Lost Saint

Chapter 5

Just as it was planned, Arthur and Eva finally arrived at the cemetery. The worried Arthur took a short breath and looked towards the sky. Sadness, grief...anger... All those feelings that filled his heavy heart at the moment, vanished once Eva showed him a beautiful and reassuring smile.

"Come on, let's go."

"Right...," Arthur let out a relieved breath and began to walk forth. That, until he spotted a familiar figure along with a child far inside the cemetery.

His blue-green eyes widened once he noticed the man's actions. Arthur hurriedly, but quietly, grabbed Eva, covered her mouth with the palm of his left hand and hid with her behind a big double marble gravestone. She looked at her husband with panicked eyes and Arthur placed a finger in front of his mouth to make her stay silent.

Arthur tried to listen to the man's and the child's conversation since they were only a few good 18 meters away. His heart beating anxiously while he thought about every possible action that he could take.

"Do we really have to bury him?" questioned the young child as the man kept burying a seemingly fresh corpse of a man.

"Humans are still humans. Even if there's not truly a God, we should at least respect the dead and give them some peace and quiet. Even though your father was one monster of a man, only God can be the one to truly judge him," spoke the man and everything clicked into place.

"He is the man that appeared at the Mary Nelson's car incident!"

Thought Arthur with a silent gasp as he recalled the man's actions and words at that specific day. It seemed like his gut feeling was right all along.

"But is that truly the case?"

After a while, the kid walked back towards the car and waited for the suspicious man to follow up. But he didn't. Instead, the man walked towards a specific grave a little bit farther away and closer towards Arthur and Eva. He sat down to the ground, his hand caressing gently the marble.

Arthur sank deeper to the ground along with his wife and gulped his saliva in anxiety. He couldn't possibly call for reinforcements and he didn't had his gun with him to defend himself and even more Eva. The only thing that he could do, was to wait. To wait and watch closely the man's strange actions.

"I-I did a good job right? I'm not a monster. I'm doing a good deed. Isn't that right...mother?" whispered the man and Arthur's eyes narrowed in deep thought.

Soon enough, the man left and entered his car, driving then far away. Arthur let out a sigh of relief and helped Eva get up from the ground.

"...What happened Arthur...," wondered Eva, her voice shaking in fear.

"I have already memorized the man's car plate. It won't take us long to find him. As for the kid... Stay here. I'll go and see whose corpse it is," spoke sternly Arthur as Eva merely nodded her head.

Arthur walked closer towards the spot where the unknown man buried the corpse and began digging.

His eyes widened at the sight. He didn't needed to even try to identify the corpse as he could immediately recognize him. Morrison Evans was most definitely only recently murdered.

"Could this child be Morrison Evans's missing son? Why was he with that man? Could they be connected somehow? Is the man abusing him... No... That doesn't seem to be the case... The man's words didn't seemed to be like that... What exactly is going on here?" thought Arthur while taking out his phone to call his mentor.

"Peter."

"Arthur, you rarely call those days. Is something wrong?" Peter's voice was serious and straight to the point. He knew that something was wrong just by the tone of his pupil's voice.

"I found Morrison Evans at the cemetery. He is freshly dead and buried under the ground."

"Are you with Eva right now?" questioned Peter now even more serious and into the conversation than before. His professionalism quickly showing up.

"Yes."

"Then drive her home and come back there immediately. We'll be waiting for you there."

"Got it," answered Arthur and hang up the phone. He turned to look towards his wife and motioned for her to enter the car, "Come on, let's go."

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"Good deed his says...," thought Arthur to himself while remembering the man's words. "He thinks he did a good deed by killing a murderer, drunkard and probably physical abuser but doing so, doesn't that mean he is one of them as well? Hmm...but...he is definitely better than those people. Wait, no. What am I thinking? A crime is a crime. I shouldn't think like that. Come on Arthur, get your shit together."

"Officer Richards."

"Yes?" Blinked in realization Arthur once he heard his name, now finally getting out of that thick cloud of thoughts inside his head.

"We detected the car's location. Don't rush to arrest them. First make sure that they are the ones behind this and try to collect as much evidence as you can. You may fire your gun in the act of self defense. Be careful," ordered strictly Peter as Arthur gave him a salute.

"Understood."

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When Arthur finally arrived at the location, he saw a rather old but still livable house. The yellow paint on the wall being long gone, leaving only a few traces behind. The wooden stairs being old but sturdy. And of course he also saw the car outside of the house.

Arthur stayed inside his car waiting from the suspect to make his appearance. Just then, the house's door opened revealing the same man he saw at the cemetery. But he didn't walked outside. Instead, he seemed to be talking to someone inside the house with an ever so caring smile.

"Is he talking to his family? Or his victim?"

Soon enough, the suspect walked outside of the house and entered his car. Arthur now had to make a decision, to wait for the suspect to leave and search around his house or follow the suspect and confirm his intentions. Arthur didn't thought long and hard about it and proceed with the second opinion.

"Let's see what you are up to..."