The Disastrous Union

12

We all sit down as we dissect this case.

I feel sick looking at the pictures of my uncle but it's part of the job.

I stare down at my feet at the deeper issue at hand, this wasn't something that the police department could just deal with because this linked so heavily to gangs.

Dr. Crawford speaks and I am listening to her but I am also in my own world.

"What do you think, Missy?" I snap back to reality.

"In regards to what aspect Maya?" I ask back.

"Methodology." I think for a minute and then stand up, pulling some pictures out from a folder.

It shows identical marks that's on Uncle Jit's body and I put them on the board.

"Those are identical." Jasper says and I nod.

"Yes. These are all targets of a certain criminal. Dr. Shiona Crane. While hiding under the pretence of being a do good scientist, she was an enforcer for the mafia and has been since she was old enough to kill. Sometimes her victims weren't killed thoigh." I'm referring to myself and others.

"Where can we find her?" Jasper says and Serena is about to speak when he puts his finger up as to not speak.

"Jasper. Let Serena speak." I say and he's about to protest. "No, I'm sick of your behaviour. You need to start respecting Dr. Shilling."

"She's not even an MI yet? Why are you defending her!" He pisses me off.

"Not until right now. Dr. Shilling, welcome to the team." I say and Maya hands me the forms. We were going to wait but Jasper made a lot of situations go differently than how you think they'd go.

"Thank you, Missy, thank you Maya. For the record Jasper, all I needed to say was that Dr. Shiona Crane is dead." Fimu takes Serena away to another room and somebody else talks her through that.

"She's dead?" He asks and we all nod.

"Came on my slab herself, it was an easy case. A lot of people resented her but the case was an easy solve." I say.

"You can't just say that, you don't know her. People may have loved her." Every time he speaks he becomes more annoying.

"I certainly didn't love her. She wasn't great to be around. She was rude and she was also dangerous, a part of the mafia also so tell me, to you, does that sound like a person who's a good mother? A good sister? A good wife? A good sister-in-law? Because clearly, Jasper, she is pulling favours from the grave and now she's gone and killed my uncle. Now he wasn't a great person by any means, in fact he's worse than my father but getting killed in the same way that my mother would kill people when she's dead goes beyond word or expression. She's got such an influence that people are copying her and it's not just random people either, it's the mafia. People loved her, I'm sure but it certainly wasn't me and it certainly wasn't the other innocent people who had to face her." He's floored and I sit back triumphantly.

Dr. Shilling comes back and doesn't even get to sit down before Ona, a lab tech, runs in.

"I got it. The blood on this body and the blood from Dr. Shiona Crane match but only 50%, I've run it against you Dr. Mistry but it's not a match to what's on the body but it matches around 50% to yours." I stand up.

"What does that mean?" Jasper says and sometimes I question how he's even works here.

"Your twin? I wasn't aware you were a twin." Maya says and I get my phone and stuff, Rio stands up.

"Apollo, is still in the hospital. He's under protection and..." I check my phone and check the camera in his room. "He's fine but I reckon they took some blood off him when they took him." I notice something strange on the camera. It almost seems like there's a glitch.

I put it up on the projector.

"That's a recording, you can see where it stops and restarts." Rio says and I nod.

"How much do you reckon, whoever 'took' Apollo wasn't aware that fraternal twins only share 50% of their DNA?" I say and I sit back down.

"Easy mistake." Maya says and she sits down. "They were trying to frame you, weren't they?"

I nod.

"I don't understand why." Jasper says and I understand his confusion, for once.

"Honestly, if you knew my family, you'd see why. Rio bring them in." I say and he's already on it.

***

Rio and I sit across from my brother and father.

No one is saying a word but Apollo and I are sizing each other up.

"Why did you do it, Mr. Mistry?" I turn to him and his face immediately reflect a guilty conscience. "We saw you and Trent Marsh making an agreement awfully close to my house and not even 30 minutes later, the FBI are knocking on my door asking me where Apollo is. Now let's be clear here, if it wasn't for your stupidity, I might have actually gone under for this but you forgot one thing. Apollo and I aren't identical twins so we only share 50% of our DNA."

"It wasn't my idea, it was your uncles. He said he disagrees with you being a doctor and dislikes that you got married without inviting any of us. He's crazy, you know that." I have to stop myself from laughing.

"You mean Indrajit?" I say and I motion to the glass and Serena comes in with the file.

"Yes. He's crazy, you know this." I place the file down and push it over to their side.

"He was found dead a couple of days ago. I looked at the names left on his body and the cuts on him are awfully familiar. You know, work done by a certain mother of mine." They're genuinely shocked. Well Apollo was.

"This wasn't us. I promise. We wouldn't kill him!" Apollo says and I believe him.

"But you would frame me?" I ask and the guilt is in one of their eyes.

"He's dangerous. What were we meant to do?" My father asks and I just shrug.

"You're right, he is dangerous but don't drag Apollo into this. You're going to go down for trying to incriminate me." I say and get up, leaving the room.

I look through the glass and see Apollo shoring at my dad.

This family.

Now I have to have cameras follow me when all I want to do is cry. At least they weren't at the police station.

Luckily they're not allowed to see interview processes or anything to do with active cases either.

I grab my stuff and leave.

I wait in the reception for ages but have to go to the bathroom and I lock the door and cry.

I look at myself in the mirror.

Does my father really resent me that much that he'd frame me for murder.

The receptionist knocks on the door and tells me Rio just walked past him and had left.

I stand up and go to the exit and see Rio driving off.

Is he fucking serious.