The Dark Marshmello

Willow

Doctor Bennard went straight home after her and the little girl had just escaped the Raven labs, at home she had a son who was about ten years old, he was sitting on the floor in the living room doing his homework while his nanny was watching some TV on the couch, and just outside house they heard a voice of a car parking at the front of the house, he was so excited because he knew that her mom was back from work, soon as doctor Bennard opened the door he quickly ran straight and hugged her by her feet, "oh somebody missed his mom too much" said doctor Bennard as she was patting her son on his back,
"You have no idea, you were all he could talk about the whole day" replied the nanny as she approached doctor Bennard at the front door, the nanny was carrying her purse in her hand ready to leave,
"Wait you are leaving already" asked doctor Bennard while holding her son's arm
"Yeah my sister is coming home to visit, I have to pick her up" she replied while wearing her purse on her shoulder, "and who is she" asked the nanny as she pointed at the little girl behind doctor Bennard, doctor Bennard turned around and looked at the little girl who was dressed in a hospital gown,
"She's a daughter of a friend from work, we just got her from the hospital, she will be here to pick her up soon" she replied as she turned around to look at the nanny,
"Well am sorry I won't be around to see this friend of yours" replied the nanny, she said goodbye to the doctor and her son and  left the house, "Chris go pack your clothes we are leaving, and don't ask any questions" said doctor Bennard while pointing a finger at her son's face, then she took the stairs heading to her room,
"Where are we going" said Chris as he picked up his homework from the floor,
"That was a question" replied the doctor as she went up stairs to pack her stuff,
"And who is this girl mom" asked Chris while glancing at the girl's face,
"That was another question" replied the mom from her room upstairs,
Chris moved closer to the little girl who was still standing near the front door, "hi, my name is Chris" he said as he offered out his hand for a handshake, but the little girl looked at the hand without knowing what to do, she had never been to the outside world so the handshake was a not a familiar concept to her, "do you have a name" he asked the girl while pulling away his hand, the little girl held out her hand and showed him the number that was tattooed on her wrist, "forty eight, you have a number for a name" said Chris, and forty eight slowly replied with a head node, before they could finish the conversation doctor Bennard got out of her room with two heavy travel bags pulling them down the stairs, she was also wearing a small backpack on her back, "Chris get your shoes we have no time, we have to go" she said as she was pulling the two bags, Chris went at the left side of the door there he grabbed his shoes and put them on, in the mean time doctor Bennard was packing the bags inside the car and forty eight was standing just outside the car, doctor Bennard took her phone and destroyed it to make sure the Question mark doesn't trace her, in a few minutes time they all got in the car and fled away from the city, the next morning it was allover the news that the Raven labs had a fire accident and all of the building went up in flames, there were no casualties but the lab had lost all of its resources and documents, it was forced to shut down all of its operation, doctor Bennard was watching the news from a TV at a gas station inside a local store where she was buying syringes, she got back in her car and pulled her back pack from the back seat where the kids were still asleep, she opened the back pack and pulled out a small vial, she pulled little amount of chemical from the vial using the syringe she just bought from the store, she then woke up forty eight and asked her to hold her arm straight, she then injected the chemical in her body, after she was done she threw syringe away and then drove away from the gas station.
Mary was back to work after a wasted day off yesterday, she goes back to work and finds her friend Lucy at the front desk talking to someone on the phone, "yes sir we are on it" Lucy said to someone on the phone, "hold on a sec" she whispered to Lucy with one arm covering the mic of the phone and she replied with head node "Anha, ok I'll make sure of it" she continued on the phone, "yes all will be done sir" she replied and then hung up the cellphone, "I swear to god one more day of this shit show am going to split in half" she said while landing the phone on the table,
"Oh been there" replied Mary appreciating the situation Lucy was in
"Speaking of which the new detective is looking for you" Lucy replied,
"Why me" Mary asked with a surprise on her face
"I know right, I was just surprised as you are, no one ever looks for you" replied Lucy
"yeah am like a small dot in a big dark circle" she replied, Lucy looked behind her as she was speaking and saw that Henry the new detective was coming towards them, "hey heads up he's coming" said Lucy with a little head node and then she turned around  pretending to mind her own business "huh" Mary replied wondering what she meant by saying that, Henry taped Mary's shoulder from behind and said "hi"
"Hi, it's Henry right" she replied, pointing her finger on him with a smile on her face, she had surprise written allover her face,
"Yeah, its Mary the forensic right" he confidently replied
"Is that what they call me" she asked while leaning her body backwards, he chuckled with a smile a little bit and asked her to follow him
"Sorry can I ask where we are going" asked Mary as they were walking
"To my investigation room, we need your help with something" he replied,
"Sorry did you just say we" asked Mary
"Good, she asks so many questions" replied Henry being sarcastic
"Does it require science"she asked
"No" he replied while looking back at her
"Then why me" she added another question, Henry stopped walking for a moment and looked at her , she also stopped and turned around to face him waiting for a response,
"It's just that, I've worked with a lot of people in my life before but never a forensic scientist before, so what do you say" he replied with his arms wide open,
"I mean, what's the worst that could happen" she replied
"I'll take that as a yes, let's go" he replied and took her to this room where she found Claire in front  of a big white board holding a marker in her arm, the board was full of different possibilities to what could the numbers mean, she was surprised surprised to see what they had done to the board, "are you trying to figure out what the numbers mean" she asked while looking at her and pointing at the board,
"Yeah, but don't let the board full you, they are all dead ends"
Henry replied with both of his hands at his waist
"You guys realize that you are the best brains at the station right" she asked while looking at the both of them,
"Yeah" Claire replied
"But you guys failed, so why do you think I can solve this" she asked them again,
"Don't look at me, ask me ask her, she is the one who recommended you" he replied pointing his finger at Claire who was now clearing the board so as to write new possibilities, "you helped me with my last case" said Claire while cleaning the board
"That doesn't mean am a certified genius" Mary replied, "and besides those guys were the cartels it was an easy job" she added
"Well expert no expert you are stuck with us today, cause I already cleared your schedule" Henry interrupted "so what do you have in mind" he added while pointing at the board with the numbers on display, she took a little pause for a few seconds to think and then came up with an answer,
"Well may be it's an account number" she replied
"No we already tried that one, didn't work, plus the numbers are more than twelve so, that's a no" said Claire while looking at the board, they kept brainstorming ideas for a few hours till Mary stood in front of the board without saying a word for sometime, "what are you thinking" Henry interrupted
"Chinese food" she replied while looking at him,
"Your kidding right" Claire interrupted,
"No am not" she replied
"You guys don't watch detective movies do you" she asked, they just looked at each other without a reply "a detective can only brainstorm the best ideas when they are eating Chinese food, especially noodles, also they get job done when they are either fired or suspended" she added, Henry looked at her and smiled a little
"I like this one" said Henry while pointing a finger at her, "let's go get some Chinese food" he added and grabbed his coat and they went outside and grabbed their lunch, they took their food to go so they came back with it to the investigation room, Claire couldn't come cause she had an errand to run so she was excused from work for the rest of the day, Henry and Mary kept thinking of a way to figure out what was the meaning of those numbers left by the mysterious assassin while eating their food, they brainstormed for hours without coming up with a clear answer, until the discussion changed from a discussion to a conversation, they started sharing conversation on their personal lives besides work, they talked about their history and life for a long time till detective Henry made a bold move and asked Mary out, but before she could reply she was interrupted by a phone call from the same person from yesterday, "sorry I have to take this" she said while showing him her phone, she answered the call putting the phone in her ear and started talking, "so is that a yes" whispered Henry to avoid being heard by the caller, "yeah sure just text me the time and place" she replied and got back on the phone, she got up from her chair and started leaving but as she got closer to the board she realized that those numbers could be geographical location, so she turned around and told him "hey try geographical coordinates" she said while pointing at him, and then left the room.
The Dalot towers one of the most iconic buildings in the city, there was a conference being held in the fifty second floor of the building, but this wasn't like any other conference cause entering the conference required a special kind of ring known to only the members of the conference, the conference began at around eleven o'clock pm in the evening, at around half past twelve a woman showed up in a motorcycle with , she was wearing pink leather jacket with white shirt inside and black pants and black heels on her feet, when she took off her helmet she had died her hair pink, she parked her bike in front  of the building and went inside, she found a woman at the front desk, "how may I help you " asked the woman from the front desk, the woman in a pink jacket, blew a bubble right in front  of her face, she then put her hand on the desk and then kept on chewing her bubble gum the front desk woman directly understood what she was there for, she took out a small scanner from under her desk, she hovered the scanner over the ring, the scanner was showing a small blue light as the woman hovered it and after a few seconds it showed a green light, the woman at the front desk took a small black card under her desk, "floor number fifty two" she said as she slid the card to the pink jacket woman, the woman took the card and went in elevator, when she got in she pressed button for floor number thirty nine, instead of going to the floor that she was instructed she went to floor number thirty nine, in that floor there was a special room that collected data of all the cameras that were in that building, that was room that she was aiming for, so she opened the door and went in, the room was very large filled with big data storage devices, those devices stored video footage of every camera from each floor, they were labelled the number of floor from which data they stored, the storage devices had a big height, they covered almost a third quarter of the room and were arranged in form of rows and columns, so she started looking for the storage device from floor number fifty two, when she got to the device which had the data from floor number fifty two, she removed the wire that was transmitting video from the conference room to the storage device and then connected the wire to her phone, and whatever the camera was recording it started showing on her phone, the room had a stage on the front where someone was there leading the conference, and the seats were arranged in two columns of very large tables separated by a wide space between them, there were fifteen rows of those tables in each column in which each table was able to accommodate eight seats, so they were almost a hundred and twenty people in the conference room, all the people in room had only one thing in common, they were all filthy rich, everyone in the room had a tablet on the table and air pods that was provided to them by people who prepared the conference, the woman zoomed in on one of the men in the room, she zoomed in close enough to see what was on the tablet, she saw a very large bar of gold that was being auctioned for three hundred million dollars, she then realized that the conference is just a cover for what was really going on in the room, which was a black market auction, "the largest bar of gold, the bidding will start at three hundred million dollars" said the voice inside the man's air pods, the man went ahead and put the amount in the tablet, he then waited to see if someone could top up his bid, but another person went a put a higher bid than him, he put the bid of four hundred million dollars, so the man had to top up that amount, he decide to put an amount that no one could top up, so he kept a bid of eight hundred million dollars, and for a few minutes he waited to see if any one could top up that amount but unfortunately no one could, so he managed to buy the gold, "congratulations you bought the gold for a price of eight hundred million dollars, go to floor number sixty eight room number forty seven to collect your item, use the black card as a key card" said voice in the man's air pods, the woman in the other room was just watching everything through her phone, so she knew exactly where the man is going to go after leaving the conference room, so she left the storage room and went to the exact floor that the man was instructed, once the man reached the room he was instructed he used the key card as instructed and the door opened, he got inside and the first thing he saw was a woman in a blue dress seated in a couch, in front  of her was a table with a briefcase on it, next to the briefcase was small machine he had never seen before, the man went ahead and took a seat on couch in front  of the woman, "sorry I have verify your account card before handing you the briefcase" said the woman
"That's new, why" asked the man surprised by the new way of doing things,
"It's for security reasons" she replied to man, the man reached in his pocket and took out his card and gave it to her, she ran the card at the machine and the machine gave out a green light, "thank you" she said while giving back the card and then she pushed the briefcase towards the man, the man took the briefcase and left the room, the woman blew a bubble gum on her mouth remained seated in the couch as the man left the room, but behind the couch was real woman that was supposed to handout the briefcase, she was lying on the floor half naked and passed out, and next to her was the real briefcase that the man was supposed to be handed, the woman took the blue dress off and wore back the clothes she came with that is the pink leather jacket, white t shirt and the black pants, she then left the room with the briefcase that had the gold in it leaving the other woman still lying down on the floor, the man left the building without knowing he was leaving with an empty briefcase, he got out of the building and his driver was waiting for him outside in the car, "where to Mr. Dion" asked the driver after the man entered the car,
"Back to my office" he replied as he was trying to make himself comfortable, as the driver was starting the car the woman was also leaving the building with a briefcase that looked exactly like Mr. Dion's, she got on her motorcycle  and started it, on the road she drove next to Mr. Dion's car till she reached a crosswalk and both of them had to stop because of the traffic lights, it took a few minutes till the traffic lights allowed them to leave, as Mr. Dion's car was leaving she put a small round magnetic object on the side of the car, the object gave off a blue dim light as car kept going, she then took a different route and drove till she reached at a flyover and stopped her motorcycle at the side of the road, she took off her helmet and watched Mr. Dion's car go at the road down below, then she peeled off the fake face she was wearing and with a lighter she burnt the artificial face and threw it on the ground watching it as it burns, she put on a face mask that covered the nose and the mouth and put the helmet back on and started her motorcycle and left, she drove till she reached one of the buildings in the city that Mr. Dion owned, it was thirty five minutes past seven so it was already dark, she arrived the building before Mr. Dion, she parked her motorcycle outside and went inside, she took an elevator that headed straight for Mr. Dion's office, she tried opening the door but unfortunately it was locked, so she took out a small pin from her jacket and picked the lock, she finally opened the door and got inside, she closed the door behind her, inside the office she found Mr. Dion's laptop on the table, she went over and flipped it open to turn it on but it was password protected, she took out a flash drive from her pocket and put it at the one of the ports of the laptop, soon as she did, the laptop started displaying random letters and numbers until in the end the real password was displayed on the screen, she put in the password and then hacked the laptop to make a money transfer, she was transferring money from Mr. Dion's account to her's, she did that with the account information she got from the card that Mr. Dion gave her back at the black market auction, after the transfer was done she took out her flash drive and left the room, she got to the ground as quickly as she could, and as she was leaving the building Mr. Dion was also entering the building, so they crossed pass with each other at the entrance, she got on her bike and left, Mr. Dion got into an elevator and headed to his office, when the elevator was midway up his phone started buzzing from inside his pocket, when took it out he saw that his phone was having some glitches, he tried shaking it and tapping the screen to get rid of the glitches, and suddenly after a few seconds the glitches were gone and the door to the elevator opened since the elevator had reached its destination, he looked back at his phone as he got out the elevator and he saw a symbol of a question mark surrounded by a circle displayed on his phone, "did you get what I asked for" said a voice from his phone, the voice was quite similar to the one that doctor Bennard heard in her computer eighteen years ago,
"Yes I did" replied Mr. Dion as the elevator doors closed behind him,
"Good, i'll send someone to pick it up" said the question mark and suddenly Mr. Dion's phone turned off, when it turned back on again the question mark symbol had disappeared from the phone, he walked till he reached his office, he put the briefcase on the table and sat down at his office chair, next to his laptop was a black Marshmello helmet but he didn't bother to look at it, he pulled his laptop close to him flipped it open, and when he turned it on roaches were displayed on the screen, the roaches started running away leaving the screen empty, and when the screen was completely open he saw his account balance displayed on the screen, and that the balance was completely zero, he was so shocked and confused, he got off his chair panicking not knowing what he had to do cause he had been robbed, he quickly reached for the briefcase and when he opened it,  it was empty, he was even more confused than before, his heart pounding and filled with rage, he tried to loosen up his tie a little around the neck trying to make him self calm down, he started pacing around his office trying to figure out what he was going do next, what was he going to tell the Question mark, as he was pacing around he saw a small black Marshmello  helmet on his table, he went ahead and reached for it down on the table, he started looking at trying to figure out what was it and when he flipped it over he realized that there was a piece paper inside, he reached his hand inside and pulled it out, and when he got it out he saw there was a date written on, the piece of paper had a date of tomorrow written on it, he then flipped around to see why was written but it was empty, nothing else was on the piece of paper except tomorrow's date.
Henry was at an expensive restaurant waiting for  Mary to show up, he was waiting there for almost thirty minutes, so disappointed he decided to leave because he knew he had been ghosted, he took a last sip of his drink and left the money under the glass, he stood up from the chair ready to leave the restaurant, when he turned he was so surprised to see Mary at entrance all dressed up and looking beautiful, she didn't look like the dorky Mary from work anymore, she was all dressed up in a beautiful dress that definitely made her glow, Henry couldn't move even a single muscle, he just stood their looking at her with a bright smile, she was looking around the restaurant looking for Henry, she looked around for a few seconds and suddenly she saw him standing next to one of the tables in the middle of the restaurant, she smiled back and went to meet up with him, "am sorry am late, there was a lot of traffic", she said as she got closer to him, Henry was still mesmerized by her beauty, it took sometime  a response to come out of his mouth,
"you look beautiful" he said as he showed her to the chair,
"thank you, you clean pretty well your self" she replied as she sat down, few minutes later the waiter showed up and asked them what they were having, they all made their order and went on with their conversation, they had their conversation till the food showed up, the meal was so amazing and there after followed desert, their date night was fun and memorable, it was like life had a willow and it bent right to their will, time flew by very fast and it suddenly it got so late that it was time for them to head back home, as a real gentleman Henry offered Mary a ride back home in his car.