Just a butler (English AU)

Chapter five: Now or never, tell me the truth

Ponk's POV:

-Sam What is this?-

I asked him again with the paper grab in hand. I knew what that document was and what it represented, but I had no idea why he had it, he no more less.

My eyes stared at him full of worriedness.

My workmate used to be a person full of kindness and always with a smile on his face who didn't hesitate at bringing a hand of help when you needed it. But nowadays, he has become more serious and reserved and evasive ever since he started working on those cases, as if something was eating him from inside. He was hiding something from me and this document was proof of it. Something else had happened when he spoke to the commissioner, something even worse than what he had told me.

-Listen, I've already taken a free day for tomorrow, so I promise to tell you everything, but for now let's just go to sleep and rest.-

That was the worst excuse I have ever heard, but it was true that I also needed some rest, so I just nodded and went upstairs to sleep trying not to give it much importance and act as normal as I could.

The next morning, I went downstairs, realising he was already awake and making breakfast. I stepped into the kitchen, and Sam with a smile like anything had happened gave me a plate full of pancakes. We sat around the table and we ate our food without talking a word.

-Are you done?-

He asked me, getting up and picking his plate.

-Yes.-

I answered with simplicity. Sam also took my plate and with the usual calm, washed them.

-I'm going for a walk to enjoy the nice weather outside. Do you want to accompany me?-

-Ok, I'll go take the phone and a jacket.-

-It's not necessary, let's leave them here to avoid interruptions, it's our free day after all.

I doubted if I should believe him or not due to the circumstances, but it didn't take me much to do what he had told me to do, so I nodded and we went out.

Just as he said, the day was beautiful. All the clouds from the smoke were gone after all the rain during the night. The grass had some little drops shining with the sun of the morning. Sam and I lived near the outskirts of the city which meant it was the nearest part to nature, even more so in a busy and urbanised city as it is in London, and even if in sometimes we thought about moving out together and becoming housemates, none of us was able to leave the job for which we worked so hard to get. It didn't take us long to find our way into a small park, with more trees than other parks used to have, but that made it beautiful in it's own way. After some time making sure no one was following us, probably because it was earlier in the morning, we started to talk.

-First of all, I want to apologize.-

Sam was the first of us to break the silence, changing his facial expression.

-I knew that they used to silence the agents that became too close to the case but I would never have thought about them getting this far.-

-Sam, you know who is behind this, don't you?

-Yes, but it's likely that you won't like the answer.-

-Try.-

-The commissioner is working in the shadows with the criminals behind those letters and every time someone searches too much about it, they get him out. Sometimes they are pressured to dimit and threatened with revealing some muskraging, some other times, they are sent to another country, and well, there are others...that we never heard about them again, now I start to know why that would be.-