reminisce| jj maybank²

four

'look, it was right here, and this it where that maniac claimed his next victim. right there.'

shoupe stood in front of the four teens, a neutral look painted on his face as he slightly nodded. 'uh- huh, his next victim?'

'yea.' kie nodded.

'right. how long ago did you say it happened again?' shoupe asked.

jj reached down, running his hands along the floor in search of blood before standing back up, 'forty five minutes ago, shoupe.'

shoupe wrote down a tiny scribble on a notepad before clicking the pen shut again, 'ok. so, ward cameron just popped one off and shot him. execution style? and then cleaned it all up in forty five minutes?'

'yes.' kie said.

'yea.' ivy nodded.

'obviously.' pope said.

'we filmed the entire thing.' kie added.

'you filmed it?' shoupe asked.

'yes, but we can't show it to you because i stepped on jj's hand, and then he kicked pope, and then pope dropped the camera, cause it's a piece of shit and it broke.' kie sighed.

'this is a telephoto. and we needed to get a long distanced image, and- and and i fell, and it broke, so the video is basically unusable.' pope added. 'but we were there, and we're-'

'so the dog ate your homework?' shoupe asked.

'no shoupe, it's not-'

'look. i don't know what you kids expect me to do with this. you drag me out here in the middle of the night for a whole lot of nothing.' shoupe yelled.

'it's not nothing shoupe!' ivy yelled back.

'except for some crazy stories about how ward cameron's out on a random killing spree.' shoupe finished.

'we're not making this up!' jj yelled.

'it's not a random killing spree! gavin was his pilot!' pope yelled. 'he was paying him hush money because he was there on the tarmac that day.'

'gavin was blackmailing ward because he had the gun rafe used to kill peterkin.' kie added.

'and then he called him here and tried to pay him off, but it wasn't enough, and so he shot him.' jj said.

'with the murder weapon!' ivy yelled.

'how do you know that.' shoupe said, a look of disbelief now on his face.

'pope did this thing with his phone. he like- put it in his car and-'

'i heard their whole conversation!' pope cut kie off.

'you wiretapped him?' shoupe asked.

'is that bad?' kie asked.

'stop. just stop.' shoupe sighed. 'i've had enough.'

'what are you talkin bout shoupe!' jj yelled.

'are you gonna look the other way again?' kie yelled.

ivy shook her head, running in front of the man, looking him in the eyes.

'why would i lie to you shoupe. i don't have anything anymore, i have nothing to lose at this point. so can you just tell me that? i don't have my brother, my dad, my mom, or my uncle anymore, i have nothing.'

'you ever heard about the boy who cried wolf?' shoupe asked, brushing past ivy, leaving her standing there as the three continued yelling.

pope and kiara followed shoupe down the steps, continuing to yell, while jj stopped at ivy, reaching his hand out for her and walking her down the steps.