All Beauty must die

Doing Time

It kept ringing twice until Jared finally answered the phone. Everyone kept looking at each other while Jared’s hand was shivering.

“Los Angeles Police Department. Who’s speaking?” his voice was shaky.

He usually wasn’t a guy that wasn’t afraid of things like that. Jared went through worse parts already and none could scare him by turning off the lights, sending a cryptic message and then calling him on the phone.

“You shouldn’t bother about my name, but there are people calling me the bloody Knight” a dark blurred voice came from the speaker.

He swallowed hard, his eyes got wider and he probably didn’t had to say a word to the others to let them know who was right now talking to him.

“How do you even got my number? What do you fucking want?” he muttered.

“You should already know I’m not a really dumb guy. I have some knowledge that you guys all dream of. I got particular skills over the years and I’m just showing it off right now. I press a few numbers and I can control whole Los Angeles if I even want to. But that isn’t the reason why I’m calling you.”

Jared wrote a few words on a single paper and reached it over to Lauren. She didn’t waste any time and started her Laptop to try to track down the caller. It was simple for Lauren to tell within some minutes where the caller came from. Some people despair already at that task, but she just opened a simple program that she wrote by herself and had the caller’s exact location.

“What do you want then?” he put on the loudspeaker that everyone could follow the talk.

“You seem to be in the office. That’s really good” he faked an evil laugh “I want you to open your mails.”

“What will I find there?”

After all the time they worked at the LAPD or at the NYPD, in his case, he never talked with the psycho itself, at least not before they knew his name. By the quality he could tell that this wasn’t his actual voice they were hearing. Probably he used some program to blur his voice. Someone that could easily hack into the system of the Police Department was able to do everything possible. He even was afraid of opening his mail because he absolutely had no idea what he would find in there.

“Why don’t you find out by yourself, Mr Leto? Or are you really afraid? Time is ticking.”

Reluctant he did as he was asked to. He was taking Brian’s laptop and opened his mail account. After a few clicks he could see an email by an anonymous sender. Shannon just nodded to his brother and he opened the mail where he found just one simple link to a website.

“Where does the link lead me to?”

“To my own little world. Why don’t you pay it a visit? I think you will like it!”

He looked at Lauren to find out how far she got with the tracker information. No sign. She nodded with a sad face and that was absolutely no good sign. Although he got up to see everything with his own eyes and she was right. The tracker was jumping to different locations every five seconds. Jared hadn’t enough knowledge to explain why that was happening, but it seems the psycho was a computer science genius as well.