All Beauty must die

Defining the Evil

“I try to short things a bit. Well my brother, Lauren, Brian, Hannah and me were called the best team in the country. One colleague and the press gave us the name because we solved every crime twice faster as most of the police officers here. I love the team and we became good friends in no time, always had been there for each other like a big family. But Thomas couldn’t really deal with it and tried to destroy us. In particular he liked to pick on me, provoking me and judged every single thing I did. Short we never became friends, especially after what he did. I will never forgive him for this” his hands clutched around the wheel.

“What happened?” Anne looked at him, excited to hear about all the story from the past.

She heard already a few things from Lauren, but she was curious what was behind their hate against Thomas.

“It all happened in our last case” he breathed heavily “There was a guy that already killed 4 prostitutes all with the same characteristics, long brown curly hair and curvy girl. A religious fanatic that persuaded them to go to a motel, offered them twice they asked for and as soon as they reached the room, he knocked them out before he raped them before he cut their neck. And we found on every death body the tattoo ‘God forgive you now’. Before he left the room he threw holy water all over them, in case their soul can go to heaven now. We worked on that case for more than two weeks while that man was still out there, killing one by one. Well, Thomas talked then to Hannah, almost forced her to work undercover. He thought that would get us to new results, bring us closer to the murderer but instead …” his voice cracked a little bit when he started to think on that day back when he hasn’t only lost one friend, but also one girl that meant more to him. “She showed all the characteristics that the murderer picked for his girls” he brushed one single tear from his cheek and started to concentrate on the traffic again.

“Oh don’t tell me she …” Anna was shocked.

“When I reached the hotel room it was already too late. We tried to rescue her but after two days she died in the hospital. I wished I could have stopped her.”

“I’m so sorry” she patted his shoulder and felt so helpless that she could just sit next to him and couldn’t stop his pain.

“Thomas was a big asshole that day. He was the big hero of everyone and gave a lot of press interviews saying that he is sorry for the death of Hannah but he couldn’t stop her. He told everyone that it was her actual idea, even after he warned her of the danger. The minute I heard that I punched him to the ground and if Jared wouldn’t have stopped me he wouldn’t be alive anymore. We caught the murderer that day but we also a lost great friend and colleague. It all ended up that I was suspended for a few days and Thomas sent us to a different places all around the United States as a kind of punishment.”

“What a fucking bastard” Anna was disgusted by all of that. She expected him to be an asshole, acting like the biggest prick on earth but never thought he would accuse everyone for his own misery.

“That’s why I started my own investigation. Since 3 years now I’m working on the case to prove he is responsible for some cases where people died unexpected. It’s just a feeling and I still need the evidence to prove my theory, but one day I will see him sitting at the court, waiting for the moment the jury will find him guilty.”