"Did Maura know about you?"
"No. I haven't had a chance to talk with her. Also, I wanted to have a conversation with her about her mother. The biological mother."
"Is she gone?"
"No. She is much alive. She is here." Patrick looked out to the window which was next room. Korsak followed his gaze toward the window and saw the honey-blonde woman in the white lab coat walking around in the office. She felt the gaze from Patrick and Korsak and looked up at them through the window. Korsak saw the red eyes of Maura's biological mother.
"Is that her?" Korsak mumbled. Patrick heard it and nodded.
"Yes, it is." The silence took over the men while they watched the honey-blonde woman working on the file.
In the break room, Jane, Frost, and Maura remained silent as Elizabeth initiated a conversation about herself that they didn't know. It drew the silence in the room but Elizabeth lingered on her own self.
"As you might catch up with the cases that you worked on since I got here, I have senses such as sound, taste, smell, sight, and touch. But it is not the same as you have my senses. It's much different. I mean, I can hear farther away like 100 miles away from here. For smell, I can detect a specific odor from the dead body or being alive either. My sight is the same as I use my sound but expeditiously catch someone like a microscope on its person. I touch everything within my special ability."
"You mean, you are..." Frost stumbled into a sentence as Jane slowly looked at her partner with her 'duh' expression. Frost didn't finish his sentence but remained reticent.
"Frost, you can say it. But I was born being a half-human and vampire. My father was a pure vampire when he turned himself in as he was in your age - the 30s. He met my mother, which she was a human before having me as a baby. Unfortunately, my mother died having childbirth and my father struggled to turn her in as a vampire. There was a problem why my mother couldn't turn in as a vampire. Because of that, my mother was cursed." Elizabeth shrugged as she leaned back against her chair.
Frost, Jane, and Maura gaped open at Elizabeth as they listened to her story. Elizabeth sighed before looking at her hands.
"I grew up with the small coven that my father established which was the secret to us but not in the public. I mean, someone could find us and kill us whatever they like to do with us. I hid for many years and I ran away with them over the continents. My father made a promise that I stayed alive as I could go farther. He taught me how to defend and fight them until I found him lying on the floor."
"What happened?" Maura questioned.
"My father was murdered by the one of newbies in the highest coven. I was that young at 15. I watched him die by the blood of the newbie. My father fought hard as he could stay alive until the fight was over. His head wrung and taken off by beheading him with the blood of the new vampire."
Frost balked before feeling the bile from his stomach. He immediately went to the sink and retched up. Jane and Maura scrunched their noses. Elizabeth gaped open at Frost and looked at the ladies.
"Is he ok?"
"Yeah, you said something that made him throw up. Anything gross or that dreads him. One time, he saw the gross worms that ate up the eyes."
Frost retched twice as he heard Jane's voice into a conversation. Maura slapped her best friend's arm and scolded.
"Jay! Stop it."
"Sorry, Frost." Jane sheepishly smiled. Elizabeth understood Frost's inability to stand out with the grossest things he could see in the crime scene or anything to make him feel sick.
"Back to the point, your father was dead. What happened to you?" Maura was curious about the event. Elizabeth nodded as she recalled her last day.
"After they dragged him out, I was next in line to kneel for them but I refused to do it. The reason why I refused is the highest coven wanted me loyal to them and convert myself into a member of the coven. I had been seeing a lot of events through this highest coven. It was the cruel one that I have ever seen. My father made sure that I won't join theirs and decided to run away from them. I was held in the cell which was in the dungeons for a long time. But I was lucky that I met Celeste Viscardi."
"Yes, I remember Celeste Viscardi. She was very amicable to everything she does. I'm sure that you know her sister, Samantha?" Maura opened the conversation as Elizabeth was surprised that Maura knew the sisters very well.
"Oh yes, Samantha. Unfortunately, I've been befriending Celeste and we planned to get out of the coven. It ended up that we did. But Samantha decided to stay behind and didn't go with us. The reason was that Samantha already converted herself and made a loyal compromise to them. It was too late for us to get her with us. That's how we spilted our distance until now." Elizabeth nodded with the last memory of them in the hideaway.
"So, Celeste Viscardi... Is she a good guy?" Jane asked.
"Yes, Celeste is and she is our watcher. Technically, it is Maura's watcher for now since Patrick chose the best watcher for her. I can't explain deeply but you need to have a conversation with your father, Maura."
"I'm good for now. So, how long did you run away?"
"I left the highest coven and joined the small group like me, the half-human and half-vampire since 1905. Samantha and Celeste were very young. I was way older than them."
"How old are you? Actual age?"
"Patrick is the first few oldest than all of us. I am about 15 years younger than him. I am 173 years old. Being a half-vampire is thrice times as the human age. We live longer than human lifecycle." Elizabeth explained as she smiled at them. Jane and Frost widened their eyes. Maura was still thinking in her mind as she just heard about her father that is the first few oldest than Elizabeth.
"Patrick is 188 years old, am I correct?"
"Yes." Elizabeth looked at Maura and simply answered her question.
"Oh, holy shit!" Jane exclaimed. Frost was in awe of their conversation. Maura crossed her arms as she focused on the simple math in her head. She hated the kind of questions she didn't want to ask about herself.
"He is 188 years old so, I am curious about me. How did I get here?"
Jane and Frost just went in their realization about Maura's life and looked at the honey-blonde doctor for a moment. They went back to focus on Elizabeth. Opposite from them on the table, Elizabeth exhaled deeply and broached the issues.
"You were born a long time ago. Way back before Jane and Frost were introduced into this world. I think this time you have a conversation with Patrick because he had you when you were a baby. Now, I can hear Patrick and Korsak coming into here." Elizabeth straightened her spine as she looked over Frost's shoulder.
Others looked around to see Patrick and Korsak coming into the room. Korsak was very pale as he stayed mum. Patrick frowned on himself and nodded toward Elizabeth through their telepathic conversation.
'You can go now, Élisabeth. I can take over this discussion. Korsak knows about this one.'
'Are you sure, Paddy?'
'I am certain. Send my instructions to the tech gurus to bring Seth back. We need him as soon as possible, Élisabeth.'
'Yes, Paddy.'
Elizabeth sent others a solemn look before nodding at Patrick and left the room. Patrick took over Elizabeth's seat and gestured Korsak to join them around in the table. Jane and Frost looked at Korsak for any motion. Korsak saw them as he shook his head. Others slumped their shoulder as they waited for Patrick to open up the discussion.
"Thank you for your patience with me. I am certain that Jane and Frost are aware that Korsak had a conversation with me in privacy, don't you?"
"Yes," Jane said. Maura stayed mum as she crossed her arms on her chest and sent him a glare. Patrick sighed as he smiled at his daughter. Korsak remained closed off but watched Patrick derive into the conversation with them.
"Well, Elizabeth told you about me and you being my newborn daughter a long time ago. I think that I didn't tell you about your biological mother as you thought that she was dead. Or, when did you get here?"
"Either that or other, I remain waited," Maura announced as she sent a glare. Jane reached her best friend's thigh to comfort Maura. Frost gulped as he heard a stern voice.
"You were born in 1872. We had you in that year. Also, it was a year before you were born, I was turned in as a vampire. Someone converted me and I was carried by your mother. Your mother was human and helped me to stay alive. A few months later, we became romantically involved with each other and you came into our lives. Your mother almost died having you in childbirth a year later. I turned her in as a vampire."
"Whoa, she is a vampire like you?" Frost uttered. Patrick nodded at him before fidgeting his fingers. Jane gaped open.
"Maura, we tried to keep you but it was for the best that we gave you up to your family, the Isles. Your father was not born yet but the father of his took you in his family for the years. I kept my eyes on you when you grew up. Dr. Arthur, your father took you in when he married Constance. He made a compromise with me before having you in their family for a secret. Constance was barren to have no children at this time. Your growth spurt was very slow but the age caught up within time."
"Wait a minute, if I get this one right. Maura grew up with her age but her growth spurt stayed small like a baby?" Jane asked but her mind was scrambled into math since she was terrible at her subjects in school.
"Yes, she was a toddler when Dr. Arthur Isles took her in after getting married to Constance."
"Oh whoa." Frost and Jane were having their mind blown. Korsak was in awe. Maura stayed mum as she stared into her father's eyes. It was a truth about herself.
"Where was my mother?"
"After you were taken in by the Isles family, your mother and I stayed behind to run away from the highest coven as we could stay being alive for the years. I always check on you when I come to see you with the Isles family. Your mother decided to stay behind and I lied to her that you died." Patrick explained.
"She died?" Jane proclaimed while pointing at her best friend next to her. Patrick nodded.
"Yes, her mother thought that Maura died so I kept her in the dark for a while. But now, I think it is time to meet your mother."
"What do you mean, Patrick?" Maura sneered. Patrick held up his hand before exhaling deeply.
"I told your mother about you just a while ago. Your mother is here. I thought it would be nice to have you both together to be reunited for the first time. Come in, sweetheart." Patrick smiled at Maura before calling her mother to come in from the hallway. Korsak looked at the honey blonde woman that strode in the break room.
Jane, Frost, and Maura slowly turned around to meet the person who came into the break room. It was a woman who looked like Maura in a resemblance. It was a gasp from her when she saw her daughter being alive. Patrick finally introduced them as the woman stood by him.
"Meet your mother, Dr. Hope Martin."